Hey guys I'm sorry for the wait. I just haven't been feeling those creative juices lately but here you go, the latest chapter. I hope it was worth the wait :)
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or the characters in this story. Everything apart from plot belongs to Kazuki Takahashi.
She wept until she fell asleep in Seto's hold, moving in closer to share his warmth that he was offering both physically and emotionally.
Chapter 5:
Unconscious Wanting
Present Day
After several minutes Anzu finally snapped back into reality at the sound of ringing. She didn't know what it was at first but soon realisation took hold that it was the phone. She quickly pushed herself off the couch and bounded around the corner to answer the phone hanging on the wall.
"Hello?" Her voice was distant as she had only just come out of her thoughts.
"Anzu is something wrong?" Yami noticed she didn't sound as cheerful as she usually was. Anzu instantly relaxed at the sound of his voice.
"No, I'm fine. I was just napping." 'Why did I have to lie to him?' She was quick to change the subject as she didn't want to talk about her wellbeing. "Did you need something?"
"Well sort of. Can we meet, tomorrow? Say 12 at the coffee shop near your apartment?" He sounded somewhat urgent, like he had something else to say but couldn't bring himself to say it.
"Uh sure, I'd love to" She was taken by surprise at this sudden development. Even when they were together before he never organised anything. If he wanted to see her he would just show up on her doorstep knowing she would be home.
"Good." He beamed; she could practically hear the corners of his lips turn up in a smile. "I'll see you tomorrow then." He had now composed himself.
"Sure see you then." She set the phone back in its cradle, curious about Yami's strange disposition. 'Since when does he make dates?'
Anzu didn't really sleep very well last night. In fact she didn't really sleep much at all. Seto was there all night and when she did get the chance to rest her dreams were filled with thoughts of Yami causing her to sleep restlessly. So Anzu took the opportunity to get some rest. She walked past the kitchen which held the now cold coffee and walked to her bedroom. She didn't bother changing into pyjamas but just lied down and let sleep take a hold of her.
The room went further back than what she could see; every seat in the house was filled. Hundreds of thousands of people filled the room leaving Anzu feeling claustrophobic. The stage on which she stood was beautifully decorated. A mural of a lake at night had been painted on the backdrop and there was faux shrubbery on the edges of the stage. Red curtains fell from the roof in a cascade that swept off to the sides. A male figure danced across the stage in front of her, leaping and pirouetting leaving the audience in awe. She was getting ready for her cue when she spotted the Spiky haired man in the front row. He was the only one in the audience she cared about and the fact that he was there when she needed him the most meant the world to Anzu. She started to dance and let her body take control. Her movements were soft and graceful, everything a ballerina should be, but not for long. Soon her movements became jerky and she started losing her footing. Getting tangled up in herself she fell down on the stage with a thud leaving the entire audience laughing at her. All she could hear was the muffled laughter of the entire atrium as she looked up and saw Yami getting up out of his seat and heading towards the exit. Yami had already made it to the end of the isle and out the door before Anzu had the common sense to chase after him. She sprung up off the floor, laughter still ringing in her ears as she headed for the exit.
She pushed through the doors but instead of being in the forum she was in Domino Park near her house. She saw Yami heading down one of the paths and run off towards him.
"Yami, wai-" Her sentence was cut short as she bumped into a child and fell over.
She turned back to apologize but instead found a pair of amethyst eyes, much like Yami's, staring at her and was unable to talk. She then noticed that the child they belonged to also had tri coloured spiky hair, much like Yami's. She stared a moment longer until the child's hand was pulled by it's mother. Anzu looked up to apologize to the mother and was once again stopped as she saw the spitting image of Yami, amethyst eyes and tri coloured spiky hair.
'How common is this look?' Anzu was now extremely confused as she got up off of the floor and started her search for Yami again but soon realised that the park was overflowing with Yami lookalikes.
"Yami?" She called out in hopes that the real Yami will show himself but to no avail.
She took a few steps towards the direction of the pond but was stopped when her hand was seized and tugged on. She turned around quickly thinking that it is Yami but instead found the tall, dark and handsome form of Seto Kaiba. She managed to wrench her hand away from his and run off. As she was running through the park she noticed something strange. Everyone is no longer Yami, but Seto. She screams as a pair of arms appeared from nowhere, grab her around the waist and pull her into a bush that is large enough to cover a whole party of people let alone two.
"HELP!" Her attempt to cry for help was soon quashed as she was thrown to the floor and a hand reached up to cover her mouth. Seto again. He leaned in, close to her face and whispered.
