Whodunit? : Odaiba High School Incident File #5197
By Android Eleven
The Prosecution Rests
Mrs. Motomiya stared at him in disbelief. "How could you know who did it? We have questioned seven students in the past few hours, none of them who had the time or the opportunity to kidnap your dog, steal your car, AND vandalize the gym in one day, much less a few hours."
Mr. Fujiyama merely smiled and winked at her. "Obviously you don't watch much 'Matlock', do you, Nina dear?" The principal stood up and circled the room. He began to talk.
"My dog, Keiko, had to have been taken between nine and ten thirty yesterday morning. It was during that time that I was away from my apartment having breakfast, as I do every Sunday morning, at the Denny's restaurant a few blocks away.
"Now, let us go over where all of our little friends were during this time, to refresh your memory." Mrs. Motomiya scowled, but Mr. Fujiyama didn't see her.
"Takeru Takaishi woke up, had breakfast, got ready to go and almost forgot his bus pass. He wouldn't have had the time to steal my dog and hide her anywhere before he had to be downstairs to catch his bus to Heighten View Terrace. From there he was with friends until he had to go to work, quite a distance away. He was at work until six thirty. He didn't have the opportunity to take Keiko.
"Your son Davis got up at eight thirty, but he was in the company of his father from when he woke up until roughly ten after nine when they arrived at the soccer field and he joined the team for their warm-up. The game started at nine thirty, he was definitely there, and then he was in his father's company again by twenty after eleven. Once again, no opportunity."
He rubbed his chin. "Ken Ichijouji, on the other hand, could easily have lied about missing the train. He's the only one with no witnesses. He could have caught the train at nine and gotten to Odaiba by nine thirty and it would have been no problem to take the dog and hide her somewhere before arriving at the soccer game at ten thirty. But it is just as likely that he's telling the truth and that he didn't have the time to do it, either."
Mrs. Motomiya looked puzzled and more than a little frustrated. "If Ken took your dog, then someone else took it from HIM to pull this prank. He didn't have the time to do any of the other things."
"Precisely," Mr. Fujiyama said. "None of those boys we just questioned had the time to pull off this entire prank. But that's not what I'm talking about anymore."
Mrs. Motomiya sighed, exasperated. "Then what, pray tell, ARE you talking about, Jim? Please tell me, because I don't think I'll ever be able to figure it out by myself."
Mr. Fujiyama shook his head patiently, as though he had been speaking to a child. "Just think about it for a few minutes while I call a couple more students down to the office."
* * *
"Taichi Kamiya and Yamato Ishida to the office right away, please."
The voice echoed throughout the school and the two senior boys, now in gym class watching their teacher demonstrate some piece of aerobic equipment, looked at each other, confused. The teacher told them both to hurry up and go to the office.
They did, walking slowly and when they arrived the secretary told them both to sit down and that the principal would be with them shortly. A suspicious thought surfaced in Tai's mind about why he and Matt were there when suddenly Mrs. Motomiya came out of a back room. "Matt, could you come in here, please?"
Matt stood up, shooting a questioning look at Tai, who could only shrug, before he followed the teacher into the room. Mr. Fujiyama instructed the blonde to sit down and the table. "Mr. Ishida, we have some questions for you. I'm telling you now to answer truthfully or you might regret it. Understood?"
Matt could only nod.
"Alright then. According to several people we questioned earlier today, you have access to the security codes to the parking lot of my apartment complex, the same one your brother Takeru lives in. Correct?"
~~ Yeah, I guess. He has to park somewhere when he comes to visit, right? ~~
Matt nodded again slowly, a feeling of dread dropping into his stomach.
"Were you in that parking lot last night at about twenty after five?
~~ He saw Matt Ishida slow down and turn out of traffic, pulling into the underground parking lot of the apartment building ~~
"Yeah..."
The look of satisfaction on Mr. Fujiyama's face was enough to make anyone feel weary. "And did you have access to Mrs. Motomiya's set of school keys for at least an hour, by far enough time to make copies of some of them, yesterday morning?"
~~ Matt tossed him something small and very jingly. "Those yours?" he asked. Davis glanced at what the older boy had thrown at him and breathed a sigh of relief. It was his mother's set of keys. ~~
The truth about why he was in here being questioned had finally sunk in. Realizing what was going on, Matt couldn't stop a small, ironic smile from crossing his lips. "Yes." He shook his head, the small smile still on his face. "You think I did it, don't you?"
