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A: BIG NOTICE: "DON'T GET CONFUSED"…hope you guys get a better perspective of this case from this chappie… R&R plz…
I'm changing the category from humor to angst…this is way too depressing…
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Chapter 14 – more answers…
Hayato's POV
We were all silently walking to the grounds after Crazy Meg incident… everyone quiet then suddenly Ryuu spoke up…
"It's all very confusing but…." Ryuu said quietly "…I think I can speculate what happened…"
"Really?" Meg exclaimed, beaming.
"It's not as hard as you think" Ryuu stared at us all mysteriously "the killer only meant to kill Akane, but then Mizuki got dragged in the case and she had to divert the spotlight away from him so she attacked him too and…"
"If the third victim: Amika was a witness. She saw the Killer attacking Mizuki" Kyu prompted.
"Exactly" Ryuu smiled at his best friend "but after Mizuki died, the killer held some kind of grudge against Kunai and was willing to do something very severe to hurt her… I guess being killed by the one you love is the ultimate punishment"
"But why?" Yuki asked him abruptly "why kill all these people if you only want to kill only one of them? Maybe Akane's suicide was really a suicide but it got spiraled out of control because of the row? The clues were like that but if the killer had really wanted to kill Akane then she would have done it by any means. And by all means it might not be one killer, there's still the possibility that there could be more then one Killer…"
"As I was saying we could only speculate, we still haven't figured out the motive yet so nothing is for certain… we can speculate over a hundred theories but we might not get the right one"
"So what…"
"Be patient and think clearly and calmly about the case, we're definitely not far off." Ryuu answered all her questions in one sentence "Tomorrow we'll start the investigation again…"
Kazuma's POV
I was a bit shocked on finding out how Meg and Ryuu got hypnotized but then the mystery was finally clearing up. The killer was a genius, specializing on psychology and hypnosis… Ryuu asked me to investigate into all the suspect's backgrounds to find any evidence of that, genius parents, high grades, any studies of Psychology but I got nothing particular… the three girls Kaede, Shiza and Lin were good but not that good to be called geniuses, Of course nothing could be certain; they could have studied that in secret. Kabuto didn't have any points to his side as he wasn't that smart or organized. Then again he could have sought help from an organization like Pluto. He was stupid enough and would be driven to seek that kind of help but strangely Ryuu had put an end to that theory… All an all we still had no solid proof, nothing except that one clue…
Also Shishido, Kinta, Gouda and Saburamarou had been called to assist the others posing as real detectives in the school to keep down suspicions while also taking turns guarding Kunai Hitori as we suspected another attack on her life…
Meg's POV
We were to start from the beginning, asking questions again but we had a different strategy this time, teamwork…
"What do you mean?" the girl in front of me exclaimed looking more then offended.
I stared back at her, shocked by her reaction and I had only asked her if she knew Akane Fijioki.
"We want to ask you some questions about Akane" Yuki stepped in ignoring the tone in her voice and motioned her to sit down.
The girl glared at us but she obeyed without question. I was glad Yuki had taken control in this situation.
"Well" Shiza Kinamoto huffed dragging her nails on the table…
"Why do you hate her?" Yuki got right to the point.
Shiza stiffened "What's it to you"
"Oh we need to know" Yuki leaned forwards, intimidating her "Someone I really liked died yesterday. I'm going to find out who it is that is responsible so help me…"
I gasped, for a moment I thought she was going to blow our cover by overdoing this bad cop act but she held up okay… at least for now.
"I don't hate her…" Shiza started slowly "…I despise her"
We waited in silence as Shiza started narrating the story… "Akane, Kaede, Lin and I, we were all friends since Kindergarten…" she sighed impatiently "but after 9th she started hanging out with the popular kids, mostly with Kunai but she outshined her quickly when she won a competition… popularity was the most important thing to her then… she didn't think much of her admirers and friends, even the ones who were popular… she could and would do anything to be popular. That was the way she was… spoiled brat living within an illusion created by herself…. Pitiful creature… She didn't deserve our spite. She didn't even deserve our contempt, I bet she doesn't even know about those feelings" she shrugged.
"You seem to hate her so much" I prompt without thinking.
"I told you, I don't" her voice was low.
Yuki stood patiently for a second, "she hurt you right? You were probably her best friend and now you feel hurt that she ignores you. You say you despise her but you don't, you can't hate someone who has been with you for such a long time, you care more then the others because of that…"
Shiza stared at her, mouth open; Yuki shrugged then stood up leaving us both dumbfounded.
"Thanks" I called over my shoulder, running after Yuki "hey wait" I called at Yuki but she didn't slow down.
"It's not her" she whispered silently when I caught up to her.
"I know Yuki" I tried to console her "but we have other suspects"
"I thought it was her, she's the only one who talked about her with spite" she turned away.
"It's always the ones who act like they care that do it" I put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Let's go find the others" she said suddenly before breaking into a run.
I stared at her receding figure
Poor Yuki…
Kyu's POV
While the girls were to meet Shiza Kinamoto, Ryuu and I decided to see Sayuri Hinasaki again… the only other person relating to the case who was here, as it was a Sunday, most of the school was out at their homes…
Sayuri shifted uneasily in her chair, she stared at me then at Ryuu, carefully avoiding our eyes…
"Well…" I started uneasily, gulping down the huge knot in my throat "Sayuri, we need to ask you some questions concerning how you knew beforehand that things were going to happen… like Amika and Yuki…"
Sayuri lowered her eyes to the ground "I really don't know" she then bravely looked into my face "Amika was the one who always knew, she could sense it. She was like those people who just know. Even if something is lost, she could accurately tell the present location of that thing. She was amazing but the others had already labeled her as a freak."
