Sorry it took so long but I've been working on other stories and college can get in the way of my fun time.
Disclaimer: CLAMP's not mine.
Luckily the group was already dressed and ready for blending into club Memory after coming from their meeting with the council. People of all shapes and sizes danced to hip J-rock music trying to shake the daily troubles of the day. Kakei stayed behind to keep the car running and Kei was told to stay with him. Because of her gift of giving emotions her stress, fear, and anger was affecting the whole group and was ordered to stay in the car. The rest of the team assembled by Rei stood outside ready for action.
"There," Rei nodded to a back door. "That's Morioka," He stated and Tsukiko, Rikuo and Saiga saw the slicked backed haired man standing in front of the door laughing with some other men in suits. He was clearly intoxicated with a large class of beer in his hand. Next to him stood the green eyed foreigner who who's ability allowed him to stop all of their own powers from working. He stood there quietly smiling into nothingness.
"Hey," Morioka called out to one of his buddies. "Watch this," He said slurring his words and walked over to the green eyed man. Pulling out a gun he held it to the other man's head and cocked it. The foreign man just stood there not moving.
"BANG," Morioka shouted and all his friends flinched except for the person the gun was aimed at. "What I tell ya'…stupid doll," He said kicking the guy in the leg making him fall flat on his face. The "doll" just stood up blood trickling down his lip from the unbroken fall and kept staring out into space like nothing happened.
Rikuo began to walk forward but was stopped by Rei.
"You won't get through the door," He said. "But I have a plan," Rei said pulling the other three in.
A few minutes later Tsukiko walked up to the drunken men still in her tight dark green dress and a half empty margarita glass in her hand.
"Hey boys," She swooned taking a sip from her alcoholic beverage. The guys all turned around and began whistling and calling the thought to be drunk girl. They began walking over to her surrounding her and taking turns dancing alongside her, Morioka too far gone to recognize the dream wielder. This only left the person who was under their control. Rei smiled as he walked casually up to the foreigner. The blond haired man smiled politely with out of focused eyes and allowed the mind reader to knock him out with one punch to the face.
"That was easier than I thought it was going to be," Saiga said in surprised.
"Yeah…I thought this would happen. I couple of years ago a woman named Ishikawa Yuri went missing. Her ability is to pretty much make you forget everything but your powers so it only works on those with abilities. They put this guy here just to stop anyone from using powers but otherwise he's pretty much just an ornament. So yes Rikuo, now that he's out we can use our powers now,"
Rikuo glared slightly and walked passed Rei.
"I told you to stay out of my head," Rikuo hissed and opened the door. On the other side of the door was a well lit bar. It was just as big as the club on their side and had just as many people. The only difference was, all the people there were dressed formally and there wasn't pounding music for people to dance to.
The three men moved in scanning the room for Kazahaya or anyone who looks like they might belong to the Tsubasa. Rikuo froze when a waitress dressed in a pink Chinese dress with brown hair in two buns walked up to him. Her brown eyes had the same glazed over look that Kazahaya and all the other people under the Tsubasas control.
"Care for a glass of Champaign sir," The girl asked smiling innocently. She probably had no idea that she was being controlled.
"No thank you," He said and she walked away. Rikuo almost jumped when he felt a hand on the back of his shoulder.
"Don't use your ability and they won't bother you," Rei stated and walked ahead of the teenager. Rikuo nodded and looked over by the bar. His eyes widen, it was Kazahaya. He was dressed in almost the same outfit he wore when Sato tried taking control of him except it was a dark green with yellow vines wrapping around the body. His hands were folded in front of him as he stood slightly behind a blond haired woman in a blue long sleeved shirt and a navy blue pencil skirt. A thin cigarette hanging from her red colored lips and thin glasses covered her blue eyes.
"I see him," Rikuo whispered causing Rei and Saiga to look over.
"Hey," Saiga said. "That's that woman who took him away. What did Tsukiko say her name was?"
"That's Marina Labat. She's pretty high on the Tsubasa chain, collects and keeps all the ability wielders at bay." They all moved in closer without trying to be too conspicuous. "Dam I can't read his mind he's too far gone," Rei said.
"Don't say that," Rikuo hissed almost shouting. Saiga placed his hand on the teens shoulder and then placed his finger over his lips signing for Rikuo to be quiet.
"Now," The three heard Marina start. "It will be 3,000,000 yen for one hour," the woman spoke to a fat bald headed man sitting at the bar. He was sweating and fidgeting with his fingers as he looked Kazahaya over.
"Does it hurt?" He asked anxiously.
"Of course not, it's calmness better than any drug or drink you have ever had. Just think of the things you want to forget and have the time of your life for a few hours," The man hesitated for a second and took an envelope out of his pocket. Marina grabbed it ginger and pulled out crisp bills. Nodding her head she pulled Kazahaya in front of the man who nervously smiled to the teen. Kazahaya smiled gently and placed his hands on either side of the man's head. The guy's eyes widen and then drooped. A few seconds later he looked back at Kazahaya and Marina and stood up.
"I feel…different…free. Why do I feel like that?" The man said.
"Because you can't remember the event you came to forget. Now go enjoy yourself and come back anytime," Marina said smiling slyly. The man grabbed a shot of tequila next to his hand and swigged it down. He smiled happily and walked out past Rikuo, Saiga and Rei who turned around so Marina wouldn't notice them. Turning back they watched Marina hand the money to a man in a suit who stuffed it in his suit pocket.
"What did he want gone?" She asked Kazahaya in a bored voice. Kazahaya looked back at her with empty eyes.
