Me:...This is sort of it guys. We are *sniff* nearing the end of this story!
Aki: What about the fillers?
Logan: Yeah, you did say that there were going to be a few of them, right?
Me: I meant that were relevant to the actual plot. This chapter...is rather short now.
Aki: Huh?
Logan: But you HATE short chapters!
Me: Well, yeah. But...I want people to like me for one last chapter...
Aki: Why, are they going to hate you-
Logan: They are probably going to hate you in this one as well, you know.
Me: DON'T REMIND ME! *Wails*
Aki: Umm ?_? Bebe does not own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's...but does own Carrie, Rina, Skyla and the respective plot. Oh, and Bebe needs ideas for the title's sequel!
Logan:...Bebe is such a freak.
Me: Oh yeah, does anyone else hate the new layout for the text on fanfiction? It's...just weird! It's all squashed up and gives me a headache! But I won't stop writing, if you guys won't stop reading and reviewing!
*~Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's: A Momental Goodbye~*
Chapter 26:
Final Glance - New Heartbeat.
-00-
"Hmm, that is very strange ideed.. No resistance from the infamous Crow Hogan? Now there is a rare and unusual surprise, but then again, it is alright. Then, that's good. Very good infact." Kouta checklisted in his mind.
"Not like I can help it, a gun is pointed at my bloody head you idiot..." Crow whispered among himself. Kouta did not seem to have heard at all, something Crow was pretty revlieved about.
"Now then, keep walking with your hands up, and we won't have your little...girlfriend hurt." Kouta instructed, a twisted smirk plastered all over his face. It was as clear as day to Crow that the middle-aged man was very close to loosing the plot and his mind.
"Don't you dare hurt Ruka, you concieted bastard, or..." Crow began to threaten, his eyes darkening with every waking second that ticked on the imaginary clock that loomed up above their heads.
"I do not remember saying anything about Ruka Sagara...now that you mention it..."
"Don't you DARE! Or I'll...I'll..."
"Or you'll do what?" You'll hurt me? Try to kill me? Even if you did try to, I have my back up right here, remember?" Kouta chuckled as Crow's reaction was given fast- a painful grinding of the teeth.
"Dammit..."
"Now, let's get walking, shall we?" Kouta then led Carrie and Crow down a back-alley, where the three of them would not be seen by public security or anything along those lines. Crow then had a thought- where were the three of them actually going?
Where were they even headed?
"So, Kouta. Where are we actually going?" Crow asked, out of sheer boredom. Seriously, this was the worst kiddnapping event he had ever actually been involved with.
"That's for me to know, and for Carrie to tell you." Carrie, as if on immediate and direct que, walked beside Crow, another fiendish smile - if you could truly call it a 'smile', - and began to explain.
"We are going to...how you say...'home sweet nest?'"
"..."
"Seriously, how old are you, like, five years old?" She mocked, but for some reason, Crow could not bring himself to get mad at her. After hearing what she had gone through as a child, he could not help but feel pure sympathy for the nineteen year old girl. Insetad, he just looked at the ground, even though it was too dark to see a thing.
"My and Ruka's apartment? Why the heck would you guys head there? Wouldn't it get you...I don't know, caught?" Crow muttered under his breath, as the brown haired girl's breathing hitched yet again, even faster this time than before the last.
"Because, Mr. Hogan. That is the last place they would expect us to come with a hostage, more or less you." Crow raised his eyebrow at his choice of words.
"But, that still doesn't explain a lot, I mean, what about-" Crow was cut off almost instantly by the middle aged maniac, yet again.
"And besides...isn't your other girlfriend on that police squad of idiotic people aswell? She would no way allow you to get into any more danger. More than your already in, that is."
'...They KNOW about Rina? SHIT!' Crow thought to himself in dire desparation. What if she did come looking for him? Then again, that night...
No. He couldn't think about that now.
No way.
Not with Ruka's life on the line. Romance wasn't worth the cost of Ruka's life.
He would trade his life for Ruka's anyday - but he would not admit that outloud any time to her soon.
