A/N: Chapter 15 is finally here yay! WHAT! AN UPDATE AFTER HOW LONG?! I'm very sorry that you guys have had to wait sooooooooo long for an update. A lot of life stuff kinda just happened you know? Hahaha. I've always planned on finishing this story but you know when stuff happens, and other things in life become more important. Okay, so you're all probably wondering what shall be happening with this story. It has taken a while to write this chapter as I've had to re-read my story a lot just to understand where I am going with it. Thankfully, I do remember where I was going with this story. So, for context I haven't really mentioned what the date is in this story, but the characters are in their second year of high school so most of them will be 17. They are most of the way through second year so the month is about late November/early December. So there will be a Christmas chapter and stuff. I should've made this all clear before, so hopefully this helps you guys to contextualise more. Another point to make but don't expect another chapter anytime soon. Again life exists haha. Also, I have seen Dark side of Dimensions! It was awesome. So pretty! But enough about that. Thank you all so much again for following this story! As always, enjoy the latest chapter and a review is always appreciated. Feel free to point out misspellings as well, as when I was looking back through chapters I noticed some spelling mistakes. Sorry about that. P.S. rating may change to M from a T but at a later date. Just for things such as adult content but nothing really explicit will be shown/written. P.S.S. I'm trying to keep my writing consistent as best as I can but sorry if it doesn't flow as nicely as before. Hopefully my writing has improved. P.S.S.S. I completely forgot that students in Japan usually go to school on a Saturday, so apologies for that confusion. P.S.S.S.S. It seems that when editing a document you can't space it out with a line anymore, so sorry if it's not as clear to read :(.
Chapter 15: Are you a Prude?
"Damn… Anzu runs… way… too fast," Honda pants to himself after he managed to lose her.
"That's what you get for interrupting them, Piggy," Katsuya snickers.
"Shut up! You'd of done the same."
"I don't mean to interrupt gentlemen but shouldn't you be in class? You still have final period you know." One of the teachers had spotted them in the hallway.
"Yes ma'am, right away ma'am," the boys both exclaimed, and quickly hurried into their classroom.
End of the school day.
Anzu was making her way to the Nurse's office to pick Yugi up. She was extremely nervous due to her earlier boldness. Stupid, stupid, stupid! Now Yugi's going to think I'm a pervert. Ugh…. 'Let me see your stomach'… ahhhhh! Why did I say that? How could I not realise how dodgy that sounds! Anzu tried to gather her thoughts. She arrived at the Nurse's office and slowly glanced in. She saw that Yugi was sat on the bed looking out of the window. He was fully clothed. Anzu disappointingly sighed. She quickly shook her head. Stop thinking like that. He's injured!
She steps into the doorway. "Hey Yugi. Are you ready to go?"
He turns his head around. "Oh, hi Anzu. Yeah I'm ready to go." He stands and walks towards her. "How was the rest of class?"
"Pretty boring… Honda and Jonouchi were being a pain as usual." Yugi sweat drops to that.
They both leave the Nurse's office and head out of the school gates. Both of them were fairly quiet, which made the walk home painfully long. Anzu was currently thinking about her duel which is due to be had on the Saturday. Tsk. She moans in her head.
"Anzu?" Yugi calls her.
Anzu snaps out of her trance. "Yes?" She quickly answers.
"Are you okay? Is something bothering you?" He looks at her.
"Huh? Um no nothing is wrong." She lied.
Yugi cocks his head to the side. "Are you sure? You've been very spacy since we left school."
"Oh…" Anzu trails off. I can't tell him about the duel. He'll end up worrying about it. What do I say? "I guess… I was just thinking about earlier…"
"Earlier?"
Anzu blushed slightly. "Y-You know… w-when we were in the Nurse's office. I'm sorry for being forward," she dips her head down.
"Oh!" Yugi exclaims. "It's okay Anzu, really. It didn't bother me. You were just worried about me, right?"
"Yeah…" Anzu nods. "How are your wounds feeling?"
"They still hurt, but I'll be fine after I've rested some more."
The two of them fell silent again for a few minutes. Anzu resumed her thinking about the upcoming duel. I need to win. But in my current state I know I won't be able to… I need to ask him now. "Yugi. I'm aware that we need to prepare for our presentation tomorrow, but can you help me a little with duel monsters, please?"
