Hi everyone, Yup I'm still alive, I'm sorry for the time it's taking me for my other story, I just don't have one second to myself, I have relatives over...but right now I'm really bored. Alright, now I bet you'll all want to kill me because this chapter had been ready for a few days already.

One more thing: Go get him Jess!

Chapter three: You have to remove that.

By the time they reached he house, Anzu calmed down. She started to feel safe again...though it might be because of Kaiba's arm around her and because she was still holding him as if her life depended on it. Kaiba walked her up to the door and let her go.

"You should be more careful, you know?" Kaiba said. "I can't believe the others were stupid enough to let you go by yourself."

"It was my fault. I'm the one who refused. Thank you," Anzu raised her head. It was the first time she even looked at him since he saved her. It was also then that she noticed the not so small stain on his arm. "What's that?" She grabbed his arm to get a better view.

"It's nothing." Kaiba said, wincing a little at the pain.

"How can you say that? It doesn't look like nothing to me," She tried to drag him inside. "Come on, I'll check it out."

"I'll be fine, don't worry about it." Kaiba said, trying to get away.

"Don't even try that on me, Seto Kaiba. I'm not buying it. A wound letting out that much blood can't be nothing, and who knows what that man did with that knife, you could get infected."

Kaiba weighted his options. He hadn't even realized he'd been hurt, probably because he was so worried for Anzu. Now that she mentioned it, it was starting to hurt him. She was right about the knife. Knowing Anzu, she wouldn't let him go before he let her check out the wound. "Fine."

Anzu opened the door and led him in. "I'm sorry it's such a mess but as you know, I came back today and I didn't even have time to unpack," She said as she started to walk between the mountains of boxes. "It should be somewhere in here," She said, searching in one of the boxes. "Here it is," She said, coming back with a small first aid kit.

She set it on the kitchen table, opened it and took some bandages and alcohol. "You'll have to ummm... remove that." Anzu said, uneasily, motioning for his shirt with a light blush on her face.

Kaiba removed it without saying anything, but he couldn't't help but think that she looked really cute when she was blushing.

Anzu had to use all of her brain capacity just to refrain herself from gaping. Never in all her life had she thought Kaiba was so handsome, hell he was damn hot! She could feel her face heat up.

Kaiba seemed to think it was funny. "I never suspected that I could have such an effect on you," He said with a smile.

Anzu snapped back to reality and looked up at him, yet again he surprising her. It was the first time she ever saw a smile like the one he had. "Shut up," She said, turning even more red.

This time Kaiba laughed. Anzu had never heard such a...how could she explain it? Sexy laugh? And to hear it coming from Kaiba was even more surprising. This time, she really was staring.

"What's the matter?" Kaiba asked when he saw her staring at him. She looked like she was going to die, his injury couldn't be that bad, could it?

"I just never thought I'd hear you laugh like that one day. It just...surprised me, I guess."

Kaiba blinked a few times before bursting out in laughter once more. "You really had me scared for a second you know? I thought something was wrong with the injury."

"Sorry," Anzu said, looking down.

"Hey, don't look like that. It doesn't suit you to look so down," Kaiba took her chin in his hand and gently raised her head so she was looking at him.

As soon as she looked into his eyes, Anzu felt tears coming to her eyes. She burst out crying against him again, her hand around his neck. This time, Kaiba blushed, it was one thing to have her cry against his chest, but him being shirtless changed the whole thing.

"Thank you," Anzu sobbed against him. "I don't even want to think about what would have happened if you hadn't been there."

"It's ok, don't worry. I was there so you don't have to think about it again. Just promise me you'll be more careful from now on, ok?"

Anzu looked up and nodded with a weak smile. Then, she realized what she was doing, she was basically holding, and crying on the chest of a very shirtless Kaiba. She blushed madly and let go of him. "Let's take care of the injury..."

Kaiba nodded, though a part of his mind he didn't know existed so far wished she'd stayed in his arm a little while longer. He smiled at the light blush on her face as she disinfected his wound. It was really adorable...and quite good looking in his opinion...ok so maybe gorgeous was more like it.

"You really changed you know," Anzu said, breaking his train of thought, which was starting to get into nasty territories.

Kaiba winced because of the alcohol she put on his arm. "I guess."

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Well, what made you change? We tried to befriend you for years and you kept turning us down. What changed your mind?" Anzu asked.

"I don't know. A lot of things I guess. Meyli for example."

"It really broke your heart when she left," Anzu said, it wasn't even a question.

"Yea, it was already hard enough that we lost our parents. But when she turned me down because of Mokuba, it really hurt me a lot," Kaiba said.

"Did you ever regret it?"

"What? To stay with Mokuba?" Anzu nodded. "No, he needed me, he was young, he remembers nothing of our parents. He had forgot everything about her too after a while. It's safe to say he would have forgotten me too."

"I guess. It would probably have been horrible for him, to not even remember anything of his life."

