Petshipping (Seto x Jonouchi x Otogi)
"Hey," Otogi said. "Why do you call Jonouchi a dog?"
Seto Kaiba blinked. He turned his cold ocean blue eyes on Otogi, brow furrowed.
The two displaced gamers looked like they had arrived in the wrong location in their spot leaning against a building downtown. The disgruntled CEO had been almost forcefully kicked out of his office by his younger brother, who insisted that, being Sunday, Seto needed to take the day off. He looked way too hot in his long-sleeved, belted black sleeves and long gravity-defying white coat. Otogi wasn't much better in his very distinctive style: clad in a sleeveless red vest over a black tanktop with a matching headband underneath his expertly styled ponytail, not to mention his ostentatious use of jewelry like his dangling dice earrings. All of the suit-clad businessman and women let their eyes slide over the two, ducking their heads almost nervously as they bustled by.
Otogi tossed his obligatory set of dice into the air, catching each one with quick fingers. He was bored out of his skull, seeing as his shop was closed on Sundays. He didn't know what to do. He and Seto had run into each other quite by accident, and without really saying anything, had moved to the side away from the oppressive crowds of people.
After a very long interlude, Otogi finally realized he wasn't getting an answer to his question easily.
"I hear you calling him that all the time," he said, tossing his dice again. "And he complains about it, too. Why do you call him a dog?"
Seto again just stared at him, as though it were an obvious question that he didn't feel like deigning to answer. But, eventually, answer he did.
"Because he acts like one," he said, lip curling. "Why are you asking me, anyway? You call him a dog, too."
Otogi shrugged.
"Just because of that one time with the dog suit," he said.
"Well, why did you make him wear a dog suit?"
"I dunno. First thing that popped into my head."
Seto glowered at Otogi for a moment. Then he turned his icy stare to the people passing by. They stared with half-focus at the busy people who couldn't even slow down on a Sunday. And then, inexplicably, Seto started talking again.
"He follows Yugi around with the same, stupid expression on his face all the time," he said.
Otogi glanced at him, but Seto wasn't looking back.
"He's a stupid, idealistic dog with nothing better to do than tag along and wag his tail, bark when he thinks he's being threatened."
Otogi half-smiled. That did kind of fit Jonouchi's description.
"He's got a pretty nasty bite, though," he said, leaning forward off the wall.
"Hmph. His fangs have yet to reach me."
Now Otogi really smiled. For a few more seconds, they stared at the passersby. There was a brief moment of something shared. Something understood between them.
The moment ended abruptly.
"Oy! What are you two doing out of your caves?"
The brash voice of Jonouchi was more distinctive that even Otogi's earrings. Both gamers glanced in his general direction. The lanky blond boy looked like he wasn't sure whether to smirk or glower.
"What?" he said. "What are you two doing here?"
Otogi couldn't stop himself from grinning. He pushed off of the wall and just walked past Jonouchi, ruffling him on the head like a dog as he passed.
"Nothing," he said as Jonouchi nearly exploded behind him. "Just talking about pets."
A/N: XD That is all. Next is Pestshipping (Haga x Anzu).