"His wife found out he was cheating on her with call girls and she wanted a divorce. He signed prenuptial papers saying that she will keep all her wealth in a divorce and he would have nothing so he had her killed so he could keep it all," He said in a monotone voice.
"Good," she said and the suited man wrote down the information. "Black mail is so easy now a day,"
Suddenly another suited man came storming into the room with Tsukiko arm in his grasp.
"We've been discovered!" He shouted and all the guests began yelling and running to the nearest exists. Trying not to get stampede Rikuo lost sight of Kazahaya and could only see everyone flee except for the servers all dressed in Chinese gowns and outfits holding there trays. As people ran they still tried to get the guests to take food and drinks.
"Care for Champaign?"
"Food sir?" They all asked not understanding what was going on with their eyes glazed over. Rikuo realized that all the servers were power wielders which meant that they were surrounded.
"Move in now!" Rei shouted into his watch which had a built in radio. Men in black uniforms almost like S.W.A.T came into the room surrounding everyone. Tsukiko punched the man holding her in the face and ran towards her comrades.
"I'm sorry one of the men recognized me. I thought they would all be too drunk to noticed," She said with guilt on her face.
"It's fine!" Rikuo yelled over the commotion. "Just help me find Kazahaya!" Finally everything settled and it was a dead lock of Rei's men and the Tsubasa men, guns pointing at each other. Morioka came stumbling in and hick upped.
"Hey babe, where'd you go?" He mumbled to Tsukiko before passing out on the floor.
"Idiot!" Marina seethed in anger her fingers wrapped tightly around Kazahaya's arm.
"Kazahaya!" Rikuo shouted but was held back by Saiga.
"Marina your surrounded!" Rei shouted a gun pointed at the French woman, "Give up now and I promise you'll get off easy,"
"Easy?" Rikuo whispered. "She kidnapped my boyfriend and probably hundreds of others to get rich and you're going to let her off easy!"
"She's not the leader," Rei whispered back. "If you want your boyfriend back in one piece than shush,"
"You think I don't have a backup plan," Marina laughed. "Xiang Qin," She called out and the girl that tried to give Rikuo the Champaign earlier dropped her tray and ran over to the French woman.
"Marina stop it!" Rei shouted again and pointed the gun at the Chinese girl.
"The safe house," The Marina said to Xiang Qin and smiled at Rei. Moving Xiang Qin into the middle so she was holding onto but Marina's and Kazahaya's hand the three of them faded away. As soon as they were gone and no one to tell them what to do the guards quickly dropped their guns and held raised their hands in the air. There were 10 other servers that stood there with blank stares smiling at the guns in their faces but still never moved.
"Why didn't you stop them!?" Rikuo yelled gripping Rei's shirt collar. Rei glared at Rikuo but didn't move.
"I'm not going to shoot an innocent woman. She's in the same boat as Kazahaya, and if I shot Marina the woman still would have taken Kazahaya to that safe house she took them to," Rei said and waited for Rikuo to let him go. Tsukiko finally moved in and pulled Rikuo's hands off of the mind reader. Soon Rei had his men tying up the Tsubasa group getting them ready for the police to collect them later not having the authority to do anything else. They did however help walk out the servers who went with them willingly. As they were walking out Kei ran in with Kakei walking in behind her.
"He wasn't here?" Kakei asked his tall lover.
"No he was," Saiga answered back sadly. "They got away. Tears welled up in Kei's eyes and she dropped to the floor. Crying on the ground everyone looked away giving her space. Looking up towards the window she sniffed and dried her eyes as she noticed black shoes behind the curtains. Quietly pulling on Saiga's pants leg he looked down and pointed to the window. He nudged Tsukiko and showed her the feet as well. Soon all of them were aware of someone hiding behind the window drapes. Kei stood up and walked over to the glass slowly and heard sniffling. She quickly pulled the curtains away and jumped back as she came face to face with a frightened woman with long black hair in a plain white dress.
"You!" Kei shouted and pulled the woman out from against the wall and in the center of the group. "This is your entire fault. You made Kazahaya this way!" She yelled out.
"Kei wait," Tsukiko exclaimed and held the woman who was shaking in fear. "This is Ishikawa Yuri. She was kidnapped years ago and was forced to do this," She explained pushing Yuri's hair away from her face revealing dark ruby eyes.
"I am so, so sorry," Yuri cried. "I didn't want to do this but I didn't want to die. I'm a coward," She said before balling her eyes out. Tsukiko wrapped her hands around Yuri and held her tightly.
"It's ok I understand," Tsukiko said sadly. "But maybe you can help us now," She said pulling herself apart from the girl. Yuri nodded her head hesitantly.
"Anything," She said.
"Do you where this safe house is?" Yuri's eyes widen.
"I don't want to go back there please," She begged moving away from every one.
"Please," She heard behind herself and turned around quickly. Rikuo had a red blush written across his face and he looked down. "Please you don't need to come with us we just…we just need to know where he is, please," Everyone stared at the tall teen as he spoke in a way they had never heard him speak before. Yuri nodded slightly.
"It's…it's in Hibiya Park. Tomorrow is the full moon and Hibiya Park is an area where the four winds meets. It makes it the perfect place to read the books and create more people with abilities to do there evil bidding," Yuri answered.
"Then that's where we're going," Rikuo said and walked past the group to get ready for the final showdown and get back Kazahaya.
Again thank you for sticking with me and my long break. I hope this chapter makes up for it
Review kindly onegai