Starshipping (Yami no Yugi x Otogi/Duke x Seto)

(And what, pray tell, am I supposed to do with this? Oh, and if you've never read the manga, you may be confused by some of Otogi/Duke Devlin's backstory.)

Otogi absent-mindedly tossed a die into the air, catching it, throwing it, catching it, throwing it, creating a beat in his mind. Sometime in there, a second die joined the first, so that one was always in the air even as he caught the other one. Boredom sucked. Even despite the size of his game shop, he hadn't gotten many customers for a while now. And...

He snuck a glance back where that door used to be. Of course, it wasn't there anymore, he knew that. He had been careful to erase if from the blueprints when the builders reconstructed the shop after the fire. Still, it was too soon. Too soon to start thinking about his father...his crazy, grudge-holding father, who had tried to make Otogi get revenge by stealing Yugi's Millennium Puzzle and playing a game against him, and then gone mad trying to solve the Millennium Puzzle himself, dying in the blaze when he knocked a candle over and set the whole game shop alight...

He shook his head firmly. Right. Too soon. It was too soon to think about.

The door jingled. Otogi dropped both of his dice in surprise, and the one that was still in the air landed on his head before clattering to the floor.

"All I'm saying, Kaiba, is that maybe you need to find a different hobby. Something you can do with your brother, or something. Have you ever tried Capsule Monsters?"

"Yugi, trying to beat you is not a hobby. It's a challenge and a calling."

"See, this is why you need to find something else to do. You're obsessive."

"What – I am not obsessive! I should duel you for that!"

"This is what I'm talking about. Here, look, Capsule Monsters. This one kind of looks like a Blue Eyes, right? Doesn't it make you want to play?"

"...Shut up, Yugi. Just shut up."

The voices were familiar, and Otogi slid out from behind the desk. He knew he should have moved that shelf from obscuring the door – stupid employees, moving things without asking.

He came around the corner, and sure enough, there was Yugi Mutou and Seto Kaiba arguing in front of the Capsule Monsters display.

Yugi noticed him first.

"Oh, hey Otogi-san," he said. "How are you?"

"What are you guys doing here?" Otogi said, trying not to sound too surprised. After all, Yugi had his grandpa's shop to go to, and Kaiba...well, Kaiba probably ordered everything he wanted from special overseas companies, just because he could.

"I'm trying to get him to do something other than challenge me to a duel," Yugi said, jerking a thumb at Kaiba. "It's getting annoying."

"Well, if you'd just stop being such an insufferable idiot with all your friendship stuff getting shoved in my face, maybe I would stop," Kaiba snapped.

Yugi rolled his red-tinted eyes over-dramatically, presumably to draw out a reaction from Kaiba, which succeeded. The young C.E.O. Growled under his breath and folded his arms, a visible blood vessel pulsing in his face.

"So, uh," Otogi said, feeling thrown for a loop. "Can I help you guys find anything?"

"No," Kaiba said, at the same time as Yugi said, "yeah, do you have a Monster World section?"

"Oh, yeah, it's down around the corner, next to the Monster Fighter stuff," Otogi said.

"Oh, Monster Fighter," Yugi said, his eyes lighting up. "I haven't played that in a while. Maybe I'll get a new avatar."

Yugi started off down the aisle, and after a brief moment, Kaiba grumbled something under his breath and followed.

"Have you ever considered playing Monster World, Kaiba? Mokuba started playing with us last week. It's fun, and there's really no winning or losing."

"I'm telling you, Yugi, I just want to beat you at Duel Monsters and that's it –"

Otogi sighed, and returned to his desk. If only he had someone to argue with all the time. Maybe it would make life that much less boring.

A/N: Okay, it was so stupid and crap, but I had more fun than is possibly legal with it. :D Arguments are good stuff. Next is Standshipping (Rishid x Jonouchi).