Unsolved

Case #10: The Toy

"Pass me the scissors."

"Where is it?"

"It's on the table."

"Here you go."

With a loud snap, the fabric was torn off and the insides came flying out from the body. A pair of hands entered into the body and dug out the insides roughly and threw them on the floor. A strange and pungent smell emitted out from the body and the insides.

Suddenly, something fell out from the abdomen. It was a small piece of paper with a few words written on it. The handwriting was so small and cursive that one could hardly read it properly. Furthermore, the words were written in light grey. After much inspection, the words on the small paper were actually 'Gakupo Kamui'.

"Why is his name written down here? Don't tell me this was a planned murder!"

"Stupid, he died from a heart attack. Nobody killed him."

"Then, why is his name written on this paper which is found in this toy clown?"

"Who knows? Ask the divine saint, Miku Hatsune."

-:-:-:-

Rin opened her eyes slightly and saw dim rays of sunlight shining through the curtained windows. She closed her eyes again. Well, it was Saturday- a day when she could sleep in and slack throughout the day. Anyway, she was so sure that there was no Saturday classes installed for her.

She turned her body to the side and snuggled on something warm and soft like a pillow. Her arms wrapped around that thing which she thought to be a pillow or cushion. She breathed in hard and the smell of cologne entered her nostrils.

Something was not right.

She had never used cologne before. That pillow seemed to be moving up and down a little. And it was warm!

Rin's eyes flew opened in horror as she sprang up and stared at the front. The room did not look like her bedroom, but it looked exactly like Piko's dormitory. She slowly turned her head around and saw someone was sleeping next to her.

It was Piko Utatane.

Her face turned pale and her jaw was left hanging open. She could not believed it. A boy was sleeping next to her! Even Len had never slept next to her before, although he had once asked her to sleep with him when they were only ten years old.

Rin pulled down the covers, only to see her clothes on and then, she heaved a sigh of relief. She ruffled her own hair and yawned loudly. Looking at Piko's sleeping face, she snickered to herself. Who knew that this boy with a bad-mouth and personality had a very cute, baby-like sleeping face. Just when she was about to poke his cheek, his eyelids suddenly opened, revealing a pair of beautiful green eyes staring up at her.

"What are you doing?" his voice sounded unusually husky.

Rin quickly hid her hand and said with an embarrassed grin, "I am... trying to... wake you up."

"I hope you didn't do anything nasty and perverted to me last night," he sat up and narrowed his eyes at her.

Rin blushed and retorted, "I should be the one asking you that, Utatane! Why are you on my bed?"

"This is my bed, stupid."

"Whatever it is, why are you sleeping next to me? This is so wrong!"

"I should be the one asking you, Kagamine. This is my bed and I have the rights to sleep on it," Piko said and gave her an evil smirk. "And you should be sleeping on the floor."

Rin gasped and pointed her finger accusingly at him, "Is this how you treat a girl, Utatane?"

"Well, nobody told you to stay over in my room for a night. Go home and sleep, stupid girlie girl."

"You were the one who allowed me to stay over here for a night because we were doing research on that freaking toy last night!" Rin argued and pointed at the soft clown toy with cotton wool fraying out of the abdomen.

"But you could sleep on the floor."

"Oh no! I can't remember how I landed up on your bed! Why didn't you wake me up when you saw me sleeping next to you? I'm so screwed!"

"Yes, 'screwed' is probably the right word to express your situation right now."

Rin gasped again and shrieked, "Oh my gosh! Don't tell me you really did something to me last night!"

She picked up his pillows and began throwing them at him while he defended himself by using another pillow to block her attacks.

"As if I would! Who would want to do anything to an ugly girl? Besides, I was already asleep."

Upon hearing that, her pride was seriously being hurt by his rude comment. She was extremely sure that he had just called her an ugly girl!

"I am going to kill you! I will be the next Miku Hatsune! Prepare to die now, Piko Utatane!" Rin growled.

