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Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Never have, never will.
Pairings: AtemxAnzu, SethxShizuka, JounouchixMai, and others.
Warnings: OOC-ness, strong language, mature themes, sexual themes... Get my drift?
Genre: Action/adventure, romance, angst and... I dunno.
Plot:
((AU Dark fic)) In a world where vampires are gods, humans are low, and slaves are treated as dirt, Anzu is a pleasure slave, serving years in bed. Atem is a high-ranked vampire, in need of... entertainment. Could love between a lowly pleasure slave that lost the ability to love and an arrogant, cold vampire exist in such a world where status is everything, and your image determines how you're treated? AtemxAnzu
Dark Desires By: xKuroSeraphimx
"Mai?" Anzu asked, bewildered to see the blonde woman come into view.
Mai stopped in her tracks a few feet away from them, staring at the brunette behind Atem. Then her violet eyes recognized the other woman and they almost went wide as saucers.
"... A-Anzu? Is that really you?"
"You two know each other?" Atem asked Anzu who slowly nodded. This quirked Atem's curiosity, how did Anzu and Mai know each other? First Hikaru, now Mai? As much as he knew, Mai was a woman that didn't tell much about her past; he could've probed her mind for answers but decided to go against it. Being the smart vampire he was (like Hikaru previously said), angering a woman like Mai was assured downfall, even though he knew she wouldn't be able to beat him anyway.
"Well now Mai, you just came right on time. I have to go meet Kaiba in his office. Could you show this little angel here, "he gestured a hand to Anzu who blushed slightly at the nickname. "The place around? I'm sure she'll be fine with you. If not, you can always call me back."
"'Little angel?'" Mai repeated with an amused tone in her voice, causing Anzu to blush an even redder color and turned her head away.
"Her nickname," Atem answered curtly.
Mai gazed at the blushing brunette with a confused look for a while before turning back to Atem. She nodded her head, "Sure, why not. But you gotta come back here soon, it's that time of the month (AN1), the sun might come up." She warned.
Atem merely shrugged in response. "Don't worry. I'll come back here as soon as it is over. Well then, see you two ladies later then. Oh yes, here," he tossed the collar Anzu previously wore to Mai who caught it easily. He had a quick mental chat with her, telling her what that was and what she needed to do with the item. With that, he disappeared.
That left the two women standing there, alone in the hallway, staring back at each other in a stunned silence.
"Anzu, great to see you again, hon." Mai said with a smile, pocketing the collar.
Anzu's gaze drifted from the pocketed collar then to the familiar face of Mai. "Same here, Mai. I didn't expect to see you anytime soon... Well, like forever I guess."
The voluptuous blonde-haired woman nodded her head before motioning with a hand to have Anzu follow her.
"Come on, hon. You and I have some catching up to do. Not in this part of the place anyway, don't you think?"
A small smile curved up the brunette's lips. "No, the hallway isn't a good place to talk about old memories, my dear old friend."
"Hey, I'm not old!" came the shrill cry from Mai.
"It has been a while, hasn't it Mai?" asked Anzu who sat on a stone bench in front of a beautiful water fountain.
Mai nodded, leaning on a tree nearby, crossing her arms. They were now in the garden of the place, situated somewhere in the back of the mansion. The garden was filled with some trees and rose bushes and other beautiful and exotic flowers around.
"A few years, yeah. Though, I'm glad that you're still alive and kickin'." She replied, a smile appearing on her lips.
Anzu shrugged. "There was several times where I felt like I was really going to kick the can, but, as you can see..." she trailed off.
"I see... Well, enough about cans and stuff, you don't seem to have changed much since the last time I saw you."
"That's what Hikaru said when we met each other again. I don't really look different?" she asked, looking down her body.
Mai giggled softly. She spoke, "You met Hikaru? How do you know someone like him?"
"He and I were working in one court once. Then he and I parted ways after that. And anyway, I don't look different?"
"Well, you do look a lot cleaner, I'll give you that. The last time I saw you, you looked worse for wear."
Anzu rolled her sapphire eyes around. "Give praise to Atem because he was the one who planned it." She replied dully. "Speaking of which, how is it that you are here? The last time I saw you was when you told me some last tips and advice before you left, you were just a vampire pleasure slave, like me." She paused. "Well, except that you're not human."
