Major major apologies! T-T I'm afraid I started a new full time job and it's quite time consuming! But fear not dear readers, as I haven't given up my drive for this story! Please enjoy this next chapter!

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Raven wasn't sure how long she'd been walking or how many stalls she had passed but she couldn't seem to find the stand from earlier, clutching the bird closer too her she looked around worriedly.

'Great…I can't find the stall or the others. This isn't good…' her heart started to pound as she came to the realization,

"I'm lost." And what was worse was the fact that she had somehow gone straight into the dense crowd and it didn't seem to be getting thinner anytime soon. Raven shivered as the wind passed by again, this time her teeth were actually chattering.

She had to stop as her fear of crowds got the best of her, making her vision swirl and her stomach suddenly weak. Placing a hand over her mouth she noticed something else, though the people around her pretty much ignored her she could hear her name being said, over and over.

"Kill."

"Abomination."

"Monster"

"Raven."

The voices were everywhere, yet she couldn't actually see anyone saying those things. Her heart pounded harder as the voices got closer and closer, her lungs seemed to freeze and refuse to accept air. She touched her throat but felt herself breathing in and out like normal yet she didn't feel it.

Everything stopped suddenly when she felt tiny hands clasp around her leg, she looked down eyes wide as a young boy no older than 8 or 9, with tattered clothes and dirty blonde hair under a patched up gray hat, was furiously trying to rip off her deck holder, but finding the buckle a bit more than he could handle.

Raven wasn't sure what he was after until finally he got it un-done and began to run away from her. This shook her from her trance-like state and she took off after the child just barely keeping him in her line of sight through the crowd. Finally they broke through and it was just them as they ran through the park, the kid always just a step away from her as he zig zagged through the trees.

She was just barely able to keep up and as she passed a red and black haired couple hiding in the trees, they called out her name in worry but she ignored them as the kid ran straight for the streets. Her heart pounded hard as the child ran into the oncoming traffic just as a large truck came,

"Look out!" She dived for the child and held tightly as a loud horn filled her ears.

Crow sighed,

"Looks like we got kicked out of another game." He said as he approached the bench that Raven was on. Only to look and see only Bruno sitting there with a green square alien in his lap,

"How many has that been today Crow?" he said with a laugh. Crow raised his brow, the bag with all of his stuff was there with the bluenette but the dark haired girl was no where to be found.

"Bruno, where's Raven?" he shrugged,

"She said she was going to get something, but that was a while ago." He said looking worried. He could feel his heart nearly stop as he looked around. Jack, Carly, and the twins coming up behind him,

"Did you guys see where she went?" he asked them, they looked at each other before shaking their heads. Suddenly their crimson marks began to burn and glow as a vision of Raven holding a child as a truck came toward them flashed in front of his eyes, her eyes glowed a bright yellow as crimson light enveloped her body before both of them vanished just as the truck went past.

"Shit!" he cursed and looked frantically around as the vision ended, his heart beated hard against his chest.

"Crow, relax! Maybe she found Akiza and Yusei and is with them, trying calling them." Bruno suggested. He nodded but before he could pull out his pager there was a ringing from inside the bag with the fish, some song about being wide awake began playing. He realized it was her cell phone and quickly fished it out flipping it open without looking at the caller ID.

"Raven!"

"Crow? Crow, Its Akiza." He heard cars in the background and got worried,

"Akiza is Raven with you and Yusei?" he heard talking but couldn't hear what they were saying.

"Yeah Raven's with us, I assume your mark lit up as well?" Crow confirmed it, and the women told him their location before he hung up the phone. Breathing a sigh of relief he looked at the others,

"She's fine," they all sighed as well, "Would you mind staying here with our stuff while I go get her?" Jack crossed his arms,

"You better bring that trouble maker straight back here so I can give her an extra large whacking for being such a nuisance to my royal self." Crow rolled his eyes and smirked, he knew that was just 'Jack talk' for "I was really worried and I want to make sure myself that she is okay."

'Although if he actually hits her I might have to fight him.' He thought glancing at the blonde who had started speaking again,

"Of course the little fool wouldn't be in this situation if you had taken better care of her." Talk about digging the knife deeper, Crow growled throwing up a fist in confrontation,

"What the hell you trying to say?" Jack rolled his eyes,

"Oh please, if you had been looking out for her like a proper boyfriend instead of playing games she wouldn't have run off." Crow glared,

"Yeah right! And who are you too comment on my relationship when your constantly ignoring Carly for Raven's sake. She's not your god damn sister man, so back off!" the blonde leaned down bringing their faces closer, his arms still crossed on his chest.

"Don't think you can tell me who I, Jack Atlas, can and can't consider siblings stupid bird!" Jack said using his height to glare down at him.

