Kaya: Thanks to Shadow Vixen, Black Joey, Kistune's Grrl, Larien, and Aquaria Motou for reviewing!

Sanu: Thanks to everyone who voted!

Cherry Blossoms and Blood – 2
Seto Ishtar – 3
Mew Counter Force – 0

Kaya: Seto Ishtar is in the lead! I had a feeling no one would vote for Mew Counter Force, because it's not even Yu-Gi-Oh!

Sheekin: Speaking of that, Kaya doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh, V-6, BoA, or Coming Century

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Chapter 11 – It's All in the Music

Anzu rested her head against Bakura's arm as they walked home. Although both of them were able to drive, Anzu decided to walk, seeing as how it was nice out. Bakura would have driven to the restaurant if Ryou hadn't needed the car for the movies. Anyway, she liked walking with him—that way they didn't have to pay attention to the road, besides crossing the streets.

"Bakura, I really don't know when I started having these feelings for you," Anzu said. Bakura smiled and shrugged. "I started the day after I saw you naked," he said. Anzu giggled. "Yeah, and that was a total accident," she said, reminding him. "I guess I started to like you after I realized I didn't have any feelings for Yami anymore," she said. "To tell you the truth, I also used to like Marik. I wasn't sure if I still liked him, and that's why I made him come into Bikutoria's Kakushigoto with me. When I didn't feel embarrassed walking into there with him, and was wishing it was you, that's when I kind of realized it."

Bakura nodded. So that's why she dragged Marik into a lingerie shop, to see if she liked him still or not. "Well, I'm glad for having such a great girl who likes me," he said, squeezing her Chinese bun-styled hair playfully. Anzu slapped his hand away gently, giggling. "You had better not be thinking of anything perverted," she said.

"Not really…" Bakura said, "But kind of," he admitted. Anzu rolled her eyes, but laughed. He was quite the pervert one minute, but a gentleman the next. It was very hard to understand him. Fumbling around her purse, she took out her MP3 player, and put the little headphones in her ears. She switched it on and listened to BoA (the band who sung Every Heart, from Inuyasha), keeping it low enough so she could listen to Bakura. "Those things nearly caused me to go deaf," he said.

Anzu giggled. "Silly, you just put the volume too loud, and the headphone was pushed to deep into your ear hole." Bakura rolled his eyes. "Whatever. I'm sticking to CD players," he said.

Anzu nodded and listened to a line on one of her favorite songs by them, Acceptance (which, might I add, is not one of their songs, I'm pretty sure, and the lyrics are also fictional).

"Come under the sunlight don't be so shy, I know you'll accept me and him as the times go by. Please don't walk away from me; you're the best friend I could ever see you be. Can you just put a bit of effort on the fact that it's me and him and not me and you? Acceptance…that's what you need to do now…Acceptance, I know you'll find it somehow…Acceptance…"

Bakura stared as she sang the song out loud. She seemed to have cut off, as she turned down the volume again and looked at Bakura. "It reminds me of Yami," she said, with a hint of sadness. Bakura blinked, looking confused. "How?" he asked. "Well," Anzu began, "The song is about a girl who is trying to tell a boy who likes her to accept the fact that she's in love with someone else. It's like Yami, me, and you. Yami is having a hard time accepting the fact that he girl he likes, me, is going out with you," she surmised.

"If he was a true friend, like you said before, then he will find a way to accept us, and he will remain our friend," Bakura said. I can't believe I'm talking about friendship! The girl must be rubbing off on me…and friends with the Ph—Yami? I could try, but he's going to think I'm trying to poison him or something. Why is it that whenever I try to be nice Yami is just plain rude to me? Ra, he can annoy me so much, he thought.

Anzu's eyes sparkled at Bakura. "That was the nicest thing I've ever heard you say about friendship. Heck, that's the only thing I've heard you say about friendship," she said. Bakura shrugged. "I'll be a friend, but it sure as Necropolis isn't something I'd talk about," he said, "Unlike you, Miss Friendship," he teased. Anzu punched him lightly on the shoulder. "Shut up!" she said, grinning. Bakura laughed. "You really suck at punching. You should learn some self-defense tactics."

