Hey guys!! Thanks for all the great reviews, they were all really encouraging. Anyways I just now realized that I forgot to do something when I posted up the first chapter. I don't remember if I mentioned this before but I haven't finished writing this fic yet because I want to let you guys to help me write the ending.
No I don't actually mean write the ending what I mean is I want you guys to decide who Anzu ends up with, Yami or Seto? Why am I asking you guys, well mainly I thought it would just be fun for you guys, and secondly because I just can't decide on it myself either!!!
The hardiest part about writing love triangles is deciding who gets to be with who. In all actuality I'm more of a Y/A fan then a YY/A or S/A fan (Therefore it's safe to say I'm not gonna side with either pairing b/c I think they both should get her). So why did I make it a YY/A, S/A love triangle instead. Mmm, dunno for sure maybe because the idea just seems more consistent with what actually goes on the show/manga. Besides the clash between Yami and Seto's personalities is priceless. Also for some reason I just don't see Yugi trying too hard to get the person he loves because the poor little sweet heart is way too passive and has such a low self esteem.
Anyways now I'm rambling before I even get to the point. You see what I want you guys to do is each time you review tell me who you think should end up together. Then when I get ready to write the last 2 chapters I will count up all your votes and which ever coupling has the most will win. I really don't care how many times you vote but I would prefer to say on vote per chapter. Also later on down the line if you want to change your vote that's fine. The purpose of my fic is to either convert you over or make your opinions even stronger. It already appears I have 2 votes for S/A and 2 votes for YY/A!!!! Well thanks again for the input guys and now on with the fic!!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh or it's characters, however if any of you know where I can go to buy them, please tell me (hmm maybe I should try ebay, it's never failed me before)!!!
Love Kaleidoscope
Chp.2 The Queen of Games, Mai's Plan
"Seto Kaiba!!" exclaimed Anzu. Of all the people to run into in the world during a time like this, why would fate choose him? Anzu wouldn't have even enjoyed meeting Kaiba on the street had today been played under any normal circumstances. There were very few people in world Anzu didn't like, and Kaiba was at the top of her list. She didn't think she could ever forgive him for the pain that he usually put her and her friends through, especially Yugi. Sure a few of the conflicts between Kaiba and Yugi had been resolved, but Anzu still found herself always growing bitter at even the mention of his name. She just couldn't understand how one person could be so thoughtless, arrogant, and unfeeling! She only tolerated him for Yugi's sake, since he insisted that there was some kind of good hiding somewhere deep in Kaiba's absent heart.
"You should learn to watch where your going." growled Kaiba as he began to pick up his things which had been flung so carelessly to the ground on impact with Anzu. As Kaiba lifted himself up he suddenly realized just who he had run into. First Kaiba intended to give her one of his usual dirty looks and totally blow her off, but as he studied her face briefly he noticed it was stained red with tears. For just a slight instant Kaiba perked up his brow out of curiosity and minor empathy but then he quickly composed himself. "What's with the tears, you couldn't have run into me that hard?"
"Mind your own business. I'm not crying because of you, although I'm sure your use to having that kind of affect on women" snapped Anzu. She didn't mean to be that rude, however, she wasn't in the mood for Kaiba, and something about him always seemed to ignite the other person inside Anzu.
"Hmm so it's one of Yugi's little cronies, well next time you should learn to-"
"I have a name, and it's not Yugi's little crony" interrupted Anzu, as her anger began to grow. There was something about this guy that always seemed to test her patience.
"Tch, yeah so, I know your name, your Anzu right? I just usually call things the way I see them" smirked Kaiba, as he seemed unaffected by Anzu's sudden outburst.
Suddenly all the pain Anzu had felt from Yami's rejection was transformed into uncontrollable anger as she could no longer contain herself. "Well if that's the case I guess I should just call you 'Mr. Thoughtless, Selfish, Heartless, Arrogant, Stuck Up Little Rich Boy Bastard'!!!"
"My-my such a colorful array of violent words coming from a little girl like you, do your friends know your so temperamental?" smiled Kaiba coldly as his ice blue eyes seemed to emit a hint of malice. "I didn't realize you were so Yappity, almost as much as that fool Chihuahua, Jounouchi."
