ARC V MONTH DAY 4 - The Merriest Band of Misfits
A/N: Another late post lol srry :P
I wanted to write abt fusion squad, but i have a whole fic dedicated to em already, so i decided to write abt the fusion & sync duos! theyre another 4-person friend group i rlly love, u see :DD
Pairings: Yugo/Rin & Yuri/Serena
Warnings: None. They say a few cuss words but that’s about it, also expect some OOCness like witth the other things I wrote.
Earlier this morning, Yuri had invited her and the Synchro Duo, Yugo and Rin, over to "hang out" as he called it. He said it was about Yuya telling him to get along with other people or something…
—
It was gonna be a weird day for Serena, she could tell.
So here she was, sitting at a coffee shop in an Xyzian mall with Rin, waiting for their respective boys to arrive.
She and Rin surprisingly got along well after the war, as they were the orphans of the bracelet girls — the only two with no family before the war.
Other things were because she and Rin happened to be the most boyish of the girls and that they both grew up having to prove people their worth.
“What could be taking them so long?” Serena randomly asks, breaking her own trail of thoughts.
“Yugo, definitely… He's always late," Rin sighed.
Right when Rin answered, said Yu's finally showed up at the door and walked over to them.
“I apologize for being late, Rin and my dear Serena—”
“Don't-Don't call me that,” Serena interrupted.
But Yuri went on anyway. “—but you see, Yugo-kun here spent too long in the bathroom.”
“You said I had to look my best!” Yugo complained.
“You can style yourself outside.”
“Whatever…”
“Well,” Rin said, sighing, “at least you're both here. But, Serena and I told the waiter twice to wait for you both, you know. So try to be earlier next time.”
“Okay then, Yugo will try,” Yuri said blatantly. “Now can we get some coffee? And a croissant, perhaps?”
“No, I don't wanna stay here any longer. I've had enough of the place.” Serena got up.
Rin soon followed. “So have I. Let’s just go to an arcade or something…”
“Yes! Gaming time! I'm with ya, Rin-Rin!” Yugo cheered.
Yuri gaped. “I haven't eaten anything!”
“That’s your problem, cabbage.” Serena smiled.
“Hmph. Whatever. Just make sure there's lunch later.”
“There will be.” Rin rolled her eyes.
“And you girls will pay?”
“All of us will pay—we’ll divide the bill into four. Now let's leave!”
—
While walking to the arcade, Rin observed the whole of the mall.
With funding and support from Fusion as a form of apology, together with the efforts of many Xyzian people as well as Fusionists who were sent to help instead of being jailed, most of the mall has been restored to its former glory.
There were still some unfinished parts here and there, but overall it seemed to look the way it used to.
“Aww yeah, the arcade!” Yugo yelled, running into the said place with the two other Fusionists.
“Hey, wait up you three!” Rin ran after them.
“Woah,” Serena gasped, looking around to see lots of arcade machines, claw machines, driving simulators, and duel simulators, among others—all with many games and with their lights ablaze. There were a lot of people too, of course.
Ruri wasn't kidding when she said they'd have so much fun.
“Hah! Who knew Xyz'd be this cool,” Yuri exclaimed. “I almost regret being part of the war!”
“Oi, shut your trap, and stop being proud of what you helped cause,” Serena warned.
“I'm with her on that, Yuri,” Yugo added. “Starting a war is not something to be proud of.”
“Guys, I. Don't. Care. Now let's have fun!” Yuri ran off to the nearest duel simulator, also known as a duel terminal, probably.
The other two also bolted to their own destinations—Serena to this "Grand Piano Keys" game thing and Yugo to a claw machine with lots of cute duel monster plushies in them.
Meanwhile, Rin just got there. What's up with them just running off!?
She sighed and just walked to where Yugo was.
“Hey, Rin! I'm gonna try and get you that Melffy Pinny plush!” he blurted, inserting a coin into that thing where you put it in, which started the one-minute timer.
“Oh cool, good luck!”
With intense focus, Yugo moved the claw with the joystick.
The claw is so slow…!
Aaand there, right there above the plush!
He waited until the timer was at one second before pushing the grab button.
“Yes!” he yelled when the claw fell to the plush.
…before frowning as the claw seemingly, ‘couldn't hold onto it.’
“Aw, poor fusion-kun lost,” Yuri teased, seeing Yugo’s utter defeat.
“That's not fairrr!” Yugo shouted, catching the attention of a few Xyzians.
