Disclaimer: don't own it. The only thing that's mine is the plot.
Authoress' Note: another new fic. i know, i'm digging myself a hole i won't be able to get out of. haha. well enjoy anyway! please review!
Get a Clue
Case One
"Higurashi! In my office! Now!"
The raven-haired detective looked up from her paperwork, "Yes chief!" She jumped up from her desk of paperwork and followed the chief into his office. He sat behind his desk and motioned for her to sit. She sat down in front of the desk and watched him sort through the case reports on his desk.
"Um…Chief Kimura?" she asked timidly after five minutes of silence.
The white haired man looked up from his desk. "Hold on Higurashi. I'm looking for something."
"Oh, yes. Sorry" she stuttered out.
Another five minutes later the chief looked up from his desk and handed Kagome a file folder. "This is your assignment. It's a big one so I hope that you're ready for it."
Kagome flipped through the folder and became more and more nervous about the case.
"Serial kidnapper. Most of the victims have turned up dead weeks after disappearing. There are no clear suspects, but he has a very clear pattern. All the victims are female, between twenty one and twenty five years old, black hair and blue eyes. We need to find any bit of evidence that could pin someone with the crime. That's where you come in. you'll be working with a forensic pathologist, a criminal profiler and psychologist, and another detective. I'm going to send you to meet with each of them before you begin your official investigation tomorrow. Here are their cards and office numbers." He handed her three business cards, all with office numbers written on the back of them.
She flipped through the cards, she had never heard of the psychologist or the forensic pathologist…but she did know her partner detective.
"Chief Kimura? I'm partnered with your brother?"
"Half brother. And yes. I couldn't very well assign a case like this to just you. You have the brains it takes to bring a sicko like this down, and Inuyasha has the brawn. You'll just have to learn how to get along with him. I will not reassign him." he said sternly, "Go. I expect you to be here early tomorrow morning with your team to go over the case. Go and meet with them now."
"All right sir. Thank you for entrusting me with a case this big." She said, standing up and leaving the office. She quickly exited the office, closing the door behind her. She returned to her desk with the file she was just given. She looked over the business cards and after putting the file in her briefcase and gathered her things to go meet the members of her new team.
"Okay." She said to herself, "Forensic pathologist, Sango Takai. First floor, Lab Four, office three." She walked to the elevator and rode it from the fifth floor to the first. She hadn't been near the pathology labs for a while so it was difficult to find the room she needed to. After getting lost in lab four, she made her way to office three. She knocked on the door three times before she heard someone answering her.
"Come on in!"
Kagome opened the door and walked into the office. Dr. Sango Takai sat behind her desk typing something on her computer. She looked up from her work and acknowledged she was there before going back to typing.
"Dr. Takai?" she asked uneasily.
"Just Sango is fine. What do you need?" she asked without looking away from her work.
"Hello. I'm Detective Kagome Higurashi. I was just assigned a case by the chief and you are a member of my team. So I wanted to let you know that we will be meeting tomorrow morning in the conference room on the fifth floor at eight am. Is that okay with you?"
"What case is this?" she asked.
"A serial kidnapper and murderer. Were you not sent a copy of the case?"
"No. I haven't. I'll email the chief about it. What time is the meeting?"
"Eight am. Floor five's conference room. So I'll see you there?"
Sango nodded, "Yes, you will."
"It was nice meeting you." She said, even though they never really talked or got to know each other.
"Yeah. Close the door when you leave please" she said coldly.
Kagome turned on her heel and left Sango's office. She walked out of the lab and looked at the next card that belonged to the next member of her team. "Dr. Miroku Kashi. A psychologist and criminal profiler specializing in serial killers. He sounds like a ton of fun" she said to herself sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
"All right. The profilers are on the third floor. And he is in office 306. Time to go all the way back upstairs." She walked back to the elevators and rode up two flights to the profiler's suite of the agency. She walked down the hall until she saw the door marked "306" with a faceplate reading "Miroku Kashi, PhD" on it. She knocked on the door, but heard no response. She could see under the door that the light was on in the office so she knocked again; still no answer. "This is stupid" she said to herself with an exasperated sigh. She knocked once more, half-heartedly before turning to walk away from the door. As she began to walk from the door she heard it opening.
