Secret Desires Chapter 5: Enter The Killer, a digimon fanfic

Chapter 5: Enter the Killer

"Y-you're the killer?!" Ruki stuttered and backed up closer to the couch.

"That's right. And, by the way, thanks for fetching my knife for me. The police will have no reason not to think you committed suicide, now that your prints are all over it."

He bent down and picked up the knife.

"No, Kai! Don't!"

"What? Kill you? You are such a pathetic human." He snarled and held the knife tightly in his hand, blade pointed at her.

"Do you know what kind of knife this is? It's a hunting knife. My father gave it to me three years ago when I was fifteen. It doesn't do a bad job cutting through flesh and bone. In fact, let me show you!" He yelled bringing the knife down on her.

She heard someone yelling something, but she couldn't think about why as the knife came down on her

The knife's blade tore into her upper right thigh, and she could only scream, and she blacked out from the pain.

Ryo had entered the room as Kai picked up the knife.

"Leave her alone you bastard!" Ryo yelled as he tackled Kai and pinned him down

The attack caused the blade to cut into her thigh rather than her stomach as Kai had aimed it.

"Always trying to be the hero, that's what I admire you for." Kai smiled and tried to escape Ryo's hold.

"Why are you trying to kill her?" Ryo yelled in Kai's face, as he held him down.

Kai only smiled as he wiggled out of Ryo's grasp. He stood up and went over to where Ruki was just regaining consciousness and pulled the knife from her leg. It's serrated edge caused more pain and she cried out again.

Kai ignored this and turned the blade towards Ryo.

"You just had to get involved!" He cried and charged him.

Ryo ducked out of the way and the knife got stuck in the wall.

"Kai! Stop it!" Ryo yelled at Kai as he attempted to pull the knife from the wall.

Ryo turned his attention to Ruki.

"Ruki-chan! You're bleeding! Are you alright?" He asked seeing her leg bleeding badly.

"I'm okay. Let's get out of here." She lied through the pain.

He proceeded to pick Ruki up when her cry stopped him.

"Ryo! Behind you!" She cried and Ryo spun around.

Kai had gotten the knife out of the wall and was running at Ryo again. Ryo slipped past Kai again, but this time was able to stop the knife before it came in contact with the wall and chased after him.

Ruki couldn't stand being useless and tried to get up, but the pain was too much. She looked around for some way she could help Ryo.

Her eyes landed on her Lightning Lamp* and she got an idea. She pulled it off of the end table and held it in her hands to debate how to use it on him.

Ryo tripped over the coffee table and fell to the ground. Kai took the opportunity to try getting Ryo again, but he ended up falling on top of Ryo.

Ruki had taken the lamp and smashed it hard against Kai's knee, blowing it out. The lamp broke sending pieces of glass-like plastic flying. Kai fell on top of Ryo and the knife skidded away.

Ryo pushed a cursing Kai off of him.

He looked over to Ruki, who was still on the floor.

"Thanks, Ruki-chan."

Ruki nodded and looked over at Kai who was reaching for the knife.

"What are we going to do with him?" She asked

"Call the cops and tell them that we caught the killer while I make sure he doesn't cause any more trouble." Ryo said tossing her his cell phone, then pinning Kai down with his knee in the back.

The officer who'd been sent to Ruki's cell returned to the chief's office.

"Did you find something?" The forensics specialist next to the chief asked.

"Yes." He replied and handed the man a small plastic bag.

The man looked at it then looked the officer straight in the face.

"This hair is red."

"Yes, she has red hair."

The specialist looked over at the police chief.

"She isn't the murderer...in any of the cases."

"What? Aren't you going to test it to be sure?"

"The hairs found on the bodies had dark brown hairs on them; the girl has red hair. It couldn't have been her. I don't need to test it to know that."

The phone on the desk rang.

"Kochi Police Satiation. Police Chief--" the man started

"We caught the killer." A girl's voice on the other end interrupted.

"Who is this?"

She hesitated for a moment.

"...Makino Ruki."

"What?"

"I'm not calling to turn myself in. Nor do I have any intention of telling you I killed them, because I didn't do it."

"We know."

"Then why did you arrest me?"

"We found out only a moment before you called. You say you have the killer?"

"Yes. I'm assuming you know where the apartment I rented is located."

"That we do."

"Then you know where we've got him."

The phone clicked off and the police chief hung up the receiver.

"Who was it?" The officer asked curiously.

"A lead on the real murderer. Get a couple of squads around. We're heading to the last crime scene."

Ryo stood staring at Kai, who he'd tied to one of the chairs in the kitchen while Ruki had called the police. Ruki limped over to Ryo.

"They're on their way." She said.

"Good. Ruki sit down. I'll put a compress on your leg."

"I'm fine." She snapped using the counter to help keep her balance.

"You know," Kai interrupted, "there's nothing that can prove I did it."

"Well there's your knife...with your name engraved on it-"

"No it isn't!"

"I saw it myself as you picked it up."

Kai cursed something inaudible under his breath.

"Well," He smirked, "I could always say you stole it, and they'll believe it because you escaped from jail."

"Is that so?" Ruki asked. "What do you think, Officer?"

Kai looked behind him the best he could to find five policemen and the police chief standing behind him.

"It wouldn't hold up, boy. Especially if your DNA matches the samples that were left behind at the crime scenes. That's the nice thing about DNA testing."

