3/30/05
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- Note From The Authors Here's chapter 2! Yup a quick update -sigh- don't you just love spring break? Okay anyhoo…time for the chapter.
- Disclaimer See Chapter 1, well disclaimer first…then the chapter!
Chapter 2
Samira stood in the office tapping her foot, as she waited for the principal to come out and see her. She stood impatiently looking at the ground; she looked up once the door opened.
"Shouldn't you be in your homeroom?" Mr. Sengupta asked.
She shook her head quickly holding her hand out to him. "I'm Samira Watsuki, the agent that was sent, for further investigation to the murderers," she introduced herself smiling as she still held out her hand waiting for him to shake it. As if unsure the principal stuck out a hesitant hand to shake the girl's hand.
"Why would they send such a young agent?" he asked. Samira pulled her hand away insulted.
"What you'd expect? For them to send an old geezer? Humph," she sighed, "I was the best bet for bait, and I am a top agent," she said.
"I see, so you're bait, you're actually going to get yourself kidnapped?" he asked. She merely nodded.
"Yes that's it, it's the best way to catch the real killer, we have many suspects, but we're not really sure of them, the one the authorities question the most, are these three…" she searched her head for the information she needed, her eyes looking up, "That used to be part of an association called DOMA I believe," she stopped nodding her head, "Yes DOMA." The principal looked at her quite shocked. He would've never expected they'd send someone like her, but it was their decision. As she turned to looked at her notes something caught her eye.
A teenager with dirty blonde hair, and bright blue eyes passed by the office, she turned to the principal, "Who's that?" she asked.
"His name is Gnainen Reyes; he's a new student that transferred in today. Samira nodded jotting down his name. Suddenly a scream was heard Samira jerked her heard towards the source, and ran out of the office. She pulled out her gun for safety; she passed by one of the bathrooms, when she heard another scream coming from within the bathroom. She turned back and entered the guy's bathroom, being cautious of her surroundings as she looked around. Inside, a man in a black trench coat hovered over a girl. The girl he was towering over wore an expression of sheer horror. The man in the trench coat looked back at Samira; he lifted up his hand revealing a tattoo of a dragon. He swung down his arm and a mysterious cloud of black smoke filled the bathroom, Samira coughed as the smoke entered her nose making it hard to breath. She put up her hand to cover her face, only her eyes and forehead showing. She lunged foreword hoping the man would still be there, but surprisingly he was gone and only the frightened girl stood in the same stupor as before. She cursed under her breath, walking out of the bathroom. There two officers greeted her, with confused glances.
"She's in there," she said slumping against the wall. The two policemen rushed past her into the bathroom, awhile later coming out with the traumatized girl. The intercom turned on, and the principal's voice boomed throughout the school.
"The lockdown is now complete, your parents have been called, with information of what has happened, school is now over for today, tomorrow it will commence at the same time," he announced. Jonouchi sighed as he thought of where Samira could be at the moment. He tried to comfort himself with thoughts like, she most likely went to the wrong room, but when he heard the scream he was now unsure of what he thought. He sighed again peering out the window, when he noticed a black figure on top of the building next to the school, he rubbed his eyes not believing what he just saw, as he opened them the figure was gone. Now confused, he picked up his backpack and left the room. As he exited the room, he noticed Samira was slumped against the wall next to the bathroom door. He sighed, this time out of relief as he made his way up to her. He noticed her head was slumped down looking at her feet, not paying attention to anything around her. She looked up as she saw a pair of feet in front of her.
"Hey," started Joey, "I got worried, I didn't see you in class, did you get lost?" he asked. She nodded.
"Yeah went to the wrong class," she said letting out a forced giggle.
He nodded, "Well this was a great day to be new to the school." She laughed a bit.
"It wasn't that bad, at least a made some friends," she a small smile tugging at her lips. Jonouchi blushed a bit. She straightened herself as she walked past him.
"I'll see you tomorrow I guess," she said behind her shoulder as she disappeared behind the corner.
Samira opened the door, slipping inside her new apartment. It was furnished, as all the others she had stayed at previously were. She let her backpack slip from her shoulder. Her clipboard was still in hand, she had made some more notes as she made her way home. She slipped off her shoes leaving them by the door with her backpack. She sat down on one of the chairs in the kitchen setting down her clipboard on the table. She glanced over the notes she had made. She came across the name of the new kid she had seen while she was in the office, now that she remembered, from what she'd seen of that dark figure in the bathroom, he had the same hair color as the boy.
"That's impossible," she said rolling her eyes, "He couldn't have been there so quickly, or could he have?" she growled a bit out of frustration, getting up from the chair and heading to the shower. After taking her shower, and getting ready for bed, which she would most likely not sleep in that long tonight, she made her way to the fridge taking out something to eat and sitting back down studying her notes, and information she had about the chain of murderers. She looked over the pictures of the suspects making notes on them, and memorizing the faces if she was ever to come upon any of them. Samira studied the information for quite a bit of hours, before she knew it, it was already one in the morning. She sighed leaving her clip board on the table heading to bed.
"At least I don't have to worry about homework," she said making her way to the room.
Samira awoke, to the voice of someone over the radio. She groaned not wanting to get up but forced herself up from the bed. She quickly got dressed, and made her bed, before heading into the kitchen. She pulled out the lunch she had managed to make last night and put it in her backpack. She grabbed her clipboard off the table as well. As she picked it up, she heard a small paper flutter to the floor. She sighed putting her things on the couch kneeling to pick up the paper that had fallen; she turned it over as it had fallen face down. She read the letters at the top of it, DOMA; she didn't remember seeing this picture last night.