"I'd never been much of a good fighter," Anzu said. "No, you haven't. You should get some lessons from me!" Bakura said, pointing at himself with his thumb. Anzu cocked her head. "Are you sure?" she asked. "Yeah, it's not like you have to pay me—with money, that is," he said. "I can't keep on giving you things from my fridge! I kinda have to eat too, you know!" she exclaimed. "Yeah, well, we could eat it together," he said with a touch of hope. Anzu sighed. "Fine, but I'm cooking."

Bakura leaned over and kissed Anzu on the lips, smiling. "You really are quite the slave driver," he said. Anzu looked shocked. "Excuse me? I think I'm very fair, to tell you the truth," she said. Bakura kissed her again and growled sexily. "Yes, but you must be rough in bed," he said. Anzu went red. "Bakura! That's not appropriate to talk about in public!" she said, holding her head in her hands. Bakura snickered and kissed her again. "You are quite the shy one sometimes, as well," he said, playfully grabbing her behind and squeezing. Anzu yelped and jumped forward. "You're such a pervert!" she exclaimed, with a tiny smirk on her face. "That's how I've always been. You should hear the comments I give your girlfriends sometimes," he said. Anzu swirled her finger around the front of his shirt. "Are you cheating on me?" she asked. "We've just started going out; if I was, Ra do I suck," he said. Anzu giggled and kissed him on the lips, then turned around and ran off. "See you tomorrow!" she said, looking over her shoulder, waving at him, as she ran home.

Bakura weaved back, grinning, and leaned against a building. "Anzu Mazaki—you are quite the tiger," he said. He chuckled, shaking his head, and he began his own journey home.

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Yugi was sitting on his bed, crunching on potato chips, reading a sports magazine, and listening to his favorite band, V-6 (the band that sung Change the World from Inuyasha). Yami walked into the room, looking depressed. Yugi looked over and saw him. He turned down his player. "Yami, are you ok? You just walked away from the gang earlier, for no reason," Yugi said. Yami looked over at Yugi and sighed. "I…am I a bad friend?" he asked. Yugi looked shocked. "No, why would you be a—" he began, but Yami cut him off. "I was talking about to Anzu."

"Oh," Yugi said. "Why would you think that?" "Because, she told me that I should start accepting Bakura, and how she should be happy for them," he said. "I'm not happy, that's the problem. Why did she have to go with Bakura? Not me?" Yami asked. Yugi sighed and took off his headphones, and gave them to Yami. "Listen to this part of V-6's new song, Look Now (not an actual song)" Yami put on the headphones, and listened.

"You said you'd be fine with it, now look what you did with it, you didn't even accept it, and now I'm stuck with zip. You said it didn't really matter, yet you continued to act all flattered, just when I said hi. She thought wrong, and you said wrong, and now I'm stuck singing that one sad song. Look now! Look at what you did. Because of you, and your stupid mouth, I'm now stuck with zip. In fact, don't even bother to telephone, because look now! I'm all alone."

Yami took of the headphones. "Do you understand now?" Yugi said, taking them. "Would that really happen…if I…don't accept them?" Yami said. "Of course. If you don't accept it and keep on flirting with Anzu, Bakura will get the wrong idea, or maybe he'll just get sick o fit, and leave Anzu. And she'll probably never forgive you for that," he said.

"I'm….I'm being selfish aren't I?" Yami asked. "I don't want Anzu to be miserable…" he said. "Well, she doesn't have to be miserable, if you don't say anything to lecherous to Anzu, and you accept Bakura," Yugi said. Yami felt guilty now. "I…I'll have to phone Bakura tomorrow and talk to him," Yami said.

Yugi nodded. "Yami, you're starting to grow up," he said, smiling. "You are learning to accept Bakura and Anzu together." "Yeah, but I still can't help but stare at Anzu's breasts…they're just so…there," Yami said. Yugi shook his head, grinning. Yami Moto, perv of the week. Hmm, that title suits him actually. It used to be Bakura. Wow, it's almost like they switched bodies.

