Been a while but here is the next chapter.
I do realize that they are in China but since I'm only slightly familiar with how the American government works I'm not even going to bother trying to find out how the Chinese handle their investigations.
No disrespect, I'm just lazy.
Thanks for reading this far.
Disclaimer: I do not own beyblade/FAKE or Mai for that matter, she's a product of a close friend of mine.
Interrogation
"Alright," Dee hung up the phone looking at Ryo. "The others are on their way along with two other members of the White Tiger team, Kevin and Gary. We can go ahead and question them while we're at it."
Ryo picked up a clipboard and Dee followed down the hall. "This is going to be a lot of questioning."
"I know," Ryo answered looking at him and catching the boredom in Dee's voice. "But we don't have much of a choice in that matter. J.J. is taking care of the forensic with Drake combing down the place."
"Yeah whatever," Dee sighed. "When is everything going to be sent to the lab?"
"Don't know," Ryo looked at him. "We're to be posted about every detail since this is our case so don't worry about it. Chief wants us to wrap this up as soon as possible so we'll have to question Lee and Dean (A/N: that's the boyfriend Dee's real name people-I'll be using it from now on)
"Alright whose first," Dee stopped as they got to the small waiting room were all the bladders were Rei, Mai and Kai sat.
"We should probably start with Rei first," Ryo spoke. "He seems open now and emotionally confused so I doubt he'll lie."
"Sure," Dee said turning. "You get him and I'll be in the white room."
"What?" Ryo turned. "You're not leaving me to…" He watched Dee raise his hand in a good bye as he walked on and knew he was on the loosing end. Laytner wasn't coming back in a million years.
Sighing Ryo opened the door with a soft smile as he stared at the teens. Kai was by himself in the corner with his arms crossed and no outward emotion at all, which struck him as odd. Didn't he know the victim?
The girl was leaning over with her hand soothing Rei who sat there with no thought in the world and a blank look on his face.
"Hey Rei," Ryo spoke softly. The boy was torn to pieces over the deal and he couldn't blame him. Mariah was a beautiful girl and they seemed really close.
"Can I talk to you for a while?" he asked softly as Rei looked him. The tears no longer flowed but the lines still marked his face in the fluorescing light. Rei nodded and followed him out the door. Out of the corner of his eye, Ryo watched Kai stare at the young male before they were out of sight.
The room was cold and Rei couldn't stop a shiver from going up his spine as he sat down in the chair. It was a plain white painted room with a table and two chairs on either side. It was small and not very comfortable but the white tiger could care less.
"First off," Dee spoke making Rei jump slightly. He hadn't noticed the man leaning against the back corner. Dee ignored the jump and continued. "Sorry about all this man. I understand if you don't want to talk but that's the only way we can narrow down who might've done this to her."
"C..Can we get this over with?" Rei spoke hesitantly. "I'd rather not talk about it but if I have too can we please just get started?" Rei looked at them with broken pleading eyes, begging for the torture to begin so it could quickly end.
"Alright," Ryo spoke just as gently if not more. A tape recorder came into his hand and he put it on the table turning it on.
"Detective Ryo McClean with Rei Kon in room 410 over case 10223 along with Dee Laytner." The other male nodded.
"Please state your name," Ryo asked.
"Rei Kon," the neko looked at them with a raised eyebrow but remembered this must have been protocol. He'd seen it in a lot of movies before. This conversation was going to be evidence.
"Do you understand your rights?" Ryo asked.
Rei frowned slightly remembering what the detectives had told him in the car about his rights and stated "Yes." Even though his memory was fuzzy it didn't matter what they were. As long as it could help Mariah.
"What was your relationship with Mrs. Wong?" Dee asked the hard question looking critically at Rei's reaction.
The male flinched at the name and sighed but continued. "M…Mariah and I were in a relationship." He paused. "We were supposed to be a…a couple."
"Suppose to?" Ryo asked knotting his eyebrows. Didn't he say that they 'were' a couple earlier?
