Chapter Seven
"Where are Our Friends?"
Maybe this one will be better than the last one.
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Mint stared at the four people in front of her, not believing what she was seeing, "You-you're dead!" she said, pointing with a shaky hand, "And you! You were kidnapped, like, two minutes ago!" she pointed at Ichigo.
A fifth figure leaped in front of them. She had purple hair, red eyes, wolf ears and tail.
"Ah!" Zakuro said, "It's me!" The cloned Zakuro took one step forward and stroked Mint's hair.
"Let go!" Mint squealed as Zakuro's clone reached and yanked a whole lotta hair from Mint's head. Zakuro turned to the rest of the people and nodded. They all disappeared. Just then Mint's cell rang.
"I can't believe I still have service!" Mint said, lifting it, "Hello? Yeah…what! They're…not? No. No, I'm sorry, I can't. I've got a lot more on my hands right now. Yeah? Well, thank you. We'll be in if our schedule clears up. OK. Bye," she turned off the phone, "Guess what? You know how Pudding and Keiichiro supposedly died?"
"Yeah. So?"
"They didn't," Mint said, "They were robots!"
"So why did Keiichiro tell us that?" Zakuro asked.
"Maybe…" Mint began, "Maybe it was a trick!"
"Huh?"
"Yeah!" Mint said, "M-maybe they needed you to think that you did it, so when you escaped, we'd kill you!"
"That makes no sense!" Zakuro said, "I escaped by myself…"
"How did you get out?"
"Crawled through an open window," Mint gave her the duh-look, "Oh."
"Hey guys! I'm so glad to see you!" a sloppy-looking man said.
"Oh my god!" Mint shrieked. She ran over to him and punched him in the face. He fell to the ground with a thud, clearly unconscious.
"Oh my god!" Zakuro yelled, "You knocked out Ryou!"
"Oh…oh my god!" Mint yelled, "I did!" she dragged him in a pushed him to the corner, "How do we tie him up?" she asked.
"Huh?"
"You know, like in the old movies they'll tie the bad guy up and interrogate him?" Mint said, "This is obviously a clone!" she poked his cheek, "Although it's an uncanny likeness!"
"Here, tie him up with my hair tie," Zakuro suggested. She took it out of her hair and handed it to Mint.
"That's all you got?" Mint said.
"We're stuck under a tree waiting for the right time to leave. What do you want me to have, rope in my pocket?"
"Fine!" Mint took the hair tie and tied cloned-Ryou up. They waited.
And waited.
And waited.
And waited.
It had been a few hours, and Zakuro and Mint had been enjoying talking about whatever popped in their heads. Some of their subjects had gotten pretty gross, but I won't describe them. Finally, Ryou's eyes opened.
"Where are they!" Mint asked him.
"Mmm…" Ryou said, "Wha?"
"Where are our friends?"
"Aren't they at the café?"
"Don't play dumb with us!" Zakuro snapped.
"I don't know where…wha? What do you mean?"
"Do I have to spell it out for you?" Mint said.
"Would you, please?"
Mint sighed, "You are a clone of Ryou Shirogane, are you not?" Ryou was silent, "And you kidnapped Ichigo, like, five minutes ago, didn't you?"
"I didn't!" he said, "I…that…wasn't me!"
Silence.
"That…wasn't you?" Zakuro asked.
"No. The aliens were gone when I was there."
"What's your birthmark?"
"What? Why?"
"To tell if it's the real you. What is it?"
"I don't wanna tell…"
"CLONE!"
"OK! It's on my butt!"
"Where?"
He paused, "The left cheek…" the girls fell back laughing, "OK! Can you untie me now!"
"Yeah, sure," Mint came over and untied the hair tie. Ryou rubbed his wrists because they hurt.
"Wait!" Zakuro said, "Mint, grab his hands!" She did, "What's it shaped like?"
"It's…it's…" he paused.
"Knock him out! He's a clone!"
"OK, OK!" Ryou snapped, "It's shaped like a cat-head!"
Zakuro laughed and Mint said, "You looked!"
"My first girlfriend made me!" Ryou exclaimed, "She took a picture so I could see!"
"You let her?" Mint yelled.
"OK, how did we even get on this conversation? How did you even know about that?" he yelled.
The girls were silent.
"Who told you?"
Zakuro blushed and Mint said, "Ichigo did."
"She…what?"
"Ichigo told us you had a cat-shaped birthmark on your butt from the first time you went out with her," Mint said slowly.
Ryou shook his head, "Why did I even ask?" he said to himself.
"Well, we gotta get outta here, that's all I know," Mint said, turning to crawl out from under the tree.
"Wait!" Zakuro said, "We need a plan first."
The murmured to each other for what seemed like hours.
"Why can't we do my plan?" Ryou hissed.
"Too obvious," Mint answered.
More whispers. Then, after the longest of time, Zakuro whispered, "Everyone got it?"
"Yeah!" Mint said. Ryou nodded.
"OK," Zakuro continued, "Let's go!"
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Goodbye! That's all I'm gonna say for this chapter. The next chapter will be out soon, so just wait, because the chapters will get better (because, yeah I know, this one sucked more than the last one!).