Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Leave Sanity at the Door ❯ Weekend Warriors ( Chapter 15 )

AN:  I know I said I'd try to update every three days but like I said I couldn't promise but hopefully my one shots helped make up for it.  That and I've been translating more of the Bakura/Anzu doujin I have so hopefully either Vaz-sama or scarlet-moonlight will have it posted on their sites soon.  Also two things in this chapter, they talk about how she's on a first name basis with Ryou, most people in Japan refer to others by their last names unless they're REALLY close so this is pretty big to her friends.  Also they talk about Monster World which was in season one where they met Bakura and is like D&D with figurines.  Anyway 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. 

Japanese:

Glomp - Jumping at and hugging someone (not really Japanese but some people may not know it.)

Moshi Moshi - Hello over the phone

Ano- Umm

Nani- What

Dmo- But

Gomen - Sorry

Hai- Yes

Hentai - Pervert

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"Leave Sanity at The Door"

Chapter 15:  "Weekend Warriors"

         &nb sp; Once again Anzu was stuck in a position where she wasn't sure if it was worth it or not.  When she had gotten home, her parents hadn't noticed she was gone, she had gone downstairs and announced, to her mother's joy, she would like to have the other members of the band come over and practice tomorrow and set up a meeting with her manager on Monday.  Though she knew the look her father gave her said he definitely didn't approve he didn't say anything further on the matter.  To make matters worse her mother suggested she go back to school tomorrow since one of her fellow band mates was still in school as well and she couldn't practice until then.  Anzu was planning on dealing with school next week and enjoying the last bit of freedom she had this week, but her mother had other plans.

         &nb sp;  So this is why after such a glorious night of being in the arms of her true love the next day sucked completely.  She had forgotten how early she had to get up to actually get to school even though it didn't start until 8:30.  She yawned trying to keep her eyes open as she trudged the long road wondering what lay ahead for her.  As she had been gone so long if there was some big project or test going on she would be excused for the day but expected to be caught up by Monday.  Even though that seemed impossible as she was going to be spending the whole weekend in bliss aka with Ryou, she had to get caught up at least a bit to function in school.  Her mom was thinking of a weekend long tutor session, but she had other plans.

         &nb sp;  She looked up a bit startled as she heard her name being called and looked up to see her friends waiting at the front gate for her, just like old times.  She felt herself smile and ran forward to them greeting them all.

         &nb sp;  "Hey Anzu I didn't think you'd be back for punishment so soon," said Jou apparently referring to the mounds of make up work she'd have awaiting her.  She just looked like someone had deflated her and tried to keep herself standing.  "Hey I'm sorry, come on don't worry about it.  I mean they've given you two weeks to make most of the paper work up, and a moth overall for projects and stuff.  I'm sure it'll be fine.  And we can help you study this weekend," he said grabbing a hold of Yugi and Honda apparently volunteering them.

         &nb sp;  "Well thanks but-"

         &nb sp;  "Sorry guys she has something else she's doing this weekend," said Shizuka cutting in making her friend flush.

         &nb sp;  "Huh?  What are you talking about?  You didn't set her up on a blind date again did you," her brother asked as his eyes narrowed in suspicion. 

         &nb sp;  "Of course not, she'll be too busy with her boyfriend all weekend," she said smugly. 

         &nb sp;  "Boyfriend," all but Yugi yelled as he had been in on the scheme the day before and pretty much was in the ballpark with what was happening.

         &nb sp;  "When did you get a boyfriend?"

         &nb sp;  "Seriously, we're friends and you didn't tell us," Honda butted in.

         &nb sp;  "Well Ryou is-"

         &nb sp;  "Ryou," they both exclaimed again.

         &nb sp;  "You're already on a first name basis with him," Jou all but yelled.

         &nb sp;  "Well she has known him for months," said Shizuka slyly.  "She and him met in the hospital and made a lovers pact to meet on the outside," she said still grinning.

         &nb sp;  "Shizuka you're exaggerating it," Anzu said embarrassed.

         &nb sp;  "You're going out with a nut job," Honda yelled this time.  But immediately regretted it as he saw the spark in her eyes as it began to twitch and she grabbed her school bag just a bit harder then needed.