Piko rolled his eyes and said, "I think you should be worrying about your parents. What if your parents know that you are not at home and mistakenly thought that you are having a one night stand with an innocent boy like me? Furthermore, if you say something like 'oh, both of us are researching about a toy, so that's why I stayed over at his dorm for a night', they will definitely have a wrong idea. Not only will they make me responsible for everything, they will have me murdered! They will be the true terror of Miku Hatsune."

Rin burst into laughter and assured, "Don't worry, dude! My parents are working overseas! There is no way that they will know where I am. Even if they can't reach me, they might think I am staying over at Meiko's place. They have lots of trust in me."

Rin grinned proudly while Piko scoffed and hit her head hard.

"Stupid, you should have told me earlier."

"Ouch! You don't have to be so hard!" Rin groaned and rubbed the area which was being hit by him. "You are surprisingly desperate, Utatane. I have never seen you talking more than three sentences in a speech."

"Shut up."

This was the only reply she got from him as he turned his head away from her.

Rin giggled and looked through the mirror. Upon seeing his cheeks tinted light pink in colour while putting on his usual stoic mask, Rin covered her mouth as she tried to control her laughter. He looked extremely funny when he made that kind of face.

Rin patted his back and shook her head teasingly. She saw his eyes shifted to the mirror as well and glared at her reflection. Rin stuck out her tongue at his reflection and smirked.

"You know," Rin giggled again. "You looked very cute when you sleep, just like a baby."

Piko's eyebrows twitched in annoyance and growled, "Get out of my room now, perverted girl."

-:-:-:-

"Do you know that this coming Monday is our annual school marathon? All of us have to run for forty-two kilometres at the nearby forested hill," Piko said as he cut the toy's head with a pair of scissors.

Rin, who was drinking plain water, spited out the water and shouted, "What? I hate running! I can't run long distance!"

"You don't have to, stupid. Look at your arm and leg," he muttered nonchalantly.

Rin looked at her fake bandages and a smile immediately appeared on her delicate face. She threw her arms in the air and sniggered.

"Yes! These bandages rule big time! It's too bad for you, Utatane. You have to run that stupid marathon."

"Yeah," he spoke in a rather soft voice. "But I can ditch. No worries, stupid."

"I'm Rin Kagamine, also known as Len Kagamine. So, please stop calling me 'stupid'. Thank you very much, Piko Utatane."

"I know, stupid."

Rin frowned. She felt like strangling him on the neck and throwing him into an ocean where he would be lost and decay underwater. She had never liked the mouth of his. Whatever he said would hurt her pride in some ways. However, she had to admit that hearing his voice was sometimes like hearing the sound of a harp in the middle of a chaotic ordeal and she would calm down instantly, knowing that he was by her side.

"I have to ditch the marathon because of one reason," Piko interrupted her train of thoughts. "We will have to stay next to each other."

Rin jerked and her jaw dropped. Her face turned extremely red as well. Did he just say that they, the both of them, would have to stay next to each other? What was he thinking?

"You will never know when Miku Hatsune or whatever thing, which is related to this toy clown, strikes back. So, we will have to keep a look out for each other and the others during the marathon," Piko continued. "The place where we will be running is at the forested hill located somewhere near this school. It is said to be haunted so there might be a higher chance for one of us to join Miku Hatsune since it is Monday, unless someone dies tomorrow- Sunday."

"What makes you so sure that someone will die next week?"

"Haven't you noticed this yet?" Piko threw the ragged toy into his paper bin and looked at Rin with a poker face. "There is at least one person dying each week, except for the week after Kiyoteru Hiyama's death."

"Oh," Rin sounded amused which made him roll his eyes.

"If you see any suspicious looking toys like the ones which appeared during Honne's and Kamui's death, you have to inform me about it. I will cut open the body to see the name of the person who will be dying on that day and we will try our best to save him."

"Yes, Sir!" Rin responded with a salutation.

Piko rolled his eyes again and snorted. He turned his head back to the front and looked at the small piece of paper with Gakupo's name written on it.

"Who will be the next victim?"

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