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(19/11/05) I edited this because I accidentally uploaded the wrong script… sorry about that…

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Chapter 13 – the wrong victim and the next clue… (Edited)

Kyu's POV

"What next?" Yuki asked when we reached the crime scene: Yukito's room.

"Search for anything that's out of the ordinary…"

With that order everyone split up searching for clues… a few minutes passed.

"Watch out!" Meg cried at the same moment a cluster of note papers and books fell on my head, from above.

"OW" I muttered rubbing my head. I stood up from under the desk.

"Sorry" Meg smiled sheepishly at me, and then stared at me, eyes wide.

"What?"

"The computer, it's on" she dropped down from the desk then opened the monitor "There might be an e-mail like the one we received…"

"Good thinking" I replied standing up… Meg clicked on the page, and then she stopped abruptly.

"Meg, wha-" I began to say, but then two hands wrapped around my neck, forcefully crushing down my windpipe, choking me… "Meg…" I tried to cry out but then I suddenly felt myself slipping away into the darkness… just before I passed out I saw someone come towards me then I fell to the floor, gasping.

Yuki's POV

"Meg, wha-"

That voice made me turn… What the…?

The sight that greeted me was not pretty, Meg was strangling Kyu! Her eyes looked just like Ryuu's when he attacked us, cold and emotionless…

Without as much as another thought, I dashed forwards and pulled Meg off him, Kyu fell to the floor but he was breathing… Meg, on the other hand, started kicking and scratching desperate to get away from me.

"Guys help me" I gasped trying to hold on to Meg who was flailing wildly.

Ryuu grabbed one of her arms and Hayato grabbed the other. Working together the both of them managed to hold her, while I checked on Kyu.

"Hey" I whispered, touching his neck softly, there were red finger marks where Meg had strangled him "You okay?"

Kyu nodded "Meg found the trigger" he replied enthusiastically as always.

I laughed, ignoring the sounds of struggle behind us "Sure she did" then I got to my feet, pulling him up "Come on" we walked towards the others just as Meg had managed to outmatch the boys and had her hands wrapped around Hayato's neck this time.

Between the four of us, we managed to pin her down on the floor but she still fought back, fiercely.

"Ryuu" I yelled "she's still…"

Ryuu looked around, "Find something… Kyu, grab that vase"

"You are not going to hit her over the head with that" Hayato retorted angrily speaking what was in my mind. Kyu let go and grabbed for the vase as Meg twisted aggressively, pushing us both away. Ryuu let go, stood up and took the vase from Kyu…

"Ryuu don't" I screamed at him but he ignored me, and flung the contents of the vase at her. The water flew in slow motion… seemly covering a great distance then finally hitting Meg.

"W-what happened?" she flinched a bit, rubbing her eyes lightly.

"You found the trigger" Ryuu said patting her on her shoulder, Meg blushed.

"You also tried to kill Kyu and me" Hayato explained breaking her moment of happiness.

"And you scratched me" I held up my lower arms showing the scratch marks on my arms "See?"

Meg turned pale, and then turned to Ryuu "I attacked you too?"

"Don't worry about it" he smiled opening the computer again. He logged into the page Meg had recently opened, "now if we turn that e-mail into a DOS format then it won't trigger again"

"I get it" Kyu replied eagerly "we can read what it says without getting hypnotized. Good thinking Ryuu"

Ryuu changed the format and then suddenly the computer filled up with the tiny letters…

KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.

KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.

KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.

KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.

KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.

KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.

KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.

KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.KILL.

"Wow" I muttered "a subconscious message"

"Hypnosis and subliminal messaging" Ryuu whistled "She's good"

"She can't possibly plan this out herself. It's huge… do you think Pluto is behind thi –" Meg started but was cut off by Ryuu.

"No" Ryuu interrupted and when everyone stared he added "There's no proof of that yet. She could be doing this alone"

"Great. We know the killer is a genius at hypnosis and psychology. What next?" I shrugged, down because we found a clue but it lead to the same cluster of questions that made this mystery.

"Wait, how does Yukito fit into all of this?" Kyu asked suddenly.

The question had been nagging me too. Yukito wasn't directly involved in this mystery, he was close to a suspect but he didn't have any other links except that he was close to us. So something really important was missing in this…

"He was close to a suspect"

"No, the suspects were being killed not their alibi" Kyu objected, staring at me strangely. He was asking me something… something I was supposed to know but forgot.

"Yeah, come to think of it, the message could have been for Yukito as it's his computer, Kunai must have accidentally opened it" Ryuu muttered finally answering the questions I was desperately trying to find.

"So you're saying Kunai was supposed to die?" Meg asked dumbfounded.

"That's right, Kunai was a suspect too. So she could have accidentally opened the e-mail and she got hypnotized instead of him and then she killed him." said Kyu.

"But then the killer mixed up, I don't believe, after all that flawless planning, she miscalculated that Yukito might not be the one who'd open the e-mail." I muttered quietly "she knew that both of them were together but she overlooked the fact that Kunai might be the one to open it…"

"It might be a coincidence, in every blind attempt there will be a fifty/fifty chance that it might go both ways" Ryuu answered for me.

That might be right but… then it hit me suddenly.

"Kyu, do you remember the day we met Yukito, down by the lake?" I asked him suddenly.

Kyu's face brightened up "I get it" and to the others he said "Yukito was long sighted, he wore contacts. I remember that I was mesmerized that he had different colored eyes; almost no one knows that he has green eyes. The Killer didn't mix up. She didn't know Yukito was long sighted or else she would have done something else to kill Kunai" he finished weakly.

He was smiling. We were getting closer to solving the mystery… it was finally leading somewhere…

A: Like? I spent two whole days searching for the right words for subliminal messaging… the next chapter will give out more clues to the killer identity and a new threat…ja ne until next week then…

P.S. I don't know much about the DOS format & Hypnosis, & Subliminal messaging… I was only speculating…for the storyline… so sorry if I'm doing anything wrong…