Introduction: OMG! XDXDXDXD I was soooooooooo thrilled that I got that many reviews! At first I was like, okay no one's probably gonna ever review this thing, but then a miracle beyond miracles happened! My face was like O.O HOLY CRAP! Thank you everyone!

Announcements: I only have to say that the next chapter will probably be updated in like another month, more maybe. Peachi's sry but she has mucho amount of work to do! Also I've been tending to hit a major brick/cement/anything that's hard that you can think of, kind of wall, major problemo...

Shout Outs:

CommonKnowledge: Yay! My first reviewer! And yes, this is probably my best SetoxAnzuxAtem romance so far (since it's my first one…) that's one of my fav's as well.

Darkhope: heheh, don't worry it's basically going to be AtemxAnzu for now, but I'm still thinking of bringing in Seto again… hmmm. You'll have'ta see.

xKuroSeraphmix: Well… I have something really interesting planned for Anzu and Atem. I hope that you think its deep enough lol.

Chikyuu-Defender-Beyblader: Thank you and yes of course I'm continuing! Yeah I even thought that the last chapter sorta sounded like a one-shot.

agent-doo: Well, I haven't decided as to why Anzu is important to Kaiba yet, but I'm hopefully going to have that planned out by the third chapter. Thanks for your review!

Pairings:
(Main) – AtemxAnzu, SetoxAnzu
(Other) – JonouchixMai, SetoxSerenity (slight!)


" " – dialogue
' ' – thoughts
( ) –a/n, add ins
Italics – important facts, flashbacks,sayings, thoughts,or mental telepathy

Chapter 2
A Rude Awakening
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Bursting through the large doors connected to his master bedroom, the male brunette gasped at what his eyes observed. Emptiness… Just emptiness. His cobalt eyes scanned every inch of the darkened bedroom. Nothing, she wasn't here. Cursing murderously under his breath Seto stormed over to the bed, noticing the thin sheet missing. Soon his cream colored skin felt a slightly cool breeze brush up against him and looking to his side his cutting blue orbs saw that the balcony door was open. Cautiously he walked over to the open entry and peered his head outside. Taking note that no one else was around he brought his body fully out into the night sky.

The wind kissed his face and hair as the full moon shone brightly on him. Seto opened his mouth and let out a piercing roar as his sharp white fangs glistened in the moonlight. "Goddammit! Who the hell did this!" He hollered as his fists slammed against the stone railing.

Seething with anger the male vampire abruptly turned around and headed back into his room, however when he took one last glance back into the city a voice echoed inside of his mind.

'Slightly irritated now are we not?'

Both of the brunette's eyes burst open wide at the masculine tone that ricocheted off of every corner in his head. Speaking lowly to himself he stated simply "Get out of my mind Atem. I am in no mood for discussion."

'And why not?' The defined voice questioned with amusement.

"Because I have a very important and valuable item to retrieve." Soon he heard a slight chuckle from the telepathic counterpart. Dangerously narrowing his eyes into slits the vampire continued raising his fists, "What the hell is so funny? I demand of you to tell me!"

'You cannot demand a thing out of me and you know that so why waste your time?'

"Then quit wasting mine!" Seto roared as he began to have a quarrel with the voice.

'I'll continue then. You had stated that you were looking for some sort of… valuable item right?'

"…"

'Well, I know where you can find them, but the only way you'll find out is if you play a game.'

Snarling under his breath Seto replied "I hate your fucking games… No I decline." He began to walk inside as he wished that vampires did not have mental telepathy as an ability.While he continued Atem's voice soon came up again.

'Seto, Seto, Seto. What a shame. You should know better than that. Don't you know that every time I ask to play a game it always means something important? You of all people should know that especially, I mean we have worked together for a very long time right?'

Seto could tell that Atem was getting annoyed at his ignorance by feeling the atmosphere inside his body slowly grow cold. He continued though, which had left the brunette vampire stunned.

'I know we went are separate ways Seto, but that doesn't mean that I don't know anything about you and your company. Shame on you for actually believing that… Well if you are going to ignore me and not play my game then I'll just have to keep your so called "item".'

