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Hi peoplez~ Thank you to londonbridgesfalling, xXKililaXx, AmutoSavior283 and Take Me To My Fragile Dreams for reviewing. You guys made my day XD When I looked at my emails, I saw like 11 emails that weren't there before. My face almost broke from smiling =D Sorry londonbridgesfalling and other possible people reading this if you wanted more action ^^" I'll try to put more from now on with some romance of course D But I'm glad you guys like the story. This is Chapter 8 of Outsider and hope you enjoy~
"Hey Ikuto~ Which one of us do you like better?" Amu's head shot up and I tensed.
"What?" We both asked in unison. I was right. Things were going to get ugly.
"Well Ikuto?" There was an awkward silence that enveloped them. Amu stared at Claire. She couldn't believe she was doing this to her. Then Amu looked at Ikuto. She thought that he would say Claire right away but he was hesitating. A tiny speck of hope welled up inside of her. Maybe she still had a chance.
"I-" Ikuto started but someone interrupted the moment by putting a dagger against Ikuto's throat.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here? A lovers quarrel between you three?" Both Amu and Claire stood up.
"Tadase." They both said menacingly. Amu should have been mad at the moment, which she was, but she was sort of relieved that Tadase came. Hard to believe, but he saved her from her heart breaking. Just this once, she was actually grateful for him but that was soon forgotten when Amu remembered that Ikuto was on the verge of dying. Amu willed her weapons to appear, like old times, but she realized that she didn't have them anymore. A sinking feeling filled her stomach. Just when she needed them the most, she didn't have them.
But Claire did. Swords shot out of her sleeves, ripping through the material. The swords glinted in the sunlight and Claire's stone hard face reflected on the blade but Tadase remained unfazed. He only smiled. He only pressed the dagger further onto Ikuto's throat. Ikuto had a hard time breathing considering that he had a dagger on his throat and the girl trying to save him could possibly kill him if she could kill the man strangling him.
Claire seemed to disappear for a moment and re-appeared behind Tadase, her sword against his throat.
"Drop the dagger or I'll kill you." Claire threatened yet Tadase seemed as calm as ever. Amu tried to figure out what Tadase was up to. He had a shiny but deadly sword at his throat and he was smiling. What kind of logic was that? But, he was the sadist type of person so you could really expect anything from him. Amu heard a rustle of leaves behind her. Her head whipped around and she saw two soldiers lunge at her. She quickly side-stepped out of the way and the soldiers did a face plant.
"Ow~" They both moaned. There go Tadase's so called 'flawless' soldiers. When Amu saw the soldiers faces, she felt disappointment. She thought it might have been Nadeshiko or Yaya but her guess was wrong. She hadn't even seen these people before. Quickly, both soldiers got up and before you could even blink, they both grabbed her hands and put them behind her back. Her eyes widened.
"You dirty little scum! This was a setup!" Tadase smirked.
Amu stood there, helpless. There, in front of her, a death scenario was happening and all she could do was just stand there. Amu felt rage build up inside of her. She felt her hands become hot. In fact, her whole body felt warm. Just when Amu felt like she would collapse from the intense heat, something she didn't suspect happened. The heat suddenly disappeared and Amu collapsed to the ground but she pushed herself up with her hands. Her face was covered in sweat but no one was paying attention to her. Yet.
Amu stared at her hands in surprise. Swords poked out of her sleeves. They were identical to Claire's. Amu pushed her surprise out of the way for now and focused on what was important. She quickly got up and ran over to Tadase. She put the tip of her sword at Tadase's chest, where his heart was. Tadase looked at Amu in disbelief.
Guess he thought I wouldn't be much of a hindrance. Amu thought to herself.
"Well you thought wrong." Amu said quietly. Claire smirked at me. It seemed like she could read her thoughts by the way she was looking at her but that was absurd. Amu focused her attention back on Tadase.
"Let go of them." Tadase regained his composure.
"And if I don't?" He spat back.
"First of all, gross," Amu said while wiping away the spit on my eye with my free hand "and second of all, if you don't, I'll kill you."
"But I have the upper hand. My henchmen are trained while you only have one other that knows how to fight. Just one word from me and your little friends go Bye bye." Amu looked back and forth from Ikuto to Claire then finally to Tadase.
"If I give you what you want, will you release those two?" Tadase reconsidered.
"Fine. I want you to come back with me and you must obey whatever I command you to do."
"Agreed. Now let them go." Amu ushered him quickly. Tadase raised his hand to release Ikuto but he only jabbed him in the back of the neck and he went unconscious. One of the soldiers did the same to Claire and she was down for the count. Now it was only Amu that was left standing.
"You liar!" Amu lunged at Tadase but the other soldier had hit her in the neck. She fell to the ground, stars in her eyes. Just before she lost consciousness, she heard that same line again.
"Promises are meant to be broken, Amu." Tadase said. Then, Amu blacked out.
Claire woke up and found herself in a room with her hands tied behind her back. In the far corner of the room, Amu was in the same position she was in but she was unconscious at the moment. Claire looked around the room but she didn't see Ikuto anywhere. Where did they put him?