"We were seeing each other but Mariah, she was going out with another person at the same time," Rei explained himself.
"What other person?" Dee asked this time.
"That guy at her house, Dean, though he sometimes goes by Dee," Rei spoke. "He and Mariah were seeing each other behind my back," the words were soft but held some anger to it that caught the officer's attention. Dee looked at Ryo, they had a possible motive.
"When did you find this out?" Ryo asked.
Rei looked down, "Yesterday."
Dee shifted a little grabbing another chair and sitting down in the opposite way so he could rest his hands on the back. This was getting interesting they might be on the confession path a little faster than he thought.
"How did you find this out?" Ryo spoke and watched Rei close his eyes breathing faster.
"Start at the beginning," Dee commanded.
The sharp voice made Rei look up quickly before calming down again. "We we're in China for the tournament, the Bladebreakers that is." His fist started to clench and unclench as he blinked rapidly. Dee noticed.
"The White Tigers, my original team was also in the competition that ended two days ago. The Bladebreakers won by a landslide, the White Tigers taking second place. Mariah and I was suppose to go out yesterday because I would be leaving soon to go to Japan for a couple of weeks with Tyson."
The story stopped there as Rei seemed together his thoughts. "So instead of going out with her, I went with the others to the mall. We were there maybe three hours when it was seven o'clock I ran into her. She was with Dean laughing at the food court."
"I didn't think anything of it when I got there but something didn't feel completely right the closer I got. They were sharing some fries with one coke and he was really close, closer than I guy friend would be. When Mariah saw me she jumped quickly and scared us both. She started apologizing right on the spot admitting everything that had been going on for the past months thinking I had already guessed."
Rei stopped and closed his eyes visualizing the scene.
"Were you angry with Dean?" Ryo asked urging him on.
"At first yeah, I called him names but than he turned to Mariah like it was all news to him demanding what it was. She started crying but made it clear that he was just as clueless as I was. So I got mad at her."
"What'd you do to her?" Dee asked stopping the long pause before it could stop.
Rei tried to gain control of his emotions but tears came anyway and his voice was higher and strained. "I called her everything I could think of. Bitch, slut, prostitute, everything." He was talking rapidly now with a lot of emotion.
"We'd been friends forever but she…she just played me like an idiot. I was so mad I couldn't think straight and ignored her as she cried begging to be forgiven and walked out. I was suffocating on the inside about what she had done and what I had called her."
Rei stopped momentarily just remembering something. "That was the last time I saw her." His hands came on the table, elbows holding his head as the truth hit him. "The last thing I told her was that she was a stupid pink wench without a soul." He broke down than sobbing on the table.
Ryo looked at Dee who stared back. The boy was obviously not up to anymore questioning. He was to torn and couldn't handle it rather it be guilt or whatever. Ryo turned off the recorder.
"Alright Rei," the man got up and soothingly patted his back. "Come on it's over, lets go get you some water."
Rei shook his head, "I want to go to the waiting room."
"Fine," Dee stood and walked out the door calling down the hall. "Diana!" The woman with long blonde hair looked up. She was an FBI agent working on an illegal drug scandal but she was the only one Dee knew that could handle the boy.
She came over and he briefed her on his emotional status and where Rei wanted to go. Throwing on a motherly look Diana grasped the boy's shoulders and walked out of the room going to the bathroom suggesting that he clean up first.
"That was interesting," Dee looked at Ryo. "He basically admitted to doing the crime, too bad he busted before we could ask where he was last night."
"You're right," Ryo stared at him in shock. "We didn't ask him."
"Too late now," Dee spoke. "We'll just have to get him later, though now it only gives him time to come up with an alibi or a good answer."
"I don't think he did it," Ryo looked at the man. "He just seems to emotionally involved."
"It's a crime of passion," Dee voiced. "Of course he's involved emotionally. Do we have to interrogate the others? I mean he's our man."
"Yes," Ryo sighed. "You can't get away with doing only half the job all the time though, like you never doing the desk work," Ryo muttered.
