Konnichiwa, Minna! I know I promised to update every week...and already a feew MONTHS passed without any updates and gomeeeennnasaiii for that! It was just,
#1 I had been busy with schoolwork before I finally reached the semester holiday, and then I had a holiday, and went back to school again,
#2 I didn't have any urge to get my lazy butt to sit in front of my computer and type the story, and
#3 No one reviews! So I started to think that this fic is a total mess and that thought lessened my enthusiasm about continuing this fic. But rrreeallly! This is my first fic! I'm expecting feedback! Plz, plz, plz, plz read and review!!!!
Oh well, anyway, maybe I asked too much. Thank you so much for those who has reviewed this screwed up fic of mine, and here is chapter 3! This chp is a bit boring, I think, I mean...too serious! Oops...isn't this my own fic I'm complaining... anyway, please read and review, people!
~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 #3: Suspects
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"So where are the so-called suspects?" The dark haired boy with two earrings pierced on his left ear and one on his right suddenly got up from where he had been crouching down.
Yashao glanced at his brother to seek for the answer. Sesshou pointed towards the café with his chin, motioning both Yashao and Miroku to go along with him. Their short saunter was done in silence, much to the dismay of Yashao who were really to spill out anything he knew to Miroku who were pondering beside him. And so he began.
"So...ya already know the suspects?"
Miroku looked up and answered sarcastically.
"Yeah, right. Like I've been here before."
Yashao, however being in his usual insensitive self, continued like he hadn't heard a thing of what Miroku just said.
"There are many suspects actually and most of them are, uh, y'know, famous? Actors, actress, singers...anything like that."
Miroku could only mutter a 'wow' under his breath though it was pretty obvious that he gaped in awe.
"Seems like they had a party or something at the café and suddenly this tragedy happened. And, oh!" Yashao slammed his right fist to his left palm, as if he suddenly remembered something, and jerked his head to face his friend. "Forgot to tell ya. The victim-that Ohgina Kazura or Kagura or whatever, was a singer. Though I never heard of her name before, have you?"
"Nope. Not so famous, eh?"
"Maybe, and that wolf guy Kouga-was it?-is a soccer player of Japan National team. And everybody knows he was and is an asshole who always wanted to be in the center of attention in the field." Yashao narrowed his eyes expressing a total disgust of Kouga especially during his encounter with him before Yashao came back to see his friends and drive the girls to Higurashi Shrine.
~*Flashback*~
Ohgami Kouga, a young man with long raven hair held tight in a ponytail with strangely pale blue eyes, was lead by Kuromura, Sesshou's subordinate, to speak to the inspector himself and his brother. At the sight of a seemingly-higher-positioned police, considering from his cloth and all the respect he got, Kouga immediately blurted out his complain to Sesshou.
"I demand a search fer my girl. She's been missi-"
"Whoa, whoa, hold it right there, fellow! We haven't even heard ye-"
"You shut up yerself, Dumbass! So she has a wavy black hair-"
"Dammit, I was talking to you, ba-ka! At least tell us ye-"
"And I wasn't talking to you, ba-ka! And she has a pair of red eyes-"
"Cut yer fucking speech, ba-ka! I'm talking to yo-"
"Who cares, asshole!"
"Wha- you bastard!"
"Cut it off you too." Said Sesshou in his all-too-famous-stern-and-emotionless voice as he shoved Yashao and Kouga away from each other. By that time the two had been glaring daggers at each--more likely ready to squeeze each other's neck and break it.
~*End of Flashback*~
"What's up with your face, Yasha?" Miroku commented as they slowly climbed the stairs to the entrance of Mermaid café. Upon hearing those words, Yashao snapped back from his brief memory to face his best friend. Realizing his utterly-lost face, Yashao waved his right hand back and forth to indicate that it was nothing.
Miroku seemingly bought that and changed the conversation back to the suspects.
"So...you told me there are many suspects, ya?"
"Aa, various too, but more girls I guess."
"You suspect girls?" Miroku asked unbelievingly.
"In the eyes of justice, every body's the same."
"Yeah yeah."
Sesshou motioned them to stop their conversation as the crowded tables soon came to their view. There were six people separated in two tables. Only a few wore an anxious face, and most of them were emotionless.
