CHAPTER ELEVEN
KARI
Author's Notes: A new character gets introduced in this chappie - you'll have to read on to find out who ^_^. Enjoy, and R+R please! Sorry for the late posting!
Mai and a new girl with long auburn hair and welcoming brown eyes rushed in, and shook Anzu awake. "Anzu! Wake up! Yami's been hurt - terribly!"
Anzu's eyes snapped wide open. "Yami!" She kept in an ear-piercing scream as the night's events flooded back, and bit her lip.
"Hurry and get dressed." The other girl held up a lavender-colored silk dress. "My name is Shizuka. I am the daughter of the Priest Gozin (Author's Notes: I know that's a stupid name - sorry, can't think of anything at the moment)."
"Hi." Anzu stuttered.
"What are you waiting for? Change! Hurry!" Hurriedly, Anzu changed, rushing into the restroom. She straightened the ruffles on her wrist as to hide the deep cut there. There was a deep red gash of dried blood on her neck. It was barely noticeable except when you got up close, but it pained her awfully.
She winced at herself. She was pale, her hair tousled, eyes dark and frightened, and legs quivering. A large purple bruise had appeared on the side of her hip and her leg, and she was glad for the floor-length dress.
She then noticed cuts and scratches running along her thigh and stomach. 'Never mind that,' she thought, they wouldn't leave scars. Nothing would leave a scar - it never did (Author's Notes: Let's also just pretend her Necklace has the power of hiding scars).
She stumbled out, leg hurting terribly. She limped to the bed, where Mai and Shizuka were waiting impatiently for her. "Hurry, Anzu!" Shizuka pushed Anzu forward and they marched her to Yami's room.
~Anzu and Yami Alone in his Chambers~
Anzu entered slowly, as to try to hide her limping foot. Yami was lying beneath a sheet. Breathing heavily, her heart skipped a beat when she saw him.
Strands of fine golden hair were on a white pillow, but what intrigued her most were his closed eyes. And he looked weakly up at her, opening those large, passionate eyes.
The amethyst of those eyes pierced her heart. She bit her lip. She was too selfish. She could let Bakura spread her secret. Her one treasured secret - she'd be beheaded, but it was better than letting Seto and Yami die. If she gave Yami her Millennium Necklace to wield as well, he could overcome Bakura. At least he'd have a chance (Author's Notes: Aw.Anzu's getting soft ^_^).
"Are you okay, Yami?" She asked, clasping his hand in a tight grip. Yami stared straight into two blue eyes. They were never-ending and fathomless, full of deep dark secrets that would be carried within her mind forever.
"Anzu." He whispered softly. A soft smile came upon his face. "My time on Earth is spent."
"No it isn't." Anzu panicked. The pain of her own wounds was racking her. She'd sacrifice herself for Yami if she had to. Rapidly, she ran back to her chambers and took medicines and herbs out of her cabinet.
"A dose of Caltenint and Vitaore should ease the pain." She whispered quickly. "The Mitoare should help clot the blood." She then placed several lotus flowers around Yami, the symbol of healing. 'Sekhmet, please help Yami.' She thought.
Yami felt painless. His slashed arms didn't hurt as much, a cut in his chest he hadn't noticed before didn't hurt as well, and he felt.very much alive. He felt the energy flow back into him - slowly, but it came.
Anzu knelt by Yami's bed, battling the pain in her head.
~Anzu's Thoughts~
'What are you doing, you foolish mortal?' Bakura hissed.
'Simple,' Anzu replied, holding back tears, 'I'm helping Yami. You can take me, but not Yami nor Seto. Never.ever.'
'MORTAL!' Bakura thundered. He was afraid this would happen. Afraid that the girl would stand up. But he got an idea. "Mortal, you don't think that your secret of Desert Rose is all I have, do you?'
'What do you mean?' Anzu stuttered.
'I mean.Kari.' Bakura's red eyes glowed, and a little girl with short blond hair at the age of ten appeared. It was her sister. The sister her mother had left her before she died. The daughter of Jason, the one Amy wouldn't allow him to know about. The tiny three-year-old toddler. Kari was left in a separate orphanage for toddlers. Anzu had escaped easily at only eleven, after a year of planning and devising to get Kari. Unfortunately, she never found Kari.
'Kari!' Anzu yelped. The same glimmering green eyes as her mother's stood out, her father's rich-blond hair mussed up and brown. It was Kari Mazaki.
'Anzu!' Kari yelled. It was the sister Bakura had told her about.
