'Bows repeatedly' Gomen! I'm sorry that I haven't updated in forever. I'm horrible at updating and I know it! Oh and the stuff about the snake, rats and scorpions are pets I have owned and have experience with, it really seemed to fit when I put them in there in the previous chapter. So really everything is true. Ruby is really an idgit. She was given to us from a cousin of my stepmothers, so if I want I could plug that into the story as well. I really want to thank all my wonderful reviewer without whom I would probably never update. Thank you! You all are a source of inspiration and motivation. I love you all!

This chapter is going to be really mild but it still carries the "R" rating for swearing and sexual tension.

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Blue eyes unwilling opened at 8:00am. Anzu was cursing every god or goddess that she had heard of when she woke up.

Not even on my day off do I sleep in…Oh well, might as well practice my dancing.

Getting into a sports bra and sweats, Anzu headed for the basement of her apartment building. The basement was a huge, bare square except for some coin washers and dryers and electrical outlets. Plugging in her CD player and putting her dance mix in, she stretched some before hitting play.

She let the music wash over her for a moment before she started dancing. As she danced, her thoughts ran wild over the past couple of months: her new job, stressing over how much money she needed to get to Julliard, how sexy Marik and Bakura look, how life was just stressing her…Whoa she thought. I just did not think how sexy Marik and Bakura are…did I? She stopped dancing to ponder her wayward thoughts.

Marik and Bakura are both incredibly sexy. Marik with his wild blonde hair and violet eyes and Bakura with his wild white hair and indigo eyes…okay, so they both are yummy enough to eat and then some.

She slapped herself on the forehead, "I'm so glad no one can hear my thoughts. My friends would throw me in Looney Bin if they knew I wanted to screw Marik and Bakura." Her eyes widened when she heard herself say that. "Oh my gods, I would want the two evilest, craziest men I know. Nice to know I'm normal."

Scene change

Kame Game Shop

"Yuugi-kun! I want the latest DDR game and I want it now!" Anzu whined.

"Anzu, you are going to have to wait a couple of weeks for us to get that. It isn't part of our normal stock and getting just ONE game doesn't make sense." Yuugi reasoned with her.

Anzu huffed, got Yuugi in a headlock and gave him a noogie. "But Yuugi-kun I have been waiting weeks for that game to be released. It has the new Turkey March on it! And I want to see if I can beat that one as well."

"Turkey March, Anzu?" asked Jou.

"Yeah, it was the one dance that had my ass sore for a week before I got used to moving my feet that fast or without using my hands. The dance's default is Hard." She chucked. "I know I looked funny, dancing with my hands and feet."

Honda and Jou began to laugh. "I wanna see that! Do it right now!" said Honda.

"Okay."

Atem began to panic. "Anzu! Let go of Yuugi! He's turning blue!"

She quickly let go of him and apologized. "Gomen Yuugi-kun. I was only playing around with you." She bowed to him.

Coughing, he managed to tell her it was alright. Just then the bell twinkled and four persons walked in. Anzu twirled around and yelled, "Yeah! Whadda what?"

Yuugi gasped, "Anzu! Those are costumers! Don't be rude!"

"Uh, Yuugi-kun. Those aren't costumers. It's the Gruesome Threesome and Ryou."

Ryou grinned. "And how did you know it was us?"

Anzu got a really straight face and said in a weird voice, "I can predict the future!"

"Nani?" Nervous reply from Ryou.

"Actually, I saw you in the mirror that's behind me." And with that, she stuck out her tongue then turned around and began to set up the DDR game.

"That was very mature, Mazaki. I bet your parents are proud that they raised such a fine daughter." Malik drawled slowly.

"Maybe. Maybe not. We'll never know now will we." She shot back. Her parents, while loving and kind were never really there for their daughter, so they became a touchy subject for her. For the most part, she had lived with her older sister and her husband, whenever her parents had left.

Malik like the challenge she just presented. "Such a sharp tongue. If your parents didn't raise you, then who did?"

The grin Anzu gave him was full of wickedness and laughter. "Wolves. I'm sweet and caring for my pack but the moment something threatens them, I'm ripping its throat out."

