Disclaimer: I do not own Detective school Q… yeah whatever…
A: for those brave souls who actually read this story up to this point, I applaud you… I had a very clear story in my mind but due to my excessive descriptive writing and lots of exaggerations I have transformed this nice decent story in to a very twisted mental case… gomen nasai…bows head again and againfrom this chapter onwards I will try not to confuse you guys anymore… that's it…R&R…plz
P.s. Since I'm taking so long to write this, as a present you'll be getting two of chapters instead of one…yayy…
Thanks to the reviews of:
Asterismiko: Thanks, I wanted to portray it like that too. Ryuu is obviously the strongest and it'd be scarier if he's the one possessed…
Tomoyo7: cool, me too. I'm a bit sadistic after playing mortal combat for long hours… don't worry I think I can arrange for bloodshed except we have very few people to sacrifice now… cross fingers hoping
Xmiahimex: thanks a lot. And the answers you want are in this… it's going to be a bit funny but I think I explained everything here…
Chapter 12 – Illusions and Reality …
Ryuu's POV
"Ow…" I groaned, fluttering my eyes open after what seemed like an eternity of darkness… my head was throbbing, my eyesight were a blurry mess…
"He's coming to" a voice sounded relieved.
I blinked, twice… things were coming to focus now, but still my head held the feeling as if it'd been hammered in, and I was surprised to taste blood in my mouth…
"Wh-what happened?" I winced as a sharp pain burst from the side of my head when I tried to move…
"Ryuu?" three voices exclaimed the same thing at once…
I ignored them, trying to check if anything else was injured other then my head feeling banged in. as far as I could see nothing was broken, and though hesitantly I slowly sat up ignoring the pain.
"Whoa, you okay man?" Hayato placed a firm hand on my shoulder as I swayed threatening to flop again.
"He's o-okay?" Yuki uttered mostly to herself, surprised.
I stared at her; her shoulder was bleeding though it'd been tied up with a hankie.
"What happened to you?" the words came out before I could stop them, the three of them stared at me incredulously…
"What?"
"He doesn't remember" Meg confided to the others in a loud whisper.
"What does that mean?" Hayato thought out loud.
"So he couldn't have… because he didn't know…" Yuki mumbled.
"What's going on?" I cocked my eyebrow irritated.
All three of them stopped their talks and stared at me worriedly. I stared back intently, whatever was going on I needed to know. They were acting too suspicious.
"Ryuu…" Meg started slowly "You attacked us…"
"What?" it was my turn to look surprised
"You attacked us…" Yuki repeated, rolling her eyes, angrily.
I stared at her wound "Yuki? Did I…?"
There was a silence…
I attacked them? So… why don't I remember?
Yuki's POV
He didn't remember…
That look on his face was genuine; he really didn't remember slashing at me, trying to kill me. And if Hayato hadn't stopped him, he would have gone and killed Meg too. As the silence intensified I wanted to scream at him, why? But I already knew that he didn't know the answers. We were being played…
"Let's go get someone have look at that" I felt Hayato touch my wounded shoulder lightly.
"Wha-" I started then stopped letting him steer me out of that place. Along the hallway we were heading towards the nurse's office…
"Thanks for saving me" He whispered as we walked along the halls.
"No problem" I muttered closing my eyes for a second "Thanks for stopping him" I smiled suddenly shy as he brushed away a strand of hair that had fallen into my face.
"I wish Meg said had that…" he smiled sheepishly "…instead of hitting me on the head"
I giggled abruptly, "Well you did hit him over the head." I patted him lightly, surprising myself "It was unfair after she hit him the soap right?"
"I'm glad she did" his smile deepened, and for some unknown reason I blushed "she saved you"
"We're here" the words left my mouth automatically, I had wanted to know where this was leading but to be honest I was more terrified of that then when Ryuu swung that knife at me…
I started to go in but then Hayato suddenly grabbed my arm so fast that I yelped…
"What are you doing?" I burst out angrily, pulling away.
"Wait!" he tried to stop me but I had already seen what he was hiding.
'Yukito' my heart missed a beat, seeing him there. He was lying on the bed, something was wrong...
Without another thought I ran towards him, touched him…his hand was cold. He was…
Dead…
Angry tears tried to force out of my eyes, distracting myself I flung my fist out and purposely stuck the metal table next to the bed. I punched my hand again and again trying to drain out my anguish in the pain but it didn't happen… it was getting worse, my mouth filled up with vomit and I started struggling for breath... I felt dizzy, and weak, so weak that I felt sick with myself.
"Yuki please stop" someone grabbed my hand as I attempted to injure it more… Hayato leaned close to me and put a comforting arm around my shoulders, at the same time my tears broke free, flowing silently down my cheeks. I had refused to cry, but my tears would not stop...
