A Floral Affair: Meaning

Summary: The second of two (unrelated)drabbles involving Valentine's Day, chazzsyrus, and lots of flowers. In this one Chazz gives everyone a special gift and the process of uncoding his meanings begin.

Warnings: OOCness, drabbleness, yaoiness, some mini smut at the end (eh heh), and this one might be kind of boring. This stuff interests me, though! Set during third year, but not during third season. So it's like, Aster is there, but there is no Society of Really Weird Hair anymore and no Blair-wtf-i-don't-look-like-an-11-year-old. Or Johan-oh-look-another-main-character-with-blue-hair-that-proves-his-badassticallness-by-beating-chazz-just-like-bastion-sartorious-and-kinda-jaden-cos-nobody-took-crlower-seriously-anyway. He has a really lnog name, huh?

Disclaimer: All the YGOGX stuff belongs to the YGOGX people(schocker!) all the flower info came from(remove spaces) http:// www . apocalypse . org / pub / u / hilda / flang . html and http:// forum . indya . com / archive / index . php ? t – 1867 . html

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The popular belief among Duel Academy's finest was that Chazz Princeton was not the type to get his friends gifts for Valentine's Day. It wasn't something they gave much thought to, it was just a basic assumption.

It was therefore met when greatest surprise when, after the others had given out their cards and chocolates, Chazz told them to stay where they were in Bastion's room, he had to get something.

"What do you suppose he's going to bring back?' Jaden said. "I mean, it is Valentine's Day, after all. Maybe he's bringing us some gifts."

"Chazz? Giving to others for no reason? It has to be something else." Alexis argued, crossing her arms. "I mean, I can see him giving me some kind of disgustingly extravagant present but the rest of you? No way."

"I agree. Best I can tell, Chazz isn't exactly the generous kind of guy." Aster said with a slight sneer.

"You're right there, soldier." Hassleberry agreed full heartedly.

"Oh, come on, guys. We ought to give him a chance." Syrus piped up. "I mean, it's not as if we know for certain that he wouldn't give us something for Valentine's Day. We've never spent the day with him before. First year he was at North Academy and last year he was brainwashed. So who knows, really?"

"Syrus is right." Bastion nodded. "Chazz never likes to do what people expect him to, now does he? And he is our friend, after all."

Any further discussion was cut off by the return of the object of their speculation. They were all surprised to see that in his hands he held a sheaf of different kinds of flowers. He was smirking in a way that was not at all congruent to the fragility of his offering.

"Happy Valentine's Day." He said, voice pleasant enough. One by one he separated out a different type of flower from the bundle and handed it to one of the others. It was obvious that there was some kind of system to the flower-person match ups, but none of the others could figure out what it was. They watched, shocked into silence, until he had finished handing out the flora and leaned back against the doorway. He seemed to be waiting for something.

"Um, thanks, Chazz." Jaden finally said. "But why did you get us all different ones?" He asked, voicing the question they all were thinking. They all eyed their gifts. The flowers looked healthy and nice enough, each with a small tag that had it's name.

"Oh, please. You slackers have no appreciation for the finer points of true culture." With that odd statement, Chazz spun on his heel and marched out of the room.

"What in tarnation-?" Hassleberry began. "What on earth is that supposed to mean to us? What kind of answer is that, anyway?" He shook his head remorsefully. "That boy has finally slipped off the deep end."

"No, he hasn't." Aster spoke slowly, realization dawning in his eyes. "I know exactly what he meant."

"Care to fill the rest of us in?" Alexis wanted to know, exasperated and impatient by the entire affair already. "Before we get old and die, preferably?"

"Well, Chazz's family is a pretty wealthy, old one, isn't it?" When the others nodded affirmatively, Aster continued. "Then it stands to reason that he was probably taught the language of flowers."

"Oh, yes, where each flower has its own meaning!" Bastion agreed. "Why, I have a book on it right here! We can translate them!"

"Oh, great. If he wanted to chat why couldn't he speak Japanese?" Jaden whined. "I'm not good at foreign languages!"

"All right, let's see." Bastion pulled out the book and flipped it open, ignoring Jaden's complaints. "Who wants to go first?"

"I might as well." Alexis sighed, resigned. "I bet I already know what it means. Something about love and marriage and all of that stuff he constantly throws at me." She grumbled. "The tag says that it's called Spiderwort." Bastion flipped through the pages.

"You might be surprised by what you hear." He said after quickly reading the line to himself. Alexis made a noise of confusion. "Spiderwort traditionally sends the message of esteem, not love." Alexis raised her brows.

