Rose: Konnichi wa! Daijobuu? (How are you?)
Hiei: I hate you.
Rose: Since it's the summer, I'm trying to teach myself Japanese.
Hiei: I hate you.
Rose: Notice the word "trying"….
Hiei: I hate you.
Rose: SHUT UP HIEI!!!
Hiei: O.O….
Rose: Do the disclaimer…
Hiei: Rose doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh…but she does own the Fruits Basket vol. 1 DVD she bought yesterday.
Rose: Yep yep! It's sooooo funny!!!
Hiei: -.-….
Rose: Enjoy the chapter!!!
Hiei: …kill me now…
Chapter: The Rest of the Story
Malik looked at her wide-eyed. Had she actually spoken to him? "W-W-W-What did you just say?"
"I said yeah. I have no problem staying here for a while." She didn't bother to look up at him because she already knew what expression was on his face. "Do you not want to stay here?"
"Of course I do! I just wanted to make sure it was okay with you first." He wasn't sure what was going on, but he wasn't about to complain about it. She's actually talking! And I'm the one that got her to talk. Wait until in rub it in the others faces!!!
Not only was Malik the only shocked one. Anzu was surprised herself. I guess I won't have to use that stupid sign language any more. HA!!! Die evil sign language!!!! Burn in hell!! "Well look at this, I'm talking now. I guess I owe you guys burgers now."
"Naw. If you don't actually talk around them, then you don't have to buy." Malik put on a grin.
"That's a good idea." She giggled softly at the suggestion.
"Of course. I always have good ideas." The question on his mind practically screamed to be asked. "Um…Anzu? Can I ask you something?"
"Sure. What is it?"
"Why…why exactly did you go mute?" He knew it was prying, but he's been wanting to ask her that question from the moment he found out she was mute.
"Oh…" Her voice was filled with sadness. Apparently this wasn't a very good subject to be on.
"But if you don't want to talk about it that's fine with me!" He tried to undo what he had started. But did it work? Nope.
"No…I want to talk about it. More like…need to talk about it." She took a deep breath. "It happed 11 years ago…"
-Flashback-
It was a regular uneventful day. Not to mention, wonderfully beautiful outside.
"Momma, I'm home!" yelled the five year-old Anzu as she walked into her house and closed the door behind her, (Since her elementary school was only about two and a half blocks away from her house, she was allowed to walk home by herself) a smile plastered to her face. "Momma!"
"In here dear." Mrs. Mazaki called from the kitchen.
The young girl skipped into the kitchen with a paper in her hand. "Here Momma. I drew this for you."
"Oh?" Her mother looked up from the dishes in the sink and went over to the child. "Oh Anzu! It's beautiful!" On the paper was a drawing of her mother, her older brother, her father, and her.
"Yeah, do you know what it is? It's me, you, daddy, and Ty!" She beamed a smile at her mother. The innocence in that one smile could be etched into her mother's mind forever.
"How about I put that on the fridge? That way everyone can see it." Her mother put the picture on the refrigerator with magnets at each corner. "There. Now, Anzu do you have any homework?"
"Yes. I'll go do it." Anzu headed off to her room.
"I'll call you when dinner's ready!" She called after her child.
Anzu ran up the stairs making sure she didn't trip and fall. Once on the second floor she turned to the hallway. She could easily hear the heavy rock coming from her brother's room. Without a second thought, she bounded toward his room and knocked on the door. "Onii-chan?"
No answer.
"ONII-CHAN?!" She banged her fists on his door but it seemed like he still couldn't hear her. So she opened his door and was greeted by loud heavy rock. "I think you play your music too loud Onii-chan." Her brother was currently at his desk, banging pencils along with the drummer instead of doing his homework. "Onii-chan? ONII-CHAN!!!!" ((a/n: Okay. Onii-chan is an affectionate term for 'big brother'. -.- and yes I spelled it right. I made sure of it. I even checked it out in my Saiyuki manga. At the end of the first manga, Lirin says to Lord Kougaiji "And Lirin's going too! 'Cuz I'm stronger than Onii-chan!" Onii-chan referring to Kougaiji. O.o ….Um…I just wanted to make sure everyone out there knew what Onii-chan was. And the little Saiyuki excerpt? Dat was to prove dat I had spelled it right. Some people only spell it with one 'i'.))
"Huh?" He looked behind him to see his little sister and turned down the stereo. "Hey there runt."
"Don't call me that." Anzu glared at her brother's nickname for her.
