Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Heat Wave ❯ Chapter 4

AN:  Sooo sorry it took so long for an update.  I would like write a page then need a break and leave it for a week and so on.  It’s just this one pool scene was very happy go lucky and I haven’t been that way in about a month really so it took a while.  But it’s finally out, but I don’t know how fast the other updates will be.  Also this is now officially Malik/Anzu.  Sorry I know there were some of you who didn’t want that pairing but the majority did want the pairing, so my apologies to everyone else.  Also someone asked me about the Kaiba brothers, they will be coming in later on, but right now they’re fine.  Come on you think Kaiba wouldn’t have a couple dozen generators or something and probably an indoor pool?  But eventually they will make an appearance.  Anyway I’m sorry for the delay and hope it’s a decent chapter.  Please enjoy!   Japanese: Hai = yes Daijoubu = Are you ok? Baka = Stupid -san = mr./ms.   Heat Wave   Chapter 4:  “End of the First Day”            &nb sp;  ‘Tick.  Tock.  Tick.  Tock.’  Malik had his eyes closed listening to the swinging of the clock pendulum in the somewhat quiet room.  He was currently relaxing on the couch and seemed to be bordering on taking a nap.  But above all else he was bored to death.  ‘At least I’m bored to death here and not just plain dead at home.  Though after what Jou pulled in the kitchen who knows how long I’ll actually live here?’  He heard a small protest just to his left and a chuckle.  Ryou and Yugi were playing their third game of duel monsters and Bakura continued to get Ryou to try and cheat even though it was Yugi not Yami and it was a game for fun, no prizes.            & nbsp; He just tried to block it out.  He sat there in the near silence another minute before cracking an eye open to spot his sister reading a book in a chair.  He almost wanted to sigh but just shut his eye and lay his head back down.  ‘It’s hard to tell when she’s working and when she’s relaxing,’ he thought as he noticed the book she was reading was in ancient Egyptian and she was probably translating it for the museum.  He actually wished his brother was here, and then at least he’d have someone to talk to with a bit of ease.             He heard the cupboards opening and closing and things being shuffled around.  Even though the whole scene was pretty funny he felt bad for the girl for having to take care of it all on her own.  She’d kicked everyone out of the kitchen, took orders like a waitress and cooked everything up for them.  Unfortunately she never told Jou that she made something for herself as well and…well it’s not hard to figure out where her food went.  She didn’t even find that out though until after she turned everything off and cleaned to kitchen to a spotless shine and decided to eat.  Oh and of course after she bandaged Jou up.  He tried not to snicker as he thought of the way Jou continued to make ‘nurse’ jokes about Anzu as she was wrapping his hand and how she had retaliated by spilling almost an entire bottle of peroxide on the wound.             ‘She really has a spark about her.’  It was after this he noticed the sounds from the kitchen were gone and now coming from the garage.  He was slightly curious about what she was doing in there.  But not curious enough to get up.  The couch was finally starting to get comfortable enough to just…doze off….            &n bsp;  ‘Heh heh heh.’  Brown eyes narrowed as the figure slowly stalked his captive.  Slowly, silently, almost there and he had yet to see him.  ‘Honda you shall pay!’  He was just feet away from him as the boy had yet to suspect anything.  ‘Just a few more feet!’  But as he was about to pounce his pray turned and startled him, but he had to act fast or loose his chance.  So with it he pounced.               Honda screamed as he turned and water sprayed everywhere as Jou jumped from the water dunking him.  ‘Man he screams like a girl, or it could be because he’s choking on water.  Who cares?!’  Jou continued laughing until Yami reasoned with him enough to let Honda go for now.             “Jou what the hell was that for?”           &nb sp; “I needed a reason?”  ‘I know you were trying to get my sisters phone number out of my address book while we were at my house, and you’re not getting near my sister!’               “Geeze.”              “Why is everyone else still in the house?  Even though it’s not as cool as I wish the water’s still fine.”           &n bsp; “You just want to see a girl in a bathing suit Jou.”           &nb sp; “Damn strait!”  