Chapter six: Raven Daisuke.
"I swear Joey, you are unbelievable sometimes" Anzu said, hidden behind her sunglasses in the middle of the crowded airport.
"What? I just want to meet the guy you believe to be good enough for you, that's not a crime you know." Joey said.
"Yea right, I know you want to see if he's good enough for me according to you, but I'm warning you, you can say whatever you want I'm getting married to him whether you like it or not." Anzu said, turning her attention back to the door her fiancé should be coming from any time.
Raven was coming today, much to Anzu's annoyance and amusement, Joey had absolutly wanted to meet the guy who was able to take her heart but Anzu knew it was mostly because he was worried about her and wanted to make sure she would be happy, he had always been over protective of her. "I just want you to be happy, that's all." Joey looked guilty.
"I know, Joey. But don't you think you would have been better up with Meyli at home?" Anzu thought about her young friend who was probably bored all on her own, Seto was working, Mokuba was...somewhere, probbaly with one of his numberous girlfriends, she was at the airport and Joey was with her.
Joey just smiled. "Nah, she's in a cleaning mood today so I'm giving her some space." When she was in a cleaning mood Meyli was danagerous...well, usually she was never in a cleaning mood, she was almost as messy as Joey but ever since she became pregnant she started doing a lot of weird things, like cleaning and almost killing anyone who dared to be in her way.
"She really does seem to feel better lately, I guess that talk she had with her brother did her a lot of good." Anzu said, remembering the conversation Meyli told her about.
Joey nodded. "Yea, she's in a way better mood too... that is, when she's not cleaning." He looked at Anzu but she wasn't next to him anymore. "Anzu?" He looked everywhere around him and sighed in relief when he spotted her about 20 feet away...in a guy's arm. Once he recovered from his shock he went to join her, his first decent thought was to kill the guy. When he was only a few feet away from them, the guy opened his eyes and looked at him.
"You must be the futur husband." He said, letting go of Anzu and holding out his hand. "You look exactly like the picture Anzu showed me. I'm Raven Daisuke, it's a pleasure to finaly meet you."
Joey blinked, he sure wasn't expecting that...he examined him cautiously, this Raven guy had dark black hair going slightly over his shoulder and bright green eyes. He was barely taller than Joey, slim but undeniably strong. Joey finally took his hand and shook it. "I'm Joey Wheeler." He said, decidign that the guy seemed nice enough for him to deserve a chance, well, half a chance. What mostly convinced him to give him a chance was that, unlike what he thought at first, Raven was Japanese, since Anzu met him in america he asumed that he was american...and he had a certain somethign agaisn't stranger who tried to get aroung Anzu.
"I suppose we are better go before anyone recognize you, I don't think I could run that much after such a long flight." Raven said with a smile, he looked around hi, so far no one recognised Anzu, he never quite understood how sunglasses could make such a difference.
"So, are you from here or America?" Joey asked as they made there way to his car, that was the main reason why Anzu accepted to have Joey come with her, he had a car, unlike her, and no one else could come.
"I'm actually from Kyoto but we moved to America when I was 14, my parents thought it was better for their business and my education. Though I always wanted to come back here." Raven said. "I would have come back earlier but I met Anzu and I decided I could stay a little while longuer to stay with her."
Through the entire ride to Anzu's home the two men had was seemed like a decent conversation, to Anzu's total bewilderment, it was unlike Joey to act this friendly toward any guy she happened to love, or slightly liked for that matter, though she wasn't going to complain.
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"Do you think I did well?" Raven asked once they entered Anzu's appartment.
"I'm really surprised that he reacted that well, I even think he likes you." Anzu answered, and that was something, she lost the count of how many possible boyfriends Joey scared away, her parents took care of the few who were able to survive Joey's interogation.
"I hope meetings your other friends will go just as well." He yamned, sitting on the couch of the small apartment.
"You don't have anything to worry about, Joey was the only one I thought might overreact. I never suspected he would have matured that much in those last five years. I'm sure they'll like you." Anzu reasured him.