Those six people had not noticed the arrival of the three, so Sesshou used this opportunity to discuss a few matters with Yashao and Miroku first.
"As you can see," he began. "There are six people we consider as suspects-with even number of both genders."
"And you told me there are more girls." Miroku muttered and nudged his elbow to his best friend who in response let out an 'itee-". Before Yashao, who were still rubbing his chest, had a chance to protest, Sesshou continued.
"The one sitting on table one closest to us is Kumohara Naraku. He's an artist who specialized in sculpture. Further investigation of him told us he was a pretty smart outlaw since we have many unsolved criminal records involving him." Sesshou told them about a man with wavy long black hair and mischievous eyes.
"What's more, I heard that a case about illegal painting selling transactions and he was obviously the culprit. But there was no real proof so cops couldn't catch his tail." Yashao interrupted.
"Ah, I think I've ever read that in Japan Daily, a few months ago though." Miroku commented but turned to Sesshou's direction for more information.
"Will you stop interrupting, Yasha." Sesshou stated rather than asked, stoically and his famous stare. With that Inuyasha shut his mouth and focused his gaze more to the view outside, though only a parking lot.
"Next to him is Kiyomura Kikyou, a rather famous actress. So far she has a clean record, though she's often involved in a scandal." Sesshou added, "Yasha's a rather fanatic fan of her." Yashao winced at that comment but kept silence. 'Why now everybody knows that?' was his only thought before glancing to the actress, who seemed to find that gazing at her tea was much more interesting than drinking it.
"And the little girl beside her is Maboroshi Kanna. She has a mysterious past and the fact that she's now working as Naraku's secretary is all we can get of her." Miroku nodded after averting his gaze away from the girl. 'Everything about her is white' was his only impression of Kanna, 'Minus her eyes, though.'
After that, their gaze fell on the table next to the previous one, where again three people were sitting there. They are Inazuma Hiten, Akutoshi Tsubaki and Ohgami Kouga, who noticed our presences and were having a glaring contest with Yashao.
"Inazuma Hiten, an actor of action movies. He was quite famous then but ever since he had affairs with many actresses which led to a scandal, he hasn't been filming until now." Miroku and Yashao nodded.
"Akutoshi Tsubaki, a newcomer in singing and movie world. She was model before." Sesshou stopped to think, "If I can add, I think she's quite ambitious. She likes popularity and holds a grunge to whoever surpasses her, in this case Kikyou." Yashao glanced at the raven haired girl, and thought 'Heh, wicked face'.
"Last, Ohgami Kouga, a member of Japan National Soccer team. He has quite a talent, I guess, but was suspected of using dope." Yashao made a face at this. "His girlfriend, Ohgina Kagura was a singer." Miroku raised his hand and said,
"Sorry to interrupt. I heard that she's the victim?"
"...When we checked the list of the restaurant staffs and people who were eating there, we found two persons missing. One of them is Kagura, the other is a waitress here. Her name is Nishiyama Suzuko. We considered the body as Ohgina Kagura in relation to these six people here-whom we considered as the possible suspects. But we are still not sure-the body is burnt to death."
"Yeah, the murderer is clever. I think he or she has planned this all along to leave no trace of the victim." Suddenly an idea came to Miroku's mind, "But what for?"
"That, also we don't know. All we know now is that one of these six people is the cold blooded killer."
***
"You know what, Miroku. I think there's something weird going on here, just like what you've said." Yashao and Miroku were walking along the Mermaid Lake to get a fresh air while Sesshou was interrogating the six suspects.
"You mean, about the burning thing?"
"Not just that, everything. First, we got an unknown body whom we later found out she was either Kagura or Suzuko. But we dropped the latter because the so-called suspects have a relation with Kagura-particularly that *Kouga*. The body was burnt for unknown reason, well, we can say so that people cannot identify the victim but as you've said, what for? Then, the suspects!"
"What about them?"
"They're not just suspects-they might be a bunch of killers who had probably ever stabbed their friend and thrown the body to the river. They...some of them got unknown records and the others are like in the police's black list, and *that* is what I think...odd."
"Odd? Whadya mean?"
"Think, do you often find, just accidentally catch five possible outlaws out there eating and drinki-"
"Six, you mean."
"Ya, whatever. Eating and drinking in a café like-"
"Is it just me, or are you excluding your favorite actress?"
