Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Don't cry for me ❯ stranger in my eyes ( Chapter 1 )

Ok here it is My completely awkward version or attempt of romance and drama. Like a soap opera.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Yugioh

Anzu sighed out of complete boredom. It was 8 o clock, her parents were gone, and there was nothing to do. She sat upstairs at her desk, watching the rain fall from the sky, it started slow and then got faster then some thunder shook the house, She loved the rain, it was like natures personal music. It was the perfect thing for a dancer to become one with nature with. Rain was just that calming. ‘Maybe I should call someone.’ She thought. ‘Nah no one would want to do anything in this weather. She was about to turn on her TV when she heard a soft, almost unsure knocking at the door. ‘Who would be out in this weather?’ She tried to look out her window to see who it was, but the rain was blocking her view. She sighed and forced her lazy body up to get the door. As soon as it opened, lighting illuminated the figure. It was a girl and that was about all she could tell.

“Anzu. It’s me. please let me in.” the girl said. her voice seemed desperate and not to familiar.

“um... do I know you?”

“Yes. The girl stepped forward and pulled down the hood on her head, revealing bleach-blonde hair with pitch black bangs. "It's me, Sabrina” Anzu expression went from confusion to that of a beached fish. Sabrina was her best friend when she lived in New York. After they moved, they both kept close contact but haven't seen each other in almost ten years.

“I don’t believe it. What are you doing here?” Anzu finally said, pulling Sabrina into a crushing hug, earning a relieved sigh from the other girl.

“It’s a long story but... do you think I could stay here tonight. I have no where else to go.”

“Of course. Oh my god. it’s been like, ten years. How did you find me?”

“Some people call it deductive reasoning, i call it ’I used your address and a map’” Anzu laughed at the familiar sarcasm. This was Sabrina. No doubt.

“Look at how different you look. Girl, the years have been good to you.” In the light, Anzu got a better look at her friend. Her bleach blonde hair was about mid-back, where as her bangs fell to her shoulders. She was wearing a gray hooded, formfitting cotton dress and a pair of blue jeans over a pair of boots. Her eyes look slightly relieved to the courtesy she was being shown, but still very aware and anxious all the same. She looked very beautiful, in a plain sense, regarding the fact that she wasn’t wearing any makeup or jewelry, save for a big black choker that covered her entire neck with a silver heart gram coming off it. She looked very cold.

“Here Sabrina. Come upstairs and I’ll let you borrow some clothes. The one’s in your bag are probably wet also. Then you tell me what’s going on.”

“Gladly.” Sabrina answered. Then seemed to go into deep thought. Anzu just put it behind her and lead Sabrina into the very pink girly room where Anzu resided. She pulled out a blue long sweatshirt and a pair of pink cotton pants as Sabrina was examining Anzu's overly girly room. “When did you get a tattoo?” Anzu asked. “What do you mean?” Sabrina said, glancing curiously at the brown haired girl. “ There on you r side“ She replied, gesturing to Sabrina's side, where her shirt had gone up. Sabrina glanced down and quickly pulled her shirt back down.“ Its not..” Sabrina sighed and started over “About two years ago. What about you? Any hidden body art or piercing perhaps?” She said as Anzu eyed Sabrina's tattoo and belly button ring. Then she scoffed “yea right. My parents would murder me if I got one.” She threw the clothes to Sabrina and And watched her leave the room to change. ‘ Why is she acting so weird?‘ Anzu thought ‘She never used to be this modest.‘ ‘She’s probably just scared.’ She answered herself ‘She did just come to the house of someone she hasn’t seen in ten years from New York. Leave it alone’ Anzu sighed and agreed with herself. It probably wasn’t weird that Sabrina had a tattoo. ‘But why a pentagram?’ She thought ’I thought she was catholic. Oh well. If it’s important, she’ll tell me.’ Sabrina walked back into the room and sneered. “God Anzu. What's with all the pink.” “What can I say” Anzu replied “I am just in touch with my feminine side.” Sabrina rolled her eyes and sat on the fluffy bed next to Anzu. “So where do I begin.” “The beginning would be nice.” “Shut up. Ok. So you know that after my parents were in that car wreak, I moved in with my brother Kyle. Things were going great until his girlfriend cheated on him then dumped him. He went kind of psychotic and was sent to a center for a month and a half and when he got out, he shot himself.

