Konnichiwa, Minna! I just got three positive reviews which make me feel more confident with this fic, well either way I'm going to continue this fic anyway. And soooo sorry I couldn't upadte this chapter faster! I was very busy with school work and yesterday I had a migraine so I was able to write this today! Anyway go on with the story, plz R&R, Minna!!
~Subaru_S~
Disclaimer: Inuyasha and other characters are not mine! I wish they did though...*sob* SO please don't sue me...
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The Murder At Mermaid Café
by Subaru_S
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Scene #2: H2SO4
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Mermaid café was crowded by a group of polices who immediately proceeded to the lake after they arrived. Some of them rented the boat to get into the centre of the lake where the incident happened. Now that the smokes had cleared, a body, which still couldn't be recognized as either female or male, was attached to the now-burnt mermaid monument by piano cords.
Yashao by now was telling his brother about the situation when he found the corpse. Sesshou listened intentionally as he wrote down the main points on his small note book.
"So ya see, brother, it was around one when I was eating my meal and then I smelled a burn from the lake. I dunno how long it's been burning but the flames died away around 4-5 minutes before you arrived here." Sesshou nodded and assured Yashao to walk together to the lakeside to take a look at the corpse as they spoke.
"Hmm, I arrived here around one thirty, so I assumed it'd be about 25-30 minutes. So, anyone tried to go there using a boat to stop the flame?"
"Frankly ev'rybody but my friends tended to stay as far away as possible from the scene. Besides I stayed there next to the boats so anyone who wanted to try to reach the center will have no choice but to pass me."
"Good. Now, let's see the body."
They wore their gloves and bended down to take a better look at the body, to at least know its gender. The body was badly burnt that it was barely recognizable even as a person. Well, of course we knew it was a person but it was totally burnt out and the face was totally...horrible. But from the shapes and the height, it was certainly a female. Yashao was about to inspect the burn when the people around them were beginning to crowd and make noise as if something else happened before one thing could be solved, no, inspected.
Yashao thought it would die down slowly but instead it was just getting noisier and noisier and he couldn't concentrate so he turned around to shut them up. But when he was about to do so, Sesshou succeeded in shutting him up first. He turned to his one of his subordinates.
"Kuromura, please tell the people to lower their voices because we need silence to be able to focus on this body." The young police named Kuromura nodded and went to approach the people. Not long after that, the people quieted down and talked in silence. Kuromura came back with a slight worry crossed his face and spoke to Sesshou.
"Inspector Inukai, we'll be able to calm the people but apparently there's a frustrated person who presumably the cause of the noises. Would you like to talk to him, Sir? He might be related..."
"Bring him here." Sesshou cut his words.
***
In the café, Kagome, Sango and Miroku were waiting for Yashao to come back after he finished talking with his brother. He had only gone out for no more than 10 minutes but strangely time seemed veerrryyyy loonngggg. Most probably because the girls were frozen in fearsome and pale face. Both of them were unconsciously holding each other hands tightly and...nervously. Miroku, who had been pacing around the café because he had nothing to do, hated the quietness in the café, so he broke the silence...
"Hey..."
"GWAAAAAAHHHHH~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
...much to the OVERREACTION of the girls which had almost made him jumped over the moon or just died standing like Musashi Miyamoto. The girls, however, started to form a pool of tears in their eye sockets and shivered slightly, no, a great deal actually.
Miroku, who sooner recovered from his state of shock and heart attack, quickly smiled both apologetically and awkwardly.
"Sorry, girls...I have no idea that ya'll be this...this shock?"
After waiting for almost one minute, he thought he would get two tear-streaking faces or no answer. But finally Sango looked up, though yes, she still had tears in her eyes ready to spill, and said:
"Th..that...that body...that dead burnt body~~!!!" Miroku thought she would scream again or started to cry but instead she let go of Kagome and tug his shirt as a sign she needed comfort. Miroku could feel the heat on his face and when he was about to hold Sango, a quick pacing sound rumbling all the way to the café and we could see Yashao panting heavily towards them. Kagome immediately ran to him and burnt her face on his shirt. Yashao patted her head as a sign of understanding. While still holding Sango, Miroku stepped closer to Yashao to interrogate him.
"So...did ya find out who's the poor victim?"
"We're still unsure but, yes...there's one possibility." He paused, "Ya see Miroku, when my bro an' I were checking that body, the people around us started to get bloody noisy an' then when we finally got the damned bastard who started it, he gave us the possibility."
"Who's this guy and what did he do?"