Yugi thought for a brief moment. He was worried that Anzu could be attack by that masked duellist. He responded. "Sure, I'll help you."
She smiled. "Thank you, Yugi. I just…" she paused. "I just want to get better at it. I really like duel monsters, but I'm nowhere as good as you or even Jonouchi."
"You can easily beat Jonouchi," he cheeks.
She laughs. "That's so mean of you, Yugi. But I guess you have a point."
The two of them continued to laugh all the way back to the game shop.
A few hours later, Anzu returned home.
Bzzt! Bzzzt! Yugi answered his phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Yugi!" It was Katsuya.
"Oh, hey Jonouchi."
"I'm just calling to ask how your feeling. Was going to come and stop by again, but me and Honda kind of got into trouble with the teacher."
Yugi sweat drops. "That doesn't surprise me… but I'm okay really. I just need to rest a bit more."
"Sweet. But man I'm so pissed off! If Honda and I had been there, they wouldn't have stood a chance. One day Yugi, I'm gonna teach you how to fight."
"Err, I'm not much of a fighter Jonouchi. I'd rather settle fights with duel monsters," he admits.
"Uh I see, I guess that's more something you would do. So, putting that topic aside… Honda told me something interesting. Did you get freaky with 'you-know-who' in the Nurse's office?"
Yugi went wide eyed. "W-What?!"
Katsuya laughed. "Well, Honda noticed you with your shirt off. Am I wrong?"
"I-I only had my shirt off because I had to put cream on for my wounds! Honda is just over-reacting."
"Haha, says the one who's overreacting right now. But I must know… did she remove your shirt?" He asked with a big grin on his face.
Yugi blushed profusely. "I'm not answering that." Katsuya began laughing heavily on the other side of the phone. "Quit laughing, you're so childish."
Katsuya eventually composed himself. "Man, I can't believe how prude you are."
Yugi blurted out. "I'm not prude! Who wouldn't get embarrassed if a girl removed your shirt?"
"Ah… so she did."
Damnit. "Jonouchi! You did that on purpose, didn't you?"
"Who knows…?" He trailed off. "Did you kiss her?"
"…I um… yeah… I did."
"Way to go man! You've already taken the first step! You'll be getting busy under the sheets in no time!"
Yugi began blushing again. "D-Don't be crazy! Anzu wouldn't want to do that!"
Katsuya stopped speaking for a moment. "Huh? Why would you think that?"
"Because… I just don't think Anzu would want to," Yugi spoke quietly.
Katsuya sighed. "Man, Yugi. You have no idea how women work. They are just as perverted as guys are. They just don't say or show it as easily."
Yugi rolled his eyes. "Oh sure… because you are obviously an expert on women."
"Hey! I know more than you. Do you want me to lend you some DVDs?"
"What? No! I don't want to watch that kind of stuff, Jonouchi!"
"Pfft haha! Yeah… you're totally not prudent," he sniggers.
Yugi sighs. "If that's all you wanted, I'm going to go."
"Wait, one moment Yugi. There's a favour I need from you first."
"What is it?"
"Call me Katsuya from now on. I feel like we've known each other a while now, but you still always call me by Jonouchi."
Yugi's face softened. "Sure, okay. Um, Katsuya."
Katsuya smiled to himself. "Thanks Yugi. Well, I'll see ya tomorrow."
"Yeah, goodbye Katsuya," Yugi ended the call.
Saturday came sooner than expected, and a certain someone was making their way to a duel. Ugh…! Why am I doing this? This is so annoying. Anzu was currently walking to the destination of the duel that she was challenged to. Jeez… can't this girl take a hint? Well, hopefully with some help from Yugi I can defeat her and get this over with. Not long after, Anzu had arrived and she spotted the girl who had challenged her.
"Oh? It seems you came after all. I commend you for coming, but unfortunately for you, you won't beat me," the girl snorts to herself.
Wow. This girl is way too full of herself. Anzu sighs to herself. "Okay, let's just get this over with."
The girl grins and prepares her duel disk. "Let's duel!"
