"On the run"

I woke up the next day around 7 AM. Marik was sitting on the floor, thinking.

"Good morning!" I said, brushing my hair.

"Hurry up! They found out already," he said, getting up. He was acting so coldly

"What? About last night?"

"And they're coming to get you!" he added, with a smile.

"Ah... ok." I changed quickly and packed my stuff in a second. "Let's go, then!"

I closed the door of the room behind me and walked toward the elevator, Marik walking quietly beside me. I was about to get into the elevator when I heard someone shout: Go get her! For some reason I knew I'd hear that words sooner or later.

What could I do? I ran, of course. There were about ten people running and yelling behind me, or almost that. I didn't have time to look. I ran down the stairs for about three floors until I could get to the main hall. And they were still trying to get me.

"Murder!" one guy yelled. I heard only that one. Actually, it was the only thing that caught my attention.

"Murder?" I asked loudly.

"Tsk, tsk! Murder." Marik commented, inside of my head.

"What are they talking about?" I asked, with tears in my eyes. "I'm not a murder!!"

"But you killed the woman of that house." Marik told me, scratching his head.

"I did not!!" I yelled.

"Oh, yeah! It was me!" he laughed, sticking his tongue.

"Marik!!! You little... ah, damn!" I cursed, as two men appeared from nowhere in front of me. I pointed a finger to them and they fell on the ground. "Marik, how could you do such thing? Now they want to kill me!!!"

"So you don't want to run?" he yelled, surprised.

"Of course not!!!" I yelled back.

"Okay, then. Just point your finger and I'll present you to a power you might remind you of the 'old times'!" Marik told me, and so I did. Everybody stopped and looked around.

"What I had to do? Oh yes! Today is the day of the week I have to take shower!" a guy said loud.

"Oh, no! I forgot the roast in the oven!" a woman cried.

I watched as everyone remembered of something and walked away. I blinked a few times to make sure I was really seeing that.

"Brainwash. Don't you remember?" Marik asked.

"Brainwash... yes. That's nice!" I smiled. Usually, I wouldn't smile. Yugi and I never considered brainwashing people a good thing. But since Marik's power saved my once more... I had to make a nice comment.

***

After that day I was definitely called a "fugitive" and "murder". That didn't really help me, now I couldn't stop in a town without brainwashing people. And I must tell you it's exhaustive. Specially when you ran a lot from people caring bags full of things, like the old times thieves. That sounded to bad when I thought of it!

After two days of walking and camping we were about 7 towns and 1 city far from Domino, and I still wasn't sure of how and why Marik was helping me so much. I questioned myself many times before going to sleep about that. He was being so nice and even funny that it scared me. The Marik I knew was quiet and "evil". And the Namu Marik was sweet and caring. And the Yami Marik was a sadist and liked to...well...kill. Marik seemed to be a mix of the three. I wondered when he was going to show which of the three he really was: the quiet, the killer or the sweet.

"You've been thinking too much." he commented. Placing a hand on my shoulder, I jumped. "Sorry."

"No problem... I was far from here! hehe " I apologized, looking to his hand on my shoulder.

I sat down on the ground, adding a few more sticks to the fire. I looked to the starry sky. I loved it! I looked around to see where Marik was and I saw he was staring at me. I blushed.

"W-What?!?!" I cried.

"What are you looking at? Oh, forget it. I don't care." He asked, but then looked away.

"The sky." I answered. "It's very mysterious... like you."

*Marik's Point of View from now on!*

"What do you mean?" I asked her. "I'm not a mystery."

"Yes, you are. If I ask anything about you, you don't answer!" Anzu said, with a sad expression.

"But why should I answer you? I'm just taking you to Yami, you don't have to know anything about me." I said.

"Well, just to start you're inside my head!" she said, putting her arms on her waist.

"And for that reason I must let you know everything about me? You already know the first years of my life. Isn't that enough?" I asked.

"That's not the sort of thing I want to know!" she yelled, getting up and walking toward me. I get up and looked down at her. She was half a head shorter than I was.

"Then what kind of thing you want to know?" I asked.

"How did you get inside of my head? Why aren't you a real person made of bones, blood and everything? How do you know about Yami Yugi? Are you using me? Why do you talk just to me?" Anzu yelled at once. My eyes wided and I stepped back.

"That's not what you want to know, Anzu." I said, and she started to cry. Tears were rolling down her face. "You want to know how you got here. You want to know why you are a person. You want to know why your own friends, Anzu, have betrayed you! It has little to do with me."

I touched her face. What a warm soft skin she had. Anzu was so beautiful. She looked up to me and smiled. She took the hand I placed on her face with both her hands.

"You can touch me. I felt it when I touched my shoulder and I thought I was imagining things! But you're real! This isn't my mind..." she cried, with more tears.

"I am real, Anzu. I've always been!" I told her.

"I don't want to know the answers of my questions." Anzu said. "I'm too afraid of the answers."

"You don't have to. I'll be with you."

Anzu smiled, and hugged me tight.

"Thanks, Marik."

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A/N: Ah! This chapter is so... bleh. :P Nothing happened at all. Marik and Anzu got closer and stuff but nothing good enough. That's bad. -_-;

Anyway, next chapter I'll put some more Marik/Anzu and a good friend of Marik will meet them! Guess who it is? I'll give a little hint: pretty hair! *__* Yes, yes! Next chapter you'll get some Bakura!!!! ^__^ Yay!!

Thanks for all the reviewers!!!

Lady Dragon 636 (Beat up Yami? Well.. that's a good idea, you know! :D)
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Michele
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But specially for Michele, because she's from Brazil and read this thing! :D Yay!!

Michele,

Oi!!! É bom saber que tem também uns brasileiros lendo as minhas fics. :P Bom, quanto a história do Mariku... eu assisti a maioria dos eppys em Japonês. Pq quando eu estava nos EUA viajando eu assiti um episódio de YGO bem do começo (o 3) e gostei muito! Quando eu voltei eu procurei e achei montes de eppys em japonês. Então sim, eu lembro bem dessa "versão". hehehe ^^ Mas é que eu pensei assim: o nome dele é na verdade Malik, então como os japoneses tem aquele probleminha de pronúncia seria Mariku mesmo, e na verdade o Marik já é o Mariku, so q adaptado pra gente! :D Uma confusão, eu sei. Mas é mais ou menos assim que eu pensei. Mas é verdade q eu esqueci de Namu! ; _ ;
Só isso! Tchau! ^^

01/05/2003