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"It's not excitement." Jounouchi frowned, lowering his hand, "You just can never be too careful, even when jumping to assumptions, about this kind of stuff. I don't care how anti-superstitious you want to be; even you've gotta admit that we've experienced a hell of a lot more weird, magical stuff than most people. Yuugi's other self was even a ghost in a way, so there's no way I'd wanna take chances in denying the possibility when we've had multiple near-death experiences from supernatural stuff." he nodded firmly, secretly a bit proud at how well he had explained his logic to Kaiba.

With a yelp, Jounouchi was immediately clinging onto Kaiba once the door had slammed shut, looking at it in alarm. His arms were wrapped around the other boy, the side of his face pressed against the guy's chest as he gaped at the now-closed door.

Jounouchi was quiet as his eyes slowly drifted over to the chest that his face was currently pressed against. He looked at it suspiciously, as if considering if it was really possible he had clung this close to Kaiba. And then suddenly it hit him that, yes, it was. With a look of disgust, he immediately pulled away again, nearly flying off the bed in his eagerness to escape the warm embrace of his so-called comrade.

"What the hell are you doing now Kaiba?!" Jounouchi asked in exasperation. He had been curiously watching the guy jiggle the door handle and regard the door itself, then jumped and groaned as the other decided to just ram his while body into the solid object. "Are you possessed or something now?! Get the hell back in bed!" he marched over to Kaiba, reaching out to grab his arm, prepared to drag the other back if he had to.

"Is it really that stuck?" Jounouchi frowned, jiggling the door handle himself now. It was as if there was nothing to jiggle though, as if the handle was not even capable of turning. He wrenched onto it with both hands, seeing if he could force it past whatever was jamming it, but his hands just slid along the smooth metal as he tried to turn it.

"...alright, looking for something to remove the latch it is." he conceded, immediately running to the restroom to search the medicine cabinet for tweezers or something similar.

((It's cool. Go ahead and get plenty of rest. I've been pretty bleh all break, kind of sick of people and wary of any form of social interaction, so have been avoiding most guilds and such. Just get that way sometimes, part of being an introvert. So I apologize for that, as I probably ended up being the one keeping you waiting.))

Jounouchi didn't mind Kaiba's deus ex machina tool kit overtaking his well-thought-out tweezer solution (he had taught himself to undo screws with tweezers in the past, thank you very much); it was way more convenient this way, after all. So he caught the screwdriver, kneeling down under Kaiba and quickly getting to work on the bottom latch. "So, I still totally think it's a ghost holding the door shut, but I'm gonna pretend I'm too logical for that like you right now so I don't freak out about removing the door when something could pop out and kill us right behind it." he rambled, for some reason suddenly in a good mood, regardless of their situation. Maybe it was just how he and Kaiba were working together on something without arguing, agreeing on a solution for once. It was just like he could feel Kaiba calming for some reason, like he could sense it, and as humans are apt to do, his mood changed to reflect the other person's in the room.

((Funny how that kind of stuff can happen. For me I think it's mostly I'm sick of people I see too often; my mom's been driving me crazy lately, my dad always wakes me up (he seems to do everything loudly), some friends are just really doing unthoughtful things lately, and I know it just makes me more bitter and selfish, so I end up making things worse for everyone. And I guess because all of that ended up happening, plus school is starting three weeks earlier than it ever has before (as in this Thursday), I'm just really disappointed with my winter break, and don't feel I got a proper rest at all. I don't feel at all like I am mentally capable of going back to school yet, but at least it's the last semester, and it's only 13 credits. Haha, and Kaiba and Jounouchi can get over Jounouchi holding onto Kaiba for weeks on end. XD))

Jounouchi made it under the bed with Kaiba, watching in horror as the room continued going insane on them. "Yeah tell me now you're not being haunted!!" he shouted after a moment of finding his voice, "I dare you!" he was latching onto any form of anger he could to avoid panicking. Falling objects, yeah, that was scary and all because it could kill you, but he could handle that. But falling objects from some kind of supernatural force? Hell no. No ******** way. Jounouchi could not keep his wits about him with something like that going on.

((Yeah, I definitely feel ready to move out, but obviously need to finish school, and not really financially independent at the moment. I hope I can get a better, more stable job once I graduate. And everyone's really mad that they suddenly shortened our break so much; they did it to avoid three weeks of going to school when it's really hot (April is only mildly hotter than hell; May is when shoes start to melt off), so it makes sense, but there was no announcement a year or at least semester in advance, there was not preparation time. There wasn't even an announcement to students at all; they literally just put it on the calendar halfway through the fall semester and hoped people noticed. And you know, were willing to cancel their out-of-country winter trips and all that. I'm mostly pissed that I didn't get a summer break at all, and then suddenly only got a tiny winter break. I haven't even recovered from my junior year yet.

Oh, and that's cool. Doubt I'd notice any contradictions anyway.))

"Okay, one: This is not an earthquake! Okay, well maybe this is, but your screwdriver melting and mine flying out of my hand and your door being sealed shut and you being strangled was not! Two: I don't care if it's a ghost or not, because whatever it is it's creepy and it's trying to kill us and that's close enough to a ghost for me! And three, it's in your room and tried to strange your neck! It's haunting you!" Jounouchi argued in return, shouting in order to be heard above the crashing objects.

((Yeah, I think most people just need to get out of the nest by the time they're around our ages. And I will be happy come April, but right now? Hell no. It's also intersecting right during a convention I'm going to this weekend, ffffffh.))