As Atem's voice faded away, the cobalt-eyed vampire stood there in shock. Noticing that he was gradually fading he found his mental voice to speak with 'A-Atem-Atem!' He couldn't help but stutter his words, for his belief of what the once partner meant was incomprehensible.

'Yes?' The voice returned with mocking amusement.

'You conniving devilish bastard… rrrgh. How dare you! You will pay dearly Atem, I swear it! Now you give the Millennium Rod back to me or el-'

'I don't have the Millennium Rod. I know who does though. And on top of that, I was talking about your other precious item.'

Not realizing his last sentence at first the male-brunette shouted telepathically at his, now enemy, as he marched down the corridor. 'Tell me then! And what in God's name are you talking about other… precious… item.' Putting words together Seto grasped the entire theme of Atem's conversation. Staring coldly at the floor he screamed in his mind 'Where the hell is she Atem! I swear if you touched her I-'

'What a ridiculous threat that is Seto, I mean, of course I had to touch her in order to bring her back here with me. Heh, and I'm happy you've realized what this entire conversation is about… Oh dear me I must depart. Your item will awaken soon, and I'll be extremely disappointed if I miss out on the occasion.'

'ATEEEEM!' Seto bellowed.

'Oh before this slips my mind I'll have you know that she passed out before I even took her. Maybe that was from me just looking into her eyes. Hmmm, I wonder what would happen if I had her underneath me.' The demon questioned himself with lust dripping from his voice. 'Hmph. Well, till then Seto...'

He could sense that Atem was actually gone now, and that did not make him the slightest bit happy. Knowing that it was Atem, the man who had once been his right hand comrade, was now holding his woman captive made him go insane. Shouting violent curses and swears at the top of his lungs the fuming vampire had soon approached his younger brother, Mokuba, who was just watching him with a strong worried feeling.

"Seto is everyth-"

Before he could finish the elder vampire hissed "Shut up! NO, everything isn't okay! Dammit! Atem… He took her and the Rod!"

Shell-shocked, the long raven haired teen stared in distress at his angered brother. Eventually the elder vampire left, pushing the navy-eyed boy out of his way. After he couldn't see him anymore Mokuba promised to himself "Don't worry Seto. We'll get the Millennium Rod back, and the person who belongs to you."

((Scene Change))

Grinning like mad the tri-haired vampire stood up from his leather couch and made his way over to the pair of large doors to exit the massive living room. Oh this was excellent, having his once partner completely ballistic, it was grand indeed. Now that he had Seto where he wanted him the only thing to do was turn the girl against him. And that was not going to be too complicated on his half. Before he left he looked out the large windows and softened his eyes at the rays of the sun kissing the buildings it began to paint with gold. As he strolled down the corridors he stopped when his crimson orbs focused on a person that was coming down the opposite way.

"Jonouchi! What are you doing here at his hour?"

A man that was practically the same height as Atem came over to him with a sly grin on his face. When Jonouchi approached the younger vampire he brushed his sandy blonde bangs out of his coffee brown eyes. "I just needed to ask you something and since you, for some reason didn't answer your phones, I decided to just come on by. I hope that isn't a problem with ya?" Chuckling Atem responded "Why of course not. You are always welcomed here Jono, don't ever think otherwise."

"Glad to hear it pal." He gestured.

Both of them started off in the direction that Atem had been walking in as he continued the conversation. "So you were saying before that you needed to ask me something?"

Planting his coffee rich orbs on the friend next to him Jonouchi stated "Yeah, you see I've been wondering… You haven't been thinking about stealing anything from your old partner's place have you?"

Glancing towards the nearby window Atem remained emotionless as he ran his had through his spiky tri-colored locks. "Actually… I already did. How did you find out?" After finishing his response there was a long moment of silence that fell in the hall.

Keeping a straight face Jonouchi answered with a worried tone "Well, I found out from overhearing this guy at one of the secretive bars downtown. He said that uh some guy by the name of… Oh what's his name, Marlo, Maylark-"

"Malik?"

