fallers_rpg | No Really He's Fine-

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seto kaiba [ygo dm]

No Really He's Fine-

Who: Jonouchi and You!
What: Jonouchi makes his appearance!
When: During the Galar trip!
Where: Stow-On-Side
Warnings: Nah

Jonouchi Katsuya had been here for about a week.

The last thing he remembered, was that chaos had all but broken out above the map-like trap of a massive temple in the middle of India, not long after a plane crash. Someone had maybe pushed someone?? Maybe he got pushed.

Well something happened, and that was the important part. Something happened, and then he was...here. He fell, passed out, and woke up with a rainbow pony licking his face.

"...nice t' meet y' too..." he had muttered at the time, not really sure what to do about it all. About five minutes after that the panic had set in, and he'd begun running around trying to find Yugi. Shizuka. Ryuzaki...

Hell Haga and his nervous as heck sister even, where was everyone?

And then it turned out he wasn't even in his own world. No one even knew about 'his' world, for that matter.

They just knew about theirs.

Suffice to say it was a rough week. No one he knew was here, no one who knew about Duel Monsters was here, and actually, the cards were pretty freaked until he poked at 'm.

Something about not even having access to more than their pocket of reality, which...alright that was bad. (And how did one of the God cards get in there!?)

The pony- er, Ponyta- stuck around at least, and that was pretty handy considering the fact that it was plenty obvious all the weird animals around were less the equivalent of duel monsters no one could see and...er. The local wildlife.

He knew he'd pulled someone out of his cards once or twice before, but he was pretty sure they wouldn't like being called out to deal with. The local pets. Especially in this mood (though Wingguard would probably come out to pet a yamper, knowing them).

So, Ponyta. And she wasn't too bad, kind of a sweety even! When it became clear she wasn't going away, he even got a cool idea. One that he'd get his ass kicked over, probably. "Heheheee...bet Seto-chan'd hate it if I showed up an' said yer name was Kaseri..~"

Unfortunately, registration didn't really hear him right.

"Ka...Kassuu...Kassureee..." Katherine.

Well, whatever. She could be Kaseri in his heart, that was plenty enough. Even if she was answering more to 'kasureene' than 'kaseri'.

But a week is a week, and he sure as hell wasn't going to stay here forever. He might not have been in tip-top shape after falling from another dimension, but he was recovered enough now and that meant taking a few stretches and belting off into the wodods with a whoop. "Heh! Alrigh'! Let's head on out an' get home already! We gotta find Yug' an' the others before that French guy does..!"

"Tyaaaaa~!" What she said.

...

Man though, he really hoped time was going slower in his own world or something like that, because it was going to suck if he wasted his spring break on this...

He's out of the woods pretty quick though at least! Out of the woods and...

"Huh. Guess th's place 's 'Stow-on-Side'..."

Hey Katsuya, get out of the middle of the road.

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"Still taller and better looking than you, yes."

Now he's just babbling nonsense.

"I don't remember any of that. There must be more differences, but you're as baffling as ever."

He shakes his head, his eye catching the dog tags and his mouth quirking up a little.

"Found yourself a new owner, then?"

To that, he just rolls his eyes. Wow, lay it on where he can't say what he was Gonna say huh? And-

"...Th...y' never met th' Tenmas..? ...The guys who took over after Pegasus died, seriously?"

Wait for that matter-

He grabs at the tags, holding them tightly as he looks to Kaiba with renewed suspicion. "...They came from you," he starts in disbelief, shaking his head. "You gave- Right that's it!"

And that's about where he starts looking more ready for a fight again. Tense. Expectant. Not going for it...

Yet.

Which is more than could be said for his own counterpart. "Weird altern't realities or no, who th' hell are you, huh? 'Cause I'm about ready to figure out who's stealin faces again!"

"Pegasus is alive," Kaiba answered immediately. "And still making negotiations a living hell every time our contract is up for renewal."

He was starting to feel unsettled. This Jonouchi...looked like the idiot he knew, and sounded like him, but there was clearly something different.

"So I finally decided to claim my mutt? Heh. Sounds right...or it would, if I cared."

Does he? Maybe? Whatever. He folds his arms and forrows his brow in thought.

"I'm exactly who I've always been. Seto Kaiba. Clearly not the one from your timeline---if I was, I'd know what the hell you're keeping from me."

"Pegasus lived." Hah. Hhhahaaaaa. "Hah! Yeah, next you'll be tellin me Mokuba's only got brothers!" He snorts, flinching briefly but only briefly. After all, well! Who here would even know who the Kaiba's were or weren't! There was no one to question the actual meaning of his slip.

So. "...Yeah somethin' like that. I figure you just couldn't figure out what t' do about Christmas when Mokuba wasn' lettin y' kick me t' the curb," he half growls, studying the other for his reactions. "I ain't keepin' shit from y'. Nothin' y' shouldn' already know, anyway..."

