CHAPTER FIVE
CAMPFIRE
~Anzu, Seto, Ryou, and Yami at Tekamah~
"Eek! Stop it! Stop it!" Then Anzu felt something glow at her throat. It was a gold necklace, embedded with fancy scriptures and the eye of Horus.
Yami, who was busy looking for Mai to show up and show Anzu some proper manners, immediately turned around. Anzu had a strange aura glowing at her neck. It was a shimmering red and pink. Yami waded to her. Could it be possible? Did Anzu possess a Millennium Item? "Anzu?" He asked cautiously. The girl paid no heed to him. She seemed just as taken aback by the glowing as he did.
Seto and Ryou turned to glance at Anzu as well. 'So, the girl has a Millennium Item. The easiest way to get the Puzzle is to take her item, because the Pharaoh will fall through the girl. I have the Millennium Ring and the Millennium Eye, why not add a third, giving me access to a fourth as well.' Bakura thought evilly. 'Bakura, stop it! Stop it! No!' Ryou battled with himself inside his head.
Then they heard Mai's voice, a rich timbre. Anzu's necklace stopped glowing, and disappeared beneath her wetsuit. Yami, Seto, and Ryou turned. Mai looked in disgust at Anzu. 'Oh my holy goodness. I have to teach this poor thing how to act like a lady? She's in her freakin' wetsuit with the Pharaoh, and Seto, I had tried to warn him, and Ryou! No lady goes to a waterhole and actually dives in!' Mai had already had made up a long list of things to do - Hair, manicure, manners, walking, eating, curtsying, dancing.
Anzu rose from the water, the suit clinging to her every curve. She turned to glance at the elegant lady before her. "I'm Anzu Mazaki." Anzu smiled brightly, offering a wet hand.
"Mai," the other girl replied coolly. She didn't take the wet hand, so Anzu stepped out of the water hole, dripping wet and looking sexy.
"Excuse me. I'll go change." Anzu was embarrassed. There were two other boys behind Mai and a girl with raven-black hair.
"You can stay." Yami called. Seto almost cursed. He was going to tell Anzu to stay, but if Yami disagreed, he'd be in huge trouble.
"Okay," Anzu's strawberry/cherry-red lips curved up in a smile, and she, slowly descended down to the water.
"Mai is here to teach you manners. She is a well-respected lady in our court." Seto explained.
"That's great! When do I start?" Anzu asked.
"Right this moment, young lady." Mai looked down at the younger girl. "Get up." She wrapped a towel around the young girl. "We'll be back in a few hours for dinner."
"What are you doing?" Anzu asked, confused. Isis followed, but Jou and Honda stayed behind to talk with Yami, Seto, and Ryou. "Hello," she smiled, noticing Isis. "I'm Anzu."
"I'm Isis. Don't you remember me, Isis?" She tried to say without sounding too obvious.
"No, but hello Isis." Anzu and Isis talked, Isis trying to get Anzu to remember, but it didn't work. Mai undressed the girl and bathed her like a maid, but she had to prove to Yami she could do her job correctly.
Mai used her fingernails and raked through Anzu's hair with rose soap bubbles and fragrances, using rose-smelling shampoo and lavender conditioner, and her hair was finished. Anzu scrubbed her own body throughout and through with the supervision of Mai.
She was dressed and dried and pampered with rose-smelling lotion, the finest of all lotions, and dressed in a long silk dress. The dress was beautiful. It was pure red, long and with no straps. The dress wrapped tightly around her body, around her perfect curves and tiny waist, and deeply accented the blue in her eyes and her brunette hair.
Her hair was combed and dried and beautifully done by the perfectionist Mai, her nails trimmed and cut and manicured, and her feet in beautiful red heels. She nearly tripped on them, her blue eyes astonished. Her lips had rouge on them, and her hair was tucked back with a huge red rose. Her gold necklace was hidden somewhere beneath her skin, because it disappeared suddenly, and a diamond necklace was placed on her throat.
"You are finished." Mai smiled proudly at her work of art, and then dashed off to change into a violet dress. Isis followed her, and Mai helped her get into a black dress the color of her hair. A gold circlet was placed on her head, and her exotic eyes looked beautiful, aimed for Ryou, and now that she thought of it, Honda. Honda was kind of cute, after all. Mai looked beautiful in a violet dress with her well-bred gracefulness that she had been perfecting for years.
