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Chapter 19

--No One's Sleeping Tonight--

Yuki gave a long sigh. Yesterday, all he did was think of a way to convince Rin, and he got nothing. Rin was a very stubborn, independent woman. The only way she could possibly be convinced is by Haru since they were going out.

'It's worth a shot,' Yuki told himself as he went to make a call to Haru.

"Yo," Haru said at the other end.

"Hey Haru. I was wondering if you can do me a big favor," Yuki said nervously.

"How big? If you want me to kill someone, just say it," Haru stated.

"Haru, you're a spy, not an assassin," Yuki scolded.

"I can still dream it, can't I?" Haru said plainly, shrugging on the other end.

Yuki ignored him. "Listen, I was wondering if you can convince Rin to do my a favor?"

"What's the favor?"

"I need her to wear something revealing, but not too revealing. Just whatever she usually wears is fine," Yuki started.

"What? Why? So you can take her away from me?" Haru started accusing Yuki of things and turning Black. "Listen Yuki, you might be my first love, but Rin is mine, got that?"

"Great," the rat said under his breath. "Listen Haru, I need you to calm down."

"Calm down? How can I when you're trying to steal the woman of my life away from me?" the cow hissed.

"Haru, I don't love Rin like that, and you know it," Yuki yelled, getting frustrated.

"Oh, so are you saying that she's not good enough for you now?"

Yuki couldn't see what Haru was doing, but he did hear something break and winced.

"Haru, d---it! I love someone else, and I just need your help!" Yuki shouted, trying to get through Black Haru.

"Oh, OK then. Why didn't you just tell me that first?" Black Haru changed back to normal. "Why is Rin in this?"

It took Yuki a few minutes to explain the situation to Haru.

On the other end, Haru sighed. "I'll see what I can do but no promises."

"That's fine. I just need her to somehow put the device on something that he will always have with him."

"Like what? If I convince Rin, then I might want to tell her where she should stick it too," Haru asked.

"I don't know. Just tell her notice if he has any jewelry on," Yuki suggest. "The little bug is bound to fit on it and camouflage so that he won't notice anything."

"Got it. I'll call you to tell you if she'll do it or not." With that, Haru hung up.

"Let's hope so," Yuki hoped.

Ask and you shall receive for Haru called back an hour later saying that Rin would do it and was coming over. The only thing Haru didn't mention was that Rin wanted something out of it.

The doorbell rang, and Yuki quickly opened the door. Rin was standing there, wearing a black mini skirt and black halter-top with her black boots.

"Come in," Yuki ushered. Rin went it and immediately went down to business.

"So where's the picture?" she said briefly.

"Picture…?" Yuki repeated, confused.

'What did Haru tell her?' Yuki wondered.

"Didn't Haru tell you?" Rin asked.

Yuki shook his head. "I'm only doing this if you hand over the picture that you took of me when we were little. The one that you promised not to show anyone," Rin explained.

Yuki gave a light laugh. "Oh that one. Well, if it'll make you do the job then I'll give it to you after you complete the task."

Rin cursed under her breath. "Alright. Give me the device so I can go do my job and get that picture back."

Yuki gave her they tiny device and told her not to lose it. Rin had worked with Haru in some of his cases and knew how to work it. The bug was placed inside a handkerchief for now until she spotted Yamato.

"By the way," Rin began before leaving his apartment, "where is Yamato Nakano now?"

Yuki gave a small cough. "You know what? That's a good question. Hold on." He went to go call Hana that instant.

When Hana heard who is was, she was hoping that he had the evidence, but was disappointed to find out that he was calling to find out if she knew where Yamato was.

"You should try walking around the Mikayu Music Company since he works there. Hanajima-san said that he's going to be starting his own CD. It's almost lunchtime so you might want to hurry," Yuki told Rin.

The horse growled, but hurried to the Mikayu Music Company. She got the little device out and waited for Yamato to come out. It was almost noon, and she was standing there like any idiot, hungry.

"Where is he?" Rin whispered, walking back and forth and glancing at the doors. Then, a pair of doors opened, and there he was walking out, but he wasn't alone. Akito was with him.

"D---it!" she cursed. 'Go away Akito. Come on Yamato, get alone,' she thought to herself.

