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Ok, this chapter turned out differently than I expected. I originally began Chapter 2 right after I posted chapter one(which was very successful), but after reading Mischiefmagnet's review, I got an idea. So now my old Ch. 2 is Ch. 3. This chappie is also a bit of a songfic, because I just know this song that fits so well with the setoxanzu pairing... I couldn't resist. And, well, yeah.

I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh. I also don't own the song/lyrics to the song "Wind" from "Naruto". Nor do I own the show "Naruto". :sob: I don't own anything, ok? Leave me alone:goes to little corner:

Anywhere But Here

Ch 2: Memory Lane(Sleeping Beauty)

Seto Kaiba looked up. His limo had stopped. "Where are we, Schultz?" he grumbled. "Rosewood Park," the chauffeur answered curtly.

He got out of the limo and walked to the driver's window. "Pick me up in thirty minutes," he told Schultz through the window. "At seven o'clock, sir?" "Yes, that'd be 30 minutes," Kaiba said patiently. "Yes, sir," the chauffeur said, and drove away.

Kaiba sighed heavily. He walked slowly through the park, enjoying the last rays of golden sunlight as they spread throughout the park.

Rosewood Park was usually a fairly popular and full park, but at this time of the day, it was empty. It was a very clean place, with volunteers always cleaning it up and planting flowers, mostly roses, and trees. The park was full of trees for kids to climb, while still a peaceful place to relax. And, for some reason, the media never showed up when Kaiba was there.

Eventually, Kaiba arrived at the fountain in the middle of the park. It was magnificent. The clear, blue water was only inches deep so that onlookers could view the intricate, marble tile pattern on the fountain floor. There was a circle of Corinthian pillars in the fountain. Inside this was a number of beautiful maidens(or mermaids... you pick) around a huge, beautiful stone rose. Each petal was painstakingly carved into complete elegance. The rose was rumored to have been carved by some famous stone-carver in England. The whole fountain was on the front of many Japanese postcards; it was the pride, or "rose"(ha ha), of Domino.

And then Kaiba involuntarily took a visit down Memory Lane...

---Flashback---

A seventeen-year-old Kaiba looked intently into the three-year-old three-year-old Mokuba's face. He was sitting on a bench near the Rosewood Fountain. He sighed, and was about to close his card-locked-necklace-

"Whatcha looking at, Kaiba?", a female voice asked. Kaiba snarled. He didn't need to look up to know that the voice belonged to the annoying friendship cheerleader Anzu Mazaki. He glared at her. She had walked in front of him and cocked her upper body to the side. She almost looked cute, with the wind blowing her hair... "Oh my god, what am I thinking?" Kaiba thought.

"Nothing," he growled, closing the locket and holding the chain loosely in his palm.

"Oh, c'mon, lemme see!" she laughed, and suddenly grabbed it out of his hand. But instead of opening it, she began to dance away. Kaiba immediately got up and chased her.

It wasn't really a chase, but a circle-around-the-fountain kind of thing. They were both on opposite sides of the fountain, and Anzu was slightly panting, but grinning. "C'mon, Kaiba," she taunted, swinging the necklace in her hand. "Come and get it." Kaiba took a quick peek around the park to see who was watching. The area was empty except for Yugi, Joey, and Tristan, who were hooting with laughter. Then Kaiba's got an idea. Suddenly, he lunged forward, and stepped onto the outer perimeter part of the fountain. He ran a couple steps on here, then into the shallow part of the water. He was two feet away from Anzu when she suddenly squealed and ran, also in the shallow parts of the water. "C'mere!" he snarled, and chased her with growing frustration and splashes. They weaved left and right through the pillars, with Anzu's laughter echoing in the park.

Suddenly, Kaiba stopped circling and went straight into her path. She squealed again and ran a couple steps in another direction, but Kaiba managed to grab her wrist and yank her back. She was knocked off balance, and tripped and fell. Kaiba, who was still holding her wrist, was somehow dragged along, and fell on top of her with an elegant splash. He then saw Anzu's face, in an image that he would never forget.

For that split-second, her upper body, neck and head were all submerged in the clear water. Anzu's eyes were closed, and her soft brown hair was perfectly swirled around her neck and face. Her lips were slightly parted, though no water seeped in. She looked like a water goddess...

Anzu gasped loudly as she surfaced. Her nose bumped with Kaiba's, and his surprised eyes instantly steeled into their usual, cold way. Anzu found herself lying there in the water with her elbows to prop her up, and Kaiba looming over her, straddling her, with his hands by her shoulders.

