Battle High: Not your ordinary High School

Battle twenty-five:

The investigator

Sora looked at him and shrugged, then she gave a slight smirk, "So..this is what a family is like? Then glad I don't have one, or else I'd probably have fucked up parents just like you two," she chuckled and she took her sword that she had behind her in its sheath.

"This isn't a family," Kirai's mother whispered. "Not at all."

"Be quiet," he snapped at his wife. Kirai's father glared at Sora again. "I'm not going to fight back. If you want to attack me, go ahead. I can just call the police."

Sora smirked at him, "And you think they can catch me?," she gave another small smirk, then without hesitation she lunged for his father and attacked him quickly.

He tried desperately to block himself, but failed miserably.

"No! Please don't hurt him!" Kirai's mother pleaded.

Kirai sat on a bench near the school, anger surging through him. How could he leave Taiki there like that? How could he be so selfish?

And where was he going to go!

Sora looked down at his father as she held him down and held the sword near him, it was still slightly stained from blood, but she didn't seem to remember.

"Now tell me..you call that a defense? You call yourself a set of parents? Look what you just did to your family, Artemis was right, families are nothing but trouble," she said to him.

"Good thing I never had a family"

"No, this isn't a family. Not at all. It never was," Kirai's mother whispered.

"Go ahead and hurt him. I should've stood up to you a long time ago. Your a horrible person and I can't believe I've let you do what you've done to your children!," She yelled at the defenseless man.

Kirai desperately wanted his mind off of what had just happened. He tried to think of anything else. Many random thoughts floated through his mind. Where was Prism? Whatever happened to Ami and Ame?

What were they going to do with Cloud's body?

Sora looked at his mother, "Now..let me ask you Kirai's mother...if I harmed him enough to never say another word ever again..how would you feel?," she asked. Sora knew what she meant, but did his mother know what she meant.

Artemis had finally taken Cloud's body into the forest and left it there and went to school, he got there and saw Kirai, "Hey!"

"I-I don't know..."

She stared down at her husband, the controlling monster who she'd never stood her ground to. As much as she hated him, she wasn't sure what she would do if he were to disappear.

"I would feel lonely...and sad."

Kirai looked up and noticed Artemis. "Hey," he said less enthusiastically. Artemis gave him a confused look, "Whats wrong?"

Sora looked at his mother for a moment and began to get off his father and stood up, "Hmm..lonely..I remember that feeling all too well," she said. Sora was about to turn and leave when she saw a desk not far off and saw an article on the desk, she went and picked it up to look at it.

She saw the title, it was an article from the day she had gone missing, and her eyes went wide when she saw her picture as a child next to the article. Kirai sighed. "Well, Sora fell asleep at my house and when my dad woke up and saw her, flipped out and we had a shouting match downstairs, so basically I said fuck you and I'm not coming back." He angrily fidgeted with his sleeve. "I left my little brother there with them and I'm just worried for him."

Kirai's father stood up and took a few steps back.

His mother looked at Sora with concern, despite that she'd almost killed her husband. "What's the matter?"

Artemis gave Kirai a look,"..You'd better not of done anything to her," he said in a low and scary voice.

Sora quickly turned around to face them with the article in hand, "Who are you? Tell me what is your job?,"she shouted. Sora threw the article down on the floor in front of them all, if the father had looked any closer, if he was smart enough to. He would see that little girl in his house ready to kill him.

Kirai laughed, annoyed with this assumption. "Why does everyone think I did something to her? I didn't even sleep in the same bed as her," he assured Artemis.

His father backed up again, startled. "Michi Shizukana, I'm a criminal investigator." He took a glance at the article on the floor and explained, "I've been trying to catch that killer for years."

"Haha, I know you wouldn't, she would kick your ass if you did," laughed Artemis.

Sora gave him a look,"Killer?..whats makes you say shes a killer? Shes only a child..and why is the article written again when the story is over 12 years old?," she asked.

Kirai smiled. "Thats what I said."

Michi shook his head. "Not her, the one who killed her parents. And I made them do a reprint, to see if anyone had information on who murdered her parents."

Artemis began to laugh as he imagined Sora kicking his ass and almost fell over.

Sora looked at him, "..do you even know if the kid is alive? I mean for all you know she could be dead..," said Sora, she reached into her pocket and grabbed the locket that was in her pocket. Of course, she didn't take her hand out of the pocket, she hoped he wouldn't see it was her, but if he was an investigator, he would find out sooner or later.

"Yeah, hilarious. Laugh it up." Kirai rolled his eyes but smiled after picturing the scene himself.

"There were sightings of the girl running away around the time of the murder. However we don't know who she would've gone to, so it is a possibility that she has passed," he explained.

Artemis couldn't stop laughing, he tried to stop, but when he looked at Kirai he could only laugh more.

Sora smirked, "So let me ask you..as an investigator, you should be able to find the girl easily if she was alive right?..I bet you can never find her," she said. She looked at him right in the eyes and waited for his response, 'Can he figure it out? Or is he as stupid as he looks?' she thought.

Kirai nodded with an unamused expression. "Yep. Me dying for looking up her skirt is a real funny scenario."

Michi started going off in his technical ramble. "Well since there have been no sightings of recordings of anyone with the parent's last names, it makes it a lot harder to find-"

He stopped and looked from the article to Sora and back. "You...you? you're her?"

Artemis was finally able to stop laughing and just snickered, "But..it was to me," he said.

Sora just looked at him plainly, "Did I say I was her? Your the investigator, only they can find that little kid, after all, I'm only a teen," she said. But before she knew it, before she could even realize it, she knew she had been found, and out of fear of being taken away, she began to back away slowly.

'T-They will take me away..they'll wanna know everything...I won't let them take me away!,' she shouted in her head.

