Chapter 2

I slowly started to panic as terror started to set in, my worst fear was now being realized. My claustrophobia was getting worse and worse as time went on.

My breath came shallow and short as time passed and as the sun grew lower and lower sinking into the earth. The air grew colder and the sky soaked in darkness and before I new it I was all alone in the dark.

I closed my eyes tight trying to calm down, but that just ended up making it worse as flashes of the past lingered behind my eyes lids. Back when I was only twelve, is when I first became claustrophobic and it was for a good reason.

I ran through my house as my older brother chased me laughing all the way. In till my mother came in from the back yard and saw us. She stepped in front of us making us stop so that we wouldn't hit her.

I looked straight up at my mom not seeing the mad face I thought I would but instead seeing a face with a small warm smile and giggling golden eyes.

"You shouldn't run in the house you too," She said scolding us with a smile still on her face. "You should go play out front, but stay around the house ok," my mother said then walked into the kitchen probably to make my brother and I lunch.

I smiled back at my brother and then we took off out the front door, my brother went straight to the grassy part of the yard and started to play catch with himself, probably waiting for the neighbors kid to peek outside, see him, come outside, then start a game of real catch.

I on the other hand went straight to the drive way, grabbing my bike from the garage and taking a seat on it. I smiled down at it and all its pink princessie glory before I took off down the road on it.

I made my way down the street on the back of my bike smiling and laughing all the way. It was a bright and sunny day and there wasn't a cloud insight. My brother would also look up every few minutes to see if I was ok being protective as normal.

So when He looked away I rode as fast as I could. As I rode farther and farther from my house, ignoring the rules of my mother, the streets became more unknown to me and before I knew it I could no longer see my brother playing in the front yard. I grew scared and stopped pedaling my bike so that I could turn around, but as my head started to turn someone came up behind me.

They grabbed me around my waist and tried to pull me away, away from everything. But I wouldn't give up I kicked and punched back as hard as I could but still, nothing, they were to strong for me to fend off by myself. They dragged me into the trunk of a car and set me down, still with an iron clad hold on my body.

"Drink this," a boy in front of me whispered holding a drink up to my face, he had blond hair with blue eyes along with an obviously fake warm smile plastered on his face. I quickly shook my head back and forth in a no motion not wishing to say a word, or rather not being able to find my voice to say anything. The boy sighed and scratched the back of his head in annoyance then spoke.

"Guess the hard way it is then," The boy then grabbed my arm and pushed me down so that he could sit on my arms as he held the liquid to my mouth and pinched my nose so that I couldn't breath. I tried to hold my breath I really didn't want to breath but at some point I had to and I opened my mouth. To which he forced the drink into my mouth and held my mouth closed still pinching my nose.

So I was forced to sallow the bad tasting substance that had intruded my mouth. But I never stopped kicking and trying to escape this man. Though not long after swallowing the liquid did I see the affects of it. My body slowly grew weaker and weaker and my kicking grew slower and slower and before I knew it I couldn't even move my legs anymore I was far too weak.

When the boy saw my state he quickly picked me up and threw me in a guitar case, shutting the top and locking it so that I wouldn't be able to escape. But right before the case shut I heard my name being called. After the case was shut I heard a ruckus out side for a minute or two and then I felt the car take off fast down the road.

At first I listened closely to the people in front of me in the car.

"How easy was that?" One said

"To easy don't you think?" The next put in and then they all laughed.

"That boy who new the little girl was a little bit of a handful though," the boy that held me down said and I grew a little scared for my brother.

"Yah but you sure showed that little punk didn't you?" one man chuckled and I decided to toon them out, I didn't want to hear what they had done to my brother it would be too much.

The case I was in moved around in the trunk in swift jerky motions slamming me into the different sides of the car. Inside the guitar case it was hard to breath and I couldn't move at all. Slowly I started to panic and started to yell with the little energy I had left I yelled and yelled and yelled. I yelled so much that I used too much of my energy up causing me to get black spot to appear before my eyes and slowly I drifted off into unconsciousness.

Seconds.

Minutes.

Hours.

It all passed by and for each one I was terrified, would I ever see my family again. Would I ever get to look up into my brother's eyes and smile again? Would I ever get to sit in the living room and fall asleep on my moms lap while watching a movie? Would I ever get to see the day when my father would hug me and tell me how proud of me he was for the first time?

It all seemed so far away, much to far from my reach anyway, but yet there was always a glimmer. I don't know from what or from where but for all the time I laid in that case there was always a glimmer of hope in the darkness.

My family isn't the only thing I though about in there. I also thought about what the men in the front were going to do with me. Why did they come and steal me away from my family and why did it have to be me. I never did anything and yet would I have to suffer for another's sin? But most of all I was worried about my brother, had the men hurt him badly, was he ok, was he safe?

As time went on I kept yelling and screaming and when ever I'd run to low on air I'd pass out only to wake up later not knowing how much time had passed. I grew hungrier and thirstier but still I yelled on. Then it stopped, the car stopped, and I could no longer hear anything. In till I heard the trunk open up before me.

