Here's little something for you since you wanted me to continue… The next chapter will probably take a lot longer, I guess I should finally try to come up with some kind of a plot for this thing if I'm still going to continue this… There's no song for this chappy, and probably not for the following chapter's either, unless something comes to my mind someday. This was inspired by Anarla Carolie's first review where she wondered how Anzu's friends will react when they hear she's run away. What do we learn from this? Give me inspiring reviews!

Only some parts of this are in Anzu's pov. You'll notice when her pov begins, it's written in present tense and the rest of this chapter is in past tense. Despite that, the Anzu's pov -parts take place in past and the rest now… did you get that? Oh well, you will, when you start reading this… or at least I hope so…

As always… I can't thank you enough for your reviews. They're all appreciated, you can be sure about that.

Disclaimer: Nothing's changed I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh.

Chapter 3

"C'mon, get in, Jou. Yuugi's in his room, and I think that Ryou is there too."

"Thanks." Jou kicked off his shoes and nodded to Yuugi's grandpa who went back to the shop. He walked to Yuugi's room, and saw indeed Ryou Bakura standing beside Yuugi who was sitting by his desk.

"Hi guys. What's up?" he asked as he dropped to sit on Yuugi's bed. Yuugi looked up at him from a piece of paper he and Ryou had been closely examining. There was a small frown on his face, and he looked a little perplexed, as if he had been deep in thought.

"Hi Jou…" he said, but his gaze wandered to stare at emptiness and he didn't say anything else. Ryou nodded but didn't say anything either. "What?" Jou snapped finally in frustration. "What's happened?"

Yuugi blinked and turned to look at him again. "Oh… Nothing so much really, I just… got a letter…"

"Letter? From whom?" Jou got up from the bed and reached for it, but Yuugi drew it away from his reach almost involuntarily.

"It's from Anzu," Ryou said. "She's gone… she's now in Hawaii."

"Wha…" Jou stared at him and fall back sitting on the bed. "Hawaii? What the hell she's doing there? What do you mean, gone?"

Yuugi and Ryou glanced at each other, and then Yuugi gave the letter to Jou. "Maybe it's best if you read it by yourself." Jou glanced at him hesitantly, but started then to read the letter.

Dear Yuugi…

I stare at those two words I've managed to write. This isn't going too well… I know I have to write to him, I can't just disappear without any explanations, but… when I took up my pen I didn't realize how difficult this would be.

I turn to watch the dark waves of the sea and the white foam the ship creates as it fliesforward. I never get tired of watching them… There's something in their dance that fascinates me to no end. It looks almost like sky… a dark sky covered with white quickly dispersing clouds, which are always born again… I look up and stare at the horizon. Here and there can be seen few lonely white-crested waves, but the sun has already set and otherwise the sea is dark. There's something awe-inspiring in thatmassive ocean. Yes, it is beautiful, but at moments like this I fully grasp the folly of calling man the lord of the creation… Who could ever be the lord of a stormy sea? My gaze wanders back to the ship's side and to the white foam. Every now and then the ship makes a bigger wave, which clashes against a wave the wind is bringing from the ocean and the foam splashes high up in the air. Some of that water has ended up also over me, and I try to protect the paper from getting wet. Maybe this isn't the best place to write, but so what.

I blink. Ye-es, I was supposed to write, not to look at the waves. For a moment I stare at the blank paper. What can I say… I don't even know how to begin. Oh well, just write something, maybe it will start flowing when you get going…

The pen makes a quiet scratching noise, which the wind easily carries away.

I've been sitting here quite long wondering how to say this. I know that this is going to be a big shock, and this really comes quite suddenly… Although we have known each other for a long time, and been really good friends (and I mean that, I do think about you as my friend. Maybe you'll understand that comment later…) I still doubt that you really know me.

Jou glanced up from the paper with raised eyebrows. "What shocking there could ever be about Anzu?" he said, smiling a little crookedly, but let soon the smile die on his face when neither of his friends said anything. With a nervous cough he continued reading.

If you did, this probably wouldn't be so surprising… So, I thought that I'd start by explaining, trying to tell you what I am.

I stop for a moment and look again at the sea, but this time I don't see it. Instead I see Yuugi, talking about something with smile on his face. No, I don't think that he really knows me… How could he when I have never been myself around him? For some reason I feel a little guilty, as if I had lied to him about something important. Maybe I have, in a way…

I guess that outwardly I seemed to be quite happy… Everything in my life was just perfect, I had my hobbies, school was going well, I had many friends, and so on… Everything was perfect… the only problem being that I wasn't the one deciding what's perfect and what's not. When I was little, before the time we met, I was quite a tommy girl. Too much, at least in my parents' opinion. We clashed quite badly few times…

Jou looked up from the letter. "You know, I've really got a problem imagining that… Anzu clashing with her parents?"

