POISON
Pairing: Mazaki Anzu / Kaiba Seto
Summary: Their relationship is now out in the open, but that only mean's Kaiba has to get along with Anzu's friend. Good luck with surviving Otogi's party.
Disclaimer: I've gotten use to saying that Yu-Gi-Oh isn't mine, but I never thought I'd see the day that I'd be saying that about Pokemon. I'm gonna need time to get use to that.
A/N: Not one single lie, I have rewritten this chapter six different times. And with each new story line I got more discouraged but the reviews kept coming in. Not without your support would there be another chapter now. I can't say thank you enough. All that I can wish for now is that you'll enjoy what I have put together and hopefully bashing myself upside the head to get this chapter rolling again, didn't screw it up even more.
Chapter Thirteen
Compared to all other parties, sleepovers, and Kaiba Corp. celebrations Mokuba had attended; Otogi's party was ranked at the very top of his list. He had to be the youngest person granted proper permission to go to such a grown up function, and by golly was he thankful for his childish charm more each day.
Of course, adding that with a sugar high and Mokuba was the only one of the group who hadn't met with the sandman. Too bad Seto had been preoccupied with other things to notice his consumption of soda, before it was too late. But it was his Nii-sama's own fault for not letting him join in their game of shots. He'd said something about alcohol and miners, well, at least him being way too young.
A smug grin shone on Mokuba's face. With caffeine running through him, his mouth had taken off, telling many entertaining stories of Seto and himself that even Anzu was on the ground in laughter. Like when he put vinegar in his big brother's coffee, or drawn a picture for school on the back of an important contract. And even when he made Seto watch the first season of Pokemon, in English dubbed, just to prove that Brock and Seto sounded the same. 1 Nothing had beaten the weekend until Otogi's party.
Mokuba rolled onto his right side and propped his head up in his hand. He was stationed on a pile of plush pillow's, in the center of Otogi's living room floor. The rest of his friend's were spread out around him, in quite peculiar positions that he'd bet his duel monsters locket, would wake up with aches and pains.
Their gracious host was flaked out across an armchair. One arm and one leg were tossed over the side, and much to Jou's carnage, Shizuka was curled up with him. She was sporting him suit jacket because she claimed to be cold. That was one thing Mokuba didn't follow. If she knew it would get cooler and there were blankets to use, why had Shizuka highjacked Otogi's jacket? He'd have to ask Seto about it later.
Ryou and Honda had claimed the first couch. They had each been buried under a blanket; though at present neither blanket was anywhere to be found.
The forever, dueling blondes ended up on the floor, where Jou was leaning against couch number one, while Mai used his lap for a pillow. She wasn't even bothered by the amount of moving Jou did in his sleep.
Yugi was splayed stomach side down on the floor, not too far from Mokuba, where he had passed out, and being one of the last to do so.
And finally Seto and Anzu had taken over couch number two. The young CEO was stretched out across the couch in what remained of his white suit. Sometime during the shots game he had removed his jacket and tie, and undone the top few buttons of his shirt. Anzu lay on top of her boyfriend with her head pillowed under his chin, and their legs tangled together.
Even in the dark Mokuba eyes shied away. Yet although the slight embarrassment he was happy. And as evident as the evening had shown, so was Seto. It had to be one of the best gifts he had received, and his big brother didn't even realize it. At Otogi's party everyone had seen a sliver of the Seto he knew; the smiling, joking, caring side with no worries; or as Anzu always said, the human part of him.
A satisfied sigh escaped Mokuba and he flopped onto his back.
Of course it paid to have a billionaire CEO/older brother within your power. Yugi referred to it as whipped during the shots game, and to the group's shock that hadn't caused any problems. He gave all credit to Anzu and her calming techniques. But having to witness them was another thing altogether.
He had too many memories of them doing………… well, that. And more were returning every day. Mokuba's temporary amnesia was fading, although he couldn't decide if it was for better or for worse.
The young Kaiba let loose a yawn. He'd done enough thinking for the night. And chances were if he didn't catch his z's he was liable to miss something else.
