Steps In Better Kidnapping

© Of eina


Step 8

Surprise is one of the best elements ever, although I wonder why they don't have it in the periodic table of elements.


It happened, just like that, as if it were a blink of the eye. One moment, he was introducing his daughter to the society as the new fiancé of a person he thought has left for Africa. Africa, how silly of him to believe that stupid report, anyway!

He sat there at his office, thinking about what four boys could do to his daughter. Oh boy, don't even get started! There are lots of things for boys could do to one defenseless girl.

His office was warmly lit, just like her daughter wanted it to be, and the sun shone on the four glossy folders on his desk. It was the files he wanted to have, the files of the four boys sane and brave enough to kidnap his daughter.

"I am going to have those four beheaded." He sighed as he tightly clenched his fists, which made the letter he was holding. It was the ransom note he had just received. The letter stated that kidnappers wanted a rather huge amount of money in exchange for his daughter, and for him to sign an agreement that he will not have them arrested and treat them as if this never happened, which of course, he found highly preposterous.

"Lord Ozumi!" A brown-haired boy entered his room without knocking. Normally, he'd find this rather rude, but there are days he'd allow this kind of intrusion… like today, for example. "I am so sorry!"

"Kira, its not your fault." He sighed. The young lad has already apologized to him for the nth time this day, and even though it got really irritating and a huge pain in the rear, he understood the guilt the boy felt. Afterall, he was the one who suggested Daniel Stradford… or should we call him Athrun Zala to be his sister's betrothed.

"I wonder where Athrun could have brought her." Kira sighed. Yesterday happened fast, and he didn't even notice the party end. But that wasn't the true reason he was feeling rather confused. A little while ago, Mirrialla, one of Cagalli's friends, told him that his younger sister had feelings for him. And what's more confusing is… he doesn't know whether he should tell Lord Ozumi about this. Afterall, he did want her to fall for someone… but he was sure that Lord Ozumi wasn't going to like the fact that his daughter fell for a terrorist.

"Is there anything you want to share, Kira?" Lord Ozumi heaved a deep sigh.

"Oh nothing, sir. I was just wondering whether…uhm." Think of a good lie, Kira, think! "I could help find Cagalli, afterall, she is my sister."

"I'll call you later when I have decided whether to set out troops." He sighed once again, "Thank you for the offer Kira."

"Uhm… sure. Have a good day, sir." Kira nodded as he led himself out of the room.


She opened her eyes slowly, but closed it fastly when a blinding light appeared after her. After a few minutes, she had opened her eyes once more, only to see she was sitting alone inside a tent, in the middle of a forest. She glanced outside to see that there was someone guarding her, but he seems to be asleep.

"I wonder why they didn't tie me up?" Cagalli asked herself as she looked around and found a coat around her. She only needed a few moments of recollection to remember what has happened the other night, and she did remember that she bumped Daniel, or Athrun rather hard which made him punch her in the stomach, and it made her faint.

"Wondering, huh?" A manly voice asked her. It was Athrun, holding a tray of food for her. "I managed to persuade Nicol to stop buying those icky noodles."

"Oh." Cagalli blinked as she watched Athrun put the food tray down in front of her. "Eat up, Cagalli. You'll be staying here longer than you think if you're father acts stubbornly." Athrun laughed.

"What's so funny about that?" Cagalli asked.

"What do you think you're father is doing right now?" He smiled at her, which made Cagalli's cheeks flame unconsciously.

"…sleeping?" She said innocently.

"More like panicking." Athrun laughed. "Probably thinking of what we're doing to you right now." And at that, his laughter was uncontrollable, "I bet you he's thinking we're raping you right now." And he laughed some more.

Cagalli glared at her. "You know, that isn't funny."

"You should've seen the look on your face, Cagalli." He smirked at her.

"Whatever!" Cagalli groaned as she ate the soup Athrun had served her. If this was the life of being a kidnapped victim, being served by the person you have feelings for, then she'd prefer this than being a princess. Oh wait! Cagalli interrupted herself from dozing off into a daydream while eating breakfast, she needed to get back to Orb. Goodness knows what might happen to her father, he might have a heart attack. And Kira might be feeling like the guiltiest criminal on planet earth, which he should feel for setting me, his younger sister, up with a guy they had both met at school!