"His name is Kouga something...Ohgami Kouga, I guess. He said he's been looking for his girlfriend, Ohgina Kazura or Kagura or whatever who had been missing. She said she went to restroom but never came back. And since the body is a female..."
"Wh..What? Fe..Female...?" Kagome said trembling while her right hand almost covered her mouth in disbelief.
"Er...never mind that, Kagome." Yashao threw a pleading look to Miroku to do something so they could discuss this matter just the two of them. Miroku sighed.
"Eeto...girls?" Kagome and Sango both looked up to Miroku.
"Could you please get us some drink? My throat feels dry 'cause I've been waiting for this damned fellow in front of me to turn up." He said pointing at Yashao who in turn growled at him. The girls nodded and proceed to the kitchen to ask for some water. The guys let out a sigh of relief once the girls were out of sight.
"Ya really didn't have to use me as the reason!" Yashao glared daggers at the smiling Miroku.
"Hahahaha...it was just easier to say if it's you." He paused for a moment and his face turned serious, "So...back to the main discussion."
"Well, yeah, from the shape and height, we can identify that the body is most likely female. And when came that wolf guy, I myself think it is that Kazura or whatever girl."
"...What caused her to die?"
"Ya see, she was tied up to that peculiar mermaid monument with piano cords...just randomly y'know, and then she was burnt."
"D'ya think she was put into sleep with chloroform or some sleeping drugs before she was burnt?"
"Most likely...yeah, since we didn't hear any scream. But the cause of the burnt is still unclear..."
"Whaddya mean?"
"I used to think that people will burn someone with petrol and then light a match and throw it there...but for this case...I didn't smell any petrol."
"Mmnn...maybe the.." Miroku didn't finish his sentence because by that time the girls were heading towards them. "Hey, thanks girls! Wow, you even got us a coke!"
"Well, the chef gave those to lighten you up, he thought you seem kinda depressed..." Both Miroku and Yashao blinked and glanced at each other...to think that the purpose of sending the girls to the kitchen were for them to perk up a bit and calm down and not for Miroku and Yashao themselves. But seeing the girls had calmed down, they didn't argue. They pushed a smile and began to concentrate on the coke.
***
"So...girls, how 'bout a ride home? Since ya didn't have anything to do here."
The girls who were eager to go home immediately nodded and followed their boyfriends to the parking lot. It seemed that most people wanted to get away from here too. Seeing this, Miroku immediately whispered to Yashao.
"Hey, Yasha, is it okay to let the people go? The murderer might be between them..."
"Don't worry we've already held the suspects. We'd talk about it after we've dropped them at Kagome's house. 'kay?"
Miroku nodded and took out his car key. They would drop the girls at Higurashi shrine with his car and left Inuyasha's motorbike here because they planned to come back again. When they spotted Miroku's beloved red VW, which he bought after 3 years of part-time jobs and saving, they immediately got in to the car and rode home.
***
After waving a quick goodbye, Yashao and Miroku heaved a sigh of relief.
"Huh...finally, we can talk freely. So what did you want to say before?"
"Mm? What would I be saying before?" Miroku posed an I-don't-know-what-you're-talking-about face.
"Don't ya act like an innocent monk, Miroku! Something you were 'bout to say when I talked 'bout petrol."
"Ah!" Miroku blinked, "That! Well, I was thinking about the possible cause of burn...d'ya remember our chemistry practical lesson a week before the last final exam?"
"Ng...no?"
"Whatever." Miroku shook his head, "I'll tell ya, the last experiment we did was about acid and base."
*~flashback~*
Miroku, Yashao and his two other friends, who were in the same chemistry practical group, were checking the materials on the table as to whether they're acid or base by some indicators. Having finished his part, Miroku looked around the room and found his attention to the chemistry teacher, Kazaki-sensei, who was holding a peculiar beaker.
"Oi, Miroku, where're ya lookin' at?" Yashao waved his right palm just a few inches before Miroku's face.
"I was just thinking...what's that beaker Kazaki sensei is holding now?"
Yashao turned his attention to the teacher then to the beaker.
"I dunno...the beaker was labeled H2SO4...what's that, Miroku?"
"H2SO4...Hydrogen Sulphate! Hye, that's an acid too, why don't we use it as experiment?"
"Hey, don't ask me! I think these eight materials are more then enough to be tested and now you ask for that hydrogen something?!"
However, Miroku was already heading to Kazaki sensei when Yashao was saying that. Felt as if being ignored, Yashao went after Miroku. But when he was about to tip him off, Miroku began speaking to the teacher.
"Ano...Kazaki Sensei?"
"Hai, Miroku. Any problem?"
