Authoress Notes: OO Uh… Wow… Huh… Never expected to get 26 reviews for one chapter… But it's good! Keep it coming! Your reviews are what keep me going! Wow… Well, if I get another over 20 reviews, I'll update the next chapter half the time it usually takes for me to post the next, okay? I'll try it, so you guys could be happy, all right? Now then, onward to fic and please enjoy!

Disclaimer: Do I have to say this every time? Fine, I don't own YGO, of course. If you were to sue me, you'd only get a penny!

Pairings: AtemxAnzu, (you all should KNOW that) SetoxShizuka, JounouchixMai.

Warnings: OOC-ness, mature themes, violence, and strong language.

Plot:

((AU Darkfic)) She promised she would run. He promised he would find her. But how would you run, when in the end, you wanted to be caught? AxA SxS JxM

Crimson Lives

By: xKuroSeraphimx

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Chapter 1: Lost, then Found

The brunette slowly, cautiously slipped through the shadows to get through the gates the hotel had. The two puncture holes on her neck throbbed painfully as she got nearer to her destination, but she ignored it, quietly walking to the gates, her black leather bag over her shoulder.

Thankfully, the shadows the trees gave around the hotel cast enough shadow for her to move through. Not even her footsteps were heard crunching the grass beneath her feet. Once she rounded the corner, seeing the gate, Mazaki Anzu let a small smile tug at her lips before…

"Yo, man, why are we even here, anyway?" asked a familiar voice right at the gates. Immediately, Anzu pressed herself against the wall where a large shadow loomed over her and the wall she was up against. Slowly, Anzu slipped back a bit into the shadow, so that the vision before her was all misty, yet transparent to see.

Good thing she knew how to use most of her powers.

Then her eyes widened, her heart nearly stopping as she saw a second figure stand next to the first one, a silhouette with an all too familiar hair cut.

"I sense her here, Jounouchi," said a deep, menacing voice that had her shiver, a voice that haunted her dreams and thoughts. "She's close by, actually…"

Then they came into view, the moonlight giving them a sort of ethereal glow, as if they weren't really there physically. Katsuya Jounouchi walked swiftly ahead of a tall, yet only a few two inches below him, but still tall, a quiet Mutou Atem, his leather black trench coat billowing behind him as he walked before Jounouchi stopped, turning to face him.

"Are you really sure about this, Atem? I mean she's been eluding you for four years. Four!" The blonde-haired vampire held up four fingers into Atem's neutral face. "Not even the best thieves or trick masters can be able to escape from you that long!"

"That's because she's different, Jounouchi. They're just a bunch of idiots that I don't give shit about," Atem hissed back in reply, crossing his arms, his crimson-colored eyes roaming the area around them. "She's different than normal humans, I don't even think she's human at all. But I will find her, no matter what. I promised her that." He added with a cold smirk.

She saw Jounouchi shudder slightly. "Man… You can scare even the coldest people with that smirk. You really gotta lay it off, Atem." He said.

"Get a move on, Jounouchi…" Atem replied back rather calmly, though there was the subtle hint of a threat beneath it. Either Jounouchi got the hint or he just wanted to get it over with as the blonde vampire walked in the hotel in a hurry.

Atem narrowed his eyes at Jounouchi's back before he unfolded his arms and looked around. Immediately, his blood-colored eyes traveled unto Anzu's form, and Anzu felt like her lungs had just been constricted with tight rope. He was looking right at her, his eyes boring into hers, never leaving.

Long moments passed, and neither both moved an inch. Cold sweat ran down her brow as the seconds lengthened, the minutes turned to hours before Atem began to move toward her. Then…

"Yo, Atem! What are you doing? Come on!" Jounouchi called, appearing at the entrance to the hotel. Jounouchi walked over to the tri-haired vampire and looked at the same thing he was looking at.

Jounouchi arched an eyebrow up when he saw nothing, only shadow. He turned to face Atem and waved a hand in front of his face, only stopping when Atem shook his head and growled at him.

