Puppyshipping (Seto x Jonouchi)
(A super popular one...and my least favorite shipping ever. Sigh...here goes nothing...)
I hated him. I hated him more than I could possibly put into words. I hated him even more because I hated him so much. He wasn't even worth my notice. I shouldn't have put so much energy into hating someone that could never reach my level. He wasn't worth the time it took to glare at him. Yugi was my main goal; everyone else around him should have been secondary.
So why did I hate him so much?
He was brash. Reckless. Overconfident. He rushed into things he thought he could handle and was thrown back against the wall. He thought too highly of himself, and when someone brought him back down to size, it took a crane to pull himself back up again. He was a delinquent and a thug, someone who got into fights on the street because they had looked at him the wrong way. He was barely different from any other common gang member; in fact, he had probably been a gang member at one point. He was hopelessly dopey, like a dog that never gave up, and yet could never be better than its owner. He was the opposite of me, and he knew it. He wanted to switch our places, but he could never make it there. He was just too far down the ladder to cross the distance. I had met hundreds of people like him, and they slipped my mind as soon as they were out of sight.
But not him. Because he wasn't just that, either.
He was on fire. There was a determination in his eyes that was beyond that of someone trying to scrape their way to the top. When he went down, he would come back up. It might take him a long time, but he would get up eventually. He was recklessly protective: the kind of person that would throw themselves in front of a train to save someone. He believed in some kind of higher moral order, that things had a certain rightness or wrongness to them. For him, the world was governed by these rules, and people who thought that the rules didn't apply to them would eventually be brought down by justice. He would fight a hundred people just to keep his ideals, turn against the wheel that was the world and shout defiance against the cold reality that said there was no virtue in this world.
Why did I hate him? Why?
Because when I looked at him, I saw myself: younger, with an unwavering determination and faith that thing would all turn out right. I saw the part of myself that was lost, beaten out of me by the monster that called himself my "father."
I resented him that.
And so I would always hate him for it.
A/N: Yep. I guess it wasn't too bad considering my overall hatred for this pairing. Honestly, though, I can't see this becoming a real relationship...EVER. I think they'd both commit suicide first. Their relationship is one of trying to best each other; for another example, I would say its similar to Renji and Byakuya from Bleach. Renji is lowborn and explosive, Byakuya is an extremely powerful nobleman. Renji devotes his life to surpassing Byakuya; there is no room for much more feelings for him than that. In the same way, Jonouchi wants to surpass Kaiba. Kaiba is like an obstacle to him, or at most, a goal to reach. It's never going to be romantic, because neither of them have room for much more than that. Next is Puppetshipping (Marik x Strings).