Whilst that was occurring, on the other side of town, Mai had come back for another visit. She was slowly heading in the direction of Anzu's house. Mai lets out a big moan and stretches her arms. "Ah… that was a long journey." She grins and looks at a gift bag that she was currently carrying. "I hope Anzu likes this gift. It's only natural I celebrate her getting together with Yugi." Mai begins humming to herself and continues on walking.
As she continues to walk, Mai notices that she is being followed from not too far behind. She stops abruptly. "Who's there?!" She yells, and turns around. After about 10 seconds, a figure wearing a mask appears before her. "Who are you?" She questions the strange figure. No reply. Instead, the figure gets out a duel disk and places it on his arm. "Huh? Are you wanting to duel me?" The figure didn't respond with words but instead gave a small nod. He loaded his deck into his duel disk. Mai sighs. "I'm sorry, but I don't have my duel disk on me currently." The figure then brings out another duel disk and tosses it to her. "H-Hey! I could've dropped that! Ugh, whatever. Okay then, whoever you are let's duel!"
Back at Anzu's duel, the jealous girl was doing extremely well. She had managed to predict most of Anzu's moves. Anzu was down to 800 life points. Damn. Anzu thought to herself. She's actually really good. Damn… how am I meant to defeat her?
"Hehe, this is the best Yugi's so-called girlfriend can do? It's actually quite embarrassing. I was here hoping for a better challenge, but you've thoroughly disappointed me. You haven't even touched any of my life points yet," the girl begins laughing to herself.
Tsk! Think Anzu! How can I turn this situation around? I wonder… what Yugi would do? I wish… Yugi was here to help me. No! I need to be able to do this myself! "I draw." No good. Anzu's face sank deep.
"Oh dear… it looks like you didn't get a useful card. Such a pity. I wonder how you'll play this turn."
Anzu sets a monster down in defence mode and ends her turn.
"Again? This is so boring, I'd much rather challenge the king of games himself," the girl gives Anzu a creepy sneer. "Tell me something, Mazaki. Why is the king of games going out with someone like you?"
"Why would that matter? I don't have to tell you anything! It's pretty clear why… because he s-said that he… l-l-likes me," Anzu said bashfully.
The girl widened her eyes slightly and then began to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Anzu became annoyed.
"Oh dear. It's such a shame he has to go out with someone like you. I can easily make him more satisfied than you can. He's so innocent it's adorable. With a guy like that, you have to assert your dominance you know."
"What are you getting at?" Anzu asked. She was getting really irritated.
The girl sighs. "You're so clueless. It's clearly obvious that you haven't done anything with him. I bet you still see him as a little boy, instead of a man. Is it because of his height?"
"Shut up."
"Oh my. Did I make you mad? You see Mazaki, if the king of games had me… we'd go at 'it' all night."
"Shut up! Don't talk about him like that! You're seriously annoying me! Hurry up and draw a card." Anzu was fuming. She couldn't believe that another girl was talking about Yugi like that.
"Fine, whatever. I'm going to win anyway," the girl drew her next card. Thankfully, she didn't get a good card either, but she ended up destroying Anzu's monster card.
Tsk! I really need to beat her… but how can I…?
"Anzu? What are you doing?" A voice called out from behind her. Anzu quickly turns around. It was Ryuji.
"O-Otogi," she said surprised. "What are you doing here?"
"Um, I'm out on a walk. Why are you duelling?" He asks her.
"Err… well…"
"I can answer that for you," the jealous girl responded. "You see, we are having duel in order to determine who is better suited with the king of games. If I win, I get Yugi."
"What?! You're not serious, right Anzu?" He exclaims.
"Of course not," she responded. "I'm only duelling her because she asked for one. I've never once said that I would give up Yugi, and even if I did, he wouldn't go out with someone like you!"
"You say that, but you're losing this duel. It would be embarrassing if his girlfriend couldn't win at the game he loved." She began laughing to herself.
"Damn, this girl's annoying. What did you do to set her off?" Ryuji questions.
"Nothing. She just started acting all cocky on her own. But… she may win. I'm struggling here," Anzu's knees began to feel weak and her head began to feel dizzy.
Ryuji shouts words of encouragement "Don't give up now! The battle is never decided until it's over."
Anzu looks at him. "Otogi…"
He clenches his fist. "Think! What would Yugi do in a situation like this? He believed in his cards. If you can believe in your cards too, then I'm sure victory will present itself!"