Suddenly, the locket in her hand(underwater) opened with a little "click", and revealed Mokuba's smiling face. Kaiba braced himself for whatever Anzu might say, expecting an insult of some kind.

Instead, Anzu looked at the picture."Mokuba," she said slowly, barely over a whisper. There as a silence, and a faint smile played on Anzu's lips. Not a satisfied smirk, but a gentle, caring smile. "Such a sweet kid," she murmured. "Always smiling." There was another silence...

"Ey, moneybags! Get off of our Anzu, ya freak!" he heard Joey yell. They both looked up, and the Geek Gang was standing by the fountain. Joey was all red in the face with a giant pulse on his head. Yugi and Tristan were holding him back with difficulty.

Kaiba casually got up while gripping the locket tightly in his hand, and noticed that only his shoes and the very bottom of his pants were wet. And maybe his knees and handcuffs, too, but that as it. His pants were black, so they didn't look any different with the water in them.

Anzu also got up, but she was worse off. Her hair was all wet(though that oddly looked very good on her), and her baby blue top was soaked. Her jean-colored skirt was kind of wet, but mostly alright.

"Oh my gosh," she exclaimed, looking at herself. She was too shocked to even glare at Kaiba. She put her hair back in a ponytail, and stumbled over to Tristan and grabbed her dark blue and white jacket from him, and put it on, zipping it all the way up.

Kaiba suddenly smirked at the glaring Joey. "Come and fight me, then," he taunted. "Or is our dear little mutt restrained by the Chihuahua and Dachshund? How pathetic."

"W-why, you! Ya can't even keep yo balance, you numbskull! A three- year- old could push ya down, ya jerk!"

"Um, actually, he didn't really fall," Mazaki said in a small voice. She obviously didn't want to be "defending" Kaiba, but she didn't really have a choice. "I actually kind of tripped and pulled him down."

Kaiba smirked, and turned and walked away, not even caring to see their reactions. "Don't fight fights you can't win, Wheeler," he sneered, and walked out of the park, into a waiting limo. He could still hear Joey screaming insults, but Kaiba had already left.

---End Flashback---

"Oh my god." Kaiba suddenly realized where his thoughts had wandered to. "I as thinking about... her." Kaiba groaned and mentally slapped himself. An image of the submerged Anzu suddenly popped up in his mind.

Hmmmmm... interesting, the oh-so-infamous-conscience-in-Kaiba's-head said slyly. "Where did you come from?" Kaiba growled. " I thought I got rid of you a while ago." Oh, I'll always be with you, the voice chuckled. And now we must get Anzu with you, too... "Damn, shut up!" he snarled, and a few startled pigeons flew away. He leaned back on the bench, crossing his arms. "She's a freak, and I barely even know her! Why am I even thinking about her?" he suddenly sneered. Wrong, and wrong again, the voice said in a very annoying voice. She is not a freak, and you do know her well. Her parents are always gushing about her.

This, Kaiba admitted grudgingly, was true. Mazaki's parents- Hideki and Sakura Mazaki- were, at one point, his business partners, and he had learned quite a lot about her, though not intentionally. Apparently, she had lived alone since freshman year, because her parents practically lived in the states. They had mostly ignored her existence for her high school years, but after she had turned famous, they made it very well known that the great business duo Hideki and Sakura Mazaki were, indeed, Anzu's parents.

Kaiba groaned inwardly. "There you go again. You will stop thinking about her, and you will stop now," he told himself. And with that, he concentrated on the scenery.

Which was a mistake, unfortunately. Because, walking through the park at that moment was, unmistakably, Anzu Mazaki. The fading sunlight danced on her face, lingering in her crystal blue eyes. She hadn't noticed Kaiba, and was humming a soft tune. Mazaki crossed toward the fountain, on the opposite side that Kaiba was on. She was wearing the same thing she wore this morning, and her arms were crossed over her chest. As she slowly walked closer to Kaiba, he could hear the words that she was quietly singing:

"Don't try... to live so wise...

Don't cry... cause you're so right

Don't dry... with fakes or fears...

'Cause you will hate yourself in the end..."

She walked past the fountain, and slowly into a grove of trees. Kaiba found himself getting up and following her at a distance. "What are you doing?" he screamed at himself. "Just... taking a walk through the trees..." And he left it at that.

Anzu began to lightly dance as she walked. She twirled with gentle grace, her delicate hands carefully positioned in the air. Anzu's clear, beautiful voice rang out softly again:

"You say, 'Dreams are dreams

'I ain't... gonna play the fool... anymore...'

You say... ' 'Cause I still got my soul...'

