Yu-gi-oh, Jounouchi/Shizuka #9
Title: Big Brother chapter 9
Author: MyAibou
Pairing: Jounouchi/Shizuka (NOT incest!)
Fandom: Yu-gi-oh
Theme: #9 Dash
Rating: K+/PG
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-gi-oh or Jounouchi and Shizuka. I'm just borrowing Takahashi-san's toys for a while. I promise to put them back when I'm done.
Author’s Note:
For this series, whenever possible, I try to follow the Japanese anime continuity, with background info from the manga thrown in for extra flavor. However, I don’t speak Japanese and I don’t have ready access to the Japanese episodes, so for some things, I have to rely rather heavily on the dubs. The dialogue in this chapter comes from the dub for the most part and hopefully isn’t too far off from what was said in the original Japanese. If it is, mea culpa.
But I do have to say, one of my personal amusements with the dub is the repeated use of the line, “Talk later, run now!” It’s the Yu-gi-oh dub version of “I have a bad feeling about this” from Star Wars. And it’s a natural match for the theme “Dash.”
So, um, yeah. Beware of dubness.
***
It came as something of an epiphany to her that despite the fact that her brother was the most important person in her life, she really didn’t know all that much about him or his life. This realization came to her as she clung to his friend Honda-a boy she’d only met a few days before-her arms wrapped tightly around his neck, his arms clutching her legs as he tried to simultaneously keep her perched on his back and run like hell away from whoever it was that was chasing them.
They’d been on their way to find Katsuya and his friends Yugi and Anzu. Her brother and Yugi were both doing well in the Battle City tournament and would probably make the finals, and she wanted to be there to see her brother duel. She wanted to take her bandages off with him there and have that be the first thing she saw. But one second Honda was apologizing to her for not having agreed on a meeting place before he’d gone to pick her up and then the next second he’d just stopped and she could feel him stiffen at her side and she knew they weren’t alone. He pulled her to him protectively
“What are you looking at?” he growled. “Who are you punks, and whadda you want from us?”
“Honda, what’s going on?” she asked, but he didn’t answer, he just turned and pushed her behind him, then barked, “Why don’t you just keep moving. We don’t want any trouble.”
“You might not want any trouble, but we do,” came the reply.
“Shizuka, get on my back,” Honda hissed, bending over in front of her, and she obeyed, throwing her arms around his shoulders as he grabbed her legs and hoisted her up, piggy back, and then started to run.
It was terrifying, not being able to see or run on her own because of the bandages wrapped around her face, trusting her fate to this boy with the nice voice but whom she didn’t really know outside of the warm way her brother had talked about him. Honda was grunting from the exertion of carrying her weight as well as his own and she knew he couldn’t keep this up for long. The air got suddenly cooler and the sounds of their footfalls started echoing back at her and she knew they’d entered some sort of tunnel, and then there was another menacing voice echoing there, too, only from ahead of them. Honda stopped short backed up slowly until she felt a cold concrete wall at her back.
“What are we gonna do, Honda?” she asked, gripping the shoulders of his jacket in fear.
“You’re coming with us,” the thug in front of them answered for him, but Honda wasn’t going to give up without a fight.
He slowly lowered her to the ground and stood in front of her and then the next thing she knew, there was a scuffle and she heard punches being thrown. Someone grabbed her arm-not Honda-and she screamed and then… well, she wasn’t sure what exactly happened then, except there was a new voice issuing threats that didn’t seem directed at her or Honda but at their assailants. Her arm was released, there was more scuffling, Honda said, “Otogi?” and then he was hoisting her onto his back again.
“What’s going on, Honda?” the new voice asked, echoing her own confused thoughts.
“Talk later, run now!” Honda bit out and they were running again with the new guy behind them.
They ducked around a few corners and then the new guy said, “Hey, let’s hide in there,” and then Honda was hoisting her into the open bed of a truck where they all hunched down to hide, Honda and the other boy, who was obviously a friend of his, moving away from her toward the back of the truck to confer in quiet whispers.
“Who’s the girl?” the new guy asked Honda.
“Watch it Otogi, she’s off limits! Remember Jounouchi? That’s his sister,” Honda warned.
“Jounouchi’s sister? How can Jounouchi have such a cute sister?”
