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 45: Mermail Gummies
"Hi, you're an Earthling, aren't you?" a squat, superficially female alien of indeterminate breed accosted Yuhi.
"Me? Well yeah, I am!"
"Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be someone else?"
"Someone else?"
"Yes! For example, Earthlings can't fly! What if there was way for you to have wings and launch yourself into the sky!"
"I'd say it's impossible, but tell me more!"
"With my different varieties of alien sweets, you can step into the skins of a multitude of extraterrestrials!"
"So you just eat 'em? What're you sellin' them for?"
"I'll offer you a discount!"
Don't accept candy from strangers. Every kid is taught this lesson.
Don't eat the candy strangers give you. This follows naturally from the aforementioned lesson.
But does every kid obey the rules? How 'bout when the candy isn't your humdrum, ordinary Earth candy? (MIK's advice: Don't be Yuhi. Please, please don't do what Yuhi rashly did.)
"Yuhi, you've been in there for an hour! Are you all right?"
"D-don't come in, Yuamu! I'm takin' a bath!"
"You 'bathe' any longer, you'll turn into a literal prune!"
"Water's leaking under the door, chupa." The water sloshed around Chupataro's shoes.
"Yudias, saw through the door with your beams."
"But –!"
"Do it. We need to know what Yuhi's hiding. This is for his own good."
"Understood. If it is for his own good. I apologize, Yuhi. EYE BEAMS!"
A second after Yudias' beams fizzled, there was zip. Then, the second after that, Yudias, Yuamu, and Chupataro were swamped by a wave higher than the door itself. Enough water they were flushed out into the yard, and the sidewalk and street UTS is on came out with murkier colours.
Were Mutsuba Town still flooded, it would have been an ideal environment for Yuhi in his situation. But because Mutsuba Town was no longer flooded, flooding the bathtub and jamming a towel under the door were the quick fix he devised.
Not like he could walk to the river or beach!
Manabu visited UTS some time later.
"Nyandestar and I interviewed the stand owner and shopgoers in Under-Underground Town about these alien gummies Chupataro notified us of. MIK has analyzed the gummies and verified the changes aren't permanent. As the proprietress said, they should wear off a day after consumption. These candies are a children's novelty item, really. Not anything malicious."
"Nonetheless, candy that mutates you into a whole other alien species…MIK will be exploring instituting some guardrails," Nyandestar qualified Manabu's statement.
"I don't see why everybody's gettin' so bent out of shape!"
"You don't? Yuhi, you have gills! And a tail!" Yuamu would be remiss not to make emphatically clear her brother was truly bent out of shape.
"And that's automatically a bad thing?"
"You're a mermaid, chupa!"
"Merboy!" Yuhi gave the appendage that'd supplanted his legs a twist and a kick. In addition to the gills and tail, he also had double emarginate fins projecting out of his cheekbones, fish scales divvied up across his upper arms and lower back, and foggy sclerae.
Tazaki-san had pumped up an inflatable pool in his garden, leaving the garden hose on in it. With her uchimizu bucket and ladle, Maki-san drizzled water onto Yuhi to keep him wet, giving him an appearance akin to Mutsuba Town's resident kappa.
"Is the water pleasant, Yuhi-bocchama?"
"I'm good! Thank you, Maki-san!"
"Mermail Gummies. Special Summon the roar of the sea..." Yudias read the label on the bag.
"Chupataro-kun, you couldn't've done anything to prevent this?"
"Yuamu, don't pick on Chupataro! He tried to talk me out of it!"
"Chupa told him not to eat them, chupa! The market was stocked with normal food he could have bought, chupa! Not iffy candy! But he had to grab the blue mermaid gummies, cabra!"
"Squashed apples, sketchy bananas, tiny pineapples, and deformed oranges don't constitute 'normal' food!"
This pickiness wasn't coming from nowhere, and Yuamu knew where (and no, it wasn't from drawn-out sibling-inflicted torture to his taste buds courtesy of Zuwijo's curry bread!).
"Yuhi, if I cut the number of snacks you owe me down to two a month, could you avoid exotic sweets that transmogrify you into aliens, so we don't have to close early and lose business?"
"What? Lead with that, Yuamu! I'll gladly commit to no weird alien food if I get to hold on to one of my snacks!"
She sighed. What a headache. "Chupataro-kun, I'm entrusting Yuhi to you. Make certain he stays out of any more trouble till he's his old self again, will you?"
"Guppy duty! UTS, chupa!" Chupataro saluted laxly.
"Maybe merboy was the wrong way to go…" Yuhi ceded after Yuamu excused herself and Tazaki-san to survey the property damage.
"Finally, chupa!" Chupataro misconstrued Yuhi was finally off the topic.
"There were other aliens I ought to have tried transforming into!"
Darn it, chupa!
"Tsuchinoko…Rokurokubi…Vampires…"
"Vampires are aliens, cabra?"
"Apparently! Cuz you drink blood, dontcha technically qualify, Chupataro?"
"Chupa's a chupacabra, cabra!"
"Chupacabra would've been neat! Too bad the vendor didn't have gummies for that!"
"Chupa…Chupa likes Yuhi as Yuhi, chupa."
That got Yuhi's attention. It was a Mitsuko "Am I good enough to love" moment, except Yuhi wasn't convinced he was good enough, and still needed to improve to prove something to himself.
"Kiss me?"
"Chupa's not kissing you while you're half-fish, chupa! People will talk, chupa!"
"After?"
"After you're human again, chupa."
Yuhi didn't mind after, but by then, he'd caught a cold from sitting in the pool of cold water all day, his nose runny with a perpetually dangling string of snot.