nsfw reblogs are ok!

Alt Au continuation. Just a bit of angst.

Day 4 - Disney

fake dating

The lines between fiction and reality became blurred somewhere along the way, and Seto couldn’t remember where or when or how.

It had started as a publicity stunt. KaibaCorp needed very little in the way of publicity, but when the tension between Seto and Atem became a nationally trending hashtag after the Battle City semi-qualifiers, KC’s overly enthusiastic public relations team leaped at the marketable opportunity to pit rivals as lovers. 

Nobody knew about the late-night rendezvouses on the highest floor of KaibaCorp headquarters. Nobody knew that Yami crept into Seto’s office in the early hours of the morning, when the building was empty, or occasionally disappeared from random street corners into the backseat of a private car with tinted windows, where Seto waited impatiently with bated breath. 

childhood friends to enemies to friends again to lovers.

Atem lived in the first house on the left hand side of the street that entered into the private residential area. Seto lived in the house right at the end of the lane, on the curve of the street that formed the cul de sac. Atem’s house was warm, painted a shade of orange like the little tangerines that Seto sometimes found in his lunchbox. Flowers grew in brightly-colored pots across the front yard, and a huge tree whose leaves sprawled out over the yard, casting shade down onto the soft green grass where he and Atem liked to lay and stare up at the clear skies for hours afterschool, until the sun began to disappear behind the roofs of the high, second-story houses. 

fake dating

The lines between fiction and reality became blurred somewhere along the way, and Seto couldn’t remember where or when or how.

It had started as a publicity stunt. KaibaCorp needed very little in the way of publicity, but when the tension between Seto and Atem became a nationally trending hashtag after the Battle City semi-qualifiers, KC’s overly enthusiastic public relations team leaped at the marketable opportunity to pit rivals as lovers. 

And the category is: Outdress every damn body!

Beautiful, strange, and unlike anything he’s ever seen, Atem might be exactly what Kaiba was missing in his life.

[Prideshipping, angst, slow burn, dark themes, mermaid AU]