HELLO ONCE AGAIN MY DEAR READERS~! Sorry for the REALLY REALLY late update because I was preparing my stuff for school and because of school. Yep, this is hell of a happy 2013. Talk about the big exam I'm gonna have on October... But anyway, this is the third chapter of Sherlock Haruna: Text Message out of the Darkness!
Kidou: -penguin plushie still in his mouth-ASDFGHJKL!
Guess what? I've decided to put Kidou-kun in the story!
IE Cast: EHHHHH?!
Kidou: -spits out the penguin plushie- Excuse me?
That's right~ Since many readers were expecting Kidou-kun in this fic, I've decided to put him in. But, he'll be a minor character, which means he won't appear in some of the chapters.
Kidou: That's good enough, as long as I'm with Haruna.
Kidou-kun...You really are a siscon.
Kidou: I'M NOT!
I don't own Inazuma Eleven or Level-5. All Level-5 property belongs to Akihiro Hino-sama! I only own the plot and my OCs desu! Plus, there's a song I want to put here from now till the end. It's called "Sherlock" by K-Pop group SHINee. Don't get me wrong, that song totally fits with the story! Enjoy~
Summary of story, [Sherlock Haruna: Text Message from the Darkness]:
This is the story of how Haruna solved her first mystery before becoming a detective. It all started with a certain tragic accident at school. The Head of the Newspaper Club was nearly killed because she was pushed down from the third floor of the school! Someone had been posting loads of untrue stuff about her online lately and black mailing her. Haruna wants to help the victim and catch the culprit so, she got involved with the case. Find out what happens next! Can she solve this complicated case?!
CHAPTER 3: Sherlock Time!
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Instinctively, it all stopped! I'm sure you know it.
The real key to seeing through a brand new trick
Shall we start a mystery?
Attracting Sherlock's attention, and he chases after it. Oh~
The next day, Saturday, the detective crew met up in front of the school gates, each having their own things to brush out evidence. Haruna received text messages from both Tachimukai and Kogure, saying that they were on their way to Raimon. Haruna's heart skipped a beat. A real case at last! She had always wanted to solve a mystery one day but she didn't expect the 'one day' to come so soon. As the detective crew waited for the other two, Haruna made a report on the victim and incident:
Name: Miharu Kaori
Age: 14
Occupation: Student of Raimon Junior High
Status in school: Newspaper Club Head, Class monitor of Class 2-B
Location of Crime: Raimon Junior High, ground floor
Problem: Unidentified
Evidence: None
Summary of Incident: Miharu Kaori was pushed down from the third floor of Raimon Junior High's building at around 7.10-7.15 in the morning on Friday. Had badly injured head, arms and leg from the fall and there were also 1cm-3cm deep cuts on both her limbs. Currently treated at Inazuma General Hospital and in a temporary coma.
Haruna kept the report safely in her file. Her thoughts were going round and round her head. Why would someone push Kaori down? Was it because Kaori is a well-liked model student? Or was it that someone was jealous of her status in the Newspaper Club? Nevertheless, Haruna was keen to find out who attacked her and give the wretched culprit a piece of her mind.
The bluenette then turned her mind to other things. She had decided that the crew needed someone to visit the hospital just in case Kaori wakes up from her coma as she could get some answers from her if she did. So, Haruna contacted her brother, Kidou Yuuto, who in turn, wholeheartedly agreed to take up the minor job. As her active mind drifted off to other things, she kept wondering what was taking the other two members of the crew so long to get to Raimon. It had already been half an hour since she and the crew waited impatiently at the gates.
"MINNA!"
Haruna and the others turned to the sudden shout. As expected, it was Tachimukai and Kogure, in their best 'detective clothes' and carrying their sling bags. Haruna giggled a little and ran to greet them. "You're just in time, Tachimukai-kun, Kogure-kun." she said, with a relieved tone in her voice. "What took you both so long? I was worried something happened to you two!" The two laughed nervously.
