Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Leave Sanity at the Door ❯ Finding a Heart in Domino ( Chapter 13 )

AN:  Ok the thing here is I started the last chapter Tuesday and planned on putting it up that night and putting one up Thursday.  But I got to the last page and didn't finish and thought it was half assed to write one page and post so I did another chapter even though I don't know if my writing is ok or not right now.  Anyway sorry if the hacking scene sounds too low tech but I was reminiscing about Hackers, I love that movie.  Anyway the music video I describe is made up by me, but the song is by Boa and is the seventh ending off inu yasha.  You wanna download it check out my link below by the song, it's on my own website and I'm being nice by doing this so please don't rag on me because it's low resolution.  And I think that's it for notes so 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.  Also don't own Boa's song Come or Inu Yasha which the song was on (hmm another white haired bishie).

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"Leave Sanity at The Door"

Chapter 13:  "Finding a Heart in Domino"

         &nb sp;  He lay sprawled out on his bed, his head whirling.  So many things had happened in the last few days and he wasn't sure if any of them were good.  He had gotten out quite quickly, at least he thought so considering a month ago they were considering moving him up to a higher level.  Guess becoming a bit of a brown-noser helped.  He didn't care as long as he could get out and see her again.  But as soon as he got out Pegasus, the bastard had put a three day restraint on him.  As soon as he was allowed some kind of freedom he got a collar of a new color strapped onto his neck. 

         &nb sp;  He hated the idea outright but only showed disgust.  He kept telling himself 'it's only three days.  She wouldn't sweat three days.'  Three days had come and his hope had gone.  He had come to find out she had already been released.  He had been ecstatic until he found out he couldn't get any of her info.  It wasn't registering to him until he was on the bus home.  She had gotten out before him, but she hadn't come seen him.  'But she promised.'  He wasn't sure what to think anymore.  It had been just his brother and him since he came home, he didn't really expect his dad to be home.  But still he had wondered why his brother's friends hadn't been over to bother him since he got home.  He had told his brother he was going to see Anzu and it was his brother who had to help him keep it together after he got home.  That was yesterday and today when he had woken up his brother was gone.  He wondered if things were going back to the way they used to be.

         &nb sp;  'He's stayed home with me the last three days, but he does have school.  It's not like he can miss every day I'm also home.  I wonder when I'm going back.  Maybe I just shouldn't.  I feel so pathetic and weak.  Anzu, if only I could see your face for a moment.'  He shut his eyes tight and tried to fight the darkness it created.  Begging for some light to dispel his darkness.

         &nb sp;  She wiped the last few tears away as she hugged her pillow closer.  She'd been crying since she got home earlier and thankfully her mom hadn't asked her anything about it.  At least not yet.  She had felt totally crushed, how could he forget about her in one month?!  And after he made her promise not to forget him!  'But something…just doesn't seem right.  This doesn't seem like him at all.'  She sniffled wiping her nose as she looked outside.  The sun was shining; birds chirping getting ready to head south for the winter, kids were playing after school. 'What a perfect day for misery.' 

         &nb sp;  But the kids outside reminded her of something.  'Schools out, my friends are home.'  The temptation to give in and bawl out her problems to her friends was so tempting but…'What do I say?  Hey when I was in the loony bin I was dating this guy and we promised to get out and visit each other.  But it looks like he took off and forgot about me.'  She nearly burst into tears even as she was just trying to mock herself for being so stupid.  'But they are my friends.  If they can't help me, who can?'  Once again an image of his face popped into her mind and she grabbed the phone punching in a number.

         &nb sp;  "Ok so she said he was released right," came the reassuring voice of Anzu's best friend Shizuka as she calmly took in the situation and tried evaluating it. 

         &nb sp;  "Yes," she whimpered slightly replaying the facts in her mind.

         &nb sp;  "Ok now tell me this, you couldn't go visit him until three days after you got out right?"

         &nb sp;  "Mmm-hmm."

         &nb sp;  "Is it possible Pegasus gave him the same restrictions?"