"No, uh well, actually I was wondering...eeto, why don't we use that as an experiment, too?" Miroku said as he was pointing at the beaker Kazaki sensei was holding.
"Ah, this?" Kazaki sensei held up the beaker. Miroku nodded.
"Well, you see here Miroku. Remember I told you there are two kinds of acid?" Miroku nodded again. "Nah, Hydrogen acid is one of strong acid. It has a tendency to be corrosive, see this." Kazaki sensei picked a dirty old rag and opened the beaker labeled H2SO4 and poured a few drops of it to the rag. Miroku and Yashao watched intentionally as the rag began to burn as soon as the drop touched it.
"Wha...it can burn!"
"And that's why we don't use it, because it's too dangerous. What you see is only a rag; can you imagine if it's a person?"
*~End of Flashback~*
A sudden realization hit Yashao.
"Masaka...the body was burnt with that hydrogen something?!"
"Hydrogen Sulphate. Yes, that's what I think though...but we have to see the corpse to make sure."
Miroku swerved to the right and the sight of Mermaid café was clear. He parked his car to the now-only-police-cars-remained parking lot. They immediately headed towards the lakeside where Sesshou and a doctor were examining the body.
At the sight of them, Sesshou nodded to let them come near.
"Yashao, where have you been? You suddenly vanished and now popped up like a ghost." Sesshou glanced at his brother. At other circumstances, what Sesshou just said might be a joke, but considering Sesshou...it was more likely a mock.
"I was just..."
When Yashao was busy talking with his brother whose face never showed any emotions, Miroku was talking with the doctor. He kneeled beside him and whispered:
"Ano...doctor? Is the..." The doctor listened carefully to Miroku and his face seemed both surprised and astonished.
"Why, yes. It was what burnt her."
"Yappari..." Miroku glanced at Yashao who glanced back at him. Their, no, Miroku's guess has been right; it was H2SO4 or Hydrogen Sulphate which burnt the girl.
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Vocab List
Ano -- something like "Umm" or "I was wondering..."
Baka -- fool or moron
Eeto -- something like "Ng..." or "Well..."
Masaka -- something like "that can't be" or "impossible"
Sensei -- teacher
Yappari-- just as I thought
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So what do you think? Feel interested? Please give me feedbacks, good or bad, and wait for the next chapters! I think I'll update this once a week so wait for it!
I know this fic may sound like Mentantei Conan or Kindaichi but hey, they're the inspirations!
~Subaru_S~
Disclaimer: Inuyasha and other characters are not mine! I wish they did though...*sob* SO please don't sue me...
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The Murder At Mermaid Café
by Subaru_S
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Scene #2: H2SO4
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Mermaid café was crowded by a group of polices who immediately proceeded to the lake after they arrived. Some of them rented the boat to get into the centre of the lake where the incident happened. Now that the smokes had cleared, a body, which still couldn't be recognized as either female or male, was attached to the now-burnt mermaid monument by piano cords.
Yashao by now was telling his brother about the situation when he found the corpse. Sesshou listened intentionally as he wrote down the main points on his small note book.
"So ya see, brother, it was around one when I was eating my meal and then I smelled a burn from the lake. I dunno how long it's been burning but the flames died away around 4-5 minutes before you arrived here." Sesshou nodded and assured Yashao to walk together to the lakeside to take a look at the corpse as they spoke.
"Hmm, I arrived here around one thirty, so I assumed it'd be about 25-30 minutes. So, anyone tried to go there using a boat to stop the flame?"
"Frankly ev'rybody but my friends tended to stay as far away as possible from the scene. Besides I stayed there next to the boats so anyone who wanted to try to reach the center will have no choice but to pass me."
"Good. Now, let's see the body."
They wore their gloves and bended down to take a better look at the body, to at least know its gender. The body was badly burnt that it was barely recognizable even as a person. Well, of course we knew it was a person but it was totally burnt out and the face was totally...horrible. But from the shapes and the height, it was certainly a female. Yashao was about to inspect the burn when the people around them were beginning to crowd and make noise as if something else happened before one thing could be solved, no, inspected.
Yashao thought it would die down slowly but instead it was just getting noisier and noisier and he couldn't concentrate so he turned around to shut them up. But when he was about to do so, Sesshou succeeded in shutting him up first. He turned to his one of his subordinates.
"Kuromura, please tell the people to lower their voices because we need silence to be able to focus on this body." The young police named Kuromura nodded and went to approach the people. Not long after that, the people quieted down and talked in silence. Kuromura came back with a slight worry crossed his face and spoke to Sesshou.