“Hey, look, it's alright, at least you tried!” Rin encouraged. “Keep your voice low, please. And Yuri, shut up.”
Serena walked over to them with a handful of tickets. “So I played some piano game and got a bunch of tickets… What do I do with these?”
“Yuto said you could exchange them for prices,” Rin stated, motioning to the price booth. “The more you have, the bigger a thing you could get, I'd guess.”
“Ooh, to another machine then!” Serena dashed across the place to what Rin could make out to be an Ice Ball game, with Yuri following suit.
“Yugo, you coming?”
The banana-head just stared sorrowfully onto the Pinny plush that lay in the machine. “Y-yeah… In a moment.”
“Uh, okay, then. I'll be with the Fusion duo to make sure they won't cause any trouble,” Rin told him, walking away.
“Okay…”
“I can stay if you want, you know?”
“Oh, no, it's fine,” Yugo assured. “Don't worry, I'll be okay!”
“Hm.” Rin nodded and walked on.
—
“You're doing it all wrong,” Yuri complained. “Put only a little force on it enough to launch it; don't put all your strength into the ball!”
“Hey! Wait for your turn!” Serena retorted.
“Tsk. Just saying—getting 3 to 5 thousand points is better than getting none at all or an occasional 10k then nothing. Remember, you only have—”
“Nine balls, and at the moment only one left. I know!” Serena interrupted, throw-sliding the ball into the road a little too harshly, it hit the fiberglass with a loud BANG!
‘10 thousand, 10 thousand! Please…!’ she thought.
The ball rolled off to nothing.
“AUUUGHHH!”
Yuri meanwhile laughed beside her. “See? Control your force!”
“SHUT UP!”
“And what's going on with you two?” Rin asked, approaching them.
“Serena never listens,” Yuri mocked.
“And Yuri can't keep his mouth shut,” Serena hissed. “Aha! I was distracted!” She gave Yuri a glare.
He smiled at her in return, but also looked into her eyes.
…they had a staring contest.
“That's enough now, you two,” Rin scolded. She looked around.
Eventually, a certain dancing game caught her eye. “Hey, why don't you both play that dance thing over there, instead?”
Serena usually would rather not dance, but she was losing this contest, and as such, she whipped her head toward Rin so Yuri couldn't see that she blinked. “You know what? You're right.”
She turned back to Yuri. “Yuri, wanna have a dance fight?”
Yuri smiled. “Ah, sure!”
And they left with Rin following them behind, thoughts of whether leaving Yugo was a good idea or not swirling in her mind.
“Look at me, Yuri!” Serena said, and she began the game.
Her swift and graceful movements amused him.
He knew she could dance, but still! He’s never seen her do it with so much passion.
A chuckle escaped him. This little competition is easily won by her… and he couldn’t help but smile as she danced to the beat ever so beautifully.
When the round ended, she got off the small stage and walked to him. “Did ya see that?” She then noticed how he looked at her. “Hm? What’re you grinning for?”
“Nothing. Only,” he laughed, “you’re good—I’ll admit that. And you win for now.”
Serena blushed lightly, not enough for anyone to notice. His compliment also brushed her competitive side away, just for a moment. “Thank… you…? Also, what happened to your condescending attitude?”
“It’s still there, that I assure you. But…”
He looked beyond her—to a kid’s basketball machine.
He saw that the hoop was easily within arm's reach of any teenager their age—meaning they can drop or dip the ball into the hoop with tremendous ease.
And also get a whole bunch of tickets in the process.
He grinned, turning back to Serena. “Rena-kun,” he called to her.
“What do you want?”
Yuri took a deep breath. “I'm gonna ask you a favor.”
Serena laughed at him. “That's new… What is it?”
“I'm surprised you didn't make fun of me, other than that laugh, but why don't we… Cheat the kid's basketball machine?” he asked.
“Hmm… What do I get from it?”
“Let's see… You can have 40% of the tickets.”
“50 and I'll do it.”
Yuri sighed, but he just caved. “Ah, you know what, fine. C'mon.”
From the other side where Rin was playing this remake of Flappy Bird, she stopped playing—which of course made her lose—as their words caught her ears.
She saw them by the kid's basketball machine.
Of course…
When the two got there, a kid was still busy playing.
The poor thing looked back at them, and when he saw Yuri, he froze.
Yuri smirked. “Boo.”
The poor kid squeaked before slowly walking off.
“Oh Ra, you didn't need to do that,” Serena chastised. “Buuut at least we got it to ourselves now, so let's take advantage of that and the kid's tickets.”