'The nerve of this guy!!!' thought Anzu to herself. Not only did he insist on provoking her anger just for his amusement, but he also insulted her friends!?! Suddenly Anzu felt the need to give Kaiba exactly what was coming to him, and she would have had she not been so suddenly taken of guard.
"Anzu!!!" called Yami as he struggled to cry out to her while still trying to run. When Yami finally caught up to her he didn't even seem to notice Anzu's unwanted company. Yami held his hands to his knees and gasped in a few breaths. He was thankful that Anzu hadn't made another mad dash, although she probably would have if not for the towering stone cold figure blocking her getaway. 'Damn she runs fast' griped Yami to himself. "Please Anzu don't runaway again, I think we need to talk." insisted Yami as he finally caught his breath.
"Go away Yami!! Leave me alone, I don't want to talk to you right now!!!" cried Anzu as she turned away from Yami. Suddenly a flood of new tears began to stream down her face. Right now she was so ashamed and heartbroken that she would have rather looked at Kaiba then even be near Yami.
"Hmm, I see you have the same kind of affect on women as I do" sneered Kaiba as he did a play on Anzu's earlier words. It was at that moment that Yami finally acknowledged Kaiba's presence.
"Seto Kaiba!?!" exclaimed Yami with as much surprise as Anzu had before. It was actually starting to get on Kaiba's nerves, what was so abnormal about running into him on the streets? Even multimillionaire's felt the need to walk. "What do you want Kaiba!?!?" questioned Yami harshly.
"What do I want?" repeated Kaiba almost sarcastically "Well I really hadn't planned on interrupting your mundanian little venture here, but if you really want to know what 'I want' I wouldn't mind challenging you to another rematch duel"
"Duel? Is that all you can think about!?! I'm sorry Kaiba, but there are some things that are just a little more important to me now" shouted Yami sardonically. Couldn't Kaiba tell that Yami was having a bit of a crisis, or did he just not care? What ever the case, he wasn't in the mood for one of Kaiba's little episodes.
"What do you take me for, don't insult me!! I'm not stupid!!" shouted Kaiba back. "I can see that your having another one of your stupid little friendship dramas, I was just merely answering your pretty obvious question!"
"Well if it's that apparent to you then why not make yourself a little bit more scarce?" smirked Yami back. Just as many of Yugi's friends, Kaiba wasn't exactly one Yami's favorite acquaintances. Sure Yami enjoyed dueling Kaiba when the timing was right, he loved a good challenge. It just always seemed that Kaiba usually picked the worse possible times imaginable to challenge Yami. Yami also respected Kaiba for his strength and determination and he was definitely a worthy rival, but still Yami just couldn't find himself liking Kaiba very much, one might even say that he hated him. His over confident ere and thoughtless demeanor usually aggravated Yami, not to mention the fact that Kaiba hurt his little Aibou and almost completely severed the relationship between him and Yugi that time on top of Pegasus' mansion at duelist kingdom. If he would have lost Yugi back then due to Kaiba's treachery, Yami would have never forgiven Kaiba! He only tolerated Kaiba this much because Yugi insisted that their was some kind of good hidden deep inside Kaiba's invisible heart.
They stood their in a cold silence that would have even paled the subzero tint in Kaiba's icy eyes. Several minutes seemed to have passed as the two rivals sized each other up. It suddenly became apparent to Anzu just how much the two of them hated each other. If not for their mutual respect and love for the duel, those two probably would have been sworn enemies.
Finally Kaiba broke the silence. "Well then don't let me interrupt your little escapade any further, if you have no intentions of dueling me, then I have no more reason to waste my time on you fools. Go on with your silly little soap opera" However before Kaiba could make one of his usual dramatic exits, Anzu pushed him out of her way.
"No, don't mind me, I have nothing further to discuss here!!" she snapped as she tried to leave before Yami could stop her. Right now she couldn't face Yami, she wasn't prepared for the words she knew he was about to relay to her, especially with Kaiba there.
"But Anzu" protested Yami as he pushed past Kaiba as well.
