a/n: It's been a while. I kind of devoted most of my time to A life without you. But here's a new chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own YuGiOh
Warning: There will be several character deaths.. Sorry.
Chapter 5:Chaos
"Home of the worlds best pizza's!" Honda answered the phone cheerfully. Jounouchi stood next to him going through bills he had to pay.
"What the hell is Mai spending our money on?" Jounouchi muttered to himself. Honda hung up his phone and checked on a pizza sitting in front of him.
"Don't worry about it. Mai wouldn't do anything bad with your money. She wouldn't betray you." He shut the pizza box and placed it on the back of his motorcycle as Jounouchi followed him.
"You don't think so? Sometimes I think she'll wake up one day and decide to rob me blind. Women like her, they're like that. Crazy, money obsessed." Jounouchi sounded like he was almost talking to himself.
"Naw, I don't think so. Her life is practically devoted to you." Honda climbed on his motorcycle and put on his helmet. "I got to go deliver this pizza."
"Is it laced with drugs?" Jounouchi half joked.
"No." Honda kicked dirt at Jounouchi's feet. "I'll be there to see Shizuka's paintings, okay?" Jounouchi nodded and patted Honda's back. For the past month Shizuka paint silently in her room. Shizuka has always been the artist in the family. After she finished painting she would get a chance to display her best work in the neighborhood park. The government was going to pay her money to continue her education in an art school. After tonight she would be leaving to go to school. Everyone including Anzu and Kaiba would be coming to see her revealing of her paintings and then celebrate afterwards. Today was a good day for a girl who never spoke to the world.
"Be safe, you hear?" Honda scoffed and rode off carelessly. "idiot." Jounouchi muttered under his breath as he walked towards his home but tripped when his shoelaces broke. "Damn laces."
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"I'm so excited for Shizuka." Anzu excitedly said as she put on her knee brace. "What she's receiving is such an honor!" Kaiba stood behind her waiting for her to get ready.
"Are you feeling better?" He asked softly. Anzu quickly got up from her chair and smiled.
"What school do you think she'll go to? I hope it's a place somewhere in Europe. I remember seeing beautiful backgrounds in Paris and London. Those are places she could paint. She could have a lot of inspiration!" Anzu continued, ignoring his question.
"Did you hear me?"
"She could find inspiration here but I think another .."
"Anzu. I asked if you were feeling better." Kaiba cut her off firmly.
"Of course. Why wouldn't I be feeling better?" She cheerfully responded.
"Because I know you're faking your happiness. It's so obvious it's almost sickening." He stepped away from the doorway and went up to her.
"I'm not faking, Seto." She looked away because his stare was too strong for her. This man could easily see through her. "I'm really happy for her."
"I'm not talking about that." He calmly stated making her look up at him. Slowly her arms lifted and she stepped closer to hug him tightly.
"I want to do things with me life." She mumbled against his tight chest. He stiffened immediately when she hugged him. "I don't want to be under your care all my life." She lifted her head to look up at him. "I appreciate everything you did for you but I want to take care of myself. I want to do things with my life without fear. I want her courage." Once again she rested her head against his chest. His hands still were by his sides not knowing whether or not to hug or back. "I want to be strong like Shizuka. I want to wash away the memories. I want the memories to die." When her voice wavered Kaiba unconsciously hugged her back.
"Then let them die. If you hold onto them they will never die." He whispered as he leaned down to her ear as if someone was in the room and could hear what he was saying. "Let the past go."
"Thanks for calling!" Honda hung up the phone with a satisfied smile on his face. "We've been getting a lot of business!" He yelled out to his boss. As he was counting his tips his boss came in with a worried look on his face.
"Honda, there's someone people here for you." Honda waved him off and continued to count his money. He never did listen to his boss. Then he heard a sound he knew far too well. "Honda, these people are insistent." Honda turned around and dropped his precious money on the ground.
Jounouchi waited impatiently by a tree as Anzu came up to him.
"Honda will come. He would never miss an opportunity to impress Shizuka." She calmly stated. Kaiba stood behind her.
"I think she's right. The monkey always jumps at the opportunity to charm your sister. Something must have come up." Jounouchi grunted and tried his best to smile at Anzu.
