Begins Chapter 23
Jeff did a last minute check for anyone that could be in his house how ever everyone was asleep as he figured they'd be. He carried Takeru up the stairs and to an unused part of the house, the attic; no one went up there not even the butler. Once up there he tied Takeru to a chair. He then tied Takeru's hands around the back of the chair and his feet to the chair's legs making sure he couldn't move his legs; before he woke up he tied a gag in place making sure he couldn't yell for help then he left.
Next Morning in Japan December 26th...
Takeru woke up, his head was pounding when he attempted to move his hands he couldn't noticing now his hands were tied behind his back and his feet were also tied to the chair.
'What the hell?' he thought in his mind he tried to speak but it was muffled only to realize he had a gag on. Takeru frowned he was worried; who could have wanted to kidnap him he couldn't think of anyone who would. Shortly after that thought Jeff stepped into the room. Takeru looked at him in surprise.
"Ah, you're awake I was wondering maybe I might have hit you a little too hard," He said. Takeru yelled something through the gag, "What was that?" Jeff asked. Takeru stopped and looking at him angry. "All right I guess you are hungry it is morning after all," He said.
Jeff was a bout to take off the gag when he stopped, "But you got to promise me if I take it off your not going to yell," He said.
Takeru nodded agreeing.
When he took off the gag, Takeru immediately spoke, "What do you think this is going to accomplish?" he asked.
"Accomplish? Nothing, your just the starting point of my plan. Against Taichi and your brother," he replied.
Takeru looked at him like he was a crazy, "What do I have to do with Taichi?" he asked. Jeff rolled his eyes, "Your are going out with his sister right?" he said as he shoved a piece of toast into Takeru's mouth, Takeru choked a bit but eventually chew and swallowed it.
"Don't you touch Hikari!" Takeru exclaimed angry.
"Don't worry, I'm doing better than that. You see she is going to be so distraught once they find your car in the bottom of the Canal," he said with a smirk.
Takeru looked through the window of the attic to see the sun was shining through he then turned to face Jeff, "You can't do that!" he cried.
"I already have because at this very moment you mother is probably going to check to see if you came home last night and when she does…" Jeff trailed off leaving Takeru to think about it.
"No……my family can't know that…let me go!" he yelled.
Jeff slapped his hand over his mouth then he forced the straw into his mouth Takeru took a few sips of the orange juice, "Don't yell again or I'll leave you up here and you can starve to death," He told him angrily as he gagged Takeru up again, the left.
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10am...
Nancy went about doing her usual chores around the house, she looked at time noticing that it was really late in the morning for her son to be sleeping at this time, and Takeru usually didn't sleep in at all. She went to his bedroom door, and opened it. "Takeru?" she said looking around the room and found he hadn't come home last night. His bed was still neatly tucked in as she had left it yesterday, "Takeru!" she called in panic. 'Where could he have gone, what happened to him.' She thought she picked up a phone and quickly Then she called the Yagami's.
"Hello," Anna answered the phone.
"Anna…its Nancy is my son there?" she asked.
"Takeru?" she asked.
"Yeah is he there?" she asked shakily hoping to god he was.
"No, he went home last night after dropping Hikari off," She told her.
Nancy broke down on the phone, "He's not here, Anna he never came home last night," she said sobbing.
"Sh…Nancy I'll come over," She said she put the phone down on the receiver and started to think of what it might do to Hikari. She grabbed her jacket but before she could leave Hikari then came down the stairs, "Mom, where you going?" she asked.
Anna looked at her daughter 'She going to have to know sooner or later' she thought. "Hikari honey, get changed," She told her seriously. Hikari understood and did as she was told when she came back.
"Hikari… I don't know how to stay this but, Takeru is missing he didn't come home last night," She said.
"What! That can't be I saw him go," she half yelled and half sounded like she was about to cry.
"I'm going to see his mother," She replied.
