Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ I Want You To Want Me ❯ Chapter Four ( Chapter 4 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
Author's Notes: Sorry I left you all hanging for awhile. Work is not condusive to fic-writing.

Thanks for all the reviews thus far. I didn't even think I'd get any on my first work, so this is quite a pleasant surprise.

Anyway let's see here...In this chapter, Jounouchi finds out about Yuugi, but Anzu, Honda and Ryou aren't so quick to believe (denial), and Anzu has a run-in with Yami.


Chapter 4

"Ah. Ryou. It's nice to see you again."

If any of the group found that statement at all odd, they didn't show it. Honda caught his companions' eyes and as a unit they turned to face whomever had managed to ambush them. They were quite well aware by now that whatever awaited them would be as unusual as any of the previous night's events, but nothing could have prepared them for what happened next.

The speaker was a lithe male, short in stature - only seeming a little over Ryou's height. None of the group noticed these facts however - this person's (if it was indeed a person) very presence made them feel about two inches tall by comparison. His eyes glowed a baleful red, casting eerie shadows over his face and illuminating what appeared to be a set of rather impressive wings. His lips were parted slightly, and Anzu was sure that she could see what looked to be the tips of fangs resting on his lower lip. That wasn't the worst of it though...he bore an uncanny, impossible resemblance to...

"Yuugi?" Anzu said softly, clearly wanting to believe, but knowing better than to trust her eyes in this strange place.

The man ignored her and brushed past, striding to Honda, who backed off slowly, moving to block Ryou and his girlfriend, useless though he realized that probably was.

"You must be Jounouchi." He had such a grinding voice that Anzu knew then and there that this was not their missing friend. The fact that it wasn't however presented new problems.

Honda stared dumbfounded for a second, but shook his head. "Um...no...no, I'm...I'm Honda Hiroto." Gathering some courage, he stood bravely upright. "If you're not Yuugi, you'd better tell us who you are." And as an afterthought, he added "Please." It just seemed like the kind of thing you'd want to say to this person if you didn't want to die a horrible horrible death.

"Bakura said that he brought Jounouchi here. If none of you is Jounouchi, then where is he?"

"We...don't know." Anzu spoke up again, terrified, but rooted to the spot by this man's transfixing gaze.

"I'm Jounouchi...and you'll pay for what you did to Yuugi."

At the sound of his voice, the spell over Ryou, Honda and Anzu was broken. They turned to face him now instead, staring wide-eyed as he approached from downhill up towards them. Jounouchi was not alone as alongside him walked a boy who this time - was unmistakably Yuugi. At first glance, their small friend looked fine enough...but as they drew near, there was something obviously wrong. Yuugi's skin was deathly pale and his eyes seemed to stare right through people he should have immediately recognized as his friends.

"What's wrong with him?" Ryou wavered, scooting a little closer to Honda.

"What's /wrong/ with him?" Jounouchi fairly yelled. "Ryou you airhead, what the hell do you THINK is wrong with him? He's a motherfucking Vampire you moron. Dead. Not ALIVE. And he acts like a zombie!" Jounouchi howled at poor Ryou, who went rather red in the face.

Honda worked his jaw a few times. "Vampire..." he stated, but trailed off. The situation was impossible. Yuugi Moutou, who had been missing for months and months...found...it had to be drugs. A nasty hit on the head when he was kidnapped. Anything. Jounouchi was obviously upset at the moment...and when Jounouchi was upset, he was irrational.

"Want further proof? Just have a look at this." He leaned over and wrenched Yuugi's jaws apart - who continued to blink stupidly. Sure enough, much like the other two strange people that Anzu and Honda had met that evening, Yuugi's cainine teeth now ended in elongated, needle-sharp points.

Ryou let out a little gasp, while Honda made a whistling noise and furrowed his brow. None of the group noticed that Anzu had long ceased to take an interest in Jounouchi or Yuugi.

Yami let out an exasperated cough behind them. "I can see we're not going to get anywhere tonight. You will be staying here indefinitely, but you will be quite safe."