Claire looked at the door that had a window and saw guards outside, well, guarding the door. Guess the obvious escape was opted out.
Suddenly, Claire felt the urge to claw at something. Anything. She closed her eyes and tried to suppress the feeling. She thrashed her hands around to try to get her hands free but swords shot out of her sleeves. She tried to cut the bonds but they just wouldn't cut. The feeling started to dissipate and Claire relaxed. She sighed. She had trained herself to try to block out that feeling and most of the time it worked but at times, the impulse would be too strong and she would lash out at everything near her.
Claire saw movement on the other side of the corner and found out that Amu had finally awakened. She blinked a few times and then looked around the place. When she noticed Claire in the corner staring at her, Amu just stared back. After a moment of silence, Claire said "Your eyes are red."
"What?" Amu asked.
"Like I said, your eyes are red."
"That's strange. Usually I would have this intent to kill afterwards," Amu started.
"You do but apparently, I only have that now. Seems like you just get red eyes as a side affect from now on." Claire said but Amu thought she heard a bit of jealousy in her voice but her face showed no sign of it so she removed that thought from her head.
"So where are we right now?" Amu asked, trying to change the topic.
"I think we're in an empty storage room in the military base that we used to train at." Claire stared out the tiny window on the door.
"We'll need a plan. How about when the guards come in, you go tell them you need to, go to the washroom or something,-"
"Woah! But that's so embarrassing!" said Amu.
"Do you want to get out of here?" Claire questioned.
"Yes." Amu said sheepishly.
"As I was saying, after they untie you, knock them out and take off my bonds and then we can go and look for Iku-" Suddenly, the guards kicked the door open. Claire and Amu's head turned towards the door.
"No talking allowed! Or I will have to gag you both." Amu looked back at Claire nervously without moving her head and she saw Claire nod at her. Amu sighed. Here goes nothing.
"Um,-" Amu tried to say but the soldier just pointed his gun at her.
"No talking!"
"But I need to go to the washroom." Amu pleaded. The two soldiers looked at each other, surprised but untied Amu's bonds.
"Keep an eye on her." The soldier said to the other. He nodded but before they could avert their attention back to Amu, she summoned a taser and shocked both of them. The soldiers limp bodies fell to the ground. Then, Amu summoned her swords and sliced open the bonds.
"Guess you can only get them off if you're not the one bound." Claire muttered to herself.
"Okay, lets go quickly before those limping bodies come and kill us."
Claire and Amu ran aimlessly through hallways. Some they remembered but some they didn't even know they existed. So far, they hadn't been seen yet which was a relief but they were running out of time. Eventually, someone would find them and if they hadn't found Ikuto by then, well, they didn't really want to think about what would happen after. When Claire turned the next corner, she stopped dead in her tracks. Amu accidently ran right into her back and rubbed her now aching nose.
"What was that for-" Amu told Claire but she saw the face Claire had on and she looked angry. Amu looked ahead of Claire and she understood why she looked so distraught. Tadase had his arms crossed, that stupid smirk on his face and had a bunch of soldiers behind him. Amu heard footsteps from behind and soldiers from all directions cornered them. Two soldiers put those same bonds that didn't allow Claire and Amu to use their weapons on them again. Claire and Amu tried to get away but the soldiers had outnumbered them and restrained them in no time.
"How did you find us?" Claire asked.
"Camera's" Tadase pointed toward one in the corner of the walls. Claire 'tsked'. She forgot about the camera's.
"And here I thought you guys had lousy security." Amu mumbled to herself.
Tadase's soldiers dragged Claire and Amu to a huge laboratory where they could clearly see that they were experimenting with weapons. They both shuddered. At the corner of her eye, Amu caught a glimpse of blue hair.
"Ikuto!" Amu called out. Claire's head turned toward the direction Amu was yelling to and sure enough, Ikuto was strapped onto a board like a lab rat.
"What have you done to him?" Claire yelled at Tadase.
"Oh nothing really. Just trying to put some info he needs to know about weaponry into his head so he can work here." Tadase gestured towards the laboratory.
"What? You didn't need him before! Why now?" Amu looked at Claire and Tadase, perplexed. What was she talking about?
"I need more people to speed up the process. I'm working on a new weapon and the process is going to slowly. I need the weapon as soon as possible."
"Then why take us here? You know we're looking for him!"
"That's why I need your help. Your friend over there is a little reluctant on helping me." Tadase said.
"Wha-" Amu said but the soldiers just dragged them towards a table simlar to Ikuto's and strapped them on tightly so they couldn't escape. Two ladies in lab coats came and placed a microchip on their forhead. At first, Claire and Amu both tried to escape but they calmed down afterwards. Their pupils disappeared and their eyes they looked like they were in a trance. He snapped his fingers. Both Claire and Amu broke from the restraints and sat up. Tadase smiled wickedly.
"Now lets go teach our friend a little lesson shall we?"
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