Hack Into My Heart

Code 19: Code

"What the hell..." the captain mumbled and I threw myself on his feet.

"You have to save him! Please!" I begged him over and over again until he and Ozawa-san pulled me back to my wobbly feet.

"We will save him," Ozawa-san reassured me while the captain just told me to leave... as if I would do that...

"Look!" the same officer from earlier pointed at the screen, "he is awake."

With relief, I watched Yusuke to gain his consciousness. He rubbed his head, probably where he got hit from and checked his surroundings with confused eyes. I was dying inside, but there was nothing I could do other than watching my lover suffer. Then, it got worse. Yusuke shrunk as much as he could, his arms around his bent legs. I saw he was shivering and his breaths were white.

"They put him into a freezer!" I cried out with panic and the others grunted with anger.

Suddenly, a figure with black baggy clothes and a black mask, covering his entire head except his eyes appeared on the screen and exchanged some words with Yusuke before standing in front of the camera with some papers in his gloved hands.

We will tell you what we want later.

Reading it, I cursed loudly. Then the figure turned towards Yusuke whose head was tilted upwards to look at the camera. He said something to Yusuke and the hope in his eyes vanished as he lowered his head back. Still, after the figure left the area, Yusuke turned to the camera and started to form some words with his mouth.

"Na...ka..." I repeated, but then the screen turned black. Brimming with anger, I threw the chair in front of me to the farthest corner. When I was about to leave the room, Yusuke's image appeared again, but this time he was lying on the ground, unconscious. My heart sank with fear, but then a sudden realization hit me.

Why didn't they just cut Yusuke's clue part and montage it back?

I rushed to the officer who was sitting in front of the computer and pushed him away. Hastily, I checked the attachment of the video and saw that it was a live video, not a record!

"You stupid! It is a live video!"

"So?" Ozawa-san asked as he sat next to me, staring at the screen.

"We can use the video to trace them," I explained briefly as my fingers were already on it.

"No, you can't," the captain declared above me and he snached the laptop under my hands.

"Give it back! I will save Yusuke!" I yelled at him and tried to get the laptop back, but I was caught by two officers with the captain's command.

"You are just an ex-criminal, you can't be here. Don't worry, we will do what you say and rescue Yusuke-san," he said and gestured at the officers to take me out.

"YOU CAN'T DO IT FASTER THAN I DO! LET ME HELP!" I begged as I kept struggling, but they were deaf to my voice.

Like that, I was thrown out. As I was a hacker, I didn't need their help. I could do it with any computer although it would make me a criminal.

As if I cared... Yusuke was my life-line and without him, I was nothing.

I left the station, running to find a taxi, but suddenly a car stopped in front of me and I saw it was Ozawa-san from the lowered window.

"Get in," he urged me and I hopped in immediately. "The captain had to do it for the show, but he allows you to use your fingers for Yusuke-san's sake," he said and gave me a piece of paper.

It was Ozawa-san's username and password for the police system as well as his cellphone number.

"With that, you don't need to hack our system, Yusuke wouldn't want that," he said with a smile, then he drove me home and dropped me off in front of our building.

"When you have a clue, call me, I will rush there."

"Thank you, Ozawa-san, we will save Yusuke," I said firmly and rushed inside.

Once in, I grabbed Koi and Yusuke's laptop and took my place on the dining table. Waiting for the laptop to be turned on took like one hundred years for me, but once it did, my fingers were fast to react. I plugged Koi in and I entered the police system, using Ozawa-san's identity and found the link of the live video of Yusuke.

My poor darling was conscious again, shivering with ice particles on his hair and eyelashes. As it was too painful to watch, I channeled my focus on the link. I hate to admit, but whoever was behind the whole incident was pretty good. I put a lot of effort into cracking the system, but it was sure to require too much time to locate them.

But I didn't have that much time... Yusuke was literally freezing there...

With a sudden idea, I decided to try the camera connection. As their full focus was hiding the location, it could be easier. I started to write new codes and after a few attempts, the camera control was in my hands.

I put the last twenty seconds of the video record into a loop to gain some time and used the red recording light to give Yusuke a signal.

I tried and tried, and finally Yusuke noticed the oddity in the red blinking light. Giving out a sigh of relief, I repeated the code over and over again.

.. / .- -- / .... . .-. .

I am here.

When Yusuke understood that it was me, he nodded with a smile. Then, he pointed at his left upper arm and mouthed some words before his eyes stuck somewhere unseen and he stopped mouthing, maybe one of the kidnappers came in.

Na..ka...mu...ra...san... Ke...Ze...Ke...pre...cious...me...tals... mi...ka...chan...

I understood his words, but what was he trying to tell me? How could Nakamura-san be involved in the happening? Unless it was KZK Precious Metals what the kidnappers were after. But then, how was it related to Yusuke?

Mika-chan... left upper arm... Nakamura-san... KZK Precious Metals...

I repeated a few times aloud to find a connection and I DID!