Anzu smiled slightly. "You're right. I need to believe in these cards. They're my cards, and mine alone." She turned to him. "Thank you Otogi. I know I can win now."
Otogi smiled at her. "Now show that girl what you're made of!"
"Right!"
A few moments later, the duel had finally been decided. The girl who was acting all high and mighty was collapsed on the ground. "I… lost?"
"Way to go, Anzu!" Ryuji gave her a high five.
"Thanks!"
"I'll let you win this time," the girl began to speak again. Anzu turned to face her. "But mark my words, I will return! This isn't over Anzu Mazaki!" The girl quickly stood up and dashed off.
"Jeez… that girl is crazy. Duelling for Yugi? What the hell was that all about, Anzu?"
"I have no idea. But, I'm so glad I defeated her," she grinned.
"Let me guess. Yugi doesn't know about this." Anzu froze on the spot. "Looks like I'm right."
"Please don't mention it to him," she pleaded.
He sighed. "Fine, I won't. But the next time you see him, you should tell him."
"Right…" she scratches her head.
Bzzt! Bzzzt! Ryuji pulls out his phone. "Oh, it's Honda." He answers. "Hey, what's up?" Ryuji eyes widened. "What did you just say?!"
"What's wrong?"
"It's Mai! She's been hurt! She's at the hospital!"
"What!"
"We need to go! The others are already there."
About 10 minutes later, Ryuji and Anzu arrive at the hospital. They go to the counter to ask which room Mai was in. They hurried along the hallway and finally reached the room she was in. Ryuji quickly opens the door, and sees that the others are inside. "Mai!" Anzu rushes over next to her and holds her hand.
"Anzu." Mai replies.
"What on earth happened?"
Mai coughs. "I was defeated in a duel… a figure… with a mask…" she slowly fades out and falls asleep.
"Mai? Mai!" Anzu tries to wake her, but it was no good.
"She's okay, Anzu. She just needs to rest, the doctors have mostly healed her wounds," Bakura explains.
"What happened to her? A figure with a mask? What does that mean?" she questions.
"It's the same with Haga…" Yugi says audibly.
"Huh?"
Yugi, realising what he just said, tried to brush it off. "Oh, it's nothing."
"You know something… don't you, Yugi? Do you all know?" She looks around at the rest of the guys. They slumped their heads slightly. "What? You guys know about this? What's happened to Mai? What are you guys keeping from me?"
Katsuya spoke. "It's not that we wanted to keep it from you. We promised Yugi not to tell you just yet."
Anzu looked at Yugi. "Yugi? Why?"
He slightly lowered his gaze from her. "I didn't want you to know because it's serious. I just wanted to protect you. I was going to tell you eventually when we knew more," he explained.
"To protect me?" she questioned him. "I don't want you keeping things from me, Yugi. Look what's happened to Mai! I could've warned her about this!" Anzu stormed out of the room.
"Wait! Anzu!" Yugi followed after her and grabbed her arm. "Wait, please Anzu! I'm sorry I didn't say anything. I'll explain everything to you now with the others. Please, Anzu. I don't want you to be mad at me."
Anzu softened slightly, and Yugi let go of her arm. "Okay. But, I want to know everything, got it?"
"Yes."
Yugi and Anzu returned to the room Mai and the others were in. The group explained everything they knew, from the masked duellist to the dark corporation. Yugi even used this time to mention that Mokuba is trying to work on the password for this dark corporation website.
"I see," Anzu thinks. "This is awful."
"Yeah, and the annoying thing is we can't do anything about it. Not right now anyway," Honda moans.
"Do we have a plan at the moment?" Anzu asks.
"Hmmm… the best thing we can do right now is to wait on Mokuba," Bakura suggests.
"You're right," Yugi agrees. "I've also learned from Mokuba that Kaiba is aware of this dark corporation as well. But Mokuba said that he isn't planning on helping us."
"What a dick!" Katsuya yells. "He probably knows more about this than we do."
"I don't think so. I think Mokuba would have mentioned if he did," Yugi explains.
Bakura ponders. "It makes sense now, as to why Kaiba won't duel Yugi yet, and also, perhaps something is meant to happen in 4 months' time. That might be why Kaiba specifically said that."
