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FANFIC: YUGIOH GX RAREPAIR WEEK DAY 7

PROMPT: Free Day

TITLE: Volatile Elements, Chapter 1: “Exothermic Reaction.”

SHIP: Tigershipping (Taniya x Misawa; one-sided in this chapter and mutual later on.)

RATING: G-PG for this chapter WORD COUNT: 2155

SUMMARY: Story: Fifteen-year-old Taniya, the youngest of the Seven Stars, is planted at Duel Academia as a student by Kagemaru. But with a relationship that’s perhaps not quite what she anticipated, a struggle with increasingly divided loyalties, and a cryptic prophecy, her hands are going to be full this year.

Chapter: Asuka thinks that watching the entrance exams is just going to be depressing, only to get unexpected company. Meanwhile, Taniya sees the guy of her dreams.

NOTES: This, like all of my submissions for this event, is a queued post since I will be on vacation during the actual Rarepair Week; I plan to post on Ao3 when I return home at the end of the month. This is a canon-divergence AU, and it’s a pretty ambitious idea by my standards. I’m not even sure I’ll be able to finish it, but I thought I’d at least post the first chapter.

Bonus art of Taniya as she appears in this chapter: https://dancingkirby.tumblr.com/post/686636132281253888/close-up-of-my-drawing-of-taniya-from-my-new

If Tenjoin Asuka were to be completely honest with herself, she would admit that she wasn’t having fun watching the entrance exams. Many second and third-year students, as well as first-year Obelisks who had gotten into Duel Academia via the prep school route or family connections, were in attendance. It was kind of a tradition…this way, they could get re-acquainted with each other after the summer break and check out the incoming talent among those who had taken the exams. This year, there was an added enticement: rumors of one young man who had scored an almost unheard-of 995 out of 1000 on the written exam. Only one person in the history of the school had ever gotten a higher score than this, and he was the guy currently standing to her right: Marufuji Ryo.

However, she simply couldn’t feel the anticipation like she knew she ought to. All she could think was that Fubuki should have been standing here on the walkway with them. He would have loved it had he been here, she was certain; cheering all applicants on regardless of rank. But he wasn’t here, and things were awkward in his absence. Ryo obviously felt it too: he hadn’t said a single word all morning, which was unusual even for him. Therefore, all she had to listen to was the commentary from Manjoume Jun and his friends, who were sitting directly below her and Ryo.

Manjoume was somewhat odd, she thought: rude to virtually everyone except Asuka herself, for reasons known only to him. He put on displays of bravado that were convincing enough to newcomers, although Asuka had known him long enough to suspect that these were intended to hide deeper insecurities. Currently, he was not in the least bit impressed with the crop of applicants they had seen thus far, and vocally made his displeasure known. He had placed all of them so far in one of two categories: “boring” or “terrible.” She had heard Manjoume telling one of his lackeys that he actually preferred the terrible ones, since at least their mistakes were entertaining to watch.

“When are we going to see Number One?” he griped. “That’s why we’re all here. Are they really going to save him for last?”

Asuka briefly considered how satisfying it would be to yell at Manjoume to shut up, but decided against it. She had a reputation to uphold, and was also feeling too gloomy to want to take any action. Instead, she leaned forward on the railing, staring into space and hoping beyond anything that this would be over soon…

“Excuse me. Is this spot taken?”

It was a female voice, rather low-pitched and with a hint of a foreign accent. Asuka looked up sharply to realize that another girl in an Obelisk uniform had approached her from her left, and she had been too despondent to notice. She thought that she remembered seeing this girl at the Obelisk Dorm orientation a couple days ago, although they hadn’t spoken to each other. And really, her appearance made it so that she was not easily forgotten. The primary distinction was her height and build. The girl was significantly taller than Asuka, who wasn’t exactly short herself. In fact, this newcomer was very nearly as tall as Ryo, and Asuka suspected that it was mostly his hair that put him over the edge. She was also a little gangling; evidently, she had done a lot of growing in a short time, and the rest of her proportions hadn’t quite caught up yet. Nevertheless, the girl had some impressive arm muscles, which were shown off well by the sleeveless uniform jacket.