"Must've overlooked it, I guess…" she said. Before placing it back into the clip board she looked over it, the three of them did seem like an odd trio. She shrugged, she didn't see how they were suspected, she thought most likely because of the way they looked. She put it in the pile of pictures she had, putting her clip board in her backpack as well. She slung her backpack strap over her shoulder, making her way out the door, making sure to lock it before she left.
Jonouchi anxiously walked down the hallway in search of Samira, when he didn't spot her he gave up and went to his homeroom. He turned into his homeroom to see Samira chewing on the end of her of pencil studying a piece of paper in front of her. Jonouchi set down his backpack startling Samira, she jumped and bit and quickly covered the papers she was looking at, she then looked up to meet Jonouchi's coffee colored eyes.
"Hey Samira," Jonouchi said.
"Hey Joey," Samira replied as she shoved the papers back into her backpack. Jonouchi took a seat, on his chair. The teacher walked in, setting up the warm-up problems on the board as she did yesterday. Once again Jonouchi pulled out a piece of paper and copied down the problems from the board. A few moments later the bell rang and the students filed into the classroom, chatting and quieting down as they took their seats and did the warm-up problems. As Jonouchi looked up almost finished with the second problem he noticed Samira was already done with the problems and was looking up at the clock, then her glance turned to the outside, her head resting on her hand in boredom. She was again startled when the door creaked open and a boy stumbled into the classroom. Samira looked up at the front noticing he was the same boy from yesterday. He made his way to the teacher handing her a slip just as she had done yesterday. The teacher got him situated and he sat down, his seat was two seats behind Samira's, she looked back at him, and turned around when she saw he turned to look at her. Again she resumed her position looking out the window waiting for the teacher to announce the time for warm-ups was finished. She pondered about the tattoo on the mysterious man. She had never seen anything like it before, except on some men she had known who had been in biker gangs, and he for one didn't compare to any of the bikers she knew. The teacher asked for the warm-ups to be passed up. After the warm-ups were passed up the class commenced. Samira couldn't help but notice that Jonouchi was staring at her, yet again. She turned to him and whispered lightly.
"Umm…why are you staring at me?" she asked although she thought she knew the answer already. Jonouchi snapped back into reality not having noticed he was staring at her.
"Sorry…didn't mean to," he whispered back as his attention fell upon the teacher. Samira shook her head adverting her attention to the teacher as well. Time flew by and class was over, before they realized it.
When the second class was over, Samira made her way to the lunchroom; she sat down at an empty table pulling out her lunch and her clip board as well. She just took the lunch out of the bag it was in and set it down upon the table, taking the drink, and taking a small sip from it, again looking over the papers she had. She kept the straw from the drink in her mouth, chewing on the end of it, trying to concentrate on the papers she was looking over.
"Excuse me," said an unfamiliar voice. Samira covered her papers with a spare folder before looking up to see the speaker.
"Yes?" she questioned.
"I was wondering if you know where I can locate Anzu Mazaki?"
Samira paused, "She sits over there," she answered pointing at the table where they had been yesterday, "At least I think…" she finished. The boy nodded and made his way towards the table she had pointed at. She studied him as he talked to Anzu, when she noticed that they both walked inside the building together, she gathered her papers and followed. As she was about to enter the building Jonouchi appeared in front of her, she stopped eyeing the ground not looking up.
"'Cuse me," she said finally looking up, "Jonouchi?" she asked as she saw it was none other than him in her way.
"Hey there Samira," he said looking down at her, as she was a few inches shorter than him.
"Hey Jonouchi," she said looking past his shoulder at Anzu and the boy not wanting to loose them, "Can you excuse me for a moment," she said not waiting for a response and brushed past him. Jonouchi raised an eyebrow, as he saw Samira run in after the two of them. Samira glanced ahead and noticed that Anzu and Gnainen had turned a corner. She picked up her pace, slowing as she turned the corner, to not startle them, once she turned, to her dismay she found they weren't there anymore.
"So he is the killer," she said under her breath closing her hands into fists and gritting her teeth, "He got away from me again," she sighed walking back towards the lunchroom in defeat.
The rest of the school day went by in a haze. When Samira reached her apartment she placed her backpack on the couch not bothering to take her shoes off, she went to the phone and quickly dialed in a number. After the person on the other line picked up she asked to speak to Detective Inouye, when he answered she didn't bother saying who was speaking.
"I found the killer," she said quickly.
"Wait…what Samira?" asked Detective Inouye on the other line.
"Yes it's me, I found another lead, I'm pretty sure this guy is the killer," she explained.
"And who is it?"
She searched her head for the name, "Ahh…his name was Gnainen something," she said going over to her backpack to find the name, "I have it in here somewhere," she mumbled.
"What makes you think he's the killer?" he asked.
"I encountered the killer the other day, and this kid is just like him, he disappeared with this other girl, Anzu Mazaki," she finished.
"They could have gone into a room."
"I highly doubt that," responded Samira.
"Well until you dig further information up on this guy, our best lead right now is those three DOMA associates."
Samira sighed, "Why would he go back to school, if he knows I know?" she asked.
"He's a nutcase; I bet he will be there tomorrow."
"Okay, fine, whatever," she said hanging up the phone on the receiver.
