A/N: Dueling adventures are finally over, but not everyone is okay. Anzu ends up in a mental hospital and everyone actually think she's crazy. But the dreams she has... they're not her imagination at all. And they will all take her to one single person: Marik Ishtar. But... why?

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Bond
"Scyzophrenic or not"

He tried to run, but they held his arm tightly.

'Please don't...' he cried.

They threw him against the cool stone floor and pressed him against it. Tears rolled down his cheeks. One of them held his head. Meanwhile, the other one started to do the drawings. More tears.

'Stop it you coward.' one of them grunted.

Anzu stopped writing and looked up to the woman who was watching her carefully. Anzu smiled sweetly.

"You don't have to watch, Mrs. Brown. It's not like if I was about to kill myself with the pen!" she said.
"I wouldn't make this kind of joke if I were you." the woman replied.
"If you were me you wouldn't be alive, trust me." Anzu answered.

So unlike her. That answers. The cheerful and full of hope girl of before was gone. The only thing left was that empty body, filled with the most terrible dreams anyone could have. Anzu didn't like to call them 'nightmares'. Calling them that would make her sound even more scyzophrenic than they already thought she was.

Her friends locked her there. How ironic is that? She helped them for so many years and everything, and they retribution was like that.

' But I'm telling, Yugi-kun! I saw him in my dream!! He told me he was with me at all times!' Anzu cried.
' Anzu-chan! This is... crazy. This... isn't right!' Yugi replied.
' But... he...' Anzu looked around. She hugged you tight. 'He's here, Yugi-kun!! Please, help me!! He'll get me, Yugi!!! Make him go away...' she cried.
' A-Anzu...'

It didn't matter how much she tried to prove, they never saw the things she saw. They didn't believe her. But the worst of the six was Jounouchi. He was so worried he almost sounded... cocky! Or something.

' Anzu, I know what I'm saying! This is the best for you. Here they will take care of you and they will let you go as soon as possible. The hospital and us are the only ones who can help you right now.' he told Anzu.
' Don't let they take me!!! Please no!!!' Anzu cried, but that huge strong nurses took her to a white room with a bed with all the metal wrapped with fabric. 'What do you think I am? Crazy?!?!' Anzu yelled when they closed the door. They didn't answer. Well, it seemed they thought she was crazy.

But that was life, and she would have to deal with it and try to live all the days left in her life locked in a white room, just coming out to have her meals and to "socialize" with other crazy people.

Unlike Anzu, they didn't know what they were doing. They were completely unconscious. They didn't think about anything and they didn't worry about anything. They felt like if everything was just fine. She envied them so much. Because she knew what was going on there because: "Damn I'm not crazy!" As she said to herself many times before.

"Time to go to bed, Masaki-san." the woman said. "Finish your story at once, and let's go."

Her... story. It would be so great if that were a story! Anzu would be feeling a lot better if it was. But she knew it wasn't. It was the story of Marik Ishtar himself, as far as she knew. Basically, Anzu knew about every single day of his like since he was 2 years old until he was 10. Besides, she knew that she would dream about one more day that night. And it would be a bad one.

The night before she dreamed with Marik getting his tattoos. It was painful. She felt all his pain and a little bit more, with her feminine and delicate body. She didn't want to know how much it would hurt that night, but she couldn't avoid it.

Anzu got to her feet, closed her notebook and gave the pen to the woman. She went to her room and as soon as she got in, Anzu sat on her bed. It wasn't very comfortable, but it was her bed.

Remembering of all the painful memories of the past, Anzu opened her notebook and searched for a line 4 years old Marik once told her in a dream. It was something she would carry for the rest of her short life. He said:

"I don't understand this world of ours. Everyone is going crazy. One moment they believe in God and trust on him when it comes to the 'battle against the demon'. But when things go wrong, they stop believing in God and do things by themselves. But... there's still a demon! How can that be? Why is evil always possible and good is eternally difficult?" Anzu read out loud.

She finally closed the book and her eyes. It was time to face the dream of that night. But Anzu was unaware of how important the dream of that night would be.

The sky was darker that night. I could see just a few stars on the sky. Usually, nights in Cairo were a lot brighter. I looked around. Where was I that time? Where was Marik?