While everyone else was watching the battle of wit, Yuugi was panicking. Kuso! I was hoping that no one would get into a fight today. I'm just glad that Marik and Bakura aren't the ones fighting Anzu…what a minute, why do they look like they want to eat her? "Hey Anzu! I thought you wanted to show us the Turkey March?" He broke in laughing nervously.

That broke her concentration and she turned to face her oldest friend. "Hai, Yuugi-kun. I was just having a battle of wit. It was fun." She walked over to the PS2 console and turned it on. Using the dance mat, she found the Turkey March and began.

Everyone was giving Anzu weird looks as she "danced" to the music. I didn't know Anzu was that flexible. Ryou thought. She really was using her hands and feet. By the time the song had ended, she was panting slightly and fell onto her back. She got a B for her effort, and she flipped the machine the bird before turning it off.

Looking over her shoulder, she glanced at Jou and told him that was the Turkey March. She chuckled and winked at him, "I have a love/hate relationship with that damn dance. I love it because it's so hard to do and I hate it because it's so hard to do. I'm such a perfectionist it's sad."

Jou blinked once. "Perfectionist? You? How? I mean, you hang out with us, and I know I would drive myself nuts if I was a perfectionist."

"Ballet. In Ballet you have to be perfect. You aren't allowed to be anything but perfect. You have to work through everything to become perfect. I dislocated my knee when I was about 13 and do you know what my trainer said. 'Too bad. Get back on the floor and practice.' " She winked again at Jou. "I can concentrate through anything, including pain."

Yuugi looked distressed. "Is it really that horrible Anzu? I never knew you were in such pain."

"You mean you never noticed Yuugi-kun? You must be really oblivious to not notice a limp or the brace I had my knee. Or the medication I was taking for the pain. Do you even remember the time Honda slapped me on the lower back and I dropped to the floor like he had stabbed me?" She lifted her eyebrow then she sighed. "Don't worry about it Yuugi-kun. It doesn't bother me and besides it's in the past so why worry about it. Besides, I'm hungry and I want pizza. My treat."

Jou and Honda looked at her with worshipping eyes. "Okay. We want six extra larges with everything and cheesy garlic bread and four orders of Buffalo Wings."

Anzu whipped her trusty cell phone out and ordered everything that Jou and Honda wanted. Covering the mouth piece she asked if anyone else wanted something.

"No, that's all. Um…I'll come pick it up. 25 minutes. Okay. Thanks. Bye."

Yuugi spoke up. "Ano, Anzu why did you buy so much food?"

"Because I'm hungry and because there isn't a decent ramen place around here."

Bakura grinned. "The girl is a pig after being around those two." Honda and Jou looked pissed while Anzu told Bakura to fuck off. Ryou panicked a moment thinking that his yami was going to do bodily damage to Anzu, but Bakura looked amused at her reply.

Atem whacked Anzu in the back of the head and told her to watch her mouth around Grandpa. Rubbing the back of her head, Anzu looked up to see Grandpa standing in the doorway with a tray full of tea and a "you should be ashamed of yourself" look on his face.

Anzu laughed nervously. "Gomen Grandpa."

Solomon shook his head and sighed and set the tea down on the table. "Just be sure not use that kind of language around customers." He warned before he left. Anzu promised that she wouldn't.

Yuugi was pouring tea into the cups when Jou said that he wanted sugar in his tea. "One or two lumps, Jou-kun?" (A/N: Do boys in Japan say –kun to each other? Someone please tell me!) "Make that two lumps….OW!" Jou whipped around to see Anzu whistling and looking in the other direction with a 'I didn't do it' look on her face. "Anzu, I know your guilty. So quit with the innocent act." Pouting, Anzu had the grace to look chastised.

After the tea was served, everyone sat in silence, some where thinking of ways to start a conversation, others were happy with the silence and still some really didn't care.

"So, Anzu, do you like ramen? I heard you mention that there aren't any decent ramen places in this area", Came Ryou's question.

Widening her eyes and looking surprised, Anzu turned to Ryou, "I don't like ramen. I LOVE ramen! There is nothing as divine as ramen." Here she sighed. "Sweet glorious ramen, soon I will pay homage to thee." Then she clapped her hands and bowed hitting her head on the table, a slight 'ow' passing her lips.

