Travel to Paradise
Disclaimers: I don't own Weiss and I have a feeling I never will. Oh well, enjoy instead minna. =)
Warnings: contains Yaoi, shounen-ai, cursing. You have been warned. . .
GA: He He He, getting exciting isn't it? Review pls. =)
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A young girl of twenty-nine with beautiful pink eyes and bouncy waist long chestnut hair walked through the stone filled path as she hummed a peaceful tune. After this session with the doctor of the island, she would be planning her up coming wedding this spring with a man she had fallen in love with in this very island.
Even though she was always a very sickly girl, she was able to do everything a normal woman her age would be doing. Having fun, and living a life that suited her best. She had been visiting Raiku Nagoi for the past few months of her stay in the island in hopes that he would be able to cure her unknown disease. So far, her health was at no risk though Nagoi had pointed out before that she has the possibility of an early death in life. In truth, she didn't care. She was in love with a man that loved her back and that was enough to make her happy that she was alive.
Her serene humming ceased when she arrived at the lab the doctor resided in. The hopes of her happy life with her future husband were only a few months away, and as soon as the first cherry blossom on the island blooms, they would be together and no one would stop them.
Putting on a sweet little smile, she gave a knock on the old door used as the main entrance as she waited for a reply. An eyebrow popped up when no one answered. Raiku knows that he had an appointment this afternoon after lunch so why wasn't he answering the door? Curious, she slowly opened the door and allowed herself in. Calling out the doctor's name and hearing no reply, she continued to move forward in search for the house physician. Reaching the office where the general practitioner usually took his patients, her pink eyes widened in shock as the sight that greeted her was far from what she expected.
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"What are we looking for again?" The telepath asked Aya as they started to search through the late singer's possession with Akuro's permission. The older redhead took a peek under the woman's bed and affirmed to Aya there was nothing there.
"An object that's sharp and smooth fitting the characteristics the 'good doctor' gave us. Just look around for something suspicious and we'll just," before Aya could finish his sentence, an earsplitting scream echoed through the hallways and the loud thumping of footsteps seem to come closer to the room they were searching.
The door to the victim's room swung open as a very pale and obviously scared Lilika ran into the katana master located just behind the door, clutching to his neck for dear life. Aya could do nothing but stare at the young woman latched on to him crying her heart out to the undercover assassin. Schuldich stood up from his position and lifted an eyebrow at the scene presented before him.
"Lilika, what's wrong?" Aya asked in a calming and compassionate tone, trying to soothe the heavy heart. The crying of the young lady seemed to have gathered the rest of the household to Yuriko's room as Akuro and the others including Nagi and Omi dashed in after her. Concerned murmurs from the guests reached Aya's ears as he tried to calm the woman holding him enough to get an answer. The sobs soon turned to sniffs as she eventually pulled away from the young assassin and looked straight into amethyst eyes. Her own striking pink one's filled with utmost sincerity.
"Mr. Nagoi, is. . . dead."
"WHAT?!" The people in the room cried out in unison as soon as the words left her lips, an indescribable wave of silence soon ensued. Giving a nod, Lilika continued with a few constant sobs.
"I went to see him this afternoon for my doctor's appointment and I found him there. Dead. . ." her trembling hand reached up and covered her mouth as if the thought would be enough to bring nightmares.
"This is all your fault." The strong convicting tone of Sakura shouted out. "You were the ones he was with before he died. I knew you were not the right people to trust. You killed Nagoi when you went to see him and you left his body there."
"No we didn't." Aya answered in a casual tone knowing full well what the next question would be.
"Oh? And what might your alibi be?" a finely raised eyebrow accompanied the question.
"You can ask Mira."
"The housemaid?" She asked with her tone full of skepticism.
Nodding, Aya answered. "Schuldich asked for a sandwich to be brought to the doctor's lab. When we were leaving, Mira saw the doctor there, alive and well."
Not giving up easily, she narrowed chocolate eyes proving her dislike of them taking over the investigation. Turning to the old man who was now standing beside the grief stricken guest trying to soothe her, she showed her resentment to the way the investigation was being held. "I told you they were no good. Last night these two kids," pointing to Nagi and Omi, she continued. "Interrogated me as to where I was on the time the body was found ashore. I had an alibi. I was with Jintarou discussing business concerning the plant at the south side of the island."
"Yes, I can prove that." The dark blue haired lawyer answered as he gave a nod. "We even talked it over tea."