And my nerves went haywire. I heard and felt them slide me towards themselves and then I heard a definite click and then another. Knowing that someone had just opened up the locks to the case that I lay in. I watched the lid slowly open then a man with a police hat looked down at me. Then for the first time since I was captured I cried. Then for the last time since I was kidnapped I yelled, I yelled for my brother.

The cop slowly picked me up and brought me to the back seat of his car where I saw my brother. At first I didn't want to look at him, I was ashamed of my self. If I had listened to mom then none of this would have happened in the first place. But all my fears vanished when he quickly grabbed me and hugged me as hard as he could. I hugged him back with all the strength I could muster and then for the first time in a long time I fell asleep and didn't fall unconscious. Ever since that day I had been afraid of small places.

I quickly ripped my eyes opened after seeing that flashback and I couldn't hold back my tears anymore then cried.

Luffy's pov

Before lunch was over Muse ran out the door. I on the other hand stayed for a little longer and ate as much as I could. There was so much meat that there is no way I could say no to it. But once I was full I decided to go and find Muse so that we could play together.

"Makino! I'm going to go find Muse and play," I yelled and ran out the door and towards the woods, where I thought she would be.

"Ok be careful and be back by dinner ok?" Makino stuck her head out of the door and shouted towards me.

"Ok I will!" I shouted back turning and waving at her before I disappeared into the underbrush of the woods. I ran through the woods looking under ever rock and all the bushes that were insight. But Muse was no where to be found, I looked for hours and hours but nothing. The sky grew dark and I decided to cheek and see if maybe she went home already.

I ran back to the house and then inside to see Makino setting the table with a bunch of food. I smelt the food and smiled and large grin, it looked really good. When she looked up she smiled at me but then frowned for some reason.

"Where's Muse I thought you were going to go play with her?" Makino questioned and then I frowned as well

"I couldn't find her so I came home thinking she maybe here," I told Makino only to see her eyes light up with worry. Once I had the information that she wasn't here I turned around and headed right back for the woods I came from, forgetting all about the food back at the house. While also ignoring the yells that came my way from Makino.

"Muse! Muse! Where are you?" I yelled into the darkness hoping for an answer but nothing ever answered me back so I kept on running.

Muse's Pov

My tears slithered down my cheeks and flowed off of them like a river while I sunk to my knees. What if no one found me, my big brother wasn't here to help me anymore; he wasn't here to save me or to stop my crying anymore. I had to realize that my family was gone in till I could find a way back to them.

That's when I heard it

"Muse!" the voice was faint but still there was it just my imagination playing tricks on me again?

"Muse!" but then I heard it louder than before, getting closer to the hole that I had fallen in.

"Where are you?" the voice sounded off again sounding strong and worried, so I gathered the little nerve I had left and stood up again looking at the top the hole this time.

"Muse!" the voice yelled sounding happy because at the top of the hole looking down at me through the moon light was Luffy, the person who had been yelling this whole time. Luffy quickly grabbed a branch from a near by tree and stuck it down the hole towards me.

"Grab on," he shouted down to me and I did while tears still streamed down my face. Luffy quickly pulled me out and then laughed.

"I'm glad I finally found you Mu- what's wrong," he interrupted himself seeing that I was crying.

"I want my big brother," I cried and shuck as more tears trickled down from my eyes. Luffy looked at my face and then grew serious for a moment.

"I may not be your big brother by blood," He spoke in a determined voice "But from now on I see you as my little sister and I'll never let you cry again." He stated as I grabbed him in a hug.

He hugged me back as well and I felt my shirt get wet and I knew he was crying for me. After a couple of minutes Luffy and I pulled our selves together and got up off of the ground. Luffy turned his back to me and motioned for me to get on.

"I'm ok now Luffy you don't have to carry me home," I said in a soft voice. Luffy only turned around and smiled that big cheesy grin of his and I knew that I wouldn't be able to talk him out of carrying me so I just gave in.

I let him carry me through the woods and as he carried me we didn't say a word to each other but it wasn't a bad silence it was a good silence. It was a silence filled with promises and a future of family and friendship. So I thought, I'm sorry mom but couldn't I stay here just a little longer? I want to watch Luffy grow and live out his dream. I'm sorry mom but I don't think I can come back now even if I knew how.

I'll keep looking but I'll also keep watching Luffy as well, I'll get stronger and faster and train really hard to keep him safe. So I'm sorry mom but could you wait a while? Was my last thought before I let a tear out and hugged Luffy harder to my body then closed my eyes in till we got home.

When we walked in Makino looked at us and gasped as she saw how dirty we were and all the cuts and burses she saw on our bodies. Makino fed us, Luffy eating most of it, and then let us take a batch, of course separately.

Then afterwards she fixed up our cuts and burses before sending us off to bed with a short scolding. That night I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. But I dreamed of nothing and no one, it was all dark and forever black in my dreams that night.