"Agh!" Yumi kicked the wall of the cage she was in. She had been kicking it for a while now. Finally, she dropped down on the floor. Her foot hurt and she hated herself for not being able to get out of the cage. She wondered what happen to Ulrick and the others. 'Why is Yuki doing this? What is his purpose?' Yumi tried to think back to anything that Yuki had said that might help her understand what his plan was. Suddenly, she remembered what Yuki had said when he first appeared in LYOKO. 'You are the one I need. The one that can't leave.' He had said this to Aelita. Yumi jumped up and hit her head on the top of the cage. "OUCH!" she rubbed her head and tried to, once again, break free from the cage. She kicked, punched and used her fan until the door finally gave way and fell to the floor. "YES!" she cried as she jumped from the cage. She looked at the cage door lying on the floor and smiled to herself. "Just wait till Yuki gets back and sees this." She said. She turned around and left the room. She crept to the window and peeked out to see if anyone was outside. Sure enough, in the distance, Yuki was flying towards the large house. Yumi gasped and ran from the window and down the stairs of the house. She hid in a small, dusty closet near the front door. She planned that when Yuki came in, she would come from her hiding place when he had gone upstairs and leave the house to try to get in touch with Jeremy when she was a good distance away. From within the house, she was not able to communicate with Jeremy or the others. 'Maybe when I am outside and away from this house, it will work. This whole place must have a barrier around.' Yumi thought. After a few moments, she heard the front door open.
"I'm gonna hurt that damn kid if it's the last thing I do!" she heard Yuki yelled as he slammed the door behind him.
'He must be talking about me.' Yumi thought. She smiled at the thought of her not being upstairs like he thought.
She heard Yuki in the next room. He was talking to himself. "If that boy thinks he can just talk to me like that, he has another thing coming. He will be sorry. When he arrives, I'm going to surprise him with an attack! Yes, that sounds good. I'll hide above the front door, then when he enters, I'll jump down and kill him! Hahahhaha. That Ulrick boy won't know what hit him." Yuki laughed as Yumi just sat in disbelieve.
'Oh no! Ulrick!' She then heard Yuki walk up the stairs, still mumbling his plan to himself. When she was sure he was upstairs, she crept from the closet and sneaked out the front door. 'It will be a few minutes before he reaches the top floor.' Yumi thought as she ran away from the house in the direction that Yuki came from. 'Maybe Ulrick will be this way.' She darted around a huge boulder, and ran into Ulrick!
"Ugh! What the…" Ulrick stopped as he and Yumi bounced off each other.
"Ulrick!" Yumi cried. She leaped to her feet and jumped on him, giving him a hug. Ulrick hugged her back. Just then, Yumi remembered why she had been running in the first place. She pulled back from him. "Ulrick! We have to get out of here. Out of LYOKO I mean. I heard Yuki talking to himself about a plan and he said that he was going to kill you. By the way, what did you say to him? He seemed pretty mad about it."
Ulrick laughed, "Well, I don't think that he is really mad about me saying it, I just admired your bite marks that's all." Ulrick shrugged and grinned at Yumi.
Yumi bit her lip, "Well, he was putting me in a cage! Like I wasn't going to bite him or hurt him in any other way." She said. She finally got off Ulrick and helped him to his feet, just as Aelita and Od came into view.
"Well, you sure are fast Ulrick. Hey Yumi, how'd you get away?" Od asked.
"I'll tell you later. Right now, we have to get out of here. Yuki doesn't know I'm gone and was going up to check on me. I'm sure he has found out by now that I'm not there." Yumi said. The others nodded and ran off to the nearest tower to get home. "Jeremy. Can you hear me Jeremy?" Yumi asked.
"Loud and clear Yumi. Are you ok? We've been worried about you, especially Ulrick." Jeremy stated.
"Jeremy!" Ulrick yelled. Yumi laughed as they came near a tower. After saying their farewells to Aelita, they got transferred home. They met up with Jeremy, and decided to go all sleep over at one house to keep a look out for Xana or most possibly, Yuki. After a bit of debating, Ulrick said his house would work. His parents wouldn't mind if it was thought of at the last moment, or that Yumi was a girl. Since it was a vacation, the kids at school got to go to their real houses for a week.
So Od and Jeremy told their parents they were sleeping at Ulrick's, while Yumi told hers that she was staying at Samantha's house. Jeremy, Od, and Yumi met at Ulrick's with their sleeping bags.
His mom answered the door. "Why, hello. All of you going to sleep here?" she asked, smiling. They smiled back and stepped into the house, then walked up the stairs to Ulrick's room. When they knocked on his bedroom door, there was a small crash and they heard Ulrick, "Just a second. I'll be right there." A few moments later Ulrick opened his door and let them in.
