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kittensinboxes2025-05-22 04:49 am
firstrateduelist) wrote in kittensinboxes2025-05-22 04:49 am
Stars, In Your Multitudes [It's always Rival, lbr. Space Station Hours!]
It's been a good half a year since his trip to the afterlife, and all that it entailed. Kaiba's recovered from the loss by now, and business is back how it was.
Which meant, of course, that he dealt with irritations from time to time. Today was truly a shitshow, with a stubborn negotiator who tried to walk all over him on a business deal. Pity's to them that they're from out of town, because they learned very quickly that the young scion of Kaiba Corporation was not to be tread upon.
They both left without a deal, which would certainly put development on some of Kaiba's interests back by several stages, at least...unless he did the work himself. Which was not so easy these days, when he was mired in the politics of actually being the president of the company.
It's annoying.
It's boring!
Worse still, today's encounter had left him suffering under the influence of alcohol! And for what?! For a deal that had been rescinded?! What's the point of drinking if he doesn't even get a benefit out of it?
Aggravated, he taps his bracer perhaps a little too hard, and begins dictating a text.
Have you ever been to space
It is well past 9:30 on a weekday. That is a weird question to be asking of one Yuugi Mutou, isn't it?
Seto Kaiba doesn't give a good goddamn if it is. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO SPACE YUUGI?
Which meant, of course, that he dealt with irritations from time to time. Today was truly a shitshow, with a stubborn negotiator who tried to walk all over him on a business deal. Pity's to them that they're from out of town, because they learned very quickly that the young scion of Kaiba Corporation was not to be tread upon.
They both left without a deal, which would certainly put development on some of Kaiba's interests back by several stages, at least...unless he did the work himself. Which was not so easy these days, when he was mired in the politics of actually being the president of the company.
It's annoying.
It's boring!
Worse still, today's encounter had left him suffering under the influence of alcohol! And for what?! For a deal that had been rescinded?! What's the point of drinking if he doesn't even get a benefit out of it?
Aggravated, he taps his bracer perhaps a little too hard, and begins dictating a text.
Have you ever been to space
It is well past 9:30 on a weekday. That is a weird question to be asking of one Yuugi Mutou, isn't it?
Seto Kaiba doesn't give a good goddamn if it is. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO SPACE YUUGI?
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Though.
A while.
Define 'a while', sir, because that could be anything. That could be a week to a few years, and if this place had been a few years in disrepair...
...
Not even a drunk Kaiba would send someone where he didn't properly maintain it... at least for that long.
...
Right?
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It's purposeful. Always enough strength to get him from point A to point B, lest he screw them both over.
"You didn't sign up for this part, I understand. Whatever's wrong with the station...'s probably just a setting I have to tweak. My creations are supposed to be self-sufficient."
Just a bit more...they're almost to the doorway, and then he can run diagnostics at the main terminal. In the meantime, Yuugi has quite a splendid view of the stars, since the hallway they're traversing doesn't have viewing ports, exactly: no, they're full length panel windows. It really does feel like they're floating through the expanse that way.
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Because, seriously: look at it.
Look at the stars dancing amongst the inky blackness of space. Look at the stars as they watched them, two men alone in an elevator and floating in the expanse, even if separated by thick walls and large windows.
Maybe they themselves were stars, in their own way.
Yuugi was never quite confident in his own light, but Seto Kaiba was a universe of his own. Sun, stars, planets -- he had them all, in multitudes. All Yuugi could do was watch as he showed the world the beauty and majesty of his light.
...
That wasn't weird to think, was it?
Yeah, no. Not weird at all. That was a perfectly normal thing to think about his rival, shut the fuck up.
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But...it is a good view, yes.
Once he's through the door, Kaiba propels himself towards the panel and without much indication of what he was doing, starts tapping away.
"I recommend you hold on tightly. There's not going to be much warning when the gravity reinitializes," he says distractedly, still focusing on what he's doing.
Yuugi will indeed have about twenty seconds before Kaiba finally does figure it out and the weight of the earth is synthetically placed upon them, forcing Kaiba to catch himself on one knee and nearly topple over onto the console.
...If he wasn't tipsy that probably would have gone differently.