Hi! I hope you had a fun time reading this series, because it's almost done! I know it probably seems kind of fast, but I needed to get some really important business done in this chapter! BTW, don't judge a book by it's cover!

Previously:

Misaki had made an idea to get Hinata to stop looking over her at school and Satsuki isn't at Maid Latte so she has time to talk to Usui. She explains her punishment to him in the kitchen of the cafe.

Chapter 18: Where is She?

"Oh, so your mom's pretty strict on you this time," Usui said as he started devouring his omelet.

"Yeah. Good thing that Hinata let me off the hook, and manager isn't here. So I can talk to you whenever I want! But it seemed kind of... odd at school. Maybe..." Misaki said and led off to her thoughts.

"I noticed Yui wasn't there at school today. Maybe that's it." Misaki looked at him with her brown eyes.

"Wouldn't she usually be at school? She always wants to see you, Takumi-koi." Usui started eating his food a little faster because he heard the door open. "Oh, sorry, I have to go get that." Misaki got up and left her steaming omelet on the table, waiting to be eaten. When she got to the door, she did her usual bow and, "Welcome home, master!" and led the customers to the table. Usui thought a little bit to himself at how weird it was that Yui wasn't at school. It had only been her first few days there, anyways. Why would she miss it? He was in a deep thought and hardly noticed when Misaki came in to tell him the order. She stood behind the dazing boy and punched him in the back. "Oi! I need a root beer float!" she exclaimed after he turned around. He quickly looked around for a root beer float he had made earlier and gave it to her. She put it on the plate and thanked him. She walked away, leaving him there alone to think for minutes. He turned his phone on and looked online the blogging site. He made an account quickly and searched for Yui's account. Misaki came back in while he was looking. "Takumi-koi, why are you on there?" she asked him. He looked back at her and gave her the phone.

"I made this account to look for Yui. She usually posts two posts daily, but she hasn't posted any since yesterday. I can see that some people are worried about her," he told her. "I wonder if her phone was taken away for any reason, but I doubt that she has parents from the way that she acts." Misaki gave the phone to him and thought to herself for a second.

"Uhm. Maybe she was kidnapped, but we have to go check her house then. Maybe after work, we can go to her house and check up on her. I have her address remembered in my head." She sat back down in the seat that she left empty earlier and started eating her omelet which has cooled down. She ate faster because she probably thought that someone could have come any minute too. Usui watched her eat closely, which was kind of awkward to Misaki. "Uhm... Takumi-koi... can you stop watching me?" she asked after looking up at him. She had a rice grain on the side of her mouth, and Usui greatfully wiped it off and chuckled.

"Sure," he replied. Erika came in the room and saw Misaki eating.

"Hey, Misa-chan, you can leave if you want. No customers are coming in soon so I think that I'm going to close the store soon even though it's quite early," Erika informed.

"Oh, OK then. Is Usui dismissed too?" she asked as she took the last bite of the omelet.

"Yes, now go have fun for the rest of the day! It's only five, so knock yourselves out on a date." Misaki blushed and put her plate away. Erika walked into the changing room to put on her regular clothing before Misaki could.

"Takumi-koi, just stay here for a minute. I'll be out soon, OK?" she told him.

"It's OK, I'll be here waiting for you. I'll just put away the extra food for tomorrow." He got up out of his seat and started to put his extra food into the refrigerator. Misaki watched him put away the last plate and then walked into the changing room and did her work quickly. Erika got out and said her goodbyes to Misaki and then changed the sign to closed, and all of the last few customers payed and then left swiftly. Misaki got out of the changing room and found Usui as they left together, holding hands.

"Takumi-koi, I was originally supposed to get off work at nine so I can't spend any time with you, OK? After we've found out what happened, I'll go home and tell my mom about work." she told him.

"I know, now do you want to hurry to get to Yui's place already? Because I don't remember her address," he said. Misaki released his hand and ran ahead of him.

"Just follow me, and don't try to lose me!" she said loud enough for him to hear. He chuckled a little and then started running to be right beside her.

