Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Leave Sanity at the Door ❯ Last Words ( Chapter 10 )

AN: Hey I finished "Who am I?" So now I'm fully concentrating on this and "Heat Wave" so unless schoolwork becomes too much for me I'm definitely updating this each Friday. Anyway I had someone ask if other characters will be making an appearance and yes they will in later chapters. And thank you to those who aren't fond of shonenen-ai but still read through the malik/marik part. Bit more in here but its not a lot so I hope you can bear it. Anyway thank you to all the lovely people who reviewed! I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I no own Yugioh, though I wish I owned two certain white haired bishies! I'll just have to settle for plushies for now.

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"Leave Sanity At The Door"

Chapter 10: "Last Words"

Anzu didn't know why she was acting so…wild. She guessed it was because she finally had a chance at being something she hadn't had a chance to try for in months, normal. A girl at a club with her boyfriend. She blushed at the thought making him look at her confused causing her blush more at how cute he looked. Even though neither had officially said anything what else would they call it? She smiled letting the music flow around her and taking her body with it.

Ryou couldn't help the smile that continued to pop up on his face as he danced with Anzu, though always keeping an eye on the clock. He had planned this all out to the last few minutes and even though he wanted to make sure Anzu had a good time he also wanted to make sure they wouldn't get punished for this little 'outing.' At least not her. He smiled as she grabbed his hand tugging him closer as the beat seemed to speed up. She was really loosing herself in the music and he couldn't help but stare at the way her body moved. Yeah he'd seen her on the dance dance game before but damn…this was way different. He was really enjoying himself as her body moved against his.

Anzu had noticed what seemed like eyes burning in the back of her head as she continued dancing. She glanced around a few times and saw who was around before going back to dancing. 'I hope I'm not getting a lot of attention.' She nervously turned again to glance again a pair of tanned blonds who stood out as they didn't seem to have moved at all in the last five minutes and she noticed one of them glancing at Ryou. She tugged on his arm to get his attention before glancing over her shoulders with a flip of her head and looking at him again.

He looked over her shoulders and immediately went pale. There just over her shoulder were two of his brother's best friends looking over at them. 'Oh shit! Why here?! Why now?!' Anzu noticed something was wrong right away when he started looking panicky. She was about to pull out a pen when he grabbed her hand and took off for the back near the bathrooms. She was pretty shocked at how he was acting but waited patiently as he looked around the corner to make sure he wasn't being followed. He knew she wanted to know what the hell that was but wanted to make sure they hadn't moved.

"Those guys are best friends with my brother." Her eyebrows shot up and went a bit pale herself. "Yeah, hopefully they'll just think it was my brother, but if they try to talk to me we'll be in deep." Anuz nodded before looking around the corridor they were currently hiding in. The only things there were the bathrooms and backdoor. Ryou was still peeking around the corner when he felt a hand grab his and he was quickly pulled out the backdoor and into the alley passed the guy 'guarding' it. "Anzu!" But his words seemed to fall on deaf ears as they made their way out to the main street and ran down a few blocks before coming to rest beside a pay phone, like two bats out of hell. It took him a few minutes to get his breath back before he finally turned to meet her eyes.

"Anzu what the hell was that." She took out her pen and a napkin she'd snatched from the club.

'Making sure we're not caught.'

"But didn't you want to stay a bit more?" She shook her head in a negative manner.

'It was fun but I'm getting tired anyway. How about something to eat?'

"Something to eat?"

'It's not like we know the next time we can take advantage of this.'

"Fine fine you made your point," he said holding his hands up in defeat. Which was good because she was running out of space to write on the napkin. "So what do you want to eat?" 'I hope it's not something big, I only have a little more then what we need for bus fair back.' She pointed somewhere above him and down a ways. He saw a big neon ice cream sign on the other side of the road and sweat dropped. "You had this planned out didn't you?" She gave him her most innocent look which made him think she was even guiltier. "Come on," he said grabbing her hand and leading the way to the shop. She blushed and picked up the pace so she was walking next to him instead of behind him.

Ryou couldn't help but feel a smile grace his face as well as they made their way to the small shop and she leaned her head on his shoulder. He looked up and decided the prices weren't really bad. "So what do you want?" She pointed to a double fudge Sunday and he couldn't help but feel his mouth water as well as he looked at the delicious looking picture. He ordered up a Sunday with two spoons. As he turned to wait for the order he felt two arms wrap around him and couldn't help but blush as he looked down at the small girl latched onto him. He unconsciously let his own arms snake around her waist and didn't want to ever let go. She smelled so good, not like the hospital but her own unique smell he loved everyone he noticed it, it was like vanilla and cream. Her warm body was pressed against his, and just seemed molded to fit him so perfectly. It just felt so right.

