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Seto stirred- his alarm clock was buzzing it's usual annoying notes, but there was no way he had the strength to lift his hand to turn it off. Let it ring itself to death. Actually, from past experiences, Seto had found out that it would stop its futile attempts at rousing him after fifteen minutes. So if he was just patient enough, he would win the battle and get back to sleep. So he turned over onto his other side and pulled a pillow over his head, preparing himself for the grueling trial ahead of him. But to his surprise, it never came. Instead, a pissed off growling moan and a noise that sounded suspiciously like metal crashing into wood reached his ears. Forcing his eyes open, he saw a disheveled Anzu sitting on the end of the bed, looking satisfied at a heap of scrap metal on the floor.
'What the hell?' was his first reaction. 'How the fuck did Anzu get into my bed? Oh right. Last night…' Seto sighed. He was not a morning person. Luckily Anzu, who had fallen back on to the covers, seemed to dislike the dawn as much as he did. In fact, she was once again sleeping. Seto's eyes opened in disbelievement. She had just gotten up, used a Herculean amount of strength to pick up the alarm clock, won the battle against the dratted thing- and fell asleep again. 'Wow,' he thought. 'I really need to learn some tricks from the master.'
He sighed- he was as up as he was ever going to be at, he looked at his watch- seven o'clock in the morning?!?!?!?! School started in half an hour! A string of very fluent swears followed this realization, and increased in volume as Seto stubbed his toe and tripped over himself in an attempt to get his pants on. He glared up from his very un-Setoish position on the floor at the sound of a sleepy giggle.
"Morning bro," Anzu yawned, not in the least bit hurried. Seto's glare deepened. How dare she be happy at a time like this?
"Do you know what time it is, Anzu dearest?" he mocked.
She looked at him dully.
"Seven." It was now Seto's turn to smirk as he saw comprehension filter through Anzu's brain.
"Holy Crap!" she shouted, jumping off the bed and into the bathroom.
"Hey, I need to use that!" Seto called after her, to be answered with the slamming of a door. Frustrated, he finished getting dressed and just as packed up his school bag, Anzu emerged from the said room. "Your turn," she said. "Wait- how do I get to my room?" she yelled at Seto, just as he closed and locked the door against her banging. 'Payback.'
***
When they got to the school, everything was strangely quiet and empty. "Oh no!" Anzu panicked. "We're late! Classes must have started several minutes ago! Oh no, what are we going to do?"
Seto, being Seto, kept his cool. He looked into a window- empty classroom. He looked into another one- empty. The third- empty.
"Anzu? Today's not a holiday, is it?" he asked, uncertainly.
"Of course not!" she snapped back.
"Well, you two came here early!" the cheery voice of their professor called. Whirling around, they faced him uncomprehending.
"Early?" Anzu asked dumbly.
"Class doesn't start for another 50 minutes," he replied. And then he grinned. "Daylight savings," he explained.
"Thank you, sir," Seto said coldly. He hated being humiliated. The teacher knew this and smirked.
"Don't worry, Mr. Kaiba. I won't tell anyone of your little… blunder," he replied. "I'll be seeing you two in class later then?"
All they could do was nod. As soon as he was out of hearing range, they started screaming at each other. "You jackass!" "Idiot!" "What were you thinking waking me up that early?" "Me? It was you're alarm clock!" "It was you who smashed it causing me to wake up!" and so on and so on…
"Sheesh, they're acting like an old married couple already," the voice of Jou drifted though the argument. The couple stopped in mid insult and turned slowly to face the gang. Anzu turned a cherry red, and Seto just put on his expressionless mask on again.
"If it isn't the mutt and his fleas," Seto commented, seeing Anzu was in no condition to speak. "Yugi's about the size of one, actually…" he pretended to look thoughtful. Anzu tried to suppress a laugh, but failed as a snort followed by chuckling came from her lips.
Everyone looked at her shocked. "Honda… he even looks like one!" cried Anzu amid gasps, and burst out laughing at the angry frown the victim wore. Seto smiled coldly.
"Yeah, he really does," he said.
At this, both Honda and Jou would have attacked Kaiba had it not been for the two yami's holding them back.
"Always protective of your friends, aren't you, Bakura, Yami," Anzu spat. "Well I wish you'd let them go- it would be a treat to see them pummeled to pulp by Seto," she grinned. Seto smirked.
"What's with you, Anzu?" demanded Mai (don't know her Japanese name) angrily. "What are you hanging around that creep for?"
"Watch what you say, Mai. He's my friend!"
"But we're your friends too, Anzu! What about us?" cried Yugi.
