[Disclaimer] I do not own Eye shield 21 or Garasu no Kamen! All credit goes to the awesome creators.

[Author Note] Here's the fifteenth chapter. Sorry about any typos and other writing errors.

(Chapter Fifteen - Can Things Get Any Worse?)

There she was standing in the middle of a dim lit room, holding a gun with her left hand, thinking about all that has happened. She wondered why Karen even tried to kill her; she also wondered why she didn't just leave from this mansion in the first place. Maybe it was because she was in the middle of nowhere and she felt safer inside of a house.

Besides, it was raining very hard and she didn't want to get her dress all wet and cold. She couldn't help but to start crying. Everything that she's been through just deeply saddened her heart and soul. Her mind then began to think about all of the things that upset her from her childhood on up, and she just couldn't take the pain. Thoughts of suicide constantly crossed her mind, but she fought those considerations away.

Then suddenly, her cell phone began to ring, and she didn't hesitate to answer it. She quickly took the phone from out of a small pocket on her dress, which was sort of weird for a dress to have a pocket in the first place, and flipped open the phone. "Sena?" she said, trying her best to stay calm. Sena noticed the distress in her voice and that made him feel upset already.

"Hey, Maya, the flight took longer than I thought, but I made it. Is everything going okay?" She knew she couldn't lie to him; she had no choice but to say the truth.

"No," she answered, which made him even more upset.

"Maya, what happened? Is it Karen? Did she do something to you?"

Maya then started to cry again. Soon as she heard Karen's name, the event that happened minutes ago came to mind. Sena heard her weeping, he heard her cries, and when he did, his heart felt like it stopped. He didn't want anything else bad to ever happen to her, and now he's getting this? He trusted Karen, he really did, but now that feeling of trust was entirely demolished.

He was very, very far away from her. He wished that he could just warp right in front of her to hug and kiss her tears away. "Maya, what happened to you?" asked the vexed boyfriend, his heart feeling sadness, his blood boiling with anger.

"Karen… It was Karen," she fearfully whispered, slightly choking up on her words. Sena had to wait for a second for him to swallow down the anger he was feeling.

"What about her?" Maya could tell that he was ticked off.

Maya took a deep breath before saying, "Well, when you left on the plane, she told me to get inside of the car, so I did. I was very tired and I eventually fell to sleep. I don't really know how long I was asleep, but I do know it was more than a few hours. I found it weird that we weren't at the airport.

Instead, she pulled up to a creepy looking mansion place. I was scared, Sena, so scared. She told me to get out the car, but I didn't because I was too scared to move. So since I didn't, she forced me out and hit me with her head. After that, she threw me inside of the house and started kicking me. After a while, she left from the house, and I feared her return, so I started to look for a weapon. Soon enough, I did find something. I found some gun that was inside of a closet and forced myself to use it. I don't even know how to use guns and I never wanted to know, but she left me no choice!"

Several sniffles came from her as she wiped the tears away from her puffy, red eyes.

"What happened after that, Maya?" he asked her, feeling like he wanted to murder somebody at the moment. Maya hesitated to answer him, she felt so terrible about what she did.

She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and then softly spoke, "I shot her… I shot her, Sena." Tears began to backlog in her eyes again, soon falling from out of her eyes and down her cheeks. He didn't know what to say to her, he couldn't believe what happened. Maya was a danger magnet.

Wherever she went, danger followed, and Sena wanted to always be there with her, but he wasn't anywhere near her at the moment. Listening to her soft cries was killing him, almost to the point of making him cry, too. It seemed to always be this way.

Every time Maya cried, Sena felt like crying with her. Sometimes he just couldn't help it, and now was one of those times. Sena's eyes began to water as he tried to speak to her.

"Is she dead?" he asked austerely, trying his best to hold back the shakiness in his voice, but failing horribly bad.

About a minute later, she despondently replied, "Yes."

Muteness took place once again; they both didn't say a word to each other for about 30 seconds. "I'm an evil person, Sena." What? What was that she said? She's evil?

"What?" Sena retorted, still trying to stay calm about the whole situation. "Why would you say such a thing?"

"Because I killed someone!" she screamed at him, her voice never sounded so loud before, he never seen her like this. He knew that she was having a nervous breakdown. "I committed a horrible sin! I took somebody's life away!" she continued to shriek. "I hate my life, I hate myself, and I hate everything! All I ever did was mess things up! I was always a failure, and now I killed someone? I can't take this! I can't live anymore! I'm sorry, Sena, I'm sorry! I don't deserve someone like you! I only deserve death! I should just kill myself right now and do this world a favor!"