"I'm coming too," She said strongly while holding her composure.
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David paced in his living room thinking where on earth could have happened to his youngest son. Nancy called him just moments before hand and he was shocked yet disturbed. He walked into Yamato's room, "Yamato get up."
"But there's no classes until noon," Yamato mumbled still in a sleeping state.
"This is important your brother is missing, we are going over to you mothers," He explained.
"Those aren't the kind of jokes that are funny," Yamato said glaring at him from his pillow.
His dad shook his head, "It's not a joke Yamato," His dad said with absolute seriousness.
Yamato's glare disappeared and was replaced with one of worry.
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Hawaii, Maui…12:00pm…
"Sora….I am not going on that," He told her pointing at the horse.
"Taichi it's a horse it won't kill you," She told him.
"I am not going on it," He said.
"You rode on Greymon what so different about a horse?" She asked.
Taichi was sweating, "All right. Fine but can I ride with you? I mean it would be so much more romantic," He said trying to smooth talk her now.
"No, Taichi you're never going to learn are you? Didn't the guy just say one person per horse?" she asked.
"Okay but, I don't want it to buck me off," He replied.
"The horse won't Taichi, why are you making a big deal of this?" she asked.
He pulled himself up onto the horse it was pretty high, "Wow…its high…." The horse moved a bit, Taichi gripped on to the rinds.
The man leading the horse back tours of the island explain that the horses would follow each other so you didn't have to worry about them wondering off with you. The tour guide also went into some simple point form lessons on how to maneuver the horse so it would go where the rider wanted it to go.
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Yamato and his dad arrived first, Yamato knocked on the door. His mother opened it, allowing them both in.
"What happened?" his dad asked.
"I don't know David, I just saw that he wasn't home," Nancy told him slightly irritated with his question.
Nancy walked toward the living as they followed her; the doorbell rang and Yamato turned right around to go and answer it, "Mrs. Yagami, Hikari…come in," he said letting them both inside before he closed the door.
"Well we got to call the police, to file a missing person report," Dave said, his own worries started to set in. Yamato was lost in his own world also. Hikari listened to almost all of what was said but she still couldn't believe it, she didn't want to believe it.
Yamato flipped the channels on the television to one of the news broadcast and surely enough there was some news worth while to hear.
"Witnesses say that this 1995 intrepid had been driven into the Obadia Canal. The license plate number TAK4097…" the voiced drowned out.
"No," Yamato said he then put his head in his hands, "That's the license plate number on his car."
Hikari looked at him, frowning and forgetting to remain composed and began cry. She then ran out of the apartment as fast as she could, Yamato noticed and followed her.
Dave dialed the number for the police station, "Hello Obadia police," The secretary answered.
"I'd like to report missing persons report. On Takeru Takashi," he said into the phone.
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2:00pm……
'Come on…' Takeru thought as he struggled with the ropes that were holding his hands together. He yelled for help a few times, but it was useless he couldn't get though the gag, which was hurting him, because Jeff had tied it, tightly. He gave up and let his arms relax a little.
Jeff opened the door to the attic then closed it behind him making sure that it was closed he walked over to Takeru with a smile on his face which then turned upside down, "Those people are pretty quick Takeru…they found the car," He replied.
Takeru was staring at him, "What's wrong? You'd think you'd be happy?" He asked. Then smiled, "Oh right you can't talk well let me undo that gag. he unties it Okay there."
Takeru looked at him, "What do I have to do with this plan!" he cried out.
"Takeru, don't stress out," he said sitting himself down in a chair, "it's all part of the plan."
Takeru angered, "YOUR PLAN!! To make everyone my parents, my brother, my girlfriend and my friends think I'm DEAD!" he yelled.
Jeff growled and tied the gag again, "Don't you ever yell again and if you push me, I could really make you dead," He replied taking a hunting knife out from the inside of his shirt and showing Takeru.
