Lisa's book of One shots

In Which Li Shows Seto What's Up

"This is a horrible idea."

"Worst idea yet, dude."

Li huffed and pouted, crossing his arms. "I think it's a great idea! It'll be fun!" His face brightened with a laugh.

"Won't be fun when he catches you." Joey smirked, leaning his cheek against his hand, which was propped by an elbow on his knee. "And he will. I know."

"I can run faster than that grumpy-britched smart ass!" Li boasted, getting to his feet and putting his fists on his hips. "Just you watch!" With that, he marched off towards the two they'd been watching.

"He's gonna get his butt kicked." Joey mused with a chuckle, stretching and leaning back in the chair.

"We should go stop him, right?" Yugi glanced at the blond, then back at where Li was going.

"We should." Joey nodded. "But we won't."

"Oh come onnnnn Seto!" The short black haired girl whined, bouncing on her feet. "Now you're just being meaaan!"

He scoffed, smiling in obvious enjoyment of the pouting girl tugging at his sleeve. "No, you're just being ridiculous."

"Setoooo!" She whined, tugging at his coat harder in an attempt to pull him down to her level. How dare he deny her affections!

Despite his enjoyment of her fussing, the tall man noticed Li sauntering his way towards them, whistling as though he had no cares in the world. Which he probably didn't, based on what Seto knew... which admittedly wasn't much.

Blue eyes narrowed in suspicion. As much as he got along with Caroline, Seto didn't like Li much. Kid just... screamed shifty to the CEO.

So he wasn't too surprised when Li suddenly swiped Caroline off her feet- that got a good loud squeal out of her that left his ears ringing- and hefted her onto his shoulder. "STOLEN!" Li cackled, turning and racing the way he'd come from.

"SETO!" Caroline shouted, grabbing at Li's head trying not to fall off the only slightly taller boy's shoulder. "Li, I SWEAR!"

Seto sighed as the cackling boy took off with the screaming girl and wondered if he should follow after. On one hand, Caroline would definitely be angry with him later, but on the other hand, Li wasn't going to hurt her. Annoy her, more than anything, but still.....

Joey snickered from his spot as Li galloped past the bush with Caroline perched on his shoulder, still wailing for the CEO to come get her.

"Guess he did it?" Yugi got to his knees and looked back to see Seto making his way after the two, not really in a hurry and looking mildly annoyed.

"Oh shit, it dat boi!" Joey called to the brown haired boy as he stalked past the duo. "You better run or yer never gettin' her back!"

Despite the scoff he gave in response, Seto picked up speed, strutting after the quickly disappearing boy.

"Liiii! Put me DOWN!" Caroline begged yet again, trying to squirm herself free of him. "LIII!"

"Noooo, I gotta!" He whined jokingly back as he walked towards where Tea and Tristan were talking with Duke and Serenity. "How else am I supposed to prove.." He stopped speaking and crouched slightly, grinning mischievously. Caroline turned around, opening her mouth to warn the others.

"THAT I AM THE STRONGEST MAN ALIVE!?!" Li cackled as he scooped both Tea and Serenity up, Tea on his other shoulder and Serenity scrambling for purchase between the two girls on the Gruin boy's shoulders.

"Dude!" Tristan and Duke only gaped in confusion as Li took off with all three girls on his shoulders, laughing like the mad man he was.

Caroline squeaked and tried to help the other girls find their balance, Tea immediately berating Li for surprising them as she and Serenity clung to each other in an attempt to not fall.

Meanwhile, Seto had actually seen Li add the two girls to his apparently growing group and wasn't sure if laughing was appropriate in reaction to whatever this madness he was following was. Instead he scoffed, a small smile gracing his features. He was, however, fully aware that Yugi, with Joey in tow, was following him- or more appropriately, behind him to follow Li.

No one was quite sure how, even those being carried or had witnessed the kidnappings(?), but Li had wound up with four girls and two boys (Caroline, Tea, Serenity, Mokuba, Ryou, and Mai) on his shoulders before Seto and the rest of the group caught up.

At some point, Caroline had stopped fighting Li and had turned it into some kind of game to see how many others would fit up with them before Li couldn't walk from their combined weight which is probably how Ryou and Mai wound up being held by the first three girls. Or, at least, that was the best theory anyone could come up with so far.

Legs shaking and huffing, the determined boy tried to lower himself to his knees. "Okay... Pain train's in the station, e'rybody off."

Joey and Tristan were the first at Li's sides, helping to get the others down carefully. "Yer a madman, Li." Joey laughed as he helped get his sister down. "Gonna have a crick in yer neck for awhile though."

"All~ worth it, my guy." Li laughed and beamed at Joey as Seto picked Caroline up off his shoulder. "It was fun runnin' around with the girls! Oh, and Ry and Mokuba. I actually didn't plan on grabbing them, that was Caroline's idea."

"Yeah it was!" Caroline barked a laugh as Mokuba shot her a pout. "That was fun! I didn't know Li could actually carry that many people! But you forgot something!"

"What?"

There wasn't even a chance for anyone to react before Caroline had swiped her best friend off his feet, beaming as he shouted in surprise. "You didn't even try to carry Seto!"

"Caroline, put me down!" He fumed, trying to figure out how to free himself from being carried so easily by the short girl. "CaroLINE!" Seto's voice cracked with panic as both he and Caroline were hefted into Li's arms, both laughing at the typically cold boy's flailing surprise.

"I AM THE STRONGEST MAN ALIVE!" Li roars aloud, lifting both even higher, nearly above his head. "I can lift, not only 6 people, but Seto Kaiba, Caroline, and Seto's FUCKING EGO!" Li cackles as Seto fumes and shouts something everyone seems to be laughing too loud to really hear.