Zero: Oh god its freezing in my room! Can't even type right. Sorry for the 'lateness' of this chapter. I was gonna update this yesterday, but what the heck, do it tomorrow. I was lazy, it was my spring break, so please don't hate me.

Chapter 14 Disappearance

He stretch his right arm as he gave a low grunt. It was a terrible day, something he couldn't bring himself to say it. He diverted his eyes away as she gave a striking pose to tease him with. Why did he agree to take them all on the beach. He was flushed as he already is, she only made it deepen enough to match the shade of her hair.

As he tried to block all the stances she shot him with, Kristiand closed his eyes instead to block her method of making fun of him/ tease him with her swim suit. Kushina had a completely light red swimsuit that she had bought. She had to blush as this was a public beach, and doing this to her boyfriend may have been the either humiliating or embarrassing way for her.

Even so her teasing couldn't get enough, she place a hand on her hip while pouting, "Come on Kristiand." She moved beside him as he wore only black swimming trunks. Lying down on the hot sand, she place her hand on his head, ruffled his hair and earning a good glare from him. "You aren't fun," she pinched his cheek. "But you are Kristiand anyway," she eyed the other two couple in the cold freezing waters.

"So?"

Kushina playfully push him on his shoulder and earned a small fake whine from him which made her giggle at his sudden change of behavior. "Ow!" he stood up and dashed at the nearest friends which was the rest of the group were, playing around the waters, splashing each other before getting interrupted by a certain leader.

He made a point in a direction where Kushina was standing. "She hit me," his eyes gushed out fake tears as he hid behind Mikoto, he was suddenly pulled under water as he fell backwards. Not hearing the splash at all, Kristiand looked below him as he held his breath. Something was pulling him below, away from the others at it sunk him deeper.

He whacked against it, earning a harder and faster pull as it pulled him deeper below the depths of the sea. 'It's so shallow, this is so not how deep it is,' he thought as he looked up. He barely registered the small swimming figures overhead before he constantly whacked it as hard as he can, even below waters his punches aren't getting to him.

His eyes blurred from lack of oxygen, 'no…can't…go…unconscious," he barely opened his eye lids as he open his mouth to let water take in his lungs, 'Good night.'

His body slowly drifted away from the sunlight, his lungs now covered in water, left not operating anymore. Surely enough, he's stuck down there.

Kushina happily splashed waves at her friends, feeling a small tight knot in her stomach. She looked around for any missing members before calling it a day. Feeling a small absence, she couldn't remember who else was with the group. "Guys let's go!" she shouted, forgetting a certain person. Each members of the group obliged with a nod as they crawled out of the cold waters.

Shivering slightly from the sudden chilly wind that blew across her skin. She sped off to her towel.

Back to her old clothing, a green mini skirt, red blouse, and her new black fingerless gloves that she forgotten who gave this to her, she jogged forward, a smile reach her lips as her violet orbs shined brightly, her break for the day had ended. She stood beside Sora and made a conversation with her. Still feeling the tight knot in her belly. She asked, "Are we missing someone?" Sora shook her head no, "I don't think so, last time I look everyone is here."

Kushina looked over her head to see at least 4 people and including Sora, so that makes five, plus including her is six. "Yeah…But I'm can't place a thought on it that we are missing a player," Kushina said, scratching her arm. "We aren't missing anyone," Sora reassured grabbing hold of her arms. "We are not missing anyone," she repeated.

Kushina sighed and looked forward as they walked off home.

"I think, maybe we are missing a player."

Max stopped his reading and close his book. He was in a pair of black jeans, a plain white sleeve shirt, and was happily reading his favorite author before feeling a sudden, recognizable feeling that rushed at him. "Kristiand," he whispered, squeezing his book in one hand while the other grasped the nearest hard object and gasp for air. Hearing the front door smashing open and his dear yelling for her life meant she felt it too.

"He can't be dead!"

He never heard her shout to the world. Nor he had seen her be more worried than fighting some R.U.B. {Reversal Universal Bots} She walked to him, "He couldn't be defeated! There is no way someone defeated him that easily!" she passed him, rambling on and on how he couldn't be killed by some machine, human, robot, and time-warps.

"Tara," Max said, his voice changed from happy to worried like her. "No one can defeat him. The only thing that can defeat him is if someone dragged him under water, overwhelm him with an army, take him by surprise, kill him in his sleep, drag him to space, bury him 1000 feet under soil, or just choke him," he blew some bangs off his face.

"Where was he last time before he went off radar?" Tara asked, pushing him to his machines and forced him to find out where he was alive before death occurred.

Max shifted to each image as he looked closely at each picture, "It shows nothing but a forest," he maneuvered his arm to the right. "This isn't right, all it shows is tree's, not a single life form that showed that his damn alive."

"Oh God," Tara cried, falling into the arms of Max as he wipe all her salty tears, he kissed her and reared back. "He will survive, remember, he was the only one who made us get together remember?" he watch her nod.

"Let's just go and find him."

Zero: Normal updating will happen on April 13, tomorrow. [Sigh} It's not I like making chapters, it's the 256 OC's birthdays yesterday, April 11, forgotten to do something about it.