YGO: Guard Dog Snippet
Mar. 2nd, 2006 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Eh. We haven't been all that productive this week. Sorry.
We won't be productive this weekend either, we're heading to Dunedin for demo for the new SCA College in Otago Uni. And check out Dunedin. Remember that giant house from the Narnia movie that belonged to the Professor? That was filmed at Larnach Castle, kinda hoping to be able to check it out. ~_^
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Seto watched the blond figure on the floor of the testing grounds a more than story below the viewing platform. Technically, it was a laboratory, and kept to those exacting sterile conditions. But there were no test tubes or beakers in this shrine to science, just electronics and the technology that ran them. The room was half the length of a football field, but Jounouchi still managed to fill the giant room with his cocky presence.
"Ready?" He called into the microphone, pressing the intercom switch. Jounouchi gave him a wide grin and a thumbs up. Seto nodded and released the intercom. They could hear him, but for the testing purposes, he couldn't hear them unless the intercom was triggered. "Go."
The technicians around him launched into a swarm of activity. Monitoring, programming, observing. Behind him, Isono watched over them all.
Generally the technician who was their test subject responded with a brisk 'Affirmative' instead of a non-verbal reply. However, when Jounouchi was informed of this, instead of using the standard reply the next time he had responded with 'Fuckin' A'.
A grin and a thumbs up was considerately more acceptable.
"What level, sir?" a technician asked.
"Hardest." No need to think about it. As Mokuba had said in his original argument, and now that Malik was out of the duelling picture, Jounouchi was still the third highest ranking duellist, after himself and Mutou. And since Seto had such a duellist under his payroll already, he might as well use him.
Below them, a black silhouette of a figure appeared on the far end of the room, a duel disk on his arm.
"Aw, man." Jounouchi grumbled. "Him again. Can we give him some features? Some pants at least? Maybe some witty dialogue? It's not as much fun without the witty dialogue."
One of the technicians hit the intercom button. "Let's Get Ready To D-D-D-DUEL!!!"
Seto glared at him. The shamed-faced technician ducked his head and turned his attention back to the monitors. Jounouchi laughed. "You ROCK, Murufui! Thanks!"
Murufui raised his head enough to flash his own thumbs up to the duellist below before ducking again. Jounouchi tossed the man a grin before turning his attention back to the duel. Seto hid a smirk. He hired these men and women for their creative ability, their skill at thinking outside of the box. It would be contradictive of him to punish them for doing exactly that.
It was fascinating to watch Jounouchi, now that he he was more fond of the 'Puppy'. The blond was usually a bit of an energetic scatterbrain, but when he duelled, all that energy became completely focused on the duel. It was like watching a smirking wolf hungrily eyeing a moose for dinner.
A small portion of his brain, the one not involved with the mechanics and technicalities of what they were creating, thrilled at having put that expression on the blond's face. THIS was why he created 'toys' and 'games'. -He- had done that.
The duel progressed well, despite the computer's lack of 'acceptable' responses; Jounouchi made up for the computer's silence with a one-sided colourful debate of the computer's skills and lack of personality. The technicians in the lab were starting to congratulate themselves on what looked to be the first successful test run. There had been no glitches, no shorts and the Solid System holograms appeared to be meshing well with the Solid Vision battle data.
He was just starting to relax when Jounouchi faltered in his tirade, shaking his head as if to get rid of an annoying insect buzzing around him. The banter started up again, only to abruptly stop as Jounouchi's hands flew up to cover his ears, face twisting in obvious pain.
Seto triggered the intercom. "Jounouchi?"
"I'm okay!" One hand waved him off, only to promptly clamp over his ear again as the blond swayed unsteadily. "... or not..."
People buzzed around him, shouting stats. There didn't appear to be any malfunctions in the system. "Shut it down." he ordered anyway as Jounouchi staggered an uneven line towards a wall, leaning against it as if he wasn't sure which way was up. "This session is over. I want a complete diagnostic."
Far below, Jounouchi gave them a weak smile then stumbled towards the exit, using the wall as a prop to keep him upright. Seto watched the technicians scramble for a moment, all joviality erased, before turning and heading for the stairs to the lower level.