To her luck, she saw them waving bye to the other and went their separate ways. Now was the perfect time to catch her prey.

"Hello," she said in a flirting manner, quickly scanning him to see if he had on any jewelry.

"Why, hello there, babe," he said, grabbing her hand, and looking up and down on her.

"My…Yamato," she whispered in a seducing way, "you have nice muscles." She was clinging on to his arm. "Do you work out?"

"Of course." He showed off and flexed his muscles. When he was flexing his muscle, that was when Rin noticed a ring on his right hand and decided to put it there.

The blonde man was about to put his arm around Rin's waist again until she quickly held his right hand.

"My, you have a strong hand too," she gave him a flirtatious smile.

Then, using her other hand with the bug, she quickly pretending to be playing with his hand, but she was really doing it so it won't seem suspicious when she touched his ring.

"That's a nice ring you got there." The horse pointed, touching the ring. She used that time to play the bug in the middle of the ring and stick it on there.

"Thanks. Would you like to go out for lunch with me?" he asked, leading her to a nearby restaurant.

"I'm sorry, but I already have a boyfriend. I've always wanted to meet you since you're so famous, but you're not my type, loser," Rin told him in a same flirting, but then spat at him in disgust and walked away.

'Yuki, you owe me so much,' she thought as she headed to her home. She just wanted to take a nice long shower to get his germs off her. Never in a million years would she ever do that again.

After her nice long shower, she headed back to Yuki's apartment to claim her prize AKA picture.

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Yuki was wondering what took Rin so long. How hard could it be to get close to Yamato and activate the camera? He paced back and forth in his living room, holding the picture that Rin wanted.

He could see why she wanted the picture so badly. It was just her and some guy friend when she was around ten, and they were holding hands. It was Rin's first boyfriend, and if Haru knew, then…who knows what'll happen.

After about two hours of pacing, the doorbell rang. Yuki instantly went to open it, hoping it was Rin, and it was.

She was standing there in a new outfit, glaring at the rat.

"So did you do it?" Yuki asked anxiously.

"Do you have the picture?" she asked. Yuki handed her the picture, and she nodded.

"You're lucky I didn't ask for more, but you owe me big time!" she yelled. "I went home and took a nice long shower and burned the outfit I was wearing. DON'T EVER ask me to do something like that again."

"It couldn't be that bad," Yuki insisted. "It's not like you had to kiss him or anything."

"Alright. It wasn't that bad," Rin replied, rolling her eyes.

"So where did you put the device?" Yuki asked.

"Ring," she replied, simply.

"Thanks so much, Rin. If you ever need anything, feel free to ask me," Yuki told her as she left.

Once Yuki slam the door, he opened his closet and started watching Yamato. Nothing interesting happened. Just idle chitchat with fans, talking 'bout his new CD, but nothing 'bout Tohru.

Some time later, his eyes were getting tired and slowly closed, putting him into a deep slumber. True he fell asleep, but during his nap, nothing interesting really happened until…

Yuki woke up hours later by a loud noise and realized that he had fell asleep. He looked out his window and saw that it was already night. The rat thought that he had missed Yamato talking about the plan and was about to rewind the tape, when the proof to get Akito behind bars was right in front of him.

In the screen in front of him were Yamato and Akito in a dark place, talking. Yuki quickly turned up the volume and inattentively listened.

"Did you get them?" Yamato asked, excitedly.

"Of course. I had to pay a little extra because of her nosy friends, but they said they were going to try to do it tonight," Akito replied.

"Tonight? But won't she be asleep?" the other man asked.

"She would be, but I'm sure they managed to figure out a way to get her alone. They're going to bring her here."

"Really?" Yamato's face lightened up. "I hope they hurry already. I can't wait to have some fun with her."

"How long will you have fun with her? I can't let you have her alive for too long," Akito grimaced.

"Don't worry. A couple of days will do. I think my longest girlfriend latest a week."

"Very well. I just tell them to come back in two days to dispose the evidence just like four years ago." Akito gave a malicious laugh.

"How come no one figured out that it was the thugs you hired that killed Motoko?" Yamato asked. "I mean, they did find one of the thugs, but he didn't say a word so he got executed."

"Exactly. These men were trained to keep everything a secret and not to spill. That's why they cost so much more than other men."

