#kurosaki ruri

[esmiara]

(GX) Duel Academy AU

#yugioh #yu gi oh fanart #yu gi oh #yu gi oh arc v #yugioh arc v #ygo fanart #ygo #ygo arc v #serena #ruri kurosaki #rin #yugo (arc v) #rin (arc v) #serena (arc v) #kurosaki ruri #lulu obsidian #there is so many tags for so little content #pain #fanart

[purpleleafsyt]

Birds and Stones.

#purplearts #yugioh #ygo #yugioh arc v #ygo arc v #arc v #ruri kurosaki #kurosaki ruri #lulu obsidian #yuri #yuri arc v #yuri (arc v) #violet flash #<- just in case #this took SO VERY LONG to finish #but ohhh it was so worth it #i cant even begin to explain how proud of this I am #the 3rd panel is my favorite. btw

[voids-voyager]

Stand up for some of the best character designs Yu-Gi-Oh has to offer.

No I am not messing around.

#they're so nice it borders on making me mad when I look at them #yugioh arc v #arc v #yugioh #yuzu hiiragi #hiiragi yuzu #serena #rin #ruri kurosaki #kurosaki ruri

[enter-the-performapals]

@arcvmonth Day 18 D/D/D- Different Dimension Day!

Even though its a little late (because I wanted to color these lol) I wanted to talk about my Mermaid AU- concepted while I drew my big piece for Mermay this year! I was originally going to turn it into a series basing them on the En cards, but I didnt have time (maybe next year?)

This is a high fantasy AU, of course, and each of the stories happen around the same time-which Ill get into later. All of the Bracelet Girls, Dragon Boys and Zarc + Ray are in their 20's here, with romantic interactions between the expected couples (Fruit, Apple, FallenAngel, Predator, Genesis). All of the stories are unrelated but take place around the same time, with the the exception of the Genesis which takes several decades before.

Just slapping the word 'Mermaid' on a character and not basing them on a sea creature has never been an option for my autism brain, so I based the girls off of sea creatures I thought suited them!

Yuzu is based on a Betta fish- the only freshwater mermaid out of the five- mainly because I think theyre gorgeous with their lovely flowing tails, but also because theyre highly territorial, which I will get into later.

Rin-Rin is based off of one of my favorite sea creatures, the Lionfish. Bright and beautiful, but venomous and a ruthless predator. She's also Siren.

Ruri is based on a Parrotfish. Beautiful, iridescent scales and placid nature who live in coral reefs. Also, bird pun becuase I couldnt resist.

Serena is a Human-Mer hybrid whose based off an Angler fish. Scary creatures who use beautiful light not to illuminate their surroundings, but to draw in prey. She requires more oxygen than a normal mermaid, so like a mudfish, she can chill out near the surface of the sea and take in oxygen when she needs to.

Ray is based off of a Sea Angel, which is apparently a sea slug. It's pretty and I dont know much about it, which is the exact same thing I can say about my girl Ray.

Under the cut ill get into my thoughts for each of the AUs! Including a minific which kind of adds a little context to my piece from Mermay!

Ill go over all my ideas for the different storylines - marked by their ship- and at the end is minific! Sorry for any punctuation/spelling mistakes!

Genesisshipping:

Zarc is an apprentice boatsman on his first voyage on a big ship. After smashing into rocky bluffs, the boat he's on capsizes and falls into the ocean. Almost drowning, he is rescued at the brink of death by Ray, who takes him to an uninhabited island to bring him back to life. Over a year or so, the two fall in love and while Zarc does want to escape the island he beleives its futile and doesnt even try. Eventually a ship does come to rescue him, and he promises Ray that he'll make it back to the island one day to be with her.

After hes back on land, people ask him what happened, howd he survive, ect; he eventually lets slip that a mermaid saved him. This makes it around, and eventually wealthy prospectors hear. Entranced by money and power wished to him, he leads hunters to the island to capture Ray.

Thinking that hes back to start a life with her, Ray's shocked when other people come from the boat and try to capture her. Realising Zarc had sold her out, she escapes to the sea, never to be seen again. Realising the error of his ways, Zarc decides to stay on the island after the disgruntled hunters leave in an attempt to attone for his greed and to hopefully see Ray one more time.

