Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Hostile Takeover ❯ The Search for Aten ( Chapter 37 )

Shadow of Light: He still thinks he runs everything and is the Supreme Ruler like thing.

Isawa16: Oh…I have much more planned. I'm not done yet.

Pharaoh Yamis Princess: They'll find him later. Aria will be pregnant, but I don't want to say who the father is yet. Yup. Aria will be pregnant, but, shall she survive???? *innocent grin*

Amane Bakura: Yami deserves a nice kick. He thinks he still is the Ruler of All type thing. She and Seto had many kids in the past life. Only one boy survived. They won't have children in the present. Seto is completely gay and the thought of touching a woman makes him cringe. Besides, he couldn't think of Aria like that.

Dragondreamer: Yami is an ass, but he's so much fun to write the way he REALLY is in the Japanese version.

Lady Elfskye: Yeah, Yami's more fun to write him this way than the way he is on the show.

ssjgoddesschico: I won't say anything yet.

IYYASHI: I hope you got the B-day card from my wife and I. Seto is NOT the father.

Valea: No! Seto does not get Aria pregnant again! Someone else is the father. Aria was pregnant back in ancient Egypt by Seto.

Malik lover and Bakurasgirl worshipper: Yes, there will be a sequel. I have 4 more stories planned.

bakachibi voidfox: No, Aten does not father a child by Aria. He isn't the father. Aten would never do that to his own sister. He was a victim of incest himself.

joey rules: that story is the prequel to nanny Bakura, written by me. That goes into Marik and Bakura's relationship and how close they were. Yaoi and Het scenes are in there.

The Search For Aten

"You're brother's a powerful guy, Mokuba," Tristan said trying to reassure Mokuba.

Mokuba rubbed his eyes, trying to push back his tears. "I've never been separated from Seto for so long!"

A frantic knock on the door came. "MASTER KAIBA! I NEED TO SPEAK TO YOU!" a woman's voice called in panic.

"Come in, Monique!"

A woman in her thirties ran in shaking and crying. "Master Mokuba! You have to come with me! I found something!"

"What did you find?" Otogi asked quickly.

"Come with me, please!"

Otogi, Tristan, and Mokuba followed Monique to a bedroom. She ran to a bureau and opened it up.

Inside were Aten's clothes covered in blood.

Tristan and Otogi gasped. Mokuba's body trembled.

Otogi reached into the drawer and picked up Aten's Winged Dragon of Ra t-shirt covered in blood on the back. The blood crusted, clinging to the shirt, an eerie testament to Aten's possible fate.

"Oh gods……Aten," Otogi whispered mournfully, tears pooling behind his eyes.

Tristan reached into the drawer and removed the pants. Aten's blue jeans were covered in blood on the back and down the leg. "Oh gods……little man," Tristan whispered as he started to shake.

Mokuba turned to Monique. "Where's Malik?"

"Malik?" Tristan and Otogi asked turning to Mokuba. "Are you saying Malik was here?"

Mokuba nodded. "He was staying here because he said he had no where else to go."

Tristan looked back at the bloody clothes. "These are Aten's clothes, alright. He lost a lot of blood. It would be a miracle if he's still alive!"

Otogi turned to Tristan angrily. "Geeze, Tristan! Do you have to be so pessimistic?"

Mokuba ran to the phone in the room. "If he is here, I have to lock the place down so he can't get out until we find him!" Mokuba called the Security desk and the doors were locked leading to the outside all around KaibaCorp.

Security was ordered to patrol the entire building for Aten. All around KaibaCorp, people opened filing cabinets, looked under desks, looked in desks, searched garbage disposal units in their search for Aten.

When the search failed, Mokuba turned to Tristan.

"What do I do, Tristan?"

Tristan sighed and went to the window. He turned to look at the bloody clothes and closed his eyes.

He tried to silence that little voice inside his head that imitated Aten's screams that would have been heard as he bled. Tristan shook his head as his imagination tried to take over his rationality.

"We have to call the cops. They could bring in a special unit to search. Their dogs could probably track Aten down if he is here."

