Hello! What's up ya'll? Sorry I know I said there would probably be quicker updates, it's just that I've got so many updates from stories that I have on my alert list that I haven't had time to type this up. lol but yeah My rather large pile updates is almost gone but yeah I told a few people I'd try to update today so here I am! XD ok well I dont' really have any notes to speak of since I answered all reviews personally like I normally do so yeah On to the story!

Keys:

"blah" talking

'blah' thinking

blah emphasize that word

blah flashbacks, dreams, or writing

-blah- Someone doing something (example: -gasp!-)

--blah-- something happening (such as the ringing of a phone)

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Chapter Eight: Identity Revealed

"It's all my fault! It's all my fault! Oh God! It's all my fault!" Shuichi ranted, holding his head in his hands as he rocked back and forth in Tatsuke's arms.

"No Shuichi. It's not your fault. Stop blaming yourself." Tatsuke tried to comfort him, only to get louder sobs in response.

"Damn! You guys are pathetic!" Hitomi yelled, plugging her ears as she walked into the room.

"What do you want now?" Tatsuke asked bitterly.

"Yuki and I had a deal. He'd die and I'd let Shuichi go without harming him. But...the thing is...he didn't keep up his end of the bargain. So that means...I don't have to keep mine." She answered, smirking evilly at Shuichi, who's loud sobs were now soft, sad, whimpers.

"Don't you dare touch him!" Tatsuke yelled, backing away and taking Shu with him.

"Ha ha ha! You think you can stop me?" She laughed.

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"Ok so we know from this letter that Shuichi's been kidnapped and Mr. Yuki made a deal with the kidnapper. In exchange for Shuichi's life, he'd take his own. right?" Hiro asked, summing up what they knew so far.

"Right." Tohma confirmed.

"This would be so much easier if bro was awake..." Tatshuya groaned, voicing everyone's opinion.

"But the thing is, he's not. So it's up to us to figure this out and help Shuichi." K said seriously, loading some of his guns.

"Right but with the little information we have, how are we supposed to do that?" Suguru chimed in.

"We gather more information and we find a way!" K answered, propping his gun on his shoulder with a smile, earning quite a few sweat drops from his friends.

Hours past and they still had no leads.

"This is pointless! We can't do anything with the little informations we have!" Suguru complained, obviously stressed.

"He's right." Tohma said grimly. "We have to continue when we have more information."

"Then we split up!" K suggested, enthusiastic as ever. "We split up, look for information, anyone who finds something reports it when we meet back!"

So, they all left in groups, intending to meet two hours later.

-----------------With Tohma and Mika----------------

"Tohma..." Mika broke the silence they'd been walking in. "What if we can't find Shindou-san? Do you think Eiri will wake up on his own?"

"...I think there are two things that could trigger his wake up, Time. and Shindou-san. Of course if time really is what it takes to wake him up and we don't find Shuichi then...well, he'll probably keep trying to kill himself..." Tohma answered, voicing his opinion on the matter as they kept searching for anything that could help them find Shuichi.

---------------With Hiro, Ayaka, and Fujisaki------------

"I agree with K, that we can't give up, but how are we supposed to find anything if we don't even know what we're looking for?" Hiro sighed, sitting on a bench to rest his tired legs.

"Um...should we stop somewhere and eat? It's nearing dinner time and hungry stomachs won't help us any." Ayaka pointed out quietly.

"Sounds like a plan to me!" Suguru agreed offering a hand to help his bandmate up.

----------------------With Ryuichi and Tatshuya----------

"Tatsu-kuuuun! We've been searching for a long time and haven't found anything!" Ryuichi whined with his Kumagaro. "Can't we go back now? If anyone will find something it's gonna be K..."

"Yeah, you're right...alright it's been almost two hours so we'll go ahead and go back."

When they arrived back at the diner/coffeeshop that they split at, everyone was there except for K, who arrived almost an hour later.

"What took you so long?" Mika almost yelled.

"Good News!"

"Huh? You found him?" Hiro asked, surprised.

"No. But I found clues! Apparently Mr.Yuki had been getting phone calls from the kidnapper. So I traced those calls and found out that the owner of the apartment the calls came from hasn't been seen in days. I went to the apartment but it was empty. Also, the last few calls were from a different number but I couldn't track that one for some reason. But the most interesting thing is the name of the apartment renter from the first several calls. His name was Tatsuke-"

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"Hitomi stop this! He doesn't deserve it!" Tatsuke yelled as he was forced to watch Hitomi's henchmen mercilessly beat his friend.

"Oh? You still think you can stop me? You couldn't even avenge the death of Taki. Your own brother!"

End Chapter 8!

Well there ya have it! You finally all know who Tatsuke is. He's Taki's younger brother! XD lol yeah ummm I know this chapter is probably kinda lame...but yeah I wanted Tatsuke's identity to take up a whole chapter so I had to put something in there. lol but yeah. It get's better in the next four chapters! I swear! -evil laughter- oh. ahem. oops. almost gave away a little spoiler! tehehe! Well! If ya'll want a quicker update this time then give me lots of reviews! XD Bye ByeZ!