“No. No, it’s not taken,” Asuka replied. In fact, she was glad that this girl had made her appearance when she did. Perhaps she could serve as a distraction. “My name is Tenjoin Asuka, and this is Marufuji Ryo.”

The new girl smiled brightly. “Borjigin Taniya. Great to meet you!” Her grin was so infectious that Asuka, as dour as her mood was, couldn’t help but to smile back.

“So…Borjigin-san…” she began, carefully attempting to pronounce the surname properly. However, the girl waved it off.

“Please, call me Taniya. Use whatever suffix you want, or none at all if you prefer. I’m not picky.”

“All right. Taniya, then,” Asuka amended. “You can call me by my given name as well. Did you go to prep school? I don’t recall ever seeing you there.” The Obelisks all usually knew each other, especially the girls, since they were only admitted via the prep school and were not permitted to take the entrance exams. (This fact had always rankled her, honestly.) She wasn’t certain how Taniya could have gotten into the school otherwise.

Taniya shook her head. “No. I grew up in Mongolia and only moved to Japan two years ago. But I happen to know one of the teachers at the school, and he made arrangements for me to get a place there.”

“I see.” Well, that was a bit unusual, and Asuka was pretty sure that this wasn’t the entire story. However, this was Duel Academia, and Fubuki had told her that very few things were normal or usual there.

Obviously, this meant that Taniya would fit right in. Everything about her, from her two long braids of red hair that had obviously been carefully styled by someone close to her, to her forest-green eyes, to her large, pointed ears and golden-brown skin, had a bit of an otherworldly look to it. There was something almost magnetic about Taniya’s charisma, too, and Asuka found it difficult to tear her eyes away despite knowing that she was staring. However, the taller girl was observing her and Ryo nearly as intently. Then, in a heartbeat, she switched back to her previous bubbly self.

“Asuka-san. Have you seen any cute guys here yet that I should know about?” Taniya turned to her, winked, and giggled. Asuka felt her face warm a bit, and now even Ryo was gazing at Taniya curiously.

“No. Sorry,” she replied. Yes, this Taniya was strange, and appeared to interpret the norms of polite conversation somewhat loosely. But she could get away with it since she was so darn likable.

“Hm. That’s too bad. I guess I’ll have to keep my eye out, then,” the taller girl said. As they all turned their attention back to the testing arenas, a field was freed up and an announcement went out for the next applicant.

“Number 119, Marufuji Sho, please report to Arena 3. Number 119 to Arena 3. Thank you.”

“Your brother’s up, Ryo,” Asuka commented. She herself didn’t know Sho all that well; they’d grown up in the same neighborhood, had a couple of playdates when they were small, but had ended up going to different schools. She’d only really gotten acquainted with the Marufuji brothers after Fubuki’s disappearance, and even then Sho had seemed almost intimidated by her.

“So I heard,” Ryo confirmed. Asuka thought he’d have been a bit more invested in his brother’s success. Oh well. She herself kept an eye on Sho’s duel off and on; although he’d gotten off to a slow start, he began holding his own after a couple of turns. Then, they all heard the announcement they’d been waiting for.

“Number 1, Misawa Daichi, please report to Arena 4.”

“Finally,” she heard Manjoume say. He’d been right after all: Number 1 had been the last to get summoned to the arena. Everyone craned their necks towards Arena 4 to get a better look. Then, after a few minutes, they saw the platform on the floor below rise up to take its place on the arena floor.

Misawa Daichi proved to be a boy of about average height, with a sturdy build. His middle school uniform was either white or light gray; it was difficult to tell for sure from this height. Neither could Asuka get a great look at his face, though he appeared to be pretty regular-looking from what she could see.

