Nightmare Lock
Author's Note: Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL series.
Pairing: Established IV x Todoroki.
Summary:
To be a true fan of IV's, you had to be a little soldier, and decide for yourself you were all in.
They pale at the wire hair tightening the loops exhuming their monsters from the Graveyard. The slicing of bladed gears and the twisting crank.
Their blood goes cold as ice, gazes locked on Giant Killer's emotionless expression. Unblinking. Uncanny. A heart as black as the metal shavings the Number grinds the opposing side into.
He was like them, but they won't be like him. They'll limp from this Duel, if they can gather the strength to stay conscious, forever changed by IV destroying their image of him.
But not Todoroki Takashi. He was…enlightened. After the pieces had been reassembled and the wounds nursed back to health, Todoroki reviewed the lessons of the Duel, and condensed them down to one immutable premise.
To summarize: To be a true fan of IV's, you had to be a little soldier, and decide for yourself you were all in.
Decide. IV did you the honour of choosing you as his opponent!
Cards through pages of duelling data. Unqualified hearts except one.
What were a few shattered bones (or a lot!), when that sneer…that laugh…They were all for you?
IV's fanservice, aimed at him. The motto's hooks in him, and Giant Killer's hooks in Vaccingale.
Damage.
Damage.
Breaking him so the doctors – all the king's men – could put him back together again. So he could duel IV again – sit on the wall again – have a great fall, and break again.
He was in and out of the hospital to such a degree, the staff ID'd him on sight.
The most beautiful baby face…
IV was sick of terrible Duelists. Todoroki couldn't give him Duels on Yuma or Shark's level, but at minimum, they'd be "fun."
The middle brother draws imaginary lines from the edges of Todoroki's mouth down to his chin with his finger, and Todoroki rolls his eyes around in his head, earning IV's merriment.
A dummy. A puppet.
IV's puppet.
Todoroki was branded. He and IV wouldn't be separated.
There'd be no expulsion from Byron Arclight's house.
Fanservice. Servist. Servant. Sadist.
From Todoroki's fantasy, the coffin rise of this fanatic's fantastic doll.
No strings on him.
The sadist's favourite plaything is a masochist.