Scornshipping (Seto x Dark Magician)
There was just something about that card that made Seto unnaturally angry. It didn't even seem to be because of his rivalry with Yugi. The Dark Magician was a powerful card, to be sure, and Seto had even considered trying to secure one for himself at some point. But, he had eventually discarded the idea, and not just because he didn't use a spellcaster deck.
No, it was because, for some reason, every time he looked at that card he found himself dripping with scorn.
Who are you to look at me like that? He thought at the masterful painting of the magic being. You were always so –
He stopped himself in mid-thought. So what? Why had he been thinking about the card like it was a real person? It was just a card – a slip of paper. Still, when he looked down at that little slip of paper, the purple-robed magician staring back at him, thoughts that were not his own would flash through his mind. Thoughts of irritation, anger, even downright rage at times, like memories of someone from long ago.
He knew it was stupid. Maybe that knowledge that the card made him react in such a way was half of the reason why he felt so angry at it. But especially today, as he stared down at that card, he could feel the anger sparking in his chest.
But today, he realized that that anger was merely masking something else. Something...cold, and dead, deep within him. And a single thought, like the fleeting presence of a dream, passed through him...
You...idiot. You didn't have to...die alone.
A/N: Just some flashbacks, to Mahad and stuff. Yeah. Uh-huh. Moving on...next is Scandalshipping (Set x Atem).
