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Lynx Tiger Says: Only three more chapters till the end?! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!! Oh well, I might run over to five if I can. Then again, I might not seeing how this is the climax. Well. Not yet.

Hey, did anyone notice why the boy's name is Miles? Hmmmm. XD

Chapter Nine: Dying to Rush

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Mello reached the apartment only to find that he was too late. There wasn't a sign of forced entry, but there were signs of a struggle. The coats that were once on the couch were now lying on the floor in a messy heap. Sayu's ipod was still playing because he could hear the music. He frowned and turned it off, but left it where it was. Her laptop was turned violently to the side, almost falling off, yet barely. Mello didn't move it. It wasn't going to fall. Mello went back to the door to see that it was unlocked.

He swore he had locked it. He bent down and looked at it. Scratches could be seen on the knob. He swore again under his breath. Matt would be so useful at the moment. Seeing how Matt was very familiar with how to pick locks, and how to identify if one was picked.

He frowned and went to the kitchen to see that the phone was off the hook. Everything else was fine. There wasn't a sign that a fight had occurred there. He glanced at the window to see that the window was locked and shut tight. So, no escape was through the window at all. Just out and through the door.

Mello sighed, he looked at the bathroom and the bedroom to see that nothing had happened. He bit his lip. Only the kitchen and the living room was a bit of a mess. He did say a bit since the only thing that was wrong in the kitchen was the phone. He looked back at the door.

He was good, this kidnapper. Really did his homework. He decided to go ahead and leave. Once he was out of the apartment, but not out of the building, he called up Halle on his cellphone. "Sayu's missing." Mello said before Halle had a chance. "The living room is all screwed up and the phone is off the hook. No sign of forced entry although the lock looks like its been picked."

"What's your plan?" Halle asked, allowing concern to come through the phone.

Mello made no mistake to hear that. "Talk to the neighbors, and see if they heard anything. There's a good chance I'll come up with nothing seeing how this is a week day and people are working."

"Did you touch anything."

"Just to turn off Sayu's ipod that was playing. Other then that no. I'm not that stupid." Mello shook his head.

"Ok."

"What I am going to do is see if Sayu has her phone on."

"And call?"

"Risky, but yes maybe."

"Good luck."

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"We should be fine here." Dustin said as he pulled open the warehouse door. There was nothing inside. Sayu stared at him, now regretting that she had stopped struggling. Dustin sighed, "You're the one that's keeping low. Not me."

"Since when did I need someone to help me keep low? I thought I was doing fine." Sayu said almost sarcastically.

Dustin bit his lip. "You honestly think that just because Mello was around you, you weren't going to get hurt? Beyond's not going to be the only one after you."

"You're after me to." Sayu started backing up.

"No! I'm trying to help you. There's a complete difference." Dustin pointed out.

"Oh yes, by kidnapping me out of my apartment to come here?" Sayu asked him angrily.

Dustin sighed. "This is why I hate women."

"Maybe you should have thought of that before you decided to kidnap me." Sayu hissed at him before turning on her heel and started walking away.

Dustin blinked, "Hey! Where are you going?"

"Home. I don't know why I bothered." Sayu rolled her eyes. "I've been kidnapped twice in this life time, I really don't want to make it a third."

"So a two and a half is fine with you?" Dustin demanded.

Sayu just waved and didn't bother answering that. Dustin glared at the retreating back of the woman. Poor Angel.

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"No DNA, fingerprints, or blood. WHoever he is, he's good." Gevanni said as he looked through the reports.

Halle leaned back in her chair. Mello had decided to conduct his own search for the girl and Near allowed it. She leaned forward again and sighed.

"The make up should have left a trace if he was wearing it." Rester commented.

Near glanced up from the card tower he was building. "We shouldn't underestimate him. Either fake B has an accomplice or he and the kidnapper are the same person."

"If that's true then he just bought Sayu outside just to kill her." Halle blinked.

"Most likely." Near said. "However, Mello may already be connecting the dots. We might not get the information he has until its much too late" Near started to stack the cards again. "Then again after loosing someone close, he may just give us the information and help from the background so he'll be able to make his own moves as he sees fit. It may lead us to take action quickly."

Halle listened and said dryly. "You don't like that idea?"

"He lacks calm, but has action. Hopefully, he'll used that to get evidence so we won't be relying on witness accusations." Near replied as he found a new deck of cards to add to the tower.

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Mello hissed. Fuck! No one had seen Sayu. Not even the shops right across the street. It was impossible not to have a damn witness in board daylight! It was just fucking nuts! No traces to lead, nothing to follow. If he doesn't hurry up, Sayu could possibly be killed.

Something tugged at his pant leg, to see an eight-year old boy that could have resembled Matt if he didn't have brown eyes.

Mello looked at him wearily. "What kid?"

"Are you looking for someone Mel?" The boy asked.

Mello blinked, but said nothing. No way this kid knew his name. However, a lot of kids had their own way of saying mister, or something. He shrugged it off. "Yeah, I am." He answered still not understanding why a little kid was talking to him.

"What did the person look like?" The boy asked.

Mello bit his lip before saying, "Shoulder length brown hair, brown eyes, pale skin yet great complexion, up to my shoulder in height."

"I seen a girl that looked like that." The boy said. "She was being forced into a black car. "She was pretty scared."

"Thanks kid." Mello said, "Where did they look like they were headed?"

The boy frowned and said, "I think Shippu Drive." He said. "Oh, and my name's Miles."

"Thanks Miles." said Mello as he turned to look at the kid, but he was gone.