"Me and Rina aren't together. And besides. What the hell would you even know about love in the first place-" Crow was then suddenly cut off, as they approached an all too familiar building, Crow's apartment building to be exact.
As they went up the stairs, Carrie said an obvious statement.
"We're hear, Father." All Carrie recieved was a slap across the face.
"I am sorry, I meant to say, Sir. Please forgive my behaviour."
"Better, Carrie. Better." The ginger haired man just grinded his teeth, as they forced Crow to unlock the door.
"Bastard..."
'Ruka...if you can sense my mark...do not come to me...please!'
-3R'D PERSON POV-
"So, Rua. What are you going to do now?" Ruka asked, in concern for her brother. Rua shrugged, and as a reponse, Patty had a dead serious look on her face when he said that.
"You are going to get clean of that crap, that's what your going to do." Patty ordered, as Rua nodded. He still wouldn't be off of the side affects of the...intoxicants for a while, but he would get better in due time.
In due time.
All Rua needed, was good health support, emotional and family support and a reason to keep living - which he had found in both Patty, Skyla and Ruka alike.
"Yes Mam." Rua immediatly obeyed, much to the amusement of Ruka when her best friend got highly embarrassed.
"Rua, if I wasn't holding your damned child right now, I would probably punch you in the face and let you get tentecle raped by Aki, Atlas Punched by you know who, and let Yusei finish you off with his planetary kickboxing!" Rua, although still shaking, just put a hand on her shoulder, which surprised Patty greatly.
"That's the thing - your her Mother as well."
"Eh?"
"Well, you certanily act like a Mother, Skyla's mother anyway."
"Rua..." Patty's cheeks began to glow a healthy red colour at Rua's comment slash compliment.
"Ha, is the n-noodle g-girl getting embarrassed?" Patty then really DID hit Rua around the head, but made sure that Skyla, whom was just asleep throughout the whole event, was tightly in her grasp.
"Don't. Call. Me. That. Again. You. Conceited. Bastard." She said in short phrases, as Rua nodded.
"O-Okay...I-I g-get it..." The teal haired male then gulped, to symbolize...that he was mosty utterly and definetly...
Terrified.
"Good boy."
Suddenly, out of the blue, Ruka's signer claw mark began to painfully throb as it illuminated with a crimson light. SHe clutched her arm, gasping from the pain it was emitting.
"Gah!" Rua went to her aid, as Ruka was still breathing heavily from the pain.
"Wh-what's wrong, Ruka!" Rua stuttered, in grave concern for his teal haired twin sister. Ruka gave off a weak smile, but was unsure why her Signer Claw Mark was acting in such a strange manner.
"I...don't know!"
"Is there anything we can do?"
"I-" Ruka was then cut off by another contraction of hurt in her arm.
But, she then felt another signer's presence within her pain waves.
'...Is that...Crow's voice?'
"Patty...Rua...I need to go..." Ruka mused quietly, as Rua looked at her oddly.
"W-What? W-why?" Rua asked, confused about the whole event that was occuring. However, it was then her blonde haired friend whom intervened, giving off a determined look.
"Go, Ru-Chan. Go after him, and do whatever you need to do." Patty instructed, as Ruka nodded.
"I will. Thank-you, Patty." Ruka gave her thanks, and then ran off, outside of the building and around the corner, running as fast as her legs would carry her.
"Good luck, Ru-Chan!" Patty called after her best friend. Rua raised a teal eyebrow.
"Umm...w-what was al-all that about?" Rua asked. Patty gave off a smile, and looked to the sky.
"She's chasing something that belongs to her, and only her."
"And she won't stop running until that 'something', is safe in her arms again.
"Oh...is it waffles?"
"YOU JERK!"
"O-ouch! Patty, what was THAT for!"
-00-Ruka's POV-00-
A mop of teal hair bobbed up and down, a hand tightly clutching a throbbing crimson light in the shape of a claw. Female golden irises burned with an igniting firey desire- a desire to save a loved one from harm.
She was also grasping her heart tightly, as the thought of a certain ginger haired male in danger, seemingly brough invisible droplets of colourless liquid to her orbs.
