Hello again everybody. Thanks for all the reviews and votes. I'm so happy! Now I know I'm not alone. Oh and to the reviewer Tea Fan, (LOL) thanks a lot I really needed that laugh. I'm most definitely going to have to use that one!!

Oh and for the fanficer who asked, the last chapter was called Queen of Games b/c it was my attempt at being a funny evil woman. It's sort of a pun/male bashin title (sorry gentlemen but like I said I'm a funny EVIL woman). The show's all about duels however in that chapter Mai was the queen of a different kind of game. That being the game called love. No, I'm not so evil that I believe love is as idle and expendable as some little game however, from Mai's point of view that's how life goes. Plus it makes for some very interesting dialogue (I love being a woman!!)!!

Hmm well it seems as though Kaiba/Anzu is a really popular pairing. So Yami/Anzu fans are you really going to go down without a fight? Well it really doesn't matter to me b/c I'd be happy no matter who gets Anzu. Why? because I think I'll just take the loser for myself (HOHOHOHO! NANI!?! ArrRGGghhh!!!!! no wait! Keep away!!) ::Writer Momochan gets attacked by multiple fan girls and err (^_^;) fan boys::

Disclaimer: Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not claim to own Yugioh or any of it's cast. Thou shall not torture my little brother. Thou shall not run over small animals with my car. Thou shall not covet Yugi, Yami, Jounouchi, Kaiba, Ryou, Bakura, Malik, Marik........etc.

Love Kaleidoscope

Chp.3 His and Her Circumstances

Anzu leaned back in her bed and stared at the wall. She let out a frustrated sigh as she rolled over towards the side of her bed and shut her weary eyes. Although her body was tired, her mind was fresh and alert. As Anzu slowly opened her eyes a familiar dark object lying on the ground beside her bed suddenly caught her attention. The little black notebook seemed to be haunting her. It was a horrible reminder of the events that had occurred several hours ago, and the hard decision that Anzu had been putting off. Mai had made it sound so easy, but could Anzu really do it? Could she actually use Kaiba to win Yami?

No, she couldn't do such a deceitful thing. Besides, Anzu shouldn't have to force her feelings on Yami! She wanted him to love her for her and all on his own, but after that kiss, it was pretty apparent to Anzu that, that would never happen. Not unless Yami was provoked in some kind of way. However, no matter how many times she thought about it, the best solution always seemed to spin it's way back to Mai's little web of deceit. Meeting Yugi might have changed Mai for the better, but Mai was still Mai. Only she could of thought of something this conniving.

Anzu couldn't do something like that. It just wasn't in her character. Besides what if Mai was wrong? If Yami was to find out, then he really might hate her. Maybe seeing Anzu with Kaiba would only drive Yami even further away. However, no matter how many times Anzu kept telling herself that Mai's plan was all wrong, there was always this little twinge in the back of Anzu's head that kept egging her on. 'You love him don't you? No matter how deceitful this might be, if you really want him, then this is the only way! You got to take big risk if you want to get big rewards, and isn't Yami worth it.'

"Fine!! I'll do it" shouted Anzu out loud, slightly startled by her own outburst. Besides how much worse could things possibly get?

Well now that Anzu had finally gotten that crisis out of the way, she was soon faced with another problem. How could she get some one as coldhearted, thoughtless, and stuck up as Seto Kaiba to like her? Not only was the guy far beyond most human emotions, Anzu also hated his guts!! The thought of actually having to be nice to him, almost made her stomach turn. As Anzu tormented over her approach, her eye suddenly caught notice of the familiar little black notebook. "Oh well......here goes nothing." gulped Anzu as she picked up the notebook as let out a nervous sigh.

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As Anzu slowly walked up the long path, old feelings of fear crept their way into her mind. It was almost as bad as the time when Anzu had decided to confess her feelings to Yami. After several minutes of silent torture, Anzu soon began to speed up her pace. "Geez this path is sure longer than I thought it would be!" whined Anzu as she stared at her watch.

Everyday after class when Anzu was walking to work she would always pass by this small secluded path, and one day out of curiosity, she finally asked a random stranger where it led to. It was then she found out that this path led straight to Kaiba's mansion, however she had no idea that his mansion was so faraway.

"Geez, what a mountain hermit." Although Anzu wasn't too surprise that Kaiba would live so isolated from people. It was clear that the distance of Kaiba's mansion from humanity was proportional to the distance he kept his heart from people too. The thought of this made Anzu feel even more nervous. How could she reach a person like that?

