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I'm having a Good Hair Day. Blargh.
This means my hair is nice and smooth and silky. And eats hairbands. Can't tie it back, can't braid it back, it's like having a tentacle monster that's -determined- to get in the way attached to my head.
Grrrrrr.... *ties scarf around head. yarr*

Also doing a bit of sewing and remembering just how much I enjoy it. It's kinda like storytelling. You take bits and pieces of various things, be it fabric or images, words and scenes, sew it all together and have something you wrap around you that makes you smile.

Anyway. Quick YGO snippet so we feel like we've done something fannish this week. ^^;;

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It was strange, how much Seto looked forward to the end of the day. It used to be that the end of the day simply heralded a change in location, he worked no matter if he was at home or at Kaiba Corp headquarters. But now that Kaiba Corp was under his control, no Big 5 attempting to wrest control, Industrial Illusions no longer under Pegasus, things were a bit quieter. He didn't -have- to work twenty-four seven anymore and that in and of itself was a relief.

It also meant that he got to spend more time with Mokuba. And by default, Jounouchi too. Which strangely enough, he also looked forward to, almost as much as spending time with his brother...

... or something.

He set those thoughts aside as unhelpful and stepped out of the elevator into the parking lot where the limo waited.

"KAIIIIIBBBBAAAAAAAH!!!" An unfamiliar voice screamed. Reflexes took over and he dodged the the attack, spinning to face his attacker.

Only to find Jounouchi pinning down a complete stranger to the concrete floor, one hand clamped over the other man's mouth.

"Okie-dokey." The blond grinned, showing too many teeth to Seto's would-be attacker. "Now. Maybe you could be nice enough to explain why you're attempting to attack people in this nice dark area here."

Jounouchi removed the muffling hand. "He destroyed my village!" The man shouted. "Slaughtered my family."

The hand was put back over the man's mouth. "Right, then." The blond's voice was unnaturally calm and cheerful. "Question for you. How?"

Hand was removed. The man glared for a moment, as if sensing a trap or not understanding the reasoning of the question before answering. "Tanks. Guns and soldiers. Had Kaiba Corp plastered all over them. What does it matter?! HE-" Hand put back over mouth.

"Right." Jounouchi took a breath. "Now I think there's been a slight mix-up here. Blue Eyes here is Kaiba -Seto-. He's the guy who took all those tanks and shit and got rid of them. He makes toys. The one you want to kill, maim, disfigure, destroy Kaiba -Gozaburo-. That's the guy who built the tanks and shit. You'll find him at the cemetery in town."

Seto could see the man's eyes widen from where he stood. Jounouchi removed his hand. "Who?"

"He kinda threw himself out of a top story window when Seto took over the Corporation. No more guns, no more tanks. Seto's destroyed them all. They're not going to hurt anyone again."

The man visibly shook as the news sunk in. Behind them, security officers showed up. Jounouchi got up as the grabbed hold of the man and escorted him away with quite a few apologies to Seto for such an event occurring.

Jounouchi brushed the knees of his pants off, looking like he hadn't just wrestled a knife away from someone who had attempted to kill Seto with it. Not that Seto couldn't have handled it, but...

"Ya okay?" Jounouchi asked.

"I'm fine." Seto watched as they dragged the man away in silence. "I'm not a kind man." He finally said. "Nor am I a nice one. I've done horrible things."

"I know." Jounouchi casually stuck his hands in his pockets. The hard glint in his eyes was anything but casual however. "I haven't forgotten Death-T."

Seto winced as if he'd been struck physically. Not one of the higher points in his life, hiring assassins and outfitting them with real weaponry, lethal games, the serial killer Chopman. Prior to that, kidnapping and virtually torturing Yuugi's Grandfather before tearing up his Blue Eyes White Dragon card.

He'd done worse, gaining his three Blue Eyes White Dragons. Deals with the Mafia. Bankrupting a man. Driving another to suicide.

Seto had never actually killed a person, but it was only out of sheer dumb luck. He was however a contributing factor to several people's death. Those deaths weighed on his conscience.

