I had no idea how much time had passed, but my knees were numb, my body was shaking, I was breathing raggedly, and sweat was pouring down my skin, I felt dizzy and sick to my stomach but I forced myself to keep going, I looked to the side and Miu was still asleep, I looked the other way to see Daiki and the other student's watching me with anger in their eyes, I made an attempt at a smile but it turned into a grimace, my body shifted on it's own and I almost fell but I pulled myself back and bit into my lip.

I heard someone from the group stand up and looked to see Daiki staring down the men the main man walked over to him "You got something to say shrimp?"

"That's enough, you've had him that way for more than five hours, his body is fatigued he'll collapse soon and if he isn't treated he would most likely die, I have no idea of your motives but I'm sure getting killed is not one of them." Daiki looked so angry and his voice commanded respect as he spoke, I've never seen him so determined to do something.

The man just watched him for a few minutes before nodding "you're right, I should try to keep my losses to a minimum, don't worry I'll let him rest now, so sit down, now." Daiki sat down and the man gave him one last look before turning on his heels and heading over to me, I looked at him as he stooped down to look me in my face, he gripped my jaw and looked me in my eyes "I just wanted to see how long you could last, you exceeded my expectations, kneeling here for nearly eight hours and I was going to let you rest in five minutes, that was going to be in five minutes at the start of another hour, but because your friend has a bi mouth I'm going to make you suffer for the next five minutes until the time is at it's end, you have your friend to blame for what is about to happen to you."

My eyes widened as he placed his hand on my heart and all I felt was pain, sheer pain, that had me screaming like I was being butchered, I felt as if my flesh was being ripped from my bones, my bones were breaking and being crumbled to nothing, my nerves shocked me and I felt that I could collapse any second but I didn't, I prayed that I would black out but it never happened, I stayed conscious and well aware of every second of pain, I didn't even realize he had moved his hand away but all I felt was pain and all I could do was scream until my voice gave out and then all I could do was whimper as the pain started to subside and the man released my face letting me drop to the floor, where I just laid there with spasms going through my body.

"Now you look all of you, the next time one of you decides to tell me what to do and how I should survive this, I'll make that boy scream ten times worse than he just did, so shut up and don't try to play hero." I could see a look of horror on all the students faces and then I heard crying and it took everything for me to glance the other way, my screams had awaken Miu, she looked distraught as she cried and cried without stopping, she moved to try and get to me, only for the man to pick her up and walk across the room stepping over me, he placed her down next to the rest of them "Now I decided that hurting the young lady was too much, so now if any of you miss behave and think that you have a say in anything going on here then he will pay the consequences, so shut it."

I watched him as he made his way across the room to his men that were just continuing with what they were doing as if nothing that just happened bothered them, I watched as he walked back over to me and knelled down by my side, I was just preparing for what he would do next, he grabbed my arm and I flinched, he took out a knife and used it to cut the sleeve of both my uniform jacket and shirt, he ripped it off completely, he squeezed my arm and I whimpered trying to pull away, only to panic more when he suddenly shoved a needle in my arm, I felt nothing at first but then it was as if my body was lit on fire, I wanted to scream but all hat came out was a horrible screeching sound, my back arched and I found myself kicking and trying to pull away, he let me go and just stared at me until the heat went away and I just laid there panting.

I watched as he gripped my jacket and just ripped it open, he used his knife to rip the rest of the jacket off of me, when he was finished he loosed out my belt buckle and pulled my shirt from my pants and then got up and moved away from me, I laid there feeling numb and oddly well rested but I couldn't find it in me to move, the whole room became quiet but I knew everyone was watching at me, I felt pathetic, I couldn't turn towards them and try to bare a smile so instead I turned my back on them and remained silent, there was nothing to say.

Time passed and I could hear the men speaking over the phone, making their demands, from what I heard the entire school had been cleared out, we were all that remained, of course our parents had been notified and that made it easier for them to get what they wanted, from what I could tell part of it was them trying to get some persons released from prison, maybe it was their family members, that made me think of my mom, maybe she was at my father's home bombarding him to do something to get me out, maybe soon it would all be over and I would get to go home to my mother, she would hold me and sing me to sleep.