Shizuka would’ve rolled her eyes if she could. She had bandages over her eyes, not her ears. Did they honestly think she couldn’t hear them? Guess what guys, that adage about other senses becoming stronger to make up for one that’s lost? Totally true.
“So who were those guys and why were they chasing you?” Otogi asked in the same whisper she could hear quite clearly.
“Rare Hunters.”
“Rare Hunters? Why the hell would Rare Hunters be after you?”
“I have no idea. They’re watching Yugi, of course, but what would they want with me and Shizuka? We don’t have any rare cards.”
Cold fear settled into Shizuka’s stomach. This was over cards? And hadn’t Katsuya run into trouble over some card the night before her operation, the night he never showed? She gave up trying to pretend she wasn’t listening and felt her way along the truck bed toward the two boys. “If those guys were chasing us, does that mean…”
“They’re after the others, too,” Honda confirmed grimly.
Big Brother! Shizuka gripped Honda’s arm. “Honda, please, tell me what’s going on. Why would people do this for cards? What has my brother gotten himself into?” When he didn’t answer, she prompted, “Honda?”
“I’m not sure,” he said at last. “I’m guessing it has something to do with Yugi and his Millennium Puzzle. It usually does.”
“His what?”
“It’s a long story. Ask your brother when we find him.”
“Speaking of, we should probably get going while the coast is clear,” Otogi suggested.
“Yeah,” Honda agreed. “Let’s just hope luck is on our side and we don’t run into them again.”
At the mention of the word “luck,” Shizuka automatically reached for the five-yen coin she wore on a chain around her neck. She dug it out from under her shirt and kissed it for good luck. Keep us safe. Keep Big Brother safe.
“You ready, Shizuka?” Honda asked. “Let’s go find your brother and Yugi and Anzu.”
“I’m ready,” she nodded, but she wasn’t sure she really was. Something big was going on here, something bigger than cards and tournaments, and her brother was right in the middle of it. She had the feeling when they found him that everything she ever thought she knew about her brother would be turned on its end. He lived in a different world than she did, she realized, and she was suddenly terrified at the thought of entering it.
But…
This was Katsuya, her big brother. Anywhere he was, that’s where she belonged, too. Even if it meant her world would never be the same.
Author: MyAibou
Pairing: Jounouchi/Shizuka (NOT incest!)
Fandom: Yu-gi-oh
Theme: #9 Dash
Rating: K+/PG
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-gi-oh or Jounouchi and Shizuka. I'm just borrowing Takahashi-san's toys for a while. I promise to put them back when I'm done.
Author’s Note:
For this series, whenever possible, I try to follow the Japanese anime continuity, with background info from the manga thrown in for extra flavor. However, I don’t speak Japanese and I don’t have ready access to the Japanese episodes, so for some things, I have to rely rather heavily on the dubs. The dialogue in this chapter comes from the dub for the most part and hopefully isn’t too far off from what was said in the original Japanese. If it is, mea culpa.
But I do have to say, one of my personal amusements with the dub is the repeated use of the line, “Talk later, run now!” It’s the Yu-gi-oh dub version of “I have a bad feeling about this” from Star Wars. And it’s a natural match for the theme “Dash.”
So, um, yeah. Beware of dubness.
***
It came as something of an epiphany to her that despite the fact that her brother was the most important person in her life, she really didn’t know all that much about him or his life. This realization came to her as she clung to his friend Honda-a boy she’d only met a few days before-her arms wrapped tightly around his neck, his arms clutching her legs as he tried to simultaneously keep her perched on his back and run like hell away from whoever it was that was chasing them.
They’d been on their way to find Katsuya and his friends Yugi and Anzu. Her brother and Yugi were both doing well in the Battle City tournament and would probably make the finals, and she wanted to be there to see her brother duel. She wanted to take her bandages off with him there and have that be the first thing she saw. But one second Honda was apologizing to her for not having agreed on a meeting place before he’d gone to pick her up and then the next second he’d just stopped and she could feel him stiffen at her side and she knew they weren’t alone. He pulled her to him protectively
“What are you looking at?” he growled. “Who are you punks, and whadda you want from us?”
“Honda, what’s going on?” she asked, but he didn’t answer, he just turned and pushed her behind him, then barked, “Why don’t you just keep moving. We don’t want any trouble.”
