It's Always Been You ~||~ Soukoku

~• "Time To Go Home" •~

"Executive Nakahara is missing," One of the workers working under Chuuya's command barged into Kouyou's office.

"What?!" Kouyou dropped the cup of tea she was sipping from. A loud shattering noise was heard as the woman marched over to the worker, gripping him by the collar, she demanded, "What do you mean he's missing!? Did he leave alone?! Who was with him?! What happened to the bodyguards!?"

The worker was trembling, Kouyou's anger was usually very subtle, yet powerful. Never once had she had an outburst like this. "Find out who dared to mess with the Port Mafia, going for the executive no less! Use as many resources as you need. Gather as many men as you need. I swear to God, if you don't find that boy and bring him back in one piece, I will make sure that will be the last thing you do."

"B-but...what about M-Mori-san.." The worker half whispered, not daring to say anything that directly defies Kouyou's orders.

"I'll handle him. Now go! Step one, finding out who did this."

"Y-yes ma'am!" The man ran out. Shortly after, Kouyou left her office as well, although she was headed to the top floor of the building.

~

"Kouyou! What a pleasant surprise! What brings you here?" Mori smiled innocently as an enraged executive walked in without knocking.

"Don't play around. You know Chuuya has gone missing." She cut to the chase immediately, they were losing daylight.

"I have," Mori maintained his upbeat, mocking tone. "And what are you going to do about it?" Kouyou asked, a challenge in her voice.

"Nothing. Chuuya-kun is our strongest martial artist, and he is a vessel to a god, he should be able to destroy his way out."

Kouyou slammed both of her hands on the table, surprising Mori and a little bit herself, "He's under the effects of a virus, yesterday he couldn't even move his arm to reach for the glass of water which was placed beside him! And yet you expect him to save himself!?"

"It was his fault he got himself in this situation in the first place. Had he been careful and realized earlier on that the attacker was not in fact Alexander Pushkin, this could have been avoided entirely, am I right?~" Mori spat back.

Kouyou sighed angrily, "There's no point in arguing about this. Forgive me, Boss, but I am defying your order of not doing anything. Chuuya has become an important part of my life, and I will not just sit back and watch as that boy suffers."  She started to walk away from this pointless meeting. Before she exited, she looked over her shoulder and added, "And I'm sure that Dazai will agree." Mori's smile grew dark.

~

Chuuya's eyes felt like they weighed 75 pounds when he finally woke up. His head was pounding and his whole body was heating up.

It took him a few seconds to try to figure out where he is since his vision was extremely blurry and fuzzy. Everything looked like random dark splotches of colour. He finally realized that he was no longer at the Port Mafia headquarters, and was instead in some shabby building in the middle of nowhere.

Chuuya tried to move but was pulled down by a heavy metal around his wrists. He sighed, the metal was too strong to break by himself, so utilizing For The Tainted Sorrow was his one and only option.

...

Chuuya waited in silence for a few seconds before turning around to see his tied up wrists. "It...it didn't activate?.."

The metal was still wrapped around his wrists, undamaged, his ability didn't work. "Is this the effect of the virus?..."

Chuuya cursed under his breath, pulling and tugging at the binds, but to no avail as he ended up exhausting himself further. Then he got an idea, instead of breaking the handcuffs, he should break the chain which was connecting them to the wall. If the chains didn't break, he can just use his feet to break that section of the wall.