Appleshipping:

Hugo had always heard tales about sirens in books and wanted to if they were real or not. After attempt of humours faliures to become part of an actual reputable ship crew, he falls in with some pirates who decide to take him out to the seas. On his maiden voyage, he is so nervous that he cant fall asleep on his first night. Thats when he hears it. A siren's song in the distance.

The rest of the crew asleep, he steals a rowboat to find the source of the singing. He finds it- the most beautiful girl hed ever seen, singing the most beautiful song hed ever heard. He falls head over heels for her at first sight.

While Rin just wanted a meal, she now has to put up with idiot pirate trying to woo her. She is severly displeased about it, and makes it known. Then she realises- this dude is a grade A idiot with the luck of god on his side and now has to live with a human taking up her favorite rock. Ridiculousness insues

FallenAngelShipping:

Ute grew up in a port town that had a great relationship with the fellow merfolk. He and Ruri grew up together, and eventually became a couple. One day, the village was raided by hunters, who both killed and captured the humans and merfolk, burning the town to the ground.

While hed somehow escaped from the raiders, he knows he has to break in to the enemy camp as they transport prisoners and set everyone free.

After weeks of planning and watching them from afar, he finds the perfect moment and storms the encampment, setting everyone free, including his best friend Shun and his lovely Ruri.

While they are displaced, remaining survivors help rebuild the city, and they try to rebuild their lives. Now with round the clock border security :)

Predatorshipping:

Joeri is a wealthy buisness man who found success selling various snake oils in his teens. Feeling bored of scamming people out of their cash, he goes to a beah town in an effort to refresh, regroup his thoughts, and figure out his next buisness move.

While walking a beach in the dead of night, he notices a glow coming from a little cave in the distance. Sneaking a peek, he notices Serena stting, resting, and his mind races. Mermaids are uncommon, but not unheard of but most people havent seen one, so what if he could show her off?

Practically smelling the money from the buisness opportunity, he approaches her. She startles, and draws a weapon on him. That night he tries to talk her down and using all of his sales knowledge and charisma, tries to get her to warm up to him.

While it ends up in faliure, the next night she is in the cave again. And he makes up his mind to convince her to join him, whether that be by convincing her with his words, or bribing her with anything he can get his hands on. He has a goal and wont stop until it's realised.

Fruitshipping:

Feeling wanderlust in his early teens, Yuya decides to dedicate his life to becoming an adventurer to see all the beautiful sights hes read about in his beloved father's old travel diaries. After about a decade of seeing what the continent has to offer, he takes a wrong turn (not the first time) and accidentally stumbles into a serene clearing blanketed in cherry tree blossoms nestled in between foothills. In awe, he explores the adorable little field, picking wild dasies as he goes, and spots a lake fed by mountains. As he investigates, he is jumpscared by a mermaid who warns him to leave immediately or face the consequences.

After a breif moment of shock, he starts to laugh. Yuzu is flabbergasted, as most humans would have fled at that point. He tells her that meeting a mermaid was always on his bucket list and that hes pleased to make her acquaintance, which leaves her even more shocked.

While she is standoffish at first, Yuya sets up camp near the water's edge to really drink in the scenery, subbornly telling an annoyed Yuzu that it was the best vantage point in the clearing.

While he'd oly planned to stay for a couple of days, as he talked to Yuzu- her sharing enchanting stories about the depths of the lake and the merfolk who lived there and in turn, her avidly listening to Yuya's travel stories- he decided to stay through the end of spring... and then summer... until eventually autumn's chill prompts him to eventually- begrudgingly- forces him to start packing up his temporary home.

Over the months the two talked and talked and became best friends. Through the wilting daisy chains they made, to the silly splash fights they shared on hot days, to almost sombre monitoring of deciduous leaves starting to fall as the lake theyd made memories in starts to slowly develop its winter shell, baring the aquatic from the terrestrial.