"Why resist? You know I'll always be the one you want." His words were soft but he still managed to make it sound cocky. But Anzu couldn't bring herself to deny it completely as he lifted his head only by inches to line his face up with her own and slowly brought it down to kiss her. Anzu closed her eyes awaiting the impact that never came. She opened her eyes to find that Seto wasn't there; in fact she wasn't even in the bushes anymore. She was at home, in her bed, staring up at the ceiling and just as lonely as ever as the hard falling snow outside assaulted her window.
Anzu looked over towards the clock on her bed side table. It was 11.30, half an hour until she had to meet Yami.
'Crap!'
She pushed the covers off herself and ran off to the bathroom, but getting her legs caught up in the sheets, fell face first on the cold wooden floor of her bedroom. She was able to stop herself with her hands but only just as she plummeted to the floor in a very unladylike fashion. Once she finally made it to the bathroom she pushed back the sliding door to the shower and jumped in and turned the taps on only to be berated by sub-zero water. The way the building was built was that all of the tenants had to share the one water system and unfortunately for poor Anzu everyone else who had gotten up on time had already used it all up due the freezing cold weather.
"Eeeeeep!" Anzu winged little, gritted her teeth and jumped from foot to foot beneath the water in hopes that she could somehow warm herself using body friction. 'If only Seto was here.' Her eyes widened in shock as the thought that just passed through her mind het her full force.
"I mean YamI!" She said this out loud just to make sure whoever was listening in to her thoughts knew she didn't feel that way at all towards Seto and that all her thoughts revolved around Yami. Most of the time.
She finally managed to get out of the shower and breathed a sigh of relief as the heat of the light shone down on her warming her to the core. She grabbed her toothbrush and toothpaste in attempts to brush her teeth but when she squeezed the tube, 10 times more than what she needed squirted out. She cursed under her breath as she cleaned up the sticky blue paste that was now covering the entirety of her toothbrush and her left hand. She finally managed to get it cleaned up and started brushing her teeth as she went to go pick out her outfit for her date with Yami. She managed to find her clothes without much difficulty; a pair of tight blue jeans, a black long sleeved top, her bomber jacket and her black ug boots to ward off the cold from her feet.
She turned around to head back to the bathroom but the doorframe was in the way and she stubbed her toe on the way past. Anzu's eyes widened with the pain before she shut them tight for a few seconds willing away the throbbing in her little toe. She opened her eyes again to look at the clock on her bedside table through cloudy eyes. It was 11.50.
She ran back to the bathroom to spit out the toothpaste and clean it all up which was followed by running back to the bedroom. She hadn't learnt yet that rushing around after just waking up wasn't the best of ideas but lucky for her someone was watching out for her this time as she got dressed without any difficulty. She brushed her hair without checking herself in the mirror and walked to the front door ready to leave. On opening the door she saw something in her peripheral vision and looked down. There, on her porch, was the most beautiful assortment of red roses she had ever seen. She picked it up to closer inspect it. The roses ranged from just baby buds to in full bloom and they smelt phenomenal. She rushed inside with them to find a vase. She took off the wrapping that was holding it together and placed it all the vase filled with water and placed them on the side table next to the front door. 'Now everyone who sees these will know that someone loves me.' She smiled at the thought and quickly went back to the kitchen to clean up the mess. When she picked up the wrapping a small piece of white cardboard fell out. She picked it up to see what it was and noticed it had writing on it.
I'll see you soon.
She peered at the note a moment longer curious as to where Yami learnt to write like that but then put it aside as the florist writing it. Once again she looked over to the clock to see just how late she was running, 12.01. 'Crap.' She grabbed her keys and ran out the front door locking it behind her and made quick work of the stairs and set off at a sprint though the park to the coffee shop where she was meeting Yami.
As she was running she couldn't help but remember her dream, first Yami was everywhere, then Seto. 'Way to confuse me mind.' She was dragged out of her thoughts by the sudden impact of her colliding with someone else. Anzu lost her balance and fell forwards onto the other person.
"Mai?" Her eyes widened as she realised who she had just bowled over; she hadn't seen Mai in a while now. She didn't even realise she was back in Domino.
"Hey hun, where's the fire?" Mai smiled brightly at seeing her old friend again. Anzu pushed herself up off Mai and helped her up before speaking.
"Oh, I'm just late for a date with Yami." She brushed herself off as she spoke. "Actually I have to run. But we should catch up, come by mine later!" said this as she ran off towards the coffee shop where Yami awaited.
