Apricot Roses
Chapter 6
By Larien
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: RyouxAnzu
Ryou skipped home happily, he had a girlfriend, a girlfriend. He was a changed man! Was he? Definitely. Anzu had changed him, he know had love, someone to turn too. Ryou happily went up to his room and on to the computer, right then and there he deleted all of the porno images, no matter what Bakura would say, no matter. Ryou then took every Hustler, Playboy, and Penthouse magazine he could find and threw them in the fire. It was burning low but those magazines had made the fire suddenly roar with delight, Bakura helplessly watched as his "babies" were burnt into tiny chards of ash. NO!! Jenna Jameson, he thought. My poor Jenna!! Bakura wailed as he watched every magazine go. My prized collection. Oh well, new ones! New porno magazines!! Go Ryou, thought Bakura. Bakura was actually pleased that Ryou damaged something of his. Now I get new ones, thought Bakura over and over again. Bakura pulled on his black overcoat, put on his leather boots and trudged out into the snow. He had a gun, a flamethrower, and about $500 with him. The gun to threaten people, the flamethrower the same, and the $500 if people still didn't give in. Bakura smirked and walked to the "Adult Store" that was disguised as a Sci-Fi City. Ha! Typical. They had good bargains there. Bakura trudged inside and went on browsing.
Meanwhile Ryou was at home, on his laptop, talking to Anzu. He was also using his webcam. He saw Anzu's smiling face, and her deep cerulean eyes. Anzu too at her house was looking at Ryou and his chocolate brown eyes. They were both engulfed in each other to type anything. There conversation had started with the regular hi's, how are you's. I missed you's, and I love you's, but when both realized they had webcams and turned them on, it was different story, they just started to sit there and stare, stare at each other's eyes until Ryou's elbow's suddenly landed with a thud on the keyboard causing a bunch of letters to type and appear then were sent to Anzu. Anzu heard the chime of bells and jumped. She glanced at the jumbled message of asdflkjhljkhlkasuehalsjafhnavkl and typed a bunch of question marks back to Ryou. Ryou too heard the bells and jumped, glanced at the message and both doubled over in fits of laughter, hey, it was a stay at home not going anywhere first date after all. Wasn't really planned, just spur of the moment date because Ryou had asked and it was too late to go anywhere with a raging snowstorm. It was just that both of them got hot chocolate, snuggled by there computers, put on that small 3-D background of a fireplace, then called one another, put it on speaker phone, typed and stared through the webcams. Yep, that's all they did. And they were content. Perfectly content and happy. Finally they started speaking again. They decided to go to the "movie theatre" as in both popping in the same movie and watching it from beginning to end, sure it was 3 weeks ago from when Ryou first sent that card and it was also Wednesday night, but they had finished homework so why not?
Mrs. Mazaki walked into the living room where she saw Anzu, Mrs. Mazaki was puzzled. What in the nine pits of hell was Anzu doing, she had the speaker phone on, was on her laptop, with the webcam, also watching a movie at the same time!
"Anzu? Honey? What are you doing?" Mrs. Mazaki asked.
Anzu looked up.
"I'm on a date with Ryou, mama, he's my new well my first boyfriend." Anzu said.
"And how did you meet?" Mrs. Mazaki asked.
"Oh well, he started sending me all those cute little things like the tulips, the plushie, the tickets, and I was sending him things too, but we were both doing it as secret admirers, then today after school I met him and we realized we both love each other! And now we're on our first date!" Anzu said.
"But I thought that Yugi Mouto liked you?" Mrs. Mazaki asked.
"Oh he used too, but I broke his heart, he lost my trust, and now he's just a speck of dust to me."
Mrs. Mazaki wanted to know more.
"What do you mean?"
"I asked Mister King for a sample of Ryou's writing so I could compare the cards and stuff but he went and gave me Tokenoshi's writing instead saying that it was Ryou's and then when Mr. Takasama asked me to grade papers I saw Tokenoshi's writing and thought it looked familiar so I compared it with the "sample" and it matched so I found out Yugi lied to me, and now we're on separate terms. He was also one of my admirer's but who cares about him? Can I get back to my date, mama?" Anzu asked politely.
"Sure dear, whatever," Mrs. Mazaki sighed and rubbed her temples, "I need Advil."
Anzu went back to her movie but then decided to go get some popcorn, unaware that the speaker phone was still on.
Ryou was in shock on the other line. So that's why Yugi was bawling in the lunchroom yesterday, thought Ryou. That's why. Ryou sighed, well you can't win em' all, win some lose some Yugi, thought Ryou. Ryou got up and went for some more cocoa and maybe some pretzels.