The boys had changed - Yami into his handsome flourishing suit, but today, he dressed all the others like himself - he was just a young man that night, not a Pharaoh. They waited for the girl, who came descending one by one, first Mai, whom Jou took, then Isis, who took Ryou and Honda's breath away, and Yami and Seto awaited eagerly for Anzu, who came dazzling down the stairs, floating down as if on a cloud. And they both remembered Desert Rose once more, but shook it out of their heads in denial.
Anzu smiled as her two hands were taking by a handsome priest on her left and an astounding Pharaoh on the other side. "Mai really can fix people up." She murmured through her smile. "She's also managed to fix Isis up. Although she keeps asking if I remember her. Strange." Anzu shook her head, and they were led to a grand table.
There was fried chicken, roasted pheasant, turkey, steak, sausages, potatoes (mashed, boiled, baked), grapes, salads (green, fruit), oranges, fruits, soups (chicken, turtle), and puddings. They said thanks for the sacrifice for the animals and for the food they had and their blessings. Then the eight feasted, and Jou and Honda pigged out, even knowing that Isis and Mai were watching them. Anzu had a strange, shy smile about her, and she kept casting shy and sly glances at Seto and Yami. She kept up her façade until she got incredibly tired of it.
"Seto, can I talk to you for two seconds?" She asked, afraid and too timid to ask Yami.
"Sure, if it's okay with Yami." Seto glanced at Yami, who nodded. Anzu and Seto left.
"Seto, I hate this. I'm not a very graceful person and I want to have some fun!"
"Not graceful? I knew you were shy, but a liar, Anzu Mazaki? You have natural grace, not like Mai's bred grace. And as for the fun part, Yami's never let anyone shake him up and let go loose. What makes you think you could succeed, Anzu?" Seto asked.
"I don't know, but Yami seems trapped. I'm going to help him." Anzu replied.
"By what?"
"I'll think of something." Anzu hurried off, Seto returned to the table, and Anzu hurried off in search of something.
When Anzu came back, she had a bunch of wet and washed sticks, an armful of firewood, and hot dogs and marshmallows. She also came with a change of clothes for everybody, and she herself was already in a light blue shirt and a royal blue short skirt.
"Anzu, what are you doing?" Isis asked, freaked out.
"Having fun." She tossed a pair of clothes to everybody - a shirt and a skirt for Isis and Mai, and pants and a shirt for Ryou, Yami, Jou, and Honda. "Put these on while I set up the campfire." Anzu carefully started a burning fire with the logs and put a hot dog in each stick.
Yami, who was the first to change, watched her in amusement. "Campfire?" He asked.
"Yes.a campfire. Here.let me show you." Anzu gave Yami a stick, and held her own stick over the fire.
"Like this?" Yami asked.
"No, that's too close. Your hot dog will scorch. No, wait, no -" Anzu toppled over accidentally and landed on Yami's chest, and their lips met (Author's Note: Very romantic!). She looked deep into his amethyst eyes and he brushed his lips against hers. She kissed him back, but as she heard rustling, she leapt up and brushed herself off, leaving Yami with a last glance. She showed the others how to roast their hot dogs, and the night was filled with chatter and talk.
"Time for games!" Mai smiled.
"What kind of games?" Isis asked the dangerous Mai timidly.
"The traditional games they have in modern Egypt now, of course, Isis, my dear." Mai smiled. "Four to a team. Okay, Jou, Isis, Honda, and me, and Ryou, Anzu, Seto, and Yami for the teams. We'll just do one game today. We have to pass these balls to the person behind us without using our hands. Then the last person crawls to the front, and starts the process over until the person who was first ends up first again. Got it? Okay.line up."
Ryou started, desperately balancing the small blue ball on his foot, and tossing it onto his head, rolling it to Yami. They repeated the process, and it was close. Seto was tossing the ball to Ryou and Mai to Jou, and Jou scrambled to the front with the ball between his teeth like a dog and they won. "Yes!" Jou jumped up. "You look very much like a puppy." Seto remarked.
"Hey, shuttup, you weird high priest! I don't care if you're the Pharaoh like Yami! I am not a puppy dog!"
"Puppy dog, puppy dog." Seto taunted.
"Let's go to sleep. Maybe they'll realize everyone's asleep and stop their bickering." Isis suggested.
"Yeah." Mai yawned, and they went into separate tents.
~Anzu's Dream~
"Jason (Author's Note: That came way out of the blue for Anzu's father), Jason, wake up!" A six-year-old Anzu watched her mother trying to wake her father up. Then her mother stepped back at the sight before her. Another woman lay with Jason. "Anzu, get out." She whispered hoarsely. Anzu left, be let a small crack in the door reveal her mother's angry shouting.
Her startled father gasped, and looked from the woman to her mother. "Amy.I can explain."