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"It's a closet."
"I can see that."
"Glaring spitefully at the shelves of linen won't change that fact."
"Yeah? Well I learned the glaring spitefully from you."
"Narrow you're eye's a little more, now frown and it just might work……… at the closet, Anzu."
The dancer threw her hands up in defeat at her boyfriend's antics. He'd been going on as such for the past half hour and they had yet to find a bathroom anywhere in Otogi's mini mansion. They'd uncovered a gaming room, no surprise there, an office, kitchen, where Seto got his glass of water, and a sauna. But no blasted bathroom!
"Oh, go wake someone else up and bother them," she grumbled, storming down the hall.
Seto smiled as he followed after her. "You're immensely entertaining at the moment. I'd rather not miss your outward display of fluster."
Knowing that her boyfriend was reveling in her actions wasn't hurtful or annoying. It made her glad that he was enjoying himself. Although it was funny, really, how he took pleasure in her bladder on the brink of explosion. Why, oh why hadn't anyone prevented her form downing as much as she had?
Anzu pouted, "This is all your fault."
"I simply wished to get a glass of water," Seto reminded her.
"You woke me up."
"You were lying on top of me."
"And you never did anything about the shots game! Very small bladder here," she proclaimed.
Seto stopped walking, causing Anzu to follow suit. He placed two fingers under her chin, tilting her head up. "As I recall I had to pry the Bacardi's bottle away from you, the sake, and the imported Molson Canadian six pack."
A light blush graced Anzu's cheeks at the reminder. "You're not helping any," she complained.
Her boyfriend didn't bother to respond. Instead he approached the next door in their journey down the hall. Facing the dancer, Seto opened the door and half bowed, half waved at what was inside, without looking behind him.
Blue eyes lit up at the sight. "Bathroom!" Anzu cried, running forward and pushing Seto out of her way. She was too caught up in her joy to realize she'd slammed the door in her boyfriends face.
After relieving herself, Anzu calmly walked back out into the hall. The billionaire was leaning against the far wall with his hands tucked in his pockets and a smug smirk on his face. A little too smug the more she thought about it.
"You knew there was a washroom here all along," she accused, hands on hips."
Seto pushed away form the wall with a graceful shrug. "How is that possible, Anzu?" he asked, "I've never stepped foot on Otogi's property, let alone in his house before tonight. It was a lucky guess."
Lucky? Since when had Seto ever claimed to accomplish something by luck? Strategy or smarts maybe, but never chance.
"And if it hadn't been a bathroom………" the dancer trailed off, blatantly hinting at her boyfriend.
The young CEO wrapped an arm around Anzu's waist and pulled her against him. "It was a simple case of deduction," he breathed into her ear, "Consider the previous rooms we have encountered. There were a select few yet to be seen. I simply took a chance."
Yeah, but a chance to find what? ……. Oh!
Anzu dazzled Seto with her pearly whites. "Missed me, did you, Kaiba-kun?" she purred.
Seto nuzzled her neck. "Not you per say, but certain activities pertaining to you." His free hand slowly slide up the back of her dress, until he reached bare skin.
At least they were on the same wavelength. But there was no way she would let him get what he wanted so easily after all of his sarcastic taunting.
"And if I don't feel up to it? I'm suddenly very tired, Seto."
"Hn'."
Anzu never responded. She wanted to, having planned on it and then her knees buckled. The sneaky billionaire had gone for her weak spot. He placed a tiny lick right behind her ear.
"Cheater," she whimpered, clutching onto his shoulders.
His mouth moved down her neck. "Since when has that bothered you?"
"Never."
Seto met Anzu halfway in a clash she could only describe as vertigo. He chased her tongue around her mouth before pulling it into his. With a sudden drive of adrenalin the dancer pushed Seto back against the wall. Her urgent hands began to fumble with the buttons of his shirt, constantly loosing hold of them. A deep growl vibrated threw the billionaires chest.
"Yikes! Man, Mokuba. Do I ever sympathize with ya!" Jou ruffled the young Kaiba's hair, a sly grin on his face.