Dee smiled wickedly. "Alight, I want to get my hands on blue boy anyway." He walked out the door with Ryo behind him.
"Are you serious?" Ryo rolled his eyes. "You're letting a little boy rile you up?" He stared at Dee dumbfounded as the older man stopped and growled.
"That stupid punk, who does he think he is?"
Ryo sighed and opened the door slightly shaking his head to the waiting room again. This time there was over twice as many teenagers. "Um I'm sorry with your loss, Rei will be back here in a minute."
"Giving them tips on an alibi," Dee muttered but Ryo ignored him.
"Can we speak with Kai?"
"Kai went outside," Hilary spoke up. "He isn't far but he just doesn't like small spaces. When we came in here he seemed to become suffocated so he went out for some air."
"Alright," Dee grinded his teeth. They couldn't force him to stay in the headquarters but the idea of him out there pissed the older officer off. The punk was just throwing the fact in his face. "How about Mai?"
The girl got up and nodded following them into the white room.
Ryo turned on the recorder and asked her about her rights etc. before starting. Dee seemed bored with this suspect already pinning down the dark haired neko so the blonde knew this was his interview.
"Alright Mai, how do you know Mariah?"
"I don't," Mai looked at him. "I've seen her on television several times and once at a tournament in Hong Kong last year but that's been about it. We've never talked or anything."
"So you don't have ties with the Blade breakers and White Tigers?" Ryo asked confused slightly and Dee looked up. Maybe he wasn't going to let Ryo have all the fun with this one.
"No not personally. I know who all them are, see I blade too so I keep up with the pros though their on a totally different level than I am."
"How were you with Kai at the crime scene than? Do you know him at all?" Dee asked.
"Actually we just met this morning. I was out driving," her composure was cool and not distraught at all. "I saw Rei running out of the building at first I thought it was a crazy tourist but than I recognized him when he got in the taxi. Kai was chasing after him and by than I had heard the news so it didn't' take long to figure out was up."
She paused. "Kai missed Rei and looked lost and pissed so I offered him a ride. I felt bad about the whole thing and knew Rei would need someone. I was surprised when he took me up though and was glad I'd filled the tank this morning. We got there, Kai punched Rei and than we came here."
Dee stared at her raising an eyebrow. "Did Kai say anything to you on the way here?"
"No," Mai shook her head. "He did say something weird before we rode though." She stopped as if remembering. "When I told him how sorry I was he just said, "We weren't that close and I learned a long time ago that people always leave you." I thought it was funny how he could say that after what happened."
Dee's eyes grew darker as he asked the last question, "Where were you last night?"
"I was home at eight'o clock with my roommate and landlord, Emmit Smith." Ryo nodded writing the name down. "He can vouch for me because we didn't go to bed til one in the morning because I was helping him study for his college entrance exams. Though his thirty-two he's decided to go back to school."
Seeing Dee's expression at a young teenager living with an elder man she added, "He's my uncle on my mom's side."
Ryo nodded. "Thank you, that should be all we need for now. We'll call you if we have anymore questions."
"I do feel bad about what happened," Mai stood up to leave the interview over. "I just find it hard to feel strong emotions over someone I really didn't know."
Dee nodded and they watched her leave.
"Do you want to question them all now?" Ryo asked with a smirk on his face.
"Hell yeah," Dee spoke. "This is more complicated than I thought. Looks like this case isn't open and shut."
"Let's get this done than," Ryo encouraged.
To Dee's disappointment Kai was outside and hadn't come in so they ended up with the blonde American at their table. Rei was back in the room and Diana had taken it upon herself to serve them drinks.
"So how long did you know Mrs. Wong?" Dee asked.
"For years now," Max answered. "We met in China at the first tournament the Bladebreakres were on as a team." He sniffed loudly and whipped his nose.
"What was your relationship with her and her team?" Ryo asked with sympathy. He hated putting these kids through this but they had to find out who did this.
