DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN BROTHERS CONFLICT IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM
Several of the Asahina brothers were sitting around their shared living room, starting to feel slightly frustrated over the police officer's questions.
"Now you are certain, beyond all reason, that the two aren't just out late somewhere together or at a friends' house or something?" he asked.
"Yes, most certain," Masaomi insisted.
"How many times is he going to ask that question?" Tsubaki muttered angry.
"Shh," Azusa hissed, trying to his own anger over the police constant same questions.
"Now, do you know which one of you saw them last?" the officer.
"Well, I saw them today when they left for school," said Masaomi, "Our other brother though, he goes to the same school as them, he might have seen them," said Masaomi.
"Have you called him to ask?" asked the officer.
"He's usually busy with his work as an idol so he might not be able to talk," said Masaomi, "It's actually really hard to get into contact with him sometimes."
"Okay," said the officer, "But you really should try, just in case he may know something more. Now one last things, do you have a picture of the missing teenagers at all?"
"We have a few," Masaomi said looking around.
"Hey," Louis suddenly heard Kaname say as he noticed his older brother coming down the stairs, "Everything going okay?"
"The police officer keeps asking a lot of questions, that's it so far," Louis said.
"Hmm, you know, I bet you anything they're just off doing some sort of crazy teenage thing. I did lots of those when I was their age," said Kaname.
"You still do," Ukyo muttered, "And you're supposed to be a monk!"
"Here's a picture," Masaomi said as he pulled out, "it just some random one that was taken a few days ago."
"Thank you," said the officer as he looked it over. He started to frown. "Is this your sister's school uniform in this picture?" he asked.
"Yeah, why?" Masaomi asked.
"I don't want to alarm you, but there was report earlier today from an elderly man saying he thought he saw a girl in a similar school uniform being harassed by some men in black car. He wasn't 100% sure if he saw right, since it was dark and his eyesight wasn't that great," the officer confessed.
"What?!" Masaomi said alarmed. The other brothers all looked at each other in fear and concern.
"It only happened a few blocks away from this house too," the officer continued, "Was she wearing her sweater today when she left?"
"She usually does, yes," said Masaomi. The officer nodded.
"Alright, we'll look into this, don't worry, we'll find your brother and sister," he tried to assure the brothers as he headed out.
"Do you think they really will find them?" Tsubaki asked annoyed.
"They're going to do their best Tsubaki, we have to trust them," said Masaomi.
"Yeah find job they're doing!" said Tsubaki.
"I still don't get why someone would want to take them," said Azusa.
"A girl as pretty as our precious little sister? Who could really resist?" Kaname asked, "I'm surprised no one's tried to before. And even Yusuke has a bad boy persona I'm sure someone would find attractive."
"Are you suggesting that someone stole them for sex trafficking or something?!" Azusa asked.
"It'd be a safe theory," said Kaname.
"What's going on?" Subaru asked as he suddenly came into the living room, still in his gym clothes.
"Ema and Yusuke are missing, we can't find them or get in contact with them," Masaomi started to explain.
"And the perverted monk here thinks they were kidnapped to become sex slaves or something!" Tsubaki said with a sneer.
"What?" Subaru asked in shock, "Has anyone called mom or Rintaro about it?"
"Oh, you're right!" Masaomi said. He sighed in frustration. How was he going to tell his stepfather about this after his phone call this morning.
Ukyo could easily see his older brother's worried face and knew what he was thinking. "Do you want me to call him?" he offered.
"No, I'm the oldest brother, I'll do it, it's my responsibility," said Masaomi as he headed off by himself.
"What was that all about?" Azusa asked.
"Masaomi got a call from Rintaro this morning asking him to make sure Ema wasn't left alone when she wasn't home," Ukyo explained.
"Did he really?" Kaname asked.
"A lot of good it did her anyway," Azusa said concern.
'Rintaro called about that?' Juli thought as he sat on Louis' shoulder, 'no! Chi and that wolf are dead now for sure!'
Yusuke struggled in his chair, shaking it back and forth violently but to no avail.
"Yusuke, I'm so sorry!" Ema called out from her bag, "I'm so sorry you're getting killed because of me!"
"It's not your fault!" Yusuke said admits his struggling, "I was the one that blew it when I spoke! This is all my fault! They were about to let us go!"
"Still, you might not have even taken because of me! I don't know why they want me dead, but they didn't have to involve you! I'm so sorry!" Ema pleaded.
"I don't care! If I am going to go, I'm at least glad I can do next to you so you're not alone in all of this!" Yusuke said.
"So how should we take them out?" they could hear the silver haired man asking, along with clicking of a gun.
"Don't use a gun," said the brown haired man, "use one of those poisons you've been working on. That way, even if the bodies are found, it'll seem like they died of some natural cause or something."