Anzu was currently dumping popcorn, pretzels, Cheetos, and Pringles together into a bowl, she went back to the couch eating her junkified trail mix. It was delicious. Junk food heaven. Anzu was just getting to the good part in Zeus and Roxanne, such a wonderful movie. It was that part where Zeus found Roxanne again and they were reunited. Anzu wiped away a tear, she was such a sap at those sad parts. Anzu wiped away some more tears then pulled the phone close to her.
"Ryou? Isn't this the best part?" She asked softly.
"One of them, I guess." He said.
"One of them?" Anzu asked.
"There are more in the movie and even more in life." Ryou responded.
Anzu nodded. There were weren't they? Just like the part right now, her and Ryou sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first comes love, then comes marriage…woohoo!! Bad thoughts girl, snap out of it, thought Anzu. Anzu's mind turned back to the movie.
Later after the movie both Anzu and Ryou stretched.
"Ugh, my legs are all stiff and I'm sore all over from sitting!" Said Anzu.
"Me too." Said Ryou.
"Look at the time, 11pm already, well we should turn in." Said Anzu sadly.
"Yea, true." Ryou said as he turned to shut down his webcam.
"But…" Anzu trailed off.
"But what?" Ryou stopped.
"I can still give you some good night rituals if you want." Anzu said playfully.
"How about a kiss then?" Ryou asked.
Anzu and Ryou both leaned forward, their screens seemed so real. They pulled closer but when they tried to kiss all they both felt was a hard, hot, computer screen. They both pulled away to see that there were lip imprints on the screens and there was spit on the side too. They stared and started laughing.
"Ryou Bakura! You egged me on!" Said Anzu.
"Who me?" Ryou asked oh so playfully and innocently.
Anzu pointed her finger at him and stuck her tongue out.
"G'night Ryou." She said.
"Night Anzu." Ryou replied.
They both closed their cams and speaker phones. Anzu sighed and put back her stuff. Then she sent upstairs and changed, she snuggled under the warm soft covers and fell asleep.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, someone was watching.
Ryou was in bed pondering the day's events. It had gone perfectly or had it?
The next day, Anzu was waiting at home for Ryou to pick her up. Soon enough Ryou was there, he was riding his bicycle. Wearing a blue and white sweater with khaki pants, backpack slung over his shoulder he walked in.
"Hi Anzu, ready to go?" Ryou asked.
"Yea, wait a minute." Anzu replied.
"Momma! Daddy! Ryou's here!" Anzu shouted.
Mr. and Mrs. Mazaki hurried down the stairs. They looked the albino boy from head to toe.
"Well hello Ryou, I'm Anzu's mother." Mrs. Mazaki said.
"Hello Mrs. Mazaki" Ryou greeted politely.
"Hello, Mr. Bakura, I'm Eiko Mazaki, Anzu's father." Mr. Mazaki said.
"Hi, Mr. Mazaki." Ryou said back.
The Mazaki parents whispered.
Anzu and Ryou excused themselves and went to school
"Bye mom! Bye dad!" Anzu said.
"Bye Tea darling." Mrs. Mazaki said.
"Tea?" Ryou asked.
"My middle name." Anzu mumbled.
She hopped on the back of Ryou's bike, she snaked her hands around his waist as peddled.
Ryou dazed off as he felt his hands around Anzu's waist. He was comfortable, he felt Anzu lean on his back. He glanced over his shoulder and saw that Anzu saw letting her feet dangle and was just enjoying the ride. Ryou was happy. Ryou suddenly remembered that Bakura didn't come home last night! Ryou panicked.
"Anzu? We have to go find Bakura! He didn't come home last night!" Ryou said.
"Oh, do you know where he might have gone?" Anzu asked.
"Sci-fi City, I burned his porno magazines last night so he went to buy more probably." Ryou said.
"PORN?! Ra, has every boy gone porno crazy?!" muttered Anzu, then she said aloud, "Sci-fi City? I didn't know they sold adult magazines."
"It's an adult store disguised as Sci-Fi City, I think, at least that's what Bakura told me." Ryou said.
"Then let's go, we still have some time before school." Anzu said.
Ryou pedaled towards Sci-Fi City, when they got there both jumped off in search of Bakura. Ryou looked around the building, Bakura wasn't there. Anzu on the other hand was trying to peer inside the building; numerous shades were pulled down so she could hardly see a thing.
"Ryou!" Anzu called.
Ryou came over.
"Can you lift me up so I can see inside?" Anzu asked.
Ryou smirked.
"Sure."
Just then Anzu realized what he meant.
"RYOU BAKURA!!! You're such a hentai!" Anzu shouted.