         &nb sp;  "M-maybe, but what does that matter," she asked fighting a sob.

         &nb sp;  "Ok this is a BIG assumption since I don't know these people personally.  But it sounds like this Pegasus guy doesn't want you and Ryou together.  What if he did give him the same restrictions and let you guys out within three days of each other?"  It took Anzu's brain a few seconds to register this theory and she almost dropped the phone in shock.  'It makes complete sense.'  "I mean he knew you wanted to visit each other once you were out so he put the three day thing up because if you were released on the same day you'd notice.  And then when you came to visit you'd think the other forgot about you and get sad and eventually get over it and move on.  But like I said I don't know these people as well as you do, so it's just a theory.  What do you think Anzu?"  She got a long silence on the other side of the phone.  "Anzu?  Anzu are you still there?"  Before she could prepare herself her eardrums were punctured by the sound of her friends voice shouting 'THAT BASARD!'

         &nb sp;  "A-Anzu," she yelled trying to get her friends attention as she continued to ramble off obscenities.  "Anzu calm down!"

         &nb sp;  "Calm down!  I trusted him!  This is the second time he's gone out of his way to keep Ryou and me apart, how can I not be pissed?"

         &nb sp;  "I'm not saying don't be pissed.  Go Loranna Bobbet on him later if it'll make ya feel better.  But right now don't you want to be happy?"

         &nb sp;  "Huh?"  Shizuka sighed before beginning.  "Well you still want to find Ryou right?  I mean if this theory IS right then that means he might think you broke your promise."  She heard a gasp on the other side of the line.

         &nb sp;  "Oh crap no!  I have to find him and explain it all!  But the nurse wouldn't give me any information!" 

         &nb sp;  "Well then we'll just have to get it some other way.  You said it was on a computer right?"

         &nb sp;  "Yes why?"  Anzu was becoming confused by her friend's willingness to help her find a boy she barely met but was happy her friend was willing to not give up so easily.  'I want to be more like her.'

         &nb sp;  "I think it's time you called in a favor from Yugi."  Once again she had lost Anzu with her train of thought.

         &nb sp;  Anzu and Shizuka were jogging side by side down the road, Shizuka looking down at her watch every so often.  "How could you sleep in when you're the one who arranged this," Anzu groaned trying to keep her mind on what was happening, or about to happen.

         &nb sp;  "I forgot to turn my alarm on, it's not a crime," she whined as they made their way into the middle of Domino square.  Anzu leaned over on her knees catching her breath as Shizuka leaned against a nearby lamp post doing the same. 

         &nb sp;  "Yeah well it should be," Anzu groaned finally standing back up and looking around.  She spotted her friend Yugi over by an ice cream vender waving at the two.  They quickly made their way over to him looking around expectantly.

         &nb sp;  "Hey Yugi."

         &nb sp;  "Hey Anzu, Shizuka."

         &nb sp;  "Thanks for coming Yugi, especially on such short notice," Anzu said glad her friends were willing to actually skip school with her on a Thursday morning just to help her with a guy.  Well to her he was more then just 'a guy' but they didn't know him yet.  "Thanks for helping with my problem.  I mean you don't think I'm too weird right," she asked referring to her having a relationship with someone else in the hospital. 

         &nb sp;  "Of course not.  You're my friend and I trust your decision.  And he was there for you when we couldn't be, he's already got my vote," he said with a small laugh.  She felt herself break a smile glad her friend's were taking this well so far.

"So…where is she?"

         &nb sp;  "Yugi!  Darling, I'm back!"  They looked over to see a young girl about 13 or 14 eith should length blond hair and glasses running towards them waving.  Just as she got within glomping range she threw herself at Yugi latching herself onto him.  "Sorry I took so long, but I really needed to phone in after leaving like that."

         &nb sp;  "It's fine.  Anzu and Shizuka showed up while you were gone."  She turned to see the two high school girls standing before her and gave them a look that definitely said she was sizing them up. 

