Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Gi Oh or Snoopy. Only Anuket is mine. -

Once again sorry for the last chapter. I've been so unbelievably busy, I haven't had a chance to write much or even plan it because of work and college. Im sure you understand. So to make up for the appalling last chapter, I will make this one 'hopefully' more interesting and eventful. By the way, events are altered a bit ok? There is one more day till the Battle City finals.

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Unrequited Love

Chapter 16: Rediscovered Hate

Anuket sat quietly in her room, half reading a book. Today was her sixteenth birthday. In her own country, she would now be considered an adult. She imagined what her father would be doing right now had she remained in Egypt. He would probably be preparing her to travel to the Ishtar's tomb right now. Anuket shook her head lightly as she turned her attention back to the page she had been trying to read for almost half an hour.

She still hadn't told Marik when her birthday was and she wasn't sure she wanted to. She was still unwilling to marry someone she barely knew and time was quickly running out. If Marik somehow managed to succeed in his plan to have revenge for his father's death, there would be nothing she could do to stop the wedding from taking place.

Anuket let out a long sigh and put the book on the desk. She was never really one for reading books and education. In fact, Anuket didn't know why she tried reading in the first place. The book was 'very' boring. It was just like school. She had always learned what was required at the time but soon as she started another topic, previous knowledge was somehow pushed out of her head.

"I think it's time for a break now anyway"

Anuket opened the door and headed towards the kitchen. At her request, Marik had lessened security and she was now free to wander around the boat without bumping into rarehunters every corner. Speaking of which, Marik had been out for quite a long time. He said something about business and she was sure it had something to do with Yugi.

"Why does Marik keep bothering Yugi anyway? He's just a normal kid like any other. What is it about him that interests Marik so?"

Anuket's thoughts left her mind as she found herself entering the kitchen. Her only mission at this moment in time was to banish the growl in her stomach, which she was only too happy to do. She opened the fridge door and stood in front for a few minutes before finally deciding what she wanted. She pulled out some left over spaghetti bake from the night before.

"Who would've guessed that Marik could cook?" she smiled, remembering the night before.

Marik had been particularly love starved last night and tried to impress Anuket with his cooking skills. His effort had proved to be very successful indeed. Despite the fact that Marik had servants to do this sort of thing, he showed her that he too believed there was nothing more satisfying then eating something you had made yourself.

Anuket was very impressed. Somehow it allowed her to look past the fact that he was the 'all powerful' leader of the rarehunters, and realise that he was human and enjoyed simple things just like everyone else.

She sat down on a stool next to the kitchen counter and ate the rest of her meal in silence whilst looking at the cartoons in a nearby newspaper.

"That snoopy…" she thought, chuckling lightly.

Once finished, she put the dirty plate in the dishwasher and folded the paper up again placing it on the side. As Anuket stood up and began to head back towards the direction of her room, she heard distressed voices shouting from outside.

"What on earth is going on?" she queried, arching a brow.

She walked towards the window to get a better look. Standing there in the distance, were several people and they all seemed to be watching a duel. Upon closer inspection and several minutes of squinting, Anuket realised that the people duelling were none other then Yugi Motou and Joey wheeler.

"Why are those two duelling each other? Im sure Yugi would never try to jeopardise Joey's chances of getting a place in the finals! …What the hell?"

Anuket's emerald eyes widened in horror as she observed the layout of the duel. There was a chain around Yugi and Joey's ankles and not only that; it was attached to a huge anchor which hung precariously above the water. She looked to the side and saw that Tea was sitting in a chair underneath a massive crate hanging from a crane. Everyone else was standing by, not even attempting to move.

"Ok im not all that bright and sometimes I jump to the wrong conclusion, but I can tell that something is definitely not right here!"

She turned away from the window and headed out of the kitchen. She looked both ways for any sign of Marik or his rarehunters and quietly ran towards the direction of the exit.

As she passed Marik's room she froze. He was laughing loudly and sounded like he was in very high spirits. Anuket pressed her ear against the door and listened intently. He stopped talking every now and then before speaking up once more. Who was he talking to? Himself? Marik started to speak again. What Anuket heard absolutely appalled her.

"Everyone can be controlled and once I force Joey to play meteor of destruction, you're done!" he went quiet for a few seconds "Silence! No one can resist my Millennium Rod! Behold the full potential of its ancient power! Joey Wheeler no longer exists!"

Anuket's face went blank and her eyes lost their usual sparkle. She couldn't believe what she had just heard him say. Everyone can be controlled? Did that include her too? Anuket felt a pang of hurt and betrayal course through her. After everything she and Marik had talked about and done together these past few days, was it all a result of his using the millennium rod on her? Fury replaced all other emotions she was feeling right now.