'Sorry to break up a family reunion, but I must leave now - with Kari. Make up your mind, Mazaki.' Bakura disappeared in a whirl.
~Yami's Chambers~
"Kari!" Anzu's blue eyes were shot. Instinctively, she checked on Yami, to find him peaceful and sleeping. She kissed his forehead lightly, her eyes shimmering with sadness. She looked out a window. It was nighttime, the full moon shining brightly, casting its glare on her pale face. 'I'm must've dozed off,' she thought hurriedly.
A moment later, she bolted out of the room, eyes fierce and red, ready to tackle Bakura. She'd rack the spirit out of Ryou if she had to.
She flung open the door, and sight before her almost made her faint.
~Ryou's Chambers~
She froze. It was Isis, passionately kissing an innocent-looking, beet-red Ryou. She saw his Millennium Ring flung on the stone table, but she refused to look at them. "Isis!"
Isis and Ryou broke apart immediately, both turning a deep shade of maroon. In contrast to his white hair, Ryou looked very strange. "Um.hi.Anzu." Isis laughed uneasily.
"Isis." Anzu's blue eyes blazed like bolts of fire. "I need to speak to Ryou alone. It's something personal. I'm sorry."
Isis left quickly, too mortified to say anything. Anzu bolted the door, sealing it crack to crack with the magic of her Necklace.
"Ryou Bakura." She met those innocent, brown eyes. "You evil fool! You idiot! You treacherous spirit!"
"I don't think you're looking for Ryou." A new, cooler voice came, and Ryou, screaming for help, was knocked dead faint as a new form arose from the Millennium Ring.
Anzu would never forget his face. His snow-white hair was slick and his figure was a mere silhouette against the dark evening. His pure red eyes, glimmering with the evilness of the horrid spirits came out to meet the moonlight of the full moon. His teeth, as his smirk curled into an evil smile, matched the color of his hair, and he bared teeth. Awful, fanged teeth that were dripping with imaginative blood, like a werewolf.
Anzu found herself outside on the grass, sending death glares to Bakura. "I want Kari back." Anzu whispered in a cool, dangerously low voice. "NOW, you bastard."
Bakura laughed - an insolent type of laugh that howled deep into the forest. The dark cast of the tall trees seemed to beckon down upon her. Just by the blowing of the wind, Anzu felt afraid and utterly tired from the battle with Yami the night before. "INSOLENT MORTAL! NOBODY calls Bakura a bastard!" Bakura seemed more alive and drawn than in her dreams. He seemed.real. A strange grey-red extract the color of his eyes flowed from Bakura's finger.
It drew closer and closer, menacing with tiny slits in its eyes. The monster clawed at Anzu, and for the moment, she felt like a helpless child. Bakura seemed to loom closer and closer at every minute, until a startled cry stopped him.
It was high-pitched, shrill, and seemed to stop time. It was Kari. "Anzu! Anzu-chan!" She was running towards her sister, tears streaming out her big green eyes.
Anzu felt determination flooding back. "Kari." She whispered. She stood up, confidence filling her weakened legs. As Bakura was staring in shock, red eyes glowing, Anzu did a roundhouse kick straight into Bakura's neck.
In those few moments, she saw pictures of her sweet, sweet, mother calling out to her, the enraged, finely-drawn handsome face of her drunk father, and she remembered the orphanage. The orphanage, where she escaped by motivation of her sister. The orphanage, where she was cold towards anyone but her sister - but they were torn apart. Images of swearing with her own blood for Desert Rose filled her confused mind. Then reality broke.
Unfortunately, Bakura's sensitive ears heard her first and his hand grasped her leg, and Anzu immediately felt searing pains going through her leg. She screamed, a high, terrifying, ear-piercing, earth-shattering scream that seemed to tremble the earth.
"No!" Kari yelled. She strapped herself onto Bakura's back in a piggyback, pulling his hair back. "Don't touch my sister!" She yelled.
Bakura tried prying Kari off, but she wouldn't budge. He then enveloped her with him back into the Millennium Ring, and he smirked one last time. "I'll get you next time, Mazaki. Soon enough."
Anzu brought a fist down to meet the ground, a battle cry escaping her lips. Streams of blood ran down her leg. The earth seemed to tremble under the tremendous force of her cry. "Kari." Anzu dozed off in the forest, curled up in a ball. She didn't care. Not anymore.
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Author's Notes: That's Chappie 11! I really hope you enjoyed it! So.Anzu has a mysterious sister to thicken the plot. Please read my newest ficcy that I just posted up - Angel of Darkness! It's a Anzu/Yami ficcy as well! Anyways, R+R please!
