This chapter was name after a song, on an anime show called, Kill la Kill, episode 3.
Chapter Eight~Before My Body Is Dry
Thursday
Day Three
12:45 pm
Empire Hotel~Norman's Room
Norman was resting in the hotel bed, while Yuuki, was watching him. Under the covers, he was shivering, from the coldness and the withdrawal of the triptocaine. Yuuki kept an eye on him, since she discovered his secret, that she wishes to know more about, when he wakes up. She decided to switch out of her black v-neck shirt, for one of his white dress shirts, so can let her shirt dry, in the shower.
There was a knock on the door, Yuuki called room service, to bring chicken noodle soup and fruit salad. She opened the door, and notice the guy with the cart. "Thank you." She pulled out her wallet and gave him a ten dollar tip. As she pulled the cart in, Norman was starting to get up, while looking around the room, before he noticed Yuuki, in his dress shirt, and with a hotel cart, she rolled in.
"Hey, sleepyhead." Yuuki greeted, softly.
Norman rises up from the bed, rubbed the back of his head, before he noticed that, he wasn't in his clothes. He only had on his boxer briefs. He was so confused.
"Did we...have sex?" Norman asked.
"No, I'm not ready yet, but I will tell you, when I'm ready.
"What happened and why am I in the bed?"
"Because, after when I pulled you into the shower…"
"We had sex?"
"No, dummy! Let me finish!" Yuuki told him. "You fell asleep, after the kiss, so I pulled you out the bathroom, taken off your clothes and shoes, and lifted you, onto the bed."
"You did all of this and you even gotten me something to eat?" Norman said. "You're so thoughtful, Yuuki."
Yuuki grabbed the sides of the warm bowl of chicken noodle soup, and places it, under his nose. He felt the warmness of the hot soup, as he grabbed the bowl. "You need to eat, if you want to feel better."
She went back to the cart to pick up her bowl of fresh fruit salad. "You get fruit and I get crappy soup?!"
"It's called get well soup and also 'shut the hell up' soup." Yuuki walked, back and sat down next to him, on the bed.
Norman smirked at Yuuki, before kissing her cheek. "Oh, ha, ha very funny, Mars. Very funny."
Yuuki and Norman were enjoying their food together, in the expense hotel room, where they meet at. The profiler was begging Yuuki for a couple of bites of her fruit salad, but the sergeant mother couldn't resist his face or his begging. After when they finished eating, once again, Norman has told Yuuki about the next suspect, that he found in ARI.
"So, you think this Mad Jack, sold a car to the killer were looking for?" Yuuki asked. "What's the model of the car, we're looking for?"
"A blue Chevrolet Malibu '83." Norman replied. "It's the same model, that was at the crime scene, and on the day, Shaun disappeared."
When Yuuki heard the model of the car, she started to remember something, from this week. The same car, that was parked on the other side of the park, where Yuuki had parked hers, was the same car was following her. She told Norman about it and he was wide-eyed, that the killer could be stalking her, Kanon, and her brother's family.
As they drove to Mad Jack's junkyard, Norman thought it was a stupid idea of bringing Yuuki, along with him. She could get hurt or even something bad will happen to her, but Yuuki wasn't going to give up on finding Shaun and Ethan.
Yuuki was looking at the road and also at Norman, as he drive. She had something to say to him, after what just happened to him the hotel room.
"Hey, I have something, that I have to tell you." Norman was at a red light, when he heard Yuuki's quiet voice.
"Yeah? What is it?" Norman asked.
"I...sorta...have a problem, just like yours." Yuuki told.
Norman hit the accelerator, when the light was green. "You have a problem? What kind?"
Yuuki gulped, before answering. "More of a suicidal problem."
Norman decided to pulled over to hear Yuuki's problem, but she decided to step out of the black impala, into the freezing rain.
"Yuuki!" The profiler step out of the car too, as he walked up behind her, to see her arms crossed, until she turns to face him, but she looked at his chest.