The blonde-haired vampire laughed slightly for a while. "That's right, we used to be in the same court sometimes. Well, like you might've guessed already, I was bought here."
"By whom? I'm sure it wasn't Atem, I mean, he doesn't seem the type to—"
Mai cut in, "Oh? So you think that I am not worthy in serving in Atem's court?"
"I didn't say that," Anzu replied quickly.
The vampire shook her head. "Well, I think you already met who I belong to."
"Jounouchi?" Anzu guessed the first thing that came in her mind.
"My, don't you learn quick? Yeah, he bought me because he didn't like how I was being treated in one court that I was servicing, so, here I am!" Mai threw her arms around for a while. "Then, he freed me from being a slave, so now, I'm like one of the aristos."
"..."
It wasn't that Anzu felt jealous of Mai; something inside her was suddenly angry at the blonde vampire. And yet, she couldn't help but feel the same way. Her hand clenched into fists on her lap so tightly, the muscles inside cracked and popped and turned white. She grinded her teeth together, suddenly feeling the need to want to shout her lungs out at Mai, pouring some unspoken anger she hadn't felt in a long time.
Mai's violet eyes took to note of that Anzu seemed to have tensed up a bit. She took a step towards the brunette, slightly feeling worried about her silence, but also that something had changed in the atmosphere around them.
"Hey... Anzu? You okay? You just suddenly went quiet..." Mai called, waving a hand in front of the brunette.
Anzu snapped her head up to her, clearly displaying that she was off in her own little world. She spoke, "Huh? Oh, well... I'm okay... Why do you ask, Mai?"
Mai stared peculiarly at her, and then noticed the disturbance in the atmosphere had gone away. Whatever it was, she was glad it was gone. The presence didn't work well with her vibe, in fact, the change in atmosphere occurred after she said she was like an aristo. Was Anzu mad at her?
"Anzu... Are you mad at me?" She asked slowly.
Anzu frowned at her. "Mad? Why would I be mad at you, Mai? I mean, congratulations on being like the people at the top, but why would I be mad at you for it?"
"That's not what I meant, Anzu..." Mai pointed out.
"Then what did you mean?"
The blonde-haired vampire shook her head. "You know what, never mind. Forget what I said." Now it was Anzu's turn to stare at her peculiarly. Mai just raised an eyebrow before taking the brunette's head in a headlock and giving her a noogie. It wasn't like Mai was stupid; she knew Anzu had a great dislike for the aristos because of what they did to her, even to the ones she didn't know, all she thought of them were heartless bastards who loved having someone besides them for fun and torture. Mai was a pleasure slave once, and knew what it was like to have the kind of feeling, feelings of contempt and hatred and anger... All those things mixed into one, a slave would do drastic things to escape the reality of some thing painful.
"Ow, ouch! ... Mai! S-Stop that! OW!" Anzu cried, trying to wrench free from the vampire's grasp.
"Try and stop me!" Mai said with an evil glint in her eyes. Glaring at her through the corner of her eyes, Anzu did the only thing she could do: bite Mai's arm.
And she did. Mai let out a yelp of pain while Anzu took a few steps away from her, massaging her neck while letting out deep, slow breaths.
"That's... what you get... for putting me in another headlock again... Mai." Anzu said to her, seeing the blonde vampire inspect the bite Anzu gave her on her arm, cringing slightly as she saw teeth marks on it.
Mai glared at her through narrowed eyes. "You didn't have to try and bite my arm off, Anzu! Geez! I'll take to note that you bite hella hard when something's near your mouth!" she replied angrily.
Anzu smiled triumphantly. "What you get, Mai, what you get..."
Mai stuck her tongue at her. Then slowly walked to her, fishing for the collar while she did so. The chestnut-haired female took a step back, seeing the collar again. Mai stopped a foot away from her before raising her hands and putting the clasp around Anzu's neck.
Anzu's eyes widened when she felt the familiar weight of the collar but the vampire soon calmed her down. "Hey, this is only temporary. Atem told me you should just wear this for now. I know you don't want to, but he wouldn't tell me why. I mean, when I was free, I immediately took mine off and burned it. Just be patient with him and us, Anzu. I know you'll get used to it. Okay? So don't freak out now." She added with a friendly wink.
