capeandcowllogs | it's too early to look up something cute

WHO:

donttasemebro
WHERE: Yuusei's MAC apartment
WHEN: Aug. 16th noonish?
WARNINGS: aha...ahahaha...we'll see
SUMMARY: Kiryu is fed up with people leaving/dying and not being able to do anything and Yuusei and thus goes to antagonize Yuusei because that's one thing he does to feel better. Then Bruno appears! Shenanigans ensue~
FORMAT: idk para to start, then whatever

Starscream, Soundwave, Saitou...

None of them were back yet. Even though Soundwave had promised, even though he couldn't remember a time when Starscream hadn't been here, even though Saitou just wouldn't stop getting taken away...and he couldn't do a damn thing about it. Threatening the 'Porter with explosives had worked so well last time, after all. And Shockwave said he was working on a plan to get revenge, but that could take weeks or months.

Kiryu was frustrated now.

He couldn't stay in the apartment. He couldn't even sleep in his room--in Saitou's room, it had never been his--so he'd been sleeping in Alastair's or on the couch. But he couldn't keep doing that. And he couldn't hide in Dancitron; that had been Soundwave and Starscream's...

So now he was here. Staring at Yuusei's door. Debating whether he should knock or just leave. Nothing was going to come out of this. He was going to yell, again, maybe light something on fire, maybe duel, and nothing would come out of it.

But he'd texted Yuusei and told him he was coming. And Kiryu Kyosuke didn't back out of his promises.

He banged on the door. He didn't have to be nice about it, at least.

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There were many things about the future Yuusei should have told Kiryuu and hadn't, he was aware of that. Though it was mostly because his former teammate just wouldn't listen to anything he would try to explain to him. That was one thing about Kiryuu that never changed.

He had an uneasy feeling this conversation was heading in a direction he would later regret. After all, having Bruno dragged into all that mess was the last thing Yuusei would want to happen.

"No," he answered Bruno's question, looking down. If it hadn't been crystal clear he wasn't willing to talk about it before, it was now. "It was... before that."

"It was before Jack was even King." Kiryu's expression turned slightly more fond as he added, "The Earthbound Gods were a part of it. But I'm sure Yuusei remembers all that better than I do."

He pointedly didn't say anything about Bruno's assumption that he was a friend. Let him think that; Yuusei knew he felt otherwise, and that was enough for him. He wasn't going to elaborate anymore on this particular subject either; this was his battle with Yuusei, and this Bruno could hardly understand any of it, since he hadn't been there.

He shrugged and looked back at Bruno. "I heard you're into D-Wheels?"

"Oh." Bruno wasn't sure what to say to that. It had never really occurred to him before, but he really didn't know much about Yuusei and Jack and Crow's lives from before he'd met them, except that they had all lived in old Satellite together. On the one hand he wanted to hear more, but... Yuusei was definitely worked up about all this somehow, and if Yuusei was upset...

Bruno had never felt so much like a third wheel as he did right now.

So when Kiryu gave him an opening to change the subject, Bruno practically jumped on it. "Yeah! Yeah, I, er, back home I'm a mechanic. That's how I ended up living with everybody, sort of."

Kiryuu's remarks aside, Yuusei felt somewhat thankful for the subject change. D-Wheels were a neutral topic, after all, easy to talk about despite how awkward that discourse appeared to be at some points.

"That's true," he nodded, confirming what the other said. "Bruno has helped us a lot."

He nodded, not really at all surprised by that. It would make sense Yuusei was close to someone with the same interests. He'd always been the mechanically minded one.

"It's really a shame we don't have them here," Kiryu muttered. He tried not to think about the lack of Momentum to power them as well; he was perfectly happy with that not being in this world. "A regular motorbike just isn't the same. And Kaiba's from too early...heh, I can't even find half the cards I had in my old deck."

Bruno fidgetted momentarily, extremely tempted to let Kiryu know about the work he was doing with Yuusei to create exactly that. But not having touched base with Kaiba about it for more than two weeks, we still wasn't sure if he was allowed to talk about it yet. If Yuusei knew otherwise or if he figured Kiryu could keep a secret, then maybe he'd bring it up.

"Have you talked to Ruka and Rua? They work at Kaibacorp making cards from our time, they might remember enough about yours to bring them here too."

It wasn't the question of whether Kiryuu could be trusted - Yuusei didn't particularly care about Kaiba Corporation's business secrets, anyway - but rather how he would react to that information. If he was to challenge the Signer to another life-and-death riding duel, then he would rather wait with announcing that.

"... By 'your old deck', you mean..."

He probably didn't have to add 'the one that was taken by Security' to make Kiryuu realize what he wanted to ask about.

Had he talked to the twins? The idea was so ridiculous he had to laugh. Rua would hardly let him say three words if he tried. And Ruka would never mention his cards to Kaiba, if she even listened, out of fear that he might be up to something.

"We're not on speaking terms," he said finally. And if he looked a little mean saying it, that was too bad. "They wouldn't help me anyway."

He glanced at Yuusei and smirked. He'd mentioned that deck without thinking, and of course Yuusei knew exactly which one he'd meant. He usually did. "It doesn't matter. I wouldn't use it much anymore even if I had it." Which wasn't entirely true, even if he did prefer his current deck, but he wasn't about to mention his powers so soon.

Edited 2010-09-13 03:29 (UTC)

"O-oh." Well if Bruno was ever wondering if he could possibly feel more out of the loop in this conversation, he certainly just got that confirmed.

Bruno quickly fished around a little for another neutral-ish subject and, for better or for worse, ended up grasping at one of the things he'd originally come to talk with Yuusei about in the first place: what happened two weeks ago.

"Oh, uh, Yuusei... I guess you already fixed the door, but... if you still need your kitchen stuff replaced, I can pay for it."

it's too early to look up something cute

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my first phone tag 8D

congrats! \o/

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OTL OTL feel like resurecting this? 8D;;;

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