Hidden Secrets

Chapter 4 - Havoc

10 minutes has passed since the GOM arrived at the Yakimoto Mall and everyone didn't expect to dive into a huge groups of panicking people either pushing, running or screaming. Hopes of ever finding the tealette suddenly dropped down once they blended with the crowd.

"Akashi, we can't find Tetsu like this!" Aomine raised his voice enough to make everyone hear in the midst of the loud crowd stampeding in the direction completely opposite from them.

"Just trust Akashi, he has Kuroko's tracker with him!" Midorima shouted back, trying to ignore the slight pain in his shoulders from bumping into so many people.

"So where is Kuro-chin?!" Murasakibara said from above them. Even though the giant has the most advantage in this situations, being Teiko's best line of defense, he still had a hard time trying to push his large body through the crowd, if not munching on his snacks was anything to go by.

"I found him!" the red head suddenly shouted, his eyes narrowing as he saw the tealettes's direction.

"Where is Kur- umph! Kurokocchi!?" Kise yelled, trying his best to catch up to everyone.

The red stopped abruptly, making everyone turn their heads to their captain dubiously.

Hetechromatic eyes stared at different colored ones before finally mouthing the words they had been dreading to hear.

'He's still inside'

They all felt a sense of anxiety twisting in their guts. They had to save him.

"Then we have to go inside!" Aomine yelled, pulling his hair in frustration. What Is he still doing in there?

The red head shouted back, rushing towards the mall's entrance. "It's too dangerous!" Even though he said this, his feet won't stop moving. He knew they were risking their lives on this.

After a few minutes of dreadful silence and exhausting rush to find the tealette, they finally found themselves at the mall's entrance. During this time, no more people had evacuated through the double glass doors. They couldn't see anyone inside, so they must have thought that the battle was happening on the upper floors.

Akashi was about to charge inside when he suddenly felt powerful arms place themselves around the red head, effectively halting him.

"Sir, it is unwise to suddenly dash inside while the battle is still ongoing" A man, probably at the age of forty, suddenly said. The tone in his voice alerted the Miracles.

"But we need to save him!" Kise countered. They can't afford to waste anymore time.

"Sir, I can't permit you to just dash in and recklessly lose you life in there. I have been ordered to block off the main entrance."

"Who is your leader then?" The Akashi demanded, his eyes being covered with red locks.

"That is something I am not permitted to say"

A moment of silence stretched, so the man continued, his eyes slightly softens as he looked at each of them.

"Look, we'll find your friend once all this commotion dies do-" The man was suddenly interrupted when glass shards flew towards them, soon, gunshots can be heard.

A man, dressed in some kind of uniform held a gun, rushing forward to escape. His face was covered with a black mask, but that didn't mean they missed the pained expression on his face. The miracles soon found out why when they saw that his left leg was bleeding.

"Stay away!" The man they met at the entrance ordered. They knew that was a direct order supposedly for their sake. They never saw a terrorist this close before.

No one moved. They just watched the man fight off the injured enemy.

Using this as a chance, Akashi rushed inside. "Let's go..." The red head silently said before he disappeared inside the broken door.

Everyone gaped at their captain before, although reluctantly, following their captain, trying to ignore the rising fear they felt inside.

---Author's Note---

I know that the story is progressing very slowly, but I think, I THINK!, that the action starts at the next chapter sooo stay tuned, minna-san!

-Carnation