"After, when Ryan died. I felt alone...Alone, with the baby, in my arms, without a father, who was willing to take care of Kanon." Yuuki started to cry. "One day, I let Ethan, babysit, Kanon, for a while, until he came back to the house to find me, not moving on the floor. He thought I have died and left him, alone, once again." Yuuki rolled up her jacket and shirt sleeves. "I cut myself, on my arms, to ignore the pain, that was tearing up inside me. I was sent away to a mental hospital, for a whole month, before I was able to reunite with my baby and Ethan." She covered her eyes. "I...was...sacred... so scared of losing my baby, and I don't want to lose her."
"I understand, but you have a life to live. Kanon is the only person, you have left of Ryan." Norman hugged her. "Don't let your fears, come true. There is still hope inside of you." He let go, before Yuuki looked up at him.
"Well, promise me this." Yuuki said, before wiping her eyes off. "I will forgive you, for your problem, if you stop taking Triptocaine."
"I will," Norman kissed her forehead. "I promise, just for you."
Mad Jack's Junkyard
2:18 pm
"I'm surprised that Blake wasn't in the office, before we left." Yuuki said.
"Hey, me too. He turned into a complete asshole, with a police badge."
The two arrive on the other side of the city's junkyard, which belongs to Mad Jack's. Norman parked his impala, on the side of the parking garage, while Yuuki was reminded of this place.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
Yuuki looked up at him. "Just to let you know. Ryan and I have been here before, and I'm afraid that he might remember me."
"Don't worry," Norman reach for the glove compartment of the car, open it, and it revealed an extra hand gun, and another pair of ARI glasses. "If he tries to harm you, I'll be next to you, Yuuki."
Yuuki nodded her head, before smiling. Norman touch the bottom of her chin, with a finger. He moved closer to her and gives her a soft peck on her lips.
They both got out of the impala, as they started walking around to find Mad Jack. Yuuki and Norman walked inside the garage, until they heard a voice from behind.
"What are you doing in there?!"
They turned to face the person who owns the garage, Mad Jack. Yuuki stayed behind Norman, as Mad Jack walked up to them. "Norman Jayden, FBI and this is..."
"Police Department Sergeant...Mars." Yuuki said, her maiden name, without giving out her married name to him. Mad Jack had a strange feeling about her, like somehow, he known her from before. "We like to ask you some questions."
"I'm listening."
Yuuki was right next to Norman, on his right, before she started asking the questions.
"We're looking for the owner of a blue Chevrolet Malibu '83."
Norman stepped in. "We don't give a damn how the car got here, whether you stole it or not. We just want to know who bought it from you."
"Sorry, man, don't ring a bell." Mad Jack replied. "I have a real bad memories for names."
"Perhaps, I can help you to understand." Norman tells him. "If we find out who you sold the car to, you're looking for some pretty solid time, Jacky-boy."
Yuuki was smiling at the comment, with her arms crossed, just like Norman.
Mad Jack walked up to Norman. "You tried to scare me with your big talk? I never saw your goddamn car. Now take a walk." Mad Jack left out the garage into the rain, to get back on the bulldozer.
"Rule number one: Never trust him, Norman."
"It seems that your rule is right." Norman replied. "I don't trust this guy, either." He pulled out his ARI glasses and glove. "Help me search the garage, Yuuki." She nodded, before walking into the small office.
"Hey?" Yuuki called out to him, before Norman face her. "Don't overdo yourself."
As they search the garage for anything that Mad Jack, known or did the killer. Tire tracks, Mad Jack's fingerprints and footprints, and a visitor's footprints was all that they can find, until Yuuki notice some on the ground.
"Hey, Norman, look!"
Norman walled up behind her, as he looked at what she was pointed at.
"The Chevrolet Malibu had blue paint, right?"
"That's right, but is it the right blue paint?" Norman uses his glove, to analyze the blue faded paint. "Orchid pollen in the air...same tire tracks...same blue paint. The killer's car definitely went through here."
"Well, I think that's everything we need to arrest him." Yuuki suggested.
"Wait, Yuuki." Norman told her. "There's something else we need to investigate." Yuuki follow Norman to the acid bath. "There's a blood trail, leading to here."
"Whose blood is it?" Yuuki asked.
Norman puts his ARI glasses and glove, back into his overcoat. "Two possible people. One is Ryan's and the other another cop."