"Not good at first," Max laughed slightly. "I remember the first time we met the Tigers hated our guts because Rei had left their team to see the world. At the end of the tournament though we were friends and have been ever since."
"Other than Rei did anyone in your group have problems with the Tigers?" Dee asked.
Max frowned his open eyes showing every emotion as he thought hard, his hands resting on the table in front of him.
"Tyson didn't like them at first because he said Lee was just a big headed idiot and stuff but he came completely around. Kenny was shy back than so he felt intimidated by them, especially Kevin but no one really had issues with Mariah, except maybe Kai."
"Kai?" Dee asked.
"Mmmhumm," Max agreed deep in thought. "They both fought in the alley way when we met with their blades. They said some bad things to each other but it cooled down a little but they never really liked each other. At the Russian tournament that same year Mariah was warm with everyone but Kai saying mean things about him. After he beat her entire team, stealing her bitbeast, and humiliating them Mariah never really gave him another chance."
Ryo and Dee both digested the information. Mutual hate could be a reason for murder if Kai had been pushed over the edge by Mariah's actions about her and Rei's relationship.
"How did Rei and Kai get along?"
"Good actually," Max seemed a little confused about the question but answered it anyway. "Rei was always closer to Kai than any of us. They kind of hit it off faster too. Both of them are just calm I guess."
Dee nodded. "What were your feelings about their breakup yesterday?"
"It was harsh," Max fought to find the right words. "None of us would have ever thought something like that would happen between the two. They just seemed so happy and well together. Rei took it really hard and showed a side of him that we don't normally see. Usually he's calm and disrupting disputes but this time he was all in her face and saying things he didn't really mean."
Dee couldn't help but grin inside. They had someone who loved to talk and was very perceptive too.
"I didn't like it," Max continued. "But it was out of my hands and I figured the best thing to do was let them both cool off before talking to either of them. Mariah and Rei were both my friends so I couldn't help but feel sorry and pity for both of them."
Ryo nodded. "I understand. Where were you last night?"
"Everyone of us, Hilary, Tyson, Kenny, Kai and I were at the hotel."
"Where was Rei?" Ryo frowned.
"He didn't come home til after I went to sleep. It had been a long day and when the clock hit midnight I couldn't stay up much longer so I went to bed. I guess the other ones fell asleep later though Kenny was knocked out around nine thirty or something like that."
"So Rei wasn't at the hotel with you guys?"
Max frowned. "No but he was there this morning when we got up."
"Thanks," Ryo turned off the recorder. "You're free to go Max. Call us if you remember anything else." Max nodded and walked away to the waiting room. Ryo watched him go with sad eyes.
"No way it could be him," Dee breathed. "Too eager to talk, not sweaty, nervous and his eyes are honest."
"I know, seems innocent doesn't he," Ryo agreed.
"I'm still leaning on Rei but I don't think he acted alone," Dee voiced. "That Mai girl may be in on it as well. How does someone just happen to be on the street when a person famous needs a ride to go somewhere?"
"That is suspicious," Ryo voiced. "But I have my doubts with all their stories." He sighed lets go get the others.
Kenny's interrogation wasn't long, the boy had little to say and cried half way through it forcing Ryo to stop it before Dee got pissed and started yelling at the small boy. Gary refused to talk but Kevin and him had both been out of the city the past two days and knew nothing of the events. They had only arrived this morning to find her dead. Tyson was quiet but didn't look like killer material. His testimony was almost identical to Max's, he fell asleep about ten minutes after the blonde.
"I know this is hard on you," Ryo spoke at the silent teen across from him. It had taken a lot of the male just to say he knew his rights and give his name. "Can you please though tell us how Mariah was before this? Was she acting funny?"
"No," Lee muttered. "She called me upset yesterday around eight and we talked an hour about her break up with Rei and the fact that she was still going to continue a relationship with Dean. It took a while to calm her down but I did. We hung up at eleven."
Ryo nodded hoping that the recorder had picked up the boys low monotone voice. He sounded so dead that the blonde felt a stab to his heart. He hated this part of his job but it was and would always be a necessary evil.
