Asuka02RedEva
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@-~~Thank you so very much to all of you who have reviewed and e-mailed me. Comments, suggestions, and ideas are always welcomed~~Please do not review if you do not like my story, personally it is a waste of your time and mine~~I am sorry that it has taken me so long to update but I have been loaded with homework~~Also sorry if this chapter is shorter than you would have liked~~Have a great day~~Ja! -@~~

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The man continued to pull Anzu down the path as she struggled to free herself from his grip. She was in no mood for this and had no intention of having a little "fun" (as he had put it) with him of all people.

"Let me go, you creep!," Anzu glared at him while she yelled.

"Pretty ladies shouldn't make those kinds of faces you know--it's not nice." The man smirked and once more looked her over. "Now stop struggling and c'mon!"

He gave her arm a hard yank causing her to stumble over a tree root, hidden by the dark, and fall to her knees.

"You're turning out to be more trouble than your worth!" He violently proceeded to pull her up.

"If she's too much trouble then why not let her go?"

The man looked to his right to see what appeared to be a teenage boy standing in the shadows. His hands were in his pockets and his head titled down.

"Who the hell do you think you are?! Trying to tell me what to do!," yelled them man as he let go of Anzu and faced the new comer.

"...The question is not who am I, but what am I..."

The man noticed that this boy was smirking at him. "You think this is funny? Just what the hell do you mean by that?!" The man was loosing his patients and quickly.

"...Anzu...are you alright?," asked Yami as he looked down at her.

Anzu held her arm for a moment, she appeared to be fine, just a little shooken up from having that guy grab her and all. "....I'm alright...Yuugi....," she stated with a small nod.

Yami sighed a small sigh that went un-noticed by the man and Anzu. "...This girl is not your concern, you have no further need to here..."

"Like hell I don't! I found her in the woods, and I was just being a gentleman and escorting her out of the woods." The man looked over to Anzu. "Right cutie?"

Yami arched an eye brow. "Is this true, Anzu? Or did this guy hurt you?" The eye of Horus started to appear on his forhead, but he stopped it. '...For if it isn't...he will pay...'

"....No....it's not true....I told him that I didn't want to go with him and he forced me...he started dragging me down the path...," replied Anzu as she stood up and brushed herself off.

"You bitch!" The man threw his arm back to slap her hard across her face. "Wh-what???"

Yami held the man by his wrist, standing in front of Anzu. As he looked at the man an evil purple fire seemed to be in his eyes, along with an evil aura that seemed to appear around him.

"H-how....did you?," the man questioned almost in shock as he watched Yami.

Anzu opened her eyes to find that she hadn't been hit. She looked in front of her to find Yami shielding her. 'How did he stop that man when he was way over there?'

"Now...I'll ask you one more time to leave her alone...," Yami ordered calmly and cooly.

The man pulled his arm free from Yami's grip and glared at him. "I still want the girl to come with me...it's going to start raining soon and we can't have her getting all wet now can we?"

"We'll get out of the rain just as soon as you leave...or if you still insist...we could play a little game for her..." Yami smirked, the evil aura around him seeming to flare up at the idea of a game.

"...You idiot!," the man bellowed. "Do you see an arena around here???"

"...I did not say duel, baka--I said play a game..."

"A game? What kind of game?" The man arched an eyebrow at this.

"The game I have in mind is quite simple. If your up to it that is."

"Is that so? Well then, you're on." The man looked Anzu over once more and rubbed his chin in thought.

Anzu scowled and moved completely behind Yami to get out of the sight of the leering pervert. Yami noticed Anzu move behind him and then turned his attention back to the man in front of him.

"Keep in mind, if you lose you will leave Anzu alone and never come near her again, or there WILL be hell to pay."

"Anzu...that's a pretty name. Now, once I beat your little boyfriend at this game of his...why don't you and I continue what we started and have a little fun?"

Anzu didn't know which thing the man had said to her to correct him on. One, Yami was NOT her boyfriend. Also, if he thought he was going to have a "good" time with her he had another thing coming to him.

Yami looked at Anzu out of the corner of his eye. Usually he affected by something that a mere mortal would say, but the word boyfriend had caught his attention. ...And come to think of it, Anzu wasn't denying that he wasn't her boyfriend. Yami was really confused...

'Is Anzu in love with...me?' The King of Games was actually in shock. This was not good...how would he tell Anzu that he wasn't the Yuugi she had grown up with? Not to mention how would this affect Yuugi? It wasn't like it was any secret how he felt about her after all.

The man was practically flagging Yami down, wondering what in the world he was doing.

Anzu blinked...for yes...our Yami...was in deed....blushing....

"Um...Yuugi...aren't you going to play some sort of game?," asked Anzu. 'But wait...since when does Yuugi challenge people to anything other than duel monsters? ...Is he blushing?' She arched an eye brow at him.

"Yo man, are you going to duel me or whatever for the chick, or do I just win automatically because you've changed your mind?"

All that Yami had on his mind were the words "boy" and "friend". Now he may be old but he wasn't clueless as to modern day concepts and the hidden meanings to words.

"Alright cutie, let's go find a place where you and I can go and get to know one another better."

He moved his hand forward to grab Anzu by her left arm when Yami as fast as one may snap their fingers, intercepted by holding out his arm in front of Anzu.

"I never said I was backing down. I was merely thinking of an appropriate game to play." The King of Games had made his recovery.

"Alright then.," started the man. "Name your game so we can be done with this."

"Alright there is only one rule to this game." Lightning flashed as Yami pulled out a knife from what almost appeared to be thin air.

Anzu blinked wondering if her eyes were playing tricks on her again.

"Stand with your back against a tree..." Yami did just as he had said. "...and the first one to get hit looses. The only rule is that you cannot move or dodge the path of the knife." He then threw the knife at the tree where the man had his back rested against....

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~Asuka~