"Take your time baby, your blood needs slowing down

Breach your soul to reach yourself before you gloom

Reflection of fears make shadows of nothing... shadows of nothing..."

She began to hum the tune, and began to sing again:

"You still are blind, if you see a winding road,

'Cause there's a always a straight way to the point you see..."

She began to hum the chorus again. As she started to cross the street, an oncoming car approached. Kaiba felt a sudden urge to pull her away...

The car stopped. Anzu cheerily waved at the driver in thanks, and walked across the street. She entered a very tall building that looked very new and expensive, and Kaiba immediately recognized it as the "Rosewood Suites"- an expensive, new housing place with apartments, condos, and penthouses for people who had the money.

"So this is where she lives," Kaiba muttered before he could think. His eyes widened , then contracted, and he growled. "God, I've been stalking her for the last-" He checked his watch. "-ten minutes. What is wrong with me? ... I need a change of scenery...

As if on cue, a black limo smoothly glided in front of him, and Schultz came out to open his door. With a grunt, Kaiba got in the car. The door closed, and Kaiba said,"The mansion." The car took off.

Gradually, the song that Mazaki was singing played in his head. Where had he heard it before? It sounded so familiar...

Then Kaiba remembered. When Mokuba was younger, he loved to watch anime cartoons, one of them being(AN: Ha ha, I almost wrote Yugioh)Naruto. And the ending song was the one that Anzu was humming.

Kaiba smirked. Mystery solved. Wait, why did he care? Kaiba scowled and looked outside.

They had arrived at the mansion, and Schultz soon opened the door. Kaiba got out and walked up the stone steps to his home. The great double doors were opened for him, and he walked in. He took off his coat and gave it to one of the maids, who hurried off to put it away. And standing on the grand marble staircase was Mokuba, who was wearing a very Seto-like smirk.

Mokuba had definitely changed over the years. Now seventeen, he had certainly turned form cute to handsome. His black hair was a bit more tame, but still had a bit of a rugged look. He was taller, and he wore more... fashionable(?) clothing. Mokuba was now a junior at Domino High, and had his own ring of (unwanted) fangirls ... just like Seto.

"What?" the older Kaiba growled, loosening his tie.

"...I thought you said you didn't have a girlfriend," Mokuba said.

"I don't," Seto said menacingly. He usually didn't talk like this to his brother, but he could tell where this conversation was going.

"Nor did you ever take interest with women or treat them like anything more than staff and secretary," Mokuba said in that same smug voice.

"I don't," Kaiba growled again.

"Then what's this all over TV about you and Anzu Mazaki?" he inquired, grinning broadly.

Kaiba froze. He didn't expect his. "What?" he said.

"Mmm-hmm. Turned on the TV, and there you were, lying on top-"

"That was an accident!"Seto snarled. He stomped up the stairs past his brother, determined to keep his face turned away from Mokuba's so that he couldn't see how red Seto was.

Mokuba made a clicking noise and said,"Don't get me wrong, big brother, you picked a great girl. I'd take her if she wasn't taken already. If I were to choose a girlfriend for you, it'd be her. She's nice, caring, funny, beautiful..."

"Mokuba, I have nothing to do with her, so don't bother," Seto called back, walking swiftly toward his office.

"...Rich and famous,"Mokuba finished, acting like he hadn't heard Seto. He followed his brother. And right before Seto could slam the door in his face, Mokuba said thoughtfully," Anzu Kaiba... I like it!" Slam!

Mokuba smirked and lightheartedly skipped down the stairs. Mission accomplished.

Meanwhile, Seto Kaiba sat in his big swivel chair, head in hands. He didn't care about Mazaki at all, that was for sure... but when Mokuba mentioned her name,... why did he blush?

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So... voila! That's chapter two... I know that I changed Joey/Jou and Tristan/Honda's name from Japanese to English, but I've barely read the manga before, so I was afraid to get it wrong. Sorry. This chappie didn't rally go as I planned... I think things happened too fast... I dunno. Rosewood Park...:sigh: How romantic...

Note: I hope you guys get the title of this chapter. I dubbed it "Sleeping Beauty"(in parenthesis), because of the split-moment in Kaiba's flashback when he sees Anzu underwater. Kind of like an implied metaphor. And don't think of it as Disney's "Sleeping Beauty", mind you!

Ok, if any of you guys have ideas for the future chapters, please tell them to me in the reviews! I occasionally have writer's block, so all ideas are welcome!

Well, thanks for reading chapter two! Please review, because I love reading them and take every single one to heart. OMG, I'm beginning to sound like Yugi...

So until next time,

Bai Bai

Love,

Ambiance-Dream