Kiyoko: Hey again! Sorry that the previous chapter was so short but there was just way to much writers block. I promise that this one will be a little longer tho. I would also like to wish good luck to my coolio story writing buddy, Mimiru who I hope posts another awshome chapter of that Yu Yu Hakusho story that I've been ranting about for quite some time now. And I know that it has been a while since I updated but I have been working on other stories that I plan to post soon. So please bear with me. :-D

Chapter 4: To the Rescue

"Where is she? She was supposed to have been here 30 minutes ago." Kiyoko worriedly announced hoping that she would either call or show up soon. It was just last night that she had talked to her friend Hiyono. And she seemed really excited about their outing for today. It didn't help Kiyoko's conscience that Hiyono wasn't here yet. Because she had forgotten to tell Mimiru, and Eyes, or any of the other Blade Children were she was going to be. To make things worse she technically snuck out of the house.

Eyes had a couple of interviews with the media that he had to do today and as always Mimiru had gone with him. They even had planned to have a nice seaside dinner afterwards, which meant that they wouldn't be home until later that night. As for Rio, she was spending the day with Sayoko Shiranagatani (another one of the blade Children), Kosuke and Ryoko had disappeared earlier this morning which meant that they too were on some romantic outing. But there was a difference between all of tem and her. They had all told Eyes were they were going or they were allowed to leave on their own. In fact they had all asked her at one point or another if she wanted to join them, but crashing a romantic outing wasn't exactly Kiyoko's thing, and she didn't really want to be a bother for Rio so she just chose to stay at home. Or so all of the others thought.

She could just see Mimiru's reaction when she wasn't home by the time that they were. Mimiru would be on the sofa waiting, and when she finally did walk through the doors she'd get drilled about where she was. Until that is her paranoid thoughts were cut off by the ringing of her phone.

She flipped open her phone automatically assuming that it was Hiyono calling to say that she would be late or couldn't make it. "Hiyono? Where are you?" she said sort of dissapointed that her friend had stood her up. She waited for an answer but only got a soft snicker from the other line. :Hello?" she called out once again into the phone, baffeled. But she just passed it off as Hiyono playing some mean practical joke on her. "Hiyono!" she almost yelled hoping that she would stop, because frankly it was beginning to scare her. What if it was a hunter? She then let out a loud gasp in realization of who it really was on the other line.

A loud male laugh was heard. "So... you finally figured it out. Well then I guess since you know who this is, you pretty much know the drill." The man let out a small giggle that you could tell was trying to be contained. (Author's note: Do men giggle? Oh well I guess this one does) "Your friend is in the old train base yard within the outskirts of town. If you ever want to see her alive again... be here in two hours." he let out yet another one of his creepy laughs, and hung up the phone.

'Oh no!!' Kiyoko thought trying not to lose her balance and fall to the ground. 'What should I do? Dammit! This is all my fault!' She thought to herself frantically. Instinctively she grabbed her cell phone and let her fingers do the dialing. Before she knew it the phone was ringing.

RING, RING, RING

Ayumu put down the almost ready to cook food to answer the phone, since the 'great queen Madoka' wasn't home from work yet. "Hello?' he said in the usual sense of calmness that he was known for.

"Ayumu? Ayumu!...I need your help. I...I don't know what I'm gonna do!" She was actually quite surprised that had called this boy that she had just met and not Eyes, or Mimiru. Not that she could anyway because they all thought that she was still at home. But the fact was that she had called him, and so naturally.

"Wait a minute, calm down. What happened?" he was still completely lost, but knew that it must be important.

"It's the hunters!" she began, "they ...they have Hiyono." She had hoped that Ayumu wouldn't be mad at her, because t was her fault that Hiyono was now being held captive by the very same bastards that not only scared her but wanted her dead.

"Where are you now?" to her surprise he still sounded calm.

"Um ... I'm at the corner where that game arcade is." she replied quickly in order not to anger him.

"Stay right there. I'm on my way." and with that their conversation was over, because after he had said that he had hung up the phone. She began to think about why he wasn't mad at her. Considering her cursed fate of being one of the blade Children he should be hating her. And so would Hiyono for getting her caught up in this huge mess in the first place. Kiyoko now felt for the first time in a long time, miserable. Tears began to flow gently from her eyes, thinking about how things would play out when Ayumu got there. She was afraid that he would react the same way that her parents had when they found out that both she and her sister were just two of the many Blade Children. She knew that yet at this time she hoped that he would be different from the rest of the human population. She didn't want to admit it but in the short time that she knew him she felt somewhat attached to him. 'But why?' she questioned. I mean this was supposed to be their savior. The sea of questions just kept coming. She burried her head into her knees as she sunk down to the ground. Her long jet black hair covering her face.

"Kiyoko?" someone yelled from the opposite corner of the street. As soon as she heard her name her head shot up without even realizing that she was indeed crying. As her vision cleared up a little she noticed that it was none other thatn Ayumu. "Hey!" he called out to her, out of breath. You could tell that he had ran all the way there, because of the little droplets of sweat that had started to bead up at the top of his head. When he stopped and let his breath catch up to him he continued. " Soo... what happened?" he asked this time wanting more details. "Never mind ... you can tell me on the way." Kiyoko just nodded as a response and the two started off on their journey to save their friend.

On the way there she had explained the unfourtunate events of the day, but to her surprise he looked unfazed by it all. It made her wonder how he went through life.

When they reached their destination they carefully approached the old rusted two story building. But somehow they knew that it was a trap. Everything that the hunters did was always some delusional ploy to kill one of the Blade Children anyway. The two knew that it wouldn't be easy but they continued to enter the unknown darkness.