A Japanese Weresheep in Mutsuba Town
Author's Note: Time for a new pairing! Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH! series.
Pairing: Developing Yuhi x Chupataro.
Summary:
There are some forms of alien activity even MIK turns a blind eye to. The truly alien activity between Chupataro and Ohdo Yuhi, for instance.
Chapter 20: Manya and Bochi Make a Promo
CHUPAN! Nobody outside Mutsuba Town may have tuned in…and per Kirishima Rovian's post-handshake spiel, they may have been in space on a collision course with the "Great King of Terror"…but the ratings were in and Magical Sheep Girl Meeeg-chan (as produced, written, designed, storyboarded, directed, keyframed, filmed, and edited by Kaburagi Chupataro) was a hit!
It was Yuhi's idea Chupataro do something to take his mind off the whole clone situation. Yuhi remembered Yudias' comment about the manga Mr. Universe being spun off into multiple anime series popular throughout space, and the decision was made to similarly adapt everybody's favourite magical sheep girl for TV, to rehabilitate the image of Meeeg-chan that Chupataro had sullied through his prior wrongdoing.
Chupataro and Yuhi were a pair, yes – and Chupataro had explicitly picked Yuhi over Meeeg-chan, yes – but Chupataro was still Meeeg-chan's diehard, would-die-for-her #1 fan.
Indeed, Chupataro almost worked himself to death to get everything done before the deadline in time for Magical Sheep Girl Meeeg-chan to air.
To hear Chupataro dial back his chupas and cabras and talk like a normal person was jarring for Yuhi. It seemed innocuous, but Chupataro's self-casting as the dashing Mr. Stylist, alter ego of Abduction Mask, threw Yuhi for a loop.
In the same vein, Chupataro was jolted by just how eager Yuhi was. The supportive boyfriend energy Yuhi gave off during the taxing but paramount ordeal was beautiful. Chupataro was siphoning blood from Yuhi's veins for the energy he needed not to croak from overexertion!
In the face of the criticism Chupataro doled out getting Yuhi to redraw his cut of the animation, Yuhi's outlook remained pure, innocent, and incorruptible.
Flip transition to Manya, the born actress, who recommended they film a commercial to promote the anime, which the studio already purchased two additional episodes of.
The townsfolk craved entertainment to prevent them from going stir-crazy!
"Live action is a different monster. Fortunately, you've come to the best!"
As the one talking canine available, Bochi would portray Meeeg-chan's sheepdog Shoruta.
Although his one and only choice for the voiceover, Chupataro's female parole officer (whose name he never learned, hence why she was credited as such) would not be reprising Meeeg-chan in live action. Because of her resumé, Manya was a shoe-in to play the lead. However, Manya didn't have the best experience working under Chupataro in their last project, and stepped behind the camera to direct.
She argued her bestie Yuamu should give it a shot instead. Yuamu declined and deferred the part to Yuhi (his crossdressing as Meeeg-chan, the rationale), only he refused to be seen like that by everyone in town on Mutsuba TV, the only program on TV in Mutsuba Town!
Before you infer Chupataro gave up and played Meeeg-chan himself, what really transpired was Manya, Yuamu, Yuhi, and Purisaki-san ganged up on Yudias to accept the reluctant role and sit through a costume test, causing Chupataro to become irate and jump out of his robot with tears in his eyes and Meeeg-chan's figure in his claw.
Suffice it to say, that would've made for an interesting promo!
But no, Yudias' pride escaped intact. They auditioned local talent in an open casting call, hiring an unknown who bore a striking resemblance to Megumu-chan, Meeeg-chan's secret identity from the anime. Curiously – and this was a peculiar fluke – her profile listed her as Hitsujigaoka Megumu!
The natural dramatizers they were, Yuhi sought out Nomura and Damas in the Coruffium to write the script. What with their "The Prophet of Evil, Nomuratodamas" moniker, everyone agreed, creatively, they'd pen a compelling ad.
"I see it! I see it! You writing us a script for our commercial!" Yuhi parodied Nomura and made a circle over his eye.
Later, after the footage had been shot and it was pencils down on both the commercial and ordered episodes, Yuhi returned from the bathroom at the Black Goat, in his bedclothes with a washcloth around his neck.
"Ahhhhhhh! I'm all refreshed! Chupataro, you should have a soak! Things're finally no longer so hectic!"
"Chupa, chupa." Chupataro fiddled with the wrapper on one of the candies he set aside in a dish for guests.
Yuhi sat and surrounded Chupataro from behind. "Are you still depressed ya might be a clone? After all I did to distract ya?"
Chupataro kissed up into the bottom of Yuhi's bottom lip, thereby bypassing the clothes peg Yuhi had clipped over his nose to stop the apartment's reek from singeing his sinuses. It felt like forever since they'd kissed.
"Thanks for trying to cheer Chupa up, chupa. Chupa'll try to ignore the possibility Chupa's a clone, cabra."
Yuhi didn't think Chupataro was lying. He fell back on the tatami, embracing the pillow he made. The Meeeg-chan daki: his first gift to Chupataro way back!
Chupataro let loose an amused sound, and laid down across from Yuhi on the floor. Meeeg-chan was physically between them, and yet, she wasn't in their way.
…
While much of the population of Mutsuba Town was glued to the second episode of Magical Sheep Girl Meeeg-chan, a girl met and greeted her boyfriend and partner in crime.
Life imitating art (or Chupataro plagiarizing from life), it was at a card shop where you could also grab coffee, named Rush Café, like the shop in the first episode.
This girl, Hitsujigaoka Megumu-chan, worked at playing human part-time.
"He was there at the audition. They didn't recognize me. What's our play?"
Her boyfriend laid down his mug across from her on the table.
"We take back what he's taken…chupa."