Something I came up with in a matter of seconds. I hope you like it.

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Pain

Anzu Mazaki was sitting on her bed, crying and scolding herself. He was gone, that's all there was to it and she had to get over it. Her friends moved on, so quickly, it seemed. It wasn't fair, why was it them who could move one and not her? So what, she had a crush on him, and everyday in school she had seen a girls who were in shambles when their boyfriend dumped them, but in a few weeks, maybe months, they bounced back and sometimes managed to still be friends with their ex-boyfriends.

But for her . . . no, she was now a senior and she still cried over his leave, his absence from the group. It was as if someone had taken a knife and cut a whole into the center, removing the heart.

Atem had been their heart . . . and now he was gone.

It shouldn't be like this, but it was. Yugi didn't even talk about Atem anymore and Joey and Tristan seemed to forget him all together. The proof was when she actually had something to smile about, when he had given that boy the Heart of the Underdog card.

They asked why she was smiling and she explained it to them and they all seemed to . . . draw up blank faces, as though they had no idea what and who she was talking about. They asked her after a minute who she was talking about and Yugi finally seemed to snap out of the daze and tried to stop the idiots from saying those words that were like arrows, thousands of arrows, towards her heart.

None of them missed.

When they realized what she was talking about they tried to smooth it over but it was far too late. She had hardened her heart before any other arrows decided to fly at her heart. "Never mind." She had told them, sharp, cruel words.

Anzu wondered . . . if she could fall. If angels could fall, could she? Could she hide away somewhere where no one would bother her? She got up and closed her blinds tightly and then turned off her lights, letting the kiss of darkness sooth her aching soul.

The wind howled at the window, making her turn to it. She stretched out her arm and flinched. The scar . . .

The scar she had gotten while she was in the World of Memories. She hadn't even realized she had gotten it, but in the end, after Atem left . . . it seemed as though all her pain was amplified, and the wound was now a throbbing pain.

From her left shoulder all the way to the right side of her hips, it spread. She remembered how her mother had panicked. How horrified she and the doctor were when they actually saw it. Where she had gotten it, she couldn't remember.

It was healed now, but she couldn't stretch like she used to. She couldn't do certain dance moves now . . . and those had been the key steps to get her into the collage she wanted.

Her dreams were shattered, not even a possibility anymore all because of . . .

All because of him! Why did she go along with him?

'No, I know why, it's because I thought he could love me. I thought, if I went with him, if I stood by his side, he would see me, he would see my feelings.' It was a silly reason, looking back now, she should have known that he would never love her, and yet, and yet she loved him. It was no crush, but she had given her heart on a gold platter to him.

And he didn't give it back to her.

She was trapped. Her heart was somewhere in the afterlife, and she could love no one else now. Oh, she tried, she had tried so hard, but Atem came back to her, as if constricting her, keeping her heart so that she could go to no one else.

Anzu looked up from her pillow to look into crimson eyes. 'No!'

"Anzu," he whispered softly, his hand circled her throat possessively. "Only me." He whispered into her ear. "Only me."

"Let me go." She cried softly.

"Never." His hand clenched and there it was, her heart, beating so painfully.

"Why?" she sobbed. "I was nothing to you in the beginning, why do you keep my heart?"

He leaned forward, a gentle, cruel smile on his lips. "Because, I refuse to give away what was willingly given to me, Anzu. You gave me your heart, and now that I have it, I'm never letting go."

"I gave it to you since the beginning!" she sobbed. "Why can't you give it back? You've kept it long enough."

"No," he said softly. "I don't want to keep it for years, I want to keep it forever."

"Forever doesn't last." She snapped.

He smiled and whispered into her ear once more. "The forever I promise, does last forever, Anzu." He stood up straight and disappeared into the shadows, leaving her alone once more.

Covering her face, she sobbed into her arm. "Then why must you make it so painful?"

Thunder and lightning clashed together outside. The rain cooled the hot ground that had been baked by the sun all day, the temperature dropped, but it didn't make a difference to her now.

His curse left her immortal . . . she would be alone until he decided to be reborn again.

I was in a dark mood when writing this . . . and I had to get rid of it somehow, but writing this only seemed to make it worse... whateves!

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