Mr. Fujiyama gave him a look that clearly said that he didn't just think Matt had done it, he KNEW it. But he wasn't about to admit it out loud just yet. "I will answer that question, Mr. Ishida, after I have spoken to Mr. Kamiya. Will you call him in for me please, Nina?"
Mrs. Motomiya went to the door and called Tai in. The brunette entered, looking nervous and twisting his watch around his wrist over and over again. "Mr. Kamiya, please take a seat," Mr. Fujiyama said, picking up his own chair and placing it beside Matt so that Tai could sit down. The young man took the seat, looking at Matt anxiously. Mr. Fujiyama studied him briefly before starting the attack.
"Mr. Kamiya," he said sternly, "We're going to ask you a few questions. If you answer truthfully, this will all be over much more quickly. That will save both your time and ours. Do you understand?"
Tai glanced over at Matt, still looking confused. Matt could only shake his head, that small, ironic smile still on his face. "Yeah," Tai answered finally.
"Did you meet Mr. Ishida here in a party shop at approximately ten thirty yesterday morning?"
~~ Halfway there, he glanced down one of the middle aisles and spotted Tai there talking quietly with another blonde boy ~~
"Yeah."
"Did you go over to TK Takaishi's apartment complex before 5:30 yesterday evening?" he asked, with the look of a man who obviously thought he already knew the answer.
~~ ...As he was descending the stairs down into the subway, Ken could have sworn he caught a glimpse of Taichi Kamiya on the sidewalk above ~~
Brow furrowed, Tai answered shortly. "Uh huh."
"Did you have in your possession a set of keys belonging to Davis Motomiya, for a period of more than twelve hours?"
~~ "Aren't these Davis's keys?"
"Must be," he replied quickly. "I drove him home from the mall last night, he must have dropped them." ~~
"I guess," Tai replied and by now it was clear that he, like Matt, was starting to understand why they were there.
"And, isn't it true, Mr. Kamiya, that you bought, only yesterday morning, many of the same items that were used to vandalize the school gym only a matter of hours later?"
~~ "Why don't you go get party hats and napkins and plates and crap," Tai suggested, "and I'll get the streamers and balloons and ribbons and things." ~~
Tai knew damning evidence when he heard it and he was hearing it now. Not even bothering to answer the principal, Tai turned to Matt. "Who?"
He only said the one word, but his best friend knew what he was asking. "Our favourite freshmen," he replied quietly, so that only Tai would hear him.
If Mr. Fujiyama noticed anything of their exchange, he gave no sign of it. "Is it true or not, Mr. Kamiya?" he asked again. Tai knew that no matter what he said he was already beaten, so he gave up.
"Yessir."
Mr. Fujiyama smiled in a self-satisfied manner. He didn't notice Mrs. Motomiya looking at him skeptically and he announced his conclusion. "Mr. Kamiya, Mr. Ishida," he said, "you are both suspended for the next week and you will serve an extra two weeks' worth of detentions after you return. The both of you are lucky that no harm came to either my car or my dog, because then you would both probably have been expelled."
Mr. Fujiyama opened the door leading back into the office. "We will call both of your parents and inform them of the situation. We will instruct them to come and pick you up and neither of you is to show his face within the walls of this school again until next Tuesday. Now go grab the things you'll need from your lockers and come back to the office to await the arrival of your parents."
* * *
Kari was walking back from Biology on her way to Social Studies when she saw Matt emptying his locker. Curious, she walked over to him to see what was going on. "Hey there, Ishida," she called. "What are you up to?"
Matt turned and looked at her. He shook his head and that ironic, slightly disbelieving smile was back. "Why don't you ask your boyfriend?" he answered. "I'm sure he'll be able to tell you in detail."
Kari's brow furrowed in confusion. "What are you talking about?"
Matt chuckled darkly. "You'll find out soon enough, I'm sure." He threw two more books into his bag and slammed his locker shut. He went to walk back to the office, but he turned around to look at Kari one last time. "Tell your boys congrats for me. I don't know how they did it, but they did it well."
He turned back around and went into the office, leaving Kari to stare at him questioningly.
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A/N: Hehehe!!! Don't go away yet, though! IT'S NOT OVER!!! One more chapter to go, folks, but I bet you can guess what it'll be about, huh? Anyhow, thanks so much much for the lovely comments. I wuv you all! Stay tuned, the final chapter will be coming to a computer screen near you before you know it!!!