"Hello?" a voice asked.
She turned around to see a handsome man standing in the doorway of office 306. "Are you Dr. Kashi?" she asked.
"Yes I am. Come on in." he held the door open for her to come in and she sat down in the only chair in front of his desk. He closed the door and sat down behind his desk. "What can I help you with?"
"I'm Detective Kagome Higurashi. I was assigned a very important case today by the chief and you are a member of my team."
"Oh yes, Chief Kimura sent me an email about the case. When are we meeting?"
"Tomorrow morning at eight am. The conference room on floor five."
"All right" he scribbled down the appointment in his leather bound planner. "Is that all you needed Detective Higurashi?"
"Kagome is fine. And yes, that is all I needed. I'll see you tomorrow morning Dr. Kashi." She said standing and extending her hand to him.
"You can call me Miroku" he said with a smile, shaking her hand. "I look forward to working with you."
Kagome nodded and left the office, closing the door behind her.
"Two down, one to go. And those two were easy compared to this" she said to herself as she got back into the elevator to ride to the fifth floor. She knew that Inuyasha Kimura already knew about the case because his brother was the chief. But never the less, she knew that she needed to tell him about the meeting and she was not looking forward to working with him. She had heard nothing but bad things about Inuyasha. She knew that he was a good detective; otherwise he wouldn't be working at the top detective agency in the country. But she knew that he was stubborn, harsh and hard to work with. "I guess I'll just have to suck it up and deal with it. There must be a reason why the chief paired us together."
She walked past her own office to Inuyasha's, three doors down. She knocked hesitantly on his door and heard him invite her in.
"What do you want?" he asked when he saw that it was her.
"I just wanted to tell you that we're meeting tomorrow morning at eight in the conference room at the end of the hall. Please be there on time." She said shortly before turning on her heel and leaving the office before he could give her a smartass remark.
She closed the door behind her and walked down the hall and back to the elevator one last time and rode down to the ground floor. She walked out of the front doors of the agency and into the parking garage. She found her silver BMW easily and climbed in, starting it and driving away.
She pulled into the driveway of the small home she shared with her sister. Her sister had gone to visit their parents for two weeks and was supposed to have been home at one o'clock that afternoon; but her car wasn't in the highway. Kikyo…where are you? You couldn't have been delayed for eight hours. She thought.
As she was walking from her car up the walkway to the front door, her phone began to ring. She dug through her purse and pulled out her phone to find that it wasn't ringing. "It must be the work line" she said to herself and dove back into her purse to find her work cell phone. She took it out of her purse along with her keys. She stuck her house key in the lock as she opened the phone and put it to her ear.
"Higurashi." She answered, pushing the front door open.
"Higurashi? This is Chief Kimura."
Kagome closed the door behind her and threw her briefcase and purse on the couch and put her keys on the table by the door. "Yes chief? What is it?"
"There's been a new development in the case. Another body was found, it follows the pattern that the past murders have, it has to be our man."
"Oh. Well, can it wait until tomorrow morning's meeting at 8 before we start going over the newest murder?" she asked, she had never been on a case this big before, but she had assumed that new information comes in the morning and not to the detectives at their homes.
"Kagome, normally this would be information given in your team's brief tomorrow morning. But there's a reason why I am calling you now."
Kagome was confused, she had been in this business for a while, but she still wasn't able to decipher what the chief was saying. "Okay…what is it?"
"Higurashi. The victim who was found…was your sister."
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Authoress' Note: okay, another new fic, not very smart, but I really hope you all enjoy it. Please review to let me know that this is worth writing!