"You really have this plan out, don't you?" Yamato said, impressed.

"Naturally. I don't want to get caught. You don't want to get caught. It would just ruin our reputation and the hearts of your fans if they found out," Akito added.

The two continued to talk, but Yuki ignored it for now. It was all on tape, and he could replay it any time. Then something hit him.

"What did Akito mean by getting Tohru alone tonight?" Yuki panicked as he grabbed the phone and punched in Hana's number.

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Yesterday, the two women had narrowed their apartment choices to five. They were going to go back and look at the five choices with Hana today. The day had gone by fast, and the three had picked out a nice apartment. With some talking and deals, the three had made a deal with the landlord. Tohru, Uo, and Hana were going to move in tomorrow and then go buy some furniture.

Sure it might be normal to go buy the furniture first, but they would have to pay for another night at the hotel.

The three went back to the hotel early that day because Tohru wasn't feeling well. Everything else was going perfect until that night.

Tohru lied in the middle of the bed, wide-awake. She couldn't close her eyes and go to sleep. Something was churning in her stomach after dinner, but when they got back in the hotel, it was fine.

Just then, Hana's phone rang, waking up the other two.

"Ugh. Who would be calling in this hour?" Uo complained, throwing a pillow at the phone.

Hana hastily grabbed the phone, wanting to yell at however it was for calling so late until she saw that it was Yuki. She was confused as to why he couldn't have waited but answered.

"Why are you calling so late?" Hana hissed as she quickly went to the bathroom so Tohru and Uo could go back to sleep.

"I'm sorry, but I wanted to ask you if Tohru's with you," Yuki said quickly.

Hana raised an eyebrow. "Yes."

"Good. You can not let her out of your sight. I just heard Akito talking to Yamato about kidnapping her tonight so please be careful," Yuki warned.

"You have the proof?" Hana asked, her voice getting excited.

"Yes."

"In that case, I'm coming over," Hana stated.

"What?" Yuki exclaimed.

"I'm coming over to get it. Then I'm going to show Uo and Tohru after," Hana told him as she quickly went get something to change.

"But it's the middle of the night!" Yuki said, still shocked.

"If you have the decency to call in the middle of the night, then I can come over. Once Tohru knows about this, then she'll be sure not to live our sight," Hana explained. "Now, I'll see you in twenty minutes." With that, she quickly changed, wrote a note saying where she went, and left.

Unknown to her, Tohru heard some of the conversation. She didn't know what Hana meant, but some time after Hana left, Tohru decided to take a walk around the hotel. Slipping into her robe, she slipped out of the room and went outside in the streets.

Tohru decided to walk around the premises of the hotel. Her eyes wandered to the sky and stared at the stars, remembering the place where Yuki had taken her to see the stars on their date.

"Where are you now, Yuki-kun?" she whispered, touching her rat necklace. The ex-singer continued to walk around the hotel, trying to get tired, but she still wasn't tired.

She walked around the premises once more not knowing that men in black were watching her every move in the shadows. They were so swift and quiet that Tohru couldn't hear them in the silent night.

Just as Tohru was about to head back, the men in black came out and seized Tohru. One of them immediately tied a piece of cloth around Tohru so that she wouldn't scream. Two other ones tied her hands and feet together, leaving Tohru helpless. The only good thing about this was that they drugged her.

'I'm getting kidnapped!' Tohru thought as she tired to struggle free, but there were too many of them, and they were too strong. 'And Hana-chan and Uo-chan don't know where I am!'

Tears started to form in her eyes. 'I might get killed, and if I do, I'll never get a chance to see Yuki-kun again!' Tohru thought.

"Some one go get the car!" one of them hissed.

'Please! Please! Someone find me!' Tohru prayed. Just then, a black sedan drove up. She heard some one say, 'Stuff her in the trunk', and they stuffed Tohru in the drunk.

The terrified woman didn't know what happened, but she heard a screech, and the car sped off. Tohru heard shouts saying 'What the h---?', 'Hey!', Come back here!', and other inappropriate things.

Tohru didn't know how long they were driving, but it seemed like forever. Soon, she felt the car stop. Someone was coming closer to the trunk, and Tohru's body froze. Before she knew it, the trunk was opened.