“Oh my god.” Anzu said, putting her hands over her mouth in surprise. “I’m so sorry”

Sabrina gave her a small smile and continued. “ After that, I was lying to people saying I was living with an older sibling because I didn’t want to leave. I started actually stealing so I could keep paying for the apartment. This went on for about four years. I dropped out of school and tried to get a job. Then my landlord kicked me out, saying that I was a waste of space. I stayed on the streets and begged people for money for a while...” She was cut off by another one of Anzu’s deathly hugs. She could tell that Anzu was slightly crying for her friend’s plight, but Sabrina continued. “I saved up a lot of money and was able to buy a red eye flight to Domino. I’ve spent the last week looking for you and now I found you.” Sabrina returned Anzu’s hug and sighed. “ God I'm really tired.” Anzu laughed and looked at the clock. “Well no wonder, It’s almost midnight.” Here you can have my bed tonight and I’ll take the floor. Then tomorrow we can look for a new apartment for you or something. You probably aren't gonna get used to living by someone else's rules and you can buy cheap apartments. Even if you are only 16.” The only reply Anzu got was a stifled yawn and a mumble “mmm” She smiled and turned off the lights and curled under the blankets on the floor, still not believing who was in her bed.

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“Sabrina... wake up...I’ve got waffles-”

“Waffles. Ok I’m up.” Sabrina pulled her self up and off the bed which had brought her the best nights sleep she had in the longest time. She blinked wearily only to be confronted by a smiling Anzu.

“Come on sleepy. We are gonna meet the rest of the gang and hag out for a while. We don’t have to look for your home right away, right?”

“Whatever. Did you wash my clothes? I don’t think I’ll last much longer in all your pink glory.”

“Oh I’m sorry. What, is pink like kryptonite to you?

“ Pretty much” Anzu laughed and picked up Sabrina’s clean fresh clothes and threw them at their owner.

After Sabrina was feed, the two girls headed out. Anzu started leading them to an apartment complex when Sabrina stopped. “I thought we weren't looking just yet. I wanna have fun.”

“You will” Anzu replied “Where just meeting everyone at Ryou’s because 1) It's in between everyone’s house and 2) He isn’t to social and we’re gonna make him come and have fun.

“ I can’t believe you would wake someone up like that.”

