Introduction: You guys… I am soooo sorry that I haven't updated! I am extremely upset with myself! I just needed to update my other stories, and this week was very busy. I had to study for finals, and my dance recital was last weekend. On June 11, it was my birthday! Lol, I wanted to have this story updated by then but I never got a chance. I'm really sorry please forgive me! As a present I give you a wonderful chappie!

Announcements: I'm going on vaca from June 30th to July 6th to Daytona to see the Pespi 400rds. N I don't have a laptop so I can't work on anything… But I will update EVERY story I have (excluding one-shots) A.S.A.P.! I hope that anyone who likes my one chapter stories so far are getting excited!

Shout Outs:

HealingOpal: I'm sorry that it made you confused. The ending… You'll find out what happens. I hope that everything will come together in this chapter.

agent-doo: That was two different scenes during the flashback. The age, the age the age the age… Hmmm. Well I believe I wanted Anzu to be eight and Atem to be twelve. That may change, I don't really have any of this story planned out. It just comes as I write (that may be bad.) Finally, Atem has just one lifetime. He wasn't a human, died, came back, and is now living as a vampire. (This was something I planned) Yes, I will answer your questions! As long as they don't reveal too much.

Attic Flower: Of course Anzu will be okay!... For now… hehehe. Bakura's gonna be a very bad person soon…

Pairings:
(Main) AtemxAnzu SetoxAnzu
(Other) JonouchixMai SetoxShizuka (slight!)


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

Chapter 4
We are all Fighting
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It all flowed through her… Each lingering moment drifted through her body as if it were the ocean waters rushing up against the beach. Anzu was delicately floating in a blank universe. Her surroundings were faded as she lay in the air, awake, yet asleep. One light was shining onto her. The rest of the area was in complete darkness.

Ignoring the light at first Anzu turned her head to the side. Her chestnut colored strands moved softly and brushed her face as they continued to move in a wave consecutively. However the brightness eventually stirred the young girl who slowly opened her two eyes.

There was nothing around her. Anzu looked in all directions to see if she could spot something… Anything.

"What am I doing here?" She questioned herself soothingly as her voice echoed into the distance.

I missed you…

At once the brunette looked upwards, trying to find where that voice had come from. The azure-eyed girl began to feel frightened after it had dissipated into the dark. "Wait! D-don't go!" she yelled after it, but only to find her voice ricocheting at the black surrounding. "I don't want to be alone again…" Anzu gently hugged herself as she felt her eyes well up with tears. She didn't want to be alone, she felt as if she had been alone all of her life. And she hated every second of it.

The turmoil of crying every single night, knowing that she could never escape the clutches of a man whom she despised had caused her so much pain and agony. It wasn't fair, why was she cursed to stay with a bad tempered rapist who claimed he owned her? For some reason she felt as if there was more to her life then what she had remembered. That she was missing something that was going to change her life possibly for the… better.

Please come back to me… I can't live another day without you… I need you my love.

Anzu shot her head up. There was the voice again. That deep kind voice that made every inch of her grow secure and strong. The voice that she felt she could trust. She lifted her hands above her head, trying to reach for the stern tone. "I'm here, I'm right here!"

I can't loose you again…

"I'm here! Please answer me!"

My love… Anzu…

"ATEEEM!"

((Scene Change))

She woke up with a jolt, jumping straight up in bed. Anzu breathed heavily as her grip on the black silk sheets tightened. "ANZU!" A voice cried as the woman felt two strong arms wrap themselves protectively around her upper torso. "Wha-what happened?" the brunette whispered.

"Oh Anzu, I was so scared, you passed out… I was so afraid something happened to you."

"Huh?" Both of her eyes opened wide as a rush of realization came back to her. 'I'm back with Atem… He took me from Kaiba and… my neck!' Reflexively Anzu unintentionally released the grip that Atem had on her, and felt both sides of her neck over and over again.

"Anzu? What's wrong?" the tri-haired vampire asked while tilting his head to the side.

She looked up to him as she scooted away, trying to keep him from noticing. However he did. "Anzu, why are you moving away?" He leaned forward.

"Ju-just stay back." She replied while waving a hand fearfully in front of her.

However he didn't abide by her actions and moved right up to her. The tri-haired demon cupped Anzu's pale face in his hand. "Anzu… What is wrong? Please… I need to know." She gulped as his stern eyes peered into her sapphire orbs. What a gorgeous male he was. Those sharp golden bangs and gravity defying spikes. His beautifully chiseled face that fit his frame perfectly.

"Anzu?" he said yet again in one of the softest voices she ever heard.

Something inside Anzu finally snapped, clutching Atem's forearms tightly she screamed at the top of her lungs, "You… You turned me into a vampire didn't you!" The shock that hit his face made Anzu's eyes widen, she felt ashamed. He couldn't speak. He didn't speak. All he did was look in many directions… But not into her eyes.