Finally after almost 15 minutes of walking, Anzu drew closer to Kaiba's mansion. However, the site that she saw greatly surprised her. She had expected to see an old dreary dark castle like mansion, with spooky old trees, dusty dark weeds, and black bats hanging overhead. Sort of like the homes of all those weird and deranged mad scientist in all those Sci-Fi movies, but to Anzu's surprise Kaiba's home was nothing like that.

A maze of bright and colorful lilies stretched across the huge yard, as spots of tulips and plumerias danced along the sides of her path. In the middle of the yard was a huge crystal fountain, which shined brightly only adding to the magnificent grander around her. Anzu let out a thrilling breathe as she trailed her fingers through the fountain's icy cool water. The pure and clear liquid flowed through her fingers as it sparkled more lovelier than diamonds. The sun most definitely shined brighter over this palace. How selfish of Kaiba to hide all this beauty from the outside world, but it didn't surprise Anzu that Kaiba would hoard all of this Utopia for himself. "That Jerk" mumbled Anzu under her breath as she reached the front steps of Kaiba's mansion.

Just as Anzu was about to ring the doorbell the sound of laughter suddenly startled her. 'Laughter here? Well I guess this would be the perfect place for it, but this was still Kaiba's home.' As Anzu wondered to herself she was suddenly drawn towards the sounds. As if in some kind of trance, Anzu's feet soon led her to the back entrance of Kaiba's mansion. There she saw Mokuba dart across the yard towards the direction of a huge pool.

"Come on Big Brother, aren't you done yet," giggled Mokuba as he turned toward his dark companion. Anzu was startled as she saw the object of her unlikely visit. Their sat Seto Kaiba at a near by table, typing away anxiously onto his laptop with a perplexed look on his face. "Sorry kiddo, but I'm really behind right now." Mokuba frowned at his brother and then shrugged his shoulders. He was use to this sort of thing by now.

As Anzu stood behind the corner of the mansion, she suddenly began to study her victim carefully. Kaiba's ice blue eyes stared diligently into the computer screen unwary that they were being watched, and for a brief moment, a beam of sunshine reflected into his deep blue eyes. 'I guess in a beautiful place like this, even Kaiba's eyes can look a bit nice' shrugged Anzu to herself. Suddenly a sweet breeze danced across the yard, as it whisked playfully through Kaiba's golden-brown hair. His russet bangs dangled in front of his face as the world around Kaiba seemed to call out to him, diligently trying to meld him into it's serenity.

At this point even Anzu had to admit that Kaiba was a damn good looking guy. It was probably the only upside to Mai's fraudulent little plan. He sort of reminded her of one those tall dark and handsome dream guys that you only read about in those goofy little romance novels. Those of which laid carefully well hidden under Anzu's bed. 'How could someone who looked as good as him be so damn cruel and arrogant,' whined Anzu to herself. The best looking one's almost always seemed to be that way. It seemed like a waste of God's time to give people like Kaiba such good looks! Oh well that only proved the statement true that what you see on the outside, is not always reflected inwardly.

Anzu was suddenly pulled away from her thoughts as she witnessed the sudden change in the scene around her. Suddenly without warning Kaiba was stopped dead in mid type as a huge ball of water smacked him in the back of his head. Anzu let out a worried gasp as she suddenly saw why.

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Mokuba had done it now. He had gotten so tired of seeing his older brother let this day go to waste that he had finally decided to wake Seto up.

He sat at the edge of the pool, wading in the water, as he let out a heavy sigh of boredom. Mokuba didn't have many friends, especially since they lived so far away from almost everybody. He watched his brother typing away at his laptop. 'He could have been doing this at work or inside!!' When Mokuba had suggested to Seto that they should go outside to enjoy this nice day and Seto had agreed, Mokuba was so happy he almost shouted, but he never expected that his Big Brother would just decide to prop himself at the edge of the pool and start working away at his laptop. So, being like any normal juvenile delinquent, Mokuba decided to practice on his aim.

First he tried a few of his water balloons on some near by birds, then on a few lawn decorations, and then his eye suddenly caught their attention on one droned out, boring, defenseless looking Big Brother. A malicious smile spread over Mokuba's face. Sure he knew he would regret this later, but what the hell.

"Mokuba what do you think your doing!!" shouted Seto angrily as he rubbed the back of his wet head. Mokuba smiled again as he realized that he had finally caught his brother's attention.

::WHAP::

"Mokuba!!!" thundered Seto again as he stared down into his lap. A puddle of water seeped through his pants as it formed a questionable looking stain. That had about done it!

