I'm back! I just had a great lunch and now I'm typing a brand new chapter specially for you guys! *Oh, I just love feeling loved^^*

Anyways!! You know, I'm sooooooo lazy and I was thinking about finding a beta-reader for this. So, if anyone's interested (I hope someone is^^) tell me about it in your review. You can mail me too, you can find my e-mail address in my profile.

I'm facing a tiny writer's block *sweatdrop* But I promise I won't give up! I'll just do what everyone tells me to, write something else while I'm writing this and everything will work out just fine.

sOfAaNdAnImE: Thank you for your review! I'm glad you guys find this exciting because that was exactly what I wanted this story to be. Keep reading and I promise you won't regret it=^_^=

Miss Daydream: Thanks for you little Saitou interlude, it was really great(it made my day weeeeee=^_^=) Speaking of which, maybe something should happen to him in this fanfic so that he'll stop smoking for good. What do you guys think? ^^;

Kristin: Yeah! I wanted all of this put together for some time now... I could never find it so I decided I should write it myself! I just hope it turns out okay^^ and... Final Fantasy forever!!

nobody: HEHE! Okina is dead and no one really cares because he's MEAN! Well, I hope you don't mind that he's (WAS...*evil grin*) so OOC... Now it will be difficult to know who the killer is! er... I'm too happy about it but, well, that's supposed to happen in crime stories hehe *embarrassed and sweatdropping* ^^; I'm so dumb^^

Disclaimer: I don't own anything! Except the house, the garden, the knife, Kaoru's frying pan... you know the drill =^^=

Now *drums* on with the story!!!

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When the sun came up Saitou, Kenshin and Sanosuke were already supervising an investigative team whose task was recollecting fibers, hairs, fingerprints, anything that could lead them to the killer, from the body and bedroom. Saitou was leaning against a wall, smoking (A.N.: hehe^^) and looking quite pensive.

He didn't even turn around when Sanosuke entered the room accompanied by a young woman wearing a white coat.

"Inspector" he said. "The doctor is here."

The woman walked over to where Saitou was and made a gesture to shake his hand, but Saitou only glared at her and did not budge an inch. She lowered her hand and said, louder than she needed to:

"My name is Megumi Takani! I'll be taking the body to perform an autopsy! Any problems with that?!"

When she finished talking...er...screaming everyone was staring at her... she had started loud enough but had finished yelling without even noticing.

"Whatever" Saitou took another drag from his cigarrette. "It's you job after all, you don't need to be bothering the police asking for permission to do your duty."

Poor Megumi blushed so hard her face looked like a tomato and turned around to give instructions in order to remove the dead body. Then she left the room looking like a hurricane after everybody was gone.

"That...fox" Saitou crushed his cigarrette in a nearby ashtray. "...is really annoying."

Sano was looking at Saitou as if he had never seen him before in his life.

"Why did you treat that poor woman like that?! You didn't even know her!"

Saitou turned to glare dangerously at his colleage.

"You don't know her either. At least I didn't let myself off guard just because she has a pretty face like you did."

"Wait!!! Who said I... wait a minute, what do you mean 'off guard'? Did she do anything wrong?"

"I have no clue."

Sano fell back anime-style.

"Man, you need to chill!"

"And you need to grow up. Now leave me alone and go look for Kenshin. He's been gone long enough."

Sano left the room but peeked through the door afterwards. He started chuckling and so Saitou looked at him.

"Hey man... you said she has a pretty face!! Does the great Saitou finally feel attracted to a woman?! Don't miss the next show because we sure won't!"

Saitou kicked the door shut trying to cut his head off but Sano was already gone.

"Damn" Saitou cursed, lighting another cigarrette.

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"Hey Kenshin! What are you doing?"

Sano had just found Kenshin standing in the garden, staring at the house.

"Sano... well, Saitou told me to see if there were any signs of break in but I can't seem to find any."

Sano just kept looking at him, waiting for him to finish. When Kenshin didn't say anything, he urged him on:

"And...?!"

Kenshin turned to look at him with his usual happy smile on his face.

"That means the killer is an insider. Someone in the house must have killed Okina-san."

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Saitou knew quite well that if Kenshin was saying that the killer was an insider, he was certainly right. So he decided to assemble all the inhabitants and guests in the dining room to talk to them. It happened by nightfall.

"We concluded that the killer is still in this house." he said calmly, looking around, examining each face in turn.

The guest were all visibly shaken; they were just kids, after all. The blond kid ('I think his name is Momiji' recalled Saitou) was fast asleep on Haru's lap, who seemed preoccupied. Hell, who didn't? Misao had her hands on the table and was staring at her long fingers, afraid that if she looked up she would start crying. Rikku had an arm around her shoulders and was whispering reassuring words. Yuffie was staring at the only person they hadn't met until then, the novelist Vincent Valentine. He had a gothic touch to him: black clothes, long black hair, glittering red eyes. He gave them all the creeps. Aoshi, Dante and Yahiko seemed quite calm and collected but Kaoru hadn't stopped crying silently yet and she hadn't said a word since the incident.

"So therefore..." Saitou continued. "You'll be all locked in until we find him...or her."

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How was it? I know I'm not that inspired -_-; Gomen nasai... but tell me what you think anyway! It's that button below...yep, that's the one!