Gently she released her grip on him. Looking sadly down to his legs she spoke, "Atem… You… Di-"

"NO!"

The volume of his voice made Anzu close her eyes tight and cringe. It was so loud… She didn't like it. It made her feel scared, and… vulnerable. Anzu felt a wave of tears rush to her eyes. "I-I'm sorry"

He griped her tightly as he brought her into his chest. "Forgive me Anzu… I didn't mean to shout." As he spoke those pardoning words the brunette had this strange sense that she could feel him… Shake. 'Why would he be crying?' she asked herself.

Atem dug his face into the crook where her neck and collar bone connected, "Anzu… I never would dare to bite you. I don't want you to become something like me… I would do anything to keep you human."

She tenderly wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him closer, eventually rubbing soothing circles on his back. "I believe you Atem." Anzu couldn't help it, for some reason her heart wouldn't allow her to not believe him. It wasn't physically possible. No matter how hard she tired, she couldn't get angry with him. But she also felt that, it was a good thing. Besides, when she felt her neck only a few moments ago there were no puncture holes anywhere. Atem wasn't lying, he couldn't have. 'I guess I passed out from him pleasuring me and dreamed that.' Immediately the brunette's face flushed brighter than an apple. However she soon smirked. 'Maybe I should continue where things were headed too. Just so he knows that I really do forgive him.'

It was the perfect plan, she did like what he had done to her. It felt amazing, she wanted that pure bliss once again surging through her.

Steadily Anzu brought her hands to his lightly tanned cheeks. He looked down at her with bloodshot eyes, 'He was crying…' It pained her so much to see him like this.

((Scene Change))

"The doctor is with her right now, but he won't be too long so why don't you take a seat over there?" The blonde haired nurse gestured towards the waiting room with a smile. After nodding the drenched teen turned and walked over to one of the blue hospital chairs and sat down. He ran a hand through his sandy tangled mess while his two lavender eyes stared blissfully at the vile in the other.

'What I did for Bakura wasn't good, but I needed to save my sister. I can't have her die.' He looked to the right, out through the window where it was pouring rain from the thick gray sky. 'Hopefully Bakura doesn't know how important my sister is. When she's better maybe we can get her back, if he got her from that corporate jerk that is…' A flash of lightning emerged from the clouds, Malik looked back towards the bottle held in his hands. 'Atem won't like it… However if he wants her back to normal, he'll have no other choice.'

((Scene Change))

"Atem you fucking asswhole… I swear to god I'll bash your head so many fucking times that it'll explode." The male-brunette shifted gears as he turned a sharp corner and sped past a few citizens. Seto had kept a stern gaze on the slick road that his Viper was racing over. His windshield wipers were moving back and fourth rapidly while the rain pounded against the glass, as if it had a desire to shatter it.

His cobalt eyes narrowed as he thought hard. 'Now that he took Anzu back, my entire plan is shot. Dammit! How the hell did he get to her? I know Atem had something planned.' A vehicle caught Seto's eyes as he glanced quickly into the rearview mirror. A wicked smirk drew steadily across his face. 'That motorcycle has been following me for awhile now…'

Suddenly Kaiba turned the leather wheel sharply, causing the corvette to spin into a side street. He looked back into the rearview mirror. The motorcycle was gone. "Hmph." He smiled with satisfaction.

After the alley connected to one of the main streets Seto once again jerked the wheel to the left, the car obeyed as it headed towards an enormous structure. Yet as he drove, he failed to notice the navy motorcycle that was once again in pursuit of the Viper Kaiba owned.

((Scene Change))

Atem shot his head up as if he were a deer that just caught a disturbance within the silence of a forest. Anzu tilted her head. "Atem… What is it?" It was confusing her that one minute he was forlorn, the next austere. This unique vampire whom she supposedly had been arranged to marry, had so many unseen characteristics about him. Yet that's what aroused her, all of his hidden secrets that everyone was unaware of.

The crimson-eyed demon kept looking back and fourth. "I need to go." He stated as his arms abruptly released the petite figure sitting on the bed. She inched forward and held out a hand with his departure, wanting him to return for the warmth that he had supplied while holding her close. "Why?"

He stopped midway. Turning around Atem's golden bangs blocked the path of his eyes to Anzu. "Someone is coming… And it is a certain someone that I will not tolerate anywhere near here, or especially near you." With that the tri-haired vampire walked out sternly, lightly slamming the bedroom door on his way.

Anzu clutched the silk covering as her eyes began to water up.

"It's Seto."

((Scene Change))

Screeching to a halt, the engine's of the vette died down as the rain continued to pour heavily on the black asphalt. The driver's door opened and out came the tall CEO himself, Seto Kaiba. A streak of lightning emerged from the protection of the clouds as it flashed. Kaiba's features blackened out for all but a second, until the light faded and his glacial stare remained unhinged.

