Hey guys! hows it going...well after my five hour nap i got back to work and produced this...and soon, if not tonight tomorrow after school the third one will come out so don't worry...anywho if anyone hasn't noticed, but my stories are actually becoming longer...maybe not by much but, its better than short chapters.

Disclaimer: I don't own kaze no stigma...unfortunately.


"Ugh, where am I?" Shaking her head, she looks to see where she was. Except she couldn't, all she could see was blackness. She was blinking so either three things: blindfold, blindness, or it is pitch black wherever she is. Is this supposed to be some type of psychological torture? Thinking it was about time to get out of here, she noticed that her hands were bound behind her. Thinking nothing of it she tried to burn the ropes, key word tried.

"I wouldn't do that dearie, it will just suck your essence faster. Now are you ready to play your part?"

"What part?"

"You'll see in a moment dearie."

Llllll

The door opened, hurting Kazuma's eye's; given that he was in this room for about ten hours, give or take.

"Turn to your left."

"Why, a switch was flipped, and the room was lighted, along with the one next to this one with a window separating them

Doing as he was told, he could barely keep his fury contained. In the room was a very badly beaten Ayano with a masked figure behind her.

"Ayano! You son of a bitch let her go! She has nothing to do with this!"

"Oh contraire, she is very much a part of this as are you." The masked man embraced Ayano from behind, her eyes widening as one hand moved up to cup a breast and the other went lower.

"K-k-Kazuma….."

Her eyes were pleading for him to come help her, anything to get his hands off of her.

"You sick son of a bitch, I-"

"You'll what? Right now both of you are powerless with no way out, and I am willing to bet you don't have any idea of where you're at."

"What do you want with us anyway?"

"All will be revealed in due time. This is just a way to remove the competition, and have fun doing it."

The light to Ayano's room went out, but not before Ayano shot Kazuma a glance that will surely appear in his nightmares for a while. It held so much fear and anguish; it almost made him remember the look upon Tsui Ling's face before she died, almost. Now noticing the woman who was in the room with him he almost laughed at the irony. Lapis however was confused.

"Why are you amused by your situation? You are going to die and possibly the fire mage yet you find it funny? How?"

"Oh no, I'm not amused by the situation, quite the opposite. Irony, that's amusing, but never the situation."

"Oh I see." With that she turned off the light and walked out the door.

Lllllll

After the groping almost gone rape, Ayano was starting to become nervous. That was approximately four hours ago. Being in the dark that long with one's thoughts, seems to make the darkness an entity. It smells fear, eats it, and lives where light doesn't reach it to kill it. Ayano had been playing a game, how long can she keep her sanity, before she gave it to the darkness. She could feel its eyes on her, waiting for her to give up and consume her. The game was interrupted though, when the door entered and the light killed the dark entity.

A woman came in and roughly pulled her to her feet and out the door. The woman almost forgot to blindfold Ayano but it wasn't too late. Leading Ayano to the bowels of wherever they are, all Ayano could think is that someone isn't going to get out of this alive, and that scared her. She just prayed that Kazuma and herself got out alive.

Entering a room with metal floors, it was evident by the sounds when walking. Getting shoved to the floor, all they had to do now was wait.

Lllllll

Kazuma, on the other hand knew, if he didn't do something he could possibly die. So when someone rose him to his feet, he head butted him then swept his feet out from under him. Running out the door and into another room, he turned around to find five yoma behind him.

"Goddammit, can't anything go my way just once?"

Running out of the room back into the hallway, he stopped becoming surrounded. "Shit."

Two random people came up and tied his legs together with only a foot of walking room, fast enough to get wherever they were to go and never able to run without falling over. All of a sudden, laughing was heard.

"Well that was amusing, for a moment I actually thought you were going to get away. Only for a moment though. Come we mustn't miss your performance now should we?"

Dragging Kazuma through the hallway in the opposite direction, Kazuma was starting to feel an emotion he hadn't felt for a long time, fear. If what Lapis said was true, and he is going to die, then that surely isn't good. It must have taken ten minutes to navigate through the twists and turns in the building they were in. Finally they came to a big foyer, with metal floors. In the center was Ayano, with a blindfold and a couple bruises on her arms from the guy, no doubt.

Except Kazuma didn't get pushed down to the floor like Ayano, he was to get tied to a column. Lapis went behind Ayano and untied the blindfold and Ayano looked around, not much to look at considering that it looked like a parking garage would. Finally letting her eyes rest on Kazuma, the fear coursing its venom through Kazuma's body increased, but that was just on the inside. On the outside Kazuma was as cool as the breeze outside. To everyone, it seemed that he was relaxed, well everyone except Ayano. Being around her so much made her see what was behind his cool façade. Somehow they both knew that one of them wasn't going to make it out alive.

"Oh come on lads; let's let them have time to themselves before the boss comes. Oh and make sure to tie her up to that column there." One of the men standing about in the room walked over to Ayano shoved to her feet and to the column Mask man pointed to and left the room with the others.

"So how do we get out of here?"

"Honestly?" She nodded her head want him to answer.

"There isn't a way to get out of this. I can't get any spirits to find me and I am willing to bet anything that that rope is designed to keep fire spirits away. Am I right?"

She only nodded her head numbly. She could believe that Kazuma was actually giving up. Her strong, egotistical Kazuma was giving up.

"Don't-ugh-Don't look at me like that. As surprising as it is, I am human, and I feel too." His voice was cracking, and there was this little voice in the back of his head saying You have to tell her, tell her before it's too late.

So what's going to happen? Surely there's a reason for all of this."

"Uh, I think someone hates you."

"What makes you say that? How do you know they don't hate you?"

"Oh I know they hate me, thing is I…" His voice got so impossible to understand after that as his voice got softer.

"Thing is, you what?"

"I won't have a chance to deal with the aftermath of this."

Starting to make sense in her head, but not wanting to ever believe it, she asked any way. "Why?"

"Be-Because, I will be dead by then."


Thank you for reading this, like i said, i will hopefully produce the third one by tonight...also i have been thinking...alot of people want to know what happened to Ayano during those years without kazuma so...with every 20 reviews i get, one chapter will be completely devoted to that time...so if you want this review and i will do it.