Mokuba looked down sadly. "If that's what you think I should do, Tristan….."

Tristan shrugged. "I think that's the best thing, Mokuba. We searched all over here. I didn't want to get the cops involved, but we don't have much of a choice now."

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The police arrived with their dogs. They reported to Mokuba in Seto's office.

"We need a description of the child," the captain said.

"Aten is three years old. His skin is medium tan in color. He has white and blond hair. His right eye is brown and his left eye is purple. He's under twenty pounds." Mokuba handed the bloody clothes to the captain. "Here are his clothes."

"The child's full name?"

"Aten Bakari Ishtar," Tristan replied.

"Ethnic Background?"

"Egyptian," Mokuba answered.

"The gender of the child in question is male, correct?"

"Yes," Otogi responded.

"Any prominent scars?"

"He has a scar on the palm of his right hand," Mokuba answered.

The captain wrote down the description. "Was anybody occupying that room?"

Mokuba nodded. "Malik Ishtar was in that room, but now he's gone! We haven't seen him."

"This Malik Ishtar is a key suspect, Mr. Kaiba. My men will also have to find him and bring him in for questioning."

Mokuba nodded.

"Who are the child's parents?"

"The child's mother is Ryou Thomas Bakura. The child's father is Marik Ishtar.

The captain looked up. "We will have to notify the child's parents of what we find."

Otogi stepped forward. "Let us talk to Ryou."

"What is your relation to Ryou Bakura?"

"We're his friends…and we know how to handle Ryou when you tell him this news."

The captain nodded. "Let's see what the search yields.

Ryou Bakura called us about his missing child. The first 48 hours are critical. Most children who are not found after that time are almost impossible to find."

Otogi rolled his eyes. "I'm going to find an optimist in this town even if it is going to kill me! Listen! Aten may not be dead!"

Tristan turned to Otogi and grabbed his lover's shirt. "Look at the clothes, Otogi! What makes you think that he could be alive after this? It looks like he was freaking torn apart!"

Otogi pushed Tristan away. "Look, Tristan! Listen to me! If we go to Ryou and show him these bloody clothes and say, 'Geeze, Ryou, it looks like Aten was torn apart pretty bad' and 'With all the blood Aten shed, he must be dead,' how do you think he's going to react? We have to remain strong for him, man! How would you feel if we found Rhonda like this?"

Tristan shrugged. "Relieved?"

Otogi gripped his black hair in frustration. "WOULD YOU BE SERIOUS FOR ONCE? Ok. Bad example. How about this? How would you react if it was me? What if they found me like that?"

Tristan clenched his fists. "That's not funny!"

"No! It's not! Ryou is not going to take this easy. If Aten is not here, then they have to search the streets. If they do find Aten's body here, Tristan, then…then Ryou is going to need us."

Tristan sighed and nodded. "You're right, Otogi. I just…I don't want to find Aten dead."

Otogi wrapped his arms around Tristan's waist. The tall man wrapped his arms around Otogi's shoulders. "I don't want to find Aten dead, Otogi."

"I know, Tris. I know."

Mokuba wrapped his arms around Otogi's leg. "I don't want anything to happen to Aten! I want my brother

back! If Seto were here, he'd know what to do!"

Otogi pat Mokuba on the head. "Seto will turn up."

Mokuba sighed as the police left to begin their search.

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When no body was found and Malik Ishtar not present in the building, Mokuba allowed security to lift the lockdown status on the building.

"We are going to take these clothes as evidence. A DNA test will confirm that the blood on the clothes does indeed belong to Aten. There may be blood from the perpetrator present on the clothes as well."

Tristan and Otogi nodded. "We'll tell Ryou. When will the test be done?"

"We'll know by tomorrow if the blood on here belongs to Aten Ishtar or if there is a second DNA signature on the clothing. It may point us to the perpetrator."

Tristan turned to Otogi. "Now the hard part: How do we tell Ryou?"

NEXT CHAPPIE: MARIK X RYOU LEMON! And Tristan and Otogi tell the parents about the clothes.

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