"If Marik thinks he can control me or my friends he has another thing coming! I'm not going to spend another minute in this place! How can he expect me to love him when he puts my friend's lives in danger?"

She turned on her heel and huffily made her way towards the exit. A rarehunter stepped out in front of her from a room. It was the man with the tattoo on his face. He looked down at the girl with a confused expression.

"Is everything alright Miss Benu? You look troubled"

"No, everything is not alright. Now get out of my way" she hissed, trying to keep Marik from hearing.

Anuket strained her memory, muttering under her breath. She had been trying to memorise a spell to knock people out, but it seemed she had failed miserably. She held her palm up to the man and he fell backwards with tremendous force onto the floor. He was still conscious though.

"He's still awake!" she panicked.

Anuket muttered the spell under her breath again and sent the man flying into the room he came from. She ran up to the door and closed it. Anuket pulled the ring Marik had given her off her finger and hurled it on the floor before running outside onto the pier. Her eyes took a few seconds to adjust to the daylight and when they had focused she headed off in the direction of the duel.

She ran as fast as she could, twisting her head around to see if she was being followed. Thankfully she wasn't, yet. Perhaps the man was still dazed from the impact his head made to the wall. Anuket drew closer to her friends, stopping in her tracks as she saw rays of purple light emitting from Joey. She was clueless as to what was happening. He collapsed to the floor soon after.

As Anuket went to move towards the group, the sound of footsteps far behind her made her stop. She spun around. Whoever it was, Anuket was sure it wasn't friendly so she ran and hid behind some nearby boxes. There she waited quietly for a few minutes until she was sure there was no one around. The girl cautiously looked out from her hiding place and saw the man with the tattoo on his face running in the opposite direction away from her.

"That was close. I wonder how long it will be before Marik realises im gone."

She clambered out from behind the boxes and ran towards her friends again. The anchor had fallen and Yugi and Joey were nowhere to be seen. Anuket feared the worst but was greatly relieved when she saw that Yugi was floating on the surface and being pulled up onto the deck.

"Yugi! Are you alright?" she called once she finally reached them. "Where's Joey?"

She kneeled down next to Yugi and helped him stand up with the others. Suddenly Joey came up from beneath the blue depths accompanied by a girl with cinnamon coloured hair. They were helped out of the water and onto the safety of dry land. Anuket felt very uncomfortable being on the pier right now. She didn't want to be caught by the rarehunters again.

"You two are gonna freeze to death! Lets get you somewhere warm and dry"

"That'd be great" said Joey weakly as the two duellists were led to a nearby car.

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Somehow everyone managed to squeeze in and they headed towards the game shop. Questions were imminent as eyes all fixed on Anuket.

"Where have you been? Your grandma said that you'd gone away for a while and she wasn't sure when you'd be back, if you were coming back at all that is." said Tea.

"I've been around…" replied Anuket quietly. "But it seems that I'll be able to stay here after all" she added smiling at them all.

The Egyptian girl felt very guilty. She had spent the last few days with a man that had just tried to kill her best friends. She couldn't bear to tell them the truth. They would hate her for sure.

"Just play dumb. They'll never know a thing" she reasoned to herself. "what was all that about? Why were you attached to an anchor?"

Yugi began the long explanation, telling her of all the things that had happened over the past few days. He even told her of Marik's plans to become pharaoh and the threats he made to his friends and Kaiba's little brother. Anuket frowned, she knew Marik was up to something, but she had no idea it was on a scale as big as this. Taking over the world? He was crazy to think he would succeed against the pharaoh.

That particular piece of information came as a bit of surprise too. The spirit was sharing Yugi's body through means of the millennium puzzle. It was no wonder Marik was after Yugi. He thought that he killed his father! Yugi would never do anything like that; Marik certainly had his wires crossed. Now that she thought about it, Marik said something about a millennium rod when he was ranting in his room. How many millennium items were there?

"Too many!" she thought.

"Is anyone going to introduce us?" said a loud female voice in the front of the car.

"All in good time Mai" said Joey. "Lets get somewhere dry first. Im freezing by butt off out here!"

"And you're makin the back seats in my wheels all soggy you big baby! Quit your whining! You don't hear Yugi makin a fuss, and he's a lot smaller then you! If anyone's gonna die of hypothermia its him!"

Yugi looked up and wiped his runny nose with a tissue that was generously donated by Tea.

"That's very comforting Mai…" he sneezed again.

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Odion slowly made his way towards Marik's room. His master was not going to be pleased about this. The girl had gotten away, he had tried to find her and bring her back but to no avail.

