Disclaimer: I do not own YGO or 13 Going on 30.
Yea! I'm glad y'all like it! Beneath the Desert Sands Ch.8 should be getting posted soon… I just have to fill in the details, but it won't be very long.
This chapter is REALLY SAD.
Here's what happened last time:
Yugi was deadly ill, it was Anzu's 16th birthday, and she just promised to be at the dance tryouts even though she was supposed to visit Yugi that day.
Pairing: Seto/Anzu/Ryou (don't worry; the pairings will become apparent soon enough)
This fic is dedicated to Master Ruby, Ladythief5, Rayne B., Palaeh and DojomistressaAmbychan. Thanks for all of your reviews!!!
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Third Half of the WishboneBy: Chi Yagami
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Chapter 2 – Who am I?When Anzu finally got home, she sank down on the couch and relaxed. The phone started ringing, but she decided to let the machine get it.
"Hello, you've reached the Mazakis. Either we're out or can't answer the phone so please leave a message. Bye!"
"Anzu? Sweetie, if you're home, it's us."
It was her parents. She jumped off the couch and dashed into the kitchen. She was about to pick up the phone when—
"Anzu, I'm afraid we have some bad news."
She froze. It had been bad enough that they'd already been away for 3 weeks and missed her birthday, but now this? She hoped it couldn't possibly be any worse…
"We've been asked to stay in Beijing for another four months."
Silence.
"I know we've missed a lot, but we need this money, especially since you've been taking extra dance lessons. We'll see you soon. Bye! Oh, and happy birthday!" Click.
They made it sound like it was her fault they were away so long. SHE paid for her dance lessons, not them! What was wrong with her parents? It was as if they didn't care about her anymore…
"Nothing's ever fair," Anzu wined, flopping back down on the couch.
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At lunch that next day, everyone was talking about how excited they were to see Yugi.
"I can't wait to see the little guy!" Mai exclaimed.
"Yeah," Jou agreed. "I got him a pack of da newest booster cards; I hope it'll cheer him up."
"I talked to him on the phone yesterday," Malik said quietly.
"WHAT!!??"
Jou tried to strangle him.
"You got ta see Yug widout us?!"
"Ekk—"
Jou finally let Malik breath (after Mai kicked him several times).
"Anyway," Malik continued while glaring at Jou, "he said he can't wait to see all of us, but he seems really anxious to see Anzu."
"Well, she has been his best friend since he was like… four," Honda concluded.
"Hey! Anzu! Ryou! Over here!"
Anzu and Ryou sat down at the table with their lunch trays.
"He's too stuck up for you, Anzu" Ryou was arguing.
"What are y'all talking about?" Otogi asked.
"Anzu wants to ask Kaiba out," he replied, making Anzu blush.
"Again? We've been over this, girl," Mai exclaimed. "There is no way Kaiba would go out with you! He's too caught up in himself to notice you. No offense, hun."
"Yea," Jou added. "He probably goes home, looks in his mirra, and says, ((talking in Kaiba-like voice)) 'I could kiss me… but I'd fall in love.'"
Everyone except Anzu began laughing.
"Come on you guys; he's not that bad…"
"Hey look," Ryou said as he pulled apart the piece of turkey on his tray. "I've got a wishbone!"
But as he pulled the entire thing out, several people gasped.
"A wishbone wid tree sides?" Jou asked confused. "I ain't neva seen one of dem before."
"Me either," Honda agreed, and so did everyone else. Whereas most wishbones have two halves, this one had an extra side branching out from it.
"So… who wants to split it with me?" Ryou asked.
"I will!" Anzu and Jou both shouted.
They each took a part of the bone and pulled. Anzu and Ryou ended up with the biggest pieces, and Jou with the smallest.
"Rats," he said. "Everyone knows dat da smaller piece doesn't work!"
"What do you mean?" Otogi asked.
"When people pull a wishbone apart, it usually breaks into two pieces: a big one and a small one. You make a wish on the bigger piece and it comes true."
"Oh."
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After school, everyone headed over to Yugi's. Everyone except Anzu, that is. She had completely forgotten about her friend and was on her way to the dance studio.
