Stubbornshipping (Honda x Seto)
(Geez, what are you supposed to do with this one?)
Seto could not for the life of him remember the boy's name, but he was sure he had seen him hanging around Yugi before. He didn't ever duel, though, or do anything else that was worth mentioning, so it was hard to remember him. Just his luck to get stuck in the same elevator with him; knowing Yugi and his friends, he would probably try to strike up a conversation.
But the spiky-haired teenager didn't speak either, although, when Seto snuck a side-long glance at him to make sure it was actually the person he thought it was, he found that he was also looking at him. They both looked away quickly.
Damn. Now he's definitely going to try to start a conversation. I shouldn't have made eye contact with him. Well, I'm certainly not going to be the first person to break the silence. What the hell is he doing in the marketing building, anyway?
The silence grew ever longer, and Seto started to wonder if this was the guy he was thinking of anyway. Maybe it wasn't Yugi's friend. Maybe he was just imagining things. This upcoming meeting with the advertising company must be making him more irritable than he had thought. He just couldn't stop thinking.
The elevator paused, and the doors opened. This wasn't his floor, so Seto assumed the other boy was getting off here. But no, instead, an elderly woman wobbled into the elevator. She half-smiled at the two silent boys, and turned around to press the button for the next floor. The doors slid shut again, and the elevator continued onward. Well, he certainly wasn't going to be breaking the silence now.
For a long, infuriating moment, the silence in the elevator grew overpowering. Then the elevator stopped at the elderly woman's stop, and she shuffled towards the door. But her foot caught on the step, and she nearly toppled forward.
Yugi's friend got there first, catching the woman's arm before she sprawled across the floor.
"Oh, thank you dear," she said breathlessly. "I do that so often. Lucky for me you were here to catch me this time!"
"No problem," the boy said, leaning on the button to keep the doors open. "Do you need any more help? Where are you headed?"
"Oh, that's sweet of you, dear, but I think I'll be all right now."
And with that, she shuffled on. The boy hit the button to close the door, and the elevator continued on.
And still, neither one of them broke the silence. By the time they had almost reached the top floor, the awkwardness of the situation was so overwhelming that Seto wanted to punch something. Then suddenly, the doors slid open, and the boy headed out into the building.
And when they closed again...
"Honda. That was it. Hiroto Honda," Seto said suddenly to himself. "That's the guy that helped my brother back on Duelist Kingdom, isn't it?"
And the elevator continued on.
A/N: Ha, both of them were too stubborn to talk to each other. Elevators are so much fun. X3 Next is Stoicshipping (Priest Seto x Seto Kaiba). Weird...is that considered narcissism or incest?