As they say their goodbyes, Yuya noticing Yuzu shivering slightly as she sits above the water, he promises her to come back in the spring with even more travel stories, handing her one of his earrings in a jesture of his vow. And she is overjoyed.

As they part ways, he catches her tightly gripping the blue crystal of his earring before she slips below the water, and he wishes that winter would just leave and never come back.

Over the winter, Yuya can't stop thinking of his time in the clearing. The curiosity that Yuzu would have for the camp meals he'd cook. The sparkle in her eye as he'd describe one of his adventures. Her concern over even the most miniscule of old wounds hed accrued over the years. Her witty remarks that never failed to get a laugh out of him. That no matter where he went, he'd always wonder what Yuzu would think if she'd been there with him.

As the weather started to turn from hail and snow to bright skies and sunshowers, he practically made a mad dash to the little clearing tucked away on the forgotten road near the foothills, hoping that the ice had melted in the area- if not for the whole pond, at least around the crude dock he'd put together to sit with Yuzu on, so close to where he'd set up camp.

As he approaced the sea of sakura, the blooming daisies, the grass rejuvenated after it winter hibernation, he noticed a figure waiting where she always was early in the mornings before he awoke, brushing her beautiful magenta tinged hair, facing toward the mountains in the distance.

He grinned and picked the prettiest of the wild daisies he could see on the bushes around him.

He was back home and couldn't be happier.

#wow that took longer than expected #fun to do some writing again #hopefully i can do more with this au in the future #ygo arc v #yugioh arc v #arcvmonth #arcvmonth2023 #original art #doodle #chibi art #sakaki yuya #hiiragi yuzu #zuzu boyle #yugo (arc v) #rin (arc v) #yuto (arc v) #kurosaki ruri #lulu obsidian #yuri (arc v) #serena (arc v) #zarc arc v #akaba ray #mermaid au #genesisshipping #fruitshipping #appleshipping #fallenangelshipping #predatorshipping

[merryfortune]

quick little moodboard for the Kahyoreigetsu prompt from @arcvmonth

#merry makes stuff #arcvmonth #arc v month #arcvmonth2023 #natureshipping #femslash #yugioh arc v #arc v #yugioh #hiiragi yuzu #yuzu hiiragi #kurosaki ruri #ruri kurosaki #rin (arc v) #serena (arc v)

[sea-salt-child]

#arc v #shiunin sora #kurosaki ruri

[linearsystem]

#kurosaki ruri #yugioh arc v #yugioh kin #arc v kin #.birdie #a doodle of myself!

[infolane]

ARC-V Month Day 2: Kahyoreigetsu

Today is a day for the Bracelet girls. We have a couple things for the day :> We have plenty goodies so they’ll be under a read more! @arcvmonth​

First up is just a couple quick sketches of them!

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Here’s a headcanon dump, too! I write about the girls fairly often, and they appear in roleplays as some of my favorite characters to write. I like to emphasize their roles in AUs, too!

Yuzu: The world’s longest normal girl. She’s a kind person that wants to help her friends and we love her for that! Has a rougher side with a bit of a temper, which she indulges in around friends. On her own she can be hesitant to take action and gets intimidated by sudden changes. Basically “Do it” “But I’m scared” “Do it scared”. Also loves to money, but doesn’t everyone?

Ruri: Easily the most eccentric of the four. Before the war, she was certainly like Yuzu- and if you ask Ruri, she would make a Face and condemn that past self as simply “living by inertia”. The war has changed her a lot, and she tends to consider that a positive that makes it harder to connect with others. She’s inquisitive and believes people are good at heart- which fuels a fascination with the enemy and a sharp wit that sees masks and acts as something to break through. Sometimes she says inscrutable things or uses metaphors in confusing ways.

Rin: If Rin is Yugo’s common sense, then Yugo is her moral compass. It isn’t that she’s a bad person at heart, but that she does not care for large causes, great wars, symbols, bureaucracies, lofty goals, utopias... to her, it is all part of the same rubbish that keeps her head down. Rather, she cares for people, and Yugo is at the center of it. She’s not terribly friendly, on her own, but she would gladly see Synchro burn if it would benefit people she cares about personally. She is smart and scrappy and well aware that her dream of dueling with Yugo for the Friendship Cup will land one of them in forced labor. Complexities.