"Eh, wha..what, whadya mean?!"
"I see now, Yasha. You, after all are a guy." Miroku mimicked a mocking face, "Some guy might think that-"
"Stop it right there, you bastard! I get your point." A vein popped in Yasha's forehead.
"And your objection is?"
"I've been your friend for much too long. Anyway, about the suspe-"
"Oh? I see. It's like an aftereffect and might it mean that you're seeing another girl now?"
"Mi.ro.ku, you've moving away from the former subject..." Another vein popped in.
"Hmm...Kagome might like this news..." Yashao lost his temper and clenched his right fist preparing to punch.
"MIROKU!!!"
"Calm down, calm down, I said Kagome MIGHT like..."
"Let's drop this subject and get back to the one before."
"Okay, no prob. So you're saying that all these suspects are too suspicious?"
"They all got the faces and characteristics."
"But do you know that the cleverest murderer might have the face of an innocent child?"
"...Miroku...reality check? You've read too many detective books."
"Ah, ya, particularly Elary King and Agatha Christie-the king and queen of crime!" Miroku suddenly noticed Yashao's face and thought 'he's fun to tease sometimes' and smiled.
"Okay, so these guys are suspicious, what else?"
"That Nishiyama Suzuko."
"The missing waitress?"
"Ya...she seemed insignificant in this case but I want to know every possibility."
"You're not saying she's the murderer?"
"Dunno...no, not yet."
None of them spoke for a minute then suddenly Miroku said:
"It's getting quite chill here, let's get back to the café, Sesshou has probably finished his interrogation."
Both of them walked back quietly to the café, not knowing a person has been watching them from afar while straightening his rope.
And the second murder happened.
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Vocab List
Aa -- yeah
Baka -- fool or moron
Itai -- "Aww" or "Ouch" (Inuyasha pronounces it as 'itee-')
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Ung, in case I forgot to tell you or maybe some of you have already known, Yashao or Inuyasha called Kouga as "wolf guy" simply because his name is 'Ohgami Kouga' and 'Ohgami' means 'wolf'!
I guess you already know what the next chap is about, so plz continue to read and review. I promise to write the next chp ASAP!
#1 I had been busy with schoolwork before I finally reached the semester holiday, and then I had a holiday, and went back to school again,
#2 I didn't have any urge to get my lazy butt to sit in front of my computer and type the story, and
#3 No one reviews! So I started to think that this fic is a total mess and that thought lessened my enthusiasm about continuing this fic. But rrreeallly! This is my first fic! I'm expecting feedback! Plz, plz, plz, plz read and review!!!!
Oh well, anyway, maybe I asked too much. Thank you so much for those who has reviewed this screwed up fic of mine, and here is chapter 3! This chp is a bit boring, I think, I mean...too serious! Oops...isn't this my own fic I'm complaining... anyway, please read and review, people!
~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 #3: Suspects
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"So where are the so-called suspects?" The dark haired boy with two earrings pierced on his left ear and one on his right suddenly got up from where he had been crouching down.
Yashao glanced at his brother to seek for the answer. Sesshou pointed towards the café with his chin, motioning both Yashao and Miroku to go along with him. Their short saunter was done in silence, much to the dismay of Yashao who were really to spill out anything he knew to Miroku who were pondering beside him. And so he began.
"So...ya already know the suspects?"
Miroku looked up and answered sarcastically.
"Yeah, right. Like I've been here before."
Yashao, however being in his usual insensitive self, continued like he hadn't heard a thing of what Miroku just said.
"There are many suspects actually and most of them are, uh, y'know, famous? Actors, actress, singers...anything like that."
Miroku could only mutter a 'wow' under his breath though it was pretty obvious that he gaped in awe.
"Seems like they had a party or something at the café and suddenly this tragedy happened. And, oh!" Yashao slammed his right fist to his left palm, as if he suddenly remembered something, and jerked his head to face his friend. "Forgot to tell ya. The victim-that Ohgina Kazura or Kagura or whatever, was a singer. Though I never heard of her name before, have you?"
"Nope. Not so famous, eh?"
