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Oh, God, He’s Flirting with His Fanclub in the Courtyard by justapal
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
13 Jun 2026
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Just yesterday he’d been trying to fend them off and having trouble even accomplishing that. Jounouchi didn’t get it. He didn’t get Bakura doing all that smiling, or the leaning toward the crowd, or him actually holding what looked like a bento one of the other girls had been holding last time Jounouchi had looked.
And then one girl said something, and Bakura said something back that made them laugh, very much unlike Bakura’s usual nerves or disinterest, like he was—
“Flirting,” Yuugi said with some disbelief.
Oh, thank god. “I thought I was hallucinating,” Jou said.
Or, Jounouchi Katsuya uncovers that this Bakura Ryou in front of him isn’t his Bakura Ryou.
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Technically, is it Gambling When He Can Sense Rare Cards? by justapal
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
12 Jun 2026
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Bickering, of course, would get Malik nowhere. Katsuya would do as many little hand rubs and pleading mumblings to the cards as he saw fit. “Come on, come on,” he muttered to the open booster box on top of the glass display counter. “Luck be a lady tonight.”
It wasn’t a luck one could force to take sides at this point. Malik knew that. And yet, when Katsuya’s gaze flickered back at him—
—Malik hoped the cards would be kind for once.
“Or a man,” Katsuya tacked on.
Malik furrowed his brows. “That’s not how the saying goes.”
Or, Malik Ishtar accompanies his boyfriend Jounouchi Katsuya to Kame Game and finds himself confronted with thoughts about booster box mapping and the ways people make bids for attention.
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there’s a figure in your lover’s past— by justapal
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), 幽☆遊☆白書 | YuYu Hakusho: Ghost Files (Anime & Manga)
21 May 2026
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there’s a figure in your lover’s past—
and he happens, too, to be a King of
Thieves. the coincidence will go un-
mentioned for a time, buried under all
the ways you and Ryou have found
solace in each other. it isn’t until you un-
cover the little figure of him, stood up on
Ryou’s gaming shelves, that you
realize—amid Ryou’s fearful flash of spirit
energy—just how keen Ryou is on
escape.Or, Kurama notices perhaps too much that Ryou has a penchant for thieves.
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tortured angel (do no wrong) by justapal for labyrinthiense (squidhouse)
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
02 May 2026
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there’s this imagery in our head that
the host is some tortured angel. do no
wrong, chronically wronged, but not
in the way of lacking agency in this.Or, the souls making up the body of “Bakura” have thoughts to get through and no privacy to do it.
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You Have to Admit, You’re Kind of Like a Grandson Too by justapal
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
15 Mar 2026
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“Yuugi,” Ryou whispered haltedly. “Your grandpa—”
“My grandpa?” Yuugi asked at a normal volume.
“Your grandpa, yes,” Ryou whispered. Like he wanted Yuugi to whisper too. “Does he really want me to call him Gramps?”
Bakura Ryou has a question for Mutou Yuugi about something that happened a few minutes earlier at Game Night.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Anti-Drug PSA Parodies by justapal
Fandom Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
12 Sep 2025
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Pal’s Anti-Drug PSA Parodies.
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Bakura came to, half buried in hot sand and gasping for breath.
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It's been months now, since Yuugi realised that his dependence on Ryou’s support had turned into a crush of epic proportions. He hasn’t said anything. He refuses to put their friendship at risk like that, but he’s found himself becoming braver regardless.
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Ryo Bakura impulsively adopts a neurotic doomed mouse from the pet shop. (Not a fluff story.)
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In which Joey, Téa, Tristan, and Yugi go out for lunch and absolutely no one is subtle about what's going on in their lives.
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- Part 2 of Super Yu-Gi-Oh! Rarepair Week
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He fans the cards across his hands, and Anzu sees they aren’t Duel Monsters cards, but much larger, with very different designs. Divination cards, she realizes. “Yugi and Jonouchi carry their decks everywhere. I don’t like to anymore, but I like to have something fill the gap. It’s not good practice, they’ll pick up negative energies, but,” he shrugs. “Perhaps that’s the only kind I have left.”
Anzu is newly single, Bakura is newly drunk, and he offers to read Tarot cards for her. Sometimes it's hard to know what your future holds, and worse to face yourself.