Serena: She’s all about her sense of right and wrong, which is often misaligned. She appreciates efficiency and strength, which sounds pretty villainous until you put her side to side with the other girls. Not one for talking much, she’s very actions over words. Her upbringing at Academia has left her unsocialized, so in a way, she’s like a spicy feral kitten. If you can beat her, you get her respect, and that’s an important thing for her. She wants to do good, prove herself and live with honor, which are all difficult things to do in her situation. Easy to frustrate, can get physical if annoyed enough.

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Last is a comic by Nihil and Birdie. It pertains a particular AU. (cw: Some blood)

RURI: I want to have a role. Serena says she doesn’t Get it. She cares for freedom, the forest, the wind in her hair... the blood in her mouth. So I turn from her, even though she is right. I don’t need to be a hero.

RURI: There is Golden-eyed Rin. She has plans she only shares with that person I look up to the most. I don’t get how she can call herself selfish when it is her efforts that will help up. A trial by fire. She is right- Heroes are covered in ash and sad debris. I look away.

RURI: I am certain Yuzu gets it. She just does not want it.

YUZU: People will die, can’t you see that?

SERENA: But I want to be free.

RIN: But the grudge needs avenging.

...

RURI: A solemn stare, it was loaded with a question:

YUZU: Can you handle the price of having a role in this tragedy?

RURI: I don’t just want a role to feel good. I want to understand, while I’m not in my brother’s shadow. Wings that protect. I don’t want to suffocate inside my egg. Let me face the sun, I won’t faulter, won’t flinch when I see the scars.

When I see her.

#arcvmonth2023 #arcvmonth #kurosaki ruri #hiiragi yuzu #rin (arc v) #serena (arc v)

[rookmeo]

-> ruri kurosaki reply icons !

— requested by: @lyriluscss

[ rb + credit if using ! ]

#⚘ | request complete #yu gi oh #yu gi oh arc v #reply icons #replycons #replyicons #ruri kurosaki #kurosaki ruri

[cathartes-ruri]

I didn't share the cake we got. I wonder if brother misses me.

#kurosaki ruri #yugioh arc v

[gem-knight-lady-opal]

do I love the new "Raidraptors"? YES! do I hate that they don't work with "Lyrilusc"? very!😤

Konami named one of them 'Noir" and the other 'Bloom' referencing the "Kurosaki" surname and they don't work with Ruri's deck.

#yugioh #yugioh arc v #ruri kurosaki #kurosaki ruri #shun kurosaki #kurosaki shun #ygo arc v #Phantom Nightmare #yugioh Phantom Nightmare #yugioh PHNI #ygo PHNI #raidraptors #lyrliusc

[creepermilktea]

I can't stop thinking about the bracelet girls from ARC-V when I am watching the new cookie run ovenbreak story XD The hair color is just coincidence? I think not. There's only three cookie in that team so I make Ruri a cheerleader✨

#cookie run ovenbreak #cookie run #cherry ball cookie #yugioh arc v #ygo arc v #rin arc v #serena arc v #hiiragi yuzu #kurosaki ruri #bracelet girls

[purpleleafsyt]

Decided to do warmups of the bracelet girls :]

#purplearts #my digital art #yugioh #ygo #yugioh fanart #ygo fanart #yugioh arc v #ygo arc v #arc v #kurosaki ruri #ruri kurosaki #lulu obsidian #serena (arc v) #serena #celina (arc v) #rin (arc v) #bracelet girls

[marchsage]

here’s my piece for the @ygoladies ‘s zine!! i had the opportunity to draw kurosaki ruri, my favorite bracelet girl!

it was a delight to be a part of this zine, and the mods and contributors alike were fun to work with! leftover sales are happening soon if you’re interested in purchasing one!

#kurosaki ruri #arc v #ygo #ygoladies #yugioh arc v #my art #it was nice being in a zine LOL #the process of sketching and lining in sai and then colors and shading in krita. phew

[enter-the-performapals]

@arcvmonth Day 2: Kahyoreigetsu!