         &nb sp;  "Which one of you is Anzu?"  Anzu hesitantly raised her hand wondering if this could really work.  Shizuka had informed Anzu that about two weeks after she ended up in the hospital Yugi had started dating this young girl hacker genius named Rebecca.  But she lived over in America so it was a long distance thing, but she had been known to hack into KaibaCorp.'s computers on occasion so she thought she could hack into a hospital no problem. 

         &nb sp;  Instead of further scrutinizing her like she thought she would she turned to Shizuka.  Shizuka looked just as confused as her and they both wondered why Yugi was sweat-dropping at the whole scenario.  "So you're Shizuka," she said looking the girl strait in the eye.  "I don't mind you being friends, but if you try to take my darling I won't forgive you," she said striking a determined pose.  "But my name is Rebecca Hopkins, nice to meet you."  Both of the girls sweat-dropped and Shizuka tried not to fall over.  She had a feeling World War III was about to break out between the two so she intervened. 

         &nb sp;  "Ano, can you really help me though?"  She once again turned towards Anzu with a friendly smile plastered on her face. 

         &nb sp;  "Of course I can, don't worry.  We just have to get to a place that's near deserted with a pay phone, come on I know the perfect place.  I was scouting around while heading towards the bathroom."  With that she picked up her laptop case that was near Yugi and started to walk away with Yugi walking behind her.  Though she wasn't sure, she could have sworn she heard Yugi say, 'Not again.'  She just smiled and followed the younger girl, Shizuka right behind her.

         &nb sp;  "The nerve of her," Shizuka mumbled to her friend.  "I know I'm not dating anyone but like I'm going to go and steal somebody's boyfriend right from under their nose.  Come on, she gets one look at me and that's what she thinks," she said annoyance thick in her voice as she tried to keep it to a whisper.  Anzu once again giggled.

         &nb sp;  "The way Yugi was looking I think she does this to any girls that are single and don't already like a guy," she said adding the last part after thinking her own situation over. 

         &nb sp;  "Not to sound rude, Yugi's a great guy and all.  But why would she be that overprotective of him."

         &nb sp;  "Shizuka," she hissed as she noticed her friend's voice getting louder.  "That's not the point," she said keeping her voice low.  "The point is that when you love somebody so much you're afraid of anything that could take it away."

         &nb sp;  "Ahh," Shizuka said getting a sly smirk on her face.  "Love?  You know this from experience?"  Anzu's face turned bright red and she walked a little faster catching up to Yugi and Rebecca as they came to stop in front of a phone booth. 

         &nb sp;  "OK here's what I need, I can't get interrupted so I need someone watching the ways comming in here so no one will come in and squeal on us.  There are only two ways into this small plaza and it's not busy at all so we should be good with one person at each.  Try and keep anyone from coming in here by any means possible ok," she said turning to the three.

         &nb sp;  "Umm ok, but which of us are guarding the entrances," she said felling kind of weird 'guarding' anything. 

         &nb sp;  "You two of course," she said pointing to Yugi and Shizuka.  "I need Anzu here to feed me information.  Ok, so lets get going," she said breaking out her laptop and setting it on the edge of the phone booth before pulling out a pair of wire cutters.  She watched as her friends ran off and took their positions at the entrances and Rebecca hooked up her laptop.

         &nb sp;  'Why do I feel like I'm in a bad spy movie?'  "We're online," Rebecca said cutting into her thoughts.  "Ok now you said the name of the hospital was?"

         &nb sp;  "Hotaru no Hikari."  Rebecca typed in some information and popped up a website before popping up three other various programs and a good amount of script Anzu didn't understand began running through the screen.

         &nb sp;  "I'm going to need a name here in a minute, what is it?"

         &nb sp;  "Ryou Bakura," she said her voice wavering on the Bakura part.

         &nb sp;  "Are you sure about that."

         &nb sp;  "I know his name is Ryou but I only heard his last name a few times.  But it has to be close."  She nodded and all Anzu could do was sit there and wait as Rebecca typed furiously at the keyboard.  Every key stroke seemed imperative as her fingers sailed across the keyboard. 

