Chapter 8

Special thanks for reviewing to; Nekosune, Princess Sin, Sin

-This is a bit of a tease since there will be no Yohji or Schuldig in it; you have to wait until chapter 9 for what happens. If Omi seems too OOC, sorry about that I was trying to make it seem that he will act irrationally, when he finds out Yohji has disappeared.

Setting: It's been a week since the incident. The flower shop; Omi and Ken just had a conversation with Manx and Birman about the disappearance of Yohji and Aya's supposed break from reality. Manx and Birman have decided to personally go to Kyoto in order to find Prodigy, who has been sighted there.

Omi's POV

Omi's feverishly going over the data on his laptop, he has been going over the data over and over for days now. He keeps hoping to find some clue that he overlooked, but so far no luck.

/AAAAHHHHH! This is going nowhere! I feel like this is a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle and I have only been given about 10 pieces of it; they expect me to put the puzzle together anyway. It makes no sense, finding Aya drenched in Yohji's blood, Yohji's room looking like some POW prison camp torture chamber, there was enough blood all over the walls, bed, and floor to suggest that Yohji couldn't possibly have been able to move on his own, but yet he is no where to be found. Our first thought was that Aya had raped and killed Yohji, so he bury the body somewhere, but there was no evidence of him putting the body in any of the cars, not his Porsche or Yohji's Lucky Seven. Than our forensics team found strings of reddish orange hair, that suggests that Schwarz could have been involved, but reports states that Oracle and Berserker are still in Germany, Prodigy has been sighted in Kyoto protecting a known Yakuza Boss's middle school aged daughter, though Mastermind is still AWALL. Sigh this is getting me to go in a circle over and over. /

Letting out a loud moan of frustration, Omi bangs his head against the table twice, he resists the urge to throw his laptop across the room, but he can't help but wonder what he's doing wrong. He lays his head on top of the table, staring into the cold untouched cup of tea to his right, which Ken worried that Omi wasn't taking care of himself left for him hours ago.

Ken had just left on his motorcycle, to go make rounds of all the hospitals and clinics in the city, hoping to find someone matching Yohji's description, he's been doing this everyday since Yohji disappeared, unfortunately so far he has had no luck.

After a few moments of pause, Omi lifts his head and opens his laptop, starts going over the data again.

/Okay, maybe it's time to look at it with a different perceptive; supposing that Aya is partially telling the truth that Mastermind was controlling him at the time and he truly has no idea what happened to Yohji after he left to go down stairs to get something to eat. But the thing is Mastermind while is extremely adept telepath, he can't control strong wills, he can only control the wills of the weak, and maybe nudge the minds of the strong, and there is no doubt in my mind that Aya has the will power to guard his mind, so even if Mastermind did use his powers Aya would have had to have wanted to do it, in some part of his mind. Meaning that Aya isn't completely guilt free, in what happen to Yohji. The only reason Ken or I are not killing him out right, is in the vain hope he's got something that will lead us to Yohji. It makes me sick to even think of what could have possibly happened in that room, I can still smell the sickening smell of dried blood and cum, every time I walk pass Yohji's room, we have close it off as a crime scene.

Okay, back to business assuming that Schwarz does have Yohji, then our best hope would be Prodigy, we originally send a recon team after him, but that turn out to be a joke, stupid amateurs…they didn't even last ten minutes after Prodigy used his powers on them and threw them out the window. Stupid amateurs, it was cause of this, that Manx and Birman decided to go after Prodigy on there own, they just left for Kyoto, may those two have better luck…though I doubt those two will have any more luck than the recon team, since it has been a long time since they done any real field work; I hope that all that office work hasn't made then soft. But still…this isn't Schwarz style, they rarely ever attack unless Oracle is around to give orders, and even if they wanted to torture one of us they would have just let Berserker do it.

Making me wonder if this isn't actually one of their missions at all, and if this is all just Mastermind's game, maybe this is something like if the cat isn't around the mouse will come out and play. If it is, this is one of the few times I wish that Estet were around to keep Mastermind in line.

So if this is just Mastermind's game, than I have to figure out why he would do this and were could he possibly taken Yohji. There has to be some reason for all this, though with Mastermind the reason will be far from logical or even understandable to the normal person…sigh figuring out the mind of a sociopath is easier said than done. But supposing this isn't just another attempt to undermine Weiss, could Mastermind have another reason for all this, cause it is not like there is any real link between Yohji and Mastermind, though truth is we don't know either of their pasts, so maybe if I start digging into their pasts, I could find something to connect them. /

Click…Click… Accessing…Accessing…

/What the? What is this? Yohji Kudoh…former partner of Asuka, possible romantic relationship…private investigator…place of birth unknown…relatives unknown, possible orphan…half Japanese, other unknown…There giving me more blanks than answers, even his relationship to Asuka is not clear, what was researchers doing when they did Yohji's background check, sleeping on the job or something? Even my background check is clearer than this and my heritage is considered classified. Damn it, another dead end. I feel so useless, can't even find one of my closest friends. /

Ring, Ring

The front door opens it is Ken, despite himself Omi turns around feeling a flicker of hope that Ken may have found something. But one look at Ken's blank face is enough to know the answer.

/Damn…wherever you are Yohji, I promise I will find you. /

-TBC

So what do you think? Please give me some feedback and review. I will try to finish this fic soon.