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Chapter 10: Search for Ethan: Alphard's Past Explored
Alphard stands over Ethan who was on the floor unconscious as she looked pleased now that she is close to claiming what's rightfully her's.
"Now you're mine." Alphard said as she grabbed Ethan and began to drag him out of the house.
Sakura and Kakashi were still currently searching around the city trying to find the address.
"So far and still nothing." Sakura said. "Maybe the others already found it."
"Let's check up on them and hear if they got any." Kakashi suggested.
"Right." Sakura said as she tapped her com-link. "Sam, Alura, you guys find anything yet?"
"Nada." Sam said.
"We haven't found it and anyone we ask is less than helpful." Alura said.
"Let's see if Ethan's found something. Ethan, did you find anything?" Sakura asked.
All she got from the com-link was static. "That's weird. Ethan, are you there?" She still hears the static, no voice just nothing but static.
Sakura turned to her sensei. "Kakashi-sensei, I am not getting any response from."
Kakashi narrowed his lone eye. "Something's wrong. Let's locate the spot where it's at."
"Right." Sakura said. "Guys find some place secluded and then fly toward our direction."
"Right, Sakura." Alura said.
"What do you think happened to him, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked.
"I can take one guess." Kakashi said.
"You mean Alphard?" Sakura's eyes widen in horror.
"Yes." Kakashi nodded.
"So like a snake she is was ready to strike when the moment is right." Sakura guessed.
"Unfortunately yes, she played her cards right." Kakashi frowned.
"Then she must have Ethan captured. But how?" Sakura asked.
"My guess he found the place and she followed him and then knocked him out somehow." her sensei said.
He should've called us when he found it!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Don't blame him for not doing so Sakura." Kakashi said. "The fact that he found his old home must've overwhelmed him."
"But still..." Sakura said.
"If anyone is to blame for this it's me for sending him on his own, when he was still regaining his energy." Kakashi said.
Sakura said nothing at this point as she couldn't think of how to respond to that.
"Now let's move." Kakashi said jumping to the next roof with Sakura following him.
As that was happening, Alphard was still dragging the unconscious Ethan through the back alleys of the street.
'He's really hard to drag and I doubt it's from all that muscle.' Alphard thought.
She stopped near the back entrance of they theater and opened the door. The she dragged Ethan inside.
"No one will ever know we are here." Alphard muttered.
She turned to the sleeping Ethan and admired him as he slept. "So adorable even when asleep." she smiled and she can't stop looking at him. "I almost feel tempted into placing your head against my chest and keep you close to me."
Ethan stirred slightly and Alphard thought he was waking up, but all that happened was that he fell to his side.
"I must've really knocked him out." Alphard said, smiled in amusement.
Kakashi and Sakura had just arrived at the house since this was the place, Ethan's com signal came from.
"Do you think she's still in there with him?" Sakura questioned.
"Don't know, we'll find out once we're in there." Kakashi answered.
"Hey!" Sam called out as he and Alura flew down next to them. "So this is it, huh?"
"Looks like it. Kind of raggedy though." Alura said.
"Let's look around." Kakashi said as they all entered the house.
"Dusty." Sam said.
"Search every room." Kakahi said as they all split up and searched around the house.
Sakura was searching around the top floor when she noticed when room was open.
"Huh? Wonder why he would've come into this room?" Sakura asked as she walked in. She looked around and realized that the room was Ethan's when he was younger.
"Well I guess I can understand why he didn't call us." Sakura said then noticed Ethan's com on the ground. "And this would probably explain why."
"Hey guys I found something in the top floor." Sakura called through her com.
The others rushed up and came into the room she was in.
"What did you find?" Kakashi asked.
"I found this on the floor, looks like Alphard must have removed it after she knocked Ethan out somehow to insure that we don't find him." Sakura answered as she points the com that was Ethan's on the floor for Kakashi, Sam and Alura to see. "This room was also his." she added, gesturing everything in the room around them.
"Must've had trouble keeping it clean." Sam said.
"Is that really important at the moment?" Alura asked
"Sorry." Sam apologized.
