Chapter 13 Lost

It was cold. Left to only huddled in the dark as tears stained on her face drying the mascara that she had applied just hours earlier has been crusted around her eyes.. There was no effort left in Atsuko to cry out to her captor to let her go. Her voice fell on deaf ears. His voice was familiar but harsh and old, yet she didn't know who he was. In the pitch blackness of her cell she couldn't see her hand in front of her face. She reached to touch her swollen eyes knowing that they were a bright red just from over the years staring at her reflection after every tear that spilled. In her protective corner she knew no one could sneak up on her unless it wasn't actually a corner.

She remembered speaking with her son. Slightly buzzed from that afternoons fourth beer. An import from America. She closed her eyes tight trying to think of something else but she couldn't. She wanted a beer. Something to dull the sense of reality that was quickly seeping in.

When Yusuke turned around to leave lights flashed behind her eyes. She fell to the floor, opening her mouth to call to her son when a hand had reached out from behind her. She fell hitting her head and woke up to this. At first she thought she had gone blind until the door opened a bit and a tray came flying through, crashing into her thigh.

"Wait," She called but the door slammed. Its metal frame slammed from the force in which it was closed. She heard many locks click shutting her inside. Then she was alone. She raced to the door to bang on it until she felt her hands begin to bruise.

Her crying had caused her a headache that was slightly dulling thus far. Sleep wanted to take her but she didn't give in. She worried about Yusuke. Did he know she was gone? Had he tried to come back to ask her about something, she knew she'd just shrug off with some lame attempt at sarcasm?

A sob racked her body once more leaving her slowly curling herself into a tight ball. Was this all that was going to become of her? Once a teenage parent now some old woman kidnapped when the closet person to her besides Yusuke were three cross dressing men who would notice her absence from their nightly visit to the Bam Party Room the nightly club celebrating all walks of life?

Atsuko wanted to scream wanted this anger that was replacing her sadness to just go away. Her one escape was not close to her.

Ah! What she wouldn't do for a beer.

Mizu was in the middle of stretching in the foyer of the Temple when the doors burst open. Yusuke stood their panting bent over, hands on his knees trying to catch his breath. Sweat beaded off his face as he came forward to her.

"Mom-" He panted grabbing her shoulders.

Mizu's heart began beating widely in her chest. She saw the frantic look on his face. She tried searching in his eyes for answers.

"Did you run all the way from your apartment?" Mizu asked walking Yusuke towards the bench.

Yusuke nodded to her question.

Mizu knew that he lived halfway across town. Though she knew all the training he had as a Spirit Detective that running around the world was an easy task for him. Something other then running had to have weighted heavily on his mind.

"Slow down and tell me what happened," Mizu replied taking his left hand.

Yusuke took several deep panicked breaths. All his time dealing with demons not once had he thought they'd come for her.

"Mom was taken, there was blood on the wall," Yusuke recalled and shut his eyes tightly willing the image of the words written in blood on the white walls. Was it Atsuko's? Yusuke bent over and punched the ground leaving a fist sized crater behind.

With the announcement that there was blood on the wall made her blood run cold.

"Was it Moms?" Mizu asked as Yusuke lifted his head to look at her.

He almost forgot they shared a mother. And now that he slowly excepted that Mizu was his older sister the more she looked like their mother. He shook his head sensing that it couldn't be their mothers blood. It was too fast to just draw blood and write that message on the wall. He didn't take the exact time to sense any energy from the blood. If it was human or not. Or just something that looked like blood to freak him out and it did a good job of scaring the crap out of him.

"Is there anyway we can go to your apartment to sense something, somehow contact whoever took Atsuko?" Mizu asked.

In the rush to get over here to tell someone he had completely forgotten to see if he could sense that someone was still there. Maybe they wanted him to come to them for his mother in the hopes of him getting killed in the process.

Yusuke stood up followed by Mizu. "You can't come." Yusuke stated.

With hands on her hips Mizu felt insulted. "Why not?"

Yusuke shook his head. "Because you aren't strong enough. You must stay here in case I don't come back and you must train with the others."

"I-" Mizu tried to argue him but was silenced with a glare.

"This must have been planned," Yusuke replied combing a frustrated hand through his hair.

Mizu watched as her younger brother walked out of the temple and down the stairs. She knew where he lived he thought of her as weak. She'd prove him wrong.

She looked down at her watch. She'd give him a five minute start towards the apartments. She'd be damned if she'd let him have the glory in saving their mother. Besides the heros always needed a sidekick. A smile crept up her face, Yusuke would be the perfect sidekick.

Chapter 13 up ya'lls I know its rather short but I just want to hook you guys in for more. There will be more.