Chapter 6: Abduction

Chapter characters: Akai Shuichi, Vermouth, Vodka, Boss.

Chapter genre: suspense, crime.

Gin was successfully escorted from the hospital and now, he was being transferred to Germany with some FBI agents where hopefully the black organization won't look for him. Once the mission was accomplished, Shuichi headed back to the kudos residence to fulfill his promise for Jodie… It was sleeping time.

He pulled up his hood before stuffing his hands in his pocket. Green eyes looking down at his shoes, he walked to the door with wide paces hoping that no one would see him, luckily it was dark and his face was barely recognizable. His fake death was exposed but he wanted to maintain the disguise seeing that Subaru was still unknown to the other members, and as Subaru, he gets to be close to Haibara and thus protect her for Akemi.

The first thing he did once in, was to close the curtains without even turning the lights on, he then moved to the bed using the phone light. Shu threw his exhausted body on the side of the mattress with his knees bending and his feet attached to the ground. Olive green eyes closed for a brief moment before opening again, he turned on his phone again and pressed the buttons he memorized by heart leading to the text message from Akemi.

'If I manage to leave the organization after this, will you go out with me as a real boyfriend? ' For once, he looked at it and felt less guilty.

It was this text that made him hate himself for dragging her into the organization's dirty work. He's always believed that by this, he caused her death and the idea kept haunting him every day, and with time passing, its visits never lessened nor softened, it just kept cutting him as deep.

He lost the girl he loved, and he was the one to blame for her death. Akemi was what made him bear the darkness that loomed over him when he was infiltrating the organization. She was his only light through their endless darkness.

She was different, she was caring and loving. He loved her so much he can legitimately call breaking up with her one of the hardest things he ever had to do, and if it weren't for her own best he would've never done it. She was kind, she was beautiful until Gin decided to pull the trigger and kill her.

Shuichi found his hands forming tight grips on the sheets. Some of the weight on his heart was gone nevertheless he still felt terrible. He stood up and laid on the bed properly putting his phone on the nightstand. He snuggled up in the sheets and it didn't take long for his eyes to close, finally sending him into a dreamless sleep.

Green eyes flickered open at the hearing of some sound. It's been four hours since Shuichi surrendered to sleep, the room was all dark he couldn't see anything but he was able to distinguish the sound of someone breathing.

Akai reached a hand to the nightstand searching for his phone, but it wasn't there. Someone took his phone and is still standing inside the room.

He moved his hand back to the bed sliding it underneath it with his skin moving lightly over the bumps until it reached a shape taped to the wood, it was his pistol. Shu grabbed it and aimed towards the breathing sound direction but there's no way the range is accurate, it was useless in a room as dark as this.

A sudden burning feeling got to his lungs as a familiar smell spread around the room, he stood up and walked towards the door in slow steps with his arms aimed forward, he finally reached it and turned the knob but it was locked, he pressed the light switch but the lights won't turn on.

It smelled lethal inside, Akai quickly found himself dealing with a coughing fit as he felt every muscle in his body weaken to the point he believed he was going to die. He lost oxygen yet every time he gasped for air it only brought a burning sensation with no feeding to his desperate need to breathe. He finally reached the window but by the time he tried to open it, he collapsed on the ground.

Green eyes opened to an iron roof domed some seven meters above them. He was inside a warehouse, typical from the black organization.

"I have to say I'm impressed" a lady's voice came to him "You didn't show your face not even once, not even from the window of your bedroom"

Shuichi turned his head towards the voice's source where was a blonde lady standing. For a brief second, he saw two of her before the picture got clearer as he blinked revealing Vermouth.

"I do these disguises all the time and believe me, I know how uncomfortable it could get, but when we surveilled you three months ago, you seemed pretty ordinary, you once spent over fifteen hours wearing it… I myself declared that as impossible and one week after, we stopped"

Akai felt a burn in his chest every time he inhaled, he found both of his hands and legs tight to the chair he was sitting on. Vermouth grabbed a chair placing it parallel to his before she sat on it and moved it forward in a way that their knees were touching.

"It burns right? You know if you were to stay in the room for as little as three minutes you would've been dead by now, but I dragged you out" Vermouth said looking at him, she then glanced down at her wristwatch. The someone she was waiting for was late.

