Apricot Roses
Chapter 5
By Larien Nolatari
Summary: A teenager with a dark side, a cheerleader surrounded by popularity, secretly in love with each other, will their true feelings show?
Genre: Romance/Romance
Pairings: RyouxAnzuxBakuraxYugi??
Anzu sat at her desk, pondering her secret admirers. Yugi liked her, she liked Ryou, Ryou liked who knows? Plus Anzu had competition, Selina, a pretty girl with light dirty blonde hair. Anzu looked at her gift certificate from Yugi, then to her card from someone, and finally to her other card from another someone, maybe Bakura? After all he was the only one who would write bloody, Malik already had some girlfriend named Serena, who was Selina's sister. Anzu pulled out the sample of "writing" from Yugi. She had examined each letter and none of them matched, not even a bit.
"Anzu, please come to the front." Said Mr. Takusama.
Anzu walked to the front.
"Yes sir?" she asked.
"I would like you to grade these papers for me, since you have already done the lesson we were supposed to learn today." Mr. Takusama replied.
"Okay." Anzu took the papers and grading scale.
Back at her desk, she took out the first paper, it was Takenoshi's. She looked at the writing, it seemed all so familiar. She took out the first card, nope, not it, then she took out the second card, definitely not. Finally she took out the "sample" it matched! Yugi was in huge trouble. How could he? Ask Takenoshi to substitute some writing as Ryou's? Anzu was furious. She trusted Yugi, but he let her down. But Yugi had his reasons. Anzu took out a piece of loose leaf paper; she started scribbling a note to Yugi.
Yugi-
How could you? I asked you for a piece of Ryou's writing and you give me Takenoshi's writing instead!! I trusted you Yugi, but you let me down, I've known you since kindergarten, you were my best friend. But I guess now that's changed, because that was 12 years ago, and right now we are seniors but I thought it wouldn't, I thought you would actually help me in my time of finally finding someone I like. But you didn't, you were being Ra-damned selfish just trying to get me to like you and only you, I know that we've known each other since kindergarten and I know that you've liked me, but I always thought of you as my best friend not a crush or something, just accept that Yugi, I've tried to tell you and this is the LAST time. I'm not going to tell you anymore, you can have you Ra-fricken gift certificate back. I don't want it, all I want for is Ryou, I just want to know if he likes me because guess what? I LIKE HIM TOO!! So there, Yugi, from now on we are on separate means, I won't talk to you unless I have to, don't talk to me either. Finally, last but not least, give it up, you'll never win my heart, before you might have but now that you've done this it's over, not that we've had anything before but it's over.
-Anzu (Your ex-friend)
Anzu excused herself by saying that she needed to use the restroom she glided down the hallway towards Yugi's locker, and then stuffed the note inside, not bothering to care that it might've ripped. She also stuffed the gift certificate back inside. She hated Yugi as of right now. Right now she only cared about Jou, Honda, Yami, Ryou, and Bakura. Anything wrong with that picture? Yes, Yugi wasn't in the list. Yugi was gone, forever, or longer. Yugi was banished from her mind. Anzu than went back to her classroom and continued grading papers.
Finally at the end of class, Anzu walked up to Takenoshi.
"Hey Takenoshi?" Anzu asked, "Do you know anything about this?" Anzu held up the piece of paper with a "sample" of writing on it from "Ryou"
"Duh, Yugi paid me 1 dollar to write it for him saying dat it was Ryou's" Takenoshi said dumbly.
"Thanks Takenoshi, good bye." Anzu walked out.
She headed towards to lunchroom where everyone was waiting for her. Everyone except Yugi.
"Anzu? Where's Yug?" Jou asked.
"Somewhere sobbing his heart out." Anzu replied coldly.
"What's wrong wit her?" Jou asked Yami.
"I have no idea." Yami replied, "But it's true that Yugi is heartbroken about something."
Just then Yugi ran in and sat down right beside Anzu before Honda could place his tray down. Anzu stood up and walked away to join Ryou, and a couple of other people, aka Serena, Malik, Marik, Bakura, and Selina. She sat in between Serena and Ryou, that way Yugi couldn't get to her.
