(*is waiting for the angry complaints about what I'm doing to these poor poor characters. Nobody is safe from my grasp of hurt angst or near death situations.)

Chapter 11 Kidnapped and Ransom part 2

Later after receiving the text from Schmidt, the group minus Teru and Tiara head over to the park in Tristan's station wagon. Kou Yugi and Jaden were slightly apprehensive, mostly from not knowing who they were dealing with. Joey and Tristan had been in enough fights to cover them.

They eventually get to the park, the place was empty not excluding the red head in a black cartigan and beige pants. His shirt underneath stood out to be a polo shirt which was hot pink.

"Hey Yugi-kuuun! Oh! Kou-kouhai, how are you? I see you brought some friends. What's your name fellas?" Alister flirted playfully, he was a cocky little ass who liked to tease what he thinks are "beautiful people."

It didn't have to be age related he just had to think they were the most gorgeous thing alive. Ironically it ranged from old people to even kids younger than him. He had no preference.

"how ya doin'? My names Joey, this is Tristan. We're Yugi's old classmates and best friends from Domino city." The words Joey said stung. He hated not being able to hang with his buddy but he was glad he was making some.

Jaden waved his hand at the red head smiling, his heavy fireworks bag hoisted on his back. "Hi I'm Jaden Yuki. Nice to meet ya!" Alister nodded at the three of them winking slightly before turning to his bud Yugi.

"So I got the info, some guy who owes me knows who the car belongs to. He hacks the cameras around the park and got a license plate." He explains pulling out his laptop. "The guy belongs to the Red Jackel gang. It's this group of high schoolers that run amok in neighbor hoods like this. Normally they're pretty not so threatening unless provoked but soon they started getting into the drug smuggling shit for hard cash. Those cars they're driving, people their age couldn't even look at something like that." He showed them the laptop with images of a few of the important members.

"Sago Sikouya the leader of the group." He clicked on one image of a male with black hair his hair half shaven with most of his hair was flowing to one side of his face with a red slash of color in it.

"His second in command was driving the car and his name is Asagi Motokko. This is him." This male had a pompadour that was thick and magenta in color with a beauty mark above his eyebrow.

"So these guys were behind the kidnapping? They're sure sketchy enough to be drug smugglers." Joey leaned slightly his hand going to his waist while one rubbed the back of his head.

"Yes they are, so my buddy believes one of the grunts that are apart of the gang took her in the same car that nearly hit Jaden earlier yesterday." Alister pulled up a video cam feed. "This is last night."

On his computer was the feed of Yashiro walking as the black car pulls ahead and parks before her. It was of her getting taken. Kou went ridged against Yugi his hands balled into fists. "We were just down the street..." His eyes glared down at the ground as Tristan gave his shoulder a hard rub for support as the male in question drops his fists.

Alister flipped his hair slightly. "Don't worry so much. Cause tonight we're getting her back." Before he could continue Jaden who got the note back from Tristan stuffed the ransom letter in the redheads hand. He looks at it puzzled before nodding his head in understanding as he reads it.

"Ah the warehouse on 5th. We should get going that's nearly 40 minutes from here." The group headed to the car, Jaden Yugi Kou and Schmidt pile in the backseat as Joey and Tristan get in, the brunette pulling away from the curb and took the directions that Schmidt gave from the backseat.

It took a bit longer than it should've to get there due to traffic. It was in a more rundown area. Across the street from the warehouse was a loud and busy auto body shop and on either side of the warehouse were a bar and a gym. The gym was shutting down and the bar was just opening.

Tristan parked the car across the street and a little ways down from where the warehouse sat. It was a giant brick complex with a fire escape and a glass skylight. The front entrance was one giant steel door that slide away on wheels and was locked with a chain to a metal bar inbedded in cement.

"Alright you three are going up the fire escape. Yashiro has to be somewhere inside but since this is one of those storage warehouses it might mostly be empty space. Judging by the fact the chain isn't locked to the metal bar means their inside. So Joey Tristan and I-" Joey interrupted Schmidt's instructions.

"Why are you going with us?" Alister shot a look at the blonde. "Because just cause I'm not as tall as you giants doesn't mean I'm not familiar with kicking someone's ass. Now let's go. You three get going." He shooed the three shorter males out of the car.

Kou opened the door and stepped out as the other two got out next to him, shutting the door as they ran around the side of the building where the fire escape was. They ducked out of the way of the windows so nobody could see them.

Jaden was ahead of the two as he started climbing up the metal stairs, Kou and Yugi not far behind as Yugi watched his three friends emerge from the car and jog across the street in their direction.

The three males push open the nearly rotted fire escape door luckily the door caved effortlessly and without noise as they walked on the metal catwalk that wrapped around the upper part of the building with a ladder that was pulled up and out of any reach of the gang members.