"Maybe, and that wolf guy Kouga-was it?-is a soccer player of Japan National team. And everybody knows he was and is an asshole who always wanted to be in the center of attention in the field." Yashao narrowed his eyes expressing a total disgust of Kouga especially during his encounter with him before Yashao came back to see his friends and drive the girls to Higurashi Shrine.
~*Flashback*~
Ohgami Kouga, a young man with long raven hair held tight in a ponytail with strangely pale blue eyes, was lead by Kuromura, Sesshou's subordinate, to speak to the inspector himself and his brother. At the sight of a seemingly-higher-positioned police, considering from his cloth and all the respect he got, Kouga immediately blurted out his complain to Sesshou.
"I demand a search fer my girl. She's been missi-"
"Whoa, whoa, hold it right there, fellow! We haven't even heard ye-"
"You shut up yerself, Dumbass! So she has a wavy black hair-"
"Dammit, I was talking to you, ba-ka! At least tell us ye-"
"And I wasn't talking to you, ba-ka! And she has a pair of red eyes-"
"Cut yer fucking speech, ba-ka! I'm talking to yo-"
"Who cares, asshole!"
"Wha- you bastard!"
"Cut it off you too." Said Sesshou in his all-too-famous-stern-and-emotionless voice as he shoved Yashao and Kouga away from each other. By that time the two had been glaring daggers at each--more likely ready to squeeze each other's neck and break it.
~*End of Flashback*~
"What's up with your face, Yasha?" Miroku commented as they slowly climbed the stairs to the entrance of Mermaid café. Upon hearing those words, Yashao snapped back from his brief memory to face his best friend. Realizing his utterly-lost face, Yashao waved his right hand back and forth to indicate that it was nothing.
Miroku seemingly bought that and changed the conversation back to the suspects.
"So...you told me there are many suspects, ya?"
"Aa, various too, but more girls I guess."
"You suspect girls?" Miroku asked unbelievingly.
"In the eyes of justice, every body's the same."
"Yeah yeah."
Sesshou motioned them to stop their conversation as the crowded tables soon came to their view. There were six people separated in two tables. Only a few wore an anxious face, and most of them were emotionless.
Those six people had not noticed the arrival of the three, so Sesshou used this opportunity to discuss a few matters with Yashao and Miroku first.
"As you can see," he began. "There are six people we consider as suspects-with even number of both genders."
"And you told me there are more girls." Miroku muttered and nudged his elbow to his best friend who in response let out an 'itee-". Before Yashao, who were still rubbing his chest, had a chance to protest, Sesshou continued.
"The one sitting on table one closest to us is Kumohara Naraku. He's an artist who specialized in sculpture. Further investigation of him told us he was a pretty smart outlaw since we have many unsolved criminal records involving him." Sesshou told them about a man with wavy long black hair and mischievous eyes.
"What's more, I heard that a case about illegal painting selling transactions and he was obviously the culprit. But there was no real proof so cops couldn't catch his tail." Yashao interrupted.
"Ah, I think I've ever read that in Japan Daily, a few months ago though." Miroku commented but turned to Sesshou's direction for more information.
"Will you stop interrupting, Yasha." Sesshou stated rather than asked, stoically and his famous stare. With that Inuyasha shut his mouth and focused his gaze more to the view outside, though only a parking lot.
"Next to him is Kiyomura Kikyou, a rather famous actress. So far she has a clean record, though she's often involved in a scandal." Sesshou added, "Yasha's a rather fanatic fan of her." Yashao winced at that comment but kept silence. 'Why now everybody knows that?' was his only thought before glancing to the actress, who seemed to find that gazing at her tea was much more interesting than drinking it.
"And the little girl beside her is Maboroshi Kanna. She has a mysterious past and the fact that she's now working as Naraku's secretary is all we can get of her." Miroku nodded after averting his gaze away from the girl. 'Everything about her is white' was his only impression of Kanna, 'Minus her eyes, though.'
After that, their gaze fell on the table next to the previous one, where again three people were sitting there. They are Inazuma Hiten, Akutoshi Tsubaki and Ohgami Kouga, who noticed our presences and were having a glaring contest with Yashao.
"Inazuma Hiten, an actor of action movies. He was quite famous then but ever since he had affairs with many actresses which led to a scandal, he hasn't been filming until now." Miroku and Yashao nodded.