"Wait a minute, Ryan and I came over here to talk to him. That's it. There was no fighting or no blood." Yuuki explained.
"Well, who's this under here?" Norman and Yuuki got on their knees, they both lifted up the sheet of metal, and it revealed a floating head skull.
"Holy crap!" Yuuki backed, away from Norman. "We need to arrest him, now, before-" Yuuki felt something, touching the back of her skull, but she kept her mouth closed.
"Yuuki?" Norman turned to face Yuuki with her hands up in the air, behind her was Mad Jack, aiming the gun, at her head. Norman also had his hands up in the air too.
"It looks like I remember you now." Mad Jack said. "You're that Lieutenant's wife bitch."
"Yes, yes I am."
"Well, listen to this, he came by here with a cop buddy of his. He asked too many questions, so I have to shut his little mouth and the lieutenant pig, escape." Mad Jack search both Norman and Yuuki for any concealed weapons until he found two guns and throw them, away from them.
"Hands on your head, pigs." Mad Jack threatened. "I ain't got time to be playing games. Let's just get you both out of sight and finished you off."
Norman and Yuuki both walk to the back of the garage, as Mad Jack was still aiming the gun, in the back of Yuuki's head. Until Norman made a sharp turn and tripped Mad Jack to the ground, and Yuuki made a run for the two guns, that he thrown away. As soon as she got the gums, she immediately made it back, when Norman and Mad Jack, were both on the ground, until Mad Jack got thrown by Norman, when he tried to reach the gun, and hit the gasoline barrels.
"Get your, get your ass up!" Yuuki threatened, as she aimed the two guns at Mad Jack. "Yeah, you're not so tough!"
Norman picked up the other gun, off the ground,and aimed it at him, also. "Enough fucking around! Now you're going to tell us about the man with the blue car!"
"You two go fuck yourself!"
"Since, you now recognize me. Yeah, remember me? Yuuki Chiba? I'm the Lieutenant's wife."
"I was wondering where you were, when that husband of yours, showed up with back up. I was about to shoot him, until he escaped."
"Well, I guess I have two questions for you." Yuuki asked. "Did you kill my husband for revenge or did you provide the killer with car? You better say something or I will go crazy with two guns!"
"You and him don't scare me, police bitch and Mr CSI." Mad Jack hissed. "You ain't got it in ya, and plus I ain't no snitch."
Yuuki couldn't take it anymore, so she decided to give up...NOT! "Fuck it," Yuuki shoot two bullets from the guns, in front of Mad Jack.
"DAMN!"
"Damn, Yuuki."
"You outta your motherfuckin' mind, bitch?"
"Oh, shit Jack." Yuuki said. "I'm sorry, I was suppose to aim and shoot at something else, but I'm guessing I'm blind as a bat."
"And what she is doing is called self defense. Page one in the police manual: Kill or Be Killed." Norman said.
"Whoa, whoa, stop! Enough! Jack shouted. "I'm starting to remember some things...You be cool and I'll tell you the tale. Look, I did not kill the cop. He wanted me to be in custody, since I been creating false plates, and I just bolted and everything went out of hand, and your husband escape, without getting shot. And I don't know anything about the other guy, he wanted me to get rid of his dirty car, give him a new one with false plates. He pay cash and I ain't the questioning kind." Mad Jack slowly stands up. "He said that I was supposed to drop the word to a guy name Paco, down at the Blue Lagoon, when the car was finished. That's all I know."
"Oh no! Not that groping pimp." Yuuki groaned.
"We'll continue this discussion, down at the police station." Norman told him. "You're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Anything…" Norman voice was breaking up, as he felt weird, once again, and his nose was bleeding.
"Norman, are you OK?" Yuuki asked.
"Oh, shit, not now. Not in front of Yuuki." Norman murmured to himself.
"Hey, you look like you got a problem, man?"
"Norman, what's wrong?" Yuuki took her eyes off of Mad Jack, for a second. Bad mistake. Everything went black, as Yuuki fell on the ground,hitting her head, and dropped the guns. Mad Jack knocked her out.
