DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN MIRAI NIKKI/ THE FUTURE DIARIES.

Date Uploaded: February 26 2016- Friday.

Note: Advanced apologies for the OOC's.

CORRECTION: Last chapter Nakatomi Kobo was introduced as India. It's supposed to be Juliet. Apologies for the mistake.

INTRO;
Yukiteru was sleeping but awakened by a phone call. A call from them. The opposing team. He wondered what it was about. He wanted to tell and alert his teammates as quickly as he could but the call ended and instead a message is sent. He reads the message;

'Answer the call. Don't tell your friends or your mother dies.'

His mother was taken hostage. He heard his phone ring again, the call he was told to answer. And so, he followed their instructions. Grabbing a pen and a paper.

DAY THREE: Taken Hostage
The following day, the rest of the team found out that Yukiteru was taken hostage as said in the note left by Yukiteru. Yuno is hard to control when mad.

"We have to find him! We have to find Yukii!" She demanded. She was in so much panic. "Why didn't I see this coming?! Why didn't my diary say anything?!"

"Calm down Second, that's not gonna help." scolded Fourth.

"What do you know anyway?!"

"The offense team is looking for him now. So don't worry about it nee-chan." Reisuke said comfortingly.

"What if they don't find him?! He could be hurt!"

Fourth sighed, massaging his forehead in frustration. He wondered so deeply how Yukiteru could actually put up with Second. She's hard to control, doesn't calm down when told to and only listens to Yukiteru.

"Then go look for him." He decided.

"I will." Yuno said strongly and took her ax with her on the way. Fourth eyed Reisuke, telling him to follow her and the boy nodded in understanding.

"Why'd you say that?" Ninth said, yawning.

"It can't be helped. She'll tear us to pieces if she does not find First."

"Won't she get in trouble instead?"

"She'll be fine." He scoffed and turned to her with a mischievous smirk. Ninth squinted at that smirk of his. "I have a task for you."

"this better be good."

"I asked Nishijima to drop a letter at a certain location. A letter from the offense team. I want you to retrieve it."

"That's it?"

"Yes."

It was an odd task from Fourth. Especially if he was giving out that smirk of his, the smirk that Ninth doesn't like. She kept her glare at him until Tenth clears his throat. Ninth left the house, following his orders and drove away with her motorcycle. When it was only Fourth and Tenth who are left in the house, Tenth turned to Fourth.

"What are you planning this time?"

"Helping the First escape this hellhole he's brought upon himself." Fourth answered grumpily and fixed his coat. "As for you, you're coming with me."

Tenth nodded and whistled, his dogs walking after them as they left.

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Yukiteru wakes up, finding himself locked up in a room. It wasn't a dark cell with rats, as he thought. It was a clean bedroom with a meal served for him. Inside the room were four people.

Yukiteru silently gazed upon them.

They were gathered at the corner, whispering to each other about a certain topic. He couldn't understand or hear them well.

One of them was a man wearing a brown cowboy hat and a red ascot around his neck. He wore brown leather jacket and matching boots. Then there's a man with black hair and piercing blue eyes, he wears eyeglasses and a formal attire of gray coat and blue tie. Then there was a boy about thirteen years of age, wearing a baseball cap and has black hair with brown highlights at the side of his hair. He wore a baseball attire. And lastly, a woman.

The woman had red headphones hanging around her neck. She has long blonde hair and wears a plain navy blue blouse on top of a white sweater. The blouse had a slit reaching her cleavage but no cleavage was visible because of the long-sleeve underneath the blouse.

The woman was the first to notice he was awake.

"Oh hey good morning!" she greeted him.

Yukiteru fell back on his bed and stared at them with anxiety. They knocked him out when they brought him here. He only heard voices from last night. The woman's voice wasn't familiar so he could conclude she wasn't there that night unless she didn't speak.

"I see you're finally awake." said the man with the cowboy hat. "Uyeda Katzumi. I'm the third member of our team. Charlie."

'So Akise was right.. they call themselves according to the military alphabet. But why is he introducing himself to me?'

"You're probably wondering why I said that."

"You see, we didn't kidnap you to hurt you big bro." said the boy wearing a baseball cap.

"Then.. what do you want from me?"

"Your help." said Katzumi (Charlie).

"Help for what?"

'They can't be serious.. I won't help them. Even if.. they torture me.'

The man wearing a formal attire walked towards Yukiteru, wiping his glasses as he did. Yukiteru silently gulped as he came near. When he was done polishing his eyeglasses, he wore them again and stared at Yukiteru.

"You see, some of us has a grudge on your friends." he explained.

"A grudge?"

"Keigo Kurusu. Kamado Ueshita. Minene Uryuu and John Bacchus. Those are the names of the people we want."

'Fourth? Eighth? Ninth? Eleventh? I can't.. I can't just give them up!'

"You expect me to give up my friends because you asked me to!" Yukiteru yelled bravely.

"Oh of course not!" said the woman. "We will give you something in return."

'Something.. in return? What could they possibly give that I'd agree with?'

"You're a smart lad, aren't you, Yukiteru?" asked Katzumi. "We're offering that we forfeit in this death battle in exchange for those four people."

'ARE THEY SERIOUS?!'

The four watched Yukiteru's shocked expression. The boy was smiling, the woman as well, Katzumi smirked and so did the man wearing a formal attire. Yukiteru could only think it was too good to be true.

"We already talked about this with our teammates." says the woman.

"And they're okay with it?" Yukiteru asked.

