Disclaimer: I do not own DSQ… I do not wish to own DSQ… I only wish to own Ryuu… (Gets bad vibe: - death glares from all the Ryu lovers out there: Oh oh… laughs nervously) just kidding…
this chapter is really long... but I hope you read it any way, also I accidentally rated it T, it's supposed to be K, Sorry everyone…I'll try to fix it…(note: I'm not pairing anyone yet…so Meg is just going mushy on her own)
This chapter has all the info on the case…but it's very complicated since everyone is contributing their ideas…
Thank you :Mishibara for reveiwing...
Chapter 3 – the mystery & explanations
Meg's POV
We decided to meet in my room, to talk about this murder… also to share what we had found out up until now… as three separate teams we all had agreed to meet up to talk, after school… it was necessary… to discuss what each group has found out.
Kazuma has just called from the hospital with the news that Mizuki, the second victim had died. He explained it to me but it was unbelievable…
"Hi Meg" Ryuu was the first to arrive; I noticed that he was always early… a very decent habit… and I noticed that he was as handsome as ever… with his cute blue hair and deep eyes and…
Stop it, stop thinking about him, I told myself, pinching myself…
"Hi Ryuu, come in and sit down" I said turning away quickly, as usual I was blushing… stupid… stupid… I cannot believe how much of an effect Ryuu had on me… how my heart begins to pound like it's going to break out… or how the room suddenly feels incommodious… you're doing that again… my mind scolded me.
I was grateful when somebody knocked on the door…
"Hello" Kuniko Touya muttered nervously, walking into my room… with her was the other two members of Class A who had gone undercover with us; Yukihira Sakurako and Hayato Shiramine.
"Hi Meg" Hayato smiled sweetly at me.
Yuki pouted and walked in without a word.
"So is everybody here?" Hayato asked me, still smiling…
"Kyu is late…" I told him with a chuckle "…as always"
Hayato laughed well naturedly… Yuki stormed in, nearly stomping on his feet and took a seat next to Ryuu on the bed. Kuniko, who's been indecisive about a place to sit took it as a relief and sat down in the only chair next to the desk. I sat between Yuki and Hayato. The room was really crowded; Kyu would have to sit on the floor when he comes…
"Shall we start without him?" I asked them.
As if on cue, Kyu burst in, in his usual quirky way… excited and out of breath…
"I'm I late?" he asked totally oblivious to the 'typical' stares the others were giving him… except Ryuu of course, he's the only one…..
Stop it Meg…
"Shall we begin?" Ryuu said in a low tone, I noticed that he was sounding weary.
"Yes… let's start with synopsis of the mystery since we all got parts of it…" Kyu said nodding at me "then we can all contribute what we've found out"
That was so typical… just because I had a photographic memory… and obviously I was the only one who got the full report…from the looks on their faces…
"Alright" I cleared my throat and reviewed the facts from my amazingly accurate memory… "This case was brought to DDS two days ago… so there isn't much info except the incidents…The first incident was Akane Fijioki's suicide… she was found in her room covered in her blood… not quite dead but very close to it. She slipped into a coma after they took her to the hospital… she apparently had tried to suicide, her medical report suggest that she had swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills, that she borrowed from her best friend Rin Masumi, and also slit her wrists… Note: the doctors found it very strange that her wrists were cut vertically instead of horizontally in which there was more of a chance for her to die…"
"Someone might have been trying to make her suffer then" Yuki said the thing that was in all of our minds. She was right; this was no ordinary suicide…
"That rules out the sleeping pills…" Ryuu told her calmly "Even if someone cut her wrists there is no way they could force her to shallow it all…"
"Continuing what I was saying that day before the accident, she informed all of her friends that she was going home, her parents were expecting her too… another strange thing was that she sent her suicide note to all her friends using her own E-mail ID…"
"That doesn't make any sense" Hayato said in confused voice.
"Oh, there's more, she was found by her ex-boyfriend Mizuki Kano…"
"The second victim?" Kuniko asked meekly.
I nodded "the police originally suspected that Akane was killed by him because of the weird suicide and also the fact that they had a huge argument in the main hall, in front of the whole school… and Mizuki started acting strange after the suicide. He was even arrested, but then all the charges were dropped when the killer attacked him next…"
Everyone remained quiet; the mystery was becoming interesting now…
"The second victim, Mizuki Kano: he was found in the hallway near the computer labs, electrocuted, the killer aimed for the nerve centre on the side of his head…" I remembered the picture of him we got in our file when we were assigned to this mystery.
The picture showed the spot where he was electrocuted; it was swollen quite grotesquely…
"…fortunately it was a minor shock and he survived. But he couldn't remember anything about the attack… we assume that he was attacked from behind and he had no idea of it. Also…" I took a deep breath "…Karuma had just informed me that Mizuki had died half an hour ago…"
Kuniko gasped, the rest looked shocked except for usually expressionless Ryuu.
"… Due to internal bleeding caused by the shock, apparently his nerves were inflamed and they caused several of his blood vessels to burst…. Resulting in his death, the doctors suspected that he'd been bleeding for a few days but the symptoms didn't show…"
"So we've lost that lead?" Kyu asked very seriously.