I was originally thinking of dressing them up as idols as ive recently watched a little bit of Oshi no Ko, but decided to draw the girls in casual clothes instead!

Obvious take on a piece id done a year ago with the boys with drinks that I felt suited them! While i would have loved to do this in a lineless style to match the older piece, i wouldnt be on schedule if I had, haha. But! I am super happy with this piece!

This was maybe an excuse for me to draw flowy skirts and sweetheart necklines but shh you didnt hear that from me :3c

#yes yuzu was my fav out of these #she really suits a sundress #ygo arc v #arcvmonth2023 #arcvmonth #original art #doodle #hiiragi yuzu #kurosaki ruri #lulu obsidian #serena arc v #celina arc v #rin arc v

[merryfortune]

(dis)Respect the Routine

Day 3: Routine | Unexpected

Title: (dis)Respect the Routine

Ship: Swiftshipping | Rin/Ruri 

Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc V

Rating: T

Word Count: 2,223

Tags: Alternate Universe - Dance, Rivalry, Getting Together, Developing Relationship, Classist Themes

   Ruri could almost understand where city planning was coming from when they placed a fine arts school across the road from an alternative arts school and adjacent to a skate park. It made sense. Just down the road from all these locales was a traditional fine arts school and related facilities and then the rest of the cultural precinct could be dedicated to western talents or anything else similarly eclectic.

   However, in the practice, the very one that Ruri lived, she would like to send city planning a VERY strongly worded letter on why this was a terrible idea. 

   The ballerinas, like herself, did not get along with the skate park rat pack as well as the other strange lot they attracted. Like the interpretative dancers or the punks or the hip-hop kids. Both sides of the street - more like cliques - were very tight knit and very obnoxious over it.

   Ruri and her company wanted to prove they were grace and fidelity incarnate. The kids from across the street wanted to knock them off their high perch using their loud and dirty, expletive soaked music. It was a constant back and forth with a prickly rapport. 

   However, there was this one miscreant, in particular, whom Ruri was all up in arms with a bee in her bonnet over, however: Rin.

   Rin was from the wrong side of town and embraced it. She had a wild side and was unafraid of getting up into people’s grille. She always had a friend or two by her side because there was strength in numbers but make no mistake: she was large and in charge. 

   She had fluffy green hair and sharp yellow eyes and really nice cheekbones, too. That didn’t matter, however, its just that whenever Ruri thought about Rin, in a bad mood or not, those things about her appearance, baggy overalls and tight leather pants, occurred to Ruri as well but whatever.

   Not only did she have a bad personality - she was a loudmouth and enjoyed scolding people - but she was an excellent dancer.

   Inside her own discipline, anyway. Ruri would love to see her slut drop to Beethoven. It simply was not possible. She could do all these headspins and get down on every level, use her hands or her feet. Rin was a good hip-hop dancer but she was all self-taught and it boiled Ruri’s blood.

   Every now and again, they would encounter each other and usually went like this:

   “Hey Swan Princess.” (Or some other similarly condescending cat call)

   “Shut up, Rin. as if you know your Odette’s from your Odile’s.” (Or some other clever rebuke which stood Ruri’s ground).

   “Blegh!” 

   But it would end with Rin poking her tongue out at Ruri. Seriously! The girl had no manners. Didn’t matter what Ruri said, if she ignored her or if she rebuked her, it would always end with Rin pulling down her lower eyelid (gross!) and then sticking out her tongue. It was so childish and it always got on Ruri’s nerves every single time. It was Rin’s ultimate trick to tick Ruri off.

   That was the dull and trite routine that they went through every single day. 

   Ugh. Why couldn’t the artsy-fartsy kids be scattered through the city rather than be concentrated on this one particular block. Ruri genuinely dreamed of when she could go to university or go on a world tour as part of the national ballet, dancing in opera houses and other theatres of renown and importance. All the capital cities! Tokyo, New York, London, Sydney,  and more! 

   That would be amazing. That was very much her dream. She was all tulle and tutus and she wouldn’t have some rat pack kid make fun of her for it.