"Let's go…" he said rather sulkily, stalking off. Jounouchi looked back to Anzu, then Atem, and then Anzu before he ran after Atem, asking him what he was really looking at. Once they were gone, and she sensed that they were a little away from her, Anzu got out from her hiding spot, thoroughly relieved that they had left.

Quietly and cautiously, Anzu moved towards the gate, her heart beating loudly and erratically in her ear. Once she stepped out of the gates, the brunette looked back, thinking about the two vampires she saw until she shook her head and ran away…

Ran away from him

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Anzu walked for hours afterwards, feeling the lack of sleep catch up to her. She yawned and wiped the tears that leaked out of her eyes as she did so. She was now in some downtown street of Domino; the sky was becoming lighter and lighter as the sun began to rise again, turning the sky a shade of light purple and blue.

'It seems that nowadays, the one thing I'm good at is escaping…' Anzu thought sadly, running a hand through her chocolate-colored hair. "The thing is, I don't know where to escape to anymore…" she said aloud to herself.

Which was right, Atem seemed to know where she would be and when, seconds after she thought of it, and was already on his way to her, and the sapphire-eyed woman had been almost everywhere in Japan, eluding him and leading him into false truths that she was there. In her mind, she knew that sooner or later he would find her. Anzu knew the tri-haired vampire kept scouts on the air stations and docks, so transportation on boat or airplane was out. She might as well dig her own grave and hide in there instead…

Anzu's thoughts were cut short when two hooded figures, one slightly taller than the other, stood before her. Anzu stopped, frowning slightly at the two men who were only a few feet away from her. Soon, her mind began thinking up who these men were, and what their intentions might be. Immediately, her mind thought of Atem, and that they must be vampires that he had hired to look for and bring her to him.

"And who the hell are you guys?" she asked quietly, the hand on the strap of her leather bag tightened as she said that. Something wasn't right here she could feel it. It felt weird, sort of, that there would be two men after her in this part of the city. Anzu felt as though someone else was around…

The two men chuckled softly to each other. Then the tall one spoke, "Mazaki Anzu, eh? We've been looking for you…" he murmured quietly to her while the other one laughed again like a buffoon.

"And why are you looking for me, hmm? Who do you work for, and what do you want with me?" Anzu asked, her hand slowly moving to the dagger in her holster that was strapped to her right leg.

The shorter hooded figure said, "Well, that's not any of your business, eh missy? So if you would kindly cooperate with us, then things won't go… bad, if you know what I mean?"

Anzu snorted. "Hmph. Like hell I'd let you take me without a fight!" she said, taking out her dagger and dropping her bag.

Just as she dropped her bag, the two men screeched, making Anzu think that they were vampires before the tall hooded figure jumped into the sky while the other charged forward to her, their claws outstretched. Anzu expertly back flipped to avoid the smaller one's attack and blocked the other one with her dagger, slicing his arm. He growled and quickened his pace, so fast that he was in front of Anzu's face in seconds and plunged his hand through her stomach.

The smaller hooded figure snarled noisily at his partner. "Idiot! We were supposed to capture her, not kill her, you fool!"

Before the other hooded figure could reply, Anzu grinned and punched him squarely in the jaw, causing him to step back a bit. What he didn't expect was that the Anzu that had hit him was a fake as it disappeared and the real one was in the air, and had dug her dagger into his shoulder. The force she put into her blow sent him on his back as she fell on top of him and took out her dagger. Anzu kicked the vampire in the face before she turned to the other one who screeched again and rushed to her.

Stepping off the injured vampire, Anzu went for him as well, her dagger rose, poised to inflict severe damage even for a vampire. He swung his claws but she ducked, avoiding the blow that might've knocked her out, then she brought her dagger up, heading straight under his skull.

Then that same pain on her neck erupted, sending painful waves to her head, shaking her eyesight that it missed the vampire's head by a few inches. Anzu knelt on the ground, clutching the spot where it hurt, the pain spreading to her head that it gave her a headache close to a migraine. The brunette clamped her teeth tight against each other; the adrenaline that built up inside her was jarred back into her throat from screaming out in pain. The vampire blinked questioningly under the veil of his hood before he took this opportunity to kick her in the face.