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More time passed and I could hear them making demand after demand, they were getting everything they wanted, their list couldn't be that long and maybe in an hour or two everyone would be able to go back to their parents, Miu's mother must have been preparing a bath for her, one filled with senses that would wash her pain away, I smiled or at least I thought I did, everything was going to work out fine, is what I kept telling myself.

I heard one of the men move suddenly and they all begun to speak loudly, the main man laughed "so that's why it's so easy to get what we want, I thought that girl was the most high ranked person in this room, but it turns out that one of the great hidden princes of our country is in this class right now, I wonder who It could be?" I watched as they walked over to the teacher who had been sitting there for the longest while with a blank look on her face, the main man pulled her up in the air like it was nothing "which one is it, tell me and you'll be the first person we send out of the room when we leave."

The teacher spat in his face "I would die before I tell you anything you shit eating scum!" she gritted her teeth and continued to stare at him with hate in her eyes.

"I admire you, this whole time you've done nothing but fight us only stopping when one of their lives were at stake, you would make a great mother if you ever have children, so I'll give you the chance but I can't say the same for them." he threw her against the board but she refused to cry out, just slid down to the floor and continued to stare at them with a heated stare. He moved across the room to the other students and I heard them as they tried to scramble away while screaming and making other sounds of panic, I tried my best to move my body and was able to sit up facing in their direction, I watched as he pulled up a girl from the class and held her high pulling out his gun he said nothing as he shot her in her arm and caused an eruption of screams.

He moved the gun to her leg "The prince whoever you are you have till the count of five to reveal yourself or this girl is going to be crippled for the rest of her life and it would be your fault, one, two, three." he counted as he looked around the group and continued counting in a slower pace "two..." before I knew it IO had shot up to my feet.

"Stop!" he turned and looked at me with his brow arched I could feel my body shaking as I found myself speaking quieter "it's me, I'm the prince you're looking for just don't hurt her any longer, please stop the bleeding." the man shook his head and moved to pull the trigger "wait what are you doing?!"

The man looked back at me "I don't believe you, maybe if you had someone confirm it then I would be happy to help keep her alive."

I looked at the teacher "Tell him!" she looked at me and shook her head "Tell him or that girl dies and it would be your fault!" she shut her eyes.

Her head nodded and she looked at him "That's Prince Kiyoshi Arai, third Prince of the kingdom, son of King Arai and Lady Arai the king's third wife!"

"Hmm, I need something a bit more solid." I looked at him with wide eyes and then back at the teacher who had tears running down her face.

"My pocket has the key for my hidden draw that's under my desk, in their holds a file containing, all the information you would need about him, all carrying the signature of the king." mmm the man signaled to one of the other men to go ahead and do it, the person pulled the keys from her pocket and went under the desk, I heard a click and then they came forward with a file and handed it over to the main man who passed the girl to him as he went through the file.

I watched a wicked smile spread across his face "so you speak the truth." he looked at the man "patch the girl up and make preparations for us to leave, our list has been cleared and now we have the leverage we wanted on them." he walked over to me and held my face "that was brave, very prince like, but it was stupid, your country would have been ten times safer if you had just allowed her to die, but now that we have you, no one's safe, I'll make ure to send your father a present as a show of thanks for putting you in this school."

He walked past me and over to the table that had the phone that they were using to communicate to the outside with, he turned and faced me as he pressed a button and someones voice came through asking for the rest of his demands to which he responded with a chuckle "I have no further demands, I just want you to pass on a message to King Arai, let him know we found his son, Kiyoshi Arai I think his name was, tell him to take the tracers off of my people and the other packages let them go in peace, don't try to retake them after I leave the school because the prince will be coming with us, if you try to stop us as we leave all you'll find is his dead body, no we'll be taking our leave."

He hung up the phone and dropped it to the ground stepping on it, he walked over to me and grabbed my arm, I felt a sharp pain and then everything around me went black as I slipped into unconsciousness.