He found Jounouchi curled up on one of the benches in the men's locker room, looking pale and still clutching his head, eyes squeezed tightly shut. One brown eye cracked open a slit before quickly closing again. "Dizzy." The blond rasped.
Possibilities flickered through Seto's head. Was something wrong with Jounouchi? Had something in the Solid System caused his body to react? Was there something wrong with the Solid System?
"Can you tell me what set it off?" Seto asked, keeping his voice low so as not to cause further pain. He'd had a few migraines in the past that had left him feeling dizzy; loud noises and bright lights were not conductive to decreasing the pain. He glanced around the room, finding it empty, then turned off half the lights, dimming the brightness level.
"Thanks," Jounouchi said gratefully, apparently steeling himself for the conversation.
"Water?" He offered, then mentally kicked himself. He was acting like he actually cared, which while Mokuba would be pleased, would cause problems if he acted that way in public.
"Nah." The blond reached up and took off the headset he wore to pin his ears down and whimpered as they moved. "Thanks though. Some sort of noise... high pitched. Was annoyin' for a while, then it suddenly increased."
"I could not hear anything." Seto mused. None of the technicians had commented on a noise either. "But dogs hear at a higher scale than humans do... has your hearing been tested recently?"
Jounouchi grimaced in distaste. He disliked going to visit the doctors to be prodded at whenever something happened. "No."
"Hmm." Seto mused. Jounouchi made a face, then gingerly untied the long sleeved shirt from around his waist, freeing the tail with a heartfelt groan. "You all right?"
"Eh. Just sore. It got kinda pinched in the fabric." Jounouchi waved it off. "I'll be fine. We done here?"
"Yes, I believe we're done testing for the day." If there was something wrong with the machinery it would take the rest of the day at least to tear everything apart to find it.
"Great. If you don't mind then," Jounouchi shook the shirt out. "I'm gonna head over to Yuugi's before pickin' up Mokuba."
"No, that's fine." He agreed. "In fact, why don't you-"
The door opened, Isono walking in. "Seto-sama, the technicians-" There was a slight hiccup in the older man's speech as he saw them, before continuing on without the slightest change in expression. "-believe that they have found what went wrong."
"I'll be there in a minute, Isono." Seto growled. Jounouchi just stared at the man with dumb shock written on his face, the shirt hanging from his hands, ears and tail clearly visible. Isono bowed, then turned and walked out of the room.
"Well... damn." Jounouchi commented, running a hand down his face. "I'm a moron."
"Isono is loyal." Seto commented. Isono had also been the first person Seto had called upon Jounouchi's... accident. This was probably Isono's first time seeing the full extent of Jounouchi's mutations, however. "He won't say anything."
"Yeah, but... shit." Jounouchi cursed, tapping a fist against his leg.
"Language." He scolded. "I'll see you and Mokuba tonight."
"Yeah." Jounouchi waved him off. "I'll be outta here in just a moment. Got to beat my head against the lockers for a while or something."
"Any damaged ones will be taken out of your salary." Seto commented mildly before leaving the room.
Jounouchi dry voice followed him out. "Thanks."
Playing with the puppy was still fun in its own way.
The pleasant thought faded as he walked back up the stairs to the viewing gallery. Despite his reassurances to the blond, he was still worried. Isono was the best right hand man that he could hope for, but he was still leery of anyone other than Mokuba knowing his secrets. Jounouchi knew too many as it was.
Isono bowed slightly. "My apologies for interrupting your conversation, Seto-sama."
Seto grunted in return. "What did you find?" He asked briskly.
A circuit board had overloaded, burning out the sensor on it. If the electronic whine hadn't injured Jounouchi's ears and caused him to shut down the machine, the chances are they might have lost the the entire room and quite a bit of data.
Right on cue, the door opened and Jounouchi stuck his head in. The head set was back in his hair, hiding the ears under the unruly mop of hair. "Oh, forgot to mention. My little sister is in town. Okay if we have her over for dinner?"
"As the main course or as a guest eating with us?" Seto asked dryly.
