Chapter 3: Beware of the girls!
When Anzu first woke up, there was only warmth around her and it made her feel at ease, like she was protected by an angel of heaven. Then she opened her eyes: And zhey went wide in shock! If an angel was making her feel this way, than it was an angel of hell. There she was, in the arms of the vampire leader… Since it was already morning, he fell asleep some time ago, but he was still holding her tightly to his muscular chest. And he was smiling at her in his sleep, as if he had pleasant dreams. Anzu got beet-red the same instant, then the regret hit her. She knew she shouldn't be here in bed with him- even if fully clothed as she was. She knew, she should drove herself out of his embrace and flee off the room, but she couldn't. It all felt too good, too right, so she just closed her eyes again and returned to the land of dreams for a little more peace… She knew, she was well protected.
Eventually Anzu got up at midday, because she still had to do some things for the evening. At first, the woman thought of cancelling her little sleep-over, but then again:
"Why should I ruin my fun?!"
So the dancer left a note, in case Yami would wake up in the afternoon and she wouldn't be back by then, and locked her apartment. Anzu made her way out of the building and then directed her steps to the close by supermarket. The place was huge. When she came the first time, she almost got lost in here and the map wasn't exactly helping, since she had no sense of direction at all and this supermaket was like a maze… Normally she would make a little tour and look everything over. Anzu loved to try new things in her kitchen and she wasn't even bad at it- at least you could eat her experiments, which you couldn't say about the things Ishizu did sometimes!
But this time, the young woman came here only for the part of the supermarket, where sweets and potato chips were selled.
"Paprika, sweet-and-sour, mexican style…", she read loudly. "I didn't know, there were so many different tastes od crisps. Banana? Incredible! Who would eat such things?!"
"There always are some maniacs!", answered a cold voice from behind her.
Anzu's head shot up and she turned around almost immediately. Yes, there he was. In a white coat and black sleeve-shirt and black pants. The dancer couldn't see it, because it was hidden by his coat, but she knew, that he had a gun attached to his belt. When she looked up at the boy's face, there were no emotions of any sort in his dark blue eyes. Her's instead were practicly sparking with them: Hurt, anger, sadness…fear.
"What are you doing here, Seto?!", she snapped, as she pulled herself out of the enchantment his eyescould cast on her.
"I do not need to justify myself to you anymore…"
"Like you did, when we were together…", Anzu spat ou, loud enough for their nearest neighbors to here it and turn to them.
"…But if you have to know it: This store is the biggest one in the radius of many miles. My men and I beat the vampire leader in a battle and they thought, we should celebrate that properly, so…", he continued as if she hadn't spoken.
Anzu had hated that, while they were together.
He just ignored her some times.
"Why do I fool myself?! He ignored me almost everytime I asked him a question or made a comment on something."
"Oh come on, Seto!", she hissed. "Even if you faced him, it was the first time, no one could ever kill him, so he lived for the past millenia, legend tells he has learned magic from a powerful sourceress in ancient times… No way you killed him during your first meeting?!!"
Seto scowled at that. He never took it well, when someone attacked his pride. When they were a couple, Anzu never did that, because she respected his feelings. But that was over now and she had no pricks of conscience in beating up his ego!
"And why should I?", she told herself stubbornly. "He had no respect for my feelings either, he didn't even think about how I might feel, as he…"
The girl didn't continue her thought. It was all too painful for her. She hated to admit it, but she wasn't over him yet, so she fighted back the tears. Only by looking at him, she felt weak and struggled to hold herself up. On the exterior however she gave no sign, besides some shivers, which went up and down her spine. Seto of course noticed and smirked.
"That's it!", Anzu thought mad like never before in her lifetime, slapped him and just walked past him, going over to the ice-cream. Seto stood there for a few seconds more, then hurridly came up to her and grabbed her wrist.
"How dare you?!", he snapped, pure hatred dripping from his lips with every breath. His grip tightened as she tried to free herself. Anzu knew, he wouldn't let go, and whimpered slightly in pain, but still gave no answer. Not even, after he repeated his question several times, always grabbing her harder and even attempting to hit her, when he couldn't get one word out of her. Anzu closed her eyes tightly, bracing herself for the pain on her cheek- which never came!