While she was waiting at the bus stop, she pulled out that strange wishbone piece and glared at it.
"Wishes… Humph! I wish I was twenty-one! That way I could already be in the competition! I don't want to face Miho… again."
Soon the bus arrived, and she was off. Along the way (a couple stops later), Miho was waiting at a stop. Anzu flushed; she hated that girl. She got up and walked over to the bus door. When it opened, Miho tried to step on, but Anzu was blocking her way.
"Get out of the way, Mazaki. Or better yet, get off the bus," she said bitterly.
"Make me."
"Are you challenging me?"
"I don't know. Am I?"
Soon, they had gotten into this big argument. Traffic was piling up behind them. About ten minutes later, the driver noticed.
"Hey, either get on the bus or get off!"
Both girls glared at each other and took a seat.
The driver started up the bus again, continued with his route, and took another bite of his sandwich. He was so absorbed in his food, he didn't notice where he was going. Suddenly, a large cement truck came out of nowhere and crashed into the bus.
Anzu lunged out of her seat and hit her head on the metal part of the seat in front of her.
Her world went black.
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Anzu opened her eyes and stretched. What happened? Oh yeah… she rammed her head into the seat. She looked around. She was in a bed in some strange room. She must've hit her head pretty hard…
She got up and walked out of the room and into a hallway. She looked out a window and gasped. Below lay a strange city she'd never seen before. Anzu guessed she was in some sort of apartment complex. But whose…? Perhaps a hospital…?
Suddenly, the kitchen phone range, and the answering machine picked up right away.
But it wasn't in Japanese. It was in English.
"Hello, you've reached Tea Gardner. Apparently I'm not home so either buzz off, or leave a message. I'll call ya back… maybe!" Click.
Anzu couldn't understand all the words of course, but she got the gist of it.
"Hello! Anzu, where are you? I'm outside the lobby waiting for you! Are you up?" Click.
"Who was that?"
Whoever they were, they'd been speaking in Japanese.
"I'm in a strange house… a strange city… and there's a stranger waiting outside…"
Whoever Tea Gardner was, she sure was rich. All of the furniture was silk, and Japanese emblems hung around the room. Anzu walked over to a large elegant mirror and screamed. There was a different person staring back at her.
Then she realized it: that girl was her.
But she looked very different. Her hair was the same length, but it was (very) crimped and highlighted. She was taller, and she looked a bit older. And prettier. She was wearing somebody's pajamas.
They were dark blue with a light blue stitch reading S.K.
She went back into the bedroom and looked around for her clothes; they were nowhere to be found. She put on a red tank top and some white khapris. Anzu found a cool pair of sunglasses and perched them atop her head. She threw on some tennis shoes and socks, and headed for the door. That's when she heard the shower running.
Well actually, it had just stopped. She heard them getting out of the water in the room next to the linen closet. She looked around frantically, and in her haste, mistook an umbrella for a sword.
"Come out! I know you're in there! My parents will be home soon," she yelled fearfully, even though she knew her parents wouldn't be home for a couple more months.
The door opened, and out stepped a handsome man with icy blue eyes who was only wearing a towel; Anzu screamed.
"You're naked!" [1]
"Well, not yet," he said (in Japanese) smirking. Anzu popped open the umbrella only seconds before he pulled off the towel. Her view was safely blocked.
"Care to join me?" he asked slyly. [1]
"EWE!!! NO!!!" she shrieked, throwing the umbrella at him. She snatched what she thought was probably Tea's purse and left the apartment.
She got into the elevator behind a teenage girl. Once she reached the lobby, she dashed out the doors and bumped straight into a woman.
"There you are!" the woman said in English. "Let's go!"
"What?" Anzu asked in Japanese.
"Come on! And why are you speaking in Japanese? You usually only start speaking in Japanese when you're mad," the woman replied in English.
"Can you please just speak Japanese?!"
"Fine! …Happy?"
Anzu and the girl got into a limo a drove off.
"Where are we?" she asked. "And who are you?"
"Tea? Are you alright?"