But even as he thought that they had to pull apart as their order was up. He grabbed the two spoons as they sat down to dig in. She quickly dug in getting a smudge of chocolate on her chin as she gave a sigh of satisfaction. Ryou chuckled before also tasting the sweetness denied to him in the last few months. 'Who knew something so simple could be so heavenly.' True to it, Ryou had a huge sweet tooth before and to add to his unhappy mood the first week there he seemed to be going through sugar withdrawal. But now…he couldn't think of anything to make this moment any better. He looked over and still noticed the smudge of chocolate still on her chin. He reached over taking her chin softly in his hands and noticed a small blush come across her face and noticing what it must look like quickly wiped the smudge as his face began to heat up.

"Y-you had chocolate on your face." She let a small smile grace her face before once again getting a spoonful of the chocolaty goodness. They ate in relative silence until they got near the bottom in which he rested his spoon and just took to watching her.

"So how does it feel to be 17?" She looked like she was in thought for a minute before smiling at him and using her finger signaled for him to come closer. He leaned slightly over the table but she continued to usher him closer. He was leaning now so he was almost completely over the ice cream when she closed the gap between them placing her lips softly on his own. But she just as quickly pulled back and dabbed some ice cream on his nose with her hand. He looked cross eyed at the ice cream making her giggle. He was ready to give her a taste of her own medicine when her eyes became really wide and she seemed to be staring at something behind him. He turned around and came face to face with probably the last two people he wanted to see at the moment.

"Good look Ryou," Malik said wiping the ice cream off his nose and licking it. 'Shit they already know,' he said feeling his heart drop to his stomach, he at least wanted to pretend to be his brother but it was pointless now. "When did you get out? Bakura didn't tell us."

"W-well I…you see…heh," he finally gave his stuttered answer rubbing the back of his head wondering what he could really say in a situation like this. 'To tell or not to tell?'

"Holy crap I think he broke out," exclaimed Marik leaning over Malik's shoulder. Ryou fell over anime style at this. 'How the hell can they be so observant, or at least that good at guessing?!'

"Yeah right gody goody Ryou." Even as he said that Anzu latched onto Ryou's arm and stuck her tongue out.

"Don't stick that out unless you plan on using it," he said smirking. Ryou could feel her shudder and tried to fight the urge to slug him, though it probably wouldn't do any good against the guy towering over the rest of them.

"Leave her alone, what do you want," he said still trying to dodge their questions by asking his own.

"What do we want?! You go off the deep end and while you're off somewhere on drugs and whatever else trying to recapture that happy feeling your brother is giving up everything because he feels it's his fault!" Marik was pissed, Bakura had been his best friend since they were kids and knew he would do anything for his brother if he would only ask! Ryou looked down with hurt on his face, this was the second time tonight he's heard he was ruining his brother's life. He fought back the tears and turned back to the two, his voice slightly wavering.

"But I didn't-"

"Even if you didn't want it he did," he said cutting Ryou off. "No more partying, hanging out, and even that girl he'd been dating for two months, you know a record for him; he gave that all up because he felt guilty that he should be happy when you were in there." Ryou felt his heart clench in his chest as he could see the truth mixed with their own pain. Anzu felt very out of place in all of this. She knew very little about Ryou's family but was slowly seeing some of it in the light tonight. She had never jeard the exacts of how he had come to the institute, the why behind the cutting, but now as some light was shed upon the subject she felt her own heart clench.

"I want nothing more then to be able to go home and see my brother," he said truthfully. "I want nothing more then to really be his brother and just hang out with him. And that's one of the reasons I'm not dead yet." The serious mood in the area was broken with a sigh from Marik.

"And to think we thought Bakura was the more troublesome of the two of you," he said chuckling lightly. "But seriously what are you doing here?"

"Well umm…you see," once again he had that sheepish look on his face.

"Holy crap you did break out," Malik yelled getting some strange stares from people in the area.

"Not so loud! They're going to think I just broke out of jail or something," he said trying to get them to hush.

"But you broke out for what? To go partying with some girl." Malik step forward trying to get a better look at Anzu and although she didn't mind Ryou near her her five foot rule was still in effect. Even if he didn't notice they had been dancing to the side alone in the club, and now she jumped back letting go of Ryou to stay just out of reach. 'I think I know this girl. I swear I've seen her before somewhere.' He took another step closer as she backed up. "Huh? What's up with her," Marik asked as Malik once again tried to get near her but Ryou got in between the two almost shielding her.