' I'm over here.' a voice said.

I turned around and there he was. The young boy of my dreams. I smiled and walked toward him.

' Hello! We don't talk very usually. Just that one time when you told me not to eat the pea soup of the next day because it wasn't made of peas!' I remembered.

' Oh, yes. But, we really have to talk this time about something very important.' he said.

' I don't like important things.' I joked, but he looked at me angry.

' In front of me you can stop acting like crazy, Anzu!' he said.

' Gomen. It wasn't my intention, Marik. So, what's this all about?" I asked finally.

' It's time for us to act, Anzu-san.' Marik told me, with a sweet "Namu Style" smile.

' Act?'

' Oh, yes. Yugi is in danger, Anzu!'

' In danger?! Oh my God!' I cried, covering my mouth with my hand.

' But... it's complicated. The one who's trying to attack him is complicated.' Marik explained.

' Please, I'll do whatever it's necessary to understand!' I said.

' Yugi will have to fight against himself. The Pharaoh isn't a nice person, Anzu-san. He's terrible, the real Pharaoh. And he woke up inside of the spirit of the puzzle. And he'll kill Yugi and get his body!' he started, and started to walk toward me. Every step he gave, he grew one year. 'The Pharaoh is cruel, Anzu-san. He doesn't what the good to Yugi. He'll kill him... open his chest and... and... rip his heart off and use Yugi as his eternal puppet!! And Yugi will be trapped inside his mind... forever a slave of the Pharaoh.' He stopped right in front of me. He looked just like when we first met, 2 years before when the Battle City Tournament started.

'Yugi... can't die.' I said. I loved Yugi a lot, he was my best friend and he would always be. Nothing could happen to him... specially if I knew how to avoid something from happening.

'Yes, Anzu-san. He can't die...' Marik hugged me tight. I started crying. 'Shhh... don't cry, Anzu-san. He'll be fine, we just have to get the puzzle and destroy it. That's all...'

'I'll help him, Marik. I swear I will!!' I cried, and woke up sweating in my white hospital room.

That dream was terrible. Anzu had to do something about it! Yugi couldn't die. But... how to get out of that hospital? Anzu got to her feet and yawned. There was only a window on the room, and it was very high. She couldn't get there.

"Point your hand to the wall and wait. The Millenium Rod powers will to the job." someone said.

"Who's there?!" Anzu called, looking around the room. There was a pale image of Marik standing right behind her. Anzu was terrified. "How...?"

"I'm in your mind, Anzu-san. So you can see me! Now, do as I say!" he said. Anzu didn't move. She wasn't really sure if she could trust Marik. "Trust me, Anzu. I want your good!" he smiled.

She pointed a finger to the wall of the room. She took a deep breath and concentrated.

"Boom!Boom!Boom! And the wall is gone." Marik joked.

The wall didn't disappear, as Anzu thought. It exploded! She could hear the nurses coming to see what happened, so she ran. She ran as fast as she could toward somewhere, she didn't know where.

"I'll guide you, don't worry." she heard a voice in her head telling her.

She wasn't sure if it was right to trust Marik like that. He controlled many people before, why couldn't she be one more of those? But it didn't really matter. Because if Yugi was in danger, she should go and help him! It didn't matter how.

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A/N: This is my first fanfic in English! ^__^ Yay! I'm so happy and proud at the same time. Oh! And don't worry my fans *lol* the next chapter is coming soon!

Marik - Fans? Yeah, right. ¬_¬;

Yeah, fans! ; _ ; Why? I have fans.

Marik - Who told you so?

I did! ù_ú Now shut up and let me put the "name list"!!!

Anzu Masaki - Téa Gardener
Jounouchi Katsuya - Joye Wheeler
Honda "Something" - Tristan Taylor
Marik Ishtar - 'Mérik' Ishtar
Isis Ishtar - 'Ishizu' Ishtar

Damn... I hate the dubbing! u.u; Mérik... hunf... Mérik... grrr... -_-*

Obs: I chose "Marik" instead of "Malik" because it sounded more Japanese-ish XP

12/04/2003