"Stay away!!!" threatened Anzu as Yami was suddenly stopped in his tracks.
"Maybe you should take her advice, it isn't wise to provoke an angry woman." replied Kaiba as he gave Yami an all knowing smile. Seeing Yami frustrated like this was actually pretty enjoyable.
"Practice what you preach." snapped Yami back, although he knew Kaiba was right. Now wasn't the time to talk to Anzu. Neither one of them were thinking clearly.
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She stared at the ground in silence, as suddenly the world around her began to blur. Why couldn't she stop crying? Anzu didn't know how long she had been sitting there, but no matter how hard she tried she couldn't get the day's events out of her head. 'I shouldn't be so mad at him. It's not his fault he doesn't feel the same way about me......we don't always get to pick and choose who we love.' However, no matter how much Anzu told herself this, she still couldn't help but feel completely rejected and miserable. She wasn't sure if she could ever face Yami again, and the way she treated him before, she wouldn't blame him if he never wanted to talk to her again. So preoccupied was Anzu with her thoughts that she didn't even seem to notice a familiar figure behind her.
"Anzu? Anzu is that you? Well what a surprise!!" chirped a familiar voice.
"M-Mai, is that you?" questioned Anzu as she quickly tried to hide her tear streaked face. However, Anzu's efforts had quickly failed. After crying for how long she had been, her face at this moment was almost beyond repair.
"Oh my Anzu? What's wrong?" questioned Mai as the friendly smile on her face had been quickly replaced with an expression of concern.
"Oh it's nothing" sniffed Anzu as she tried to wipe all her tears away. She wasn't really in the mood to burden any of her friends with all her problems. Besides her and Mai weren't really all that close, and neither one of them had seen each other in a long time.
"Don't lie to me, your problems are as clear as the tears on your face!!" protested Mai. Sure Anzu and her weren't the best of friends, but they still were friends, and Mai couldn't just stand their and watch of one them sit their in pain and lie about it.
Anzu still made no attempt to answer Mai's question. Perhaps if she just didn't say anything at all, Mai would just give up. That tactic always seemed to work on Jounouchi or Honda. They never really tried to make too much of an effort with anything they did.
"Okay then well if you don't want to tell me...." Wow did Anzu's plan really work that well! "Then I'll just have to keep guessing what's wrong until I figure it out myself." Damn, maybe not.
"Let's see, well your looking pretty dressed up, so I would have to say that.......you were stood up for a date, or your boyfriend just dumped you?"
How could she get so close on the first guess?? Sure Mai was wrong but she was pretty close to the truth!! Okay maybe Anzu didn't get dressed up for her boyfriend, but it was no accident that she had gotten dressed up more than she usually would have for Yami.
"Still wrong.......well then did someone die?? No if that were the case you would have gone crying to one of your friends or family, not her alone at the park. Oh I know did you get in an argument with one of your friends or family."
And there she did it again. Mai sure was more intelligent than she usually let on. However Anzu had always suspected that Mai purposely put on a dumb blonde act just to throw people off guard. Call it women's intuition.
"Maybe you got in a fight with one of your girlfriends over some guy, maybe that's why you haven't gone and consulted Yugi or one of those other dumb guys you hang out with, I mean you really can't talk to guys about-"
"Okay Mai, I'll tell just please stop it!!" listening to Mai talk about the other guys reminded her more and more of her friendship with Yami, and how it more then likely was completely ruined now.
Mai stared at Anzu in brief shock. She knew she was pretty close to peeling away Anzu's silence but she didn't know she had scratched that deep.
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"I see......so the reason why your so down is because you told er Yami" Mai had been aware of Yugi's alter ego, however, no matter how many times people tried to explain it to her, she still had trouble grasping the idea that their were two Yugi's and all the superstitious mumbo jumbo in the world was half true. "So you told Yami how you felt about him and he didn't return your feelings, and now your afraid your friendship has been ruined." Anzu shook her head, although it was hard for her to say, actually getting all her frustration off her chest had actually somewhat relieved her.
