Drabble Notes – Yami no Yuugi/Anzu, set sometime after Battle City but before Pharaoh's Memories. "The Carnival" is a reference to a fanfic that was unfortunately never written.
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She knew he'd be waiting for her on account of he always was. If she ever asked him to meet her than he'd be there. Which is why it was an oddity that she's hadn't spoken to him more than a few times, for all the times that she'd wanted too…
Was she to scared to talk to him? Or was it that she felt she would be too pushy if she asked him to meet her? Or did she not want to hurt Yugi's feelings by asking to talk to the pharaoh instead of him?
Whatever the reason was she avoided it. In honesty it was usually Yugi who set up the meetings she had with Yami anyway. He knew that she liked Yami and wanted her to be happy because he was a good friend like that. It still made her feel guilty though.
He was waiting there. Watching her with his usual cool, but overall blank, gaze. He was probably waiting for her to get close enough to strike up a conversation herself because in the time they had known each other Anzu had come to realise Yami didn't talk first. At least not that she'd witnessed.
The beat of her heart confused her. She'd paid more attention to it since the events at the carnival and it didn't seem right. Usually around a crush it was supposed to beat faster but if anything her heart rate was slower then normal. It was a sad song. A song played on a journey with the knowledge that something awful would happen at the end, when the journey was over.
Yami's gaze didn't help either. As she walked forward it consumed her, adding to the mental music and making the walk seem to extend further. His eyes showed an old, searching soul that no amount of affection from any person could ever manage to make feel whole.
But Anzu saw every song through to the end. And she would do for this one too, regardless of how it turned out.