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Chapter 2: Tall Skinny Latte

Kaiba goes to pick up his perfect coffee from the perfect coffee barista.

Soft chimes disturb the low hum of chit chat as navy blue legs stride through the door of the local coffee shop. Spotting the tiny, tricoloured barista, Kaiba approaches the counter. Awaiting him, as usual, double shot tall skinny latte. Bringing the cup to his lips, he pauses, noticing the doodle on the side of the paper cup. A tiny blue dragon. Everyday Yugi draws Kaiba a different doodle, enjoying the way the tall man smiles at each new mini-artwork. Turning to leave, Kaiba nods at the smaller man. However, he doesn’t move. Seeing the lack of a queue, he takes the opportunity to make small talk. 

“Uh.. hey.”

Magenta mixed with violet catches blue in a mix of surprise and relief. 

“Oh. Hey Kaiba, how are things?” Yugi’s tone was eager but reserved. It was rare that the quiet man would engage in conversation with him. Or anyone for that matter. Kaiba was one of those types of people who watches but never speaks. Yugi wondered if it was because he hated people, or just didn’t know how to interact with them. He leaned towards the former although the thought of the latter brought a smile to his face. 

Kaiba stood still for a moment, looking around the room for anything to stare at whilst he figured out what to say next. He hadn’t planned this far. Crap. Uhhh I guess work would be a good place to start.

“Well, we got a weird case at work today.” Refusing to make eye contact, Kaiba kept his eyes fixed on the delicately arranged syrup bottles on the back shelf. He wondered if Yugi could reach them. Imagining Yugi tip-toeing to reach the salted caramel bottle made Kaiba blush. 

Silence permeated the coffee-aromated air as Kaiba quickly realised he missed Yugi’s reply. Blushing harder, now out of embarrassment, he fumbled for a “pardon?” as Yugi simply smiled back and patiently repeated himself.

“What happened at work today? I saw a lot of black vans driving around as I walked to work this morning. One of them looked like yours so I assumed it was some big case or something”

Kaiba was momentarily stunned at how Yugi could tell Kaiba’s van apart from all of the others even though they were all the same make and model. He chose not to ask why he knew that. Clearing his throat he brought his thoughts back down to earth as he relayed his day to the beaming face in front of him.

“Um, yes. It was a big case. We were actually going to-”, he cut off the sentence, remembering how strictly against the rules it was to leak any information about ongoing cases to the public.  “...to the scene of a crime that was committed in town - now don’t look alarmed, it wasn’t anything too serious. Well it was-just not like that. I-uh-meant it like-uh”

“What happened, Kaiba?��� 

Ah. He said my name. He hasn’t done that in a while. A warm feeling rushes over the flustered man as he regains his composure.

“Mm? Oh, yes. We were called in for a case that involved two people who left an... unsightly mess in an area meant for working. It was also a terrible health violation. Absolutely disgusting.” Kaiba’s attention was focused elsewhere now, as if he were addressing another entity entirely. Once soft blue eyes now became hard, accusing the very air he spoke to. A gaze that could silence even the loudest of men. 

“Anyways,” he continued, calmer this time, talking directly to Yugi once more, “I’m to investigate a large number of people over a very short period of time. However I can’t do anything until we are authorised to take DNA samples. It’s a pain really.” 

“I really hope you solve it soon.”  Yugi hated to see Kaiba overload himself with work. It tires him out, more than he’d ever admit to Yugi. Last time this happened Kaiba was completely unresponsive until at least 2 double shot coffees, and even then it was all grunts and one word answers. Kaiba really took his work personally. Hm. Yugi made a mental note to check on him daily to make sure he wasn’t overworking himself again. 

Chimes rang out again, signalling the end of their conversation as more customers entered. Giving a slight nod once more, Kaiba turns and slips into a booth close to the counter and opens his laptop. 

Yugi let his gaze follow Kaiba until a mess of spiky white hair entered his line of sight.  “Good afternoon sir, what can I get for you?” 

“Something hot and strong. I’m gonna need it.” Bakura huffed, his words lazily rolling over the countertop as his eyes searched for his ‘partner in crime’. He spotted him, hiding in the corner, stewing over a black americano. 

Yugi stops. Stares at the agitated albino in front of him, sporting the uniform from the local supermarket. He follows Bakura’s gaze to the hunched over man with even more untamed hair than before him. Bringing his attention to Kaiba who was staring intently at his laptop whilst typing furiously, Yugi’s thoughts clicked into place. Ah. I get it. 

“Of course sir,” Yugi could barely keep his grin to himself, “coming right up.” 

To be continued.

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Chapter 1: The F*ckening @ Somerfields

Bakura and Melvin make a mess and the whole village gets caught up in the escapade.

Work sucked, and I mean /sucked/ for Bakura. Just what he wanted: repetitive 9 hour shifts with short breaks and bitchy customers. No wait, bitchy dumb customers. One woman tried to shoplift some cans of soda, so naturally when Bakura spotted her he threatened to smash her face into the window. He spent the next hour in the managers office, “apologising” for terrifying the other customers. Apparently people don’t like to see shop workers screaming at customers. Tch.

3.30pm. Break. Thank fuck.  Slumping outside, taking a cigarette from his pocket, he greets Melvin at their usual spot behind the supermarket, hidden from those irritating CCTV cameras that just loved to rat him out to his boss. Melvin was already at the end of his cigarette, narrowed violet eyes glared as the albino man approached, holding the gaze until they were side by side leaning on the brick wall. 

“You’re late.” A growl laced with tobacco shot at the shorter man. 

“Apparently me wearing a coat over my uniform whilst I try and leave through the back door isn’t enough a big enough indicator to customers that I’m not on fucking shift anymore,” The lighter clicks as the tip of Bakura’s cigarettes is swallowed in flames. “fucking idiots”.

