Sometimes I think of Yami Bakura x Joey and how toxic that'd more than likely be. But also the potential for angst is so good and imagine Yami Bakura only became interested out of jealousy because Joey and Ryou started dating or something.
So then Joey is dealing with never knowing if he'll be faced with his boyfriend or a nightmare of a man. And maybe Joey can't even tell Ryou because Bakura threatened him in some way and-
So I... think I'm done. With the Batteryshipping. Unless it seems unfinished? Could anyone skim through and tell me if it's okay? .__.
Word count: 848
Pairing: Batteryshipping (Bakura x Jyounouchi x Ryou)
Warnings: AU alien shenanigans for a larger setting I haven't written yet. Bakura and Ryou are aliens. Everything else should explain itself?
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Not that he often needed to. With very few exceptions, he could keep his things apart from his father’s, especially now that he was living in his own apartment, and he’d effectively spent his teen years being raised as an only child. He suspected that he could probably live with sharing if it were with Shizuka, but that was neither here nor there, and certainly wasn’t the problem at hand.
The problem was the Lovebugs.
The little alien visitors had been hanging around Domino for a good six months; long enough to spread their weird pheromones, to settle in to Earth life, and certainly long enough to pair off with him and his friends.
Only the problem was, the Lovebugs shared everything.
Apparently including boyfriends.
Six months wasn’t long enough to convince Jyounouchi Katsuya that kissing his best friend’s usually-boyfriend was remotely normal.
“Your kind is so strange,” Ryou chided him, happily draped across the couch--and his lap--while Jyounouchi tried desperately to play Shadow of the Colossus. If both Honda and Malik could beat it, so, too, could he. Which would have been a lot easier if the alien’s fluffy, peach-tipped wings would stop brushing against the backs of his hands.
Despite himself, Jyounouchi laughed at that--then swore loudly as Wander went tumbling over the edge of the Colossus he was trying to stab’s back, into the lake all over again. Fantastic. He’d just have to climb back up on the damn thing’s back, and…
“Wait, hold on--you think we’re weird?” He asked incredulously, hiking an eyebrow up. Not that Ryou could see it through his messy bangs. “You… guys, you’re aliens that live off of love and have wings--that’s weird!”
“You're aliens to us, too,” Ryou said cheerily, glad to have Jyounouchi’s attention back on him. He’d been patiently waiting long enough--and really, watching the blonde play games he’d already watched Honda play through was only so interesting. Twisting his body to get a better look at Jyounouchi, Ryou flashed a winning smile. Twin sparks of light travelled up each of his antennae. “You eating food and not having wings is weird to me, Jyou.”
“Hey, hey…” Jyounouchi felt his cheeks darken in embarrassment. Distantly, he heard the sound of the door opening, but thought nothing of it. Malik and Honda came and went as they wished, and so did Yuugi and the prince of the Draconians. The blonde was used to that, at least.
He wasn’t used to the way Ryou sometimes flushed when they made eye contact, or how easily the other male smiled--or the way it seemed to light up the room whenever he did. “But I like it,” Ryou was quick to add, pushing himself up on thin arms and completely blocking the TV in so doing. Jyounouchi looked like he might protest, and Ryou leaned in to press a quick kiss to his open mouth. “I like everything abut your kind, Jyou.”
The Lovebugs gave out kisses like Santa gave out Christmas presents, but that didn’t stop Jyounouchi from blushing like it was something completely new. He still didn’t expect Honda’s mostly-boyfriend to turn around and kiss him.
Behind him, someone chuckled, dark and low. “You’re always so surprised,” a voice purred, close to his ear, and Jyounouchi might have jumped out of his skin if Ryou’s weight hadn’t been enough to keep him in place.
“Bakura!”
Ryou looked less than thrilled to see the Draconian, but wore a smile all the same. Jyounouchi didn’t blame him. He wasn’t particularly thrilled about having parasitic aliens that were stronger than he was just hanging around, especially when they got hungry.
But at least it wasn’t Jin.
