***Authors Note: Sorry once again for taking SOOOO incredibly long to update, but for good news my writers block is gone and I can continue my stories. The bad news, I STILL don't have a name for this one, unfortunately my writers block didn't leave my head completely so I'm still fumbling for a title here. Hopefully one will come to mind soon. Anywayz, on to the story…

Chapter 11

Lost

"Seiya!" Taiki called. He glanced around the parking lot.

"See what you did!" Yaten exclaimed, glaring at Makoto.

Makoto shrugged. "What did I do?" She grinned evilly at the look of outrage on Yaten's face.

"YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID!"

"Well, there's no need to yell. I am standing right next to you." Makoto replied, pretending to rub her ear. Yaten threw up her hands and stomped away. "Well, I-"

"Lets split up and go look for Seiya." Mamoru cut in. "I'll go with Usako and Taiki. Ami, you go with Minako, Makoto, and Rei." They all nodded in agreement and set off to find Seiya.

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"Wow! We've already been around the parking lot twice!" Usagi exclaimed an hour later. "How hard can it be to find someone with long black hair? Wouldn't a bunch of screaming fans be following him?"

Mamoru looked up at the sky. "I'm not sure about Seiya, but I think it's going to rain soon. Let's get back to the car. I'm sure Ami's group found them."

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"This is crazy!" Makoto yelled as they stopped in front of Taiki's car for the fourth time. "We've been around this lot twice, in and out of the hospital like five million times, but for what? We still didn't find him! Let's just quit."

"Hey here come the others." Ami pointed to three figures running up to them.

"Did you find him?" Rei asked the out-of-breath trio.

"Iie. And from looking I don't think you did either." Taiki replied. He quickly looked around, then up at the sky, and back at the faces staring at him. "Well we didn't find SEIAY or YATEN and it's going to rain soon. So I think we should go home. I'm sure Yaten found Seiya, she's good at that." Taiki winked after saying that last sentence.

"He's right. We can call them on their cell phones when we get home." Mamoru looked at Taiki. "Unless do you have a cell phone know?"

Taiki looked in the car and found three cell phones on the seat. "Yeah, I have mine and Seiya's and Yaten's. Do you still want to call them?" Mamoru sighed as he shook his head. The rest of them all got into the car. "Let's just hope they did find each other." Taiki murmured as they drove away.

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"Seiya? Seiya?" Yaten searched over the area with worried eyes. "Seiya, where are you?" Yaten felt something hit her arm. She looked up at the sky. "Great. Now it's going to rain. Seiya!" Yaten yelled his name again as she hurried along to beat the rain. She quickly ran into a covered ally and put her back against the wall. "I'll find him later." She muttered as she pulled her knees up to her chest and rapped her arms around them. Soon sleep came upon her and she was out cold.

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Taiki glanced at his watch. 10:26. 'Why aren't they here yet?' He wondered with worry. Taiki felt an arm on his shoulder. He looked up.

"Don't worry Taiki. I'm sure they'll come home soon." Ami comforted him. Taiki nodded and looked away. What a time for him to blush!

"Maybe we should call the police or something." Usagi suggested. The worry getting to her now too.

"That's a good idea. What do you guys think?" Mamoru asked. Hoping the answer would be 'yes'.

"Hai, that's a wonderful idea!" Taiki exclaimed jumping up and grabbing the phone.

"Stop!" Makoto snatched the phone out of Taiki's hand.

"What are you doing?"

"Listen Taiki, minna. Yaten and Seiya are StarHealer and StarFighter. Nothings going to happen to them. Just relax."

"She's right." Rei laughed. "I can't believe we overlooked that!"

"Yeah. But we'll stay here until they come home anyway. Alright Taiki?"

"Hai. Arigatou Mamoru."

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Yaten woke up to the crashing sounds of thunder. She found blue eyes staring into her green ones. "Seiya?"

The person in front of her laughed. " 'Seiya?'" It mimicked her. "Iie. I'm not you Seiya or whoever. My names Tokuro." A tall boy with sandy blonde hair walked out of the shadows. "These are my friends. Michiko, Wakita, and Naohira." He indicated to three more boys coming out from behind a Dumpster. The one named Michiko had brown hair and brown eyes. Wakita had shoulder length black hair with deep brown eyes and Naohira had bleach blonde hair with green eyes.