She sighed "I believe that she knew about the suicide and Mizuki's attack but she kept quiet"
"Then how did you know about her death?" I asked her
"I don't know, I felt it…I guess. I could feel her fear… she was so scared that it felt I was drowning in it, but most of all I was feeling a sense of gratitude that was what scared me…" she gulped "I felt as though she wanted to die…"
There was a silence…
"You had such a strong bond with her that you felt her die, but you didn't foresee it… or else you could have helped her" Ryuu muttered silently "but that doesn't explain how you knew I would hurt Yuki"
Sayuri stared at the floor, fidgeting slightly "…I saw you kill her… felt it as if I was her. With a knife this long" she showed with her hands "I didn't know what happened so I thought I was going mad"
"Do you believe that she's passed down her gift for you because you deserve it?" I asked her, reminded by the stories of seers. When the elders pass on, the one most worthy inherits the gift and the lineage of the previous seers…
Sayuri gave me a weird look "do you believe in fate?" she asked timidly.
I was going to answer but Ryuu cut me off "No we don't. Thank you Sayuri, you helped us enough" he said standing up.
Kuniko's POV
Hayato and I were to investigate further into Kabuto's disappearance… but since the students would be suspicious of us, we've asked Shishido (A: he's the 20 yr old homicide detective from class A if you're confused) to help us, he would poise as detective so we'd get better excess to the rooms.
"Look for anything suspicious" Shishido said seriously as if we didn't know.
"But it's totally clean!" I pointed out. Everything was arranged according to order, the bed was expertly made, even the work table was neatly organized…nothing was out of the ordinary.
The boys exchanged glances. Something passed between them…
"Thanks Niko" Shishido gave me a pat.
"What?" I stared at them both.
"Don't you think it's strange it's too neat? Most boys aren't and Kabuto wasn't the intellectual type so there's even less chance that he is"
"Then why?"
"The killer probably attacked him here and there was a struggle. And to clear it up the she cleaned up the place" Hayato answered me.
"What makes you so sure that the killer got him too?" I asked crossing my arms over my chest.
Shishido gave me a sad look "in most homicide cases when a person is missing for more then 46 hours then the person is automatically labeled dead. Even if he ran away someone might have seen it by now"
I stayed quiet; I did not even wish to believe that another person was dead. This case had too much death in it.
"Hey there's ink under the sheets" Hayato exclaimed pulling a sheet from the bed, the mattress was stained with dark blue ink…
"Why?"
But the answer had already fallen at my feet. A broken felt pen, it had fallen out when he had yanked the sheets…
"Here" I gave the pen to Shishido that was wrapped in my hankie for prints.
"There must be a piece of paper or something nearby" Shishido said making me go on my knees and search at the base of the bed…
Even though we search and searched for more then fifteen minutes we weren't able to find that paper. But Hayato had suggested that it might have been thrown away since the killer had taken the trouble of cleaning the crime site.
Wearily I started to walk out the door but the boys were still examining everything with enthusiasm… reminding me of Kyu 'Never give up' Kyu said that a lot, I wondered how he always said those words again and again, believing them, finally proving the truth behind those words… I wished I could believe and do it like him but it seemed impossible just then… the clues, everything was leading to a dead end…. On the other hand… an unusual idea popped into my head…
"Shishido…" I started nervously "assuming that the killer got him then how far do you think she'd have taken the body?"
"What?"
"The body… if she's killed him then she would have to hide the body somewhere in the school right? How far do you think she took it?"
"Wait…" he said walking out into the corridor. Kabuto's room was in the corner. "It's going to be hard to move the body by one's self. According to Ryuu, the killer is a girl, but it'd be nearly impossible to move it unless she's really strong. On the other hand this is the ground floor; she could have brought a wheelbarrow from one of the garden sheds and wheeled him out. But it would be hard in the dark…" he smiled suddenly "but let's try out your theory Niko"
I blushed but followed them outside, the soil was disturbed so much that it was kind of hard to distinguish the footprints but Hayato had an uncanny talent for tracking signs of tyre prints; the killer probably didn't think there would be any trouble hiding the tracks as there were almost a thousand students walking around that courtyard in the weekdays…
"That's it. Right up here" Hayato traced a line in the ground, I looked up from the ground; we were standing in front of the kitchen storehouse…
"It's here?" Shishido asked with a look of uncertainty on his face "that can't be right"
"Why not?" Hayato retorted.
"For one thing Kabuto is supposed to be dead for a week. And the decomposition will deteriorate within a few days. And that's more then a few days… there could be an outburst of disease… and this place isn't actually a buffet place. Everyone eats the same thing and it won't be long before more bodies with drop due to an unidentified outbreak"
"When you say it like that it's freaky" Hayato exclaimed as I clamped my mouth shut because of the sudden rush of nausea.
"What are you doing?"
I ignored them, and dialed Ryuu's number. This mystery was still unpredictable as the first day. And I wasn't taking any chances anymore. I wanted to call the whole team. Our team and theirs… we will solve this mystery but we'd do it together…
A: Hai, the cheesiness exceeds all expectations… but then you guys will get a very "BLOODY" chapter next…the final victim… I desperately need to finish this thing before new year…wish me luck…only two or three chappies left…