Koushiro

Koushiro! Part 8

Now it's the Yamato fans' turn to gun for my head. Enjoy! This is the second last chapter. Also, once I finish the actual story, I might do bloopers. If you want me to, just say so in your review.

In Taichi's Den, Taichi was getting impatient and worried. He began pacing back and forth.

"Why is Yamato gone so long? They couldn't have gone far. Ah, but Yamato knows what to do. He'll bring Koushiro back to me." Taichi muttered to himself. Just then, Yamato, gasping for air, ran in through the door grabbing a terrified Koushiro.

"Ah! You have him Yamato! You have him!" Taichi shouted gleefully.

"TK! Bar the door! Set up a barricade! The police are after me!" Yamato ordered, grabbing a pistol from the mantelpiece.

"The police! Yamato, where's Sora?" Taichi said and began to panic.

"She gave us up to Gennai. She talked. But she won't talk again." Yamato said with almost a sob. Kari screamed and TK recoiled into a corner.

"You didn't! Yamato! And you led the police here?" Taichi said, enraged.

"It couldn't be helped." Yamato explained.

"Give me the boy. He's mine." Taichi said, grabbing for Koushiro.

"No! He's mine now! As long as I've got him, the police won't get me!" Yamato said. Pounding was heard at the door.

"Open up in there! Give up the murderer!" The police officer's voice ordered.

"The game is up." Taichi said, shrinking into the corner by the chimney.

"We'll be all right, I tell you. We've got the boy. Why do you all look at me that way?" Yamato asked.

"Poor Sora. You monster!" Kari sobbed.

" I never wanted no part of no murder." TK said, going over to comfort Kari.

"It's all over." Taichi sighed. The pounding on the door got louder as did the orders to open up.

"I'm ready for them." Yamato growled.

"My money! They mustn't take it away from me. My treasure. I must hide it somewhere. Hide it, then come back for it." Taichi said hysterically. He ran around gathering up all the boxes and bags full of money and jewels but spilled them open in haste.

"Stand back. We'll have to force the door down." The police officer's voice said.

"I won't be taken alive and neither will the boy!" Yamato yelled, holding the pistol to poor Koushiro's head. The door was finally broken down and the police officer and Gennai rushed in but stopped at the sight of Taichi.

"Keep back. Keep back I tell you. Or I'll kill the boy! Now you let me pass out of here, without interference, or I swear, the boy dies." Yamato threatened.

"Don't harm him. We'll do as you say." Gennai said.

"Take me with you Yamato. Don't leave me here." Taichi said, running towards Taichi. Yamato knocked Taichi aside and moved towards the door, still keeping the pistol to Koushiro's head.

"Murderer!" TK yelled. Yamato turned his head, startled and Koushiro ducked and knocked against Yamato, just as TK leaped at Yamato and knocked the pistol from his hand. Koushiro broke free and ran towards Gennai.

"Surrender or I'll shoot." The police officer warned, leveling his own pistol at Yamato's head.

"You'll not take me in!" Yamato yelled furiously. He made a desperate lunge out the door.

"Stand clear." The police officer said. He fired his pistol out the door at Yamato. The sound of a heavy body hitting the ground was heard.

"Well, he's beyond arrest, I'm afraid. But you're not. " The police officer said, turning to Taichi.

"Me? No! No!" Taichi yelled.

"Don't I know a master thief when I find one? Taichi's the name, I believe. Oh yes. I know you." The police officer said, slapping a pair of handcuffs onto Taichi.

"No! No! I can't be taken yet. I have unfinished business. Let me go." Taichi said, struggling.

"You'll go all right. First to Tokyo Prison and then to the electric chair." The police officer said and turned to TK and Kari.

"As for you two, we'll put in a good word for your assistance in apprehending the murderer. Perhaps you'll get a light sentence." The police officer said and clapped handcuffs on TK and Kari together.

"That's very good of you, my man. But watch how you handle me. I'm a Japanese gentleman, you know." TK said in merry humor.

"And I'm a Japanese lady." Kari said.

"And we've got our privileges." TK and Kari said together.

"You're thieves twenty times over, you young vagabonds. And don't worry, you'll get your privileges straight from the magistrate. Pick up that evidence and come along." The police officer grinned, gesturing to all the treasure scattered about the room.

"So long Koushiro. Be careful you don't lose that gentleman again." TK said.

"Goodbye Koushiro. I hope you'll be happy now." Kari said. The police officer hustled Taichi away and TK and Kari followed.

"You would have been my fortune Koushiro. My fortune!" Taichi said as the police officer hustled him away.

"It's all right now Koushiro. Poor boy, you've had quite an experience. I must get you home." Gennai said.

"I suppose the children all ran away… but the lady with the scar. She wasn't here." Koushiro said, puzzled.

"Don't worry about her Koushiro. She hasn't escaped me. Tomorrow you will hear some very astonishing things. Come along." Gennai said. The two walked off towards the Gennai estate in Pentonville.