Honda raised his eyebrows and said, "Hey Anzu! When does your day pass from the Mental Hospital expire again?"

"Shhhhhhhhh! I snuck out again. They were forcing me to watch re-runs of Barney and feeding me a meat by-product of some kind. I had to get away. I needed my daily fix of ramen", she said in a hush-hush voice before she winked at Honda. "Anyway, could someone get the pizza?"

Jou looked at her funny. "I thought you said you would get it."

"I said I would pay for it, I'm just feeling to damn lazy to get it. I'll give whoever goes gas money." She added hoping to tempt someone into doing it for her and just con someone into doing she gave them a puppy-eyed look and stuck out her bottom lip slightly and started it quivering.

Jou and Honda groaned. They really really hated it when she did that; she could get whatever she wanted with that look. Finally, Honda said that he would get the pizza, got the needed money from Anzu then he grabbed Jou and the two fled the scene.

When they were out the door and sounds of an engine being revved reached her ears, Anzu burst into laughter. Wiping her eyes as she calmed down, she commented that she had those two tightly wrapped around her little finger. Sighing, she lay down on the floor and rested her head in her arms, "Life is good. I'm gonna get pizza, Yuugi-kun said that my game is coming soon, today is my day off, ah yeah, life is good. Yuugi-kun, have I ever told you that your floor is very comfortable."

Yuugi chuckled. "I think you mentioned it once a long time ago. Back when I had a slumber party for my birthday. You remember that?"

"Yeah, I remember. I didn't think anyone could snore that loud, but Honda proved me wrong. I was so mad at him that I could have smothered him with a pillow but instead I pranked him."

Laughing, Yuugi asked her what she did again.

"I put shaving cream in his hand and tickled his nose with a feather. I almost died when he shoved the cream up his nose!" Here Anzu and Yuugi burst into more laughter. "Honda was pissed when he woke up five seconds later. He sat on me for ten minutes tickling me until I had nearly passed out. Ah, good times." Anzu inserted when she stopped laughing long enough to talk. Then she started laughing again.

While they were laughing, the other people in the room like three yamis and two hikaris sat there watching the scene before them. Malik's eyebrows shot up and he looked at Yami and asked him if he knew anything about this. Yami replied that he did and it happened just they way Anzu had told it. He then commented that Yuugi had woken up because of the snoring and saw Anzu standing over Honda with a pillow in one hand and a can of shaving cream in the other; he remembered thinking she looked pissed enough to kill and at the same time mischievous enough to use the shaving cream instead of the pillow. Ryou was about to comment when Honda and Jou burst into room holding the food. Anzu stopped laughing long enough to lunge at Jou, snatch the Garlic Cheesy Bread, run to a corner and growl at them while she hunched over her 'prey'.

"Anzu cut that out. I want some breadsticks too!" Jou yelled.

"Then come and take them if you have enough balls to!" Anzu yelled back. Then she ripped a breadstick free and began to eat it, making sure she was extra loud in sounds of delight. Squirm Jou squirm. Her three bite into the treat she decided to moan in pleasure this time and had the pleasure of watching Jou flinch then pounce on her grabbing the box away before she could move. She pouted as she finished off her breadstick. What Anzu didn't know was, she was turning on her male friends with her moans and sighs as she was eating.

"Jou, you are so mean to take away a girl's treat. I'm telling on you!" She finished in a childish whining voice.

Jou looked at her funny before he started to laugh at her; Anzu frowned before she started laughing as well.

"We are a couple of retards aren't we?" She asked rhetorically. She whipped her head around to level a glare at Malik, who had his mouth open to reply, Bakura and Marik who were laughing aloud at Anzu's statement. "And you three damn well better not reply to that!"

Malik only reply was to take a bite of pizza instead while Bakura and Marik…kept laughing. Finally sobering up, Bakura growled at Anzu. "Watch your tongue with us woman, unlike your friends here we are not intimidated by you."

Narrowing her eyes, Anzu jumped up and glared hard at Bakura. "Is that a challenge to make you intimidated by me?"

