Alright so I finished it like a week or so ago but I was hesitant to put it up so quickly just in case I found I needed to change stuff, which I'm glad I did because hooray for more plot twists! And of course not to mention the fact that I wanted to keep you all in suspense just that little bit longer :P But apart from that nothing to say so enjoy and don't forget to review :)

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

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.

Chapter 6:

Suspicious Minds

Correction, no one would use that much force without intention to hurt, unless they were Jounouchi. As soon as Anzu realised who it was she sweat dropped, she should have been used to it by now. In all the years she had known him, he wasn't one to be gentle.

"Ra dammit Jounouchi! What are you trying to do, give me a heart attack?" Anzu was restraining herself from decking him across the head for frightening her so much.

"Hehe, sorry Anzu. Didn't mean ta scare ya like that. Just wanted to say hi was all." His apology was hard to believe as he was grinning widely the whole time. But there was no way she could ever stay mad at him. Sure he was a lunk head, but he was a loveable lunk head. "Wathcha doin'?" Jou was rocking back and forth on his heels and sipping from the drink he was holding still giddy from Anzu's reaction.

"Well I was about to go blow my next three weeks pay on clothes I probably don't need but I'm going to take you showing up as a sign that I can't deal with being virtually poor for the next three weeks." Anzu hung her head and started to walk off, Jou followed her. "What about you?"

"Well I was here with Serenity. That is until Honda and Otogi dragged her off in attempts ta impress her. Ra only knows what they is upta." Joey merely shrugged it off and kept walking. He knew that no harm would come to Serenity in the presence of Honda and Otogi, they cared for her too much to let anything happen to her. Of course Jou would never let her date one of them though, good for her or not that was her sister they were trying to get with! "So where have ya' been all week Anzu? Feels like I haven't talked ta ya since that thing with Yami." Anzu's eyes widened, she realised that she really hadn't been out much and that most of her time was devoted to Seto.

"I ... uh ... I just wasn't feeling very good. Decided to stay home." She stumbled over her words as she tried to rush to get them out. 'Crisis averted.'

"Oh you shoulda told me. Woulda come around with the biggest container of ice cream I could find!" Jou had the widest smile he could possibly muster plastered to his face which made Anzu smile in turn. 'Thank heavens for small miracles.'

"Thanks, I'll remember that for next time". Anzu suddenly had a thought, maybe Jou knew what was up with Yami. "Hey Jounouchi." She dragged out the last syllable of his name and played up the innocence as much as she could. The more like Serenity she was the better. "Has Yami mentioned anything to you recently? I mean, he hasn't been himself." First the roses, then the weird date. What was up? Jou gagged and spluttered on his drink before responding.

"I dunno whatcha mean." His cheeks reddened as he stared straight ahead avoiding Anzu's glare. He knew something, now what did he know? His eyes darted to the side to see if she was still looking at him. Sure enough she was.

"Jounouchi" She pressed, once again dragging out the last syllable of his name. He knew she meant business and she needed to know what was going on.

"Look Anzu. I can't say anything, I promised I wouldn't." Ok so something was up. Least now she knew there was a reason for all this crazy behaviour. "Now can we just drop it?"

"Drop what?" Anzu had mock confusion printed all over her face.

Jou glared at her for being so annoying. 'Damn her.'

Anzu smirked and looked straight ahead to notice that most of the shops were closing. Jou swung himself around so that he was standing directly in front of her. He did it so suddenly and without warning that Anzu almost ran into him.

"So I should probably go find Serenity now but we should –" Then from over Jou's shoulder she could make out the intimidating form of Seto Kaiba being followed by his little brother Mokuba. Anzu couldn't help but watch as he talked to what she vaguely remembered to be his limo driver. His back was to her so he didn't notice her running her eyes up and down his lean but muscular figure. The way his shirt clung to him outlining the muscles in his back and how his pants were tight enough to see his – "How does that sound?" Anzu quickly snapped back into the present as she realised Jou was still talking to her and that he required an answer.

"Mhm, sounds good" She smiled and hoped that was all that needed to be said. She looked at her watch and realised how late it had gotten. "I have to get going now, you should probably go look for Serenity. Call me." She turned around and started heading off, cheeks still flushed about her earlier thoughts on Seto. 'I shouldn't be thinking like that! I'm with Yami again. What is wrong with me?'

Jou watched as she walked away then turned around to see what she had been looking at, he was fairly sure she wasn't paying even the slightest bit of attention to him. But when he turned all he saw was Seto Kaiba and his posse aka Mokuba and their limo drivers retreating forms. Surely she couldn't have been looking at them. 'Stupid jerk' Jou shook his head and was grumbling incoherently as he walked off in search of Serenity.