"Mmm-mmm, I don't think that's what's really bothering you. You guys are all way to good of friends to let something like this tear you all apart. I don't think Yami would stop being your friend over something like this and you know it. What's really bothering you is that your still very much in love with him, aren't you?" Mai had done it again. She had gotten straight to the root of the problem. "And before you told him how you felt you still had a little hope that he might have shared your feelings too, but now that you finally told him and you know he doesn't feel the same way, you want to avoid him, so you don't have to hear the truth coming from his mouth."
Mai shook her head in remorse as she watched Anzu burst into tears again. She loved to be right, but at this moment she wish she wasn't. Now that she had gotten to the root of the problem, how was she going to help Anzu solve it??
"Yeah and he almost told me" sputtered Anzu through her tears "But then-," as Anzu began to shift she suddenly noticed an unfamiliar black notebook fall from her lap. She must have accidentally grabbed one of Kaiba's notebooks after they had run into each other. A tinge of anger suddenly began to crawl into Anzu's mind as she kicked at the notebook. "But then that no good arrogant blow hard interrupted us!"
"Who?" questioned Mai as Anzu's sudden mood swing caught her off guard.
"I mean Seto Kaiba! Sometimes that jerk really twist my nerves, and I'm pretty sure Yami feels the same way too. It was unbelievable how they started arguing right in the middle of me and Yami's situation! Guys can be such clueless jerks."
Suddenly the wheels inside Mai's crooked little head began to turn as she listened to Anzu's Kaiba bashing. 'Both her and Yami hate Kaiba aye.......and Anzu still wants Yami.' Suddenly a perfect solution came to Mai's head.
"Calm down Anzu, no need to let those to guys get to you any further" smiled Mai intriguingly.
"What??" piped Anzu as she began to notice Mai's malicious smile as well.
"Listen very closely little Anzu as I school you on one of woman's finniest secrets. Now I'll forgive you for not knowing this because your still so young and naive, but when God created man and woman it is pretty clear that he gave man all the strength and brawn." Anzu grew more and more puzzled with each passing word. "However, he didn't leave women completely defenseless, were equipped with tools a lot more powerful than muscles!"
"What do you mean Mai?" questioned Anzu until she was suddenly tapped on the head suggestively by Mai.
"Come on Anzu, think about it, ever hear of the phrase 'don't get mad, get even,' that was a phrase invented by women." Mai grew a little frustrated by the blank look Anzu was still giving her. "Do I have to spell it out!?! Use one buffoon to catch the other." Anzu was still completely lost which aggravated Mai even more. The girl was too damn innocent. "Use Kaiba to make Yami jealous!! It would be like, how should I say this, poetic justice!"
"What!!" shouted Anzu out of pure surprise and disgust. "I could never-"
"Come on Anzu, you and I both know you still love Yami and seeing as how you both hate Kaiba this would work out perfectly. If Yami was to see you hanging onto his arch nemesis, he would feel completely jealous that he had lost you to the likes of Kaiba. Also if you use Kaiba, then you won't feel sorry for him seeing as how you hate him so much!"
Anzu stared at Mia with her mouth a gape while she tried to take in Mai's words.
"Come on Anzu life is just one big game, and love is not much different. Lucky for us were women so were at an advantage to always beat those dumb guys at it, but until you become a queen of the trade like me, you'll never get what you want. Take my advice I was like you once, but now I've evolved."
Mai did make a rather good point. It all did kind of make sense. If Yami saw Anzu with Kaiba he would feel defeated by his rival and get completely jealous. Then maybe his jealously would help him realize his feelings for her, but could Anzu actually go through with it? Could she actually use Kaiba to win Yami's love?
To Be Continued..............
Ouu, aren't women so evil and deceitful!! Okay I guess I can't say I'm any better myself, but it's not like I've ever done anything like this before ::Cough-er-liar-cough-cough:: (^_^;). Heh-heh now the plot in my master plan has finally been set into motion. Get ready guys b/c things are about to get pretty crazy, but isn't this the kind of stuff all love triangles are made up of? Poor Seto and Yami won't know what hit them when I get my fingers done typing. Well guys see you until next update and don't forget to R/R!!!!
Quote of the week: "Women who seek to be like men, lack ambition"