"But what exactly?" Katsuya asks him.
"No idea. But it may serve as a clue."
Honda moans out load. "This is such a pain in the ass. Having to deal with a person we don't even know anything about. This sucks."
"For now, we should agree with Bakura and wait on Mokuba," Anzu agrees. The guys all nod in agreeance.
Anzu started to leave the room when Ryuji stopped her. "Hang on a moment, Anzu. Isn't there something you want to say to Yugi?"
"Huh?"
"You know, the thing you did earlier," he was clearly hinting to her duel. "It's only fair since you asked Yugi to tell you everything.
"Oh… right," she said quietly.
The others were extremely confused. Honda made a joke. "Did you make a pass at her?" Ryuji replied to him with a punch to his cheek. "Ouch! That hurt, man!"
"Shut up, Honda!" he yelled at him.
The others just awkwardly brushed that off. Yugi looked at Anzu. "Is everything okay Anzu?" He asked her.
"Um… well… I sort of had a duel today… and the duel was over you," she said sheepishly.
"Over me?" Yugi was confused.
"This girl challenged me to a duel and thought that she could prove herself to be better than me, and that I shouldn't be with you. Of course, I only duelled her to get her off my back." She dipped her head. "Sorry, for not telling you before."
Yugi was surprised, but not annoyed in the slightest. He smiled at her. "It's okay Anzu. I hope she didn't upset you."
She shook her head. "Not really. She was just extremely annoying." She smiled back at Yugi.
"Do you two need a room?" Katsuya interrupted them.
Yugi blushed slightly. "Katsuya!"
"Katsuya?" Bakura asked.
"Yeah that's right. I asked Yugi to start calling me by my first name, since you know he's my closest friend and all," Katsuya beams. "Anyway, let's all get moving. We should leave Mai to rest."
The group left the hospital and all made their separate ways, apart from Yugi and Anzu. The two of them were standing outside of the Hospital. Anzu was being extremely fidgety. She breaks the silence. "I'm sorry again for not telling you about the duel."
"It's okay Anzu," he reassures her. "I'm sorry again too."
Anzu turns her body to face him. "From now on Yugi, we should tell each other if something like that happens again."
He nods. "You're right. It'll make it easier for us, and we'll probably be able to solve the task at hand when it comes to it." Anzu smiles and so does Yugi.
"Oh! How are your wounds doing? I haven't asked yet."
"They're okay. But, I'm so achy at the moment," he sighs. "Especially where my wounds were. I haven't been able to help grandpa much with moving stock."
"Oh, I see." Anzu began thinking and a perverted thought came to mind. N-No Anzu! I can't say that. It's embarrassing. Anzu then began to think about what that jealous girl had said to her. Maybe… it's okay to just ask. It's okay. He'll probably decline. "Um, Yugi?" She began to squirm a little.
"Yes, Anzu?" He saw that she was moving around quite a bit. Is she okay?
"Um… well. I just thought…" she blushed. "Since you are feeling achy and all… I thought that I could help treat your wounds a bit more… a-and g-give you a ma-massage…" she trailed off and she turned her head away from him.
Yugi blushed heavily. "R-Really? I would like that." Yugi also began fidgeting considerably.
She turned back to look at him. "Really? You don't mind?" She was slightly surprised. She thought that he was going to decline.
"No, I don't mind. It would be nice," he admitted. Anzu wants to touch me? Wait! She just said to help with my wounds and stuff. Nothing else.
"Then… shall we go to yours," she suggested.
Yugi blushed more. "Oh, um yes. Shall we head off?" She smiled and nodded, and the two of them made their way back to the game shop.
"I'm home grandpa," Yugi announces.
"Ah Yugi, welcome back. Hello, Anzu. It's nice to see you again," Sugoroku greeted them.
"Hello again Mr Mutou," she greeted him back.
"Are you two heading upstairs? I can make you some tea."
"Thanks grandpa," Yugi thanks him and the two of them make their way up to his room.
Yugi opened the door to his room and Anzu stepped inside. She immediately went to sit on his bed. Yugi's heart began to beat really fast as a dirty thought came to his mind. Anzu notices that Yugi was stood still at the doorway. "Is something wrong?"