"So? What's wrong there?" Akuro said as he finally calmed the poor girl down.
"After that, they started to go around the island to places that are off limits other than to the personal staff of the island. They went precisely where they shouldn't have. They went to the plant with out permission."
"But didn't I say that I am allowing them to go anywhere they please?" he replied nonchalantly to his daughter.
"Yes, but how do we know that they are not here as undercover cops or something trying to bust into our operation or something?" The fact would have been funny if it wasn't so close to the truth. The fact that Sakura was getting ideas such as this made the younger redhead give a small gulp. If Akuro found out before they stopped their operation, they would be killed at the very least. His train of thought was cut short as he heard a soft chuckle coming from the old man's direction.
"You and your over-active imagination. I have long known Hajime's father and have been making deals with him far longer than anybody else I have dealt with. Now that he has passed on to the next life, the trust he has built with me through the years has been transferred to Hajime here and I will *not* tolerate this, not even from you." The silver whitish eyes behind his eyeglasses glinted with strong vindication of his trust. Aya gave a mental sigh at the thought of Akuro personally saving him from an early death. It was actually quite suspicious of a man who have never seen nor heard about the real Hajime Shu. It was really unnerving. Quickly getting his act together, Aya replied.
"Thank you Akuro-san. I'm sure that if my father were alive today, he would be proud of the friendship the two of you share."
"It was nothing Hajime, now if I am not mistaken; there is a dead body of Raiku Nagoi that is yet to be inspected." He needn't be told twice that a dead body was waiting for him in the lab that lay western of the Shigin mansion. If he wanted to get this mission done soon, he would have to do it fast. There was nothing of importance left in Yuriko's room and he had better chances of getting something out of the physician's sudden death. Giving a nod, he made his way out of the room, with Schuldich, Nagi and Omi following fast behind.
"I hope you learn something from this Sakura." Akuro said as he silently scolded his daughter for her quick conclusion, after murmuring something to Lilika, who in turn gave a nod and left. The two other guests also left the room not soon after. "They are our only hope for now to stop these murders. You must know whom to trust in this industry if you are to inherit my business. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes father. Very clear." Her tone was not in the most pleasing.
"There's a good girl." Giving a smile and planting a soft kiss on her cheek, he also left the room leaving the young secretary to contemplate on what he just said.
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"This is wrong, you know. Just not right." Omi said as he took a long look at the dead man in his brown leather chair. The light to the lab has been turned on so that they were no longer in the dark ambiance of his bluish experiments but in the warmth of the florescent light hung high above them.
"It's just not right."
"C'mon kid, you've been saying that since the moment you saw the corpse. Will you just get to the point?" The German said in irritation as he tried looking through files and folders in the man's beige filing cabinet for any clues.
"Well, there doesn't seem to be a struggle. The place shows no sign of it. It's actually neat. That is. . . I think it is." He said cocking his head slightly as he observed the somewhat messy workplace the late doctor worked in.
"Don't worry; this was the exact scene that we saw a while ago. Nothing's changed." Aya said affirming the young blonde's suspicion as he started his own observation of the place.
"Oh, okay. What's bothering me is that the way he died." Turning back to the doctor, he showed the two older gentlemen behind him. "He didn't seem to have done anything to protect himself. No signs of him trying to escape or anything of the sort."
"Well, kid," Schuldich said as he slung an arm around the young Weiss's shoulder. "You wouldn't have any chance of getting away anyway, look at the wound." He said pointing at the direction the bullet took. "The gun was probably held pretty close to have created a big hole on his head." True enough, the wound on the man's head was about five times a regular bullet wound would have caused. On the floor were small pieces of the charred flesh caused by the heat of the gun. An unexplainable chill ran up Omi's spine at the thought.
"You know kid, no one would believe you're a trained assassin if you act as if you never saw a dead body before." The German said with a chuckle as he let go of the young hacker and resumed his search on the files. Omi was still slightly shaken up by how the doctor died but a soft assuring tap on his shoulder by Aya brought him out of it.
The two Weiss assassins continued to search for clues as Schuldich browsed through the files when suddenly Nagi popped his head through the door leading to the other room holding more experiments asked them to see something. When the three other men came in, they saw Nagi typing something on the late doctor's computer and the images that greeted them when they glanced over his shoulder were unexpected, much less pleasant.
