NOTE: I've decided to keep the title, Love Isn't Logical. I like it very much. But who cares, because Kiyomi Takada is dead!! (does jig) In case you don't watch Death Note, it's a show about a guy who finds a notebook called "The Death Note" and if you write someone's name in it, they'll die. The main guy's name is Light, and he's a total douche bag. There's this guy after him named L, who is my favorite, but eventually gets killed by Light, which sends the series into five years later where Light rules the world. There's this girl that I hate on there named Kiyomi Takada, who I hate. Light has this girlfriend named Misa, who reminds me over myself, and Light, who reminds me of my old boyfriend, cheats on Misa with Kiyomi, who reminds me of my old boyfriend's current girlfriend. But he didn't really love Kiyomi, he was just using her. XD So Mello (a guy with great hair that stupid Kiyomi kills) kidnaps Kiyomi and locks her in the back of the truck and Light sets the truck on fire and she dies!! XD I was laughing hysterically the whole time it was going on. XD
Ayumu was sitting by the window again he held his head propped up by his elbow which was placed on the windowsill. Just thinking. Nothing more. Hiyono was watching him with a worried expression on her face. No doubt he was thinking about the man who shot Ryoko. He wouldn't rest until he solved this mystery just like all the others. Hiyono learned a long time ago to keep games and books in the newspaper room for instances like these. She pulled out her GameBoy and engrossed herself in a game of Pokemon.
"Hiyono?" Startled, she looked up. Ayumu had only recently started calling her by her name instead of "idiot girl" and she was still getting used to it. Besides that, he never ever spoke to her while he was thinking unless she said something to him. It was just unnatural.
"Yeah, Ayumu?" He turned from the window to face Hiyono. "Who do you think shot Ryoko?" Hiyono tapped her finger on her chin.
"Well, with everything that's gone on around here in the past year, I would have to say a Hunter." Ayumu smiled and looked downcast.
"Yeah, that's what I thought at first, too. But the Hunters are usually crafty and set up a bunch of traps to capture the Blade Children. Like the time you and Rio were kidnapped," Ayumu pointed out. Hiyono remembered. That was the single most frightening time of her life, though she tried hard not to show it. Not then, not now.
"Anyway, so I was thinking that since Ryoko didn't run away or try to get Kousuke or Rio's help, since she's against killing people head on, she most likely knew the culprit, which narrows down our suspect list by a lot." Hiyono frowned.
"Yeah, but there's only one problem with your theory." Ayumu did too.
"I know. Ryoko's in the hospital and in critical condition. There's no way we can talk to her. Kousuke and the others were probably able to sneak in and see her, but I doubt we will." Hiyono jumped up.
"I've got an idea!" she said with a large smile. "Why don't we just go ask the Blade Children if she said anything that might be helpful to us?" Ayumu cocked his head and looked at her as if she had just grown wings and were flying around the room.
"Are you nuts, Idiot Girl? Those Blade Children are nothing but trouble. If we go ask them for help, then they'll probably want us to do some sort of sick favor for them, and before you know it, we're involved with my sister and the police all over again. We just got out of all that trouble with that Kanone business; do you really want to go start something?" Hiyono sat back down in her chair and crossed her arms.
"Do you have any better ideas? If we wait until Ryoko is moved to a regular room and is allowed visitors, she may end up like Sonobe. The person who shot her may come back after her."
"Ah, but you forget the person who killed Sonobe was none other than Kousuke, who will never ever harm Ryoko. The guy who shot her may be different." But Ayumu knew this wasn't true. It was common knowledge that most criminals never left a job unfinished. Just as he had that thought, a rock flew through the newspaper room window. Ayumu turned his head to see who had thrown it, but he saw no one.
"That's impossible! This room is on the second story! Someone would have to get very close to get it through here, and no one is fast enough to be gone in the short moments it took me to turn my head!" Ayumu thought to himself. Hiyono picked up the rock.
"Hey, there's a note!" She untied the piece of paper from the rock and read it out loud. "Stop this investigation, or there will be extreme consequences." Ayumu waved his hand.
"Please, like I haven't heard that one before. I survived a game against a crazy little girl and her partner with a bomb around my neck, I think I can handle this," Ayumu said, as he reminisced about the time Hiyono saved him from certain death in a life or death game against Rio and Kousuke. They exchanged a look.
"You know, maybe we'd better have a chat with Rio and Kousuke," Ayumu decided. The two stood up and walked out of the newspaper room. They found the two Blade Children talking in hushed tones in the school courtyard. Kousuke glared at them when he saw them.
"Little Narumi, Hiyoko," he said.
"URGH, FOR THE LAST TIME, IT'S HIYONO!!" Hiyono rolled up her sleeves and prepared to sock him with one of her infamous "Hiyono Punches", but stopped when Ayumu briefly touched her arm. He took a step forward.
"We figured that the two of you snuck into the hospital to see Ryoko. Are we correct?" The two Blade Children exchanged a glance. Rio gave him a challenging look.
"Maybe. Why do you want to know?" Rio already knew the answer. She knew what Ayumu was thinking sometimes even before he did himself. Ayumu half smiled.
"Well that answer pretty much tells me that you did," he said. "But seriously, if we're going to catch whoever did this to her, then you two need to tell me if she said anything to you or not." Kousuke got a violent look to him and got inches away from Ayumu's face.
"No, Ryoko didn't say anything! She's out cold wasting away in that damn hospital! She can't say anything! Go take your little girlfriend and go poke your nose in someone else's business!" Rio wore a worried expression on her face as she took Kousuke's arm and pulled him back.
"Little Narumi, Kousuke doesn't know anything. He was gone for most of the time we, Eyes included, were there. After a while, Eyes went to look for him, and I stayed with Ryoko." This was news to Kousuke. He looked at his partner in disbelief. Rio closed her eyes and clenched her fists as she shook from the memory.
"Ryoko's eyes began to flutter, and they opened a bit. She looked at me and said my name, so I knew she was aware of her surroundings. I asked her if she knew who shot her, and she said…" Rio shook her head. Ayumu knelt down on one knee so he was face to face with her.
"Come on, you gotta tell me what Ryoko said." Rio continued.
"It didn't make any sense. All she said was, 'J-J-X-N-S-B-J-B-M-B-Q-V-L-J'." Ayumu looked back to see if Hiyono was writing everything down. She was.
"What happened after that?"
"She started screaming," Kousuke said, the color drained from his face. Rio turned serious and fierce again and nodded.
"That's right. Eyes had just come back, and Ryoko started screaming like a banshee, so we hit the nurse call button and left as quickly as we could without being spotted." Ayumu stood back up.
"Thanks for sharing that with us." He and Hiyono left. When they arrived back at the newspaper room, Hiyono sat down at the computer.
"I'll have this code cracked if I have to stay here 'til morning!" she said and began typing away ferociously. Ayumu thanked her, settled down in a chair and took a nap.
