#8 .⁠｡⁠*⁠♡

***In a cold and starless night, A little boy was clutching his stomach while he was curving like a ball on the ground in a dark and dirty alleyway.

He had run away from home to escape his fathers' abuse.

The boy couldn't even shed tears anymore. He was used to it. He would wait out in the cold for a while until his father's anger subsided so he could come home. Though his stomach was hurting twice as much, due to a kick that he received while he was being beaten, along with the fact that he hasn't eaten anything today.

He tried to hug himself even tighter to mask the cold and hopeless feeling. He closed his eyes as he demanded himself to sleep, silently hoping that his dreams would be able to take him away from reality.

That night, for the first time since his mother left, he earnestly prayed for a miracle.

And just when he was about to drift into slumber. He heard a little voice.

"Hey, are you okay?"

It was in a language he did not understand.

He slowly opened his eyes and was greeted by a pair of outstretched hands. And when he looked up to identify who it belonged to, he felt his breath hitch as he locked eyes with the most majestic deep blue orbs he'd ever seen.

***

Nagi barged into the Police Station, stumbling on his feet. The frantic sound of his heartbeat flushed the alcohol out of his body completely. He looked around the bustling building until he could hear a familiar voice yelling at two police officers on the front desk. He approached them, just to find a restless Bachira was frantically talking to a police officer and A worried Kunigami was trying to prevent his boyfriend from punching the poor old officer square on the face. 

"What the hell happened?" 

Were the first words he uttered while trying to catch his breath.

All eyes traveled to his direction and for a moment, all three guys stopped pestering the police officers to fill him in with the situation. 

"Look, as soon as I picked up the call, the only thing I heard was a loud crash and then the phone went off. I immediately thought something bad must've happened to him so I tried calling again and again but he wouldn't answer." Bachira rambled on, even momentarily choking on his words.

"W-we tried searching for him nearby, but couldn't find him anywhere. So our last resort was to come to the Police Station for help. But these bastards said they can't file for a missing person case unless it's past twenty-four hours since the disappearance." Bachira could only sigh while he dragged his hands down from his face to his mouth.

"Though we're pressing them right now to at least investigate for any human accidents in the area. We're also trying to track down his last location based on the call he made with Bachira" Chigiri chimed in, looking at the police officers as if he'd choke one of them if they can't even do this task.

Nagi's heart felt as though it was about to burst. 

'I'm sure Isagi's okay. Wherever he is,  he'll be okay. He has to be.'

The boy thought to himself again and again like a mantra. As if these words are the only anchor he has to keep himself from tearing up the whole town just to find his beloved. 

'Let's calm down, Nagi. I'm sure the police will find him soon. Let's just wait---'

his thoughts were cut short when Kunigami spoke.

"Hey Nagi, I thought you were staying with Reo? Where is he right now? I thought he'd come with you."

Just then, the boy remembered the look on Reo's face when he left in a hurry. The way he did not make a fuss like he always did, like he half-expected him to. Nagi bit his lip and clenched his fist remembering the last thing Reo said as a lone tear escaped his eye. 

'At the end of the day, you always choose him'

Nagi cleared his throat

"He couldn't come. He was feeling unwell."

He replied without making eye contact with anyone in the room. Something that the couple immediately noticed and gave a knowing look at each other. Chigiri sighed under his breath.

'The jerk must've left him again.'

before Chigiri could even voice his thoughts out, one of the police officers approached them with a file in hand and a broken phone inside a zip lock bag.

" I deployed some of our units around town and someone found this while they were investigating around a street that suddenly lost CCTV footage this morning." 

He held out the zip lock bag to let them see the remnants of a broken cellphone that looked like it was wrecked intentionally. It was in shambles, but they could immediately recognize the little soccer ball  keychain attached to it.

"Is this your friend's phone?"

They looked at one another and nodded. Each with worried looks on their faces. The officer sighed. As if bracing himself from telling them the rest of the information.

"Well, I believe this case has gotten far more serious."

He opened the file on his hand, with photos of where the item was found. At the end there was a small yellow sticky note that was marked as evidence. It had a bit of dried blood on it.

"Because this thing was found attached to the victim's phone when it was found" 

'I'm taking him back. Don't find him'

***

"Darling! Hey let me in just this once hmm? I swear I won't do it again I promise you!"

 Micheal Kaiser was pounding at the door playfully with his fists after Isagi hurled pillows at him and shoved him out for stealing yet another kiss. Now he has been locked out of the room with a fresh bruise on his face, he didn't know that his weakened little rose could still throw a slightly hard punch despite his state, but he gladly took the blow anyway. 

He snickered to himself and leaned his forehead on the door. He touched his face where the small bruise was. It stung a little, but he couldn't help to bite his lower lip while savoring the sensation. His other hand reached down outside his pants where a noticeable bulge was. 

'Ahh... he touched me'

Who knew that someone could be so perverted, that they could get hard because of a bruise?

"Stay out you fucking creep!" 

Isagi shouted at the other end. Limping back towards the bed with an IV stand in tow. He winced unbearably at the pain on his head that traveled to his whole body. 

'Damned perverted bastard. '

 He kept racking his brain to see if he knew someone named Michael, but remembered none. Was that guy mentally ill or something? He must be confusing him with another dude.

'This is what I get for flirting around with questionable people huh?'

He let out an exasperated sigh. 

"I need to get out of here and fast" he mumbled to himself. 

At the other end, Kaiser was still having a good time. Though the servants looking at him were all terrified. Their master was a kind of man that could knock down a door whenever he pleased, and could shoot someone just for breathing a little louder than he liked. But that same man, right now, is smiling so brightly that you would think he doesn't even have the slightest nerve to hurt a fly. To others it may look pleasant, but to the people that lives in this mansion, it is a sight that lives in their nightmares.

Though his precious moment was cut short when he heard someone cleared their throat behind him. He turned around and looked at the man with the unsettling smile. It was Alexis Ness, his right hand. Kaiser's bright eyes quickly faded, and was replaced by that usual smirk dripped with superiority.

He did not catch the slight falter on Ness' practiced expression as he swept his gaze down his stature. Like a dark shadow that quickly left as soon as it came, he continued to hide it with his devoted grin. Failing to notice that the sheets of paper are slowly crumbling beneath his fingers.

"Status report?"

Kaiser asked. Gone was the sweet tone that he used to converse with Isagi.

"I've sent the message and cleared the area. They must be scouring the whole city trying to find him right now."

"Good work" 

The blonde man approached Ness and slightly tapped his shoulder then walked past him.

"Make sure that no one enters this room except Ego and the servant assigned with his meals. Don't let him leave the room unless I say so. I'll be off to handle something, you are dismissed."

Ness --with the same expression, took a bow until Kaiser faded away into the next hallway.

Then he turned around and looked at the door with the kind of hostility that wants bloodbath. He took the papers on his hand and ripped them apart piece by piece before throwing it in the trash. 

"How dare you... take him away from me."

***

A/N: So uhh it's been a year :// sorry guys. I went to College lol. 

Isagi gonna take everyone else's man, cause he couldn't keep his own ya'll TT__TT

edit: it has come to my attention that I apparently published an unfinished chapter. Sorry x.x