"What the hell are those?" the telepath cursed out loud as he saw the pictures of a white and decaying corpse of a woman on the computer screen.
"This is the deceased Yuriko Kataza. The good doctor had taken the liberty of recording the autopsy report. Why he did so, I have no idea." Nagi said as he pressed a key which scrolled the screen down. Clicking on another picture, he showed them the way she died.
"See that?" he said pointing to the right part of her chest just below her breast. "That is where she was stabbed. The incision was a clean smooth one. No jagged entrances like the ones on knives so we can rule that out. Plus, from the wound, we can see that whoever killed her was left handed."
"How can you say that?" Aya asked as he looked closer at the computer screen for an answer.
"Look at the wound. It's at her right side. A right handed person wound aim for a vital organ closer to the victim's left side. The heart. But the wound was inflicted at the opposite side."
"How do we know that he wasn't aiming for the heart with his right hand and was sooner blocked off by Yuriko causing him to miss by a few inches?" Omi asked as he looked at Nagi.
"If Yuriko was fighting him off, there would have been slash marks on her arms to prove a struggle happened but there are none. Meaning that it was a smooth thrust in, arm level. And the killer wasn't purposely aiming for the heart because, as the doctor had said, the arm had needed to be sawed off because of the rigor mortis that happened after her death. Which means she had a chance to try and stop the blood from coming out, as if whoever killed her was hesitant to take her life."
"Okay, so whoever it is that killed her is left handed?" Schuldich asked with a raised eyebrow.
"That's the theory, yes."
"So? What are we waiting for?" he said turning to the other two assassins "All we have to do is tell the people on this island to write on a piece of paper and BAM! We got our killer."
"I'm afraid that's not enough evidence to convict someone of murder Schuldich." Omi said as he gave the man a small grin. "We may have someone who is left handed but isn't our killer."
"Or ambidextrous." Nagi said with a soft chuckle.
"Well, we've got nothing else to go with right? I have found nothing in his file cabinet except for a few experiments and notes about what he's planning to do next. By the way, did you guys know that it was the son of a bitch that created the formula to block out my telepathy?" a strong tone of disbelief was present in his sentence.
"Now is not the time for that Schuldich. Nagi, Omi," at the call of their names, they turned to the younger redhead. "We have nothing much to go with so you might as well ask the guests and everyone else to write on a piece of paper. That way, we may narrow our suspects to a smaller number. We'll go back to Yuriko's room and finish our investigation there since we were abruptly interrupted. After which, we'll meet back in our room to discuss what we've found."
"Wait, there's still something here that may help." Nagi said as he spotted a picture of the deceased with her clothes on before Nagoi had the chance to saw off the arm. "Look, the clothes she was wearing had no signs of it being torn or penetrated, no blood stains either."
"Which means?" Omi asked as he noticed the green sweater was clean of anything.
"It means that she was stabbed before she had any clothes on. Later, whoever killed her had taken the extra mile of putting some clothes on her. Why? We still need to find out."
Giving a nod, Aya gestured for them to return to the main office of the doctor. Nagi turned off the black PC and followed the rest of the men back into the other room. He saw Aya go behind the desk and pulled out out a reseal-able plastic. Opening it, he picked up some of the burned human flesh and placed them in the plastic which was soon shoved into his pocket.
"We may need this as evidence later." He said to the other assassins who gave him a look only described as 'what-the-hell-are-you-doing?'
Soft footsteps from behind them caused the four men to turn around to be greeted by two men in black uniforms.
"Who are you guys?" the telepath asked as he saw the two men.
"We're here to take the body away, Mr. Akuro asked us to take it to the incinerator to be burned." The first man replied.
"Burned?" Schuldich said with a raised eyebrow. "Doesn't the boss want the body to be buried in a more convenient location rather than have it burned?"
"He said that he didn't want to spend for the burial of the lowlife. Even if Nagoi here had dedicated his services for Akuro-san, he was nothing but a leech." The man replied.
"Yeah, I think Akuro-san is kind of happy the bastard's gone." His partner said as they placed the body in a black zipped up bag.
"How did you guys get in? We didn't hear you go through the front door." Omi asked as he stared at the men in suspicion.
"We went through the back door." The second man said. "It's shorter to go through there to the incinerator than by taking the front route. But only the staffs have the key and Mr. Nagoi wasn't exactly one to have that much visitors from the personnel so only a few have access here."
