Hey guys! Sorry this chappie might not be that good, but you kind of have to read it, because A LOT of questions are answered in it, trust me. This chapter's soul purpose was to basically answer the long awaited questions. I hope you like it!

Chapter 5

Diamonds and Platinum

"Where exactly are we going?" Shikamaru asked Kelisa as they walked down the hallway that seemed endless.

"Just keep walking. I knew this day would come…I was hoping it wouldn't, but…" she just sighed and shook her head. "Now that she's snapped, things are only going to go downhill from here."

"Um," said Ino. "What do you mean?" She asked.

"You'll see shortly," said Kelisa.

Soon enough, Kelisa stopped and bent down, taking a board off of something on the ground. The teens looked around her to see where and why she stopped. They were almost startled to see another spiral stairwell, leading down even deeper.

"So the basement…has a basement?" Ino asked confusedly as she began to lightly bounce the despaired Marnie in her arms.

"Yep." Kelisa answered simply as she started walking down it. The teens looked at one another. Alrighty then.

They all followed Kelisa down the winding staircase.

"Watch your step," she called up to them as they all grasped the railing firmly. "The stairs are steep and narrow. It's easy to loose balance. Careful with the baby, Ino!" Kelisa looked at the struggling Ino. You can't blame her really. Keeping balance down a brittle tiny winding staircase while holding a baby in your arms is no simple task.

When they reached the foot of the stairs successfully, it was pitch black. Kelisa waved her hand around above her head.

"C'mon…I remember there being a light down here somewhere…ah." She grabbed hold of a string and pulled it. Once she did, lights turned on all over the place to reveal a large room, full of papers and computers. There were also many files.

"What…what is this?" Tenten asked as she and the rest of them advanced towards the technology.

"Ever wonder where Mina goes when she's not upstairs bossing people around?" Kelisa asked, sitting down at a chair by a computer. The rest of the kids pulled one up and sat around. "Down here. This is where her legal files of the children registered here, and backgrounds of their old families go."

"Down in the dumps, huh?" Shikamaru mumbled as he looked away. Ino looked at him sympathetically.

"But it's bigger than that," said Kelisa as she hit an icon on the screen that look something like a skull and crossbones.

"Here," Kelisa said, sitting back. "Is where her true madless lies. Your parents didn't die on accident, children."

Neji and Shikamaru looked at each other. They both had a feeling this was the case, but were never sure. They listened for more.

"Mina…she's had issues."

"Well that's quite obvious," said Ino, wiping blood off her nose.

"Again, it's worse than that." Kelisa said, bringing up a file on the computer. "She's a sadistic criminal. She takes joy in you kids' pain. Does that tell you something about your parents' deaths?" She asked them. They all immediately went into shock.

"She wouldn't…" Ino said in a low voice.

"Has she been anything but that as long as you've known her?" Kelisa reminded her.

"Guess not…" Ino said to her self. Kelisa went on.

"Recognize anything familiar about these reports?" She pointed to each heading on the page.

Each teen knew it right away. Each paragraph was the report of their parent's deaths.

They read the first one.

Fillmore, Gerhardt (DP)

Fillmore-Levski, Skylar (DP)

Tenten felt a tear roll down her cheek in being reminded of her dead parents. She read on about their deaths, more intrigued than she had ever felt in her life. She had never known what actually had killed them.

The bodies of Gerhardt and Skylar Fillmore were found dead Tuesday evening, both on top of a school lunch table. As unlikely a place as this seems to be the setting of the act of murder, both bodies were found to have been beating to death, as they were bruised black and blue with distorted features. On top of the two bodies was a single necklace with a diamond encrusted rose trinket. According to family friends, the necklace was to be given to their newborn daughter Tenten, whom Skylar gave birth to just a week before. However, the day following the discovery of the bodies, the necklace was reported missing from the evidence case. No clues of any sort were trailed by the murderer and theft. Authorities have yet to comment of the issue.

Tenten silently cried as she read this. Never in her life had she known her parents had died such an untimely gruesome death…and what was this about a necklace?

Tenten felt a hand on her back. She looked to see that it was Neji. The look on Neji's face told her he didn't really know what he was doing, but it felt like the right time. Tenten smiled at him through her tears.

"Don't worry," he told her in his smooth as silk voice. "We're all in the same boat here."

Tenten wiped her tears away.

"Thank you," she told him as she looked back at the screen. "I know."