"Yeah Malik, that's the guy! Well anyways he said that you hired him to steal some ancient item from Seto Kaiba. And now you're saying you did…"

"Jonouchi, whatever that man said is absolutely ridiculous." Atem replied. As they made their way up the flight of grey marble stairs he continued. "Actually truth be told, Malik came to me, and since he explained that I could get something out of it as well I agreed."

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"You can get something that you'll cherish very much if you lend me a hand."

Staring coldly at the figure before him the crimson-eyed man responded "I don't care, I will have nothing to do with that asswhole and believe me nothing you can give will change my mind."

Chuckling, the standing figure walked over to the mahogany desk and placed both of his hands on top, while his intense lavender eyes made a direct gaze into two pure crimson orbs. Evilly he began to speak, "I'm sure that there's something you desire that he has right? You've wanted this item so badly have you not?"

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"Well then, if you can't help me then I won't help you either." One hand brushed his platinum blonde tresses out of his face. Signaling his defeat he stood tall once again and turned around. As he walked off towards the doors to exit the tri-haired vampire stood reflexively and whispered a few words that was enough to catch the lavender-eyed mans ears.

"... What do you want?"

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"However, I don't think Malik wanted to do that for revenge, he didn't seem like the pay back type."

Jonouchi cast his eyes at the well-built figure walking next to him "I just want you to be careful alright? I know you're good at everything but don't get hurt like last time."

Smiling at his friend, he nodded and then whispered softly "I have something to show you."

Step by step they walked through his castle like abode passing one or two servants here or there. After walking up to the third floor they moved smoothly over to a set of black marble doors, the doors which led to his bedroom. Carefully Atem let his hand rest on the golden knob, slowly he turned it which resulted in a slight click from the door. Pushing it open a long ray of light shone in the room, landing on a lump in the sheer canopied bed.

"Is-is that?" Jonouchi stuttered as his eyes examined the lump from a distance.

"Yeah." Atem replied as he crossed his arms and leaned against the wall smirking.

"Nice job. I'm sure you're gonna get pretty far."

Nodding to his complement the golden banged vampire questioned "So how's everything with you." Completely ignoring the fact that the petite lump on the king sized bed began to move…

Everything was so dark inside this room, except for the large ray of light that blinded her from seeing at first. As she uncovered herself from the protection of the sheet her eyes were blinded by the morning sun. Abruptly she went back under the covers, as her ears heard two voices in the distance.

"So how's everything with you?" It was a deep male voice, and for some reason it sounded so soothing and caring. Her sapphire eyes blinked underneath the velvet sheet while another voice responded.

"Mmhhh it's alright, my little sister just came back home from her trip with Otogi. It didn't go to well."

"I see."

"You think it's funny?"

"Oh no not at all… And what about you know who?"

The young brunette stayed under the sheets as their conversation went on, she could tell which one belonged to a person she knew and which one didn't. 'I guess whatever happened last night was real. Oh man oh man, I-I don't know what to do. If Seto finds me he'll kill me for sure. Dammit Anzu you can get yourself in the worst problems.'

"Mai? Well heh we're getting along great so far. I care about her so much, I was thinking about asking her hand in marriage."

The voice Anzu knew just laughed and then said "Jono, you're getting way ahead of yourself. You just went on your first date only two days ago."

Both voices had started to quarrel in a joking matter while the chestnut-haired human had a sudden urge to look and see if they would spot her. As they continued she slowly sat up, still hidden by the canopy surrounding her, and crawled to the edge of the bed keeping the black silk sheet wrapped around her. However before she continued, the voice she knew quieted, as well as the other, 'Oh crap.' Anzu thought.

In a spilt second the canopy that encircled the bed was pulled to each side of the head board magically. Anzu's body reacted as if she were a deer in headlights. Hereyes were wide as she looked at the two black figures in the doorway. The one to her left was leaning on the wall with his shoulder, and both arms were crossed. While the other had his right hand in his pants pocket and was leaning on the opposite wall with his left forearm.

A slight gasp escaped her lips as both pairs of eyes placed themselves on her body. Suddenly she felt as if she were entirely naked underneath their gaze, well she almost was. Looking down at herself the brunette noticed that the silk sheet only covered the front of her and was placed very low-cut at her chest, giving them a good view of the crevice in between her breasts. Both her left and right legs were exposed and the only reason that the sheet stayed on her was from her arms holding it close.