"Not to mention respect," Honda piped up, "You're gutsy to keep living in the same house as you brother when they're busy doing that all the time." He motioned towards Anzu and Seto to explain what that was.
A blushing Mokuba refused to look at the brunette couple, not five feet in front of him. "Nii-sama doesn't do it on purpose," he told her friends, "And most of the time they don't even realize I'm there."
Yugi looked appalled at Mokuba's confession. "You mean to tell us that Kaiba-kun pays Anzu more attention then you?" he asked, "His only living relative?"
"Don't worry," Honda slapped Mokuba on the back, "We'll teach you everything you need to know. Now let's head to the kitchen and show you how to eat like a man. Just don't follow Jou's example."
"Hey!"
That said the quartet carried on past Seto and Anzu and disappeared around the corner.
She had been having no trouble holding it in at her friend's actions, until Anzu looked over at Seto's scowling face. His pursed lips and irritated glare towards the end of the hall pushed her over the edge. Collapsing against the wall, Anzu erupted into a fit of laughter. She had to clutch at her stomach on account of all the laughing she had done that evening it was beginning to hurt.
A content sigh escaped her lips. "That was so good."
The billionaire sent Anzu a disbelieving glance. "It astounds me that you can laugh after such an encounter."
"Oh lighten up Seto," she told him, all in good humor, "It could have been worse. For all we know, Jou and Honda could have tried to pull us apart, or heaven forbid, poured a bucket of ice cold water over our heads," the dancer paused, "But then you are dressed all in white. That might not be such a bad idea after all."
A sly smirk crept onto Seto's face. "Come to my house and you can join me for a swim, although your dress fails to leave things to the imagination as is."
"Feel free to find out if your imagination matches up to the real thing," Anzu licked her lips and began fiddling with his platinum belt buckle. She appreciated that the billionaire had a wide variety of belt buckles, in color and appearance. It gave her all the more reason.
"Yuck! Do you always have to do that?" a very disturbed Mokuba covered his eyes until he was certain they had stopped.
Seto heaved a sigh at their second interruption. "Kid, didn't you just head off to the kitchen?" he asked, appearing suspicious that her friends might be just around the corner, ready to jump out.
The young Kaiba shrugged his shoulders. "Yeah, but Jou and Honda sent me back to make sure you guys weren't desecrating Otogi's hallway. What does desecrate mean, Seto?"
"You'll find out when you're older," the CEO grumbled, giving his girlfriend a warning glance.
Anzu laughed at Seto's over protective antics. They were adorable to watch, but she hadn't had the guts to tell him in all of their six months, give or take a week. Instead she grabbed a hold of each of the Kaiba brother's hands and began pulling them down the hall.
"Be thankful for your innocence, Mokuba," she said, "But in the meantime lets go find out what the guys are up to."
Just as expected, considering where they were headed, when the small family entered the kitchen their fellow partiers were feasting. The three friends sat on stool like chairs at the island, in the middle of the kitchen. In front of them was a platter of homemade chocolate chip cookies. It had to have been some platter on account of there still being cookies left after Jou and Honda had their way with it.
Mokuba hopped onto the last stool beside Yugi, snatched up a cookie, and before Anzu could blink he was already reaching for a second. She hurried over to the refrigerator as a thought hit her.
"Slow down, you guys, you forgot a very important ingredient." The dancer pulled open the fridge and began rifling through it.
"Ah…. Anzu?" Jou paused in his cookie-a-thon, "Whatcha doin'?"
"I'm mooching off of Otogi. What's it look like I'm doing?…… Aha!" Anzu spun around with her trophy in hand; an unopened bottle of whip cream.
The kitchen fell silent and one by one she got a reaction. Poor Mokuba became extremely immersed with the marble counter top. Honda and Yugi, not quite able to quell their snickering, helped Jou stay upright on his stool. The blonde almost fell over backwards in laughter, ironically without choking on his cookie. While Seto looked far from pleased.