"Do you think you guys can give us a list of the people who have access to this place?" Aya asked the men in hopes of making his suspects list shrink at a faster rate.
"Sure, we'll try to give you a list later." The first man said as he zipped up the bag.
"Was Ms. Yuriko's body also taken to the incinerator?" the older redhead asked before the man made a move to lift the body up unto his shoulders.
"Yup. We were also the ones that took care of her. Poor girl. She had such wonderful life to look forward to too."
"Yeah, but that manager of hers isn't exactly the cream of the crop, is he?" his partner said and chuckles ensued between them.
"What do you mean?" Nagi said as he narrowed his eyes at the statement.
"Well, personally Erik is kind of angry at Ms. Yuriko because more than once she has used him for her own success. She keeps stepping on him and using his connections just to get to the top. He himself isn't that peachy." The first man said
"Yeah, I remember that one visit a few years back when Erik brought another girl and Ms. Yuriko was furious." His partner in turn replied
"That was priceless. I think what made her snap was that she saw the two of them making out in his room one time." The first man said in return.
"I think it was because she saw them on the verge of-."
"Okay gentleman. Thank you for sharing." Aya cut off as ushered the men out along with his other companions before they told more than needed information, closing the door behind him with a soft thud. He bid the men farewell as he saw them both carry the dead body to the far side of the island where the incinerator was kept. Nagi and Omi also said their 'Ja Ne's' as they started their part of looking for whose left or right handed.
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"What do you make of it?" the telepath asked Aya as they were going up the stairs to Yuriko's room again.
"What do mean what do I make of it?" Aya said as quirked up an eyebrow.
"About Akuro being glad that Nagoi is dead, and about what the man said about Erik. I mean, so far when I saw them, they were the lovey-dovey kind. Always touching and whispering here and there. I never thought anything could have conspired between them that are contrary to that." Schuldich said with a shrug.
"That's what makes this interesting, German." Aya said as he turned to look at the telepath.
"Nothing is what it seems."
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Weeeeh!!!! I finished chap four! Gasp! And the plot thickens! =) R&R please! Unless you guys want me to stop this then I suggest you do as I tell you to. =) just kidding. =) review please! =)
-Gunning Angel-
Disclaimers: I don't own Weiss and I have a feeling I never will. Oh well, enjoy instead minna. =)
Warnings: contains Yaoi, shounen-ai, cursing. You have been warned. . .
GA: He He He, getting exciting isn't it? Review pls. =)
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A young girl of twenty-nine with beautiful pink eyes and bouncy waist long chestnut hair walked through the stone filled path as she hummed a peaceful tune. After this session with the doctor of the island, she would be planning her up coming wedding this spring with a man she had fallen in love with in this very island.
Even though she was always a very sickly girl, she was able to do everything a normal woman her age would be doing. Having fun, and living a life that suited her best. She had been visiting Raiku Nagoi for the past few months of her stay in the island in hopes that he would be able to cure her unknown disease. So far, her health was at no risk though Nagoi had pointed out before that she has the possibility of an early death in life. In truth, she didn't care. She was in love with a man that loved her back and that was enough to make her happy that she was alive.
Her serene humming ceased when she arrived at the lab the doctor resided in. The hopes of her happy life with her future husband were only a few months away, and as soon as the first cherry blossom on the island blooms, they would be together and no one would stop them.
Putting on a sweet little smile, she gave a knock on the old door used as the main entrance as she waited for a reply. An eyebrow popped up when no one answered. Raiku knows that he had an appointment this afternoon after lunch so why wasn't he answering the door? Curious, she slowly opened the door and allowed herself in. Calling out the doctor's name and hearing no reply, she continued to move forward in search for the house physician. Reaching the office where the general practitioner usually took his patients, her pink eyes widened in shock as the sight that greeted her was far from what she expected.
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"What are we looking for again?" The telepath asked Aya as they started to search through the late singer's possession with Akuro's permission. The older redhead took a peek under the woman's bed and affirmed to Aya there was nothing there.
"An object that's sharp and smooth fitting the characteristics the 'good doctor' gave us. Just look around for something suspicious and we'll just," before Aya could finish his sentence, an earsplitting scream echoed through the hallways and the loud thumping of footsteps seem to come closer to the room they were searching.