Everyone froze, looking at Anzu. She stared at Yugi, not believing what he had said, tears coming to her eyes. But then she felt a hand on her shoulder, squeezing it reassuringly- Seto. It gave her courage, she regained her voice. "When's the last time you noticed me, Yugi?" she asked bitterly. "When's the last time you talked to me? In fact, when did you even look at me without scorn and hatred in your eyes? I helped you win your duels. I kept you all together and gave you hope and told you you could do it, you could win. When's the last time you were there for me? Was it when I wanted to jump off a bridge? When I sat with a knife to my wrist in the middle of the night? Or, how about when I was crying and needed someone to talk to, someone to understand? When I called you, begging to talk to you. No, Yugi, you were never there. None of you were there! When I came to school with red eyes, you never said anything. When I came with bruises all over my face, you never noticed. Yes, you were my friends. When we first met. When you dueled. It was a one sided friendship, you used me. And I let myself be used. But now, Yugi, now I found my real friend. And I never want to speak to any of you any more! Lets see how you get on with out me, boys. Girls, see if you can keep them going. I'll enjoy seeing all your efforts fail!" Anzu turned to Kaiba and sobbed into his chest. He looked stunned at some of the information he had learned. Anzu wanted to kill herself?
All the others looked shocked too. Ryou had tears in his eyes, as did Serenity. Yami scowled. "And how does Kaiba fit into all of this?" he demanded. 'I can't believe that the cold-hearted bastard is a better friend than I am! I'm supposed to be better than him at everything!'
Anzu turned around, and slapped Yami across the face, hard. He clutched at his red cheek in fury. "He's the one that kept me alive, you son-of-a-bitch!" she screamed. "I thought of him, and said- this is the one person that cared about me. I'm the one person that cares about him, other than Mokuba. In case he ever needs me, I need to stay strong! He carries the weight of so much, and still doesn't break. I thought of him, and said, 'if he can do it, so can I!' Could you ever hold up under the pressure? Any of you?" She was screaming at them, tears of fury and frustration coursing down her cheeks. An arm wrapped itself around her shoulder, calming her down.
"Let's go, Anzu," Seto said gently. Anzu nodded.
"So you're going out with that bastard?" Jou called after them. Both stiffened and turned around.
"You sicko!" Anzu looked disgusted. "We're like brother and sister."
"I wouldn't put it past him!" Jou countered.
"Listen, mutt. I would never date Anzu. I'm engaged to Ishizu."
Everyone looked shocked. Including Anzu. "Why didn't you ever tell me?" she asked.
"You didn't seem up for idle gossip," he replied. She smiled at him.
"I wasn't." Turning back to her past friends, she said, "Goodbye. We are no longer friends. In fact, I hate you. And don't worry- I'll find a way to make you pay for the hell you put me through." She looked at Seto, and together they walked away, leaving a very startled group behind them.
"Well, good riddance!" Jou sighed.
"Yeah," everyone half-heartedly agreed with him.
/Yami?/ Yugi asked through the mind link.
//Yes, aibou?//
/Do you think that she was right?/
//What do you mean?//
/She said that she kept us all together. That without her, we wouldn't be as strong/
//I think she may be right,// Yami sighed. //She was the one who made that sign on our hands in our first duel against Kaiba. That's what let us win. She was also the one who thought of the idea to block Pegasus' eye in that duel.//
/Are you worried, Yami?/
//No, Yugi. We can do anything without her.//
/I hope you're right./
'So do I,' Yami thought to himself.
***
One Anzu-free week from that fateful day, Yami lost his first duel. Two weeks later, he had lost his tenth.
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Song: Angels Fuck, By Jack off Jill
I woke up, morning
I woke up dead today
I aged a thousand years or more
I flinch when you are nice
You kill me with a single word
When angels fuck and devils kiss, I'm sure
I'll bask in your forever
You just waste my time
I want to drag you down, down with me
I wanted to help, to help destroy the world
I wanted to be that, to be that special girl
Everybody's got a little something to hide, but me
Everybody's got a little someone to crush, but me
I'm living in a human teenage mediocrity
Everybody's got a little someone to trust, but me
I dreamed that I was you
I dreamed your ego died
Sad who loves you more than I do
I know you lied
I'll bask in your forever
Fucking waste of time
Angels fuck and devils screw
I wanted to heal me and then destroy the world
Piss in your heart and be that, and be that special girl
Everybody's got a little something to hide but me
Everybody's got a little someone to crush but me
I'm living in a teenage negative mediocrity
Everybody's got a little someone to trust but me
But me, but you
Not me
Hate you
Love me, love me, hate you
Want me, fuck you, hate me
Kill you
Fuck me, like you, want me
Like you want you fuck you
Fuck me, fuck you, fuck you fuck you fuck me
Fuck you, fuck me, fuck you fuck you fuck me (you never loved me)
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you fuck you fuck me
I will never make it better
I will never make it better
It will always hurt you fucking asshole
So, how was that? I'll get to what happened to the others in the next chapter. Also, something pretty sad will happen. As I said before, Anzu will have a really hard life… Please review!!! I want five (gasp) reviews for the next chapter. Heh, you people are spoiling me rotten with your really nice reviews! But please don't stop!!!!