"I sure hope so, the last thing I want is to be hated by one of your friends." Raven kissed her lightly on the cheek. "Do you mind if I take a small nap? This 12 hours flight really killed me."
Anzu kissed him back. "Just go, I'll unpack your things."
With one last good-night kiss, or rather good afternoon kiss, Raven went to the bedroom. Anzu spent most of the afternoon unpacking Raven's things, he hadn't brought much, he didn't have that much belongings to begin with since she took most of the things with her and he probably sold everything else like they decided to do before she left.
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"So, did you scare the poor guy?" Yugi asked when Joey entered the game shop.
"I bet the poor guy is already on the next flight back to America." Tristan said.
"Or Joey hid his body somewhere in a garbage bin." Mokuba added.
"What are you all doing here?" Joey asked.
"My girlfriend ditched me." Mokuba said. "So I came here, when I heard you were going to the airport with Anzu to get her fiancé I decided to stay and see the show, so what exactly did you do to him?"
"What in the world is makes you think that I would do something to him? I'm not that bad." Mokuba coughed loudly in a manner that sounded like 'Jayson'. He was Anzu's first boyfriend and Joey was following him everywhere, even in the bathroom, the guy was so scared that he changed school and none of them ever heard about him again, "Ok fine so Maybe I did overdo it with Jason but I swear I did nothing to Anzu's fiancé, he was nice." That got everyone's attention, they all expected Joey to tell them that the guy wasn't worth Anzu and that he was a good for nothing jerk just like he did every time Anzu had a boyfriend, all of them ran away after two weeks and were never heard of again.
"Nice?" Tristan repeated. "Are you feeling alright?"
"Of course I am, is it that hard to believe that the guy is alright?" Joey asked.
"Not at all Joey." Yugi explained. "What is hard to believe is that you consider him to be good enough for Anzu,. You actually have a tendency to scare any guy who is interested in her."
"It's not my fault none of them were good enough for her." Joey said lamely.
"Unless the guy really is a total jerk." Mokuba faked seriousness. "Joey thinks that every good guys are jerk so it would be logical to think that he would think that a jerk is a good guy." He finished. There was a short silence before everyone, including Joey began to laugh.
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Later in the evening, Anzu was humming softly while cooking dinner, she was so caught up in her work that she never noticed Raven coming up behind her. "Do you have any idea just how I missed your cooking?" He said.
"Do you mean you are only staying with me because of my cooking?" Anzu asked, feigning indignation.
"Well, that and the sex of course." Raven said, causing Anzu to blush and earning himself a playful hit behind the head.
"Is that so, well in that case you can sleep on the couch tonight." Anzu couldn't stop herself from smiling as she turned her attention back to her cooking.
"Come on, you know I was just joking. I really missed you, you know?" He said.
"Now that's better. I missed you too." She kissed him. "I talked with my friends, they all agreed to have dinner tomorrow, apparently Joey talked in your favor, not that you needed it."
"I guess I have no choice." Raven was unsure about this, even if Anzu asured him that it would be alright he was still nervous, it wouldn't be good if one of her friend hated him, especially for Anzu.
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"I hope you are ready because there is no turning back now." Anzu warned as they reached the door of the restaurant.
"I crossed half of the globe to be with you, I think I can manage." He said, opening the door for her. Anzu entered the restaurant with Raven following, she passed right in front of the waitress who was suposed to seat the costumers.
"Don't worry, I know where I'm going." Anzu said, answering the question before Raven could even ask it.
"Tell me, how were you able to get a table in this restaurant? You usually have to reserve two months in advance and no offence but I don't think you have enough influence in those part to be able to do that." Raven asked.
"You see, that's one of the advantages that comes when you are friend with one of the most important man of the country." Anzu explained with a knowing and mysterious smile.
"In that case he must be really important becasue even the greatest people have troubles getting table here even with a two weeks advice."