"How was she when you got off the phone?" Ryo asked thankful that Dee let him do the talking. Sometimes the black haired male could say harsh things and that was not what Lee needed at the moment.
"She was fine," Lee answered. "She even laughed once and promised me to talk things over with Rei when she got home from her appointment. She didn't want to lose his friendship but she wanted to give him time to calm down so he would be rational."
"What's your relationship with Dean?"
"I met him a few months back at the park blading, that's where he met Mariah. The two of them hit it right off and became friends but I didn't think anything of it because I'd always thought Mariah had Rei." Lee paused. "How she managed to hide it from all of us is a mystery."
Dee couldn't help but agree as Lee answered some more questions. It seemed impossible.
"Where were you last night?"
"At the hotel asleep," Lee voiced. "I can't get anyone to back me up on it but that's where I was."
"Alright no further questions," Ryo noticed the relief in his eyes as he knew that the whole interrogation was over.
"Am I a suspect?" the boy asked after the recording had already started and he was read his rights.
"No," Dee looked at him. "Should you?"
"Well," Dean sighed. "I don't know." He closed his eyes and ran a hand threw his hair looking tired. "It just seems rational. I mean everyone else has known her for years, why would they hurt her?"
"No one said they have," Ryo reminded him.
"So why question them?" Dean looked up.
"We're trying to get an idea about the recent scenes that may have happened before the murder. Any changes that seemed abnormal, the usual stuff to create a bio," Dee answered. The cop looked relaxed but his eyes told another story. They were cold and hard, his suspicion peaked with all the boy's questions. His eyes never left Dean's green ones.
"Oh," Dean leaned his head on the table. "What do you want to know?"
"How about how you and Mariah met," Ryo spoke playing good cop noticing Dee picking out a cigarette. He wasn't suppose to do that in here but he was a grown man so what was Ryo to do?
"We met in the park. I was blading, though I'm not really good, a rookie really when this idiot started making fun about my blade. He was a short guy with thick orange hair and the biggest brown eyes. I was going to leave when he launched his blade crashing it into the floor beside me and I panicked. Falling down there was nothing I could think about doing as his blade circled me like a shark."
Deans green eyes grew cloudy as he remembered, his voice low like a story tellers holding the cops attention. "Lee and the others were around and stopped him from doing some real damage. I took notice of Mariah right away, you don't see many feisty pink haired girls now a days." He chuckled slightly.
"She tore into that boy with such venom I was sure she was a viper or something. Anyway I told her she was cute and we exchanged numbers before she left. We saw each other for the next few weeks and the day before Mariah became my boyfriend I hung out with Lee and the others for the last time."
Dean leaned back. "I didn't understand why she didn't want me to see them or anything but I found out yesterday when I met Rei at the mall. I didn't believe it at first but when Mariah admitted everything…" he let it drop as he closed his eyes trying hard to gain control of his emotions.
"I forgave her though," he continued. "Told her she should make her choice and she chose me. I was suppose to go with her to the dentist today but…"
"Was your relationship with her good or bad?" Dee asked as simply as he could.
"Good," Dean looked at him. "We never really fought, in fact our biggest fight other than yesterday was over wither or not Chinese food was better than Japanese."
"You never got into a shouting match? Hit her?" Dee asked.
Dean narrowed his eyes. "No," his voice was flat and final.
"Where did you go after the fight yesterday?" Ryo asked him.
"I was with her until I had to go back to work at the Shoe Shop at the mall. I was on my lunch break when it happened and met back with her after my shift. Six o'clock maybe and we hung out until she asked to be alone. She needed space and so did I so I left her alone and went home."
"Can someone vouch for you?"
"No," Dean sighed. "I'm nineteen so I have my own place already."
"How far had you and Mariah gotten in your relationship?" Dee asked.
"Why?" Dean's color fell out of his face. "Was it rape?"
"The scene set up for it," Ryo glared at him. "But we're not sure. Her pants were torn but it doesn't look anything like it for now."
