Here's the tenth chapter. After gathering TK and Matsushita, we'll be able to see what they all did. Battlefront is almost becoming complete once more. Enjoy. ^-^

Ch.10

"We've been walking for three days now. Can't we just stop?" I said as I stopped myself from walking anymore. My feet were exhausted. I couldn't bare to walk anymore.

Yuri turned around and growled at me. "We're not going anywhere if we don't keep on going."

I stared at her straight in the eyes. "Look, we're not going anywhere now. It's been three days already. You can't expect us to keep on walking forever."

"I do expect you to. If you want to get this over with, then get your butt in gear."

"We don't have anymore food. How are we going to keep on going without food?"

"We can survive for a couple of days."

I sighed in frustration. "You're not getting my point."

Yuri huffed. "You don't see the rest of the people complaining like you are."

"That's only because they're afraid to speak out to you. They know about the infamous penalty games your give out."

Yuri frowned. "The only penalty game I ever given out was to you."

"That's why! They don't want to suffer like I did."

I looked to Naoi and Matsushita who gave out small nods.

"Dive into your body!" TK said as she did a strange dance move.

"TK isn't complaining," Yuri said.

"That's because he's TK. He runs on solar energy," I said.

I noticed Miku stand next to TK and began dancing along with him. "Yay! Dancing to the beat!"

"And what about Miku?" Yuri said.

I sweat dropped. "Miku's..."

"...being Miku, am I right?"

I sighed. Sometimes I wonder where both TK and Miku get their energy.

"We need to find a place to stay for a while. At least for a day," I said. "All this time, we've been living out in the streets. We all stink and we don't have the everyday necessities as we should have."

Yuri crossed her arms over her chest. "Fine then. If you really want to waste time, then I guess...we could stay at a hotel..."

I smiled. "Thank you."

"But we need to find a place where we won't go broke. We need to find the cheapest hotel."

"And who can we ask for that?"

Yuri turned to Miku. "Miku, where is the nearest cheap hotel?"

Miku didn't pay attention to her since she was busy dancing around. It was pretty cute.

"Miku!" Yuri yelled.

That made Miku stop her dancing and saluted Yuri. "Yes, Commander!"

"Do you know where the nearest cheap hotel is around here?" Yuri asked. "I can only think of the fancy ones."

Miku thought for a minute. "Well...let's see..." She paced around for a while. "I got it! It's a few blocks away from here. I suggest to take the bus."

Yuri sighed. "The bus again? It seems that everywhere we go, we need the bus. We won't go on for much without money. We'll also be needing it to buy some things for us."

Naoi stepped up. "I can perform at any time you wish to get the money. I am quite rich myself."

I smirked. "Yeah right."

"I am. Have you ever heard of a mansion before?"

I hesitated. Naoi smirked back at me. "You can't possibly live in one."

"I do. That's how good I am."

"Then why can't you let us borrow some money?"

"Have you forgotten who the person in charge is?"

I sighed. Yuri. She wouldn't waste time for someone to get something from their house. I wonder how long we'll be able to keep moving.

"Come on, guys. Let's find a bus stop," Yuri said as she walked away with all of us behind her.

We arrived at a small hotel in a few minutes.

"It's not as bad as I thought it would be," Yuri said.

"It's okay," I said.

"I was thinking it was going to be zombie infested and whatnot."

I jerked my head to Yuri. "What kind of world do you live in?"

Yuri laughed and leaded all of us towards the entrance of the hotel. We went inside and walked towards the entry desk only to be in a line behind a girl with long black hair.

As we waited, TK and Miku went back to their dancing. Most people would stay away from them for looking stupid but not me. Although I would rather be seen with Miku than with TK. No offense.

Just then, I noticed Naoi examining the girl in front of us. I smirked. "Checking out the girl, huh?"

Naoi turned to me. "Are you crazy? I was only looking at her because..." He turned back to the girl. "...she looks familiar."

I raised an eyebrow and looked at the girl. She was done with getting her room and began walking away. She passed by us, making me able to see her a little bit. She had sharp, red eyes and a scarf around her neck even if it was summer time. Right after she disappeared around a corner did I recognized her as the girl from the park I saw the other day.

"She was familiar," I said.

"Should we tell Yuri?" Naoi said.

I nodded and walked next to Yuri who was already ordering rooms for us. "Yurippe, I gotta tell you something."

"I'm busy here, Hinata. Tell me later," she said as she went back to talking with the hotel assisstant.

