Chapter 9

Into the lion's den

"They took who Lisa, calmed down you over reacting…What! No, not them too," said Seto in shock, "Ok calm down Kisty and I will be there right away," he then hung up the phone and took a deep breath, "It seems that your cover is blown," he said looking over at Josh. Turning to his daughter slowly, "Kisty, your in this now, they took Ally two hours ago, they wrecked the mansion and took your two cousins as well," he spoke slowly.

"What?" said Josh and Kisty at the same time in shock.

Seto ran his fingers through his hair, "We are in this now like it or not Josh," he said, "We need to go Mokuba's place."

Kisty was already out the door when her father spoke, she had to get there and the quickest way to Mokuba's was just down the large foothill. As she ran she could only think of how the day started as she ran she saw something black running towards her however it was on four legs, and barking, "Kisara it's me," she said to her dog.

The black Labrador came running over tail between her legs and limping, "Oh girl what did they do to you," she looked at her large dog's hind leg it was badly cut. Kisty quickly took her dress and ripped part of it to bandage her dog's leg, "easy girl," she whispered as the dog yelped in pain.

Seto and Josh were heard running down the hill now, Josh stopped a few feet from Kisty, as Seto ran to her and the dog, "Go I will take care of your dog, you and Josh get to the mansion now," he ordered.

Kisty nodded her head as she finished tying her dog's leg and quickly ran to the fence that looked as if had been forced open, as she ran pass through the green grass and around the pool into the house, "Uncle Mokuba, Aunt Lisa, are you two ok," she asked from the back door that had been kicked open.

"Over here," came Lisa's voice, it sounded weak and full of sorrow as if she had been crying as she waved the flashlight at Kisty and lead her to them safely. As she walked over to Lisa, she saw Mokuba at her aunt's feet with a big gash on his head, "Oh no, not him too," she said.

Lisa shook her head, "no he is just unconscious, I managed to stop some of the bleeding however they hit him pretty hard as they did me, but I was a lighter blow I think," she answered.

Kisty took the flashlight and looked at Lisa's head, "Yeah, you going to have a nice bump there," she said then pointed the flashlight at Seto and Josh as they ran through the backdoor, "We are over here, Uncle's out cold and Lisa has a bump on her head," answered Kisty to Seto's unasked questions.

When the sun rose at the Kaiba mansion, Kisty stood in the living room with coffee in her hand and looking out at the ocean view, dressed in her blue robe, and slippers, her brown hair stopping at her shoulders all ratted and messy as if she hadn't the strength to brush it, her cold blue eyes looked as if they hadn't had a second of sleep in them, and were full of worry.

Ally was kidnapped along with her cousins, how could this of happened, should she just let them take Josh away, or better yet should she have gotten in such a rage that blew her husband's cover. How could she have been so stupid, to just think of herself at a time like this, she needed to focus on getting her daughter back but how, remained to be seen.

Hearing soft footstep and a limp in one leg come towards her, Kisty looked down next to her seeing her faithful dog Kisara with a well-bandaged leg now, whimpering next to her knowing that her mistress was upset and had not slept all night.

Kisty kneeled down and petted Kisara on the head as the dog sat on her two good legs and put the bad one on her thigh, "Yeah, I know Kisara, you tried, you're a good dog, always has been, you tried," she said as the dog just looked at her.

"You know if I didn't know any better I say that you love that dog more then humans," said a voice in living room door way. Kisty looked up and shook her head, "Not now you," she snapped at Josh.

Josh walked over to her, "Come on Kisty you stopped to care for the dog when you were running towards Mokuba's place," he pointed out.

Kisty stood up, "I can't help it if I get distracted by my guardian, besides, there was nothing we could do the damage was done," she turned away and took another sip of her coffee.

"You need to rest," spoke Josh in a calm tone as Kisty shook her head.

"No, I am going to stay up, they could call for demands anytime, remember Josh they also want you too, we blew your cover," Kisty spoke upset.

"Actually, blew his cover," said Duke standing with Seto in the doorway. Kisty turned to look at Duke, "Don't even take another step Devlin, you caused enough pain in my family to last a lifetime, my daughter is missing, my cousins are kidnapped, my husband who I thought was dead was actually alive and well with you near by, and you have the balls to walk into my family's mansion all to say you blew Josh's cover, and expect me to just welcome you with open arms?" she snapped.

"No, actually but it was all according to plan," said Duke, "Things had to be moved up in planning, you see Kisty, I need your help, like it or not you and I are family," he smirked.

Kisty shook her head, "That's your opinion, the day I accept you as part of my family is the day hell freezes over," she snapped. Duke laughed as Kisty continued to yell angrily, "What's so funny this isn't a time to laugh!"

"Actually, hell must be enjoying the cool down or did you forget whose son you married," laughed Duke.

Kisty glared, "My husband is dead in my opinion," as she looked over at Josh and began to walk towards the door where Duke and Seto stood, "Dad, move," she snapped.