         &nb sp;  "How dare you," she started her voice a low growl, "call my boyfriend a nut job," she was pretty much yelling at this time as she swung her bag around and popped Honda right in the jaw sending him flying.  The others looked on; their eyes bugging out of their heads as she turned to the rest of them to see if they had any comments to add but all slunk away.  She turned to storm into the school leaving her friends to walk a ways behind her.

         &nb sp;  "You know, it's good having the old Anzu back," Jou said with a smile.  And even Honda had to nod in agreement as he nursed his sore jaw.

         &nb sp;  Anzu groaned as she trudged home with not just her one back pack but an extra duffle bag she borrowed in gym class to carry all her homework in.  She knew she'd been gone for a while, but didn't summer break count for anything?!  As it was she had about two hours before her friends would come over to rehearse as Ootogi had a hair appointment.  'That boy and his hair!'  But she had bigger things to worry about.  She had six different subjects, thankfully gym was one and she only needed to do ten extra credit assignments consisting of a half a page report on health and physical activity issues.  Even though it seemed too easy she wanted to get that out of the way first.  Then came her Japanese class in which she had to write five different papers including rough, and final and do a book report.  Then in math she had to catch up seven chapters and make up the quizzes and exams.  She was thankful her mythology teacher was a pretty big flake though and she only had to make up two tests, copy someone's notes, and make up her own myth which only had to be three to four pages long.  She was pretty sure she'd get that out of the way quickly too.  Then came her history class and science classes which were the hardest.  She had to get notes from people, do up various worksheets and projects, as well as three major tests, a midterm in each, and a major paper/project in each.  She almost cried at her predicament but once again felt comforted by her friends.

         &nb sp;  Once they heard of her situation they offered to help her after school on the week days before her practices which she was going to try and convince her mom to do at night so she could study.  'Come on Anzu!  You're not weak!  You can be strong and you can do this,' she thought determined as she made her way home.  'You're going to do this, and then spend the whole weekend with Ryou,' she said her mood going from serious to happy go lucky.  'Weekend here I come!'

         &nb sp;  She was pretty lucky, at least she thought, as she was just setting aside her papers awaiting her crew's arrival.  She was right; she had been able to finish up her gym reports quite easily and already put them aside.  But she also had finished a rough draft for her myth paper and was sure it only needed minor revisions.  'See you're already making progress, just one subject at a time Anzu!'  She was interrupted by a knock on the door and saw Shizuka stick her head around the door.

         &nb sp;  "Yo!  Anzu we're here," she said fully opening the door now to reveal her and their other band mate Ootogi.  "How goes the slave work," she said looking to the pile of papers to Anzu's right.

         &nb sp;  "Well Rome wasn't built in a day," she said sweat-dropping. 

         &nb sp;  "It could be if it was made up of all the homework you still had to do," she said laughing as her friend glared.

         &nb sp;  "It's still good to have you back," Ootogi cut in putting a halt to the teasing between friends.  "Come on we should get to work as well, you're meeting up with Siegfried on Monday right?  Even if you just got out he's going to want you practicing back the way you were again.  Eve though the concerts were dropped they company still wants to put out a CD and after that Siegfried wants us to get at least three new teaser songs before trying to make a whole new CD.  He noticed Anzu hyperventilating into a paper bag and came over resting a hand on her shoulder.  "Well all in good time I mean.  He wants the CD done in a month which is a bit hard, but if we really push hard we can do it. And then he's giving us another month after that to come up with the new songs and you're not doing it alone."

         &nb sp;  "Yeah you got me," Shizuka said jokingly getting a glare from Ootogi.  But before it got too far along Anzu remembered something.

         &nb sp;  "Oh yeah is my mom gone?"

         &nb sp;  "Yeah she was heading to the corner store for a couple things when we got here," Shizuka said wondering what he friend was getting at.  Before she knew it Anzu was on her knees in a begging position in front of Ootogi.

         &nb sp;  "You want something from me don't you," he asked sweat-dropping. 

         &nb sp;  "Yes but it's something EXTREMELY important to me."

         &nb sp;  "How important?"