"And who is TEA?" Anzu also asked her. The woman looked confused for a while, but then started laughing. She had short purple hair tied back with a yellow ribbon…
"Oh sweetie, you must still be hungover from last night! Okay: repeat after me," she said as the limo stopped in front of a building and the two girls got out.
"I am Tea Gardner."
"What?! No, I'm Anzu Mazaki!"
The woman laughed. "Anzu, remember? When we came to New York, you changed your name to 'Tea Gardner' because the city officials couldn't pronounce it?"
Anzu stared at her. She was this Tea person? She lived in that huge apartment? Maybe she was dreaming… Wait… America?
"We're in New York?! New York, America?!" she asked.
"Yes," the girl said annoyed. "Now come on, repeat it."
"Oh right. I am Tea Gardner."
"I am the director of the most famous dance studio in the country."
"I am?! Oh… I am the director of the most famous dance studio in New York!"
"I am twenty-one, hung over, and ready to face the day with my best friend."
"I'm twenty-one?! TWENTY-ONE?!"
"YES."
"Does this mean I qualify for the regionals?!" she asked [2].
"Tea, what are you talking about? And do you remember any English?"
"Not really…"
They entered the building, and Tea gasped when she saw pictures of her doing ballet everywhere.
"Wow," she breathed. "I am a dance director…"
Anzu found this new life quite enjoyable, aside from the fact that her friend from the limo (who was also her partner) had to translate everything. She got to teach little kids tap-dancing, and a few older girls hip-hop.
Throughout the day, she began to realize that she had somehow traveled into the future. It was a wonderful future: she was 21, had an awesome best friend named Mimi, and was living her lifelong dream. It was only then that she remembered her home in Japan.
"Hey Mimi?" she asked during their dinner break.
"Hmm?"
"When do we get our vacation?"
"Whenever you want," she replied, not looking up from her food.
"Well, I want to take mine now. I'm going to Japan," Anzu said, getting up and beginning to pack her dance bags.
"Now? And why Japan? I thought you said you never wanted to go back there, Tea!?"
"Well… I've changed my mind. I'm leaving for Japan."
"Wait!" Mimi called. "I'll go with you! But you'd better call your boyfriend; he'll want to go too."
"I have a boyfriend? Wait… maybe that was the guy in my shower…"
Mimi shook her head, pulled out her cell phone, and dialed a number.
"Hello?"
"This is Mimi No— KAIBA! DON'T YOU DARE HANG UP ON ME!!"
Seto Kaiba?
"Anyway, your crazy girlfriend wants to go to Japan."
GIRLFRIEND?! She was Kaiba's girlfriend?
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Three days later, Anzu, Mimi, and Kaiba were on a plane, flying back to Japan.
"Um… Seto?" she asked tentatively.
"Yes?"
"Why do you like me?"
"Oh Tea, you ask me this all the time! I love because of who you are and what's inside," he replied.
"What a bunch of bull," Mimi muttered under her breath.
The plane landed in Tokyo that afternoon, and Kaiba had a limo pick them up and drop them off in Domino City.
"Okay," he said, "while you two have fun, I'll be working." He got back in the limo and drove off towards Kaiba Corp.
"Mimi, how about we meet back at this café for lunch tomorrow? I want to go a few places by myself…"
She shrugged and waited for a taxi while Anzu headed off towards a certain game shop.
"Oh Yugi! I completely forgot about him! I'll go visit him now!" she said, running off.
But when she reached the game shop, she held her breath. It was gone. The building was still there, but it was now Marty's Music Mania CD Store.
She went in and asked for the manager.
"How may I help you?" he asked.
"Um… did there used to be a Turtle Game Shop here before you?"
"Yes… but it closed down about three years ago," he replied with tears in his eyes.
"Where are the Mutos?" she asked softly.
"I still see the around. Over on Cherry Oak Street…"
She hurried out the door and ran to Cherry Oak.
But the only thing Cherry Oak Street lead to was the Domino Graveyard.
Anzu tried to hold back the tears as she pushed the gate open and entered the cemetery.
She sank to her knees in front a gravestone addressed to Yugi Muto.
"No… NO! This can't be happening! NO!!! Yugi!!!" she sobbed and began to cry. "Why? Why, God? WHY?!"
