~Hiyori~
I woke up in a panic. "Where? What time?" I croaked, and then the events of earlier came to me. "Oh right…" I muttered, trying to sit up but the chains holding me down to the ground said otherwise. I felt worried, being alone like this again.
Of course, it's not like I didn't mind moments to myself now and days. But this was… different, like I was all isolated again, engulfing myself in sorrow. No, not sorrow. More like nothingness.
I looked down to check if they took my keys. I sighed. Obviously they did.
I tried to break the chains but they wouldn't budge. "Damnit." I mumbled. I thought I got stronger after all that training but I guess there was still room for more improvement.
"I wish I could get out of here." I whined, having nothing else to do.
~Yato~
"Hiyoriii!" I cheered as I slammed the door open.
Yukine walked in behind me and shrugged. "Looks like she's not here."
I shook my head. "Of course she is, where else would she be?" we toured the apartment a little bit, and lastly I opened her bedroom door. "Hiyor-" she wasn't found in there either.
"She's not here Yato, you even checked the bathtub." Yukine yelled from the kitchen. I sighed and left her room. I picked up the note we left for her on the table.
"Do you think she saw this?" I asked.
"Probably since it looks like the note moved a little bit from where you left it." he observed. Really closely. I looked up to him. He could pick up something so subtle as that? "What?" he demanded, noticing me staring at him in wonder.
I gave a half smile. "Nothing." Wow, this kid had a lot of potential; if he applied himself. "Anyways, I assume Hiyori is gonna be back sometime. If she's gone for too long then maybe we'll start looking for her."
Yukine shrugged. "Okay. I'm hungry though." I didn't realize I was too until he mentioned that.
"Do you think Hiyori is getting dinner or should you make somethin'?" I asked.
"She's probably not, and wait, me making something? You're here too!" he yelled as I yawned, slowly motivating towards the couch.
"But you see, I'm way too tired to make a qualified meal. If I made dinner right now, then it would taste disgusting." I tried to argue.
"You are a complete lazy-" Yukine began, but got interrupted by Hiyori's bedroom door opening. "Who-?" he started, and then we both realized it was her spirit Tono.
"You? Did Hiyori summon you? Is she here?" I rambled and he shook his head.
"No. I came here myself cause it seemed like a lot of time has past in this world since I sent her away." he stated.
"Sent her away?" I questioned harshly.
"Only to the store, I asked Hiyori to exchange her yoga mat." he answered. Why did she need to get another yoga mat? I shook my head, that didn't matter right now.
"So you're saying she should be back by now?"
"Yes." he replied and worry continued to flood through me.
"Yukine, we gotta go find her right now." I ordered as I grabbed my sword.
"Just a minute ago you were too lazy to even make dinner." he pointed out. While that was very true, something about Hiyori being missing scared me, she wouldn't just wander the mall for hours.
"Yeah, I know. But she could be in danger, especially with the war that's going on right now." I said.
Yukine shrugged. "Alright."
We searched all around Magnolia before I almost gave in.
"This is taking forever." I groaned. "She might not be anywhere in this town! How are we supposed to find one girl."
"Tono did mention how she left to go to the store." Yukine pointed out.
"What about it?"
"Well, if we trace her steps than maybe we'll get some intel or something. I mean if she got kidnapped then she could of left something behind for us."
"You mean like a clue?" I asked.
"I doubt she's that smart, but maybe."
For some reason it kind of irritated me the way he doubted Hiyori like that. "You're just now mentioning this, Yukine?! We've been searching for hours and she probably did leave behind something like that. Why the hell would you hesitate to say that?!" I raged on. Yukine pushed me back about a foot.
"Hey! Don't blame me for this! I thought you could figure something as simple as that out sooner!" he yelled.
"Ya know I really hate how you think you're just so above me Yukine, I'm the older one!" I argued, yet being hesitant to push him back.
"Hardly! I act way more mature than you do!" he snapped. I wanted to yell a million other not-as-nice things back at him but I realized we were wasting our time. I breathed in and out.