"I think I deserve some thanks for that!" she chirped waiting for a response that didn't come, Shuichi just gazed back at her with an expressionless face "so you don't talk much... it's okay, I will do the talking. Shinichi was with you that day back when kir was in the hospital and I found it suspicious for someone to move into his house right after, so I asked to keep his house under surveillance, it only lasted one week since there were no signs of any suspicious behavior"

Shuichi's eyes grew wider for a quick second, Shinichi! They knew about him, then how come they hadn't attacked him?

"Oh, don't tell me he didn't tell you his little secret" Vermouth let out a small laugh "anyways, once you were confirmed alive, Subaru was the first to suspect, so I broke into your house and you know the rest"

The expressions on Shuichi's face were hard to decode, a fact that made Vermouth nervous seeing that she as an actress relies on the emotions people express. On the other hand, she was capable of keeping her emotions under total control without expressing them on her face. It was somehow a form of disguise, except without a mask "It's such a shame you turned out to be on their side" she smiled moving her head a little bit forward "silver bullet"

A sound of steps caused her to move her head back "now, you are about to face the anger of a very loyal friend" she said.

It was still dark and the only light source was a light bulb hanging from the middle of the roof. The man with the muscular body showed up from the wooden door, his lips tightened at the sight of Shuichi.

"Alright, let's make this fast" Vodka said walking towards them as Vermouth stood up.

"I'll be waiting outside" she said. Vermouth was brought here by her partner who helped her in the abduction and left with the car as she waited for Vodka to come. Soon as Vodka reached the pair, he handed her the car keys before she walked out.

His raged eyes looked back at Shuichi, it was the first time Shu ever sees him without glasses and turn out his eyes aren't much different from Gin's.

Vodka placed his hand on the chair -right between Shuichi's legs- pushing it backward. Akai felt the back of his head hitting the floor hard.

"Where is Gin?" he asked with a quiet tone before he yelled "WHERE IS GIN?"

"I don't know" the FBI agent finally interrupted the silence answering with a cool, calm tone that boosted Vodka's anger. He walked to Akai's right and kneeled down grabbing his collar

"WHERE IS HE" he yelled again. His eyes looked raged and through the weak light, Shuichi was able to see saliva spraying out of his mouth with every time he yelled.

"I don't know" he answered with the same calm tone and expressionless face.

"If there's anyone in the FBI who knows then it has got to be you" Vodka said pulling out his gun and placing it on Shuichi's thigh "now tell me where he is?"

Shuichi swallowed hard. He just kept looking at Vodka without breaking eye contact "I told you I don't know" he answered and within seconds a loud sound of a bullet being droved into his right thigh filled the place followed by his shout.

"Aaah"

"Now tell me where he is!"

"I SAID I DON'T KNOW" Shuichi yelled.

He felt Vodka sliding the gun tip slowly on his skin, setting it on his right knee.

"Aaah" Shuichi yelled, Vodka shot him again and it felt agonizing. His green eyes closed as his breath fastened provoking the burning sensation in his lungs.

"Where the hell did you TAKE HIM?"

"He is in America" Akai gabbled before he stopped to catch some breaths "in some hospital"

"Don't you lie to me you piece of shit, we thought the first thing you'd do is to take him there and I personally checked whether he is in the US or not, he was not"

A coughing fit took over the man on the ground that lasted for almost one minute, it was a wonder that Vodka waited for him without shooting again. he sure hated Akai's guts and he was thirsty to torture him. Shu inhaled some short breaths before he looked back at Vodka who now was placing his gun on Shuichi's ankle.

"He is there, we just hid him well" he briefly said before another coughing fit started.

"Where"

"Some hospital"

"Which one"

"I don't know"

Vodka got to his feet looking down at Akai. He seemed to be satisfied with the sight "I'll be back for a second round. If you turn out to be lying, then you are not gonna like it" he said walking out and back to the car where Vermouth was waiting.

Shuichi laid on the floor with his legs tight still to the chair legs. He looked at the reddened two holes on his leg, they were oozing with dark congealing blood, a lot of it. He lied to gain some time, but it was for nothing. He had no plan to escape nor strength to fight, Vodka will soon come back and even if he doesn't, Shu wasn't going to do anything about it with his hands and legs tied up.

The blood kept coming out for about fifteen minutes with nothing to block its way creating a red lake underneath him, by that time Shuichi was ice cold, bluish even as he felt an irresistible desire to sleep which he desperately tried to fight.