He opened the suitcase which was placed roughly on the car roof. Inside was a soft black cushion that held two objects.

One, was a .45 SIG-Sauer, a nice silver pistol that made Kaiba smirk as he held it up in front of him. 'This I will use to blow your brains and ass sky high.' The blue-eyed demon took the second object out of his case next. It was a silver cartridge, he opened the bottom of the gun, pushed the cartridge in, then closed it, after hearing a click he knew everything was set. The gun was loaded, now all Kaiba needed to do was shoot the damned creature from hell.

Tossing the metal suitcase inside Kaiba locked the corvette and started walking towards the huge mansion that lay before him, while placing the pistol in his trench-coat pocket.

He stopped when he heard a set of footsteps in front of him.

"Good Morning Atem." He stated with a grin.

Amidst the fog and pouring rain, came a spiky haired adult with looks to kill. Both of the male's intense blood eyes shot daggers at the approaching enemy, who was walking casually towards him.

"Kaiba, leave at once! Come any closer and I shall make sure that it will be all of your blood which will pour down the drains."

To many, that threat would certainly cause most to scream and run away with fear forever biting their heels. But for Seto Kaiba, Atem's threats only caused him to chuckle.

"You wish to fight me then?"

Atem lifted his head and frowned as his two eyes narrowed dangerously. "If it is to protect Anzu… Then I will fight to my death." The droplets of rain sleeked down his tanned face, drenching the vampire within the few minutes he had been standing there.

"Atem, I will get her back! I don't care how much she is to you, there is more use for her in my company then in your fucking heart!" Seto began to growl as the tri-haired demon's hands clenched themselves into fists.

"You bastard." He began with, "How dare you think that she has no purpose here! There is no way in hell that you'll take her away from me!" There was silence between the two vampire's except for the onslaught of rain plummeting from the heavens. "Seto, you know that Anzu is mine. We were both to be married, but then that accident happened. The only way Anzu was allowed to marry me was if I was human… But after that. Most were no longer. Only the people who managed to escape in time were the ones who were safe."

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"GO! You need to go now!"

A young girl was looking toward a dark skinned woman whose long raven-black hair was blowing in numerous directions by the gusts that the helicopter's blades were producing. "Anzu, come! We must leave at once!" She reached her hand out to the little girl who in turn clutched the boy lying on the ground. "NO! I won't go without him!"

"Anzu…" The boy on the ground said soothingly.

She turned her head towards him, her large blue eyes staring softly into his caring crimson orbs. "Yes?"

He held her had and squeezed it lightly. She squeezed back. "Anzu you need to leave at once."

"We're not going to wait any longer! If we do, we'll be caught in the explosion!" The helicopter pilot shouted as loud as he could above the noise of the chopping air and propelling engines, trying to catch the tan woman's attention. "Just wait!" She shouted back, then looked towards Anzu and again extended her hand as the copter began to lift from the ground.

"ANZU PLEASE COME! We need to go now!"

She looked to her with teary eyes. "No I can't leave him." The brunette looked back down to the boy who was holding her close. "If you don't go now you may be taken by him! Or worse." Anzu was crying when she looked at the tri-colored-haired boy again in the eyes. "If you go now, we may at least have a chance to see each other. I promise I'll find you."

"But-"

"ANZU!" The raven-haired woman shouted as her navy blue dress flowed in all directions around her.

She looked towards the woman, then back to the boy. This was it, this was her choice. "I'm staying Atem."

He looked at her, and then something about him changed. His eyes didn't hold the bright loving kindness the once held. Now it was nothing but darkness and evil.

"No."

With as much strength as he could muster, he threw Anzu away from him and towards the helicopter, where she was soon caught by the wrist.

Lying back down on the ground and breathing heavily he looked up to the young brunette in her white dress lovingly. Tears began to fall from his eyes while the black-haired woman called for someone's help, and a young blonde haired boy came up beside her to pull Anzu in.

"I love you Anzu."

She turned and looked down as her arm reached out as if wanting to once again be able to reach him. "ATEEEEM NOOO!" Anzu screamed at the top of her lungs. Finally with great effort the two pulled the little girl inside and slammed the door shut. Atem watched as the helicopter flew off into the black clouds and as far away as it could possibly get.

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"You do remember that don't you Kaiba?" Atem asked with malice. The rival looked down not wanting to make any eye contact with the vampire. Noticing the silence Atem crossed his arms as his two crimson eyes narrowed into slits. "I mean, it was your doing."

Kaiba smirked, revealing his fang, up to the tri-haired demon. "Atem… I still got her didn't I? I still took her from you."

