365 Days of Starshipping (Part 2)

Incoming Weather

11/18/19

"I thought I heard someone get up," Judai grinned, entering the kitchen with a yawn, "Didn't expect it to be both of you though."

"Well, it has been the norm recently..." Crow sighed, pausing for a moment to yawn as well after seeing Judai enter, "Damn it, don't you know those things are infectious?"

Judai laughed, immediately going for the refrigerator to get a cold drink to wake himself up with, "My bad, my bad. Glad the whole 'leftovers for breakfast' thing has been working out for you two, though."

"Food is food," Jack huffed, though this was also right before he took a huge bite of his slice of quiche while pointedly not looking at either of them, "Thanks for it, though."

As everyone seemed to suddenly realize that December was creeping up on them, which also meant Christmas and shopping for presents, they'd started taking more hours and starting earlier in the day - 'they' being Crow and Jack, of course, since both Judai and Yusei had way too much money saved up to notice a dent in their wallets. The other two admittedly did as well, but they were the ones with the more conventional, week-based salaries that weren't randomly spread out like Judai's, so they pretty much figured it couldn't hurt and it would only be for a couple weeks, anyway.

Once Judai had heard what they were doing though, he made sure he focused on making foods for breakfast that were made in big batches, like quiches, certain types of bread, pies, etc. so that if he and Yusei weren't awake still by the time they left they could still get some good food to start the day off. It was giving him practice with a lot recipes he hadn't tried in a while, so he didn't mind at all and it was actually rather nice to not have to cook in the mornings half the time for once.

"On another note, have you seen the weather forecast for next week?" Crow asked, sounding relatively excited as he immediately continued, "If it all stays the same, then it's gonna start snowing."

Judai paused from where he was gulping down a glass of water, turning to look at them with a grin, "No, I had not looked, but do you know what that means?"

All three of them stared at each other with varying levels of smiles, but very equally high levels of determination to win.

"It's finally time for a rematch," Crow replied, pointing his fork between both of them with a smirk, "You're both going down, and so is Yusei!"

"Excuse me? I'm clearly going to trounce all of you, I've gotten in a lot better shape since the beginning of the year," Jack retorted, giving him a competitive glare and pointing his fork right back at him as well, "None of you stand a chance before the King!"

Before Judai could chip in though, both Jack and Crow turned their attention to him, Jack stating very clearly, "And you! No cheating with magic powers, got it?"

"Ah... well, I was going to suggest that I could materialize a bunch of our partners to make it more fun this time around," Judai sighed, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly but with a knowing smirk, "But... I suppose if I can't use-"

"On second thought, cheat all you want - we'll all have cheats at that point if we've got our duel monsters with us," Crow said, Judai letting out a bark of laughter at the truth of the statement, "Yusei can help out with that too then, I guess. Speaking of which, where is he? Still asleep?"

"Yeah, he's still asleep," Judai confirmed, chugging back the rest of the water and putting it in the sink before grabbing the tea kettle and getting all the stuff he needed to make tea - it was a cold morning and the cold water had only been to help his throat since it was dry, plus it helped him wake up more, "I kinda kept dragging him away from finishing a project of his for class and felt bad, so I didn't bug him about staying up late to finally finish it."

"I'm still not used to the idea of him going to school," Crow admitted, getting a nod of agreement from Jack, "It's such an odd concept to me. Yusei and school?"

"Well, to be fair he's not really doing much but brushing up on stuff he hasn't had to use in a while," Judai shrugged, seeing where they were coming from, "He's just thinking of it as a vacation pretty much, so I say good for him considering it's a pretty weird concept for him, too." With a legitimate genius like Yusei, who was pretty much top of his field in terms of knowledge and application, it was weird to think of him having to go... well, not back to school since he never went in the first place, but the general idea was there.

"Anyway," he continued, leaning casually on the back of a chair across from them now that the tea kettle had been put on the stove to heat up, "we're totally going to destroy you guys in the Great Snow War two-point-oh."

He was met with quite a bit of protest, and they spent the rest of breakfast simply challenging each other and trying to one-up one another to see who could have the best declaration of war.