He got a confused look in return before Jounouchi glared at him. "Ew. So not funny, Kaiba."
Depended on who you asked. "That is fine." He dismissed it. He made a mental note to check to make sure one of the guest bedrooms was clean and available for use. No doubt Mokuba and Jounouchi would team up to get him to agree to putting her up for the night. "I should be home by seven."
"Great! Yuugi's joining us too!" Jounouchi beamed, a grin stretching from ear to ear. "We'll see you then!" With one last wave, he disappeared out the door.
He growled, more out of habit than any true annoyance, and turned his attention back to the technicians, only to realise that everyone was staring at him with small amused smiles on their faces.
"What?" Seto bristled.
People quickly turned back to their computers, except for Isono, who continued to smile with what could only be described as a fond look on his face. Seto narrowed his eyes. "What?"
"It's nice to see to see Seto-sama enjoying time with friends." Isono said, sounding strangely proud.
Translation: Isono was happy to see him with -friends-.
"What ever." He grumbled in response. As one of Seto's oldest and most loyal and trusted employees, Isono had a few more liberties than most of the people of around Seto, save for Mokuba and Jounouchi.
But just because it was permitted it didn't mean Seto didn't grumble about it.
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*squeee!*
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We won't be productive this weekend either, we're heading to Dunedin for demo for the new SCA College in Otago Uni. And check out Dunedin. Remember that giant house from the Narnia movie that belonged to the Professor? That was filmed at Larnach Castle, kinda hoping to be able to check it out. ~_^
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Seto watched the blond figure on the floor of the testing grounds a more than story below the viewing platform. Technically, it was a laboratory, and kept to those exacting sterile conditions. But there were no test tubes or beakers in this shrine to science, just electronics and the technology that ran them. The room was half the length of a football field, but Jounouchi still managed to fill the giant room with his cocky presence.
"Ready?" He called into the microphone, pressing the intercom switch. Jounouchi gave him a wide grin and a thumbs up. Seto nodded and released the intercom. They could hear him, but for the testing purposes, he couldn't hear them unless the intercom was triggered. "Go."
The technicians around him launched into a swarm of activity. Monitoring, programming, observing. Behind him, Isono watched over them all.
Generally the technician who was their test subject responded with a brisk 'Affirmative' instead of a non-verbal reply. However, when Jounouchi was informed of this, instead of using the standard reply the next time he had responded with 'Fuckin' A'.
A grin and a thumbs up was considerately more acceptable.
"What level, sir?" a technician asked.
"Hardest." No need to think about it. As Mokuba had said in his original argument, and now that Malik was out of the duelling picture, Jounouchi was still the third highest ranking duellist, after himself and Mutou. And since Seto had such a duellist under his payroll already, he might as well use him.
Below them, a black silhouette of a figure appeared on the far end of the room, a duel disk on his arm.
"Aw, man." Jounouchi grumbled. "Him again. Can we give him some features? Some pants at least? Maybe some witty dialogue? It's not as much fun without the witty dialogue."
One of the technicians hit the intercom button. "Let's Get Ready To D-D-D-DUEL!!!"
Seto glared at him. The shamed-faced technician ducked his head and turned his attention back to the monitors. Jounouchi laughed. "You ROCK, Murufui! Thanks!"
Murufui raised his head enough to flash his own thumbs up to the duellist below before ducking again. Jounouchi tossed the man a grin before turning his attention back to the duel. Seto hid a smirk. He hired these men and women for their creative ability, their skill at thinking outside of the box. It would be contradictive of him to punish them for doing exactly that.
It was fascinating to watch Jounouchi, now that he he was more fond of the 'Puppy'. The blond was usually a bit of an energetic scatterbrain, but when he duelled, all that energy became completely focused on the duel. It was like watching a smirking wolf hungrily eyeing a moose for dinner.
A small portion of his brain, the one not involved with the mechanics and technicalities of what they were creating, thrilled at having put that expression on the blond's face. THIS was why he created 'toys' and 'games'. -He- had done that.