         &nb sp;  The computer seemed to whine a little and if it was possible Rebecca's typing seemed to get faster as her eyes scanned across the information literally flying across her screen.  "Ah-ha!"  She quickly typed something in and Anzu saw Ryou's face pop up on the monitor.

         &nb sp;  "Ah!  That's him!"  Rebecca smirked proudly as she put a floppy in the drive and began copying it.  But just as the copying began the folder on her screen seemed to be being eaten away at.  "What's going on?"
            "Crap his security is a lot better then I thought!  He got through my firewall!  And it looks like he's trying to upload a virus!  Oh no you don't damnit!"  She began typing feverously again, though as she did this the bar with the progress of the copy seemed to freeze and the computer screen became jammed with more and more windows.  "Shit!  I gotta abort!"

         &nb sp;  "What about the file?!"  But before she could protest further Rebecca pulled out the wire cutters and cut her connection and quickly did a hard shut down popping the floppy out.

         &nb sp;  "It got some of it, but what parts I don't know.  We can't try and read it on my laptop as it's infected.  I need to scan it over the network once we get back.  But while we're there we can also read the disk.  I just hope this wasn't a total loss."

         &nb sp;  Rebecca groaned for the fourth time in five minutes as another virus was found and killed.  Well this was only the fourth time one was killed; one had to be quarantined, which didn't make her feel any better.

         &nb sp;  "It'll be ok Rebecca, you backed everything up right before this and once you clean out the virus' you can just reload your stuff," Yugi said trying to comfort her.  Anzu and Shizuka didn't know exactly what was going on, but it was apparent this had damaged Rebecca's computer to some extent and it was their fault.

         &nb sp;  "I'm so sorry Rebecca.  I didn't know it would be that bad.  I really am sorry."  Rebecca wiped the frown off her face and put on a small smile.

         &nb sp;  "It's ok, Yugi's right I can fix it back up no problem, it'll just take some time.  And you never know what security is like until you really get in there so it's not your fault.  Come on, let's see what we got on your lover boy," she said with a wink which made Anzu blush. 

         &nb sp;  "Don't say it like that, it makes it sound wrong," she whined as Rebecca popped in the disk and pulled it up on the computer. 

         &nb sp;  "Aww man, it only got like 15% of the file downloaded, let's hope it got some of the basics first."

         &nb sp;  "You mean we may not have gotten anything?"  Instead of replying Rebecca began clicking around searching the scattered bits of file they were able to grab. 

         &nb sp;  "No address," she saw and Anzu's hope seemed to crash and burn once again.  "But…we have a phone number."

         &nb sp;  Ryou groaned as he heard someone busting into the door downstairs in the living room.  He had been napping on and off all day contemplating what to do about trying to find out what happened to Anzu.  He heard some exciting yelling downstairs again and flipped over to see it was only about 12:20 in the afternoon. 'Guess they did skip school,' he thought as he heard more then one person walking around downstairs.  He was able to distinguish three different people.  'Probably Bakura, Malik, and Marik.'   Those three seemed like the three musketeers at times, except evil of course.

         &nb sp;  "Ryou," he heard his brother call from downstairs.  "Ryou," he called again and he heard his brothers feet on the stairs so he called out.

         &nb sp;  "What?"

         &nb sp;  "Come out here right now, this is really important."  Ryou rolled over so he was now facing the door while lying on his bed.

         &nb sp;  "What is it?"  Bakura finally got to his door and opened it looking out of breath as he made his way to his brother, grabbed him by the arm, and began dragging him down the stairs.  "Hey let go, I can walk," he said as they neared the stairs and worried for his safety from being dragged down those.  "And what's going on," he said while continuing to follow his brother.

         &nb sp;  "They found her."  Ryou felt his heart jump a bit hoping the she they were talking about was the same she he had been thinking about.

         &nb sp;  "Her who?"  They came to stop and stand in front of the TV as Malik was loading something in the DVD player.