"... Okay..." Anzu replied solemnly like a little kid that just got scolded for doing something wrong. Her friend sent her a concerned, motherly look, understanding how she was feeling.
"But I'm surprised... Why did they outfit you with the new one? What did you do?" Mai asked curiously.
The brunette tensed up. Something stirred within her again. She didn't know why. It was only once a month that she felt the wild stranger could just burst out of nowhere and start some rampage again, and she was afraid of that. It was a good thing she didn't, though. If it did, she didn't think that the ones who outfitted her with this new collar, decide to keep her in walking around in the world. Now that she thought of it...
"Mai, answer this question first: What does this new collar do? I mean, since you've been around them most of the time."
Mai lowered a bit to inspect the collar now tied around Anzu's neck. She spoke, "Well, from what I heard, this is improved by, let's see... "She paused, tapping a finger on her chin, trying to remember what she heard about it. "Okay, you know how the older ones only constrict the neck for some time if the slave disobeys, right? Well, this one doesn't just constricts you, it can electrify you into a state where you wouldn't be able to know what the hell's going on, kind of like a half-dead state. But what I saw with you, they put something else in the collar."
"And what's that?"
"If you try to take it off, Anzu, without it having to be taken off by a vampire, it will explode. This thing has special sensors that knows who's taking it off and how it's being taken off. It's a good thing they didn't put some other bomb that would explode if you try to get away from a place. And I remember in one test of this, if a technician or an engineer tries to disarm the bomb, it'll immediately go BOOM! So, you can say this collar is for like D-Block people in jail or for aggressive, volatile slaves and convicts." Mai explained, letting out a long sigh as if she finally finished explaining something simple to a person with a person who couldn't even know what 2x2 equaled.
Anzu looked down at the collar, tugging at it a bit, which kind of took Mai by alarm. "So... All this, in a small, little dog collar?"
Mai shrugged. "I guess. Society has gotten kind of out of whack, you know? Especially at times when the sun is finally coming up again." She sighed. "Anyway, so, tell me, Anzu. What did you do to get that?"
"... That—"
"I don't think she has to explain that to you yet, Mai." Called a familiar voice from the east side entrance to the garden.
The two females whirled their heads to where the voice came from and saw Hikaru at the entrance, leaning on the frame with his arms crossed, his indigo black eyes peeking out of his long, white bangs.
Mai instantly pouted at the sight of him. "Oh, what would someone like you know, anyway?" she asked angrily.
Hikaru cocked an eyebrow up at that. "Oh? And what would someone like you, understand what she would tell you?" he retorted calmly. He stood up straight as Mai growled at his response, and then he began walking toward them.
"Hikaru?" Anzu asked as he came closer? "Where'd Jounouchi go? I thought he was with you?"
Hikaru smiled slightly as he stopped in front of the two women. "He went off to check on some of his friends," he replied, shooting a glance at Mai. "But he said he'll be back before the sun rises up. Why do you ask?"
Anzu shrugged as a response. "I just wanted to know, that's all."
"I see... Well, Mai, it has been some time." He smiled again, showing a bit of his fangs.
"Yes... A few months. Since when did you start sticking to one place for a long time, hmm? You're naturally running around doing some 'errands.' What do you mostly do anyway? What are these so called errands?" She asked just as coldly.
Something flickered in his indigo black eyes. The smile on his face turned to a cold, brutal smirk as he regarded her.
"That, my dear fellow vampire, is none of your damn concern. Someone like you wouldn't understand anything. So do keep your ruby lips shut or you'll have a scar that'll stay on your face for the rest of your goddamn life." He snapped coldly, not denying the wild anger in his tone.
Mai's temper flared at him in her violet eyes, causing the color to turn even darker. "Why you son of a bi---"
"You guys," Anzu cut in, stepping between the two raging vampires. They both glanced at her before beginning to glare at each other. Well, Hikaru had a cold smirk on his face that didn't even bother to hide the deadly intent in his eyes while Mai's face clearly held contempt in it. "I don't know what made you two enemies and I don't even want to know, but I won't stand to see the two people who helped me back then to wring each other's neck. I'd be held responsible, no? So do please stop."
