Opening both eyes and to only see darkness is the same as closing your eyes. A tight rope prevented her movements as she was laying on the cold, had cemented ground.

Where am I...?

Scanning the place, it was shabby and it seems like she is taken captive at an abandoned area. Unknown voices echoed throughout the room as she listened to the conversation of the ones who kidnapped her, quietly.

"We now have the girl. All that's left is to lure that Haizaki bastard."

The girl's eyes widened when Haizaki's name was mentioned, then she heard footsteps approaching her and a shadow outdoing her. At that moment, it feels like her heart stopped.

"You've finally regained consciousness." The unknown man spoke as he grabs his phone and began dialing a number.

"Hey, how's the girl?" Another man spoke as he walked towards his pal.

"She's awake." The one on the phone replied as he was waiting for the caller to pick up the call.

"Good. Call the bastard."

"Already a head of you."

"Finally, we'll be able to beat the shit out of him. How dare he ridicule us. He'll certainly pay for this."

I'm scared... Mikan thought as she shivered in fear, afraid of the two men in front of her. Someone...help me.

"Hey girly," Looking up, she saw another unknown man. "If you're thinking that someone will come and save you, save it. No one will come for your rescue..."

"We are at the deepest corner of the streets, near the dump site. There is no way that someone will come here."

The threat that the unknown man gave made Mikan even more scared, she was defenseless against the three men as she was being held down by ropes tied around her wrists. She was silently praying that they won't violate her, which is a possibility that these gangsters might do.

Meanwhile, despite the commotion, no one in Teiko knew what was currently happening to the poor orange haired girl who was kidnapped. Except a silver haired guy whose phone was now ringing, receiving a call from an unregistered number.

. . . Unknown . . .
XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

Accept. Decline.

    "The f*ck is this?" Haizaki cussed but answered the call anyway.

"Who the f*ck are you?"

[Arrogant as always. Aren't you?]

"Huh? Who the heck is this?"

[More importantly, we have your girlfriend with us. If you value her life, come here in instance...or else, we'll rape her.]

"Girlfriend? I don't have — "

He stopped in his tracks for a while as a image of Mikan's face suddenly popped in his mind. Surprised, he was bewildered all of the sudden.

[She has orange hair and violet eyes, polkadot red ribbons and is wearing a school uniform. Do you want to talk to her?]

The man from the other line walked towards Mikan who was laying on the ground, he grabbed a fistful of her hair and made her sat up. A painful groan escaped her lips as the man put his phone near her ear.

[...Haizaki-kun...is that you?]

Her voice was shaking and was in the verge of breaking down, he could tell that she was really scared; judging by the tone of her voice.

"Sakura."

[I-I'm scared...I h-hate it here...]

"Where are you?"

[I d-don't know, please, help me...]

Tears began rolling down Mikan's cheeks as she started sobbing, the man took away the phone from her ear and began talking to Haizaki. He smirks.

[You're girlfriend is crying. What are you going to do, Haizaki?]

"I goddamned swear..."

[Swear, what?]

"If you touch even a single strand of her hair, I'll fucking kill you with my own hands. And I don't care if I'll have to go to the jail."

[Hah. Let's see if you can. Prove it to me! Go ahead and kill me!]

"Laugh while you can. I'll wipe that smirk on your face later, scum."

[Scum? You're the one who's the scum between us.]

Call ended.

Haizaki ended the call as the man sent him the address of the abandoned building that they're staying in.

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    "Isn't Sakura here yet?" Nijimura asked as it's been an hour since the girl left to find the lost boy, Haizaki.

    "No, not yet." Satsuki replied as she began dialing Mikan's number. Though Mikan wasn't picking up the call since her batteries were dead.

    "She's not picking up." She stated as Nijimura heaved out a sigh of annoyance. "What about Haizaki?"

    The number that you have dialed is not available. Try again later.

