Hey, so I surprised some of you with my last chapter didn't I? Well I have to keep you surprised or it won't be interesting anymore. Unfortunately I can't let any of you kill Raven so I had him sealed up in a chest in my attic, sorry but I still need him for a little while before I can let you have him.
Chapter twenty-one: Consequences.
Anzu sat silently on her bed, she glanced at the clock, it was nearing 9 in the evening, Raven would be home soon, she knew he would, even since that day she spent at the mansion he never left her alone longer than he needed to and he never spent the night away. That morning, when she arrived home and Raven questioned her about where she was, Anzu said that she spent the night at Meyli's house, she knew Raven doubted her, but she also knew he wouldn't dare call her to check if she was telling the truth, she was right, he didn't, but since then he was always watching her. She held the cordless phone in her hands, arguing with herself about what to do next, actually, she knew what she had to do but doing it was another story.
She couldn't stay, not after what she did, he was going to find out and then…she preferred not to think about it. She knew she had to leave but she was so afraid of what he would do to her if she tried. Hands shaking with fear and with her eyes full of tears she slowly dialled the familiar number and waited anxiously. She heard the phone rang once, then twice, after the seventh time the answering machine picked up. She lowered her head as she listened to the registered voice of her friend.
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Seto frowned as she checked his program for the fourth time that day, for some reason he just couldn't find that stupid glitch, that new game was supposed to come out at least two weeks ago and it still wasn't ready. Christmas was only one week and a half away and the CEO was under immense stress, Kaiba Corp was, after all, the biggest game company of the country. But somehow he didn't really care about that, it had been two months, two full months since they heard anything from Anzu, the only thing that told them she was still alive was the fact that her shows were still on. During those two months Seto had all the time he needed to think over what happened, he was mad at himself for it, he had been weak, Anzu was in no condition for this, she was unstable emotionally and he should have never kissed her even less sleep with her. Still unable to find the bug or get Anzu out of his mind, Seto sighed loudly and let his head fall heavily in his hands.
"Still having trouble?"
Seto looked up and smiled weakly at his sister. "I feel just about ready to drop everything."
Meyli smiled and walked next to him. "Come on, you should rest, it's getting late you know, I'll help you check it out tomorrow."
Seto smiled tiredly as he closed the computer and stood up, he didn't feel like going on and beside, he knew Meyli would wait for him before leaving. "You don't have to keep working like that, you helped me a lot already, you should stay home and rest."
Meyli frowned a little. "Stop worrying about me like that, I still have a month and a half before the baby is born, beside I can't let you alone to take care of everything before Christmas, that would be crazy."
The tired CEO grabbed his coat from the back of his chair and gave a light hug to his sister. "Thank you." He said as he let her toward the door. "I really don't know what I would have done without your help."
"You would have spent the last two weeks locked up in your office working yourself to death and making everyone worried about you." She chuckled softly.
"Yea, you are probably right." Seto answered, chuckling lightly with her. They both entered in the elevator and patiently waited for it to reach the first door, the silence between them was broken by Meyli.
"Do you have any news of Anzu?"
Seto looked at her questioningly. "No, why would I?" He asked.
Meyli sighed. "I just hoped you would know something, I'm worried." She fidgeted nervously before going on. "I talked to her." She admitted. "After that night she spent at the mansion, I asked one of my friend working on the show to tell me if Raven was there and I went to see her during her break when he wasn't there."
"What did she tell you?" The CEO asked, somewhat afraid his sister found out something he hoped to keep a secret, he was sure his sister wouldn't really support such a thing, after all, even if Raven was a total freak Anzu was still engaged to him and she was most likely not in the best state of mind when it happened.
"Nothing much." Meyli said with another sigh. "She defended him, said it was nothing that she didn't need our help because there was nothing wrong and that he loves her. If only…she could see the truth." The door opened and they both stepped outside, making their way to the front door.
"How long did you take to see the truth?" Seto asked. "Did you ever try to get help? You stayed for years before running away and even then you just came here without even telling me what was really going on. I know I never wanted to admit even to myself what Gozaburo was doing to me, Joey never tried to get help either, he was just avoiding his father all day long. We can't really blame her or anything."
"Who said I'm blaming her?" Meyli said. "I'm worried for her because I know what it's like, we both know what it's like. But, we were all kids, we had no way of taking care of ourselves on our own, we didn't have friends or any family who could take care of us. But we are here for Anzu, why isn't she listening to us, why can't she see that we want to help her?" She said, tears threatening to fall from her eyes.
Seto opened the glass door for his sister and looked at her when she passed in front of her, he could see that she was worried, Anzu was the first friend she had in years, Seto knew it was thanks to Anzu that Meyli started to care for Mokuba. "When she met Raven she was probably alone. " He finally answered. "Think about it, she moved to New-York alone, it's an enormous city compared to Domino and on the other side of the globe, she was away from all her friends. I don't know under what circumstances she met Raven but he is from Japan as well, which is a good base for friendship or relationship when you are in a foreign country. Anzu never liked to be alone, even if I never wanted to have anything to do with her back in high school I knew that much, I guess she was afraid to be alone if she left him." They reached the limo and once again Seto opened the door for Meyli and helped her get inside, She didn't complain, she was tired and the baby was started to be heavy.