Norman dropped to his knees, as he crawled to her, until Mad Jack kicks him in the stomach. "Yuu...ki…"
"It's time for me to get rid of you two, permanently."
Yuuki groaned, as she woke up, slowly, with a bad headache in Norman's black impala. She was handcuffed to the steering wheel, as she looked around and noticed that Norman wasn't with her. There was a violent shake, as she the car was being lifted up by the bulldozer.
"Norman!" Yuuki yelled, as she hit the horn on the impala, a couple of times. "Norman, where are you?!"
"Yuuki!" That was Norman's voice, calling her back. She looked outside the window to find Norman, tied up, around the bulldozer, he was struggling to get out. Yuuki had to think fast, before she is thrown into the grinder, with the car.
She remembered something from earlier, Norman had an extra gun, in the glove compartment, so she raised her right leg, and tries to kick it open, but she hits the radio. It play a fast country song, which was really addicting. She tries again, and her foot hit the glove compartment to open. Wasting no time, Yuuki uses her black combat boot, to kick the gun, up onto the dashboard. The car started swaying back and forth, until Yuuki grabbed the gun, and uses it to shoot the handcuffs, off of her. Thank God, that she didn't shoot her.
Norman was still tied up and was watching, until Mad Jack had thrown the car into the grinder. "YUUKI!" Norman shouted, until he started crying, "No, Yuuki." Norman had witness Yuuki's death. Now, she was with Ryan, her deceased husband, but he didn't notice her, jumping out of the grinder.
"Norman!" Yuuki ran up to her, with the gun, in her hand. Her leather jacket was gone, it was in the grinder.
"Yuuki?" Norman noticed her, as she untied the rope, around him. "I...I thought you were gone."
"Hey," Yuuki touched his face. "I will never leave anyone behind."
"LOOK OUT!" Norman yelled, as Yuuki was grabbed from behind, and thrown into the mud. Yuuki looked to up and noticed Mad Jack, I'm front of her, so she kicked him in the crouch. He groaned, as Yuuki ran away.
"Come back here!" Mad Jack ran after and catch her, until Yuuki reached down to grabbed a rock, and thrown it in his face. She misses, until he kicked her ribs, as she fell, and covered her stomach. He immediately stomped her to ground, which she immediately thrown up, in the rain. She wanted to give, but it seems that her time, was up.
Norman thrown something at Mad Jack's head to make him turned to face him, and he spirited to Norman, who was ready to fight.
Yuuki couldn't take the pain, after all she been through. Police training and become a mother, really change her, until she was reminded of something that Ryan, said to her about fighting.
"If you're not strong enough, or don't have the blood, that boils through you, angrily. You have to fight naked!"
"Fight naked? You made that up!"
"No, it's true. When my blood is boiled, I usually take off my shirt and start fighting."
Yuuki remember that talk they had about fighting when you're angry.
"Ryan's right….I...have...to try." Yuuki started to get up on her feet, as she taken off the white shirt, Norman let her borrow, and it revealed her red sports bra. There was some bruises, but it has to wait.
"Hey, Mad Jack!" Yuuki ran up to him, and starting swinging the metal pole, she found on in the mud.
One Metal Pole and A Bulldozer Later…
The battle between the two cops and an angry junkyard dealer, has ended with bloodshed, when his jacket, was caught in the caterpillar tracks of the bulldozer. Yuuki was panting heavily as she held onto the metal pole that was still in her hand, until she thrown it.
Norman walked up, behind her, as she turn to face him. "I sorta lost my touch back there." Yuuki explained. "He made my blood boil." She walked closer to him, as he decided to hugged her, while running his fingers, through her damp, long hair.
"How did you learn how to fight that way?" Norman asked, letting her go. "Are you an exhibitionist?"
"No, I went through police training and I also did Taekwondo in high school." Yuuki explained, as she covered her arms, around her chest, because she was freezing, until Norman did a gentleman's thing by giving her, his overcoat, and zip it up for her.
"Thank you, that was very nice." Yuuki complemented him.