'This is it,' Tohru thought. 'I'm a goner.'

"Tohru," someone called her name and started untying. It was a familiar voice and was confused as to why she was being untied. Tohru slowly looked up to see whom it was.

"…oo?" Tohru muffled. Her eyes widen with gratitude and relieved as she saw one of her best friend.

Tohru pulled the cloth over her mouth out when Uo had freed her hands. Uo continued to untie the rope bounding her feet. Once Tohru was free, she got out of the trunk and saw that they were in front of Ayame's shop.

Tohru was going to ask why they were there, but Uo gave her a bear hug and started yelling at her. "Why didn't you wake me up before you left? I don't know what I would do if you got kidnapped! How would I tell Hana? You're lucky that I saw you creeping out, but I probably wouldn't have been awake if Hana's d--- cell didn't ring."

"I'm sorry!" Tohru started crying. "I was so afraid. Thank you for finding me and saving me!"

The two women's loud voices woke up the whole street, including Ayame. A few minutes later, they heard Miine and Ayame yelling at them until the two saw Tohru and Uo standing out his shop.

"Good heavens! Why are you two doing here so late? And yelling and…crying?" Ayame yawned, ushering them in. "Care to explain why you two nearly woke up the neighborhood?"

"You see…" Tohru started.

"It's a long story," Uo finished, "but I think Hana knows more about this than we do."

"Hana-chan? But she wasn't here. She didn't see what happened," Tohru commented.

"I know, but she left us this note." Uo fished the note out of her pocket and showed it to them.

Tohru, Uo

If you're wondering where I am, I'm at a friend's house right now. I'll be back before dawn and I'll tell you why in the morning. Uo- DON'T leave Tohru ALONE! It'll all be explained later. Don't worry about me, just worry about Tohru.

Hana

"But how did she know?" Tohru asked.

"That's what we're going to find out," Uo said. She pulled out her cell and called Hana's cell.

After a few rings, Hana answered her cell. "What is it, Uo?"

"I think Tohru and I deserve to know what's going on since Tohru nearly got kidnapped," Uo snapped.

"What?" Hana exclaimed.

"You heard me. After you've done your little errand, come to Ayame's shop," Uo ordered.

"OK. I'll as soon as I can."

Ayame and Miine sat and listened to Tohru's and Uo's side of the night's event. After they finished, the four sat in silence, waiting for Hana.

Hana came soon enough, but instead of having a nice entrance, she was bombarded with questions. The questions kept on coming after another, and she didn't have time to answer one.

"Stop it!" Hana roared, scaring them and shutting up. "First off, I can't tell you where I got this information, but I can tell you that the answer lies in this tape."

"A movie? This isn't a time for a movie," Ayame spoke up.

Hana sent him a glare. "We're going to watch it. It's not a movie. Now, where's the VCR?" she commanded.

Ayame led them to the living room upstairs. Hana put the tape in, and then the rest of them watched as they first saw Yamato and Akito talking. They heard everything Yuki had heard and more. All of them were surprised at what they were hearing.

"That d--- b------!" Uo cussed after they saw heard the whole conversation. She slammed her fist on the coffee table.

"I'm enraged too, but please don't destroy my property," Ayame said. "I'm his cousin, family, but I would never have thought Akito would go as far as to kill someone." The snake shook his head in disbelief.

Tohru's face was now white as a sheet of paper and was shivering in fear. Everyone in the room saw this.

"It'll be OK, Tohru. We promise not to let anything happen to you," Uo tried to soothe her.

"That's right. We're going to turn the tape in to the police tomorrow, and Akito and Yamato will be put in custody…maybe jail," Hana added.

"Yeah, but he probably has enough money for a bail," Ayame commented.

"That's not helping," Uo hissed.

"Well, it's true," the snake defended. "Unless you can some how find a way to make him bankrupt, of course."

"Now that's an idea. How 'bout we sue him?" Uo shouted.

"Sue him for what?" Hana asked.

"For attempting murder," Uo said confidently, nodding her head. "And Yamato is an accomplice!"

"You've been watching too much detective shows," Tohru and Hana said in unison.

"No, I think that's possible," Miine agreed with Uo. "And I know a perfect prosecution lawyer!"

"Who is it?" they asked at the same time.

