Yu-Gi-Oh GX: To Sin Is Spirit: 4-7
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Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Title: To Sin Is Spirit: 4-7: Five More Minutes, Yubel
Romance: Juudai x Yubel
Word Count: chapter: 557||story: 2,179
Genre: Romance||Rated: PG-13
Challenge: 7_deadly_sins_: Juudai x Yubel: prompt #4: sloth
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Summary: Humanity has seven deadly sins. Yubel and Juudai touch each and every one of them.
Juudai loved a lot of things. He loved to duel. He loved to eat. He loved his friends. He loved his family. He loved Yubel. He was still not certain how he was going to explain Yubel and everything he’d learned to his parents, but he figured he’d deal with that sooner or later. He was kind of leaning towards explaining it by not explaining it at all. He wasn’t all that certain they’d understand she had only been trying to protect him when he was younger and just hadn’t done it in a way they were comfortable with.
Or that he’d been comfortable with back then.
But all that could be put off to another day. Or another week. Month. Year. What he wanted to do today was just get some sleep. He’d been through a lot, more than he had in any other year of his life at the Academy, and he wanted to rest. He wanted to stay snuggled up in his warm bed, with his warm blankets around him and his toasty warm pillows under his head.
It wasn’t all that lonely, being the only person in Osiris Red. His friends came to visit whenever they didn’t have class things to deal with, and Pharaoh had all but adopted the place as his home anyway. For all of that, he was curled up on the bed with Juudai, being a furry little footwarmer. When Juudai moved just a little, the plump cat stretched out and took up the space he’d formerly occupied. It was a reasonable arrangement. Whatever space Juudai didn’t occupy on the bed, Pharaoh had every right to.
Mm…just as well you don’t need space, Yubel, Juudai’s drowsy thoughts turned to the Duel Monster who shared his mind, his body, and his heart. He really did love her more than anything or anyone. Johan was his dearest friend, a soulmate in many ways, but there was something so extraordinary about his bond to Yubel, something that words couldn’t have expressed if they’d wanted to. If words could want anything. Juudai didn’t know.
He could almost feel her fingers in his hair. It wasn’t quite the same as it would have been if he’d called her out from her card, but it was very relaxing, and he let himself drift away so very sweetly there.
Yubel, her transparent spirit form all that could be seen, lay stretched out beside him in a way that would’ve probably interfered with Pharaoh’s own rest if she’d been solid. Juudai was always beautiful when he slept, and she liked to tease him that he should sleep more, just so she could see him looking like that more often. He liked to tell her that when it came to sleep, it was like dueling: when he did it, he did it to the best of his ability. She could never be certain how much sense that made, but that was Juudai for you. It was one of the reasons she loved him as much as she did.
So she watched over him as he slept, and slept, and slept throughout the day and into the night, and Juudai knew in the depths of his sleeping soul that she was there, and because of that, he slept with a smile.
To Be Continued