“You’re not invited,” Jyounouchi said, leaning away from the self-proclaimed Space Pirate King. Bakura made him uncomfortable on the best days, and today wasn’t likely to be one of those. Ryou leaned with him, resting his weight against the blonde’s opposite shoulder. The weight was unexpected, but hardly unpleasant, even if Ryou’s feathery antennae tickled his cheek.
Bakura’s arm snaked around the back of the couch, mercifully bypassing Jyounouchi entirely. “I’ve never needed an invitation to anything,” he drawled, gripping Ryou’s long white hair at the base of his skull and tugging. Immediately, Ryou’s head tipped back, and a hand tangled itself in Jyounouchi’s t-shirt reflexively.
The noise Ryou made next was one Jyounouchi knew all too well--it came from the back of his throat and was accompanied by the flutter of long eyelashes against flushed cheeks--and it brought color to his face. “Hey, hey!” he protested, shooting Bakura a sidelong glare that was ruined by his blush. He waved the controller at the white-haired Draconian menacingly. “I’m tryin’ to play, here!”
“Oh, I am, too,” Bakura said darkly, but his grin was more mischievous than dangerous. He leaned in further, bracing himself against the back of the couch as he drew his face in close to Jyounouchi’s. “I love to play with my food.”
Puffshipping (or battery if you don't mind a threesome)
Ryou was good. Hell, Ryou was perfect. Or, he seemed perfect a lot of the time, excluding when he begged and begged Jyounouchi to watch horror movies with him. It was hard for Ryou to understand that when someone didn't like the horror genre, they really, really did not like horror, and watching it wouldn't ween them into liking it, either.
The worst night had to be on Halloween. It wasn't something everybody celebrated, but it was becoming more and more popular every year. Ryou had pleaded with him enough that Jyounouchi finally caved, but only after the slighter of the two promised him that this was so bad it was funny. At least it had to do with trolls and not zombies or ghosts...
Ryou had barely been able to contain himself and jumped up to kiss him. He had promised Jyounouchi that he'd make the biggest batch of curry he could manage to make up for this. With food on his mind, it was a lot easier to accept this agreement.
The massive amounts of poorly done gore, and the weirdest scene involving an ear of corn really threw his stomach into doing a 180 degree spin. As he sat there with a hand over his gut, trying to keep everything calm in there, Ryou sat next to him -- leaned against him even! -- munching away on caramelized popcorn and candy. Oh, the things he did for love...
"Boo."
The blonde jumped out of his skin at the word that was said so calmly in his ear. He was absolutely sure he'd had a heart attack by this point, and started listing off the symptoms in his head, checking off each one. Just when he was sure he'd need to go to the ER (He couldn't feel his left arm! Really!), something else demanded his attention. That something else happened to be Ryou, leaning over him, smiling in a way that creeped Jyounouchi right the hell out.
"What was that for?!" he demanded up at the other. Ryou just chuckled darkly, and it was at that point that Jyounouchi knew something was off. Ryou didn't laugh like that. He didn't want to point any fingers so quickly, but...
"You're not my Bakura, are you?"
"I am, but I'm not," the Other Ryou said. His hands were now in place on either side of the blonde's head, which was making him feel vaguely cornered. He tensed up, ready to start a fight. "It's complicated."
"Complicated?" Jyounouchi demanded. His "heart attack" was long forgotten; his blood now at a boil. "What's so complicated about it? We don't like you and you don't like us. So why don't you just beat it?"
The Other Ryou laughed again and then confidently traced his thumb along Jyounouchi's cheek -- who immediately jerked away from the contact. "All you need to know is that if you want My Landlord... you need to understand that he doesn't come alone." He leaned in far too close for Jyounouchi's liking (and Jyou had half a mind to bust his lights out...) and whispered, "You're his, which means you're mine, too."
Jyounouchi then realized that he had never stood a chance in the first place. Two against one, and one of them was ruthless enough to take what they wanted by force. ...And maybe, just maybe, if the bastard didn't kiss so well, Jyounouchi would have clocked him.
Ryou worries about Jounouchi’s safety when Yami no Bakura takes over. He doesn’t trust him or his intentions, but is helpless to stop him. Jounouchi, on the other hand, knows that the only way he’ll be able to see Ryou outside of school is to comply to Bakura’s demands.