Dirty Little Secrets
Chapter 10
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A dark figure moved through one of the oldest parts of Tokyo dragging two trash bags behind him. 'Damnit, now what am I going to do?' Richard thought as he reached the river, the concrete on the bodies weighing them down.
'The girl is gonna wake up soon and I'm not even there.'
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"Ugghhh." Konic shook her head and rubbed her eyes. "Am I still here?" She looked around; the room seemed darker, as she looked she saw the door was now closed.
She crept towards the door in a mock spy fashion and pushed it open. What she saw however knocked her to the floor.
Machine guns lined the walls along with a series chains ranging in size and metals. A dark-green raft stood on its side to the far wall surrounded by various bombs. To the other side there was a rack filled with different sizes of Japanese military clothes and armory. She was in what looked like a long abandoned military warehouse.
She stood shakily and looked for the exit. 'There's got to be one somewhere.' Her brown hair was greasy and fell in her face, causing her to pull it back constantly.
'Wait, what's this?' She reached for a piece of yellowed paper stuck between two of the uniforms on the metal rack. It was an envelope with 'Seto' crawled across the front. She opened the envelope and pulled out the letter and what looked like a map.
Dear Seto,
I miss you big brother! I don't like seeing you chained up like this. Your cuts and bruises hurt me to. Maybe this will help, but only do it at night! I Love You Seto.
MokubaAs she looked to the map she that it wasn't just a map, it was to the warehouse! There was also a red line drew through the quickest escape route.
She stuffed the envelope and letter in her back pocket and took off back through the room she woke up in and felt along the East wall, there was a door that led to the arsenal. From there she ran to the door on the other side of the room, which lead to a hallway.
On the map there was an 'Shhh!' written in red. 'Okay, there should be a trap door in the corner over there.' She stayed quiet and pulled the door open, looking down she saw it was a cafeteria. Climbing down she shut the door behind her and moved around the ladder to the door behind it. Walking through the kitchen she came to the laundry shoot, beyond that there was another door. She pushed through it and fresh air assaulted her senses making her dizzy.
There was a highway that went over the hill of other military buildings about a mile to the north. Shoving the map in her other back pocket she sprinted towards the high way, only slowing after passing the fifth building.
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"Mokuba…." Rebecca barely had time to report the wavelengths before the bright red light flashed angrily through the room in a violent report of the tracker system.
"Seto!" Mokuba screamed into the intercom "What are you waiting for! Follow the tracker NOW!" He yelled to the men who took off to the garage area.
"What Mokuba?" Seto ran into the room.
"We've got a hit on the tracker." He said pointing to the red light on the green 3-D map.
Seto studied it carefully. "What tracker is it? I haven't manufactured a red signal." Looking to his brother who was reading some of the data the computer printed out.
"I don't know, by the looks of the location it's probably one of Gozaburo's." He stated not looking from his read outs.
"Rebecca?" Serenity entered the room, now fully dressed. "Whats going on?"
The blonde smiled brightly at the aubern haired woman. "We've found Konic!"
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Konic stopped after she was so far up the hill she could no longer see past it. She panted and put her head between her knees in an attempt to calm her rapid breathing. She hadn't eaten in what seemed like forever.
"No, no-" She fell to her knees and threw up what looked like pure stomach acid.
She wiped her mouth with a shaking hand and sat there listening to the highway. Her head sped up at the vague sound of sirens in the background.
"Hey!" She screamed running toward the highway at top speed. "Hey! Over here!" She screamed again.
She had almost reached the top of the hill when she was grabbed from behind. "You're good I'll give you that, girly." Richard said in her ear dragging her towards the warehouse again.
Konic's 'No!' was muffled to almost silence by the hand over his mouth. 'No! It's Not FAIR! I got out!' She screeched in her mind kicking and wiggling to free herself watching as about two-dozen black full-bodied jeeps sped into the base.
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"Spread out men! Find her!" The leader of the group, a middle-aged man with graying hair, shouted. About sixty black clothed men spread through the base, guns at ready.
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Seto sat at the main computer communicating with the head of the search team two hours later. "What do you mean YOU COULDN'T FIND HER?" He shouted at the walkie-talkie in his hand.
"We've searched everywhere we could, sir." He responded.
"What do you mean everywhere you could Harold?"
"We couldn't risk entering the old arsenal, sir. The guns haven't been touched in twenty years." Harold replied without missing a beat. "We did search the kitchens and barracks in that area however, sir, we found nothing."
Kaiba pinched the bridge of his nose. "Fine Harold, but put the entire base on lock down, I'll send the A shift to cover the C shift. No one with out a Kaiba Corp ID gets in or out. Clear?" His voice was downcast.
"Rodger, over and out." He said before the channel went dead.
"Seto?" Mokuba opened the door slightly.
"FUCK!" The monitor in front of him went sailing at the wall beside Mokuba, who instantly shut the door until the crashing stopped.
"Damn Seto!" Mokuba cried slightly afraid. Looking at his brother stand there seething, "I take it they didn't find her." He said.
Kaiba fell back into his chair. "How am I supposed to tell Serenity?" His hands covered his face, his elbows resting on his knees.
"I'll tell her for you. I mean it-"
"No. It's my responsibility. I'll do it." Kaiba stood and patted his slightly shorter brother on the shoulder.
"We know she's on base, Seto. It'll be over soon." Mokuba promised.
Kaiba didn't respond.
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"Serenity?" Kaiba entered his bedroom to find Serenity sitting on the bed going through a dark blue photo book.
"Hey Seto, I was just going through some of my old photographs." She said setting it down.
One the top of one page was a picture of him taken in the gardens at sunset looking miserable with his face set in a look hard as stone and just as cold. Below it was a picture of Konic in the same position but on an apartment balcony. Neither of them knew they were being photographed or watched but had the look set on their faces anyway. They were so alike it was painful.
"What's wrong Seto?" She looked worried. And closed the photo book.
"We couldn't find her Serenity." He said it almost gently watching as she fell apart.
"But, w-we found her!" She screamed, throwing the book at him.
"She's on an old military base that was run by Gozaburo. But we can't find exactly where because of the old weaponry. I'm sorry, Serenity." He opened his arms and she fell into him. "We had her Seto, we were so close."
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"Mokuba, do you think we'll be able to find her?" Rebecca asked her husband leaning into his arms watching the scanner for any sign of movement.
"Find her; Definitely. Save her; I'm not sure. Richard knows her that means he knows her weaknesses and will play at them. Which is how he knew the necklace was really a tracker." He replied watching as the screen remained a dark green grid.
"Yes, but how did he conceal the tracker in the first place? I thought the only places the signal wouldn't track to were the safe houses and the mansion grounds." She said in a pondering voice. "And how can he just conceal it?"
"Well, the entire base used to be immune too, but when Seto took over the company it became just another piece of land with buildings on it." His eyebrows lowered "Unless…"
Rebecca looked back at him. "Unless what?"
"Unless Seto never got the letter I wrote." He jumped up almost knocking her to the floor.
"What letter Mokuba?" She stood and watched her husband run out of the room. "Mokuba?"
A/N: Hey peoples! And in just over a month too. YAY!
Yukita is doing well; she's now at home with me in this weird looking back brace thing. She's stuck in bed with an in home nurse. I'm glad her family is wealthy and can afford that kind of stuff!
