Life's unexpecting turns...
(Alrighty, chapter 12. Well I wonder what I'm going to write for the next chapter. Well, I hope I still am doing a good job with this. Oh, and if I don't update this for a bit it may be since I'm going on vacation away from my computer. u.u But I'll try my best to write as much as I can for this.)
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!
Chapter XII: Thankful and Regretful...
Back at the street... She clenches her eyes shut, feelings of sadness and fear running all over her. She lowers her head, tears and tears surpassing through the small opening of her eyelids. She feels herself starting to get weaker, losing her voice, making her unable to yell for help. The other person takes out a switchblade knife, placing it against her leg and sliding it up. Anzu gave a small whimper, feeling the cold metal slide up toward her panties. Feeling a small draft, she barely is able to say something. "No..."
"You heard the lady, let her go!" Just as she hears that voice, the young brunette raises her head up and looks to her right, opening her eyes. She watches the person that was lifting her skirt falling down flat on his face. "Punk, you're dead!" Turning to her left, she sees everything going by so fast. The other punk that had a hold of her had his knife one inch away from the person's face, the one that saved her. The person was holding the other's wrist, trying to not get cut with the knife. But because of the moonless night and no street light nearby, it was hard to tell who it was. Seeing how it was a bad time for her to think at a time like this, Anzu shakes her head and sees already how her savior has already knocked away the knife from the thug as he lands two punches to his opponent, rendering him unconscious. From the side of her eye, she notices the other person that grabbed her running heading to the person that saved her behind his back. "Hey, behind you!" Right at her words, the person nods. He clenches his fists tightly, starting to turn around as he raises his leg. From the corner of his eye, just as he notices the person approaching him, he turns around and jumps up suddenly, his foot high in the air as it impacts the person's face so hard blood comes out and falls to the ground, rolling over a few times as he's knocked out. Just as Anzu sighs, thinking it's all over, it isn't. The first man that she kicked stands up slowly behind the person. Her eyes widen as she realizes that from the inside pocket of his jacket takes out a gun and moves it up toward behind the person's head. She starts to panic, thinking of what to do. If she simply said something, he would get blown away along with her. Thinking of nothing else, she risks it and runs forward, joining her hands. Her fingers lace between each other, clenching both her hands tightly. She swings her hands hard, hitting the person on the back of his head. Right away the person falls to his knees, dropping the gun and followed by falling forward flat on his face. Anzu falls to her knees shortly after, shaking her hands from the attack. She turns a little to face the last person standing, which to her was quite a hero. "Thank you so much."
She takes a look up for a moment, seeing his hand of the person that saved her. Quickly she takes his hand as they both start to run through a series of small streets. It made her curious though as where this person was taking her. Both of them go up a set of stairs, running down a row of doors, stopping at one near the corner. She gets pulled in when he opens the door and walks in while holding her. She looks down and catches her breath, feeling a bit tired from running in those shoes that weren't made for a marathon. After a moment her head tilts up, seeing the lights turn on. After closing the door and locking it, the person removes his shoes and turns around, flipping on the light switch. Illuminating the place up, she quickly notices who it was already. It wasn't hard to tell, now seeing his messed-up hair and earth-brown eyes. "You okay, Anzu?" Her eyes started to swell up into tears. She runs up to him, hugging him tightly and burying her head in his chest, crying and letting it all out. "Oh, Jou! I'm glad to see you! I was so scared back there!" The young man made way his arms around Anzu, hugging back and trying to comfort her. Jounouchi raises one hand and places it at the back of her head. "It's okay, you're safe now. No one's getting in here, I promise."
An hour later... "Are you sure you'll be okay like that? I can make some more of you're still hungry." Jounouchi calls out to Anzu as he's almost going into the bathroom to take a shower. "Don't worry, I'm fine now. I think I've had plenty enough for today." Anzu replies to him from the kitchen, as she was sitting down and eating ramen. "Alright, well help yourself to anything here until when you wish to leave." After closing the door, in mere moments the shower water turns on as Jounouchi starts to take a shower. Anzu finishes her food and throws the styrofoam can in the trash bin. She giggles a little bit as she can hear a little bit of Jounouchi singing while he was in the shower. "Do you always do that when you're in the shower?" She shakes her head after the little comment she made to herself when she heard him. Slowly she walks over to the room, looking around the place. "This sure looks like a roomy place. It must be so sad sometimes, though... Being here day after day without having someone to share it all with..." Walking over to the window, she sees thunder clash and raindrops falling already. "Great, I'm sure not walking home at a time like this." She looks from a far distance the moon still present where the thunderstorm clouds aren't blocking. She sighs, thinking for a moment at what she almost went through earlier. Then, all because of him she was able to get out alive and well. Jounouchi.
"Arigatou, Jou... For saving me from those perverts... Bringing me to shelter to be safe... Preparing food for me so I would be well..." She walks over to the couch and sits down, looking down. "He's done so much for me even after I practically broke his heart..." All of a sudden she started to remember at when she wanted to split up. She remembers the words she said over and over again in her mind. "Maybe we're not ready for such a thing yet. We've been together, and look at what trouble has been caused." She places her right hand over her right cheek, her eyes shaking a little as she thinks more about this. "I'm saying that maybe we should take a break." Her left hand makes way up, touching her right cheek as she slumps down slowly. "Just for a little bit. It won't be permanent. We'll be fine." She covers her face with her hands, crying once again and shedding tears. "Just a little bit? Yeah right, it's been weeks already! Dammit, why did I have to hurt him? I let him open his heart to me, and look at me! It feels like I spat at it and threw it back to him! He's really a good person! The whole time I was chasing Dark Yuugi around, Jounouchi has developed and grown so much! I never deserved a wonderful man like him from the beginning!" After a few minutes she wipes her tears with the palm of her hand. Slowly she stands up and walks over to the drawer, where she knows where his phone is. A few times she jumps up to try to see it, but barely has any luck doing so. "Why did you have to be so tall, Jou?" She raises her arm, her hand moving around the top of the drawer as she tries to reach the phone. "Maybe I should get a cab or something. I don't deserve to be here, I should just get out of his life. He probably doesn't want me around anyway." She swings her hand across, bumping on something as it falls to the ground. "Shoot, hope it wasn't something fragile. I hope I didn't break something important or personal to Jou." She bends down and reaches for the black book and white box she dropped. For a moment she saw a small page of the book. Her eyes widen when she saw it and closes the book immediately. She walks over to the bed, sitting up on it, her legs bended for comfort as she sits up. She opens the book slowly, her eyes widening realizing what it is...
(Well, it sounds in a way now that perhaps she wants to leave... This took a while to write, but I had to really think about what to write here. And I'm probably going to have to do the same with the next chapter. Oh, well. All I can say is please review. n.n)