For the next few minutes, the two watched amused as the scoreboard's numbers did nothing else but rise almost every second as they both dipped the balls just enough for the sensors to notice.
When they finished, they went for another round, and their number of tickets also kept on increasing.
Rin sighed as she watched them, but her mood brightened when she saw Yugo jogging over to them, the Melffy Pinny plush from earlier clutched in his two hands. “Hey, Rin-Rin!”
“Oh, hi, Yugo!” She laughed as he handed her the plush. “Aww, you didn't have too…”
“But I DID have to!” Yugo insisted, bright blue eyes shining with satisfaction of being able to give Rin the plush.
“Well, thanks, at least.” She gave him an embrace and he gladly returned it.
“Ah, fusion finally got the Melffy, eh?” Yuri said, amused, as Serena continued to dip the ball in the hoop.
Yugo let Rin go and said, “Yeah, so? At least I care for my girl!”
“Serena doesn't deserve me, though,” Yuri said dramatically, making him get kicked by Serena in the shins in the process.
“Can't you be not annoying for once? And you’re the one who doesn’t deserve me.”
“I'm always gonna be annoying—and you all have to put up with it…” Yuri uttered as he clutched his leg. “And you did NOT have to hit me that hard…! What if you broke my leg!?”
He went on whining on the floor, which caught a bunch of people's attention. “It hurts!”
“Oh Ra…” Serena shook her head.
And, together with the synchro duo, they yelled, “Get up!”
“Gee, fine. I'm serious, though—it really, really hurts. Can one of you guys get ice or something cold that won't melt for me, please?” he begged, leaning to a wall.
“I'll fuckin’ do it.” Serena rolled her eyes. “I'll be right back.”
While Yuri sat on a bench to wait for Serena to come back, Yugo and Rin allowed themselves to enjoy the whole arcade without the Fusion Duo having an argument behind their backs.
Both of ‘em went on to play some 2-player shooting games where they shot some mechanical aliens to save some ship before going to play the classic Whac-A-Mole game.
“Yugo, stay focused!” Rin yelled. “You can do it!”
“I'm trying, Rin, but these moles are just. So fast!” Yugo shivered as he tried to pour all his focus into this one game, but he still somehow kept missing.
He didn't hit much, but they got tickets nonetheless, so he took those.
“Can I try?” Rin asks.
“Oh, sure.”
“Thanks!” Rin took the little foam mallet and started the game.
Whack!
Oh wow, this was rather easy.
Whack! Whack!
How could Yugo be bad at this!?
Whack! Whack! Whack!
“Woah, Rin, you're a natural!” Yugo complimented. “I'll help! I'll whack those you can't with my hands!"
“Wait, Yugo, I'm fine—”
And with her focus a bit deterred, she and Yugo went for this one common target, making her hit Yugo's hand a bit too hard.
“YyyyOUCH!” he exclaimed. The pain hurt so much, it got him kneeling to the floor groaning in pain, much like what Yuri did earlier, but a bit louder and without the laying down part.
She gasped at that. “Oh, you idiot! I told you to—! Sigh, you know what, just go sit with Yuri; I'll tell Serena to get more ice…”
After a good while, Serena finally arrived with two glass bottles of cold ketchup.
“What—why'd you get that!?” Rin yelled at Serena in disbelief.
“It was the only thing I could think of!”
“You could've just, I dunno, gotten some ice bags?! And ice??”
“Actually, I thought not to do that. Plus, we can at least use the ketchup for later, bring it home or something, you know? Maybe we could give one of ‘em to the boys.”
Rin doesn't know how many times she sighed now, but she sighed anyway.
After they gave the bottle to the boys—and Serena getting another scolding from Yuri for getting ketchup—they all decided to make Yugo and Rin race through a driving simulator.
“Rin, you can do this!” Serena cheered. “Good luck, and win! YuriandIhadabetandmywalletsdependingonyousoyeahpleasewin,” she went on with the last part quickly.
“What?”
“Break a leg—but not literally.” Serena smiled.
“Oh, alright. Thanks!”
And with le boys…
“Yugo, please win. Serena and I had a bet, and if you lose, I'm not just losing money, I'm also gonna have to dye my hair brown for a week! Can you believe that?”
The banana-head raised a brow. “How's that my problem? I'd honestly love to see how you'd look with brown hair. Also, you agreed to it, not me.”
But anyway, the Synchro Duo chose their D-wheels and started.
