Chapter 3: The investigation after the Murder
!.!Ash's Pov!.!
I woke up the next morning to a vibration, my phone was going off, why would anyone call me. It wasn't like I had any friends who would call me this early in the morning. I opened the phone and there was a voicemail on it from a number I didn't know, but the idea of it being a friend or someone I might have known as I had been told before popped into my head, so I called my voicemail, and waited for it to get to the box. "H...help...Ash...it found m..." the voice was cut short, and all that could be heard was a loud scream and something splattering on the ground. I dropped the phone, the screen going blank. "Um that was wierd..." I pick up the phone putting it in my pocket as I walk out into the living room, where Atsuki was ironing a school uniform, but it wasn't his because he was wearing his. "Well good morning Ash...did you get a good night sleep..." Atsuki had dark circles under his eyes,and he seemed to be exactly like himself, but still there was something he was hiding. "Uh yea...except for a few moments of waking up becuase of some noise outside my window..." I could tell he was hiding something and well I didnt' want to drag it out of him, because well I wanted to know and even if I had to figure it out later. "Well here's your uniform..." He hands me the uniform he was ironing, as he looks it over wondering if it fits me. "Uh thank you...I'll go try it on... "I walk out of the room, turning around looking at him, watching him pull a file folder of the table. The name on the folder, I could only read the first part, and it mentioned a name that was familiar. 'Mitsumi...who is that...' i thought walking into my room trying on my uniform, it felt wierd because I had never worn uniforms before, but if fit none the less. I walked out to see him put the folder away and hand me my book bag. "here ya go it's time to go...we are gonna be late if we take to long..." Atsuki lead me to the door, locking it behind us, I wanted to bring up the phone message but I didn't think that he would believe me. "Okay so what's the..." my voice stopped as we passed by the alley next to our house, there was something there that seemed so familiar, but yet it was so. I walked towards the caution tape, a voice was calling to me. 'Help me Ash..don't let him kill another...' He knew that voice, it was the one from the voicemail, and yet he didnt' know what she wanted him to do. "w..what am I supposed to do..." I spoke out loud not realizing what I was saying, but when Atsuki touched my shoulder, I realized I had walked through the caution tape. "Ash what's going on, what do you see..." Atsuki knew me so well, but I didn't even know him at all, and I was wondering why it felt like he could see right through me. 'I...it's that girl, she says he's going to kill again...but she doesn't know where...he's looking for someone...' he couldn't himself from thinking this, and his mind went back to that voicemail...but he covered his mouth looking up at Atsuki..."Let's go..." I pulled him away from the scene, the smell of the blood still reaching my nose, I just wanted to get to this place they called school.
!.! The school{Atsuki's P.O.V}!.!
'What is he hiding? he must have seen something by the look on his face...I will ask Natsuki and Nola what his power is...' I distance myself from the boy for the most part, and called Nola. "Nola I need to know what Ash's power was, he saw something at that crime scene and he won't tell me..." I knew that she could find out about it, but that would take time. "It will take time for us to find his file and get access to it, but once we get access to it we will let you know until then keep him in your sight." My phone hung up on it's own, it always seemed to do that, it was just the way the fort was, they moved before we could most of the time. "Well come on Ash...we should go to had all his classes with me, so that way nothing could happen with him on his way around, and plus this was foreign place and he didn't know any better about what to do at this school. I was the one who had to babysit him, even if he was older, and he was the one who had to care about things and plus they were together most of the time. "Okay so where is our first class..." I had classes at school that were very fun but I knew that things were going to be bored, and I would be bugged by the shinen during the lessons, or at least that was what I thought, but I wonder if the boy would be able to handle it, it wasn't like he had anything to do here. "Right over here...Ash...you can sit where you want..just find me when this is over..." I went down to sit next to Akira, who was muttering about something and Ash was sitting next to Mika who was writing on a piece of paper that she handed to Ash. The two of them seemed to be passing notes, and I wondered what they were talking about.
!.! Ashur's p.o.v!.!
Mika passed paper to me, she was asking me questions about what had happened last night. 'Well I mean you would know what happened right Ash, it was near your house...' Mika was digging into something she didnt' understand but I guess I couldn't really lie to her but I wasn't going to tell her the full truth that wasn't me. 'Well yea I heard a dog howling around the time they say she died, and well I got some wierd voicemail around that time...' I hadn't even told Atsuki that and I probably shouldnt' have told her that, but she seemed excited by what she had heard. 'we should go with Nami and check out the mansion I mean Nami said she was walking around there and there was someone outside the mansion...' I nodded and crumpled up the paper and put it in my backpack before well Atsuki came over and looked at us. "Well what are you two up to..." he sighed and looked at them sitting down in the middle. "We were talking about hanging out after school is that okay?" I wanted to go with Mika to the scene but I knew that he wouldn't let me, because he was just to overprotective and that was what he wanted to do. "Fine but you do not go near that crime scene got it?" It was as if Atsuki knew what we were talking about. "Yes sir...we won't go near there..." Mika was the one who spoke up, I didn't have to thanks to her. "We are just going to go play some games..." I smiled at Mika trying to get Atsuki to stop leaning all over me and her. "alright but you must be home before dinner okay..." He turned and walked away from us, as we laughed and thought about what we were doing.!.!After school!.!I walked out of the school with Mika, my mind was in many pieces but well I had to deal with was find out what I was going to do and now she was trying to get to close to me. "Um...well Atsuki I will see you at home okay..." I grabbed Mika by the arm and dragged her off leaving Atsuki in our dust. "So where are we going now..." Mika turned towards me, pressing her body against mine. "I just wanted to get you away from him, so I could do this..." She pressed her mouth against mine, a light blush coating my cheeks. When she pulled away all I could say was wow. "You will help me right Ash..I mean Atsuki wouldn't help me..."I didn't know what to say, I knew how dangerous it was going to be, but I couldn't just let her go by herself. "Okay I will help you...now let's go..."I took her hand into mine as we walked to the scene of the crime, which was near my house, but Atsuki wasn't home and no police were here, so we were able to just pass over the tape. "Dont' step in anything Mika we don't want them to know we were here..." I took out a camera and started taking pictures, there was odd shadows around, and there was one in particular, that was drawing attention to him. "Well um okay...let's go..." Mika was looking around when we heard a voice from a certain distance. "Mika let's go..." I grabbed her hand pulling her out of the alley walking with her, as we went to the toy box to play games. We were there for a couple of hours when Atsuki came to pick us up. "Mika it's time you went home...and I have to take him back..his sister is waiting for him..." I looked to Atsuki, he was still hiding something, but I still couldn't say what it was or if I didn't know there was still nothing I could say. "Bye Mika..." I was dragged off and not able to say anything else as I was towed back to the house, where there was the fort members, who seemed to be looking at me like I knew something. "Sit down Ash..we need to talk..."