"Fine by me," Hikaru said, bottling some anger inside himself and away from the dark aura surrounding him. "Just tell her to keep that mouth shut before it is ripped off. I'd hate to find that really happen to her if it wasn't done by me."
"Hikaru!" Anzu called angrily.
"... Fine. Don't worry, Anzu. We'll stop." Mai said behind her, glaring at Hikaru defiantly who merely just smirked back. "If you don't want to tell me, Anzu, that's okay. I'll wait till you're ready to tell me. And right now, I have to go prepare for the sun coming up. See you, hon; I'll talk to you again some time after. See ya."
"Okay... Bye." Anzu called.
Mai nodded and walked past her. While passing by Hikaru, she looked at him through the corner of her eyes.
((Hurt her, and you'll lose more than limbs, Hikaru.)) Mai warned dangerously.
Hikaru smirked, feeling the need to laugh at the threat. ((Please, what you say is nothing more than an empty threat. You are nothing to me in skills and tactics; you can only do so many things for the people you care about. I can take care of Anzu better than you so don't tell me that. I've known her longer than you and know what she really needs. Besides, you should take better care of yourself. You would only drag someone to their doom thanks to your incompetence to protect, don't you agree?))
((You son of a bitch! How did you---))
She heard a dark chuckle in her mind but knew Hikaru was still looking at Anzu, not even bothering to look at the blonde woman in their mental conversation.
((Information can be either hard to get, or easy to obtain depending on what your resources are. Yours was child's play. May I remind you whom you are talking to?)) The ivory-haired man asked, his voice laced with a deadly silk tone. ((Anzu is safe, don't you worry. In fact, if Anzu wasn't bought in here and stopped us, you would be wishing you were obliterated right now. I wouldn't give a rat's ass what Jounouchi would do to me. It would be your fault he gets dragged into this.))
Mai growled, reaching the east entrance to the garden. ((Don't you dare involve Jounouchi, you evil bastard!))
((Oh? What's this? You actually care for him? My, my, you have changed haven't you? I wonder what Jounouchi would say?))
((For now though, you and I should become a little more... how should I say: not so cold to each other, hmm? Anzu would just hate to see us fight any longer than it has gone on. So for now, we should just cut low on the insults, okay?))
((... What kind of bullshit are you spouting now?))
((I am just calling a temporary... ceasefire, you know? I know you care about Anzu like a mother, even though you're a vampire--))
((Race doesn't matter to you when you meet a friend while you're a slave, Hikaru.)) Mai interrupted curtly.
((Yes, race doesn't matter when you meet a friend while you were once a slave, Ms. Kujaku Mai.)) Hikaru retorted. ((Now, as I was saying, you wouldn't want Anzu to get caught in one of our squabbles, don't you? I am only proposing this out of concern for her safety.))
He heard Mai snort in disbelief. Then she replied, ((Fine! Whatever, but my threat still stands, Hikaru.))
((Of course...))
Then the mental conversation ended as Mai disappeared from view. Hikaru inwardly smirked, seeing as how Mai easily submitted to his view. The thoughts running around his head were interrupted when Anzu called him back to reality.
"Why do you seem so cold to Mai, Hikaru?" she asked curiously, her brows knitted together in a frown.
"Am I?" he asked innocently. "Well, you don't need to worry about that, Anzu. She and I will now behave... For a while, anyway." He added with a shrug.
Anzu glared at him for a bit. Shaking her head, she was about to say something to him when she suddenly felt dizzy and her knees buckled and she fell into Hikaru's arms.
"Anzu? What happened?" then he felt something in his mind. He immediately smiled. "Hmm... You must be tired, Anzu. I mean, you suddenly came here in a blur you didn't get any rest. Here," he placed an arm underneath her knees and placing her in his arms. She looked tired, yet she had a sort of frown on her face.
"Not to mention you haven't eaten anything yet. After your rest and if Atem is back by then, I'll ask him to get you some food, okay? Come on, girl."
While he was walking, he looked up at the glass ceiling, noticing a bit of light blue in the dark sky.