Back at the other table, Yami was asking Yugi what was wrong. Yugi tearfully showed Yami the piece of paper Anzu had written. Yami looked at it then passed it to Jou, then to Honda, who just blankly stared at Yugi saying, how could you? Yami questioned Yugi and Yugi spilled out all he knew all he wanted to say, in the end only Yami was left sitting with Yugi, Jou and Honda had walked away to join Anzu at another table. Yugi was heartbroken, first Anzu, now his two other best friends? What had he done wrong? What? Yami quietly told Yugi that he shouldn't have substituted someone else's writing as Ryou's even if it meant Anzu ended up with Ryou. It was Anzu's choice, Yugi took all this in and burst into another fit of tears, in the end no one, not even his yami wanted to sit with him. Yugi quietly walked away to his locker, emptied out his homework and walked home. No one likes me now, thought Yugi, I shouldn't have done that, now I've lost everyone's love and trust, maybe even Grandpa's. At home Grandpa explained to Yugi the facts of people loving another.
Yugi wrote another small note to Anzu.
Anzu-
The hardest thing I'll ever do is turn around, walk away, and pretend that I don't love you.
-Yugi
Yugi thought whether to send it or not, he decided to best wait awhile. Then thought again and went to the internet, he typed his log in name. GameKing04, then went on to JIM (Japanese Instant Messenger), from that moment Yugi decided, I'm going to change, I'm no longer the Game King, Yami is. I'm not anything else, I'm nothing. Yugi thought and thought and finally came up with another name. DarkBetrayal. Kind of dumb but it was Yugi, at least it was him right now. He added Anzu's and only Anzu's screen name to his list. Yugi then went to Anzu's little website to type a small message for her. The note that he would've given her.
Leave Message?
Yugi clicked yes.
Dear Anzu,
You know that I've liked you for so long, you know that I've had a crush on you but you never liked me back, in fact you had to go like Ryou! Why him? I'm so much better than him…yet you betrayed me, my love for you, and trust. Actually I betrayed yours but you broke my heart. Anzu, from right now, I know we are on separate terms, but I'll still love you, no matter what, if one day you decide that that albino joker is not for you I'm always here. I am. Don't worry. Bye Anzu.
-Yugi
Yugi continued surfing the net, for nothing in particular, just looking at what normal hormone crazed boys would look at: porn. Yep, porn. Yugi thought all this very interesting, gay porn, lesbian porn, anything, as long as it was porno. Yugi kept looking and looking, unaware of the time, unaware of anything, it was his new life, his life without Anzu. Yugi stuck on one site, 21st Sextury. It was most fascinating to him, so many twists and turns. So many different porn stars, it was Yugi's new drug, he wanted to look. He needed to look. It's the new me, thought Yugi, it's the new me.
Meanwhile Yami, Jou, and Honda were walking home from school, they were heading to the Game Shop as they usually did, Anzu was with them. Anzu didn't want to see Yugi but she reluctantly was walking with her friends. She didn't have to see Yugi, if he appeared she would leave. Anzu hurried her pace to catch up with her friends. Anzu joined in on their conversation, Yami, Jou, and Honda kept asking her about Yugi, and whatnot. She had told them the whole story earlier, but they were still intent on asking as many questions as possible. All four walked in the door, they dropped their backpacks in the back and went to the kitchen for some food. Meanwhile Yugi came down. Anzu turned away and talked to Jou, she didn't want to see Yugi Mouto. In fact she didn't want to remember him either.
Yugi had seen Anzu and everyone else walking towards the shop. He left the porno sites open and went to change. He changed into something un-Yugiish. It was something more hookerish. As in skimpy clothing for guys, man, Yugi had changed. But he didn't have anything that skimpy so he decided on going all nude except for really skin tight shorts that he had found in his old clothes and an old muscle shirt that was pratically ripping in two. Hooker, for now, until he got what he really wanted, this would be the new Yugi.
Honda and Yami stared in disbelief, how could little, fun loving, happy Yugi go to hooker, slutty, cold Yugi in about 4 hours? Yami pratically dropped when he saw Yugi, dropped from shock not anything else. Honda was staring open mouthed, THIS WASN'T YUGI! Someone had replaced Yugi.
"Get used to it, Yami. It's the new me." Said Yugi coolly.
Jou turned around to see the commotion, he too dropped in shock. This wasn't his ol' pal Yuge, it was some other guy.
"The name's Cobra." Yugi smirked.
Yugi smirked?
O.o
o.O
Anzu turned around, OH MY RA!! THIS WASN'T YUGI!! What had she done? Oh well, should she care.
Yami recovered and raced up the stairs towards Yugi's room, Honda, Jou, and Anzu trailed behind. Yami doubled over in shock when he saw the computer. It had so many porno windows, bondage, self pleasure, gay, lesbian, straight. It was horror. This wasn't Yugi! Yami was on the verge of death, if anything more happened he might as well would've died. Jou and Honda looked intently at the porn. Stupid hormone crazed pigs, thought Anzu as she whapped Jou and Honda on the head. They stood up and closed all the windows. Yami looked at the unclosed windows.
