Morg: Heyo! We'll just keep moving right along in this story.

Ikuto: Sounds good to me.

Amu: We really don't have to.

Morg: This is why I write everything and you both just hang out.

Ikuto: I don't think that's why.

Amu: Definitely not.

~Indebted~

"Did you find anything?"

Kairi looked up from the cute little laptop he was working on at his desk. He pushed his glasses back up his nose before shaking his head. "I went through her phone. After charging it, I found nothing on it. And her laptop shows that someone logged in a few times and used the web browser but nothing else."

Ikuto crossed his arms as he moved through Kairi's office to look out the window. "Are we assuming that the person that has been living at her house was also using her laptop then?"

"I think that's a just conclusion."

Ikuto frowned at his reflection in the glass. "It doesn't make sense. Who would know that she was gone? Who would know that they could live in her house and not face any consequences?"

"Are you having the house watched?" Kairi asked as he finished closing out the programs he'd used to check Amu's laptop for spyware. "Did you inform the police?"

Sighing, Ikuto turned his back on the window and the world outside to watch as Kairi finished his work. "I'm having the house watched. We'll report the person to the police once we know who they are and what they're doing."

"And if that person is someone that saw Amu get snatched and just seized the opportunity?"

"Well," Ikuto said as he took Amu's things from Kairi. "If they want a place they can stay in for free, I can help them find a nice little place just outside the city. They'll have to share a bathroom with a lot of other people, but I'm sure it'll be fine."

Kairi shook his head as Ikuto left chuckling at his joke about prison. "Please let Amu know that I did not do anything but check for the spyware," he called after his boss.

Ikuto waved over his shoulder as he left. He wanted to present Amu's things to her as quickly as possible so he didn't stop to respond to Kairi's request as he left. The elevator took longer than he would have liked, but Ikuto didn't do anything other than check his watch.

Once he was approaching the door to his penthouse, Ikuto adjusted Amu's laptop and phone in his grip and slowed down. He took just a second outside the door to take a deep breath and relax. He would not bring the stress of the rest of the world into his house and disturb her if he could avoid it.

"Amu?" Ikuto called out as he stepped in through the door. "Kairi has finished with your laptop and phone. Are you ready for them?"

"I'm in the bed," Amu called back.

Ikuto had figured that that was where she was but hadn't wanted to assume that he could just enter the room without her permission. For as long as she stayed there with him, the room was hers. "Can I come in?"

"Yes," Amu said after a moment of Ikuto holding his breath out in the hallway.

Ikuto pushed the door open and stepped inside. He made sure to leave the door open so that Amu wouldn't feel trapped despite no one else being in the penthouse with them. "He didn't find any spyware on either device. He also said to reassure you that he only checked for the spyware. He didn't look at anything else."

Amu lifted her brows as she accepted her laptop and phone. "While I'm glad to hear that he respected my privacy, there's no need for the assurance. There's nothing on either device besides photos or some videos that I made."

Nodding, Ikuto plugged in her chargers for both devices close enough to the bed that she could plug them in as she needed without having to get up. "He did say that he checked the log and whoever was staying in your house appears to have used your laptop a couple of times to use the web browser."

"Did you look at the history to see what they were doing?"

"It was shopping sites and once to order food."

Amu frowned as she logged into her laptop and opened the web browser. She clicked through the history and went to one of the shopping pages. "I think whoever is staying at my house is a girl."

Ikuto stepped closer to the bed without crowding Amu. "Yeah?"

"This is definitely a site that caters to women, so I think it's safe to say that they're female. Though I could be wrong. People can wear whatever they want."

He watched Amu click around on her laptop for a few more minutes before he stepped back once more. "I have a couple of people watching your house to see who comes back. We'll get your keys back and make sure to alert the police if that's what we need to do."

Amu's eyes widened as she stared at the screen. She looked up at Ikuto with her mouth slightly parted. "I know who it is."

"What?" Ikuto asked sharply as he moved back to look at Amu's screen again. "Who?"

Amu licked her lips as she looked back at a different website that had recently been accessed on her computer. She knew that login information. "My cousin," she said weakly. "My cousin Saaya."

XXX

"Look sharp, Nagi," Rima said as she tilted her head to watch the harried girl approach in her side mirror. "We've got potential."

Nagihiko sat up from his slumped position to turn casually to Rima. He acted as though he was looking and talking to her as he watched the girl drop something on the sidewalk, pick it up, and then move up the path to Amu's house. "She's going to the door."

"We have to wait until she actually opens it. Otherwise, she could try to claim that she'd delivering something."

Nagihiko nodded back. "She's got keys in her hands."

Rima's entire body went tense as she waited with her breath caught in her lungs.

"That's it!" Nagi snapped as he grabbed his door handle. "She's opening the door."

Rima was out of the car before she remembered to breathe. She and Nagihiko rushed across the street and up to the door before the girl managed to close it behind her.

"Hey!" Nagihiko called as he slammed his hands against the door to stop it from closing. "You've got some explaining to do!"

The girl fell back away from them with a cry. "Who are you? What do you want? I don't have anything!"

Rima shut the door behind them so no one else on the street would hear what they had to say to one another. "This is Hinamori Amu's house. We would like to know who you are and why you're here."

Nagihiko's phone began to ring in his pocket before the girl had a chance to answer. He pulled it out to check the screen and swore as he swiped to answer it. "Ikuto, we've just caught the girl. We don't have her information yet."

