*Author's note* Sorry it took so long, hope it's all you hope for.
Lion and mouse
Lion
I walked towards the run down warehouse that loomed in front of us mincingly. With a crowbar in hand and a shotgun strapped to my back, and I still felt unprepared. Haruna's father followed along with those cops that were at his place.
"It hasn't been too long; do you think she's okay still?"
"How long is not too long?"
"Umm… maybe four hours or so," The cops looked at him like he was a moron. "Sorry I should have called earlier, I know. I was ashamed I could not handle it alone, I examined the evidence and couldn't find anything."
"Shush." I put my finger to my lips as we crossed the street to the broken down place.
They nodded and we looked up at the rusty fence that had no sign of a gate nearby.
Wow… It's so, creepy.
Mouse
A single woman smiled down on me, the room was empty except for us and she did not look happy to see me.
"Good morning, Sunshine." She said in a mocking tone above me. She wore a dress covered in swinging strings that swayed with her movements; it was tan, elegant and set just above her skinny pale knees. "It's rude not to reply."
"Uhh… Good Morning Miss?"
"Better, but still could improve," She walked around the metal chair I was strapped to and the table in front of it like a vulture circling her prey, "Yoh could do so much better." She smiled and brought her hand to her small chest, "like me." She said chuckling.
"Excuse me for asking. But exactly how old are you?" The woman was beautiful, but was defiantly older than Yoh, she could have been his mother.
"Doesn't matter, Yoh has been with women much older than me." She flung her red boa around her neck and walked away from me with her high heels making sharp clicking noises behind her, that seem louder in this small hostile room.
"He…" I blush, "Has?"
"Of course," she turns to look back at me.
"…how did you know that?"
It seems it's her turn to look flustered as she paces back towards me. "How do I know? Well…" She sits in the metal chair across the metal table before me. "Wouldn't you like to know?" A smug look over took her features as she bore into my eyes with hers.
"What do you want with me?"
"hmm, well since he has taken a sudden interest in you I had to arrange this little get together."
"Interest, Yoh doesn't care about me."
"You think?" Her red lips curled into a grin, "I'd like to think that way to but, others see it differently. Enough chit chat, I came in here to tell you about what's going to happen to you. Since I'm going to kill you I figured I would at least give you the reason why."
"What! K… k… kill me! Why?"
"Stupid girl, that's what I am trying to tell you. Now like I was saying before I was rudely interrupted. You are in my way of Yoh, that's why you are going to die." She said it as if she was talking about the weather.
"Oh." I look down at my lap, no room for arguments it seems.
"Goodbye Haruna," She got up and waved to me, "Oh I forgot, the only reason you are still alive is to get Yoh here." She laughed, "I hope you didn't think there was any chance of me letting you live. There's no way I would leave my Yoh to you!" She stormed towards the steel door in the corner pulled it open then slammed it shut, leaving me to think of my fast approaching death.
Lion
I blocked a hastily thrown punch and pulled the guy into a kidney kick. He fell to the ground and joined the other moaning guys we had already taken care of.
We all laughed and looked at each other truphantly.
"I haven't been in a fight like that in a long time." Haruna's father said before getting hit on the back of the head with a brick.
"Shit." I turned to face my attacker but soon joined her father in unconsciousness
"Hello Yoh." A familiar voice said through the darkness.
"Who, what do you want?" I coughed and blood came out.
"Oh, sweet, sweet Yoh, you have always known what I want." Then the darkness suddenly turned into a blinding light.
"Fuck." I yelled and shielded my eyes from the light. Then slowly a feminine figure came into view.
"Hello Yoh."
"Mom?"
"Yes, Yoh come here." She stretched out her arms and he folded himself into them.
"Why are you here? You shouldn't be in this dangerous place." Her red boa scratched his face. "Why are you wearing a boa?"
"Yoh, I'm sorry to have to tell you this. It was all your step-father's doing. He took Haruna with the intention of getting back at her father, the ex-cop who got him that year in prison. That man dragged me here with him; I have no idea why though."