"Guys come on; this is nothing to fight over." Bruno said trying to alleviate the situation but to no avail as they both just turned and yelled at him too,

"Keep out of it!"

"Don't give me that, king-wanna-be attitude! She's my girlfriend and I say you can't treat her that way. And besides she wouldn't have walked away if you hadn't gotten all competitive with those games, it probably scared her!"

"Says the boy who constantly insults and berates her then turns around and apologizes like an abusive husband! I will never understand what she sees in the likes of you."

For Crow things seemed to move in slow motion after that, he wasn't even aware of his arm raising or connecting with the blondes face, sending him crashing to the ground. His awareness didn't kick in even when he heard yelling and his name being called as he continued to pummel the blonde or when he was being pulled backwards by Yusei and Bruno.

Time seemed to start again as a small form wrapped their arms around him, sad blue eyes staring up at him and the sweet sound of her voice saying his name in only the way she could that would make his heart beat hard against his chest. The red head felt her hands on his cheeks, his own arms wrapped around her body instinctually as he buried his face in her neck.

Raven wasn't sure what happened; she, Akiza and Yusei had arrived after parting ways with the child whom she had ended up giving money too anyway. When they arrived Jack and Crow seemed to be at each others throats for some reason, then the blonde had called Crow an 'abusive husband' which on one hand made her blush but on the other had struck her hard in the heart.

Crow seemed to move as if he was a blur and suddenly he was on top of the blonde punching him over and over as he lay on the ground. Yusei and Bruno was able to pull them apart as Carly rushed over to check on the blonde who sat up, wiping blood from the corner of his mouth.

Crow however didn't seem to want to stop as he pushed against the two holding him, Raven moved on impulse putting herself between the two and wrapping her arms around the red haired male. Instantly he seemed to come back to himself as his once rigid body slackened and she felt his arms wrap securely around her.

Raven looked up into his eyes, placing her hands softly on his face as he suddenly hid it in her neck. She was surprised at first but gently rubbed her thumbs across his cheeks hoping to calm him, she could tell he was upset by Jacks comment and maybe even the actions that resulted because of it.

"Shhh…its okay Crow…Just relax, everything's going to be okay…" she said calmly, she heard Leo call after Jack as he began to silently walk away. She could tell he was also still angry by the sound of his footsteps; she spoke softly

"Jack." He stopped,

"We all know you didn't mean what you said, and Crow shouldn't have reacted the way he did. I'm not mad, so please take all the time you need to calm down." He stood there for a few minutes more before silently walking away, Carly trailing behind him asking him a barrage of questions. Raven sighed,

"It seems I cause trouble even when I'm not around." She chuckled attempting to lighten the mood too little avail as Crow hold on her waist just seemed to tighten.

"It looks like theirs a warming station over there; we should go there till Jack comes back." Yusei pointed to a tented area not far from them, they all nodded their skin red from the cold. Bruno picked up their bags of prizes, fish and candy; she smiled in thanks at him as he walked past and turned her attention to the male still leaning against her.

"Crow, come on. Lets go get warmed up okay?" he nodded and stepped away from her, his hands still firmly on her waist.

Once they were inside the tent Raven let out a sigh as her body temperature rose and she could feel her toes again. Inside she saw some tables set up with a few places for food vendors and heaters at every corner, along with a small area with a single round step, what looked to be a TV and a long black stick that sat in the middle.

Instead of figuring out what that could possibly be her attention turned to the maroon haired woman who waved them over to an empty table, patting the males hands on her waist she lead them toward it. Crow sat down heavily on one of the chairs, burying his face in his hands. Sitting next to him she smiled at the others who stood around them,

"Is he going to be okay?" Luna looked worried, Raven nodded.

"Yeah he will, why don't you all go get something to eat? I'm sure your starving after all this excitement." Leo's stomach growled loudly in response. Raven giggled,

"Then we will get something for you and Crow too, ok?" the young boy smiled as he ran off to one of the vendors with the others trailing behind him. Once they were gone she turned back to Crow who still hadn't moved from his position.

"Crow? Are you gonna mope all day now?" she smirked as she said this; Crow slid his hands in his orange locks sighing loudly.

"I'm such an idiot!" she chuckled,

"Well yes, you can be." He looked at her shocked for a second before smiling.

"Hey! You're supposed to make me feel better, not insult me!" he put on a mock sad face and quickly shifting forward his hands tickling her sides, she curled into herself giggling as she tried to wiggle away from him.

Crow was persistent however and continued laughing along with her before his hands stilled and moved upwards until they were resting on her cheeks as she had done earlier, she blushed as her head was moved till both were looking straight into the others eyes making her heart race as he smiled at her.