Yuuki's House
3:05 pm
On their way back, they decided to take a taxi back to the house. As the taxi driver turn right on the street, where Yuuki lives, Norman and Yuuki notice an ambulance truck, leaving the area, an ICN news van, and also two police car, parked in front of the house.
"What happened?" Norman asked.
"I don't know." Yuuki said, before exiting out the taxi. Norman stay to pay the taxi cab driver, until Yuuki notice her next-door neighbor, Miss. Ramirez, talking to Ash.
"Ash, Miss. Ramirez, what happened?"
"Someone attack Sara, ramshackles your house and left, without harming your baby." Miss. Ramirez said.
"Where's Kanon and Sara?" Yuuki asked, until Norman shows up.
"Sara is in the ambulance and she's being transported to a nearby hospital." Ash said. "Kanon's upstairs in her room."
Yuuki and Norman ran inside the house, to find the living room, coffee table, upside down the couch was moved, and the playpen was disassembled. They ran upstairs to Kanon's room to find Carter Blake, sitting in the rocking chair, holding a sleeping Kanon, in his arms, while the baby was chewing and drooling on his signature black tie. The three stay silent for a minute until, Yuuki speaked up.
"Blake, I wasn't expecting you, to hold my daughter."
Blake stands up from the rocking chair and walked to them. "I just wanted to make sure, that Kanon's OK. Especially, when you're raising her alone, without your husband or your fugitive brother, on the loose." He turned his attention to Norman. "Where have you two been?"
"We were going over the case, together, and try to figure out a way how to get her brother, to reveal out, in the open."
"Well, it seems that you're still on the case, huh?" Blake asked and Yuuki nodded. " I suggest you stop being on the case, because the person, who robbed you, left you a note, in your bedroom.
Yuuki was confused, until she walked into her bedroom, to find the note, on the bedroom mirror, smeared with red lipstick.
GET OFF THE CASE OR YOUR DAUGHTER AND BROTHER WILL BE NEXT!
The sergeant mother was shocked, at what the robber left behind for her, to be nervous. Norman was behind, trying to calm her down, until Blake walked in, with Kanon.
"If it was just me, I suggest you get off the case just for the safety of you and your daughter." Blake said, while Kanon was cooing words in her sleep, while still having his black tie, in her small mouth.
Yuuki was started to show tears. She has to make the biggest sacrifice in whole police career. She has to get off the case, just like she did with her deceased husband's case. "Blake…" she turned to face him. "I'll get off the case, for the safety of me and Kanon."
Norman was watching Kanon, as she was still asleep in his arms, he reached down and kissed her cheek. He was going to help Yuuki, put her stuff in the living room, back where it belongs, but first, he wanted to see if any evidence was left behind in the house. Yuuki was upstairs in her bathroom, taking a shower, she needed some alone time, and Norman respected her time.
Tired of holding a baby in his arms, Norman decided to take Kanon, upstairs to her room, and lay down in her crib. He wrapped a small blanket, around her, before leaving to check on Yuuki.
As he walked in her bedroom, the shower was still going on, and he noticed something on her bed. It was a box cutter knife and it had fresh blood. Yuuki's blood was on it. His shocked face turned his attention to the bathroom door, and knocked on it. "Yuuki! Yuuki, are you doing something crazy to yourself?!" Norman asked, before turning the door handle.
It was locked. He slammed his body, up against the door, three times, before finding her, under the shower, naked, with fresh blood cuts on her wrists, while the blood was going down the drain, with the hot water. She was unconscious, sitting down.
Norman ran to her side, as turned off the shower, and cover her with a long white towel. "Yuuki!" Norman grabbed her face. "Yuuki, can you hear me?!" He can still feel her pulse, through her cut wrist and neck. "You need to wake up and keep your heart beating!" Norman complained.
"You can't just leave me and your daughter and your brother. Come on, wake up!"
"Yuuki!"
"You have be more...NAKED!"-Mako Mankanshoku, from Kill la Kill, episode 3
Well, here's the truth about Yuuki, but will she be OK in the next chapter? And why is Blake so interested in Yuuki and Kanon, and especially Norman? The next chapter will be another Yuuki, Norman, and Kanon chapter. I can wait to write it!~GirlGoneGamer