Ryou smiled. Anzu glared at Ryou, while she pointed for him to climb up the tree nearby and peer inside. Ryou though had a better idea. He ran behind the building, to the backside and found a ladder, he positioned the ladder and went up the rungs, one by one. Anzu followed him. Ryou peered inside and immediately went back down.
Anzu wanted to know what was soo scary, she waited for Ryou to go down then peered inside the window, she saw two guys and a girl, then when she looked closer she couldn't believe it. She fell down the ladder, luckily Ryou was there to catch her, well not really, he was at the middle of the ladder so when Anzu fell down, she first fell on Ryou who fell to the ground, therefore causing Ryou to whimper in pain. Anzu quickly scrambled off Ryou then helped him up by tugging on his arm, that caused Ryou to howl in pain. Anzu stopped then stooped down to examine Ryou's arm. Something was popping out of the skin and it had numerous scratches on it. Yep, it was definitely broken, undeniably broken. Anzu helped Ryou sit up by gently pushing his back till he was in sitting position, then she helped him scoot over to the tree and lean against it, Anzu took her backpack, and placed it under Ryou's arm, then she decided to take off the jacket and vest to place it under his arm to make it softer. After Ryou got comfortable, Anzu fumbled for her cell and dialed Yami and co.
Pretty soon Yami, Jou, and Honda arrived by the "Sci-Fi City" and helped Ryou up, his arm was broken but he could still walk. Yami ladder and tried to ask Anzu about it but got no answer. So Yami himself went up the ladder.
He peeked inside and…
"HOLY MOTHER OF RA!!! WHAT THE HELL IS THE TOMB ROBBER DOING?!" Yami shouted.
Yami went down looking horrified.
"Waz wrong?" Asked Jou.
Yami shakily pointed at the top of the ladder where the window was. Jou, eager to see what had traumatized the mighty pharaoh went up the ladder, he too later came back scarred for life, but kind of happy, because he had little hearts in his eyes. So in all he had sweat drops on his face, stress marks on his forehead, and hearts in his eyes, pretty odd eh? Honda wanted in on the action so he too went up, when he came down he looked pretty much the same as Jou except Honda was drooling. (a/n: XD) At that minute Yami couldn't take it anymore, he pounded on the door.
"TOMB ROBBER GET THE HELL OUT HERE THIS INSTANT!!" Yami shouted.
"WHY THE FRICK SHOULD I YOU BAKA PHAROAH?! I'M HAVING "FUN" HERE!!" Bakura shouted.
"Because…" Yami stood there puzzled.
Ryou used his good hand to point to Anzu. Yami nodded. Snickering was heard from the building.
"BECAUSE YOUR HIKARI IS OUT HERE WITH ANZU!!" Yami shouted.
Bakura perked up, Anzu? Uh-oh, how would he see her like this? Not good! Bakura asked the second guy, "Tony" for his clothes which were now dirty so he would have to settle on a towel. Bakura took the towel and wrapped it around his waist while Tony went to do the laundry, the girl, "Kelly" went outside with him wearing Tony's bathrobe. The click of a lock was heard and Bakura stepped out with a towel around his waist. (a/n: drool /has little hearts in eyes/) Kelly clung to his arm.
"Hello…tomb robber." Yami smirked looking Bakura from head to toe.
The others greeted Bakura. Bakura spotted Anzu and unsuccessfully ran his hand thru his hair trying to straighten it. Which caused the towel to drop. (a/n: XD /drool/)
"Bakura, you might wanna put something on." Anzu said trying to shield her eyes. The rest of the group diverted their eyes…
Bakura blushed and furiously scrambled to pick his towel up. He then shoved Kelly inside, said a couple of incoherent words, and came back out with the bathrobe.
"So Anzu, How you doin'?" Bakura asked very badly impersonating Joey from "Friends"
Anzu stifled back a laugh.
"Fine." She replied.
"Wanna go out sometime?" Bakura asked.
"Can't, I'm already dating Ryou." Anzu said shyly.
"WHAT?!" Bakura roared.
Meanwhile behind the tree someone was lurking, someone who had been watching all the chaos. He'd even tipped the ladder to get Ryou hurt, someone who was watching and waiting.
Authoress Notes:
Me and my perverted little mind…hot bishies…nude…drool…/snaps back to reality/ oh, wuh huh? Anyways, another chappie done, I only got 2 reviews…wahh…sigh…at least I got two…that's better than none.
Plushies to anyone who can guess what "Tony" "Kelly" and Bakura were doing!! XD…lol…hahaha…more kudos and plushies to who can guess who was behind the tree…though I think it's obvious…
Tragic ending?
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Happy Ending?
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