The door to the victim's room swung open as a very pale and obviously scared Lilika ran into the katana master located just behind the door, clutching to his neck for dear life. Aya could do nothing but stare at the young woman latched on to him crying her heart out to the undercover assassin. Schuldich stood up from his position and lifted an eyebrow at the scene presented before him.
"Lilika, what's wrong?" Aya asked in a calming and compassionate tone, trying to soothe the heavy heart. The crying of the young lady seemed to have gathered the rest of the household to Yuriko's room as Akuro and the others including Nagi and Omi dashed in after her. Concerned murmurs from the guests reached Aya's ears as he tried to calm the woman holding him enough to get an answer. The sobs soon turned to sniffs as she eventually pulled away from the young assassin and looked straight into amethyst eyes. Her own striking pink one's filled with utmost sincerity.
"Mr. Nagoi, is. . . dead."
"WHAT?!" The people in the room cried out in unison as soon as the words left her lips, an indescribable wave of silence soon ensued. Giving a nod, Lilika continued with a few constant sobs.
"I went to see him this afternoon for my doctor's appointment and I found him there. Dead. . ." her trembling hand reached up and covered her mouth as if the thought would be enough to bring nightmares.
"This is all your fault." The strong convicting tone of Sakura shouted out. "You were the ones he was with before he died. I knew you were not the right people to trust. You killed Nagoi when you went to see him and you left his body there."
"No we didn't." Aya answered in a casual tone knowing full well what the next question would be.
"Oh? And what might your alibi be?" a finely raised eyebrow accompanied the question.
"You can ask Mira."
"The housemaid?" She asked with her tone full of skepticism.
Nodding, Aya answered. "Schuldich asked for a sandwich to be brought to the doctor's lab. When we were leaving, Mira saw the doctor there, alive and well."
Not giving up easily, she narrowed chocolate eyes proving her dislike of them taking over the investigation. Turning to the old man who was now standing beside the grief stricken guest trying to soothe her, she showed her resentment to the way the investigation was being held. "I told you they were no good. Last night these two kids," pointing to Nagi and Omi, she continued. "Interrogated me as to where I was on the time the body was found ashore. I had an alibi. I was with Jintarou discussing business concerning the plant at the south side of the island."
"Yes, I can prove that." The dark blue haired lawyer answered as he gave a nod. "We even talked it over tea."
"So? What's wrong there?" Akuro said as he finally calmed the poor girl down.
"After that, they started to go around the island to places that are off limits other than to the personal staff of the island. They went precisely where they shouldn't have. They went to the plant with out permission."
"But didn't I say that I am allowing them to go anywhere they please?" he replied nonchalantly to his daughter.
"Yes, but how do we know that they are not here as undercover cops or something trying to bust into our operation or something?" The fact would have been funny if it wasn't so close to the truth. The fact that Sakura was getting ideas such as this made the younger redhead give a small gulp. If Akuro found out before they stopped their operation, they would be killed at the very least. His train of thought was cut short as he heard a soft chuckle coming from the old man's direction.
"You and your over-active imagination. I have long known Hajime's father and have been making deals with him far longer than anybody else I have dealt with. Now that he has passed on to the next life, the trust he has built with me through the years has been transferred to Hajime here and I will *not* tolerate this, not even from you." The silver whitish eyes behind his eyeglasses glinted with strong vindication of his trust. Aya gave a mental sigh at the thought of Akuro personally saving him from an early death. It was actually quite suspicious of a man who have never seen nor heard about the real Hajime Shu. It was really unnerving. Quickly getting his act together, Aya replied.
"Thank you Akuro-san. I'm sure that if my father were alive today, he would be proud of the friendship the two of you share."
"It was nothing Hajime, now if I am not mistaken; there is a dead body of Raiku Nagoi that is yet to be inspected." He needn't be told twice that a dead body was waiting for him in the lab that lay western of the Shigin mansion. If he wanted to get this mission done soon, he would have to do it fast. There was nothing of importance left in Yuriko's room and he had better chances of getting something out of the physician's sudden death. Giving a nod, he made his way out of the room, with Schuldich, Nagi and Omi following fast behind.
"I hope you learn something from this Sakura." Akuro said as he silently scolded his daughter for her quick conclusion, after murmuring something to Lilika, who in turn gave a nod and left. The two other guests also left the room not soon after. "They are our only hope for now to stop these murders. You must know whom to trust in this industry if you are to inherit my business. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes father. Very clear." Her tone was not in the most pleasing.