'The sun's coming up... Good thing she didn't have enough energy left to move now.'
"So that's it? We only need to update security around the factory?" Atem asked pointing to a dot on a map that was spread on Kaiba Seto's mahogany wood desk.
Seto nodded, his hands folded together. "Yes, word is, they need extra help with security since someone has been stealing files in their office and their paying very well for the job. What I need you to do is send someone there to do the job. I'm busy preparing for other projects that need tight supervision. I just can't trust those people with delicate machinery." He said.
Atem smirked slightly. "Fine, I'll get Jounouchi right on it once the sun has past by again." He replied.
Seto snorted. "The mutt? He is skilled; I'll admit that, but really, him? Can't you find someone better to do the job?"
The other vampire shrugged. He spoke, "Anyone else suitable is away or busy. I would go there myself, but I have someone new in the household that I'd like to get to know."
"That new slave? Hmph, never thought I'd here that from you. So, you finally bought one? You were always the one to be so picky of things."
"Gee, look who's talking, Kaiba." Atem replied.
Seto merely shrugged. "So, what is so special about this woman? Usually with you, you'd never do an action without thinking of the consequences or anything unique."
"Come to my house and meet her yourself. I can't explain now. The sun could be coming up any minute. Not that I would have to worry about in my house, but I won't be able to move if I get caught in its rising." Atem said, standing up from the chair he was sitting on and gathering up a file on Seto's desk.
"Fine. I'll expect the check by two days and maybe a complaint if the mutt doesn't do anything wrong, this time." Seto said, narrowing his eyes.
Atem chuckled softly. "Is that anyway to talk about the vampire who is your---"
"Was, Atem, was." Seto interrupted calmly. "He was once, besides, even when I was committed, did that stop me from blowing his fuse?"
"No, it did not. I was just saying." The tri-colored haired vampire turned to walk through the automatic door when he said,
"Let's just say that you'll get another familiar visit."
Seto cocked an eyebrow up until he saw a new person-a familiar female vampire-walk into his office as Atem left.
"It's been a while... Seth." The red-haired woman said, bowing her head slightly.
Seto let out a small chuckle as the woman sat in the chair Atem once occupied.
"So, finally had the courage to talk to me again, my dear ex-wife? Or should I say, Shizuka?" he sneered.
Atem calmly walked down the well-lit hall of Kaiba Corporation's skyscraper building. While he was passing by, several females who were walking past him, did a double-glance before smiling in satisfaction, giggling madly as they went on their way. Atem smirked.
Stupid bitches.
His thoughts soon began to wander to the woman whom he had bought recently. The smirk on his face widened slightly at the thought. She was rather strange one indeed. More so that he remembered the voice of the person who called her to him. Sweet and coaxing, yet didn't hide the deadly tone in the voice inside his mind.
Licking his lips, he then remembered the taste of her blood. God, he wanted more. But she wasn't willing... yet. It would take time for her to open up to him. And when it was finally time she did give in, he couldn't wait in having her in his bed, making love to her for as long as possible. Maybe he was considering she would be a potential mate?
Maybe, like Jounouchi had once said. He wasn't too easy to read. Then again, maybe the voice that called out to him would lend a helping hand too. At least he already took the initiative in coaxing her. He would be patient with her; time was essential (not that time was really a worry on his part). The plans needed to carried out perfectly as he had pictured them, and in no time, she would be his body and soul.
Looking out a window, he noticed the sky was beginning to turn a shade of light blue and a little bit of orange in the horizon. Grimacing slightly at the sight, he began to jog out of the building. It would be so easy to take the easy way out, but he felt like he needed to move his muscles more now that he would sleep for a while.
His thoughts were soon back to the brunette.
This is not part of story. Just notes.
AN1: In their world, space is different in some terms. What Mai means when she said, "It's that time of the month, "is that the sun only comes in once a month, like the new moon; so, the rest of the world is in darkness for the rest of the month, which makes it easier for the vampires of course. In this day, humans could take a break since the vampires will be busy staying out of sun's rays. The sun that makes the world dark in my story, is called the dark sun (of course) and replaces the sun for the month. The day that this occurs is always the 13th. Hope that explains what she meant.
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