"Yes, weakling Kirai is knocked out for being a pervert." Kirai smiled sarcastically at Artemis, "Hi-larious."

"This was over twelve years ago...you have the same eyes as that girl," Michi pointed out. "you're around sixteen, no? It is you."

"okay okay, I'm done laughing," he said patting his back.

Sora was backing away from them even more, she began to shake her head in fear, "N-no I'm not..you can't prove I am..I never had parents or a family!," she shouted. She soon found herself falling onto the stairs and she looked behind her as she tried to crawl back up them to get to the window and run off; fast.

Kirai smiled happily now. "Good. Hey what time is it? I think Sora should be back now..unless she killed my dad.."

Michi held his hands up in surrender. "I'm not going to hurt you or anything. I just need to know if you have any information."

Artemis, "Hmm...shes never this late..I have a bad feeling about this, where do you live?," asked Artemis. Sora kept shaking her head, she kept going up the stairs, "N-no, stay away..I won't tell you anything..not now, not ever!," she shouted.

'Trust no one..don't trust the police they trick you and take you away forever...run when you see them,' those words from long ago that Artemis told her played in her head.

"Artemis..where are you?"

Kirai stood up and nodded in the direction of his neighborhood, just at the end of the hill which the school sat on. "Over there. Come on." He started leading the way to his house, walking faster than usual.

"Nothing will happen. You could help us catch the killer. You could help avenge your parent's death."

He was unaware of who she'd killed last night. Artemis nodded as he followed more quickly.

Sora growled at him, "Liar...liars, all of you...Artemis..Artemis where are you? Get me away from this man..I-I can't find my thoughts. I won't tell you anything, your tricking me!," she growled. Sora had almost made it to the middle of the stairs, she stood up much too quickly, and she turned to run up them and instead found herself falling back and fell down the stairs instead.

She hit her head on the table by the stairs.

Kirai burst through the front door. "Where is she?" he demanded.

His mother stood, shocked and staring at someone on the ground.

Kirai ran over to Sora. "Sora? Are you okay?"

He glared at his father. "What did you do to her?"

The moment Artemis saw her on the floor he quickly ran over to his father and grabbed him by the collar and slammed into the wall, "I swear if you did anything to my sister I won't hesitate to return the pain you caused her!," he shouted.

Sora opened her eyes when she heard them come in,"..h-hes a cop..he..going...take me away...don't let him...please," said Sora through a dazed phase. She tried to stand up but ended up on the ground again, she not only hit her head, but the wound on her side opened again and she was bleeding. Kirai mumbled something along the lines of "fucking bastard" and ran for the kitchen, grabbing the first aid kit and quickly began bandaging her side.

Michi shook his head violently. "No! She fell down the stairs, I didn't do anything!"

"Why were you trying to get information out of her?," Kirai yelled at him.

"Liar! I warned her about you people and I guess she wanted to find out why I told her to never go to you people! You end up hurting her in the end, I swear if my sister is not okay I will never forgive you!,"Artemis growled, "Now tell me...who are you and what did you try and get out of her? A list of gangs? A list of fights unsolved? what was it huh?"

"I-I just needed to know if she knew anything about who killed her parents! We don't know anything about them and I thought since she was the daughter-"

"What is your problem?," Kirai shouted at his father. "This is why I hate cops! Can't you just stay in your own damn business?"

Artemis's eyes went narrow and very cold, he tightened his grip, "Let me tell you something...if you want information..you'll have to hunt her down. Or find out what the one who raised her all these years will do to you," he said icily.

"Artemis...I never had parents, and..I-I don't know what information your talking about..t-thats not me," Sora said through pain.

"Sora...be quiet, if you even move your wound will get worse and we can't take you to a hospital," said Artemis. Kirai continued to patch her up, thankful for the first aid kit he'd always thought was useless.

"I-I only wanted to help! I'm sorry!," Michi said fearfully.

"If you want to help..stay away from my sister, she is my responsibility. She has never had anyone, and I was the only who was left when she ran away from home," Artemis was lying for her to hide her whole story. And he was hiding his own and made sure to never tell it. Michi nodded frantically. "Just forgive me, please!," He was scared for his life.

Kirai looked at Sora. "Did you really fall down the stairs? Or is he lying?," he asked in a whisper.

Sora looked at Kirai, "I fell, it was my fault..ngh my head," she said. Sora got to her knees and leaned her head on Kirai's shoulder and looked at Artemis, "Hey..Artemis, its time to make me forget my past, can you still do it?," she asked.

Artemis let go of his father, he quickly went over to her and held her face in his hands and looked at her carefully and nodded, and he looked at the ground and saw the news paper. Kirai looked confusedly at Artemis and Sora. "What? Forget your past...," what did she mean by that? How could Artemis do such a thing? Sora looked at him, "When Artemis was training me, he told me he learned away to lock away my past, so I would never feel it again, he locks the entire moments out forever unless I changed my mind," she said.

"But not now, you injured, we need to get you some help," said Artemis as he stood up, "Lets go," he said.

Sora nodded slightly but found that her head throbbed as she did so,"ngh..its hurts"

Kirai was still confused but didn't ask questions. He went to the kitchen and grabbed an ice pack for Sora's head. Kirai handed it to her as he helped her stand up. "Where are we going?"

"Where else? The school, the best place for her to get better help, now come on...and Kirai, carry her, if you don't she could get worse I'll go on ahead," said Artemis.

And soon Artemis left, Sora looked at Kirai, "I'm sorry I caused problems..but your brother did leave"

"You didn't cause any-"

Kirai's eyes widened at the news. "He did? Where'd he go?"

He carefully picked up Sora and started following Artemis, his heart now beating fast. How was Taiki going to make it by himself?