"On to a bigger matter, we need to find Ethan." Kakashi mentioned.
How? She could've taken him anywhere, right?" Sakura questioned.
"Well Alura can't try something since Alphard has gotten wise to block out her mind and Ethan's knocked out so that's out of the question." Sam pointed out.
"Yes, but there's one thing she didn't count on." Kakashi said.
"What's that?" Alura asked.
"She could have smashed Ethan's com, but she didn't. She left something for to trial it back to her."
Sakura realized where her sensei is getting at. "Of course! Ethan and Alphard's scent is lingering on the com she carelessly left behind."
"Okay that's good and all, but the problem is that we don't have a bloodhound to get a whiff of their scent." Sam mentioned.
"That's where I come in." Kakashi said, eye smiled as he bit his finger drawing blood then went through various hand signs and slammed the palm of his hand to the ground. "Summoning Jutsu!"
From Kakashi's summoning technique emerged a pack of ninja dogs of various breeds.
"What do you need Kakashi?" A small pug like dog asked the veteran ninja.
"I need your help to find a student of mine, Pakkun." Kakashi told him showing him the com link. "Think you guys can track the smell?"
"Of course."
The dogs all sniffed the scent on the com link and started following it. The rest followed them.
Meanwhile back at the theater, Alphard was still staring at the unconscious Ethan and was beginning to wonder something about him. "How is that you out of everyone else was able to bring out the emotion of love in me, Ethan?" She didn't get a response as he was still sleeping.
"Perhaps it is due to the fact that you and I are alike in some ways." Alphard thought. "I'm the same as you are. I had lost my parents one night and therefore it cost me the chance of a normal life."
"Then I was found by a veteran soldier named Siam who trained me and gave me the name Canaan that I threw away." Alphard continued. "After I threw it away I became the leader of SNAKE and became a deadly assassin."
"But no matter what I just never felt any actual emotions like the ones I had when I saw you for the first time."
- flashback-
A younger Alphard in a police station. She turns and sees a little boy crying on a nearby bench. "What's wrong with him?"
She walked over to the boy but before she could get to him someone else approached him. She couldn't hear what the man was saying to the boy, but eventually the boy left with him.
'Seriously?!' Alphard thought clenching her hands and teeth. "Who was he anyway?" She wondered curiously.
-flashback ends-
"Only after reading the police reports did I learn the truth." Alphard said as she looks at Ethan who is still asleep. "But why leave you alive?"
Alphard sighed, still not hearing a response from 'her beloved'. "It doesn't matter now, it's all in the past. You are alive, laying there and waiting to be taken by yours truly." she smirked.
Meanwhile, Kakashi's dogs were currently still trying to locate them with the group following them.
"I hope we find him soon." Sakura said.
"Hopefully she hasn't done anything to him." Sam said. Alura glared at him for that. "Not in that way!"
"You better hope so!"
"Enough you two!" Kakashi said.
"Sorry."
"Pakkun anything yet?" Kakashi asked.
"Still searching. Hold on..." He sniffed the air. "Got something!"
"Lead the way!"
Alphard was still waiting patiently for Ethan to wake up. "I think I've let you sleep long enough." Alphard said as she walks over to Ethan and leans her head close to his lips.
Unfortunately, a hand stopped her lips before she could get closer. She looked and saw Ethan wide awake.
"I don't think so."
"Wait, but you were..." Alphard said still muffled by his hand.
"Half-asleep." Ethan answered. "I'll admit I never expected you to use a chloroform on me." He admitted.
"So you were faking the whole thing?" Alphard questioned.
"Would you believe if I say half of it?"
"Half?! So you heard what I...?"
"Said, pretty much yeah." Ethan shrugged. "Was I suppose to not hear it?"
"I'd have preferred it if you didn't."
"Too bad so sad, can't do squat about it!" Ethan smirked.
"You're an ass." Alphard groaned.
"No offense, but I'm not sure if I'm really all that." Ethan said.
"You're right. You are more than that."
"Really hmm...I never really thought about that. I thought that was part of my charm or something." Ethan wondered.
"Oh it was definitely something."
