365 Days of Starshipping (Part 2)

Procrastination

9/14/19

The tournament was held at the Kaiba Dome once again, considering the scale of the event. It was the biggest tournament of the year quality-wise, mainly because the winner would get to duel against Yusei for the championship title, so no other venue would work for it.

Which, of course, meant that Yusei got to plan a speech for the opening ceremony.

This is probably the only time they ever tell me that I have to give one ahead of time, Yusei mused halfheartedly to himself, staring at the laptop across from him blankly while he sipped at a cup of coffee on the bed, all the other times they tell me ten minutes beforehand.

He really hated writing speeches, and he only slightly-less hated giving them - sure, he was fine with small groups of people that he knew (at that point it was more a lecture than anything else, to be honest), but huge stadium crowds whilst being filmed? He was firmly on Judai's side with this one, fully agreeing that it was borderline nightmare material.

Even the fact that he was apparently charismatic and very good at giving them on the spot did little make him feel any better about it. He didn't see it, but he'd just have to take others' word for it.

The door opening downstairs easily caught his attention and he welcomed the distraction with open arms, deciding right then and there that he was going to procrastinate on this until he couldn't anymore. He stood up carefully, shaking his legs out a little before wandering out to the top of the stairs to wave at Judai, who was sporting a bag of...

Well. He wasn't really sure what they were to be honest, considering he wasn't wearing his glasses, but the bag was filled to the brim with it.

"Welcome home," Yusei greeted, leaning on the railing and watching with a fond smile as Judai dropped the bag on the coffee table with an exaggerated huff before turning to look up at him with a beaming grin, "What'cha got there?"

"A lot of snacks," Judai replied, pulling one of the bags out - now that Yusei could see it clearly, yeah, they were definitely snack bags. Blurry snack bags to him, sure, but he could vaguely make out the tell-tale pictures of one. "There was this really cool specialty store near where Edo's work is, so I stopped in and bought a bunch so we could bring it to the tournament."

"I don't think we're actually allowed to bring outside food there..." Yusei mentioned, raising an eyebrow but happy nonetheless, "Ah well, guess we'll just have to sneak it in."

"I can do that, easy," Judai stated, patting the top of the bag with a serious nod, "We will get our fill of weird flavored chips and chocolate candy if it's the last thing I do."

Yusei snorted at that, waving at him to come upstairs, "Well, bring it up with you. None of it needs to be refrigerated, right?"

"'Course not, and the chocolate stuff is the kind where it's filling in the middle," Judai replied, grabbing the bag and hopping up the stairs two at a time.

"Good, then we can shove it in the closet to hide it. Otherwise it's going to get stolen by Crow and Jack," Yusei explained, laughing quietly when Judai got to him and gave him a kiss.

"Hello to you too, by the way," Judai said, laughing softly as well as he led the way into their room and started looking through the closet for a suitable place to hide the snacks, "So, what've you been up to while I was gone?"

"Trying to come up with speech for the opening ceremony," Yusei huffed, putting his coffee down before falling down on the bed, being careful not to hit his laptop as he did so.

A few seconds later, after hearing the closet door close, he heard Judai let out a chuckle - clearly he must've seen his laptop as he stated, "Pfft, I see. It's blank, though."

"Yup."

"How long have you been staring at that screen?"

"An hour or so."

Yusei jolted at the feeling of fingers pressing into his side, letting out a startled laugh and quickly grabbing Judai's hands to prevent him from doing anymore. He gave him a little glare, but it was only moments later that it fell into a silly grin as they both started laughing.

"Maybe if you didn't forget to wear your glasses like you're supposed to do when you use your laptop, you'd have thought of something," Judai teased, making Yusei realize that no, he wasn't wearing his glasses.

He'd thought it before, but he hadn't really, y'know, thought about what that meant. Oops.

"Speaking of which," Yusei remembered, thinking of the last tournament, "Remind me to bring my glasses with me to the tournament this time. I really don't want to deal with dry eyes again, I learned my lesson from last time."

Judai hummed in agreement, carefully making his way onto the bed next to him and dragging him into a hug while burying his head in his neck, "M'kay, I will. Nap time now, though, you can stare at that screen of yours later."

Yusei had zero objections to that idea, and he managed to safely close and put the laptop on the side table before curling around Judai with a relaxed sigh; procrastination was great when it meant he got to do this instead.