Hello again all my fateful readers! -

So here we are…AGAIN! Well I'm sorry if I didn't update fast enough for all of you, but I had other things that I had to attend to before I got back to this. I also apologize if the chapter is a bit shitty this time around. I kind of didn't have any real inspiration for this chapter so I had to work with some old ideas to get it going properly. Sorry again if you are left disappointed T-T

But DISPITE this, I still managed to get one typed out (four pages to be exact, I was quite surprised at the total sum I got in the end) so I guess I should at least be happy with that, right? Well, if you still find it interesting when you're done, please review my travesty of a chappy! Please? OH PLEASE! Well whatever…I promise the next chapter will be more interesting…I just hope some inspiration comes soon! Well read, review, and enjoy! I hope…

Now before I forget…

TO MY FELLOW NEW READERS -

Kerochan606- Thank you! Wow! My first reader adding my story into their fave list! Thank you again! I like that you gave the Horror/Mystery genre a chance. Heh…I'm not too sure I delivered good work in this one, but that's for you to decide. THANKS AGAIN! Hope I keep you interested! -

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Angel of Loneliness- Thank you for liking it! - I can't promise she won't lose her mind too much…but I CAN promise it will be fun to watch it happen! - (Smiles an evil maniacal smile) Heh heh…

Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN YU-GI-OH! SO SHUT UP! -

It was Katsuya Jonouchi.

Anzu stood deadly still…she could hardly believe the sight she was beholding…Jonouchi was standing right in front of her…alive!

"Jou…Jonouchi?" She managed to stammer.

"Yeah Anzu, what's up?"

Anzu let her stuff fall on the classroom floor, then ran over to a startled Jonouchi and hugged him.

"Oh God Jou! I've never been so glad to see you!" She then planted a kiss right on his cheek "Even your messy hair looks good today!"

Jonouchi pushed her lightly away, grabbed her by the shoulders, and looked her in the eye.

"Anzu, you feeling ok? 'Cause you're really starting to freak me out."

She stared at him for a moment, surveying his facial features, making sure that his head wasn't secretly bashed in and bleeding somewhere.

"Yeah Jou…I'm fine" She finally responded.

The others looked at her oddly, not quite believing her previous comment. The younger looking one of the three, the one with the strange spiked up hair, looked a bit worried.

"Anzu, you sure you're ok? You look a bit pale" he replied.

She looked over to where he was.

"Yeah Yugi, I'm ok"

The young one named Yugi didn't quite seem to buy Anzu's story, but didn't push it any further either. Anzu, noticing the look on Yugi's face, quickly reassured him.

"Seriously Yugi" she patted him gently on his shoulder "Really…I'm fine."

"See Yug? Anzu said she's fine!" said the taller one of the three. He clamped a rather hard hand on Yugi's back, nearly sending him reeling to the floor. He managed to grab the back of Yugi's jacket before he fell any further.

"Wow there! Sorry Yug!" he apologized quickly.

"That's ok Honda" Yugi stood up straighter "No real harm done"

At the sight of this, Anzu smiled a little. Her friends, no matter how odd a bunch they were, always had a way of making her smile.

"You guys are weird" she teased, "I'm going to walk away now before anyone realizes that I know you people"

She turned around to leave when someone caught her by the wrist and stopped her.

"Anzu! What happened to your hands!" she heard Honda yell. Anzu turned around and met the eyes of a very horrified Honda.

"What are you talking about?" she asked. Jonouchi and Yugi, who had heard Honda yell as well as everyone else in the classroom did, came over to see what the commotion was about.

"Honda dude! What's with all the crazy yelling'?" replied Jonouchi. He reached over to pull Honda away when his eyes caught sight of what Honda had been speaking about earlier.

"Anzu…your…your hands!" Jou's face immediately registered a look of terror.

"Jesus you guys!" She pulled away "What the hell are you talking about!"

Jou wordlessly pulled back Anzu's wrist and held it up to her face. She gasped; her normally ivory colored hands were stained…with what appeared to be…blood.

Behind them, she heard Yugi gasp in terror.

"Anzu! You're hurt! Why didn't you say anything?"

She looked over at Yugi, his face registered both shock and hurt. He gently pulled Anzu's other hand towards him and examined it.

"How …who did this to you?" She heard him ask faintly.

Anzu stood silent. She didn't know how to reply, she wasn't even sure how the blood got there in the first place. She felt cold and feverish all over, and her stomach threatened to empty out what little contents it had.

"I…I'm not sure" Was all she could whisper.

Jou immediately flared up to the sound of her response, "What do you mean 'I'm not sure'! Tell me who the hell did this to you so I can go and kick their sorry ass!"

"Yeah Anzu, me and Jou here can take whoever it was! We've brought down thugs bigger than us before!" yelled Honda in companionship to Jou's yelling.

"Anzu…" Yugi began in his most worried voice.

At that point, Anzu could not tolerate anymore. She pulled both her hands free from Yugi's gentle grasp and walked away.

"I …I need to wash this off" she managed to mumble before she left the class.

"Anzu!" They yelled for her to come back.

As soon as she got out of the class she began to run, not once looking up to see where she was heading or who was watching. Her legs carried her on as best they could, but even they were beginning to falter from excess fatigue. It didn't matter to her though…she just wanted to get away…away from her friends horrified stares.

