Ok, so I received enough positive feedback to continue on with my story (is what I'm going to say because I refuse to let you know that I am myself, in fact, delirious with curiosity as to where I'm going with this story :P)

But yeah, I'm really glad with the feedback. Just letting all of those who noticed my little mistake "through my apartment" my original plan was to have it all done through the eyes of Anzu but then decided against it as I liked it much better this way ... although lol. Love to hear what you think on that matter!

So here we are, in my ... I mean Anzu's apartment :P and Yami has just arrived at her doorstep drunk. How will this unfold?

Ok just to let you know there are no yummy seto and anzu parts in this and a little bit of mush but mush is required. I've decided that that would be how drunken Yami acts :P

Also I'm sorry but I don't think this chapter is as good as the last chapter, Anzu and Yami are very difficult characters to work with in the sense that they can only show so much emotion! Yugi is so much easier! :P oh well, hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or the characters in this story. Everything apart from plot belongs to Kazuki Takahashi.

She checked the time, it was only 6am. 'Who's awake at this time? Oh right, me'.Rushing to the door before the intolerable noises woke Seto from his slumber, she pried the door open to find a rather loud, obnoxious and obviously drunk...

"Yami!"

Chapter 2:

Regrets

Yami, trying to keep composure, stumbled up the stairs of Anzu's apartment complex to the door he had visited so many times before. After ringing the bell a few times he turned his head to see a pigeon sitting on the railing. Yami, being how drunk he was, thought that he too had come back to win Anzu's heart. Just like him.

"Get away from here, stupid bird, Anzu's MINE!"

But the bird didn't move so he decided that threats would be in order. He glared at the bird that almost seemed to glare back.

"I hope you know that I have a millennium item and could send you to the shadow realm without so much as a –"'hic'

The pigeon merely started at him and seemed to be laughing with a gurgling cooo. Yami sighed with shame, 'Is this what I have been reduced to?' A door opened behind him as he spun around and lost balance. Almost falling down the stairs he redirected his attention to where Anzu was now standing, throwing all of his body weight onto her.

Anzu struggled under the drunken weight that was Yami. He had his arms thrown over her shoulders as if they were dancing, somewhat awkwardly. He managed to push himself back enough to look at Anzu but still held onto her shoulders to stop him if he should fall.

"Yami..." She said wanted to say the first thing that came to mind 'I missed you' but deciding against her original plan she kept those thoughts to herself. She led him to the living room to sit down on the couch, just so he didn't stumble and hurt himself like he almost did before. She sat him down on the couch and precariously sat down next to him.

"What are you doing here?" Eyes wide in anticipation as she waited for his response, hoping it'd be exactly what she wanted to hear. 'I missed you too'

Yami, still very drunk, groaned in pain as her words hit him, partly because he didn't want to say why and partly because he was beginning to get a rather painful hangover. "I just... it's just" he sighed and composed himself as much as a drunken man could "I... I couldn't do it, I couldn't stay away from here, my home. You. I missed you terribly so I hopped on the next plane out of there before I could do anymore damage to myself. I couldn't stop drinking, even when I decided to come back I couldn't stop for fear that you wouldn't want me back in your life but I left to come back, back to you and now I'm here, drunk as a homeless and just as tactful as one." Yami sighed, breathing everything he had been drinking into her now very pale face. She smelt whiskey, she smelt regret. She then remembered why she was in such a mess.


The Previous Week


Anzu walked into the Game shop expecting to find Yami, but found Yugi instead.

"Hey Tea!" He grinned brightly as he saw her.

"Hey Yugi" smiling sweetly she inquired as to Yami's whereabouts.

Yugi merely pointed upwards indicating that he was in his room. Tea started walking towards the guest room to where Yami was currently staying in Yugi's house. As she strolled past Yugi she was stopped by a hand tugging on her sleeve. She turned around and saw Yugi staring up at her sympathetically, 'Why is he looking at me like that?'

"Um ... are you ok?" He looked at her worriedly as if something was supposed to be wrong.

"Um, I think so? I mean, there isn't anything that wouldn't make me ok." Still with a confused look plastered to her face she tilted her head to the side.

Yugi's eyes widened as he quickly let go of her sleeve as if he had said too much. Trying to recover he stumbled over his words.

"Oh, uh, um. I mean, oh good. Glad nothing is wrong!" He scratched the back of his head and smiled at her, showing all of his teeth hoping she would forget about what had just happened. It worked, she was running late as it was and wanted to see Yami. Anzu, still perplexed, smiled at Yugi apprehensively as she took her leave to find the reason she was here.

She knocked on the door, and waited a second before walking in, it's not like she could find him in any situation she hadn't seen him before, smirking only for a second until she saw Yami.

Packing.

He looked like a deer caught in the headlights. Frozen, he dropped the last few of his belongings into his already quite full bag. Meaning where ever he was going, he was planning on staying there for a while.

"What ... What's" she fought back tears as he shut his suitcase and zipped it up. "What are you doing?" Said this meekly for it was all she could manage at the time.

"Leaving" he responded, detached from the situation at hand, not even bothering to look at her but still looking at his suitcase.

Anzu waited for a second, thinking he would elaborate but he never did. This would require her to do most of the speaking which she didn't think she could handle right now.

"Why?" was all she managed to choke out.