Atem let out a fierce growl as he stepped forward. "It took you another seven years! You also snatched her when she was most vulnerable. Seto. You're nothing but a parasite who survives by making other people's lives miserable. For the next three years I was unstable and depressed. If I was human again I would have died… I almost committed suicide."

"Good riddance."

The shorter vampire rolled his eyes and then began to talk again. "You have no idea how much you hurt me, and the worst thing was, that you stole Anzu when I was weak myself. It was the opportune moment. Both of us were weak and fragile. So you stepped right in and took advantage of that."

A loud bang of thunder clapped in the distance. The gray surroundings looked as if they blended with the sky. Everything was colorless, lifeless. It was then that Atem thought of Anzu, how her bright cerulean eyes and beautiful warm smile would lighten up the entire atmosphere. She would walk somewhere, anywhere, and bring the happy times, and the warm air that made everyone think of the greatest moments. He looked towards the CEO who was watching him intently, waiting for the right time to strike. Seto, whenever he walked somewhere, he froze everything in his path, killing it instantly. 'No wonder everyone hates him.' Atem laughed quietly at his own insight.

It still caught his enemy's attention, who quickly snapped his head up at the noise. Even though the rain made such a clamor, Seto had the ears of a fox.

((Scene Change))

He drove up to a large black steel gate. Shaking his head from side to side, the rainwater flew off of his white tresses. "So this is where that jackass Atem lives." There was a large black gate connected by two stone pillars on each side. Each individual bar was taller than the one next to it, making an upwards curve towards the center. The largest bar was in the center and stood taller than the others. It had a shiny glass oval that was placed in the heart of the steel.

Bakura let his coffee-colored eyes scan the area. His eyes caught hold of a security system after a few seconds. "Bingo."

Bakura walked away from the motorcycle, as he stepped up to the panel that was placed in one of the stone columns. He looked at it for a few seconds, then began to press some buttons.

"Please enter your password."

The vampire jumped back slightly as the mechanic voice spoke abruptly into the air. It was silent once again. A loud continuous rhythm and hum of the rain echoed as it hit the ground.

'Where are the cameras?' he asked himself while looking to the side.

As soon as he spotted it, it spotted him. Within a split second a red light shone on top of the black camera. He then heard a small beeping noise as the panel in front of him started blinking red.

"Intruder Alert… Intruder Alert…" It said irritatingly.

"Aw shit." Bakura mumbled as his eyes narrowed. "I didn't want to use this yet but…" He smirked with mischievousness. "It'll be a way to test my new toy."

Reaching behind his back Bakura pulled out a golden rod that was hidden underneath his black trench-coat. "Let's see what you can do." Spinning it through his fingers, Bakura took hold of it tightly and aimed it at the security camera. The Millennium Rod shone brightly as it sent off a wave of golden aura. The camera began to glow of the same color, until the light faded and eventually the camera shattered and fell to pieces on the pavement.

"Now for this." He turned to the annoying panel that had stopped speaking. Bakura aimed the rod at it as well, and after a second it blew up as sparks emitted from the broken wires. "So much for your security Atem."

Looking upwards the pallid haired vampire jumped high and pulled him self up using the pillar as a support. He then flipped over the gate, missing the sharp points by mere inches, and then landed with two feet on the other side. "Hmph, and I thought I would have some difficulty." Bakura chuckled as he walked towards the front door with his hands in both pockets.

Yet, he failed to realize the oval on the center bar began turning red.

((Scene Change))

"I'll never forgive you for hurting us like that! You ruined our lives Seto Kaiba!" Atem flung his arm out in front of him as he yelled at the CEO.

The male brunette closed his eyes and smiled. "You and your pathetic threats Atem…" He looked up with a poisonous gleam in his cobalt eyes. "Are going to be forgotten as soon as I kill you!"

Seto tilted his head while looking hungrily at Atem with a ferocious smile.

The corner of his lip curved, "Are you ready to die Atem?"

At the time, the tri-haired demon was staring at the ground, eyes locked on the wet pavement. He looked up into the face of his ex partner, his now rival, his greatest enemy thus yet. Atem closed his eyes and exhaled.

The rain continued to drench the two adversaries. Most of Atem's golden strands of hair were plastered to his face. His gravity defying spikes were all separated, each weighing down more that the other by the sky's water.

Opening his eyes again, they fixed themselves on the lone figure standing a few feet away. Atem took the sword that was attached at his hip out of the black and gold sheath.

"… Seto, everyone's born ready to die."

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Closing: Ack! There were so many scene changes throughout this chapter! It was starting to confuse me. I had to keep going back to make sure everything made sense. Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter thoroughly and please leave a review for some support for the next! Peace out!

- peachi

I have decided, from now on after every chapter I'll give you guys a riddle to solve! I thought it would be fun. XD Whoever answers correctly can either...

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