Witshipping (Kaiba Seto/Witty Phantom)
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Perhaps it was a strange way to motivate oneself. Perhaps it was even unhealthy. But Seto wasn't certain he could stop anymore.
Twelve years old today, he looked up from the mountains of homework, eyes bleary with a desperate need for sleep. Midnight, he saw. The midnight of his birthday. He had been up since three am. What kind of kid his age spent that much time working?
He wasn't even done. He felt his chest seize up and his throat close at the piles of books still to be read and annotated.
It's my birthday, he thought, his thoughts hollow and echoing. I should...I should be celebrating.
Oh, but you don't get to, said the other voice, mocking, laughing. You have to work, remember?
His eyes narrowed at the little slip of paper propped up against the wall across from him. The smiling, mocking red face, tilted beneath a purple hat. The glittering green eyes that stared at him over a grin full of condescending.
You don't want to be useless, do you? It seemed to purr at him. You'll be trapped at this desk forever if you don't finish. Is that what you want?
"Fuck you," Seto whispered. "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you."
Such strong language! Aren't you a little too young for that? Oh, how would you know—you're working more than an adult, aren't you? Not even celebrating your own birthday, because you're so useless that you can't finish work as easy as this.
Seto growled and turned his head back down towards his worksheet, ignoring the way that his vision blurred in and out while he wrote.
"Fuck you," he whispered. "I'll beat you."
He almost thought he heard the card laugh.
We'll see about that...we'll see.
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A/N: This was recently re-added to the list after having been named Hostageshipping, before the tag was taken over by the Arc V ship with the same name, so I have to come back and re-add it. Maybe some day I'll be done adding missed ships to this project :'D Next is Wishshipping (Jonouchi x Yugi) as previously stated.
