Sarah/Ryuuji for Jessi!
Title: Something Like A Fairy Tale.
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh/Labyrinth.
Characters: Ryuuji, Sarah.
Rating: PGish.
Summary: Merry Xmas, princessjessia! Ryuuji and Sarah meet in the Labyrinth. That doesn't stop her from winning, but gets her an extra prize.
Something Like A Fairy Tale.
"Hello," The boy with green eyes says equitably, hands in his pockets and utterly at ease, "Are you lost?"
The monsters so far have been all friendly when ugly, and untrustworthy when beautiful. Jareth, most human-like and least human of them all, is the most untruthworthy.
This boy is even more beautiful than Jareth, but he does not look like any creature that belongs to the Goblin Kingdom. Perhaps Sarah does not need to judge him by the rules of the Goblin Kingdom but if nothing else, this quest to save her brother has taught her the value of caution -- and fear of what is beautiful.
But he is smiling at her with no malice in his look, no hidden secrets and no strange, half-known want, and it is difficult to think of him as anything but what he is (perhaps he has secrets too, but underneath them, he will be what exactly he appears).
"Perhaps." Sarah answers, and is surprised to find that she too, is smiling, "Are you the Cheshire Cat?"
The boy shakes his head, and the dark fall of his ponytail dances behind him. He extends a hand to her and uncurls and curls his fingers gracefully, short nails catching the light, "Do these look like claws?"
"No." Sarah answers, and points at the red curves of his lips, "But that looks like a smile."
His smile widens. "It is." A flash of white teeth, and the boy is sticking his tongue out at Sarah now, "But do you see any fangs? Were I the Cheshire Cat, I'd have fangs."
"And were I lost, I'd be asking for directions instead of bantering with you." Sarah responds sweetly, and the smile on her face feels so natural that it almost hurts.
The boy shrugs, slim shoulders rising up before dropping down, and the smile on his lips doesn't fade in the least, "Well, I'm lost. And you don't see me asking for directions, do you?"
Sarah blinks, confused, "If you're lost, then why were you asking me if I am?"
"Because if you're lost," And his smile changes into a grin, "Then there's no point in me asking you for directions because you don't know where to go either."
"I know where to go." Sarah corrects him with a grin, "I just don't know where I am."
"In that case, you're better off than I am." The boy concedes, both hands spread out in a gesture of helplessness, "I don't know where I am, or where I'm meant to go."
"...Did Jareth put you here too?" Sarah asks, because maybe he's also rescuing someone, and that'd explain why he looks so human.
The boy shakes his head in negation, confusion clear in the green (his eyes are so green) of his eyes, "Who's Jareth?"
"The Goblin King. This is his Labyrinth we're in." A pause, and Sarah doesn't quite lie. "He took my brother." This is true. "I'm here to get him back." That is also true. "I have to get to his castle before time runs out, or he'll turn my brother into a goblin."
He cocks his head to a side, appears to consider that, and then grins, "Okay. Want any help?"
"You'll help me?!" Sarah's startled -- shouldn't he be trying to find out why he's here, or where he should be? -- but relieved. Something about the absolute easy confidence of the boy is reassuring, like he's offering because he knows he'll be useful, and knows exactly what to do.
"'course." The grin he flashes is reassuring, "I've got nothing better to do, and if I had a brother and someone stole him, then I'd definitely want all the help I could get!" He steps down off the rock that he'd been seated on, and extends a hand to Sarah, "My name's Ryuuji. What's yours?"
"Sarah." Her hand rests comfortably within his -- his fingers are long, delicate like an artist's -- and she can feel herself smiling again even through her surprise. "Why are you here? Maybe I can help you get back too."
"I think my father must have dumped me here." He wrinkles his nose, and shrugs lightly, seeming not to care too much about it, "He has a tendency to do that to me -- just throw me somewhere and see if I can find my way back home."
Sarah stares at him, "Your father dumped you into the Kingdom of the Goblin King?" Sudden doubt touches her tone, "Are you human?"
"Oh, yeah. It's just that my father's a mage, and he's training me to be one too." There's something a little rueful about his smile, like he's not telling her the full story and his smile is an apology for his inability to do so, "Maybe my test is to get out of here, who knows? Let's get your brother first. I bet he's waiting for you."
~*~
Ryuuji’s sweet, and he’s funny. He talks a lot to Sarah as they go along, cheering her up and keeping her spirits high. He doesn't say much about himself but Sarah's glad of the chance to talk to a sympathetic ear. She tells him everything, and he nods, offers her support and tells her to be brave, she'll prevail and really, she's pretty much a heroine for having decided to go after her brother all on her own.
She feels warm inside when he says that, and when Sarah takes a bite of a poisoned peach, she wakes up when he kisses her, just like something out of a fairy tale. The good kind of fairy tale with handsome princes, not creepy Goblin Kings.
And when she faces Jareth, he is surprised to see Ryuuji here. It might be his kingdom, but it gives Sarah hope to know that he does not have control over everything.
