Kai woke with a start and looked around when he realized his mate missing. He sat up and looked around the room. His heart pounded as he felt fear flow through his chest. He gasped out and stood up.
"Reita!" He shouted looking around the room. The pack around him groaned as he shouted for his lover again. He screamed out his mate's name and gripped his chest as another wave of fear went through his body. During his commotion Ruki and Melody woke up. They walked over to him and he pushed them back calling for Reita again. Kyo stormed out of his room with Shinya close behind. Kai looked right at his leader and rushed over. He grabbed Kyo's shoulders.
"What's going on?" Kyo asked.
"He's gone." Kai gasped. "Reita's gone. He's scared. I don't know why, but he's scared."
Kyo looked around the room, sniffing the air. "Kaoru?" When he didn't get answer he shouted out again. "Kaoru? Aoi?"
Kyo pulled away from Kai and the packs started mumbling to each other. Uruha gripped Ruki's arm worried about his friend. Kyo opened the door where Ryoga had been in to find it empty. He looked out in the room. Koichi was missing too.
"Ruki." Kyo shouted. "Go get Toshiya from outside."
The brunette nodded as he walked out to find the alpha. Yoshiki got up as well as the others and he looked to Kyo who was fuming. He walked up to the shorter leader. "Calm down."
"They left with that stray after I told them I would handle this differently. I will not be calm."
"You need to keep a clear head." Yoshiki warned. "Get angry afterwards."
"Kyo." Ruki shouted coming in. "Toshiya's gone too. You can barely see it, but there are tracks leading away from the factory. It had to be them."
Kyo rubbed his face and looked around the room and then up at Yoshiki. "I need your help, my friend."
Yoshiki nodded. "You have it. Just give the orders and my pack will follow you."
Kyo looked out at everyone. "Get ready. We're leaving in ten minutes. We're getting our family back home."
The members howled at the announcement. Ruki froze and looked over at Uruha. He rushed to his mate who was getting ready with the others. Ruki gripped the honey blonde's arm. "You're not going."
"What? Of course I am. I'm not going to sit by while my family is fighting a battle." Uruha said.
"Our child is inside you. We can't risk you getting hurt out there." Ruki whispered.
"Ruki…I'll be fine. Those wolves won't attack my stomach. They won't know. I'm going to help my family."
"I'm sorry." Ruki said. He turned and spoke up. "Kyo. Uruha can't fight."
"Ruki!" Uruha gasped.
Kyo sighed. "I know you don't want your mate out there, but he like everyone else will be needed."
"Kyo, he cannot go out there!" Ruki shouted. Everyone became quiet as they turned to face him. He looked back at Uruha who glared at him, but the alpha ignored it and looked back at their leader. "He's carrying my child."
Kyo's jaw dropped and the whole room froze. Shinya stepped forward. "Are you sure?"
"I-I don't know." The honey blonde mumbled. "I just…I have this feeling is all."
Kyo sighed. "Can you change into your wolf form?"
"I haven't tried in a few weeks." Uruha said.
Shinya stood in front of them. "If you're pregnant then your body won't change forms. Try right now."
Uruha stepped back and concentrated on his body. He tried to force his wolf out but all he could manage was for his nails to change a little before reverting back. He looked up at everyone as Shinya turned to his mate. Kyo nodded. "Ruki, take Uruha outside of the city, to the cabins. I don't want you anywhere near this fight."
"Meto, Sugizo." Yoshiki shouted. "Go with them. We'll send for you when the fight is over."
"Kyo…"Uruha shouted, but held back. He sighed. "Please bring everyone home safely."
The leader nodded. "Go now."
Uruha put on a shirt and his mate dragged him away to the door. He stopped at the entrance where Sugizo and Meto were waiting. He gripped his mate's hands. "I have to stay."
"Ru, no."
"Don't worry." Ruki said kissing his mate. "Nothing will happen to me. I have to look after Kai. He's not thinking straight with his mate being in danger. Go."
Sugizo pulled Uruha away and the three of them left. Ruki turned and headed back inside. Kyo walked up to him. "I told you to be with your mate."
"He's in good hands. You need me right now."
