DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN BLEACH. JUST THIS STORY.
Author's Notes: Hey! I really loved writing mysteries. So maybe this story would be updated regularly. I said maybe, ok? And thanks for icyangel27 for the suggestion. I'm sorry in advance for using your pen name in the story. I didn't ask for your permission because I want to surprise you...
By the way, thanks for reading the story. Leave some reviews when you're at it. Enjoy reading.
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The Guardians Club
written by: anime16
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Problem Number Two:
Part 1. The Mysterious Seer.
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Dear Guardians,
There is a person in class 2-B who claims to be a Seer.
Her name is Mariya Sakigami.
She was supposed to have an ability to predict the future or to see things.
Scarily enough, everything she says come true.
She is famous. She was even featured into the magazines and televisions and dubbed as the 'Seer of the Century.'
Moreover, she predicted that one of her classmates would be in a car incident.
My close friend is a classmate of hers.
What should I do? Do you think you can stop her premonitions from happening?
I'm really scared about my friend's safety.
Hope you can help!
From icyangel27.
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Mariya Sakigami is the 'Seer of the Century' as seen on the magazines and television shows that featured her. She has a long, obsidian coloured hair and slender body. Her eyes are heterochromatic, her left eye is turquoise and the other one is carnelian. She is beautiful and at the same time quite intimidating.
"Mari-chan, let's go and have our lunch on the cafeteria. I'm starving already," Rika Yamato told her friend, draping a hand on her shoulder to catch her attention.
Mariya looked away from the scene on the window and smiled to Rika. "Yes, I'm quite starving too." She stood up from her seat and fished out her purse from her bag. "I didn't bring my lunch box today so I'm going to buy."
Rika giggled and touched her friend's arm. "Mari-chan is so careless."
Mariya suddenly stopped moving and closed her eyes.
"Mari-chan, are you alright?" Rika asked worriedly.
By the time Mariya opened her eyes, she looked at her friend worriedly. She snatched away her arm from her and instead, grabbed both of her friend's arms with her hands. "I saw your future," she said breathlessly. She shook her friend lightly. "Be careful of the stairs...You would fell down today."
Rika looked surprised for a second then her face broke into a goofy grin. She took her arms away from her friend and made her turned around. She placed her hands on her back and cheerfully pushed her forward. "Don't worry about me, Mari-chan. There's no way something would happen to me today."
"B-But I just saw you in one of my visions...sprawling at the bottom of the stairs, unmoving. You're not dead but unconscious..." Mariya stammered in the beginning of her sentence.
"Don't mind it Mari-chan. I'm telling you, it won't happen," Rika said optimistically.
Mariya sighed. "Just promise me you'd be careful."
"Yes, I promise."
Both of them exited their classroom and headed out towards the cafeteria.
Meanwhile, Renji and Rukia were watching Mariya and her friend leaving the classroom to go out and have some lunch. They were tasked by the president of the guardians to observe Mariya, the Seer and report any strange behaviour from her or her classmates.
"Her name is Mariya Sakigami," Renji said, hoisting up a picture he had of her for Rukia to see. "So far, the information we had from Gin-san and Rangiku-san's research are vital."
"Indeed," Rukia agreed. "We know that she only had this power last year. She's quite normal when she's in elementary and middle school."
"But she was bullied a lot when she was in elementary and middle school, primarily because of her heterochromatic eyes and eccentric behaviour," he told her.
"And her older brother died five years ago. Her parents abandoned her to their relatives and she was not treated well until a kind-hearted uncle of hers offered to raise her," she said.
"Such a troublesome childhood..." he sighed. "Maybe this is her defensive mechanism...lying that she can foresee the future so she won't get bullied."
"Nope," she shook her head. "Her visions were actually happening. How would you explain that?"
"I have no idea –"
Renji's words were left hanging in the air when they heard a piercing scream breaking through the silent noon. It was coming in the staircase.
Renji and Rukia rushed towards the source of it and gasped.
Right there, sprawling on the floor was the broken form of Rika Yamato.
"I told her..." Mariya slumped to the floor, crying her eyes out. "I told her to be careful of the stairs. But she won't listen...she just won't listen to me..."
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"Another victim of Mariya's visions resurfaced?" Momo exclaimed. "How can that be? I'm not a believer of those what you call supernatural powers...or instinct or –"
"It's alright Hinamori. I don't believe in it too," Toushiro told her. "No one could predict the future...else, it would be a big, boring world to live in."