         &nb sp;  "I didn't remember who she was at first.  But I got her face stuck in my head and it finally came to me.  I got the DVD out waiting for you to come home soon so I could show you.  But then you came home, and Bakura wouldn't let us near you, then he brings down our front door demanding we help him find her."

         &nb sp;  "Her who?"

         &nb sp;  "Anzu, of course I didn't know her by that name."

         &nb sp;  "What do you mean," he asked his heart aching and confused at figuring out what was on that tape that could possibly lead him back to her.

         &nb sp;  "This," he said and with a click the DVD started up.  Ryou wasn't sure what he was seeing at first.  A name came up on the screen reading 'Sana Kurosaki.'  There was a girl with short hair standing shadowed in the moonlight wearing a dark crimson kimono.  As the music grew louder she turned half way away form the moon, and he could tell right away…that was Anzu.  But as amazed as he was to see her looking like that, he was even more amazed at her voice as she began to sing.

< Free version of the song: w w w . angelfire . com / vamp / bakuraanzu / Inu.mp3 - take out the spaces >

  moshi ima kanashimi afureru nara watashi ni motarete naite ii kara I get, I get, I get, get the feeling I get, I get, I get, get the dreaming tada kono mama Come my way kono yami no hotori Come close to me ima akari tomoshi I'll be with you, I'll be with you tada soba ni iru kara So come my way

She swayed in the moonlight as if dancing within the wind, her body at its command, as nearby cherry trees let their blossoms swirl around her before falling to the ground in time with her voice. He was dazzled, he had liked her voice the few times she had said anything to him, but now it was mesmerizing, captivating, it was drawing him in. He felt like he was sinking in quicksand but enjoying it as it slowly devoured him.

kizuite anata wa kono sekai de tada hitori dake no taisetsu na hito I get, I get, I get, get the feeling I get, I get, I get, get the dreaming tada sono mama Come my way mou hitomi tojite Come close to me mou nemureba ii I'll be with you, I'll be with you tada koko ni iru kara So come my way

He imagined that voice singing softly into his ear, sitting in her room like before, but with her talking to him like that.

Calling out Can you hear me? yea So come my way I get, I get, I get, get the feeling I get, I get, I get, get the dreaming tada kono mama

The song slowly wound down as the camera began to slowly zoom up on her face; something was different in this picture as they drew closer.

Come my way kono yami no hotori Come close to me ima akari tomoshi I'll be with you, I'll be with you tada soba ni iru kara So come my way

As the camera moved in on the last yard or so she closed her eyes.

Come my way

Come close to me

Come my way

Come close to me

With the last few lyrics she slowly opened her eyes revealing blood red iris'. The whole time the video had been playing, the music had been so loud, and they ad been so entranced, no one noticed as the answering machine clicked on and took a message from the phone ringing just behind them.

AN: Good? Bad? Did I kill a really great song by putting it in my fic? I know the music video part sucked but it was hard to describe. Anyway hope you enjoyed.

Also, here's the English lyrics of the song:

If sorrow is overflowing now,
It's alright to lean on me and cry.

I get, I get, I get, get the feeling
I get, I get, I get, get the dreaming

Stay just like this.

Come my way
Darkness is all around
Come close to me...
Now with the light of dusk,
I'll be with you, I'll be with you...
So I'm at your side.

I realize that you're just the only one
Who is important to me in this world.

I get, I get, I get, get the feeling
I get, I get, I get, get the dreaming

Stay just like that.

Come my way...
Close your eyes
Come close to me...
It's alright if you sleep, because
I'll be with you, I'll be with you...
I'm right here.
So come my way.

Calling out,
Can you hear me?
Yeah...
So come my way.

I get, I get, I get, get the feeling
I get, I get, I get, get the dreaming

Stay just like this.

Come my way...
Close your eyes
Come close to me...
It's alright if you sleep, because
I'll be with you, I'll be with you...
I'm right here.
So come my way.

Come my way
Come close to me
Come my way
Come close to me