"She doesn't like people she doesn't know getting really close to her." Malik looked like he was thinking for a minute before he snapped his fingers and pointed at Anzu.

"Wait a sec that means you and she aren't strangers or she wouldn't let you near her. She broke out too!" This time people were definitely staring as Ryou sweat-dropped.

"It was for a special reason," he said trying to get his brother's two friends to back off.

"Special reason?" Marik had a questioning look before a sly smirk came over his face. "Ryou's becoming a man!" They heard a small squeak from behind Ryou as the girl's eyes seemed to grow to the size of dinner plates and her face was doing a good tomatoe impression. Ryou's face was a pretty deep red at the moment too but for another reason as well.

"Baka! It's not like that, it's her birthday!"

"Hmmm, she's pretty quiet for it being her birthday. I don't think shes said a word since we saw you in the club," said Malik slightly leaning over just to see her slightly lean over as well, toying with her.

"She can't talk," he ground out getting slightly annoyed with the two blonds' hyperactive selves.

"Why not," Malik asked leaning forward suddenly and as Anzu tried to distance herself she almost tripped and fell. He narrowed his eyes again. 'I swear I know her from somewhere, but why would I know someone in an psych ward?' He looked over at Ryou and sweat dropped. 'Or for that matter two people?'

"Because she was traumatized by two idiots who wouldn't leave her alone," he said and was about to add more when he heard a clock chiming in the distance, and heard it chime three times. His eyes got wide and he started searching in his pocket quickly before grabbing Anzu's hand and dashing away. Malik and Marik right on his heels.

"Hey Ryou what's going on! Hold up!" But Ryou continued to drag Anzu back towards and passed the club. 'What's going on? Were they really bothering him that much?' But she didn't have time to think on it too much as she began to recognize the way they had come earlier. It was then she also realized the only real reason he would be running after hearing the clock. 'The bus!' She noticed he'd been keeping an eye on the time whenever he could. 'Shit!' She began picking up the pace so she was now running with him and not behind him.

Just as they rounded the corner and saw the bus stop within range they also saw the bus already about half a block ahead and gaining speed.

"Stop," Ryou repeated this and let go of Anzu's hand to try and catch up but the bus wasn't slowing and soon it was out of site. "Shit!" Anzu leaned on her knees trying to catch her breath, 'Damn what's with all the running tonight? You'd think we really did escape from prison.' She soon heard the familiar padding of feet drawing closer and turned to see the two blonds once again.

"Damn that has to suck. Pretty sure that was the last one until 6 too," said Marik not a bit winded while his better half was a bit winded but not as bad as the couple in front of them. 'Stupid athletes,' Ryou cursed wishing he wasn't so out of shape. (AN: Not making fun of athletes!)

"Shit! They're going to punish her for sure for this!" Malik raised an eyebrow in question not sure if he'd heard what Ryou said right but saw a blush spread across her face as he said so and knew he heard right. Malik leaned up purring into Marik's ear.

"What do you say we help the lovers out? It is her birthday." They looked at the two worn beings looking ragged and tired trying to pull themselves together." Marik looked at him a bit hesitant.

"You've been asking a lot from me in the last few days, what am I getting in return?"

"A warm fuzzy feeling inside?"

"Hmmm…I just may hold you to it." It took Malik a minute to register what he meant.

"H-hey!" It was Malik's turn to imitate a tomato but at the same time he didn't mind too much, even if that wasn't what he meant.

"Oi! Ryou! Come on!" He looked up to stare at Marik.

"What the heck do you mean come on," he asked grabbing onto Anzu's hand.

"You need a ride back right? Me and Malik got the bikes, we can give ya a lift." He looked uncertain and looked to Anzu for an answer. She looked a bit hesitant but nodded firmly. 'He's gone through so much for me; I don't want him to get in trouble!'

"Lead the way."

It took a lot of convincing but eventually the two were seating on the back of two separate motorcycles. Ryou riding with Marik and Anzu riding with Malik. It took a lot of convincing on Anzu's part along with driving at least a bit slower then the speed limit for about ten minutes before she was finally semi-comfortable enough with him. Even though she trusted Ryou her body was screaming at her to jump off and run for it. To do anything she could to put some distance between Malik and her. But she was hanging on for dear life repeating to herself it was all for Ryou. It wasn't that she thought Malik was a bad guy really, but to be this close with anyone but Ryou in so long was a bit much for her.

