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 119: Through a Glass, Darkly
"Tanzaku? What're those?"
"You make a wish and write it on a slip of paper, and hang it on bamboo." Yuhi got Damamu paper and pencil. "That's what tanzaku are. They're like tags, only without prices on 'em."
Free stuff. Yuamu's weakness.
"WOAH-HO-HO~! My wish will come true?"
"That's the hope, basically…" Yuhi scratched his cheek.
"Have any of your wishes ever come true, Yuhi?"
"Mine?" Yuhi's eyes were carried beyond Damamu to Chupataro, who took the finishing bite out of the cotton candy in his robot's hand.
Chupataro had forgone his usual sweatshirt for a pink yukata tied with a green obi. This was strange to Yuhi because yukata were mostly worn by girls and women, while boys, men, and small children wore jinbei to Tanabata Festivals these days. You didn't see the male yukata worn much anymore unless at the hot springs, though the clothing choice evidently remained popular among Mutsuba Town's nonhuman contingent.
Besides Chupataro, Yuhi spotted Ofuruno, Nomuratodamas, and other aliens from the Underground Alien Residential Area wearing it.
Damamu wore a jinbei, emulating Yuhi.
Yuhi quickly turned away. If he looked at Chupataro in his yukata too long, he couldn't help himself. He'd start to blush. It was like Chupataro's reaction to him in the Meeeg-chan getup. Projectile nosebleed!
He thought back half an hour. Chupataro's monster face still sagged off the back of his collar, which sort of wigged out the little kids walking behind them down the row of stalls set up in the park. Chupataro rrrarrr'd at the kids as a mean prank, prompting Yuhi to whack him upside the head and the kids to laugh and disperse.
The chuckle Yuhi had over Chupataro's angry response stopped him from blushing.
It occurred to Yuhi he and Chupataro both liked the colour pink. Chupataro's love of pink was a no-brainer: It came from his love of Meeeg-chan. Yuhi's pink sweater and slippers…They were cozy in spite of the awkward wrinkle that early on, the UTS8 coordinated the twins' wardrobe.
His boxers, he could be sure about. Purisaki-san bought him several pink pairs (much to his embarrassment) after his blue ones were mangled by the washing machine Yuamu and Yudias purchased on sale shortly after Yudias came to Earth. Yudias had begun working at UTS, and, mistaking it for a weapon sent by Velgear's enemies, destroyed the old washing machine with his eye beams.
The new washing machine ran smoothly for a while, but was on its last legs around the time The*Luge was defeated. The appliance was under warranty and Yuamu immediately demanded it be repaired or exchanged for another new new washing machine. That was all fine and dandy for her, but Yuhi's underpants didn't survive the one wash it started sputtering. The seller who initially sold her the washing machine might not have survived either if Tazaki-san wasn't there to calm Yuamu down.
"I think I just watched attempted murder, President."
"Yuhi!"
"Ah, Damamu! Sorry! What were ya sayin'?"
"I was asking you if any of your wishes ever came true, Yuhi!"
"Not any of the wishes I've hung up, Damamu," Yuhi told the truth.
"Aww! So tanzaku don't work?"
"If ya write one, I'm sure your wish'll come true, Damamu."
"Really? Okay, I'll try it! My wish is…" Damamu scribbled. "TO HAVE MORE AND MORE RUSH DUELS!"
Chupataro cracked a smile. "More and more Rush Duels? You don't have enough of them now, chupa?"
"Mm-mm! I want to have MORE Rush Duels! More Rush Duels equals more fun!"
"And one plus one equals?"
"Chupataro!"
"It equals WHATEVER~!"
Yuhi tipped over onto Chupataro, drooling from the ringing in his ears caused by Damamu's elated squeal.
"Chupapapapapa! Never gets old, cabra!"
"I hate you." Yuhi clanged the base of his fist against Chupataro's robot's chest.
Chupataro hung his tanzaku next to Damamu's, comforting Yuhi with his robot's other hand.
"Whatcha wish for?"
"Chupa already has what Chupa wanted most, but hey, these are freebies, aren't they, chupa?" He gave the wish tag a light flick so it spun around and Yuhi got the memo.
Before they hooked up, it wouldn't have been necessary for Yuhi to ask. He knew Chupataro's wish would be to meet the real Meeeg-chan.
But now, what had Chupataro scrawled on the piece of paper?
Was it about him? Damamu?
His heart lurched.
…
Outside Valvelgear's glass windows was a rushing river of stars.
"The reason why the universe we all live in has structure is because of dark matter. That is why dark matter exists!"
Yuhi watched the stars pass him by, remembering Damamu's wish. More Rush Duels were absolutely coming, but they wouldn't be fun and games.
He remembered Chupataro's wish.
They'd pretended to themselves and everyone. They'd lied.
Why?
Why dark matter…Why the Darkmen exist…
Their raison d'être.
Finally, Yuhi remembered Yuamu's wish, substantiated to him mere minutes before they abandoned Yudias and the rest in Dark Matter Space.
It wasn't enough to sit around and wait for your wish to come true. You had to seize the universe with your own hands and realize your dream yourself.
This is what Yuamu was doing. With the Dark Power. And if she had her way, with Resurrection of the Dead.
Time is money. Yuamu evidently didn't care about money anymore, but cared all the more about time, intent on erasing her own bothersome memories and becoming the new Otes.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. That good intention being to make sure her descendant's future became reality.
The road of the Dark Meister would be paved with the bodies of her former family and friends.