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A/N: Thanks for reading :) Here's chapter 19 :) Enjoy! –- Razzleteddy

Cry of Echoes

Seto glanced over his shoulder and limped away from the hotel fast as he could. He had to make sure that he wasn't being followed which thankfully he wasn't. However, he didn't look where he was going when he rounded a corner he abruptly bumped into someone, which caused both to crash to the ground. He cringed when a fiery pain shot through his leg, "Aah." He sat up somewhat while he shook his head and peered down at the person who he had ran into, the person appeared to be in pain himself. "Joey?" he exclaimed with surprise then smile big. Boy it was good to see him.

"Seto!" Joey brightened his eye as well. "Thank god I've found ya!" he gave out a short laugh. He reached briefly and gave him a big kiss for a second.

"I've thought you were in lock up in juvenile?" Seto got off him and stood up slowly. He checked him over for a moment, "How did you get out?" he gave him a curious look.

Joey just sighed a little, "It's a long story." He stood up himself and furrowed his brow with worry. "I heard on the news about you escaping from jail." He became upset when he remembered the whole assaulting a police officer deal. "I can't believe you've beat up that cop!" he creased his brow.

Seto didn't answer him right way but instead grabbed hold of his hand. "Come on brown eyes, we shouldn't linger," he led him away from the area cautiously.

"Well..." Joey viewed around for a moment while they went into a dark alley out of sight. "Don't you have anything to say?" he crossed his arms and waited for him to answer.

"I didn't beat him up." Seto leaned against the wall tiredly. "The guy is obviously lying."

"Oh really," Joey shook his head in disbelief, "I saw the pictures of him Seto. I don't know but…" he grabbed at his side with an unsure feeling, "He looked pretty beat up to me."

"Pictures?" Seto looked at him when he said that and saw Joey's confirmed nod. He looked away still stunned at the accusations. "I didn't do it Joey…" He looked at him again serious. He knew that creep was setting him up again. "I swear he was perfectly fine when I left him."

Joey viewed his eyes for a long moment and saw the sincerity in them. Seto may do many things he disapproved of but lying to him was never one of them. He always told him the truth regardless if it was good or bad. "I believe you Seto," he smirked at him, "You may be a jerk sometimes babe but not a liar."

Seto inhaled a huge sigh glad that he did. "Thank you…" he smirked himself.

"Where's the clue?"

"I have it." Seto reached into his coat and pulled it out. Handed it over to him, "Here look inside."

Joey nodded and ripped it opened then peeked inside. "There's nothing in here but this…" he pulled out another note and read it over for a second.

"Well, what does it say?" Seto inhaled a breath.

Joey arched an eyebrow, "It simply reads 'Home Sweet Home,' I wonder what that means?"

Seto rubbed his chin, he thought for a minute. "Home Sweet Home? Home Sweet…" he then looked up with wide eyes. "Home, of course!" he took his hand, "Let's go!" he then pulled him along.

"Wait, where we going?"

Seto glanced over his shoulder a bit. "Home, where else? That's where the finally clue is..." He explained out of breath as they walked speedily through the city streets trying to head back home.

"Seto, look!" Joey viewed ahead in the distant at the horrific sight. "The sun is coming up pretty soon!"

Seto looked on worriedly. He stopped and spotted the light hue in the distant. He rutted his brow, "We needed a faster way," he then strolled up at a car, viewed around for a minute and saw that it was clear, he then picked up a rock and was about smash the window.

Joey gasped, "Seto, wait!" he whispered as he went up to him. However, Seto ignored him as he smashed the glass with ease. "What are you doing?" Joey huffed quietly at him, "That could've had an alarm!"

Seto unlocked the door then got in and proceed to hot-wired it. "We need a car Joey," he smiled when it started up. "Get in," he shut his own door then reached over to unlock his.

Joey ran over to the passenger side and got in himself. "I don't think stealing a car, breaking into stores, escaping from jail and probably murder isn't going to go well with judge." He creased his features fearfully. "We could get into serious ass trouble here. Maybe actually some serve time."

"Yeah well…" Seto breathed heavily, "When it comes to your family you do what you have to..." he pushed on the gas pedal faster and it took them about ten minutes to reach the Kaiba's mansion. Seto parked the car around the corner and slowly jumped out followed by Joey. They slowly inched their way to the house as he moved along in the bushes. They then stopped and viewed the home with worried looks. The whole place crawled with cops, which caused Seto to gulp hard. Shit! That wasn't good.

"Damn, they must be looking for me." Seto drew in a breath. "They're so many of them."

"Yeah, well I did sorta tell Charlie to call the cops in the beginning, so..." Joey confessed. He licked his sore lip and braced himself for Seto's reaction.

"You what?" Seto turned to him a bit sharp, "Joey. I thought I'd tol-"

"Hey, I'm sorry okay." Joey rutted his brow, "I panicked." He gave him a small frown and hoped he wasn't that upset, "Besides, I don't know if he did or not. I ran out of there in a hurry." He was just thinking what was best at the time. "Anyway, how are we going to get in?"

Seto sighed then turned around, "We'll take the back way."

"Back way…?" Joey became curious, he turned around to followed him, "What back way?"

