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Who: Atem and Open
What: It's his one year anniversary, and it's time for Salkia to wake up to a God's roar.
When: December 10th, in the dead of night.
Where: The park specifically, but this hologram has been known to make very loud noises and be very large. Up to you if you want to ignore it.
Warnings: I don't know. Will be updated if necessary ( Read more... )
What: It's his one year anniversary, and it's time for Salkia to wake up to a God's roar.
When: December 10th, in the dead of night.
Where: The park specifically, but this hologram has been known to make very loud noises and be very large. Up to you if you want to ignore it.
Warnings: I don't know. Will be updated if necessary ( Read more... )
It left Kaiba fuming as he trekked back out into the snow again, his eyes locked on the dot that just never stopped moving. Cowardly bastard. The cold and the effort wasn't helping whatever damage the fire had left behind, either. Occasionally the brunet was forced to stop and cough, losing more time and making himself visible to anything that might have been lurking in the darkness nearby.
And now there was the snow. Without warning, the ground had started shaking around him. Kaiba had just barely managed to stay on his feet. There was something familiar about that sound, and Kaiba really would have been more interested in it, except for the pile of snow that came down from a nearby tree and dropped right onto his head.
It became the rarest of spectacles, one that might have only previously been seen by Mokuba or Isono before. The torrent of curses Kaiba let loose with was probably the definitive list for at least six different languages, including two dead ones.
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Kaiba didn't sound very happy. But he didn't sound like he was in danger or hurt either- not that Kaiba would ever scream or yell if either of those two things were occurring. Osiris lifted his head, eyes scanning for the noise where his master's would not.
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His head jerked around. There it was again. He stepped forward, only approaching until he could see clearly that not only was it one of his holograms, but it was one of the few he hadn't upgraded. Kaiba's lips pulled into a frown.
"It's too late for you to be out here," he called. It was too cold as well, not that Atem ever saw sense in such matters. If it was Atem. Kaiba hadn't gotten close enough to see beyond the great red dragon hologram.
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Osiris watched Kaiba carefully, on the other hand. "What difference does time make?" He responded, but didn't make an effort to call back. If Kaiba heard him fine, if not oh well. He wasn't in a shouting sort of mood. "I'm not planning on sleeping tonight."
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He scowled and made his way closer, snow still clinging to his hair and long coat. "Of course not," he replied coolly. "Though I had assumed that providing you with other options might have prevented his outcome."
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"I don't need or want alcohol. I don't even know where you got an idea like that." He said, sitting back slightly to look up at Seto. But he was subdued, quiet, calm. He was a little irritated at Kaiba's so-called "gift" but that didn't really show beyond the twinge of soft bitter tone. Everything else was gone from him at the moment.
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"Perhaps from every other person who has been stuck in this hellhole for any length of time," he snapped. "How dare you just dump it on the doorstep where anyone could see it like it was nothing?"
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"I have a child at home, if you've forgotten." Which was quite impossible seeing as how much Kaiba liked to remind him of her presence whenever anything was happening. "I don't want it around her, either, especially if I'm not going to be there." Despite his arguments he still hadn't raised his tone.
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He snorted. "Quite a bit better than getting a little tipsy around a girl who would probably be asleep by now, I must say."
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"Thank you regardless, but I don't want it. I don't need it. And how I deal with my problems is none of your business." He brought his fingers together again, lowering his eyes more. He'd not once looked up at Kaiba this entire time.
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He was growing more and more agitated the longer his rival kept his head down. He looked defeated, something Kaiba never tolerated well. After a moment of trying to clear his raw throat again, Kaiba set his jaw and strode right through Osiris' holographic coils. The light particles broke in rainbow patterns around him.
"Your safety is," he said firmly.
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He couldn't just ignore Kaiba so close, though. Finally he raised his head, looking up at the brunet. "You contradict yourself. Alcohol makes people stupid. I would have been in a lot more danger had I come out here drunk, don't you think?"
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Kaiba shook his head, brushing off the memory, before glancing back towards the town lights. "I doubt you'd be out here if you were drunk. That would be, of course, the point. Even Yuugi or that ninja who lives with you would have caught you before you got beyond the town limits," he pointed out.
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He only shook his head at first. "I doubt it but you don't know that's how it would end up. Who's to say they would know? Who's to say that I wouldn't go looking for trouble worse than I already seem to be?" Because there was no escaping what Kaiba had pointed out- he could be attracting lots of attention his way with that God hovering around. It was true.
"And I'd be incapacitated by the drink. I have more of a chance surviving sitting on this park bench in the snow right now than I would if that happened." And it probably would have, given his track record and his history of attracting trouble at the worst times. Finally his stare gained a little life as he challenged Kaiba with it- challenged him to outright deny that fact.
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But the rest of it was a straight challenge. Exactly what Kaiba did want to see, even if it was irritating.
"Like I said, you wouldn't get this far," Kaiba replied with a smirk. "Being drunk in the dark, you'd be face first in the snow as soon as you got out of town. Grass is much less forgiving than flat surface, and you're not exactly built for scrambling out of drifts."
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Was the CEO really hurt that he hadn't accepted the wine? He didn't think things like that mattered much to Kaiba. "What do you want?" He asked finally. "Before you couldn't wait to get rid of me so you could go track down Heck. If all you're here to do is berate me for my choices, you can go back to your search. I don't want to be the reason you're wasting time as usual." It was almost as if he'd slapped himself in the face with his own words and it showed. They stung. But he was in a terrible mood. And they felt so true.
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