Congratulations, Mr. Cobra Guyi, you have officially joined, DATING SINGLES.
An IM window from a ViperSeductress to DarkBetrayal. Yami guessed that DarkBetrayal was Yugi's new name. It was like Internet Sex. Only worse, it was a webcam. Yami saw pictures of "ViperSeductress" it was none other than…Yami's own girlfriend. Brianna. Yami was shocked. Brianna was getting it on with his aibou? No way! Brianna was supposed to be his girlfriend, not Yugi's…he needed to talk to Brianna. He saw that Yugi's webcam was off. So Yami turned it back on.
Yami stared in shock, it was Brianna; it really was. Finally Yami typed those fatal words, it's over Viper, or should I say Brianna? Brianna tried to scribble back more responses but no use, Yami had made up his mind. It was all Yugi's fault, he should've known better than to go and jack off with Brianna, Brianna was my girlfriend, thought Yami. But not anymore, not anymore.
Yami shut the window and turned off the webcam only to find that there were more IM windows, gay ones.
An IM from DarkBetrayal to SexyDude
This was too much…Yami strode away to his room to go bang his head a couple of times. Jou and Honda were left to turn off the windows. But guess what? Where was Anzu?
Anzu was gone, she had left earlier, and right now she was in the park, like she said she would be, she was waiting for Ryou. She had come to ask him. She had come to talk sense and get down to business. She wanted no more secret admirers, she wanted love. I'm so tired of being lovely, thought Anzu, I wanna be loved. Just then Ryou walked to where Anzu was sitting.
"We have so much to talk about." Said Anzu.
"I know." Said Ryou.
"So, it was you who sent me all those notes?" Anzu asked.
"Only 3. The basket of tulips, the plushie, and the tickets." Said Ryou.
"Then who sent the other stuff?" Anzu asked.
"Bakura." Ryou whispered.
"Bakura?" Asked Anzu slightly shocked.
"Yes, we both have crushes on you, I mean it's okay if you don't like us, but we like you, actually I love you." Said Ryou softly.
Anzu paused for a moment.
"Oh, well I have confessions too." She said.
"I kept sending you cards. I like you too, correction, I love you also." She said.
"Really?" Ryou asked.
"Really." Anzu replied.
"Then, umm, would you go to the Valentine's Day Masquerade with me?" he asked.
"Sure." She replied.
It was settled. Now I know what it feels like to be loved, she thought. This is love, finally I've found it. Anzu smiled as she snuggled close to Ryou. He pulled her close, this was love, together they stared at the dimming sunlight as the beautiful orange, red, and pink rays surrounded the sky. It was absolutely perfect.
Later Anzu walked home. I can't believe it, Ryou loves me! I love Ryou! What can go wrong? Little would anyone know, the world could go wrong.
Authoress Notes:
Another chapter done, was this too rushed? C'mon be honest…oh well but new question, should this story have a happy ending or a tragic ending? I have the tragic ending planned but if you want a happy ending just tell me, I like making you reviewers happy. Vote! Okay? Now reviews!!
Review Responses:
fatlazikat – Now you know who Anzu ends up with, new poll...vote!! Cheeseball??!! Penguins…O.o
fatlazikat – Cheese…yum…what's a llama??!! lol
Yamiko Yakou – Thank you /bows/ …poor Ryou…I know…doesn't he get abused too much? Oh well /holds up sign/ STOP RYOU ABUSE!!!
Eve-Of-Misery – Thank you!!! Aww…your soo sweet…I'll try to keep making you and all the reviewers happy!!
Cerulean San – Well now you know what happened!! I updated…don't eat me!!
Ma-LI-KE he Kai-ba – My wonderful co-author…who doesn't do anything…lol…hi!! See ya Friday!!
DojomistressAmbyChan – Yugi is soo OOC in this story isn't he? Of course the principal will ask her out! That's why I put it!! No…just kidding…well your voting worked…it's now RYOU/ANZU!!! Dun dun dun dun!!! Woohoo!! /hears cheers from reviewers/
Last notes:
fatlazikat also joins my list of faithful reviewers with Eve-Of-Misery. Woohoo!!! Anyways, this chappie hopefully won't offend anyone, cuz of all the porno stuff…had to make Yugi weird…couldn't resist…sometimes he's just too goodie goodie and makes me sooo made and PO…oh well…Heehee…read and review!!!