Authoress Notes: I so much love you guys (hugs everyone)! I just cannot believe to get over a hundred reviews on this fanfic! Anyway, I have a request to make; I have posted up a new fic called Dirge of Lucifer's Heir, and I would love it for those who have not read or posted up a review to read it and leave one. Only then will I post up the next chapter to this fic, okay? Well then, enough of my babble; let's get on with the story!
Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Never have, never will. If I did, Atem would act darker like this one, and wouldn't leave!
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? Now with the mention of Bakura, necromancers, sorcerers, and the three God Orbs, could things become more complicated?
Dark Desires
By: xKuroSeraphimx
((start chapter))
Chapter 10: Taken
Hikaru walked back inside the bar/inn, his eyes scanning the area once again. He found the person he was waiting and looking for, sitting in one corner of the bar, draining down a mug of beer. He slowly walked to the corner, taking a seat across the human, his indigo black eyes narrowed slightly as he gazed at the man across him who didn't seem to mind him just sitting in front of him all of a sudden.
Hikaru cleared his throat. He spoke, "… You knew I would be here."
The man grunted, placing his mug down with a loud thump on the wooden table. "I didn't know, Hikaru, I just felt like you thought you'd need some advice in the current situation at hand."
Hikaru coughed, slightly disturbed by his response. "… You have heard of him being here?"
Another annoyed grunt reached his ears. "Heard? Surely you haven't gone that dull, Hikaru? Listen boy, and you listen well, he has been here ever since he was spawned. Do you think that kind of information would slip past me? And he has been searching for her since the accident, his powers rapidly growing. I'm sure Anzu is too."
"She is… It began when she turned 21 a few months ago. Professor Gast (AN1), you have any idea why? I have suspicions, but I can't miscalculate anything or things will go out of hand." The ivory-haired vampire said.
Gast raked a hand through his dark brown hair that had a few gray hairs sprouting due to age. "I know that you are a very cautious man and very bright, but you can't always be like that. You know that some people say to keep your enemies close. But that's just the beginning of what I'm about to tell you."
Hikaru leaned forward on the table, and steepled his hands. "Then tell me."
The professor smirked slightly. "Just one question,"
"What?"
"Be honest with me and I'll give you all the information I could give you," he waited till Hikaru nodded. "Well then, how much do you care for her?"
An eyebrow cocked up in surprise at the question. What did he mean? He cared for Anzu very much, but what does that have to do with what they were about to discuss?
"… I… I don't have an explanation to how much I care for her… But you must know that I will protect her in anyway I can. I don't care who else gets hurt in the process, but unless it protects her, then I'll do it. I owe her that much." Hikaru murmured, his voice full of honesty and deep promise, his indigo black eyes growing darker afterwards, something in his aura sparked with that confession. "But if my actions don't go well with her feelings, then I'll think of another way to get around."
That answer caused a huge smile to appear on Gast's face, his chocolate eyes glimmering with small hope.
"Well then, ask me any question you want for me to answer…"
Hikaru smirked.
Time to get down to business.
((scene change))
"A cloaked figure?" Atem asked after Seto finished explaining what happened in his encounter with the doppelganger, Bakura. Anzu, Shizuka, Mai, and Malik who came in after coming from calling his sister, Isis and Rishid on where he was going to be for awhile.
Seto nodded as he leaned against a tall black wood drawer, his arms crossed, his cobalt blue eyes narrowed even more so as he described of his surprise attack by some cloaked figure and Bakura.
"It seems they were working together to take something from me, but I don't know what they wanted I had on me at that time. I checked the whole building of the Kaiba Corp. but found nothing that looked to be touched or searched. That's why I suspect the item they wanted was somewhere on me. But I can't find what they were looking for." Seto replied, his voice filled with malice at remembering what happened.
The whole time the CEO explained his encounter, the wild stranger inside Anzu howled with rage and made an attempt to move her body and begin questioning Seto, but stomped the feeling down. Thanks to the years of having a neutral face during her years of service in bed, it didn't show that something was wrong with her emotions… or more like her whole body and mind.
But that little awkwardness didn't go unnoticed by Mai, who stood near the brunette who sat on the bed. Turning her gaze to Anzu, she asked, "Is something wrong, Anzu?"
That question alone immediately caught the attention Atem, and then Seto and Shizuka and Malik, all vampires and healer in the room staring intently at her.
Anzu didn't know if to shout curses at Mai for putting attention on her again or just stay silent and lie. Stay silent and lie won, but with Atem and Seto inside, she needed to make a really convincing way to not make them all (mostly Atem) worried.
