Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Water Love ❯ Stirring the Surface ( Chapter 10 )

Title: Water Love

Writer: Angela (orangeaura868)

Genre: Romance/ Fantasy… this is an Alternate Universe fic

Rating: PG-13 to be safe

Spoilers: None (because it is an AU)

Warnings: Well…there's yaoi…cute mermaid boys…water dragons…maybe some language.

Pairings: YYY with side SJ and mentioned BR MM…you should know who they are.

Disclaimer: This is a `disclaimer.' The point of having one should be blatantly obvious. Either way…I'll still say it…I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh.

Summary: Yuugi is the ever curious merboy with an ill-fated arranged marriage to some unknown son of an ocean kingdom. Yami is a human deathly afraid of sea water. How could these two have possibly fallen in love? This is a love story crossing land and sea, proving that love indeed knows no boundaries.

Plot Bunny: LittleMermaid (thanks to whoever drew it and posted it!)

Let's begin now…

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Take all the unease of a century and lay it down across the land. Take it with skilled hands and mold the unnatural tension into a mere second. Usher it into a moment. Feel the anxiety stretch on and fill one single second with all the unease of a century. The silence will carry on and overfill. Take it in.

His eyes were wide in a strange sort of wonder and shock, amazement and a nagging fear deep within. He forgot to breathe then in that long moment that did not seem to end. His breathe caught in his throat and it must have been severe of it to have him remember that need just at the right time. It was as if the air around him refused to be breathed and instead filled his chest until it was heavy with want and need. Yami felt his eyes staring in such a way that they could not possibly open any wider. It was that act that made him quite literally lose his breath. He took a breath and reclaimed the lost air. Strangely, it did not soothe whatever had awakened inside of him from the sight he saw. Yami wanted more than the cool air that filled his lungs with comfort; his mind wanted something to soothe the unease now. He demanded some answers to this strangeness.

Similarly, the other also looked on at him as if he had suddenly grown another head, another one that looked like him. The emotion in the stretched moment was a cross between awestruck wonder and strange new uncertainness. It bled with curiosity despite neither quite recognizing the buried sense.

Why does he look like me?

Yuugi swayed in the ocean back and forth staying afloat to try and capture his resolve. Doubtfully, he kept his head tilted up to stare at those unusual crimson eyes no matter how terrifying they seemed. He wondered if the human knew how scared he was. The human's eyes seemed like those of a monster's. It was red like blood and his brows were creased in confusion. Yuugi felt that his were like that as well. It was, however, the hair that made Yuugi so mystified. His golden bangs fluttered in the breeze. They were dry unlike his that slowly lost the stiff edges from being submerged all the time. The other's bangs shown with the light from the sun and his black hair was dipped in the same red as his eyes -as Yuugi's was as well.

Who is he? Who does he think he is?

“State your name, traveler.” Yuugi hurried out the demand. The words seemed to stumble out and trip over their feet. The formality was strange to the merboy despite hearing it so often. Using it was an entirely different matter. However, the words had a sure effect on the silent moment. In a quick instant it had sliced through the deafening silence that ran thick in the air. Yuugi told himself to keep his eyes on the other's. He told himself that the crimson eyes were not unusual in the least bit, were normal even -were not to be frightened of.

Yami felt like laughing from the oddity of it all -from the insanity. The boat had long since steadied itself from being shaken underneath. Now, he concentrated solely on the strange person in front of him. That was to mean, he thought the person was a person. A second look made him notice the blue tail waving back and forth in the water. His eyes grew steadily wider.

“Why?” Yami asked incredulously, “You have no need for it.”

“You're intruding on our territory! Leave!” Yuugi answered with a command. Must all humans be so difficult? Then again, had Mai not told him not to do this? She had. Yuugi had been given fair warning.

“There are more of you?” Yami asked, a surprised tone found in his voice, quickly catching on to the merboy's slip.