"Are you alright?" Athrun asked before leaving the tent.

"Huh?" Cagalli blinked and nodded. "Yeah. Why?"

"You seem to be red." He smiled at her.

"Oh." Cagalli nodded along. It was just then that she noticed Athrun was noticing her blushing series.


"So…" Dearka smirked.

"I think they make a cute couple!" Nicol smiled giddily.

"You two sound like gays." Yzak grunted.

"Has the king responded?" Dearka, changing the subject, asked Nicol who was in charge of the ransom note and retrieval.

"Not yet." Nicol smiled, "He's probably formulating ways on how to save his daughter without giving us cash."

"Well, I'll make sure he can't do that." Yzak, who was looking quite naughty, grinned.

"Dude. Do me a favor, will you?" Dearka patted his shoulder, "Don't develop an evil laugh, okay?" And left their tent and headed for the forest.


"This is soooo romantic!" Mirrialla said in a rather girlish way that made Kira shudder. "Being kidnapped by the one you love!"

"Would you mind keeping it down?" Kira told her, fearing that the king might hear them. Kami knows the poor old bloke is already confused, what if he learns about his daughter's feelings? He might be more confused than ever! "Besides, I'm wondering why Dearka didn't kidnap you."

Bull's eye.

After that, a couple of a few awkward silence passed by. Each drowning in their own thoughts and ideas.

"I wonder if we could persuade one of them to betray their little group." Mirrialla said, finally breaking the ice.

"Do you have a plan?" Lacus asked her politely.

"You're not thinking of going to Dearka, are you?" Kira looked at her in a rather suspicious manner. He knew of what Mirrialla was planning, for he too had thought of it before, but decided not to share this little plot of his, considering the fact that Mirrialla was one of his friends.

"Yes, I am." Mirrialla sighed.

"What are you going to do then, call him?" Kira asked.

"Yeah." She smiled and headed for the door. "I'll tell you later what happens, when I'm done thinking."

"Do you think she could pull this off?" Kira asked Lacus.

"Why not?" She asked.

"Well… I'm kind of worried, really." He sighed, remembering that Dearka was a rather loyal person and betraying Athrun was something far from the impossible.


"Knock, knock." Dearka laughed as he saw Cagalli glare at him. "How's imprisonement doing for you?"

"What do you think?" Cagalli asked.

"Hah." Dearka smirked. "I have to ask you something, princess."

"What?" Cagalli asked.

"You're best friend just called." He sighed. "Asking me to help you escape."

Best friend? He must be talking about Mirrialla, after all she was one of the few privileged persons to know Dearka's mobile phone number. "What did you say?" Cagalli asked curiously.

"I told her no." Dearka told her, avoiding her eyes. "She also said one thing."

"Really?" Cagalli, who was now guessing what that 'one thing' could be, asked one more time.

"She told me she loved me." Dearka laughed.

"Well isn't that a surprise." Cagalli smiled at him.

He raised his eyebrow, "He also told me something about you and Athrun." He grinned when he saw Cagalli blush.

"What did you tell her after the love line?" Cagalli, trying to change the subject asked.

"I told her to get lost." Dearka grunted. "Rude, I know. But I am not going to be used like that, you know."

"She does love you, you oaf." Cagalli glared at him.

"Well…" He smiled as he saw Athrun approaching them

"Are you going to tell him, though?" Cagalli asked.

"No." He said simply and left her alone.

"Hey." Athrun smiled at her.

"Uh… hi?" Cagalli really didn't know what to say. Here she was, being kidnapped by the person she has feelings for, and all she could say was hi.

"Your father replied." Athrun handed her a printed letter.

"Can I ask you something?" Cagalli asked him.

"Why we didn't tie you up?" Athrun asked, and then continued when he saw Cagalli nod, "Well, we thought you weren't that stupid to run amok the forest in order to escape. There are cannibals here, you know."

"Oh." Cagalli sighed.

"You know?" Athrun stared at her.

"What?" Cagalli asked.

"It's such a shame I met you under these certain circumstances." He smiled and just like that, Cagalli felt his lips pressed against her in a rather sweet way.



A/N: THANK YOU's!

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Gahhh… thanking you all was harder than writing the story. I had to look at two different windows. Anyhow…. Hoped you liked it, made it a bit romantic for the sake of me being so sleepy.

Ciao!