         &nb sp;  "Willing to run away and elope important."

         &nb sp;  "Your going off to elope?!"

         &nb sp;  "No but it's that kind of important," she said trying to get him to quiet his voice in case her mom came home.

         &nb sp;  "Oh this is about your boyfriend isn't it," Shizuka said getting all catty again.  Anzu just blushed giving them their answer.  Ootogi sighed, a sign of submittance, he'd already been filled in by Shizuka on Anzu's boyfriend.  He was pretty shocked, she'd been asked out by lots of guys but turned them all down, and this would be her first real boyfriend.

         &nb sp;  "Ok what is it," he groaned knowing he was throwing his soul to the devil. 

         &nb sp;  "He lives about 45 minutes away and he doesn't have a ride here this weekend."

         &nb sp;  "So I'm a chauffer?"

         &nb sp;  "Kind of," she said still in a pleading position.

         &nb sp;  "But it's gonna be a strain on my gas this weekend to drive him back and forth both days.  Why don't you ask your mom?"

         &nb sp;  "Her mommy doesn't know about him yet," Shizuka answered teasingly.  "Anzu wants to introduce them this weekend."

         &nb sp;  "And anyway you won't be driving back and forth!  At least not both days!  Yugi agreed to let him stay over his house this weekend.  So you only have to pick him up and drop him off once.  PLEASE," she asked giving him the best puppy dog eyes she had ever mustered.  He groaned but accepted getting him a huge glomp from the girl who was just on the ground a second ago before she took off with the phone.  "Anyway I'll tell him you'll pick him up at ten."  She heard him moan something about 'I don't even get up before 10,' but she ignored it and continued.  "Anyway I'll meet you downstairs in a bit.  I gotta call him," she said going into the bathroom and shutting and locking the door in case her mother came home soon and dialed Ryou's number in.  It rang once…twice…

         &nb sp;  "Moshi moshi," came a deep voice from the other side of the line making Anzu jump and even more nervous then before.

         &nb sp;  "A-ano, is Ryou there," she asked timidly.  She heard a grumbled reply before someone calling for Ryou.  The line was dead another minute before she heard someone pick up the phone.

         &nb sp;  "Hello, Ryou here," he said it with a bit of excitement in his voice.

         &nb sp;  "Ah, Ryou!  Hello!"

         &nb sp;  "Hello Anzu," he said in a happy almost sing song voice. 

         &nb sp;  "I have great news!  My friend Ootogi said he'd give you a ride here this weekend.  He'll be at your house by 10 AM on Saturday.  That and Yugi agreed to let you stay the night at his house on Saturday.  Apparently he and his grandfather consider you a really good customer or something; they knew you as soon as I described you."  Ryou was sweat dropping.  "So everything is all set right?"

         &nb sp;  "Well almost," he said it in a way that made Anzu's stomach twist, she knew she wasn't going to like what he was about to say.  "Well I just got home after being away for months from my brother and now I want to run off this weekend in some place I don't know that well with someone he doesn't know very well and everything and well…my brother won't let me come unless he does too."  Anzu nearly dropped the phone and Ryou could practically feel her emotions building and sure enough 3…2…1…

         &nb sp;  "NANI!?  D-demo why?"

         &nb sp;  "In all truthfulness he's never really met you before.  I mean Marik and Malik have probably spent more time with you then my brother.  Well you know about my dad from what I told you, Bakura's kind of like my only family and it's kind of like how you want me to meet your parents."  He was afraid how she seemed to quiet down so quickly.  "Anzu?"

         &nb sp;  "Ok, I understand.  Sorry if I seemed selfish.  I'll make sure to tell Yugi and Ootogi there will be one more person they have to pick up."

         &nb sp;  "You don't mind," he asked tentively.

         &nb sp;  "Of course not!  And after what you said…I think I'd like to get to know him a bit."  Ryou wasn't so sure about that but wasn't about to burst her happy little bubble.  "Ah, I think I just heard my mom come in, I need to get to practice."

         &nb sp;  "Have fun, so I'll see you tomorrow?"

         &nb sp;  "Hai, tomorrow.  Love you," she said quietly feeling the burning blush already spread across her cheeks. 