She noticed that his grandpa was buried next to him and started crying even more.
"Yugi… you can't be dead… You were the best friend I ever had…"
"Ditto."
Anzu turned around to see a young blonde man standing behind her.
"You knew Yugi? What happened to him?"
"He died of pneumonia when he was sixteen."
"No… Why don't I know this already?" she said to herself. "What about Yami?"
"Yami? How do ya know about Yami?" he asked her suspiciously.
"Yami, the pharaoh? Yeah… I know about him! I was Yugi's best friend!" she replied.
"Wait… Anzu? Is dat you?" he asked happily. "It's me, Jou!"
"Jou!"
They hugged each other tightly. Anzu never wanted to let him go; she missed her friends so much. Jou suggested the grab a bite to eat and catch up on everything.
"So what's up with you, Jou?"
"Well," he said grinning, "Mai's pregnant!"
"Really!? With your child? Oh that's so wonderful!"
"Yeah… Shizuka thought so too. She's going inta college dis year."
"Really?"
"Yep. Honda tried ta propose ta her, but I wouldn't let him. Him and Otogi both. They're at college right now."
"What about Malik and Ryou?"
"They're still here. Ya know, their yamis got their own bodies."
"Cool… Can you give me their addresses?"
"Sure," Jou replied, writing them down on a napkin. "What about ya? Whatcha been up to?"
"Well, I'm a choreographer… I think," she replied, making Jou laugh. She decided to leave out the part about Kaiba.
After lunch, she left for Ryou's house. He didn't live in the same place; he now lived in an apartment.
She rang the buzzer and waited for someone to open the door.
The door opened and a grinning albino smirked at her.
"So you're the stripper I hired, eh?"
Anzu froze. There was no way this could be the same Ryou she used to know.
"NO! I am NOT a stripper, you pervert! What in RA'S name is wrong with you?!"
He stopped smiling and frowned at her.
"Are you going to let me in or not?" she asked impatiently.
He backed out of the doorway and let her through. The apartment was small and cramped. Anzu was noticed the TV was turned to porn, and she quickly looked away.
"Um… Ryou…?" she asked.
"If you're talking about the wimp, he's not here."
Anzu suddenly spied the Ring hanging around his neck and gasped.
"Bakura!"
She threw her arms around him and pulled him into a tight embrace. He stared at her strangely, and pushed her away.
"Woman, what the hell are you doing?"
"Oh Bakura, it's me! Anzu! Ryou's friend; remember?" she asked excitedly.
Bakura smirked. He remembered that hot girl that had moved away and left Ryou devastated.
"Oh, it's you. What are you doing here?"
"Looking for Ryou. Do you know where he is?"
"No… but how about I keep you occupied till he gets back?" he asked, pulling her close. Anzu did not like the way he was looking at her. She stomped on his toe and ran out the door.
"He works at Burger World!" Bakura shouted after her.
She walked to Burger World as memories flooded back to her. She smiled at the thought of seeing him again.
She entered the restaurant and sat down. A waiter soon came to take her order.
It was Ryou! He looked exactly the same, only a little bit taller.
"Ryou! Hi!"
"Hullo," he said glumly. She looked like one of Bakura's hookers or something.
"Hey! Sit down; I want to talk to you."
"Sorry, I've got work to do. Now what do you want?"
"I want to talk to you," Anzu said again.
"Do I know you?"
"Yes," she said. "You know, you really should tell Bakura to be more polite to his guests. I mean, he called me a stripper! And then he tried to pull some moves on me! That jerk; I knew he always liked me. Every since that bunny comment…"
"Wait a minute," Ryou said. "Anzu? Anzu Mazaki?"
"Yes!" she cried, jumping up and hugging him, but he pulled away.
"What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to see you!" she replied.
"Anzu… We're not friends anymore…"
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[1] – [1] Lines from the actual movie that I don't know.
[2] Anzu is thinking of the regional tryouts that she and Miho had to compete in, and people who were 21 or older automatically qualified.
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I know, I know: I'm evil. But don't fret; things will get better soon. R&R!!!