They changed their forms. Some stretched getting used to being in the different skin again. Shinya walked up in his grey wolf form and licked Kyo's snout. Once Kyo was sure everyone was ready he started trotting out the door. He looked up at the dark sky and saw the glow of the sun in the distance. He picked up his speed and soon the two packs were running through the city back streets avoiding the crowds of people. They were gasping as they ran through the chilly air. Kai felt his mate's heart racing and felt his own speeding up because of it. He pushed ahead putting himself right behind Kyo and Yoshiki at the front. Melody and Byou both stayed at Shinya's side as Miyavi ran behind them. Ruki dashed up in the pack to stay by Kai's side.
They ran hard for a good fifteen minutes before they reached the other side of the city. They slowed at the sight of the abandoned building. Kyo trotted along the road. They heard wolves howling nearby. Kai felt his mate calling him and he was growing anxious and angry at the same time. Suddenly, he felt something wrong. He darted forward ahead of the pack. Kyo barked at him, but he ignored his leader and the pack took off after him. Kai turned and jumped over a concrete wall. There he spotted his mate and his friends being surrounded. He pushed his legs to go faster when he saw a light brown wolf charging toward Reita. Kai growled as he lunged forward and tackled the wolf to the ground. He looked back at Reita
"Kai?
'Run!' He snapped. Reita gasped and nodded just as Kyo's pack came charging in to attack the surrounding wolves. Kyo ran up to the group and changed into his human form. He glared at them all, but growled at Nao when he saw the traitor.
"Kaoru get Reita, Tsuzuku, and Aoi out of here. Nao…I'll deal with you later so you better not run away. Toshiya, Koichi I need you both here to help fight."
"I'm sorry, Kyo." Kaoru said.
"We'll talk later. Get them out now!" Kyo ordered before changing back. Koichi and Toshiya changed as well to cover the group as they ran towards the exit. They turned out of the exit and ran down the road. As they turned to run down the alleyway Nao yelped. His foot had caught on something in the snow and fell down. Reita stopped to help him up as the others stopped further up. Nao was pulled to his feet and they started running again. Kaoru lead them down the sidewalk when suddenly three wolves ran out of an alley between them. Two faced Kaoru, Aoi, and Ryoga, who was still holding tightly onto Tsuzuku's body. The third wolf growled at Reita and Nao.
Kaoru looked up at them as they looked back. Reita grabbed Nao's hand and started running in the opposite direction.
"Reita!" Kaoru shouted.
"We'll be fine!" The blonde shouted being chased by the large brown and white wolf. Kaoru looked at the two wolves growling in front of them. Kaoru growled back changing into his grey form. Ryoga pushed Tsuzuku's body onto Aoi so he could change too. The four growled at each other waiting to strike. Aoi moved back and started running away with the unconscious omega in his arms.
Reita looked back to see the wolf closing in. Nao gripped his hand tighter as he looked back too. The blonde looked around. "I don't know where to go."
"I do." Nao gasped. "I know how to get back to Kyo's side from here."
Reita gave him a worried look. He wasn't ready to trust the other wolf, but he didn't have much choice. He nodded. "Take the lead."
Nao let go of Reita's hand and ran ahead a few paces. He shouted before he turned so Reita could turn with him. The only bad part was the wolf behind them could anticipate their moves. Nao ran ahead a little more, but turned and reached his hand back. Reita took it so they wouldn't get separated. They ran through another alley and they looked back to see the wolf gone. They slowed down and let their hands go. Reita watched and waited for the wolf to appear. He heard a yelp behind him and turned to see Nao falling on the ground.
"Nao!" He shouted and darted to the brunette. He got about five feet away when he stepped on something. In a split second the contraption went off and snapped onto Reita's ankle. The blonde screamed out in pain as he fell to the ground. He whimpered looking down at the metal foot trap that had caught his ankle. The metal jaws had torn through his pants, broken his skin, and was digging into his flesh. He cried out in pain. He heard Nao stand up and he turned to look at him.
"Nao!" He cried. "You have to get this thing off of me."
Nao looked up and Reita turned to see what had caught his attention. The wolf from earlier was walking up to them. He slowly changed into his human form. He was tall with black and red hair. Nao moved to walk past Reita to the man.
