. : Inazuma : .
: . By Akikazu . :
. : Chapter Nine : .
What had happened? Souta groggily sat up and looked around the room, or cell rather. He was laying on a hard futon made out of straw and the only way out seemed to be through a barred door.
"Onee-chan?" He called quietly.
His words rang ominously in what he would now call a dungeon. The only source of light, a single torch, flickered slightly causing him to whimper. He wasn't afraid of the dark, but he was afraid of being locked in here in the dark.
Souta sat back down on the futon, huddling and tried to think of what had happened before he had awakened here.
Kagome had taken him to school and had dropped him off at the principal's office. He had talked to the secretary who had a student working as an office assistant escort him to class. He had introduced himself and sat down till lunch. When they had gotten back from lunch he had been called down to the office and…
That was all he remembered.
"I'm been abducted…" He whispered horrified.
"Aww has the puppy awakened?" A sinister, at least it was to him, asked.
The torched light went out and Souta huddled closer into himself. He could hear footsteps approaching his cell and the grinding of the cell door as it opened. It was pitch black and he couldn't see the hand even after it grabbed his arm.
"Come on puppy, we're going to give you new eyes."
"Let go of me!"
"Nuh-uh, no can do puppy."
He was dragged form the room, kicking and wriggling in a sad attempt to escape. The hand was firm pulling him along and up a staircase. The door opened and bright light poured over him blinding him momentarily.
"You and I are going to have a fun time together puppy."
Souta's eyes cleared and he saw he was standing in a room that bore an uncanny resemblance to a doctor's office, but Souta had a sinking feeling that the man he was with was in no way a professional doctor.
"Now, now puppy, take a seat and we'll get started."
Before Souta could react he found himself bound tightly to the chair with a man he could only describe as beautiful, looming above him. The man's golden hair fell around his face and the light reflected off of it, giving him a halo, and his eyes were a golden hue so much different than the hanyou his sister had once traveled with.
The man was holding a scary scalpel and Souta felt the sinking in his stomach intensify.
This could not be even remotely good.
I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I .
"What do you mean you we can't go find him?" Kagome cried.
"Tsukasa isn't picking up any abnormal energies, we have nothing to go on," Nakaura told her calmly. He gave her a critical look and added, "You need to calm yourself down, Higurashi."
"Calm myself down! My brother has been abducted and you want me to do nothing and calm down!" Kagome demanded. "Well even if you're not going to help I'll find him myself!"
Kagome ran off without waiting for the protest that was sure to follow. The group watched her leave, frustrated.
"Someone needs to go with her," Mana announced.
The boys were nearly speechless with disbelief but one word slipped out of all their mouths in unison.
"What?"
Mana was calm as she explained, though her eyes were slightly wet. "She's seriously concerned about her brother, and she was asking our help even though, for all she knows we could be the ones behind it." She looked at the boys and stabbed a finger in their direction. "Because we can't all go rushing off, one of you are going to go with her in case she runs into something. The rest of us will be here and if Tsukasa-kun senses anything we'll go investigate."
The boys threw looks at each other, trying to silence convince one of their number to voulenteer to go after the girl who had only shown a softer emotion in the wake of her brother's disappearance. The plan failed.
Haruna stood by Mana knowing that she would have to go no where and let the boys try and escape the inevitable.
"I'm staying with Mana," Kaname stated firmly.
"I will stay with Tsukasa," Nakaura added.
Isshin and Itsuki looked at each other, staring off.
"You run fast," Itsuki pointed out.
"I am no match for the wind," Isshin commented.
Mana smiled happily, catching onto Kanames hand and hugging it cheerfully.
"Then it's settled, Itsuki-kun will go after her."
Knowing that they would all stand firm on this decision Itsuki turned and speed after the girl.
"They send me off after a girl who hates me for no apparent reason and I'm going to be late, at the very least, for my job."
With a little help from his powers he caught up with her easily. She glared at him and he knew he was doom when he spotted the tears in her eyes.
He was a sucker for tears.
"Leave me alone."
"The rest are going to wait till Tsukasa senses something, but I'm going with you."
"I don't nee your pity."
"Good cause you ain't going to get it. Now, where are we going?"
"I don't know but the voices are telling me to go this way."
She ran faster and left Itsuki alone to interpret her words in whatever way he liked. Kagome allowed the voices free rein over her feet and she soon found herself run at a speed fast than she had ever achieved before.