"I know..." Rukia said. "But we saw it, you know. Yamato-san was indeed sprawling at the bottom of the stairs and all Mariya said, "I told her so...blah...blah...she won't listen...blah...blah..." It was really frustrating that I wanted to put tape on her mouth for her to stop all her non-sense talk."
"You just saw Yamato at the bottom of the stairs, right?" Toushiro asked, in which the two of them nodded. "Then...you really didn't see how she fell...maybe...she didn't fell in her own but someone, pushed her off and she lost her balance and splat...she's on the ground."
"Yes...that's a possibility..." Renji replied. "Then...the one near her that time...the Seer, Mariya Sakigami might be one of the suspects..."
"You're right, Abarai..." Toushiro smirked. "There is a possibility that Mariya could be the one that pushed her friend."
"That's crazy...who's in the right mind that would do that to her friend?" Momo asked incredulously. "I won't do that to you Shiro-chan...Not even to Ichi, Maru, Ran, Ru, and Ren..."
"Because you're kind, Hinamori-chan..." Gin said. "There are some people who don't feel a thing even if they hurt they're friend."
"But Maru..." Hinamori protested. "Sakigami-chan seemed to be a good person."
"Looks can be deceiving Hinamori," Toushiro told her. "One way to get to the bottom of this case is to investigate everything about Mariya Sakigami."
He looked at everyone and said, "And we're doing it in pairs. There's an odd one out and that would be me. I'm going to think through every single thing you could get from interacting with Sakigami and the people surrounding her."
"So we're going to settle this with the usual draw lots for the pairs..." Rukia uttered warily.
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First Pair: Ichigo Kurosaki-Rangiku Matsumoto
"So how would we investigate this?" Ichigo asked her partner. "I don't know anyone from class 2-B."
"Leave it to me, kiddo. I know some of them," Rangiku answered.
"Well...you're not the 'Queen of Gossips' for nothing," Ichigo said dryly.
"Hmmm...Maybe I'll tell Gin to hack on your Facebook account and –"
"Alright, stop, stop. I won't tease you anymore." Ichigo sighed. "And...Who's this person you know from class 2-B?"
"Shuuhei Hisagi," Rangiku replied. "Did you know him?"
"You mean the one with the number '69' tattooed on his left cheek?" Ichigo enquired.
"Yes...that's him..." Rangiku said. "Well, Shuuhei Hisagi is a friend of mine. He would tell us everything he knows about Mariya Sakigami. Besides, I have his secret...and if he didn't tell us anything...Hell would break lose."
They walked towards the class 2-B's classroom. Rangiku peered in and asked one of the students to help her call over Shuuhei.
They watched as the student marched towards Shuuhei, tapped his shoulder and pointed to their direction. When he saw Rangiku, he immediately went out of his way to meet her. "R-Rangiku-san, what are you doing here?"
"I want to ask you something..." Rangiku gave him one of her famous Cheshire grin. "Is that alright with you?"
"O-Of course...why wouldn't it be?" Shuuhei replied, fishing out a handkerchief from his pockets to wipe the sweat on the side of his face. Clearly, seeing Rangiku made him remember the day she discovered his secret.
"Well...what do you know about Mariya Sakigami?" Rangiku asked bluntly.
"She's some famous seer. Ever since her premonitions were coming true, everyone seemed to worship her, excluding me of course," Shuuhei answered.
"And what else? Do you find her suspicious or something?" Rangiku questioned further.
"Not really...but she's one oddball woman. I mean...We're classmates since first year and I couldn't quite grasp of what she truly is. Sometimes she's quiet and shy, then cheerful all of the sudden. Sometimes she's...how could I say this...flirty? Then...then she acts tough. I don't know if it's me who gone crazy or her," Shuuhei replied.
"Well...she's moody, I supposed..." Ichigo assumed.
"Maybe...maybe not..." Rangiku said.
"So why are you asking about Sakigami?" Shuuhei asked.
"Oh...I'm trying to write an essay about people who have supernatural powers..." Rangiku answered.
"Is that so?" Shuuhei seemed doubtful, nevertheless, he reluctantly accept her answer.
"Well, Shuuhei...is that all the information you can give to me?" Rangiku questioned him.
"Yes...for now..." Shuuhei replied.