"I did what I was told. Now are you going hold up your end, Die?"
"Honestly this isn't my thing. Masashi should be the one doing all of this." Die complained.
"We had a deal." Nao snapped.
Die waved his hand. "Hiro's deal not mine, but an order is an order."
"Nao?" Reita gasped. "I trusted you."
The omega looked down at him. "You shouldn't have."
The alpha knelt next to him and mumbled. "I really hate doing these things."
He dropped to his knees and forced Reita to turn onto his stomach. The blonde tried to fight back, but Nao helped hold him down as Die tied his arms behind his back. Die gripped Reita and leaned down to whisper something into his ear.
"Please, stop…" Reita whimpered and Nao started laughing as he moved to sit on a trash can.
Kai ripped his teeth into his opponent's neck, but was pulled off by another brown wolf. Kai snapped at it as it bit onto his hind leg. Ruki jumped on the brown wolf and tore at its neck pulling it off his friend. Kai jumped to help finish the job. The two looked around. They found Kyo being ganged up, but their leader was holding his own throwing them off as they attacked. Soon, Shou and IV jumped into the pile to help pull them off Kyo. Melody and Miyavi had each other's backs as they fought off more of the pack. Kai found his next target, but before he could take a step he felt his body fill with pain. He groaned and felt Reita calling for him. Kai stared at Ruki who knew the look. Ruki let out a howl telling his pack that he and Kai were leaving, then two took off to find Reita.
Kaoru slammed the body of the wolf in his jaws to the ground. He lifted up letting blood drip from his snout. The wolf below gasped for air before stilling. He looked over to see Ryoga rolling around with the wolf he was fighting. Ryoga's previous wounds had opened back up and he was bleeding quite a bit. Kaoru charged in and helped his finish the wolf off. They caught their breaths before changing back and taking off to go after Aoi. Ryoga sniffed the air, following Tsuzuku's scent. They headed down the road but they didn't make it far before hearing a whimper. Up ahead they found Tsuzuku's body lying on the ground.
Ryoga dropped next to his body to lift him up. They heard growls and whimpers nearby, but before they could react two wolves, one grey and the other brown, came tumbling out from between two buildings. The brown wolf jumped onto the grey one and tore at its neck making it whine. The grey wolf shot up, pulling from its grasp and jumped on top of it. They rolled around biting into each other until the grey wolf got on top and buried it's snout into the brown wolf's lower neck ripping its jugular. The injured wolf pulled back before falling. It twitched on the ground before stilling. The grey wolf turned to face the alphas. He whimpered as his body slowly changed into Aoi's human form. The raven's face, neck, and hands were covered in blood. Kaoru rushed forward and pulled him into a hug as he cried out.
Nao watched as Die sat on top of Reita's body. The blonde pulled at his bindings, but couldn't break them. Nao pulled a syringe full of an orange liquid out of his jacket pocket and threw it in the snow by Die/
"Give it to him. Give him the serum, he won't fight back then." Nao said.
Die growled. "You dare order me, omega?"
"We had a deal. Remember Hiro's orders." Nao snapped.
Die glared at him before he grabbed Reita's shirt and jacket collar to pull them down exposing his pale neck. The blonde growled at him as Die grabbed the syringe, but then the omega began to struggle more.
"No." He whimpered. Die popped the cap off and squirted the air bubbles out. He held Reita's head still and injected the serum into his neck. Reita sniffled feeling it enter his body and he cried out.
Kaoru had placed Tsuzuku on his back and was carrying him that way as Aoi helped Ryoga run behind him. He had to find Reita and soon. They started heading in the direction the blonde had ran with Nao in hopes of finding them. Kaoru knew they couldn't have gotten too far, but he had terrible feeling in his gut.