"Look, this is getting ridiculous and we really don't have the time to be arguing like this. Let's just go try to find anything Hiyori left behind, okay?" I asked a bit gently.
"Fine, whatever." he muttered back, turning around and a few steps later he tripped on something. "Ah! What the-" he yelled, feeling embarrassed. We then saw the contents of the bag he tripped over spill.
"Her yoga mat. That's her yoga mat right?!" I demanded, picking it up and finding her plain black wallet lying next to it.
"So she was kidnapped." Yukine said casually with a shrug.
"How is this suppose to help us find her?!" I yelled, worry filling me up even more. Then it hit me.
If I would have gone with them to fight Phantom Lord, then maybe none of this would of happened. No. It was no 'maybe', this definitely would have not happened. She would have not been training, not have been required to go to the store, and not have been alone. I could have prevented all of this! Why did I have to be so pissed off about this whole war that I let one of the people closest to me get taken away?! I punched the wall next to me to try and let some steam out.
"I don't know." he replied simply.
I had to breathe in and out, again, to calm down and try to begin to think rationally. "Okay, first of all why would they take her?"
"I don't know." Yukine repeated.
"Do you think the master will? Should we go ask him?" I pondered, and then decided the answer to my own question. "Yes we should. C'mon Yukine, they might be back from fighting Phantom Lord by now. In fact, maybe this whole thing is over and she's waiting for us at the guild."
"I really don't think that's the case but I guess we can go there anyway, I'm still hungry."
On the way to the guild Natsu zipped past us. Or more like completely ran us over.
"Ay, watch where you're going!" Yukine yelled.
He didn't even bother turning around. "Sorry! They took Lucy and I have to get her back right now!"
They took Lucy?
"Hey wait!" I yelled, catching up to him while Yukine followed. "Hiyori was just kidnapped, do you think they took her too?" I asked, making him stop in his tracks.
"Hiyori was taken?" he asked, looking more concerned than I expected. I nodded.
Happy spoke up from flying a little bit above us. "That is possible," he looked down to Natsu. "do you think if they can run fast enough, then they could join us?"
"We're right here ya know!" Yukine said, sounding irritated.
Natsu thought about it. "Probably not." he turned back to us. "Look, we'll just try to get Hiyori too if we see her, okay?" he tried to take off but I grabbed a hold of him.
"No. We're coming with you." I demanded, then gave him a smile. "We can keep up, right Yukine?"
He shrugged. "Probably."
Natsu smiled. "I hate to let other people join us, but I guess I can manage to let you two cling along."
By the time the building was in site and I wanted to pass out due to exhaustion, Natsu sped up even more. I tried to keep up with him, but my body needed a break. "Where are you going?" I yelled.
"I have a feelin' Lucy needs me right now. Yato, Yukine, you guys can see the building by now, right?" he asked loudly.
"Well yeah, but shouldn't we form a plan or something?" I tried to ask back, but he was already too far gone. I sighed. "Damn, that guy can just keep goin'."
Yukine nodded. "For once I agree with you. So what's our plan gonna be?"
I thought for a little bit, then decided that coming up with a plan was too much work. "I don't know. Let's just do what he did and go for it."
Yukine rolled his eyes. "Are you serious?! That's a terrible idea!"
I stood up. "C'mon it'll be fine, those Phantom losers haven't seen my skills yet."
He rolled his eyes again. "You're so full of yourself. But I don't feel like comin' up with a plan either."
We finally got to the front of the building and it stood at least a couple of stories high with very few windows up top.
I simply knocked on the door. Yukine punched my arm. "Ow! What was that for you little brat?!" I complained.
"You don't just knock on the front door of a place we're trying to steal from!" he whispered harshly.
"We're not stealing!" I whispered-yelled back.
"Yes, we are. We're trying to take Hiyori from them!"
"That's cause they took her from us in the first place, she doesn't belong to Phantom Lord!"
