Disclaimer: I do not yugioh, probably never will, it's kazuki takahashi's. don't bother suing me, most you could get is a freaking penny, even IF you were lucky. Eh, whatever.

Up with another seto/anzu, or seto/tea romance!!!!! I'm into storylines that's takes place in other time zones, weirdly enough. If the storyline isn't related to history in japan, that's because due to my hatred of my history teacher, I chose not to listen to the bastard in class. Can't they get a better teacher!!!!???? Well, please review, and NO FLAMES!!!!!!!! Arigato!!!!! And thanks to a fic with info on how and what each character in the show calls each other, proper pet names for some chars can be established.

Note:

Anzu = Tea

Jou(or Jounouchi, the full version) = Joey

Honda = Tristan

Ryou = the nice version of Bakura

Shizuka = Serenity

Thoughts ' '

Talking " "

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Love of the Sakura Petals

] Chapter One, "Baka Backstabber And Hate" (sucky title for chap)

'The busiest day of the year: the Sakura Festival. When noisy merchants barged in from all parts of Tokyo, and show off the latest things they got from other countries. How do I stand to bear it all these years, is a total mystery unknown to me.' Looking out of her stall full of dangling and carefully sewn Sakura flower necklaces, people swooped by her, mumbling things about selling some junk and stuff. Anzu liked the festival, but she hated the commotion it brought along with each year. Rude foreigners would always come by her booth and demanded silk, spices, and other things that her family couldn't even afford an ounce of. Though her mom had always said if the stall became too hard to handle, she'll take over, but Anzu wouldn't allow that, even to get away from the head-breaking shouts and demands of the foreigners. Her mom was way too ill to tend a shop of any kind. Ever since her father died of an incurable disease of some unknown kind, her mother had been gripped by depression and heartache. The depression had lowered the defenses of her immune system, and since then had a bout of many illnesses, minor mostly, but Anzu couldn't deny the truth any longer: her mother was dying; emotionally and physically. Medication to treat the disease was expensive; Anzu had just used all her savings to buy the little white pills, 10 in each bottle, that was sitting on the bureau next to her mom's bed with only one left in it.

'No matter what, I have to take care of mom and try my best to earn money to buy medicine for her and take care of her the best I can. It's the only way.' All the necklaces had been painstakingly sewn by hand, the flowers first sweeped into baskets, then many hours of pruning the flowers and preserving, then sewing. Anzu looked down at her fingers, scarred from years of accidents with the needles.

'Little scars are nothing compared to what mom must be feeling right now-'

"Anzu, can I have a necklace please?" Raising her head to see who interrupted her thought, it was Jou, one of her friends.

"Oh, okay. That'll be 20 yen. Who's it for, by the way, Jounouchi? And where's Shizuka and Yugi? I thought they were supposed to be with you in the park." Picking up a necklace, hung around a nail, Jounouchi dug into his black pouch, and pulled out a couple of coins.

"They went to check out something at some market. The necklace's for Shizuka. Since she's only staying here for a couple of days, thought I get her a little something. Hey Anzu, you heard that some rich guy from the States is coming here? He's Japanese also. I can't believe he would betray his own kind hanging out with the foreigners!!!! (I'm not dissing white people; it's important to add to the fic since the time was based in 1800s Japan) The nerve of him!!! He's our age too; 17 and has a younger brother. Supposedly building a chain of enterprises around this area." Dumping the pile of coins on the small wooden counter, he frowned, and brushed his blond bangs aside.

"An enterprise? But wouldn't that mean having to buy land and building the company on the-WHAT THE!!!!??? He's going to try to buy our land!!!!!!!???? Where are we going to live and-"

"My point exactly!! Honda and me are arranging a protest against it, and so far nobody except for Yugi and my sister, believes me!!! You do believe me right?"

"Well......I'm not sure what to believe........Are you sure this information is true? Remember the last time you told us that we were going to war and you made all of us stranded in the general's palace for TWO DAYS? If Yugi hadn't thought of the idea to disguise ourselves as soldiers, we might be already executed for trespassing!" The blonde simply rolled his eyes at that memory and took the necklace out of his friend's hands.

"Fine. I made ONE mistake, but that was years ago!! Anzu, if you do decide to believe me sooner or later, talk to me and the others about it, and we'll form a plan to kick the backstabber out of Japan!! Bye!!!!!!" The girl just sweatdropped, as her friend went rushing through the many crowds of people.

'And to think he's actually my friend.' Sighing, she started to yell "Sakura necklaces for sale, 20 yen each!!" as customers interested in the franchises of the Sakura Festival, started to line up in front of her.

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In the States..........

"Mokuba, the ship is waiting!!!!" Seto checked his gold pocket watch; exactly 4 minutes till boarding time, and Mokuba was still trying to haggle with an merchant on a certain toy he wanted.

"I'm only going to pay one silver dollar!!!! Take it or leave it!!!!!!!" The younger brother was in an elaborately decorated kimono, shaking a silver coin in front of the merchant's eyes. The man only groaned in frustration at the demand, and started to move his cart of things to another area.

"Hey, wait up!!!!!! You're not going that easily!!!" He started to chase the merchant around, yelling death threats if he didn't stop running away from him.

"Mokuba!!!! I'll buy you a toy in Japan!!!! Just leave the man alone!!!" Seto looked at his pocket watch again. Only two minutes left. He knew he shouldn't had taught Mokuba how to haggle for cheaper prices on the things he buy. It didn't really matter. He could just buy a whole state and still have money left over.

The ten-year old stopped at his tracks and quickly ran back to his brother.

"Really, nii-sama?(honorable older brother or just older brother)" Taking his older brother's hand as the two walked to an huge ship, Seto smiled one of his rare smiles to Mokuba.

"Hai. You know I would never break a promise." His face turning back to his usual frown, it addressed the slowly departing ship for Japan.

"But right now, we got to get on the ship. We'll talk later." And the two ran to the big luxury liner, hand in hand.





TBC (ain't it suspenseful? Well yeah right!)



A/N: oh god, that got to be my WORST series I ever written!!!!! Stupid, messed up alternate universe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As usual, love doesn't happen overnight or at a glance (I don't believe in love at first sight), so I apologize for the usual lack of romance, as seto and anzu didn't even meet yet; they're in two different countries!!!! Oh well, wait for next chappie, and I gotta at least have over 7 reviews for me to write the next chap. If not, I'll just discontinue or continue it for fun. Which is 20 percent chance of happening, but who knows what might happen? Ja ne, for now!!!!!!!

~ ~ * Shinaka * ~ ~