“Have you found yourself a Prince Charming or knight errant?” Jareth sneers, “The terms were that you would solve the Labyrinth.”
Ryuuji answers that before Sarah can, standing just a step behind and to her right like a bodyguard would, “Oh, she did.” He flashes that smile which secretly makes Sarah wonder if she’d recognize if she’s swooning, and continues, “I was just there to cheer her on. Sarah’s too kick-ass to need anyone else to save her.”
Sarah blushes, and even as she turns her attention to Jareth and has a showdown with him, she’s aware of Ryuuji at her back, beautiful, powerful, mysterious and on her side. Nobody’s ever been on her side before; it’s a nice feeling.
The castle starts to collapse, and even though Sarah has Tobias in her arms, she turns to Ryuuji, wide eyed and fearful.
“Don’t worry!” He smiles, and darts in closer to her, just enough to kiss her again, “We’ll meet again. Promise.”
When Sarah wakes up, she can still feel the warmth of his lips against hers, and she lingers a little on the memory of that before she goes to answer Toby’s cries.
~*~
Nobody believes her about the Labyrinth. Especially not about Ryuuji or Jareth; how high school fantasy is it to have two powerful men fighting for her affections? Or rather, one man and one teenager, because Sarah knows that Ryuuji was her own age, and maybe that’s a little of why she remembers the green of his eyes and can’t recall the color of Jareth’s.
Eventually, Sarah stops talking to people about it. She knows better now. She starts to even question if it happened at all, if maybe she just imagined it. Or dreamt it. She has no proof to gainsay it, after all, except for dreams that sometimes leave her waking up aching in the morning, heart sore and memory haunted.
Then one day, when she is sixteen, the transfer of a new student is announced to her school. He’s supposed to be really good-looking, the girls whisper to each other. The boys are more interested in the fact that he’s supposedly rich. Really, really rich.
The morning he’s due to come to class, Sarah is caught in a sudden storm on the way to school and enters late, panting and with wet hair, jacket plastered to her skin. The new boy is standing in at the front of the room already, but Sarah doesn’t look at him, just makes her excuses and slinks to her seat, mortified.
“As I was saying,” The teacher goes on, clearly annoyed at the interruption, “I would like a volunteer to show Ryuuji--”
Sarah’s head snaps up and the sight of emerald-bright green eyes makes the teacher’s voice out so that Sarah can barely hear the rest of the sentence, “--around the school.”
She has her hand in the air before she realizes it, and Ryuuji smiles like they share a secret.
The smile with which Sarah answers his is the brightest that the class has ever seen her give anyone.
~Fin.~
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh/Labyrinth.
Characters: Ryuuji, Sarah.
Rating: PGish.
Summary: Merry Xmas, princessjessia! Ryuuji and Sarah meet in the Labyrinth. That doesn't stop her from winning, but gets her an extra prize.
Something Like A Fairy Tale.
"Hello," The boy with green eyes says equitably, hands in his pockets and utterly at ease, "Are you lost?"
The monsters so far have been all friendly when ugly, and untrustworthy when beautiful. Jareth, most human-like and least human of them all, is the most untruthworthy.
This boy is even more beautiful than Jareth, but he does not look like any creature that belongs to the Goblin Kingdom. Perhaps Sarah does not need to judge him by the rules of the Goblin Kingdom but if nothing else, this quest to save her brother has taught her the value of caution -- and fear of what is beautiful.
But he is smiling at her with no malice in his look, no hidden secrets and no strange, half-known want, and it is difficult to think of him as anything but what he is (perhaps he has secrets too, but underneath them, he will be what exactly he appears).
"Perhaps." Sarah answers, and is surprised to find that she too, is smiling, "Are you the Cheshire Cat?"
The boy shakes his head, and the dark fall of his ponytail dances behind him. He extends a hand to her and uncurls and curls his fingers gracefully, short nails catching the light, "Do these look like claws?"
"No." Sarah answers, and points at the red curves of his lips, "But that looks like a smile."
His smile widens. "It is." A flash of white teeth, and the boy is sticking his tongue out at Sarah now, "But do you see any fangs? Were I the Cheshire Cat, I'd have fangs."
"And were I lost, I'd be asking for directions instead of bantering with you." Sarah responds sweetly, and the smile on her face feels so natural that it almost hurts.
The boy shrugs, slim shoulders rising up before dropping down, and the smile on his lips doesn't fade in the least, "Well, I'm lost. And you don't see me asking for directions, do you?"
Sarah blinks, confused, "If you're lost, then why were you asking me if I am?"
"Because if you're lost," And his smile changes into a grin, "Then there's no point in me asking you for directions because you don't know where to go either."
"I know where to go." Sarah corrects him with a grin, "I just don't know where I am."
"In that case, you're better off than I am." The boy concedes, both hands spread out in a gesture of helplessness, "I don't know where I am, or where I'm meant to go."
"...Did Jareth put you here too?" Sarah asks, because maybe he's also rescuing someone, and that'd explain why he looks so human.