"Oh," Dean seemed to be able to breath again. "We didn't get that far. She wanted to take it slow. With her overbearing brother at times I figured she didn't want to risk making him angry or anything."
Ryo nodded. "Alright. You can go."
"Thanks," Dean got up and had to hold on to the table to steady himself. The bags under his eyes showed how little sleep he'd gotten. He was dizzy. "Do me a favor officer," Dean voiced as he reached the door.
"And what would that be?" Dee asked.
"Find the fucking bastard," Dean looked at him and the cop raised an eyebrow at his definite voice strict mood. "I don't know if me and her could've made it another month because of what had happened but she didn't deserve that."
"We'll do what we can," Ryo nodded smiling half heartedly. "We'll find him."
Dean nodded walking out the door.
"What do you make of that?" Dee asked.
"He seemed pretty sure about what to say," Ryo remarked. "Too sure for my taste."
Dee nodded in agreement. "It was like he'd sat in front of a mirror and practiced before coming here. I say we keep him on our list."
"He a suspect now?" Ryo asked.
"Not to the department until we come up with evidence," Dee pulled the cigarette out. "But he is to me."
Ryo agreed as they moved to question the next kid. "This should be the last one so you'll get your chance at Hiwatari."
"Unless he doesn't show," Dee muttered. "Coward." Despite himself Ryo couldn't help but smile at how pitiful the older man was making his own look.
"Last round." Dee muttered as he paused pulling out a newspaper.
They found Kai sitting with the others and without an invitation the teen got up and walked by them when they opened the door. Ryo had to grab Dee as the door swung close and the officer lost control
"You little snot!"
"Dee!" Ryo pleaded as the older man moved towards him. Kai remained cool as he half turned back to see them.
"I don't believe physically harming me is part of your job detective," his voice was sharp and bored but it controlled Dee in a second. Some of the other officers were looking in their direction and the old man didn't want to be bested by the teen.
"Lets go Hiwatari," he muttered and walked by Kai pulling out a cigarette. Kai didn't move and waited as Ryo sighed pushing by him and being the middle of the so called train.
"Calm down Dee," Ryo grumbled as they let Kai take his seat.
"Yeah but," Dee growled. "The little snot who does he think he is?"
"Can we get started," Kai looked up at them. "I know my rights."
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"Alright Mr. Hiwatari," Dee didn't give Ryo a chance as he stood across the room from the silent teen. "Why are you here in China?"
"A tournament I was participating in with my team," Kai answered automatically with his eyes closed.
"How did your team place?" Ryo rolled his eyes slightly at Dee's questions. They were absolutely useless in the case.
"We placed first," his voice held no pride but a matter of fact. In Kai's opinion Mr. Dickenson knew what he was doing when he assembled the team and with his hard training they were a force to be reckoned with so it was no surprise for him.
"How well do you know Rei Kon?" Dee asked.
Kai looked at him still expressionless and unmoving. "He's my team mate, we've known each other for years so I know him well enough."
"So your relationship was just professional? You aren't buddies?" Dee asked and Ryo looked at him funny. What was he up to?
"I can tell you that he snores at night and has a hard time brushing his hair," Kai answered. "But I can't tell you what he hates to do on his day off, what he's reading now, or how good he is in school."
"You've never got sexually involved with him?" Dee asked. He smirked slightly when he got the expression he wanted. Finally, he'd cracked the boys mask.
Ryo's eyes bulged out of his head as he sharply turned to his partner. Where the hell had that come from? Kai sat erect and his hands unfolded, lips parting slightly as he stared at the cop in shock.
"What do you mean by that?" Kai growled. Sweat began to trickle on his lower back. Despite himself the idea of being involved with any guy sent a shiver down his spine and his voice portrayed his nervousness. Ryo glanced at Kai and decided to let it be. Maybe Dee was up to something.