I walked back to Naoi. "She's not going to listen to me."

"Then I guess we should follow her ourselves," Naoi said.

I nodded and walked towards the corner the girl turned around but saw no one. She completely disappeared. "Damn it." I turned back around, only to have some key pushed to my face.

"Here is your key," Yuri said as she handed me a single key. "You better not lose it. I won't rent your another room. You'll be sharing the room with Naoi while Matsushita and TK share a room and Miku and I share another."

Damn it. I wanted to share with Miku.

I shook my head from that random thought. "Yurippe, we got a problem."

"What is it?"

"There was someone else here. Another person," Naoi said.

"And you didn't tell me?"

"You were apparently busy," I said.

Yuri looked around. "Where are they?"

"It's a her. She headed off around this corner but completely disappeared."

"Then we have to look for her."

"What?!" Naoi and I yelled.

"Do you know how many rooms there are in this hotel?" I said.

"It's small so it shouldn't be a problem," Yuri said. "We can split and look through every room."

"We can't be going around room to room and checking up on people. What if we accidentally...you know...burst in at the wrong time. It's a hotel after all."

Yuri slapped me across the face. "Are you stupid?! We aren't going to go bursting in someone else's room. We're going to act like civilized humans and knock on every door."

I rubbed my cheek. There was no reason for her to hit me.

"Okay. Everyone, circle around," Yuri said as everyone circled around her. "This is what we're going to do. Miku and I will take the first floor while the rest of your guys search the second floor. Got it?"

We all nodded and began our mini mission.

"Well, she's nowhere in this floor," I said as I leaned against the railing that ran through the hallway.

Naoi was with me and leaned against the wall in front of me. "Do you think Yuri and Miku found her?"

I shrugged.

Just then, TK and Matsushita walked over to us with TK doing a few dance moves as always.

"No luck?" Matsushita said.

Naoi and I shook our heads.

"We didn't find her either."

"She totally knows how to hide, dude!" TK said.

I sighed and looked down the railing towards the first floor. "Yurippe! Miku! Have you found her yet?"

"Not yet! You guys didn't find her?" I heard Yuri's voice echo back.

"Nope!"

"What a bummer!"

Silence except for TK's constant statements about dancing. Us guys waited for a while, doing nothing at all until a short scream rung througout the first floor and into the second floor.

"What was that?" Naoi said.

"That sounded like Yurippe," I said in a panic state. "She might need help. Let's go."

With that, I lead everyone else down the first floor. We stopped and looked down the hallway, trying to find a familair magenta or turquiose head. I managed to see a few strands of Miku's hair disappear inside a room.

"Come on!" I ordered as I rushed over to the room with the others behind me. The door shut completely on us, but we had Matsushita to break down the door.
Once we were able to get inside, the room was completely dark. It was like no one was in there.

"Where did they go?" Naoi whispered.

"Are you sure they went in here?" Matsushita whispered.

"I'm pretty sure," I whispered.

Whispering whisperers, am I right?

We all looked around the creepy, dark room. I swore I saw Miku's hair dragging inside here. But where was she and Yuri?

"Yurippe? Miku? Are guys in here?" I said.

Silence.

"Let's not play games, okay?" I continue to say. "Yurippe? Miku?"

Just then, something brushed my cheek, making me almost scream like a little girl (Come on. I know some of you had felt that way).

"Look!" Matsushita said, pointing to the thing that touched me.

It was one of Miku's pony tails.

"Where is this coming from?" I said out loud as I followed the pony tail up to its owner. I wasn't able to see clear once I looked up to the ceiling but I did felt heavy things falling on top of me.

"Hinata? You okay?" Naoi and Matsushita said.

I could only groaned.

The things on top of me struggled, hurting me even more. They smelled nice though. And that's when I realized something...

"Yuri! Miku!" Naoi and Matsushita said. It was like TK 1) didn't have a mouth or 2) didn't care.

Yep. The two girls had fallen on top of me. Oh boy. Not to be mean or anything, but they're pretty heavy when they're combined together.

Naoi and Matsushita helped Yuri and Miku get up along with me. Once I got up, I was able to see that Yuri and Miku were both tied with rope and had tape over their mouths.

"Holy shit, are you guys alright?" I said as I carefully peeled the tape off Miku's mouth while Naoi did the same for Yuri.

Before any of the two could speak, a figure dropped down from the ceiling and stood before us. We all looked towards the person who was none other than the girl we were looking for.

And she had two sharp, hand knives pointing to us.