"Because I don't know who I am!" Yami practically yelled this at her as if she should have already known.

If Anzu wasn't already puzzled before, she certainly was now.

"You're ... You're Yami. Handsome, funny, smart and courageous. A girl couldn't ask for anything more. You're the boy I love." She was passionate, trying to get him to at least calm down a little and see the truth.

"No. That's what I am to you. But who am I?" He was obviously confused as he spoke these words with great thoughtfulness.

Anzu was confused; she didn't know what to say. Thankfully she didn't have to for at that moment she spoke.

"Every day is the same thing; I wake up, work at the Game Shop, see you and come home. I work to achieve nothing and I achieve nothing. I'm stuck in a rut and I'm only just out of highschool!"

"I know how you fe-" She was cut off abruptly as he strode towards her.

"No. You do not know how I feel. You have a purpose in life. You have your dance, something to work towards, and look forward to. But I have nothing, no ambition, no hopes, no life. You have something that, when you think about it, your face lights up. But I have nothing to think about but the fact that I am holding you back from that. Which is even more reason for me to leave." His last sentence was barely audible as he practically whispered it.

Anzu, hurt by his words, backed up into the door and crossed her arms across her chest as if this would somehow keep her together. 'Nothing to look forward to? What about me?' As she stood there a thought popped into her head.

"But, where are you going? Where could you possibly go that would help you with all of this?" Still not feeling anywhere near enough courage to speak in more than a murmur.

Yami was silent; she could feel his glare bore holes into the top of her head as she was looking down to avoid his stare. Fearing it would hit her heart directly if she were to see such pain in his eyes. All of a sudden he chuckled.

"Anzu, how could you possibly not know? Before I need to find out who I am, I need to find out who I was." He was starting to somewhat calm now. Anzu knitted her brows together in thought for a second until she remembered that Yami, was a 5000 year old Pharaoh. 'Oh.'

It was obvious to Yami that Anzu had finally put all the pieces in the puzzle by the way her face seemed more understanding and exclaimed after a few moments of thought.

"So ... you're going to Egypt then. For how long?" Anzu had worked up slightly more nerve by this point as she stood determinedly by the door. He paused for a moment before responding except this time instead of getting an evil glare, all she saw was the top of his head as he bowed it to look at the floor.

"I don't know."

Anzu knew this was all she was going to get from him and realising that there would be no point in trying to stop him; she backed away from the door granting him an exit. He picked up his bag and in an instant he was gone. Not glancing back once. Anzu finally granted herself permission to cry, she had just lost the most important part of her. He wasn't just the reason that she was in the Game Shop, he was the reason she was in Domino, if it weren't for his love for her she'd be long gone to study dance in America. He was her reason to be. Never mind who he was, now she needed to know who she was. 'Oh, Ra. He's only just gone and I already miss him so much'


Present Day


Anzu went to wipe her face with her sleeve to realise that her face was soaked with the tears she'd been silently crying. Yami's gentle hand reach up to wipe the tears away. His hand was nothing like Seto's. He had been muscular, but Yami, everything about him was kind, soft and gentle.

Well almost everything.

"So I guess you didn't find what you were looking for then?" Anzu was looking down now, not wanting to look at him.

"Of course I did" she could hear the smile in his voice. She looked up at him quizzically. "I found that I do have something to live for. You. My goal in life is to keep you happy by my side. If you'll let me, that is." She had missed him like crazy while he had been gone but could she take him back after what she had done. Now it was his turn to wait for her response. She knew that if he ever found about last night's happening then things could never be the same, not only was Seto his arch nemesis but it had been less than a week for her to 'seemingly' get over him. She would just have to hold that little piece of information to herself ...forever.

She didn't respond with words. She just flung herself into his arms knowing how much she needed him.

"I missed you so much!" tears now freely flowing from her eyes as the two of them now embraced, holding each other together. 'Thank Ra that Seto isn't awake to hear this.'

But Seto was far from asleep; he had heard Yami's voice on his way to the bathroom and decided that it was worth a listen. 'What was I, just some distraction? I feel ... used.' He peeked around the corner to see them embrace once more before he left, probably to sleep off the drunken stupor.

Anzu turned around, leaning on the door with a smile, then worry as she realise what could happen if Yami found out about this. Seto stepped out from around the corner wearing nothing but a sheet wrapped around his waist, despite the fact that it was snowing outside.

Anzu's heart skipped a beat as she saw him, she liked to think it was because it was so sudden but deep down it was because she was excited for the briefest of seconds seeing him like that. His exposed body, sleek and muscular, and that look in his eyes he almost looked ... angry?

Anzu then realised that Seto hadn't been asleep at all but that he had been listening in to every word.

"Care to share?"


Dun dun dun! How will Seto take this? Was it more than just a booty call for him?

I am terribly sorry for that terrible pun earlier "pieces in the puzzle" I thought it was amusing see yami's in the millenium item which just so happens to be a puzlzle and... Ok I'll stop now *blushes*

Ok so I won't post the next one until I feel I have it perfect, I don't want another repeat of this chapter :P but keep reviewing, you know I love hearing from you. Good or bad, I'm just glad that people are reading the stuff that I am so passionate about writing. Once again constructive criticism is welcome, infact encouraged. I would love to kow how I can improve and be the best fanfic writer I can be!

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