Pale blue eyes widened as he leaned forward capturing her lips with his own in a soft but meaningful kiss that, when he pulled away again, left her breathless.

"I must have done something right to meet you Raven." He whispered as he stole another kiss, this one more passionate than the last, her lips parting slightly with his own.

Her already pounding heart had to keep from stopping as she felt his tongue enter her mouth, twisting and rubbing against her own. She was so lost in the feeling of his mouth against her she almost forgot where they were. Almost.

A soft "Ahem." Broke them from their bubble of passionate lip-locking, making Raven pull her head away from his, it wasn't until then that their change in position was actually noted; somewhere along the way she had gone from her own seat to sitting on Crow's lap, her hands buried deep in his bright orange hair, his headband failing to the side slightly nearly covering one of his eyes, Crows own hands were in a similar situation the exception being that one of his hands lay on her lower back. And both were breathing heavily as if they had just run a mile without stopping, and worse yet; Yusei and the others had returned and were currently giving them a mix of blushes and sly smiles.

Raven personally didn't know weather to be mortified that they had witnessed that or the fuzzy feeling that was left in her head after that amazing kiss.

The dark haired girl decided to let him handle this as she bent her head down and hid it in his neck, a dark blush on her cheeks at this predicament.

Crow felt Raven press her face against his neck and chuckled as he fixed his lopsided headband, he could feel a slight blush on his cheeks as he stared up at Yusei who smirked down at him as Akiza rushed Leo and Luna to the other side of the table food trays in hand.

"Uh…Hey guys, welcome back?" Yusei just rolled his eyes,

"Try to keep it PG dude, we are in a public place." He joined Akiza on the other side of the table as Leo slid a tray toward them,

"Here, we weren't really sure what to get you guys so we just got you some taiyaki. One is with Chocolate and another is with cheese." Leo said with a smile as he proceeded to dig into his own plate of food. Crow smirked,

"Thanks little man." He tapped the girl still currently hiding her face, on the shoulder.

"Hey tomato face, come on its chow time!" she nodded and slowly got off his lap, he instantly missed the warmth she had provided but figured from her beet red face that would be pushing it. As she returned to her own seat and picking up her own fish shaped pastry, blowing on it lightly.

Crow picked up the remaining pasty and bit into it as he watched her bend it from the middle, effectively pulling the two halves apart. The brown chocolate filling spilling out slightly from both ends, he watched her in wonder as she took the larger of the halves and placed it back on the plate before carefully biting into the smaller portion in her hands with a smile.

The red head chuckled softly at how much she resembled a proud child, she looked up hearing his laughter and blushed as he looked at her, a single eye brow raised and a smile on his lips.

"Saving some for later Ms. Hamster?" his heart skipped at how cute she looked as she blushed and looked away,

"I-It's for…Jack and Cary…I'm sure they will be hungry to when they come back…" Raising an eye brow he looked at her seriously,

"He might not come back you know, when Jack gets steamed he tends to disappear for a while to blow off steam." She shrugged,

"It's the least I can do…since I'm kind of the reason you both were fighting in the first place…" Crow, about to disagree was interrupted by Akiza.

"That's true, but it's only because both of those lug heads care about you. But they both took it too far, so if it's anyone's fault it's theirs." The red haired girl took a sip of her drink, Crow knew she was right.

'It did start that way, and then I had to go and instigate him. I'm sure Jack was just as worried about Raven as I was...Speaking of which…' Crow turned his gaze back on Raven and leaned in close,

"So why did you run off?" Said raven haired girl was in mid-chew as he asked this question, she sported her signature blush and quickly swallowed her food.

"W-Well…I got cold waiting for you and then I remembered that warm drink from earlier, I didn't think it was far so…I kinda went off…" Little tears formed in the corner of her eyes as she continued.

"Then this little kid took my deck so I had to chase after him and he ran into traffic and a car was about to hit him…" Crow's heart pounded hard at the memory, "Then suddenly we were both back in the park and Yusei and Akiza were there. I-I asked him why he took my deck and he told me about how h-his little brother was sick and needed money to pay for the medical bills…" she trailed off here, her eyes glassy as her teeth lightly nibbled on her bottom lip.

Crow could feel his hands itching to be around her, so much so he almost dropped his pastry. Before he could act upon this though Carly came stomping into the tent, her face red and cheeks puffed out like a puffer fish in Crow's opinion, which also meant that Jack wouldn't be far behind.

Weellll there we have it! I I wonder what happened with Carly? I bet Jack's big mouth said something mean! Lol anywho! Please Review with any thoughts or opinions I'd love to hear from you all! And I promise to update on time this week! :D

Till Next time! :3