Anzu suddenly felt the need to run to Mokuba's aid as she wasn't sure what Kaiba would do. What ever the case she sure wasn't going to sit around and watch somebody get murdered.

Seto darted after Mokuba who threw another water balloon at his charging brother and then quickly took off like lightning. However, to Mokuba's dismay, his short little legs, were no match for those of his own towering brother. Catching up quickly Seto pounced on his little tormentor.

Anzu stared in horror and then in surprise. She thought she had been dreaming at what she was now witnessing. Was Seto Kaiba actually.....laughing?!? This was almost too much for Anzu to take in. She didn't even seem to notice the smile that had formed onto her own lips as she watched Seto playfully tackling his little brother while dodging aimless water balloons.

"And I hope that teaches you not to mess with the master." smiled Seto as he stared down at his now water balloon drenched brother. Mokuba stuck out his tongue and clobbered Seto with the last water balloon which he had been hiding behind his back. "Who's the master now?" he giggled as he tackled Seto's legs. Seto smiled down at Mokuba and patted him on the head. "Okay that's enough, now I really have some things to do right now."

"But Big Brother," whimpered Mokuba as Seto pried him of his legs. Anzu stared into space in brief shock. This was the first time she had seen one of Kaiba's real smiles or actually heard a pure laugh! The closes she had ever gotten to before was a cold smirk and an evil cackle. So preoccupied was Anzu with her thoughts that she didn't even notice the person creeping up behind her.

"May I help you miss?" questioned a calm voice. Anzu about leapt out of her skin as she turned and met the gaze of a unamused servant. She let out a little yelp which quickly caught the attention of both Mokuba and Kaiba. Anzu was completely embarrassed as all eyes were suddenly on her.

"I-I well, this notebook, err and I came here to-" sputtered Anzu as she waved her hands frantically into the air.

"My notebook," exclaimed Kaiba as he and Mokuba ran up to a now hysterical Anzu. He had searched around frantically for it the night before, and it was the main reason why he was so behind that day.

"Well?" frowned Mokuba as he jammed his elbow into his brothers side.

"Well what?" questioned Kaiba in a slightly irritated tone.

"Well aren't you gonna thank Anzu for coming all this way to give you back your notebook?"

Kaiba stared at Mokuba, and then sneered at Anzu. "Tch, I don't know it sure did take you a Hell of a long time to bring it back here, and what's with you spying on us?"

"What?" exclaimed Anzu angrily. So preoccupied were her thoughts that she had still been daunting on the Seto Kaiba she had just seen a few moments ago. She had almost forgotten just what a coldhearted jerk he really was. "I came all this way to bring you your notebook and you accuse me of spying on you!!!" The nerve of this guy, even though she sort of was.

"Well then what exactly were you doing, hanging around our yard?"

"I just heard your voices and decided it best to just give you your stupid notebook myself."

Kaiba eyed Anzu suspiciously, trying to read her through her eyes. Anzu stared at him angrily in attempt to ward of his intimidating looks with her own.

"Ahem-" interrupted the nearby servant. "Master Mokuba, I came out here to inform you that you have a phone call before I found this young lady snooping around the premises." Anzu gave the butler a dirty glare as Kaiba scoffed under his breath.

"Wow, a phone call for me" beamed Mokuba as he ran towards the house. He suddenly stopped a few meters away and gave his big brother a scolding look. "Seto, please try and be nice," and with that last statement he skipped happily towards the house while the butler followed behind him.

Suddenly Seto's attention was back on Anzu as he stared coldly down on her. "Well what are you still doing here? Your not expecting some kind of gratitude are you?"

"Gratitude from you? No I would never expect something like that coming from a person like you?" retorted Anzu in her most sarcastic tone.

"What do you mean 'a person like me'?" questioned Kaiba defensively.

"What I mean is a coldhearted, arrogant, thoughtless, rich boy bastard like you." retaliated Anzu.

"Heh, you seem to be yapping the same words over and over again, can't you think of something original, or is that outside your vocabulary?" jeered Kaiba back.

"I'm only calling things the way that I see them!" snapped Anzu as she did a play on Kaiba's own words from yesterday. This greatly surprised Kaiba. He never thought that a stupid looking girl like her was actually that sharp. How could she use his own words against him? It was really pissing him off, and slightly arousing him.

"Well now that you took your sweet time bringing back my notebook why don't you leave?"