"Akutoshi Tsubaki, a newcomer in singing and movie world. She was model before." Sesshou stopped to think, "If I can add, I think she's quite ambitious. She likes popularity and holds a grunge to whoever surpasses her, in this case Kikyou." Yashao glanced at the raven haired girl, and thought 'Heh, wicked face'.
"Last, Ohgami Kouga, a member of Japan National Soccer team. He has quite a talent, I guess, but was suspected of using dope." Yashao made a face at this. "His girlfriend, Ohgina Kagura was a singer." Miroku raised his hand and said,
"Sorry to interrupt. I heard that she's the victim?"
"...When we checked the list of the restaurant staffs and people who were eating there, we found two persons missing. One of them is Kagura, the other is a waitress here. Her name is Nishiyama Suzuko. We considered the body as Ohgina Kagura in relation to these six people here-whom we considered as the possible suspects. But we are still not sure-the body is burnt to death."
"Yeah, the murderer is clever. I think he or she has planned this all along to leave no trace of the victim." Suddenly an idea came to Miroku's mind, "But what for?"
"That, also we don't know. All we know now is that one of these six people is the cold blooded killer."
***
"You know what, Miroku. I think there's something weird going on here, just like what you've said." Yashao and Miroku were walking along the Mermaid Lake to get a fresh air while Sesshou was interrogating the six suspects.
"You mean, about the burning thing?"
"Not just that, everything. First, we got an unknown body whom we later found out she was either Kagura or Suzuko. But we dropped the latter because the so-called suspects have a relation with Kagura-particularly that *Kouga*. The body was burnt for unknown reason, well, we can say so that people cannot identify the victim but as you've said, what for? Then, the suspects!"
"What about them?"
"They're not just suspects-they might be a bunch of killers who had probably ever stabbed their friend and thrown the body to the river. They...some of them got unknown records and the others are like in the police's black list, and *that* is what I think...odd."
"Odd? Whadya mean?"
"Think, do you often find, just accidentally catch five possible outlaws out there eating and drinki-"
"Six, you mean."
"Ya, whatever. Eating and drinking in a café like-"
"Is it just me, or are you excluding your favorite actress?"
"Eh, wha..what, whadya mean?!"
"I see now, Yasha. You, after all are a guy." Miroku mimicked a mocking face, "Some guy might think that-"
"Stop it right there, you bastard! I get your point." A vein popped in Yasha's forehead.
"And your objection is?"
"I've been your friend for much too long. Anyway, about the suspe-"
"Oh? I see. It's like an aftereffect and might it mean that you're seeing another girl now?"
"Mi.ro.ku, you've moving away from the former subject..." Another vein popped in.
"Hmm...Kagome might like this news..." Yashao lost his temper and clenched his right fist preparing to punch.
"MIROKU!!!"
"Calm down, calm down, I said Kagome MIGHT like..."
"Let's drop this subject and get back to the one before."
"Okay, no prob. So you're saying that all these suspects are too suspicious?"
"They all got the faces and characteristics."
"But do you know that the cleverest murderer might have the face of an innocent child?"
"...Miroku...reality check? You've read too many detective books."
"Ah, ya, particularly Elary King and Agatha Christie-the king and queen of crime!" Miroku suddenly noticed Yashao's face and thought 'he's fun to tease sometimes' and smiled.
"Okay, so these guys are suspicious, what else?"
"That Nishiyama Suzuko."
"The missing waitress?"
"Ya...she seemed insignificant in this case but I want to know every possibility."
"You're not saying she's the murderer?"
"Dunno...no, not yet."
None of them spoke for a minute then suddenly Miroku said:
"It's getting quite chill here, let's get back to the café, Sesshou has probably finished his interrogation."
Both of them walked back quietly to the café, not knowing a person has been watching them from afar while straightening his rope.
And the second murder happened.
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Vocab List
Aa -- yeah
Baka -- fool or moron
Itai -- "Aww" or "Ouch" (Inuyasha pronounces it as 'itee-')
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Ung, in case I forgot to tell you or maybe some of you have already known, Yashao or Inuyasha called Kouga as "wolf guy" simply because his name is 'Ohgami Kouga' and 'Ohgami' means 'wolf'!
I guess you already know what the next chap is about, so plz continue to read and review. I promise to write the next chp ASAP!