Anzu arrived back at her apartment feeling somewhat better than when she had left the coffee shop. At least Jou could shed some light on his weird behaviour. She entered her small living quarters to be assaulted with quite a mess. She hadn't realised she had let the house get into such a state. Her clothes strewn everywhere, leftover food on the counter, the coffee she never got around to drinking. She then remembered that she had invited Mai over earlier and quickly got to cleaning. While cleaning the fortune tellers words from earlier rung in her head.

"You don't know whether you want to stay in the darkness, or move into the light."

'Well darkness would have to mean Yami but how could Seto possibly be light? He is anything but light, especially with his childhood.' Images of Seto and Mokuba in orphanage flashed through her mind. 'Unless...Unless she means their respective duel monsters cards! I mean Yami's is 'Dark Magician' where as Seto's is 'Blue Eyes White Dragon. Oh none of this makes any sense, why on earth would she be referring to duel monsters cards.'

Cleaning didn't take long, 20 minutes at the most. That's when she heard the knock on the door. 'That would be Mai.' "Coming!" She walked over to the door to answer it but when she opened it she saw it wasn't Mai at all, but Seto Kaiba leaning against the door jamb, but before she could object he had her pinned against the wall, one hand on either side of her head, kicking the door shut behind him.

"Kaiba wh-" Her sentence was cut short as he moved his hand from her wrist to place his fingers on her mouth as he growled his response in her ear.

"Hn, and here I was thinking we were on a first name basis." Anzu felt weak at the knees at the close proximity of her blue eyed saviour. He moved his fingers from her lips to her hip to pull her closer to him making Anzu's breath hitch. "Did you like the roses?" Seto leaned in to her left and growled the words in her ear.

"But, wait...you sent those?" Seto leaned back relishing the confusion that was now written all over Anzu's face. Anzu's eyebrows knitted together momentarily thinking it over. 'Well I suppose that makes more sense than Yami sending them. He never was a romantic kind of person.'

"Of course, who else?" ...Yami? Ha!" He laughed at the idea that the stupid Pharaoh could even think of doing something like that. Seto moved in closer to her. "That Dark doesn't have a romantic bone in his body." He smirked at his reference to today when he saw Anzu getting her fortune told by some crazy fanatic. Anzu's eyes widened in realisation that she wasn't just being paranoid earlier, she really was being watched. "So, are you going to stay in the darkness, or move into the light?" Anzu was confused why he was doing all this, he knew she was with Yami again. Or hadn't she made it clear enough?

"Seto, what are you doing here?" She questioned as he started kissing down her neck. He stopped just above the edge of her shirt to mumble his response against her skin.

"Claiming part of my something in return" before she realised what he meant he had picked up both of her legs on either side of his waist and had her pressed against the wall and was now kissing her fully on the mouth. His hands moved up her thighs to cup her ass to keep her from falling. Her hands reached up to grab his hair to pull him further into the kiss but not long before she realised what she was doing. She had stopped kissing him and had removed her hands from his hair to push against his chest. She got him far enough away to speak.

"No, I can't." She looked down before continuing "I'm with Yami now. I at least owe him this much to not end up entwined in your limbs again." Anzu was breathless now and was pretty sure if Kaiba wasn't holding her she would be too dizzy to stay standing. Thankfully he didn't put her down even as he responded.

"Why should you owe him anything? He was the one that left you behind not the other way around. Or had you already forgotten about that?" Anzu looked down and shook her head, she didn't trust herself enough to speak just yet. "So what would be the problem then?" Anzu felt outraged at this question, had he never had a relationship before, never known what it was like to love someone so much you would do anything for them. Even if it seemed they didn't love you back.

"The problem would be that this is cheating. I've never cheated with anything before. Not at school, not in games" She was yelling at him now, furious at how unbelievably stupid he was in the matters of love. "And especially noton Yami." Her voice was low as she snarled this out from between clenched teeth. "I don't care who you think you are Seto Kaiba, but you do not have the power to toy with someone's emotions like this. You can't force me to do something I don't want to do." All she could do was glare at him and continue to push against his chest as he was still holding her and had her pressed against the wall.

"I'm sorry Mazaki but you don't have a choice in the matter." He quickly moved his hands from her ass to grab her wrists that were still situated on his chest to move them to either side of her head again and pushed harder against her so she wouldn't fall down. "You do what I want or your precious Yami hears about everything." Slowly he moved in veering off to her left to whisper something in her ear. "Every. Last. Bit." She shivered and pushed herself further against the wall as she felt his hot breath against her skin. He moved back to challenge her stare, mere centimetres away from her face. "Got it?" The temptation was too great as she closed the small gap between them to press her own lips to his. He immediately responded by letting go of her wrists to wrap his arms around her back and carried her to her bedroom. She wrapped her arms around his neck to deepen the kiss as she softly bit his lower lip making him groan slightly. They entered her room and he kicked the door shut behind him closing out the rest of the world.


