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Chapter 3 – Disproving the Belief of Truth
Location: Domino Japan, Kaiba Corporation, CEO's Office
Mai sighed Téa was continuing to pace muttering colourful phrases about the Detective's working the Rebecca Hawkins murder case under her breath, both in English and in Japanese. Seto was somewhere in the building scaring the living daylights out of his lawyers trying to get them to develop some laws to get Yugi out of jail, Yami Bakura was out taking care of some, 'Things' Mai didn't think she wanted to know what that meant, Ryou was currently sitting in a chair in Seto's office reading a book while Mai sat behind Seto's desk and Téa continued to pace.
Mai sighed and smiled looking at the only picture on Seto's desk, a picture of Seto Mokuba and herself, Mai guessed she meant something to Seto seeing as how their was nothing else on the desk but work. It was hard to tell if Seto ever felt anything for Mai sometimes he not being the most expressive person when it came to feelings, but Mai knew how he felt but it took a lot of coaxing on Yugi's part to get Seto to even ask Mai out on their first date, Yugi if nothing else had a look of indescribable relief on his face when Seto finally did ask her out apparently according to Seto he'd been working hard trying to convince Seto to ask her out for, about five months.
Kaiba entered the office and immediately a vein popped out in his head he hated when anyone sat in his chair but him, Mai grinned and continued to sit there making herself comfortable, Kaiba decided to remain standing.
"My lawyers managed to get something for us to go on." He stated opening up the folder he was holding.
"How much is it?" Téa asked finally stopping her pacing both Ryou and Mai emitted loud sighs of relief as she did.
"Not much, just some witness statements." Kaiba explained pausing seeing something on the document.
"What is it Seto?" Mai asked standing up.
"Some of the names on this witness list." Kaiba growled handing the file to Mai.
"Maybe Seto and I should go, alone." Mai said placing an emphasis on the 'alone' part of the sentence.
"Why Mai it can't be that bad?" Téa said taking the folder out of Mai's hands while Ryou looked over her shoulder, a long list of people were named on the document of person's interviewed several names jumped out at Téa, Arthur Hawkins Rebecca's Grandfather and Duke Devlin an old acquaintance of the group and apparently Rebecca's boyfriend.
Téa stopped at several names, Yami Motou, Solomon Motou, Serenity Wheeler, Joey Wheeler and Tristan Taylor. Téa's look hardened she hated all of them, what they did, what they called Yugi, Téa had never forgiven Yami or Solomon they were supposed to be Yugi's family and they had treated him worse than an animal for months, and the worst part of it all, Téa had been complicit in it all, Yugi told her that he didn't blame her, but Téa blamed herself, she could have gotten him out of their sooner, then he wouldn't have almost died in her arms, Téa didn't think she'd ever be able to forgive herself what she did, or more to the point didn't do.
Téa shook her head, "No Mai I was going to have to face them one of these days I might as well do it helping Yugi." She said making up her mind.
Mai nodded looking at Kaiba to gage his opinion, "We should wait for Bakura to get back." He said as Ryou nodded in agreement.
"No telling what's become of them since we last saw them, it could be dangerous." Ryou said in agreement as Kaiba retrieved something from his desk placing it in his white trench coat putting it on.
"What are we waiting for mortals lets go?" Yami Bakura said now standing at the door to the office.
"Where have you been?" Téa asked slipping on her blue jacket, Téa's look had changed over the last two years she now wore the same colours as Yugi, a blue jacket identical to his a black strapless top and a black skirt with a neck buckle and two belts hanging off her hips one with a small deck box containing the deck of Duel Monsters cards that Yugi helped her put together.
"That's not your concern mortal, lets just say I've been doing some 'investigating' of my own." Bakura said smirking.
"As long as you didn't kill anyone." Ryou scolded him.
Bakura smirked again, "No promises Hikari." He said stroking his Uzi fondly looking at it as if it were a child.
"Why did I get stuck with the baka insane Yami." Ryou grumbled quietly.
"I heard that Hikari." Yami Bakura said walking beside him, placing Ryou in a headlock as the group headed to the limo waiting for them ready to confront the past.
Location: Domino Japan, Domino Police Headquarters
Detective Sara Ryan carefully carried coffee from the coffee machine over to her desk, happy for once that she and her partner had been able to close a case so quickly, Ryan found her partner sitting at his desk staring into space absently taping the desk with his fingers which was never a good sign it meant he was having a fit of genius, that's what she called it, once he broke out of it he'd usually solve the case he was working on, which was strange since they weren't working on a case right now, Nick snapped out of his fit of genius looking Ryan directly in the eye now.
"What's bothering you?" Ryan asked.
Calstrom tapped on the folder closed on his desk, it was the Hawkins murder case.
"Nick we solved that case, its air tight DNA places Yugi Motou at the scene of the crime at the body." Ryan said.
"I know there's just something bothering me he had an alibi for the night of the crime." He said looking away.
"Maybe but alibis can be faked." Ryan countered.
"The answers were fluid no hesitation in his response." Calstrom argued.
"Maybe he's just a good liar." Ryan argued.
"No, not this kid." Calstrom said.
"How do you know?" Ryan asked.
