a/n: Yes! At last! I'm sorry for the very late update. As stated in my profile, my 2-month hiatus lasted until August 16. However, I have to practice for our sabayan. Since our section won 3rd place, I have to celebrate and give everybody a treat, right?

Anyway, don't think that this chapter is rush or something. It's just a change of style and everything. Besides, I'm still working in FMA and GA but I'm not so sure if they are really in the standards to be published. And after this fic would be "Afterglow," one of the story that I spent time thinking and actually… I'll just tell the experience when I publish that.

On with the story. Enjoy!

CHAPTER 9:

"Are you sure?" Fuuko asked on the phone, looking at the envelope she was holding. "But why?"

The voice replied. "I just feel like it. It would be better if you go there first."

"But how about Mi-chan?"

"I'll tell him," the person on the other line said. The connection broke after that. "As soon as possible, Fuuko-san," the person said, stroking a recorder.

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"Hello?" Tokiya said on the phone. He was sitting on a bench inside the hall, waiting for the three-hour late Fuuko. Yoichiro was pacing around the room.

"Missing someone?" a female voice asked. "What if… she does not come back?" the voice suggested in a singsong voice.

"What do you mean?" Tokiya asked, his eyes narrowing.

The voice laughed. "You know very well, right? Maybe a few limbs out could stop her."

"What did you do to her?" Tokiya asked through gritted teeth. "Answer me!" he shouted. That made Yoichiro look at him, stopping his pace.

"Find out everything yourself, then I'll release her," the voice replied. The line was cut off.

"What happened?" Yoichiro asked obliviously.

Tokiya closed his fist tightly and said, "Fuuko has been kidnapped."

"Kidnapped? Kidnapped, you say?" Yoichiro said in a very worried tone. "What about the…?"

"I don't care about that now!" Tokiya shouted. He ran out of the hall, slamming the door shut.

Yoichiro rubbed his temple with his hand and said, "That's too much for a violent reaction."

Yoichiro's phone rang. "Sir?" Mametsuki's, now his, secretary greeted.

"Yes, my dear?"

"Um, how about the expenses? She's abusing the fact that you gave her a shopping spree."

"Charge that to my sister," Yoichiro said, rubbing his temple once again. "I can't believe that she could be that aggressive."

"Sir, until when should we stay here in Tokyo?" the secretary asked.

"Um, that should be until we arrive. You could go back because I will be accompanied by my sister then," Yoichiro replied. "I would like to say bye for now. Adieu!"

The man sighed, pocketed the phone, and got out of the hall, whistling.

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"That clumsy girl! Where is she?" Tokiya muttered angrily to himself. Without any choice left, he called Yanagi.

"What? You mean somebody kidnapped Fuuko?" Yanagi asked in a worried voice. "What are we going to do now?"

Minutes later, Yanagi hopped inside Tokiya's car, looking at the other side of the road. "What do they want from her?" he asked.

"Maybe it's because of the contest. Maybe they ambushed her!" Yanagi said, voicing her thoughts.

"I don't know," Tokiya replied, his eyes squinting signs of the purple-haired girl. "Why am I too worried about her?" he suddenly thought, his eyes narrowing.

"I don't know if you're just a prideful moron or what," a voice replied inside his head. "Do you really have to face situations like this to be able to realize?"

"What?" Tokiya replied in his thoughts.

"You love Fuuko," his mind replied.

"No, I don't. I'm just…" Tokiya started to say.

"You are just worried! That's because you love her!"

"I do not!"

"Yes you do…"

"I said, I don't!" Tokiya accidentally shouted, the car coming to a stop.

"What's wrong with you, Tokiya-kun?" Yanagi asked, looking at him as though he's crazy.

"Nothing. Let's go," Tokiya said again, stepping on the accelerator and moving out.

It was already evening but the kidnapper still hasn't called them. Finally, Tokiya's phone rang. He was too worried that he almost crushed his phone when he pressed the call button.

"Hello, Mikagami. It was a fine day," the voice said.

"Where is she?" he asked, his voice shivering.

The voice laughed. "Realized something?" she asked. "What if we really try to remove her arm here? We could do that."