"Inspector Inukai, we'll be able to calm the people but apparently there's a frustrated person who presumably the cause of the noises. Would you like to talk to him, Sir? He might be related..."
"Bring him here." Sesshou cut his words.
***
In the café, Kagome, Sango and Miroku were waiting for Yashao to come back after he finished talking with his brother. He had only gone out for no more than 10 minutes but strangely time seemed veerrryyyy loonngggg. Most probably because the girls were frozen in fearsome and pale face. Both of them were unconsciously holding each other hands tightly and...nervously. Miroku, who had been pacing around the café because he had nothing to do, hated the quietness in the café, so he broke the silence...
"Hey..."
"GWAAAAAAHHHHH~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
...much to the OVERREACTION of the girls which had almost made him jumped over the moon or just died standing like Musashi Miyamoto. The girls, however, started to form a pool of tears in their eye sockets and shivered slightly, no, a great deal actually.
Miroku, who sooner recovered from his state of shock and heart attack, quickly smiled both apologetically and awkwardly.
"Sorry, girls...I have no idea that ya'll be this...this shock?"
After waiting for almost one minute, he thought he would get two tear-streaking faces or no answer. But finally Sango looked up, though yes, she still had tears in her eyes ready to spill, and said:
"Th..that...that body...that dead burnt body~~!!!" Miroku thought she would scream again or started to cry but instead she let go of Kagome and tug his shirt as a sign she needed comfort. Miroku could feel the heat on his face and when he was about to hold Sango, a quick pacing sound rumbling all the way to the café and we could see Yashao panting heavily towards them. Kagome immediately ran to him and burnt her face on his shirt. Yashao patted her head as a sign of understanding. While still holding Sango, Miroku stepped closer to Yashao to interrogate him.
"So...did ya find out who's the poor victim?"
"We're still unsure but, yes...there's one possibility." He paused, "Ya see Miroku, when my bro an' I were checking that body, the people around us started to get bloody noisy an' then when we finally got the damned bastard who started it, he gave us the possibility."
"Who's this guy and what did he do?"
"His name is Kouga something...Ohgami Kouga, I guess. He said he's been looking for his girlfriend, Ohgina Kazura or Kagura or whatever who had been missing. She said she went to restroom but never came back. And since the body is a female..."
"Wh..What? Fe..Female...?" Kagome said trembling while her right hand almost covered her mouth in disbelief.
"Er...never mind that, Kagome." Yashao threw a pleading look to Miroku to do something so they could discuss this matter just the two of them. Miroku sighed.
"Eeto...girls?" Kagome and Sango both looked up to Miroku.
"Could you please get us some drink? My throat feels dry 'cause I've been waiting for this damned fellow in front of me to turn up." He said pointing at Yashao who in turn growled at him. The girls nodded and proceed to the kitchen to ask for some water. The guys let out a sigh of relief once the girls were out of sight.
"Ya really didn't have to use me as the reason!" Yashao glared daggers at the smiling Miroku.
"Hahahaha...it was just easier to say if it's you." He paused for a moment and his face turned serious, "So...back to the main discussion."
"Well, yeah, from the shape and height, we can identify that the body is most likely female. And when came that wolf guy, I myself think it is that Kazura or whatever girl."
"...What caused her to die?"
"Ya see, she was tied up to that peculiar mermaid monument with piano cords...just randomly y'know, and then she was burnt."
"D'ya think she was put into sleep with chloroform or some sleeping drugs before she was burnt?"
"Most likely...yeah, since we didn't hear any scream. But the cause of the burnt is still unclear..."
"Whaddya mean?"
"I used to think that people will burn someone with petrol and then light a match and throw it there...but for this case...I didn't smell any petrol."
"Mmnn...maybe the.." Miroku didn't finish his sentence because by that time the girls were heading towards them. "Hey, thanks girls! Wow, you even got us a coke!"
"Well, the chef gave those to lighten you up, he thought you seem kinda depressed..." Both Miroku and Yashao blinked and glanced at each other...to think that the purpose of sending the girls to the kitchen were for them to perk up a bit and calm down and not for Miroku and Yashao themselves. But seeing the girls had calmed down, they didn't argue. They pushed a smile and began to concentrate on the coke.
***
"So...girls, how 'bout a ride home? Since ya didn't have anything to do here."
The girls who were eager to go home immediately nodded and followed their boyfriends to the parking lot. It seemed that most people wanted to get away from here too. Seeing this, Miroku immediately whispered to Yashao.
"Hey, Yasha, is it okay to let the people go? The murderer might be between them..."
