A/N: Wow, two more subscribers. That would be ylfrettub and Rilliane l'Austriche. Thank you! Both of them have written stories for Vocaloid, so be sure to read them.

Okay, now for the fun part. Mystery time! See if you can figure it out before it's revealed. Enjoy!

"Again? What does Meiko have to say about me this time?"

"Meiko said that—Hey!"

"Hello? This is Chief Meiko. You're top suspect, get over here right now. We're at that house, you know where it is. You'd better get here in less than 15 minutes or else!" Meiko hung up.

RIn explained this to the gathered three people.

"15 minutes! You can't walk here in 15 minutes," Len exclaimed.

"Then it's the 'or else' part."

Mikuo cleared his throat. "I can, uh, you know, drive you there."

Everyone stared at Mikuo. "You can drive?"

"Yeah. I'm 16. Last time I checked, that's the legal age for a driver." Mikuo pulled his keys out of his pocket. "So, anyone up for a ride?"

Rin jumped out of Mikuo's car as soon as they pulled up at the house. Even driving, it had taken 20 minutes to get to the house. The ground under a second floor window was littered with glass.

Rin ran in the front door and was immediately caught by a police officer. The police officer was Kaito. "I was ordered to escort you, so if you'll come this way."

Kaito led Rin to a room. Haku, Dell and Meiko stood in it, looking down at the dead body of the lady. Meiko looked up and glared at Rin when she entered.

"You're late. Who let you out anyway?"

"No one." Rin smiled sweetly at Meiko. "I'm just smart, so I found a way to break out."

Meiko grunted. "You were reported to have left the station half an hour ago. That would've given you plenty of time to come here and kill this woman."

Len, Gumi and Mikuo entered the room. Mikuo glanced at the body. "How'd she die?"

"We're guessing someone broke the window, came in and stabbed her with a shard of glass." Meiko pointed at the broken window and then the glass shard embedded in the lady's chest.

Haku waved Len over. "Go and investigate the rest of the house." She turned to Dell. "You go with him." They nodded and left. Mikuo followed, but Gumi stood hesitantly at the door.

"How do you plan to defend yourself?" Meiko confronted Rin.

"Simple. It was obviously suicide."

Haku eyed the scene and drew in a sharp breath. "She's right. Looking at it, it was most likely a suicide."

"Explain," Meiko ordered.

"The window? If someone broke in, then the glass would be in the room, not outside. She broke the window herself. Then, the glass shard. She either stabbed herself on purpose or accidently got killed when trying to escape," Rin said.

"So she was the one who killed her husband. But she didn't have the cuts on her hands, like you said she would." Haku looked questionably at Rin.

"If you look in her bedroom, you'll most likely find a pair of gloves that have cuts in them. I didn't think of that before."

Meiko nodded, but her expression was peeved, like she sort of wanted Rin to be the murderer. She was still mad about the old hag comment.

"Let's see what Len and Dell found," Haku said, leading them out of the room.

"This." Dell handed Haku a piece of paper. It was a letter written by the lady.

To the police:

It was me who killed my husband. I suspected he was visiting another woman. Everyday he came home late with a blissful expression on his face. One time I heard him speaking to someone on the phone affectionately. All the phones in our house are connected, so I picked up the phone to see who it was. The voice was one of a woman's. Furious, I made a knife out of one of the ice blocks we have. The reason I didn't have scars on my hands is because I wore leather gloves when I did it. I killed him that day.

If you are reading this, it means I'm dead. I'll say it straight out. It was suicide. Today, I got a call from that woman. It turns out it was my husband's sister who had leukemia. She had received chemotherapy and now she was fine. I was horrified when I learned this. I had made a terrible mistake.

Please do not arrest the cute little detective girl. She is completely innocent.

This is my last wish. Give everything my husband and I own to my husband's sister. Give her this letter as well. I'm sure she'll hate me for what I did, but I deserve that.

Signed, Iku Acme

After Haku finished reading the letter out loud. Silence covered the room.

"Idiot woman." Rin muttered, and left.

Everyone dispersed, the police officers leaving in their police cars, Haku and Dell went back to the agency and Rin, Len, Gumi and Mikuo oiled into Mikuo's car.

"So, where next?" Mikuo asked.

"The grocery store. We're low on food," Rin answered.

Walking out of the grocery store, Rin spotted a boy sitting against the wall.

He looked half-starved, his blonde hair caked with dirt. He wore a coat that was too big, but the thing that caught her attention the most was his eye.

The boy's eye was completely red. Not the iris, or the whites. His whole left eye was blood red. A little yellow bird circled him, chirping a merry melody. The boy watched the bird. He extended his hand out and the little bird landed on his finger.

Rin tapped Len on the shoulder and pointed at the boy. Len's eyes were drawn to the red eye too. "Do you think he's hurt?" Len asked.

Rin shrugged and walked over to the boy. "What're you doing here?"

The boy shrank back. When Rin took a step closer, he scurried farther down the wall. Is he scared of me?

"What's wrong with your eye?" Rin asked. The boy's hand flew to his eye, covering it. Rin was getting annoyed with the boy. He was so fearful, and that reminded Rin of vulnerable little animals that she liked to torture when she was seven or eight.

"Can you even talk?" The boy trembled. "Well? Can you?"

"Ye-yes, I can," he squeaked. Rin clenched her fists in annoyance. He even sounded like a worthless little animal.

"Okay, good. Then could you answer my earlier questions?"

The boy shook his head, scared of what the scary girl would do to him when she didn't get the answer she was looking for. I can't tell her why. She'll just laugh at me, or throw something at me, he thought.

Rin grabbed the boy's collar. "You remind me too much of a weak little bird. To think that I pitied you!" Fuming she let go of him and stalked away.

She…pitied…me? No one pities me. I'm a freak. People laugh at freaks, not pity them. They pay to see them get tortured in circuses. "WAIT!" the boy yelled. Rin turned around. "My name is, um…" What was his name again? "My name's O-Oli-Olive-er."

"That's great. I don't care." Rin kept walking. Len glanced at his sister as she walked past him. Then he looked at the boy, Oliver, again. Len crouched down next to him. "Sorry about that. Is there something wrong with your eye? Does it hurt?"

This boy asked me if it hurt? But, no one cares about me, the circus freak.

Len grabbed Oliver's arm. "I'm guessing you don't have anywhere to go. Why don't you come to my house?"

A/N: Yay, Oliver's here! I love Oliver because he's so cute. Plus, James is awesome (a typing bird!) Oliver is kind of the circus monster thing in this, and yes I know Luka originally sang it. I like her version better, but Oliver's a better circus monster. For the lady, I chose Iku because I barely even know her, so yeah. If you liked her, then I'm sorry for killing her.

Thanks for reading!