Yaten looked at each of the boys. All were extremely tall and they all wore black trench coats. 'How far away from the hospital am I?' She wondered. Yaten looked up to find four sets of eyes staring at her evilly. "What do you want? Because if it's a date or something"-

Two of the boys, Michiko and Naohira, grabbed Yaten's arms and lifted her off the ground. They them pined her arms to the wall while Wakita held her legs. Tokuro pulled a gun out from inside his trench coat.

"No we don't want a date or sex. We're just bored, and we have nothing to do. So when we are bored we like to torture people. You know why?" Yaten shook her head so Tokuro continued. "Because then we won't be bored anymore and we absolutely LOVE to see people in pain. Now I won't shoot you anywhere where you will die instantly, I would rather see you in pain first." He put his gun up to her right arm. Slowly he pulled the trigger back-

"Star Serious Laser!" A blast hurtled towards the gun and knocked it out of his hand. SailorStarFighter smiled and winked at Yaten before turning her attention back to Tokuro and his gang. "Okay, tell me exactly what you were thinking and how you possibly thought you would get away with shooting her?"

"We were thinking of shooting her, until you came along and ruined everything. But I guess we'll let you in on the fun and you can be in pain along with her." Tokuro answered. He motioned to his 'buddies' to get out their guns. Each of them put their hand on the trigger and shot at Fighter.

"Star Serious Laser!" She shouted again. All their guns dropped to the ground. The four boys looked at the ground, then at Fighter, and ran. Fighter sighed. "Baka people." She walked over to Yaten and offered her hand. Yaten grasped on to her hand, but then notices that Fighter was bleeding.

"Your hurt!"

Fighter looked at her arm. "So I am."

Yaten gave her a half glare. "C'mon lets get home, so we can clean you up."

Fighter changed back into male Seiya. "Hey, you not looking so clean yourself."

"Cleaner than you!"

"Yeah right!"

"I know I'm right!" Seiya and Yaten fought like that until they got in a cab and drove home.

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Seiya knocked on the door to their apartment. "I can't believe I forget my key."

"I know!"

"Hey Yaten you forgot yours too, so-"

"Seiya! Yaten!" Taiki stepped out of the apartment and hugged them tightly.

"Woah! Your happy!" Seiya observed.

"We were all so worried about you." Usagi said, coming out of the apartment. "Seiya, you're bleeding."

"Oh, I know. It's just a little gunshot. I should be okay."

"Well come inside so we can get you cleaned up." Usagi and Yaten helped Seiya in, while Mamoru went off to get a wet rag and some bandages. "So are you going to tell us what happened?" Usagi asked as Yaten wrapped Seiya's arm in bandages.

"Do I have too?"

"Hai! We were worried!" Usagi exclaimed.

"Ok… I got shot."

"I know that, but how?"

"Um… with a gun."

"Seiya, you know what I mean."

"Well, I was fighting these gangster peoples and they had guns so they shot at me. I was pretty sure I dodged all of them, but I guess I didn't."

"Well that sure explains a lot." Taiki sighed.

Seiya just shrugged and looked down where Yaten was sitting. He gently picked Yaten's hand up and rubbed it. Yaten looked up startled, but she relaxed at the comforting blue eyes. Seiya stared into Yaten's eyes warmly, forgetting all about where they were and who was there. His lips kept inching closer to Yaten's and Yaten held her breath.

"Arigatou." Seiya whispered.

"You're… your welcome." Yaten closed her eyes as Seiya's face came near hers. His lips just briefly got to hers before Makoto shouted.

"We're still her you know! Get a room!"

Yaten glared at her. "Thanks again for ruining the moment!" She got up, said goodnight, and stormed off to her room.

"She's so fun to mess with!" Makoto laughed.

"We better go Taiki." Mamoru said standing. "See you later."

"Arigatou guys." Taiki called as they walked out.

Seiya sighed behind him. "Why does she always know just the right time to say something?"

"Who?"

"Makoto."

"I don't know. I think she just likes messing with Yaten."

"Yeah, well it is pretty funny to see her get mad. Um, Taiki?"

"Yeah Seiya?"

"Do you think… um, do you think Yaten, uh, do you think she likes me?"

Taiki stared at him. "Do you like her?"

"Well, sometimes. I mean, well, most of the time. But I don't think she really likes me back because you know Yaten, it's hard to picture her loving anyone. You know what I mean?"

"Yeah, sort of. Just give her time. Because you know, when you kiss her she always kisses you back, right?"

"Yeah, I guess. Hmm, well I'm gonna go to bed now. Maybe I'll have some magical dream that will tell me the answer, ne?"

"Maybe, goodnight Seiya."

"Night, Taiki."

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