         &nb sp;  "Love you too," he said his face also turning a unique shade of red before placing the phone back on its cradle.  He was so content he didn't even notice the figure lurking in the shadows, and when he did it was too late!  He was pounced and pushed back onto the couch as someone sat on his stomach preventing his escape.

         &nb sp;  "So you told her I'm coming along," his brother asked a bit too happily for his liking.

         &nb sp;  "Please no mischief I really don't wanna get kicked out of the one store that still sells second edition monster world guides."

         &nb sp;  "You are such a geek," he said staring him down but rolled off his brother.  "Chill out, it's not like I'm bringing Malik and Marik."

         &nb sp;  "How did you get rid of them, I thought they really wanted to come when they heard about it."  He saw the smug look on his brother's face and narrowed his eyes, "What did you do?"

         &nb sp;  "Nothing I'm harmless," he said trying to play innocent which never really worked for him.

         &nb sp;  "Bakura," he said now giving a full blown glare.

         &nb sp;  "Fine, fine.  I got Marik drunk enough to play poker."

         &nb sp;  "But Marik sucks at poker."

         &nb sp;  "That's why I got him drunk first.  Anyway I got him in a corner and actually got him to bet Malik."

         &nb sp;  "HE WHAT?!  Malik would kill him if he ever found out!"

         &nb sp;  "Exactly, and just as I knew he lost.  So as it is I told him I'd give him a fair chance and sent him out on a scavenger hunt."

         &nb sp;  "S-scavenger hunt," he said disbelief written all over his face.

         &nb sp;  "Hai hai," he gloated.  "And as long as he wins I give Malik back to him and never have to tell Malik about him being owned by me for a short bit of time."

         &nb sp;  "But your strait," his brother pointed out.

         &nb sp;  "Doesn't matter it'd be nice having a servant, and when it comes to Marik he's paranoid anyone could take Malik from him like that.  So I gave them a task of impossible items that will take all weekend for them to find."

         &nb sp;  "Aren't you nice?"

         &nb sp;  "You mean you'd let them come with us to Domino," he asked in an excited way.

         &nb sp;  "No way!"

         &nb sp;  "Then there you have it.  Anyway you should pack, that Ootogi guy should be here at 10 right?"

         &nb sp;  "Hey how did you know about that," asked Ryou turning on his brother.   Bakura once again tried to play innocent but it didn't work.  "You were listening in," Ryou yelled loud enough for their neighbors to yell at them to keep it down.  Bakura just smirked and took off down the hall for his room with Ryou hot on his heels.  It had been too long since they had just hung out like this; he had taken it for granted before, but not anymore.

         &nb sp;  Anzu sat down grabbing the bottled water off the stool as she did so guzzling it down.  She looked up at her clock as it read about ten to nine.  She had been practicing for almost four hours strait.  If this had been a year ago maybe ten hours would be something but she was just getting back into the swing of things. 

         &nb sp;  "At least you're voice didn't completely die while you were gone," Ootogi joked.

         &nb sp;  "At least I have an excuse," she said mockingly.  "What's your excuse, guitar out of tune?"  She dodged the water bottle going by her head that she knew was coming. 

         &nb sp;  "You're both so mean," Shizuka said as twirled her drum sticks

         &nb sp;  "You know I only tease because I love," said Ootogi and tried to pull Anzu into a hug but she side stepped him. 

         &nb sp;  "I tease because you deserve it," she said watching him closely as he picked himself up.

         &nb sp;  "Anzu how can you be so cruel," he said tears streaming down his face.

         &nb sp;  "Because I know you should have been an actor not a musician," she said and his tears instantly dried up.

         &nb sp;  "Of course you have such an eye for talent," he said picking himself up off the floor.  "It's so good to have you back," he said sincerely. 

         &nb sp;  "Seriously it's been no fun for him with no one to tease but me," said Shizuka.

         &nb sp;  "Yeah well don't worry I'm back for good.  Anyway you guys should get going, it's getting pretty late and someone has to get up early," she said eyeing Ootogi.  His happy mood immediately went out the window and the gloom returned.

