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 142: Talaya, Mariña, Chirubimé, Tytannial

"Th-this is…"

"What is that?"

"What are these images?"

"It's the future…No, it's also the past we know."

Faster and faster Yuhi-Otes and Yudias flew through the rampaging time travel system: The particle accelerator Yuna had the insurgents build in captivity in the rebel detention facility.

While the insurgents, the bereaved Dark Meister who'd lost her Darkmen, her right-hand man, and his former right-hand woman watched history literally unfold on the screen before them, Chupataro observed the Duel from Valvelgear's main monitor.

Entering the physical representation of Time Machine alongside CPU to attempt to close the door, CPT was unable to multitask and keep her eye on the Velgearian mothership.

Chupataro didn't know where the Damamus were. The hazard of free-range children.

"Battle! Magical Knight – Sevens Paladin attacks! SEVEN-MAGICAL FIERCE WAVE SLASH!"

With each of Yuhi-Otes' attacks, they caught a glimpse of Ohdo Yuga's future, and Yudias sustained massive damage.

Like Yuga obtaining Fusion via meteor.

And with each of those attacks, the shard of Yuhi that remained caught a glimpse of something in the darkness also. The real something Yuhi-Otes had been feeling.

What exactly is the definition of love?

Yuamu, Yuhi, and Yudias were having a picnic under the cherry blossom trees. They'd taken off their boots and shoes, Yuamu already on her second plate of sanshoku dango, Yuhi grinding his teeth into a cheese croquette, and Yudias guzzling a bottle of water.

Bento boxes prepared by Yagi-san and Maki-san were open on the blue tarp the three were seated upon. This, as opposed to a blanket, because the washing machine had come down with a case of Yudias' eye beams again.

The mob girl was minding her own business nearby, as were pairs and trios farther off among the zigzagging trees.

Valvelgear touched down carrying two more bags of food, straight from Yagi-san's grill.

"Yuhi?"

"Mm? What is it, Yuamu?"

"Don't you think you should invite you-know-who? He's been behind that sakura forever."

Yuhi sensed Chupataro creeping on them without turning his head. His hair was ringing.

"He's probably up to no good. Ignore him."

"No use hiding it. I can see you blushing, big brother! Why don't you just admit you want him to eat with us? Go on. Call him over. It isn't on company time, so I won't dock your pay!"

"Oghhh! Lay off, Yuamu! I don't wanna!"

"Transamu Road Rainac attacks! WAR TO ZEN! TOUCH THE CURE WITHIN!"

Revisiting the first time they met Yuga, who came from the future.

While for Yuhi…

You didn't actually like me. Then you did.

"Yuhi! Chupataro-kun! We're playing suikawari! Yudias is up first!"

Yudias wobbled out, whacking stick drawn, inner tube around his waist, blindfold over his eyes, snorkel in his mouth, and the Jersey Devil brothers flying above him.

Yuhi kissed Chupataro and hopped across the toe-singeing sand, joining his sister in cheering Yudias on.

"Rules infraction!" Manabu blew the whistle on him. "That's a rules infraction!"

Chupataro smiled in the new robot Yuhi built.

Tazaki-san wiped the sweat off his bushy brow.

The mob girl went to the beach to fish.

"Magician of Dark Sevens attacks! DEAD-END DARK WALL!"

Yuga and Otes' Duel on the moon.

And Yuhi…

I was just feelin' incredibly lonely.

UTS accepted a job to tend to the park. Yuamu and Yudias stood proudly over their day's work, the fallen red, orange, and yellow autumn leaves swept into a pile matching Transamu Rainac's – and therefore Yudias' – face.

Only Yuhi wasn't as bright as the foliage. His arms were crossed and his eyes were downcast, broom pinned underneath his underarm.

"Yuhi? Are you unwell?" Yudias questioned. "Did the curry bread not agree with you?"

Yuamu kept it positive. "Leave him be, Yudias. Yuhi's just cranky Chupataro-kun's not around."

"Ohhh! Is that so?"

Yuhi curled his lips in annoyance. She was right. In part. The copious amounts of curry bread Yudias mentioned, which Yuamu had been force-feeding UTS to reach her campaign goals, made up the other part.

"Chupataro-kun has a lot on his plate."

Barf.

"Even so, Yuamu. Like myself…Like the intense respect I feel in my chest for Zuwijo, Yuhi and my eternal friend will –!"

Yuhi changed colours so fast, he could've been a leaf himself. "Uaagh! No, no! Yudias! Stop talking!"

"A-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" Yudias laughed a characteristically stilted laugh. "My apologies, Yuhi!"

The mob girl, in disguise, was reading a book on a bench.

"Magical Dragon Knight – Sevensgias! Master of Sevens Road! Magical Knight – Sevens Chariot!"

Yuhi-Otes' paranormal edge over Yudias grew and grew.

"Take this! Time Power!"

Kirishima Roa. Kirishima Romin. Sogetsu Gakuto/Gakuting. Mutsuba Asana. Saionji Neiru.

Luke.

The Luke!

Faces they'd seen here and there.

The UTS8's faces.

Manya's.

Descendants in their future.

Aliens, subterraneans, ancients, undersea folk, ghosts, machine-people.

Yet for Yuhi…The Yuhi drowning under the Dark Power possessed by Otes…

But just by talkin' to you, I would feel saved.

Snowmen approximating Yuamu, Yuhi, and Yudias stood in profile on the sidewalk, an empty tin of tuna for Yudias' hat, a carrot and bottlecaps for Yuhi's hair and headset, and two slices of pink daikon, leaves, and dried tsukemen noodles for Yuamu's eyes, ribbon, and hair.

It wasn't winter. Mutsuba Town was in space. The*Luge's ship was still connected to Val-Valvelgear, undergoing systems checks.

Asaka hadn't rolled out Mutsuba Heavy Machinery's snowplows yet.

Yuhi and Chupataro chatted and shared Yuhi's body heat at the Black Goat.

The mob girl watched her employer Kawai stagger through the cold outside her house, snow from the roof dusting the top of her umbrella.

"End it! ULTIMATE SEVENS MAGIC!"

Yudias' vision blurred. Yuhi-Otes' costume changed from black to white.

"So that's it, after all?"

"Yuhi is…"

"The real…Otes."

Yuamu's self-satisfaction.

Yuamu's condescension.

"If there's something you want from the bottom of your heart, you'll accept any sacrifice. I thought you were of the same mind as I, Dark Meister-san."

Yuamu's doubt.

Every word of Yuna's exposed her for who she was.

This suffering.

All due to the Ohdo family.

Their stamp on history.

"Ponponponponponponponponponponponponponponponponponpon!" (Damamu)

That was incisive.