Surprisingly, she didn't fly very far and was up seconds after she was hit. But the vampire that she had stabbed was up and in seconds, in front of her face. He grabbed a hold of Anzu's face, and then sent it back into the cold, hard concrete, nearly breaking her skull in two. She let out a ragged scream before she went limp.

The two vampires stood over her form, breathing heavily. One wiped the sweat off his brow while the other placed a hand on the injury Anzu inflicted on him.

"Damn… Who knew this bitch was so persistent and powerful…" the taller vampire said exasperatedly.

The shorter one growled fiercely. "Hey, she's lucky she's to be brought alive, or we would have sucked her dry. Or rather," he sneered, stroking a hand on Anzu's cheek. "But orders are orders, unfortunately. C'mon, we must go, the sun's coming up pretty soon. The boss told us to bring her." With that said, he hoisted the unconscious brunette over his shoulder and they both disappeared from their spot, unaware a pair of indigo black eyes watched the whole scene with a dangerous gleam in their eyes.

Then he walked to the bag that the woman Anzu had slung over her shoulder before the fight. He picked it up, examining it very closely before his eyes trailed over to the spot where the men took her. Then the man looked at the horizon in where the sun was coming up, a gentle breeze lightly blowing through, whirling his white-colored hair around him.

He sighed, picked up his cell and placed it next to his ear. "Hello? Yes. It's me. Guess what happened here, Seto. I'm sure Atem will be very pleased to hear this… But when he hears what happened to Anzu… Be ready to wipe buckets full of blood off walls…"

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"Yo! We're back!" Jounouchi announced to the vampires that stood in Kaiba Seto's office as he walked through the automatic sliding door with a sulky looking Atem in tow.

Kujaku Mai turned to face the male blonde, curiosity in her violet-colored eyes. "Really? Finally…" then her eyes scanned the two vampires and found that no one else was with them. Then she frowned, knowing that their search was in vain, leaving them empty-handed. "So… You couldn't find Anzu again?"

Jounouchi shook his head. "Nope. Nadda. Atem here," he pointed to the vampire behind him. "Said that he feltor rather, sensed that she was there. But we found nothing. Yet her scent was in there, though it was faint."

At this, Jounouchi Shizuka arched an eyebrow up. "So… She must've been there for a while… but sensed you coming. I'm still wondering how she's been able to elude you, every time you hear something that tells you that she was there." The auburn-haired Jounouchi said.

Atem sighed, running a hand through his hair. "I have a suspicion of how she's been doing that… But I'm not sure." He replied slowly.

Seto folded his hands in front of his face. "Care to share this… suspicion, Atem?" he asked calmly, his cold, cobalt blue eyes scanning Atem intently.

The tri-haired vampire was about to reply when the phone on Seto's desk began to ring. Irritatingly, Seto growled and picked it up. "Hello? Hikaru? … What happened, Hikaru? Atem? Fine, tell me what it is you saw." After that, everyone in the room watched the CEO listen to the other vampire on the line. Then the male brunette quirked an eyebrow up in surprise, then nodded for a few moments before he placed the phone back unto the receiver.

Atem walked up to the desk. "… So, that was Hikaru? Did he have anything he had to say to me?" he asked curiously, his interests perked when he heard Seto say his name.

A cold smile tugged at Seto's lips, and then Atem was smiling along with him, knowing that the news that Seto was about to tell him would be good.

"Well, Atem, it seems you'll be finding your woman sooner than you think…" he murmured softly.

((scene change))

The rain poured on, pattering angrily on the buildings and the ground. The young girl panted heavily as the man stood before her, holding out a black gun to her head, sleek with the rain being poured on it.

"Why… W-Why are… you doing this…" the girl croaked, looking up from the blood, rain, and tears at the dark-haired man, looking back at sapphire-colored eyes.

"I hate it, little sister, I hate it." He replied calmly, yet his eyes held a fierce rage filled with contempt. "It doesn't matter anymore… Heh. You're lucky, sister… I'll let you live… Only to live a meaningless life, a life filled with hate, anguish… Yes, little sister. Live. Live in hating me. Grow and live. I'll be waiting, little sister. I'll be waiting until you kill me… Until then…" he cocked the gun between her eyes and sneered.