Author's Notes: A new character gets introduced in this chappie - you'll have to read on to find out who ^_^. Enjoy, and R+R please! Sorry for the late posting!
Mai and a new girl with long auburn hair and welcoming brown eyes rushed in, and shook Anzu awake. "Anzu! Wake up! Yami's been hurt - terribly!"
Anzu's eyes snapped wide open. "Yami!" She kept in an ear-piercing scream as the night's events flooded back, and bit her lip.
"Hurry and get dressed." The other girl held up a lavender-colored silk dress. "My name is Shizuka. I am the daughter of the Priest Gozin (Author's Notes: I know that's a stupid name - sorry, can't think of anything at the moment)."
"Hi." Anzu stuttered.
"What are you waiting for? Change! Hurry!" Hurriedly, Anzu changed, rushing into the restroom. She straightened the ruffles on her wrist as to hide the deep cut there. There was a deep red gash of dried blood on her neck. It was barely noticeable except when you got up close, but it pained her awfully.
She winced at herself. She was pale, her hair tousled, eyes dark and frightened, and legs quivering. A large purple bruise had appeared on the side of her hip and her leg, and she was glad for the floor-length dress.
She then noticed cuts and scratches running along her thigh and stomach. 'Never mind that,' she thought, they wouldn't leave scars. Nothing would leave a scar - it never did (Author's Notes: Let's also just pretend her Necklace has the power of hiding scars).
She stumbled out, leg hurting terribly. She limped to the bed, where Mai and Shizuka were waiting impatiently for her. "Hurry, Anzu!" Shizuka pushed Anzu forward and they marched her to Yami's room.
~Anzu and Yami Alone in his Chambers~
Anzu entered slowly, as to try to hide her limping foot. Yami was lying beneath a sheet. Breathing heavily, her heart skipped a beat when she saw him.
Strands of fine golden hair were on a white pillow, but what intrigued her most were his closed eyes. And he looked weakly up at her, opening those large, passionate eyes.
The amethyst of those eyes pierced her heart. She bit her lip. She was too selfish. She could let Bakura spread her secret. Her one treasured secret - she'd be beheaded, but it was better than letting Seto and Yami die. If she gave Yami her Millennium Necklace to wield as well, he could overcome Bakura. At least he'd have a chance (Author's Notes: Aw.Anzu's getting soft ^_^).
"Are you okay, Yami?" She asked, clasping his hand in a tight grip. Yami stared straight into two blue eyes. They were never-ending and fathomless, full of deep dark secrets that would be carried within her mind forever.
"Anzu." He whispered softly. A soft smile came upon his face. "My time on Earth is spent."
"No it isn't." Anzu panicked. The pain of her own wounds was racking her. She'd sacrifice herself for Yami if she had to. Rapidly, she ran back to her chambers and took medicines and herbs out of her cabinet.
"A dose of Caltenint and Vitaore should ease the pain." She whispered quickly. "The Mitoare should help clot the blood." She then placed several lotus flowers around Yami, the symbol of healing. 'Sekhmet, please help Yami.' She thought.
Yami felt painless. His slashed arms didn't hurt as much, a cut in his chest he hadn't noticed before didn't hurt as well, and he felt.very much alive. He felt the energy flow back into him - slowly, but it came.
Anzu knelt by Yami's bed, battling the pain in her head.
~Anzu's Thoughts~
'What are you doing, you foolish mortal?' Bakura hissed.
'Simple,' Anzu replied, holding back tears, 'I'm helping Yami. You can take me, but not Yami nor Seto. Never.ever.'
'MORTAL!' Bakura thundered. He was afraid this would happen. Afraid that the girl would stand up. But he got an idea. "Mortal, you don't think that your secret of Desert Rose is all I have, do you?'
'What do you mean?' Anzu stuttered.
'I mean.Kari.' Bakura's red eyes glowed, and a little girl with short blond hair at the age of ten appeared. It was her sister. The sister her mother had left her before she died. The daughter of Jason, the one Amy wouldn't allow him to know about. The tiny three-year-old toddler. Kari was left in a separate orphanage for toddlers. Anzu had escaped easily at only eleven, after a year of planning and devising to get Kari. Unfortunately, she never found Kari.
'Kari!' Anzu yelped. The same glimmering green eyes as her mother's stood out, her father's rich-blond hair mussed up and brown. It was Kari Mazaki.
'Anzu!' Kari yelled. It was the sister Bakura had told her about.
'Sorry to break up a family reunion, but I must leave now - with Kari. Make up your mind, Mazaki.' Bakura disappeared in a whirl.
