365 Days of Starshipping (Part 2)

Off to Play More

11/25/19

It turned out that playing in the snow was a hit amongst everyone's duel spirits, which was something Judai only found out when he was basically mobbed by them begging to materialize and go play outside again. There were even a few that hadn't participated in the snowball fight and had come because they heard how fun it was, and even Judai wouldn't be able to deny them. Thus, he made sure both Crow and Jack would be cool with him borrowing their respective monsters' cards for the day so he didn't have to worry about them following him all the way to the park, then went straight to work preparing some lunch to bring with him since it was doubtful he'd be leaving until it was dinnertime.

The entire group followed him into the kitchen with a now-mellowed out blanket of various calls thanks to learning they'd get to play, most opting to float around and watch him do his thing while the rest found their own things to occupy themselves with - Crow's Blackwings found Pharaoh and were having fun bugging him, Jack's Resonators kept jabbing each other with their respective weapons whenever they thought Judai wasn't looking, and Junk Synchron and Winged Kuriboh were running around in endless circles around the perimeter of the room.

Honestly, as long as they were distracting themselves away from him for the most part Judai was fine with it. It was just that Yusei hadn't actually come down yet though since he'd decided on taking a nice, hot shower to start off the day with, so he had to handle all of their usual duel spirit rowdiness on his own. They weren't doing too bad on their own though, like he said, and making lunch was soon turned into a spectator-sport.

"Yusei!" Judai heard Junk Synchron cheer from across the room, looking up to try and find the newest addition to the party. He spotted him quickly in the kitchen entryway, looking out over the sea of various duel spirits with an amused smile.

"I let you go off for twenty minutes, and I come down only to find this," Yusei teased, getting laughs out of everyone present and taking the drink cup full of coffee that Judai proceeded to give him as thanks in advance for putting up with all the various duel monsters and spirits that morning, "I dunno, will we suddenly be getting an influx of visits per day or will there be more?"

"I'd be more surprised if they didn't come back more often, we seem to have gotten them addicted to playing in the snow somehow," Judai laughed, happily making his way over and packing up their lunches (he'd figured that Yusei would be going with him, so he'd made two, of course). He pecked him on the lips as he passed by, much to the amusement of their duel spirits who watched from the side and cheered quietly when he did so.

"Is that why everyone's out here?" Yusei questioned, turning to face all their duel spirits with a smile, "For the snow?" Upon getting nods of confirmation from everyone around him, he sighed playfully and wrapped his arm around Judai's neck, pulling him into a warm hug that he had to take a moment to simply enjoy the heat of, "No wonder you were packing food, you couldn't have gotten away from them if you tried."

"You wouldn't have gotten away from them either," Judai retorted, grinning up at him and humming as he double-checked all their belongings before heading out - it felt a little like he was leading a field-trip of sorts, only with duel spirits as the kids and himself and Yusei as the de-facto leaders of the group, "I mean, just look at those two over there - bird puppy eyes. Did you know birds could make puppy eyes? Because I didn't know birds could make puppy eyes."

"They're Crow's duel spirit partners, I think I'd be more surprised if they couldn't," Yusei admitted, pulling another laugh from him and leaning down to kiss him for a few seconds, coaxing a little satisfied hum out of him before pulling back and looking satisfied himself, "Anyway, shall we? I'm guessing we're going to the park, to the usual place."

"Yup!" Judai replied cheerily, turning to face their merry band of duel monsters with a wide smile, "Okay, everyone follow me! Let's go play in the snow!"