Yugi leaned over the railing and saw 10 guys either shooting off cans with a bee bee gun, some of the guys had real guns and even knifes. They were various heights hair color and styles. But they could spot the boss easily. Then the banging on the steel door happened.

"What the fuck?" The door gets pulled open. "What you shitheads want?" The grunt was spewing venom as he cursed.

Joey gave the bleach blonde male in front of him a hard glare. "You have my friend now open up before my foot kisses that filthy mouth if yours." Joey pushed the male out of the door way so hard the male fell on his ass as the three walk in, rage just seeped from them. The leader Sago gritted his teeth glaring at the three.

"Your not the ones I gave the ransom note to!" The right hand man cried out as he got closer to the three fist clenched. Tristan glared. "You think a 13 year old was gonna afford to pay you bozos off!? Screw that! We've come to kick your ass! Now where's Yashiro Nene?"

During this whole thing the ruby eyed girl had looked on speechless. She was hoping and praying that it was someone would notice her hanging half way up to the ceiling and save her. When she saw the door open and saw the three males walk in she got hopefully. She bit her lip. 'Please let it be real... Please..'

Up on the rafters Jaden went to work undoing his bag while Kou was looking around for Yashiro before catching the sight of the cream haired girl hanging from a hook tied up.

The hook was possibly 5 feet from the rafters and nearly 15 from the floor. Kou nudged Yugioh and pointed her out as they heard a clicking noise as the turned to watch Jaden light the first stick of firecrackers.

"Jaden! Are you crazy!?" Kou laughed as Jaden with a stupid smirk on his face threw the firework as it started going off high above the gangsters heads, freaking them out.

They scream scrambling around the room as Joey Alister and Tristan took over and started kneeing, slamming heads, even gut punching the assholes. Jaden and Kou started laughing as the two started setting off more of the firecrackers.

Until someone noticed from down below. "Hey it's that brat with the bike! Get him!" Jaden yelped. Yugi sprang into action as he ran towards the chain hanging just two feet over the railing that held Yashiro. "Yashiro-San!"

Yugi cried making the ruby eyed girl look up a smile breaking on her face. "Muto-kun! Ah Kou-Kun, Yuki-kun!" She cried out in joy as the Yugi and Kou hold onto Jaden as he stepped onto the railing to grab the chain.

"Hang on Nene!" The brunette cried out as the fighting below them got more heavy. Some of the guys trying to jump Alister from behind who ducked when Tristan swung his foot at the back of their heads. Joey jumped over one guy slamming his foot into one guys crotch in the process.

"Forget these shits! I want that boy in the grey blazer!" Sago threw his jacket off in frustration as his right hand guy Asagi ran for the ladder to get to the fire escape.

"Jaden hurry!" Kou cried out as he saw the slightly shorter male struggling to grab the ring of the ladder.

Jaden stretched out his hand one last time grabbing the chain just before his foot slip and his ass hit the rail, Kou grabbing the younger boy from behind to keep him from falling. Yugi took the chain from him and started pulling as Jaden got to his feet along with Kou, both grabbing the chain as they pull together.

"Jaden go set off the rocket firework! Aim for Asagi!" Jaden nodded scooping his bag off the metal grate as he pulled a 12 inch rocket firework out of his bag and aimed it in the direction of the male. Joey Tristan and Alister nearly downed everyone, bloodied up and injured in places, but still energized enough to fight back.

"Get ready for a surprise!" Jaden grinned as he lit the fuse on the rocket as it launched from the platform he had it on as it zoomed for Asagi's head.

"AHHHH!!!!" The male screamed in horror before ducking, sadly it didn't stop the assault of the rocket as it flew this way and that inside the storage room, the three teens having to duck and dive before it hit them. Over the roar of the rocket Kou could hear sirens blaring outside with red and blue lights flashing outside the fire escape door.

"Hurry guys!" Kou called down to their friends as they ran towards the ladder which got knocked down by the rocket as the taller teens took over getting Yashiro pulled up.

She was a crying mess as she saw her friends. "Minna-San!" Joey and Tristan yanked the last of the chain with the hook end and unhooked the ropes from the hook. "You're safe now." Tristan got the ruby eyed girl untied.

Down below the police broke in to the warehouse, the gang members getting tackled or even tazed. Jaden's fireworks rocket finally dropped out of the air and onto Asagi who fell on the ground unconscious. The police saw the kids up on the rafters. "Hey! Get down here!" The teen's gasped.

"T-there's no trouble officer!" Jaden called out stammering as some of the men in uniform came up and escorted them off the high rise catwalk. One of the bigger cops with dark brown hair tan complexion with green eyes looked them over. "What are you teens doing here?"

Tristan interjected, confusion on his face. "Who called you guys??" The male jabbed his thumb towards next door where they could see people watching from the dense line.

"I won't ask again. What were you doing here?" Before any of the males could get the nerve to explain, Yashiro now free of her bonds look at the policeman kindly but fierce. "Sir, they were here to save me..!" Another officer had come to see the commotion and noticed the girl.