"Okay…puny runt. Is that better?" His smile getting wider at the younger girl's response.
"Stop it Onii-chan. Aren't you suppose to be doing your homework?" She looked over to the desk and saw nothing but blank worksheets. "I see you're not getting too much done."
"Shut up. I'm working. Just not on that." He spun in his chair before stopping again. "Look, don't tell mom about this okay? She'll have a fit."
"Tell her about what Onii-chan?" The innocence again radiating from her face.
"You know how she is about us finishing our homework before dad gets home."
"Yeah, I know." She walked over to his bed and jumped up on it.
"Hey! No jumping on the bed! I have to sleep there." He stuck the pencil behind his ear and turned to his work on his desk. "Go do your homework and stop bugging me."
"Okay Onii-chan!" She jumped off the bed and ran out of his room, slamming the door in the process.
"Loud little runt." He said with a small smile on his face. "Now let's see what we have to do here."
Anzu ran into her room and locked the door, a habit she was accustomed to. She took off her backpack and threw it into the floor. She crawled up onto her bed and just laid there. "I'm tired." She stifled a yawn and soon fell asleep.
Anzu woke up hours later thanks to yelling and screaming coming from downstairs. She slowly got up from her bed and wiped the sand from her eyes. "Daddy must be home." She slowly got out of bed and unlocked her door and peeked into the hallway. Dark and quiet. I wonder where everyone is. I know I just heard someone.
She walked down the hallway, stopping at her brother's open door. "Onii-chan?" she whispered. No answer. She looked into the empty room. "Onii-chan?"
CRASH!
She turned around so fast so got dizzy for a second. She heard glass breaking on the floor. "What was that?" She made her way down the stairs but stopped at the bottom after hearing a low moaning sound.
"Get up you filth piece of shit!" A loud booming voice yelled. Anzu's eyes widen at the site, her mother on the ground with her brother shielding her with his body, blood dripping from his back and glass shards scattered around them.
A small gasp escaped Anzu's mouth; her face had an expression of complete horror. She had seen her parents fight before, mostly just yelling, but this was something that never happened. Especially with her brother as well.
"Did you NOT hear me? I said get up!!!" Her father grabbed the back of Ty's shirt and threw him off of their mother. "How dare you intervene with your mother and mine's argument! You have no right!"
He landed with a yelp in pain. He slowly pushed himself up with his good arm, his other arm hurt because it broke his fall. He stood up and hung his head down. "I….I have ever right in the world! She's my mother!!!"
"She's nothing but a whore!" ((a/n: Khrystal!!! H-O-A-R! )) Her father wasn't too happy about this at all, Anzu could tell by the level of his voice. "And you're nothing but the whore's son! A man-whore!" Her father snarled the last part in disgust.
"Don't….say that about her!!!!" He raised his head, anger burning in his eyes.
ONII-CHAN!!!! MOMMA!!!! Anzu brought her gaze over to her mother, who lay on the floor with bruises and cuts on her face and arms. She must have lost consciousness when she landed on the floor, due to one of her father's blows. Momma… Tears started to fall from her eyes.
"Don't you DARE talk back to me!!! Do you understand? Or I'll kill you just like I did your whore of a mother!" Her brother's eyes widened as her father raised the silver pistol in his hand. "I'm not joking. You of all people, know I'm not."
Anzu couldn't take it anymore. She quietly made her way back upstairs and into her mother's room to the phone. She grabbed it off the hook and went into the joined bathroom and locked the door. Her shaky fingers pushed the numbers '911' and a ringing tone was heard on the other line.
"911. State your emergency." The woman's voice calmly said.
"M-m-m-my father…he's hurting my momma and Onii-chan!" She sobbed into the receiver. "There's blood and my father has a gun! Please help me!" Anzu was crying softly now, in fear for her mother and brother's life as well as her own.
"Okay sweetie. Calm down. A police car and an ambulance are on their way. Stay on the line." Anzu heard some typing on the other line as the woman kept trying to calm her down.
BANG!!! ((a/n: -.-;;; I know sucky word…but I couldn't think of anything else.))
Anzu knew who was on the receiving end of that shot and dropped the phone.
"Hello? Little girl? Hello?"
Anzu unlocked the bathroom door and peered out. Silence. No…no…it can't be… She took off down the stairs again and saw that nothing had changed. "O-Onii-chan?"
