And we have an update! Yay! I think it's been a while since I updated so, glad to get this up. The last chapter was well received so I hope the rest of this fic is too. This chapter is no longer a flashback, so don't worry about any of that. Hope you like it!


Chapter 7

"So let me get this straight."

I glanced over at Hunter at the sound of his voice, surprised that he'd spoken since we'd been walking silently for a while now.

"You don't know who your mom is or what happened to her," he began, "Your dad won't tell you, so you ran away to find out where she is?"

"I guess," I mumbled.

"But I'm not allowed to ask about the dad."

"Nope."

"Or the stitches."

I shook my head, feeling slightly smug as to having certain things to myself. For once, I knew something that someone else didn't.

So far, Hunter had been fairly tolerable. He'd allowed me to keep the sweatshirt, despite the fact it was so big on me that it was longer than my nightgown, and I suppose that was what made him stay with me.

There had to be something he wanted to get out of it, but for now I wasn't very clear on what it was. Until then, it was nice having some company in a place I'd never been before.

"Well in that case," he sighed, "What do you have to go on as far as locating your mom? Name, address, picture, voice, something?"

My feet stuck to the ground, rooting themselves into the sidewalk. Hunter had continued to walk, though upon noticing my silence he turned around and realized I was frozen.

"What's up, kid?" he asked.

I tried to find air so I could breathe properly, but my lungs didn't want to function.

"I don't… know anything about her," I breathed.

He raised a brow, an almost annoyed look flashing across his face.

"Nothing?" he asked.

"Nothing," I echoed.

It was true. Dad had never told me anything about her besides her personality. I remembered him mentioning that I got my hair from her, so that was one thing I had to go off. But that was hardly going to help me in this kind of a situation.

As he stared at my panicked face, he seemed to get a little more sympathetic.

"Don't worry about it," he sighed, "We can ask people if they knew your dad well and maybe that'll lead us to conclusions… but you might need to tell me your dad's name first."

I looked at him for a while. Dad kept the two of us hidden from the world for a reason. I couldn't just take away his privacy like that. He wanted to be left alone, so he should stay left alone.

"Not yet," I mumbled, "Only if there's no other choice…"

He could tell that I was doing it for my dad, not because I wanted to keep it hidden. It probably made me seem pretty weird and made Dad look kind of scary.

"Your dad sounds like he's insane," Hunter grumbled.

I quirked a smile at that.

"You have no idea."


Heretsu stared into his glass of whiskey for a long time, lost in thought.

He'd started thinking too much about his sisters again, something that often left him in depression for weeks, if not months.

Blair noticed her lover's despair and bounded over from the kitchen to sit by him, placing a hand on his leg reassuringly.

"You know it's not good to think about them," she said, "Come on, I'll go make you some fish to get your mind off it."

She tried to grab his arm and have him stand up, but he refused to move. His eyes remained fixed on the half empty glass in his hand, hardly paying mind to Blair.

"They both just disappeared," he said more to himself than to Blair, "Kage just vanished when we were fighting Medusa and Evar… Blair, what did he do to her?"

Finally acknowledging that she was there, Heretsu turned to look at his girlfriend, a pained expression on his face.

The corners of her mouth turned down, her cute facing forming into a pout that most would still find adorable, but Heretsu could tell she was genuinely sad. She'd been his only true source of comfort ever since the disappearance of his sisters. Without her, who knows what could've happened to him?

"I don't think it was Stein's fault," Blair said.

"But then what happened to Evar?" Heretsu asked as his voice rose, "Why can't I see her anymore?"

Blair became worried at his flair in temper and tried to hold his hand to calm him down.

"Maybe they just want their privacy?" she offered.

"For sixteen years?"

She didn't know how to argue with that.

"I want to go over there and find out myself," he growled.

"You know that scientist would rip you apart, dear."

It was true and it was the only reason Heretsu hadn't gone there earlier. Stein was the most powerful Meister to ever graduate from the DWMA and without having a Meister himself, Heretsu was pretty defenseless.

"The day he comes out of that house," Heretsu hissed, "I'm going to get him. And he will tell me everything."


There was this weird feeling growing within Kakusareta – one she wasn't sure how to handle. It was almost a feeling of loneliness, but not quite. As if she wanted to remember something from the past.

That would be a little difficult considering her blank memory.

"Maybe I can call Uso and see if she remembers what I'm trying to remember," she told herself.

She hadn't tried to contact her old friend in a long time; whenever she did, she always seemed to be busy. Maybe now would be the day she'd finally get to hear from her old friend.

Kakusareta walked across her apartment to get her cell phone that had been charging and dialed the contact saved as Uso. Kakusareta thought it was a funny name, but then again hers was pretty laughable too.

"I hope she didn't change numbers," she sighed, "Then there's no way I could contact her."

After several rings a machine picked up, much to Kakusareta's disappointment.

"The number you have dialed has been moved to another location. Please enter the area code for Death City, Nevada instead and try again."

She raised a brow at the machine's little message. It had never done that before. Perhaps Uso was tired of living far away and came back to Nevada. Kind of weird that she didn't just get a new number, Kakusareta thought.

"Maybe she wanted people to still have her number," she thought out loud.

Either way, Kakusareta had to go find the new area code for this Death City place. The way the machine said it had been really weird, as if someone other than the normal operator had recorded it.

She went to her computer and quickly looked it up to instantly find a picture of a strange building that had a caption under it: DWMA.

A wave of emotion flittered through her. She'd never been there in her life, but she felt that something was there that she needed to see. Or someone she needed to meet.

"Well Uso's there, that's why," she told herself.

She considered redialing the number but something stopped her. The more she looked at the picture, the more entranced she became.

"I think maybe I should stop by to find Uso since this phone thing hasn't worked out," she murmured, "And it looks like a cool place… maybe that perfect guy is there."

Without another thought, Kakusareta had made Death City her vacation destination.


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