"Well...if you remember anything just try to send me an email," Rangiku said. "Here's my email address."
"Alright," Shuuhei nodded.
After the conversation, Shuuhei entered his classroom and resumed what he was doing before they interrupted him.
"I didn't do anything at all..." Ichigo sighed. "I wonder about what the other pairs did..."
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Second Pair: Gin Ichimaru-Rukia Kuchiki
"Remind me, how I ended up with you as my partner Ichimaru-san," Rukia finally spoke up after thirty minutes of silence between her and her partner.
Gin shrugged. "Draw lots, I think."
"Yeah...that one..." Rukia sighed. "So, what are we going to do?"
"I'm using my network to find more information regarding that girl," Gin told her while typing vigorously on his laptop. It was so fast that she could barely keep up. Her head was swirling when he opened site by site and he didn't even use a mouse for it.
There were a lot of foreign codes that kept swimming in front of her eyes. She looked away because she felt sick. "Ah damn...you're really good at computers Ichimaru-san."
"Yeah...well...I'm the hacker of the group after all," he said warily. Then he stopped typing for a little while to read the information he gathered. His face grew worried after reading it. "Hey, Kuchiki-chan...Tell me that I'm just seeing things..."
"What is it?" Rukia asked. She peered in and read the information Gin just pointed to her. She gasped. "How can this be? Why? How – oh God Ichimaru-san...We just unearthed a very dark secret..."
What they just read is a very detailed Online Diary of Daisuke Sakigami. He is the older brother of Mariya Sakigami.
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Third Pair: Renji Abarai-Momo Hinamori
"I don't have a clue to where we should start gathering information..." Momo sighed.
"Me too..." Renji said. "I sucked in this part...could I just invent or something?"
"Yeah...Could I just disguise or something?" Momo asked.
Both of them looked at each other and grinned mischievously. "Let's do nothing at all," they hollered harmoniously, "Since we don't know a first thing about information gathering."
They skipped happily in the hallways, not minding the stares they received from the other students. They rounded the corner and Momo bumped to someone. She fell in the cold floor and quickly said, "I'm sorry."
She looked up and found out that she's staring right to the heterochromatic eyes of Mariya Sakigami.
"I-I'm sorry..." Mariya stammered.
Momo stood up from the floor and offered her hand. Mariya took it and pushed herself upward.
"It's alright," Momo smiled at her. "By the way...My name is Momo Hinamori from class 1-A and you are?" She extended her arms for a handshake.
"My name is Mariya Sakigami from class 2-B," she told her and reached out for the handshake too. "I know you...Hinamori-san...You're the childhood friend of that famous Hitsugaya, aren't you?"
"My...my...Shiro-chan's fame had made me famous too," Momo grinned sheepishly. "By the way, this guy is my friend..." she pointed her thumb at Renji.
"My name is Renji Abarai from class 1-B...Nice to meet you...Mariya-sempai..." Renji said.
Mariya nodded and shyly spoke up, "Well...Can I ask you something?"
"What is it?" Momo asked, smiling a little. They could gather information after all.
"Toushiro Hitsugaya-kun...does he have a girlfriend?" Mariya said, blushing a little after that.
"He doesn't have but he likes Hina –"
Momo elbowed Renji in the stomach that rendered him unable to continue what he had to say. "No, he doesn't have a girlfriend Mariya-sempai. It seems presumptuous of me but...do you like him?"
"Well...he's cool and intelligent. He seems intimidating with that icy exterior of his and white hair but he still had a lot of friends...I admire him of that..." Mariya told them.
"But I'm saying that he likes Hi –"
Momo pressed her foot on Renji and made the guy hopped on one foot due to pain. "Well...There are a lot of people who admired him."
"Yeah...He seemed to like someone because he ignored the girls and turned down all other confessions..." she sighed sadly. She touched Momo on her arm and she suddenly slumped down.
"What's wrong? Are you alright Mariya-sempai?" Momo bent down and arched on her level.
Mariya looked up and grabbed Momo's right wrist. She squeezed it tightly to the point Momo winced in pain.
"Mariya-sempai...you're hurting me..." Momo said.
Suddenly, Mariya laughed excitedly. Her cold heterochromatic eyes bore into Momo and she announced, "It's nothing compared to an accident that might befall on you. Be sure you're ready when the death god knocks on your door."
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