Both her father and the brother looked at her. "GET OUT OF HERE RUNT! Before something happens…"
"But…but…why?" Anzu allowed more tears to stream down her face. "Why would you do such a thing-"
A click. The trigger was set and it had a new target, her. "Say another word and I'll let go." Her father's slow raspy voice hissed those words in a horrible manner. "Go back upstairs and get back into bed. I'll deal with you later."
Anzu shook her head no slowly. But it was her brother who moved. A shift kick in their father's groin. "You bastard!! Anzu did NOTHING TO YOU!!! NOTHING!!" Her father fell to the ground and a look of pain incasing his face.
"Anzu…" Her brother ran over to her and gave her a hug. "Everything's going to be alright, okay? I promise."
Anzu's eyes widened and she saw her father aim the gun at her brother. "ONII-CHAN!!!"
BANG!
This time the bullet hit it's target and Ty felt the sticky warm liquid trail down his back. "…Anzu…"
"No…Onii-chan…" Anzu grabbed onto his shirt and started to cry. "Don't leave me!!!"
He fell forward on her. "Be…strong…for…me…"
"Okay…I will…just hang on…please…" But it was no use. He was dead and there was nothing she could do to bring him back.
"Like I said before, he was nothing but a man-whore." Her father got up from the ground and headed toward her.
Out of sheer fear and panic, she backed up with each step he took toward her until she hit a wall. "Now there's no place for you to run." He took a hold of her chin and forced her to look at him. "And if I were you, I wouldn't speak a word of this to anyone if you want to see the rest of your life." The smirk that crossed his mouth made her shiver with fear.
"FREEZE! BACK AWAY FROM THE GIRL WITH YOUR HANDS UP!!!" The police officer pointed the gun to Mr. Mazaki's back.
"You want the girl, then come and get her." He pulled Anzu close to him and aimed the gun at her head. "Come and get her then, if you dare!"
The policeman's gun rang out at Mr. Mazaki while his rang out toward Anzu.
-End Flashback-
"…The next thing I knew, I woke up in a hospital. My father's gunshot only pierced my arm thanks to the shot from the policeman. When I woke up, my mother was next to my bed and I couldn't speak." Tears welled up in her eyes as she buried her head into Malik's shirt and cried.
"…I had no idea…oh Anzu…" His arm circled around her back and pulled her closer. He rubbed her back as a means to soothe her. "What…happened to your father?"
"The policeman's gunshot had killed him on the spot. It when into his chest, right through his heart. Serves him right. Killing my…my…Onii-chan and hurting my mother." She calmed a little. "He was the bastard. He was the man-whore."
"I'm so sorry Anzu…for asking." Malik kissed the top of her head. "I had no idea."
"It's not your fault. I needed to tell somebody." She brought her head up with a smile on her tear stained face. "It's mine, for not telling."
Malik gave a soft smile. "I glad you told me. Cause now I can hear that pretty voice you have."
Anzu blushed a bright crimson before Malik leaned down and captured her lips. But as fast as they came in to catch their prey, they left. Leaving Anzu mixed with feelings. "W-What was that for?"
"Just felt like doing it." He beamed a smile at her. "It felt right. Plus, I've been wanting to do that since the first day I laid eyes on you."
Again, Anzu's cheeks became a bright crimson.
"Now let's head back before they send a search party. And I'm not kidding about that." He got up as well as Anzu. "Now…which way was it?"
She giggled a little before pointing. "I think that way."
"ALRIGHT! That way! Since it's the only way we have a lead on." He went ahead and started to walk in the direction that Anzu had pointed in. "Come on Anzu! So we can catch the fireworks!"
"Okay." They started walking off together. "Oh and you didn't hear this from me, but the others also like the Ferris Wheel."
"I KNEW IT!!!" Anzu giggled at his response and put her head on his shoulder.
Rose: T.T Dat was sad to write…and I wanted to put in an authors note…but I didn't want to add another one…and now I forgot what I was going to say…
Hiei: …she's brainless…
Rose: Yep!
Hiei: ANYWAY!!!! There's only going to be-
Rose: ::hand clamped down on Hiei's mouth:: HAPPY MOMENTS FROM NOW ON!!!
Hiei: -.- ….
Rose: . Please leave a review…OH! T.T The reason some of my face thingys are all messed up is because of ff.net's new upload thing…it won't upload it!
Hiei: -.-;;;;;…Please leave a review…it will make her very happy and when she's happy, she updates…
Rose: Happy happy happy!!!!!
Hiei: -.-