The World Beyond (A Yosuke Hanamura Love Story)

The Killer Is........!

Ayame's POV:

''Yosuke, its Nanako-chan.......she's gone!''

That was the last straw, I pushed myself out of Yosuke's arms and ran down the hall of the police station, I could hear Yosuke, Teddie and Kanji shouting after me but I knew they felt the same as I was feeling, pissed off. I got to a door where both Dojima-san and Adachi-san were standing in front of and ran up to them. Yosuke and the others were right behind me.

''Hey what are you guys doing here? Wait I never said you could!'' before Dojima-san could finish we all pushed past him and Adachi-san and ran into the room where Yu was sitting on one of the chairs, a worried expression clouding over his face. He must have seen the midnight channel too.

''Nanako-chan's Missing!'' Yosuke shouted snapping Yu out of his trance. He looked up to us all with a mixed expression of relief and fear. He stood up and walked over to us all just as Dojima-san ran in after hearing Yosuke's words.

''What are you talking about!'' He shouted we turned to him as Yosuke showed him his cell,

''Naoto's on the phone she's calling from Nanako-chans..... I mean your house phone'' Dojima's eyes were skeptical as he grabbed the phone from Yosuke and put it to his ear.

''Shirogane! What the hell's going on!?''he shouted, we listened quietly as Naoto began to speak through the phone receiver, 

''I'm at your house right now, the door is open and no-one is inside. I'm afraid Nanako-chan has been kidnapped by our serial killer'' she said frantically, Dojima's eyes widened slightly at her words. 'What kind of a reaction is that?! His daughter is in danger what the hell!'I thought as I could feel the anger burn up inside of me I took a step forward and glared at him,

''Listen to her! Surely you must have know Dojima-san the case isn't over yet! Are you just going to stand here in shock or are you actually going to go out and try to get her back!'' I shouted as tears started to form in my eyes. Dojima stared at me in shock but deep down I knew that he knew I was right. Before I could loose my temper anymore Yosuke pulled me into his arms and held me close. He rested his head on top of mine, gently stroking my hair.

''Dojima-san.....I.... I'm sorry I didn't mean.......'' I began realizing what I had just done, he looked to me softly and shook his head.

''No it's okay Ayame-chan, your right I shouldn't just be standing here. I'm going to go and find my daughter!'' He shouted before running out of the room, Adachi-san shouted after him but Dojima-san was long gone.

''Adachi-san we can go and search for her to just let Narukami go!'' Yosuke shouted, we all looked to Adachi-san who shook his head looking really confused. 

''You know I can't do that I.......'' before he could finish the door burst open again as Rise, Yukiko, Chie and Naoto all ran in, Adachi-san's eyes widened,

''Woah I can't let you all in here or I'll be in some real trouble!'' he said starting to panic slightly, Kanji glared at him, seeing that he was about to blow up I looked over to Naoto and motioned my head in Kanji's direction. She got the hint and walked over to him, hugging him. He calmed down instantly and hugged her back.

''Look if you guys don't tell me what's going on here than I can't let you go anywhere'' Adachi-san said looking to each of us, Naoto turned around with a glint in her eyes. I knew that look it meant she had a plan.

''Ah so if we explain the situation you will release Narukami.... I see'' she said calmly before Adachi-san could say anything she spoke again,

''In any event if we just run out blindly we wouldn't know where to start, so let us all stop and revise the situation perhaps this will help Adachi-san to understand as well. The situation for Nanako-chan is different than our cases. Remember what Nanako-chan said when we were at Yu's place the other night? I always do what my dad tells me, like not opening the door for strangers. Meaning Nanako was kidnapped by someone who is not a stranger to her. Yu, do you have any insight on that possibility?'' We all turned to Yu, who thought for a moment before turning back to us all,

''the only thing I can think off that would make the most sense would be one of Dojima's friends''

''Na I doubt that, Dojima pretty much keeps to himself at the station, the only one Nanako-chan would know would be me, his partner. Uhhhh I've been here the whole time of course'' Adachi-san said quickly for some reason he seemed flustered, I looked to him suspiciously something wasn't right with him why was he acting so nervous?

''I don't think we can limit ourselves to people Nanako-chan knows'' Yukiko said sadly, I was about to say something but I closed my mouth quickly, I can't just jump to assumptions. Yosuke looked to me worriedly noticing that I was going to say something but thankfully I didn't have to say anything as Naoto chimed into the conversation.

''I agree so let us change our perspective slightly, we know for sure that the killer must be using a large screen TV. All of the kidnapped were thrown inside almost immediately after being captured I would go as far as to say it took place in front of their houses, so that means he must be taking the TV with him however...... no unusual vehicle has been sighted'' Naoto looked to the ground, for the first time ever she looked lost that was until something came into my mind.

''Wait a minuet!'' I shouted suddenly making everyone jump slightly, ''now I remember! When I went to the door after the bell rang, it was the time that the delivery man normally came, I remember seeing his uniform after he held the chemical to my mouth. I struggled against him but I was weak, I remember seeing the local delivery symbol before falling unconscious!'' after that Kanji spoke up,

''Your right I remember too, a delivery came it was a delivery truck!'' he shouted

''No one looks twice at a delivery truck no matter where its parked!'' Rise said as it seemed her, Yukiko and Naoto remembered the same thing as Kanji and I. Something suddenly caught my eye on the table in front of me, I slid out of Yosuke's arms and picked up the paper when I saw what was written on it I could feel anger boil inside of me, but something about it still didn't seem right to me.

''Guys listen to this.... After retiring from his previous job he took over the family delivery business. Before that he was... a council secretary..........Taro Namatame!'' Once I said that everyone looked around, Naoto took the paper from me and looked at the address after that we split into two groups,

Group one was: Yosuke, Naoto, Kanji, Yu and I and group two was Teddie, Yukiko, Chie and Rise. After that we all ran out of the station in search of Namatame and Dojima.