"You seem a little close in the picture," Dee threw down the newspaper. In the sports column was a picture of the blade breakers at the last tournament. Tyson was in the middle holding the trophy with Hilary and Max on his left laughing with him. Kenny was on the right but it was Rei and himself that got Kai's attention. The two of them hadn't been aware of the picture being taken and it looked as though Kai's hand was around Rei's waste.
Without asking Kai leaned over, his brow wrinkled, and picked up the newspaper. "When the hell," he voiced allowed than remembered. Rei was about to fall, tripping over a cord when Kai had grabbed him on the waste pulling him back up.
He smirked than, "Sorry to disappoint you Detective Laynter but this was a mistaken shot. None of us was posed so my actions were spontaneous, Rei was going to fall over that cord," he pointed it to him. "I stopped him from losing his balance, that's all that this photo shows."
"So you're not homosexual?" Dee asked. It had been a far fetched notion but it had railed up the teen and if talking about his sexuality would make him so emotion than Dee wasn't beneath giving a blow below the belt.
Kai didn't answer for a while and Ryo raised an eyebrow at his partner. Where was this all going?
"I'm," Kai paused, "bisexual."
"So did you have feelings for Rei that might have made it easier for you two to become friends?"
Kai frowned. The sweat in the middle of his back increased. He didn't want to bring up the subject because of the memories that came to his mind but it looked like he didn't have much of a choice. He had to tell them the truth. If he didn't tell him he was bi, Kai knew a couple of people who would at first chance.
But Rei? Kai looked up and Dee seemed full of himself. If he answered it truthfully than how would this conversation end? Would Rei be told and their friendship or whatever they had ruined? Kai sighed knowing the longer he kept silent the more his answer would be questioned if he said what he wanted. Besides he was under oath to tell the truth and nothing but the truth…
"At first I was attracted to him," Kai heard himself admit. "It was a short of physical attraction that came and went very easily."
It was the truth. When he'd first met the raven haired teen Kai had thought he was good looking and though he had a strict rule of separating pleasure and business he would have made an exception if the male had made any signification of leaning that way. But when they met with Mariah he knew his hopes were dead.
"Why did the crush end?" Dee asked.
Kai shrugged and leaned on the table, cool again. He was back in control of his reactions so Dee could go off anywhere for all he cared.
"Mariah," Ryo butted in putting the entire scene story together. "When you meet Mariah and found where his interest lay you decided to leave it be and move on, but you still had an interest in him."
Dee smirked at Ryo's explanation of events and went on with it. To be honest he was surprised by the man's view of events, not even he had gotten that far yet. Looking at Kai he was just as surprised but angry as well. Guilty much?
"So when Mariah broke Rei's heart you couldn't stand on the sidelines could you?" Dee asked.
"I believe the first question should be 'where were you last night'," Kai grinded his teeth.
"And were where you?"
"At a bar around twelve and three," Kai answered. "The one on Bronze street. I went looking for Rei for the next two hours hopping from bar to bar before I found him at five o'clock asleep under the bridge soaked and drug him home."
"Fine," Dee looked down and wrote the street name on the clipboard. "We'll look into it. Now what about the question of Mariah?"
"No," Kai answered hard looking at them. "I don't mix business and pleasure. Rei made his choice and whatever happened because of it is none of my business." He stared at the cop but Dee was sure to catch a flicker of his eye.
"You made a comment at the scene," Ryo tried to break p the glaring contest. "You said, 'We weren't that close and I learned a long time ago that people always leave you,' Why?"
Kai leaned back his head to stare at the ceiling and folded his arms around his chest in an invisible barrier. What was this? How was he suppose to answer that one?
"Isn't it the truth?" Kai asked his voice rougher. "Whats the point of getting close if it only brings you to tears when they leave? It's better to have never loved at all than to lose it. You can't miss what you deny yourself."
Ryo looked perplexed than softened at the sad sight in front of him. How could someone feel like that? What made a person go through life denying what they loved because of some fear of losing it?
