Cat: Well, that was a hellish holiday
Rena: Just because you were deprived of wifi, doesn't mean it was a terrible holiday!
Cat: I got burnt!
Rena: Well, there's that...
Cat: Then i was ill...
Rena: That too...
Cat: And i was sleep deprived!
Rena: Not my problem! Just type the damn story!
Cat: I wrote this in Spain and, u lucky bitches (and bastards ((sorry guys ¬_¬))) I am typing this a few minutes after walking in the door.
Rena: Stop whining and write!
Yusei stared at Aki through the thick glass, wondering what to say down the microphone. Aki stared back at him, her red-rimmed eyes cloudy and unfocused.
She had gone quietly with the officers, shock glazing her eyes. Setsuko and Hideo had been called and both had attempted to talk with her but all she said was;
"I didn't do it."
She had been kept in the Facility overnight, in a secluded cell, far away from the male prisoners. A female officer had stood outside all night and had reported that all Aki did was cry and shout;
"I didn't do it."
Rena watched her son stare at Aki. It was as if he was trying to draw the truth out of her. She sighed leaning on the doorframe.
"Aki, look, I know you didn't do it, but can you tell me your whereabouts on the day Sayer died?" Yusei asked through the microphone, as gently as he could, so he didn't upset his fellow signer.
Damn, if I hadn't lived in Canada for nineteen years, i would have made him a lawyer! Rena thought, admiring her son's handle of the situation.
"I... woke up, visited you at the garage and made lunch with you and Rena."
"What happened after that?" Yusei questioned. Aki narrowed her eyes.
"I was getting to that." she hissed.
"Sorry..." Yusei muttered.
"...You dropped me back home and my mum and I watched Duel TV. Rena wanted to hold the party at the garage, but got dressed at my house 'cause she couldn't decide which dress to wear."
Then an officer stomped in.
"Visiting hours are now over. We request that you leave now." she said curtly.
"Why do you call it 'Visiting hours' when we weren't in five minutes?" Rena muttered.
Aki stood up, flanked by two officers. Yusei stood up as well, his eyes following her like a hawk stalking its prey.
"Director Yeager would like to see you." The officer said as they walked down the grey corridor. Rena flinched. She hadn't seen Yeager since he had dragged her back, kicking and screaming, from Canada.
Yusei opened the door to the office in the Facility to see five familiar faces. Setsuko and Hideo sat in black leather chairs facing a large, plasma TV. Mina and Trudge stood either side of it, looking grim. Lastly, Yeager stood, his arms clasped behind his back, staring down into Aki's cell. Aki was several meters below, sleeping on a tin bed. Yusei couldn't help remembering Jack down there, accused of crashing D-Wheels.
"Ah, the Fudos are here," Yeager said, taking a seat and beckoning at two more. Rena gratefully sat down but Yusei stood behind his mother.
"What is it Yeager?" Yusei demanded, passing his mother an energy drink that had been in her handbag.
"Akiza Izinski's courtdate is Monday the seventeenth." Yeager told them, inserting a VCR tape into a video recorder. Yusei stared at it. The player could be worth a fortune, being one of the few in the world that worked.
An image appeared on the screen. Rena gasped as she saw a familiar, scarred person sit in the corner of a very grey room.
"Sayer..." Yusei hissed.
"This CCTV video is rock solid evidence that Aki killed him." Yeager stated, grabbing the remote and fast forwarding. Eventually, he stopped at the numbers 193:47:36:09.
Yusei watched Sayer pace the room. Then, Sayer stopped and stared at the door that wasn't in the camera's vision. He was mesmerised. The video hadn't recorded audio but it was obvious that he was talking to something.
Or someone.
Yusei could feel his heart stop, turn blue, freeze over, then sink as he watched Aki step into the view of the camera.
He turned away when he saw her pull a knife out from under her coat. He watched Setsuko pale, then run out of the room, tears flowing from her eyes and her hand over her mouth. Hideo ran after her and they could just hear him comforting his wife down the corridor.
Rena gulped, feeling as unwell as her best friend. She couldn't help grabbing her son's hand. She looked up at him to see his sapphire eyes glued to the screen again, a single tear rolling down his cheek.
Yeager sauntered over to Rena and dropped two things on her lap. Rena stared down in amazement at her passport and a Canadian Visa.
"I forgot to give these to you." Yeager muttered.
Yusei watched Aki position Sayer's hands around the hilt of the knife, to make it look like suicide. He desperately tried to blink back more tears that were threatening to spill.
Aki then turned, a smirk on her face, her green eyes glinting-
Wait.
"Rewind that a second!" Yusei shouted suddenly.
Mina blinked, then nodded, pointing the remote at the TV. Yusei held his hand up beside his face, watching the video. Then, he closed his hand into a fist.
"Stop." he ordered. Mina pressed play and they watched Aki place Sayer's hands over the knife again. Then she turned to leave-
"Pause!" Yusei yelled urgently. Mina complied and Yusei ran over to the screen. Yeager stared.
"What?" he asked. "Look, it's pointless. That is Akiz-"
"Look! Look at her! Look at what's wrong!" Yusei jabbed the glass with his gloved finger, making the TV rock precariously. Yeager narrowed his eyes.
"I see nothing..."
"I see something that proves this isn't Aki!" Yusei shifted his finger to point at a facial feature of Aki on the screen.
"Oh! I see!" Rena yelled, jumping up from her seat, spilling her energy drink on the floor.
"Enlighten me, Fudo," Yeager hissed, irritated that he couldn't see it.
"Her eyes." Yusei said slowly. "In this video, her eyes are green but in fact..."
Yusei pulled out his phone and flipped it to Aki's caller ID.
In the photo, Aki was sitting on a park bench, smiling at the camera. Yusei pointed at her glistening eyes.
"...Her eyes are brown..."
Cat: dun dun dun
Rena: ooooohhhh!
Cat: BTW, someone reviewed saying that i swap between Aki and Akiza a lot and i have a logical reason (well, to me anyway)
Simple, If i was arrested by the police, like Aki in chapter 25 the police wouldn't call me by my nickname 'Cat' would they? At least, not in the UK, they wouldn't. They would call me 'Catriona' (pro. Cat- ree-na) or 'miss'. So... Thats why...
Yeah.
Rena: Stay tuned!
Cat: Please review and read again! :)