Sorry about not updating the story, I had some college work to complete and also got so into another anime ^^
Kazama squad were leaving the base. They were told to leave in two hours and went back to observe the last minutes of the match. Now they were all outside about to leave the city. Kazama squad reached the docks and got ready to leave.
Back at Border Osamu and Yuma went to get something to eat. Chika was practising in the sniper range area with Izuho. Back in Kazama squad's operations room Mikami was talking to them while they were going to the city that Kikuchihara told them. It took them 2 hours to arrive at the town where Kikuchihara said Katsuo lived.
'I know his house is somewhere around here' he muttered trying to remember where to go. It has been 7 years since he has been here; but he remembers almost everyone. Suddenly Katsuo comes out of his house nearby and runs over to them.
'Kikuchihara, finally where have you been' he said 'I'd thought you would arrive earlier'
'Well we had to leave after two hours' he said 'So the thing we were here for'
'Oh yeah, we saw the creature in the forest' he explained walking to the next street. They followed him until they reached a forest.
'We went in there until we saw some sort of hole in a rock face' he told them as they carried on walking. Half way through Katsuo asked Kikuchihara how he was doing at Border, he was reluctant at first but told him about the Neighbour invasion and that they were going to go to the next Neighbour expedition somewhere in mid-march. They soon arrived at a large stone wall where they saw the medium sized hole; that wasn't the only thing there. There was also a girl. They looked at her confused about why she was there until Katsuo just decided to walk up to her.
'Excuse me'
The girl jumped and turned around.
She wore glasses and had blonde hair which she pulled behind her ear.
'Oh' she said 'you startled me there'
She seemed to be the same age as them. The others were still watching behind the tree.
'Sorry about that' he said apologetically 'but what are you doing here?'
'I heard about the rumours that something or someone was taking people, so I decided to come investigate, I told my manager that I might be staying in this place for a couple of weeks in- wait who are them' she said when she Kazama squad coming out of their hiding place.
'Oh they're from Border' he told her.
'Hmm I heard of that-'
'What's your name?' Kazama asked cutting her off
'Oh it's Sakae'
'Sakae what are you holding in your hand' he asked eyeing the device in her hands.
'This well this thing can pick up readings of negative energy waves…'
Kikuchihara who was standing near them heard a distant wail from deep within the hole which sent a shudder down his spine. He turned around but saw nothing but decided to walk closer. The others didn't seem to notice and were carrying on listening to Sakae's description of the contraption she had. He walked in front of it and saw nothing still. Shrugging to himself he turned around and was about to walk off when he heard Katsuo's yell; he didn't have time to react because the next thing he knew he was being pulled in by something that grabbed his left arm and neck.
Katsuo was listening to Sakae's description with great interest. He knew that she could work with Kazama's squad to find out the mystery of the creature. He looked up to see that Kikuchihara was near the entrance and proceeded to carry on listening to her when he saw something red in the corner of his eye. He quickly looked up and saw a pair of red eyes in the hole just behind Kikuchihara.
'Kikuchihara!' he yelled pushing past them.
The others saw him rushing to save Kikuchihara but were seemingly too late. Sakae's device went crazy after Katsuo yelled his name and she stared at it in surprise before looking at the others who were behind Katsuo.
There was a moment of silence before Kazama said they needed to go back.
'Wait, Kikuchihara is still in there we can't just-'
'If you want to risk your life try and go in'
Katsuo clenched his fists then sighed. Kazama motioned them all to follow him out of the forest. While walking thought the forest Kazama thought about what happened back there. He of course wanted to save his own team member back there but they needed to take precautions. As well as that he had a feeling that the creature didn't kill them straight away. Once out of the forest Sakae said she needed to go back to the apartment she was staying in and Katsuo also left because his mother may worry if he comes home late. Kazama and Utagawa decide to leave the city and go back to Border.
'Kazama' he asked while they were walking back to the building 'what are we going to tell him about Kikuchihara?'
Kazama didn't reply but also didn't know what to say to him; there was one thing he wanted to do and that was to find the answer to his question: How are they going to stop this monster?