When Anzu's sapphire eyes glanced back at them she could scarcely make out what they looked like, but with the help of the sun her eyes caught some of their features, even though the front of them was almost completely shadowed. The man to the right of her had thick sandy blonde hair with bangs, but his eyes were too dark to tell the color. He was wearing a white with light blue striped collar shirt that was unbuttoned. Underneath that was a matching tight light blue shirt that displayed his firm muscles. Adorning his legs were a pair of snug navy blue jeans held together by a dark colored belt, and on his feet were a pair of white vans.

Looking to her left was another man, and his outline seemed recognizable. He had thick hair which spiked up in numerous directions portraying some sort of sexual aura. Clothing the upper torso was a black skin-tight turtle neck and that alone made Anzu blush like mad. Then there was also a pair of tight leather black pants which he wore, along with a black pair of boots held on by silver belts covering his feet.

The sapphire-eyed girl looked at his face again and even though the mans eyes to her right were shadowed out, the one to her left had eyes that were clear as day. God they were taking a toll on her she could barely focus herself, his intense stare of wine-colored orbs made her feel this remarkable sensation between her legs. 'Not good…' The azure-eyed girl knew that she needed to stay conscious in order to find out some important facts.

"Wooooooow. Nice job Atem, she's a keeper." The blonde whistled at the sight of the slim beauty, then smiled at her, revealing a sharp fang planted in the corner of his mouth.

'Oh great, two vampires I now have to deal with.' Anzu complained to herself while she broke out in a slight sweat when the ruby-eyed vampire stood straight.

"Why thank you Jonouchi, hmph, I'm happy with what I've caught as well." As Atem looked at his prize sitting on the bed Jonouchi could see that he was impatiently waiting for her. He decided to speak up as his coffee eyes stared softly into Atem's crimson ones. "I should be going, you take care of yourself… and your prize." Smiling Atem nodded, and with a quick handshake the blonde haired vampire left. Leaving the handsome young vampire in his bedroom with a young female human he could seduce so easily… Alone.

((Scene Change))

Lights decorated the downtown club with multiple colors as a well built figure strode across the room, receiving glances and smirks as he went over to the bartender. Sitting in one of the fine cushioned chairs he was about to order a drink when a female approached him, placing her hands on his inner thigh.

"I haven't seen you around here in a while." The adolescent admitted.

Rolling his eyes he faced the bartender once again, ignoring the fact of the woman trying to press herself up against him.

Placing her lips close to his neck she smoothly spoke "Awww come'on sweatie, I know that you're tired. I can give you a great way to release all of those stressed muscles of yours." She began to rub her hand back and forth over his thigh as he averted his gaze from the shelves of glasses on the wall, to her hand, and then to her eyes. "That was only one night, and no more. I even told you that, but you didn't care at all. You were wasted completely, I had to make some use of you."

"Excuse me, you told me you loved me!"

Quickly the girlswitched her gaze from his pale skinned neck to his rich chocolate orbs that were filled with an irritated look. Using his left hand he ran it through his spiky pallid hair, letting his bangs fall back in front of his eyes. Then without warning he used his right hand and grabbed the dirty blonde-haired girls shoulder and twisted her around so her back was leaning against his body. While his left hand pulled a small knife from his black trench-coat pocket and placed it on her neck.

Whispering warmly into her ear the chocolate-eyed man stated "I suggest you leave me be or else I may bite... I know that we vampires love blood but..." He pressed the knife close to her throat making her break out in sweat. "I'm sure you don't want that blood to be the one pouring from your veins." He then let her go, pushing the female demon into the crowd of sweaty dancers. Looking back at him she rolled her eyes and then walked off, seductively swaying her hips.

Turning back around the bartender came up to him "She'll never learn will she?"

The black coated vampire stared at the equally black haired adult. "I guess not, but what do I care? She's a prostitute and so I have nothing to do with her after I'm depleted of my business." Seeing the blade in his left hand the standing waiter gulped slightly, however it was loud enough to catch the fox like ears of the vampire sitting. "Don't worry, this isn't meant for you, but unless you don't get me something to drink fast it will be." Nodding abruptly the brown-eyed elder respectfully went to go fill the order, leaving him alone again.

