When I awoke I was in a place I had never seen before. It was cold and dark. I tried to stand but I felt weak. I looked toward where Yahiko had been when I had fallen asleep. Sure enough he was there too but he was chained to the wall.
He was wide awake and clutching his wooden sword. I remembered my sword and reached for it only to find it gone.
Yahiko now noticed I was awake, "Hey, you're finally up. I was afraid you were dead."
I looked at him strangely, "What are you talking about?" I asked.
"I fell asleep too and when I woke up there was the man we saw before with a sword to your head. You didn't move and he told me not to make a sound or he'd kill you. I had to do something so I stood up slowly but as he led me out dragging you with him I yelled for help. The man didn't have access to his sword right away so everyone heard me. The man just grabbed me with you and ran. He eventually set me down and said I would pay for what I did and he knocked me out. I didn't know if he had killed you like he said he would," Yahiko explained.
"Well obviously not," I said, "You have any idea where we are?"
"Your guess is as good as mine," Yahiko replied. "Probably somewhere it won't be easy to find our way back. Like they said,"
I sighed hopelessly.
We were silent and we heard a small voice in the distance. It sounded like Karou.
"You hear that?" I asked.
Yahiko nodded.
"That means we must not be too far away. They probably left already so that means we're in the house they're going to," I suggested.
We heard the voice approach followed by another. Footsteps echoed above our heads.
"We're under the floor," I exclaimed.
I felt a cold hand cover my mouth and the metal of a knife come to my throat. I yelped and Yahiko turned quickly.
"Not a word, you are both to be hostages."
The man yelled to one of his men and the man came running and put a rag around Yahiko's mouth and handcuffs around his wrists pulling them behind his back. The man that was holding me put down the knife and did the same to me. They dragged us over to another part under the floor with a platform. They threw us onto it and the platform rose up to ground level.
"I'm willing to wager these two children's lives how about it Battousai?" was the first thing I heard.