"Not sure if I want to know what that is, but if you think you can just steal my first kiss I would have it with a girl instead."
"And who would be the girl that claims your virgin lips?" Alphard questioned with a frown.
Ethan try to think of an answer, but he can't think of an answer for it.
Alphard smirked at not hearing his response and seeing his hesitation expression. "I thought so."
While Ethan was hesitating, Alphard walked up to him and then pinned him to the floor. "Let me just spare any other girl the trouble." She said as she leaned in again.
"Hands off, Snake Lady!" Sakura shouted as she along with Kakashi, Sam and Alura busted in.
"Did we come at a bad time?" Sam asked.
"Shut up, Sam." Alura said.
"How?" Alphard frowned.
Sakura held up Ethan's com link and smirked. "You really should've destroyed this."
"Son of a..." Alphard began before she was cut off by someone kicking her.
"Watch your language." Ethan said.
"I'll be back." Alphard said as she threw smoke pellets at the ground.
By the time the smoke cleared up she was already gone.
"Now that is what I call a vanishing act." Ethan remarked.
"How'd she get out so quick?" Sam wondered.
"Probably through there." Sakura said pointing to the back entrance.
"Don't worry I doubt she'll get far since we still have her scent." Kakashi said.
"Is that how you guys found us?" Ethan asked.
"Yep, with a little help from my Summoning Jutsu we're able to locate you." Kakashi said.
"Really now...? That's new."
"It's one of the things you'll probably be learning from me, kid."
"I'll bet." Ethan nodded.
"In the meantime we need to have a talk about calling when you find something." Sakura told him.
"Well excuse me if I was overwhelmed by seeing the house I grew up in after so long."
"Would you two stop it!" Alura shouted.
"Sorry." Both of them said.
"Now that is out of the way. Ethan what did you find at the house before Alphard ambushed you?" Kakashi asked, moving on to different subject.
"Well I felt a lot of memories flood into my mind the second I stepped in. And before that I was going back to a memory I'd rather forget. That's about it." Ethan said.
"What about anything about your parents?" Alura asked.
"Nothing." Ethan answered.
"That's unfortunate." Sam said.
"Unfortunate indeed." Kakashi agreed.
"Then maybe we should head back there and see of we find anything." Sakura suggested.
"That's a good idea, there maybe something you never got a chance to check." Alura said to Ethan.
"Okay let's go." Ethan said.
They all exited the theater and began making their way back to Ethan's old house.
Alphard was furious at the moment since she was interrupted in her attempt to claim her beloved.
"God damn it! I was this close, this CLOSE to claiming Ethan as my beloved! If only those fools had not interfered, he would have been my lover!" she yelled in frustration. "I have been denied too many times on what should have been rightfully mine and mine alone!"
She suddenly calmed down and regained her composure.
"Now, now. No reason to get huffy that won't solve anything." Alphard said. "Now then what would be a good way of claiming him now?"
"Hmm...perhaps I could knock out the rest and then grab him while he's distracted by his downed friends." Alphard frowned. "Knowing him, he'll very most likely resist. So I am going to need take him where he can fight all out and need something that can do harm to him."
"Unfortunately do to that little issue in New York, all of my operation bases have been shut down by S.H.I.E.L.D and any other place we had hidden work has likely been found." the terrorist leader sighed.
"Of course there are a good number of other companies who probably have some tech they could spare." Alphard smirked. "And I know just one that has what I need."
The group was back at Ethan's old house and looking for anything on his parents.
"So what should we be searching like anything that involves them?" Ethan asked, curiously.
"Maybe like something helps you to remember them fully or maybe a location of where they were buried." Sakura said.
"Well that's a start. We could search in my parent's room who knows we may stumble on something." Ethan suggested thoughtfully.
"Good thought." Kakashi said.
They all walked up to Ethan's parents room and started searching around to find anything that could help them.
"So what exactly should we be looking for?" Sam asked.
"I guess anything that might help figure out why someone would want to kill my parents." Ethan said. "And why I was spared..."
"Like this for instance?" Sakura asked as she held up an old I.D tag with a picture of Ethan's dad on it and the name Umbrella Corporation on it.