"There's more," said Kelisa, scrolling down. The next names on the list popped Neji's eyes.

Hyuuga, Hiazashi (DP)

Hyuuga, Artemis (DP)

The bodies of the great Hiazashi Hyuuga and his wife Artemis were found beaten severely at the face and arms last Wednesday night. The reporter of the bodies said, "they looked as if they were just thrown carelessly onto that picnic table over there. I would not have found them had I not caught the shine of luster in the moonlight. I followed it and found a necklace with this shiny platinum rectangle on it. It wasn't until I looked more closely on the nearby table did I see the dead bodies. Creeped me out of my wits." The individual could not manage to bring the necklace to the authorities for further investigation, as he claimed he "must have misplaced it. Can't find it anywhere…"

Could these murders be related to the murders of Gerhardt and Skylar Fillmore only five years ago, only one day after? Many think so, as both victims were beaten to death, both discovered on picnic tables with a necklace nearby. See related: Shikaku and Elaine Nara; Inochi and Maya Yamanaka

"Anyone seeing a pattern here?" Kelisa asked them, clicking on Shikamaru's parents.

"Sure am…" mumbled Neji, crossing his arms. He knew very well about his parent's murders, but didn't take kindly to being reminded of them in such bare detail.

"Oh…should I stop then?" Kelisa asked, becoming aware of the emotional pain that was coming back to the kids.

"No, by all means, go on," said Shikamaru, anxious to see if his parents were killed in the same fashion.

"Alright then." Kelisa scrolled to Shika's parents.

Nara, Shikaku (DP)

Nara, Elaine (DP

On a dark Thursday night, Shikaku and Elaine Nara's bodies were found beaten to death on a lunch table by a school. A custodian claimed to have found the bodies strewn across the table one night while cleaning up the lunch area, only seconds after coming across a platinum rectangle hanging on a silver chain. After contacting the authorities, the custodian claimed to have set the necklace right on the table next to him. However, he accidentally left that night without having given it to the police. The next day it was found missing.

These murders are said to relate to the past murders of Gerhardt and Skylar Fillmore and Hiazashi and Artemis Hyuuga. It also relates strangely to the later murder of Inochi and Maya Yamanaka that took place only weeks ago, and still is baffling the police.

"Troublesome…" Shikamaru kicked back and pretended to be unaffected after just reading this, but Ino could easily tell he was. No one could sit through a summary of their parents deaths. No one.

"Last but not least," Kelisa said as she clicked on Ino's parents.

Ino braced herself for what she would be seeing next.

Yamanaka, Inochi (DP)

Yamanaka, Maya (DP)

Very recently, Inochi and Maya Yamanaka's bodies were reported dead one Friday night, found bloodied and bruised heavily on a lunch table near a school. Their deaths relate highly to the mentioned, but one thing turned out differently. There was no necklace to be found.

While these last four murders appear to be linked, in confuses the police that they were spaced with no specific intervals in between. The years in between the murders are 5, 3, 1, and 5 again. For now, we can only pray the killer doesn't strike again.

"So that's it." Ino said, brining he knees to her chest after sitting Marnie safely in the center of the table against the wall. "They were beaten."

"Yep," said Kelisa, swiveling her chair around. "All of your parents died in an identical fashion. Now answer me this…" She stopped her chair and looked at the teens sternly. "Who do you know you takes pleasure in other's pain?"

At this the children thought. The proof was enough. Mina had indeed killed their parents.

"But why?" asked Ino. "What was her motive? Killers always have motives!" She sputtered.

"Oh, she has a motive," sighed Kelisa. "And it goes way back." She swiveled her chair around to face back to the computer screen. "I've been told this story numerous times before."

"We're listening," said Neji leaning inward.

"All of your parents…they all went to the same high school." She told them, her head hung.

"They did?" Shikamaru asked, dumbfounded.

"Yeah. And they were all very popular. They along with another couple…I think their names were Asuma and Kurenai…were attractive, smart, funny, and more importantly, kind to everyone. Needless to say, they ruled the school."

The kids leaned in further. "And?"

"And no one really had a problem with that. Everyone liked them. They were called Diamonds and Platinum, DP for short, as said on their files." Kelisa pointed to the 'DP' marked by each name.

"Um…why diamonds and platinum?" Tenten asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, you see," began Kelisa. "Since it was made up of couples, each one cared for each other deeply. The guys considered the girls 'their diamonds', and the girls considered their guys 'pure platinum'." The teens still stared at her confusedly. "It just stuck to them, ok?" she cleared up.

