Doubtshipping (Bakura Ryo/Marik Ishtar/Kaiba Seto)
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((contains some spoilers for Dark Side of Dimensions))
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Seto wasn't sure whathe had been expecting to happen today, but it certainly wasn't Marik Ishtar slamming through his office doors with Bakura Ryo in two, screaming "THIS IS AN INTERVENTION."
He had been forcibly dragged from the room by the arm—Marik was surprisingly strong for his slender frame—with a sheepish, exhausted looking Ryo trailing behind in their wake.
"Have you ever had a mint milkshake?"
"What the fuck, why would I have?"
Marik shook his head disapprovingly at Seto.
"You've been living topside for twenty years and you've never taken advantage of it? This is what I'm talking about." He addressed the last part of this to Ryo, who just half smiled and nodded without too much force behind it. When Marik turned his back on the pair of them in line at the ice cream shop, Ryo shrugged helplessly at Seto.
"He kidnapped me too," Ryo said. "Something about getting me out of deteriorating lifestyle. This was afterhe and Ishizu decided to clean up most of the apartment."
Seto rolled his eyes. He didn't know what he was doing out here with these idiots. At least he had had the foresight to have emergency disguise clothes in his car after Marik had somehow managed to commandeer his chauffeur, so he was in a nondescript brown turtleneck and sunglasses that would prevent people from recognizing him too easily. Not that they would have admitted it was him in a place like this—he had never, ever set foot into one of these cheesy looking vintage-style ice cream places before. He had caught Mokuba glancing at them when they passed by, but there was never time to stop.
"Three mint milkshakes," Marik announced, whipping around with the three incredibly sweet drinks in a tray. "That booth over there looks good."
He forged ahead, and despite knowing that it would be easy enough to turn around and leave these two in the shop—that milkshake didlook frustratingly tempting. He had been so focused on plan B for meeting the pharaoh again that he hadn't eaten much lately, and his treacherous mouth watered in spite of himself.
He made sure to seat himself on the opposite side of Marik, and Ryo slid in beside Marik.
"Thank you for this," Ryo said politely as he accepted his milkshake, and immediately began to mix the whipped cream into it.
"You deserve it after the bullshit you've apparently been through in the past week," he said. "Didn't even hearabout this shit until I saw it on the news. You'd think you all would call me if some crazy ancient Egyptian bullshit was going on."
He eyed Seto as he said this, and Seto chose to ignore him, sipping at the milkshake instead.
"That was a hint, Kaiba," Marik said. "A hint to tell me what the fuck you thought you were doing in the pharaoh's tomb."
"Collecting the pieces of the Millennium Puzzle," Seto said curtly.
"To bring the pharaoh back?" Marik said. "Wow, Kaiba, I knew you had a crush on him, but this is taking things a little far, isn't it? Don't want to come off as clingy or anything."
"Shut the fuck up."
Marik gestured at him with the tip of his straw, almost flinging milkshake into Seto's face.
"You are fucking around with shit that you shouldn't be," he said. "That is why this is an intervention. To get you out of that fuckery."
He took down a long sip of his milkshake and sighed with contentment.
"For real," he said. "I was in a hole in the ground for almost eleven years. You both have been topside for all of that, and you don't even enjoy it enough."
He poked his straw up and down in the milkshake.
"I'm not going to tell you what to do," Marik said, eyeing Kaiba with those harsh violet eyes of his. "But I think there's a lot of shit out here in this world that needs your attention more than the next one does."
Marik shoved Ryo briefly with his shoulder, and Ryo half smiled.
"I think some things should stay at rest where they belong," Ryo said softly.
Seto just stared at both of them for a moment.
"Fuck both of you," he said. "You can't bribe me to stop with a milkshake."
"I can try," Marik said.
Seto rolled his eyes and determined to finish the shake and get the hell out of here. He didn't need these dorks to be telling him what to do.
Then again...the shake was pretty good.
He would never say it out loud, not to these two but...Marik had a point...maybe Seto should think about bringing Mokuba out to one of these places at some point...
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A/N: I'm not gonna be over the movie in a while lol. Next is Doomshipping (Yami Marik x Yami Bakura x Mokuba).