"We're really sorry, the bus broke down on the way out of Kyoto." Tachimukai apologized and explained sheepishly, sweatdropping as he did. "So we got out and called a taxi to take us to the train station to get to Tokyo." Kogure rolled his eyes at Tachimukai. "Whose idea was that to take the slow coach bus while I suggested the train?"
"Actually, it was you who suggested the bus while I suggested we took the train. Plus, you were the one who bought those bus tickets earlier..."
"EH?! …."
"...Remind me not to let you buy tickets when we go home at the end of the month. Who knows if you run off to buy bus tickets again and prank the people on the bus."
"H-HEY! I'm sorry okay?!"
Haruna and the others sweatdropped at the two. "ENOUGH! We've wasted enough time already! Before we start, we'll split into groups of two." she said in a very Sherlock tone, getting everyone's attention. "Megane-san with Kabeyama-kun, Tachimukai-kun with Kogure-kun and I'll go with Tsukushi-san. Search anywhere near or at the crime scenes for evidence! We'll gather at my place to check it out in two hour's time. We'll solve this case no matter what and find out what's up with Kaori. Now minna, move, move, MOVE!"
"HAI SHERLOCK!" was everyone's reply before splitting up into groups of two.
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It's true - you won't overlook even the smallest hint.
You're after it right? The treasure in my mind.
It's true- I can't stop those uneasy eyes.
Don't hide them, try showing them properly?FREEZE!
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Team A: Megane and Kabeyama
Location: The school grounds. (the exact spot where the victim fell)
Armed with Megane's useful gadgets and gizmos, the two searched the place. The bloodstains were still there, all dried up. Megane used his pair of strong metal tweezers to take a sample of of bloodstained dirt and carefully placed it into a clean sanitized test tube before closing it tightly and carefully putting it into his evidence suitcase.
Kabeyama looked in the bushes at the place with one of Megane's magnifying glasses. Everything looked so big when he looked though it. Kabeyama wondered if how it would be like if he saw food through it. As he walked as he searched, he spotted something shining on the ground. Using his glove-covered hands to pick it up, Kabeyama saw that it was a long and sharp piece of glass stained with dirt and blood. He then carefully passed Megane a blood sample out of it, using a cotton bud and carefully placed the object into an evidence bag in search for fingerprints or other suspicious particles.
"Ne, Megane-san. I wonder how did this happen?" Kabeyama wondered out loud as he looked around for anything else suspicious.
"Hmm...Miharu looked and acted a bit weird before all that happened but then, since I'm not in her class and I don't know her very well, I don't really know." came the reply. "And don't scratch or break the magnifying glass, Kabeyama-kun. The whole set of them costed me a fortune!"
"H-Hai..."
Team B: Tachimukai and Kogure
Location: The school grounds. (not far from the exact spot where the victim fell)
Using their own gadgets, Tachimukai and Kogure searched the place not very far off from Kabeyama and Megane for clues. They understood Haruna's mixed feelings about the incident and admired her determination to catch the criminal. They had some sense knocked into their heads by Haruna some time back and they were willing to pay her back by helping her with the mystery.
Tachimukai, armed with a pair of long stainless steel tweezers and an evidence bag, went about to take a look at the drops of dried blood on the ground. He was quite surprised and rather shocked at the whole thing. He had never expected the case to be like this.
"Woah." he thought. "The victim sure did lose a lot of blood... I wonder if she survived the fall? Being pushed down or falling from the third floor is brutal enough...lots of people died committing suicide doing so. Who on earth had the guts to push her down and why? I'll do my part to find out for the victim...for Haruna!"
As he looked on, something suddenly caught his attention. He bent down and found a light blue broken-off bit, which looked like it came off from a cellphone. Tachimukai looked at it for a while before using his tweezers to pick it up and put it into his evidence bag.
"Hey Tachimukai! Look what I've found!"
Tachimukai turned to the other boy. Kogure grinned as he held up a light blue cellphone with his gloved hand. The cellphone was in a good condition, except for a bit that was missing from the head. Tachimukai looked at the bit he had in his evidence bag.