"You got it," said the silver haired man, "James, Edger, you got anything prepared?"
At that Ema and Yusuke could only make out a little distinct chatter from a distance.
"Oh god, this is getting worse and worse!" Ema said.
"Ema," Yusuke suddenly said, "I got something I have to tell you. I've wanted to tell you this for a long time, even before you came to live with us but never had the courage to. But now seeing as we're about to die, I might as well let you know."
"What?" Ema asked. She could hear someone the sound of footsteps coming closer.
"Get their arms ready," the silver haired man ordered.
"Ema," Yusuke started to say quickly, "I, Love...,"
BAM
"Alright, hold it right there! No one move!" a new but powerful voice shouted out of nowhere.
"Ah shit! What is he doing here?!" the brown haired man snapped.
"Back away Henry, Back away now!" the new voice continued to order.
"This isn't any of your concern Richard," said the silver haired man.
"I beg to differ, as head of his majesty's protection until, I'd say this current situation is totally my concern!" said the new voice, "Where as you Henry are just a hired hit man!"
"Watch how you speak to him! Unlike you, he's actually loyal to me! And if he says this isn't any of your concern you should listen to him!" said the brown haired man.
"Don't you try and your stupid "royal" tricks on me Robert! Whatever it is you're up to, is no good and I for one am going to get to the bottom of it!"
"You dare try speaking to the heir to the thoron that way Richard?" as the brown haired man.
"I don't care if you're the fucking son of god! I'm not leaving here until I get some answers!" said the new voice, "starting with who's under those black hoods!"
"No! No!" Ema could hear the two men now identified as Robert and Henry pleading as her hood was once again yanked off her head. She looked up to see a man possibly a few years older than Masaomi looking down at her with a sever shocked look on his face.
"Oh my god!" he said softly. "Oh my god! Who is this girl?!"
"She's no one, she's no one important!" Robert said quickly.
"Oh really? Then why are you holding her hostage like this?!" the new man, whom Ema could only assume was name Richard asked angary ,"And who's the other person?!"
Another man with glasses that was roughly the triplet's age quickly pulled off Yusuke's hood. Yusuke shouted.
"I'm not going to let you hurt her!" he declared.
"Relax son, no one's going to hurt your friend here," Richard assured him as he set to work untying Ema, "Billy, get him untied."
"Yes sir," said the man with glasses named Billy, as he set to work on Yusuke.
"As of now, you two are under the protection of the king's security," Richard told Ema as he continued to untie her.
"Hey, you can't do that!" Robert started to say.
"Watch me!" Richard snapped back at him, "So what are you names?"
"I'm Ema and this is my brother Yusuke," Ema said timidly.
"You two are brother and sister?" Richard asked eagerly.
"Well technically we're stepbrother and sister," Yusuke quickly said.
"Oh," said Richard, sounding disappointed, "Well, no matter, let's get you guys out of here and work on getting you home."
"Thank you," Ema said as she got out of her seat. It was then she was able to get a better look around and realized a lot of people in suits were pointing guns at several of the other people in the building. Even the men, Henry and Robert had guns pointed at them.
"Let's go, come on," Richard said as he started to led Ema and Yusuke towards some stairs. She felt Yusuke reach over and take her hand, making sure to stand close to her as if to make sure she was safe.
"Don't think this means anything going to change Richard!" Robert called out before they could exit out the door.
"We'll have to see about that," Richard said as though in a taunt as he kept leading the pair out. Once they were outside, Ema and Yusuke could see it was pitch black out.
"Hey, what about our cell phones?! I want mine back!" Yusuke said.
"Get their phones," Richard ordered. Ema saw a few of the men with guns search some of the other people in the big wide room until one pulled out two phones.
"Here we go," he said running over to the stairs hand handing them back to the teenagers.
"Thank you," said Ema.
"This way," Richard said, leading the two to a waiting car. A blond haired woman with glasses, most likely Kaname or Hikaru's age was waiting. She quickly opened the door for the group.
"Go ahead and get in," Richard instructed. Ema and Yusuke both reluctantly crawled into a surprisingly roomy car as made themselves situated.
Richard and Billy climbed in as well.
"Go ahead Chrissy," Richard called out as the door shut and few minutes later the car took off. Richard looked over at the young pair, "So I can only assume you two have a lot of questions but before you start, would it be alright if I ask you some questions?"
"Alright," Ema agreed. For some reason, she felt as though she could trust this man.
"First of all, my name is Richard Perkins, I am the head of King Stephon of Elence's security. And this is Billy Motan, one of my main consultancies." Billy nodded to them.
"Why is the king's royal security interested in us?" Yusuke asked.