"Come on mom let's get out of here." I look around the room and it appears to be a small broom closet. The door is entirely wood, so maybe… I slam my steel toed boots against the door, once, twice, three times and the door splinters. I look back at my mother and smile, "That was easy."
"Nicely done Yoh," She smiles appraisingly at me, and I return the smile.
I push my hand through the wood and unlock the handle from the outside.
"Do you have any idea where Haruna is?"
"I was kept in a room with her, follow me."
She had been kept in a room with a steel door and I had no trouble with the two feeble guards who stood in front of it, who just so happened to have the key to the door in their coat pockets. "This is way too easy." I said to my mother as I opened the door.
"Yes, Yoh, it was, wasn't it." Said the bastard that stood in the center of the room with a knife poised over Haurna's slim throat, her eyes were open but appeared to be drugged.
"Bastard," I mumbled, while my head brimmed with ideas of a means of rescue.
He laughed, "Yoh, Yoh, Yoh, what an innocent boy you are." He put the knife to her skin. "I want nothing of you, or her, just the satisfaction of that man's sad face." Blood started to roll down her pale skin.
I looked around the room for anything, and then remembered the weapon that I always had on my person. Something that I had trained with so very often when I was locked in my room, avoided the homework piles, the sound of this man's voice, I threw my knife, at the small dart board in the corner of my room.
"The poor girl paying for her father's deeds, do you remember the bear that fell from her mother's hands? That bear had been given to her to represent her father when he was on duty. She felt safer with it, but sadly it was the death of her. It had dangerous tapes in it that had evidence against me. Too little to convict but enough for him to suspect me, he was a smart man but not smart enough. Sorry I didn't tell you why you had to get the bear to begin with but anyways back to the girl maybe I should just sell her on the market instead, no reason to let this face go to waste." He began to laugh; giving me my opening I pulled the knife out of the compartment in my boots, fast enough to avoid being seen by the man, and then expertly flung the knife at the fat man's throat. It hit its mark and stuck as both he and girl in his arms fell to the floor.
"AHHHHHHHH!" My mother yelled flinging herself not on her dead husband but on Haruna.
"Mom?"
She laughed and grabbed the knife out of the dead man's neck, "I'm not your mother."
"What?"
She stood and circled the unmoving drugged Haruna,
Move towards Haruna, help her up.
Voice back again? I did as it said but was pushed away by my mother.
"I killed your mother Yoh, I remember, the day I first saw you. Bloody and tiny, but instantly I was drawn to you as I was to the other boy."
"Mom… what are you saying, and let me help Haruna up."
"NO! Yoh you are to be with me, not this girl! I honed you, built you to be the man you are, tough, strong, handsome, smart, kind. Everything a woman wants everything I want."
"What."
It's true, sorry for not telling you sooner son; I was under her influence as well. She tricked me into believing she was your mother. She even changed her face.
"What the hell! SHUT UP!" My head spun and clouded.
She used your Step-dad as a cover up. And me, with my smarts and my skills in technology, she made me implant this chip to control you, tame you.
"That's right," She said as if he had spoke it out loud, "I made you a man, and I couldn't let you become weak and spoiled like the other boy did. So I killed your friend, mother, married that gang member, and persuaded him to induct you into the gang. Leaving no chance at weakness, then this girl showed up and threatened everything. So I guess I will just have to get rid of her, unless…" She came closer to me and trailed her manicured nail across my chin. "… You come willingly with me."
WHAT THE HELL! I stood still, my heart fell and the world spun.
Haruna showed the first signs of wakefulness.
"No." Haruna whispered then blinked and began to push herself up. "No!" she said with more force.
"This can't be, she's too heavily drugged," said that woman.
"No!" She yelled again.
I pulled her into my arms and put myself between the mad woman and her.
"You heard the woman," I say to my ex-mother, "No."
I buried my face in Haruna's hair as her father's voice sounded behind me.
"You're under arrest." He said.
"No! If I can't have him no one can!" The crazed woman yelled and Haruna pushed me to the ground.
I rolled over and saw that Haruna had just taken a blow from that woman for me, with that stained knife. Haruna's blood mixed with the blood of that man's.
Lion and mouse