Kai angrily gritted his teeth as several police officers dragged him away.

"Makino-san we're sorry about accusing you of all this." The police chief apologized.

"It's okay."

"Could I question him first?" Ryo asked, "I need answers."

"I guess I could arrange it. Who are you anyways?" The heavy-set man asked the twenty-year-old.

"He's Ryo Akiyama," Ruki spoke up. "the only person in the world who believed enough in my innocence to help me. Now you're gonna let him question Kai first." Ruki half threatened.

"Fine, but we'll be monitoring the session."

During the questioning Kai revealed many things, including why he did it. Kai had been put in a straitjacket to keep him from attacking Ryo.

"Why did you try to blame killing those people on Ruki-chan?" Ryo asked

"It wasn't the intended purpose at first. It was a perk." Kai smirked

"How exactly?"

"I hadn't intended on killing her mother, I thought I was killing yours."

"My mother's been dead for several years. Why did you kill my father?"

"To get you to come to me. I've wanted to meet you for years. With your parents dead and no other family nearby I thought you'd come to me, and I was right."

"Then why did you kill that other man?"

"The two of you were getting to...close. I needed to get rid of her."

"Why?"

"Once she came, she took everything I'd ever wanted."

"What do you mean?"

"She had you. Heart and soul. That's how I wanted you."

"Excuse me?"

"If she'd wanted to sleep with you, you know you would've done it."

"That's not how I meant it. I meant it as 'You thought I was gay?'"

"Whatever. If she hadn't shown up I would've made you."

"You're a sick-minded little bastard!" Ryo shouted and left the room.

Kai only sat there smiling at his reflection in the two-way mirror.

That confession, which the police on the other side of the mirror had been videotaping the whole conversation the two of them had had, along with DNA testing, landed Kai in jail for life. It also helped that they found the missing fingers that were missing from the victims in his room.

***

"Welcome to Hit Beat on MNN, the Music News Network. On today's show we're interviewing Makino Ruki, known to most of you as Ruki-chan." the show's hostess, Mima, announced.

"Hi everyone!" Ruki added.

"All week we've held a poll to find out the top five things that the viewers and your fans want to know. The fifth thing people, or rather your male fans, want to know is if you're seeing anyone."

Ruki laughed a little.

"Yeah...kind of. In fact I dedicated my first album to him, Ryo Akiyama. It's because of him that I was able to do it."

"Really? So in other words, boys, she's taken." Mima said half-sympathetically to the camera. She then turned back to Ruki. "Number four: What inspired you to write your hits Moon Fighter?"

"What the song is about is how I used to live when I was younger. I wasn't the friendliest person in the world back then, then again most of my more serious fans would've known that."

"That's interesting. Now question three: Is there a full-length album for you in the future?"

"Very possibly, but not right away. After all, my first single just came out a month ago, but I've signed a contract with AiM to do a remake of her song Promise of the Setting Sun."
"You don't want people to get too tired of you too soon. Question two: Is there a music video planned for Moon Fighter?"

"Yes there is. In fact I've been told that it premieres tomorrow on this station."

"I can't wait to see it! Now, the most asked question is: Do you think that the fact that the fact that you were suspected of murder, then cleared of it, has anything to do with your fame? Do you think it helped that nearly everyone in Japan knew your name before you started singing had anything to do with the popularity of your single?"

"Maybe a little, but then again that was two years ago. Plus six years before that I had substantial fame as the 'Digimon Queen'. What I really think the reason that Moon Fighter is so big is because people can relate to it. When music is played on the radio, first people listen for something they like, then for a name."

"That's quite an interesting theory on that."

The camera angle changed and Mima looked into the new camera.

"When we return, Ruki-chan will sing her hit single for us live!" Mima happily announced.

The screen suddenly went dark from being turned off.

A room full of inmates turned towards the door. All except for one.

"Kai." The officer at the door commanded.

The one who hadn't turned to look now did.

"It's time, Kai."

Kai stood and followed the man out of the room as the television was turned back on and the inmates went back to watching it.

For Kai though, he was taking a long walk down a mostly empty corridor...his last. He was being put to death today. For two years he had waited, in courtroom and cell, for this day.

"Do you have anything to say?" The executioner asked as they strapped him to the chair.

Kai looked into the room where mostly reporters sat, until he found the two he was looking for.

"I'd say I'm sorry," Kai said hoarsely, "but I'm not, and it's not like it would save me. I'm glad I killed them."

He sat there staring at Ruki, and Ryo, as the last preparations were being made for his death. He didn't twitch, at first, as the poisons were pumped into him. As his life faded he thought not about the after-life, for he didn't believe in heaven or hell, but in what his biggest mistake in his perfectly thought out plan was.

He'd underestimated the power of love, friendship, and the unpredictability, all of which were the key to his undoing. He became aware of that point just as his life ended.

The End

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*A Lightning Lamp looks like a Lava Lamp, but instead of having globs of liquid rising and falling it is filled with gas and behaves like a Plasma Ball.

For those of you who don't know; AiM is Mimi's Japanese Voice Actor and sings most of the theme songs for the Japanese versions of Digimon.

This whole story didn't exactly turn out as I'd planned. I was hoping to have the murderer be a surprise like in Perfect Blue, which is what inspired me to write this, but I still like the way it turned out.

Thanks again to all of you who reviewed and all of you who stuck with me during the slowness of getting the chapters up.