Seto moved out of Kisty's way, which caused Duke and Josh to drop their jaws, as Kisty walked by growling.

"Kaiba does she have you whipped or something because you never let anyone move pass you?" asked Duke.

Seto smirked, "I never get in the way of an angry parent, not to mention one that just had her child kidnapped," he answered walking over to sit at one of the couches.

"How would you know that wonderful piece of information for all us to understand, from the way I see it she has you whipped," Duke chuckled then received a hit on the back of the head, "Ouch, what the…oh hi Ann."

"Seto knows from experience, because of what your boys did to Kisty at Kaiba Corp or do I have to remind you?" Ann spoke in a very upset tone.

Seto shook his head, "Well thanks two my granddaughter and nephews are missing," he said, "So how are you we going to get them back?"

Josh stood wide-eyed at Seto who was looking at him, "What do you mean by we, this is my entire father's plan, it doesn't involve you guys," he said pointing at Duke.

"It became a family matter the moment you faked your death, causing my grandchild and nephews to be kidnapped, and put my family in danger so how do two propose to get them all back alive?" snapped Kaiba.

"Ally's kidnap wasn't in my plan I didn't think they would bring you into this, how we have a mole in our mists, someone told them to involve you guys," said Duke, "Josh's death was to remove the Kaiba factor from the situation, and instead would go after me alone, however like most of my plans they have a tendency to fail."

"Yes, and that failure in your calculation almost got my husband and I killed," snapped Lisa, pushing Duke into the living room, "Not to mention, your screwed with the wrong family, now this includes all of us, including Yugi his is family, Duke your about to cost a lot of us problems, is it like you favorite thing to do is screw up our lives?" she asked.

"Lisa, if that was my intent does you thinks I would have made my son fake his own death. I was trying to get those people off my back they wanted me dead, Josh came and offered to help and I told him the risks of my scheme and he agreed to it," explained Duke.

"I didn't you told me the only thing I had to do was disappear for a while and I was planning to have Kisty and Ally do the same however you only wanted me because making three death certificates were harder to obtain then just one," Josh said quickly, "You never once mentioned that this would involve everyone I know and that Kisty would be related to."

"Well looks like you forgot to take that into account when you agreed to help me," said Duke.

Josh gripped his fisted, "I never should of showed you an ounce of a chance," he snapped and marched out of the room, "I should of known you would do this, all you have done throughout my life is mess it up, well guess what Duke as soon as I get Ally back into Kisty's hands I am personally making sure you disappear from my life for good do you hear me," he then marched out of the room.

Duke smirked, "You can't get rid of what is in neither your blood nor your daughter's," he said.

"I wasn't talking about DNA Duke," snapped Josh as he stopped at the door, "I was talking about you living, or did you forget who was raised by two men that own a graveyard," he then left the room.

Kisty stood at the stairs watching Josh march towards the kitchen, and slowly went after him, upon entering the kitchen she saw Josh over the island counter, "Dammit I didn't want it this ways," he said sitting down, "All I wanted was to protect them, why did this have to happen, I lost so much time, I missed so much of Ally's little things, I know she didn't, no she shouldn't of had to go through that, just I did not want to hurt Kisty either that was not, in the deal I made," he said slamming his fist on the counter.

Kisty walked into the kitchen the rest of the way and put her hand on Josh's shoulder, "You can't turn back the clock but you can fix it to move forward," she said to him, "I believe you told me that once," she smiled at Josh as he turned around to face her.

"How…how long have you been standing there?" Josh asked in shock.

"Long enough," Kisty smiled, "Josh, I am not happy that you fooled all of us into thinking that you were dead, however I know this that I still love you and Dad was right I did forgive you in the kitchen at the house," she slowly kissed him which took him by surprise.

"Kisty," Josh spoke slowly as he kissed her back, "I promise I will get your daughter back," he said determined while hugging her, "I have to at least get her to you; after all you're her mother."

Kisty shook her head, "We will get our daughter back together, or else there will be hell to pay. Little Ally is mine as well as yours Josh and I want her back so that way she could be with her father, after all I know what it's like personally," she smiled and kissed him again after removing one of his bangs from his eyes. "You know I kind of like this new look you have going, it's much better then the green and black you used to have," she smiled, "Josh, we can't change the past but we can fix things for the future," she moved away from Josh and walked out the kitchen door, which Seto had been standing by the whole time.

"You really think that you can trust him after what he did to you and your daughter?" Seto asked looking at Kisty walk past him.

Turning quickly, "What father wouldn't want to get his child back, as I recalled Dad, you would have trusted almost anyone to save me that night when I was rapped, I believe that if Josh wanted to hurt me he wouldn't have live through that fake accident," she smiled. Then walked towards the stairs to Ally's room, she was going to need something that she kept hidden there something she had bought and thought that she would never have to use.

She walked into Ally's room and over to the closet and opened a hidden compartment, and pulled out a vacuumed sealed bag, "Looks like I am going under cover," she said pulling the bag open.