'He's dead' my mind screamed at me, 'he's dead because you couldn't solve this mystery soon enough'
"I won't stop" I whispered clenching my aching hand, ignoring the stinging pain "I won't stop until I find out who did this"
I promise…
Kuniko's POV
Everyone was quiet in the meeting, and almost everyone was avoiding eye contact. I wondered what was wrong but hadn't the nerve to ask.
"Let's begin" Meg said after a couple of minutes…
"The newest victim, Yukito Kazawami: died strangled to death by girlfriend Kunai Hiroki, time of death estimated 5:28pm… nothing suspicious found in crime scene. Only thing strange was that Kunai didn't remember any of it" Hayato informed mechanically.
Kyu and Yuki didn't even seem to be listening. Both stared ahead with forlorn expressions. Meg and Hayato were trying to act like everything was alright but the moodiness was catching on. Ryuu too was staring into space lost in thought.
I stared at all of them, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing" it was Ryuu who answered, he glanced at me then I blushed unconditionally… before I could realize what was happening, Ryuu's hand had snaked out and taken mine in his.
"Ryuu…" I gasped, my heart hammered… 'Now what?' I thought frantically. Oh god he was so close, I don't know why but I suddenly felt claustrophobic just then. Just standing there next to him was scary. And his eyes…
Wow…
"Kuniko…" he started softly, voice with the slightest hint of insecurity… "Do you…love me?"
Thunder blast, Waterworks, Tsunami-like-waves-hitting-cliff…everything hit me with full impact with the words… Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me? The words echoed again and again in my head…my heart broke free, beating ecstatically at the final realization, yes I do… I do love you Ryuu! I thought wildly, blushing deeper, if that was even possible. But despite my true feelings all I managed to say was a hypocritical…
"W-what?" I stammered as usual ignoring my conscience which was yelling 'coward' particularly loudly today…
"Do you?" his eyes were so warm, yet so probing…
Over his shoulder I saw the shocked expressions on the other's faces, and I shifted uncomfortably.
"Ryuu, why are you…?
"Kuniko…" he interrupted, "You proposed to me under the huge Oak…."
Meg let out a shocked gasp … I winced, 'where is this leading?'
"I…" I really didn't know what to say.
"Don't you remember?" Ryuu leaned forwards staring intently into my eyes, trying to see if I was fibbing, I think… "Do you remember? Please this is important."
I felt a cold shiver run down my spine…'What is he talking about?'
Ryuu watched me; intensely "You don't remember do you?"
I stared at the floor helplessly, then nodded gulping, trying to stop the tears that was so desperately trying to burst out "I don't remember"
He smiled unexpectedly, one of those mysterious smiles that made his physical attraction increase a tenfold…
"I knew it" he snickered, which is really weird to hear since Ryuu is always so… emotionless…
"What is it?" Hayato asked.
"I know why Kunai killed Yukito, and why I attacked you guys…" his eyes gleamed enthusiastically "It's because we were hypnotized, that's why we didn't remember afterwards. The subjects does not remember anything after they're been hypnotized, because they are asked to do it unconsciously, so when the conscious mind snaps back on there is no recollection of the previous tasks… don't you see"
"So Kuniko was hypnotized too?" Meg asked sounding slightly relieved.
Ryuu nodded, "Because the killer had targeted me next, she wanted it to be successful so she did it to make me drop my guard. You see hypnosis does not usually work on people having a clear state of mind. So when she made me feel uneasy, I wasn't thinking clearly and thus. Leading us there and hypnotizing one of us so we'd spread the bloodshed ourselves … very clever"
"Kunai didn't mean to kill Yukito?" Yuki said pulling on a determined face "So how did the killer do that?"
"In hypnosis, there's always a trigger that activates the unconscious mind, retreating the conscious to the backseat… so there might be clue in Yukito's room relating to the Killer that's been purposely placed there for him"
"So what are we waiting for?" Kyu muttered talking the lead and walking out the room with everyone behind him…
Everyone except me…
I waited for a second, then broke down, sank to the floor as tears of hurt, sorrow, remorse and most of all humiliation came flooding down my cheeks uncontrollably…
'Stupid idiot' my conscience scolded silently 'stupid… stupid…'
A: I feel horrible… about Kuniko. I'm sorry if I'm shattering anyone's illusions because of Ryuu not having that kind of feelings for Kuniko; I'm sorry,& I mean it with all my heart. But that's how the story goes, I don't plan the stories they just come to me… smiles sheepishly I'm hopeless aren't I? I tried to put some fluff with Hayato and Yuki but it seemed to be missing something…I don't think I'm good at writing romance…sorry again.
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