Ami struggled as she felt herself being dragged off the deck. She choked as an arm quickly went around her throat, squeezing with such an intensity that Ami fought for air. The other arm swiftly came up and clamped a hand over her mouth, silencing her cries. When she continued to struggle, her assailant elbowed her in her ribs, which were still sore from healing. She momentarily went limp from the returned pain, and allowed herself to be dragged another few feet before continuing to fight against her captor. It had all happened so quickly that her mind was still reeling from the shock. After all the time that had passed, she'd been hopeful that all of this danger was gone and done with. But apparently she'd been dead wrong.

Clawing at the arm holding her, she tried to look around to see who had a hold on her. But with another elbow to her side, she once again went limp in his grasp for a moment, rendering her incapable of seeing who it was. She had a suspicion of who it was, but was unable to confirm it as he tightened his grip around her throat, continuing to choke her. Her feet were dragging against the sand as she was pulled down the beach, to where she wasn't sure. But knew she certainly didn't want to find out either.

Though her vision was hazy, she could see Katsuragi and Subaru running at full speed towards them, and Ami instantly felt relief. But where was Kaiji? She didn't see him. Katsuragi and Subaru pulled weapons from their holsters and held them up, pointing them at the assailant behind her. He stopped upon seeing the weapons, but his hold on her didn't falter.

"You're going to put your weapons down now, or I'll kill her right here, right now." The voice behind her hissed. She recognized the voice instantly and struggled against him even harder. Haku.

She'd suspected that it had been him behind this whole mess over the past few days, as she and Kaiji had been relaxing at the villa. She'd seen a rerun of one of her father's press conferences, and had seen him looming around in the background. It had got her thinking back to the day of the ball, and had gone over some of the peculiar behavior he'd displayed. She hadn't noticed it at the time, and had merely brushed it off, but as she'd mulled it over the last few days, it just made since. He'd known exactly who she was, even before she'd introduced herself, and it was well before her father had announced who she was. When all the excitement had happened during the hostage situation, she'd noticed that he hadn't been anywhere nearby. In fact, she hadn't seen him all during that time frame. He'd just disappeared. She felt stupid for not thinking about it sooner, and cried out against the hand clamped over her mouth.

Both men kept their pistols trained on him. "Let her go Haku. There's no way you're going to manage to get out of this situation this time."

Haku chuckled, and moved his hand away from her mouth, reaching down and pulling something from his pants pocket. Her eyes widened as he held a pistol up, and placed it against her temple. Her stomach curled as she closed her eyes, feeling the cold, metallic weapon being pressed against her head.

"Oh I think I will boys. Now drop your weapons, or I'll kill her." He snarled. Subaru and Katsuragi exchanged glances with one another, and gave a collective sigh as they tossed their pistols to the ground. Ami could practically see his smirk from Haku's voice as he pulled the gun away from her head, and aimed it towards the two men. Ami's eyes darted from the gun to the two men standing in front of them. What was Haku doing?

"Where is he?" He growled.

"Where is who?" Subaru asked, looking confused.

"Don't play stupid with me. There's another one of you, the one that's been protecting her the most. Where the hell is he?"

Katsuragi shrugged. "Bathroom probably, never know with that kid."

Haku cocked the pistol, arming it. "Bullshit. Where is he?"

As the words were leaving his mouth, a sudden force jolted Ami forward, and she went flying into the sand. Quickly looking over her shoulder, she saw a blur of two figures tangling with one another, wrestling about in the sand. Ami's heart soared as she realized that it was Kaiji who was fighting with Haku now. The two wrestled with one another, rolling about in the sand as Kaiji tried to get the gun from Haku.

Kaiji had Haku pinned down into the ground, and the two wrestled to take the gun away from the other. The gun dangerously teetered from one to the other. Both Subaru and Katsuragi stood back, holding their pistols up, ready to intervene when they could. But they knew just as well as Ami did, that with them fighting like that, there was nothing that any of them could do.

Ami screamed as the gun went off, kicking up dirt not but a few inches from her. Kaiji instantly looked up at her, hearing her scream, and was momentarily distracted, allowing Haku to land a punch against his temple. Kaiji fell to his side from the blow, rolling the two of them over as Haku rose above him. Haku snatched the gun from the slightly weakened Kaiji and went to take aim. Ami's mind seemed to go blank, and her body acted without her knowledge. Without even thinking, Ami felt as her body flew through the air, slamming into Haku's. The two tumbled onto the ground, knocking the gun from Haku's hands and sending it crashing down out of reach. Subaru and Katsuragi came forward then and grabbed Haku as he went to leap up and retrieve the gun. They hoisted him up and had him handcuffed faster than a blink of an eye.

Subaru smiled down at Ami, who was still lying on the ground. "Nice job."

"We'll go ahead a take this scumbag to the station and have him formally charged. Kaiji, take care of Ami until I send the rest of the guys out here to help take you back home."

Kaiji had recovered and nodded at Katsuragi as the two men drug Haku away. Good riddance, Ami thought. Ami watched as the two led Haku away, and felt as two arms came around her, pulling her into an embrace.

"Jesus, don't scare me like that." Kaiji hissed into her ear.

She smiled, holding onto his arms with her own. "Sorry."

"You really are reckless, you know that right?"

"Sorry." She repeated.

He turned her around and pulled her against his chest. "It's my fault. I shouldn't have left you outside like that."

"It's not your fault. I'm the one who was too lazy to go inside with you, remember?"

"I still should've known better."

Ami laughed. "There's no way we could've known he was going to just snap like that. Like I don't even think he had a clue what he was doing. I guess he'd just run out of options and didn't know what else to do."

He placed his head on her shoulder. "I thought he shot you."

"What?"

"When the gun went off, I heard you scream and I thought he'd shot you."

She held onto him, holding him more tightly in her arms. "I'm sorry I scared you."

"You better be." He replied teasingly, and Ami relaxed in his arms. Kaiji pulled back and pressed his forehead against hers. The two held themselves still, looking into each other's eyes. Ami sighed and leaned forward, stealing a kiss from Kaiji's lips.

Grinning, he grabbed her hand and tugged it along, heading back towards the villa. "Come on, let's go home."

Ami smiled brightly, squeezing the hand that held hers. "Yeah, let's go home."