Bakura responded by standing up and towering over Anzu, (A/N: Remember that Bakura has his own Egyptian body and Bakura was a really big boy.) narrowing his eyes he growled out, "I could crush you."

Anzu didn't bat an eyelash as she replied, "You may be stronger than me, but I'm quicker and more agile."

Ryou stopped eating. "Please calm down Bakura and Anzu please don't work him up. Both of you, finish eating please." Glancing over at Ryou had Anzu sighing, "Fine Ryou, I'll behave if he does." Here she glared at Bakura who glared back. Suddenly, Anzu began to laugh, she sat down and grabbed some of the pizza and ate between chuckles.

"Why were you laughing Anzu?" queried Honda. Honda was beginning to wonder if the alcohol fumes that Anzu was breathing in everyday were beginning to affect her brain.

"Because I just realized how childish both of us were being. Neither one of us were going to back down and I though of how dumb we must look to everyone else. Gomen, Yuugi-kun, I hope we haven't totally ruined your day."

Yuugi looked startled by her apology, "Anzu you didn't ruin my day. It funny watching you react to the world around you. First you are so serious and stern, the next you act like you have the fires of Hell burning in your soul and the next you freak out and act like it kid, it's really amusing…where did you get THAT?"

Anzu was pouring sake for the group when Yuugi's shout startled her enough to stop and look up. "What? The sake? I bought it yesterday after work. I thought I could be slick and sneak it in here without your noticing. And damn it, if I didn't do a good job of it too."

"But what about Grandpa?"

"Oh, he got a cup already."

Yuugi resisted the urge to slap his forehead. He really should have known that Grandpa was really fond of sake. 'It takes away the aches and pains of my age.' He had said once.

Scene change

Domino Park

Anzu laughed loudly into the night air. "I'm so happy!" More laughter. "I'm glad that you guys came to the park with me. I love coming here when it is dark out and I'm glad that I get to share that with you." Anzu was sharing the dark park (hey that rhythms) with just Honda and Jou because Ryou, Atem and Yuugi had to work early in the morning and Malik, Marik and Bakura left without saying anything at all.

Jou and Honda laughed at her. "Like we could let a friend of ours, who is in reality a really hot girl that is dead drunk, I'd kick my ass if I let that happen." Honda said.

"Your right Anzu, the park is pretty in the dark…Anzu? Anzu!" Jou shouted.

Suddenly they heard a creaking sound and loud 'hai'.

"I'm on the swing!" Anzu shouted back at Jou. Honda and Jou heeded the unspoken comment of 'come here' and ran over to her.

Jou looked annoyed. "Don't do that! We could have lost you."

Through the drunken fog of her brain Anzu knew that running off could be hazardous to her health but right now rational though was taking a break. With the all the jumbled thoughts and feelings all she could really say was, "Gomen. I didn't mean to worry you. I know that being drunk and female is dangerous but dangerous is how I want to live my life. I like the dark, dangerous, invigorating feeling that I get when I do something…" she waved her hand around in a circle. "risky. Kinda like the feeling I got when I became friends you and Honda. I remember the girls in our class saying to me that I shouldn't because I'll get a bad reputation. But you know what, I'm glad that I became friends with you because you two are the sweetest guys I've met. You two are the brothers I don't have and I love you for it."

Jou felt tears stinging his eyes. He was remembering what a bitch Anzu could be and how damn sweet she could be. Honda huffed a 'your welcome' and hugged her.

Anzu smiled brightly at them both, then jumping off the swing took off at a dead run, yelling 'catch me if you can' over her shoulder.

The boys took off after her but they lost sight of her when she rounded a bend in the walkway and dash behind some trees. They followed after her but they didn't find her, worried they thought someone had grabbed her but ruled that out because 1. no screaming 2. they didn't see Anzu fighting with anyone when they rounded the bend 3. Anzu's house was in sight and they figured that she ran home. A little miffed that she could have vanished like that, shrugged and walked back to the Game Shop.

As for Anzu, all she remembered was following a pair of hypnotic violet eyes and the feeling of danger settle over her in a delicious way.

I finally did it! 3383 words! I just could stop writing. So please tell me what you think. I will love and worship thou if you review. on knees in classic begging position Please review. I love to hear comments.