'Dammit where the hell is this guy?' he thought as he looked at the clock on the wall. 'Six fifteen... He's already late enough, I should just go.'

Once he finished his thought a hand was placed on his shoulder, turning around his chocolate orbs caught the wave of lavender. Smiling evilly he waited for him to sit on the stool next to him.

"Sorry for being late Bakura."

Closing his eyes Bakura stated "I'm letting you slide this time human, but once more and I'll cut you and your sisters throat."

Fear had welled up inside of the mans eyes, "P-Please! Don't! I beg of you!"

Shrugging his shoulder the pallid haired vampire tossed the conversation aside as he took his drink from the counter. "So do you have what I asked for?" He questioned after placing the glass back on the counter. Fearfully the platinum blonde next to him hastily brought a black suitcase onto his lap, opening the two silver latches with a snap. "Here, I did what you asked me to do. Please, can you now help me?"

Bakura took a good look at the object in the leather briefcase. It was a beautiful solid gold that shone brightly with every color hitting it from the ceiling. The object was a long golden rod, a dagger placed at the bottom, while an oval sphere like ball was placed on the top. There were two identical crescent moon shapes that face inwards, coming out of the sphere on each side. Then placed on the sphere itself was a mystical eye that gave off this ancient powerful aura. Using his left hand to pick it up he brought it to his face, letting it lean on his pale cheek.

"I'm impressed, I didn't think you were capable of retrieving something this valuable from the hands of the notorious Seto Kaiba." Leaning forward he continued, "Tell me… How did you accomplish such great a task?"

Smirking the tanned human sitting next to him brushed a few bangs out of his face, then looking at the white haired vampire he spoke. "I'll tell you… Only if you give me what you promised."

Turning serious Bakura lifted the golden object to his face then revealed some of the powers that came with it. "Listen here, I don't tolerate bullshit. I told you that I would help you and for once… I'll keep my promise. Still, I have not been filled yet so you still do what I say understand?"

"No way."

"Malik, do you know what this object can do?" Bakura questioned with the fill of violence in his eyes.

Shaking his head steadily the blonde responded with a no. Then looking back down at the Rod Bakura continued "The Millennium Rod has a strong power, I can use it to take over someone's mind and then use them as my servant."

Malik's eyes went wide, now that this devilish vampire had such a powerful weapon at hand he could do mostly anything to him. "S-So?"

"I'll use it on you for a test run." Then before he could protest the spiky blonde that sat next to the hell born demon fell silent. As Bakura continued to point the Rod at Malik a golden aura surrounded the object, then the human soon lost the liveliness in his eyes as his pupils faded. Sitting back in the chair the cunning vampire grinned with victory, "Now tell me my mind slave, who helped you with this?"

A pause, then he replied "Motou Atem."

Bakura's mouth dropped at the name, 'Motou Atem, the Motou Atem! It can't be, how the hell did he even know about him? Dammit!' He looked at the motionless body before him and then said to himself 'I need to use this to my advantage. After all of those years he humiliated me… Him and Seto Kaiba, heh this will be excellent, like hitting two birds with one stone. I'll get my revenge on both of them at once!'

"Listen my mind slave, do you know where he may be now?"

The slave nodded, obeying his master's command. Then out of the blue the aura around the Millennium Rod vanished as Malik gained full control over his senses again. "Wha-What just happened?" He held his head as the vampire whispered, "We're going to kill him."

Looking up at the vicious bloodsucker the lavender-eyed human asked "Kill who?"

"The vampire who humiliated me to no end, he destroyed everything of mine, and I'm going to kill him in order to get my revenge..." Licking his lips he continued,

"I'm coming for you Atem... I'm coming."

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Closing: Well, there ya go, I didn't think it was as good as my last chapter but prove me wrong! Hope you liked it as much as my last chappie though! Please review, or else I'll have'ta be really mean! No I can't do that… I'm to in love with this story and I want to know how it's going to continue. Yes, yes… I am strange. There I admit it okay?

- peachi