Yuugi nearly screamed and almost tugged on his hair. “You're not supposed to know about us. Why do you have to watch for us?” He continued on as calmly as possible.

It was strange that Yuugi had asked that. Yami didn't know this, so all he thought was about how he had never meant to search for the merfolk. It had been an accident that they met, and a huger accident that Yuugi decided to confront it.

“If I'm not supposed to know about you then you sure aren't helping. Aren't you supposed to stay underwater anyway?” Yami asked cleverly.

For a second, Yuugi didn't know what to say. How was he supposed to counter this? What was a person supposed to do when someone spoke back to them? He had never learned about this as a royal.

“Leave, right now, human.” Yuugi demanded again. The waves rose up around his body with every crest and lowered slightly with every trough. The waves were blue and lines of light ran through it gleefully despite what each was saying to each other. The ocean had no mind for arguments and other's business.

“My name is Yami, and you'd better learn to share the ocean considering how many humans there are. I don't think you could ever rally as many merfolk.” Yami replied confidently. He was so self-assured that he had nearly lain down inside the boat to stare at the light blue sky again. Yuugi glared at him fiercely with his purple eyes. The reason why Yami did not lay down though, was because of the merboy's pout. It was cute.

“Leave.” Yuugi demanded yet again, this time it was as cold as the tropical merboy could make it.

“Is that all you can say?” Yami teased, “I told you my name, I told you that I'm not going, couldn't you at least lighten up? You're not the king of the ocean.”

I will be after I'm forced to be married…

It was an abrupt thought that made Yuugi's disposition change slightly. He was reminded of how much trouble he would be when his father found out. He realized how destructive the human -no, Yami- could be. Yuugi wanted to swim away. He wanted to flee from the unnamable part in the ocean, flee to the depths below, and ask his sister what he should do. Would he fall in love like she had?

No, Yuugi, you're just lovesick from having an arranged marriage.

His mind raced. “Please leave right now, Yami. You're not welcome here.” Yuugi asked as politely as possible. He sounded like some emotionless drone with a stiff voice and posture.

Yami raised his hand over his eyes and pretended to scan around. “I don't see why I'm the only one who's a threat amongst all the fishermen over there.” Yami found the merboy entertaining. He wanted to stop himself, but years with Seto Kaiba had his mind permanently set to `argue and be difficult.' He felt sorry though, when the other looked as if he wanted to cry.

“You don't understand what you're getting into! Just leave.” Yuugi begged. He thrashed his tail at the boat, jarring it with supernatural force.

Again, Yami clung tightly to the edges on both sides with an alarmed expression crossing his face.

“Fine. Have it your way, merboy.”

Another slap against the boat:

“Merman!” Yuugi insisted. He didn't think to stop himself since he had responded so often to this from Mai. Yuugi instantly regretted it from the look of fear and laughter mixed. Yami looked as if he was staring at death, and death was dressed in a flowery skirt and pigtails.

“Leave.” Came the demand again and this time Yami looked at Yuugi's distress seriously with the crimson eyes that had first scared Yuugi. He stared at him considering what he should do. Yuugi froze and nearly sunk down had his tail not kept waving back and forth from instinct. There was the serious appearance, the creased eyebrows, the slight frown…

“All right.” Yami replied with an indifferent air. “Mind the blades.” He said again, and once Yuugi had backed away slightly, Yami had left with a roar of the engine, a jet of blue-green water that fell onto the merboy, and questions clouding his mind like his eyes had stared at earlier.

Leave it to him to gather oddities over to him in storms. Leave it to Yami to have the luck to see a merboy and be told off without even leaving him a name.

Who was he?

What was his name?

Where did he live?

Why do his eyes seem so strange to me, whose eyes are nearly strangest of all?

How does he know about me?

Oh, the questions!

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“How was your day?” Jou asked happily. He had just finished what Seto and he did all day at Xel-ha down to the detail of the iguana by the entrance and the forest of white hammocks.