   However, until that glorious time in which fourteen-year old ballerina Kurosaki Ruri became an adult and a primadonna, she had to put up with all the weirdos from around her hometown. Hence why Ruri didn’t particularly think much of it when she and Rin got into yet another altercation. That was just another day for her but there was a different outcome to all their other petty squabbles than usual.

   It started the same way.

   “Hey leotard-in-a-knot.” Rin called out to Ruri as she tried to walk past her.

   The sun was setting, there was a crisp, summer breeze in the air and it felt like sunset could last for hours, as they usually did in the early-summer, late-spring. Rin was perched up on one of the skate ramps: not the tallest but not the smallest either. She leered out from over it, like a king on a castle looking down on the peasantry.

   Not that Ruri would consider herself a common in such a metaphor but whatever. Her attention was piqued and already, her brow was furrowed.

   “Oh buzz off!” Ruri spat. “Go and buy some clothes that actually fit you.”

   “Girlie, you know I only thrift.” Rin winked at her.

   Great. Now they were locked in a duel, a battle of wits. Ruri huffed. She stamped her foot.

   “I really need to go.” Ruri said.

   “You got a spare minute?” Rin asked.

   “Literally, what did I just say?” Ruri asked in turn, more than a touch irritated.

   “Go where? To another hoity-toity party or what?” Rin asked.

   She got up and spun on her heel. She looked like the Fool in a tarot deck, dithering on the edge and it gave Ruri a heart attack just to watch but Rin was lackadaisical and laughing. 

   “Just… Home.” Ruri got out through her clattering teeth. “Now, would you get down from there?”

   “With pleasure.” Rin said and she swung the other way. “On one condition.” She swung the other way again and Ruri hiccupped out of fear. “Since it sounds like you have a minute.”

   “Just get down from there!” Ruri yelled.

   Rin laughed but she did get down. In the worst way Ruri would consider possible. Rin jumped off the edge of the skate ramp, it was at least metre taller than Ruri and Rin nailed the landing. Completely walked off anything she might have jarred as she circled Ruri.

   “We have a lot of fun, you and me.” Rin spoke like she was lecturing Ruri.

   “That’s news to me.” Ruri sourly replied, she folded her arms in front of herself as she watched Rin go to and fro. She was as loose as the breeze that fettered them both.

   “We do!” Rin said. “Which is why, I want to propose, a truce.”

   “A truce?” Ruri sceptically echoed.

   “We can do our usual back-and-forth all we like, til the end of time and the sun explodes,” Rin said, “but I realised something. You’ve seen me dance-”

   “Uh-huh…” Ruri interrupted her to show Rin that she was listening. She simply wasn’t impressed with what she was listening to. After all, she wouldn’t exactly call what Rin did “dancing”.

   “But I’ve never seen you dance!” Rin exclaimed. “So, I want to change that.”

   “There is a reason why I’ve never danced in front of you,” Ruri stuck her nose in the air, “and that is because I only want to dance in suitable environments. On the side of the street is not a suitable environment. I could get hurt or-”

   “It’ll be a dance battle. You win, me and my crew will leave you alone forevermore.”

   Ruri’s eyes went wide. Well, okay. That changes things. If only slightly. Her piqued attention, however, was like an open book for Rin. She grinned, hungry for attention and a duel.

   “What’s in it for me if I win?” Ruri asked. She tried - and failed - at sounding too interested.

   Rin hummed, she tapped her chin thoughtfully, she really chewed on the noises she made before she came to a decision, “I’ll do whatever you want. For one whole day or thing. Absolutely anything.”

   “Deal.”

   Ruri didn’t even have to think about it. She could have Rin grovel on her knees or surrender some money to her. There was plenty of humiliating and gratifying things Ruri could do if she could just trounce Rin and trump her once and for all. It was simply too delicious. 

   “Awesome. Then, let’s get into it, Angelina Ballerina.” Rin taunted her.

   “Whatever you say, Little Miss Baggy Pants.” Ruri attempted to trash-talk Rin back buuuuut it just made her laugh instead.