"How could you do this to me? More importantly, Anzu! She'll be traumatized forever!" Amy exclaimed, throwing her hands up in the air.
The younger, blond-haired woman lying next to Jason awoke. "Ugh.Jason, what happened.who is this?"
"My.my.sister's aunt's daughter's friend." Jason covered.
Smoke billowed out of Amy's ears, as well as Anzu's. Her daddy was bad, and even at six, she knew the difference between right and wrong. Anzu stormed in, her big blue eyes steaming with rage. "Daddy! You know perfectly well that that's Mommy! You're a big fat cheater and Mommy and I are leaving NOW!" Anzu climbed onto the bed and slapped her father twice while he stared on, amazed, and then said to the blond woman, "Sorry that you didn't know that my daddy was married, but he is! And he's stupid, cause my mommy's a great person!" She then slapped her father again, took her mother's hand, and trotted out.
~End Anzu's Dream~
Anzu awoke, startled, sweat pouring off her face. "Mom.Dad." She whispered, and she got up, sweaty from the warm Egyptian night, standing in a white T-shirt and blue shorts.
"Why are you awake, Anzu?" Seto was already standing by the burned out campfire.
"I couldn't sleep.I had a bad dream.about my parents." Anzu buried her face into her hands and stretched.
"Really? I dream about my parents too. Gozaburo." Seto thought, and turned away. "Parents can really -"
"Drive you crazy?" Anzu asked, her light blue eyes staring into Seto's.
"Yeah." Seto laughed. "Would you like to dance?"
"Dance?" Anzu smiled. "I love to dance, but I don't know."
"Come on, Anzu." Seto bowed, giving Anzu giggles.
"Okay." She took his outstretched arm.
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Author's Notes: Thanks for all the reviews! 70 reviews!!! So anyways, to sum up the chapter, Mai cleans Anzu up, Ryou sees Isis, Anzu kisses Yami, and she has yet another dream about her past. And now, she's going to dance with Seto! Next chappie has some Seto/Anzu, and I'll have a triangle between Seto/Anzu/Yami ending with Anzu/Yami in the end, and I'm going to introduce Miho in the next chappie and a little pet. Thanks to sm-candy for the triangle idea, and to Y Sunfire and sm-candy for info on Egyptian animals. R+R!
CAMPFIRE
~Anzu, Seto, Ryou, and Yami at Tekamah~
"Eek! Stop it! Stop it!" Then Anzu felt something glow at her throat. It was a gold necklace, embedded with fancy scriptures and the eye of Horus.
Yami, who was busy looking for Mai to show up and show Anzu some proper manners, immediately turned around. Anzu had a strange aura glowing at her neck. It was a shimmering red and pink. Yami waded to her. Could it be possible? Did Anzu possess a Millennium Item? "Anzu?" He asked cautiously. The girl paid no heed to him. She seemed just as taken aback by the glowing as he did.
Seto and Ryou turned to glance at Anzu as well. 'So, the girl has a Millennium Item. The easiest way to get the Puzzle is to take her item, because the Pharaoh will fall through the girl. I have the Millennium Ring and the Millennium Eye, why not add a third, giving me access to a fourth as well.' Bakura thought evilly. 'Bakura, stop it! Stop it! No!' Ryou battled with himself inside his head.
Then they heard Mai's voice, a rich timbre. Anzu's necklace stopped glowing, and disappeared beneath her wetsuit. Yami, Seto, and Ryou turned. Mai looked in disgust at Anzu. 'Oh my holy goodness. I have to teach this poor thing how to act like a lady? She's in her freakin' wetsuit with the Pharaoh, and Seto, I had tried to warn him, and Ryou! No lady goes to a waterhole and actually dives in!' Mai had already had made up a long list of things to do - Hair, manicure, manners, walking, eating, curtsying, dancing.
Anzu rose from the water, the suit clinging to her every curve. She turned to glance at the elegant lady before her. "I'm Anzu Mazaki." Anzu smiled brightly, offering a wet hand.
"Mai," the other girl replied coolly. She didn't take the wet hand, so Anzu stepped out of the water hole, dripping wet and looking sexy.
"Excuse me. I'll go change." Anzu was embarrassed. There were two other boys behind Mai and a girl with raven-black hair.
"You can stay." Yami called. Seto almost cursed. He was going to tell Anzu to stay, but if Yami disagreed, he'd be in huge trouble.
"Okay," Anzu's strawberry/cherry-red lips curved up in a smile, and she, slowly descended down to the water.