"...right. Mokuba's never had a sister." Kaiba deadpans, looking at Jou like he has two heads.

"Would that have anything to do with why you keep trying to call me Seto?"

Right. Okay. Nope.

Now he's mirroring the look.

"...Yeah he does." And boy, the eyebrows are going wayyyy wayyy up and-

"..." There's no way it can actually be Kaiba, part of his mind wants to say. Because if there is one thing that felt constant, it was who Kaiba was. Even in that nightmare Ra put together, they were still, even with differences, 'themself'. But this?

This is- "...You've gotta be kiddin'," he finally hisses, "That's actually yer original name then ain't it!"

There are a great number of dots here that are unconnected. Admittedly it's because force of habit keeps him from spilling All the beans when they're in the middle of the road.

"...wait..."

Kaiba frowns and starts to put the pieces together. The long stares. The emphasis on 'original name'. The strange familiarity.

"If there's an alternate universe where I wasn't adopted...there could just as easily be one where I was born a different sex."

He's not entirely sure, but he'll throw that out there just to check.

Blinking. More blinking.

...Alright fine so that explains what felt off ~~you're not hot anymore~~ but still!!

"An apparently alive d'spite that?" He blurts out, focusing on the nearest thought that isn't outright denial. It feels wrong. It just feels...wrong!

Anyway this is easier! "How th' hell did y' manage that, half the shit we ran into was only thrown off by that!"

"...so your Kaiba is a woman." Kaiba muses aloud. It was a strange thought...but she was undoubtedly competent and capable, and he already had a hint that she shared his sense of humor.

"...through my own competence and skill." ~~And the occasional intervention from the dweeb squad.~~ "But our timelines clearly diverged in multiple ways. It's not worth giving yourself a headache over it."

He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a handful of chesto berries, offering them to Jonouchi as...something of a peace offering.

"I think your pony will like these. They're grease repellent and have a sharp flavor. I've...unwillingly become a student of Pokémon nutrition."

A shrug- and no remark about headaches. Frankly he'll have enough of one getting This straight. "Yeah, not tha' most 'f th' world knows. An' I got tha' from th' bit w' Pegasus..." He remarks dryly. "Yeesh, yer timeline or whatever must've been a cakewalk w'out all that computer world shit..." Little Does He Know-

Ah. The berries though. "Mn...righ', few months here huh. Guess y' had th' time..." The ponyta slowly approaches- first pausing at Katsuya, then looking to Kaiba, and back. The blond shrugs. "Heh. Yeah, 'es safe," he says with a grin, coming over to take the berries. They're then passed toward the pokemon. "Go on, Kaseri~"

"...Noa and Gozaburo still made my life a living hell," he sighed. "And I really don't want to talk about it."

He watches the Ponyta with the faint glimmer of approval in his eye. Jonouchi will probably luck his way into a lot of wins as a trainer...Kaiba will really have to get himself in gear if he wants to stay ahead.

"When we get back to Alola you'll be assigned a guardian of sorts. I assist an elderly woman with her fruit business," he adds to explain.

"Yeah, kinda made ev'ryone's life hell, I had t' be a dang computer f'r a bit," he grumbles- the mood quickly moving back to absolute glee for the ponyta as she eats the berries. Lots of ear scratches for Kaseri~ Such a nice lil' horse~

"Mnh...That's where ev'ryone else is then huh? Jus' got lucky 'nough t' fall in another country..?" Technically, no one told Katsuya that Alola is another country as opposed to another city.

He doesn't have to be told, sometimes.

"...yeah, I don't remember that part."

He almost looks sympathetic. Almost. But he'll push that down and focus on how happy Kaseri seems to be. It's...sweet.

"That, or the holes aren't as random as they pretend they are. I'm still looking into it at the lab. But we have to work with some real characters, which slows it down considerably."

Yeah, there's so much he's not happy about here. "Any other questions?"

"...'course not..." He immediately hates his own doppleganger on entirely envy-based principle now. Immediately, entirely-

Well, he ultimately shrugs, giving Kaseri one last headscratch before focusing on the other. "Feels like anyone y' work with is some kinda 'character'," he snorts. "Ain't that normal?" Ah-

Well. "Hn. Got one I guess- 'f you an' everyone else fell in that Alola place, what're y' doin' here?"

"We're on a 'school field trip'", he clarifies, wrinkling his nose at the concept. "There's a school focused on Pokémon back on Alola. I've enrolled to keep tabs on the strange things going on, because a lot of it seems to be centered around the school and students. And it's safer to know about the Pokémon you might encounter."

By now Goliath the Sobble was calm enough to poke his head out and croak curiously at Jou. Those big, sad eyes stare up at him curiously.

"...for example, one of the things we've learned is that if you frighten a Sobble, it cries, and its tears have the chemical effect of cutting 100 onions simultaneously. It forces everyone in its immediate surroundings to break down in tears, allowing it to escape."