"There's a good girl." Giving a smile and planting a soft kiss on her cheek, he also left the room leaving the young secretary to contemplate on what he just said.
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"This is wrong, you know. Just not right." Omi said as he took a long look at the dead man in his brown leather chair. The light to the lab has been turned on so that they were no longer in the dark ambiance of his bluish experiments but in the warmth of the florescent light hung high above them.
"It's just not right."
"C'mon kid, you've been saying that since the moment you saw the corpse. Will you just get to the point?" The German said in irritation as he tried looking through files and folders in the man's beige filing cabinet for any clues.
"Well, there doesn't seem to be a struggle. The place shows no sign of it. It's actually neat. That is. . . I think it is." He said cocking his head slightly as he observed the somewhat messy workplace the late doctor worked in.
"Don't worry; this was the exact scene that we saw a while ago. Nothing's changed." Aya said affirming the young blonde's suspicion as he started his own observation of the place.
"Oh, okay. What's bothering me is that the way he died." Turning back to the doctor, he showed the two older gentlemen behind him. "He didn't seem to have done anything to protect himself. No signs of him trying to escape or anything of the sort."
"Well, kid," Schuldich said as he slung an arm around the young Weiss's shoulder. "You wouldn't have any chance of getting away anyway, look at the wound." He said pointing at the direction the bullet took. "The gun was probably held pretty close to have created a big hole on his head." True enough, the wound on the man's head was about five times a regular bullet wound would have caused. On the floor were small pieces of the charred flesh caused by the heat of the gun. An unexplainable chill ran up Omi's spine at the thought.
"You know kid, no one would believe you're a trained assassin if you act as if you never saw a dead body before." The German said with a chuckle as he let go of the young hacker and resumed his search on the files. Omi was still slightly shaken up by how the doctor died but a soft assuring tap on his shoulder by Aya brought him out of it.
The two Weiss assassins continued to search for clues as Schuldich browsed through the files when suddenly Nagi popped his head through the door leading to the other room holding more experiments asked them to see something. When the three other men came in, they saw Nagi typing something on the late doctor's computer and the images that greeted them when they glanced over his shoulder were unexpected, much less pleasant.
"What the hell are those?" the telepath cursed out loud as he saw the pictures of a white and decaying corpse of a woman on the computer screen.
"This is the deceased Yuriko Kataza. The good doctor had taken the liberty of recording the autopsy report. Why he did so, I have no idea." Nagi said as he pressed a key which scrolled the screen down. Clicking on another picture, he showed them the way she died.
"See that?" he said pointing to the right part of her chest just below her breast. "That is where she was stabbed. The incision was a clean smooth one. No jagged entrances like the ones on knives so we can rule that out. Plus, from the wound, we can see that whoever killed her was left handed."
"How can you say that?" Aya asked as he looked closer at the computer screen for an answer.
"Look at the wound. It's at her right side. A right handed person wound aim for a vital organ closer to the victim's left side. The heart. But the wound was inflicted at the opposite side."
"How do we know that he wasn't aiming for the heart with his right hand and was sooner blocked off by Yuriko causing him to miss by a few inches?" Omi asked as he looked at Nagi.
"If Yuriko was fighting him off, there would have been slash marks on her arms to prove a struggle happened but there are none. Meaning that it was a smooth thrust in, arm level. And the killer wasn't purposely aiming for the heart because, as the doctor had said, the arm had needed to be sawed off because of the rigor mortis that happened after her death. Which means she had a chance to try and stop the blood from coming out, as if whoever killed her was hesitant to take her life."
"Okay, so whoever it is that killed her is left handed?" Schuldich asked with a raised eyebrow.
"That's the theory, yes."
"So? What are we waiting for?" he said turning to the other two assassins "All we have to do is tell the people on this island to write on a piece of paper and BAM! We got our killer."
"I'm afraid that's not enough evidence to convict someone of murder Schuldich." Omi said as he gave the man a small grin. "We may have someone who is left handed but isn't our killer."
"Or ambidextrous." Nagi said with a soft chuckle.
"Well, we've got nothing else to go with right? I have found nothing in his file cabinet except for a few experiments and notes about what he's planning to do next. By the way, did you guys know that it was the son of a bitch that created the formula to block out my telepathy?" a strong tone of disbelief was present in his sentence.