"Fine then I wouldn't dream of wasting anymore of my time on a jerk like you! Geez it's not like I was in a hurry to come here and be insulted by you!" Anzu's anger was on the brink of an explosion. The nerve of Kaiba. She was suddenly having second thoughts. There was just no way she could stand to pretend to be decent to him, nonetheless try to act like his girlfriend.

She stormed past Kaiba in a mad rage and then suddenly stopped in her tracks. Kaiba perked up his brow in confusion as he watched Anzu walk back towards him. She stopped slightly in front of him. There faces were only a few centimeters apart. Kaiba could hear her frustrated breathing as he took in a few of her own sweet breaths.

Kaiba wasn't sure what was going on and he wasn't sure if he liked it. Sure she didn't smell all that bad, okay she actually smelled really nice, but what was with the strange look she was giving him? "Oh yeah Kaiba I almost forgot, there was something else I was meaning to give you."

::SMACK::

Kaiba stared at Anzu. The look of shock on his face was priceless. Kaiba held the side of his cheek. It really didn't hurt him that much, no he had been hit way worse than that before when he was younger. No, Kaiba had held his hand to his face more out of surprise than out of pain. Anzu was only the second person who had ever dared to slap Seto Kaiba in such a way, and the first person to do that was now lying cold in his grave.

"I just don't understand how someone who can be so decent to your little brother one minute, could be so damn cold to anyone else!"

"What?!?" snapped Kaiba as he suddenly realized that Anzu had been spying on him and Mokuba. Kaiba's face suddenly grew more red although it was less from the slap to his face and more from embarrassment. How could he let his enemy see his soft side? That was careless of him.

Kaiba wasn't sure what to do as he watched an angry Anzu stomp off. Suddenly a perfect comeback flickered into his mind, but he thought it best to let her be. This time he would take Yami's advice and 'practice what he preached.' 'It wasn't wise to provoke an angry woman.'

As Seto turned back towards the house, he suddenly stared down at the notebook that Anzu had brought back to him. Now that he had this he wasn't so behind anymore. He truly was thankful that she had brought it back, although he would never admit it out loud.

As he sat at his laptop, he suddenly found himself unable to concentrate. "Why does that girl hate me so much?" thought Seto aloud. Most woman usually found him totally irresistible despite his cocky attitude, undoubtedly from his good looks, money, and overwhelming influence. However, this girl just wasn't like all those other shallow bimbos. She definitely wasn't afraid to show her emotions and give Seto a piece of her mind. It was then Seto realized that he really had underestimated that girl. "Whatever" muttered Seto to himself. If he kept harping on unconventional thoughts such as these then he really would get behind, and with that final statement Seto went back to work with out a second thought.

Anzu stomped down the once cheerful path, tears of anger and remorse streamed down her face. She was so confused. When she had seen such a soft side to Kaiba before she had been totally taken off guard, but now she was back to her senses. Now she was leaving and she never wanted to come back!! The lovely tulips and lilies seemed to droop down sadly, as if they were aware of the fact that there master had chased off yet another once happy visitor. What was the point of them looking so good now if no one was ever going to come and see them?

"I-I just can't do this" sobbed Anzu. She really wanted to be with Yami, but Kaiba was just too damn impossible. "Forget it, this plan is off,! Hell would have to freeze over before a demon like him could ever fall in love!!!" However, Anzu was unaware of the fact that those words would soon come back and haunt her.

To be continued.............

Aww poor Anzu (sniffles). Don't give up the fight yet woman, that would make this a very short and boring fic! Jus kiddin, You know I wouldn't let it end like that, besides I just got done writing two more chappies the other day.

Well now cue in the lovely Anzu and Kaiba day trilogy. Don't worry guys I'll try and keep them from killing each other long enough to let them fall in love! Yeah these next three chapters have some of my favorite Anzu and Kaiba scenes (So many chapters before I can even make them start to like each other! Shesh! It wouldn't have to be this way if Kaiba wasn't so damn stubborn, and if I wasn't so anal that I HAD to keep everyone in character to the best of my abilities). Yes, yes I suppose I would have to say this is for all of you K/S fans out there, but don't worry this is a love triangle so Yami will get some action too.

Quote of the week: "Love your enemies, it gets them really confused"

I bet you guys are thinkin by now, what's with these silly quote thingy's she's always putting up. Well I thought I should at least just try and stimulate your minds a little after I've got done jamming your incorrigible brains for the last 20 minutes with sappy gobble and romantic fluff!

Besides most of them are really funny and interesting, and I also tried to pick out ones that are related to each of my chapters! But I bet some of you could tell that already (at least I hope someone did..........)