Honda gave him a dumbass look before looking over to Yami who was laying in a floatie getting a tan.  His eyes were closed giving the appearance of him taking a nap.  Actually…            ;  “Is Yami sleeping,” he whispered to Honda.  Honda looked over at the third member of their little group as he leisurely floated by.             “Yeah, why?”  Jou got an evil look in his eye and Honda smirked as the two slowly wadded up to him in the shallow area before pushing him gently into the deep end.  They both swam out after him grabbing the right side of the floatie and simultaneously pulled effectively dunking and half drowning the ex-pharaoh as he swore revenge from the gods and got water out of his lungs.  But Jou and Honda didn’t take the threat seriously as they swam away.  But Jou and Honda didn’t make it far before Yugi and Ryou cannon-balled them making an entrance into the pool.  And while no one was looking Bakura stole Yami’s floatie and looked like he was also trying to nap.  Ishuzu came out in a tan one piece that caught a couple eyes, even the former tomb-robbers, as she sat on the edge of the pool just dangling her feet in the water.  She seriously looked like she was enjoying herself…until Jou drenched her with a mini-tidal wave of a splash, which got her after him as well.  As all this ruckus was going on Anzu was stuck in one of the hottest places in the house trying to breath.             She opened the lid of the generator and peered inside then to her left and the two gas containers that were still full before shutting the lid and walking back into the house gulping deep breaths of fresh air.  ‘Well the generator has been running for about 6 hours now and it’s only about ¼ empty.  So it has about 18 more hours in it, then one of the other cans is a day.  But I still only have about three days worth.   I wonder if I should buy a few more containers and fill up while we’re out.  But how much money do I have stashed?  Oh yeah!  Mom and dad always leave about $150 hidden under mom’s jewelry box on the dresser in case of emergency.  Mom and dad I love you!’  She sighed slightly wondering how they were doing right now.  They both lived in domino but commuted to work about an hour away.  She was told if there was ever an emergency she should think of herself first and they would try and get home when they could.  The sad thing was they didn’t work in major cities so it could take all week.  ‘It’ll be ok, mom and dad are probably fine right now.’  It was then she walked into the living room and saw it was deserted save one person and felt a blush rise to her cheeks at seeing him lying there splayed across the couch snoozing.  That was one hell of a dream she had earlier!             She blushed as she remembered climbing onto his back but as she fell asleep he was no longer carrying her through domino but on a beach somewhere, it was so beautiful.  The ocean was a light pink as the sun began to set and he set her down near the shore before hugging her from behind.   He leaned over and kissed her on the cheek sending them aflame but at the same time she didn’t mind, no she wanted more.  She leaned over to kiss him but he started to pull away so she grabbed his hand to try and keep him near her.  Then she had him back in her arms and was pleading with him to stay with her and he leaned in to kiss her and she leaned in…only to hit heads with Honda!  She sighed and wondered what had gotten into her, she knew the heat could make you delusional but come on!  And even now as she was cooled off and looked at him, at his sun kissed body and his golden locks splayed around his face and the look of ease on his unblemished features…she felt herself blush again.  ‘Please someone tell me this is the heat or I won’t know what to do!’  She then heard shouting from outside and turned to see her friends out having fun in the pool.  She sat there staring for what seemed like an hour in what seemed like a trance like state, which was really like five minutes and more like she was in a daze.             ‘Maybe some pool time will help me relax a bit.’  As she turned to go upstairs she was still watching her friends and ended up running into something…or rather someone.  Unfortunately that person wasn’t expecting it and tumbled backwards on his rear with said girl lying on top of him.  Anzu groaned as she felt a few sore spots on her body and leaned up to see what she had hit when she was caught staring into startling violet eyes and the blush once again made itself known as the dream came back full force.             “Damn!  Watch where you’re going!”           & nbsp; She quickly untangled herself from him and stood up looking lost and stunned for a moment.  “S-sorry, I didn’t mean to,” she said averting her eyes.  ‘What the hell?  I know she was the one who fell on me but why is she so jumpy?’  Though he thought this in his head the soft feeling of her feminine physique on his own had his cheeks a slightly pink color.  It was about this time she remembered what she was going to do.  “Oh yeah,” she said pulling herself together.  “I was just about to head in the pool with the others, wanna join?”  She actually looked slightly distressed when he seemed to be contemplating it.  ‘Wait why would I care if he came…I mean he coud just as easily flop back on the couch and it wouldn’t matter right?’ At this time he decided his mind was done drifting into the unknown and came back with a reply.  “Yeah sure.”  For some reason when she looked up she seemed really happy, her smile was contagious as his own lips slightly curved up.  Though as soon as he realized what he was doing he turned away, his cheeks a streak of crimson as he headed for the living room.  “I’ll just grab my suit, meet you there,” he said beating a hasty retreat not seeing the slight shade on her own face.  She didn’t even give a response as she went to her room to change.  ‘Why the hell did I feel so happy when he said yes.  And then I swore my heart skipped a beat when he smiled at me.’ She had just pulled her shirt off of her head and was hanging onto it but as the last thought just sank in it slowly slipped from her grasp and hit the floor.  “Oh my god, I like Malik,” she gasped just above a whisper.  The realization hit her like a ton of bricks.  “Oh my god he’s an asshole.”   Ishuzu had finally confiscated one of the floaties from the wrestling boys and was floating in the deep end since it was too hard for them to really wrestle there.  So even though the silence from before was dead at least now she was cool and comfortable as her limbs dangled into the cool water.  ‘I really have to thank Anzu for this later.  If only brother wasn’t so over protective of her, the only way he knows of showing it is by being a jerk.  If only she could see why he was then maybe she would forgive him.  Or if he could stop being such a jerk about it.  I wonder just why he is like that anyway.  I mean it wasn’t that bad until we came back to Domino.’ But even as she was sitting there all peaceful and quiet and keeping to herself the boys were scheming…primarily against her.  I say primarily because Jou and Honda wanted to flip her and get the floatie back while Yami was saying they could just as easily ask for it back and Yugi, Ryou and Bakura were staying out of it (more like Bakura was lazy and didn’t want to do anything with the pharaoh).  “Come on you didn’t even ask, she’d probably give it to us,” said Yami coming to her defense. “Yeah but then where’s the fun in that,” asked Jou. “But it’s no fun for her if you tip her,” said Yami. “You’re just saying that because you don’t want her mad at you,” said Honda butting in, “Yes that would be the point,” said Yami wondering how such a concept was escaping them. “Yeah but the only reason you don’t want her mad at you is because you want her,” said Jou snickering.  Yami was naïve about a lot of things but even he understood what Jou was suggesting and started sputtering as he turned red. “Too bad though, Bakura is your competition.” “W-what?!  No way!  The tomb robber?!” “Die pharaoh,” was shouted across the pool as Bakura was lazily draped over the edge and heard enough to know they were talking about him but didn’t really want to move at the moment. “Why do you think she hit him earlier?  He was hitting on her,” Honda said pretty much lying but not knowing he was somewhat true (do you call staring at a girls chest hitting on her?).  Unfortunately for him as Yami was dumbfounded with this information the two teens grabbed him, dragged him out of the pool and over to where Isis was floating totally unaware of what was going to happen as she was still deep in thought. “1-2-3,” they chanted and tossing a protesting Yami on the unsuspecting Ishuzu.  One second Yami was airborne, another second he was floating right above Ishuza, a second later found his face planted in the valley of the gods, and the next second both disappeared under the water sputtering.  Honda and Jou were dying laughing totally forgetting about the floatie.  The next moment both Yami and Ishuzu came to the surface sputtering and gasping for air, and this is where Anzu and Malik came in.  “What the hell is going on,” asked Anzu surveying the scene before her. “You ass holes,” Ishuzu screamed her peace of mind completely gone as she went to jump out of the pool…and noticed something missing.  