The duel progressed well, despite the computer's lack of 'acceptable' responses; Jounouchi made up for the computer's silence with a one-sided colourful debate of the computer's skills and lack of personality. The technicians in the lab were starting to congratulate themselves on what looked to be the first successful test run. There had been no glitches, no shorts and the Solid System holograms appeared to be meshing well with the Solid Vision battle data.
He was just starting to relax when Jounouchi faltered in his tirade, shaking his head as if to get rid of an annoying insect buzzing around him. The banter started up again, only to abruptly stop as Jounouchi's hands flew up to cover his ears, face twisting in obvious pain.
Seto triggered the intercom. "Jounouchi?"
"I'm okay!" One hand waved him off, only to promptly clamp over his ear again as the blond swayed unsteadily. "... or not..."
People buzzed around him, shouting stats. There didn't appear to be any malfunctions in the system. "Shut it down." he ordered anyway as Jounouchi staggered an uneven line towards a wall, leaning against it as if he wasn't sure which way was up. "This session is over. I want a complete diagnostic."
Far below, Jounouchi gave them a weak smile then stumbled towards the exit, using the wall as a prop to keep him upright. Seto watched the technicians scramble for a moment, all joviality erased, before turning and heading for the stairs to the lower level.
He found Jounouchi curled up on one of the benches in the men's locker room, looking pale and still clutching his head, eyes squeezed tightly shut. One brown eye cracked open a slit before quickly closing again. "Dizzy." The blond rasped.
Possibilities flickered through Seto's head. Was something wrong with Jounouchi? Had something in the Solid System caused his body to react? Was there something wrong with the Solid System?
"Can you tell me what set it off?" Seto asked, keeping his voice low so as not to cause further pain. He'd had a few migraines in the past that had left him feeling dizzy; loud noises and bright lights were not conductive to decreasing the pain. He glanced around the room, finding it empty, then turned off half the lights, dimming the brightness level.
"Thanks," Jounouchi said gratefully, apparently steeling himself for the conversation.
"Water?" He offered, then mentally kicked himself. He was acting like he actually cared, which while Mokuba would be pleased, would cause problems if he acted that way in public.
"Nah." The blond reached up and took off the headset he wore to pin his ears down and whimpered as they moved. "Thanks though. Some sort of noise... high pitched. Was annoyin' for a while, then it suddenly increased."
"I could not hear anything." Seto mused. None of the technicians had commented on a noise either. "But dogs hear at a higher scale than humans do... has your hearing been tested recently?"
Jounouchi grimaced in distaste. He disliked going to visit the doctors to be prodded at whenever something happened. "No."
"Hmm." Seto mused. Jounouchi made a face, then gingerly untied the long sleeved shirt from around his waist, freeing the tail with a heartfelt groan. "You all right?"
"Eh. Just sore. It got kinda pinched in the fabric." Jounouchi waved it off. "I'll be fine. We done here?"
"Yes, I believe we're done testing for the day." If there was something wrong with the machinery it would take the rest of the day at least to tear everything apart to find it.
"Great. If you don't mind then," Jounouchi shook the shirt out. "I'm gonna head over to Yuugi's before pickin' up Mokuba."
"No, that's fine." He agreed. "In fact, why don't you-"
The door opened, Isono walking in. "Seto-sama, the technicians-" There was a slight hiccup in the older man's speech as he saw them, before continuing on without the slightest change in expression. "-believe that they have found what went wrong."
"I'll be there in a minute, Isono." Seto growled. Jounouchi just stared at the man with dumb shock written on his face, the shirt hanging from his hands, ears and tail clearly visible. Isono bowed, then turned and walked out of the room.
"Well... damn." Jounouchi commented, running a hand down his face. "I'm a moron."
"Isono is loyal." Seto commented. Isono had also been the first person Seto had called upon Jounouchi's... accident. This was probably Isono's first time seeing the full extent of Jounouchi's mutations, however. "He won't say anything."
"Yeah, but... shit." Jounouchi cursed, tapping a fist against his leg.
"Language." He scolded. "I'll see you and Mokuba tonight."
