Love Will Find A Way (Sequel To Sands of Time) ~Complete~

Chapter 10: Her Soul or Yours?

"Mokuba, what are you doing here?"

"I could be asking you the same thing?"

"I've only had the pleasure of meeting that ugly mug," Atsuko said pointing the guy who grabbed her in the park, "so I don't really know."

Mokuba let out a stifled laughed, "I'm in the same boat. Oh, by the way, I wanted to apologize on behalf of Seto and myself for not making the ceremony. We were in the middle of finalizing teachers for the school until, well, as you can see, we didn't really get it done."

"We can worry about that later because right now we have to worry about getting out of here." Atsuko looked around at the room, seeing a high window that was almost impossible to get to. "So, any ideas?"

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Back at Atsuko mansion, everything was in disarray. It had been over a couple hours since Atem had gotten back with Amaya and he stayed so he could offer as much help as possible in the situation. Much to his surprise, Kaiba came there about 20 minutes after he initially arrived, looking for Mokuba. Him and Atsuko's father were still going through who they both knew that could possibly be doing this because no one had sent any ransom or information about Atsuko and Mokuba.

"Atem, I'm sorry to keep you in the dark like this." Atsuko's father said, coming from the area where he was talking with Kaiba. "To be honest, I don't really know what to do this time. Usually we would have been contacted by now, so this is causing concern."

"Is there anything I can do?"

"At the moment, unfortunaelty, no. Since we have no leads, I'm just going to suggest that you return to your home. Please give me a call if you notice anything or think of something. I mean this but any other information might be able to help."

"Are you sure I should leave?"

"Yes. This house is getting depressing fast and I don't want it to be put onto you. I'm also have the other three leave as well, to give them a rest."

Reluctantly, Atem said goodbye to Atsuko's father and drove back to the Game Shop. The entire time he replayed the scene at the park over and over again, trying to see if he overlooked something that could be very minimal. He tried to remember possible insignias or labels on clothing of a company that was mentioned back at the house. Nothing. He began going through what the men said. Nothing. He tried to look back before the park, if anything was suspicious. Again, nothing. This frustrated Atem to no end as he continued to blame himself for not preventing this from happening. He thought he had the perfect chance to get her away, but what if he never drove over to her house to talk to her? Would this of happened or would it have been worse?

He slammed the car door and walked through the front door, almost missing something on the way in. A small letter that was on the floor, just inside the shop. Due to how perfect the envelope was, it couldn't have been long since it was put there. As he picked it up he looked for a name it was addressed to or the name of who is was from, but it was completely blank. After flipping it over multiple times, he looked at the desk in front of him and saw Grandpa just finishing a sale with a small child.

"Hello Atem." Grandpa said as continued looking at he child, who was making a decision between a few cards. "What'cha you got there?" He must of looked up quickly.

"Umm, I don't really know. It was just on the floor."

"Is there a name?"

"No."

"Well, I guess it doesn't hurt to open it up. We can make sure it gets to the right owner."

"Okay", but Atem's voice contained some doubt. What if it was something that he didn't want to see. He slowly opened the envelope and immediately saw the outside of the letter was addressed to him. He quickly unfolded the piece of paper and read the letter to himself.