“ What can I say. I’m heartless.” The two girls continued up the hallway when Anzu stopped this time. Sabrina was soon confronted by a mess of colorful star shaped hair. “aggh, more colors “ Anzu laughed at her friends plight. “ Sabrina, this is Yugi Mouto, and the one over there Is Yami. They’re brothers but you can tell them apart because yami’s hotter. This comment made Yugi anime fall and glare at Anzu. “ Sorry I’m late” Came the unmistakable voice of Jonouchi as he put his arm around Sabrina “ So who’s the hottie? You looking for a good time?” He smirked down at her “that depends” She answered “ Are you looking for a foot in the ass...” Jonouchi sighed” Ok you win and Honda ain’t gonna make it. He had to baby-sit. Poor guy” Anzu sighed. “ Sabrina, the remarkable amount of dumb you just witnessed was Jonouchi. But you can call him jonu . “ So I guess I’ll knock” Yugi broke in, trying to stop the impending fight that threatened. His knock was greeted by a crash on the wall and the sound of metal scraping metal, then the door flew open, revealing a very relieved looking Ryou. “ Hey man.” Jonouchi said” Where going to the mall and your comin’ to. You spend to much time alone.” Yugi nodded graciously at this comment and Ryou smiled gratefully. “ Ok I’ll be right back.” The door was closed and some muffled shouts were heard along with a slap and the door was opened again. Ryou emerged and quickly shut it. “Lets go” he said and almost ran down the hall. Grateful to be out of there. His Yami, Bakura, had gotten drunk the night before and was taking his hangover out on Ryou. Bakura had claimed that he only hit Ryou when the boy ‘Deserved it’ But lately it’s just been going crazy. Everyone walked out of the complex and the awkward silence was broken by Anzu. “Oh Ryou this is my friend Sabrina. She’s moving to Domino.” Sabrina looked up at Ryou and stammered in her walking. ‘ He’s beautiful’ She thought. ‘ He looks so strange, so indifferent. I love the hair but I wonder why he’s wearing long sleeves. It’s really hot.’ She glanced down at her own clothes and smirked’ Yeah I won’t ask him. I’ll look like a hypocrite.’ “Hi. I’m Sabrina” She managed to choke out. “I’m Ryou” He said calmly back. He was having problems with it though. She was the most beautiful thing he ever seen. The silence was broken by Sabrina asking the obvious question. “ What was all that noise in your apartment?” Ryou winced but quickly straightened his composure and stated “ My older brother. Me and him got into a fight and it didn't help that he was drunk-” He cut it off, hoping that Bakura wasn’t mentally there. Ryou checked. He wasn’t.” so where are we going?” Jonouchi finally asked. “ The mall” Anzu and Yugi answered in unison. The walk up there was mostly silent when Jonouchi felt it necessary to break the silence with questions. “So Sabrina... Where are you from?“ “New York...“ “Why did you come here then?“ Sabrina put an arm around Anzu. “To see my darling bestest buddy of course.“ “So would you consider ever going out with me. Sabrina smiled in a flirtatious way and batted her eyes at him. “No freaking way.“ “Oh” When they reached the mall, Jonouchi said they had to hit the food court, because he was hungry. Tea and Yugi both agreed and Sabrina and Ryou, who both just said they weren't hungry, went and found a table. They sat in silence until Sabrina spoke up” So you really have an older brother?” Ryou stared at her intently “ Yes...” “Well why didn’t he come? “He was hung over. I told you that.” He cocked his head to one side “ Why do you ask?” Sabrina gave him the same look “ No reason. There’s just something about you... I don’t know what though.” she shook her head and Ryou sighed. The silence continued until it was rudely broken by a man grabbing Sabrina’s shoulder and pulling her out of the chair. “ Hey you bitch” he said in a gruff voice “ I helped you and you didn’t pay me. No it’ll cost you double” He pulled Sabrina close and tried to pull her into a kiss when she was roughly pulled away. She looked up and realized that Ryou had broken out of his trance enough and pulled her to his chest. She calmed and moved closer to him. Ryou mustered all his strength and shot back at the man “ I don’t know what the hell your problem is but you need to back the hell off.” The man scoffed and stepped toward the two “ So who’s this your boyfriend or someone to buy your drinks.” He made to grab Sabrina’s hair but Ryou, being quicker spun around so Sabrina was behind him and slammed his elbow into the mans stomach. Hard. The man immediately fell to the ground and Ryou said a silent prayer that his Yami had taught him something useful. He grabbed Sabrina by the hand and pulled her out of there. She had to run to keep up with him and he didn’t stop until they were outside, away from the people who would question him. He then turned and stared at her “ Ok so what the hell was that?” She looked frightened and leaned into his chest and started crying. He seemed surprised and then awkwardly put his hands on her hair. She glanced up at him and quickly kissed him on the lips. Ryou looked down at her shocked and she turned red. He smiled and returned the kiss, only more passionately. She wrapped her arms around his neck and sighed. Ryou just kept playing with her hair, not knowing what else to do. Anzu, Jonouchi, and Yugi ran up to the two, away from the chaos inside the mall. “Damn Ryou. When’d you learn to kick ass like that?” The person in question just shrugged and looked away. Sabrina pulled her hand away and walked up over to Anzu “ Um...can we go back to your house? I don’t wanna be here right now.” Anzu nodded and said silent good byes before heading into the afternoon sun. After Anzu and Sabrina turned the corner, Yugi and Jonouchi turned on Ryou. “ So what was that about?” Yugi finally questioned. Ryou just shrugged again, not really knowing what to say. “ Some drunk came up and started messing with her. I just did what anyone else would do.” “Yeah but how did you learn to do that?” Jonouchi asked, still amazed that Ryou had brought down a burly drunk who was at least twice as big as him. “My ‘brother’” Ryou answered dryly. Yugi got it that he was clearly say ‘don’t ask’ but didn’t have to explain it to the blonde of the group because he was distracted. “ Hey Yami’s coming’ back. So now what do we do?” Yami came up to them and went on telling them that there seemed to be no damage done. The four boys agreed to hang out at the Game Shop for the rest of the day and the whole subject was dropped.

