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Start: November 2, 2005

Chapter Two: Lost and Never Found

"What do you mean you lost her!" a furious voice shouted over the walkie-talkie. Many bangs and crashing noises could be heard, and then followed by distant cursing.

Mikage Aya the main C-Genome was lost; the most powerful had simply vanished. How can a person just disappear? The fluid injected in her needed to be tested, and now the results would never appear. They had the comb the hospital clean, searching every door one by one, double, triple, and even quadruple checking.

"What do you mean my woman is gone?" the progenitor hissed, his eyes flashed with anger as he reached and grabbed Kagami's underling. He smashed the poor man's head against the concrete wall and then he grabbed a knife. He stabbed the goon's arm and slowly dragged the knife up the arm. As he screamed in pain, the other smiled sadistically. "You lost your chance," he said manically and left the poor man bleeding on the ground.

"I wish you would stop doing that," Kagami said carelessly, as if Mikage broke another vase.

"Don't tell me what to do," Mikage hissed again," You told me you had her. I want my woman." He reached up to grab Kagami's face when a knock on the door interrupted them.

"Enter," Kagami ordered," what do you want Mina?" The secretary trembled slightly as she handed Kagami his coffee. She left and let out her long held breath. Mina always got scared when she went to work, especially since Aki started to come. She hated that cold superior look that he gave as he scanned her body as well. She shivered slightly and resumed sitting on her desk.

"What are you going to do now?" Mikage asked furious at his loss," I want my woman."

"Yes, I heard you the first time," Kagami leaned back on his chair and looked out the window. He mentally sighed; he expected more from his ancestor then some woman-obsessed lust freak, but then again…

"Well," impatience was in his voice as he started to pace around in his room.

"We'll search for her of course," he tried to calm Mikage down," she can't hide forever; a sign of her will show up."

"It better," Mikage muttered darkly, "or there will be hell to pay."

"How about we start 'paying' with the Aogiri family?" Kagami asked, hoping that would keep his mind off things.

"Yes, that Aogiri, second to Touya," Mikage sneered," he has some dues to us."

"Of course," Kagami visibly relaxed a bit,"so many dues. I'll keep you posted on any sign of her."

He grinned madly as he said," She will return to me; she has to. Ceres is my woman and no one else's. Anyone who gets in my way…" His grin widen as his eyes flashed with uttermost glee; like a child is scheming to steal candy, only worse.

"Yes she will," Kagami repeated, too tired from that night's event to fully hear Mikage. Sometimes this was like babysitting a child.

Alec was typing rapidly on the computer, every now and the he would look up briefly at the clock. His slump form and dark circles under his eyes showed the long nights spent finding Aya. He hadn't had any sleep for almost two weeks now and the Progenitor could be heard with tantrums every hour. Alec hoped the Aya was safe and that the fluid didn't kill her, even though there was a 0.0000329432 perecent chance that she would live. He had guilt consuming him as well; just like Touya's death he couldn't help them at all. This was inhumane and he knew this. Suddenly the door creaked open and a tired Kagami entered.

"Well?" he said with hope in his voice," any sign of her?"

"Well, it's strange. There isn't any sign of her at all, like she just disappeared," Alec answered as he warily glanced at the door.

"I'm not sure how he is going to take this," Kagami followed Alec's actions.

"We can't forget the drug we had injected in her," Alec reminded his superior.

"Yes, she could have died," Kagami said daringly.

"But we should keep searching, she had survived many things before," Alec attempted to make Kagami laugh.

"Very well," Kagami sighed deeply, he shut the door and proceeded to relay the information to Mikage.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT!" his voice echoed even in the room Alec was working in.

"God have mercy on us all," Alec said," This inhumane experiment has dragged on too long."

End of Chapter Two

End: November 14, 2005

In this chapter I tried to make the characters in character and bit OOC. I tried to make Kagami more human-like and Mikage more child-like. Doesn't he seem like a spoiled child the in the manga always demanding for his woman?

Preview of the Next Chapter: Truth and Lies

"Tohru? Tohru whats wrong?" Kyo banged on her door, "TORHU!"

"Honda-san, you told me once that if I need to talk you'll be there. Perhaps I should return the favor, yes?" Yuki asked.

My life maybe cursed, but for your future to be bright I will fight. I will fight till I die. No one not even my own family will stop me...