Jounouchi tapped him on the shoulder with the knuckles of one hand. "You've changed since then. You're not that person anymore. C'mon, Mokuba's waiting."

The blond sauntered casually to the car, apparently unaffected by what had just transgressed.

Seto followed, not so certain he wasn't.

++++

There'll be aftermath to this. It'll be fun. Or something.
MUST SEW!!!

Date: 2006-03-23 01:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hailgreatmoloch.livejournal.com
Go go Icka Tentacle hair!

Date: 2006-03-23 10:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com
RAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
*waves hair around*

It's gotten long again... is past the middle of my upper arm again. ^_____^

((Huggles!)) ^_^

Date: 2006-03-24 02:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hailgreatmoloch.livejournal.com
Yes! Long hair rulez! *Tentacle huggles!*

Date: 2006-03-24 07:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] green-turquoise.livejournal.com
*laughs* Try hair past your hips, plus a good hair day, plus a really, really, windy day. Then I really feel like I'm being attacked by my own hair.
This is also why I don't like stories where a character has hair past their butt, always wears it down, and wanders around in forests and fights monsters. And it NEVER gets in the way!

Date: 2006-03-27 06:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com
*snickers* Yeah. Long hair can be SUCH a pain.
And they can see through it too!!!

I'd like to get my hair to waist length, but prolly as soon as it gets there, it'll splinter and I'll hafta cut it off. It generally gets about this long and then fries. *sighs*

Date: 2006-03-23 03:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ysabet.livejournal.com
GOOD fic. I liked the bit about 'you can find him in the cemetary' and all... **snickers** "Crime Does Not Pay. The Shadow Knows!" Can't you just see Yuugi's other self dressed up as Lamont Cranston?

Date: 2006-03-23 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com
Strangely, yes. Can see Yuugi-Oh dressed up like Lamont.
But then our Yuugi also waves a frying pan around (http://pics.livejournal.com/ickaimp/pic/00033d1f/g14), so that's not really saying much.

-that wasn't too preachy? Went over and re-wrote that about four times... gneeeh... wasn't sure.
Seto's not a nice person... but he's not evil either.

Date: 2006-03-23 11:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ysabet.livejournal.com
Not too preachy at all, no. He's not evil; he just doesn't exist in the same universe as the word 'tactful' and he's a lot more blunt about things than most of the human race. Including concepts like 'die painfully or leave me alone'.

Date: 2006-03-24 03:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phantom-kaito.livejournal.com
SHADOW! *rabid fangirl squeals then poofs*

Date: 2006-03-23 04:43 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I've always thought of weaving the same way, pulling a story together.

Interesting chapter, 'm looking forward to the aftermath.

Date: 2006-03-23 10:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com
*nods* Twisting the strands together, be plot or string. Yeah.

Thanks! Aftermath might take a little bit, somehow we managed to write this chapter out of order and I can't seem to get it back into order...

Date: 2006-03-23 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magicbulletgirl.livejournal.com
This was cute ^^ you have succeeded in doing something fannish this week ^^

Date: 2006-03-23 10:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com
Yay!!!
... actually, since Monday, this is our fourth fanfic we've written (the others aren't posted here), got a TGZ chapter posted on Sunday.
-it's just that I'm used to writing every day, which we haven't been this week. ^^;;

Date: 2006-03-23 05:53 pm (UTC)
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)
From: [personal profile] edenfalling
Those deaths weighed on his conscience. Not on his conscious.

Jounouchi is so cute when he's being protective and smiling with too many teeth. :-)

Date: 2006-03-23 10:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com
*rubs eyes*
*peers at screen*
*rubs eyes*
*staaaaaaaaaaaaares*

... Y'know... I was just reading your 'Way of the Apartment Manager' yesterday while working on a shirt collar... Really good fic. Thank you.

*boggles*

Thank you! Have fixed! ((Huggles))
And yeah, Jou is great like that. ^___________^

Date: 2006-03-23 06:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ysabet.livejournal.com
RE: the sewing... You know, you should try quilting. Even machine-quilting. Bet you'd do beautiful stuff with watercolor-quilting-- ever heard of it? There are some good pics at http://www.thevillagecraftsmen.com/bk_home.htm. I've always wanted to try that...