"Anzu, what is the meaning of this?" the angry fire Anzu reveled in, burned hot in his eyes, "You've failed to recall a certain conversation we had recently."
She had to take a deep breath, count to ten, and exhale before answering her boyfriend. Oh but the things he did to her with his sapphire eyes.
"That wasn't my intention, Seto," was the only response Anzu gave. Although her growing smirk told him otherwise. "The whip cream is for the cookies." She took one off of the platter and made a swirled cone on top, before handing the cookie to Mokuba.
Their youngest party member bit into it with hesitation, getting a dabble of whip cream on his nose. A wide grin took over his face. "This is great!" he exclaimed, before stuffing the rest of the cookie in his mouth. "Can I have another?"
The dancer handed over her secret ingredient and watched as Mokuba attempted to get whip cream from the can, spraying some on the counter as well as the cookie. Although that didn't detour him from eating it either way.
"I hope you're prepared for the sugar high of the century," Seto told Anzu.
She grabbed a cookie and broke off a piece. Oh blessed melted chocolate. "No problem. I've gotten used to it after, what, five months and some."
Yugi looked up at the couple in surprise. "You two have been together for five months?" he asked.
The billionaire reached over the island to help Mokuba in his struggle with the whip cream. "Six months next Wednesday," he said nonchalantly, focused on his younger brother.
Anzu grinned at her friends, absolutely thrilled that he remembered, and nodded her head in agreement, to appease her them. Neither of the brunettes seemed to count their weeklong break up as anything more then a bad memory. "It was a month before Mokuba found out, so yeah, six months."
"You're gonna have ta pull out the big guns next week, Kaiba," Jou smiled at his own advice, "And for Anzu's sake they'd better be nice guns."
She knew her friend was only looking out for her and striving for the best, but there were times when he walked right into these type of things. Apparently she wasn't the only one to twist his words. Seto looked at Jou with a raised eyebrow and a smile just touching the corners of his mouth.
Honda coughed around his cookie, "You might want to rephrase that, Jou," he suggested.
The blonde duelist glanced around at everyone in confusion, "Huh? Why'd I need ta . . . . . .You guys are sick!" he exploded.
Mokuba's head shot up at the declaration. "What I miss? What's sick? Seto? What did Jou say?" His Nii-sama responded with a quick shake of his head, signifying nothing important.
Yugi, obviously dreary from where his head rested on his arms on the counter, spoke up, "It's nice that Mokuba doesn't mind the two of you being together," a yawn interrupted him, "But you might want to watch that Anzu's not a bad influence on you, Mokuba."
A snort was heard from Jou, "He wouldn't be the sibling I'd worry about. What about Aiko?"
"Aiko!" Honda's eyes widened, "That's horrible, Kaiba, dating one of your fangirl's sisters! She must be heart broken with the news. I should go over and dry her tears."
It had taken her friends long enough to remember Aiko and her well-vocalized obsession with the billionaire. But that just showed how much they cared and worried over her. It was always a nice feeling to know you mattered to your friends as much as they mattered to you.
"How ya gonna manage that?" the blonde duelist asked his friend, with an obvious teasing smile, always ready to provoke his long time friend.
Honda zoned in on Jou. "Are you saying I can't do it?"
"Glad ya finally admit it." The sentence wasn't even out of Jou's mouth before Honda had him in his famous headlock, their platter of cookies presently a thing of the past.
Seto, clearly not amused or caring of the two, turned a questioning look Anzu's way, silently informing her that she could correct her friends. It was one of those instances when he'd rather not waste his time, nor breath in doing so.
The dancer popped the last of her cookie in her mouth and slowly licked each finger, in an obviously taunting fashion. It was her way of showing Seto he wasn't as powerful as he thought himself to be. When she finished Anzu had everyone's attention, with the exception of Mokuba and his whip cream.
"Honda," she began, "What is it with you and girls on the rebound? By all means feel free to try. I certainly know Aiko can hold her own. But incase you didn't already know Seto was only an obsession to her, nothing more. Not to mention she figured it all out on her own a couple weeks ago, so tonight was no surprise to her or my parents. I'm just thankful she doesn't hold anything against me."