"Don't move," the girl said. "None of you better move."

We all raised our hands up in a manner that we weren't going to hurt her.

"Put down those knives, okay?" I said

The girl only held the knives tighter. "Don't move."

"Can we talk for a while?" Yuri spoke up. I looked at her. I was amazed that she stepped up even after getting kidnapped. I would've been creeped out by the girl.

The girl glared at her. "No. I don't want to talk to any of you."

"We just want to talk. I won't penalize you for tying me with rope and stuck tape around my mouth."

Yeah...I wouldn't had said that.

The girl growled. "I know what you guys want."

"What?" Yuri said.

"You want something from me. You want me to join whatever group you guys are in."

"Well, you're not far from right. How did you know?"

The girl glared at all of us. "I heard you all. I am not a fool. I don't want anything to do with strangers such as yourselves."

Yuri shrugged. "Whatever you say. Just don't be coming to us once you realize what mission we're all into."

The girl said nothing.

I was even surprised Yuri didn't even bother to trying to persuade the girl. I leaned towards her and whispered. "Are you just going to let this go?"

"She'll be coming right to us. Just you wait," Yuri whispered back.

I sighed. Well, I gotta give credit to this girl. She has a mind out of everyone else in this room.

Suddenly, she caught my eye. She glared at me as I tried to stare her back but couldn't. Her red eyes were just so cold.

"I've seen you before, haven't I?" she asked me.

"Uh..." I rubbed the back of my head. "Yeah...a while back in the park."

"You touched my puppy."

I chuckled nervously. "I did, didn't I?"

This was just plain weird.

The girl examined everyone else one last time before finally putting her knives away. She huffed. "You all look familiar to be honest."

Yuri smiled, and I knew what she was thinking. Bull's eye.

"I'm glad you finally came to realize that," Yuri said as she took a step closer to the girl. The girl backed away.

"My name's Yuri, the leader of this group called Battlefront," Yuri said. "Those are Hinata, Naoi, TK, Matsushita and Miku."

I see. Now Yuri has a name for our group. And it's Battlefront? Hmm...

We all awkwardly greeted the girl as she did nothing but glared at us.

"Hinata, she's scary," Miku whispered as she wrapped her arm around mine.

I could only comfort her by placing one hand over her arm.

"So, what's your name?" Yuri asked.

The girl huffed and turned away. "Shiina."

"Well, nice to meet you, Shiina. How about having a civilized talk, hmm?"

I sighed. "This might take a while."

Yuri turned to the rest of us. "You guys can go to your rooms and take the day off. I'll stay behind and talk with Shiina."

"You sure about that, Yurippe?" I said.

"You're the one who said that this was going to take a while."

"Well, yeah but-"

"You guys can go. Everyone has their keys. So, be gone. I'll stay behind with Shiina."

And with that, all of us obeyed and walked out of the room, leaving Yuri and Shiina behind. I kinda felt bad for leaving Yuri behind. I hoped Shiina wouldn't hurt her.

"Well, good night, you guys. We'll see you tomorrow," Matsushita said as he and TK walked up to the second floor.

"We should go too," Naoi said as he walked away.

I nodded and took only a step until Miku stopped me. "What is it, Miku?"

"Well, Yuri has the key to my room..." Miku said.

"You can go back and ask her for it."

"I would if I could but I can't."

"Huh? Why not?"

Miku moved her feet in a bashful way. She was so cute.

"I'm scared of Shiina," she admitted.

Aww. How adorable.

"Well, you can always-" I began to say until Miku interrupted me by grabbing tightly my arm.

"Hinata, can I sleep with you tonight?" she said.

I felt my face get extremely hot. Holy shit. Was this a dream come true?

"I-I...w-well..." I said, rubbing the back of my head.

"I promise I won't bother you and Naoi," Miku said. "Just for this one night."

I bit my lip as my mind went into all these possibilities about having Miku in the same bed as me. Oh boy! What joy.

"Hinata?" Miku said, catching my attention.

"Oh well...I guess...if you want to," I stuttured, trying so hard to keep my blush hidden.

Miku smiled, only making matters worse but it was nice. "Thank you, Hinata."

With that, Miku pulled me along side her towards our room. Yes. Our room. Sucks that Naoi had to be there. Unless we can kick him out. Haha. This will be one fun night.

Hinata, what are you thinking of doing to Miku? Haha. Well, Shiina has appeared at a hotel...strangely. Haha. I wonder if she'll join the group. We'll just have to wait and see, don't we?

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