"Changed your mind Takeru?" he asked. Jeff rolled over a small table wearing a pair of gloves, he wiped the finger prints of the pencil and got a fresh clean piece of paper putting it in front of Takeru on the desk he untied Takeru's hands. "Now write what I say," He instructed holding the knife in front of him. He nodded and picked up the pencil, and got ready to write.
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Maui 7:00pm…..
"Sora, I need a rest how about a kiss?" he asked.
Sora took a seat on the bench and Taichi sat next to her, "No, not yet," She said with a smile.
Taichi moaned, "But, we've been shopping…..for so long."
Sora smiled at him, "No we haven't it's only been an hour," She said.
"It's almost time for the sunset, and dinner and I've got a good Idea for where we can have our dinner," He said.
"Really? Where?" she asked curiously.
"Nope it's a secret," Taichi told her.
Sora rolled her eyes at him, "Okay Taichi, what ever you say." She said.
They laughed and then kissed.
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"Hikari wait!" Yamato called to her she ran down all way to the lobby of the apartment and stopped Yamato came running after her and stopped right next to her, "Hikari, he is my brother too and I'm just as upset.." He said shakily trying not to get emotional, "We all loved him," He finished.
Hikari looked at him angry, "How could you say that…you loved him…Yamato you have to have hope he's alive!" She should though she was crying as well her tears streaming down her face.
"I do have hope Hikari… I do have hope he's still alive," he said he then sunk to the ground, "I have the hope that he is alive but after hearing about the car… "Yamato's voice trailed off and he felt hot tears running down his cheeks.
Wiping her own tears away she sat down next to him, "I'm sorry…for getting upset like that," She told him.
When he didn't say anything, she hugged him. He hugged her back tightly, "I need to get out…" he said releasing her from the hug and stood up.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
"I don't know…" with that he walked out of the building while Hikari watched worried.
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Hikari had to call Taichi and Sora. She went into her coat pocket and pulled out her cell phone; she took the piece of paper out looked at it and dialed the number that was written down.
Ring, Ring, Ring
"Hello, Hotel Hana, Maui" The voice answered.
"Can you please put me through to cottage number twenty one?" Hikari asked.
"Yes, hold on one second," The male voice replied.
'Please, please be there,' Hikari thought.
The voice came back on, "I'm sorry miss, there's no answer would you like to leave message?" he asked.
"Yes, can you tell them to phone Hikari Yagami on her cell phone it's a emergency, and it has nothing to do with Saria," She said feeling herself get upset.
"Okay I'll get this to them as soon as they come back," He said.
Isolated part of beach…
Table set up in the middle of the beach Sora and Taichi were eating the sky was changing to a beautiful color of orange, "This is the most amazing surprise ever, having dinner on the beach in Hawaii," Sora said smiling at him.
"Hey well, you know I'm the best at everything," Taichi said begin to brag.
"Ha, yeah right. If you count taking about fifteen minutes to talk you into going on the horse back tour of Hana," She replied.
Taichi laughed, "No, you see that doesn't count."
"It does too."
Getting up suddenly Taichi got up ran toward the ocean. Taichi was wearing his Hawaiian swimming trunks with a matching shirt, which was unbuttoned. Sora wore a bikini top and bottom and it was red over top of it she wore a black dress cover up.
Taichi smiled over at her as Sora watched him, "What are you doing?" she asked as he sat down on the wet part of beach which the tide came over.
"Waiting for you to join me," He replied.
Sora eyed him curious, "Join you on the beach. You're sitting in the wet sand," She said watching him as tide came up the beach causing Taichi to get all wet, which he didn't seem to mind considering the fact that the water was warm. He put his arms behind his head he then laid down, looking up at the sky.
Sora took off her black dress cover up then taking a glass from the table and sneaked her way to the water she scooped some of it up in the glass then approached Taichi.