A scoff was heard from her boyfriend. "Of course no one held anything against you."
Anzu marked that day down in her memory as one to remember that Kaiba Seto admitted to caring what someone else thought of him. Not his power hungry, coldhearted reputation but the man hiding behind it. She would call it the eighth wonder of the world.
The dancer moved sideways half a step and hugged Seto around the waist. "How many time do I have to say I'm sorry?" she asked.
"There is no need for an apology, Anzu."
Surprisingly Jou agreed with the billionaire, but not surprising that it was for different reasons. "Why the heck, d'ya apologize to him for?" he barked.
With a sigh, she rested her head against Seto's shoulder. "Do the words daddy's girl ring a bell for any of you?"
As if those few words had explained everything, her friends nodded their heads in understanding. Even the half asleep Yugi joined in. "Ah," they all chorused, Jou snickering to himself.
Yugi tried to work his peace into the conversation. "Every single one of us had to go through the same thing, when Mazaki-san thought we had bad intentions for Anzu, but they wore off eventually. There's nothing to be worried about, Anzu's parents are rather quite nice people."
The dancer bit her lip, already knowing what was soon to come. She needed a distraction, anything to pull his attention away before another argument could start up. With a quick glance around the room her eyes landed on the perfect excuse.
"I am not worried," the young CEO ground out, in an effort to convince her friends.
Anzu lightly elbowed Seto in the side, "Um, I think we should keep it down or Mokuba will wake up with a sugar high hangover, and I'm more then willing to let you deal with him all on your own. After all it is your specialty."
All eyes turned to watch the younger Kaiba fast asleep on the counter. His head was pillowed on one arm while his other hand held onto the almost empty bottle of whip cream. A peaceful smile had settled on his face, half shaded by the mop of black hair. He had even beaten Yugi into the land of dreams.
"Took him long enough to pass out," Seto mumbled to no one in general. He left the comfort of Anzu's arms and picked up Mokuba from off the stool. The kid shifted in Seto's arms and complained for his cookie but other then that he remained fast asleep. "See you back in the living room," he said, giving her a quick kiss and disappearing out of the kitchen.
Anzu, finally realizing just how tired she was, let out a yawn of her own. She grabbed a couple more cookies off of the platter and wrapped them in a napkin for Seto and herself. "I'm heading back to sleep now. 'Night you guys."
They all wished her sweet dreams, and Jou even threw in a safe passage from where he sat. With a shake of her head she turned to the kitchen doorway and stop. Anzu couldn't for the life of her remember if she came form the left or the right.
"Somethin' wrong, Anzu?" Jou asked.
She bit her lip and turned to face her friends, "Ah, Jou, could I take you up on that safe passage and you show me how to get back to the living room?" she asked, hoping to goodness that she could do puppy dog eyes as good as Mokuba.
A tired, grinning Yugi hopped off of his stool. "Come on guys," he said, "We can all take Anzu back."
Proof enough that the other two were just as tired, with little complaint they stuffed the last of their cookies in their mouths and followed her out into the hall. She looped her arms with Yugi's on one side and Jou's on the other, easily letting them lead her through Otogi's hallways. After all they'd been in the mini mansion more times then she could remember. Anzu's eyes fell shut and she dropped her head to Jou's shoulder quite content to let her friends prevent her from tripping over anything in their path.
It was at that very point that she felt her friend's acceptance for the choices she had made. The three of them were willing to let her have a relationship with whomever she wanted, even if they had been rivals since the day they met. And for that she felt a wave of calm wash over her. The most wonderful feeling to date.
OWARI
keep an eye out for the epilogue, coming soon
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1 Honest to goodness I love Kaiba's english voice actor more then the character himself. For those of you who don't know, he is played by Eric Stuart, up until the last season, (mumbles, why did they change him, why?) and Eric Stuart also does a number of voices on Pokemon, one being Brook. Flipping through channels one day I almost fell off the couch when I heard Kaiba speaking through Brook.
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