         &nb sp;  "Yeah yeah I got it.  But Anzu," he started looking serious.  "How are you going to even spend time with him tomorrow?"

         &nb sp;  "Huh what do you mean?"

         &nb sp;  "You're mom didn't tell you," Shizuka said stepping into the conversation.  "While you were on the phone your mom came downstairs and said we should practice all day tomorrow as well.  You didn't know?"  The way Anzu's smile just seemed to fall off her face told them no.  "What are you going to do?"  Anzu was silent as it seemed she was deep in thought.  "Anzu?"

         &nb sp;  "Escape!"  Her friends nearly fell over from her sudden shout.

         &nb sp;  "E-escape?  What do you mean?  You're not in a prison Anzu," Shizuka said trying to understand her friend.

         &nb sp;  "Well when Ootogi gets here I'll just get out of the house without mom seeing and take off with Ryou and his brother and you two can pretend like you don't know anything."

         &nb sp;  "But your mom will call the cops!"

         &nb sp;  "I'll leave a note!  I mean I haven't even been out of the house except for Thursday when I snuck out the two times.  As far as my mom knows I haven't left the house in almost a week, she'll just think I got stir crazy or something!"

         &nb sp;  "Anzu, I'm not sure," Shizuka started.

         &nb sp;  "Come on, please just go along with me on this," she begged her friend who looked like she was stuck between a rock and a hard place.  Shizuka sighed hoping that she would be all right.  She had wanted to meet this Ryou guy with Anzu, but she'd have to wait. 

         &nb sp;  "Thank you," she said glomping her friend and almost knocking over the drum set.

         &nb sp;  "Woohoo!  Girl on girl!"  Two drum sticks then hit him across the face making him wince.  "Fine if you want some privacy!"

         &nb sp;  "Ootogi," they both yelled.  Even as Anzu and Shizuka chased down their perverted friend, even as they wrestled, all three of them were laughing and enjoying the moment, they learned in the past months to take advantage of the peace and happiness.  They all knew it could easily come to a grinding halt at any time.

         &nb sp;  Anzu sat up looking at the clock again as it read 10:30; she yawned rubbing the sleep from her eyes as she sipped on her coffee.  She had such a hard time getting to sleep last night, she felt restless and considered calling Ootogi up and having him get Ryou early, but she also didn't want Ootogi, or worse Ryou, mad at her for being selfish and just tried to be quiet as she tossed and turned.  It was worse now though as the morning made way for noon and she was relying on caffeinated substances to keep her going as the time for arrival came close. 

         &nb sp;  She had talked to her mother last night about rehearsal today and made sure to sound a bit disappointed so hopefully her little note would go over better and she would really just seem like she wanted to go out.  Practice was supposed to be at 11, and Ootogi would show up just before then and that was when she'd make her escape.  He was supposed to relay the info to Ryou for her on their trip to Domino.  She hoped that they were at least kind of getting along.  She felt a bad vibe go through her and she looked out her window, 'I hope they get here soon.'

            As it was Ootogi was staring at the digital clock in his car as it read in neon green color: 11:15 AM.  And where was Ootogi?  On the Domino freeway, backed up about three miles from the exit he needed.  As it was he was getting off at the next exit, because about a half hour before he had been only five miles from that exit and was stupid enough to pass up the exit before this one.  It had been a relatively smooth and easy drive, he had gotten to talk to Ryou a bit and was only mildly annoyed with Bakura.  As it was Bakura was not a morning person and was taking it out on them, but now stuck in a traffic jam with blaring horns wasn't helping his mood at all and he was seriously thinking of going out and blowing up a few cars to get them out of the way.  Ootogi and Ryou had to talk him out of it and Ootogi offered him headphones and a CD player to try and drown out the noise.  It had subdued the beast for now, but he didn't know how much battery juice was left in his player.

            He looked up in time to see the cars move up slowly foot by foot as the exit ramp came into sight.  He looked back and forth on the freeway and saw just other people like him stuck on the freeway before he looked at his two passengers.  "You two better hang on," he said getting a startled look from Ryou and a confused one from Bakura who couldn't hear before both of them shouted as Ootogi's car shot out of the lane and onto the shoulder of the highway flying down the road.  He floored it knowing if anyone caught his license plate his ass would be grass, not that it already wasn't for being late.  But he took his shot and made it to the exit ramp cutting a guy off in the process, but remaining unscathed. 