"So wait, he tells you he's not in love with you anymore by giving you a flower? I still think he's loony." Hassleberry proclaimed.

"Well, I'm relieved." Alexis said. "How about you go next, if you're so sure this is crazy?" She plucked the flower from the large Ra's hands and read over the card. "It says it's called Meadowsweet."

"Let me see…ah! Meadowsweet: Uselessness. Sorry, Hassleberry." Bastion winced. "Not all the meanings are very nice."

"What does mine mean?" Jaden asked. "It's called a Rocket flower." Bastion flipped the pages until he came to R and then drew his finger down the list. He laughed out loud. "Well, what is it?' Jaden bounced impatiently.

"The Rocket flower stands for rivalry." Bastion explained. "He seems to be telling us his feelings for each of us. I wonder what I am." He mused, picking up his own flower and glanced quickly at the tag. "Hmm. Canterbury Bell: Acknowledgement. Well, I suppose that is a good thing, right?"

"Here. Let me see what sentiment he has for me." Aster sighed. "He gave me a lavender blossom. What does it mean?"

"Let me see. Lavender…lavender…Here it is. Lavender: Distrust." Bastion smirked slightly. "Seems Chazz doesn't really trust you, Aster. Not surprising, I don't think he really trusts anybody."

"Well, he didn't have to make an issue of it." Aster snorted, annoyed despite himself. How absolutely rude. Then again, at least distrust was better than uselessness. Poor Hassleberry.

"So that just leaves you, Sy!" Jaden piped up, poking his friend. "Want to figure out what Chazz has to say about you?"

"Huh?" Syrus seemed to have been spacing out throughout the entire discussion. "Oh, no, I'm fine without knowing. It'd probably just be something mean, anyway." He said. The others laughed and agreed that knowing Chazz, it probably would be. They rolled their eyes over the black haired duelist's oddities and changed the subject to happier matters.

Late that night, Syrus crept out of his room as quietly as he could and made his way silently down the hall, flowers in hand. He slipped through a doorway and shut the door behind him with a soft click. He glanced over the room with a smile.

His usual black trench coat hanging by the door, Chazz was only wearing his turtleneck and pants as he leaned back against his head board, pillows stacked to support him, reading a book. He didn't look up went Syrus entered but waited until the smaller boy had forcibly moved various limbs around so that he could lie next to his boyfriend, head resting on the purple clad chest. Then Chazz tossed his book away and pulled Syrus even closer to him.

"So, did any of you actually figure out what I meant?" He wanted to know, voice soft against Syrus's cheek.

"Yes, we did. I think you amused, relieved and offended pretty much everyone." The bluenette snickered. Then he poked he taller duelists chest. "But you didn't put a tag on mine!" he complained. "So I didn't get to find out what you thought of me!"

"Of course I didn't put one on yours." Chazz answered, voice struggling to sound scornful when it was really filled with amusement. "You think I'd want everyone and their third cousin knowing what I think of you?"

"Well, that depends. Exactly how in depth does this flower language go, anyway?" Syrus asked, voice full of fuax-innocence. Chazz snorted and poked the other boy back.

"You'd actually be pretty surprised. Some of the meaning are quite detailed and not at always of a delicate disposition. It made learning them a lot more fun."

"What did mine mean, then? Don't try to lie to be, I know how your perverted mind works." Syrus warned, leaning on one elbow so that he could glare commandingly down at Chazz. He then let out a startled "Eep!" of surprise when he suddenly found him flipped over and pinned against the bed, boyfriend towering over him with a smirk.

"It wasn't anything vulgar, Syrus! You wound me." He said, leaning down to steal a quick kiss. "Besides," He gestured at Syrus's little bundle with his head. "Didn't you notice? I gave you two kinds of flowers."

"And they'd be?" Syrus asked, squirming slightly to show his displeasure at not being allowed to move. Chazz pretended not to notice and instead leaned down to lick a trail up Syrus's jaw. "Mm."

"One is a Ranunculus. It stand for the statement You occupy my thoughts." Chazz punctuation his words, whispered huskily into Syrus's left ear, by swishing his tongue along the shell of the reddening ear and nibbling slightly on the lobe.

"And... And the second?" Syrus asked breathlessly. He mewed dizzily as Chazz switched his attentions to the other side.

"The smaller blossoms are called honey flowers, and they stand for sweet and secret love." And Chazz proceeded to take advantage of Syrus's astonished, happy gasp by leaning down to capture his sweet and secret love's mouth in a kiss.

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