Mai was waiting on Anzu's doorstep after just knocking on her door. 'Hmm guess she's not home yet.' Mai was about to try calling her to see where she was but not before she heard noises emanating from her apartment. Now not saying that Mai was a trollop but she had experience and she knew full well what those noises meant. 'Guess that date with Yami went well then I'll have to come back later.' Mai started heading off towards the park deciding that a lap around Domino Park would be enough time for them to 'finish'.

She had been walking for 20 minutes now and was just about to start heading back as she noticed a familiar head of spiky hair heading towards Anzu's. 'Wait a minute, if he's here then who's-' Her thoughts were cut short as he was quickly advancing and would be there in no time at all. 'Oh no.' She cut him off while walking and was trying to distract him. "Hey Yami, how are ya hun?" Thankfully he stopped to talk to her.

"Uh Mai. Good. Sorry but I'm in a bit of a hurry, could we talk later perhaps?" He sounded urgent, too urgent for Mai's liking. She had to think up an excuse and think one up quick. He tried side stepping her but she intercepted his path.

"She's sleeping." 'How clever of you Mai' she internally sweat dropped at her excuse that probably wouldn't work.

"What?" Yami was confused at her sudden outburst. 'Come on Mai, think!'

"Anzu's sleeping. The poor thing wasn't feeling well at all so I suggested she go to sleep and that she'd probably feel better when she woke up." Mai was hoping that Yami was naїve enough to fall for her mendacity. Sure she felt bad about it but in the long run she was protecting him.

"Well if she feels sick then shouldn't I go over there and make sure she is ok?" He tried sidestepping her again but she was too quick for him and she once again stepped in front of him.

"But then you'd wake her up. And she won't get better unless you let her rest. Don't you want what's in her best interest?" Yami sighed, defeated.

"I suppose so." He was looking down and looking rather depressed. 'You so owe me Anzu.'

"Hey why don't we go for a walk?" She had to keep him preoccupied unless he went against his better judgment and went knocking on her door only to hear the sounds of moaning that weren't being caused by him.

"Sure" He seemed distracted by something. They headed off towards the centre of the park to where the fountain was. 'At least this will kill some time until I go over there and figure out what the hell is going on'. But while they were walking Mai realised that she and Yami had never really talked all that much before and didn't know what he was into. Apart from Duel Monsters and Anzu of course. So deciding that she had to get down to the bottom of what was going on she chose the latter. You know, as a good friend and all.

"So how is everything with Anzu?" His head jerked up suddenly at the mention of his beloved.

"Huh. Oh everything is fine." He was mumbling and was slightly incoherent but Mai got the main jist of what he said. It's not like he went into any great detail or anything. They had reached the fountain and were sitting down on the edge.

"I heard from Jou that you two split for a week. How is everything now?" Mai was worried that she had said too much and that her concern wouldn't be appreciated by Yami.

"I don't even know." Yami shook his head before lowering it to his hands shocking Mai, she had never seen him like this before. So...deflated. "I mean, I want to make it up to her I, really do, but I'm from another time. I don't know how to show her that, that" Yami's fists clenched and was now furious at himself. "Ra Dammit I can't say it even when she's not around!" Mai wasn't expecting such a heartfelt confession from Yami. She really didn't know him that well and for him to confide in her like that, well, she didn't know what to do.

"Maybe you could show her?" Mai was unsure in her response, surely he had already thought about that and she would be considered stupid for even suggesting it. But thankfully she wasn't chided for her dumb remark.

"But that's just it. I can't express myself, being a pharaoh I never had to and now I either have to or I lose the one I care about most." He seemed genuinely stressed as he didn't know what to do. 'Come on Mai, you are one with the ways of the heart. Surely you can tell this poor sap something to help him out.'

"Well find your own way to express it then. Buy the girl flowers or something or even do something they would have done 5000 years ago! I'm sure she would understand your predicament." Yami paused in thought for a few moments before responding.

"Thank you Mai. You have been of great help" And with that he bid her farewell and walked off deep in thought leaving Mai sitting by herself feeling astonished that she and the Pharaoh actually had a conversation.

Mai stood up and thought for a second thinking that she had given them more than enough time to 'finish' and for whoever 'he' was to get out of there and with that Mai stormed off towards Anzu's apartment. 'That's it girly; you have a lot of explaining to do!'


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