"Umbrella Corporation?" Ethan questioned.
"He's not the only one." Alura injected, as she held up an old I.D tag through telekinesis with a picture of Ethan's mom on it and it too had the name Umbrella Corporation on it as well.
"My mom too?" Ethan said.
"They worked for this Umbrella Corporation? What is that place anyway?" Sam asked.
"It's a pharmaceutical company founded by these three people Oswell Spencer, Edward Ashford and Dr. James Marcus, but Fury sees that it's more than what they say it is." Kakashi said, narrowing his lone eye.
"What does he see it as?" Sakura asked.
"Something more sinister, like for one they had a benevolent public face for the ignorant those that can't look underneath the underneath."
Okay, I get most of the parts but you lost me on the underneath part." Ethan said, sheepishly scratching the back side of his head.
"I don't get it either." Sam said.
"What Kakashi-sensei means that there's something they are hiding underneath the surface." Sakura answered specifically.
"Oh I think I get it now." Ethan said.
"What were they doing that Fury found suspicious?" Alura asked.
"We're not sure. Anyone we sent in never reported to us." Kakashi said.
"That's why this puts Fury on the edge?" Ethan asked.
"Yes." Kakashi nodded.
"Maybe whatever this secret project is, might also be why you're parents quit." Sakura thought.
"And maybe it also has something to do with why someone killed them." Sam said.
"Maybe, but we still don't know the identity of the person." Ethan said. "Or anything else I guess."
"We'll figure that part out when we come to it." Kakashi told him.
"Right now we should figure out where they were laid to rest." Alura mentioned.
"That's a good idea." Ethan nodded.
"Well let's see if we can find a map to show if there are any cemeteries around here." Kakashi said.
"Right."
They all exited the room and searched around for a map.
"Found one!" Sakura called out. "Looks like the closest one is a few blocks from here. We should check there first."
"Alright, let's move then." Kakashi said.
They all exited out of the house and began making their way towards the cemetery.
"Where's another one, ya know just in case my parents weren't buried at this one?" Ethan asked.
"On the other side of town." Sakura said.
"So let's hope there here so we don't have to fly all the way across town." Sam said.
"Don't be a baby, Sam." Alura told him.
"We're here." Kakashi said as they approached the front gates.
"So where do we start?" Ethan asked.
"I guess anywhere." Sakura shrugged.
"Everyone search around. Report if you find anything." Kakashi said.
"Right!"
Everyone took off in different directions of the cemetery.
Ethan was searching around in one part of the cemetery trying to see if he could find his parents graves. "Why can't they just make it easy for a person to locate their lost love ones?" he sighed. "Then again I guess most people would know whereto find their loved ones." He tapped his comlink to check in with the others. "You guys having any luck?"
"Nothing yet." Sakura said.
"Same here." Alura mentioned.
"Nada." Sam said.
"I'm guessing its the same with you, right?" Sakura asked.
"Pretty much." Ethan said.
"Bet Kakashi's having better luck than we are." Sam said.
"Probably although he hasn't checked in or anything." Alura brought up.
"Think maybe something happened?" Ethan wondered.
"Even if something did happen, Kakashi-sensei can take care of himself." Sakura stated.
"You really have faith in your sensei don't ya?" Ethan asked.
"Duh of course."
"That was a rhetorical question." Ethan said sheepishly while sweatdropping at the same time.
"Oh never mind." Sakura said embarrassed over the com link.
"Should we try contacting him to see if he's okay?" Alura asked.
"I guess." Ethan said.
"I'll try him." Sakura said.
"Let us know if you get ahold of him." Ethan said.
"Right."
"In the mean time we'll keep searching." Sam said.
"Right." Ethan said.
Kakashi was currently walking through the cemetery while looking at the I.D badges of Ethan's parents. "Hmm...now where would you two be at?"
Kakashi heard something coming through his com link and answered it. "Kakashi here. What is it?"
"I take it you're still helping the kid out, huh?" Fury asked on the other side.
"Yeah" Kakashi answered.
"Did anything else happened when you and your team got to Los Angeles?"