She turned to Mai with an innocent look on her face. Be calm, act like nothing is really wrong, was what was going on through her head. "What do you mean, Mai? Nothing's wrong… I've just been a bit… you know, tired."
Atem took a few steps towards her. "Yeah? Well then, why don't you—"
"Yeah, I'll go to the garden. I need to get off a bed for a while, don't you think?"
Before Atem could protest, Anzu threw the covers aside and walked out the room, slamming the door. Silent seconds flew by before Mai decided she would go after her, check what was wrong with the brunette. Shizuka followed close by, closing the door behind her, leaving the two male vampires and healer blinking at the door for a few moments.
"… Women…" Seto muttered under his breath, shaking his head and straightening himself from the drawer.
Atem gave a wry smile to the cold, stoic vampire. Sighing, he raked a hand through his tri-colored hair, trying to relieve some stress he had built up for the past few minutes. But he couldn't get his mind off the look Anzu had in her sapphire eyes. They were soft pools but held maelstroms of deep, confused emotions, but something was rising from those depths and he felt the aura around her change for only a twitch before it faded back.
Something was definitely up.
"Well then," Atem began, walking to his trench coat and putting out over his shoulders. "Let's go see what our Ladies are doing now, shall we?"
Seto snorted, narrowing his eyes at Atem. "'Our?'" he repeated cautiously. "Please, two of them aren't even mine, one belongs to the mutt."
Atem chuckled softly, walking to the door. "Heh, even if you're divorced, you always single out Shizuka."
Seconds passed away before Seto realized Atem and Malik had left the room. Growling with rage, he roared, "Atem! Get back here right now!
((scene change))
"What?" Hikaru asked, standing up from his seat.
Professor Gast sent him a harsh glare. "Simmer down, boy." He growled in command.
An icy indigo black stare was what he received in return but Hikaru obeyed the command, resisting the urge to start shouting at the old man, plopping down on the seat with an angry thump.
"I know the news isn't pleasing to you, but I heard he is attacking now."
A soft rumble erupted from the vampire, his eyes narrowing dangerously into slits. "Then why are you detaining me longer?" he half-asked, half-shouted, trying to keep leash in his anger, trying to restrain his temper from going into his power, but due to the fact that the whole bar was quiet, his dangerous presence was already felt.
"Because you might go in there blind. Look, he has begun to attack now because she is growing fast as well. Before the next sunrise, restraining herself will be a difficult task for herself, for you, and the ones around her. You must keep her in check. And I have just the thing to hold it in." he fished for something in his white lab coat and took out a long tube filled with a thick red substance, placing the item on the table. Hikaru picked it up, examining it carefully, glancing at Gast, questioning what it might be.
"Just give that to her when you feel she is changing. Blood is blood, only supplying them with more blood. Don't forget, she may be human now, but her blood is very strong, and having the 'other half' with her, not even the collar, or any other powerful vampire would stop her if she was complete." He explained seriously, his voice barely above a whisper that not even the keen sense of hearing the other vampires had in the bar couldn't hear him.
Hikaru still examined the black-capped tube in his hand. "… But it will happen eventually, won't it? I mean…"
Professor Gast let out a sigh, sagging slightly in his seat, combing a hand through his chestnut-colored hair. "We have done many sins, tampering with children's ability's was the start. It is the only thing I can do." He glanced at Hikaru. "I'm surprised that you're agreeing with me, despite what you thought of us…"
The ivory-haired vampire scoffed, pocketing the tube in one of his trench coat pockets. "Like I told you, Gast, protecting her is my first priority. Always have. Besides, we were all stupid back then, weren't we? We didn't know what we were dealing with until I saw the both of them… and what you guys did to them." He added darkly, glaring at Gast nastily.
Professor Gast let out a soft laugh. "You are so different from your father. But enough about that, let me ask another question."
Hikaru waited, silently, patiently.
"… Since… you said you would protect her from harm… What if there were no other ways to save her?" he asked in an unusually calm tone, but he knew his feelings might shatter with Hikaru's answer.
Hikaru just sat there, staring neutrally at Gast. Then he spoke, "… Why did you give this to me?"
"Hmph, I just gave that to you because you need it the most now… And because I know that I will die soon."
"From time? Or…"
Gast shrugged. "Who knows? Though it would be fitting if he did the job she started long ago." He sighed. "So, answer my question."
Hikaru stood up, turning his back to him and walking, but Gast heard Hikaru's deep, silky, thunderous voice in his head.