Before he could argue back, the large door slowly opened, revealing a large interior with little decoration. We both stepped in and saw the outline of a wizard standing at the top of the stairs.
"You two are stupidly brave, nobody has knocked on our door in years."
"It was him, not me." he pointed at me.
"Gee thanks Yukine I appreciate it."
"So one of you calls yourself Yukine." the wizard spoke, coming out of the shadows, revealing more of herself.
"Way to go idiot!" he snapped at me. I did feel like I made a mistake, so I tried to make it up to him.
"Sorry little buddy, if it makes you feel better though I'll tell her that my name is YATO." I said, purposefully announcing my name loudly.
"Yato huh? Well you're not lying."
"How do you know-"
"So why are you here then, Yato and Yukine?" her eyes focused in on the little bit of Yukine's guild mark that showed. "Oh. I see you're from Fairy Tail. I assume you're here for your friends then?" So they did kidnap Hiyori.
"Tell us where she is!" I demanded.
"Now now, that's no way of asking nicely."
"I never said I was gonna ask." I threatened, drawing out my sword to look more threatening.
She laughed. "I see you are prepared to fight. But I don't want to fight you, I was just on my way out to run a few errands." She came down the stairs and whispered something to me. "Good luck trying to find your girlfriend in this place."
"She's not-" I tried to defend myself, but she closed the doors behind us.
"What did she say to you?" Yukine asked.
"Nothing. Let's just go try and find her." I muttered, leaving my sword out.
"I swear all we've done today is search for Hiyori, what a pain." I tried to ignore that statement and not too long after we were walking around, calling out Hiyori's name every now and then, we ran into another Phantom Lord wizard.
"Don't worry," I told them as we tried to pass by. "we'll just let you be on your way. I'm sure you have plenty of better things to do than to fight us."
He laughed a little as he grabbed both of us up by our hair, which actually hurt a lot more than it sounded. We both desperately tried to yank his hands off but he wouldn't budge.
"Now boys, I've really got nothing better to do and I've been looking for a easy battle." he snarled. I realized that I was still holding my sword and I stabbed him in the leg, causing him to drop the two of us. "You little bitch!" he snapped and he leaned down to grab a hold of his leg.
"Don't think I won't stab you again." I threatened and then I turned to Yukine. "Do you think you can handle him on your own? Obviously he's askin' for a fight but one of us should continue going after Hiyori."
He shrugged. "I guess so."
"Are you sure? I don't want to put you in a whole ton of danger." I said seriously, looking him right in the eyes.
He broke off our eye contact and nodded. "I'll be fine, it beats searching for Hiyori."
"Okay." I figured that I could take this guy down pretty quickly, but Yukine needed the experience since we needed to become stronger now that we were in a guild where most of our jobs consisted of fighting evil, not finding a missing cat or something simple like that. Plus, I had a feeling that Yukine has been itching for a fight too lately. And on top of that, it didn't seem like he cared to find Hiyori as much.
"Hey!" the wizard started. "You can't just run away from me!"
"Yukine is staying here, I have to go get someone that doesn't belong to you. Have a nice fight!" I yelled, giving them both a wave as I ran on to get Hiyori.
After about ten minutes of searching, I finally heard a mumble from a cell a few paces forward.
"I wish I could get out of here." she whined. I immediately sped up and stopped dead in my tracks when I saw her chained to the ground. I absolutely hated seeing her like that, but I tried not to let my anger show.
I instead gave her a wide smile. "Your wish has been heard loud and clear!"
A/N:
Sorry for such a short chapter guys! Hopefully the next one will be longer but guess who gets a POV for the first time next chapter? ;D
There's a new Noragami chapter this week WOOOOOOOOOOO
And the new Fairy Tail chapter (471) was primeeeee, I missed those characters so much!
Also, like usual I want to thank you guys for reading/reviewing! It really makes my day seeing someone has reviewed, favorited or followed my story, you guys are great!
Time to keep working on chapter 7!
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