"I suppose. But if he doesn't show up at all then I'm going to beat the living shit out of him for making my sister upset." Anzu smiled and knew that he would do what he just said if Honda didn't show up.
"That is understandable. I won't stop you." Kaiba joked and Anzu hit his ribs and shot him a look.
"He'll come." She said before they all went back to the park to sit down on the benches as the reporters gathered around to await Shizuka's revealing.
The revealing was a big success. Unfortunately Jounouchi had to answer all of the reporters question since Shizuka could not answer them herself. She was paid a wealthy amount to go to any college she wished to go to so that she could study art. Anzu, Yami, Jounouchi and even Kaiba clapped when they saw her paintings. Each of her five painting were something connected to friendship. To their surprise one of the paintings was of the group in the beach during the day. It made Anzu smile sadly. Even Shizuka could see what Anzu wanted. The painting showed Anzu in the background laughing and skipping in the beach with her hair dancing wildly behind her. It was freedom. A freedom she would never have.
Jounouchi, Kaiba, Yami, Shizuka and Anzu were the last ones left in the park while everyone left.
"I swear if I see him he's going to be wearing black and blue for a long ass time!" Jounouchi practically yelled out making Shizuka wave her hands to show she was fine. "No, it's not fine Shizuka! You would think he would show up!"
Right when Jounouchi said that they all heard Honda yelling for him.
"Jounouchi you bastard! Where the hell are you!" They all turned around to see Honda being chased by two guys. Honda was bleeding on his leg.
"What the hell is going on?" Jounouchi yelled out as Honda pushed him out of the way to run past him. The two guys stopped in front of Jounouchi and pulled out guns.
"Say, aren't you with that punk over there?" One of the two guys asked. The other taller guy glared at Anzu.
"she's familiar looking. Aren't you Anzu Mazaki?" Jounouchi turned around to look at Anzu who's eyes were wide. Kaiba stepped in front of her covering her tiny frame with his larger frame.
"That is none of your concern." He gritted out unafraid of the gun. The two took the safely out of their guns making Yami grab Shizuka and making Jounouchi, Kaiba and Anzu run behind a tree behind them. The two started firing hitting the tree bark and nothing else. Kaiba luckily took out his own gun hidden behind his back and Jounouchi took out his own gun too. "These assholes obviously don't know who they are messing with." He said to Jounouchi. Anzu tugged on Kaiba's sleeve.
"Why would they want to know who I was? How they did they even know who I was?" She sounded panicked and Kaiba shushed her with a finger on her lips.
"Don't worry. Nothing will happen." He said and he shot back the two guys.
"Come out! You want to fight so much, big shot? Come out and fight!" One of the men hollered. Then they heard a yell and a couple of grunts.
"This isn't with them, damn it! Fight with me!" They all heard Honda's voice then a gunshot.
"Damn you! If it wasn't for you we wouldn't have been ripped off! I bet those bastards with you were in it too! The taller man yelled. Jounouchi, afraid that his friend was hurt jumped out from behind the tree with the gun ready to shoot. He saw Honda on his side bleeding even more and rain drizzled on them all.
"Honda!" Jounouchi yelled out concerned. "Tell me, are you alright?"
"Been better!" He heard Honda sarcastically talk back. One of the men kicked Honda. As the man was going to kick him once more Kaiba came out of no where and jumped the man. When the other man pointed the gun to Kaiba Jounouchi shot at him.
"Don't you fucking dare!" The man Kaiba tackled got up and ran. Honda somehow jumped up and ran after the man as did Kaiba.
"What are you going to do? Huh? Shoot me? Go ahead! My boss will send out more of us to kill you guys off unless…"
"Unless what?" Jounouchi barked out.
"Unless you join me. Join us. You have the Mazaki clan." Jounouchi looked over at the tree Anzu was hiding behind. The drizzle turned into a downpour.
"Mazaki clan? What the hell is that? Why does it have to do with Anzu?" The man laughed and threw his head back.