"I could see it in his eyes, this kid hasn't lied in his life, who ever killed this girl had a lot of pent up rage and just a lot of rage period, and I just didn't see it in this kid." Calstrom said.
"Nick eyes lie all the time." Ryan retorted.
"You don't believe me?" Calstrom asked.
"Honestly no I don't, HEY where are you going?" Ryan said as Calstrom got up putting his jacket on.
"Out I'll be back in a while." He said.
"I'll come with you." Ryan groaned getting up.
"I thought you thought I was insane?" Calstrom said.
"No more insane than the time you had that theory about that serial killer back in Adelaide." Ryan sighed.
Calstrom smiled, "If you really want to help stay here and cover for me." He asked Ryan nodded and sat back down.
"Good luck." Ryan whispered as he passed.
Location: Domino Japan, Motou Games Shop
Kaiba, Téa, Mai, Ryou and Yami Bakura stood outside the games shop all remembering the last they were here, Yugi and Téa were being held hostage by Yami. Kaiba, Mai, Ryou and Yami Bakura had broken in to the Games Shop to get them both out while Yami had made Téa an offer to 'spend' the night with him in exchange for Tristan and Joey not hurting Yugi anymore. Téa almost went through with it but changed her mind at the last second much to the anger of Yami, when Yami dragged Téa back up to the attic where Yugi and she were being kept Yami discovered the gang their trying to free Yugi, in an act of total desperation at the last second Mai lied saying that Yugi was dead when in reality he was near death, but that was in the past and now Téa, Kaiba, Mai, Ryou and Bakura had to confront the present.
"Well if it isn't the runt squad." A voice growled coming up beside them three other voices laughed.
The group turned to see four people coming towards them, in the lead Yami; he hadn't changed in the two years since they'd last seen him he had slightly more muscle on his arms but apart from that he hadn't changed, hanging off his arm was a woman the group barely recognised but was in fact Serenity Wheeler, Téa and Mai didn't quite know what to make of Serenity's outfit she had a black, if they called it a shirt they'd be lying it was more of a black leather bra with strings holding it on Serenity's chest her hair now extended down her back to a extremely short black leather skirt with thigh high high-healed boots, Serenity's brown eyes gazed over the boys smugly the only words now suitable to describe the young Wheeler were man eater.
Joey was next standing just behind Serenity and Yami, his blonde hair was longer and he seemed to have grown about a foot in height his arms were now thicker and appeared to be straining the fibres of the white shirt he was wearing, Tristan looked in similar condition now having a goatee that made him look about ten years older than he actually was he glared at the group particularly Yami Bakura he still had vivid memories of the last time he encountered the spirit.
"Hello Yami." Téa growled.
"It's nice to see you've come back to your senses and returned to me." Yami said smiling walking towards her.
"I'd rather walk into a raging inferno." Téa spat moving slightly behind Kaiba.
Yami got an irritated look on his face, "Where is that useless runt boyfriend of yours?" He growled.
Mai and Téa held on to Kaiba's jacket to stop him from doing anything rash glaring at Yami.
"None of your business Yami." Mai growled.
"Hey Mai, did you come back to me?" Joey asked hopefully.
"I'd rather eat shit Wheeler." Mai stated glaring at him now.
"WHY YOU!?" Joey yelled moving towards her angrily.
Kaiba stood in front of Mai shielding her with his body glaring angrily at him, "Take one more step towards my girlfriend Wheeler and I'll permanently disable you." Kaiba growled.
"Your, girlfriend, WHY YOU STUPID SLUT!?" Joey screamed trying to shove Kaiba out of his way and get to Mai.
Kaiba was to strong for him aiming a well aimed punch into Joey's stomach making drop to his knees then hauling Joey up by the front of his shirt slamming him into the limo door.
"Tell me Wheeler what did you say to the police about the relationship between Rebecca Hawkins and Yugi?" Kaiba growled as Yami Bakura held Serenity, Yami and Tristan at bay with the powers of the Millennium Ring.
"I didn't tell dem cops nothing dat ain't da truth." Joey growled.
"What did you tell them Wheeler?" Kaiba growled again.
"I told dem dat Rebecca was in love with Yugi and dat Yugi was getting really pissed off about it, he wanted her out of da way." Joey said grinning.
"That's a full blown lie Wheeler, you could go to jail for filing a false statement." Kaiba said now smirking before throwing Joey into the ground fighting the urge to beat him to within an inch of his life.
"Let's get out of here the stench of all these losers is making my stomach turn." Kaiba said to Téa, Ryou, Yami Bakura and Mai as he opened the door to the limo for the girls.
Yami and his group let them go glaring at the limo as they left, meanwhile in the limo Kaiba placed his arm around Mai to comfort her,
"Mai I apologies for injuring Wheeler, I know you still care about him." Kaiba said to her.
"It's fine Seto, I did care about him, but I could never care about someone like that again." Mai growled as the group drove back to Kaiba Corp.
At the same time a Detective signed into Domino Prison and awaited a meeting with a certain prisoner hoping that this would dispel his doubts and prove his theory, that Yugi Motou was innocent of the murder of Rebecca Hawkins.
Next – Belief and Questions