Date: 2006-03-23 10:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com
I just said that i sometimes LIKE sewing, not that I'm any good at it. >P Cause really? M'not very good. And I blow up sewing machines.

.... blaming this on the fact that I just woke up and am not wearing my eyes yet... but I SWEAR that sayd 'Watermelon-Quilting'.
I looked at the pic and wondered how that had anything to do with watermelons...

Date: 2006-03-23 11:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ysabet.livejournal.com
**sneeeeeerk** ...and to THAT I reply with: http://www.dollmakersink.com/crazy_watermelon_quilt.htm (scroll down the page a bit.)

Date: 2006-03-24 04:43 am (UTC)

Date: 2006-03-23 07:05 pm (UTC)
ext_97246: (wicked)
From: [identity profile] vera-dicere.livejournal.com
so, you've officially sucked me into 3 fandoms- magic kaitou, black cat, and now yu-gi-oh. i used to kind of like yu-gi-oh, but i never really got into it...but jou and kaiba are just such a cute pairing!! and i really love this fic! can't wait for the next installment! :)

Date: 2006-03-23 10:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com
I've been into YGO since 2000, when I first saw it while in Japan.
There's just too much crack NOT to play with it! XD XD XD
Which is really funny since it seems really hard to find really good fic for it. ^^;;

Thanks! This is our brain dead fic... so it gets updated sporatically when other fics aren't playing with us.

Love your icon!!!

Date: 2006-03-24 01:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poe-nui.livejournal.com
*falls over laughing* That gave me the most Marvelous mental image of you with a squid attempting to munch on your head!

*attempts to reign in hilarity long enough to read the rest of the entry...*

Date: 2006-03-24 04:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com
*grumbles* There's a reason why we braid it at night...
Or some morning we'd wake up DEAD, strangled by our own hair. ~_~

SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!!

Date: 2006-03-24 01:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poe-nui.livejournal.com
I ADORE your take on Jou. *snickers* He really throw Seto off,doesn't he? Long may that continue! *smirks gleefully at Seto*

Re: SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!!

Date: 2006-03-24 04:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com
Thing is that the Jou in our head does it when he doesn't realise it.
when he -tries- to throw Kaiba off, it doesn't work. *snickers*

Date: 2006-03-24 04:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phantom-kaito.livejournal.com
Death-T, one of my faves arcs in the manga ^.^ Definetly room for Kaiba angst there.

Wonder if Jou ever feels guilt for killing Chopman...

Date: 2006-03-24 04:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com
Wonder if Jou ever feels guilt for killing Chopman...

What?! He did?!
Dammit dammit dammit.... I have no access to that arc at the moment, the libary doesn't have it, neither do the local bookstores. Was having to go off of the Wikipedia entry and vauge memories of the raw manga (which I used to have several years ago)....

You wouldn't happen to know where to find that arc on-line would you? *frantic puppy eyes*

Date: 2006-03-24 08:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phantom-kaito.livejournal.com
No sorry :( but I scanned the4 page where it happened


Bye Bye Choppy (http://pics.livejournal.com/phantom_kaito/pic/0001gk05)

Date: 2006-03-24 04:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ysabet.livejournal.com
Just a side comment: I worship your icon. Did you make that? It's WONDERFUL.

Date: 2006-03-24 08:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phantom-kaito.livejournal.com
Yeah. One of my better ones i think ^.^

Date: 2006-03-24 04:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ysabet.livejournal.com
**raises an unobtrusive hand** Was rereading this (I very much like it; am turning into SUCH a screaming Kaiba fangirl) and noticed: in 'The one you want to kill, maim, disfigure, destroy Kaiba -Gozaburo-.', I think you left out an "is" between 'destroy' and 'Kaiba - Gozaburo-.' No big thing, just thought I'd mention it.

**waves and goes back to reading.**

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