Chapter
2 is here! I would've started earlier but my sister is obsessed
with an online game… and she uses my account… Oh well. Here's
the
story!
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Yusuke
was asleep as usual, but only with a worried look on his face,
Kuwabara sat uncomfortably, and Hiei sat silently thinking, staring
at Ume's empty seat. She wasn't at school that day.
The boys figured she might be sick. They thought of many rational reasons, but they still had the same bad feeling Tsume was talking about. And they couldn't shake it off either. After knowing Ume for almost a year, they couldn't help but worry.
As soon as school ended, the group met outside Ume's house. There was a "Closed" sign on the door. (Remember, it's a dojo/house where people come to sign up and train.) Tsume knocked on the door. There was no answer. She knocked louder. There was still no answer.
Yusuke
then pushed Tsume back and started banging on the door, yelling out,
"HEY! IS ANYONE HOME?"
No answer.
"How are we to get in now?" Kurama wondered out loud.
Kuwabara grinned. He used his Spirit Sword and cut the door down to pieces.
"I meant 'How do we get in without breaking anything?'"
They all stepped into the main signup room. The whole entire dojo area was deserted. They moved to the house section on the right of the residence. After going through most of the rooms, they went into Ume's room at the end of the hallway.
Kurama opened the door and found both Ume's parents unconscious on the floor. The boys carried the two to their room and set them on their bed while Tsume went to get ice packs and bandages.
Soon enough, Ume's mother woke up. Once she had figured what was going on and finally realized where she was, she saw her husband on her right. Kurama calmly told her that he would be ok and is just unconscious. A few moments later, she tried to explain what had happened.
"Ume hadn't come home the other night." She explained. "We figured she was with you people again and was off fighting demons… I fond it strange since she tells us when she leaves, but my husband and I shrugged it off. When we woke up this morning and discovered she was still gone and left no word behind, we began to worry. "
"Not too long ago, several strange looking creatures, demons I suppose, broke into the house. They went into Ume's room as if they were looking for something. I'm guessing they didn't find it, because afterwards, one of them saw us hiding and asked where "it" was."
"My husband said that we had no idea what we were talking about. The demon-thing just looked angry and called over its friends, knocked us unconscious, and tied us up. And that's where you found us."
A blanket of silence fell over the room once Ume's mother was done with her story. Looks of dread and concern filled the faces of everyone in the room...except Ume's unconscious father who had finally begun to awaken.
He sat up slowly, looked around the room and had a confused look on his face until he remembered what happened. He burst out, "Where's Ume?"
Tsume answered. "She didn't go to school and is still missing."
The middle-aged man didn't say anything.
"But…we'll find her as soon as we can." Tsume tried her best to sound reassuring.
Tsume and the boys left.
"Maybe we should look around the city and see if she left anything clue behind or go back in and look in her room?" Kuwabara suggested.
"That'd be a waste of time. Ume had never returned home, so there'd be nothing there. And we'll waste too much time looking through the whole city, and we may not even find anything."
"What about the thing the demons were looking for? Maybe it's in her room!" Kuwabara argued.
"Then the demons would have found it and wouldn't need to bothered her parents," Hiei replied.
Kuwabara had nothing left to say.
"So where could she be?" Yusuke pondered out loud.
"We could go and see if Ko-Enma knows anything about this abduction." Kurama said.
The others agreed and got Botan to tell what has happened to Ume and she was off to tell Ko-Enma.
"Yusuke, you and Kuwabara should look around the city a bit. Kurama, Hiei, and I will go to Demon World. Maybe the demons went back or others know something," Tsume planned out.
Yusuke and Kuwabara
immediately left to search and the other three were off as
well.
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So…that's the
end of that! Is anyone even really reading these things?
Well, if you are, and you actually got this far, review!
