#gxrivalmonth2018

[chthonianblast]

Ah, I’m late but Happy Birthday Judai!!

[insomnia-arts]

Day 26: Space

I went kinda silly with this one. I'm sure there was a point in their relationship where Judai formally introduced Manjoume to the Neospacians. Meeting Glow Moss was probably the strangest.

[death-complex]

Day 1: Happy Birthday Manjoume Thunder!

Manjoume was jolted back to awareness by the sound of a horn and a tickling of his nose. In front of him was his oldest brother, Chosaku, who stared at him with a quirked eyebrow and a party horn in his mouth. The brightly-coloured foil tube returned to it’s coiled shape and his brother took it out of his mouth as he stared at him.

“Oi, Jun. You okay there?” His brother gave him a lopsided smirk.

Manjoume looked around stunned. This was the living room he hadn’t seen in years. It was spacious and warm with the sunlight from the tall windows reflecting off of the light beige walls and the paintings that hung there. The large bookcase contained all the books he had read as a child and his heart was filled with nostalgia. He rubbed his toes against the soft rug beneath his feet. Even that was the same.

“Nii-san?” Manjoume stared at his brother’s casual attire. It had been a long time since Chosaku had looked so relaxed.

“Geez,” Chosaku said, “all I said was ‘happy birthday’.”

“Yes but you also blew that thing in his face,” said a voice to his left, “do you blame him for being surprised?”

He looked over to the other side of the sofa and saw his other brother, Shouji, paying no mind as he typed away on his laptop and was only connected to the world around him through the power of his multitasking abilities. He was also dressed casually... and wearing a striped party hat.

“It’s supposed to be a surprise, genius.” Chosaku sneered at his brother and put his hands on his hips. “Look, Jun, I made you a cake.”

Manjoume looked down and saw a large and delicately-decorated birthday cake on the coffee table by his legs; neither of which was there before. It was a three-tiered cake covered in baby blue frosting with the words “Happy Birthday Jun” piped on top and many pearly-white candles planted around the edges.

“You didn’t make it. The staff did,” Shouji said.

Chosaku waved him off. “I paid for the staff to make the cake, therefore, I made the cake.” He snapped his fingers as a recollection came over his face. “Wait here,” he said and left the room. Manjoume followed his brother with his eyes as he left though the single door to the right.

Chosaku returned soon after he left but now he was carrying many boxes of varying shapes and sizes in his arms. Manjoume gasped as he realised these were presents! Precisely wrapped in shiny and colourful paper and adorned in ribbons and bows. Chosaku dumped the pile on the coffee table next to the cake with a proud smile.

Shouji closed his laptop and shifted himself over to his little brother’s side as Chosaku lit the candles. They both leaned closer and Manjoume recognised what could have been love in their eyes.

“You gonna make a wish, Jun?” Chosaku asked.

His sense dulled and candles lost their light. Jun felt weightless as he was pulled from his happy home. __________________________________________

It was still dark outside when Manjoume was lulled from his sleep by his own quiet breathing. He opened his eyes and knew immediately that it was all a dream and that he had returned to his dorm room at the Academy.

He pulled away the blanket that wasn’t warm enough and kneeled on the bed that wasn’t soft enough and looked around at the room that was never enough like home. He sometimes had dreams like this and felt homesickness like other students did. Most of the time he dealt with the depression by flicking though his deck or tormenting the Ojamas.

But today was different. It really was his birthday.

He clenched his fists on his knees and braced himself against the sobs but they came harder until they overwhelmed his defences. He cried for the place he grew up, and for the brothers he no longer knew. __________________________________________

Walking back to his dorm room after class was a relief. Being as well respected as he was it was no surprise that most of his classmates knew it was his birthday. What irked him was that they all wanted to wish him a “happy birthday” when he would rather forget what day it was.

Especially Judai, who had discovered not too long ago that they were born in the same month and thought that it would make them closer friends. He had even offered to share his birthday with him. It disturbed him enough how Judai had wormed his way past the walls he built and was now officially considered a friend. He would rather not allow him any closer even though it was probably too late.

Manjoume sighed as he reached the door to his room. He opened the door and flipped the switch to turn on the light and was immediately assaulted with a shout.

“SURPRISE!”

Manjoume gaped as his friends stepped out from the nooks and crannies of his living room with bright smiles on their faces. They had decorated the room with streamers and balloons and his coffee table was covered in food and drinks. In the middle of the table was a simple chocolate cake with seventeen candles on top.

“Tome-san made the cake. And the fried shrimp,” Asuka said.

“Yeah and we got you presents!” Sho offered him a handful of booster packs. “Sorry, we only have things we could buy at the store.”

“And Tome-san doesn’t sell wrapping paper...” Kenzan added as he handed Manjoume a pack of notebooks. He was too touched by the gesture to note that he didn’t need them.

“Thank you, everyone,” Manjoume said.

Asuka smiled. “Well don’t thank us. Thank...” And she drew his attention over to the brown-haired boy in the red jacket rubbing the back of his neck and waving at him.

“Judai!”

Judai took a step back and held up his hands in surrender. “Oh come on, I didn’t want you to miss out on your birthday.”

Manjoume huffed. “Even though I specifically told you to leave it alone.”

“Well, it was either this or a birthday duel.” Judai winked at him. “But we duel all the time and everyone else wanted to do something for you.” The others nodded.

“And I suppose you didn’t get me anything? Typical.” Manjoume crossed his arms and regarded Judai with a smirk.

Judai smiled back at him before stepping towards Manjoume and wrapping his arms around his waist. Manjoume gasped as Judai’s head rested on his shoulder.

“Happy birthday, Manjoume.”

Manjoume’s eyes misted over and he gave in and relaxed into Judai’s hug. He manoeuvred his arms to lay his hands on Judai’s shoulders in return. It was warm and light. Even if it wasn’t home, it was good enough.

[inorumarufuji]

Day 5: Flowers

@gx-rivalshippingmonth

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Valentine's Day.

Out of all days in the year, Jaden had really wished for that one to be sunny or at least somewhat dry so that he could walk to Chazz's place without ruining the gift he had gotten him.

The academy had been so grateful for him and his friends saving the world (again!) that it had granted the whole student body a week of vacation.

And luckily, this vacation had fallen right into the second week of February, meaning that he finally had a chance to get Chazz some flowers as he'd always intended to.

Valentine's Day was just the perfect day to subtly drop a hint about liking your crush, but if he bought flowers at the academy there was a pretty big chance of someone spying on him just to snitch later.

Everyone seemed to like spicy rumors and a boy giving flowers to another boy was just the spiciest rumor of them all.

The academy would go crazy and as for Chazz... well, if he got wind of who had sent him such a gift, Jaden was fairly certain he would be in for some serious shit.

But just buying flowers like this and dropping them off in front of Chazz's house with a little note attached to them, this was okay.

Nobody would watch him because Chazz hadn't exactly given out his address to that many people and even if there were people around, what were the odds of someone seeing him in the fifteen seconds that he would need to drop the flowers and run away?

So all in all, it was safer to do it on the mainland than on the island which was why he had hoped for good weather today.

However, when he had glanced out of his window early this morning, eyes still a little sleepy, he had already seen the rainclouds approaching Domino and the more time had passed, the darker the sky became.

At this point it was actually black, just waiting for him to step outside so that it could release a thunderstorm.

Jaden was arguing with himself if he should challenge his luck by trying to get to his friend's house before the storm unleashed or if he should just wait until the storm front had passed.

The latter seemed unrealistic because as it stood the storm didn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.

At least that's what the professional newsteam on the radio said.

''A quick newsupdate at 12:30. We advise everyone to stay home for today if it isn't absolutely necessary. We assume the storm will unleash any minute and with it a lot of rain.''

Yeah, no shit.

''Which areas are especially affected?'', someone else asked, just as Jaden heard a light patter on his window. Rain.

''Ah, there's the first raindrops, just as expected.''

It wasn't actually that bad, the storm seemed tame enough so far, but he knew it would get worse in no time, so he remained seated, listening to the rain for a while until the gentle patter had transformed into an aggressive slashing against the window.

Suddenly, without any warning at all, a flash of lightning appeared outside at the same time that Jaden heard a loud thunderclap, making him jump in his seat at the realization that he was very close to the storm – perhaps a bit too close for his liking.

Even though he was safe in his house and therefore didn't have a reason to be scared, he felt goose bumps slowly creeping up all over his body and making him shiver.

Thunder and lightning didn't normally bother him, yet right now, it was causing him to be strangely agitated and on edge.

To some extent, it was almost like a... bad omen...

But the moment came and went and before he knew it, everything was back to normal, even though his breathing remained strained for a little longer.

The rest of the day didn't look any better in terms of weather and while Jaden was itching to go and bring Chazz the flowers, he stayed inside, pacing back and forth and growing more and more frustrated because the storm didn't pass.

Finally, at around eight o'clock in the evening, he gave up and opted for going to Chazz the next day.

February 15th looked a lot nicer than the previous day.

It was sunny with temperatures just below 27°C and nothing pointed towards the hellish weather from yesterday.

If it weren't for the news report, it would be like it hadn't existed at all.

''Yesterday's casualties are above everything our team has experienced so far. 29 dead and 15 injured is the sad reality that we have to come to terms with and we offer our sincere condolences to the affected families and-''

Jaden switched the radio off, not wanting to be dragged down today and took the bouquet of flowers he had left on a table.

''I'm going!'', he called into the living room, only to receive a dismissive answer back.

Fine, okay, he wasn't going to let this bother him either.

He left the house with the flowers and his key and started walking.

His thoughts trailed off all on their own, as usual ultimately rotating around Chazz and his reaction to getting a gift.

Would he know from who it was or would he guess?

Would he get all flustered about it or would he be genuinely grateful for having someone who liked and cared about him?

He had no way of telling and this made him all the more excited to see Chazz's face, so he sped up until he had reached his destination.

And wow, the building in front of him was more like a mansion than a house like he would have guessed. It looked extremely pretentious and over the top, but then again, it seemed just right for the Princeton family.

He carefully placed the bouquet in front of the massive door before ringing the bell and taking flight behind a tree from where he could watch the door.

A long minute passed without anything happening and he was about to leave his hiding spot to ring again when the door suddenly opened to reveal a woman in her mid-twenties.

A maid?

She looked around for a moment, then picked the flowers up and read the little card Jaden had put in there.

Her expression flickered back and forth before settling on dread.

''Are you still there? ...Jaden?''

The question was clearly aimed at him.

Jaden froze, feeling very uneasy all of a sudden as he stepped around the tree.

He wanted to speak up, but all words got stuck in his throat.

This didn't feel good...

The woman waved him over and -once he stood in front of her- hugged him tightly.

He barely felt the embrace as his mind and body both went into hyperventilation, having a very strong idea of what could be wrong.

No, there was no reason to assume the worst.

Surely it was just...

It couldn't be.

It... how... why...

His thoughts escaped him, shattering on the ground like glass.

An echo reverberated in his head.

29 dead, 15 injured.

Dead.

29.

A number.

He had thought about it as a mere number when in actual fact... oh god...

''I...''

This was a joke, right? It had to be!

Fate couldn't do this to him.

Chazz couldn't do this to him!

''How-... but... he's not... I don't...''

He wanted to cry, but couldn't. His body was refusing to believe this.

He was refusing to believe this.

''It was an accident.'' Her voice wasn't more than a whisper. ''He was driving. It was rainy and some guy couldn't control their car...''

There was a pause. Hesitation.

''The police found... flowers with a note on the backseat. They were for you.''

[bymyblackhand]

Gx rival shippingmonth day 10- AU Im only doing a couple of these, so don’t get your hopes up😅 pokemon and yugioh are pretty damn similar, soooooo….. Jaden has a mega blaziken (flame wingman) and woobat (winged kuriboh). And chazz has a scraggy (ojama yellow) and a seviper

cuz i like seviper

[akeshuyuri]

GX RIVALSHIPPING MONTH DAY 1: happy birthday manjoume thunder!

in which manjoume is a dumb bitch and runs away in a gay panic because judai got him a plushie of ojama yellow and it’s really not cute but oh god judai gave it to him --

i’ve never done any sort of ___ week or month but i love gx rivalshipping so i’m gonna try to do at least some of the prompts! i know this is like a week late but bear with me!

[miramaare]

Gx Rivalshipping Month!

Happy Birthday Manjoume Thunder! 

I was really happy to discover Gx Rivalshipping Month still exists! So yeah.. I’m gonna draw some selected prompts starting with Manjoumes birthday :) 

[chthonianblast]

Meeting a hero at KaibaLand?!

So! I like to imagine that there’s TV shows based off Duel Monsters, especially the Masked HEROs! (aka Kamen Riders) and Contrast HERO Chaos looks like KR Double’s FangJoker form!

Yeah, these boys are nerds. And of course, Manjoume cleaned up beforehand.