[Case Update #41]5/24/2011
It's been twenty-four hours since the ring gave me a name. It was the strangest thing I had ever seen; the name literally carved itself into the platinum. It is there, engraved and everything. The lab doesn't have the kind of equipment to study the ring properly, so I have put in requests for new equipment, though without more to show for my efforts in this case I feel that it is unlikely the department will give us further funding.
I'm having very little luck locating the man. His name is Gaara Kaze, and the most recent public records we can find are from six years ago. He's supposed to be my age. How does someone just disappear like that? I've gone to the underground, trying to see if any of the fanatics who are obsessed with these players in "The Game" have any knowledge, but of course they informed me that players guard their real names as well as they guard their lives. It was another dead end.
There is some good news; however, the John Doe whom we found murdered at a diner in the Lower West district was identified as Itachi Uchiha, son of a rather well known businessman. Apparently the two of them have been estranged for many years, but I plan on questioning the family nonetheless. I may give me some leads.
[Case Update #42]5/26/2011
I can't help shake this feeling that I am being followed. Of course none of my protective detail have picked up anything, and I could be paranoid… but I feel for certain that I have seen a police officer on the street every time I leave a building. It isn't unusual for the KPD to be out in force these days, but the same police officer?
Hinata tells me that I must be imagining it, but something tells me that I'm right.
I interviewed Fugaku Uchiha today. The man seemed very callous for someone being informed of their son's death. It made my skin crawl; I almost understood why Itachi would be estranged from his father. I had only been in the room for twenty minutes and I wanted nothing more to do with the man. I did find out some interesting information from the business side of my investigation. Fugaku informed me that AKAT Corp could be an abbreviation or an acronym, which might lead us somewhere. He also said that it could be a off shore holding account, which is currently out of our jurisdiction, but I'll have Kiba look into it. He hates doing paperwork and this will definitely make him grateful for the next field assignment I give him.
I'm attaching several documents recovered from Itachi's appartment. He was apparently tracking down a player called "The Toad" as his next target. No last name as of yet, but if Itachi's murder happened in the diner, then it is possible he was here looking for this individual. I'll have an agent check it out and see if it leads anywhere.
[following attached documents are photos, old letters, and several street maps recovered from the residence of Itachi Uchiha]