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"Manta? Manta!" she called to the boy. Nothing, gingerly she put her hand to his neck and was relieved to feel the telling signs of a pulse. "Phone phone....Where did I put that phone!" she cried as she rummaged through her pockets. She was becoming hysterical as she tried her hardest not to hyperventilate. Once she had found the device she fumbled with the buttons, clicking the redial button she waited for someone to answer.
"Manta? You better have a good reason to ring me during my training time," a voice hissed from the other side, but if Yuki wasn't in such a panic she would have heard the relief and friendliness in the persons voice.
"Please you....You have to help me," she cried into the phone stopping the person on the other line in the middle of his rant.
"Who is this and how did you get this phone?" the voice asked accusingly.
"M-my name is Yuki Hioj....Never mind," she said realizing that she couldn't let the boy on the other line know her name. "Please, I....I need Help M-manta...." she stuttered but the person butted in.
"Manta? What happened to Manta?" he asked harshly, his voice filled with protectiveness for his friend.
"He's...He's oh god..." she sobbed, "He's unconscious, I-i-i can't get him to wake up!" she cried looking back to the boy.
"Well call an ambulance!" the voice ordered down the phone, his tone making Yuki's panic rise.
"I can't his father...." she trailed off as she broke into more sobs. It was awhile before the boy on the other line spoke to her, though she could hear him muttering curses under his breath.
"Where are you?" he asked.
Yuki looked around, she had no idea where she was, she looked for any road marks to help her.
"I-i don't know!" she cried into the phone, she had completely lost her cool. She could hear the boy on the other side curse again.
"Ok listen to me, calm down and get out of your car," he instructed in a calm voice hoping that it would calm the panicking woman down.
"I-i'm out," she said into the phone calmer then before as she waited for the boy to say something.
"Good, now what can you see? What are you near?" he asked her.
"I can see shops, an ice cream shop, and.... And there's a grave yard," she answered with tears in her eyes. She panicked as she got no reply from the boy. "Hello, where are you?! Please help me!" she began sobbing again, holding the phone to her ear as she knelt down on her knees.
"Hello? Yuki!?"
"Yes....Yes I'm here!" she cried in relief as her support had reappeared.
"Ok good. Now I need you to check on Manta ok?" he asked her. She nodded not realizing that he couldn't see her. "Yuki?"
"Yes, he's still out cold, and his pulse is really fast," she said in a panic.
"Ok just stay where you are, I have called a friend of mine who lives in the area, he will come and get Manta, can you do that?"
"Ye-yes," she replied calming down as she got back into her car.
"Good his name is Yoh, he'll take care of Manta. Now I need you to tell me what happened to him," the person asked her, she froze, she wanted to help him but?
"I found him....In the hallway of his house, he was trying to find help, I don't know what happened," she replied as a tear escaped her eye, coward! Her mind spat at her.
"Do you have any idea what could have happened?"
"I-i-i-i-i-i......." what was she to do; if she told them and He found out, she bit her lip. She had heard rumours about what he did to people he didn't like, and he practically did them to his own son without the to death part, would he do them to her? But could she just leave Manta with him, what if the next time it is to death? She was going to die anyway. Why let Manta suffer to save her own hide when it already had an expiry date on it. She knew what to do.
"His father," she answered.
"His father?"
"Yes, Mr Oyamada found out that Manta had been skipping out on his schooling and he was also late home, so Mr Oyamada dealt with it in his usual way. Please you have to stop this, he'll kill him! He'll kill me just for helping Manta!" she cried.
"Calm down! I can assure you that Manta will be perfectly fine, we won't let anything happen to him, he has risked his life for us just like we would and will do for him," the voice said harshly on the other line giving Yuki no choice but to calm down. She could hear the silent rage in the other persons voice.
"How long?" he asked her.
"How long what?" she asked confused as to what he wanted of her.
"How long has he been treating Manta like this?" he asked returning to his calm like demeanour.
"I-I don't know, I've only worked there for two years but, I've heard rumours," she said biting her lip.
"Rumours?"
"I-I look I don't know ok! I've heard a couple of things about Manta being in hospital for weeks even months because of Mr Oyamada's brutality but I don't know, you'll have to ask him!" she answered referring to Manta the person on the other line sighed.
"So a long time then?"
"Yeah," she answered dejectedly.
"Why wouldn't he mention this?" the person asked, his voice sounded hurt at the mistrust.
"I can only guess...Because the last person who tried to help Manta ended up in the hospital, at least that's what I've heard," she whispered, she burst into tears again, "Manta, he's such a good little boy, always trying to put on a smile for us, he even told me to leave him! He...He always helps when he can, even taking the blame, for us servants, his family....hic....They don't care about him! They never have, he's not his sister! And he's not the person they want him to be!" she continued to cry, she didn't even notice when the phone died, leaving her alone to cry with an unconscious minor next to her.
"Hello! A-are you still there?!" she cried, she hit the steering wheel when she realized that the battery had died. She screamed in fright when someone opened the car's passenger door.
"Manta!" the person cried, it was then that she noticed the 'attacker' was just a young boy.
"A-are you Yoh?" she asked him getting the boy's attention. Yoh looked up at her with tears in his eyes.
"Yes I-I'm Yoh, is...Is..." he tried to ask. Yuki watched him as he gently cradled the boy once he had managed to get the seat belt off of him. She bit her lip again as an inner battle waged inside her.
"Get in, I'll drive you to your house but that's as far as I can go," she said with shaky determination.
Ren scowled at the mobile in his lap. He hoped that the reason the woman on the other line had hung up on him were good for them. He sighed as he turned to look at Jun who was busy on her phone getting in touch with Faust so that he could take a look at Manta, they were in the car on their way home from Yoh's when Ren got the phone call. Jun hung up and looked to him.
"Faust has just finished his shift at the local hospital," she said with a small smile trying to comfort her brother. She turned to the driver. "Pyron we need to head to the hospital to pick up Faust," she said before she began directing him towards the hospital.
"Yes Mistress Jun."
"Don't worry Ren, Manta will be fine," Jun said in a comforting voice as she watch Pyron drive.
Yoh held his small friend close to him, tears shone in his eyes as he looked at the state of Manta. Manta was still unconscious. Once Yuki arrived outside the inn, Yoh jumped out of the car, not even bothering to wait for the car to come to a stop, he was lucky that Yuki's car seemed to be the only one on the road.
"Tell Manta....I'm sorry," Yuki said to Yoh shouting out of the window before speeding away from the pair, Yoh nodded at her but didn't stop to look at her on his walk to his front door.