It didn't take long once the two bikers were able to once again get their speed up to get them back to the hospital. Though they did make fun of the name a couple of times as well when they heard about it. They ended up arriving just about a quarter after four. Anzu quickly got off and shuffled a bit away as soon as the bike was at a semi-stop (she wasn't waiting around for it to full stop). Marik chuckled at the face Malik was making, like he'd just been rejected. Ryou quickly got off as well and thanked the two as he and Anzu made their way back. The bikers quickly turned and headed for the city making in passed the bus stop in no time. It was then Malik's eyes got huge and he blinked a few times as if he didn't believe something. 'That's where I know her from!!!!' Malik looked a bit crestfallen as he finally realized who he just had riding on the back of his bike.

Anzu and Ryou made it to the wall and grabbed their cloths making it back over the wall and changing as quickly as possible, it was a bit later then they were meant to be back and they were afraid for the safety of the other. But they changed a bit too quickly for Ryou's liking though as Anzu had come back when he was trying to get his pants on making it an awkward moment for both. But as both of them finally got it together they snuck back to the main fence that contained the yard they had slipped through earlier.

"Ok listen we're going to run back to those few bushes we were in earlier as the camera turns ok?" Anzu nodded her adrenalin pumping as the thought of going out and doing what they did tonight and coming back without getting caught excited her. 'We may actually get away with this.'

"Ok I'll go first, when I say-" But he was cut off as he was pushed face first into the ground cutting him off. Anzu turned to her left to see what had happened and squeaked as she saw one of the male nurses from the institute holding Ryou down and another coming towards her. She squeaked again. "Anzu!" Ryou tried to get out of the orderly's grip as another came up and pulled him to his feet. The third tried approaching Anzu but she continued backing away from him, until her back hit the fence. 'Please help me! Please! Ryou!' She felt tears threatening to fall when a voice rang out.

"Leave her be. A long as she comes along quietly there is no need for that. And him as well." Both of them looked up to see a man with long silver hair covering his left eye in a red suit that looked to be French in design.

"Who are you," Ryou said as the orderlies set him on his own two feet but stood by his side.

"I am what you would call the warden of this facility. Pegasus J. Crawford." He did a slight bow getting a sweat-drop from the two teens. "I usually wouldn't be out here in the middle of the nigh if not for the fact I heard of an escape of two of my lower security patients. You know lower security is a privilege and as such can be taken away quite easily. I do believe you've already been warned about this my dear boy," he said turning to Ryou. Ryou wouldn't meet his eyes as Anzu felt her heart sink. 'No he wouldn't! It was because of me! It was me! Please don't punish him!' But nothing would come forth, at the moment she coulnd't tell him anything and Ryou wasn't speaking.

"And you Anzu, you've been so good and I've heard about you finally making some progress after a breakthrough. We were hoping to hear your sweet voice again soon. But that matter shall not be decided as of yet." He turned on his heel and headed toward the facility. They reentered through the front door this time and made their way to the split between the two 'dorm' type areas. "Until we can call upon them for questioning they are both to be confined to their rooms with the only times for leave being scheduled bathroom breaks. No communication with other patients, other doctors, and especially with each other." As he finished his sentence the orderlies once again came upon Ryou to escort him back to his room but he pulled against them watching in horror as two orderlies also grabbed Anzu.

"Anzu!" She felt tears flowing freely now. Her body was screaming for escape, to get away, to flee anywhere. But there was something inside her yelling louder then that. 'Please no more! I don't want you touching me! Please I don't want this!' Just as the commotion sprang up Mai made her appearance in the hallway looking disheveled and very pissed off and began arguing with Pegasus demanding to know what was going on and why she wasn't called as the two teens were being pulled farther away.

'God don't take him away! I don't want to be alone anymore! I'm so afraid!' The yelling rose in pitch as everyone seemed to be making heads or tails of the situation and the shift nurse had to keep others from coming out of their rooms.

'I'm afraid! Someone help me! Protect me!' Mai and Pegasus quickly stopped their fighting turning to the girl looking on in wonder, but she didn't seem to notice. The orderlies had stopped pulling them away but held the struggling girl as she once again squeaked in a louder pitch, this being what had caught everyone's attention. She clenched her eyes shut creaming in her mind, 'Please god protect me! Protect me!'

"Ryou," the single soft spoken, though a bit hoarse voice, echoed in the hallway as everyone looked on in astonishment, especially the white haired boy who seemed to fall in love all over again with the girl with the voice of an angel. 'Anzu…'

AN: Wow so much happening in this last chapter. And how does Malik know Anzu? So much is left out about her past hehe! And Anzu finally spoke! And yeah Pegasus is back, very creepy huh? Anyway I hope you enjoyed!