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 10: Mama Mitsuko and the Mirror-Averse Ghost
Chupataro left his scooter on the untended grass (although it was bad to be driving it off-road). He walked to a vending machine around the corner from the Black Goat Residence, thirsty for blood, but thirstier he'd drink juice for the time being. So thirsty he nearly inserted the two-of-a-kind "J for Jointech" coin Yuhi gifted him, when a 3-metre-tall woman suddenly crouched over the beverage station to speak to him.
She was taller than the vending machine.
She could flatten it with her elbow.
Mama Mitsuko.
Big Mommy.
The Supreme Commander of the Velgear Cluster's Assault Force, Attack of the 3m Woman, and the chupacabra child essentially standing on another child's shoulders. Nobody said it wasn't an odd pseudo-family dynamic.
"What do you want, chupa?"
"Zuwijo-sama sent me, you half-pint shrimp."
"The nerve of some people, chupa! If it weren't for Zuwijo, Chupataro wouldn't have been put on an artificial lung, cabra!"
"Those kids. They and Yudias have gone underground to the Alien Residential Area."
"Chupa? The Alien Residential Area, cabra?"
"Other parties have started to move. If UTS wanders into the dark side of town, how do you think Ohdo Yuhi will fare against the evilest scum of the universe?"
"THAT CHUP-ID IDIOT, CABRA!"
…
No luck locating the so-called "Informant" in the Alien Residential Area, Yudias, Yuamu, and Yuhi reconvened for dinner at UTS. London's assignment running into this dead end, Yuhi was due for a shower, except things did not go as planned for multiple reasons.
"Couldn't stay away, could ya? Why're you in here with me?"
"Because Yudias is chicken, chupa! He's an alien, but he's scared of ghosts! Who ever heard of an alien that's scared of ghosts, cabra?"
"And you aren't? I have it on good authority, you're a coward beneath all your talk, ya yellowbelly!"
"Chupa's belly is yellow, chupa! Should you be attacking the only person between you and the ghost, chupa? Maybe Chupa will just –"
"You're not a person," Yuhi re-stressed. "But sorry. Thanks for stayin' with me in case the ghost comes back."
"Not like Chupa wasn't busy trimming Chupa's toenails, cabra!"
"If your apartment's any indication, you don't seem like you're huge into personal hygiene. Earth houses have windows for a reason, Chupataro!" Yuhi hugged Chupataro anyway.
"Watch it! Chupa's –! Chupa's pins, cabra!"
"I rather be a pin cushion than a singing spirit's mark!"
"Oi…Are you for real? Let go, chupa! We're naked, cabra!"
"I've seen you with no 'clothes' on, Chupataro! There's nothin' to see!"
"That you know about, chupa!" Chupataro mocked Yuhi's lack of understanding.
The insinuation was sufficient for Yuhi to stutter "V-v-vam bi du!" and drift cautiously…slightly closer to the edge of the tub. Not sufficiently far away from Chupataro he didn't have a thorny security blanket in the event the creepy chorus of voices returned for him, but sufficiently far away he wasn't as flustered.
"Thanks. Really. I owe ya one."
"Don't mention it, chupa." Chupataro's scaly hide steamed darker green in the water.
"Didja take what I said to heart? About not givin' up on Meeeg-chan?"
Chupataro grazed the tub's acrylic (fiberglass?) with a long, black claw. Not replying, and visibly unaccustomed to baring weakness.
"Chupataro?"
"Chupa chose –"
"Chupataro, I love you!" Yuhi spat out first.
"GNUHH!"
"I hate you! But I also love you!"
"Chupaaa…Why of all places did you hafta tell Chupa this here, cabra?"
They both laughed quietly.
"Just…In case you regret your choice, keep Meeeg-chan as a backup."
"Chupa can tell you right now: Chupa will regret Chupa's choice, chupa."
Yuhi frowned. Admitting he loved Chupataro aloud was a breath of fresh air, but he was still indecisive. Honest to himself and/or honest to Chupataro – What it boiled down to was he was still a grade-schooler contending with what he wanted.
Be transparent. Put your wants ahead of the fictional sheep girl, Yuhi mulled.
Baby Yoda steps.
"Chupa will regret it…but that doesn't mean Chupa won't hold on to you, chupa!"
Yuhi's frown turned, not upside-down, but unsteadily optimistic?
"Oi! Let's finish washing up before Chupa shrivels up like a Pandoran cillaphant, cabra!" Chupataro climbed out and knelt by the twin soap dispensers – one for each twin.
"Chupataro, use my soap!"
"Your soap, cabra?"
"From the blue container! The blue one! Yuamu complains when I use hers!"
"Chupa's used to pink, cabra."
Between Meeeg-chan's outfit and the pink sweatshirt worn over Chupataro's robot's outer casing, that was overt.
Yuhi overlooked him flouting tradition and lathering after he'd been in the tub. Soaping up twice could only benefit the alien, who smelled like a pigsty!
…
Chupataro drew his hood halfway so his human face was visible inside his monster face's jaws.
Yuhi spilled he loved him.
That just happened, cabra!
"Oh! Chupataro-kun! How's Yuhi?" Yuamu pried.
"He's…He's calmed down a bit, chupa! Are those the mirrors the ghost ordered him to ditch in the yard, chupa?"
"Yuetss. Somuones postings. Aus thet ghoss." ("Yes. Someone's posing. As the ghost.")
"Chupa cauuht a whifft of thsem, us soot as Chupa arrsived, cautras." ("Chupa caught a whiff of them, as soon as Chupa arrived, cabra.")
"I see Yuhi taught you the UTS Cipher."
"Chupa." He shrugged innocently.
"Yudias, grab Yuhi! We're going on another trip to the Alien Residential Area!"
As Yuamu projected, the "poltergeist" resumed haunting Yuhi, and her brother screamed in the other room.
The skyfish had taken the bait!
"Compensautiot fosr Yuhi, Chuupattarokus?" ("Compensation for Yuhi, Chupataro-kun?")
"Canu watit to chuchu and chupa sthem, chuupats!" ("Can't wait to chuchu and chupa them, chupa!")