'Crow...is it you that always saved me...' She began to think to herself, about all of the times that Crow had been of service to her, wheather as an older brother figure, or mearly a friend,
'You were always there...when the times with Rua were hard to bare, and tough to go through!' Remembering the hard times she had gone through these past few months, past few years, in her whole life time - Crow was the friend that stuck out the most. That wasn't including Rua, he was her hero after all.
'Even though...you are in love with another...' Memories flashed at one of the most painful nights in her life - Rina kissing Crow smack on the lips, which made her whole heart bleed emotionally, and what felt like, physically as well.
'I...still want to be your friend! I want to be somebody important to you!'
'I want to be involved in your life! And those are the things that I most desire, right here, right now!'
'Because, Crow Hogan!'
She was almost at her and Crow's apartment door, where she clutched her heart tightly, mentally preparing herself for what may come her way in just a few slow moments.
'Because...I am in love with you! Crow!' Ruka then burst open the door, and what she saw...was surprising to say the least, especially in her state of mind.
"Crow!" Ruka chorused, and gasped at the rooms contents. Crow was stood, a few meters away from two familiar figures, one in which was holding a silver blood bank in their hands embrace, and another, more female one, standing right by their side, looking either excited...or...nervous? That shocked Ruka to the very core of her existence.
"Ruka!" Crow tried to walk over there, however stopped dead when a certain 'clunk' was heard, aiming right at him.
"Stay there, Mr. Hogan." Crow sneered at Kouta, but took one safety step back - unsure what was actually safe anymore.
"Miss. Sagara, so glad you could join us. Carrie, won't you be a dear, and 'welcome' in our guest properly?" Kouta smirked, as Carrie obeyed him. She then wrapped her arms around Ruka's neck, holding the gun to her mouth and partially strangling her.
"G...gh..." Ruka struggled for breath, as Crow held his fist up, seemingly in a threatening manner.
"Let her go!" Crow insisited, but regretful that, if he tried to go to her aid, he would be shot dead in a manner of seconds. Kouta then looked at the teal haired girl, and waved his hands.
"Okay Carrie, I think our new guest has had enough of the royal treatment for now. I think you can release her now." Carrie did as instructed, and threw Ruka out from her grasp, Ruka crashing into a metal fan, but getting up gradually.
"Ruka! Are you okay?" Crow asked, as Ruka gave a weak smile.
"Yeah..." But as she said that, a trickle of blood came down her cheek, as a scar-type-injury could be seen.
"Your bleeding!"
"This is nothing." Ruka wiped the blood from her face, only for it to start up again, but she did not really care.
"So, Ruka-Chan, why are you even here in the first place?" Carrie began, her face devoid of any emotion yet again.
"Huh?"
"I mean...didn't this very man make your heart bleed?" Ruka's eyes widened immensley at the statement, and hid her eyes from Crow's view, whom was now very confused himself.
Did Ruka get stabbed?
"Such a useless man...never considering others feelings..."
"No..."
"And never being of any worth...to anybody at all...
"Shut..."
"And a weakling..."
"SHUT UP!" Ruka wailed, tears in her eyes.
"He didn't...make my heart bleed. And...HE'S STRONGER THAN ANYBODY ELSE I KNOW!" She confessed, making Crow's metallic orbs widen from the confession.
"Ruka..."
"Enough about me. Carrie..."
"Yeah? What?"
"I...know...what you went through..." Carrie took a step back in suprise.
"H-how? How could you possibly know!" Carrie reacted, tears forming in the crevices of her eyes. Ruka took a small step forward.
"Daddy...it's dark!" Ruka mimicked, but not in a nasty way. Carrie knelt to the ground, her hands over her ears.
"Kranos...HE BETRAYED ME-"
"No! He cares for you!" Ruka shouted back, defending the green eyed teenaged.
"Carrie...it's okay now..." The distressed nineteen year old looked up at Ruka, whom outstretched a hand to Carrie.
"..."
"Enough, Carrie! If you go over there, we won't get the money!" Kouta bellowed, as the teal haired girl with the outstretched arm looked at him in pure confusion.
"Money?" She asked, as Kouta nodded, a crazed look in his eyes.