“You might not want any trouble, but we do,” came the reply.
“Shizuka, get on my back,” Honda hissed, bending over in front of her, and she obeyed, throwing her arms around his shoulders as he grabbed her legs and hoisted her up, piggy back, and then started to run.
It was terrifying, not being able to see or run on her own because of the bandages wrapped around her face, trusting her fate to this boy with the nice voice but whom she didn’t really know outside of the warm way her brother had talked about him. Honda was grunting from the exertion of carrying her weight as well as his own and she knew he couldn’t keep this up for long. The air got suddenly cooler and the sounds of their footfalls started echoing back at her and she knew they’d entered some sort of tunnel, and then there was another menacing voice echoing there, too, only from ahead of them. Honda stopped short backed up slowly until she felt a cold concrete wall at her back.
“What are we gonna do, Honda?” she asked, gripping the shoulders of his jacket in fear.
“You’re coming with us,” the thug in front of them answered for him, but Honda wasn’t going to give up without a fight.
He slowly lowered her to the ground and stood in front of her and then the next thing she knew, there was a scuffle and she heard punches being thrown. Someone grabbed her arm-not Honda-and she screamed and then… well, she wasn’t sure what exactly happened then, except there was a new voice issuing threats that didn’t seem directed at her or Honda but at their assailants. Her arm was released, there was more scuffling, Honda said, “Otogi?” and then he was hoisting her onto his back again.
“What’s going on, Honda?” the new voice asked, echoing her own confused thoughts.
“Talk later, run now!” Honda bit out and they were running again with the new guy behind them.
They ducked around a few corners and then the new guy said, “Hey, let’s hide in there,” and then Honda was hoisting her into the open bed of a truck where they all hunched down to hide, Honda and the other boy, who was obviously a friend of his, moving away from her toward the back of the truck to confer in quiet whispers.
“Who’s the girl?” the new guy asked Honda.
“Watch it Otogi, she’s off limits! Remember Jounouchi? That’s his sister,” Honda warned.
“Jounouchi’s sister? How can Jounouchi have such a cute sister?”
Shizuka would’ve rolled her eyes if she could. She had bandages over her eyes, not her ears. Did they honestly think she couldn’t hear them? Guess what guys, that adage about other senses becoming stronger to make up for one that’s lost? Totally true.
“So who were those guys and why were they chasing you?” Otogi asked in the same whisper she could hear quite clearly.
“Rare Hunters.”
“Rare Hunters? Why the hell would Rare Hunters be after you?”
“I have no idea. They’re watching Yugi, of course, but what would they want with me and Shizuka? We don’t have any rare cards.”
Cold fear settled into Shizuka’s stomach. This was over cards? And hadn’t Katsuya run into trouble over some card the night before her operation, the night he never showed? She gave up trying to pretend she wasn’t listening and felt her way along the truck bed toward the two boys. “If those guys were chasing us, does that mean…”
“They’re after the others, too,” Honda confirmed grimly.
Big Brother! Shizuka gripped Honda’s arm. “Honda, please, tell me what’s going on. Why would people do this for cards? What has my brother gotten himself into?” When he didn’t answer, she prompted, “Honda?”
“I’m not sure,” he said at last. “I’m guessing it has something to do with Yugi and his Millennium Puzzle. It usually does.”
“His what?”
“It’s a long story. Ask your brother when we find him.”
“Speaking of, we should probably get going while the coast is clear,” Otogi suggested.
“Yeah,” Honda agreed. “Let’s just hope luck is on our side and we don’t run into them again.”
At the mention of the word “luck,” Shizuka automatically reached for the five-yen coin she wore on a chain around her neck. She dug it out from under her shirt and kissed it for good luck. Keep us safe. Keep Big Brother safe.
“You ready, Shizuka?” Honda asked. “Let’s go find your brother and Yugi and Anzu.”
“I’m ready,” she nodded, but she wasn’t sure she really was. Something big was going on here, something bigger than cards and tournaments, and her brother was right in the middle of it. She had the feeling when they found him that everything she ever thought she knew about her brother would be turned on its end. He lived in a different world than she did, she realized, and she was suddenly terrified at the thought of entering it.
But…
This was Katsuya, her big brother. Anywhere he was, that’s where she belonged, too. Even if it meant her world would never be the same.