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Morning shone over Domino, and the birds chirped happily and the waves on the harbor crashed to the shore in small intervals. It was what someone would call a perfect day—except for Seto Kaiba, that is.

Kaiba was wearing blue denim jeans and a button-down white shirt with an open collar. He was wearing his silver trench coat, and his look was made of poison. Today, he had to go and pick up the money-stealing, account-hacking, fate-is-everything woman, Ishizu Ishtar. She had requested personally to stay at the Kaiba mansion while she and Kaiba worked on artifact decoding. Kaiba would have blown her off, if not for the fact she stole money out of his bank account.

"Seto, are you sure you are going to be ok with her staying at our home?" Mokuba Kaiba asked, crawling around the back of the limousine. "What do you think? The woman is practically blackmailing me," he said. Note to self—next time, think of better security password, he thought. He turned on his CD player and began to listen to Coming Century (The band that sung Silver Bells from Inuyasha).

"I've actually missed her," Mokuba said. "She was really sweet." Kaiba rolled his eyes. "If she was really sweet, she wouldn't have stolen from me. I swear, I'm gonna give her the biggest lawsuit of her life," Kaiba said. "I'm not looking forward to her, that's for sure," he said. "I really am not. I swear, why would I?" Mokuba blinked as his older brother began to make up reasons why he wouldn't want to see her. "Um…Seto, the way you keep on talking bad about her, the more it makes me think you want to see her," he said.

"What? Mokuba, you're crazy," Kaiba said, staring out his window, still muttering. The CD player skipped to a new song by the group, Saw You Again.

"3…2…1…I was walking down that street one day and who do I see? My high school friends, with you among their crowd. How was I supposed to know that I'd see you again? I hated you, and guess what? I look at you again…I saw you again, and now, I think, holy shit, I'm in love."

Seto blinked at lyrics and looked down at his CD player. Ok, that's just a coincidence…

"Mr. Kaiba, we're here," said the chauffeur. Kaiba nodded and the chauffeur opened the door, letting both the Kaiba brothers out. Mokuba jumped out, excited, but Kaiba got out, with his briefcase, slowly and angrily, still muttering to himself.

A familiar female voice broke his thoughts. "Hello, Mokuba, I'm glad to see you too." Kaiba looked up. Ishizu Ishtar was bending down, hugging Mokuba. She was wearing a strapless Egyptian cloth dress that went down to her knees, with gold outlining the bottom of her dress. She had a gold bracelet dangling from her wrist, and a gold necklace (not the Millennium Necklace) around her neck. And just under that necklace…

Kaiba went totally red. What the hell man? Why are you staring at her cleavage! You said you didn't like her, and you don't! She's just a forced business partner, from now on…wow, I wonder what cup size she wears?...WHAT THE HELL? I sound like that one dude from Chobits!...I bet she's a D…STOP! NOT A PERV!

Ishizu straightened up, smiling at Kaiba, her long hair falling over her shoulders like a black waterfall; her blue eyes sparkling with beauty…Kaiba went even redder. "Hello…Ishizu…" he said, trying to sound like his old self. "Hello Seto," she said, smiling at him. "I'm sorry for…forcing this upon you," she said. "It's….we'll talk about it later," Kaiba said, shaking his head, trying to clear his head from saying anything wrong. "I guess I just really wanted to see you again!" Ishizu said, laughing. Kaiba went redder than brick. "W-What!" he exclaimed. Ishizu's laughter died out. "Seto, you do know I'm kidding," she said seriously.

Kaiba shook his head again. "Um, yeah…" he said. "Uh…shall we go?" he asked. Ishizu nodded and grabbed her suitcases. "Yes, thank you for having me…and not throwing me out," she said. Kaiba watched her as she got into the limousine. This is gonna be a long month…isn't it?

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Kaya: Hah! Witness the power of music!

Sanu: Wow…that's what I fate

Seto: Shut up woman!

Ishizu: (walks past him)

Seto: O.O (stares at her breasts)

Kaya, Sanu, Sheekin: -.-

Sanu: R and R!