Tiltshipping (Keith x Jonouchi x Yugi)
(hooray for having no ideas...so I'm gonna use a Figment Daily Theme for inspiration. This was the prompt: I used to think _, but now I know _. Fill in the blanks. Then, write about how you came to learn what you now know. Let's see how this goes...)
I used to think my life was going to be boring, Yugi thought. But now I know it's never going to be even close.
The recently turned seventeen-year-old was currently standing awkwardly at the harbor while his best friend Katsuya Jonouchi participated in a shouting match with Bandit Keith Howard, who they had run into by accident while on their way to Anzu's.
Yugi blew out exasperatedly. It was hard to believe that just two years ago he had resigned himself to sitting alone in the back of the classroom, playing games by himself for all eternity. And now, even though all the fighting and Shadow Games were done with, when he should have been readjusting to normality, it seemed like "boring" was something he would never attain. And he had so been looking forward to a boring afternoon spent with his friends, too.
The fight had started when the pair of friends had stumbled across a drunk Bandit Keith on the harbor, looking to pick a fight with just about anyone. Yugi wasn't sure why the American man was back in Japan; in fact, he had thought he had heard that Keith had died almost right after Duelist Kingdom, of a drug overdose.
"Just turn around and get back on that boat, Keith!" Jonouchi shouted. "Nobody wants to see your ugly face!"
"I'd like to rearrange your fashe, Jonouchi," Keith slurred, looking unsteady.
Jonouchi's fists clenched. Yugi grabbed his friend's shoulder.
"Come on, Jonouchi, let's just go," Yugi said. "This isn't worth it. Besides, Anzu's waiting for us."
Jonouchi gritted his teeth and started to turn around. Keith muttered something in English, and Jonouchi's face went bright red.
He whipped back around.
"I know enough English to know what you just called me, you bastard!" Jonouchi said.
Yugi grabbed for Jonouchi's shoulder, but his friend was too fast, and Yugi just barely missed the end of his jacket.
The blond boy swung at Keith, who staggered out of the way with a lopsided grin. Yugi ran forward, jumping back and forth as the two fighters swung at each other.
"Jonouchi! Jonouchi!" he shouted. "Jonouchi, come on, stop –"
Keith's fist connected with Jonouchi's jaw, and the boy stumbled back. It might have been his overactive imagination, but Yugi thought he heard something crack.
Distracted by Jonouchi's predicament, Yugi was unable to react when Keith grabbed his head from behind, yanking him backwards.
"Hey, world champ," Keith said, his alcoholic breath making Yugi choke. "I wonder what Jonouchi'd do if I shnapped your neck –"
The unnaturally loud sound of knuckles connecting with bone cracked the air, and Yugi stumbled forward, freed from Keith's grip.
"Touch my friend again and I'll smash your face in, Keith!" Jonouchi yelled.
Keith grinned and rolled his fingers into fists. As the two fighters went at each other, Yugi sighed and found a cargo box to sit on.
You'd think I'd be a little jumpier, since I almost just got my neck broken, he thought. Probably I've had so many brushes with death that it doesn't even faze me anymore.
He rested his head on his hands and sighed again. He would just have to wait until the two of them got their fill of beating each other up.
A/N: Kind of an odd way to work this threesome, but I thought Yugi's laid-back perspective of the whole thing was hilarious. Coming up next is Tieshipping (Honda x Miho). Miho was the purple haired girl from Season 0, and she also made an appearance in the manga in one of the earlier chapters, in case someone doesn't know.