"I'll explain everything after I've asked a few more questions," Richard promised, "Let's start back with your names, what were they again?"
"I'm Ema and this is Yusuke," said Ema.
"Ema, Ema," Richard said over and over again, "That's an interesting name. What origin is that?"
"Uh Japanese," said Ema, "That's where we're from."
"You're both Japanese?" Richard asked.
"Yes," Ema said, "And I have no idea why someone from Elence would want us dead!"
"Don't worry, no one's going to kill you, that guy back there, he doesn't have any real power to do so," Richard assured her, "Now, let me ask you some more questions. You say you're stepbrother and stepsister, what are you parents names?"
"My our mom's name is Miwa and our father's name is Rintaro," said Ema.
"Rintaro?" Richard said in surprise, "That's not Rintaro Hinata is it?"
"Uh, yes," Ema said, "Rintaro is my father, he married my mom not too long ago."
"Rintaro's seriously your father?" Richard asked. Ema nodded, "Who was your mother? Your real mother?"
"Uh, well um," Ema sputtered, looking at Yusuke for guidance.
"You might as well tell them," he said.
"The truth is, Rintaro adopted me as a baby when my birth parents died. I only found that out a few months ago though," Ema confessed.
"You were adopted?" said Richard, "Did you find out who your birth parents were at all?"
"Um yes, Dad told me they were Yukie and Kenji Nagami," said Ema.
"Kenji Nagami?!" said Billy, "Kenji Nagami's your father?!"
"Billy calm down," said Richard.
"You know him?" Ema asked.
"Yes, he's well known here in Elence, so your other father Rintaro," said Richard, "Now about your mother though, what was her name?"
"Yukie," said Ema, "I have a picture of them on my phone that my dad Rintaro sent me when I found out the truth." She fiddled with her phone for a little bit until she came upon the picture in question, "here, this is them with me as a baby."
She handed her phone to Richard who looked at it carefully. Billy looked over at the screen as well. Both started to show faces of pure shock as they looked at the screen.
"Hey," Billy started to say, "Doesn't that look like...,"
"Not now!" Richard said quickly. He looked at Ema, "You're certain these are your parents?"
"Yes, according to my dad Rintaro," said Ema.
"And what was your mother's name again?" Richard asked.
"Yukie," said Ema.
"Yukie, doesn't that name mean princess or something in Japanese?" Billy asked.
"I think so, something like that," said Ema.
"Hmm, interesting name," said Richard, "Kind of like yours, Ema. It almost sounds like Emma huh?"
"Yeah, I guess, I never thought about that," said Ema.
'Hmm," Richard said nodding his head and handing Ema back her phone.
"This guy is weird," said Yusuke as Richard moved to the window that separated the back seat from the front and tapped on it. The woman driving slid it open.
"Chrissy, take us straight to the palace," he said.
"Yes sir," said Chrissy as she slid the window shut again and started to turn.
"The palace? Why the hell are we going to the palace?" Yusuke asked.
"Well seeing as how you're foreigners in a strange land and under the protection of the royal security it makes only sense you get housed in the palace until we get this all straighten out," Richard explained.
"And what if we don't want to go to the palace?" Yusuke asked mad.
"I'm afraid you don't have much of a choice seeing as how you're in our custody and we have to make sure you're kept safe and the safest place to keep you at the moment is the palace," said Richard.
"It's fine Yusuke," Ema said trying to calm her brother down. "Um, when we get there, is there anyway we could possibly contact our other brothers at home? I can only imagine they're worried about us."
"You have other brothers?" Richard asked, "Are any of them related to you Ema by blood?"
"No I'm sorry, they're all technically my stepbrothers," said Ema, "I don't have any biological brothers or sisters."
"Oh," said Richard, once again sounding disappointed. Billy looked disappointed as well.
"That's too bad huh?" he whispered. Richard put a finger to his lips to silence his colleague.
"These guys may seem trustworthy, but they're still acting weird," Yusuke whispered to Ema. Ema nodded in agreement.
"Let's keep following them for now," she whispered back.
Soon the car came to stop. Ema quickly looked out her window and could see a huge gate with tall metal bars stretching as far as the eye could see.
Before she could get a grasp on the situation, the car started up again and drove on before coming to a complete stop. Ema saw the door on her and Yusuke's side of the car open and Chrissy looking in with a smile.
"Welcome," she said outstretching her hand. Ema took it and let the woman pull her out of the car. Yusuke followed quickly behind her and the two looked up at where they were. Before them stood a huge grand, palace, the kind that would be found in fairytales.
"Please follow me inside." Richard said as led the two towards the two big front doors. Inside was the longest hallways the two had ever seen with a long red carpet stretched across it in the middle leading to a grand white stair case.
