Chibi: *hums to self* Guess what?!?! Go on! Guess!..............No?! *shrugs* Oh well! Ladies and gentlemen may I present the finally chapter of Birthday Tears!!!!!! ^_^ *is bombarded by heavy objects from readers who want more chapters* Sorry!!! But fear not!! I plan on doing and epilogue! I explain more at the end! So read on!!!

Disclaimer: I just wrote I short humor fic about disclaimers. I hate them! Why do I have to say them!!! *evil men from said fic who represent the YGO ppl come over and look menacingly at Chibi* OK! I'm saying it now! But only because I have nothing to fight back with right now ^_^ I don't own Yu-Gi- Oh!!!

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The doctors soon came to the conclusion that it would be best for Anzu to go back to sleep and rest after her whole ordeal. Of course, after much more discussion and argument, mostly on Yami's behalf, they also wisely came to the conclusion that Yami could stay with Anzu through the rest of the night.

Morning quickly came and brought with it the relief that everyone desperately needed. The whole group soon found themselves in Anzu's room once they woke. Anzu was now moved out of the ICU and in a normal room, but was still under servalence, just in case.

The bright sunlight shone through the open window and onto the group of friends who sat chatting and playing games. Yugi sat on the bed with Anzu while Jou and Honda sat backwards on their chairs facing each other.

"Umm, Jou?" Yugi questioned as he looked oddly at his friend.

"What is it man?" he asked as he waited for Honda to make his move.

"You do know that it's kinda pointless to hold the card you want Honda to pick higher than your other card?"

Jou held two cards in his hand with one card about an inch higher than the other.

"Shud'up man!" Jou whispered loudly at Yugi. "I'm workin off a strategy here!"

Honda smirked as he reached over and picked the card that wasn't held up.

"Ha!" He laughed in Jou's face, "You're the Old Maid!"

Jou groaned as he stood up and threw his card to the ground.

"Ahh! You cheated, you cheater!"

"Did not!"

Then how did you beat me ten times in a row?!"

"You're just a lousy card player," Honda shrugged as Jou's face grew red.

"Why you little!!" With that Jou lunged at Honda and the two soon found themselves in a small fight on the floor.

Yugi and Anzu sweat-dropped as they watched their friend's unruly behavior. Yugi turned to Anzu and laughed with her, but soon found himself with a question.

"Hey Anzu?"

"Yes Yugi?"

"Where's Yami? He wasn't here when the rest of us came this morning."

"I don't really know. He woke me this morning to tell me that he had something to take care of and would be back soon. But that was over an hour ago."

Yugi thought about this for a moment and then came up with an idea.

"I'm gonna try and 'talk' to him."

"Ok," Anzu said as she watch her friend get a spaced off look in his eyes.

/Yami? Yami can you hear me?/

//Yes, I can Aibou. Is something the matter?//

/No, not really. We were all starting to wonder where you're at./

//Actually, I'm back in the hospital now. I had a few things I needed to resolve.//

/Oh, ok./ The lighter half mentally smiled. /So you'll be here soon?/

//Yes. You may tell everyone that I'll be up shortly.//

/Ok!/

//Oh, and Aibou?//

/Yes Yami?/

//How's Anzu doing?//

/She's great! It's wonderful to see her smiling again! Though she is asking about you./

Yami chuckled softly, //Well, I be there soon.//

With that, their connection was broken and Yugi turned towards Anzu and the others.

"Yami's on his way here. Infact, he's in the hospital and should be up here shortly. But I had the feeling that he was hiding something from me."

"That's weird," Anzu said as she moved to the side of the bed, "but we'll find out soon."

No sooner had that been said had a light knock sound at the door and Yami stepped in.

"Good morning everyone," Yami said as he stood in the doorway.

"Hey man!" Jou smiled, "leave the doorway and come in and talk wit us!"

"I will, but I have someone with me whom I need to introduce."

"Who?"

Yami stepped in and to the side to allow an older man in a long, black coat to enter.

"It's him!!" Yugi stood shocked, "That's the guy who told us to meet you and Anzu here at the hospital!"

Anzu looked bewildered at the man as Yami waved to someone out in the hall and shut the door behind this new person.

"May I introduce Mr.Quito Marrin."

Anzu's eyes went wide, "Marrin?!" Everyone noticed her unsettled-ness and attempt to scoot as far back in her bed as possible.

Yami walked over to the bed and sat next to her, wrapping his arms around her.

"It's ok Anzu. You don't have to fear this man. Infact, he saved us."