Nagihiko's frown got deeper and deeper as he listened to Ikuto speak. Finally, he pulled the phone away from his ear. "I've got you on speakerphone now."

"Good," Ikuto's voice said from the little speakers. "I would like Saaya to hear what her options are directly from me."

The girl on the floor scrambled to get to her feet. "How do you know who I am? Who are you people?"

"The better question is," Ikuto said firmly. "Why have you been staying in Amu's house without alerting the police to the fact that she's missing?"

"I thought," Saaya said and then stopped to swallow hard. "I thought maybe she went on a trip or something without telling me. I figured I'd keep an eye on the place while she was gone."

"See," Ikuto replied without hesitation. "That would be a believable excuse if you didn't know her phone was there and if you weren't using her keys. So I'll ask you again, why are you staying in Amu's house while you know she's missing without alerting the police?"

Rima's gaze narrowed as she watched the girl pale further. "She's not looking too good, boss."

"I'm sure," Ikuto drawled back. "Amu has decided that she wants to hear what Saaya has to say for herself before she considers whether or not she wants to call the police and have her arrested."

"Arrested?" Saaya said with a whine. "Why should I go to jail?"

"Girl," Rima said as she crossed her arms over her chest. "You're trespassing. If you weren't explicitly invited to be here then you're not supposed to be here at all. That and you have Amu's keys, which means that you are an accessory to her kidnapping."

Saaya snapped her mouth shut as she glared at them. "If you do know Amu then you'd know that she would be happy to have me here and she'd never call the police on me. We're cousins. We're all that each other has."

"Saaya," Amu's voice quietly came over the phone. "Will you tell them why you have my keys and didn't call the police?"

Saaya opened and closed her mouth several times before she let out a ragged breath of air. "They took me two years ago," she admitted quietly. "But I'm not a virgin. They didn't like that I've been with so many people so they made me an offer that I wasn't allowed to refuse."

"What did they offer you?" Ikuto asked in a hard voice. "What could they have possibly told you that you had to do for them that you saw no other option but to do it?"

Saaya took a deep breath as she crossed her arms over her chest. "You don't understand the situation that I was in. When they told me that my only option was to work for them I did."

"What is your job?" Rima asked as she clenched her hands by her side. "What do you do for those people?"

"Every month I have to arrange for them to view so many people. I don't do anything except say that there are people that I think they should look at. They don't even take most of them. I just have to make sure that they fit certain criteria."

"You're the reason people get taken," Nagi bit out. "You scout them and they grab them. You cannot pretend you don't know what happens to them. To save yourself you sell out hundreds of other people. You are des-"

"Nagihiko," Ikuto interrupted. "If you need to go outside then go."

Nagihiko shook his head as he stepped closer to Rima. "No, I'm fine."

Saaya covered her face as she turned away to sob into her hands. "It's not like I want to do this! They made me! If I don't do what they want then I'll receive a fate worse than being sold to someone. I'll end up in a whorehouse where I am raped over and over again! What was I supposed to say?"

"You go to the police," Rima said harshly. "You do everything you can to make sure that no one else ends up in that situation."

"Saaya," Amu's voice came through the phone again. "Did you… Did you tell them to take me?"

Saaya cried harder as she kept her face covered.

Nagihiko sucked in a hard breath as he took the phone off speakerphone. "She nodded her head and started crying harder."

Rima lifted an eyebrow as she watched Nagihiko nod to whatever Amu and Ikuto were saying to him.

"We'll do that," Nagihiko said softly before he turned to Rima. He hung up his phone and put it in his pocket before he said anything else. "We're to wait here with her until the police get here."

"The police!" Saaya cried. "Do you understand what that means for me? Do you think the police can do anything?"

"I have my orders," Nagi said. "We will wait here with you until the police arrive."

XXX

Ikuto kept his hand on Amu's shoulder as she stared out the window at the city. "Amu?"

"She wasn't lying when she said that we are all each other has. I have no other family except for her. And I'm all she has, too."

"I know that makes it hurt worse," Ikuto said gently. "I'm so sorry that this happened. I'm so sorry that this horrible situation was somehow made worse."

Amu shook her head as she hugged herself. "You have done nothing but look out for me, Ikuto. If anything, you keep making this horrible situation just a little bit better."

"My contact at the police station said that she gave them the location for the next meeting. They'll get those people and then work on arresting the people above them. We're going to dismantle their whole organization so that this can never happen to anyone else."

"When do they go?" Amu asked as she looked up at Ikuto over her shoulder. "When is that meeting supposed to happen?"

"The day after tomorrow," Ikuto replied. "They will call me when they're done and let me know how they do."

Amu nodded weakly as she stared out the windows once more. "I just want this to be over."

"I'm sorry to say that you'll never be able to go back to the life you had," Ikuto said as he lightly squeezed her shoulder. "Utau said that there is no going back. She can only go forward. You'll have to find a way to move forward, too."

"Today," Amu said softly. "I think I just want to stay still."

"That's okay, too," Ikuto replied. "You're safe here. Sometimes staying still is the best thing to do."

Amu sniffled as she stared out the window without seeing anything of the city on the other side of the glass. Despite the circumstances that brought them together, she couldn't help but be thankful that Ikuto was there to support her.

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Morg: So we're moving right along.

Ikuto: Yes, so you said before this chapter.

Amu: I suppose there is movement.

Morg: Hell yeah!