Reita glared up at Nao who smiled happily at him. He heard Die moving behind him and something clanking. Die was mumbling to himself as he reached down to unbuckle the blonde's pants. Reita gasped realizing what he heard was the alpha undoing his belt and pants earlier. The blonde tugged at his bindings, but his arms were becoming numb. He felt pathetic unable to stop his pants from being tugged down. Die looked down at the weakening omega then over at Nao who was smiling like a maniac. He was fighting with himself, but he was ordered to do this. He was ordered to rape Reita in exchange for Nao's information, but everything inside him was telling him to stop. This wasn't what Die wanted…he didn't want to hurt a defenseless omega because Hiro made a deal with Nao.
"No, don't!" Reita begged, bringing Die back to the present.
Nao laughed. "How will Kai like you now? After you get used up by another wolf."
"Why are you doing this to me?" Reita whimpered. "I've never done anything to you."
"You took Kai from me." Nao said softly. "He was all I had left."
"What about Tora? Saga?"
"They abandoned me!" Nao yelled. "They left me here! And you'll be left here all alone like me. Kai will never take you back after this."
Reita gasped. "No! Stop it! Please, stop it!"
Kai gasped feeling his mate's fear. He growled as he felt Reita in pain. He ran across the road and towards an alley. He could smell his mate nearby. He ran down and turned to another alleyway and saw Reita laying on the ground with man on top of him. Reita was screaming his lungs out. Kai growled out tackling into the man catching him off guard. Nao gasped and turned to see Ruki jumping on top of him. Die quickly change into his wolf and fought back. Nao changed to fight back, but he was no match for Ruki.
Kaoru heard Reita scream and they ran towards it. They looked into an alley to see Kai fighting with another wolf. Kaoru sat Tsuzuku against a car and Ryoga sat next to him. Kaoru and Aoi ran in as the two fought. Kaoru looked inside the secondary alley and saw Ruki pinning Nao to the ground with Reita laying nearby. They ran in straight to Reita's shaking body. Kaoru started picking him up, but he screamed out in pain. He looked around and saw the foot trap on the blonde's ankle. The trap had been chained to a pipe on the building. He moved over and grabbed the jaws to try and pull them off, but it wouldn't budge. Reita whimpered in pain from the action. Aoi shook seeing Reita's pants pulled down.
"Aoi help me." Kaoru ordered trying at the foot trap again. Aoi took a step back and started running from where they came from. "Aoi come back!"
The raven darted outside the alley and looked at the cars. He saw a utility truck they had passed earlier. He ran to it trying to open the side panels, but they were all locked. He stood on a tire and looked into the bed of the truck. Sitting to the side was a crowbar. He grabbed it and ran back to the alley. He glanced at Ryoga and Tsuzuku as he ran past them to see the blonde struggling to keep his eyes open. Kai's body was slammed into the wall as Aoi ran past the fight. He whimpered, but jumped back onto Die attacking him once more. Aoi went down the alley and slid onto his knees by Reita's body. Kaoru looked at him and saw the crowbar.
"Good thinking." He said taking it. He placed it between the jaws. "Once I have it open pull his leg out."
Aoi nodded and grabbed Reita's leg. Kaoru pushed down on the bar opening the jaws wide. Reita cried from the pain, but Aoi pulled his leg out of the trap and carefully sat it down. Kaoru pulled the bar out letting the trap close. He tossed the crowbar and moved up to untie the rope on the blonde's wrists. Reita sniffled in relief. Kaoru looked down at the blonde's pants and carefully pulled them up.
Kaoru turned Reita onto his back and buckled his pants before collecting the blonde in his arms.
"What did he do to you?" Kaoru asked, scared of the answer.
Reita sniffled. "He injected…me with…something. He almost…he…he was about to…"
"Shh, I got you." Kaoru said. The sound of Hiro's howl in the distance caught their attention. It was followed by Kyo's howl. Both ordering the packs to return home. Kai and Die growled at each other, but slowly parted. Die took off leaving them alone. Kai ran to Reita's side and took him from Kaoru's arms.
The pack began filling the factory foyer and the injured were being taken care of. Kyo sat on the statue as Shinya tried to tend to his wounds. He had a lot of bite marks on his arms and shoulders. A scratch ran down his cheek and a bruise formed around it. He looked at Shinya who had a cut across his nose and a few bites. He was relieved his mate was okay though. The factory doors opened again and Kyo looked at the last group walking in. Kai limped in carrying Reita in his arm; Kaoru had Tsuzuku on his back; Aoi was help Ryoga stay upright even though he looked like he was about to collapse too; and Ruki was dragging in a tied up Nao. Aoi took two steps before falling to the ground with Ryoga. Hiroto and Shou ran to them to help as Kai ran over to Shinya. The beta moved to help sit Reita on the ground.