   Not a great start but the glares they were exchanging were pretty fierce so that was fine. From there, they figured out how exactly they wanted to do this: Rin had a boom box and Ruri had her MP3 player. So it was mostly going to be a thrown down of tinny, acapella proportions but it was better than nothing since Rin barely knew her Sugarplums from her Fur Elise and Ruri couldn’t keep a modern beat to save her life.

   With a one, and a two, and a three.

   Ruri went first. Because of course she did.

   She went through her own routine. From the practice of getting herself limber all the way through to the end of what was, like, a six minute song of pianos and violins. Ruri was nothing less than excellent - or at least close to it. The cement side walk wasn’t exactly the stage she was used to, cracks were potentially deadly but she did her best in front of Rin.

   She portrayed all her favourite heroines. Clara and Odette, Coppelia and Sleeping Beauty. A mix and match of every story she had ever danced a ballet of, her favourite moves and story beats to the beautiful, silvery music as it came out of her device.

   Rin watched, admittedly entranced.

   She didn’t want to be but Ruri was skillful. She had been mentored and configured, it was showing in her beautiful, movements. Every hand, every foot, it was all so precise in what she was doing and by the end of it, Rin applauded her. Begrudgingly, of course.

   Ruri smirked, “See, even you have class.”

   “Every once and while.” Rin replied.

   “Your turn,” Ruri said, “but I’d like to see you top that.”

   “Well, you're in luck. ‘Cause I am.” Rin smirked in reply.

   Rin stretched out and she looked all cheeky as did so. It would have been adorable if it wasn’t so annoying as her expression was so tinged with arrogance. Not that Ruri could talk.

   Rin took a couple steps back and then she brought it down.

   Her beat and enthusiasm was contagious. Her music sounded like all noise to Ruri (but hers had sounded like elevator music to Rin) but Ruri couldn’t deny that Rin didn’t have rhythm. The routine that Rin went through was natural and organic, coming and going with every new idea that she had, evolving with inspiration. She built up from something small until it got bigger and bigger and yes, did involve some spinning on her head which made Ruri’s head spin, too, just from watching.

   Rin finished up with a grand finale which had her begging on her knees. Her chest thudded, up and down, as she panted. A drop of sweat glimmered on her brow as she grinned.

   “So. What do you think?” she asked.

   Rin got up and she was like melted rubber. All loosey-goosey, easy on her feet as she rose up to her full height to meet Ruri’s mean girl, discerning gaze. One which was unreadable but the quibble in her lower lip betrayed her. 

   She was on the cusp of saying something nice. Heaven forbid. But she simply couldn’t help herself. Credit was due where it was due.

   All because, in the end, neither girl was unbiased enough to come up with a conclusion of who won over won. 

   Ruri thought she did. Rin thought she did. But they both thought the other girl had put up a good fight. 

   Ruri’s dancing was elegant; Rin’s dancing was eclectic. For every virtue, there was a vice, for everything they knew they got wrong but the other didn’t, there was still plenty they both did get right and could acknowledge. Not just in themselves but each other.

   Simply put, both were exhausted and there was begrudging respect between them.

   “So… truce?” Rin suggested. “No one won but no one lost either, don’t you think?” She extended her hand to Ruri.

   Ruri nodded and accepted, “Truce.” she said. “But since we both still won, I don’t want you or your friends making fun of me anymore.”

   “Okay. Deal.” Rin agreed. They both shook hands on it. “And what about me, what do you want me to do? Grovel on my knees? Give you my lunch money?”

   “Not quite.” Ruri said, feeling a little flustered, all too aware of how Rin’s hand felt against her own, not to mention how discerning Rin was as she had thought about that as a possibility, too. “I thought I would request that we spend more time with each other. Maybe without quite so much competition. What else do you like, aside from dancing? We can do that, so long as its not dirty, dangerous, or unsafe.”

   “You're such a priss.” Rin laughed at Ruri’s expense.

   She frowned.

   “But,” Rin continued, “that doesn’t sound too bad. It's a date then.”

   “It is.” Ruri smiled, pleased that Rin was picking up what she was putting down.

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