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 46: Taking a Sick Day
"AUUURGGG! I'm never eating candy that turns me into a mermaid again!" Yuhi roared like a drunk dinosaur, rolling to one side of the bed.
"What happened to 'merboy,' chupa?"
"That's the cold medicine talkin', AUUURGGG!" He rolled to the other. "I meant to say merboy! Merboy!"
Chupataro felt guilty laughing, but Yuhi was giving him plenty of material. His face was red and soggy with flecks of tissue attached due to blowing his nose. His eyes were puffy and swollen shut from his lengthy sneezing fits. And the pile of bottled water piling up at his bedside would give Kawai Tell a run for his money!
"I HATE BEING SICK! UGH!"
As horrendous as it was for Yuhi the shape he was in, he was still cute, and Chupataro shamelessly made sheep's eyes at Yuhi as he would Meeeg-chan.
"Chupatarohhh, I'm contagious! You'll catch what I have!"
"Your sister said you were calling for Chupa! Figured Chupa would do the chupa thing and take care of you, chupa!"
"I asked you to come?"
"Are you experiencing memory loss, chupa? Is that a side effect of the cold medicine too, cabra?"
"Um sorryyy! You came all the way out here to look aftur me, and um incoherunt!"
"There, there, chupa," Chupataro consoled.
"What's the chupa thing?"
"Chu?"
"Just now. You said you would do the 'chupa thing' and take care of me. What's that?"
"The boyfriend thing, chupa."
This was for Yuhi the equivalent of a dose of tranquilizer for a cow.
"Hehe…Boyfriend…Boyfriend!" Yuhi giggled himself to sleep.
Got to clear out these empty bottles of water to make some space, chupa! Chupataro hoarded up two eight-packs in his robot's arms. Oh! Right! The kappa, chupa!
He needed to pay Tell another visit.
Chupataro removed the caps from the bottles for recycling, and peeked into the meeting room to say goodbye to Yudias and Yuamu.
Kappa Heavenly Cleaning was his next destination.
Blue-haired girl was behind the counter per the uzhe, and informed Chupataro her manager was out back in the shack with the washing machines.
"Yo! Kappa!"
"What is it you're here for? I am parched."
"Your research on the Earthdamar, chupa! When you were studying it, did it do anything…strange, cabra?"
"Strange is a broad classification. You'll have to be more specific."
"Could it talk, chupa?"
"No." Tell set his iron on the dry cleaning press, curiosity seizing his dripping face. "Has the Earthdamar been speaking to you?"
"Chupa's been hearing a voice, chupa! It's in Chupa's head and it's like a little kid is talking, chupa!"
"A little kid? That is most intriguing indeed. Is it speaking to you now?"
"It's not, chupa. It comes and goes, chupa."
"I suggest we run a full-body diagnostic without delay."
"Do what you have to do, chupa!"
With the tools available to him in his lab, Kawai Tell buckled Chupataro down and buckled down. During his examination of his fellow alien, not once did the Earthdamar make its presence felt. The Earthdamar allowed Tell to administer the laundry list of trials unimpeded, adding to his unease.
It was indulging him.
It was humouring him.
Tell had a new hypothesis, but it was harrowing. The universe was too big, he realized. Too stark. He may have ventured somewhere even he had qualms venturing.
The final frontier has some boundaries that shouldn't be crossed. And he was looking at one.
Or it was looking at him.
Some powers aren't to be trifled with. As Prometheus stole fire from the gods, incurring the wrath of Zeus, so too was Tell dipping a toe into an unfathomable ocean of stars at his own peril.
The success he was achieving inspecting the Earthdamar revolved around the whims of an infantile, cosmic conscience with unrestricted use of the substance's unlimited energy. One that could rescind that charity at any time.
"We're finished here."
"What did you find out, cabra?"
"N-nothing!"
"Nothing, chupa?"
Haha!
He heard it. The voice. It would seem the Earthdamar was deigning not to be heard by Chupataro in the interim.
Haha! Tell him! Tell him! Tell him! Tell him! Huhu hahaha!
It wanted Tell to tell Chupataro. For Chupataro to hear it from him.
"How could you find nothing out, chupa? After performing all those tests on Chupataro, chupa!"
"Pardon me. I was pondering aloud to myself. According to my findings, I can ascertain nothing out of the ordinary with you other than the Earthdamar's occupancy within your body. However, I must stress this does not mean you're out of the woods, especially if the Earthdamar genuinely reached out to you to communicate."
"It did, chupa!"
"There was a voice?"
"There was, cabra!"
"Let's pretend for the sake of argument it was the Earthdamar speaking to you. That would imply sentience. A level of consciousness it has hitherto not boasted, and an alarming escalation. You describing the voice as the voice of a little kid also has me concerned."
"Concerned, chupa?"
"There is nothing more terrifying than the selfish mentality of a child. A child posits itself indestructible. It isn't constrained by ethical standards, and is devoted solely to its own amusement. An underdeveloped moral compass could make it dangerous."
It could be fun!
"What should Chupa do, chupa?"
"I'm less persuaded this is about what you should do, and more persuaded this is about what you shouldn't."
Tell him! Tell him! Hehehe!
"What I'm about to ask is critical and I need you to answer me."
"O-okay, chupa."
Tell's mouth was swelteringly dry. He was so, so parched!
Huhuhuhu!
"The voice. The Earthdamar. Has it spoken to you about Yuhi?"