Right then, she heard a very peculiar noise: a kind of elongated half-gasp, half-shriek that she thought sounded a bit like an amorous vacuum cleaner. She looked over to her left, to see that Taniya had made the noise. The redhead had fallen to her knees, and was staring at Number 1 so intently that a good portion of her face extended out from between the bars on the railing.

She turned back briefly to gaze at Asuka, eyes huge and sparkling.

“I found my cute guy!” she exclaimed.

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Unbeknownst to Asuka, both Taniya’s vision and hearing were enhanced by her Duel Spirit energy. She saw the fine details that others could not.

This boy…this boy! Those slate-gray eyes, and that square jawline, and his regal bearing…oh! She thought that he went beyond cute…that in fact he may have been the most handsome guy she had ever seen in her entire fifteen years and six months of existence.

But it wasn’t his looks that drew her in the most. Rather, it was the fact that he appeared to have no fear or test-taking nerves at all. He had come here to win, not merely to try. Truly, calling him a boy did not do him justice; no, he looked like a full-fledged man.

She had never before met a male who made her feel this way. The crush she’d had on Darkness’s host for a couple of months last year, which had seemed all-consuming to her at a time, now felt flimsy and juvenile compared to this.

“I love him!” she said out loud as she removed her face from the railing and rose back to her feet. Tenjoin Asuka and Marufuji Ryo both looked at her askance. Oops…had she used too strong of a word?

“I like him,” she amended, although that word seemed woefully inadequate to express her sudden burning passion. “Do either of you know anything else about him?”

“His name is Misawa Daichi,” Ryo informed her, in a deep voice that was almost monotone. “He got the second-highest score in Duel Academia’s history on the written exam. A prodigy in math and science, so I heard; good enough to possibly go straight to university, but he chose to come here instead.”

Well, Taniya was beyond happy that he had. Over in Arena 3, Ryo’s brother had managed to pull off a narrow win, although she scarcely noticed. Not when she had this hunk to drool over. Misawa had scored a good hit early on with his Vorse Raider, although the proctor now appeared to be setting up that most annoying of strategies: stalling.

“Aw, come on!” she protested when the proctor summoned Big Shield Gardna. “That’s against the rules!”

Ryo looked down his nose at her. “No, it’s not.”

“Well, it should be!” Taniya insisted.

“Keep it down, will you?” yelled the boy with the nasally voice who was sitting below them. “Some of us are trying to watch here!” Taniya obeyed, but only so she wouldn’t have to listen to him again. His voice hurt her ears.

Meanwhile, the proctor had also summoned Gear Golem the Moving Fortress, and paid 800 life points to do the same amount of direct damage to Misawa. He obviously thought he had this in the bag, but he had forgotten about Misawa’s facedown card. Which was Ring of Destruction. It was glorious, and it won him the duel. Taniya did a little happy dance.

The mystery nasally voice guy, whom Taniya couldn’t see from this angle, was still not impressed, remarking, “We should’ve just stayed at the campus.” However, she barely registered his words, as she was too busy trying to get Misawa’s attention.

“Hey! Up here!” she shouted. Unfortunately, Misawa either didn’t hear her or was ignoring her. He calmly left the arena and sat down in the area reserved for the students who had completed their practical exams.

“Nooooo! Wait! Come back! I wanted to talk to you!” She leaned so far over the railing that she might have fallen over it if Asuka hadn’t reached out to pull her back in the nick of time. Thus thwarted in her attempts, Taniya slumped down to the floor and sulked a bit. However, she wasn’t about to give up that easily. They were going to a school on an island, after all. It was only a matter of time before she’d be able to finally meet the object of her affections. He wouldn’t know what hit him! Yes, she knew she had her duties and all, but who said she couldn’t have a little fun on the side while waiting for that? It wasn’t like anything was going to happen soon. They didn’t even have their seventh Star yet.

She was so absorbed in her planning that she barely registered all the fuss about the boy who had come in late.

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