"Could it be...? This bit came from that particular cellphone? They are of the same color...I can't be sure whether the pieces fit together..."
Tachimukai stared at the bit some more. After some time, realization struck him but, he said nothing. He really needed to be sure. Kogure looked at Tachimukai with a mischievous grin and laughed his signature laugh. He decided to have a bit of fun with him.
"Ushishishishi~ What are you thinking of, Tachimukai~? Or rather, who are you thinking about? Oh wait, I know! H...A...R...U...N-"
Tachimukai blushed a few shades of pink. "S-Shut up already, Kogure!"
"Ushishishishi~"
Team C: Haruna and Tsukushi
Location: Third floor of Raimon Junior High
Haruna and Tsukushi walked along the dark corridor of the third floor, armed with their own gadgets and a torchlight each. The third floor looked the most scary and eerie compared to the other floors when it is dark. But that didn't stop the Sherlock and her trusty assistant from finding out the truth, no matter how dark and how scary. Her determination got the better of her, once she had decided what to do, she'll never go back on her word! Furthermore, she even swore that she will deal with Kaori's "murderer" the hard way.
As they walked, Haruna turned to Tsukushi. "Ne, Tsukushi-san. Since you're in the same class as Miharu-san, could you tell me what happened to Miharu-san before all this came through?"
Tsukushi thought for a while, tapping her chin. Then, she remembered.
"Well, last week, Wednesday, when Kaori-chan entered the class, I noticed her eyes were all red and puffy. It's obvious that she was crying over something and I also thought I heard her muttering "It's not true!" over and over. Later on, I heard from one of my girlfriends that someone had been posting untrue stuff about her or something like that. I can't be so sure..."
Haruna stared at Tsukushi in utmost shock. "Some idiot even posted untrue stuff about her!" the bluenette thought. "How cruel...how despicable! Imagine the embarrassment Miharu-san must have felt! That person must be a mental patient who had just escaped from the mental hospital! This is really too much!"
Then, she turned to her torchlight with a serious face. "We'll find out soon.." she said. "We'll find out soon enough, Tsukushi-san."
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Until the truth comes to light,
After that are the unchangeable rules.
Black or White
The sparks fly, countless times.
Oh I'm Curious yeah
I've searched for so long, just for you
Oh I'm so Curious Yeah
I'm so Curious YeahAs the two girls walked on, they kept silent. Everything happened so fast. So many possibilities, so little time. They have to done with this mystery fast before the culprit hurts another person.
Suddenly, Haruna stepped on something that sounded like glass. She lifted her foot and saw that it really was glass! Haruna looked forward and saw that they had already came across the windows of the floor. One of them, as expected, was broken. Haruna turned to Tsukushi, who nodded in return. They switched off their torchlights and went to the particular window.
Haruna came first to the window. Yes, there were shards of glass, gleaming at the ray of sunlight passing through the window. The bluenette took out a bottle of dark brown power and a brush. She poured some of the powder on the frame and brushed it away carefully. Sure enough, there were some fingerprints on it. Tsukushi went forward and took some pictures of it.
Haruna saw a piece of cloth that hung on a piece of glass, stained in blood. She took a look at it before puttin it into the evidence bag. Now that they had the evidence covered, answers still need to be found.
-End of Chapter 3: Sherlock Time!-
FINALLY! This must be the longest chapter I've ever wrote! Or rather...type. -sweatdrops-
Kidou: At least you gave me a minor job on this one.
Yes. And I'm glad you're thankful. Anyway~ SORRY ONCE AGAIN FOR THE LATE UPDATE! SCHOOL DOESN'T ONLY GET IN THE WAY OF ANIME BUT IT GETS INTO THE WAY OF FANFICTION TOO! HARUNA-CHAN! I leave the rest to you... -goes to the emo corner to sulk-
Haruna: -sweatdrops- Creator-sama's in a slightly bad mood because of the lack of summary entries for the summary contest "To the Beautiful You". So, please send in some entries before Creator-sama brawls at us. It really is hell. Anticipate the next chapter! Bye bye~