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Episode 2: Counterfeits

He didn't know what it was, but something inside him was telling him something was going to go terribly wrong. However, it didn't bother Yuuta because half the time he was wrong. Opening the door to the classroom where he was meeting his friend, he shrugged it off.

What he saw made his heart skip a beat and no matter how he struggled to keep them back, hot tears began to fall.

The body of a green haired girl was slumped on a chair, arms on the table. A pool of blood was under the chair and table. There were smaller pools on the table. There was also a blond drenched parchment on the floor.

"N-namiko….n-no," Yuuta wept.

As soon as his brother called, Fuji rushed to St. Rudolph. Well it was more to comfort his brother than to investigate the murder. Priorities came first of course. He arrived at the school to find Shishido, Yuushi, and Atobe already here.

"Where's Yuuta?" Fuji demanded, his face was serious.

"We didn't want to start without you," Yuushi began.

"Where's my brother?" Fuji was clearly angry. He needed to see his brother who had sounded so distressed and desperate on the phone.

"Easy, Fuji, he's in that empty classroom, Rin's trying to comfort him," Shishido pointed to the door that he was leaning next to.

Nodding, Fuji entered the classroom. As he entered, Rin's head popped up and she silently exited, sensing that the brothers might want to be alone.

"Yuuta, are you alright?" Fuji asked softly.

Shaking his head no, Yuuta fought back more tears, "Shusuke, I can't believe she's gone. It's not possible. She always told me that she would be by my side."

"You really cared for her didn't you," Fuji tried.

"I knew her since grade one," Yuuta replied, he was staring out the window dreamily so Fuji wasn't really sure if actually directed this to him. "She helped me out through all these years. When I decided to go to St. Rudolph, she came along too. Shusuke, I need her."

"Yuuta, I promise you that we will find who did this to her and avenge her," Fuji declared, his brother offered a weak, sad smile.

"Thank you Aniki."

"So where's the body?' Tohru asked as she entered the room. She didn't have to be directed because the body was right in front of her.

"What's this?" Rin pondered picking up the drenched parchment with a gloved hand. "Stabbed twice in the back."

"That's strange," Tohru mumbled. She had laid the body on the floor after she was sure that Yagyuu had already taken pictures of the position of the body. "Because there are no stab wounds. In fact, there are no physical wounds."

"But, if there aren't any, then how did all this blood get here?" Shishido asked.

The younger girl paused to take the pulse of the victim. "She's alive! We have to take her to the hospital! Someone get the stretcher."

Shishido nodded and ran out the room.

"Perhaps," Rin reasoned. "The blood is imitation blood. You know the stuff we use in science."

"But she looks so pale," Rika noted. "Any one would have mistaken her for dead."

"She probably was drugged," Tohru stated.

"You know what I realized," Rika suddenly said. "Someone really should tell Yuuta this."

Leaning against the wall outside Namiko's hospital room, Yuuta sighed. He had enough of the emotional roller coaster for a lifetime. He couldn't help smiling at his friend being alive. Yuuta couldn't wait to see Namiko when she woke up although he had no clue when that would be.

"Excuse me, are you Fuji Yuuta?" a nurse asked him.

"Yes, is Namiko alright?" His eyes were practically begging for the answer to be 'yes'.

The nurse nodded with a small smile, "She will wake up in a day or two. The investigator you were with earlier wanted me to give you this sample of her blood to take back to the lab." She handed him a glass jar with a red liquid in it.

"Thank you, I'll take it to them right now."

Eiji just exited the elevator when he spotted Rin. He called, "Hey, Rin!"

"Hey, Eiji," Rin smiled at him, waiting for him to catch up before she started walking again. "How is she?"

"Fine, when I was at the hospital, I saw Yuuta and he gave me this," Eiji held up the jar that contained Namiko's blood sample. "He said that Fuji asked for it."

Rin nodded, "Can you take it to Niou for me? He will be able to tell us what drug was used."

"Sure, where are you going now?" The red head asked.

"I'm going over to Yagyuu. He's trying to match the handwriting on the note to the handwriting samples we got from the principal," Rin explained. "You see at St. Rudolph, the students are required to sign a contract saying they will obey the rules. We managed to convince the principal to give us access to the database that held all these contracts."

"So what do you think it was?" Eiji inquired. "Just a sick joke?"

"No, I have a feeling that it's something more," Rin shook her head.

"You gut telling you that?" Eiji smirked and the black haired nodded before disappearing through a door. Eiji made his way down to Niou's lab.

"Niou, here's that blood sample," the red head handed over the jar.

"Thanks," Niou quickly opened the jar and began taking samples in mini test tubes. "Tohru swabbed her face and I tested it. It was chloroform."

"So that's what they used to knock her out," Eiji pieced together.

"Yeah, but they had to add something else to make her that pale and for her to stay unconscious for a long period of time," Niou added.

"So, what does this mean?" Eiji asked, confused slightly.

"It means," Niou chuckled, "that I was really stupid for not thinking of that prank."

"Sicko," Eiji rolled his eyes in pretend disgust.

"Hey, Yagyuu!" Rin greeted as she bounced into the room. "Have you got anything for me?"

"The testing is almost done," Yagyuu mumbled as he watched the TV screen. "It's done and there are no matches. "

"Damn, I really thought that that would solve the case," Rin cursed.

"Do you know what this means?" Yagyuu asked.

"That our 'murderer' is not a student?" Rin offered lamely.

"No, this means," the two looked at the door to see Fuji, glasses off. "That we have no suspect," and with that said, the boy disappeared.

Rin looked at Yagyuu who just shrugged, "Isn't he always like that?"

Sorry about OOC-ness of Yuuta! Stay tuned for the next part!