"What the hell do you think you're doing there, Kaiba?!", came instead an angry female voice from behind Anzu.
The girl turned around and released her breath as she saw Mai standing there upright and with her hands pressed against her hips. Her fair face was a mask of contempt and her purple eyes were flashing with anger. Anzu knew her since the time at Pegasus' academy for dancing and they had become friends, but the brown-haired woman had never seen her this mad before. Seto reluctantly let go of Anzu. Both women could tell, that he was still in the mood to beat someone up, but he would have to go for some vampires or other shadow creatures, because after Mai's outburst everyone near them were looking at the three of them. Even some staff-members of the supermarket.
"Goodbye, Seto…", Mai said dismissingly as she and Anzu turned around to leave.
"Thank you so much, Mai!", Anzu exclaimed, when they were outside.
"Well, who would we do our sleep-over with, if you were hurt and couldn't participate- in your own apartment too."
Anzu smiled akwardly.
"Yeah, about that… ehm…", she began. "I…her have… a guest. Would that be a problem?"
"A guest?", Mai asked back. "A man?"
"Y-yes."
"Young, strong, smart, handsome?"
"Ehm…I suppose."
"Then, honey, where would be the problem?! We are four beautiful, young girls and all single, remember?", Mai laughed.
Anzu couldn't quite appreciate that decision. She had hoped, Mai would say, that they wanted to make a girl's night with no men, who could trouble them, and couldn't need her "guest" during the party. She had hoped, Mai would have called the girls and told them to find another place or something like that. But of course, Mai didn't say anything like that. Instead she welcomed the guest into their sleep-over. Now how the hell would Anzu explain that to Yami- or even to her friends?! She had the vampire leader in her apartment for heaven's sake!
"Oh my gosh! I completely forgot about him." A quick look on her watch told her it was already afternoon and he might be awake by now.
"Ehrm… Mai, I got to go… Se you later, then!", she yeeled, as she was already running home.
"Sure. And have fun!", Mai winked.
(Scene change)
"I'm home!", she told loudly, when she closed the door behind her. As she turned around, Anzu saw him standing right infront of her and gasped. "Man, you gave me a shock. Don't do this!"
"Not as great a shock as I had, when I figured out, you were working for them all the time."
"What are you talking about?", Anzu asked curiously and a little hurt, because of his cold attitude towards her. When she saw his eyes showing nothing but disgust for her, she backed away from him, but he gave her no chance. Yami grabbed her arm and pulled her to him. Despite of his gentleness last night, now he was rough. Anzu winced, but he only hold her harder. She didn't try to struggle against his hold, she knew, she couldn't break it. After all, she was just a human and he was probably the most powerful creature on earth. However she didn't understand his motives! Why was he doing all this to her? Then she noticed his other hand holding a photo. Anzu took a closer look and gasped again. On the photo she was in Seto's arms, it wasn't older than a month!
"Now tell me!", he commanded, bringing her back to reality. "Where you spying for him? Were you supposed to trick me into telling all my secrets to you for him to know, maybe even the way to kill me?!"
"No, ple-please. It's not like it seems… it's quite different…", she began, but he didn't let her finish her sentence.
"How do you contact him? What have you told him?", Yami hissed, his nails now dugging through the shirt and into her skin, draining blood.
"I didn't. I wasn't spying for him… I…"
"You're obviously his fiancé or girlfriend or however you may call it these days, so don't try to lie at me or I'll make you wish, you would have never been born."
"Please let me explain!", Anzu begged, tears forming in her eyes and streaming down her face.