The boy shakes his head in negation, confusion clear in the green (his eyes are so green) of his eyes, "Who's Jareth?"
"The Goblin King. This is his Labyrinth we're in." A pause, and Sarah doesn't quite lie. "He took my brother." This is true. "I'm here to get him back." That is also true. "I have to get to his castle before time runs out, or he'll turn my brother into a goblin."
He cocks his head to a side, appears to consider that, and then grins, "Okay. Want any help?"
"You'll help me?!" Sarah's startled -- shouldn't he be trying to find out why he's here, or where he should be? -- but relieved. Something about the absolute easy confidence of the boy is reassuring, like he's offering because he knows he'll be useful, and knows exactly what to do.
"'course." The grin he flashes is reassuring, "I've got nothing better to do, and if I had a brother and someone stole him, then I'd definitely want all the help I could get!" He steps down off the rock that he'd been seated on, and extends a hand to Sarah, "My name's Ryuuji. What's yours?"
"Sarah." Her hand rests comfortably within his -- his fingers are long, delicate like an artist's -- and she can feel herself smiling again even through her surprise. "Why are you here? Maybe I can help you get back too."
"I think my father must have dumped me here." He wrinkles his nose, and shrugs lightly, seeming not to care too much about it, "He has a tendency to do that to me -- just throw me somewhere and see if I can find my way back home."
Sarah stares at him, "Your father dumped you into the Kingdom of the Goblin King?" Sudden doubt touches her tone, "Are you human?"
"Oh, yeah. It's just that my father's a mage, and he's training me to be one too." There's something a little rueful about his smile, like he's not telling her the full story and his smile is an apology for his inability to do so, "Maybe my test is to get out of here, who knows? Let's get your brother first. I bet he's waiting for you."
~*~
Ryuuji’s sweet, and he’s funny. He talks a lot to Sarah as they go along, cheering her up and keeping her spirits high. He doesn't say much about himself but Sarah's glad of the chance to talk to a sympathetic ear. She tells him everything, and he nods, offers her support and tells her to be brave, she'll prevail and really, she's pretty much a heroine for having decided to go after her brother all on her own.
She feels warm inside when he says that, and when Sarah takes a bite of a poisoned peach, she wakes up when he kisses her, just like something out of a fairy tale. The good kind of fairy tale with handsome princes, not creepy Goblin Kings.
And when she faces Jareth, he is surprised to see Ryuuji here. It might be his kingdom, but it gives Sarah hope to know that he does not have control over everything.
“Have you found yourself a Prince Charming or knight errant?” Jareth sneers, “The terms were that you would solve the Labyrinth.”
Ryuuji answers that before Sarah can, standing just a step behind and to her right like a bodyguard would, “Oh, she did.” He flashes that smile which secretly makes Sarah wonder if she’d recognize if she’s swooning, and continues, “I was just there to cheer her on. Sarah’s too kick-ass to need anyone else to save her.”
Sarah blushes, and even as she turns her attention to Jareth and has a showdown with him, she’s aware of Ryuuji at her back, beautiful, powerful, mysterious and on her side. Nobody’s ever been on her side before; it’s a nice feeling.
The castle starts to collapse, and even though Sarah has Tobias in her arms, she turns to Ryuuji, wide eyed and fearful.
“Don’t worry!” He smiles, and darts in closer to her, just enough to kiss her again, “We’ll meet again. Promise.”
When Sarah wakes up, she can still feel the warmth of his lips against hers, and she lingers a little on the memory of that before she goes to answer Toby’s cries.
~*~
Nobody believes her about the Labyrinth. Especially not about Ryuuji or Jareth; how high school fantasy is it to have two powerful men fighting for her affections? Or rather, one man and one teenager, because Sarah knows that Ryuuji was her own age, and maybe that’s a little of why she remembers the green of his eyes and can’t recall the color of Jareth’s.
Eventually, Sarah stops talking to people about it. She knows better now. She starts to even question if it happened at all, if maybe she just imagined it. Or dreamt it. She has no proof to gainsay it, after all, except for dreams that sometimes leave her waking up aching in the morning, heart sore and memory haunted.
Then one day, when she is sixteen, the transfer of a new student is announced to her school. He’s supposed to be really good-looking, the girls whisper to each other. The boys are more interested in the fact that he’s supposedly rich. Really, really rich.
The morning he’s due to come to class, Sarah is caught in a sudden storm on the way to school and enters late, panting and with wet hair, jacket plastered to her skin. The new boy is standing in at the front of the room already, but Sarah doesn’t look at him, just makes her excuses and slinks to her seat, mortified.
“As I was saying,” The teacher goes on, clearly annoyed at the interruption, “I would like a volunteer to show Ryuuji--”
Sarah’s head snaps up and the sight of emerald-bright green eyes makes the teacher’s voice out so that Sarah can barely hear the rest of the sentence, “--around the school.”
She has her hand in the air before she realizes it, and Ryuuji smiles like they share a secret.
The smile with which Sarah answers his is the brightest that the class has ever seen her give anyone.
~Fin.~