"Well we had that little mishap with Match and also Alphard followed us here." Kakashi replied.
"Somehow I figured she would." Fury said.
"Right now she hasn't attacked us, but that may change so we're keeping our guard up and also trying to locate where the kid's parents were laid to rest."
"Good, what did you learn at the kid's home?" Fury asked.
"We found out that the kid's parents used to work at Umbrella, the company that has you on edge as Ethan would put it." Kakashi informed.
"Did they now?" Fury wondered. "I wonder if they knew anything about what was really going on in the corporation."
"If they did it would explain a lot." Kakashi said.
"That could mean whatever they found must be why it gave me a good reason to be on edge." Fury frowned at the thought.
"It probably does, although I doubt the kid would know anything about it and since anyone we get in never reports."
"Just see if you find out anything, Kakashi. And don't tell the kid, for some reason it would probably be better if he didn't know." Fury said.
"Yeah I agree." Kakashi said as he hung up. "I don't want the kid go seeking out vengeance like one of my students did." he sighed. He then heard his com link go off again and answered. "What's up?"
"Kakashi-sensei, have you found anything?" Sakura asked.
"So far nothing. I take it's the same with you?"
"Yeah, it's the same thing." Sakura answered.
"I figured. Maybe they aren't in this one." Kakashi said.
"Maybe." Sakura said.
"We'll search a little more and if they aren't here then we search the other one." Kakashi said.
"And maybe the other one will have what this place didn't have."
"We'll see what happens first Sakura."
"Right." Sakura nodded.
Ethan was still searching around when he saw two headstones at away from him. He walked over to them. He looked at the names inscribed on them and immediately dropped to his knees. The names on them were the names of his parents. "I finally find you guys, but I can't be happy about it." Ethan said sobbing slightly.
He heard his com link go off but didn't answer it.
"Ethan you there man? Ethan?" Sam questioned on the other end.
"What he's not answering?" Alura questioned.
"What is this going to be a regular thing with him?" Sakura asked annoyed.
"Don't get on his case like that Sakura." Sam said.
"Yeah my guess he probably found them." Alura said.
"If he did I'm probably guessing he's not taking it well right now." Sam added.
"Well let's find him, before someone else does." Sakura said
"Like you-know-who?" Sam guessed.
"Bingo." Sakura said.
"Well then, let's go!" Alura said.
As Ethan was still crying near his parents headstones a figure was watching him.
"It is very hard isn't it child?" The figure said.
Ethan looked up and noticed a man wearing a metal mask and a red hood over his head wearing silver armor and red clothing underneath.
"Who are you?" Ethan asked.
"I am Azrael." The figure known as Azrael introduced himself.
"Azrael?"
"Yes and I come with a message for you, Ethan Tidwell."
"How'd you know my name I didn't introduced myself." Ethan said, shocked that this Azrael person knew his name.
"I know many things my boy, like what happened to your parents." Azrael said.
"I see." Ethan sighed. "So why did this have to happen to me..."
"That I'm afraid I don't have an answer to, dear boy."
"Alright I understand, on to a serious matter. You mentioned about a message for me?" Ethan asked, changing the subject.
"Yes, a prophecy that it involves about you and Alphard Alshua." Azrael answered.
Ethan paled. "Is that we get married? Because if it is, that would sound pleasing in her book. And I am not telling her about it." he said exaggerating at the thought he was going to get married with a terrorist.
"Would you listen first before you jump the gun?"
"Sorry about that." Ethan apologized sheepishly.
"It is more along the lines about you facing her one final time." Azrael said.
"Is that so?" Ethan asked, choosing to listen more and understand it even he s somewhat skeptic about the prophecy.
"Yes, in this fight it will not only decide who you are but also you holding her final fate in your hands." Azrael explained.
"Is it my choice whether I want to believe it or not?" Ethan asked.
"It could be but the events of this are all set in stone." Azrael said.
"No way to avoid it I'll bet. I am going to kill Alphard in the end? She may be an evil woman but I don't think killing her isn't going to do any good that would mean like break my one rule." Ethan said, not liking the idea of killing someone even if they are evil.