She finally reached it and only 10 minutes late too, she walked through the threshold of her favourite coffee shop and looked for Yami. The place was small, that was why she liked it. Not like some of the big fancy coffee shops that they have in America. The walls were painted a chocolate colour and the one at the far left was painted a coffee colour. Which is where Yami was sitting in at the corner table. She walked over to him and sat down in front of him, a wide smile adorned her face.
"Anzu, what happened? You look a mess!" Anzu's smile faltered. She could always count on Yami to be honest, even when she didn't want him to be.
"Nothing happened, I just fell." She then remembered she didn't even look in the mirror while getting ready before coming. But she wasn't about to admit to that. "So are we going to order or what?" The waiter came over and took their order and headed off towards the counter to get their coffees ready. Anzu's eyes wandered around the coffee shop taking in the familiar feel and smell, she spotted a beautiful arrangement of flowers on the front counter which reminded her to thank Yami for the ones he got her.
"Thank you for the roses, they're beautiful." Yami seemed distant and lost in his thoughts and merely responded with a nod.
'Oh she asked me something, hopefully a nod will suffice. Now back to thinking about children's card games.' Yami's gaze wandered back to the mocha coloured surface of the table they were sitting at. Anzu sighed and leaned her head against her fist while drumming her fingers on the table to entertain herself while she waited for the coffee to arrive.
The coffee arrived and the rest of the time in the coffee shop was spent in silence, neither of them had much to say each other despite the fact that they had spent a week apart. They both finished their coffee and Yami stood up before placing 1,700 Yen on the table.
"I'm sorry to cut this short but there is someplace I have to be. I'll call you." He turned swiftly and left the little coffee shop. Anzu looked around and saw that the other patrons were left unperturbed, it was as if he'd never been there.
'Maybe I'm just overreacting; I mean he never was one for conversation. Or spending time together.'
Anzu let out a long exasperated sigh, picked up the money and her bag and went to pay. She checked the clock behind the counter to see how long their so called 'interaction' had lasted for. 12.21. She had only been there since 12.10. Anzu hung her head and left the now depressing place and headed towards the mall, maybe spending exorbitant amounts of money would make her feel better.
She entered the large building to the sound of clapping and cheering coming from the atrium. She headed towards the noise and found a large congregation of people surrounding a small booth in which a woman resided. On closer inspection she saw that before the woman was a crystal ball placed neatly on a golden pedestal.
"What losers, who would believe in that kind of stuff anyway?" Anzu stated to no one in particular although she didn't walk off, she just continued to watch as the mindless sheep continued to believe in whatever bull crap she was feeding them.
"Listen close my friends for I have ze power to see into your inner being, I have ze means to show you want you want to know." The teller was now flourishing her arms rather dramatically around the small crystal ball making it cloud up trying to capture the audience's attention. Anzu, growing sick of the antics started walking away.
"You, child. Come back." Anzu turned around to see who she was talking to and found about 56 pairs of eyes trained on her then realised it was her that the fortune teller was talking to. "I sense you are confused, in need of direction. You do not know what lies ahead and this worries you."
'Way to sum up half of Domino. Crazy lady.' Anzu shook her head, rolled her eyes and started to walk off again.
"Wait. I see darkness." Anzu stopped 'Could she be talking about Yami?' She didn't turn around but she didn't continue walking either. "You don't know whether you want to stay in the darkness, or move into the light." Anzu's eyes widened as she realised what she was saying. 'Seto.' Anzu turned her head, nodded in acknowledgment and continued walking, not wanting to have her love life broadcasted to half of Domino anymore.
As she walked away she got the sudden feeling she was being watched, she turned quickly to check that the teller and her crowd weren't watching her anymore. They had all turned their attention back to her crazy antics. 'Hmm guess I'm just paranoid'. She continued to wander through the mall by herself looking at all the different shops, pondering on whether or not shopping therapy was worth her next three paychecks.
She stopped to look through the window of where she usually bought her clothes. Inside was a banner 'latest arrivals'. Anzu contemplated it for a moment then decided that her clothes from last winter were starting to thin out. 'Maybe I do need to do something for myself.' After she convinced herself she headed towards the entry way of the shop when all of a sudden a hand was firmly, almost painfully, placed on her shoulder. Her eyes widened in fear, no one would use that much force without intention to hurt. She spun around and prepared herself for whatever was to come.
Ooh so who's it going to be? Bet you can't guess :P Oh well guess you'll just have to wait for the next chapter won't you. Sadistic aren't I :)
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