"I'll never lose you, Misaki-koi. No matter who tries to take you away, I'll always be by your side." Misaki blushed and ran faster, hiding her face from him. It was too embarassing to blush in front of him now. He finally added that honorific to her name.

Misaki stopped in front of a large house. It looked like a mansion, or a palace. She and Usui both panted as they looked at it. "This is Yui Tanaka's house. It's large... I didn't know it was." He looked at the gate in the front and poked at the doorbell next to it. Immediately, a voice came on. It sort of resembled Yui's a bit.

"Hello? This is the Tanaka house hold! Who is it?" the intercom asked.

"It's a friend of Yui's. Is she home right now?" Misaki asked it.

"Oh, no. But I don't think I've seen her for a while. Maybe... two days? She's probably over at her friend's house." Usui and Misaki couldn't believe how carefree this woman was.

"Uhm, I suspect that Yui has been missing. She hasn't been at school today." She heard a sudden gasp and then a shocking voice. Their opinion of the lady on the intercom changed entirely.

"What?! Oh my... I need to call the police... or the FBI? What else?! SPCA... SWAT?! I need to find my baby!" she screamed quickly. "Thank you for telling me that! I must get someone quickly. Come in, come in!" the lady exclaimed. The gate opened slowly and Usui and Misaki came in. It closed behind them and they walked to the door and went inside the house. The marble floor was shining because of the bright and big chandelier on the ceiling. When they looked up, on the second floor was a woman in a deep purple robe who almost looked like a twin of Yui's. "Hello! Thank you for telling me that my daughter was missing! Who's this boy? What's your names?!" This lady definitely acted like Yui, and she even told them that she was her mom. She came downstairs and looked at the two.

"I'm Misaki and this is my boyfriend Usui. It's nice to meet you. And you might want to call the police now. I can see how worried you are about Yui. She's a nice girl." Yui's mom immediately went to the homephone that was attached to the rose patterned wall.

"Hello?! Police?! My daughter is missing! Her name is Yui Tanaka! Just come to my house, I'll explain then! My address is XOX OOX! Come quickly, please!" the lady exclaimed. She hung up the phone and walked over to Usui and Misaki. "I'm so scared of what had happened to Yui... oh and you can just call me Akane. I'm her mother. Wow, Usui, you look handsome. And you did a good job with Misaki..." she said. Her behavior changed easily. She was most likely bipolar.

"Erm... thank you, Akane," Usui said. They all stared at each other in silence until Akane spoke up.

"Would you guys like some tea? I only have Japanese tea, if that's alright with you guys." She walked over to the kitchen while waiting for their answers.

"It's fine," Misaki said. "Is it OK if I look around?"

"Oh yeah sure! I might not be done with this tea for a while so you two lovebirds can go up to her room if you'd like and do some things. I can just change the cover so she can't find out anything!" Misaki blushed wildly.

"W-what! We won't do that! I swear!" she exclaimed with her face as red as a rose. Usui chuckled and Akane looked away to make the tea. Misaki calmed down a little bit and looked around the first floor, hoping to find Yui's bedroom. Unfortunately, her room is on the fourth floor, so Misaki had a while looking for it. "How many floors does this house have?" she asked while looking up at the staircases.

"I don't know. Are you tired? Because I can carry you," Usui asked. He insisted on doing it but Misaki denied.

"No, not now. I'm not tired yet and I'm not done looking around." She finally came across a door that said "Yui" on it and opened it up. It had been a dark room, the lights were off and it didn't help that the walls were a dark purple, splattered with red paint. Usui turned the light on and helped Misaki look around. "What... is this?" she asked, picking up a small square razor. Usui looked at it with wide eyes as he examined the rest of the box that Misaki got it from. There were small knifes and sharp scissors along with about five razors in it. They were all stained in blood. Misaki put it down and thought for a minute and thought to herself. The least thing she would have thought of was something she thought would never happen to Yui. She looked around and opened the door to the bathroom, not suspecting anything. A scream came out of her as she saw a laying body in the bath tub, covered in blood and dried tears.