"That's right. We will kill all of you, you...signers...and anybody else that knew anything about this! Then...we will use that child that Carrie gave birth to in the dark place one year ago...and use your parents money to fund out intoxicant sales!" Ruka frowned in distaste for the man - Carrie never got to hold her child, or even see it in that dark place, did she?
"Then if that is your true goal, it's all been a lie!" Ruka shouted, Crow suprised at her sudden outburst.
"Care to explain?" Kouta mocked.
"Out parents don't have anything to do with us anymore, Kouta! I fund my own life! They disowned us for leading our own life!" Kouta was gobsmacked at this revealation - maybe he should have done his research.
"No...your lying!" Kouta insisted.
"No." Kouta, then just came with a maniacal laugh.
"Well, if I cannot have your money, I can still take your boyfriends life!" Kouta aimed the gun at Crow...
...
...
...
...
...
"CROW!"
...
...
...
...
Ruka stopped dead still. Crow, whom had shieled his eyes, stared at her with absolute terror.
Ruka...
Had been shot.
She collapsed in his arms.
"RUKA!"
Me: Wow. BIG cliff hanger.
Aki:...You had Ruka SHOT!
Logan: People are going to be hating you now.
Me: Well, this chapter isn't quite done yet. Keep reading guys!
"Ruka!" Ruka collapsed in Crow's arms, her eyes closed. Blood poured from an unknown source, and Crow knew that is he did not get her out of here, fast, she probably would not make it in time.
"And now, part two-" Kouta began, but was stopped by...Carrie, whom latched onto his back, in an effort to stop the gun from firing once again at it's primary targets.
"Stop it Dad! Just STOP!" Carrie pleaded, as she tried to knock the gun from his grasp.
"Get. The. Hell. Off. Of. Me. You. Little. Piece. Of. Shit." Kouta instructed, but Carrie refused.
"NO! STOP!"
"I said, get off of me, listen to me you-"
"No, YOU listen! Daddy, please stop! I...don't like fighting anymore! I want Mum!" Carrie wailed, as Kouta smirked.
"Mum, isn't here. You never knew, did you? I killed her." Carrie's eyes widened.
"BASTARD!" She repeatedly punched his head, causing small pinpoints of blood to come up, but he still struggled against her, to get her off of him none the less.
"Stop-gah!" He then shook her off, as she went crashing into a nearby sofa, injuring herself. And as Kouta was about to aim the gun at her...
"Don't move!" A familair mop of violet tresses stood at the door way, a gun in hand.
"If you shoot, I'll shoot first!" Kouta glared at the police officer, and Crow took his chance. He knocked the gun out of Kouta's grip, but still kept Ruka at close contact with him.
"Rina?" He was startled. However, Rina ignored Crow, and looked at Carrie, whom was on the floor, shaking like an innoccent child would if they were afraid of the dark.
"Carrie. Come over here with me, you'll be safe." Carrie looked up, a childhood glimmer in her eyes igniting once again.
"Huh?"
"It's alright, come over here." Carrie quickly scarpered over there, crawling.
"Rina? How-"
"I was informed by a guy called...Crabby?" Carrie's eyes widened, but chose to say quiet.
"Get Ruka out of here. Now." Rina instructed, as he watched Crow get Ruka onto his back. She knew...
"...Umm...Crow..." Carrie began.
"What?"
"...Sorry..."
"Okay, now I need to go. Rina...thanks." Rina nodded, as she placed handcuffs tightly around Kouta's arms and another pair to a pillar, so that he would no longer be a threat to them.
Meanwhile, with Ruka on Crow's back, he began to feel her blood pour out.
'Dammit Ruka...you ain't dying on me!'
'YOU BETTER FUCKING HOLD ON!'
Me: Wow. Cliffhanger this time.
Aki: Next chapter now up?
Logan: Yeah. REVIEW!...Please?
Me: That's my new review request :) *Sparkles*
Aki: *Throws up* Too many sparkles...
LOgan: Shut it. Your dating Fudo. He has sparkels to share.
Aki:...
Logan: Exactly.
Me: *Sigh* You guys are like siblings...