"Goodbye, Anzu…"

That was when he pulled the trigger.

((scene change))

Anzu woke up, her head throbbing painfully. She found herself on a plush bed, she raised her head to scan her surroundings and found herself in a rich looking room. But her vision was still blurry, the images moved like a slow pendulum, and she closed her eyes to try and ease the pain in her head. It eased slightly, but the back of her head hurt so bad, it felt like someone had drummed a nail through her head.

The brunette looked up again, slowly, and found that her wrists and ankles were tied with rope. She twisted her wrists and ankles, but that only ended up with the result of her wrists being rubbed raw. Anzu hissed slightly, frustrated that she ended up in this situation and that her head hurt. That is, until she smirked. Like rope could confine her for so long, she thought proudly. Then she looked up around the corners of the ceiling and found a camera watching her at one of the corners.

'Stupid fools… I'll be out of here before they know it…' she thought smugly to herself and raised her wrists up.

To the camera, she promptly raised her middle fingers and flashed her tongue in defiance.

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As the vampires watched the captive woman do the middle finger with both of her hands, the three growled angrily at the screen, as if she was able to see what they were doing as well.

"The little bitch should know where she's standing right now…" said a vampire that sat in front of the screen. Then he turned his head to another vampire behind him with gray-colored hair. "Why can't we just finish her off? Why the hell do we need her to lure him here, anyway?"

The vampire snorted in response. "Because, you insolent little twit, that woman is what that damnable vampire has been looking for, for four years! It's sure to work, with his woman in our hands, he'll comply to our wishes and we'll have our revenge."

Then another vampire that stood at the door spoke, "But sir… I heard he's really dangerous, and that anyone that had messed with him was never seen again the next day, especially when it came to her. I don't think—"

"No one cares what you think, you fool!" the gray-haired vampire hissed back. "Don't think I know that! Just shut up, and let me do this! It's near nighttime already, then we'll send the signal, and he'll come to us."

With that, he turned back to the screen, only to find that the brunette wasn't there anymore.

He let out an angry screech and stormed out of the room in long, forceful strides with the two lesser vampires close behind him. He would not let that insolent wench foil his plans for revenge! He needed her to have him come to them!

Although unknowingly, his wish was soon to come true as the sun finally set, and Atem would have bodies hit the floor in pools of blood.

((scene change))

Anzu slipped out of the back door and to the backyard, pressing herself against the building that had tried to keep her captive, her restraints off and having her free.

Thankfully the shadows were everywhere in this house, she thought when she reached the kitchen of the house, finding it empty and found a suit of armor next to the doorway with a pike in hand. Anzu then kicked the suit of armor, and jumped back in time to have her wrists being freed, easily avoiding any fingers being cut off, but the pike clattered unto the floor noisily and after removing the ropes around her ankles (nearly tripping over them), ran into the shadows again.

She walked a few more, and then unglued herself from the wall, running off with glee, knowing that her captors won't be able to find her anymore. When Anzu passed by a huge pine tree, a man rounded a corner, stopping Anzu dead in her tracks.

Anzu's eyes widened when she set her sapphire-colored eyes on the new stranger, her heart beating erratically, time seemed to have slowed down as well as fear welled up inside her, her adrenaline rushing through her blood, wanting to have her scream, but she swallowed it down.

'Oh no… Oh God no, please… It… He can't be here…' she thought frantically, feeling her feet being rooted on the spot.

The man looked up and smirked. He took several steps, his stride slow, but held the cunningness of a predator, his smile widening as he came close to the frozen brunette, his crimson-colored eyes glinting dangerously, something inside him screaming for him to take her away now.

"So little angel, I have found you," he chuckled softly, but Anzu caught the malicious tone beneath it, the hunger and want in his eyes. Atem smiled coldly, wildly, baring his inch-long teeth at the sight of her.

"And so the game ends, Anzu…"

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