"Don't worry we've already held the suspects. We'd talk about it after we've dropped them at Kagome's house. 'kay?"
Miroku nodded and took out his car key. They would drop the girls at Higurashi shrine with his car and left Inuyasha's motorbike here because they planned to come back again. When they spotted Miroku's beloved red VW, which he bought after 3 years of part-time jobs and saving, they immediately got in to the car and rode home.
***
After waving a quick goodbye, Yashao and Miroku heaved a sigh of relief.
"Huh...finally, we can talk freely. So what did you want to say before?"
"Mm? What would I be saying before?" Miroku posed an I-don't-know-what-you're-talking-about face.
"Don't ya act like an innocent monk, Miroku! Something you were 'bout to say when I talked 'bout petrol."
"Ah!" Miroku blinked, "That! Well, I was thinking about the possible cause of burn...d'ya remember our chemistry practical lesson a week before the last final exam?"
"Ng...no?"
"Whatever." Miroku shook his head, "I'll tell ya, the last experiment we did was about acid and base."
*~flashback~*
Miroku, Yashao and his two other friends, who were in the same chemistry practical group, were checking the materials on the table as to whether they're acid or base by some indicators. Having finished his part, Miroku looked around the room and found his attention to the chemistry teacher, Kazaki-sensei, who was holding a peculiar beaker.
"Oi, Miroku, where're ya lookin' at?" Yashao waved his right palm just a few inches before Miroku's face.
"I was just thinking...what's that beaker Kazaki sensei is holding now?"
Yashao turned his attention to the teacher then to the beaker.
"I dunno...the beaker was labeled H2SO4...what's that, Miroku?"
"H2SO4...Hydrogen Sulphate! Hye, that's an acid too, why don't we use it as experiment?"
"Hey, don't ask me! I think these eight materials are more then enough to be tested and now you ask for that hydrogen something?!"
However, Miroku was already heading to Kazaki sensei when Yashao was saying that. Felt as if being ignored, Yashao went after Miroku. But when he was about to tip him off, Miroku began speaking to the teacher.
"Ano...Kazaki Sensei?"
"Hai, Miroku. Any problem?"
"No, uh well, actually I was wondering...eeto, why don't we use that as an experiment, too?" Miroku said as he was pointing at the beaker Kazaki sensei was holding.
"Ah, this?" Kazaki sensei held up the beaker. Miroku nodded.
"Well, you see here Miroku. Remember I told you there are two kinds of acid?" Miroku nodded again. "Nah, Hydrogen acid is one of strong acid. It has a tendency to be corrosive, see this." Kazaki sensei picked a dirty old rag and opened the beaker labeled H2SO4 and poured a few drops of it to the rag. Miroku and Yashao watched intentionally as the rag began to burn as soon as the drop touched it.
"Wha...it can burn!"
"And that's why we don't use it, because it's too dangerous. What you see is only a rag; can you imagine if it's a person?"
*~End of Flashback~*
A sudden realization hit Yashao.
"Masaka...the body was burnt with that hydrogen something?!"
"Hydrogen Sulphate. Yes, that's what I think though...but we have to see the corpse to make sure."
Miroku swerved to the right and the sight of Mermaid café was clear. He parked his car to the now-only-police-cars-remained parking lot. They immediately headed towards the lakeside where Sesshou and a doctor were examining the body.
At the sight of them, Sesshou nodded to let them come near.
"Yashao, where have you been? You suddenly vanished and now popped up like a ghost." Sesshou glanced at his brother. At other circumstances, what Sesshou just said might be a joke, but considering Sesshou...it was more likely a mock.
"I was just..."
When Yashao was busy talking with his brother whose face never showed any emotions, Miroku was talking with the doctor. He kneeled beside him and whispered:
"Ano...doctor? Is the..." The doctor listened carefully to Miroku and his face seemed both surprised and astonished.
"Why, yes. It was what burnt her."
"Yappari..." Miroku glanced at Yashao who glanced back at him. Their, no, Miroku's guess has been right; it was H2SO4 or Hydrogen Sulphate which burnt the girl.
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Vocab List
Ano -- something like "Umm" or "I was wondering..."
Baka -- fool or moron
Eeto -- something like "Ng..." or "Well..."
Masaka -- something like "that can't be" or "impossible"
Sensei -- teacher
Yappari-- just as I thought
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So what do you think? Feel interested? Please give me feedbacks, good or bad, and wait for the next chapters! I think I'll update this once a week so wait for it!
I know this fic may sound like Mentantei Conan or Kindaichi but hey, they're the inspirations!