"Wait!" said Ino. "The necklaces…diamonds? Platinum? They have to be linked."

"They are," said Kelisa. "The guys gave their girlfriends a diamond studded rose necklace, while the girls gave their boys a rectangle plaited platinum one. Some thought of it as an object of membership, but more thought of it as acts of love they all had for one another."

"So, what does that have to do with anything?" Neji snapped, still sensitive after reading the report.

"Well, let me finish. There was one person who did have a problem with it. And that was Mina. She wanted in that group so bad, but she was just too…"

"Evil?" Ino offered.

"Bitchy?" Tenten dropped in.

"Insensitive?" Shikamaru asked.

"Repulsive?" Neji scowled. Kelisa cracked a smirk.

"Yeah, pretty much all those. They had an image to maintain. They didn't want someone like Mina trashing everything they stood for."

"So what did they do about her hanging around?" Tenten asked. "God that would have been annoying."

"They were cordial, but didn't like associating with her. They were kind when necessary, but avoided her whenever possible," Kelisa began to scribble aimlessly on a pad of paper, obviously not liking to probe this subject.

"And Mina…she didn't like that, I'm guessing?" Neji asked.

"Not at all," Kelisa said in a dark voice. "She wanted social status that she knew she could never have. She felt so long isolated that she simply…well, went mental."

"And so she created this place?" Shikamaru asked angrily. "To take her teenage frusterations out on orphans?"

"Well, that was one way she took out her frusteration…" Kelisa said deathly. "And four the other…she felt the only way to rid herself of her troubles was to get rid of what caused them in the first place. So she took your parents lives, and everything that would have reminded her of her high school days."

"The necklaces," said Ino, looking down at hers and Marnies.

"Ah, yes the necklaces," said Kelisa. "Those are what set her off the most. If her life goal wasn't to destroy the DP, it was destroying those necklaces they took such pride in…"

"Um…" said Ino nervously, running her finger around the diamonds on her necklace.

"What?" Kelisa asked her.

"About that whole destroying thing…me and Marnie…we still have them."

Kelisa's eyes could have popped out of her skull right then had eyes not naturally been latched in the sockets.

"Oh, no…" said Kelisa, rubbing her temples. "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…." She rubbed her temples even more. The kids were almost sure she would rub them raw.

"What's wrong with that? That's good isn't it?" Ino asked.

"No, no, no, dear," said Kelisa, standing up and pacing. "Mina…we went over the fact she's mental, remember?"

"Well, yeah, we could kind of tell," Ino said.

"Then I will let you know now, she is relentless until she gets rid of every scrap of her past troubles." She walked over and looked at the girls necklaces. "Every…scrap."

"So you mean to say…" Ino began, her eyes glazing over.

"I'm coming for you and that little piece of filth next?"

Ino froze. The icy voice behind her was just enough to make her blood run cold. She turned around slowly.

"…Mina." She said. All the teens stood up immediately and glared at the casual looking Mina, who was leaning against a wall with torn tape around her wrists.

"Ah, yes," Mina said wickedly walking over. "Don't you watch your movies kids? The antagonist is never silenced. They always come back for a sequel."

The teens moved back as she moved forward. But not Kelisa.

"Ah, Kelisa!" she said. "Looks like someone's been studying up. Tell me, have you forgotten what became of your parents?"

"Dead. Killed by this bitch I know named Mina," Kelisa shot back. Mina scrunched her eyebrows at the insult, but then let her face drop normal.

"That's right. Well, my stupid niece, my sister didn't name me your guardian for nothing!" She spread her arms. "Tell me, have I not given you fair treatment?"

"You're sick," said Kelisa stepping back. "You murdered my parents. And then you get custody over me. Then you make me your little slave runner. Well, guess what? I know something you don't Auntie." Kelisa snapped.

"Oh, love to hear it sweetheart!" Mina said mockingly.

"Right over here, bitch."

IM SO SORRY!!!! ABOUT THE LACK OF ROMANCE…SO SO SO SORRY! IT WON'T BE LIKE THAT FOR THE REST OF THE STORY, I SWEAR! I WILL INSERT A LOT IN THE NEXT CHAPTERS, AND LIKE IN HIGHSCHOOL, I WILL MAKE ONE DEDICATED TO THE COUPLES COMPLETELY! R and R please, thanks so much guys!