Jou and Honda nearly died of nosebleeds as Ishuzu inadvertently flashed the entire pool as she leaned forward out of the water to hit them and her top fell down.  The entire pool got a nice view before she screamed, covering her chest, and hid herself under the water. “Where the hell happened to my top?!”  Yes she did have a one piece but it was held together by a silver ring in which the top straps tied behind her neck.  It was about this time Yami’s brain started working and he realized he himself was holding a bit of metal in his hand and turned crimson.  ‘Crap!  I must have grabbed it as I went under!!’  And almost as if the gods had a grudge against him Ishuzu turned to see him caught red handed with said ring.  “Yami how could you,” she screamed and smacked him hard enough to leave a handprint as she retrieved her top support.  “You’re as bad as Bakura!”  An indignant ‘hey!’ was heard from the other side of the pool. Anzu went over to help cover for Ishuzu as she fixed her top and Malik went over to have a ‘talk with Yami.’  Once Ishuzu had her top on well enough and Yami had drank about three gallons of the chlorine water people began to settle down and try and enjoy the water.  Then Honda and Jou had to try something as Honda submerged himself in water and Anzu screamed as he popped up right under her…but something was wrong as his head was actually facing towards her crotch!  She kicked him in the head hard as she could as she fell back in the water, her face a crimson hue. “What the hell are you doing?!”  Honda was nursing a very sore head as Jou tried to calm Anzu down. “We just wanted to play chicken.” “Well sheesh ask first,” she said trying to get her blush under control. “Ok Anzu do you want to play chicken?” “Ummm sure I guess,” she said feeling slightly embarrassed for her outburst a minute ago but at the same time justified, poor confusing girl. “Okie doke,” Jou said and submerged himself and a moment later she felt his shoulders under her legs and she grasped into his neck as he came up.  “Ack not so tight,” he choked out.  She let up a bit until she could get her balance and then sat straight up as they looked around for an opponent. “Ishuzu may I,” asked Honda. “Like hell,” she said still pissed about them throwing Yami on her and then flashing them. “Oh come on we need someone lightweight up top,” he whined. “Then use Yami.”  Yami looked confused and Honda looked like he wanted to argue about it but couldn’t find any reason other than he wasn’t a girl.  So begrudgingly he got Yami on his shoulders and explained the game quite quickly. “Ready Anzu,” called Jou seeing the other team take up a fighting stance.  She nodded her ready position.  They both let out a fighting yell and charged and Yami locked hands with Anzu both trying to push the other off while the people on bottom kept trying to trip one another.  But the game was won when Yami was able to unlock one of his hands from hers and shove her shoulder knocking her off balance and off of Jou into the water.  She sputtered and got up as Jou begrudgingly admitted to defeat. “Hey rematch,” she shouted. “No way you’re no good,” Jou said accusingly. “Come on it was just one game, I wanna try again,” she was now using a slightly pleading tone. “No way, get yourself another partner.” “Maybe I will.”  She quickly scanned around the pool.  Ryou was sitting on the steps in the shallow end ‘Ryou doesn’t have a lot of upper body strength I don’t think he can hold me.’  She next turned to Yugi.  ‘Ok same deal.’  She then saw Bakura ‘strong enough but he’s also perverted enough to try something,’ she thought with a sweat-drop  Then her sight fell on Malik and she had to use every ounce of will power to fight the blush off of her face and took a deep breath before wading over to him. “Malik,” she called getting his attention. “No,” he said without letting her even say something.  He’d saw the whole exchange and didn’t think he could really take something like that.  It was bad enough when she’d fallen on him earlier and it took forever for that blush to go away, but to have the back of his head…against that!  I mean even if he didn’t like her any guy in those positions would have certain reactions… “Please,” she begged. “Hey Mazaki, I can help you out,” Bakura said with a smirk that clearly said he’d help with something.  Now Marik was very torn about this, on one hand he didn’t know if he could handle holding her like that, but on the other hand if he didn’t she would be molested by Bakura. “Fine,” he said looked extremely agitated as his over protective side took over and before she knew it she once again felt his strong shoulders under her legs and tried to loosely grab onto his neck as he stood.  