My King || MHA AU|| /Sequel to My Poet/

Chapter Six

Third Person POV:

Natsuo slowly returns back to consciousness. He blinks, several seconds passing before he realizes half of his face was against the ground.

"Shit." He mutters, pushing himself off the ground.

Looking around, he saw an empty bed and Keigo collapsed against the floor a foot away from him.

"Keigo!" He yelps. Crawling towards him, shaking his shoulders. "Keigo, wake up, Touya's missing!"

The blonde slowly opens his eyes, blinking. He pushes himself off the ground as well. The moment he saw the empty bed his eyes widened and he grabbed his head with both of his hands. "Oh fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!" He yells. "No!" Keigo slams his fists against the ground.

Natsuo looks around desperately. "How long were we out?" He asks. "Maybe they didn't get far. Maybe.."

Keigo jumps up and runs to the window, looking out of it. The sun was starting to set.

"It's sundown." Keigo says. "Whoever took Touya is long gone."

Looking down, Keigo saw a patch of dried blood on the rim of the windowsill. He traced his fingers over it, frowning.

"It looks like.." Natsuo came up to the window. "I don't know what it looks like. Why would the person drag Touya out so forcefully he cuts himself on the stone?" He looks at Keigo. "Do you have any kidnapper friends? Could this be AFO? I know he wasn't apprehended when Touya sent out guards."

Keigo's frown deepens. "It could be, but I'm not sure." He says. "Why would they kidnap the king?"

"You said it earlier, Touya's inexperienced and the kingdom's unstable." Natsuo says.

After another moment, Natsuo sighs. "We can't tell the kingdom Touya's been kidnapped." He says. "It'll cause mass panic." Keigo nods. "I can ask for the royal guards to go search, but with the epidemic.."

"We could get a private investigator?" Keigo suggests.

Natsuo nods. "Since Touya isn't here to do meetings, we need a representative." He says. He sighs. "Since Fuyumi's not able, I have seniority right now. So I'll go do that. Can you get the investigator?"

The two left the room, going to separate locations. Keigo went and ordered the private investigator to try and find Touya, and Natsuo went to represent the kingdom in a few meetings.

Then as Keigo came back to Touya's room, he bumped into Izuku.

"Oh, hello!" The greenette greets. "How have you been?"

Keigo frowns at him. "Can you tell Shouto that the King has been kidnapped?" He asks. "Thanks." He walks away.

Izuku blinks. King? Kidnapped? "Oh shit." He mutters, rushing off to his room.

"Shouto!" He yelps, entering the youngest prince's room. The peppermint haired boy looked up. "Your brother's missing!"

Shouto frowned. "Which one?" He asks.

"Touya." Izuku said, running toward the bed where Shouto was sitting. "Keigo just told me."

"When?" Shouto asks, worry slowly showing on his face. "Was it AFO? I don't want Touya-nii to have the same thing that I did. That's not good." His brow furrowed. "Does anyone know where he might be?"

Izuku shrugs. "I don't know anything except he's missing." He says. "Do you want to go to Touya's room? That's where I saw Keigo going."

After a moment of thought, Shouto nods, standing up.

They left the room and walked down the hallway, before approaching Touya's room and opening the door. Keigo looked away from the blood on the windowsill and frowned at them.

"I said tell him, not bring him here." Keigo says. He sighs. "But it's fine."

Izuku's eyes caught on the dried blood. "What happened?" He asks.

Keigo sighs again. The sun had just gone down. "It only happened a few hours ago." Keigo explains, wringing his hands together. "Me and Natsuo were talking about the disease and suddenly someone knocked us both out. Touya was sleeping in the bed and when we woke up he was gone. And this was here." He adds, pointing at the blood mark.

"Did the person drag Touya-nii across the floor?" Shouto questions.

Izuku taps his chin. "That wouldn't be the most efficient way." He says. "If I was trying to kidnap someone, I wouldn't want to have to drag them like that. I would carry them so it takes as little time as possible."

"So the main question right now is whose blood is it?" Keigo says. "We can get it tested. That's easy. If it's the kidnapper's blood then it could lead us to where Touya is."

Izuku grinned. "One step closer already!" He beams.

...

"Why does it take so long!" Izuku whines, resting his head on Shouto's shoulder as they both sat on the bed.

Shouto blinks. "Keigo told you, blood tests are slow." He says.

Izuku pouts up at him. "It's literally been three hours." He says, gesturing to the night sky from the window. "I'm booooored." He flopped backwards onto the bed.

"Well be bored no more!" Keigo says and he suddenly slams the door open, a few papers in his hands. "We got the results!"

All three of them crowded around the table where Keigo placed the papers. One of them that they actually paid attention to had a picture of a young man on the front, next to the name Suto Akane. The young man's age was listed at 23. He had quite short peach colored hair, with blazing orange eyes. He had a blank face in the picture, but something about him seemed off.

"Suto Akane?" Izuku read off the paper. "I've never heard of that."

Keigo sighed. "I have." He says. "Ugh, this is horrible. He's from the 'commission' kingdom." He rubs the bridge of his nose. "That means that Touya's in the capital."

Izuku and Shouto stare at him. "Shit.." Izuku mutters. "Maybe he's not in the capital yet? That's miles and miles away."

"People trained by the capital can do some incredible shit." Keigo says. "Trust me, that's where I was trained as well. At this point they could be half way there." He runs his hand through his hair in nervousness. "If they brought them there, than I might know where he is, but.."

"So it's not a repeat of AFO?" Shouto asks.

Keigo looked at him. "I would assume no, but the capital is always seven steps ahead, they could be working with AFO for all we know." He says. "And they have some of the most experienced witches and wizards around, so that's another thing to work out."

Shouto and Izuku exchange glances. "We could go on another adventure!" Izuku says. Then he immediately backtracks. "Actually, that's not the best idea with this disease."

"A small group would be good." Keigo says. "If we're inviltrating the capital, we need a small and skilled group. Just us would probably be ideal."

Izuku beams at them. "Then let's get ready!"

<^> To Be Continued

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