Pairing: Seto/Yami

Circle in the Sand

He couldn't help but smile as the two kids he had been watching ran by him, giggling like mad as they kicked up sand with their bare feet, even if some of it landed on his outstretched legs and blanket. It didn't bother him in the least, their joyous voices added to the natural song the ocean sang as waves crashed against the shoreline and retreated, just to repeat the process over and over again.

He watched as the young boy with a mop of midnight colored hair finally caught the other boy, the one with a strange green color to his hair, and tackled him to the ground only to start a tickled fight that had them rolling down the sandy slope. His smile turned into a grin when a rather large wave came and snuck up on them, wetting them till they didn't resemble human boys anymore.

Drawing his knees up to his chest, he wrapped one arm around them while the other one lay in the warm sand, his finger tracing odd circles as now turned his attention to a figure that caught his attention out of the corner of his eye. Turning his head, to get a better look, he studied the person who walked along the shoreline, coming in his direction.

The figure had to be tall – if the length of the stride had anything to say – and whoever it was carried themselves with pride for their back was straight and shoulders high. Dressed in what looked like a plain white t-shirt and khaki shorts, he finally realized as he pushed a blonde bang the wind had blown away from his eyes that this person was a male.

The man – for he didn't carry himself like a boy – stopped and cupped his hands around his mouth, yelling something that the two boys must have understood for they stopped their roughhousing and made a mad dash back to the stranger, both the kids throwing their arms around the slim male in reckless hug.

Together, they turned as one and began heading back the way the tall male came. But they only took a few steps before the man turned his head in his direction. A flash of blue met his own gaze before the man walked off again, trailing after the hyper boys.

We'll meet again.

And Atemu continued to watch him go, all while still tracing circles in the sand.

Yes, soon.