Summary: Tohru, Kyo, Yuki, Shigure, Haru and Momiji get the chance of a lifetime as they are whisked away on a four-day trip on The Orient Express! But all trouble breaks loose as some one is killed and a detective-type crime sweep pursues…
"A TRAIN RIDE TO REMEMBER"
CHAPTER 14
But one person was stood at the front of the crowd. In his blue uniform and two golden badges. The Inspector looked under pressure. Tohru laughed at this and the others looked and laughed too. Then they sat down in compartment 75's beds and slept
The next morning everyone woke refreshed. Then Tohru remembered... Yuki
"What happened to Yuki's body?" she asked, everyone froze, either because they didn't want to discuss it or they didn't know
"I thought they got rid of it in Akita?" said Shigure
"No, that wasn't Yuki's body" said Tohru, "I'm sure it wasn't. That was too small to be his"
"Yeah, now that you mention it it did seem a bit small" said Shigure
"Maybe I shrunk him when I hit him?" suggested Kyo
"Now's not the time to be funny, Kyo" said Shigure
Kyo just then gave an ugly look and stared out the window at the mass crowd of people, which, seemed to be geting bigger
"Where's Haru anyway?" asked Tohru
"Probably outside, protesting." said Shigure "and beating the officers up again" (A/N: under his breath)
"What was that?" asked Haru, who had appeared at the door, black soot covering him
"You've been to the engine. Haven't you?" asked Shigure
"Yeah" said Haru
"Why?" asked Tohru
"The 'Inspector' ran there" said Haru "so I followed him"
"And...?"
"He pushed me into the tender" said Haru (A/N: if you didn't know, a tender is the thing at the back of a steam train that has coal in it)
"Are you OK?" asked Tohru
"Fine" said Haru "the thing is, when he left it sounded like 'he's next' and it was the same for Akito" he added "Next for what?"
It had started to unravel before them. Had the Inspector or Akito commited those murders? If so why? Had they got a reason for it?
"I think I know who it was" said Tohru "The Inspector or Akito! Remember? They were always there first! Did they do all these things for a reason?"
Suddenly Momiji burst into the door, slid it open rubbing his cheek and pulled Tohru and the others with him to the luggage carriage
"I think we've been here long enough Momiji... what is it?" asked Haru
Momiji lead them to the last luggage carriage, which, was the darkest and had less luggage in it. There were cobwebs everywhere and low-hanging beams
Momiji lead them to the back, where, more than eleven bags were placed.
"This can't be..." said Tohru
"It is!" said Shigure "They're... body bags"
Haru walked up to one. Everyone shouted him not to, but he did. He slowly unzipped the bag to find... Jeimii... motionless and pale, his eyes wide open and staring, un-blinkingly. His once bouncy hair was now lifeless and sad, Haru screamed and zipped up the bag, which seemed to be the longest yet. Haru stepped back
Now it was Kyo's turn. Same again, people telling him not to, yet he did. He unzipped one next to Jeimii's and Yuki's head literally popped out, once again pale eyes wide open and staring into nothingness. Kyo (very not wanting to do this) with the tip of his finger pushed Yuki's limp head into the bag.
That was enough, they ran, they now knew, the bodies hadn't been rid of, why?
Only one person knew and that was...
"The Inspector... He's up to something. It's either him or Akito... or maybe they're in on this together... He even asked me if Yuki was dead, when he obviously knew because he was there" said Tohru
(A/N: Who is it? Akito? or the Inspector? Find out next time!)