Happy Birthday! You're Being Kidnapped

Kotomi tightly clutched her small photo album to her chest. Today was her ninth birthday. Deichi is eleven this year She thought to herself. I haven't seen him in four years... This realization brought tears to her eyes. Kotomi shuffled towards her door, the photo album still locked in her grasp, and reached for the door know. Then, the sound of shattering glass entered the room. A window was broken. Strangers were in the Ackazura's house. Kotomi turned and rushed to he closet. Mr. and Mrs. Ackazura weren't even at home; they were out getting a birthday cake. Huddled in the small closet, Kotomi began to cry. She could hear people rummaging through her room. She prayed her parents would get home soon. Unfortunately, they had left only minutes before.
"Gotcha!" A pair of hands shot into the closet and grabbed Kotomi around the neck.
" 'Ichi!" Kotomi cried out, then stopped as she remembered her was gone.
"Shut y'ur trap!" The man shook her like a rag doll.
"And let go of the stupid book!" He tried to take the photo album from Kotomi, but she fought him. Another man walked into the room, and the first man strangled Kotomi into a half-conscience submission. The new man growled. Kotomi noticed he had a tail, which reminded her of the strange figures from four years earlier.
"Let her keep the book, X." He glared a Kotomi.
"Maybe it will help her stay sane enough for the Master to keep this one." The tailed man turned away and X followed, grumbling. X took a moment to shake Kotomi but was stopped by Tail-Guy.
"We want her alive X!" Kotomi heard Tail-Guy scream through her dull-conciseness before she blacked out.
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Kotomi woke up in the back of a van. She was tied up and gagged with her photo album laying next to her. It was obviously looked through, but was left unharmed. The radio was on some sort of American station when an emergency broadcast took over.
"Nine year old Kotomi Ackazura was found missing toda-" The radio was shut off.
"HEY!" X's voice sounded from the front seat. Tail-Guy must of turned the radio off.
"Kotomi Ackazura...what a pretty little name." Tail-Guy said to himself. The kidnappers didn't know Kotomi was awake.
"The Master will change her name!" X snickered manically. Tail-Guy remained silent. Kotomi could hear her heartbeat as loudly as if it were a bass drum.
"Maybe," Tail-Guy replied.
"But she will be the most fitting slave if my assumptions are correct." Slave?! Kotomi held in a sob. It's my ninth birthday and I am a slave! Kotomi let a silent tear roll to her chin. At least they let her keep the pictures of Deichi.