Summary: This baby is the partner to "Gift" primarily a friendship fic between Seto and Anzu (but we'll see, eh?)
Disclaimer: You know what? If I owned anything to do with Yu-Gi-Oh I would have a much, much faster computer.
Notes: um. I don't have anything to say, except, you Might want to read "Gift" and it's epilogue. But you don't have to. It can stand alone.
ONWARD!
Anzu Mazaki was like the wind in many ways.
Stable, happy, certain one second,
And unsure and angry the next.
It could be a good thing, too, full of energy, life saving, kind, yet strong and capable.
But most of all, she had the ability to tear down his walls with a single storm.
To make him start again.
Very much like the wind.
The little brunette, the girl he had once regarded as a pathetic cheerleader, as Yugi's little lap dog, was standing in front if him, seething with well justified anger.
"You know what, Kaiba?" She hissed, "I don't care about what you say, you need a friend, a real friend, you need someone other than your brother, and unless you open up, you won't even have your brother left. You need to work less, you need to talk more. You need...you need me."
She said the last three words with a quiet desperation in her voice. Then, after observing the detatched face on her victim, she stalked off.
Leaving Seto Kaiba in the middle of the classroom, feeling -to his surprise- guilty.
In retrospect, Seto thought, It was probably not his most intelligent idea, to reject the friendship of Anzu Mazaki. Especially not when he had initiated that friendship.
But he had not expected what had just happened.
Seto walked past Anzu's locker. She was wearing the bracelet he had given her for her birthday.
He had hoped she would understand it as a peace offering if not an offering of friendship, because for reasons he could not comprehend and for the first time in a long time, Seto Kaiba wanted to have a friend. He wanted her as a friend.
Anzu caught his eye and opened her mouth to say something, but the bell rang, and Seto walked off.
He glanced back at her when he was sure she wasn't looking. She looked confused and a little angry, and Seto immediately felt guilty. He hadn't meant to offend her, it was merely in his nature to be cold.
It was only after class she came up to him. It was the end of the day, and the end of Social Studies.
That was when she asked him if he and Mokuba wanted to come to a dance recital of hers. He had replied scathingly. she had bit his head off. And he was left standing in the middle of the social studies classroom.
Seto sat down on one of the chairs. How had this happened?
It started after battle city, Anzu was possibly the only member of the "Nerd Herd" he could stand for more than three minutes. Which was generally how long it took before she began one of her "friendship" monologues.
It was strange, It only took a few in-class assignments and very short conversations, and she suddenly leapt out of Seto's "To Kill" list and into his "Tolerated" list. It wasn't a very long list. It was marginally longer than his "loved" list.
It was a monumental moment in history. Possibly the most monumental moment in history.
In the months that followed, all Seto wanted was the small smile she gave him occasionally. It-she- practically governed his life.
He did want to go to her recital, and Mokuba most certainly would.
Seto knew that Anzu and Mokuba were friends.
Anzu.
He had stopped calling her Mazaki in his head a long time ago. He had stopped feeling annoyed whenever she spoke. He had stopped ignoring anything she had to say.
In his head, he was already close to her.
He sighed with irritation and placed his face in his hands.
How had this happened? He asked himself again. It would have been better if he had never given the girl that bracelet. But it was too late now, and the hurt look on her face as she walked out of the room wouldn't leave his head.
He flipped open his top-of-the-line cell phone.
"Mokuba? It's me. We're going to go out to see a show tonight. A recital. I'll be home soon, I love you too, kid."
Yeah, quite a short chapter, but maybe, if you're good, there'll be a quick update...
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