"Winning this death battle doesn't mean anything to us. What we want is vengeance among those four people." replied Katzumi.

"But you won't remember a thing even if you get your revenge on them."

"Still. Our task is to get our hands on them." said the man wearing the formal attire.

"I- I'm not giving them up! Even if.. even if you're going to forfeit!" Yukiteru will not fall to such deception. These are his friends they are asking him to give up. Not like he and Eleventh had anything in mutual.

"I told you, Iwada. It's not gonna work." whined Katzumi. Iwada is the man wearing a formal attire.

Iwada ignored Katzumi and turned to the woman.

"Minami."

"Yes sir." she nodded at him and looked at Yukiteru.

Yukiteru gulped and leaned backwards, his back touching the headboard of the bed. Minami's neon pink eyes stared at him so intensely, making him blink once or twice until he completely closes them.

"If you're going to kill me, just do it already!" Yukiteru doesn't want to be tortured.

"We're not going to kill you big bro." assured the boy. "We don't have a grudge on you."

'That's a relief.'

"I'm Noya Hamasaki by the way. Also known as Echo." the boy introduced himself.

'Echo.. then he's the fifth member.'

"Yukiteru, we don't want to come to this but.. if you won't help us willingly, we'll have to threaten you again." said Iwada.

"It won't work the second time! I know that you don't have my mother. You don't hurt the innocent." Yukiteru said boldly. Katzumi laughed.

"We're not that soft! We only gave you assurances." he says. "Right now your girlfriend, the girl with pink hair is looking for you. Along with that little boy. And if you don't give us what we want, you might want to say goodbye to them."

'Girl with pink.. Yuno! Fifth is probably the one with her.'

"You said you won't kill others if you don't have a grudge on them!" Yukiteru tried to argue. He have to protect them somehow.

"Not really. But we're starting to have a grudge on you. After all, we're simply asking for your help and you reject us."

"That's enough Katzumi." Iwada had a strong voice over Katzumi. Minami, Hamasaki and Katzumi left the room, giving Iwada and Yukiteru some privacy. A time to talk about his decision.

"We'll give you a couple of hours to decide. The fate of this game is in your hands. First."

After saying that, Iwada left the room to give Yukiteru time to think. Instead of thinking about their offer, he started to check the windows, see if he could escape but noticed that every corner and even the windows had bombs set, ready to explode once he tries to escape.

If he dies then.. they lose.

FLASHBACK:

"Listen.. you know how risky our role is, right?" Fourth asked.

"We're bait." Yukiteru replied.

"If things go south, I need you to know that one way or another, you need to place the burden on someone."

"What do you mean, Fourth?"

"Deus believes that you can lead us to victory. So everyone one of us agreed to lead you until you are capable."

"I'm not-" Fourth covered his mouth, hushing him. When Fourth took his hand, Yukiteru continued. "I'm not gonna let anyone die for me."

"There's not other way. If you die, we lose."

"Why..? Why do you all put so much hope in me?"

"Listen to me, First. If we knew you cannot do this we wouldn't have faith in you. We wouldn't protect you. No matter what we know you will make the right decision."

END

'Why does it have to be me?' he wondered.

He didn't want to put the blame on someone, to put the burden on someone. But if his life was important.. maybe he could.. maybe it's alright..

He gripped tightly on the bedsheet. He left his diary at home, making sure they won't take it and destroy it. He wasn't sure if they'd grope him for his diary. It's better to be safe than sorry.

He couldn't decide what to do. How to save them, help them.

Lives were on the line. Not just his. His family and friends.. all of them.. all of their lives.. it's all in his hands.

After several hours, the woman, Minami and Katzumi came back to check on his decision. Yukiteru had a determined look in his eyes. The girl smiled at him, Katzumi just scoffed and waited for his answer.

"Well? Are you gonna help us?" asked Katzumi.

"I will. Only if we do it MY way." he said clearly. His sharp stare didn't waver. Katzumi shrugged him off and nudged Minami.

"Of course, Yukiteru. What do you want us to do?" replied Minami.

"First I need to make a call." he ordered.

"What?! Listen you brat, we're not some idiots that you can play with!" yelled Katzumi.

"Do you trust me or not?" still, even if Katzumi was pissed, Yukiteru kept his sharp stare. Katzumi was aware that Yukiteru was serious about this.

"Fine."

Minami gave her phone to Yukiteru and he started punching in the numbers he needed to dial. He was carefully observant of Minami's expression. If this phone were her diary, she shouldn't entrust it to an opposing team member's hands, unless she's really trusting him enough t let him hold it.

When Yukiteru made his call, the receiver of the call answered.

"Who is this?" asked the receiver.

"This is Yukiteru."

"Yukiteru? Where are you? What happened?"

"It's a long story." Yukiteru noticed that Katzumi was ready to shoot Yukiteru if he is going to say something like 'help me' or 'find me' but Minami on the other hand was calm. "Listen, I need to meet with you."

"Sure. Just tell me where."

"At the park where the reconstruction is being made. Tonight."

"Alright. I'll call on-"

"No." Yukiteru said strongly. "Don't call anyone. Please. Just you."

"Not even Gasai?"

"Not even Gasai."

"If you say so, First." the receiver ended the call and Yukiteru sighed in frustration. He's about to give up one of his friends for this. Minami gently took the phone from his hand and smiled at him.

"Thank you, Yukiteru-kun." she says.

"Geez brat, you're not so bad after all." complimented Katzumi.

"We'll set the ambush tonight then."

Yukiteru only hoped that it was worth it.

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