Yugi snaps out of his thought. "I-It's nothing." Yugi comes in and shuts his bedroom door. He walks over to Anzu and joins her on his bed. He carefully sits not too close to her. He quickly says, "We'll wait until my grandpa has come up with the tea, so we aren't disturbed." He dare not look at her after he said that. He was far too embarrassed.
A few minutes later, Sugoroku brought them up their tea and soon enough he left the room. Once he'd left, Anzu began speaking. "So, shall I apply some cream to your wounds first?"
Yugi was hesitant at first. "Sure. The cream you'll want is on the right of my desk," he points.
Anzu gets up to retrieve the bottle and re-joins back with Yugi on the bed. Now was the hard part. "Shall I remove your shirt? Or are you okay with doing that?"
"I-I'll do it!" He says suddenly. Yugi began unbuttoning his shirt.
Anzu was watching him intensely. She never knew how sensual it could be for a guy to undress. Thump. Her heart beat began to speed up. Thump. Thump. Yugi…
"Anzu?"
She snapped back slightly. "Um yes?"
"I've finished," he states simply.
"Right," she inched closer to him. "Could you lean back a little?"
Yugi complied and leaned back. Anzu moved forward and inspected his torso. A blush formed on her cheeks as she could see his body more clearly than before. The wounds were there still, but they had healed a lot. She saw that Yugi was a little built.
"How is it?" Yugi asks innocently.
Anzu tried to speak normally. "Oh, yes! It's… looking a lot better. You are looking good, I mean…! The wounds are looking good! I mean better!" God's sake Anzu! Calm down! You're sounding ridiculous right now.
Yugi chuckled a little. He could tell that Anzu was embarrassed. Yet, he felt it a lot more. "I'm nervous too…"
Anzu looked up at him and gave him a small smile. "I'll start applying the cream now. How about you lie down. It'll be easier to apply."
Yugi nodded and rested his head on the pillow. Anzu applied some cream to her hand, and sat next to him. She slowly brought her hand over his chest and began applying the cream. Yugi flinched. "Cold!" Anzu laughed and continued applying. Once she did that, she began rubbing his torso. Yugi covered his eyes with one of his arms. This is so embarrassing. I can't even look at her. Her hands feel so nice…
"Is the pressure okay?" She asks. Yugi just made an audible noise. "I'll take that as a yes then." He's so cute. Anzu begins checking out his torso area, from around his shoulders down to his hips. Firm. She thinks. I wonder if Yugi has been working out.
Yugi was currently trying to suppress his urge to moan. The way her hands glided across his body, the softness of her touch and the way she spoke tenderly was making him go crazy. "I've finished applying it," she removes her hands from his body which caused Yugi to frown a tad. "Was that okay?"
Yugi sat up. "Yeah, it was. Thank you Anzu."
She smiles innocently. "Now I'll rub your shoulders for you. Sit on the edge of the bed."
"O-Oh…" Yugi wasn't sure how to respond to that, but he ended up listening to her and sat where she'd asked. As soon as he'd done that, Anzu proceeded to rub his shoulders. She's so close!
"Does this feel nice?"
"Yes," he states simply.
"Are you sure?"
Yugi nods.
Anzu sighs. "Is something the matter?" Yugi questions her.
"Well, it's just that you aren't making any noise. You're really stiff as well…"
"Oh," Yugi blushes. "W-Well it's a little embarrassing…"
"You can moan if you want to," she says quietly to him. "Try to relax, okay?" Yugi didn't respond verbally but instead began to moan softly, and he began to close his eyes. Anzu smiled at that and continued to pamper him.
The two of them remained quiet whilst Yugi was enjoying himself. Anzu started being more firm which caused Yugi to moan more. Cute! Anzu was screaming in her mind. I wonder what Yugi is thinking about? I wonder if… Anzu slowly dropped her hands from Yugi's shoulders and they slowly made their way around his waist. She lowered her head onto Yugi's back and wrapped her arms around him, so that she was hugging him.
"A-Anzu?" Yugi was surprised.
"Y-You don't mind, do you?" She said quietly.
Yugi held her hands. "No. I like hugging you."
"Thank you." She was quiet, until she said something that made Yugi confused. "D-Do you want t-to do more….?"
"Huh?"
