Title: Barking To Disaster (PBFF)
Author: Glue Project
Rating: PG-13?
Pairings: SetoJou
Spoilers: Err. None?
Disclaimer: Nothing mine. Not even the bunny.
Summery: TEXT BUNNY #22- See end.
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Thinking back on it now, Seto realized that pushing Jounouchi into a 'cursed' spring while in the middle of an argument, hadn't been very smart.
Then again, hindsight was 20/20.
Too bad his hind end was currently being chased by a righteously angry golden retriever.
He lunged at the blue trench-coated boy and caught the end of the coat in his sharp canine teeth.
Seto made an odd noise at the feel of his beloved, treasured, and worshipped coat being pulled backwards. His hands flailed in the air wildly and, on luck, grasped the low limb of a tree. He hoisted himself up onto the limb and sat. The golden dog released his hold of the coat and dropped to the ground, glaring up at the tall boy.
Seto winced. "Sorry Jou..."
He never expected when he shoved Jou into the spring that he'd appear five days later as a dog...The thing had appeared so shallow...
Seto didn't realized that he'd voiced those thoughts aloud until he saw that Jou had sat down and seemed to sigh, head bobbing down in defeat.
Then Jou looked up and scanned the area for anyone else. He blinked, then turned his head back to Seto and, for lack of any other sound, whined.
"Are you asking where every one else is?" He received a doggy nod in reply. Seto sighed, before replying with a quick, "Japan." He continued quickly. "Can I come down from here now? Without being torn to shreds?"
Jou seemed to give a devious grin.
"Okay, I may...do...deserve it...but it's not like I did it on purpose."
Jou nodded the affirmative.
Seto waited.
Jou just shook his head and padded away...to where Seto's ever-present silver brief case sat. Seto watched from his high perch. With difficulty, Jou opened the sliding clasps with his nose and yipped loudly when the briefcase up and bit him. Then, under Seto's gaze, he nosed the slim black cell phone.
"You want me to call?"
Jou nodded.
Seto swore under his breath. "We're going to have to find some better way to communicate..."
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Jou was 'sleeping' on one of the seats of Kaiba Corps. jet. Actually, all it equated to was him thinking, a hobby that he hadn't practiced as of late.
He was still mulling over the conversation he had heard the other having with the principal of their school.
Evidentially, according to what he heard from the principal, Seto had stayed in China by his own accord. That was rather perplexing. The only solution that Jou could think of was that guilt had tied him there. Still...it was a little heartening that his rival felt bad enough about the incident to offer Jou a place to stay while they found a cure.
If there was one.
If he was forever stuck in dog-form, he wondered how much of it was 'true', so to speak. He hadn't gotten any urges to bark and chase at cats so far, but his sense of smell and hearing had definitely heightened. He had color vision, but he wasn't sure if dogs had gray-scale vision or not. He had seen in a cartoon that they had.
He wondered if his lifespan would adhere to dog years or that of a human. The way he figured it, if it was on the dog-scale, he was twoish years old (seven human years to one dog, right?) and had little more than eight years left to live.
Oh yeah, that was something to be bright and cheery about.
He curled into a tighter ball on the seat and fell asleep.
He was still asleep when Seto received a call from Mokuba to pick something up from the store, and was still asleep when they touched down.
Seto carried him to his car that sat waiting.
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Um, something that I was thinking of while writing this chapter that I think I must address...Nothing is going to 'happen' between inu-Jou and Seto.
And thanks to Mags and Kumori Sakusha formerly Saelbu for reviewing. (glomps.) This a fast enough update? (grins)
--Glue
Full Plot Bunny:
What if the school were to take a fieldtrip to China? Seto doesn't want to go but he's already riding the borderline to disaster from his last warning from the principal about not participating in class field trips so he's off to China with the rest of them. Once in China, they go to study the ancient springs.
While studying the different springs, Jou and Kaiba get into an argument over something or other. During their argument, Kaiba gets the insane urge to shove Jou into one of the cursed springs. After all, Kaiba doesn't believe in curses. At first, everyone doesn't think that Jou will surface, but when he does, he's a dog! Does this send Kaiba into a fit of sadistic laughter? Does Inu-Jou chase after him, baring his teeth to bite his ass? What's the scenario? Is Jou stuck being a dog? How long does it take them to figure out only cold water can change him back. That is, until hot water hits him again and he turns back to a dog. The cure has never been found. Will they find the cure?