"See Sora, what do you have to lose? I mean looking up at the sky the nice colors of the Hawaiian sunset…. Ah!" he suddenly jumped up.
Sora was laughing her head off, "I got you!" she said and started to laugh.
"Oh…you are so going to get it Mrs. Sora Yagami," He said he put on a devious smile then started to advance to ward her.
"Oh, really well lets see you try," She said then taking off he ran after her, he chased her all over the small beach until he eventually caught her. They were both breathing hard.
"See now I'll show you not to do that again," He smiled.
Sora looked at him, "So what is that revenge you're going to give me?" she asked him.
Taichi simply smiled then scooped her up, and started to carry her toward the water.
Sora gasped, "Taichi come on, I didn't throw you in the ocean," She cried out trying not to laugh.
"You were asking for it honey," He replied, he approached the water and was standing in waist deep water now Sora was in his hands.
"Taichi I didn't want to get wet!" she cried out.
"Well that's what usually happens when you come to the beach Sora," He said and dropped her in the water.
She came up and hit him, "I can't believe you!" she said laughing.
Back at hotel…
The bell boy went looked for cottage number twenty one. Once he found he knocked on the door to see if anyone was in, when no one answered he then stuck the note on to the door making sure that it would stay and then he left.
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Yamato came to the door steps of Mimi's house; he didn't even know how he made it here alive. He wasn't even thinking on how cold it was outside. He couldn't hold back the sudden thoughts, how could his brother survive that. He must have caught hypothermia something that Taichi nearly died from, but it was different situation from Takeru's.
He held on to his head, "GET OUT!!!" he yelled suddenly, "I have to think positive" he repeated as tears ran down his cheeks.
Mimi heard something from outside she slowly went down the stairs. Looked around noticing that no ones around, she sighed.
"Takeru, please COME BACK!!!" he yelled obviously in pain, he didn't even get a chance to see him. He hadn't seen him since well he couldn't remember. He couldn't think straight at all he couldn't believe this was happening to him.
Mimi jumped she heard yelling about Takeru she went to the door looked through the door and gasped and hurried to opened the door, "Yamato! What wrong?" she asked even though she was upset with him she couldn't stand to see him upset like this.
Yamato looked up at her his eyes red from all the crying he had been doing for the past few hours, "Mimi...I...need you," He said.
Mimi took him into her arms patting his back and pulled him into her house. She took his coat off and hung it up.
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Jeff took the scissors from the table, "What are you doing!" he asked as he pulled his head way from him.
"Stay still, I need some of your hair," He said.
"My hairs off limits," Takeru answered.
Jeff laughed, "Shut up or else, I'll do what I said before," He said.
Takeru quieted allowing him to cut his hair.
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Hawaii……
Sora tackled Taichi on the beach.
They were both laughing Sora on top of him, the laughter died down. Leaving the two looking each other. They started to kiss, but it wasn't just any kiss it was one that was full of passion, starting off slowly then it turned more heated with passion. They rolled around on the beach for a while the surf raced up on their bodies. Taichi stopped looking down at her.
"Sora, I want you." He replied.
"So do I," She said then noticed realizing that he was going to say something.
"But ….." she started up for him.
"But, I don't think I want to do it here, it's the sand it going up my shorts and my hair is all disgusting and now I'm all itchy," he said.
As much as she was enjoying the little rolling around on the beach it was kind of irritating feeling the sand all over her body, "You know your right lets get back to the hotel we can take a shower then go in the……. Jacuzzi," She said slyly.
"Good Idea," He said he got up off of her and helped her up.
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Japan…
Mimi pulled him toward the couch she sat him down. She then took a seat next to him, "Yamato, what wrong? What is it?" Mimi asked him softly, she pushed a strand of hair out of his eyes, his tears were gone he sniffed a bit.
"My life is falling apart," He replied.
"Yamato if this is about me….." she was cut off by him.
"Some what, but…Takeru's missing," He said.