By Android Eleven
The Prosecution Rests
Mrs. Motomiya stared at him in disbelief. "How could you know who did it? We have questioned seven students in the past few hours, none of them who had the time or the opportunity to kidnap your dog, steal your car, AND vandalize the gym in one day, much less a few hours."
Mr. Fujiyama merely smiled and winked at her. "Obviously you don't watch much 'Matlock', do you, Nina dear?" The principal stood up and circled the room. He began to talk.
"My dog, Keiko, had to have been taken between nine and ten thirty yesterday morning. It was during that time that I was away from my apartment having breakfast, as I do every Sunday morning, at the Denny's restaurant a few blocks away.
"Now, let us go over where all of our little friends were during this time, to refresh your memory." Mrs. Motomiya scowled, but Mr. Fujiyama didn't see her.
"Takeru Takaishi woke up, had breakfast, got ready to go and almost forgot his bus pass. He wouldn't have had the time to steal my dog and hide her anywhere before he had to be downstairs to catch his bus to Heighten View Terrace. From there he was with friends until he had to go to work, quite a distance away. He was at work until six thirty. He didn't have the opportunity to take Keiko.
"Your son Davis got up at eight thirty, but he was in the company of his father from when he woke up until roughly ten after nine when they arrived at the soccer field and he joined the team for their warm-up. The game started at nine thirty, he was definitely there, and then he was in his father's company again by twenty after eleven. Once again, no opportunity."
He rubbed his chin. "Ken Ichijouji, on the other hand, could easily have lied about missing the train. He's the only one with no witnesses. He could have caught the train at nine and gotten to Odaiba by nine thirty and it would have been no problem to take the dog and hide her somewhere before arriving at the soccer game at ten thirty. But it is just as likely that he's telling the truth and that he didn't have the time to do it, either."
Mrs. Motomiya looked puzzled and more than a little frustrated. "If Ken took your dog, then someone else took it from HIM to pull this prank. He didn't have the time to do any of the other things."
"Precisely," Mr. Fujiyama said. "None of those boys we just questioned had the time to pull off this entire prank. But that's not what I'm talking about anymore."
Mrs. Motomiya sighed, exasperated. "Then what, pray tell, ARE you talking about, Jim? Please tell me, because I don't think I'll ever be able to figure it out by myself."
Mr. Fujiyama shook his head patiently, as though he had been speaking to a child. "Just think about it for a few minutes while I call a couple more students down to the office."
* * *
"Taichi Kamiya and Yamato Ishida to the office right away, please."
The voice echoed throughout the school and the two senior boys, now in gym class watching their teacher demonstrate some piece of aerobic equipment, looked at each other, confused. The teacher told them both to hurry up and go to the office.
They did, walking slowly and when they arrived the secretary told them both to sit down and that the principal would be with them shortly. A suspicious thought surfaced in Tai's mind about why he and Matt were there when suddenly Mrs. Motomiya came out of a back room. "Matt, could you come in here, please?"
Matt stood up, shooting a questioning look at Tai, who could only shrug, before he followed the teacher into the room. Mr. Fujiyama instructed the blonde to sit down and the table. "Mr. Ishida, we have some questions for you. I'm telling you now to answer truthfully or you might regret it. Understood?"
Matt could only nod.
"Alright then. According to several people we questioned earlier today, you have access to the security codes to the parking lot of my apartment complex, the same one your brother Takeru lives in. Correct?"
~~ Yeah, I guess. He has to park somewhere when he comes to visit, right? ~~
Matt nodded again slowly, a feeling of dread dropping into his stomach.
"Were you in that parking lot last night at about twenty after five?
~~ He saw Matt Ishida slow down and turn out of traffic, pulling into the underground parking lot of the apartment building ~~
"Yeah..."
The look of satisfaction on Mr. Fujiyama's face was enough to make anyone feel weary. "And did you have access to Mrs. Motomiya's set of school keys for at least an hour, by far enough time to make copies of some of them, yesterday morning?"
~~ Matt tossed him something small and very jingly. "Those yours?" he asked. Davis glanced at what the older boy had thrown at him and breathed a sigh of relief. It was his mother's set of keys. ~~
The truth about why he was in here being questioned had finally sunk in. Realizing what was going on, Matt couldn't stop a small, ironic smile from crossing his lips. "Yes." He shook his head, the small smile still on his face. "You think I did it, don't you?"
