Chapter 3

That Cant Be Right

"Okay. Let's try this again, where did you find this jacket?" Kotetsu asked the homeless man who they came to find out was named Steve. Steve looked at Kotetsu carefully, the old man was a sly bastard and knew how to pull strings it seemed. He had refused to tell them anything until he had a full course meal, some new clothes and a good nap in a nice warm bed. Now Steve was up and Kotetsu was ready to get down to business. Behind him stood the rest of the hero's, however, Antonio was sitting next to his old high school friend incase he needed to be held back. Kotetsu normally had a pretty good temper but very rarely someone pushed a button and could set him off. Rare, but still a chance of it happening with Barnaby being missing, a bloody phone, and now a homeless guy wasting time.

Steve sat there for a moment and picked at his teeth, then finally he shrugged his thin shoulders. "I just found it." He answered without much of a care. "Nothing to it."

Kotetsu sighed and rested his arms on his legs, "No, what I want to know is where you found it and how." Steve looked at him and tiled his head to the side in thought. "Well," He started as he scratched his fuzzy chin. "I found the coat on the side of the street the other night. No one was around so I just took it. Ya know, old men get cold out at night."

"It's been in the eighties." Karina stated with narrowed eyes. She was in no mood for any games it seemed.

"Well, you know. When it does get cold its nice to have a jacket and that jacket is pretty toasty might I add. So, can I have it back?" Kotetsu raised a brow at the old man like he had gone insane, "No, It belongs to a friend of mine. One that I wonder if you have seen, he's about my height, curly blond hair and wears glasses. Kinda walks around like he has a stick up his ass." Everyone looked at Kotetsu and sighed. It was up to Nathan to save the day. He came around the sofa and held out a picture for the old man to see. It was a simple photo of Barnaby, sadly it was a picture of the man eating some fries.

Kotetsu now looked at Nathan oddly, Fire Emblem shrugged his shoulders innocently. "What? I think it's cute when Handsome eats."

"Right. You do know he would be pretty mad if he knew you had a picture of him like that." Nathan only smirked in response. Steve on the other hand stared at the picture and dug about in his brain for an answer. "Mm, nope. I haven't see him. Honestly, all I cam across was this coat. It was just left out on the side walk during the rain." Nathan seemed to think on the answer for a moment and tapped the photo with one of his perfect finger nails to indicate the man might want to start rethinking his sentence. "You sure about that, dear?"

Steve seemed to reconsider his thoughts as he was certain he could see the flame burning in the eyes of Fire Emblem. Picking at his one good tooth with the tip of his tongue, the only man sighed in defeat. "Okay, so I might of seen the blond the other night. He was giving some guy directions and I guess the fella wasn't so happy about dem directions."

Kotetsu and Nathan looked at one another for a moment, Kotetsu raised a brow slowly as he stared at the old hobo. "What do you mean, not happy about the directions? Did he just tell them to go the wrong way or something?" asked Kotetsu curiously. Surely, Barnaby would tell someone to go the right way. He was a pretty damn good guy and would help others, so what could he have done to cause someone to get upset? The old man shrugged his thin shoulders, "I don't know. But I assume they weren't happy because a guy came up and did something to him. I aint sure what it was but I do know they took him."

This captured everyone's attention. All eyes went on the old man as Keith came forward, "What do you mean took him?"

"Well, dem men in the truck. They took him, threw him in the back of the truck and drove off."

Everyone stood there, staring at the old man in disbelief, thinking who one earth would be stupid enough to take Barnaby. In fact, was this man just telling them that Barnaby was kidnapped? "Surely, Barnaby would of used his power and left them by now. That is, if someone really did take him." Nathan crossed his arms over his chest, resting one hand on the side of his face as he turned to regard the rest of the heros. It was Ivan that spoke the words out loud that everyone was thinking. "Unless something else happened..."

Everyone went silent. Kotetsu adjusted his hat with one hand and looking serious for a change. "Oi, Oji-san, take me to the place you last saw our Bunny."

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"What are we going to do with him?" Came a voice from the darkness. "Hell if I know." said another in a hushed voice. Barnaby had slowly started to wake up, he couldn't see anything nor could he move any part of his body. In fact, he really couldn't do much of anything at all and his right arm felt funny. All he could really do is lay there on the floor with a scrambled mind. He tried to recall what had happened to him but nothing came to mind. That was down right confusing because he knew he had done something or was going somewhere.

"What do you mean you don't know? Do you realize who we have? Dear God, boss is either going to kill us or congratulate us and I'm not sure which it will be!" Barnaby's green eyes narrowed slightly in the darkness. He still couldn't see and he realized it was due to the fact he did not have his glasses. Everything was blurred shapes and dark colors. He opened his mouth to speak but the only thing that came from his lips was a muffled sound.

"Yeah, I know who it is, it's-" The voice cut off and looked toward the blond figure in the dark corner of the warehouse. "Well, seems our bound friend is awake." the figure said with a lop sided smirk. Neither man moved towards the waking Barnaby that was bound and gagged. They stared at him in silence before finally the older man moved forward. He walked up to the bound Bunny and squatted down to his level. Barnaby who was laying on his side could not see the man but he felt his presence. Turning his head slightly to one side, he narrowed his eyes to try and see the man better but failed.

God, he hated his eye sight right now! The older man tilted his head side to side. All that Barnaby could see was the man had odd hair, it must have had at least three to four colors in it, well at least he thought he could. The world thought it would be great to spin about him for a moment. "Well, good morning there."

Sorry for such a short chapter. Schools been eating my time up and my writing muse! Stupid school, right as I feel like writing again it does this to me. Anyways, I will do my best you a much longer chapter and update faster when I can! Promise!

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