"Yeah." Jounouchi waved him off. "I'll be outta here in just a moment. Got to beat my head against the lockers for a while or something."
"Any damaged ones will be taken out of your salary." Seto commented mildly before leaving the room.
Jounouchi dry voice followed him out. "Thanks."
Playing with the puppy was still fun in its own way.
The pleasant thought faded as he walked back up the stairs to the viewing gallery. Despite his reassurances to the blond, he was still worried. Isono was the best right hand man that he could hope for, but he was still leery of anyone other than Mokuba knowing his secrets. Jounouchi knew too many as it was.
Isono bowed slightly. "My apologies for interrupting your conversation, Seto-sama."
Seto grunted in return. "What did you find?" He asked briskly.
A circuit board had overloaded, burning out the sensor on it. If the electronic whine hadn't injured Jounouchi's ears and caused him to shut down the machine, the chances are they might have lost the the entire room and quite a bit of data.
Right on cue, the door opened and Jounouchi stuck his head in. The head set was back in his hair, hiding the ears under the unruly mop of hair. "Oh, forgot to mention. My little sister is in town. Okay if we have her over for dinner?"
"As the main course or as a guest eating with us?" Seto asked dryly.
He got a confused look in return before Jounouchi glared at him. "Ew. So not funny, Kaiba."
Depended on who you asked. "That is fine." He dismissed it. He made a mental note to check to make sure one of the guest bedrooms was clean and available for use. No doubt Mokuba and Jounouchi would team up to get him to agree to putting her up for the night. "I should be home by seven."
"Great! Yuugi's joining us too!" Jounouchi beamed, a grin stretching from ear to ear. "We'll see you then!" With one last wave, he disappeared out the door.
He growled, more out of habit than any true annoyance, and turned his attention back to the technicians, only to realise that everyone was staring at him with small amused smiles on their faces.
"What?" Seto bristled.
People quickly turned back to their computers, except for Isono, who continued to smile with what could only be described as a fond look on his face. Seto narrowed his eyes. "What?"
"It's nice to see to see Seto-sama enjoying time with friends." Isono said, sounding strangely proud.
Translation: Isono was happy to see him with -friends-.
"What ever." He grumbled in response. As one of Seto's oldest and most loyal and trusted employees, Isono had a few more liberties than most of the people of around Seto, save for Mokuba and Jounouchi.
But just because it was permitted it didn't mean Seto didn't grumble about it.
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*squeee!*
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Date: 2006-03-02 08:35 am (UTC)Hey, any luck on finding a new job? Things are ok at the moment, Kat was away Tues so it was REALLY busy & Jane is away tomorrow but hopefully it'll be ok.
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Date: 2006-03-02 09:01 am (UTC)Kinda curious if it's really the same on the inside, I know the outside at least is Larnach Castle. ^^;;
Nope, haven't gotten any postings this week (has been kinda of a winding down of job, winding up of making garb @_@) gonna call on Monday and see if there's any small jobs to do. David's got some new postings starting in April, so we'll be more city based for a while.
At least Fridays are supposed to be a bit calmer. ((Huggles)) Glad this is working out for you!
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Date: 2006-03-02 09:21 am (UTC)ooo and on the ghost hunting frount, one of the other plces i have never had time to visit when i have been in dunedin if the dunedin north cemtetary. theres a throrey about an under ground stream that goes fromt here under places in town and runs under a theater thats haunted too.
man up int he nrth island theres maori legends, in the sth island theres ghosts. white ppl are dramatic lol
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Date: 2006-03-02 05:10 pm (UTC)...I sound like a freak... *scampers off before she starts rambling*
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Date: 2006-03-02 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-02 07:44 pm (UTC)Good fic. =3 Doggie!Jou saves
Jimmythe day! Also, like how Jou oh-so-innocently bumps the guest-list up by two for dinner *g*no subject
Date: 2006-03-02 09:14 pm (UTC)The downside is that there was a plunnie for Jou's sister hanging out with them that has totall disappeared. >_< *pokes fic* Argh.
Ah, well. ((Huggles))
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Date: 2006-03-02 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-02 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-03 07:13 am (UTC)