After lots of running the pair found themselves in a runned down part of the city, in front of an old office building.
Kagome stood on the porch, hesitant to go any further and gave one last indefinable look at Itsuki before touching the door knob.
A shrill scream launched her into sudden action.
Souta!
I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I .
This place…
How he hated this place.
He remembered this place so well though it was burned into his brain. The white walls, the dusty furniture, the cracked ceiling.
The last place he had ever been able to see.
If there ever was a place that was truly cursed, this would be it.
He entered through a window, and then carefully navigated through the hallway and down some stairs.
The boy was close, and so were the girl and E.G.O.
And that cursed man as well…
He jumped over another stair railing and land soundlessly on the ground. The tails of the bandana that covered his unseeing eyes fluttered at his quick, precise movements.
With his superior hearing he could make out the sound of a struggle.
The man was just tying the boy down then?
"This will only hurt a bit, puppy."
Oh how he loathed that cruel voice!
A shrill scream made him desperate.
A wicked laugher weaved through the scream.
And he knew that he was too late.
I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I .
"I know it hurts, puppy, but one day you'll thank me."
Souta curled into himself crying, his faces clutched over his face.
The pain washed over his, beating over him like waves on the shore, and he could do nothing. His mind remained fixated on a single moment in time.
As long as he lived Souta was sure that he would never forget the torment of having a scorching blade slice through his eyes.
The sense of seeing was now completely lost to him.
"Onee-chan…"
"Now, now don't do delusional on me, puppy. We've yet to see if you have been gifted with the sight'."
Souta could only wonder what the hell the man was talking about. The man had just cut through his eye and he though he could actually still see?
His tormentor abruptly yanked his hands away from their protective position over his eyes.
Souta was immediately bombarded with colored clouds floating in his view. In the direction of the scary man was a metallic looking cloud and there were three different clouds heading in his direction. He focused on a mixed swirl that seemed familiar to him, though the mystic purple cloud was closer.
The harder he focused the more the cloud shifted till he could she a face in it.
Kagome!
When the hands on his wrist disappeared Souta came back to his current predicament. The purple cloud was now extremely close and hovering over the metallic cloud, which had been blown back. The cloud that Souta guessed was the man that cut him was growing fainter and fainter, till it disappeared completely.
His tormenter was dead.
I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I .
Tsukasa shot up from his seat.
"I sense something!"
"Could it be them, or is it just another renegade psychic?" Nakaura questioned.
"It very weird, like nothing I've ever sensed before, but it is in the direction Itsuki-kun went."
Kaname stood and helped Mana to her feet.
"Well what are we waiting for?" Mana asked.
Tsukasa started off in the direction the weird sensation originated from, everyone else followed closely behind, mentally preparing for battle.
I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I .
She was so close, she could feel it.
Kagome skidded to a stop and ran back into the hallway that she had passed in her rush. Itsuki followed cautiously, careful not to get in her way. He was probing his mind, trying to figure out why this place seemed so familiar.
"I got it," he announced aloud.
"Got what?"
"This place used to be the E.G.O. headquarters before they moved it under the hospital."
"So what were all these rooms?"
"Offices, training rooms, storage, a medical bay, a few filing rooms, a cell, and I think a lab or two."
"Whoa."
"I know."
Kagome came to a stop suddenly so suddenly that Itsuki nearly ran into her. She threw open the door in front of her and ran inside, skidding to a stop in the middle of the room.
"Souta!"
: . End Chapter . :
. : Author's Note : .
I will focus on this chapter as soon as Julie writes back 'k? But for now enjoy this chapter, in which you will all think I am mean because of Souta.
This office building however will be important, and will have something to do with both Souta and Kagome, and their mom too.
So sit back, relax, and speculate on where my twisted mind is taking you.
Enjoy!
: . Review Responses . :
regretfully-yours-Cassy-chan – Personally I never do my homework, but somehow it never really matters though it's either 30 or 20 percent of our grade… For some reason I can't remember the numbers…
chinadoll27 – He's an OC created by Julie, whom can take a great deal of the credit for the current outline of the story. YAY JULIE!
LKLTB – Aww, Kagome didn't get to him first…
Evfrosyne – Yay for the plot! And Julie! … Author's and un-promptness seem to go together…
Kitty Mew 2005 – We're authors, we can take all the time in the world because we move it. Lol, that make really no sense at all does it.
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