Ryou, who had also sat down on the bed and had been reading the letter over Jou's shoulder, nodded. "I know," he said softly. "But somehow it makes sense, when I think about her… Sometimes I felt like she was all too content with everything in her life… There was something strange in it how she never complained and just talked about how wonderful live is with good friends… I mean I couldn't help wondering who she was trying to convince…"

Jou nodded slowly, thinking. "Yeah, your right… It was as if she was trying to convince herself that everything was fine…" He turned to look at the letter again. "Where was I going…"

We clashed quite badly few times but finally I gave in to them and became what they wanted me to be, a 'normal' girl, who's always friendly and polite. The problem with this was that, as I found out the hard way, it's not possible to be something you are not. I just couldn't make my parents to realize it. I guess we are too different…

I stop writing again. I guess we are too different… That's the problem. Sometimes it felt like as if we were born in different planets… I smile a little when I write the next sentence. The first time I've smiled while writing this…

If men are from Mars and women from Venus, my parent's are from Pluto and I'm from Andromeda. (1)

Yes, they're from Pluto, that's right… A cold little planet revolving around the sun far away from it… Fits them well. The smile dies away, and I grip the pen harder as I continue writing.

In the end I just couldn't stand it anymore. Everything my parents are and what they wanted me to be was something I couldn't stomach.

So I left.

I packed my things and left to the world. I'm now in Hawaii, but I'm not going to stay here.

Jou blinked and read the two last lines again. Then he raised his head and looked at his friends. Ryou's eyes were still on the letter as he continued reading it with a serious expression. Yuugi was leaning against the desk, and suddenly Jou realized that he hadn't said anything for a long time. Frowning he got up from the bed and walked to the smaller boy. "Hey, Yuugi… are you okay with this?" he asked placing a hand on Yuugi's shoulder. Yuugi gave a little start, obviously he had been deep in thought. He turned to look at his friend with a ghost of a smile.

"It's what she wanted to do… It feels really strange that she's gone, but I can live with it, I guess… I just hope that she's happy." He looked at the letter Jou was holding in his hand and snatched it for himself.

"Hey, I wasn't finished reading it!"

Yuugi glanced at the letter and looked then at Jou smiling widely. "If you got to the Hawaii part, there isn't anything else important in it…" He folded up the letter and put it in his pocket. "So, what do you want to do tonight?"

Ryou and Jou glanced at each other. Both of them could see through that fake smile, but they knew that it'd be best to let it be for now. Ryou shrugged and Jou leaned against the wall shrugging as well. "Don't know about you but I'm hungry. Anyone want to eat pizza?"

Yuugi laughed, and this time it sounded quite genuine. "Nothing surprising in that, but why not."

Jou grinned. "So, what are you waiting for? C'mon, lets go!"

–

Far away from a certain Japanese game shop a lonely figure walked by the shore watching the dark sea. She had a plane ticket in her hand and she squeezed it tightly, feeling excitement burning in her stomach. Going to Hawaii was one thing… flying to Europe another. Still, she felt no regret. She knew that what she was doing was right for her. For a moment she thought about a letter she had posted as soon as she had found a mailbox, frowning a little as she wondered what her life might have become if she had stayed home. Everything of it didn't seem to be that bad, after all… With a shrug she pushed these thoughts away. She had made her choice and she was going to stick by it.

–

I don't know what more I can say. I just felt like I had to send you some kind of a word… We were really close, and sometimes I wonder if we could have been even more, but… You have to understand. I had to go. If I had stayed there one more week I'd probably have gone nuts. I'm sorry that we didn't have a chance to say real goodbyes… I don't know when I'm coming back. I probably will come, someday, but don't wait for me. Just find someone else and go on with your life.

Love, Anzu

P.S. Give my love to the rest of the gang also… but please, don't mention this letter to my parents. Don't tell them where I am.

(1) Okay children, do you know what Andromeda is? No, really, it just came to my mind that there might be someone who doesn't, so I decided to put a note here. Andromeda is the galaxy that's nearest our Milky Way (or actually it's a constellation; the galaxy M31 is in it's direction and is so called Andromeda galaxy…) I trust that you all know what Venus, Mars and Pluto are… (just joking here, you all know that, right?)

This was written quite quickly, and I guess I should have read it through still couple of times, but I'm too busy for that and I wanted to get this posted today, since I'm not home during the weekend. Hope the changing pov wasn't too confusing…

And then… we came from Visby yesterday… It's in Sweden, and I live in Finland, so it's not that far away from us, it took under 20 hours to go there by ship. It has been a short eternity since I'd been on a ship last time, and I had almost forgotten how much I love the sea. It's a little wonder I didn't get sick, sitting there in the cold wind staring at the waves… (Although my throat does feel a little strange…) When I was watching the waves I thought I have to write them. I knew that it'd be difficult… How do you write the waves? And how could I ever get all those feelings on paper (and now in a foreign language to the boot…) Just trying to explain that part where Anzu was watching the waves… If I could choose, my element would definitely be water…

As I said in the beginning the next chapter's going to take a lot longer… if I write it at all. It's quite probably that I won't be continuing this… I don't honestly have any idea what's going to happen… and exactly where she's going… (Hey! What about Visby? … just joking, actually…)

But seriously, if you're going to Europe some day, and want to visit some more unusual place, go to Visby… It's a wonderful , definitely (although it was raining most of the time we were there…) It is a really small place, though.

Yesss! An important note! You know Chibizoo's fanfic contest, don't you? I've finally posted my fic for it! It's also here, if you want to read it, called Fairy Tale… (yes… what an obnoxiously blatant self-advertising.) Anyway, I have to say that I'm, for once, quite content with it.