Another click fills the silence as Melvin lights his second, “I hear ya, that’s why I stick to boxes. Boxes can’t fuck me off like people.” 

A low chuckle and a slight head tilt of the pale man caught Melvin’s eye as violet met deep red.  “Oh, but we know exactly what boxes are good for, don’t we?”

It wasn’t an uncommon occurrence for Melvin and Bakura to screw on the delivery boxes on their break. They didn’t have much else better to do, and it wasn’t exactly like either were the romantic type to attract a partner. It passed the time and gave them both a chance to exert their anger out on each other rather than an unlucky customer trying to return an open can of tuna because it had ‘the wrong water’ in it. Eugh. Bakura put his mind elsewhere as he sucked the last of the nicotine from the retched fag-end before he joined Melvin in the warehouse for a “quickie” before they both had to return to the evil called ‘work’.

The next morning as Bakura approached Somerfields he was somewhat surprised at the two large black vans in front of the store. He paused momentarily, staring at a lanky figure with a briefcase and a sour face entered through the glass doors. Shrugging, Bakura carried on trudging, realising he was about 5 minutes late but lacked the ability to care. 

Before he had the chance to change his boss called him upstairs to the meeting room. Upon entering, he immediately recognised the sour-faced-lanky-briefcase-douche from earlier, along with all of the other staff members, even the ones who weren’t on the rota for today. Interesting. He settled in the furthest seat from the front so he could ignore whatever lecture his boss had arranged. Hand under chin and elbow on desk he focused his attention on the window, imagining he were anywhere else but he-

“Oi you. In the back.”

Red slit eyes rolled to catch harsh blue. Ah, briefcase douche has blue eyes. How pretty. 

“Pay attention when someone is speaking.” 

“Do you keep anything interesting in that briefcase of yours, or just your crippling need to be the centre of attention?” He could feel his manager’s eyes boring into the side of his skull, but he didn’t care. He didn’t like this sour faced man, and would be more than happy to make it known to him. 

A cool smile tinged with cynicism fired right back at Bakura. “I’m glad you asked,” Great, he’s sarcastic too, “actually, I do have something in this briefcase that may interest one or two of you in this room. My name is Seto Kaiba, and I’m the head of the Forensics Department a short while away.

It’s been reported over the last few months that there have been some...incidents in the warehouse area.”

Bakura tensed slightly, narrowing his eyes further as he began to figure out why this meeting was called. 

“It wasn’t until last night where some actual, ahem, evidence was left at the scene that I was called in.  So, I’ll put it blankly: whoever has been fucking on the Foxy Boxes Delivery boxes, just know that we’ve got your DNA and it’ll only be a matter of time before we get access to your records and are authorised to take DNA samples from each of you. Of course you could just own up now and I can arrange your arrest right now, but where would be the fun in that? It won’t be long now until you’re fucked, again.”

After ignoring his phone buzzing in his back pocket for the past ten minutes, Melvin gave in and pulled it out. 12 missed calls from Bakura. Hm. Before he could call back, however, his caller ID flashed up again as it now turned into 13 calls. 

“What?!” he snarled, angry at being disturbed on his day off. 

“Melvin, we have a problem. Meet me at the coffee shop, order something strong. I’ll be there as soon as I can.” the dial tone was the only thing Melvin could hear other than his own confused thoughts at Bakura’s cryptic and somehow threatening phone call. 

To be continued

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Dominos: Prologue, setting and characters

So,

Have y’all ever watched the movie ‘Hot Fuzz’? Well, imagine that village, but it’s Yugioh characters, and they all know each other and they have cool little jobs and interact with each other.

Yugi works in the Village’s coffee shop and /everyone/ ends up going there at some point and interacts with Yugi, thus him becoming the focal point for most of the stories. 

Other characters that currently feature and their “roles”: 

Yugi - Barista/co-runs local coffee shop   Kaiba - Head of Forensics Dep. of course Kaiba has the most pretentious job Yami - Interior decorator for “Papyrus Industries”  Joey - Co-owner of the local Butcher’s Tristan - Co-owner of the local Butcher’s  Tea - Works at the Bakery next door  Mai - Beauty Therapist at the Beauticians across the road Ishizu - Co-owns the Ishtar Memorial Library Marik - bitchy receptionist at the library Odion - Janitor and Handyman for the library  Ryou - Volunteer librarian  Bakura - Retail worker at local supermarket Melvin - Warehouse worker for “Foxy Boxes Delivery” Duke - Waiter at local Restaurant “DDM” Mokuba - Works at the garage  Solomon - Owns coffee shop/town mayor

Dartz - Runs hairdressers “Turquoiseee” Alistair - another bitchy receptionist for hairdressers Valen - Hairdresser Raphael - Head stylist ZIgfried - Owner of rival company trying to buy out Dominos to turn it into a huge apartment complex 

Noah - CEO’s son of Forensics Dep.

We’ll probably add more characters as we go along, and some will have their jobs swapped looking at you Ryou

Also just a warning, some of the characters will be canon divergent and won’t act exactly like they do in the series. This is an AU, it is not intended to be completely canon, although we will try to stick to it as much as possible - a lot of the characters will reflect the abridged series mostly because it adds to the humour

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Okay so this is gonna be a boat load of fun

Basically me and my partner have been writing about a dumb AU where yugioh characters lived in a village, with jobs and lifestyles etc. Yugi works as a coffee barista, the Ishtar's own the local library and Kaiba works in the forensics department (that ties into chapter one) etc. Etc.

We wanted somewhere to put all of this without it being my notebook so here births this blog. It'll be updated regularly [hopefully] and become a long piece of work (we've already written like 4 different story arcs) so stay tuned.

Editors are @kaibaboiyo and @yugiboiyo