"They injected him with something." Kai gasped.
Reita whimpered out. Ruki dragged Nao to them and pushed him forward. "Nao won't tell us what it was."
Reita rolled his head to the side whimpering softer than before. Kai pulled him into his arms try and soothe his mate. "You'll be okay."
Shinya started checking over the blonde's limped body. Aoi whimpered as he was being carried past them and Kaoru was in pain to see the omega suffering. Reita reached up with a shaky hand and gripped weakly onto Kai's shirt.
"Kai help me." Reita cried as his arm dropped. "I don't feel…so good."
"What was given to him?" Kyo growled grabbing Nao's neck. "Tell me or I'll crush your throat."
Nao looked at Reita, then at Kai. The alpha's expression was of pure fear. Fear for his mate's life. Nao looked down and closed his eyes. "A drug called Relaxer. It weakens his body so he can't move."
"Lock him one of the rooms." Kyo ordered pushing Nao into Ruki. The leader looked down at the blonde who seemed to be in a pain. "Shinya?"
"Let's move him to a private room for now." Shinya said. Kai nodded and picked his lover up in his arms.
Ryoga looked down at Tsuzuku's sleeping body. After placing Reita in a contained room, Shinya was finally able to check on the omega. The blonde watched as Shinya cleaned up the last of the wounds and sighed.
"What happened to him?" Ryoga asked.
Shinya glared at him. "I don't answer to you."
"Please. Please tell me. I need to know if this was my fault."
The beta sighed. "By the look of things, he went into heat the day he went missing. His heat lasts for about three days so he spent his whole heat there. I can't say for sure until he tells us, but I believe he was raped by the alphas of Hiro's pack. I found semen inside of him." Shinya rubbed his head and looked away. "He's a carrier. We'll have to get him tested to see if he got impregnated."
Ryoga sniffled. "Damn it. I should have stayed. If I hadn't hesitated I could have prevented this."
"What do you mean?" Shinya asked.
"I was leaving town. We got together a few times and had sex. He wanted me to stay, but I couldn't get myself to say yes. For a week I put off leaving because I couldn't stop thinking about him. When I found out he was missing it felt like someone had punched me in the stomach. If I had just manned up and said yes he wouldn't have gotten hurt."
"You don't know that." The beta whispered. "He could have been a target from the beginning."
"I should have protected him." He growled. At that same moment Tsuzuku groaned and opened his eyes. Ryoga moved closer and grabbed his hand. Tsuzuku looked straight up at him. "Tsu. You're safe now."
Tsuzuku blinked a couple of times. "I'm dreaming again. Ryoga…wouldn't be here…he left…"
"No I am here. I came back for you."
He looked around. "Home? Guess I really am dreaming." His eyes closed and he fell back to sleep. Ryoga let out a whimper before he started crying.
Ruki paced the foyer waiting around as the others were resting their bodies. None of them told him to stop though. His mate was still gone. He was walking towards the back when the doors opened. Ruki darted to the front as Uruha ran in. The honey blonde felt so relieved seeing his mate. He pulled Ruki into a hug. The brunette pulled Uruha's head down into a kiss. The honey pulled back a rubbed his mate's scratched up face.
"I'm so happy you're okay." He whispered.
Ruki nodded with a smile and hugged Uruha tightly. He led the honey blonde to an empty futon where they laid down. Sugizo and Meto made their way to their pack see how everyone was doing.
Tora stared at the door before opening it up. He stepped inside and looked at Nao tied up in the room. He walked closer and moved to sit in front of him. The brunette looked away from the alpha.
"Why Nao?"
"Fuck off." Nao snapped.
Tora shook his head. "I tried to help you. I really did. I wish things had turned out differently."
Nao listened as the alpha left the room before he smiled. "Everyone always leaves me."