Mog: I'm back! How is everyone today?

Seto: Tired. Mokuba refused to go to bed until he had clocked Devil May Cry 3.

Yami: I've beaten that game.

Mog: Tis a very good game. Onwards! And since I forgot before: I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING OF ANY REFERENCE IN THIS STORY!

Avoiding the Inevitable: - The Ring and Snow Storms.

Seto was standing in his room, poking through the closet, trying to find his brother.

"Wear this!" Mokuba appeared with a black, sleeveless, silk roll-neck and a pair of black bootleg jeans. In his other hand was a pair of black ankle boots and Seto's white trench coat. He handed all the stuff to his brother, then the doorbell rang, so he ran downstairs, calling out "Don't take too long Seto!" Seto looked at the outfit that his brother had chosen, and then started to get ready. It didn't take him long and within a few minutes he was on his way downstairs.

As he reached the entrance hall (a/n: 'tis a mansion after all) he laid his eyes on the Pharaoh. Yami was wearing a white, semi-transparent shirt and his black leather trousers. He looked up at Seto, violet eyes sparkling, and smiled.

"Ready to go?" Yami asked. Seto nodded and started to leave when Mokuba decided he wanted to go with them.

"You can't Mokuba. I reserved a table for two." Seto stated.

"We could all go and watch a movie at my house," Yami suggested. Seto nodded and the three of them made their way to the Kame Game Shop.

When they got there, Yugi was just leaving. "I'm going to watch a movie with the gang. I was going to ask Mokuba to come, is it okay if he does?" Seto nodded again and Mokuba went off with Yugi. Yami told Seto to pick a film and get comfortable while he went to get snacks. Seto pulled a film called The Ring off of the stack by the TV.

"The Ring? Is this okay?" Seto asked.

"What ever you want to watch Kaiba!" Yami replied. Seto put the DVD into the TV and laid back on the couch. He was glad Mokuba left with Yami's alter ego, he always got scared when they saw scary movies. Yami came back in with drinks and sat down on the opposite end of the couch, pressing play. The movie started, with a foolish girl at a sleep over, Seto grabbed a drink and popped the tab, this was the first time he had seen the movie. Yami pulled the cushion out from behind him and hugged it. Joey made him watch this film every time he came over and it still scared him. Seto looked over at Yami scornfully, Mokuba had made a big deal on how scary it was when he saw it at a friend's house, and Seto was unimpressed. He took a sip of his drink. When it got to the bit of the girl being found dead Yami hid behind his pillow. Seto face contorted in disgust when the stupid characters said she died of a heart attack. "Did they see her face? Heart attack! These fools deserve to die" he said mockingly.

"I really don't like this bit" Yami mumbled.

"What's so bad about it? This is all talk..." Seto sighed, taking another long sip. 'That girl's face was pretty gruesome though...' he thought. Yami got up to get something to eat, then came back with a bowl of crisp, set them down on table and hid behind his pillow again. It was the scene where the lady tucked her kid in bed, reminding Seto very slightly of Mokuba, the silly pictures he used to draw when he was younger.

"Hope that kid doesn't die..." Seto mumbled, helping himself to some crisps. Yami just squeaked. Then the kid saw the tape, Seto was furious. "That pathetic excuse for a mother? She let her son watch the evil, killer, tape of doom?" he grabbed another handful of crisps, crunching them savagely.

While Yami was watching it his normally tanned face paled to white. "I really don't like this film"

"Then why are you watching it, you didn't have to see it just because I chose it..." Seto turned his attention from the TV to Yami, who looked pale. "Does this really bother you?" he asked, resisting the urge to take more crisps.

"I'm okay. Joey makes me do this every time, usually I have someone to cling to though," he mumbled, hugging the pillow more.

Seto let out a long sigh, throwing another pillow in Yami's direction. He wasn't giving in THAT easily. "Here, hug two pillows, the movie can't get much worse..." it was the scene where the horse went crazy, leaping off the boat. Yami screamed slightly and disappeared under the sofa cushions. Seto watched Yami in amusement. Who knew the one person who could defeat him in a duel got so frightened of the silliest things? Yami had managed to wriggle right down into the sofa, so his head came out of the bottom, looked very painful to Seto.

"Tight fit?" Seto smirked, finishing off his drink.

"Nope." he muttered, sliding out onto his stomach. He lay on the floor with his feet in the air, then gave in and shut off the DVD. "Can we watch something else?" he asked, standing up.

"Sure" Seto said, kneeling over as he picked up several of the other DVDs, "You chose this time, as long as it's not a romance I'll watch it."

"Okay!" Yami said, relief showing by the fact he didn't have to watch any more of that film. He pulled out men in black. "This film I like." he said glancing at Seto for approval.

"Men in Black, the name's good enough, Ok let's watch it" he said, putting the DVD into the player. Truth be told, Seto had never really watched many movies, he never had the time.

"You mean to say you have never seen this film?" Yami asked.

"Well... arm... No I haven't" Seto said rather awkwardly. Thankfully, the DVD started, and Seto grabbed another drink, popped the tap, and chugged it to avoid the long silence.

Yami decided to sit next to Seto this time. "You don't get out much do you?" he asked playfully, reaching for the crisps.

Seto took this as an insult "I never get scared of cheap horror movies either" he said, grabbing more crisps, he never ate junk food much either, and these were addictive.

"I was only playing with ya. And I can't help it if I'm a wuss," Yami muttered, moving to the other sofa and laying on his stomach to watch the film. Seto noticed Yami moving away from him, he felt slightly guilty and more comfortable. He tried lounging on the couch, but his gravity-defying trench coat kept getting in the way. He tossed it off, and stretched out, taking up the whole couch. Yami lifted his legs in the air, kicking the side of the couch, and then he got up and went into the kitchen.

