Disclaimer: Not this again!!! I can't stand disclaimers!! Do I have to keep typing them for each story!?! Ughh!! I do not own Yugioh!!! Freaking world of copyrights!!!
Thanks for the latest batch of reviews I got!!! Sorry to make you guys wait for so long!!!!!!!! A couple of complications appeared and…well, plus I also got a dose of writer's block, too. =( But that's been cleared up and I'm ready to write again!!!!!! Oh and reviewers, please keep reviewing!!!!!! ^_^ Plus I do not know where to buy the Yugioh comics for the reviewers that asked in the last chapter..
Revised: 11/4/03
Note: Characters all go by the Japanese names. Yet again.
Anzu =Tea
Jounouchi = Joey
Honda = Tristan
Kaiba = Seto
" " talking
' ' thoughts
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italic flashback
Untitled Love
Chapter Three
Anzu breathed in the fresh cool air of late spring. The nights were becoming shorter, days were becoming longer, and school was close to ending. Such bliss. She was out by the Domino City (the city that the Yugioh characters all live in) Bridge, leaning onto the fence that separated her from the water beneath, and the stone blocks that her feet was on. The inky black night all around her gave her such a feeling of peace and quiet that she could never quite get at home, or at school. Or at least not while Jounouchi and Honda was around.
'Yugi and the others could never understand how we girls appreciate silence once in a while. Not with them all yelling and screaming who won or lost in the latest duel.' Anzu sweatdropped at the thought. Then she smiled, looking at her benevolent reflection in the shallow waters.
'But they're friends who'll help support me no matter what!' Suddenly, she heard loud footsteps in the distance.
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Seto let exhaustion took the better of him. He just tucked Mokuba to sleep at his usual early bedtime of 9:45, proceeding with a light dinner of fried fish and rice, and Mokuba's bodyguard leaving the house. He walked little steps to his favorite spot, the only good attraction in the city that didn't contain any amount of noise.
He could see the distant bridge now, waiting for him. But there seemed to be a figure there, covered by shadows. At that moment, the clouds in the sky moved to reveal a sparkling full moon, revealing the stranger's true identity.
'Anzu??…'
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"Who's there!?" Scared, she now regretted never listening to the news reports of teenage girls and women being raped alone in the dark of night. Anzu gulped, and shifted her feet in a way so that she'll be ready to run when the time came.
"Ridiculous! If you're so afraid of being attacked, why did you even bother coming out here at this time!?"
'That voice sounds so familiar!!.' There was a rough exterior to his voice, and one that provided much scorn. She turned her head around to face the person right behind her.
"Seto???..."
"The one and only." A twirl of navy-blue trench coat asserted this fact- nobody wore those other than Kaiba.
"What are you doing here?"
"Well how about you?"
"I asked you first."
"That doesn't matter."
"Yes it does."
"No, it doesn't."
"Oh, yes it does."
"No, it doesn't. Look, just drop the charade, and you tell me first what the hell are you doing here." Pointing his index finger at Anzu, the girl sighed, frustrated.
"Fine, I'm here because I wanted some peace and quiet from life, all right?" Anzu turned her head to face the water's reflection once again.
"Hmmph." Seto walked to the fencing, just on the opposite side of the medium-hair brunette.
'Can this day get any worse!?? Now I have to have one of Yugi's friends intruding here!' But watching the water as it swished through various rocks and pebbles on the waterbed, slowly eroding them over time, it calm him down a bit, but just a bit.
Meanwhile for Anzu, all she wanted was for her worst enemy to leave her alone.
'How does Mokuba put up with him! I never seen such a snob like him!! I thought he changed during the fight for his brother's soul. Turns out some people never change.' She inserted her auburn-brown strands of hair behind her ears. She didn't want any hair to get into her eyes; it would block her view, plus make her hair all frizzy with the wind whipping it around her face, and if that didn't happen, straw hair will. Anzu tried to ignore Seto who was just standing by her- 10 feet in between the two of them- by trying to focus on other things. But her thoughts always went back to Seto, and how bothersome he was. Face it, the whole "quiet" thing was ruined for her.
So she tried for another approach; since Seto already destroyed her day, Anzu might as well try to talk to him and figure out why he was so secluded and snobby to the rest of the world.
"Seto, can I ask you a question?"
"Just ask."
"Why is it that you're always so…I don't know…Why are you always so buried into work and computers? Don't you ever want to enjoy life as a normal teenager, while you still are one? Hang out with all the other people?…Make some friends?"
"Have I ever told you not to stick your nose into other people's business?"
"You know Seto, no man is an island- that means no matter how much you think you could just pass through life supporting only yourself and your brother, everybody must have some kind of friend. Even the most selfish, the most cruelest, or the most socially awkward have friends. I mean, your parents don't even teach you this stuff. Are you this secluded from the world? Or are you just trying to prove something?"
Parents. That word struck Seto like a dagger, straight into his heart full of confusion and hurt, the heart he had closed up to the world a long time ago.
"Why don't you just shut up." He snapped at the teenager, infuriated.
She flinched. Sure, she had seen Seto Kaiba mad at a lot of other people too, but experiencing wasn't the same as seeing. She felt hurt, and wished she should have just shut her mouth the whole time.
"I'm s-sorry…"
TBC
A/N: Sorry again for the hiatus! I tend to have writer's block when I write series, but here's chapter three, all there in times new roman font!! Or so I think it is… ^_^; Anyway, will Anzu open up Seto, or will she just leave him alone for the world to bear? Find out in the next chapter!!! Ugh, that sounds horrible!!! Maybe I'll just stick with writing whatever that's necessary to write here. R+R, as usual!! NO FLAMES!!