Azrael chuckled which that got Ethan's attention. "I doubt you will. You will see for yourself what I mean, after all there's more to you than that."
"What do you mean?" Ethan asked.
"You'll find out, kid." Azrael said as he prepared to leave.
"Wait is there anything else you can tell me?" Ethan said.
"In due time, boy. In due time." Azrael said before leaving.
"Why do I get sudden feeling that I will understand that the next time I see him?" Ethan asked, but realized something. "Who am I talking to anyway?"
"From what it seems like yourself." Sakura said as she, Sam and Alura appeared.
"I guess that you can say we all have our unique moments." Ethan said as he sheepishly scratched the back of his head.
"I'll bet." Sakura said in deadpan.
"So who exactly were you talking too anyway before we came along?" Alura asked.
"A guy who calls himself Azrael." Ethan answered.
"Azrael?" Sam questioned.
"What did he want?" Sakura asked.
"It was message, a prophesy involves me and Alphard." Ethan replied.
"It's not about you marrying her is it?" Alura asked nervously.
"No, God no it's not that." Ethan said.
"Okay, if it's not then what is?" Sam asked as he sighed in relief.
"Something about a final battle between me and her." Ethan said.
"Final battle?" Sakura questioned. "Did he mention when this will take place or when?"
"No he just mentioned that Alphard's final fate will be in my hands."
"That's deep." Sam said.
"Isn't it?" Ethan began. "I don't like the idea of killing someone like Alphard, she may be an evil terrorist but she doesn't deserve to killed by my hands. I would be no better than that man that not only took my family, but my life as well." Ethan growled in the end, as his fists tightens.
"Calm down first, maybe what Azrael said doesn't mean what you think." Sakura said.
"Would what you are about to answer sound like a good thing?" Ethan asked.
"More or less."
"I'll still hear you out nevertheless." Ethan said.
"Maybe it doesn't mean you kill her, maybe it means you change her for the better or something."
"Really? I could do that, change her to move into a different yet a better path?" Ethan asked.
Sakura smiled as she nodded. "You may not know that, at my village there's a certain knucklehead that changed someone from another village whom they suffered for the things they have no control of. So if he can do it then so can you."
"Well it's worth a shot, though she might misinterpret what I mean." Ethan said.
"Better than the alternative isn't it?" Alura questioned.
"Yes, maybe there's hope for her and I can also find the cause of what made her bad to begin with." Ethan said with conviction.
"There you go, man." Sam said before he remembered something else. "Uh before that Azrael guy showed up did you...?" He trailed off.
"Yes, I found their graves right there." Ethan answered Sam's unfinished question as points his finger at that direction.
The others turned and saw the headstones. "This must be pretty hard for you, huh?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah." Ethan said, softly.
"We'll find who did this." Alura said.
"I hope we do." Ethan said.
"Now that I thought about something just now, shouldn't we contact Kakashi on letting him know on the good news?" Ethan mentioned.
"No need to do that, kid." Kakashi said appearing behind him causing the four to fall back in shock.
"When are you going to stop doing that!? Seriously!?" Ethan exclaimed.
"Until you learn to see it coming." Kakashi said.
"I should have expected that response." Ethan groaned as he facepalm himself.
"I admit I've trained with him longer and I'm still learning to expect when he's nearby." Sakura said.
"You still have a lot to learn then." Kakashi told her. "So I'm guessing you found them, right?"
"Yes, Kakashi." Ethan nodded.
"Like Sam said we'll find this guy. But what will you do if we find him?"
"Well for one thing, I am not going to kill him in revenge, instead bring him in to face justice for all the things he did. That's what I will do. As I said to Karai-sensei, I will not become a executioner." Ethan said. "I guarantee it."
"That's great to know kid." Kakashi said. 'That's a relief he's definitely no Sasuke.'
Meanwhile, Alphard was looking at them from afar, smirking.
"Perfect." She threw a canister at the group and it landed in front of them.
The canister opened and released a type of gas.
"Cover your mouths!" Kakashi ordered as the rest tried hold their breaths.
"What is this anyway?" Sam asked before passing out.