"Mai is here to teach you manners. She is a well-respected lady in our court." Seto explained.
"That's great! When do I start?" Anzu asked.
"Right this moment, young lady." Mai looked down at the younger girl. "Get up." She wrapped a towel around the young girl. "We'll be back in a few hours for dinner."
"What are you doing?" Anzu asked, confused. Isis followed, but Jou and Honda stayed behind to talk with Yami, Seto, and Ryou. "Hello," she smiled, noticing Isis. "I'm Anzu."
"I'm Isis. Don't you remember me, Isis?" She tried to say without sounding too obvious.
"No, but hello Isis." Anzu and Isis talked, Isis trying to get Anzu to remember, but it didn't work. Mai undressed the girl and bathed her like a maid, but she had to prove to Yami she could do her job correctly.
Mai used her fingernails and raked through Anzu's hair with rose soap bubbles and fragrances, using rose-smelling shampoo and lavender conditioner, and her hair was finished. Anzu scrubbed her own body throughout and through with the supervision of Mai.
She was dressed and dried and pampered with rose-smelling lotion, the finest of all lotions, and dressed in a long silk dress. The dress was beautiful. It was pure red, long and with no straps. The dress wrapped tightly around her body, around her perfect curves and tiny waist, and deeply accented the blue in her eyes and her brunette hair.
Her hair was combed and dried and beautifully done by the perfectionist Mai, her nails trimmed and cut and manicured, and her feet in beautiful red heels. She nearly tripped on them, her blue eyes astonished. Her lips had rouge on them, and her hair was tucked back with a huge red rose. Her gold necklace was hidden somewhere beneath her skin, because it disappeared suddenly, and a diamond necklace was placed on her throat.
"You are finished." Mai smiled proudly at her work of art, and then dashed off to change into a violet dress. Isis followed her, and Mai helped her get into a black dress the color of her hair. A gold circlet was placed on her head, and her exotic eyes looked beautiful, aimed for Ryou, and now that she thought of it, Honda. Honda was kind of cute, after all. Mai looked beautiful in a violet dress with her well-bred gracefulness that she had been perfecting for years.
The boys had changed - Yami into his handsome flourishing suit, but today, he dressed all the others like himself - he was just a young man that night, not a Pharaoh. They waited for the girl, who came descending one by one, first Mai, whom Jou took, then Isis, who took Ryou and Honda's breath away, and Yami and Seto awaited eagerly for Anzu, who came dazzling down the stairs, floating down as if on a cloud. And they both remembered Desert Rose once more, but shook it out of their heads in denial.
Anzu smiled as her two hands were taking by a handsome priest on her left and an astounding Pharaoh on the other side. "Mai really can fix people up." She murmured through her smile. "She's also managed to fix Isis up. Although she keeps asking if I remember her. Strange." Anzu shook her head, and they were led to a grand table.
There was fried chicken, roasted pheasant, turkey, steak, sausages, potatoes (mashed, boiled, baked), grapes, salads (green, fruit), oranges, fruits, soups (chicken, turtle), and puddings. They said thanks for the sacrifice for the animals and for the food they had and their blessings. Then the eight feasted, and Jou and Honda pigged out, even knowing that Isis and Mai were watching them. Anzu had a strange, shy smile about her, and she kept casting shy and sly glances at Seto and Yami. She kept up her façade until she got incredibly tired of it.
"Seto, can I talk to you for two seconds?" She asked, afraid and too timid to ask Yami.
"Sure, if it's okay with Yami." Seto glanced at Yami, who nodded. Anzu and Seto left.
"Seto, I hate this. I'm not a very graceful person and I want to have some fun!"
"Not graceful? I knew you were shy, but a liar, Anzu Mazaki? You have natural grace, not like Mai's bred grace. And as for the fun part, Yami's never let anyone shake him up and let go loose. What makes you think you could succeed, Anzu?" Seto asked.
"I don't know, but Yami seems trapped. I'm going to help him." Anzu replied.
"By what?"
"I'll think of something." Anzu hurried off, Seto returned to the table, and Anzu hurried off in search of something.
When Anzu came back, she had a bunch of wet and washed sticks, an armful of firewood, and hot dogs and marshmallows. She also came with a change of clothes for everybody, and she herself was already in a light blue shirt and a royal blue short skirt.
"Anzu, what are you doing?" Isis asked, freaked out.
"Having fun." She tossed a pair of clothes to everybody - a shirt and a skirt for Isis and Mai, and pants and a shirt for Ryou, Yami, Jou, and Honda. "Put these on while I set up the campfire." Anzu carefully started a burning fire with the logs and put a hot dog in each stick.