((There are many ways… to avoid a situation like that, but there is also less… But should it come to that, I'd gladly let Atem kill me afterwards. For now, delaying seems to be the only option left. 'He' is the only one that would stimulate the stranger inside her. And Atem is the only thing that could help her come back.))
Gast closed his eyes, sending a thought to Hikaru. 'But you also know that won't be enough, Atem won't be enough. She needs to overcome this on her own.'
((… I'll take care of her, Professor. Goodbye…)) After he felt Hikaru's voice left his mind; he thought the conversation was over until he heard him again. ((Oh yes, I'm surprised to see that scar on your face after so long. No offense really, it still looks fresh.))
He knew Hikaru was gone after that, running back to where he came from, but he couldn't help but send another thought out there, knowing the vampires were quite relieved that the ivory-haired vampire finally left the bar. Gast traced a huge scar that seemed to have been made from sharp claws, running down from the left side of his face, an eye patch over his left eye, and onto his chest, curving upward as if the one who did this act wanted to tear his whole chest apart.
'Of course, Hikaru. Did you really think that a wound like this would heal? Especially if a pissed off Anzu was the one who gave this to me?'
((scene change))
She shut her eyes tightly, holding her head as Anzu sat on the stone bench that sat against the fountain. Something was wrong, definitely wrong with herself while Seto had told of his encounter with Bakura. Especially at the part of when he spoke of the cloaked stranger, his own words sending images to her head.
Then this weird roar in her head erupted from the pits of her mind, causing her head to hurt and ears to beat rapidly. Finally, she calmed down a little, lifting her head up, just as Jounouchi had walked up to her, his face full of concern.
"Jounouchi…" Anzu murmured, staring up at him, feeling slightly uncomfortable with him around her all of a sudden for some reason.
"Hey Anzu, you feelin' okay?" he asked, voice filled with concern, just like his face.
She nodded, standing up, absently dusting herself off, a small smile on her face. No need for him to worry, she thought in her head, but quiet enough for him to not hear.
"Of course! Why do you ask, Jounouchi?" she asked cheerfully, temporarily putting on a fake mask.
An eyebrow cocked up in suspicion. "Oh really? Then how come---"
"Oh, good to see you again, Jounouchi." Said the feminine voice from Mai who walked in from the east entrance garden, Shizuka close behind her, her hazel eyes immediately widening at the sight of her big brother.
"Mai… Shizuka?" he asked, surprised to see his younger sister inside Atem's mansion again after so long. She nodded as she came over.
"It's so good to see you again after so long, big brother!" she said happily.
Before Jounouchi could say anything, Hikaru came in, his face neutral, but his indigo eyes held an alarm sort of look. Walking from the north entrance to the garden, he sauntered over to them, right when Atem, Malik, and Seto came in. Though, nobody noticed he was fingering the hilt of his sword, a deadly glint in his eyes staring at Jounouchi.
"Hikaru…?" Anzu asked, knowing something was wrong. She began walking past Jounouchi to reach the ivory-haired vampire until she heard the wind behind her whistle as a dagger plunged towards her.
The next few seconds happened in a blur. The next thing Anzu knew was that Atem was blocking her from something, his body shielding her. She looked over her shoulder to see Jounouchi on the ground, a thin trail of blood creeping out the corner of his lip, Hikaru's hand was raised while his other held onto the sword strapped to him. She glanced over at Shizuka and saw Seto shielding her as well while Malik and Mai stood by each other, alarmed and wary looks on their faces, but Mai had a sense of disbelief and anger towards Hikaru.
"Are you mad?" she shouted at Hikaru who still faced Jounouchi. "What'd you do that for!"
Hikaru growled low in his throat, narrowing his eyes dangerously. "You're not Jounouchi… " he growled, hearing gasps around him.
This caused Atem to back closer to Anzu, his crimson-colored eyes narrowing into slits, but something in his mind screamed danger was around them, coming to them. He heard Anzu trying to go over to Hikaru and stop him but he held out an arm, jarring her from going further. "Something's wrong, Anzu. That's definitely not Jounouchi. Just stay behind me, okay? I won't let any harm come to you." He promised.
Anzu stared at him, awe written all over her face. "Atem…"
Her attention snapped back to Jounouchi who began to stir, sitting up on his elbows, glaring dangerously at Hikaru, but had a mad man's smirk on his face.
"How did you know before I attacked, Hikaru?" he asked in a voice different from Jounouchi's goofball tone.