Mimi looked at him shocked, "Oh gosh Yam--" She was cut off by the door bell.
They both looked toward the door watching it, "I'll get it. Stay here," She said getting up she approached to door looked through it and opened the door. "How can I help you?" she asked.
The man looked at her solemnly, "I'm looking for Yamato Ishida I was told he would be here," He said.
Mimi nodded, "Yeah but he's upset I don't think he want to see anyone….hey!" she cried as the man pushed his way in he saw Yamato who stood up, came up to him.
"Mr. Yamato Ishida?" he asked.
Yamato nodded, "Yeah that's me."
"You're a requested to testify against Brittany Coners psychiatric evaluation in front of a judge. You are here by subpoenaed."
Yamato looked at the guy, "But I thought I dropped all charges?" He questioned confused.
"You must attend, and you can not leave town or else you will be face with charges," He said and left the house. Mimi watch confused also.
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Hawaii…
Sora and Taichi were getting irritated at the sand that got into there bathing suits. Taichi stumble to put the keys in the door but he dropped them on the ground he bent down and picked them up again.
Sora rolled her eyes then glanced at the door seeing a note, "What's that?" she questioned.
"Huh? What's what?" Taichi asked.
Sora picked the note off the door looked at it wide eyed, "I'm calling home something happened," She said.
"What happened? Doesn't it say?" Taichi asked worried.
"It's from Hikari she says it has nothing to do with Saria but that to call her immediately," She said she gave the paper to Taichi.
Sora opened the door and went straight to the phone dialing in the numbers really fast.
Yagami's...11:00pm...
Hikari ran to the phone picking it up immediately, "Hello," She replied.
"Hikari what's wrong we got the message," Sora said.
"Oh thank god…..Sora….Takeru's missing," She told her.
Sora gasped, "What? What do you mean." She asked.
"He's gone they found his car in the Canal….." she started to cry while Sora blinked back tears, Taichi looked at her confused. "Are they….sure?" she asked.
"Yes, the license plate…..starts to sob uncontrollably." Sora starts to cry also.
"Hikari…..it will be alright," She said trying to control herself.
"Sora what's wrong…" Taichi said he immediately went by her side.
"Taichi…Takeru's ……..gone," she replied upset.
Taichi hit speaker phone, "Hikari I'm here are you okay?" Taichi asked her.
She was still sobbing, "Taichi I saw him last night…" she starts up again.
Taichi held his wife while he was trying to clam them both down.
"Well we'll come home tomorrow okay," Taichi said.
Hikari wiped the tears from her eyes, "Don't you guys stay on your honey moon," She replied as she sniffed a little.
"Nonsense Hikari, where family was not going to stay on vacation while everyone at home is suffering," Sora said, sniffing as well.
"We can always go another time and finish our honeymoon," Taichi said to her.
Hikari could tell he was emotional when they both hung the phones up.
Obadia…
"Takeru…..why?" she thought out. Hikari figured the frame he had given her for her birthday about a year ago. She looked at the inscription. She read it out loud, "You're my first love, and you'll always be the one closest to my heart. Love….Takeru." she gulped trying to blink back her tears and hugged the frame tight crying.
Jeff's…
'How can he do this to me? He's wrecking the lives of the people I love in my life.' Takeru thought he blinked back his own tears. "Help some on help!!!!" Takeru said trying to talk thought the gag.
'Hikari if you can hear me, I'm still alive! I'm a Jeff house in his attic!!!' he called in his mind maybe he could try it but he didn't think those metal calls for help would work.
Hikari's room…
Hikari's eye's widen it's was like she felt Takeru was still alive, 'maybe there is hope,' She thought. Then quickly she hurried to dismiss the idea.
'If I going to give myself to the thought of these illusions are real and we do find him and he isn't alive….' She thought she didn't want to put up false hope that he could be alive. If it provided her wrong it would hurt her to much.
To Be Continued...