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I wonder where everybody went? Oh well. I guess the YGO cast is getting a snack or something. Well, actually says not "self-insertion" so there go my muses.
This chapter will be rather short because school start's started up again. I've had major essays and tests lately, and that's why I haven't been updating and reviewing as frequently.
Disclaimer: I do not own YGO or Ladythief15's character, Captain K. This goes for all chappies. Waaaaa!!! I want Ryou to do the disclaimer! Curse their evil hunger!
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Beneath the Desert Sands
By: Chi Yagami
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Chapter 8 – In the Heat of the Night
The two Egyptians ran down the shoreline, an angry mob chasing them.
"Bakura… I can't run any farther," Anzu panted. When Paltrick had told them that the city knew Anzu was in their bedroom, they had panicked. Paltrick had stalled while the other two escaped out the window. However, Paltrick hadn't been much of an obstacle for the crowd.
Bakura picked her up and slung her over his shoulders, then started running again.
"Ouf!" Anzu groaned as she was bumped up and down as her comrade jumped over several large rocks. She could see the people drawing closer, lit torches in their hands.
"Hurry! They're getting closer!" she cried.
"Do you want to switch places? No? Then I suggest you be quiet. I'm running as fast as I can, woman!"
They stopped to rest at a boathouse.
"Where are all of the boats?" she asked him.
"Hold your tongue! Must you be so impatient? I'm doing the best I can!" he replied harshly.
Anzu frowned and sank onto a pile of bagged soil. Bakura sure had been having a lot of mood swings lately: first he was happy to see her, and now he was grumpy. She tried to brush it off; it was probably just all of the stress they were under.
Meanwhile, Bakura had been opening a secret compartment on the floor. He pulled out a rather small canoe and thrust it into the nearby water. Then he practically shoved her into the boat, jumping in after her. He handed her an oar.
"Can you paddle fast?" It was more of an order than a request.
They paddled quickly until they could no long see the light of the crowd's torches.
"Hey Bakura, what's that?" Anzu asked, pointing to something in the distance.
Bakura twisted his head around and gasped. A giant ship was heading straight towards them! They drifted beside it and stopped.
"Ahoy there!" a voice called from above. "Where might ye be going?"
"Uh," Bakura stammered, "away…?"
"Well come aboard and we'll take ye away!"
A rope ladder was thrown down to them. Anzu and Bakura climbed aboard the ship and gasped. They had never seen such a boat (1). There were huge masts and decks of all sorts; cabins, dinning halls and boiler rooms were bigger than Yami's room.
Two men suddenly grabbed them and tied them to one of the large poles.
"Where are we?" Bakura demanded. "Who are you and what do you want with us?"
Both men started laughing. One had a patch over an eye, and the other had a wooden leg. Anzu gulped; she didn't get the greatest impression that these people were very friendly…
"Well, mate, ye've come aboard the Lobster, and ye're sailing with de finest cap'in dat ever lived, Cap'in K," said the one with the wooden leg (2).
"I'm Fred," said the one with the patch, "and this 'ere's George. We're pirates." He whispered the last part with a smirk. He noticed Anzu.
"Ah, lookie what we have 'ere, George. A little missy; what d'ya say we play with her?" he snickered. Bakura kicked hard in the you know what.
"You will not lay a finger on her, you barbarians," he growled. No one would touch her while he was around.
"Ouh, sticking up for yer wench, eh?" George snickered. Bakura tried to kick him too, but he was too far away. "Ye'll walk the plank for that one, mate."
"NO!" Anzu screamed, but the men had already untied Bakura and pushed him onto the planks. Bakura looked back at her with sorrow in his eyes. Fred pushed him off the plank as the color drained from Anzu's cheeks.
But there was no splash.
"Hey, shouldn't we have heard a splash?" Fred asked confused.
"I dunno."
They shrugged and turned back to Anzu. The untied her and took her below deck. She was thrown into a prison cell.
"Cap'in will deal with ye in the mornin'."
She was left all alone. Anzu curled up in a ball and cried herself to sleep.
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"Anzu…"
She could hear her name being called, but she couldn't seem to open her eyes.
"Anzu!"
Her eyes shot open and she came face-to-face with Bakura, who was squatting down next to her.
"Bakura!" she cried as she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down with her (rather, on top of her). They lay there for a while, and Bakura smirked, remembering the day that they were in this position so long ago.
"Anzu…"
"Hmm…?"
"You're not flat anymore."
Anzu sat up blushing and pushed Bakura off her. He smiled one of his rare, true smiles (not a smirk) and pulled her into his lap. He began playing with her hair as she relaxed against him.
"Bakura, you don't blame your misfortune on me, do you?"
"What?!" he asked. "Of course not! Although you are a very annoying woman…"
She sighed with relief. But she still felt bad.
"Anzu, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" he asked her, shifting his body so that they faced each other.
"It's just that… I feel like I've hurt so many people… Malik ,Jylie, Seth, you… I just feel horrible… I should've never run away! You'd be so much happier…"
He jerked her chin up with his thumb.
"What are you talking about, woman!? Without you here, I would've probably killed myself by now!"
"But… but…"
Anzu sobbed in his arms and Bakura sighed. He wasn't very good at comforting people.
"I should've never endangered them," she continued. "But…"
She stopped when Bakura leaned over and their lips met. He looked at her and smiled.
"Anzu, you're the best thing that's ever happened to me! I would be nowhere without out. Anzu, I… I… I love you…"
The tombrobber blushed and looked away. It had taken a lot of guts to say that.
"Oh, Bakura…!"
She placed her hands on his cheeks and made him face her.
"I love you, too."
His hands closed around her wrists, bringing them down from his face. They leaned in and kissed again, but this time it was longer and more passionate.
That night, Anzu fell asleep in Bakura's lap as he stared out the porthole. He had been lucky to catch onto a canon below the plank. He had watched them take Anzu away, and he had secretly followed.
Suddenly, two pirates appeared with a larger pirate behind them. When it stepped out of the shadows, Bakura could see it was a woman.
"Welcome mates. I am Captain K, and you've come aboard the S.S.Menes!" (3)
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(1) I'm just guessing that they'd never seen a pirate ship.
(2) Sorry, Ladythief15, but I had to come up with some nickname so Bakura wouldn't recognize her.
(3) King Menes was the first pharaoh of Egypt, and he also united Upper and Lower Egypt into one.
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I know, I suck at writing mushy stuff. This chappie probably had the most fluff in it… Sorry for Bakura's OOCness, but I couldn't think of a better way to write it.
Ladythief15, your character has arrived! I'll personally thank readers next chapter.
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