Tokiya gasped. "You couldn't. Please…"

"Why wouldn't we, then?"

"I'll give anything. Don't hurt her!"

"Why should I follow you?

"I'll pay you, no matter how big the price."

"I don't even need a payment," the kidnapper said, enjoying the way Tokiya beg. "Why then?"

"Because I…"

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"Because I love her!" Tokiya finally said.

Yoichiro's secretary pressed the mute button of her phone and smiled. "There, Mr. Nashi, he said it."

The large chair was turned around, revealing Yoichiro chewing a piece of toothpick. "I heard every word of it. Did you record it?"

"Roger that," the secretary replied. She showed a small recorder and shook it.

The room suddenly opened, earning a gasp from Yoichiro. Seeing the guest, he smiled. "You scared me to death!" he said with a sigh of relief.

"I did not know that you will resort to violence," the guest replied. "I am here for the finale, anyway."

"How did it go?" Yoichiro asked.

"It's painful in the butt," the guest replied, sitting on the table and giving out a pitiful face. "Why do they always have to inject the butt, anyway?"

Yoichiro laughed. "Maybe because the doctor thinks you have the perfect butt," he replied naughtily.

"Shut up," the guest replied. She nodded at the secretary who pressed the mute button once again and started to talk.

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"I finally give up," the voice on the other line said. "I just can't stand emotional situations."

"Where are you?"

"In Tokyo," the voice replied as if it was the most obvious answer. "Go to Kitsune Hotel, Room 851."

Tokiya nodded and he dragged Yanagi to the car. "I know where they are."

"Where?"

"In Tokyo, Kitsune Hotel," Tokiya replied, driving out of the speed limit.

After two hours, they arrived in the city. Tokiya started to ask for directions. When they finally found the hotel, they climbed up the elevator to the said room.

Tokiya opened the room and instead of seeing Fuuko tied up, he saw Yoichiro on a table, playing poker with Mametsuki and their secretary.

"What the hell happened here?" he asked outrageously, pointing at Yoichiro and then at Mametsuki.

Yoichiro whistled as he spitted the toothpick he was chewing in the trash bin, the third one he threw. "Mikagami, you should know how to play drama or you won't be that convincing." He turned to his sister and said, "Sorry, nee-chan, Full House!"

Mametsuki did not pay the slightest attention and said. "Sorry, little bro, got Royal Straight Flush here."

"Oh no! I lost a thousand in three games!" Yoichiro replied. He then turned his chair to Tokiya and said, "Mikagami, I did not know that we needed Fuuko to get to a bad situation such as this to have you realize…"

He took the recorder and played it. "Because I love her!" The voice of Tokiya rang inside the room. He turned red because of that (so un-Tokiya-like).

"So… so where is she?" he asked, looking at the ground because of embarrassment.

The door opened. "Speaking of the devil, "Mametsuki said. However, the other secretary was panting.

"They took her!" she shouted, going to Mametsuki. "There were men wearing black! They knocked me out and took her!"

Mametsuki's eyes were large. "What? But who would…?" as she was saying that when she opened the window, a stone came in flying, shattering the glass, and landing at the bed.

Tokiya took the stone and removed the rope. There was a note.

Give up the contest or I will kill her…

"Really, this is too much!" Mametsuki said indignantly. "I would never dare…"

Tokiya raised an eyebrow. "You dared kidnap Fuuko here," he reminded her.

Mametsuki took the note and looked at it for a moment. "I know who wrote this," she said, nodding.

"Who?" Yoichiro asked.

"Zashiki Chui," she replied.

"The old brat who never stops on daring you in cheapstakes?" Yoichiro asked in confirmation.

"She has gone too far," Mametsuki said.

"I'll go save her," Tokiya said. "Where will I find this Zashiki Chui?"

"I'll take you to her," Mametsuki said, getting her coat from the stand.

a/n: This is, I think, the simplest chapter I have ever done. I only made this for an hour and proofread it on the next hour and it actually was stored for 2 months before publishing. I hope it is still satisfactory!

And please make a review for me, flames still accepted. I don't know, I'm a Gumiho, right? Search for it on the internet…

And BTW, thanks for my reviewers from the other chapter.