    Kuroko's phone rung as the two turned to him. "Apparently, Haizaki-kun's mobile is out of reach."

    "What are those two even doing?" Aomine groaned as he scratched the back of his head, irritated.

    "Shogo-kun is a bit troublesome. Probably Sakura-chii is having her hands full right now." Kise cheered.

    "That Haizaki...why does he have to make it hard for Sakura nanodayo?" Midorima spoke as he flips up his glasses up to the bridge of his nose.

    "It can't be helped, Mido-chin, it's his nature to be troublesome." Murasakibara stated while munching some chips, taking a break.

    "I'll go and find those two." Akashi stated and ran out of the gym doors.

    "Wait, what, Akashi! Come back here, hey!" Nijimura called the vice-captain but he was already gone.

    "Damn that Akashi. Always doing what he wants selfishly." He murmured as he heaved out a sigh.

    "I agree." Midorima plainly stated.

    Totally agreed. But what's with him? Why is he all flustered when it comes to Sakura? It's out of his character to worry like that.

    "Hey, hey, hey! Since we are short in members now...what about we also start looking for them too?" Kise suggested.

    "Yeah, let's just do that." Aomine agrees with Kise.

    "Eh...how troublesome." Murasakibara tiredly moans.

    "Why do we have to?" Nijimura says, slightly irritated.

    "Psh. Captain, you're so obvious." Kise teased. "You're worried about Sakura-chii, aren't you~?"

    "W-What! No!" The black haired captain stated in denial, making the blonde player chuckle.

    "So you don't care what happens to her at all?"

    "...I didn't said that." Nijimura adverted his gaze, a slight blush appears on his checks. "I'm worried, I guess?"

    Nijimura-san is such a tsundere. Kise thought and chuckled inwardly.

    "Then it's decided! Let's search for Sakura-san and Haizaki-kun!" Satsuki stated as the others agreed, except Murasakibara who was just strung along with the rest.

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    "This is it, huh?" Haizai murmured as he finally arrived at the abduction area where Mikan was held at.

    Looks so shabby. He thought. But it's a perfect place to go rowdy, plus, there are no eye witnesses. They surely came out prepared.

    He entered the place alone and faced the danger by himself. Walking straight the enemy's den without a care as he kicks the door open and yells ever so loudly;

    "I'M HERE, YOU BAS — ?!"

    He halted in his tracks as he saw Mikan being held down by a unknown man as her blouse was off and her bra was exposed in open. The ribbon on her hair was gone, her orange hair was unruly but what he noticed the most was her checks were soaked with pitiful tears. It was heartbreaking.

    "You finally came, Haizaki. Just when I was gonna get started."

    Anger boiled in his blood at the mere sight of her being violated, he balled his hands into a fist and immediately punched the man across the face, he was sent flying as the back of his head crashed on the wall and he was now unconscious.

    "Haizaki-kun! Behind you!" Mikan yelled, the moment Haizaki turned around, he was smacked by a metal pipe on the head. His forehead was dripping with blood as he received the blow on-spot.

    "N-No..." The sight of blood terrified her as Haizaki began rough fighting with the man who smacked him with a metal pipe.

    He started beating the man up, punching him with heavy blows until the man's face became all bruised up. When he was finally satisfied, he stood up and got away from the battered up man.

    "SCUM!" Haizaki was furious. Really furious. His overflowing rage made the naked girl shiver in fear.

    "Haizaki-kun...?" Mikan called, trying to get his attention.

    Then an oversized shirt was thrown over her, "Use it." Was all Haizaki said as he turned around. "Cover yourself...you're flashing me."

    "I would love to if I can, but I'm all tied up." She showed the ropes around her wrists.

    "Tch. I still have to do that?" He bent down and began untying the rope. "Yes...please do."

    While untying the rope, he could feel his cheeks get warmer as he time to time glances at Mikan's bra. It was color pink and filled with frills and ribbons, she wasn't that big nor she was also small.