Mr. Fujiyama gave him a look that clearly said that he didn't just think Matt had done it, he KNEW it. But he wasn't about to admit it out loud just yet. "I will answer that question, Mr. Ishida, after I have spoken to Mr. Kamiya. Will you call him in for me please, Nina?"
Mrs. Motomiya went to the door and called Tai in. The brunette entered, looking nervous and twisting his watch around his wrist over and over again. "Mr. Kamiya, please take a seat," Mr. Fujiyama said, picking up his own chair and placing it beside Matt so that Tai could sit down. The young man took the seat, looking at Matt anxiously. Mr. Fujiyama studied him briefly before starting the attack.
"Mr. Kamiya," he said sternly, "We're going to ask you a few questions. If you answer truthfully, this will all be over much more quickly. That will save both your time and ours. Do you understand?"
Tai glanced over at Matt, still looking confused. Matt could only shake his head, that small, ironic smile still on his face. "Yeah," Tai answered finally.
"Did you meet Mr. Ishida here in a party shop at approximately ten thirty yesterday morning?"
~~ Halfway there, he glanced down one of the middle aisles and spotted Tai there talking quietly with another blonde boy ~~
"Yeah."
"Did you go over to TK Takaishi's apartment complex before 5:30 yesterday evening?" he asked, with the look of a man who obviously thought he already knew the answer.
~~ ...As he was descending the stairs down into the subway, Ken could have sworn he caught a glimpse of Taichi Kamiya on the sidewalk above ~~
Brow furrowed, Tai answered shortly. "Uh huh."
"Did you have in your possession a set of keys belonging to Davis Motomiya, for a period of more than twelve hours?"
~~ "Aren't these Davis's keys?"
"Must be," he replied quickly. "I drove him home from the mall last night, he must have dropped them." ~~
"I guess," Tai replied and by now it was clear that he, like Matt, was starting to understand why they were there.
"And, isn't it true, Mr. Kamiya, that you bought, only yesterday morning, many of the same items that were used to vandalize the school gym only a matter of hours later?"
~~ "Why don't you go get party hats and napkins and plates and crap," Tai suggested, "and I'll get the streamers and balloons and ribbons and things." ~~
Tai knew damning evidence when he heard it and he was hearing it now. Not even bothering to answer the principal, Tai turned to Matt. "Who?"
He only said the one word, but his best friend knew what he was asking. "Our favourite freshmen," he replied quietly, so that only Tai would hear him.
If Mr. Fujiyama noticed anything of their exchange, he gave no sign of it. "Is it true or not, Mr. Kamiya?" he asked again. Tai knew that no matter what he said he was already beaten, so he gave up.
"Yessir."
Mr. Fujiyama smiled in a self-satisfied manner. He didn't notice Mrs. Motomiya looking at him skeptically and he announced his conclusion. "Mr. Kamiya, Mr. Ishida," he said, "you are both suspended for the next week and you will serve an extra two weeks' worth of detentions after you return. The both of you are lucky that no harm came to either my car or my dog, because then you would both probably have been expelled."
Mr. Fujiyama opened the door leading back into the office. "We will call both of your parents and inform them of the situation. We will instruct them to come and pick you up and neither of you is to show his face within the walls of this school again until next Tuesday. Now go grab the things you'll need from your lockers and come back to the office to await the arrival of your parents."
* * *
Kari was walking back from Biology on her way to Social Studies when she saw Matt emptying his locker. Curious, she walked over to him to see what was going on. "Hey there, Ishida," she called. "What are you up to?"
Matt turned and looked at her. He shook his head and that ironic, slightly disbelieving smile was back. "Why don't you ask your boyfriend?" he answered. "I'm sure he'll be able to tell you in detail."
Kari's brow furrowed in confusion. "What are you talking about?"
Matt chuckled darkly. "You'll find out soon enough, I'm sure." He threw two more books into his bag and slammed his locker shut. He went to walk back to the office, but he turned around to look at Kari one last time. "Tell your boys congrats for me. I don't know how they did it, but they did it well."
He turned back around and went into the office, leaving Kari to stare at him questioningly.
* * *
A/N: Hehehe!!! Don't go away yet, though! IT'S NOT OVER!!! One more chapter to go, folks, but I bet you can guess what it'll be about, huh? Anyhow, thanks so much much for the lovely comments. I wuv you all! Stay tuned, the final chapter will be coming to a computer screen near you before you know it!!!