"SHUT UP!" he yelled back at her, her eyes turning wide after hearing his remark, a light gasp escaping her throat. Sena couldn't hold back his tears anymore; he had to let it out. "Don't you EVER say those atrocious things about yourself EVER again, Maya! Things like this happen, don't you get it! You were only trying to protect yourself, and if you prove yourself about this to others, everyone will understand! I'll be by your side throughout all of this! I don't care what happens! It was either you or her, and I'm glad it was her, that stinking buzzard! And if anything, Maya, I don't deserve you! Killing yourself will only bring this world more misery, especially to me!"

Maya started to calm down after hearing Sena's rant. She couldn't say anything at the moment; she had to relax the best she could. "I'm coming down there, Maya." Was he serious? Was he actually going to ditch all of this and try to find her in the middle of nowhere?

"What are you talking about, Sena?" she asked him, wondering if she heard him right.

"I said I'm coming down there," he told her again, his voice sounded so serious and determined.

"B-But the football game," she replied to him.

"Forget the stupid football game!" Sena snapped back at her, practically cutting her off from finishing her sentence.

"But you don't even know where I am," she whispered to him as she wiped her eyes and sniffled a little.

"Don't worry about that," he said, his voice now sounding very relaxed and calm. When she heard the way he sounded, she felt like he was right there next to her, wrapping his arms around her waist, giving her a warm and comforting embrace. It was amazing the way they made each other feel at times.

"It feels like you're right here beside me," Maya tenderly said to him, now smiling and feeling like she had no more troubles at all.

"I will be very soon, Maya. You can count on that."

"Okay," she cooed back to him.

"Maya," he spoke.

"Yes?" she asked.

"I love you, never forget that."

Her smile widened as she retorted back, "Love you, too."

Right when he hung up, her mind went back to the situation, and the fact that Masumi was on the loose. She forgot to tell him, and that was the other main thing she wanted to tell him. "Aw, boo," she said underneath her breath, sounding very frustrated. Maya started to think that Masumi probably knew where she was at, but she was ready for him because she had a gun! "Sena will come to my rescue, I know he will."

Sena put his phone back in his pocket and walked over towards his fellow teammates. "Hiruma, Maya is in trouble. I'm sorry, but I won't be in this game. I don't care how I get back, I just have to go." Sena looked and sounded very serious, which he was, but Hiruma didn't want to buy this.

"Nice joke! Now, shut up and let's get moving."

"I'm not joking, you idiot! I'm serious, dead freaking serious! By what she's telling me, she could have died! Is that good enough for you?" Sena no longer put up with Hiruma's attitude, and Hiruma hated that.

"Could have died? Died by what? I hate that girl. She ruined the team, and she ruined you!" The sadistic quarterback then got punched in the face, and he fell down to the ground. All of the others gasped after seeing Hiruma getting punched like that.

"If you hate her, then you hate me. I'm sick and tired of you, Hiruma! Learn to shut that mouth of yours, you jockstrap wearing jerk!" After saying that, Sena ran off to aid his girlfriend, Maya. In order to get back to the city she was at, he paid some aviator who had a jet and told him to fly him there. He paid a lot of money, but he didn't give two craps about that at all.

Sena really had no clue where she was at, and he forgot to even ask her that, but he figured not even she knew her own whereabouts. Strange thing is he felt like he did know where she was at, so he followed that gut feeling. Thankfully, this pilot was very skilled and had a super-fast jet.

Maya was walking down hallway after hallway, soon enough she got lost inside of this place. "I should have left while I had the chance," she pouted as she looked out of a window, noticing just how high up she was; this mansion was quite big. She then began to hear footsteps behind her, which made her turn around, and what she saw shocked her terribly.

It was Masumi, and he was walking over to her very, very slowly. She instantly began to cry again, soon aiming the rifle at the man. She looked so scared, heck she was scared. Her body was trembling so bad that she could hardly even aim the gun, she was that scared.

"You're not going to shoot me," said the man, an ugly smirk on his face.

"How d-did you escape f-f-from j-j-jail?" she asked, her voice cracking and breaking up.

"I got my ways," was his response, his pace now becoming faster. Maya kept backing up, but her back hit the wall, now she had nowhere to run.

"Stay away from me!" she yelled, trying her best to aim straight.

"It's only me and you now, Miss Kitajima!" he exclaimed loudly. Maya shot at him two times, but missed both times.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" she screamed at the top of her lungs, but her hollers were useless. Masumi then grabbed her arms and started to tie her up with ropes.

"You're all mine!" said the perverted old man. Sadly, the only thing that Maya could do was cry, worry and pray; she was so scared, so afraid.

Poor Maya… Well, until next time, if there is a next time. Good-bye and take care.