"You kn…" she began, but Ayame interrupted her.

"It's a close friend of ours, right Miine? He's very good. Just started being a professional lawyer, but he was named the #1 intern in Japan. If you want to hire him, I'll happily set a time and place for you to meet him."

"I don't know…" Tohru said.

"Come on. We can finally get our revenge on him!" Uo said with her fists in the air. "Not only will we be richer, but we own something like a shop or something."

"How 'bout a nice restaurant? Tohru can be the chef," Hana added, liking the idea.

"And we advertise each other's shop," Ayame joined in.

"We can create their work uniforms too, Boss!" Miine brought up.

"I guess I'm out numbered," Tohru sighed.

"That's it! We are suing Akito and Yamato!" Uo exclaimed.

"Now that that's cleared up. Let me go call him." Ayame left the room to go call his dear little brother.

"But…" Miine tried to stop Ayame. "It's the middle of the night…" The snake didn't hear a single word out of her mouth because he was too busy acting all goofy again.

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Yuki was relieved. Why? Because Tohru was safe and Hana had just came over to get the tape.

Yuki fiddled with the spy equipment for awhile before he went back to sleep. The rat had given Hana a copy of the tape just in case the one she had was accidentally destroyed.

He couldn't wait 'til this whole mess was over. Maybe he would finally be able to see Tohru again, but he had changed so much. He became a lawyer to help people, but now it was for the fame and money.

What had changed him? It was because he had lost Tohru, but once she was back in his life, he would return back to his old self. He would be the kind, caring, and humble man he once was.

Yuki decided now was not the best time to be thinking about that. There was still five hours until he had to go to work. Four hours of sleep wasn't enough, but it was better than nothing was. He changed into his pajamas and was in bed. After fallen asleep for five minutes, the phone rang.

"Who would be calling?" Yuki mumbled. "It can't be Hanajima-san."

He picked up the phone and answered it. "Hello?"

"Ah, hello there, Yuki!" a hyped up Ayame shouted, bursting Yuki's eardrums.

"Onii-chan, do you have any idea as to what time is it?" Yuki said sleepily.

"Yup, and I'm tired just as you are, but I have a very important announcement to tell you!" Ayame exclaimed.

'He's not tired. No man would be shouting if he were tired,' Yuki thought. He wanted to pound the phone and go back to sleep.

"What's so important? I have work tomorrow," Yuki said.

"I have a new client for you!" he said happily. "Well, aren't you happy?"

"You called me three in the morning for this?" Yuki spat.

"I usually wouldn't, but these are very important clients, Yuki!"

"They?"

"Yup. Three people to be exact. It's for the same case, don't worry."

"And who are they?" Yuki questioned.

"I can't tell you," the snake said mysteriously. "I can tell you that you'll love me once you see who they are."

Yuki grumbled something under his breath. "Is that all?"

"Yup. So what time should you meet them tomorrow?" Ayame asked.

"What?"

"It's best if you start on their case as soon as possible," he insisted.

"Alright. Noon at Summer Sun."

"OK then. Bye, my dear brother!"

Yuki was happy he could finally get some sleep, but to make sure there were no more disturbances, he pulled the phone plug out and went back to sleep.

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Ayame bounced back into the living and told the three women the news.

"I guess we better get some sleep then," Tohru yawned.

"Let's go back to the hotel," Hana said sleepily.

"No, no, that won't do," Ayame shook his head. "You three can stay here for tonight. The sofa pulls out to be a bed."

"I'll go get some pillows and blankets," Miine spoke up.

"But I don't want to impose!" Tohru argued.

"No. Tohru, you are like family to me, and I insist you stay here," Ayame disputed.

'Hopefully she really will be family some day,' he thought, smiling. He couldn't wait until he saw Yuki's face when he realized who his new clients are.

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Author's Note: I'm so happy! This ending is so much better than my first one. Yes, I had to RETYPE the ending from when the tape was played until the end. The first one I had sucked. I glad you don't have to read that icky ending.

Anyway, this story is almost over. Can you believe it? Just a few more chapters left. (3-5 I hope) I just keep on saying that over and over, but I'm excited! And I don't think I'll be able to update next week or two weeks 'cux I wrote this before school started so yeah.

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