"Could you bring more crisps while you're out please?" Seto added, he made a mental note to buy some when he got home. Yami didn't reply but a packet of crisps came flying in from the kitchen. It hit the back of Seto's head, by accident. He picked it up, tore it open, and continued crunching them. Now half way through the film and Yami was still in the kitchen.

'Where did he get too?' Seto thought to himself. This question, and the lack of crisps and coke, drove Seto to check on Yami in the kitchen. Yami was sitting on the table throwing crisps at the wall.

"Yami?" he asked, taking a seat on a chair like a normal person. He looked up at Yami. "Why did you leave? And wasting perfectly good crisps?"

"I thought you wanted to watch the film and I needed to throw something at something else." Yami stated stubbornly. Seto took a seat next to Yami on the table and picked up a crisp, and ate it. He didn't know where to begin.

"I shouldn't have been so cold, it was good of you to invite me over and I was rather... standoffish" he muttered.

"Yeah whatever. Don't worry about it Seto, its not the first time I've been blown off and I'm sure it wont be the last." Seto was taken back, he didn't mean to blow Yami off, well, he did, but he didn't really think about how Yami would feel about it. Seto picked up a crisp and threw it at Yami's spiky head.

"Let's get back to the living room, the couch is more comfortable." Seto said.

Yami slid off the table and purposely knocked the bowl to the floor. It smashed on impact. "You can if you want but I'm going to lock up the shop. You might want to phone Mokuba by the way, were snowed in"

"Stop moping around Yami, you're tough enough to take it..." Seto nudged Yami with his foot. "Come on, get up, I said I was sorr... We're SNOWED IN!" Seto rushed to the window, it was true. Yami walked through to the shop and sighed. He had been rejected before yeah, but it still hurt no matter how used to it he got.

"Yami... YAMI!" Seto ran up to Yami, and grabbed him by the shoulders. "I didn't mean to blow you off; I just have no social skills what-so-ever. And we have bigger things to deal with. We're snowed it! And Mokuba is stuck with your Hikari!" Seto eyes grew wide with worry.

"Yugi will be okay, he's dealt with snow storms before. They will just go back to your place and try and contact me. But in the meantime we have to get all the heating on and all the doors blocked up so no cold gets in." Yami said coolly, taking control of the situation. Seto nodded. He looked around for something to block the doors and windows, a huge stack of 'duel monsters' boxes did nicely when stacked on each other.

Yami went upstairs and pulled down blankets. "Here these will keep us warm. I'm just going to go and switch on the main boiler."

"Ok Yami, I'll duck tape the frames of the doors and windows" Seto found a large roll of the useful stuff, and began the tedious job.

About ten minutes later Yami came back and Seto had finished. "We'll just have to wait"

"Wait, do we have enough crisps?..Er... I mean food?" Seto added realizing how foolish he sounded.

"Yup. We are a general store as well as a game shop"

"How very lucky and convenient, now we wait..." Seto said, pulling his white gravity-defying trench coat on again. "Your grandpa left with your Hikari too?" Seto added as an afterthought, and to break the awkward silence.

"My grandpa is in England"

"Oh... he should be ok then..." Seto said, scuffing the kitchen tile with his foot. "And Mokuba should be safe with Tea, Duke, Tristan, Serenity, Mai, Ryou, and... the mutt..." Seto realized that his worse nightmare just became a reality. "How long till the storm passes?"

"Well, it's at least two feet deep and still snowing. A couple of days?" Reality finally seeped in. Seto and Yami were left alone in the game shop for at least two days. Seto began pacing, glad he brought his laptop. "Well, what do you want to do now?" Yami asked, not happy with the fact that he was stuck in the shop with a man who just rejected him.

"Well, how having dinner?" Seto didn't know how to cook, he had servants for that. But he was willing to try to get Yami to stop moping. He walked over to the pantry and found a simple pizza kit. Seemed easy. He took the box out and glared at the instructions.

"I'll do that." Yami said taking the box out of his hands. He threw it in the bin and got to work on pizza "the instructions are always wrong"

"Oh, ok, I'll... set the table." Seto knew how to do that, Gozaburo made him set the dinner for his fancy dinner parties whenever he finished his tedious lessons.

"Okay." Yami said, setting the oven with his hip while he continued to make pizza. Give him an apron and he would look like a busy little house wife. Seto was glad that Yami knew what he was doing... when the two places were set Seto sat on the counter and watched Yami make the pizza; he planned to use the knowledge in the future if he ever had to cook for himself again. Yami shoved the pizza in the oven and climbed onto the counter (a/n: bless his lil short ass) to get something out of the top shelf.

"Don't bother." Seto said, opening the said cabinet. (A/n: and then bless his unnaturally tall chicken legs). Yami gave him an 'I was up here already' look from the top of the counter. Then pulled plates out and jumped down.

"Already set the table Yami, you arn't nervous are you?" he asked the short youth.

"We always eat pizza on these plates." he mumbled.

"Hmm..." Seto put away the 'untraditional' plates, and poured drinks. He tried to think of a subject to talk about with Yami, curse the awkward silence. Yami pulled pizza out of the oven and dumped it none to carefully on the plates.

"Lets eat"

Mog: Seemed like a good place to stop.

Review Replies

Hakudoshi-chan: I agree, the beginning was weird, but what can you do? Glad you find it interesting at least.

Ruler of Dark and Light: Well you should like it some more then /grins/ keep reviewing!

Will's Girl: Well at least you said it was good. What was strange about it?