"Why did she run away in the first place? She seemed so happy"

He stopped at Marik's room and raised a hand to knock on the door. (Knock Knock!)

"What!!?" a voice bellowed angrily.

"Master Marik, it's me…" said Odion quietly.

The door flew open to reveal a very infuriated Marik Ishtar. His face had tinges of red where his anger had boiled to the surface.

"What do you want?" he asked with a shaky voice, trying his best to keep his anger down. Especially in the corridor where Anuket could hear him.

Odion felt cold all of a sudden. Marik was angry enough as it is. How would he react to the news that his future bride had done a runner?

"The calm before the storm…" he thought fearfully.

"Well?" growled Marik, growing increasingly impatient with the time it was taking for Odion to speak.

"She's gone…" he spoke.

"Who's gone?" queried Marik.

"Miss Benu"

Marik's eyes widened. He pushed past the rarehunter and ran to Anuket's room. He slammed the door open. She wasn't there. He frantically ran to every other room in the hopes that Odion was mistaken. He wasn't. Marik came back out into the hallway, his violet eyes showing no emotion whatsoever.

"Leave me…" said Marik in a dangerously low voice.

Odion turned and left, worrying about what his Master would do. True, women had left him before and it hadn't bothered him at all, but this time was different, he had never been in love before. When Odion had left the boat, Marik went into his room and picked up everything he could lay his hands on and threw them to the ground. He picked up glasses, lamps anything and threw them against the wall making them shatter into a million pieces.

"Why did she leave me?!!!" screamed the voice in his head. "I would have given her the world!"

Marik threw the millennium rod on the floor. It landed with a thud. He stopped in his tracks; he bowed his head and closed his eyes tight. His hair fell over his face. Marik's fists were curled up so tight; his knuckles were turning white against his tanned skin. His breathing was heavy and laboured and he shook as he tried to get a grip on himself.

"No" he whispered out loud "Anuket will not get away from me. She is mine and no one else's…"

Marik walked across the room and slowly picked up the millennium rod. He stood up and held it firmly in his grip smirking evilly. He walked out into the corridor towards Anuket's room, he wanted to sit in the silken sheets that still held her unique fragrance, but before he made it all the way, he noticed a glisten on the floor from the corner of his eye. In curiosity he turned to have a look.

"Is that...?"

Marik bent over and picked up the engagement ring he had given to Anuket. He stood up and put it in his pocket. He needed to see her again. What was it that made her run away? Marik knew that there was a spark between them; there was no doubt about that. He would convince her to return to him and when he did, he wouldn't hesitate to make her his.

"You've dropped something my dearest. Do not worry, I will return it to you…"

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Is that ok? Im actually very happy with this chapter. You have to admit that it has much more story to it then previous chapters. I was wondering if the title 'unrequited love' still suited the story. But now it does sp that's ok!

Im sorry about the late update, but good news! I now have broadband. That was the reason why I haven't been updating recently. Those of you who have broadband will know it takes up to ten days to set itself up. My dad didn't give me any warning when he was going to do it. If he did, I would have let you know. It's all his fault! Let's throw virtual daggers at my dad. Oh well, it's over now, I can get on with my regular updates and catch up with the fics I've been reading!

Replies to reviews time!!!

Minor Arcana: thanks for catching u with the fic and taking the time to review all chapters. I really appreciate it. Hope you liked this chapter.

Raksha666: I bet that hurt when Bakura got himself with the bottle. I just made that part up but I'm glad you like it. Sorry about the short chapter but I was very busy.

LoveLiesBleeding2: hello! I'm back again. Sorry for not talking for a while. The internets been down. Just goin to read your fic when ive finished this. Love it so far and I hope you like this. I think this chapter turned out rather well. I was thinking if the title was appropriate cus they fell for each other but now its all sorted. Hee hee! Decs are all up! Yay! Btw check out my home page! I've just drawn a new picture of Anuket and it's the best ive ever done, I can hardly believe how different my style is from when I first started learning how to draw Manga! I'm so proud of me!

Malikoh2: I bet you anything there's gonna be a Marik game. They've just released Joey the passion haven't they? It's only a matter of time, don't you worry. Hope you liked this chapter. There's a slight twist for ya!

LoneGothic: I am so very sorry for the last chapter! I didn't have much time to write it. Hope this makes up for the last one. Didja know that you inspired me for this chapter? Originally Anuket wasn't going to get away, but I changed my mind. Cheers mate!

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The gothic girl over there: banter means playing around, joking, teasing. That sort of thing. All clear? Good good! No problem at all. I'll look for those people right away. Hope you liked this chapter! You got a few people looking for your fic then? Hope so. I think you deserve a break. Specially cus of ffnet being mean to you and closing your site.

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