Chapter 2: Fear

Michiru looked up at the tall blonde, softly whimpering behind the tape over her mouth when Haruka grabbed her and pulled her to her feet roughly. Holding her prisoner with one hand, the blonde looked at Heihachi and Saeko. "Leave the room." The two men nodded, quickly obeying their boss and leaving. Haruka looked back at Michiru, who by now was shaking with fear. The blonde smirked a little before she pushed the aqua haired girl hard, causing her to fall backwards and land on the couch. Haruka sat down next to her, reached out and tore the duct tape off with one fluid, fast motion, causing Michiru to let out a pain filled little yelp when her lips started to bleed. "So, Michiru…" Haruka started, staring at her prisoner with eyes as cold as ice, "tell me what exactly you heard." "Nothing." Michiru whispered, her eyes filling with tears. "Please, just let me go…" she then added, hoping that maybe she could talk her captor into freeing her. Haruka gave her a lopsided, cruel grin. "And you think I'll believe that?" she then asked, her voice dangerously low. "You really think you can fool me that way? Stupid girl." Michiru cried out scared when suddenly the blondes hands shot forward, closing around her collar und pulling her towards Haruka until they were eye to eye. "Don't. You. Ever. Try. To. Fool. Me. Again." Haruka growled, pressing the words out between clenched teeth. "I'm sorry!" Michiru sobbed, her eyes filling with tears. "I'm sorry, please don't hurt me! Please!" Haruka stared at her for a  few more moments before she let go of the aqua haired girls collar. Michiru slumped back in her lying position, crying heavily. Haruka just sat next to her, waiting until she had calmed down enough to listen. "Done bawling?" the blonde asked as soon as Michirus sobs had been reduced to soft sniffling. "What…what do you want to do to me?" the aqua haired girl finally managed to ask, her eyes red and puffy from crying. Haruka smirked at her, standing up and walking around in the room while she spoke. "I have to admit, my first thought was to kill you." Michiru paled visibly at that, but her heart filled with relief when Haruka spoke on. "But that seems a little too extreme. So I decided that you will stay here in our hideout until we killed off Westwood, then you can go again." The blonde stopped her pacing around and looked at Michiru once more, giving her another cruel smirk. "If you're still sane by then, that is." With that, Haruka turned around left the room, slamming the door close behind her, while Michiru stayed where she was, shaking with fear and crying silent tears.

Michiru didn't know how long she had been lying on the couch, sobbing, when the door suddenly opened again and one of the two men who had kidnapped her entered the room. Without saying any word, he walked over to the aqua haired girl, grabbed her arm and pulled her off the couch, forcing her in a standing position. "Come with me. I have order to lock you up." He growled, not awaiting any response but simply dragging Michiru out of the room, ignoring the aqua haired girls struggles and pleads to let her go. He dragged her through a wide variety of rooms, until they finally stopped in front of a heavy metal door. Unlocking it, the guy opened the door and pushed Michiru into the room behind it roughly, causing her loose her balance and hit the ground. The man stepped in after her, grabbed her arm roughly and dragged her over to two metal pipes that were mounted to the wall. He freed her hands quickly, only to pull them above her head roughly and tied them to the pipes. "Please…" Michiru whispered, looking up at her captor with tears shimmering in her eyes, "just let me go…please…" The tall scarred man didn't bother to answer; he just turned around briskly and left the room, the sound of a lock closing echoing through the silence after he had closed the door.

"So how long do you want to keep her here?" Heihachi asked as soon as he had finished what Haruka had told him, looking at his boss questioningly. "Until we finished off Westwood and took over his little Yakuza group." Haruka replied, her fingers playing with her Zippo lighter while she spoke. "This may take a while." Heihachi replied. "What if it takes us months?" Haruka looked at him, her eyes colder than ice. "Then she will have to stay for months. Easy." Heihachi looked as if he wanted to talk back to his boss on that, then remembered how angry the blonde could become and thought it would be wiser to shut up. "Any problems with that, Heihachi?" Haruka now asked, her voice dangerously sweet. Heihachi shook his head, hoping that the blonde would believe him. Obviously, she did, since she didn't ask any more questions, but stood up. "Make sure that she gets enough to eat, we don't want her to starve." Were her last words before she left the room, leaving Heihachi behind alone.