"Creme colored hair... Sir, this girl was abducted just yesterday night!" The female officer with jet black hair looked at the girl. The make officer looked surprised. "Your Yashiro Nene?" The ruby eyes girl nods.

The realization hit the male officers. "You guys... your her friends?" The group of boys nodded. "Do you know how dangerous it was to go up against this gang? What if you had been shot?" Yugi looked him straight in the eye hot determination on his face.

"Sir I would've done it anyway. It was my idea, I got my friends together to save her because me and my cousin felt responsible. We were there with her, if we had walked her home, none of this would've happened." Kou touched his shoulder as did Jaden. Yashiro sent Yugi a grateful smile.

"Alright since nothing happened. Go on and get going. Tho I think you three need to see a doctor." He gestured to the three taller bloodied men behind the group who just smiled.

The cops had gotten most of the members that were inside the warehouse, as the teen's retired to Tristan's car. It wasn't long that they got close to Yashiro's house when the girls head fell against Yugi.

"Yashiro-San...?" Her body slumped as he touched her head and gasped in shock. "Yashiro-San!? Tristan! Get to a hospital! Yashiro's out cold!" Her forehead was hot and she was sweating bad.

Yugi had just noticed that her dress was in tatters and her shoes were gone. He did see that she still had her phone which he took out and pocketed. The car swerved as Tristan drove to a hospital, Alister calling from the back seat which way to go.

As the car pulled up Jaden and Yugi carried the girl around their necks carrying her with their arms under her legs and behind her back. "Help! Someone! She's very sick!"

Xxx

A few hours and some phone calls later, Mrs Yashiro was there waiting tears in her eyes. She had cried and hugged all of the guys tightly chanting Thank you. Because it was almost 8 p.m Jaden's mom had called asking where he was.

He could barely stand the nerves and exhaustion from all the worry got him tired on his feet. Joey and Tristan took him and Alister home for the night. The two had just arrived back when Mrs. Yashiro got the news about her daughter.

She walked over to the 4 boys a smile on her face. "She was sick from stress. She must've been so scared that she cried herself sick. They said she can come home Tuesday they just need to make sure her fever breaks before she can leave the hospital and also to make sure she didn't get injured."

The four boys sighed in relieve. They were all smiles of relief. "If it wasn't for you guys, she could've been really hurt. Thank you so much for being her friends and saving her." The tearful woman rubbed her eyes sniffling.

Joey smiled at Yashiro's mom. "It's alright, ma'am. Since it's late we're gonna get back. You take care of yourself and make sure not to drive until you stop crying." She nodded as she waved at the 4 of them as they exited the hospital.

The drive was long and exhausting as Joey and Tristan got Kou and Yugi back to Kou's house.

Teru got the call from his brother about what happened and waited up for them. "Hey guys come in." At this point both Yugi and Kou had passed out so the two teens put the two to bed. Teru decided to order in for the 3 of them, Tiara having passed out waiting for the guys to return from their rescue mission.

"So everything went well. What a relieve. And I'm glad those bastards got arrested. Now I won't have to deal with a glaring ghost when I get to school..." Joey and Tristan look at each other. The two wondered if the ghost he was referring to was the same one Yugi said he had met.

"So it's true. You, kou and Tiara can see ghosts..?" Joey brought up the elephant in the room.

Teru looking at Yugi's two best friends with a smile. "Yes it's exactly that. Yugi's mom was my aunt. Unfortunately, According to Kou on the words of the 7th wonder, Yugi's eyes have been cursed. He can only see Apparitions as they once were when they were alive. It keeps him safe to an extent. Sadly some ghost's want to keep their old lives a secret or they want to forget." The two teens nodded.

"As long as you can keep him out of trouble and keep him safe. We trust you Teru." Those words made the tall blonde's teal blue eyes gleam with joy.

"Don't be strangers alright? Just cause Yugi's staying here doesn't mean you and the others can't drop by and visit. Besides I think you left quiet the impression on Kou and Yuki-San." Teru chuckles as the two males turned red with embarrassment. It seemed like Kou and Jaden were they're fans now after everything they've done.

"You can count on us coming around more. Right now we need to get back so we can sleep hhbefore school tomorrow. Tell them we're sorry for now saying bye." Teru nods as the 3 of them ate and talked before Joey and Tristan took off.

Xxx

Just a block from the warehouse, the leader of the gang Sago had escaped the police, sadly K he was only one of the gang to escape as he made his way back to their real hide out which was a run down gas station they remodeled the inside to look less tacky.

He took a deep breath sinking down into the futon. "Damnit all... I'm going to kill those brats, one way or another... they're dead.." He pants exhaustedly passing out from the pain his body had experienced from the teen's asskicking.

(here's the next chapter took a bit of time for fbis one cause I had to make sure the whole kidnapping scene played out right)