Hikaru glared back him in return, scoffing softly. "Easy. There was a disturbance in the air and I sent Atem and Seto a warning about it. And…" he trailed off, hearing hurried footsteps from the west entrance and saw another Jounouchi enter the huge garden looking alarmed and ready. "Your scent doesn't match his."
"What the hell's going on here?" Jounouchi asked before his chocolate brown eyes settled on the fake Jounouchi on the ground. He let out a surprised gasp. "What the…! Why am I there, when I'm standing right here?"
"And there was a difference in the way you were speaking." Hikaru added bluntly. "You didn't sound like an idiot."
"I heard that, Hikaru!"
The ivory-haired vampire smirked down at the fake. "See?"
The fake let out a raspy sort of laugh while slowly standing up, dagger in hand before his figure began to change before their eyes. In a few seconds, Bakura stood on the spot, his pale violet eyes glimmering with a mad glint.
"Very perceptive, Hikaru," he murmured huskily. "Seeing through my guise; 'he' was right about you."
'Cunning bastard…' Hikaru thought, but realizing what the cotton-haired doppelganger meant by 'he,' he raised his guard, probing the whole area for something. He found it in a few split seconds, but…
He shot a glance at Anzu through Atem shoulder before turning his attention back to the doppelganger. Cunning bastard, he thought again, fully taking out his sword. He saw Seto go into a defensive stance, his kodachi in hand, ready to defend Shizuka from anything, while she clutched her hands into fists, having taken martial arts to defend herself, felt Atem's aura growing with power, Mai and Malik had their hands over the holsters holding their guns, while Jounouchi wrapped his hand around the broadsword he carried; Anzu just stood there, but something was going on inside her.
'We don't have enough time… This is too soon!'
"Kaiba!" Bakura called, snapping Hikaru back to reality and causing Seto to narrow his ice cobalt blue eyes to slits. "I've come here to take what we wanted from you!"
Seto growled low in his throat, a sound that would've sent people cowering in fear. "I don't know what you're talking about, and what you want to take from me!" he shouted, raising the kodachi in his hand.
Bakura cackled to himself, which enraged Seto even more before Atem spoke, "Bakura! How are you still among the living!"
"H-Hahaha… Oh yes, you were the one who supposedly say, killed me, right?" Bakura asked tauntingly, mockingly. "Well as for the question you so want, I'm afraid I could only tell you that I was resurrected by a very special person…"
"That's a lie! No matter how good a person-healer or not-no one alive can resurrect the dead!" Malik shouted, taking a step toward Bakura, glaring at him, ready to pull out his gun and fire a silver bullet into the doppelganger's head. Hey, he may be a healer, but when faced with enemies of the past, a healer is dangerous when threatened, despite their normally calm and generous disposition.
But that feeling ended quickly when a voice from nowhere spoke, "Oh, so the dead of old can resurrect the dead of new?"
Everyone besides Bakura whipped his or her heads around to find where the voice came from till Hikaru felt an icy finger whispering down his spine as he felt where the voice was. He turned to Anzu and found a cloaked figure behind her. "Anzu!"
Atem turned immediately to face her when he felt a fist connect to his jaw, sending him away from Anzu and to the wall, making a huge crack on it.
The crimson-eyed vampire growled low, standing up from one of his elbows until he felt he couldn't move his limbs. No matter how many times his brain sent a message for his body to move, it didn't obey. He looked at the others and saw that they were quite rigid as well.
'What in the seven hells is going on!' he asked in his head.
Anzu turned to the cloaked figure before a hand clamped tightly around her throat, choking her. She made gagging noises, feeling her feet lift off the ground, as she tried to pry the cloaked figure's hand away from her neck but to no avail. He chuckled softly, an action that enraged the stranger inside her, the others looking on in fear.
"So, Anzu, we meet again…" he murmured huskily. "How pathetic you've grown to be… But then again, life as a pleasure slave for almost your entire life can have its lasting scars, no? But I don't have business with you yet."
"Let go of her, you son of a bitch!" Atem roared, trying to get up, but couldn't.
"Aww…" the cloaked stranger cooed mockingly, tightening his grip on Anzu's throat, making it harder to breath for her. "Is the almighty vampire caring for a lowly pleasure slave? How cute… but so forbidden, don't you think?"
"Bastard…!" Jounouchi muttered, glaring at the cloaked figure.
Bakura let out a sigh, rolling his eyes. "As much as I want you to kill the wench, we have other matters to attend to!"
"Have you no sense of fun? I thought you liked these sort of things."