"Haha," Dee laughed out loud and Kai glared. "You got it wrong kid, it's better to have loved and lost than to lose at all." His face got serious and he stared at Kai with an expression the teen didn't think the older man could pull off.
"You can't go through life like that. If you do than who'll miss you when your gone. You'll be worthless, a nobody cast aside. We're humans and social at that so you better get your act together because I can bet you someone already loves you and all your doing is hurting them by not loving back."
"Dee," Ryo looked at him in surprise and shock at what he said. His voice was full of admiration as Kai scoffed and looked at the wall.
"When hell freezes over," he muttered low enough for the detectives not to hear or the tape to pick up catching Dee's evil eye.
"Back to the question, answer it," Dee commanded. "Nobody's born a damn recluse."
Kai glared. "What part of it have I not already explained?"
"How about the part of you learned along time ago?"
Kai continued to glare and Ryo noticed that it was icier if possible. "My parents died in a murder several years ago. A guy ran them off of the road and shot my father dead stabbing my mother to death when they were done with her. They were caught a year later and only served five months. By that time I was already living in hell."
"What do you mean by that?" Dee asked. His face potrayed none of the emotion he felt for the boy, but in side his heart did ache. He'd lost a fellow orphan and about the same thing happened with the guilty men. The law was getting sickening.
"My grandfather," Kai spat. "Decided to look after me considering he was my last true relative. Voltaire Hiwatari did nothing but a damn good job at making me miserable."
Ryo's eyes bulged. "Voltaire Hiwatari? Your grandfather was the head of Biovault?"
"Yes," Kai growled.
"Who the heck is that?" Dee asked looking at him.
"Voltaire Hiwatari is a despicable waste of human life you deserves nothing less than to be cut into little pieces and fed to the sharks," Kai growled. "The man got caught participating in the black market selling children as sex slaves, taking bribes, and ordering the murder of the head of the third political party in Russia. He's a sick piece of shit who thought he would use me like a damn tool and touch me whenever he felt like. The S.O.B's lucky he's in his cell right now because I'd already be on death row for killing him in cold blood."
Kai breathed heavily, his outburst loud and angry, his hands gripping the table to the point of turning his knuckles white. When the words finally registered in his head what he'd said his eyes widened and hell back against his seat. A hand came to his face shielding away the light and holding it against the headache he'd developed.
"Are we done yet?" To his shame his voice was tight and strained with holding emotion. If it weren't for his pride Kai was sure he would have cried.
Ryo looked up at Dee in astonishment along with older male staring down at him. "Yes," his voice was clear as he reached over and turned off the tape.
"If you want time alone or…"Ryo started but Kai interrupted.
"I want to go outside and smoke," the teen pulled out a box of cigs only to realize it was empty.
"Here," Dee threw him the rest of his pack that held four. "There's a back door down the hall leading outside."
"Thanks," Kai mumbled as he reached the door. He grasped the knob and turned towards Dee. "By the way Detective, next time don't tell me about my physical attraction to a team mate when you've been doing the same." He turned sharply and left the door swinging back behind him.
"Wonder what he meant by that?" Ryo voiced.
Dee was out of his chair and flicking off the retreating figure. Staring back at Ryo he couldn't help but wonder how the man didn't understand. Jeez, he'd left love marks all down the other mans' body, was Ryo really that dense.
Dee sighed that was informative. They got absolutely nothing and had been questioning all day. He stuck his head out the door and told Diana to tell the others they could go.
Ryo's answered his cell phone that had started to vibrate in his jean's pocket.
"What?!" the man yelled so loud that Dee jumped like a scared cat before turning.
"Yeah, good, good," Ryo voiced calm. "Thanks Drake."
Dee stared expectantly as the phone was put back into the pocket. Ryo smirked,
"This might just be more of an open and close than you expected, they just found the murder weapon."
Alright that's a good place to leave it. I don't know if you've noticed but I've updated a lot lately…well sorta.
Anyway tell me how it went
It was a lot longer though wasn't it?
Bet you still can't tell me who the murderer is….
Hint: he is a beyblade character…
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