Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Heat Wave ❯ The Grey Desert ( Chapter 2 )

AN: Hello! Thank you to everyone who reviewed! Just to tell you though I started college already and damn my Japanese class is hard so I may not be able to update once a week like I hoped but like I said I don't give up so I'll keep going. Also does anyone think I should have this romance? And if so who do you think? I was thinking Malik, but what do you think? Also one last note, Malik's Yami is still in the shadow realm so no he's not in this, sorry. Anyway hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own yugioh or any of its characters though I do own doujin with certain characters in it being naughty ^,- Mwahaha

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Japanese:

Baka Onna = Stupid Woman

Also I know some of you only know English names so I'll put this in here:

Anzu = Tea

Jou = Joey

Honda = Tristan (isn't that a girls' name?)

Ishuzu = Isis

Yami = Yugi's other half

Bakura = Ryou's other half

Heat Wave

Chapter 2: "The Grey Desert"

Malik was not having a good day. He gave a death glare to the sink and the sink seemed to mock him as it still did nothing. This had been going on for a little over a half hour as when he found out about the catastrophe, aka no power, and tried to get some kind of refreshment. So he and the sink had been having a stare down and so far the sink was winning. Being from Egypt or not it was getting hot and truth be told he lived underground in Egypt where there was shade and it was naturally cooler. At best it got in the lower nineties but they still had fucking water. This was the last straw as Malik charged at it with the Millennium rod and started to beat the living crap out of the poor plumbing equipment.

Once he was sure that said faucet was very much mangled he smirked and plopped down on the floor. They hadn't gotten a house with a basement when they moved to Domino so Ishuzu could take over the museum full-time because neither had very good memories with such things. But now he really wished he could have gotten over his stupid psychological scarring and went for one. He walked into the living room to see his sister with a screwdriver and some wire cutters next to her as she examined the fan in front of her. They did have one fan that ran on batteries, but they needed double D and they were sure the batteries in there had to be old. But even if they could only get the fan running for a little while it would at least be something. But of course just 10 seconds after starting it up it had to short circuit and now Ishuzu was trying to play electrician and failing badly. 'For the love of Ra it's not even noon yet and it's in the 90's!'

If his Yami had been born from his hatred and other despairing emotions he thought his Yami may have a new brother if this kept up. 'Come on Ra I thought we buried the hatchet a while ago, can't you do something for us?' Just at that moment the fan Ishuzu was working on started up and Malik jumped in front of it as it began a slow steady breeze. But as was it was on slow and he could probably get a better breeze if he was waving a magazine in front of him. He went to push the button to speed the thing up but his sister quickly slapped his hand away.

"What the hell!"

"No way! I just got this thing working and there's a good chance it'll blow again if you try turning it up!" He glared at her but as she glared right back he quickly turned his glare to the fan. 'I know I said something but come on!'

Anzu felt like she was in a really bad post-apocalyptic movie at this point. The streets were deserted, not even a stay cat or dog here or there. She didn't mind at first but now it was worrying her. She had taken a few sips of her water and now had her mini fan going on high to try and keep her head cool lest she succumb to the heat and pass out. She had wrapped a bandana around her head a while ago to try and keep the sweat out of her eyes but it was already soaked through and not doing much good. 'Come on Anzu only four more blocks and you're there!'

She almost yelled for joy when she saw a huge tree leaning over the cement wall along the sidewalk giving a decent amount of shade. Gathering up enough energy she jogged over to the shade and sat down taking deep breaths trying to cool herself. 'Crap from his house to mine is almost a 45 minute walk, and it's almost 10:30. If we don't get back by noon we might be in a lot of trouble!' So even though she had only sat down to rest a minute she quickly got back up and continued her trek. 'God I hope they appreciate it. But what if Jou and Honda were right and they're doing just fine over there and laugh at me! Or worse yell at me.' Even as she thought 'they' she was thinking more along the lines of Malik.

'Come on Anzu you can't be negative! You're almost there,' she thought as she turned down a street and sure enough saw it just down the road. 'The whole reason you came was to help, they might really need your help!' With renewed confidence she made her way to the front door and rung the doorbell. Or at least she pushed the button to, it was then she realized no power meant that probably didn't work. So she knocked on the door but as she knocked the door swung open. She was once again felt like she was in a really bad post-apocalyptic movie and zombie Malik and Ishuzu would be coming for her shortly to eat her brains and then the three of them would turn on her friends at her house only adding to the zombie population before the whole country was nuked and they'd plaster her name on some kind of wall in memory! She realized she was almost wheezing now as her breathing had quickened as she thought up the morbid little scenario. 'I have really got to keep my imagination in check,' she chided herself.

She made her way into the living room looking this way and that hearing a weird whirring noise. 'What the hell?' She followed the noise behind the couch and gasped in shock as she saw the bodies of Ishuzu and Malik splayed before the fan sweat covering them in a thin layer as they just laid there not moving. "Oh my god they're dead," she all but screeched. But as she screamed that Malik's eyes shot open scaring the poor girl even worse. "Oh my god it's a zombie! It really is the apocalypse!"