As Ema and Yusuke followed Richard towards the stairs, with Billy and Chrissy walking behind them, Ema looked around at the walls. They all seemed to have a bunch of pictures or paintings of important looking people.
"Are these all former kings?" Ema asked.
"Kings, queens, loyal princes or princess, to name a few," said Chrissy.
"Is the current king or queen here at all?" Ema asked.
"There's only the king now," said Chrissy, "sadly Queen Wilma passed away a long time again."
"Oh, I'm sorry," said Ema.
"There's a picture of her and King Stephon above the stairs," said Billy as they reached the end of the hallway. Ema looked up and saw the king and his late queen. For some reason the woman looked familiar. Almost like how she was expected to look when she got older or something.
"Does the king have any children?" Ema asked cautiously.
"Just one daughter, Princess Yolanda, but she's not around much," said Chrissy.
"Is there a picture of her?" Ema asked.
"Somewhere around here," said Chrissy, it's hard to keep track."
"Hey why is his picture's here?!" Yusuke suddenly said. Ema looked where he was looking and saw it was Robert!
"Because he's the king's nephew and heir," Richard said bitterly.
"But he tried to have us killed!" said Yusuke.
"And we'll deal with that, I promise," said Richard.
"How?" Yusuke asked.
"Yusuke, please stay calm," Ema said.
"But none of this is making any sense!" said Yusuke.
"I know, but just try to," Ema stopped talking when she saw a particular picture on the wall. "Wait, is that...,"
"Keep moving please," said Chrissy quickly, practically shoving Ema along.
"But," Ema said.
"Here we go," said Richard as he opened two big doors to show a massive grand room, "You two can stay in here for a little bit while we take care of things. Plus we'll get you that phone to call home. Also, is there anything else you need? Something to eat? A change of clothes? There's a bathroom behind that big white door if you want to shower or anything."
Yusuke and Ema looked at each other.
"I guess I could go for a steak sandwich," said Yusuke.
"Steak sandwich coming up, Billy, can you get it?" Richard asked.
"Sure," said Billy heading out of the room.
"Alright, you two just stay here and relax and one thing you should know," said Richard, "whenever someone knocks at the door, don't open it unless it's me, Chrissy or Billy okay?"
"Are you locking us in or something?" Ema asked.
"For now, for safety reasons," said Richard, "I realize that seems kind of cruel, but please, please trust me for now."
"Okay," said Ema calmly.
"thank you," said Richard as he and Chrissy walked out of the room and Ema and Yusuke could hear the click of the door locking..
"So how long do you think we'll be here?" Yusuke asked.
"I don't know, but it might be a while," said Ema, still shaking about the picture she had seen, one that had looked just like her birth mother's picture.
"This is big, this could shake things up all together!" Richard said to Chrissy as they walked together down a hallway.
"I know," said Chrissy, "are you going to tell the king?"
"I don't know yet, I don't want to shake things up until we know more details," said Richard.
"Um, Richard, the king wants to see you," a servant girl suddenly said walking up behind them.
"Right now?" said Richard. The girl nodded. "Alright I'll be right there."
"Looks like you're going to have to tell him now," said Chrissy.
Richard sighed as he walked down a big hallway to another pair of big doors and opened them. He walked over to the big bed and sat on the edge.
"Hello your majesty," he said.
"What's going on around here?! Where did you go?!" the old man demanded to know.
"I was following up on something about Robert," said Richard.
The king groaned, "Not that bastard again! What is he up to now?"
"Well, he might have actually done something good for a change," said Richard.'
"Robert? Helpful? Those words do not go together Richard," said King Stephon, "It pains me that he's going to be the one that takes over when I'm gone! And I'm not long for this world!"
"I know, but hear me out sir, Robert may have found a link to Yolanda!" said Richard.
"Yolanda?" King Stephon said, "You found Yolanda?!"
"No, not exactly, we actually might have found her daughter," said Richard.
"Her daughter? Yolanda has a daughter?! I may have a granddaughter?!" said Stephon.
"Possibly, there's a lot to work out first before we know for sure," said Richard.
"I would assume so," said Stephon with a sigh. Then he looked as though he was getting an idea, "But I know someone who can help us find out sooner. Where's Marion? Marion?!"
"I'm here your majesty," said small voice said suddenly appearing next to the bed.
"Ah, Marion, my most loyal of friends," said Stephon as he reached for her, "I need you to do me a favor, there's a girl here, someone who may or may not be my granddaughter."
"Yes I think I saw her when she first arrived," said Marion.
"Go and talk to her, see what she says, would you?" asked Stephon.
"Your wish is my command," said Marion as she disappeared.
Stephon watched her leave. "If anyone can find out if this girl is at least a member of this family, it's Marion!"