"I can't believe it! A powerful smart guy like you and you didn't realize who you were associating with?" The man paused and looked over at Anzu's direction. "That girl is worth millions. She is the last heir to the Mazaki syndicate. Her father owned a immigrant syndicate. Very powerful. She owns them now. Didn't you know that?"
Hearing everything the man was saying Anzu stepped out from behind the tree Yami and Shizuka ran off thanks to the distraction away from them. Anzu stayed knowing that her gun skills could help Jounouchi if it came down to it.
"It's true, Jounouchi. That is why Pegasus kidnapped me. He wanted my empire." She whispered. Jounouchi shook his head in disbelief.
"Why did you lie to us then?" Anzu looked down at the ground.
"Kaiba thought it was best to not say anything, so did I."
"Kaiba knew? Who else did, damn it?" Since Jounouchi was so distracted from the man, the man lifted his gun and pointed it at Jounouchi.
"Watch out!" She yelled out in time for Jounouchi to shoot the man dead.
"Thanks." Jounouchi muttered and walked away. "Honda! Kaiba! Where the hell are you?" He yelled out. He walked around the park and then found Shizuka weeping. Yami ran to Jounouchi.
"Honda. He's dead!" He muttered almost to himself. Fearing that Kaiba was dead as well Anzu ran towards the direction Yami came from. Jounouchi stood shocked that one of his best friends was dead. "Kaiba killed him." Yami whispered but Jounouchi heard. His eyes flared and he ran to avenge his friends death. "Wait!" Yami yelled out and followed him.
Kaiba stood shocked. Blood was all around him. The man he was chasing after was dead, so was Honda. Honda came out of no where when Kaiba was about to shoot the man. The man grabbed Honda the last minute and shielded his body with Honda's. It was too late when Kaiba realized who he really shot. It was raining so hard he couldn't see. It was too late.
"Seto?" Anzu cautiously stepped close to him. There was blood everywhere. Kaiba was still holding onto the gun. Kaiba was wet and disheveled, the rain pouring down on him more. "Seto, please. Put down the gun. Jounouchi is going to come any minute. Please, tell me what happened." Looking over at her he threw the gun down and stepped towards her. She never moved back or even flinched. His arms wrapped around her and held her tightly, the wetness of the both of them making her even more colder.
"I don't know. He came out of no where." He whispered against her hair with his eyes closed. "I killed him." He whispered. "I didn't mean to." Tears stung her eyes. What did this mean now? Did this mean that Kaiba was going to jail? Did this mean that he was leaving her?
"No." She whimpered. "Don't leave me." His lips touched her forehead. His lips dragged onto her eyes and cheeks. "Please. This wasn't supposed to happen." She choked out. His eyes opened to see her crying, her tears mixed with the rain. Much like him she has been leading a life of torture. A life of syndication. A life she did not deserve. He moved his lips to her own afraid that this was going to be his only chance but before he kissed her a gun cocking made him pull back.
"Get the fuck away from him Anzu unless you want to be shot too." Jounouchi said behind them with a deadly tone in his voice. Shizuka to Honda's body and cried over him as Yami stood behind Jounouchi.
"Stop this ple.." Anzu pleaded.
"Shut up! Don't you see our friend lying dead because of Kaiba? What's the matter Kaiba? Did Honda's family have some unknown fortune that you knew about? Is that why you're still with Anzu? Is that why you're using her? For her heir?" He screamed out over the thundering rain.
"I'm not using anyone! I have my own empire! Why would I need hers?" Jounouchi stepped back and eyed him warningly.
"what?" Jounouchi still did not know anything about Kaiba or Anzu's family. It was all new to him.
"Jounouchi, please! Put down the gun! He didn't mean to kill Honda! The man tricked him!" Anzu pleaded.
"No!" He yelled at her. "Kaiba killed him! He killed my best friend!" Jounouchi sobbed. "Those people are coming after us. They'll keep coming until I hand you over. I bet Kaiba would do it. He would hand you over!" Before Kaiba or Anzu could answer cop lights shined on them.
"Freeze! Put down your weapons!" Shizuka, Yami, Anzu, Kaiba and Jounouchi stood frozen on the spot. A part of all them wondering how did it get like this?
There is my update! When the next one will be coming? Not even I know! Thanks so much for the support and please review!