"Knockout gas." Alura said following suit as did Sakura.
'That's not good!' Ethan mentally exclaimed seeing that three have been knocked out by the gas.
"We got to get them out of here quick!" Kakashi said before he passed out too.
"Okay, that's definitely not good." Ethan groaned trying to resists losing conscious from the effects of the gas.
"Don't try and fight it, darling." Alphard said appearing behind him.
Ethan froze slightly hearing her, but before he could react, she quickly grabbed him in a headlock.
Ethan tried to fight out of the headlock that Alphard put on him but he was unable to due to the gas.
Eventually he passed out in her grip.
"Sweet dreams, darling." Alphard said as she let go of the headlock she put Ethan in and brought out some ropes which she quickly tied Ethan up so that he wouldn't escape.
'Good thing I remembered to bring these ropes with me to hold my beloved down. Especially since these ropes are strong and durable than any other ropes.' Alphard thought.
She then dragged him away from the rest of the group.
12 hours later Kakashi, Sakura, Sam and Alura began to wake up and Sam notice that Ethan is gone.
"Hey guys, I think we're one member short." Sam called out.
"Oh no, do you think...?" Sakura asked.
"Yes and this time she didn't leave a trail" Kakashi said.
"I can't sense her or tell where she is. She must be hiding her thoughts good." Alura said.
"She got a good drop on us didn't she?" Sam asked.
"Yeah, real good." Sakura said before realizing something. "Hey you don't think she heard what Azrael said to Ethan do you?"
"If she did, then that's not a good sign." Alura frowned.
"Summoning jutsu!" Kakashi said summoning his dogs. "Hope you boys have got the kid's scent memorized cause we need to find him again."
"We've still got it from the first time finding him won't be that hard." Pakkun said.
"Alright boys, spread out!" Pakkun ordered as the dogs all spread out to start searching for Ethan.
"Let's hope they find him before she does anything." Sakura said.
"Yeah, that last thing we want is her to corrupt him like Orochimaru did to Sasuke." Kakashi said, agreeing and remembering about one of his students.
"I never want to go through that again." Sakura said.
"But Ethan won't get corrupted easily right?" Sam asked.
"Yeah, but that's not gonna stop Alphard's persistence unfortunately." Alura answered.
"Then let's make sure she takes the hint." Kakashi said.
"Right!" Sakura, Alura and Sam nodded.
Alphard was currently still dragging Ethan to a warehouse.
"If I had superhuman strength like you, I would have no issues of carrying you. And I would know which style to use that would be perfect for me, a bridal-like style in most cases it's the groom that carries his bribe like that, but few like strong females would carry their man like that." Alphard said to the unconscious Ethan as she smiled evilly at the thought on the last part.
'Oh how nice that will be when it happens.' Alphard thought.
"Fortune does smile upon me today." Alphard said to herself as she made her way inside the warehouse and put Ethan down in a chair. She then tied the chains and ropes around the chair. "Just to be on the safe side that you don't try to get away from me." Alphard smirked taking extra percussion to keep Ethan from escaping her. After making sure Ethan's restrained is secured she then sat on top of her beloved's lap.
'My beloved is still cute when he's asleep or unconscious.' Alphard thought as she adjusted herself to sit comfortably on top of her beloved's lap. "Unfortunately I didn't bring you here just to adore you, it's time that you wake up so it's only going to hurt since I am going to wake you so that you and I can make love for each other that we should have done back at theater." just as Alphard said that she slapped Ethan real hard in the face to wake him up.
Ethan woke up from that slap and saw Alphard rubbing her hand.
'Okay that was a bad idea, I didn't expect that his face is hard as a brick so I better not be surprised that head of his is hard just as his face is.' Alphard thought.
"Where am I and how come I'm all tied up?" Ethan demanded.
"To keep you from running away of course." Alphard said to him.
"Oh so what are you going to do now, rape me?"
"Tempting, but no." Alphard stated.
"So if not that which I am glad for now that is, it's something else that I am not going to like it." Ethan groaned on how he hated that he is right on what it is going to be.
"Oh something less extreme." Alphard said as she leaned into his face.