"Actually I think the guy can do just about anything, he probably has the whole country in his pocket." Anzu said thoughtfully.
Raven smiled. "And who is this misterious guy? Seto Kaiba?" Anzu simply smiled musteriously as they neared the table. Yugi was the first one to notice her, the others were to caught up in their discussion to notice them.
"Hi Anzu." Yugi greeted her.
Upon hearing the name of their friend, everyone stopped talking and turned their head to greet her. "Hi guys." She greeted them back. "This is Raven, Raven, these are my friends, for the better and for the worst, Yugi, Tristan, you already know Joey of couse, Meyli, the soon-to-be bride, her brother Mokuba and her other brother the really influencing Seto Kaiba." She finished with a smirk. Everyone greeted Raven except for Seto who only nodded his head, which was typical of him.
The couple sat in the only two empty seats left between Yugi and Kaiba, Anzu next to Seto and Raven next to Yugi. "So, what exactly was the subject of the conversation before we interupted you." Anzu said.
"Nothing imporant." Seto said, taking a small zip of his wine.
"You're only saying that because you didn't know what to say anymore." Joey said.
Seto snorted. "If I remember right Meyli is the only girlfriend you ever had."
"Maybe, but I'm engaged to this girl and that's still one more girlfriend than you." Joey said.
"What exactlly are they talking about?" Raven asked Anzu.
"Oh, just stuff, Seto's just getting his daily teasing because he never had any girlfriend. Joey loves this subject of conversation because it's one of the rare domain where he surpasses him." Anzu explained with a smile.
"Why don't you bother Yugi." Seto sighed, giving up any hope to defend his honor on this particular subject, he knew he had no chance to win and he learned with time that it was better to back down when you didn't stand a chance. "He doesn't have a girlfriend either."
"True, but I still had five more than you." Yugi said.
"And I beat you all, I had 587 girlfriends in the last three years." Mokuba said proudly.
"You're no better than me Mokuba, you said it yourself that you didn't even care about them." Seto rolled his eyes.
"Fine, I had 7 then." Everyone looked at him with surprise, they never heard that Mokuba had a real, seriousl girlfriend.
"You mean you really had a real girlfriend?" Meyli asked.
"Sure, but it never really lasted long, they didn't really like the fact that I had 20 fake girlfriends too." Mokuba said thoughfully
They all kept talking about how many girlfriends they had, trying to convice the poor Seto that he should consider getting one if he didn't want them to label him as gay. Raven stayed silent all this time, he just watched them go, it was a habbit he had, he like to know who was the person he was talking to, to know what he had to watch for and the ties in a group.
"So, what about you?" Joey asked Raven. "You haven't said much so far, how many girlfriends did you have before Anzu."
Raven was surprised to be asked such a blunt question, but decided it wouldn't be wize to make any remark. "Well, I had 5 including Anzu, but she's the first girl I have a serious relationship with, I didn't want to have one before because I knew I was going to come back here."
The converstaion continued, through the meal a lot of different subjects were brought up and he was asked some weird questions, as time passed he started to get more and more into the conversation. For what he could see everyone seemed to be fairly nice, all open to his opinion, he guessed that Yugi was probably the leader of the group, though he was the smallest, everyone seemed to respect his opinion and always listened to him so he guessed that as long as he didn't do anything that could put Yugi against him, he would be fine. However he still had no idea what to think of Seto, he had watched him through all the evening yet he could see nothing important about his caracter and it was annoying him, he hated not to know what kind of person he was talking to, he also had a feeling that Seto had been watching him too and that the CEO had been much more effective in seeing trough him. He also happened to notice that he was looking a lot at Anzu...
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Now you can't say that I'm not nice, two chapter the same day with only 45 minutes of waiting, now here the big question, cookies to everyone who can asnwer me because it had been bothering me since my math class. As you know, I'm french, so all my classes are french, but in my english book there was a number about wrods in different language, so here's the question: What does floccipaucinihilipilification means?
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