Seto walked a little ways away from the house then stopped at hidden area. He looked around for a second before he kneeled down and popped open a little control panel out of grass. He looked around once again then proceeded to type in a code. When he was finished, he closed the panel and stood up. In matter of minutes, a door slide open from the ground in which revealed some stairs that led downward. "Here we go," he stepped down cautiously, being carefully of his leg before he glanced over his shoulder. "Coming?" he raised a brow at him.

Joey wrinkled his brow amazed and followed him down the stairs. He looked around for a moment, "Wow. I didn't know you built this."

Seto just smirked, "I've built it a few years ago. It's only for emergencies."

Joey nodded then jumped a bit when he heard the door slid closed behind them, which caused the place to become suddenly dark. "Seto, the lights, its dark," he blinked his eye then tried to adjusted it.

"Don't worry," Seto snapped his fingers. Immediately the lights went on. "Is that better?"

"Yeah, much better."

Now that they could see where they're going, they continued down the stairs then down a long hallway. "Shiit, this place is big," Joey continued to view around with amazement. "Did your stepfather ever found out about this place?"

Seto shook his head, "Nope." He stopped in front of door, opened it and went into a big room. It had a huge control panel, several doors and pictures of all kinds. He limped up to a map that displayed on the wall that resembled the layout of the Kaiba mansion. "All right, you have to go and get the clue."

Joey looked at the map, "But I-I don't know where it is."

"Don't worry, I'll show you." Seto then pointed at the map, "This is where we are. So, see that door?" he turned and pointed behind them.

Joey turned around and saw a door next to the control panel. He shaped his face with some seriousness, "Yeah I see it."

"Go through the door and straight down this hallway..." Seto pointed back to the map, "Count to twenty and when you reach twenty you should be right here. Turn right and go up the stairs then count two paces and face left, you should see a door and next to it is a small button. Push it and the door should release. It would lead into my study. When you go in look at the left wall, there's a picture with 'Home Sweet Home' on it. The clue should be there somewhere. Okay, you got it all?" he faced him.

Joey nodded, "Yeah, yeah, I've got it," he walked to the door determinedly.

"Brown eyes...!"

Joey stopped and turned around, "Yeah...?"

Seto softened his weary eyes at bit, "Be careful."

Joey smirked, "Hey, it's me!" he then left to go do his task.

Seto inhaled a deep breath and limped over to a chair to sit down. He was glad to take the pressure off his wounded leg. Then, he picked up the phone, dialed a number and waited calmly for his lover's return.

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Meanwhile, Joey walked along as he followed Seto's directions. "Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty!" he turned right to the stairs. "Yes!" He went up the short stairs to the top, "Okay, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten." He stopped and faced left, sure enough there was the door. "Button, button. Where's the button? Ah!" He pushed it and saw the door pop open, "All right!" He felt proud of himself.

He very carefully peeked out and viewed the room to check if it was safe. Satisfied, he stepped out fully and tiptoed over to the picture. He looked around but didn't see anything, "Now where is it?" he scratched his head before he checked behind the desk. His eyes brightened at the sight of a big envelope, "Bitchin!" He grabbed the envelope and quickly left the study the same way he came in and ran back to Seto.

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"Hello Charles, don't let know it's me!" Seto said quickly. "Are you all right?" He covered his eyes when he was. "No, Joey is with me ... Yeah, I heard and I know it looks bad Charles but listen. We've almost got puzzle solved and on our way to get Mokuba back soon. What I need you to do is call Jiro and have him go down the police station and try to get the others released ... Yes, you know where I kept my emergency money right? ... Meet him there and give that to him, okay. Thanks ... Bye," he hung up with a sigh. He looked up when Joey walked back through the door with a smile.

"I've got it!" Joey jogged up and handed it over. He then looked down at his leg with a frown and noticed some blood bled through his bandage. "We need to change your dressings."

"There's an aid kit over there in that drawer." Seto pointed out for him then started to open the envelope. He watched Joey retrieved it then knelt down and proceeded to redress his injury.

Seto looked into the envelope and took out another clue. It was a picture of a building. Curious, he set it down with the rest of the pictures then he took out a videotape from the envelope. "Aaah, that hurts!" he cringed with pain while Joey applied some alcohol on his wound.

"Sorry babe," Joey sighed with tiredness, "We don't want it to get infected. It already looks crappy," he applied more alcohol before he started to wrap a clean bandage around his leg. As he did this he looked up for a moment, "What's on the tape?" he asked.

"Don't know…" Seto shrugged a bit, "Only one way to find out." He arched his arm and popped it into a VCR then pushed play.

Soon a picture blazed on displaying a beautiful woman with long black hair, pretty lips and crystal blues eyes. She wore a white dress and held an umbrella as she strolled down a rose garden carefree. She laughed lightly as she playfully posed for the camera. "O-Oh Baiko put that camera down will you?"

"But Aya…" the young man replied.

"Who's that?" Joey creased his face with confusion. He then faced Seto with curiosity and noticed the shock look in his eyes. He raised a brow and wondered why he looked like that, "Seto, you okay?"

Seto didn't say anything… he was too stunned to speak.

"Seto..." Joey looked on worriedly. "Do you know who she is?" he asked, "Seto?"

"I-It's…" Seto blinked his eyes still stunned, "I-It's… our m-mother."

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