Meyli stayed silent a moment, considering what her brother said while he sat in front of her and instructed the driver to go to Meyli's house first, it made sense, when she was alone she did get involved with a street gang and started taking drugs all that to be accepted by a bunch of idiot who didn't care at all for her. "But now she's not alone." She muttered.
"Maybe not, but leaving is not that easy." Seto told her.
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Yugi walked out of his bathroom wearing only a lose pyjama bottom while drying his hairs with a towel, he noticed that the little light on his phone was flashing, indicating that he had a new message. Typical, people always call you when you try to take a shower, letting the towel rest on his bare shoulders he slowly walked in the kitchen to grab an evening snack, after pouring himself a glass of milk and picking up a few chocolate chip cookies he walked back to the living room and pressed a button on the phone. 'You have one new message.' The machine said, Yugi put his snack on the small table and sat on the couch, eating his first cookie. 'first message at 8:56' Yugi absentmindedly looked at his watch, that was a good 15 minutes ago, still, he wondered who would call him at such an hour. The machine was silent for a few second, Yugi rolled his eyes, another one of those crap message, some times he wondered why people always waited until the machine started recording before hanging up if they weren't going to leave a message anyway.
However, after a moment of silence he could finally hear a voice, it was so faint he barely heard it, but there was no doubt in his mind about whom this voice belonged to. "…Yugi…" Yugi sat up straight and looked intensely at the answering machine, waiting to hear Anzu's message. "I…You said I could call you at any time…for anything. I did something…something terrible and if Raven…" There was a small pause and Yugi was sure he could hear her sob, for as long as he could remember he never heard Anzu sounding that terrified, he wondered what she could possibly have done to be so afraid but she didn't say it. "Could you…come and pick me up?" She asked almost desperately.
As soon as the message was over Yugi was on his feet, cursing himself for not answering when she called, he quickly went to his room to get dressed and go get his friend, hopefully before Raven discover whatever mistake she made.
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Meyli hugged her brother tightly. "I'll see you tomorrow." She said with a smile.
Seto simply smiled. "Take care of yourself." Both him and Joey totally gave up the idea of trying to make her stay at home and rest, it was just impossible, Meyli couldn't stand to stay alone all day while Joey was working. When Meyli let go of him he said his goodbye to his brother in law before leaving. He walked back to his limo and told the driver to take him back home before getting in. He laid back against the seat and sighed, looking at the passing lights as the limo slowly took him home, a burning hot shower was what he needed right now. However his little moment of peace was interrupted by his cell phone, Seto slowly took it out of his pocked, thinking that he could just ignore it, he frowned when he saw that the number belonged to Yugi, why would he be calling him so late. He decided to answer it. "Yes?"
"Seto, where are you?"
Seto blinked at Yugi's lack of greeting whatsoever, had he forgotten that he was supposed to meet him somewhere tonight? "I'm on my way home, is something wrong?"
"I got a call from Anzu." Yugi simply said. "She said she was in some kind of trouble and asked me to pick her up. I'm on my way right now."
Seto frowned at Yugi's worried tone, Yugi was usually able to stay calm through any situation. "How serious is it?" He asked, though he had a felling he knew exactly what kind of trouble she was in.
Yugi sighed. "I don't know, I didn't talk to her directly, she left me a message but she sounded extremely frightened. I don't know if Raven is there or not either."
"Alright, wait for me, I'm coming." Seto said before closing his cell phone, he opened the intercom to give the new destination to his driver.
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Yugi parked his car in front of Anzu's house, Seto wasn't there yet, however there was a car in the driveway, which meant that Raven was probably there. He looked at the house itself, most the lights were off and it was silent, too silent for his liking. He wanted more than everything else to get Anzu out of this house once and for all, he knew that going alone inside would be stupid since, if he was right and Raven really was inside, he wouldn't let him take Anzu so easily. However, he had a feeling that something terrible happened. Without waiting for his friend to arrive, Yugi walked the path toward the house and climbed the steps of the balcony, he knocked on the door but got no answer, which only made him more worried. He carefully opened the door and stepped inside, the lights of the kitchen were turned off so he couldn't see anything. He searched the wall next to the door for the light switch, when he found it, he quickly turned it on, nothing could have prepared him to the sight in front of him, his eyes became wide as he stared at the lifeless body laying on the floor in front of him, a single word escaped his mouth, nothing more than a whisper: "Anzu…"
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trying to look innocent review?
Damn it, my schedule sucks big time, I'm serious, I have 4h of break THREE times per week, I'm starting early and getting out late, I swear I'll spent the next 3 days awake if I must to change my damn French class I don't want to get out at 4 on Friday TT