Hey hey!! Hope you like this story… It will get more exiting, darker, and all that. This is not Anzu bashing, but she does have a lot of problems… people will be out of character. Read and enjoy (hopefully).
Seto watched from his limo as Anzu walked home from school with her friends. She was not talking to them, and they seemed perfectly fine with ignoring her. Ryou, Yugi, Honda, Jou, Serenity (I don't know how to spell her Japanese name), and Mai were chatting animatedly in front of her. She walked, watching whoever was speaking, a cheerful mask on her face. Seto smirked. He was the king of facial masks- he could tell whenever anyone was faking an emotion. And the empty smile seemed so out of place on the young dancer. Whenever he saw her, she was smiling and cheering. But the joy rarely reached her eyes. They were empty- it took talent to clear them of any emotion, but genius to force them to lie. And Anzu did not have that genius. He could teach her.
Seto thought back to the time when he actually had people around him to whom he could teach things. To whom he could tell secrets. Friends. At the orphanage was the last time he had friends. There was Peter- he was adopted before him, and was now managing a rival company. Sarah- she was also adopted before him, and was now dead. And then there was Brownie. A girl whose true name was not known, a girl with brown hair and blue eyes, like himself. She liked to dance and write stories. She was his closest friend- his best friend. He was adopted before her, and knew nothing of her whereabouts. The only thing he had was a story that she wrote one day to cheer him up. A fairy tale about a young orphan named Seto and his brother Mokuba who was adopted by a kind man and taught everything that they wanted to learn. They ate anything that they wanted any time they wanted, and played games all the time. They grew up and he met a girl that he fell in love with, and he married her and they lived happily ever after. It was on the day that his "father" came to adopt him and his brother. He never saw her again. Despite using all the available tracking equipment and even making up new devices, Seto never found the girl.
Looking at Anzu, Seto once again realized the similarities between her and Brownie. He knew nothing of Anzu's past… it was possible that she was his last friend. She was the only lead he had to go on so far. That's why he had never asked her anything- if she were not the girl, he would have no hope of ever finding her. And the one thing Seto Kaiba dreaded was loosing hope. Right now, there was still a possibility of Anzu and Brownie being one and the same. In several minutes, that possibility could be ripped away from him.
Rolling down the window, Seto called, "Anzu? Do- do you need a ride?"
Anzu looked confused and shocked. Yugi-tachi stopped and looked at her accusingly; she was fraternizing with the enemy. Anzu looked from her friends to Kaiba, from their angry stares to his pleading eyes. She said, "Sure, thanks!" and walked to the limo, not looking back at her friends.
Once safely out of hearing distance, Anzu asked, "What do you want, Kaiba?"
"I want to know about your past," he replied shakily.
"There's not much to tell," she replied, looking him in the eye. "Ask me questions and I will answer them." Seto looked at her… was that hope in her eyes?
"All right." Taking a deep breath, Seto asked his first question. "Are you adopted?"
Anzu smiled. "Yes."
Encouraged, Seto continued. "Were you at the Domino Orphanage?"
"Yes."
"Ten years ago?"
"Yes," Anzu repeated, tears coming to her eyes.
Not being able to take the tension, Seto asked with hope-filled eyes, "Are you Brownie?"
Tears flowed freely down Anzu's cheeks now. "You finally figured it out, Seto." She latched her arms around him, and hugged him close to her chest. "You finally figured it out…"
***At the Kaiba Mansion***
"Why didn't you ever tell me?" Seto asked, sitting down on the couch.
"I didn't think you wanted to know." Anzu replied sadly, sitting on the floor.
"What?"
"Well, you know how I hang out with Yugi, and he's your major enemy. And the past was so hard for you, I thought you might want to forget it."
"Anzu, you were my best friend. You are now my only friend. How could you think that I didn't want to know you? I made all those programs just so I could track you down. When I realized it was hopeless, I changed to making games so that people could have all the fun that I missed. So that they could have at least some of the fun I had with you…"
"I know, Seto. I missed you so much!" Anzu moved to sit next to Seto and once again embraced him, giving him comfort just like she did those years ago.
"What happened to you? When did you get out? Where did you go?" Seto started to remember all his questions of Brownie, now Anzu.
"Do you really want to know, Seto?" she asked, reluctant.
"Of course!"
"All right then. I'll tell you a story, but you can't interrupt, ok? If you get frightened, tell me and I'll stop. It might give you nightmares, do you still want to hear it?" Anzu asked, just like she did in the orphanage when Seto demanded to hear one of her tales. Seto nodded, eagerly, like a child, not taking her warnings seriously.
Please review!!! Please!!! Anzu's life story will be next. It's dark and creepy and might give you nightmares. Listen to Anzu's warnings!!!