Jounouchi opened his mouth, but Ryou and Anzu both shook their heads. They didn't seem to be in any position to be making demands or do much else but comply.

"You will stay in my Castle." Yami explained.

Behind his back, Ryou turned to Anzu and mouthed the word 'castle' at her, a dumbfounded look on his face. She responded with an equally dumbfounded shrug.

As it turned out - "Castle" was a rather accurate description. This had to be where Jounouchi had gone earlier - as the group decended a rather long set of stairs and through what appeared to be the inner workings of this underground city, the spires of the palace appeared in reverse, until they found themselves at in the core of this world, the base of the castle.

"My palace is protected by Black magic." Yami explained to them. "I am Yami, and as long as you do not leave the confines of this place, you will be protected against any of the other denziens of my realm. Should you leave this security, I can not be responsible for what may happen to you."

Ryou and Anzu shared another dumbfounded look.

***

Anzu tossed in the large bed. The room was too big for her tastes, and she was undoubtedly alone. She wondered if Jounouchi and Honda and Ryou were alone too. She would have been happy for any kind of company...even Jounouchi, who's "Vampire" accusations had continued all the way down the stairs. It had seemed so stupid while they were together, but now that she was alone in this drafty room - it was far too creepy. Yuugi...and the way he was oblivious to everyone around him. And those weird fangs...and that man with the wings...who she found she could not forget about, no matter how hard she tried.

A thought suddenly struck her. The man who had called himself "Yami" had said that they could not leave the castle. He hadn't said a word about moving around within it. She could go find Honda and the others.

She opened the door and stepped outside. The hallway was deserted, but a quick search of the rooms revealed that they were empty. A few more hallways yielded an equally fruitless search, and Anzu began to get discouraged. The place was huge...what was the chance of finding anyone in here. For all she knew, they were on the other side...the other floors...

She turned around to go back, and her heart leapt into her throat as she realized that she had been found instead. Not, however, by someone she wanted to be found by.

"Come with me." Yami said. It was not a request, and so she followed the vampire down the hall with a dull ache in the back of her mind that she tried to ignore. He did...look like Yuugi. They walked for what could have been a few minutes or hours on end. Time had slowed down for Anzu completely.

She found herself on a terrace, overlooking the entire kingdom. Yami moved to stand beside her.

"You still have feelings for Yuugi."

Anzu looked at him. "I do."

"Yet you have another you care for."

"I do."

"...but you realize that he is mine."

"I do." Anzu was starting to feel a bit like a broken record, however when one feels vunerable, secrets feel as though they are unable to be hidden.

The vampire regarded her with yet another one of his unreadable looks, and Anzu stared him down as long as she was able until she had to look away - his was a game she could not win. In the moment that followed, Yami crossed the short distance across the terrace and took the girl into his arms, kissing her deeply.

Anzu had barely time to register what was happening to her as the Vampire King's tounge invaded her mouth, slipping past her lips that had parted of their own will in utter shock. After what seemed to her like an eternity, Yami finally pulled away from her, holding her arms to her sides as though to keep her from running away.

"Did it help?"

Imperceptibly, Anzu nodded her head yes.

This time, Anzu was fully aware of the hand that had found it's way beneath her bra, and was expertly fondling her left breast. His lips had moved to her collarbone, and her knees went weak, causing her to slump against the wall.

Gathering her into his arms, Yami moved the two of them from the terrace and into the room they had passed through, laying her on the bed, and quickly removing her clothes, as the girl beneath him writhed with desire.

Yami emitted something that registered in Anzu's mind as a rather feral growl...and broke the spell.

"No...NO!"

Suddenly terrified, Anzu leapt from the bed, gathering her underclothes into her arms and taking off down the hall, neither stopping nor looking back until she had arrived just outside her room. Leaning against the wall, the full extent of what she had been about to do came rushing back. She and Honda hadn't even...but...she'd been about to betray him to the fullest extent just because...just because that man...the vampire looked like Yuugi. But he wasn't. No...Yuugi was not...like that.

They needed to get out of there.

But...they were no longer together. And she could not go without Ryou and Jounouchi...but where were they now?

And Honda...what...would she say to him?