U Okay?; Marufuji Ryo/Edo Phoenix; Yu-Gi-Oh GX; Table General #2/Prompt #1
Title: U Okay?
Author: Fenikkusu Ai
Claim: Marufuji Ryo/Edo Phoenix
Table: General #2
Prompt: #3 Heartbreak
Rating: T
Summary: Ryo is starting to feel an ache in his chest, and it’s not a physical complaint either
Word Count: 523
Ryo was quite unused to this feeling; this dull ache in his chest that made his eyes squirt with tears if he wasn’t careful.
However, his chest often hurt. How could it not with the risky dueling he was playing around with? But, the most important thing was that he was on top again. The crowd loved it. The crowd cheered his name now. Screw his heart. There was time to worry about that when he was on that hospital bed in the intensive care unit where the lowly Hell Kaiser would try to make his peace with God before the other one got him.
Or until he committed suicide.
He’d been walking in the fresh air for nearly two miles in the darkened city. Twice he had nearly been accosted, but when the thugs saw exactly who it was skulking in the night suddenly it was them trying to make themselves scarce. Without a second thought, Ryo kept going. He wanted to walk that other person right the hell out of his mind.
It wasn’t working yet.
Cling. Cling…
He pulled out the cell phone that had been causing a racket in his pocket and with dread flipped it open to read the telltale text message.
ARE U OKAY?
Edo. Who else had his number?
NO
Ryo moodily keyed in the two letters before throwing the phone across the street. It broke naturally on contact when it hit the unforgiving pavement.
Edo was going to be the death of him. But, Ryo supposed it wasn’t the blue-eyed boy’s fault. He had no idea there was going to be a fight. He had no idea how Ryo would react. Ryo didn’t understand it himself. Besides, the two fought often. The ever constant banter was the background noise of their relationship-forming a nice little wall that true emotions could never crack into. Or, so, that was the plan.
It had been such an innocent comment, and here Ryo was acting as if Edo had stabbed him.
“Love you? No way in hell, Hell Kaiser...”
“I’m unlovable,” Ryo whispered. “First, my friends abandon me. Then, I nearly kill my brother. I’m…evil.”
Ryo stayed there a long damned time until his heart rate slowed to a somewhat normal rhythm. It was five, ten, or fifteen minutes; he wasn’t sure.
“Ryo! Ryo!”
Crap.
There he was; gray hair swinging in his eyes and lean legs pumping up the sidewalk. Ryo simply stood there. Unmoving. Timidly, Phoenix approached him. He wore a baffled expression on his face.
“Why did you just run off like that?”
“There was a pain in my chest,” Ryo replied truthfully.
“So…there was pain in your chest and that’s why you started running like a maniac?”
Ryo grinned. He couldn’t halt the involuntary action of his lips. Edo did the same. They knew each other too well.
That little action, that little bit of humanity was enough to cheer Ryo. In fact, having Edo around period seemed to cheer him. He enjoyed Edo’s company. He loved Edo’s company. He loved…
It was then Ryo realized he broke a cardinal sin: never love anything.