~Yami's Chambers~
"Kari!" Anzu's blue eyes were shot. Instinctively, she checked on Yami, to find him peaceful and sleeping. She kissed his forehead lightly, her eyes shimmering with sadness. She looked out a window. It was nighttime, the full moon shining brightly, casting its glare on her pale face. 'I'm must've dozed off,' she thought hurriedly.
A moment later, she bolted out of the room, eyes fierce and red, ready to tackle Bakura. She'd rack the spirit out of Ryou if she had to.
She flung open the door, and sight before her almost made her faint.
~Ryou's Chambers~
She froze. It was Isis, passionately kissing an innocent-looking, beet-red Ryou. She saw his Millennium Ring flung on the stone table, but she refused to look at them. "Isis!"
Isis and Ryou broke apart immediately, both turning a deep shade of maroon. In contrast to his white hair, Ryou looked very strange. "Um.hi.Anzu." Isis laughed uneasily.
"Isis." Anzu's blue eyes blazed like bolts of fire. "I need to speak to Ryou alone. It's something personal. I'm sorry."
Isis left quickly, too mortified to say anything. Anzu bolted the door, sealing it crack to crack with the magic of her Necklace.
"Ryou Bakura." She met those innocent, brown eyes. "You evil fool! You idiot! You treacherous spirit!"
"I don't think you're looking for Ryou." A new, cooler voice came, and Ryou, screaming for help, was knocked dead faint as a new form arose from the Millennium Ring.
Anzu would never forget his face. His snow-white hair was slick and his figure was a mere silhouette against the dark evening. His pure red eyes, glimmering with the evilness of the horrid spirits came out to meet the moonlight of the full moon. His teeth, as his smirk curled into an evil smile, matched the color of his hair, and he bared teeth. Awful, fanged teeth that were dripping with imaginative blood, like a werewolf.
Anzu found herself outside on the grass, sending death glares to Bakura. "I want Kari back." Anzu whispered in a cool, dangerously low voice. "NOW, you bastard."
Bakura laughed - an insolent type of laugh that howled deep into the forest. The dark cast of the tall trees seemed to beckon down upon her. Just by the blowing of the wind, Anzu felt afraid and utterly tired from the battle with Yami the night before. "INSOLENT MORTAL! NOBODY calls Bakura a bastard!" Bakura seemed more alive and drawn than in her dreams. He seemed.real. A strange grey-red extract the color of his eyes flowed from Bakura's finger.
It drew closer and closer, menacing with tiny slits in its eyes. The monster clawed at Anzu, and for the moment, she felt like a helpless child. Bakura seemed to loom closer and closer at every minute, until a startled cry stopped him.
It was high-pitched, shrill, and seemed to stop time. It was Kari. "Anzu! Anzu-chan!" She was running towards her sister, tears streaming out her big green eyes.
Anzu felt determination flooding back. "Kari." She whispered. She stood up, confidence filling her weakened legs. As Bakura was staring in shock, red eyes glowing, Anzu did a roundhouse kick straight into Bakura's neck.
In those few moments, she saw pictures of her sweet, sweet, mother calling out to her, the enraged, finely-drawn handsome face of her drunk father, and she remembered the orphanage. The orphanage, where she escaped by motivation of her sister. The orphanage, where she was cold towards anyone but her sister - but they were torn apart. Images of swearing with her own blood for Desert Rose filled her confused mind. Then reality broke.
Unfortunately, Bakura's sensitive ears heard her first and his hand grasped her leg, and Anzu immediately felt searing pains going through her leg. She screamed, a high, terrifying, ear-piercing, earth-shattering scream that seemed to tremble the earth.
"No!" Kari yelled. She strapped herself onto Bakura's back in a piggyback, pulling his hair back. "Don't touch my sister!" She yelled.
Bakura tried prying Kari off, but she wouldn't budge. He then enveloped her with him back into the Millennium Ring, and he smirked one last time. "I'll get you next time, Mazaki. Soon enough."
Anzu brought a fist down to meet the ground, a battle cry escaping her lips. Streams of blood ran down her leg. The earth seemed to tremble under the tremendous force of her cry. "Kari." Anzu dozed off in the forest, curled up in a ball. She didn't care. Not anymore.
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Author's Notes: That's Chappie 11! I really hope you enjoyed it! So.Anzu has a mysterious sister to thicken the plot. Please read my newest ficcy that I just posted up - Angel of Darkness! It's a Anzu/Yami ficcy as well! Anyways, R+R please!