Anzu looked questioningly at Yami and waited for him to continue.

"Mr. Marrin is the father of Capac and Chimu, yet he killed his sons and saved us. Reasonably, I had some unanswered questions after this and went to him to try and settle some issues."

"What questions are those?" Honda asked.

"What happened to him after the accident and why the police weren't able to find him? How he knew Anzu had left her room? How he knew to tell all of you that Anzu and I would be in the hospital? And lastly, how he knew where Capac and Chimu were living at and got there in time to save us?"

"I dunno know man, those questions kinda make me suspicious." Jou glared at Mr. Marrin.

"As was I, which was why I originally went to question him."

Yugi, being his normal polite self, pulled over a chair for Mr. Marrin to sit in. Mr. Marrin gave a nod of thanks and took his seat. Yami waited for everyone to get situated, then continued.

"I remembered that Detective Mosser told me that Mr. Marrin was being held in custody. So I went there this morning to talk to him."

"I suppose this is were I come in, " Mr. Marrin started as he sat up-right. "First of all, I would like to extend my most sincere apologies for what has passed to all of you. And especially to you Ms. Maszki."

Anzu blinked as she finally started to calm down, while Yami kept his arm wrapped around her.

"You can just call me Anzu."

Mr. Marrin nodded and continued. "I'm gonna try to explain my situation to all of you and hopefully prove my innocents, if not in court, then at least to you."

"I'll start off with where I went after the accident: That fateful day, many years back, started off like any other. My wife and I were planning on taking our boys to the park for a picnic lunch. It was such a beautiful day. We were loading the car and just about to take off when I received a phone call. It was my secretary calling to inform me that I had to go to work immediately for an important conference. I went to my wife and told her about it. She insisted that I head strait to work and that she would take our sons out. I quickly got in our second car and took off. Half way there I heard about the accident on the radio. Apparently a car swerved infront of them so my wife sharply turned to get out of the way, but that accidentally made the car flip and crash into the railing along the rode. I was in so much shock that I didn't even hear that my sons were still alive. I immediately drove off into the middle of nowhere. I couldn't think strait. I believed that they were all dead and because of me. Because I put my job before my family." Mr. Marrin hung his head and shame as everyone in the room just watched him.

"Of course I eventually discovered that my sons were still alive, but I was too ashamed to go and see them. I thought that any life that had now would be better without me. Without their father who could've, but didn't prevent the death of their mother. So I started a new life for me. I went about and did odd jobs to make just enough money to survive. My only goal in life was to just exist and help others. I gave all my extra money to the poor as I traveled about. I didn't want it. I just wanted to be happy again, but I knew I never could."

"As it turned out, I was passing through the town where we used to live at when I heard a few police officers talking over coffee about the 'Murdering Marrin Twins'. I was stunned, I couldn't believe that they were talking about my sons. So I did some research and found out all that had been happening. I came to the conclusion that I had to put a stop to this. I wanted to try and find them, to try and help them get better. So I took off. I started following their path and tried to catch up with them. But it seemed that I was always a step behind them. I was always too late to save those poor girls."

Mr. Marrin looked up and focused on Anzu. "You look so much like her. Like my beautiful wife. As did all the girls who were attacked. It felt like I was looking at my wife's dead body each and every time I found one of the girls."

Anzu didn't know what to do or say. She just held onto Yami and looked down at her bed sheets.

"Then one day they finally came here, to Domino City. I was finally able to catch up to them, but I was afraid that if I approached to quickly they would take off again. So I stayed undercover and watched them for awhile. Then one day I saw Anzu come with them to their house. I knew that she must be their next victim, but according to all the previous reports, they always took a few days to get to know the girls. So I went up to the window and watched. They acted normal and first, as if they never had been in that accident. Anzu was being very kind to them and they seemed to reciprocate the kindness. That was until they started having 'accidents'. They would pretend to trip or knock something over to try and bruise or cut Anzu."

Yami unconsciously drew Anzu close to him. It enraged him to hear how those twins had hurt her.

"This had been going on for about a week or so, I suppose Anzu never suspected anything. Then just the other day, all hell broke lose. I knew that my sons were growing anxious and that Anzu's life was in grave danger. I know now that I should've just gone to the police for help, but I wanted to so badly save my sons without them going to prison or to another institute. But I didn't. I crept into their house and heard Anzu scream from down in the basement. So I made a diversion and knocked over a table next to the front door. That must have worked cause next thing I knew, the boys had ran upstairs and Anzu had slipped past them. I followed her and saw her go to her house. I then saw all of you in there and decided to just take up watch."

