Shimmershipping (Otogi x Mokuba)
The air shimmered with heat, and Mokuba was wishing for probably the hundredth time today that Seto had not made him leave the nice air-conditioned Kaiba Corp building.
"You have a day off of school, and you're only eleven," he had said. "Go out and do something for once."
Mokuba scowled at the heat. Sure he was only a middle schooler, but he was also Kaiba Corp's vice president. He had to help Seto run the company, even if he didn't always understand everything yet. He wasn't a normal middle schooler. He didn't have any place to go on a day like today. And he wasn't too good at making friends his own age, either, so it wasn't like he could call someone up to see what they were doing.
He sat on a bench in the shade of a tree, wondering at how it could possibly be so hot this early in the spring. He waved his hand at himself, but it did no good. Finally, he slipped off the bench and marched over to the row of shops on the other side of the street. At least they would be air-conditioned, even if he didn't feel like shopping.
He wandered into the first store he came across, a tall, modern building that read Otogi Game Enterprises on the front.
What a pretentious name, Mokuba thought as he stepped inside.
The blast of cool air from the building was beautiful relief, and he stood still to enjoy it for a moment.
"Welcome to Otogi Game Enterprises," said a voice. "Can I help you find anything?"
Mokuba looked around for the owner of the voice. It was a tall, lanky boy standing at the register, with long, heavily style black hair in a ponytail, eyes so bright green that he had to be wearing contacts, and very thick eyeliner. There was a name tag clipped haphazardly to his hipster type clothing that read: Ryuji Otogi.
"Uh, well," Mokuba started. He wasn't sure if he really wanted to look at anything in particular. Then he noticed the Capsule Monsters set sitting on the desk in front of the boy. All the monsters had been revealed, and it looked like a few moves had been made already. He wandered over to check it out.
"You like Capsule Monsters?" Otogi asked.
"Yeah," Mokuba said. "Were you playing with someone?"
"Yeah, my coworker. He just left for a lunch break, though."
Mokuba studied the board, noting the monsters present, their levels, abilities, and positions, and the board type.
"He's beating you," Mokuba observed.
Otogi grimaced.
"No need to rub it in my face, kid."
Mokuba stared at the board for a little bit longer. Then he reached over and moved one of Otogi's pieces forward.
"There," he said. "Now you're winning."
"Huh?"
Otogi stared at the board for a minute.
"That's a level one monster going against a level 4," he said. "How's that gonna help?"
"Your Diggel has the dig ability, and the Roach Roaster has a flame breath ability," Mokuba said. "When the Roach Roaster uses the fire attack, the Diggel submerges and the attack misses. But since the attack can go up to four spaces away, the flame will hit your opponent's monster, the Bomber, instead. And since the Bomber explodes when it's attacked, it'll take out itself, the Roach Roaster, and also the Ninja Squid over here. Then your Diggel comes back up, he's down three monsters, and you've taken no losses."
Otogi stared at the board again, and then he stared at Mokuba.
"Whoa," he said, grinning. "What's your name again, kid?"
"Mokuba Kaiba," Mokuba said.
"You're really good. Have you ever played Dungeon Dice Monsters before?"
"No, but I've heard of it."
"Wanna play me?"
"Sure."
A/N: I thought this was a fun one. Games are an easy way to get people together in this fandom. And I totally made up all of the Capsule Monsters in this; that was fun. :) Next is Shieldshipping (Jonouchi x Shizuka x Seto).