I nodded helplessly again… "That's it for Mizuki, except that he did threaten to kill Ayano, in front of the whole school… next is Amika Ruminiko: her murder is the strangest of them all, because she had no connection to the other two victims. Also she was killed in a more direct way then the other two… she was found stabbed in the girl's bathroom on the third floor…"
I took another deep breath remembering the pictures from her crime scene, I retched then took a hold of myself "she was found in a pool of her own blood, she seemed to have died the moment she was stabbed, there was no signs of any struggle… her killing did not make any sense. Most people didn't even know that she even existed before her death, she was a total outcast. She was found by her only friend Sayuri Hinasaki, another wallflower… according to witnesses; Sayuri had run straight to that bathroom screaming for Amika… The only thing that related this murder to the others is that Amika was stabbed by Akane's knife… and it was after this murder that the police asked for assistance from DDS" I finished and looked around at everyone…
Everyone was lost to their own minds, thinking about this difficult case…
"So what do you think guys?" I asked everyone, I had no idea what to think.
"The killer is very unpredictable. He had a chance to blame it all on Mizuki but he saved him why?" Ryuu said quietly like he was talking to himself "that does not make any sense, could there be two killers… one killed Akane, the other tried to avenge her by killing Mizuki, like you said he was the main suspect…"
"But that doesn't explain why Amika was killed…" Hayato pointed out.
"Maybe she was a witness" Ryuu told him "she was probably killed because she saw something… that we should at least take in to consideration. It's the only thing that makes any sense in this murder"
"Yeah" I agreed, it made sense, only now it was more complicated.
"What did you guys find out?" Kyu asked the others.
"Me, and Ryuu are assigned to investigate Amika's ties to this case. But there isn't much it's like she never existed…her best friend Sayuri is definitely weird… she had a fit when I tried to cheer her up. Yeah… she said something about… I don't know but she said she knew that Amika was going to die…" Yuki said getting sarcastic "other then that there's nothing, none of their classmates knew anything about her or Amika, except that Sayuri screams every time she touches someone. Also both of them were labeled as freaks for acting strangely in class." she sighed heavily, very unlike her usual confident self.
Ryuu stared at her looking worried.
"Kyuu and I were assigned to find out more about Akane. There are a lot of people who wanted Akane dead; Akane was on the top of the popularity chart. We know the first suspect was Mizuki, since he's dead now, the new main suspect is Kunai Hiroki, she used to be the most popular girl in school but she lost to Akane and she swore that she'd get back at her. Then there's Kabuto Wada, he loved Akane, some people said that he had continuously asked Akane her out but she always turned him down and he got really angry when she got together with Mizuki. It is a known fact that he hated Mizuki… so he could be the second killer…" Kuniko said nervously staring at the floor "also there is Shiza Kinamoto, Lin Seide, Kaede Jiuine, all of them hated her… there's her best friend Rin Masumi… she gave her the sleeping pills so she's technically a suspect…"
Hayato interrupted her "Akane's best friend, Rin Masumi had been admitted in the school infirmary for a week… she blamed herself when Akane committed suicide… though she still is a suspect I don't think she did it… she idolized Akane and had a sort of a crush on Mizuki…"
"How did you know about it?" I asked him, impressed. He was assigned to investigate the crime scenes with me; I didn't know he was investigating on his own…
"There was a very talkative girl in Music class, Aoki Sakaguchi – she told me that Rin had once written a love song for Mizuki, it was so obvious that everyone except Mizuki figured it out."
"But she's becoming more suspicious… she could have tried to kill Akane…"
"She was always loyal to Akane, even though others may disapprove; also Akane only went out with Mizuki because Rin had asked her to. And she has an alibi" he told me, "She was in the library with a group of friends when the incident happened"
There was a silence…
"What about the others, do they all have solid alibis?" Ryuu asked in a whisper.
"Kunai was with a friend apparently, Yukito Kazawami: a senior, they were supposed to be studying together… Kabuto has no alibi that we know of yet… he's been absent since Sunday, Kyu is going to check his room tonight. And the girls, they were spotted in town the time of Akane's suicide, and most of their friends say they had been arranging that shopping trip for months"
"About the three girls, Shiza, Lin and Kaede… why would they want to hurt Akane?" Yuki asked Kuniko.
"They had always hated her, for being popular, I think… I don't know… someone said Akane used to be part of their group before she became popular. And you know the knife used to kill Amika… it was a birthday present from them when they were still friends"
"This is depressing…" Yuki thought out loud.
She was right, it was very depressing… every lead we got led to more questions, and not one of them had given the answer we needed. Obviously everyone was thinking the same thing. Everyone was quietly contemplating the case.
Kyu stood up from where he was sitting on the floor "this case… it's very interesting" he smiled at the concept everyone else was depressed about "this might be a challenge but I'm not giving up…"
I smiled at what he was going to say next…
"…if a detective gives up, the case will remain unsolved, and I'm not going to let that happen…"
Somehow Kyu's words were affecting all of us with his confidence and his determinatation, his sense of justice; it was like a light in the dark…
"… and we're the DDS, we can't give up so soon. If we can't solve it then no one can"
"Who said anything about giving up" Yuki said gruffly, but she smiled at him.
"We're not giving up so easily" Hayato said at Kyu. He was smiling too.
Kuniko nodded in approval.
Ryuu smiled mysteriously…
"Alright… let's do this" Kyu exclaimed…
I know the ending sucks, but I got bored after all the explanations… there's still more info on the victims. And unexpected confessions and surprises… it's going to be more unpredictable… and I'm thinking of another murder… also if it's getting boring plz tell me… if you read it you should review coz I'm really want to know what to think, if I'm bad – torture me. If I'm good – tell me. My English is very limited and I'm trying my best here…