Theme: 17 Close To You
Title: Another You
Word Count: 455
Summary: Anzu wakes to the sight of her beloved. Alternate ending of manga chapter 5.
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For a moment after I woke, I thought I was still dreaming. I'd been with my mystery man, the one with the strong and confident voice, the one who'd rescued me from a murderer and his gun with only his words, and now here I was, being carried in someone's strong arms. Normally I was all for walking on my own, but if this was really the man who'd rescued me, I was willing to let him carry me — especially since I felt a bit dizzy…
"You're awake." That was definitely his voice, and as I opened my eyes and realized we were still at school, I knew that this was no dream. I looked up at my savior.
"Yuugi?" Even as I said it, I knew it couldn't be the Yuugi I knew. He was different, his mouth too cruel, his eyes the wrong color.
"Not quite." He said. He set me down, and I scrambled to my feet. My heart was beating fast as I smoothed my skirt down.
"Then…" Could there really be two people in the world with hair like that? And there was the Puzzle around his neck, and the Domino High uniform. "Who are you?"
"You can think of me as…another Yuugi." He mused. He looked at me. "You get into trouble a lot, Anzu…first that idiot with the gun, and now Kokura..." He smirked for a moment, pleased, and I wondered why. Yuugi didn't like Kokura, but he wouldn't do anything to him.
But the man who'd saved me had set the criminal on fire. Against a man on death row was one thing…but what could he have done to our classmate?
"You're the one who rescued me before." I said. I sounded too breathy, and I cursed myself inwardly; it wasn't like me to get all tongue-tied.
"Of course." The other Yuugi tilted his head to side, as if listening; I concentrated, but heard nothing. He didn't seem very interested in me. "He's waking up…"
"Who is?"
"The real Yuugi." The other Yuugi frowned. And then he was just gone, and my childhood friend was back, rubbing his eyes and looking a little dazed. Come to think of it, I'd seen him with that same look too often lately…
"Anzu?"
"Yuugi!" I smiled brightly at him. "Let's go home." I ignored his confusion and pulled him along, stopping only to casually push shut an open classroom door. There was an empty bottle of chloroform on the floor there, next to Kokura's unconscious body, covered in prediction slips. I could only imagine what had happened.
I would have to tell Yuugi that some alternate personality of his had talked to me…but it could wait for a little longer…
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I don't usually write in the first person. Huh.
Season Zero!Yami is fun to write, though.