Saya woke as the pain in her stomach grew with every inch she moved. She tried to prop herself up against the wall, but the pain was too intense. She laid herself down on the cold ground. She finally mustered up the strength to look at herself, and found that her stomach area looked like one, big brose. She set her head down as the soreness ached throughout her body. The more she breathed the more intense the pain was until she almost blacked out from it.

Just then Ryuu walked in with two other guards, they picked her up and chained her to the ceiling.

*"Do you want to talk now, or after the pain?"*

She stayed silent because of the fact that it hurt to breathe let alone to talk and she wasn't going to give them the information anyway.

*"I guess my friends will have to show you manners. It seems you lost them when you became a gaijin."* He looked at them and grinned, as he left the room. The men walked toward her with wooden staffs, and Saya knew this was going to hurt. The staff had a more precise precision point at which the injury would happen, and as she thought about the bruising she had, all she could hope for is that she would black out soon. But, even though each strike hurt, she never told them anything or gave them the joy of hearing her scream she held those emotions in as she strike came at her before she welcomed the utter darkness to take it away.

Halt was the first to wake and as he did he looked at Will who was just lying there sound asleep, as if they were not in this place. Halt didn't want to wake him, but he didn't want him to be asleep when the guards came in. Halt crawled over to him and shook him slightly, just enough for him to wake up. As Will opened his eyes, he looked at Halt.

"I was hoping that was all a dream." Will said showing a tired grin.

"Yeah I was hoping the same thing, but it is reality."

"Have you seen her?"

"No, but I have a gut feeling they'll kill us soon."

"What makes you say that?"

"It's been a day. The only way to break some like Saya is to…," Halt paused because it hurt to say this, "is to kill the people they trusts really quickly and make it so multiple people get killed over a short period of time." Halt paused and looked away from Will, "and then make them suffer, 'til they give up and either tell you what you want or kill themselves."

"Saya's strong."

"Yes, but we're the only family this kid's got." Halt paused as reality set in. "What will happen if she has no one else to open up to? What will happen to her mind, when we are gone?"

Will looked away as he remembered the beginning days of her as his apprentice. He never regretted taking her in as his apprentice; he only regretted not protecting her as much as he should have.

Just then two of Ryuu's men, came in and interrogated them just as did with Saya, but only worse.