"Ra woman what are you screaming about," he yelled as he sat up and glared at her shaking form. "Zombie? I'm not dead yet!"

"Y-you're not?" He shook his head annoyed with her stupid questioning. "But why were you laying there?"

"If you haven't noticed it's hot outside," he said sarcastically. "We're sitting in front of the only thing that could give us any relief," he said pointing to their crappy little fan.

"But aren't you from Egypt? And what about Ishuzu," she asked as the woman still hadn't moved since she arrived.

"We lived in Egypt but we lived underground," Ishuzu said answering both questions at the same time though it was creepy as she kept her eyes closed as she did this and still hadn't moved. "It was shady and it's naturally cooler underground, and we had water," she said spitting out the word in annoyance.

"What the hell are you doing walking around in this heat anyway? I know you can be an airhead sometime but come on your body should be trying to tell you something!" She felt hurt and happy at the same time? 'Does that mean he was worried about me?' She shook her head. 'Nah, and he's being the jerk I thought he would! I came out here to help him and..urg!'

"Why are you out here Anzu," asked Ishuzu as she noticed Anzu glaring at her brother. As Anzu turned towards her she plastered a smile on her face despite the heat.

"Actually I came to invite you over to my house this week until the power comes back on."

"This week," they both exclaimed. With the power off neither had heard about the circumstances leading to the black out or that the weather would only get worse, so she had to explain. "But why would we want to come over to your house," said Malik still annoyed at her stupidity. 'Baka onna, she could have had a stroke or something worse out there in this heat! Is she really that stupid? Or does she just not care if she dies!? Why the hell do I always care too much when it comes to her?' True ever since she had shared a body with him back in battle city he had felt grateful. Well more then grateful, he felt overprotective at times and it was getting on his nerves. But at the same time he really couldn't help it.

Seeing as Anzu still wouldn't talk to her brother after that remark he had made she sighed and asked, "Why do you want us to stay with you this week?" This made Anzu smile as she pulled out her 'presents' and tossed Malik the mini-fan and Ishuzu the canteen of water.

"I'm inviting all of my friends over to wait out the weather since I have a generator going."

"Generator," asked Ishuzu kind of dumbfounded as the canteen still felt cool to the touch and she opened it taking a quick sip and handing it to her brother.

"Yeah so I have plumbing and the AC going!" Both Ishuzu and Malik's eyes got to the size of dinner plates at the mention of water and AC. "And I have a pool too so that's another way to stay cool. I know that you still get annoyed with some of the guys," she said speaking to Malik this time and saw his eyes narrow. "But I really don't want to leave you out here, especially with how hot it's supposed to get this Friday."

"What about the others," asked Ishuzu. "How do you think they will take it?"

"Well Jou wasn't all that enthusiastic," she said sweat-dropping. "But everyone else seemed ok with it."

"Wait you've already met up with everyone else?" 'Crap how long has she been walking around the city?'

"Well actually I just went to Yugi's before this. For some reason whenever weird stuff like this happens everyone just seems to wander over there. So I just went there and sent them ahead before coming here. They'd been without air and water for longer then I had since I got some before I left, so I told them to go ahead before I came here."

"But isn't that a long trip Anzu," asked Ishuzu before her brother could speak up. "I mean a regular walk over here is just 45 minutes but with going to Yugi's then here isn't that almost an extra half hour's walk? And it's getting so close to noon, what if you got caught in the heat?" 'Damnit I wanted to say that,' Malik thought to himself annoyed.

"I know but if nothing else I wanted to get here before noon to make sure you guys at least had some water. I know it sounds stupid but I was worried about you guys." Malik held a blank look on his face, but Anzu was just happy he hadn't laughed at her or yelled at her. Ishuzu smiled kindly at her friend.

"Thank you Anzu, we really appreciate it," she said seeing as her brother seemed to be in a daze again.

"I'm just really happy you guys are all right. It's getting to be about eleven and it's getting really hot. Maybe we should get going soon. Do you want to grab some cloths or something?"

"Sure, come on Malik." Malik was still sitting there with a blank look on his face looking at the ground. "Come on Malik," she said louder snapping him out of his thoughts. She dragged him to his feet and to their rooms as she told him to get some cloths. Anzu smiled and lay on the couch relaxing for a moment. After all that happened this morning she felt pooped. She'd be glad to just go home to the nice cool air conditioning, lie in bed, and take a nice long nap. Even as she thought this she slowly began to drift off into la-la land. As the siblings came back a few minutes later and found her slumbering on the couch they really didn't want to wake her but they also didn't want to be in the house when the sun's inferno came down upon them. Malik nudged her but she only rolled over scrunching her arms close to her chest murmuring. He nudged her again and she stirred but didn't wake. The next time he did a little more then nudge and she fell face first on the floor and woke with a start.

"Ahh! What the hell! My nose!" She grabbed her throbbing nose hoping it wouldn't start bleeding everywhere. "What the hell was that for," she yelled at Malik who backed up before getting right back up in her face.