            "What the hell was that," Ryou said clutching his side of the car for dear life.

            "Gomen, but as it is Anzu's already going to kill me so I'm willing to risk it."  With that he made his way towards Anzu's formulating some kind of plan to try and fool her mother.  Knowing her mother she'd gone up at eleven to get her to come down for practice meaning her shot at escaping was gone.  But if he could pass Ryou and his brother off as friends or something he could still get them to come over and hope Anzu was better at winging it then him right then.  He came to a screeching halt in front of her house and looked to the other two who were trying to right themselves.  "Listen, plans have changed.  You're old friends of my family who came to visit for the weekend ok?  I went to pick you up but traffic caught us and I couldn't get you to my house before practice."

            "And how do we get out of the practice?"  Ootogi put on a sheepish face.

            "Actually I don't know, maybe Anzu can come up with something."      

            "What," both brothers screeched.

            "Too late, they already spotted us," he said gesturing to Anzu's mom who was waving from the window.  He weakly waved back as he stepped out of the car, the two boys following as they entered the house and were greeted by a woman of about 35 or so with long brown hair and warm brown eyes who was smiling but seemed to be annoyed by something.

            "Ootogi, where were you we were getting worried.  They heard footsteps coming from the basement as two other people poked their heads in the room.  Anzu was smiling from cheek to cheek and Shizuka seemed in a daze as the two boys who stood before her.  She'd seen Ryou's picture for a minute when they hacked the computer but his brother looked so much like him…except more rough, she tried to hide her blush. 

            "Ootogi, you made it.  For a while Shizuka and I thought we may need someone new for the band or something," she said trying to hide her excitement and see what was going on.

            "Seriously, we were circling some ads in the classifieds before you came in," Shizuka said already laying into him.

            "If we need to replace anyone it'd be you," he yelled offended.

            "Ootogi, who are these people with you," Anzu's mother asked trying to avert a wrestling match in her living room.

            "Oh these are some friends of the family who came at the last minute to visit for the weekend but we got stuck on the freeway and didn't have enough time to drop them off at my house before coming here.  This is Ryou and Bakura," he said indicating which was which.  "Is that OK?"

            "That's fine; I just didn't think you were going to make it."

            "Ootogi is always so slow if it's before noon, Ootogi what do you do all night that keeps you from getting up in the morning," Shizka said slyly goading him.

            "Shizuka what are you suggesting," he said narrowing his eyes.

            "I'm not suggesting anything; I just want to know the truth.  You know if we make it really big I don't want your dirty laundry dragging our name down."

            "Why you," he said and it was on.  He jumped at her nearly knocking over a table as she scampered away continuing to tease him.

            "Ho ho, so I hit a nerve?  Ootogi is a hentai," she sang in a childish voice.  Anzu's mother was trying to calm the boy down and get Shizuka to stop teasing him while trying to keep her furniture upright.  Ryou couldn't help but chuckle even though he knew it was rude.  He felt a hand on his and was yanked back, before he could cry out a hand was put over his mouth and he was dragged out the front door, when he caught a flash of auburn hair.  The hand was removed from his mouth and he called out to her.

            "Anzu."

            "Shh," she smiled and pulled him along until they reached the end of the block and ducked around the corner trying to catch her breath.

            "Anzu what are we doing?"

            "Killing two birds with one stone.  We got away from my practice, and we got away from your brother for the day.  Not that I don't like your brother but having a chaperone isn't so fun on your first date."

            "Dd-ate?!"

            "Come on," she said grabbing his hand and taking off again.  His first instinct was to resist, to calm down and rationalize this, but as he took a firmer grip on her hand and watched her hair bounce with every step he let her take the lead and decided to just enjoy the ride.

AN:  Sorry if it's crappy, evil writer's block is creeping up on me again!  Back fowl beast!  *Tries fending it off with broom*  Anyway once again sorry for late update, hope you can forgive me!  And hope you enjoyed!