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Across town, Anzu was suffering from an eerily quiet Sabrina. The girl had barley said anything since they returned home two hours earlier. Apartment hunting was dropped and they were just going to spend the day hanging at Anzu’s. So far they were sprawled across the giant couch in the living room watching Lord of the Rings. “ God. Vegial Mortinson is so hot, isn’t he?” Anzu asked. Trying to make small talk. Sabrina just shrugged, not really paying attention. “ So you wanna tell me what happened today?” Anzu said flipping off the TV. “ I just ran into a guy and he was in a bad mood. I can’t really explain it.” Anzu raised her eyebrows, but didn’t say anything else. The rest of the evening was pretty much uneventful besides the fact that Sabrina finally began to talk again. By ten o'clock, both girls were asleep.

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Ryou sighed as he unlocked and opened his apartment door. He had left an extremely pissed off Bakura this morning and wasn’t looking forward to seeing what was in store. He opened the door and turned on the lights . “Turn off the Damn lights you bastard!” came an angry voice from the living room. He sighed and turned them off, letting his eyes readjust to the dark. He knew the apartment pretty well so it wasn’t to hard to find his way around. He was in a small hall which split off into two different doorways, the living room and kitchen. The kitchen led to a dead end, and besides there was nothing in there but a flipped over table and the regular kitchen stuff. He slid into the living room, trying to make as little noise as possible. Bakura was apparently still very hung over and was probably still pissed at the fact that he had left that morning and came back long after the strict set time limit. Since he was hung over, Bakura probably wouldn’t car as much about the time thing as he would about the noise. The living had a clear pathway to the stairs which was created by a couch with a huge stab in the head rest closest to the wall. There was a flipped over recliner, as a result of the fight that morning and a TV set on a dented table against the wall. He heard Bakura murmur something incoherent and roll over on the couch, which just made him move faster. He stalked upstairs and turned left to his room, which was the worst by far. He opened the door, having to push hard into it because the doorframe was bent. It looked like something hard had rammed into it and it made the door stick. He quickly shut the door and turned on the lights. This room, to him, was the most depressing room in the entire house. There was a bed frame and a mattress with a thin blanket thrown on to it. In the corner there was a dresser with a missing drawer and there was a walk-in closet that had a lock on it. That was where Bakura stored his things, knifes and stuff like that. There was a old pocket knife with the blade three inches in the wall right next to the door and there were mysterious red blots all over the walls and on corners on the carpet. Ryou ment to clean them but decided against it, considering that most of the stains were set in and would just be replaced in no time. Ryou just turned the light back off and sunk on the bed. It was almost midnight and he was exhausted.

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Bakura shot open his eyes and sat up. ‘Fuck this hangover.’ He was mad. More like royally pissed. Being hung over was bad enough but being hung over with nothing to do... ‘Damn ‘ he thought ‘this false form thing is really annoying. That's it. I’ll just old school for tonight.’ He stood up and stopped concentrating on his false form, allowing himself to go back into the ring. There, he learned that Ryou was already asleep and couldn’t put up a fight . Bakura easily manipulated the unconscious boy’s mind and took control, glad to feel the hangover wean a bit. He left the apartment and stormed off into the night.

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Sabrina opened her eyes, from where she was asleep. Her cell phone was going off. She checked the caller ID and answered it. “What do you want” She answered in a harsh whisper. “What do you mean you know where I am...Wait you can’t use her against me. What about time. Is she ok. Hello? Hello!” She looked down at the floor and seeing Anzu asleep already, grabbed her bag and climbed down the window into the night a stabbing ping of guilt going threw her as she ran down the street. She just had to get away and fast.

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