Her heart felt like it was going to beat right out of her chest at the closeness and the feeling of his strong upper body under her legs.  Unfortunately Malik was thinking of things he shouldn’t be right now, like how good her silky legs felt on her shoulders and wanted to hit himself when for some unknown godforsaken reason he was reminded of a sexual position that had to do with her legs on her shoulder and used all his willpower to fight the deep red blush down to a slight glow. (AN:  Yes I am a perv and there really is such a position). “Even with a new power you cannot defeat us,” shouted Honda breaking their thoughts back to reality.  Both teams charged at each other and Anzu and Yami clashed as Malik and Honda tried to trip each other.  Yami once again got his hand out and shoved her shoulder but she also had one hand free and grabbed his shoulder pulling herself up and him down and threw both of them off balance and Malik finally got his foot under Honda and sent them flying into the water and Anzu and Malik both cheered as Malik bent down so she could jump off his shoulders.  But no sooner had she gotten down then she had him in a hug.  She knew it was a cheap shot but just the chance to hug your crush…yeah she was slowly getting over the shock of it and was now trying to act on it.  But Malik gently pulled himself out of her grip in a rigid manner, but before he was able to get away scott free with enjoying it and not being embarrassed…his sister just had to say something. “Hey Anzu, you and Malik go well together.”  So of course Malik just coulnd’t enjoy the moment and had to act like a jerk as always and storm away leaving a crestfallen Anzu in his wake.  ‘Darn it, I was seriously enjoying that,’ she thought to herself.   Eventually everyone was out of the pool and was starting to demand food.  Anzu made a meager meal because they were low on supplies.  Before she had had enough groceries for one person for a week.  But now she had to feed about 9 people for a week.  So once they again had to set out and she loaded up her little wagon with a few supplies.  Jou, Honda, Ryou, and Bakura had to run to their respective houses and get some stuff and just had to get there and back.  But Anzu had to go to the grocery store and get some supplies and also get some more gas for the generator.  But she didn’t think anyone should go alone in case the heat got to them even though it was cooler in the evening.  So Ryou and Bakura went together and Jou and Honda were to stay together as they went to their own houses.  That being said Ishuzu volunteered her and Malik to go with Anzu while Yami and Yugi held down the fort while they were gone. So now the trio were heading down the road looking for any open store.  The extremely sad thing was she only had $150 since the ATMs wouldn’t work unless the place had power and even though some stores were open they may not have power so they wouldn’t take credit cards.  The good thing though was it seemed like 75-80% of Domino didn’t have a generator or such like she did and were in shelters where they were taken care of.  But for the other 20-25% that had them and were fending for themselves  were a bit…rowdy. “Hand over that beef you cock sucker,” was heard being shouted as Anzu ducked an empty can being thrown in her general direction.  They had eventually found a grocery store open for business but limited power…so no credit cards and to top it off it was total chaos!  There were people fighting everywhere for such menial things as supplies were getting low.  And the food was being mixed up everywhere; nothing was actually where it was supposed to be.  Anzu was happy she had divided the list up between the three of them before they even got to the store.  She had divided the money and food list three ways and they set off on their own to wait for the other outside once they finished.  But Anzu was having a hell of a time finding two things on her list:  Eggs and Milk.  At first she was looking for just some plain white milk but now that she’d been here a while she would have settled for any.  It was then she saw something nestled in the cooler section of the dairy isle just between some slices of cheese and some cottage cheese!  She ran up to it and saw it was 3% milk, ‘well any milk is better then none right,’ she thought to herself as she reached for it.  But just as she grabbed it so did another hand and they both had a grip on it.  She looked up to see a woman of about 35 in a sweat soaked blue tank top and frizzy brown hair.  “Sorry little girl but I think this is mine,” she said tugging on it.  Anzu tightened her grip and pulled it towards her. “Sorry old woman but I think this is mine,” she said seriously pissing the woman off.  So it was then the war for the milk started.  They were scratching and kicking at each other trying to get the other to relent.  If not for the milk in between them it probably would have turned into an all out catfight.  Then Anzu’s savior came along, in the form of a very grumpy and now almost shirtless Malik.  Almost shirtless as in most of it looked like it had been torn and shredded in the fight for groceries.  He came up between the two, grabbed the carton and shoved the other woman on her ass. “You about done yet?  Ishuzu and I have been waiting outside for almost ten minutes!”  So much for a savior… “Yeah I just need to find the eggs.” “Eggs?  You still don’t even have everything on your list yet,” he all but yelled but regretted it as he saw the hurt look on her face and took a deep breath sighing.  “Come on I think I saw some hidden in the cereal section.”  She looked up hopefully but he wouldn’t meet her gaze and walked with her following behind him.  They did eventually find the eggs but had to fend off some salary man who kept trying to sneak peaks at Anzu’s panties and got decked by none other then Anzu. Once they finally got out they couldn’t find Ishuzu or her little wagon.  “No way, my stupid sister must have gone on ahead of us!”  He was actually pretty ticked now, he didn’t really want to walk back alone with Anzu.  It wasn’t really because he hated her or anything, its just the over protective streak he always had over her made him a bit uncomfortable when they were alone. “It’s ok, I just wanted people together in case the heat was too much for them.  But the suns already gone down and it’s down in the eighties, I think she’ll be ok.” “Fine then, we should get going.  You still wanted to try and get gas tonight right?”  “Yeah,” she said nodding.  “Thanks for reminding me.  And well…” “Hmmm, what,” he asked.  ‘and thanks for helping me in here,’ she thought but just shook her head. “Uh, nothing.”  He looked at her oddly but they continued down the darkened street paths.  It was only after they got a block or two away Anzu noticed something.  “Hey Malik,” she asked. “Huh?” “It’s still pretty dark out but I can still kind of see, how is that?” “Look up.”  She did and gasped in surprise.  “Oh my god!  I don’t think I’ve seen that many stars since we went out to Egpyt!  Wow there’s so many!” “Baka of course there are!”  Even as he was rude towards her the way she was so happy and excited over something so simple he couldn’t help but want to smile.  “Sorry, but with all the lights on you never see them like this.” “Yeah yeah, come on the lights will be off for a while but we still need to get gas tonight.”  She nodded and they continued on…until Anzu almost tripped over a crack in the way.  Stars and their light are very beautiful…but they’re nothing compared to a streetlight.  Lucky for her Malik caught her hand as she steadied herself.  “Sheesh tripping over your own feet.  Daijoubu ka?” “H-hai.”  The warmth from his hand was making the heat once again rise to her cheeks and she was glad that it was too dark for him to see.  He went to pull his hand away but she held tighter.  “Ummm I know it’s stupid but can I hold your hand?  I-I mean I really can’t see that well.  I mean…sorry,” she said and started to pull her hand away but his hand gently clutched her own. “Baka, if you really need it,” he said trying to ignore the tingling in his stomach and glad she couldn’t see him or his slightly red face right now.  ‘Damn, why the hell does she always make me feel so damn weird!’  So they continued holding hands all the way down the road and were almost to the gas station when they heard a strangely familiar voice yelling some very colorful words and something about gas.  They two looked at each other in the dark and made a dash around the corner to see… “Mai-san,” gasped Anzu.  Sure enough the blonde duelist turned from her assault on the gas station attendant to greet the two with a smirk. “Anzu, Malik, yo!”   AN:  OK I need to ask something here.  Should I try hooking Ishuzu up with someone or just leave the poor girl be?  And if I do hook her up, who?  Yami or Bakura?  Also sorry I made Bakura so much of a horndog.  In all reality a lot of the guys probably are he just doesn’t care if anyone else knows. ^^()  So how bad was it?  Like I said not in really the happy go lucky mood but I really tried.  Anyway thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed!