Well, I'm back, and I've got to say... I LOVE this chapter, especially the last section. Please enjoy.

Ayumu opened his eyes slowly, a bright light that shown in his face making it painful to do so. He blinked several times, trying to remember what had happened to him. There were murmuring voices all around him, and he tried to understand them, but his head was still too muddled. Oh so slowly, everything began to come into focus.

The first thing that he noticed was that his wings were out. The second thing that caught his attention was that he was definitely not in the tennis club locker room with Sora anymore. And finally he realized that the voices all around him were actually those of other positive children, many of whom were swarmed around him, asking him questions with worried looks on their faces.

Atsuko's voice stood out to him above the rest. "Are you alright, Ayumu?" He tried to nod, not daring to try his voice, but it merely made his head spin.

"Take it easy," This time it was Ryan by his side, and he helped Ayumu to sit up. Ayumu looked around the room as his head cleared, taking into accound who was there. Kaito, Shizuka, Kazuki, Ryan, Atsuko, and Bade, fuming in the corner.

('Where...?') Ayumu asked, reaching out with his mind.

"I don't know," Atsuko admitted, "We were taken back these people in black... Honestly, I'm a little surprised your power is working, Ayumu... The rest of ours have been blocked."

"They probably couldn't block it," Shizuka said wisely, "Ayumu's power has been there since birth... The rest of us developed ours as we grew... His is probably deeper embedded."

"Hmm," Atsuko agreed simply, and that was the end of that. They didn't have time for idle chatter; they needed a plan.

"Darn it," Bade said, slamming his fist onto the floor. "Of all freaking people... I knew he was trouble..." Ayumu looked at Bade curiously, but Atsuko just shook her head.

Ryan, however, was not dissuaded at all and made his way over to Bade's side. Bade growled softly, but Ryan ignored it, placing a hand on his twin's shoulder. As only two people extremely close could do, Ryan seemed to be communicating to his brother without words. Ryan's eyes were sad, pleading with Bade not to act like this. They all knew that nothing good could come out of Bade's anger. Even Bade knew it, but he didn't want to admit it.

"Please," Ryan whispered, looking at Bade as if no one else existed in the world.

"... Why did you go, Ryan? Why didn't you tell me...?" Bade asked, his voice was mostly calm now and he sounded almost lost, as if he too had forgotten the other people in the room.

"I didn't know it was Adrian," Ryan said softly, "I was just interested by the note, so I went. And I knew that you wouldn't let me go if I had asked you..."

"But you lowered your guard! Ryan, you know how manipulating he is, and still you..." Bade trailed off, grumbling unhappily.

"But he..." 'Seemed so sincere'. The rest of the sentence went unsaid, and Ryan knew that he couldn't say it, even if he hadn't known that Bade would blow up. But it was true. Adrian had had such a look on his face... And Ryan knew that he must have tampered with the amount of drugs Ryan had been given; he had been fairly clear headed when he awoke, like waking up from a nice nap. Things just didn't add up, especially when he looked at the other kids, a few of whom had quite impressive bumps from how they were knocked out. And then Bade, who had also been knocked out by force, had a much smaller bump than the others. Like he had only been hit hard enough to make him falter, and then had been given such a small amount of drugs that no one had even noticed them.

No, something was definitely going on here. And Ryan needed to figure it out fast. Because nobody knew what was going to happen next.

--

Sora was in a state of absolute rage and panic. Ayumu had had been taken, right from under his very fingers! Suddenly he heard a phone ringing and it brought him out of his self-hating thoughts for just a moment. It was Ayumu's phone, fallen to the floor not four feet away.

Suddenly, Sora remembered Ayumu's family. They needed to know what had happened. He pounced on the phone.

He didn't even have a chance to say anything before Shusuke Tezuka's voice was coming over the line, sounding worried. "Ayumu? Come home, now. There's something really bad happening. Kids are disappearing. Come home right now, alr--"

"Tezuka-san," Sora interrupted. "Ayumu's gone. They... They took him."

"Oh... my God," Shusuke's voice said softly, and then there was a moment of silence.

"Noburo-kun," Kunimitsu Tezuka's voice said, sounding as calm as ever, "Come back to the property, quickly. We have not been able to get through on Atsuko's cellphone, so we must assume that they have her as well. I doubt that they know about your existence yet, but we can't take any chances."

Sora knew that they didn't know, and that they wouldn't come after him, but at the same time, he needed to go back and figure out if the others knew anything. "Yes, Sir, I'll be there soon." He hung up Ayumu's phone and pocketed it, heading out of the locker room.

--

Shusuke bit his lip to keep from crying as Kunimitsu took the phone from him. They had his babies, both of his babies, and a whole handful of the other kids. Kaito, Shizuka, Kazuki, Ryan and Bade... At the very least. Some of the other kids hadn't been reached yet, some of the younger kids who didn't have cellphones were still out and about and not yet accounted for. Every time a new child came in through the doors their parents would look so relieved, Eiji cried in relief every time another of his babies came home safely to him. Still, even as Jasony, Cindy and Chiyo came home, and knowing that Arata and Isamu were sleeping not two rooms away, he was inconsolable when he realized that Kaito was not going to come back through those doors, not yet, because they had him.

Jasony was in a similar state, though it was more frustration, anger and fear that gripped him, knowing that his mate, Atsuko was in the hands of these people, who would steal a baby from it's crib. Or would have, had Gakuto's powers not worked quickly enough. Gakuto was greatly shaken as well, but also angry. Yuushi had a hard time convincing him for a long while to wait and not immediately charge out and extract revenge, as well as save the other children. Yuushi had nearly lost his family today, and he wasn't about to risk it again, if he could help it. It was a pure miracle that the man who had come to take Narumi was not committed enough to attack Gakuto regardless of the shadows.

None of the children from Hyotei, it seemed, had been taken. Probably, they had decided, because Hyotei was, as a private school, a bit more secure than the other schools the kids went. Ren and Ryuu remained closer to each other even then normal, neither ever letting the other more than two feet away. Shusuke could understand their nervousness. The others who had been taken were all right around their age.

And there were no guarantees that this kidnappings were over.

--

Sadaharu Inui was worried for two very important reasons: A) Sora Noburo, who, though the kidnappers didn't yet know it, would be very valuable to them, should they figure out just what type of DNA was infused in him and, more importantly, B) his pregnant lover was out there as well, and still hadn't called to check in. The very idea of that made Inui shake slightly with a barely hidden fear. This wasn't like Kaoru at all... He always called, especially since he had gotten pregnant, because he knew that Inui worried about him when he didn't. Even when there wasn't a catastrophic TPP kidnapping incident going on.

All Inui could think about what that if he was in the kidnappers shoes, and not about to post a ransom (too many of the kids were from normal, middle-class families for that, and it couldn't be a coincidence that they were all positives) he would certainly want to capture a pregnant positive for observation and testing. And Kaoru was the only pregnant positive not already accounted for. Eiji, who he knew had recently discovered he was yet again pregnant, was safely nestled, still crying, in Oishi's arms, Jirou had already had his baby, and Shusuke, who Inui was almost positive was pregnant again, though neither he nor Tezuka had said anything yet, was also pacing around the entry hall. So Kaoru...

Sora came in at that moment, looking slightly winded, and Inui allowed himself to breath one sigh of relief. "Sora," he said, "I'm glad you're alright. If they had got you..."

"They wouldn't want me," Sora said, "They could have taken me, but they didn't."

"They don't know yet," Inui nodded, "But if they did... You would be much more valuable to them than any of the other children..."

"Why?" Sora asked.

"Because of what you are..." Sora's eyes widened a fraction. Was Inui finally going to tell him the sercets of his DNA?

--

Kaoru Inui slowly awoke to a bright light in a seemingly entirely white room. For a moment he was too dizzy to really do anything, and struggled to move. Suddenly, hands were holding him down from all directions and he couldn't move even the slightest bit. Still, this only freaked him out more and he tried to struggle harder. Then he felt a needle in his arm and everything began to go dark. As he fell into unconsciousness, he heard a voice that chilled him to the bone.

"Please do not fret, Kaoru Inui-san, we're not going to hurt you or your baby...

"Not yet, at least."

--

Adrian looked through the one-way mirror at the children and was surprised at how badly some of them had been hurt being brought in here. He had been told that all of them would be lightly drugged, like Bade and Ryan had been. "You said you weren't going to hurt them," he whispered softly, the old man who had originally talked him into this just laughed cruelly.

"And have I broken my word? I haven't laid a finger on a single one of them," The man, whose name was Dougal Smithson.

Adrian turned on him and growled, "And telling others to hurt them is any better?! You told me you wouldn't hurt any of them! You told me that this was just for a few little tests and then you'd let them go. You said that I could be free, and mate with Bade and Ryan!"

"Ah, that is where, I do intend to break my word. You see, Adrian, you're too valuable to me now, I can't imply let you go... And not Bade, or Ryan, or any of the other children either," Smithson had a bit of a crazy look in his eyes, and Adrian struck out at him, his claws extending and catching the over middle-aged man on the cheek, leaving three long and deep gashes. Men moved to restrain Adrian immediately and Smithson, looking outraged, red in the face with anger, covered his bleeding cheek.

"Get him out of here," he roared, "Through him in with the other children!"

Adrian paled. Bade would surely kill him on sight.

He may have been a caracal cat by birth, but at that moment, he felt like a rabbit about to be thrown to the wolves.

So, a few new plot twists... What do you all think? Again, I want to know what you think of Adrian now. What do you think, will Bade just kill him? Is Ryan right about his sincerity?