Just a lucky girl - Anzu´s POV
Mazaki Anzu has never wanted to be famous, except maybe for her dancing, but she gave up that plan a long time ago. If she had a choice now, she’d just meet the man of her dreams (whoever he may be, she doesn’t know exactly) and settle down to have a little house, or at least a nice apartment of her own, instead of that tiny little flat she has now, get pregnant and work five days a week.
The way it is, she hasn’t found her perfect soul mate yet, instead she gets lots of attention and fame she doesn’t care about.
Its not her fault, she tells herself, but its no one else’s fault, either, and that doesn’t make it better. If she wanted to blame anyone, she’d have to go for her parents, probably, for putting her into the same kindergarten as Yuugi, but they couldn’t possibly know he was to become world champion in a game that hadn’t even been invented back then.
Sometimes, some barely out-of-school “reporter” of one teenage magazine or another, sometimes even younger than herself and always female, will show up at her doorstep and ask her what it is like to be loved by the two most wanted singles of Domino, if not Japan – “just between the two of us”, as if whatever paper she is writing for won´t jump at the chance to print that story. And when she tells her it is horrible, really, and she’d rather stop it now than later, the other girl will just stare and probably wonder how Anzu can still expect “the public” to believe that.
It’s just no use to tell them, over and over again, that she never asked to be the one thing that gets between those two that for years, for over a decade, have been more than brothers, have been an entire family, almost the world to one another.
That, in fact, she never asked to be loved by anyone but whom she can sincerely love in return.
For, of course, they will just wonder why she can’t bring herself to love either Seto or Mokuba, mixing up adoration or maybe even sympathy with the love Anzu is still waiting for.
One magazine even asked it’s readers to vote on – how unbearably boring other peoples lives have to be! – which one of the Kaiba brothers she will finally give in to.
For, at length, give in she must, no one can picture her to be stupid enough to refuse forever.
And ill informed as they are about her, they have figured out enough about her character by now to know that she won’t just take them both.
Mokuba “won”, by two votes.
While all three of them lost another little piece of their dignity along the way.
Others believe it has something to do with the strange change that took place between her and Muto Yuugi a few years ago, when the two of them obviously… broke up, though they had never (as far as the public mind is informed) been together officially. And they still rack their brains why, exactly, she is still friends with someone that made her look so heartbroken for months. Obviously, no one will tell them the truth, and if they tried, no one would believe it anyway, for – the mind of a 5000-year-old Pharaoh taking over the body of an unusually timid and small Japanese teenager?
Just how credible is that?
Of course, the teenage girls of Domino are not the only ones concerned about Anzus non-existent love life.
Whenever Yuugi wants to know why she doesn’t just tell both of them to leave her alone and move on, she just answers that she can’t, because, after all, she loves them both - in a way.
Even her best friend since kindergarten will shake his head and give up on her at that point. She would have told him that she loves him as well, or Jonouchi, or Honda, but he never asks. And she never talks much these days.
Sometimes, she will go out with one of them. She knows it’s wrong, she knows she should keep this whole thing on a level where no one, particularly not Seto or Mokuba, can see anything but friendship in her actions. Of course, to her it’s all pure friendship anyway. But who knows what the mind of someone in love (or simply obsessed, for who can ever tell with Seto?) will make of this?
But then, she tells herself, why shouldn’t she? She’s got enough trouble with both of them, what’s wrong then with Mokuba taking her out for dinner sometimes or Seto asking her to accompany her to some ball he absolutely has to attend, for business reasons? She’s just a girl, of course she enjoys candle light dinners by moonlight and dressing up for a sparkling, grand entrance. And sometimes it’s just a little too easy to ignore the little voice at the back of her head that keeps telling her she will regret this afterwards, when she sees the headlines.
On the other hand, headlines there will be, whatever she does, and if she finally chose to turn her back onto the whole crazy family, that would probably hit the front pages of even more tabloids than just a little ball every now and then. So she might as well have fun at it, and never mind the press. Some of them will name her the "iron maiden" or the "snow queen of Domino" anyway. Or joke that what with all her composed coolness, it’s no wonder Seto will fall for her after years of obsession with his Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
But, on the whole, they like her, for she will grant them a story whenever otherwise they’d have to make up one. Anzu always was that sort of person. Making life easy for anyone but herself.
And, lately, the Kaiba brothers.