He heard the sound of steps coming very lightly from the opposite direction. And for all he knows, he was being picked up from the floor. He tried to open his eyes to see who was holding him up but he couldn't. All he managed was to keep his ears listening.

Shuichi felt 'that someone' walking him for a while before his position changed to what felt like that someone's back, then he felt him climbing up … maybe, just hoping this was a ladder and that he was not ascending to heaven.

Once up, he felt his body being put down on the floor, the wound on his knee touched the floor first causing him to groan.

"Don't make any noise and don't move" it was a man's voice "with these bullets in your leg, they won't suspect you to come up here" he whispered. that's all Shuichi was able to get before he passed out surrendering to the irresistible desire he's been fighting for quite a time.

"I'll be coming back for you" The man finally said before he went back down right after hiding Akai behind some barrels, he cleaned the blood leaked on the way up and created some blood path in the direction where the back door was located then he left through the same door.

"…-okay, just keep the search just in case" Vermouth finally finished the call. She hung up the phone placing it back inside her pocket.

"They couldn't find him?" Vodka sighed.

"There is no sign of him in America"

"They must've hidden him well"

"No, he lied to us. This was our guy from the FBI I've been trying to contact ever since they got Gin, he would've known if he was there"

"That bastard"

Vodka opened the door and walked followed by Vermouth inside the warehouse. Once in, her mouth with its dark red lipstick formed a gape "what did you do!"

"He is not here" Vodka gaped ignoring her question.

"What's all this blood" she sharply said "you weren't supposed to kill him Vodka"

"I did not, he escaped"

"You weren't supposed to shoot him in the first place, not until we find Gin, with all this blood lost he must be dead and he didn't even tell us where Gin is"

"C'mon, you know he wouldn't confess easily, I had to shoot him"

"Well way to go, I'm sure anokata will be delighted to now that you screwed up our plan, now where could he possibly be, the blood tract goes all the way to the back door then it stops" she said examining the floor with her blue eyes "where did you shoot him?"

"On his leg" Vodka answered with his head tilted downward, he was taken away by his hatred to Akai and revenge for his friend to the point of disobeying the boss's instructions.

"He can't be gone far then, he must be hiding somewhere nearby. Lets split" she said pointing at Vodka to look outside, she then went back to look for Shuichi inside the warehouse, she knew how tricky he could be, so misleading them would be a classic.

Vermouth looked around and eventually joined Vodka outside. she couldn't find any sign of him. She didn't look for him upstairs because for someone shot twice on the leg, there's no way he could go up a ladder.

They looked for him for quite a time but he was nowhere to be found. They were certain that they were the only people in there, and since he ran away alone after losing a big amount of blood, they thought that he must be dead.

By that time, it was three in the morning. Vermouth took the wheel as she drove fast through the traffic-free roads.

"where are we going now?" Vodka asked from the passenger's seat.

"we are going to see someone you'll be thrilled to see" she answered him with a cool tone.

"w-where" Vodka stammered. he had a bad feeling about this, after all, he disobeyed the boss's orders and without Gin around to provide him with protection, this can only lead to one result.

"you will find out soon"

They drove for ten minutes until they reached a pier. Vodka looked at the sea on his side from the window as Vermouth started slowing down at the sight of a black car upfront, the same car she had met before in that same exact place. It was the boss's car.

Vodka looked at it getting closer, he thought he never got the chance to meet the boss of the organization and now Vermouth is taking him to meet him, that's probably not because he was getting a promotion to a higher rank. He disobeyed the orders, she must be driving him to his end, the boss must be waiting there to put a bullet through his head for screwing up.

He didn't have much time to think he opened the door rapidly and jumped into the ocean. Vermouth pressed the brakes but by the time she came out of the car and looked he was gone.

The black car started up and stopped next to Vermouth's, the tainted window opened as a familiar voice came to her ear.

"What happened?" he asked, she looked at him over her shoulder.

"He threw himself, I should've just killed him back there but you insisted that I bring him. Anyways, I don't see what he did deserve taking his life"

"He disobeyed once, he can do it again. it doesn't matter, there's no way he could turn us on with everything he's been involved with, however I want you to find him and kill him as soon as possible" the boss opened the door to the back seat where he was sitting silently inviting Vermouth to take a seat next to him, she got in pressing a kiss on his lips before they started discussing the whereabouts.

Next Chapter: The whole package.

it will be dedicated mostly to Jodie and Shu's romance as he recovers, no action. If you're not a fan of romance then its okay you can just skip it.