"Meyli decided on her own to leave. Though I was mad at her for refusing Mokuba as a brother, I never blamed her for her decision. It was her life after all, and I couldn't be mad at her for wanting to have a decent life. I was more mad at myself, actually."

"Why?"

"When she told me she wasn't coming we started to fight and… I hit her. I was the one who told Mokuba he never had a sister, I'm the one who made him forgot...and somehow I think I wanted to forget about her as well. I was so ashamed of what I did; family had always been the most important thing for me. When she came back, all the guilt came back. That's why I let her stay, even if I knew she still hated Mokuba and was probably going to hurt him sooner or later."

"But why? All of that over a no?" Anzu said, starting to bandage his arm.

"I wish it was. But we never talked about it and she still doesn't fully trust me. Even if she always seem happy I can still see it," Kaiba said.

"You should talk to her. I'm sure both of you will feel better."

"She doesn't even realize just how much she did for me, she thinks she's nothing more than a burden to me. It's all thanks to her that I changed. She made me open up again." There was an awkward silence that lasted for a few minutes.

"There, all finished," Anzu said, after finishing wrapping his arm. "But you really should go see a doctor, I'm really worried about how clean that knife was."

"Don't worry, I'm fine," Kaiba said. "I guess I should go now, Meyli must be worried, she worries a lot lately." He opened the door.

Anzu suddenly felt depressed and insecure. She didn't want to be alone. "Well...be careful."

"Are you sure you'll be ok?"

"Yea, don't worry. I'll be fine," Anzu lied, of course it didn't fool Kaiba.

"You don't look like it," He said.

"I'm just a little tired, now go, it's getting late," Anzu said.

Kaiba closed the door and turned around to look at her. "You have no reason to be ashamed you know, it's understandable that you are afraid to be alone."

"What makes you think so?" Anzu asked, looking away, the last thing she wanted was him knowing she was afraid.

"Anzu, for god's sake you were almost raped. I know it's not something you can forget just like that," Kaiba said.

Anzu looked into his eyes. He looked to sincere. Then again, Meyli had been raped by her uncle more times then she could probably count, so it was most likely that Kaiba could understand at least some of what she was going through. Yet having him be so kind to her made her feel uncomfortable, it was so new to her and she wasn't used to it yet.

"Don't worry, I'll sleep on the couch. And no, I don't think myself to be too good to sleep on a couch," Kaiba said. Anzu opened her mouth to protest but Kaiba was quicker. "And you know that I'm way much stubborn as you are so we can stay here all night arguing or go to sleep right now."

Anzu gave up, there was no way he was going to leave her alone, and she was very thankful for that. "Thank you," She smiled a little. "I'll get you some blankets and a pillow."

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After helping Kaiba, Anzu went to her room, She started to change when she heard a sound behind her. She turned around and saw him, that man from the alley. He

was there, in her room! She tried to yell but he put his hand over her mouth and pushed her back on the bed, That's when she saw it: the same knife he had earlier, but the blade was covered with blood. she tried to yell again but no sound was coming from her mouth.

"Anzu...Anzu wake up!"

Anzu opened her eyes and sat up strait at the same time. She was panting and her whole body was trembling. She felt something touch her shoulder and she jumped

slightly in fear. "Calm down, it's only me. It was just a dream, Anzu," Anzu looked up, in the dark she could barely see him but it was Kaiba alright. "Are you ok now?"

Anzu sighed, she really was glad that he stayed. "Yea, I'm fine."

"Try to get back to sleep," Kaiba said, getting up to leave the room.

Fear came back into Anzu's mind, she didn't want him to leave. "Kaiba wait..…," Kaiba stopped and turned around. Anzu was glad the room was dark because she

could feel the blush coming to her face. "Could you stay with me for the night?"

"I'm already staying, Kaiba said, thinking she may had forgotten because of the dream.

"I know...I mean, here…," Anzu said, motioning for the bed.

"I don't think..."

"Please, just for the night." Anzu said, she probably sounded like a really big baby but she didn't want to be alone.

Kaiba sighed, if he didn't she would probably have another nightmare anyway, and it was completely innocent, wasn't it? "Fine, but on one condition." Kaiba said, walking back to the bed.

"Which is…?" Anzu asked, wondering if she really could trust him.

"Call me Seto, no one has called me Kaiba in a long time."

"That's all?" Anzu asked.

"What were you expecting?"

Anzu blushed. "Nothing really, goodnight...Seto." She said, turning her back to him. He did the same, leaving a good foot between them. That time Anzu didn't had any nightmares.

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That's it for this chapter, I wrote in in less than 3 hours, which is really nice, I really want to update Prolonged truce, but I still have no idea what to do. You know, when you have all the story figured out but there is this one small part where nothing you write sounds right.

Next chapter, More shirtless Kaiba (drool) a twin fight and something none of you is expecting (if you can guess it right I'm so giving you anything you ask for).