Yami suddenly backed away a little, though he didn't loosen his grip of her arm. But her tears calmed his angry mood. Her eyes were darker now, they had some grey in them, as if the azure sky was hidden by darkest clouds. He couldn't take that sight of her. To him her eyes should always be bright and sparkling with joy, never hold fear of anything- especially not of him…
Anzu took his silence as a sign to continue:
"I didn't want you to find out this way. Yes, Seto Kaiba and I were a couple. Were. But we broke up a few time ago, because he… Oh, well, it doesn't matter… I didn't put away that photo, because I wanted to remind me of the good times we had, when he hadn't yet distanced himself from me. When we still really were an item!…
I know, I should have told you sooner. I was going to, but…last night- with all the things, which happened- I just forgot about it and… this morning… when I woke up, you were already sound asleep… You looked so peaceful then- like an angel- and I didn't want to wake you up.
"But I NEVER worked for him, I swear it. Not even, when we were together. I never liked his "job", because he was killing people. I mean, of course, you kill humans, but that doesn't make you a monster, a beast without the right to live… I mean, you do it just for food, like we ourselves kill animals to…"
She had become hysterical at the last part and was talking so fast, even Yami with his sharp senses, could hardly follow her, but from what he understood, he was marveleed. How could a human girl think like that about the creatures of darkness like him, about the living dead?! She almost sounded like…
Yami
wasn't able to finish his thoughts though, because Anzu suddenly
winced again. He looked down at her arm, he had been holding just
seconds ago. Blood was dripping from the wound, he had caused.
The vampire was ashamed of himself immediately. He had sworn to Anzu,
not to hurt her, yet he had lost his temper, when he most needed it.
And to tell the least, he didn't even know, why he had been angry!
When he found the photograph, he was shocked at first, then
disappointed, then…jealous?… Wait! Disappointed, jealous, why
would he be that? He didn't like her that way, did he?
He was
interrupted again however, when he found himself slowly, softly
licking away the blood of Anzu's arm and over the wound, while he
felt her shiver out of pleasure, because of his touch. However, what
really made him curious, was, that he didn't stop there. Instead he
began to plant soft, little butterfly-kisses along ger arm and up her
shoulder. Yami could feel the girl tremble. She hadn't expected
this, but neither had he. Strangely enough, he liked it a lot and she
seemed to enjoy herself too, by the little moans she gave now, that
Yami was sipping at her neck and chin. When he looked up, their eyes
locked and none of them would have been able to tear their gaze away,
if it hadn't been for the doorbell ringing that exact moment.
Yami and Anzu jumped.
While Anzu responded with a deep blush on her beautiful face, Yami tried to figure out, what his body had tried to do, while his brain wasn't "looking".
"Was I trying to… seduce her?", he asked himself and figured, he did kind of lik that idea. "Do I like her… love her maybe… No, no, don't be a fool, Yami! You cannot love her, you have already given your heart away…"
"But what was that all about then?", a tiny little voice in his head asked.
"I don't know. Maybe I've just spent too much time alone."
"Yeah, and I'm the Dalai Lama(just borrowed that name, don't own)"
"I don't like her that way, I mean… she is smart and gorgeous and nice…and…""…and she has that unic pair of blue eyes!", the other voice said.
"So what?!""Don't you get it? Come on, you have looked out for her for centuries! Why can't you just accept, that you might have just fallen on her balcony last night?"
Yami couldn't come up with an answer for that, because the same moment, three very different human girls were all over him and talking all together, asking him questions about his life, his job and… his phonenumber?
"Okay, you girls, relax, you're going to scare him!",Anzu told them, so they backed off, before he could bite anyone. "Girls, this is Yami. He is a friend of Ishizu and she asked me, if I could take him in, until he found something for himself." Turning to him after that little lie, she introduced her friends to him as Mai Valentine, Vivian Wong and Rebecca Hawpkins and finally told him the reason, they were at her appartment: "We've a sleep-over planned for tonight. I'm sorry, I couldn't tell you, when I first came home, but we had to discuss other things, right? So, I… I mean, we hope you'll participate and have some fun with us…"
A/N: Poor Yami! Trapped with four girls and an ahkward situationIn the next three weeks updating will not be possible, because I'm gone- first with my school then with my family. And, where I'm going, there will be no internet. Gomen nasai!