Oh, how Kaiba wants to rail against him, to tell Yuugi to keep his lying hands off of him, but why, why is he so angry?! What had Yuugi done to make him so angry, so envious?
"Shut up! It's not about me! It's about YOU! YOU CAN LIVE A LIFE, IDIOT! You could have lived a life this whole time, and had friends!"
He lets Yuugi push him back, to fix his positioning so that his legs aren't searing, so the angle of his movements no longer cause the fixator screws to twist in his skin. But he still bites back, all snapping teeth and growling and posturing like the downed beast he is.
"You can't...make me do anything! Nothing you do will change the trajectory of my life!! You can't stop...the inertia of my existence just because you think you can make a deal about it!
So just stop! For once, don't tie yourself...to someone else because you have to make them feel better!"
Kaiba winces, his eyes squinting shut. It's not just because he's glowering at Yuugi, he's struggling again, the same elevated emotions putting him at a disadvantage mentally.
It hurts.
He wants it to stop hurting, he wants his chest to stop aching, his head to stop throbbing--
--and so he hits the button, to take the pain from him, to free him from the burden for just a moment. But before it fully hits, Kaiba butts his forehead with Yuugi's, glaring into those infuriating violet eyes. Before the unsteadiness takes his mind to a faraway place, he wonders spitefully at how much he'd love a Yuugi that fought against him like they fought while dueling, a Yuugi that asserts himself. Not a Yuugi that has to bargain just to put off his pain.
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"Shut up! It's not about me! It's about YOU! YOU CAN LIVE A LIFE, IDIOT! You could have lived a life this whole time, and had friends!"
He lets Yuugi push him back, to fix his positioning so that his legs aren't searing, so the angle of his movements no longer cause the fixator screws to twist in his skin. But he still bites back, all snapping teeth and growling and posturing like the downed beast he is.
"You can't...make me do anything! Nothing you do will change the trajectory of my life!! You can't stop...the inertia of my existence just because you think you can make a deal about it!
So just stop! For once, don't tie yourself...to someone else because you have to make them feel better!"
Kaiba winces, his eyes squinting shut. It's not just because he's glowering at Yuugi, he's struggling again, the same elevated emotions putting him at a disadvantage mentally.
It hurts.
He wants it to stop hurting, he wants his chest to stop aching, his head to stop throbbing--
--and so he hits the button, to take the pain from him, to free him from the burden for just a moment. But before it fully hits, Kaiba butts his forehead with Yuugi's, glaring into those infuriating violet eyes. Before the unsteadiness takes his mind to a faraway place, he wonders spitefully at how much he'd love a Yuugi that fought against him like they fought while dueling, a Yuugi that asserts himself. Not a Yuugi that has to bargain just to put off his pain.
"You...fool..."