"Let's just get on with it!" Bakura snapped.
"Fine… But let me remind you who you are talking to," the cloaked stranger murmured dangerously, his words dripping with venom. Atem was surprised to see Bakura shudder in fear at what he said before glaring. "But let me see one thing before—"
He couldn't finish his sentence until Hikaru intervened, smashing his fist into the cloaked stranger's face. Anzu crashed onto the floor, coughing and massaging her neck. She looked up to see Hikaru standing before her, the cloaked stranger sprawled on the floor.
Then he began laughing, the cloaked stranger was laughing! He laughed while he stood up, his hood off, Anzu's sapphire eyes widen in surprise as she gazed upon his face.
It was the face of the man in her dreams!
The others looked surprised too, even Bakura since the cloaked stranger never showed his face ever to him before. They were all surprised to see some facial resemblances to Anzu's, but then looked entirely different. The matching sapphire eyes began raising a lot of questions as well.
"So, Hikaru, able to withstand my spell, eh?" the ebony-haired man said amusingly, his teeth bare, showing off a bit of long teeth that curved slightly like fangs. "Or is your desire to protect her giving you strength?"
"Shut up!" Hikaru roared, charging towards the sapphire-eyed man, sword raised, poised to attack.
It was as if time had slowed down for Hikaru as his enemy charged in blinding speed to him. The next thing he knew, the man's teeth were on his neck, biting into his flesh.
Hikaru let out an agonized scream; faintly hearing the others call for him. 'What! But his powers couldn't have grown so much!'
Then in a blur, he was thrown to the wall with backbreaking force. He felt himself drift down before he blacked out, piles of rubble from the wall falling on top of him, the dark-haired man licking his lips of the blood, a murderous look on his face.
"Way to handle a vampire like him, eh?" Bakura asked with a smirk.
The man grunted before disappearing into thin air. Atem and the others felt that they could move again, so he got up quickly and began running towards Anzu, just as Bakura charged at Seto, dagger ready. But since Seto was more engrossed upon what happened just moments ago, it took him a split second to realize the doppelganger coming towards him till he saw Shizuka beginning to fight him off, dealing a few blows and dodging Bakura's dagger.
"Whoa sis! Way to go on fighting!" Jounouchi cheered.
Bakura growled, sending a kick to the auburn-haired vampire but she easily blocked it before throwing her fist to his face but missed as he jumped to the side, running to Bakura in an inhuman speed, easily avoiding Mai and Malik's bullets.
'I have to get it now!' he thought, sending his dagger towards Seto's stomach. Seto blocked the dagger in time with his kodachi, sending his booted foot towards the doppelganger's ribs, knocking him away, Bakura feeling the wind knocked out of him.
Seto was about to charge forward until he heard a voice next to his ear. "You forget to be cautious of your surroundings when fighting, Mr. Kaiba Seto."
'What the--!'
When he faced a pair of sapphire eyes, that's when he felt an excruciating pain inside the middle of his chest. Looking down, he saw the man's hand inside before pulling out, blood spraying from the wound as he fell, faintly seeing a small orb in his hand.
"SETO!" Shizuka cried, running towards him.
The ebony-haired man chuckled madly as he gazed at the glowing blue orb, the size of a small golf ball, covered slightly in blood.
"Finally… " he murmured. "Obelisk the Tormentor is finally in my hand." he stared down at Seto who was being checked by Shizuka and Malik. "I thank you for the gift, Kaiba." He turned to Bakura. "Let's go."
Bakura nodded before disappearing. The ebony-haired man shot a glance at Anzu, causing Atem to stand in front of her again. He smirked. A touching scene, he thought amusingly before vanishing.
It took a few moments for Anzu and Atem to finally get back to Earth before they heard Shizuka's frantic pleas for Malik to begin healing him. That was until the rubble near them started to move.
"Hikaru!" Anzu asked, going over and tried to move a couple of rocks away. Though, she wasn't needed until Hikaru fully got out of the rubble, looking more pale than usual, but weak. She gasped when she saw him.
"Hikaru… What happened to you?"
Atem turned and his eyes widen.
He was staring at a dark-haired and silver-eyed Hikaru.
((end chapter))
Well, what do you think? Sorry if it's a bit rushed but, I just wanted to get this chapter down. Leave a review if you want the next chapter!
These are not part of story. Just notes.
AN1: Yes, another character from FF7. He's Aerith's father, but got killed by Hojo because he wanted to experiment on the Ancients (or so I saw). Anyway, I just planned him to be there for other purposes.