Yami, who was the first to change, watched her in amusement. "Campfire?" He asked.
"Yes.a campfire. Here.let me show you." Anzu gave Yami a stick, and held her own stick over the fire.
"Like this?" Yami asked.
"No, that's too close. Your hot dog will scorch. No, wait, no -" Anzu toppled over accidentally and landed on Yami's chest, and their lips met (Author's Note: Very romantic!). She looked deep into his amethyst eyes and he brushed his lips against hers. She kissed him back, but as she heard rustling, she leapt up and brushed herself off, leaving Yami with a last glance. She showed the others how to roast their hot dogs, and the night was filled with chatter and talk.
"Time for games!" Mai smiled.
"What kind of games?" Isis asked the dangerous Mai timidly.
"The traditional games they have in modern Egypt now, of course, Isis, my dear." Mai smiled. "Four to a team. Okay, Jou, Isis, Honda, and me, and Ryou, Anzu, Seto, and Yami for the teams. We'll just do one game today. We have to pass these balls to the person behind us without using our hands. Then the last person crawls to the front, and starts the process over until the person who was first ends up first again. Got it? Okay.line up."
Ryou started, desperately balancing the small blue ball on his foot, and tossing it onto his head, rolling it to Yami. They repeated the process, and it was close. Seto was tossing the ball to Ryou and Mai to Jou, and Jou scrambled to the front with the ball between his teeth like a dog and they won. "Yes!" Jou jumped up. "You look very much like a puppy." Seto remarked.
"Hey, shuttup, you weird high priest! I don't care if you're the Pharaoh like Yami! I am not a puppy dog!"
"Puppy dog, puppy dog." Seto taunted.
"Let's go to sleep. Maybe they'll realize everyone's asleep and stop their bickering." Isis suggested.
"Yeah." Mai yawned, and they went into separate tents.
~Anzu's Dream~
"Jason (Author's Note: That came way out of the blue for Anzu's father), Jason, wake up!" A six-year-old Anzu watched her mother trying to wake her father up. Then her mother stepped back at the sight before her. Another woman lay with Jason. "Anzu, get out." She whispered hoarsely. Anzu left, be let a small crack in the door reveal her mother's angry shouting.
Her startled father gasped, and looked from the woman to her mother. "Amy.I can explain."
"How could you do this to me? More importantly, Anzu! She'll be traumatized forever!" Amy exclaimed, throwing her hands up in the air.
The younger, blond-haired woman lying next to Jason awoke. "Ugh.Jason, what happened.who is this?"
"My.my.sister's aunt's daughter's friend." Jason covered.
Smoke billowed out of Amy's ears, as well as Anzu's. Her daddy was bad, and even at six, she knew the difference between right and wrong. Anzu stormed in, her big blue eyes steaming with rage. "Daddy! You know perfectly well that that's Mommy! You're a big fat cheater and Mommy and I are leaving NOW!" Anzu climbed onto the bed and slapped her father twice while he stared on, amazed, and then said to the blond woman, "Sorry that you didn't know that my daddy was married, but he is! And he's stupid, cause my mommy's a great person!" She then slapped her father again, took her mother's hand, and trotted out.
~End Anzu's Dream~
Anzu awoke, startled, sweat pouring off her face. "Mom.Dad." She whispered, and she got up, sweaty from the warm Egyptian night, standing in a white T-shirt and blue shorts.
"Why are you awake, Anzu?" Seto was already standing by the burned out campfire.
"I couldn't sleep.I had a bad dream.about my parents." Anzu buried her face into her hands and stretched.
"Really? I dream about my parents too. Gozaburo." Seto thought, and turned away. "Parents can really -"
"Drive you crazy?" Anzu asked, her light blue eyes staring into Seto's.
"Yeah." Seto laughed. "Would you like to dance?"
"Dance?" Anzu smiled. "I love to dance, but I don't know."
"Come on, Anzu." Seto bowed, giving Anzu giggles.
"Okay." She took his outstretched arm.
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Author's Notes: Thanks for all the reviews! 70 reviews!!! So anyways, to sum up the chapter, Mai cleans Anzu up, Ryou sees Isis, Anzu kisses Yami, and she has yet another dream about her past. And now, she's going to dance with Seto! Next chappie has some Seto/Anzu, and I'll have a triangle between Seto/Anzu/Yami ending with Anzu/Yami in the end, and I'm going to introduce Miho in the next chappie and a little pet. Thanks to sm-candy for the triangle idea, and to Y Sunfire and sm-candy for info on Egyptian animals. R+R!