Heh…you'd think after all the weird stuff we've been through they could at least take a little blood on someone's hands a little better, she thought bitterly.

But before she could finish her train of thought, someone managed to knock her out of it.

"Watch where you're going!" She heard someone yell at her.

She was on the floor on her knees, her head hurt terribly from knocking into someone head first. Her vision was terribly blurred and she was surprised at the fact that she could still hear properly.

"I'm so sorry" She managed to mumble as she tried to steady herself up.

She was about to fall on her knees again, when suddenly hands seized her around the waist and hoisted her up properly.

"Thank…thank you" she replied with much gratitude. She looked up eagerly to see the face of the one who both yelled at her and helped her, but at first sight she wanted nothing more than to be in the safety of the floor again.

"YOU!" she yelled in disgust.

"Gee Mazaki…you're welcome" he sneered.

Anzu quickly retched away from his grasp and stared daggers at his cold dark blue eyes.

Seto Kaiba merely shrugged at her.

"I take it from your actions that you are not exactly happy to see me?"

Anzu ignored him and tried to walk pass him to the girls restroom, which was just up the hall. He, of course, was not going to make that easy. Kaiba merely stood in her way and blocked her path.

"Let me through" she said quietly with an edge of danger in her voice.

He didn't so much as move an inch away from where he was.

"I said let me through" she repeated, her voice rising in anger by the second.

"Am I suppose to be scared Mazaki?" he merely replied. "Because if that's the case, I would say you failed miserably in your attempt"

Anzu had had enough of his games. She pulled back her arm and then directed a punch right into his face. He merely raised his arm effortlessly and caught her assault on him with his hand.

"That the best you could do?" he teased cruelly.

She growled with frustration and tried to pull her hand away from his grasp.

"Let go you jerk!" she spat at him.

She saw the corners of his lips curl into a slight sneer as she tried to pull away from him.

"Didn't you hear me you jerk!" she began to pull away even harder "I said…LET…ME…GO!"

By now, students from different classes had either stopped to look or stuck their heads out of other classrooms to see what was going on. Seto, now noticing that people were watching them, retreated to let go of her hand when the blood caught his eye.

"What happened here?" he pointed to the blood.

She roughly pulled her hand out of his grasp and walked away.

"Mazaki!"

Anzu turned around slowly to face him and met with his dark blue eyes almost immediately. He had a rather odd look on his face…almost as if he cared that there might be something wrong with her.

"What?" she asked rather rudely.

"You didn't answer my question"

"Well frankly…it's none of your business to begin with" she responded.

The look on his face quickly disappeared and was replaced with a frown. Satisfied with the results she had received from her statement, Anzu turned around and walked into the girl's restroom.

Thankfully, the restroom was devoid of any other living soul other than her. She rested her still aching head on the cool wall before she walked over to the washbasin. The cold water felt almost soothing on her hands as she tried to wash the already dried blood off of them. Anzu scrubbed as hard as she could, but the blood would refuse to come off. She tried adding more soap but it still refused to come off at all. At this point Anzu was beginning to panic a little.

"What the hell is going on!" she yelled to know one in particular "Why won't this come off!"

At this point, the entire front of her uniform was all wet.

"Come off!" she scrubbed harder "COME OFF DAMM YOU!"

She backed away angrily from the washbasin, her back hitting the wall behind her. She sobbed desperately as her unclean hands dripped little droplets of water from her elegant fingers.

"Why…" she sobbed "…Why me?"

She looked up at the large mirror in front of her, her pale reflection staring back at her with tear stained eyes. She stared at a female almost unrecognizable from her point of view. The girl she saw bared no real resemblance to her anymore, this girl was so pale and fragile looking…almost as if the slightest gust of wind could bring her down. This sight only made Anzu sob even harder than before.

"Why is this happening to me?" she sobbed feebly.

She walked back to the washbasin and leaned against it, letting the cool running water wash over her hands again. She cupped some of it into her hand and splashed her face with it. Anzu looked up into the mirror and saw a pale wet girl staring at her…and a mutilated Jonouchi staring back from behind too.

"YEEEEEK!" she yelled

Anzu swerved around, only to be met by nothing in particular. She turned back and Jou's reflection was still staring at her sadly.

"JOU!" she yelled at the reflection "No! This isn't real! None of it is real! You're not there! STOP! LEAVE ME ALONE!"

She turned to run out the door but stopped abruptly when she saw what was seeping out of the floor.

The darkness…it had returned for her…

"NO! NOT AGAIN!"

She stepped back too quickly and tripped over. The darkness took the chance and grabbed her ankles, pulling her down into itself once more.

"HELP! HELP!" was the last thing she managed to say before it took her away.

"ANZU! ANZU!" were the last familiar cries she heard as they pounded away at the restroom door.

"Someone…please…help me…"

Author's last plea for insanity

Well there it is…I hope it didn't disappoint you too much! My deepest apologies to all those who were left very disappointed beyond all hope once again! I promise that the next chapter will be more of your liking…I just hope I can deliver that big of an order next time! Well good-bye for now! Please review and comment…I need ideas and inspiration people! Oh…before I forget…NO DAMM FLAMES! -

-NightRaven13 -