Simple lies

The Catchup Game

                  

Emi pov:
As I was walking home I could barely contain my worry, let alone dread. What did he mean by Lucifer's gone? Did Maou find him and Lucifer simply ran off... Again. I shivered as I got closer to the Devil's castle, the storm hadn't let up at all so I was pretty much like a drenched cat. Thank god that I'm close. I don't think my feet could handle much more walking. I began to walk up the stairs making sure to be careful considering the fact I fall every time. I was just about to get to the top when I felt my feet slip. Nooooooo!!! I was so close! I felt myself fall backward and I closed my eyes anticipating my fall. I felt myself hit each of the stairs until I fell into something relatively wet and kind of.... Warm? I winced and looked up and saw that it was Maou that caught me and I felt a blush of embarrassment. I was about to yell at him when I noticed he looked... To put it simply he looked like something the cat dragged in. This made the uneasiness that I had managed to temporarily forget return with a vengeance. Did Lucifer say something to make him this way? Or did something happen to Lucifer? I didn't notice that I had been staring at him till his voice broke me from my thoughts.

"Ummm Emi? Could get off now?"

I felt heat rise to my cheeks... Again. I need to stop letting him see me like this! I hurriedly got off.

"Shouldn't you have been the one who let go first, Satan?! Or are you just a pervert." I said and put my hands on my hips as he pulled a face.

" hey if I let you go you probably would have fallen with the way you looked so dazed!" He said in slight annoyance

" wait.... Why aren't you wearing shoes? You're practically asking to fall"

I glared and crossed my arms with a slight pout.

" it's not my fault you disastrous face is distracting, besides its not like I wanted the heel on my shoe to break." I retorted and Maou just sighed

"Look Emi I'm not in the mood for this so let's just get inside before someone gets sick." Maou said, sounding annoyed. I frowned at this. Lucifer's disappearance is really bothering him isn't it? I gave a small nod.

"For once your right" I spat and then we turned to walk inside. Once we opened the door and I got up the stairs, safely this time, I saw that Alciel and Suzuno were there with a worried and pacing Alciel walking around the small room.
"Good Ashiya, they will return with Lucifer any minute." Suzuno said and I saw Maou wince at the statement. I knocked on the door and all three heads turn to us. Suzuno stood up looking worried and a questioning look in her eyes.

"Hey guys, we're back...." I said to break the silence.

"Sire you're back! You should've come home sooner, you could get ill." Alciel said and I sighed. It was obvious that Maou wasn't in the mood for his mother henning. Maou waved him off and took off his shoes before walking into the room.

"My health isn't the main problem right now." he said and I took my shoes off and sat by their makeshift table.

"Then what is?" I asked looking towards him. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"I found Urushihara....." he finally replied. To say I was confused by this would be an understatement. After all we had just spent all this time looking for him so why would finding him be a problem? I glanced around the room and noticed I wasn't the only one, it was written on their faces, plain as day. What's going on with you Satan?

"Where is he then? Did he think that hiding would get him out of a scolding?" Ashiya said. His question was ignored when Suzuno spoke up.

"Um, Good Sadao was this not the point in our late night activities?" Suzuno questioned.

"Yes it was but that's not the problem, it's what happened to him that's the problem." He said, giving us nothing to work with on what was wrong.

"Spit it out then Satan, if your covering for him admit it. Don't be so vague." I snapped I wasn't the only one who was tired, wet, and worried. I'm pretty sure that everyone wanted to know what was going on at this point. Maou sent me a glare but answered anyway.

"Someone took him" he stated.

"Wait, as in someone bothered to kidnap him?" Ashiya asked and while he was trying to be rude and seem fine I could see the worry he was covering up.

"Yeah that's exactly what I mean, I-I don't even know who took him. I got there just as he was taken. All I know is that it was an angel. I saw the feathers when I got there." Maou replied seeming to deflate just a little bit more as he said that.

"There are a lot of angels back at Ente Isla but we know that Sariel is the only one in this dimension."  I said thinking aloud.

"Yeah I thought of that too but with all the people getting through am not sure. It's not like I can sense his presence either so I can't track him like I could if they were using their magic. And I really don't think we should attack him outright without more evidence, we don't want another repeat of the fight we had with him without reason, people could get caught up in the crossfire and he might not even tell us anything if we force him."

"So what you're saying is that not only do we have the problem of Lucifer being kidnapped but also the fact that we have next to no idea that it is besides a hunch?" I said annoyed.

"It appears to be that way Emilia but we should make a plan, so that we could lure the information we require from him without him suspecting us..." Suzuno reasoned. The room got silent as everyone began to think of a plan. Well, what would he even want with Lucifer? I would get it if it was Olba but he has been locked away for a while. I honestly doubt that it'd be revenge for leaving heaven, they weren't that close. There's another piece to this that we're missing and until we know we won't get anywhere..... Now the question of how to draw him out.... he is a pervert so maybe we could...

"I might have an idea." I say suddenly, breaking the deafening silence of the room.

"And what might that be Emi?" Maou questioned. I didn't miss the hope in his eyes.

"Well Sariel is a huge pervert so why don't we use Chiho to lure him out. He did seem to have a.... focus on her so it would be easy enough."

"You're suggesting we use Miss Chiho to achieve our goal?" Suzuno asked confused and a little disgusted, not that I blame her.

"I know, I don't like it either but she's the only person has shown an interest in that knows about Ente Isla. She's the only person we can trust to get this done. We'll defiantly have to convince her to do this. But If you guys can think of another way without using her then I'm all ears" I said. I didn't like the thought of putting Chiho in the line of fire but we had to ensure that we get Lucifer back, because if Sariel does have him, theres no doubt in my mind that he would use Lucifer's weakness to his advantage.

"How do we even know your plan will work Emi?" Ashiya questioned looking suspicious.

"We dont but its all we got and theres no way we aren't going to at least try to save him." I stated confidently.  If nothing else, we at least owe him that....

"I guess we'll have to go along with it." Maou said "why don't you go to Suzuno's house for the night and in the morning I'll see if I can get Chiho in on the plan" He suggested to me.

"Yeah whatever" I replied to him before looking over to Suzuno. "Is that okay with you?"

"It is fine Emilia, let us go it is getting late and I suspect tomorrow will be another long day." She said kindly before getting up to go to her house. I followed her and she pulled out a matt for me to sleep on as well as a change of clothes.  I hope Maou can get Chiho to agree.... That was the last thought on my mind as I went to sleep for the night.

A/N Hey guys! I'm not dead, sorry this took so long. I had started the chapter a while ago but I hit writer's block, I ended up deleting what I had and changing the pov for this chapter, Anyway I hope you guys enjoyed and fav/review.