3… Rin gripped her handle tighter.
2… Yugo smiled, getting ready.
1… They both held breaths, then,
GO!! The words appeared on the screen.
And instantly, Rin and Yugo revved their motorcycle sims and felt it "move" forward.
The screen then showed them and several NPCs racing through.
“Wooo! Go, Rin!”
“Fusion! You better do this, because I'm cheering for you for once, can you believe that!? So don't you dare waste it!”
Vrooooooooooom!
The sounds came from the speakers with the machine, and the screen showed several terrain — cliff sides, cities, a bridge and even a concrete loop-the-loop.
“Woah!” Rin exclaimed, as she almost fell off.
“Haha! Now we see who's the better driver!” Yugo teased, laughing.
“Oh, you'll see who's better!” Rin 'violently pushed him off' the loop.
“Eek!” He landed rather safely, but it was still a bit uh, traumatizing.
“Yugo, you're gonna make my hair brown!” Yuri warned, clutching his (not Yugo's) head.
“I know! Calm down, I can still beat her.”
“You better!”
Serena laughed at them. “Please, Rin’s clearly winning.”
“Yeah, Yugo, how do you plan to beat me!?” Rin teased, a glint of slyness in her orange eyes.
Yugo's eyes trailed to their front.
Rin already used hers earlier, but he didn't yet—that “Turbo Speed Acceleration” kind of thing.
Rin's was still refilling, but his was full.
Meanwhile, they both neared the finish line.
“Like in a duel, Rin, my luck never fails me.”
Rin dropped her grin at that.
And Yugo took the pleasure of grinning this time. “I activate my ‘Action Magic’, Acceleration!” He triumphantly pressed the button.
“Nooo!” Rin and Serena shouted.
“Yes!” The boys cheered.
And in an instant, Yugo sped up right by Rin and reached the finish first.
“OHHH YEAHHH, WOOOO!” Yugo shouted, dismounting the runner. “I BEAT RIN FOR ONCE!”
He and Yuri fist-bumped and hi-fived each other with both hands and did the back-hit thing in those 'secret handshake' things.
“NO BROWN HAIIRRR!” Yuri yelled, making people turn to him.
“I BEAT RINNN!” Yugo exclaimed. He was so happy, he could feel the excitement running through his veins, and he ran to Rin who just got off, and they both almost stumbled to the ground.
“Woah, hey,” Rin warned. “We almost fell.”
“I'm sorry, it's just… You always beat me and—”
“Yes, yes, I'm happy for you too.” She chuckled. “You beat me—that surprised us both, and them, too, probably.”
“Yeah, a new achievement, hehe,” Yugo giggled with a :P face.
Rin smiled proudly and kissed him on the cheek. “So cute.”
He metaphorically melted into a puddle at that. “Hehe, hehe,” he kept saying, “Hehe…”
“Now it's my turn to say, ‘That's enough you two,’” Serena said, handing Yuri a few yen.
“No brown hair,” Yuri stated casually.
“Stop, I get it already—and it's getting weirder by the minute,” Serena growled.
“Well, what’re we doing next?” Rin asked.
“That kid right there! We weren't sure what he was doing at first, but we just figured out he was hacking into the claw machine!” an officer yelled in their direction.
“Hm?” Yuri turned to the guard and saw he was pointing to Yugo. “Aw, fusion got caught.”
Yugo instantly stood up. “Let's get outta here!” he squealed.
“We should,” Serena agreed, running off.
“Guys, agai—?” Rin was broken off by the boys going off, with Yugo dragging her arm away. “Yuuugo! What did you do!?”
“Sorry! I had to get the plushie, but the machine wasn't being fair!”
“Pretty smart, though!” Serena complimented, running backwards. “If I knew how to hack, I would've done the same thing.”
“But you don't,” Yuri once again teased.
She jumped on him and they wrestled. “I've wanted to do this since earlier!” Making Yuri go “OOF—!” with surprise.
“Oh, you think it's only you?” He fought back.
“Guys!” Rin grumbled. “Right now!?”
She and Yugo had to drag their own counterparts away from each other and out of the place until they both calmed down.
The rest of the day went by with lots of fun.
There was lunch at an Xyzian Burgery Shun recommended, then a walk in the park which included its own set of activities, laser tag, pizza, and a few other things.
Yeah… It was really nice.
The day ended when the two groups parted when they all went back to Pendulum, saying their good-byes to each other and leaving. To go to their own new respective homes.
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