"All of you know what happened afterwards with how Yami took off to find my sons and Anzu snuck out to find him. I followed and saw that she and indeed gone to their house. I wasn't sure what was going to happen, but I just felt that it would be right for me to tell all of you, her friends, that Anzu might end up in the hospital. I then immediately took off for Capac and Chimu's house and made it there just in time. It finally hit me, I realized that no matter how hard I tried they were never going to go back to normal. They had changed. And if I let them get away, they would kill again. So I did the only thing I could......I shot them."

Silence fell upon the room, as everyone just looked at each other not really sure what to do or say next. Yugi was the first to finally speak up.

"Well, it seems to me that you are innocent. Yes, you did kill your sons, but you did so to save Yami and Anzu. It was an emergency. You're not a bad person. I can tell that. And I think that any jury would be crazy to convict you of murder."

The rest of the group nodded in agreement.

"It's not that easy," Mr. Marrin started. "I'm being charged not just with murder, but also with withholding information that could aid in a criminal offense. Because I had followed my sons and interfered with an investigation, people are trying to blame me for not being able to prevent the deaths of all those other girls."

"That's not right!" Anzu's outburst startled the group as everyone turned to her. "Mr. Marrin, you've done nothing wrong here! You've saved Yami and me. And I owe you so much thanks." Mr. Marrin's gaze drifted to the ground. "I know that you must feel guilty for everything that's happened, and that has to be more than enough punishment for you."

Mr. Marrin looked up and smiled at Anzu. "Thank you for saying that. But I think it would be best now for all of you to go on with your lives. I gave up my life and now I have to live with the consequences."

Yami looked about and knew that there was nothing more to be said. He stood up and walked to the door. Outside an officer waited patiently to take Mr. Marrin back into custody. Yami nodded at him and gave a small thanks for waiting as long as he did. Mr. Marrin was about to leave the doorway when he turned around and looked at Anzu one last time.

"Take care Anzu." And with that, he left.

Yami was about to shut the door when a hand blocked him. It was Anzu's doctor. "I have some good news for all of you, and especially for you Ms. Maszaki. All you testing is finished and you've been approved with a clean bill of health. You're free to leave whenever you wish." The doctor smiled at the group and waved goodbye. "Well, I have many other patients to attend to now. Hopefully I won't have to meet any of you here again." He winked at the group and left.

Jou smiled broadly as he bounded over to Anzu. "You get to go home!" He said as he gave her a big bear hug.

"That's great!" She started to say, "But, Jou...I...can't...BREATH!!!" He finally let go of his death grip on her and put his had behind his head.

"Opps! Sorry bout dat!"

The group all laughed together as they helped Anzu pack up what little stuff she had with her. She finally went to the bathroom to change out of that horrid hospital robe and into some normal clothes. No pink shirts or skirts, just a nice pair of jeans and a trendy blue top. When she came out everyone except Yami had left.

"Where'd everyone go?" She asked as she stepped out into the room.

"They went to get a cab."

"All three of them?"

"Well, Jou went first, but Honda said he wasn't intelligent enough to hail a cab. So he followed Jou. Then Yugi finally realized that they'd be arguing too much to even hail a cab. So he went after them."

Anzu sighed a shook her head pathetically at the situation, but then was startled as Yami walked up next to her and wrapped his left arm around her right arm. "Let's be off now." He smiled as he looked down at her. Anzu blushed and tried to turn her head to hide any proof of her shyness. Yami gently lifted her chin up and bent down. He kissed her tenderly and then looked into her eyes.

"I love you so much Anzu. I don't know what I would've done had anything worse had happened to you."

Anzu smiled up at him. "I don't even want to think about it anymore. Let's just go home."

Yami agreed and led her out the door. They soon approached the hospital's front sliding doors and stepped up to them. The doors opened letting the sun's warmth shine onto the happy couple as the sound of laughter from their nearby friends broadened their smiles.

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Chibi: Ta da!!!!! What'd ya think?! ^_^ I really liked this chapter. True I think it may have had too much Mr. Marrin and not enough Yami, but I needed to explain a few things. And speaking of explaining, if there is anything that you still feel confused over, go ahead and ask me in a review or email and I'll try to explain it in the epilogue. Which by the way was thought up of only for the purpose of good 'ol fluffy-ness!!!!! I luv fulff!!! ^_^v Please review!!! Ja ne!!!