Yami looked up at him from leaning on the arm of his chair. The restaurant had dark red walls with strange shadows cast from the dim lighting meant to be romantic. Along the walls were small lamps that were attached with a gold arm. Candles were burning, roses were at the table, and Yami somehow knew that Seto and Jou were holding hands underneath the white tablecloth. He swirled the spaghetti with a fork and mixed it thoroughly in the meat sauce feeling quite frankly that the word `appetite' did not exist. If it had then his day and their story had chased it away.

“It was ok.” he answered nonchalantly.

“Didn't you go to the pool?” Jou asked worriedly.

“I thought the chlorine was near fatal levels.” Yami replied in his usual attitude, and the corners of his lips tugged slightly from seeing Seto frown.

“What were you doing all day then?” Seto asked inquisitively.

Such a stupid question. Yami would never give a straight answer, at least, not one he'd like. What was he supposed to say? Yami twirled the fork around even more, and catching a stare from Kaiba, ate the spaghetti promptly. He had been thinking about his day for near half an hour now. It had been chasing him with images, flashbacks, daydreaming at night, and staring off into space remembering the strange merboy who wanted him to leave so badly.

Yami recalled the water droplets in the merboy's hair with startling accuracy, the way they clung to each strand, the way they sparkled with a sort of magic. He remembered the other's voice and how upset it seemed, how…scared. He could clearly see the amethyst eyes and the blue ocean in the background that brought them out all the more. He wished he knew a name -something to call the merboy he had seen.

Yami looked at Seto again. “There's another beach that I decided to check out.”

“Lonely?” Jou asked with a light humor.

Yami looked at both Seto and Jou, and the place where their hands would be underneath the table holding each other. “You could say that.”

“Well? Meet anyone?” Jou continued to ask.

A merboy. A person that no one else had ever seen before, no one that had done anything at least. I saw something you're never even imagine even if I was talking about it yesterday. I met a merboy, with violet eyes and soft pout. I met a merboy that was assertive yet carried a gentle face. I met someone who I don't even know their first name and yet remember them with a sort of memory that will never fade. A merboy!

“The guy who rented me a boat was rather nice.”

“A boat!?” Seto asked. A sort of extreme agitation filled his question.

“You paid for this how?” he continued.

“You paid for it, of course.” Yami answered self-assuredly, forgetting his thoughts and refocusing on Kaiba.

Seto let out an exasperated sigh. There were many things he wanted to say to Yami but he held himself back. Vacation -he was on his vacation.

Yami took a sip of his ice-free water and swirled the mess of spaghetti. Could his vacation become any stranger? Any more memorable?

 

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A/N: The evil cliff-hanger is gone!

Wow. Two weeks to brainstorm, pre-write, and finally type this crap. It is the worst! Forgive the badness! Forgive the shortness! Forgive the mess of a Fanfiction I have produced!

Seriously though, I'm really sorry about how bad it is. I've been really busy with a huge workload. I lack sleep from this all-night fundraiser for Make a Wish Foundation where we played hockey…all night. Not only that, but I've switched teachers for the second semester and surprisingly the work load has gotten bigger. Now, all of my classes are accelerated. Newsflash: hard Social Studies, English, and Math is not a good thing. Blah.

This chapter was really difficult to get out. I stink at dialogue and the description was probably horrible. Not my best work, I should have tried harder. But anyway, I felt that it was tolerable and that I at least would not be flamed (hopefully.) Take pity on the tired writer.

Now, as for the story itself…opinions? Is the relationship too fast? Too slow? Too blah? Too predictable? Feedback people! I needs me feedback!

I'm also sorry for lack of hints as to the future; I tried really hard with foreshadowing. I'm having a hard enough time as it is though with the sub-plot. I've never worked with sub-plot before so it's strange trying to time everything perfectly while still getting two characters to fall in love.

Please, tell me if Yuugi was too unrealistic, or if you didn't think anything was right. I'm dying to know. I swear I am.

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