Damn, it's been so long since I updated. I should be ashamed.

BUT I'M NOT!

I've just been really busy. But hey lookie!

This is the original Chapter Thirteen!


Princess F: Most of you are... how should I say this... expressing concern over the fact that Kaiba's gonna die.
Pi-chan: Is he really? I'm SHOCKED that nobody's said "YEAH! KILL KAIBA!"
Floraleon: ... drags Pi-chan away by the blond hair ...
Princess F: Now...would I be that cruel? As to take away Anzu's family like that? The answer is...
Pi-chan: from afar YES!
Princess F: TT Excuse me. grabs a frying pan You'll just have to find out later. XP

Chapter Thirteen: White

"Katsuya, Anzu and I have to go somewhere!" Shizuka called. She quickly ran to her room and retrieved two jackets. She and handed one to Anzu. "Hurry!"

The two girls ran out into the drizzling rain.

Domino Hospital was at the other side of the city. They went as far as a small café, the closest urban area to the Jounouchi's house. Huddled under the green awning of the café, Shizuka asked, "How are we going to reach the hospital? We're most likely to..." Anzu pulled something small and metallic out of the borrowed coat. Her cell phone.

"Er..." Shizuka started. "I brought it along, just in case..."

"Good thinking." The first words she'd said since the terrible news. "Do you have a number...?"

Shizuka dug around in her pockets. Her fingers closed in on a small scrap of paper...

"Hello?" Anzu said. A man's voice answered. "May I speak to... Bakura?"

"Depends on which one," he replied.

"Excuse me?"

"Well, there's a Ryou Bakura, an Amane Bakura, a Yami Bakura, a—"

"Ryou's twin." she said quickly.

"Okay... YAMI! PHONE FOR YOU!" His first name was Yami?

"Yo." Yeah, that was him all right.

"Bakura?"

"Yes, Miss Mazaki. Go away Ryou."

"Bakura, Shizuka and I need a ride to Domino Hospital. It's urgent."

"Where are you right now?"

"Um..." She looked at the lettering on the door. "Duklyon Café..."

"Duklyon? Be right there." As he hung up, Anzu heard, "RYOU! GET YOUR LAZY—beep"

She turned to Shizuka. "He's coming."

Bakura and Ryou arrived on their motorbikes. They made quickspeed to the hospital. "We'll wait in the lobby," Ryou said. The girls nodded.

"Names?" said a strict looking woman at the desk.

"Anzu...Kaiba," she said, instead of Mazaki.

"And you?"

"Shizuka." As an afterthought, "Kaiba."

"You two don't look alike." the nurse said, skeptically.

"She's my cousin," Anzu said quickly.

They got away with it. A younger nurse in a starched white uniform came to take them. "It's very tragic," she said, as she told them the details. "There's a little boy in there, crying his eyes out."

Mokuba.

They reached the room. "I'll stay here," Shizuka whispered as the nurse opened the door. Anzu nodded and stepped inside.

It was white. Too white. Two windows near the bed. A blank wall across. And in the bed was her father.

The tall, strong man fit none of those descriptions as he lay in the white hospital bed, surrounded by tubes and machines. He looked drawn and pale. And older than his years.

Sitting in a chair, right next to Seto Kaiba was Mokuba. He was staring down at the white tiles. Didn't look up until Anzu stood right before him. The two cousins, silent in their sorrow, embraced each other.

Tears. Once hidden by the rain, now dripped from Anzu's face. Mokuba couldn't cry anymore, just hiccups and dry sobs.

I heard everything.

Every word.

I never should have called him that. Saw everything.

And then...

In the middle of the night.
He went looking for you.

He went looking for me.

How did you know?

When I opened my door.
When Uncle didn't come back.

When someone turned on the TV.

I've caused him so much grief.
I want to talk to him.

But I've been late.
Will he be late?

What do you mean? "Is Uncle Seto going to die?"

Anzu didn't answer. She just stared at the room.

White.

Princess F: This is rather depressing. Who Anzu really likes will be revealed next chapter.

And that will be updated when?