"What are you talking about?! You're the one who fell asleep on the couch!"

"Well you didn't have to shove me off."

"Well you tell us to get ready to go then fall asleep on the couch! We were only gone maybe five minutes!"

"QUIET!" The oldest of the three shouted getting the attention of the other two who, in her opinion, were acting like children. "Ok children you can fight when we get to Anzu's but as it's about five after eleven I would really like to get out of here," she said grabbing the mini-fan and handing her brother the canteen before turning to Anzu as if to say 'lead the way.' Anzu felt a bit embarrassed for acting so childish but non-the-less turned and led them out into the blazing heat from hell.

A half hour later found them at an abandon bus stop awning. "Why the hell are we stopping?! We're maybe five blocks from your house, we can make it," he yelled at Anzu. As it was even though the siblings had been in the heat longer then her, with all the traveling she was doing in this weather she was wearing down a lot faster. Even as Malik seemed to be acting heartless he was actually far from it. He could tell after three blocks from their house that she was really tired, he was worried when he saw her sleeping on the couch and it only got worse the farther they went. Even though she was tired he'd rather get her out of the heat sooner then have her resting as much as she was.

"Please I don't want to argue, I'm just so tired," Anzu said once again shocking Malik. As it was she could be sweet to her friends but when she was insulted she could be a real hot head. But giving up without even a come-back made him think she was worse off then he thought. He looked to his sister who was taking a few more sips before passing the canteen to Anzu who took a gulp or so and handed it to him. He took a few sips and got up along with his sister as the two turned to stare at Anzu. "So soon? Please I'm so tired…?" But as tired as she was Anzu was pretty shocked when he handed his sister his bag and crouched down in front of Anzu.

"Get on."

"W-what!?"

"Yeah you're tired but if we don't get out of this heat soon it'll be a lot worse. I can carry you for at least two blocks until we get to your house. Now come on, we don't have all day!" She was trying hard not to gawk but he noticed. "What you've never been picked up by a guy before." She gave him a dead stare at his bad pun. She fought off the horrible blush she knew she had to have as she slowly stood and climbed onto his back. His very sweaty, tan, muscular back….Anzu nearly smacked herself for admiring him in a situation such as this. She wrapped her arms around his neck as he grabbed onto her thighs and hoisted them up. He nodded to his sister as they once again set out for the oasis in the middle of this gray desert.

Jou and the other guys were currently lying around the living room just enjoying the cool air. Well all but Yami who was currently in the shower, the last one in the shower melees. The water was at best luke warm after all their showers but Yugi was pretty sure he didn't mind. Jou and Honda had of course raided the fridge once they had gotten themselves clean and borrowed some cloths in what looked like Anzu's parents room (Yugi had protested but Honda and Jou went ahead and raided it anyway giving everyone but Yami and Yugi new cloths) they were now lying around the room enjoying the cool air and just relaxing.

"Hey guys do you think Anzu is ok," asked Yugi once again eyeing the clock.

"Yugi for the last time, she's fine. She's Anzu," said Jou trying to cheer his little friend up. Almost as soon as they had gotten to her house Yugi had been keeping an eye out for Anzu and continuously worried for their friends. Yeah Jou was worried but he figured if it got really bad she may just stop somewhere to rest on the way back and that's probably what was holding her up. He saw her as one of those girls on the survivor show that would be there until the end, she didn't give up and he believed she could make it form her friend's house to her own no problem.

"But it's getting close to noon."

"She's probably either really close or taking a break somewhere. She did leave pretty late and if they get caught in the heat they'll probably try and find some shade or something to lie out in if it gets bad. She'll be ok Yugi." Much like Jou he thought she would be fine. Yeah she was a girl but she was strong in a feminine sort of way. Even when he and Jou both used to pick on Yugi she'd protect him even though they were both guys and if they were like certain guys, who they weren't, they could easily have beaten her up. But did that scare her? Nope. He yawned and laid sprawled out on the floor.

"Do you guys think Malik came with her," asked Ryou finally coming into the conversation. No one was really sure on that one since both Yami and Bakura used to live in this kind of heat and now both of them were taking refuge. While everyone was pondering over that question it reminded Ryou of something else. "Hey guys, is it just me or do you think Malik picks on Anzu a lot?"

"Picks on her," asked Honda sitting up.

"That ass hole's been doing things to her," asked Jou getting riled up and looked ready to go out into the street, track him down, and beat him to a pulp. Considering he didn't like Malik in the first place though that wasn't a very big leap.

"No I mean like. He's indifferent to most of us but sometimes he seems to be teasing her. You know like kids do."

"I think you're just imagining things Ryou," Honda said laying back down getting comfortable."

"Maybe." This had Yugi really worrying now. Not only did Anzu have to fear the heat, but now she had to fear one of the people she was trying to rescue!? 'Please come back soon Anzu.'

AN: SO what did you think? I know not a lot going on yet but it's a set up chappie! Hopefully in the next chapter or two it can get to stuff actually happening! Anyway thank you to anyone who actually read this I love you! Hope you enjoyed!