"Now is not the time for that Schuldich. Nagi, Omi," at the call of their names, they turned to the younger redhead. "We have nothing much to go with so you might as well ask the guests and everyone else to write on a piece of paper. That way, we may narrow our suspects to a smaller number. We'll go back to Yuriko's room and finish our investigation there since we were abruptly interrupted. After which, we'll meet back in our room to discuss what we've found."
"Wait, there's still something here that may help." Nagi said as he spotted a picture of the deceased with her clothes on before Nagoi had the chance to saw off the arm. "Look, the clothes she was wearing had no signs of it being torn or penetrated, no blood stains either."
"Which means?" Omi asked as he noticed the green sweater was clean of anything.
"It means that she was stabbed before she had any clothes on. Later, whoever killed her had taken the extra mile of putting some clothes on her. Why? We still need to find out."
Giving a nod, Aya gestured for them to return to the main office of the doctor. Nagi turned off the black PC and followed the rest of the men back into the other room. He saw Aya go behind the desk and pulled out out a reseal-able plastic. Opening it, he picked up some of the burned human flesh and placed them in the plastic which was soon shoved into his pocket.
"We may need this as evidence later." He said to the other assassins who gave him a look only described as 'what-the-hell-are-you-doing?'
Soft footsteps from behind them caused the four men to turn around to be greeted by two men in black uniforms.
"Who are you guys?" the telepath asked as he saw the two men.
"We're here to take the body away, Mr. Akuro asked us to take it to the incinerator to be burned." The first man replied.
"Burned?" Schuldich said with a raised eyebrow. "Doesn't the boss want the body to be buried in a more convenient location rather than have it burned?"
"He said that he didn't want to spend for the burial of the lowlife. Even if Nagoi here had dedicated his services for Akuro-san, he was nothing but a leech." The man replied.
"Yeah, I think Akuro-san is kind of happy the bastard's gone." His partner said as they placed the body in a black zipped up bag.
"How did you guys get in? We didn't hear you go through the front door." Omi asked as he stared at the men in suspicion.
"We went through the back door." The second man said. "It's shorter to go through there to the incinerator than by taking the front route. But only the staffs have the key and Mr. Nagoi wasn't exactly one to have that much visitors from the personnel so only a few have access here."
"Do you think you guys can give us a list of the people who have access to this place?" Aya asked the men in hopes of making his suspects list shrink at a faster rate.
"Sure, we'll try to give you a list later." The first man said as he zipped up the bag.
"Was Ms. Yuriko's body also taken to the incinerator?" the older redhead asked before the man made a move to lift the body up unto his shoulders.
"Yup. We were also the ones that took care of her. Poor girl. She had such wonderful life to look forward to too."
"Yeah, but that manager of hers isn't exactly the cream of the crop, is he?" his partner said and chuckles ensued between them.
"What do you mean?" Nagi said as he narrowed his eyes at the statement.
"Well, personally Erik is kind of angry at Ms. Yuriko because more than once she has used him for her own success. She keeps stepping on him and using his connections just to get to the top. He himself isn't that peachy." The first man said
"Yeah, I remember that one visit a few years back when Erik brought another girl and Ms. Yuriko was furious." His partner in turn replied
"That was priceless. I think what made her snap was that she saw the two of them making out in his room one time." The first man said in return.
"I think it was because she saw them on the verge of-."
"Okay gentleman. Thank you for sharing." Aya cut off as ushered the men out along with his other companions before they told more than needed information, closing the door behind him with a soft thud. He bid the men farewell as he saw them both carry the dead body to the far side of the island where the incinerator was kept. Nagi and Omi also said their 'Ja Ne's' as they started their part of looking for whose left or right handed.
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"What do you make of it?" the telepath asked Aya as they were going up the stairs to Yuriko's room again.
"What do mean what do I make of it?" Aya said as quirked up an eyebrow.
"About Akuro being glad that Nagoi is dead, and about what the man said about Erik. I mean, so far when I saw them, they were the lovey-dovey kind. Always touching and whispering here and there. I never thought anything could have conspired between them that are contrary to that." Schuldich said with a shrug.
"That's what makes this interesting, German." Aya said as he turned to look at the telepath.
"Nothing is what it seems."
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Weeeeh!!!! I finished chap four! Gasp! And the plot thickens! =) R&R please! Unless you guys want me to stop this then I suggest you do as I tell you to. =) just kidding. =) review please! =)
-Gunning Angel-