    Once the rope was off, she hurriedly wore the t-shirt as the redness of Haizaki's cheeks decreased.

    "Flat chested."

    "H-How rude! I'm not!"

    Haizaki sighed. "How did you got caught anyway? You're so stupid."

    "There are three."

    "Huh?"

    Mikan turned to him. "There are three men who kidnapped me."

Suddenly the lights died as the room turned dark with no electricity, Haizaki became wary as he grabbed Mikan's wrist and pulled her up.

"Let's get going. I'm getting bad vibes here." He stated and they began walking out of the room.

If there are three of them, I still have to deal with one more guy since the other two are unconscious. I have to protect Sakura no matter what.

Then suddenly they heard footsteps, they stopped walking for awhile and halted. "No matter what you do, be quiet. Don't speak a word."

Mikan nodded in reply. Haizaki held her small hand tighter as he was getting ready to smack the person that they'll meet — probably it is the third person who kidnapped her.

A silhouette made it's way as Haizaki raised his hand to punch this person when he halted, surprised when he heard an familiar voice.

" Relax, it's just me. "

Someone walked out of the shadow's darkness, a person with fiery red hair and a pair of burning eyes; it was the infamous vice-captain.

"What are you doing here...Akashi?!" Haizaki stated, surprised to see him here.

"Eh? Akashi-kun?" Mikan says, also surprised.

"I'm here to find you two." Akashi simply replied nonchalantly. "How long are you going to hold her hand?"

Haizaki hurriedly released her hand as he was flustered, it was not intentional, he just wanted to make her feel that she's safe with him. So that's why he held her hand.

"Your face is pale, Sakura. Are you alright?" Akashi asked, concerned.

"...Yes, I am. Haizaki-kun saved me after all." She answered.

"May I ask for the reason how you ended up here?"

"T-That's..."

"And who's the owner of the shirt you're wearing?"

"It's Haizaki-kun's shirt, he lended it to me." Mikan answered.

"What about you being here?" Akashi asked yet again.

"T-That's..." She adverted her gaze away from him. "...I got lost, I didn't know where to go that's why I ended up here..."

"Lost, huh?" The red haired vice captain repeated as he sighed. "And you expect me to believe that?"

"But that's the truth — "

"The truth is that you were kidnapped, weren't you?"

She clammed her mouth, she has nothing to say against that. He knows.

"I wonder why you're lying." Akashi says. "The reason why you were kidnapped was because of Haizaki, weren't you?"

"That's not..."

"True? Is that what you want to say, Sakura?"

"Akashi-kun, I — "

"You make the stupidest lies."

There was a moment of silence between them when suddenly, a hand reached out Mikan and strangled her. A gun was pointed on her head as everything became tensed.

"Nobody move. Or else, I'll shoot these poor girl's head."

Haizaki and Akashi stood still as Mikan was frozen on-spot, tears began welling up in her eyes once again.

"Scum! It's me who you want, right?" Haizaki growled. "Let her go! She has nothing to do with this!"

"No! She's a perfect bait to lure you in. If you want her back, go on your knees! Apologize for what you've done to us!" The man stated, angrily.

"What the fuck? There's no way I would do that, Scum." Haizaki said.

"Haizaki. Do it." Akashi commanded.

Haizaki grabbed Akashi's collar and harshly yanked it, his hard ashen eyes glared at his red orbs angrily.

    "Why the hell would I do that?!"

Then Akashi looked at Haizaki's ashen eyes seriously, his red orbs burning through his soul.

"What's more worthy? Your pride or Sakura's life?"

"You're just going to apologize, can't you do that to save Sakura? Isn't it your fault that she is involved with something she shouldn't have been involved into?"

"What would you choose?"

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Hajime: Hi. It's been 2 months since I last updated, haha. Sorry for the super late update though. Thanks for the 14K reads and 1K likes. ILY guys.