Od noticed the room was clean right away. "You cleaned you cleaned your room Ulrick! What was that crash then? You killed something didn't you? Then you cleaned the room to get rid of the evidence. Well, I think you have just been caught, Young Sir!" Od started prancing about the room, and acting like a detective, looking under the bed and in the closet and such. "Aha! You have not cleaned very well. You just threw it all in here." Od said as he pulled some stuff from the closet floor. "Tsk, tsk. How do you ever think you will impress Yumi with a closet like this? My room is cleaning then this
Ulrick threw a small pillow at Od, "Stop it Od! Put that stuff back and get out of my closet. The lamp has already fallen." He pointed to the lamp beside the bed. The shade to it was wrinkled, dented and had a small tear in it. Od and Yumi started laughing.
"That's the crash then. Mystery solved Od." Yumi said, still laughing.
"Well, how do we know he didn't kill something? He could still be hiding it here somewhere. We need to do a thorough examination." Od said as he pounded his fist into his hand.
"Um…Od? Doesn't that hurt?" Jeremy asked.
"Yes it does." Od replied. "Ouch, that really did hurt." He mumbled. He waved his hand in the air, trying to ease the pain. His hand collided into the lamp beside the bed.
"OD! BE CAREFUL!" Ulrick yelled.
Od grabbed the lamp and put it back on the nightstand. The shade was even more torn and hung loosely. Od looked over at Ulrick, "I'm really sorry Ulrick. I didn't mean to." He said, hanging his head.
"I know you didn't Od. Just don't touch it anymore, ok?" Ulrick said, trying to straighten it.
Od nodded his head. Then picked up a pillow and threw it at Yumi when she wasn't looking and knocking her to the ground, "Haha!"
"Od! Uggh…!" Yumi threw it back, aiming for his head. Od ducked, then threw his head back in laughter. Yumi took this opportunity to hurry across the room. When Od brought his head back up, Yumi had her hand waiting for him. She flicked him in the forehead as hard as she could.
"OW! Yumi! That hurt!" Od yelled as he rubbed his forehead viciously.
"Well, you did deserve it Od. For a number of things too. First, you said Ulrick killed something and went snooping through his stuff. Then, you broke Ulrick's lamp more then it was. Finally, you threw the pillow at Yumi and knocked her over. I think you really deserved to be hit." Jeremy stated. He smiled at Od. Od mumbled something under his breath, but the others didn't feel like arguing with him anymore.
Ulrick looked at the clock beside his bed, it was late already. "Hey guys, do you think we should get to bed? It's getting kind of late." He asked the others. They all nodded and laid out there sleeping bags.
"I call under the window!" Od shouted, as he tossed his bag across the room. Jeremy placed his bag beside Od's, then Ulrick put his beside Jeremy's, and then Yumi put hers at the end of the line. Ulrick turned out the light when everyone else was in there sleeping bags. Ulrick laid down in his sleeping bag between Yumi and Jeremy. He glanced over at Yumi, who was facing him, but had her eyes closed. Ulrick let out a silent sigh. For a while, Ulrick lay looking at the ceiling and would occasionally glance at Yumi. He noticed her looking at him sometimes, but closed her eyes when he looked back at her, which made him feel sad. Sort of.
Jeremy started snoring, not loudly, but you could still hear him. For once in his life, Od wasn't making a sound. He would sometimes twitch, but then be still. Ulrick again, looked at Yumi. This time, she didn't notice he was looking at her and was staring back at him. When she saw that they were looking at one other, she turned around and faced the other side of the room, away from Ulrick's glance. For a sort time, she waited until she could turn around again. She slowly turned her head to see if he was looking away, and found Ulrick sitting up and staring at her. she knew she couldn't turn around again, so she sat up also.
"Um…hi?" she said. Ulrick laughed, but not to loudly. Yumi glanced uneasily around the room. When she looked back at Ulrick, he leaned forward and kissed her. Yumi sat there, shocked. "You know. As many times you do that, I am always surprised." She said. She then kisses Ulrick.
"And as many times as you kiss me back, I am just happy that you do." Ulrick said back. They looked at each other and started kissing again. They then, heard footsteps coming, so they laid in their sleeping bags, just in time as Ulrick's mother came into the room. They pretended to be asleep as she checked on them all. She then left the room. Ulrick and Yumi looked at each other one last time before going to sleep.
To be continued…
Well, I am done with this chapter. Aren't you all proud of me? Well, the next chapter is coming, um…sooner or later? Oh well, bye all.