"Hehehee...back t' classes huh?" He smirks, but it's brief- he actually looks a bit thoughtful, even crossing his arms. "...Guess it figures though huh, not like KaibaCorp would be out here..." The big focus becomes all the pokemon stuff.

Like...this?

"Man, 's like 'f duel monsters just replaced all th' animals here huh..." he mutters, blinking at the little guy. "'M suprised none of 'm have talked!" ~~Katsuya why would you assume that things can talk,~~

"...not that I've seen," Kaiba shrugged. "But this place is bizarre enough that I won't rule it out entirely."

He sighed, then gave Jonouchi another look. There were a lot of conflicting thoughts in his mind...but he settled on something basic for now.

"From what I remember you're always hungry, so I suppose I should feed you before you pass out on this poor Ponyta again. Come on, you're getting curry."

"Heh! Weirder than home? Really?" ~~Katsuya that's just you-~~

"Mnh- I ain't always hungry..! I-"

Grrrrrmmmgghh

...Well. That's embarrassing. "Hehe...I mean, after a long walk through th' woods is another story, righ'..?" He's not always hungry shhhhh shhhh-

"...There's a curry place here..?" At least he's interested then.

"Mm. Come on, there's tables outside, so your new partner can stay out." He won't actually reach out and drag him, but he will watch closely to make sure he doesn't space again. That...was a little disturbing.

Hey now, he didn't zone out that long. That was just a proper flash! "Eh? Stay out?" Katsuya starts, "What's that s'ppos-"

And then he stops talking.

He stops doing everything, actually, and the Ponyta gives a chirping sort of nicker as she looks up.

His eyes move, but rapidly- as if asleep but with the eyelids open, back and forth, back and forth. Frozen mid-action, limp on his feet but still standing.

And he's there but also Not. For the future it has almost always been dreams and flashes, dreams and flashes, but in this place things have become more Imminent.

Or perhaps it's simply in how he Fell.

He can hear dogs barking and people yelling. He can hear a waterfall falling, but the water runs red and it boils with steam. The barking continues. It continues. It-

"Sffffff-" Katsuya chokes as he pulls himself back to reality, blinking once, twice, and then three times before he hears it.

A Bark.

"Shit," is about all he says before swinging to grab for Kaiba's arm, pulling left as a tea set along with the pouring, scalding hot dark tea comes over the balcony to their side. No time to bother covering for spacing out- that was gonna hurt!

"Rerf! Ref! Erf!"

The yampers that were about to warn them are at least amused though. One actually goes to drink the tea.

What the...what kind of bizarre trance is this? Kaiba's close enough to see the effect this time, and it's deeply unsettling. He steps forward to attempt to shake him out of it, but before he can Jou latches on to him and yanks, leaving him to stumble like an awkward giraffe.

The tea splats the ground where he was just standing, and a few droplets splatter harmlessly onto his pant leg. That was close...

He awkwardly straightens up and brushes himself off, looking at the little scamps. "...do you have a psychic link with dogs now, because that wouldn't surprise me."

Katsuya's frankly still in a partial fog. It's sort of like running a race, except instead of running you just sort of stand there and feel like you did.

That's not really the point. The point is- "...What?" Wait. "...No! Geeze, th' hell is with everyone n' comparin me t' dogs!" he snaps, letting go of the other quickly. "Thought you were ahead 'f Battle City's shit, you sayin' I didn't do anythin' in my duels there then?" Because that's ultimately the 'connection' more or less. Dueling. The items.

That sort of nonsense.

They still don't know why, but hey!

Kaiba brushes himself off once more and sighs. "I wouldn't say nothing. You finished near the top. Not at the top, but near it. But whatever caused this didn't happen to me."

He gestures at Jonouchi's head at 'this'. "So the ancient magic nonsense infected you too?"

"Yeah, fourth, thanks t' passin' out... An' I dunno abou' infected..." Yeesh. "Figures you'd put it tha' way tho," he mutters, saying little else. Kaiba doesn't need to know he got stabbed through the chest on the battle field. He just doesn't. From the tone of things, it sounds like his alt-self didn't end up bleeding near to death. Another good reason to be infinitely envious, he supposes.

But... ...He's quieter, as he explains. Because ultimately, he should explain some of it, at least. At least if he's going to be spacing out in front of the guy. "Wasn' caused by anythin, Battle City's jus' where it got hard t' hide- been seein' shit since Duelist Kingdom. Hell," he snorts, "Maybe b'fore, I dunno! Even Ishizu didn' know what it was. All I know is I'm seein stuff before it happens, I'm seein' th' other Yugi floatin around," he rambles, going a bit farther than intended. "...'S jus' weird..!"

At least he didn't slip about real damage. That...would've been bad.

"...you saw Atem? I thought only Yugi could...you really were affected."

Kaiba didn't really care about messing up the timeline with future knowledge at this point. It was messed up already. He snorted and sighed. "Well...I'd say I pity you, but you'd hate that as much as I do. Come on. Food."

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