Gravitation
Disclaimer: I don't own Gravitation. Maki Murakami does.
Angel Eyes Kiyone: Hey guys. Here's the new chapter I promised you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Hiroshi sat in silence in his single room apartment. The hairs on his arms were standing on end. The silence was driving him mad. His cel phone was constantly ringing. It was either Shuichi's family, Mr. K. calling to check up on him, or from Ayaka. Hiroshi couldn't bring himself to tell her about the accident. There was no reason for him to worry her. The red head picked up his guitar from the side of the bed and started strumming. It was just a random bluesy song he just came up with.
A few seconds later, there was a knock at the door. Hiroshi's heart skipped a beat. He placed the guitar on the bed and quickly got up to answrer the door practically flinging it open. Hiroshi's heart stopped beating for a moment and all the color left his face. Before him stood Ayaka Usami, his girlfriend of one year. She, for one, did not look very happy. She was furious. Without a word, she pushed Hiroshi aside and stepped inside the apartment.
"Um...A-Ayaka," Hiroshi stuttered, "what are you doing-"
"How long?" She asked interupting him.
"Huh?" He asked confused.
"How long were you planning on waiting to tell me?" She asked folding her arms over her chest.
"Tell you what?" He asked utterly confused.
"Do I really look that stupid to you, Hiroshi?" She asked rather coldly.
"A-Ayaka, I don't know what you're-"
"I saw the news, Hiroshi!" She screamed at him.
Tears were starting to form in her eyes. At that moment, Hiroshi felt stupid. He had avoided talking to her about the accident because he didn't want her to worry about it. But the red head finally realized how incredibly stupid that was. It was all over the news; all over Japan. How was she not supposed to find out?
"I know about Mr. Shindou's accident." She said with clenched fists. "I spoke to Tatsuha. He told me about what happened at the hospital. Why did you do that? Why did you hit Eiri?"
"Ayaka-"
"Why did you hit him?" She demanded.
"Because he deserved it, that's why!" Hiroshi snapped. "He's the reason Shuichi's in a coma right now!"
"Is that really what you believe?" She asked with tears now running down her face.
"..."
"You just can't see it, Hiroshi." Ayaka said softly.
"Can't see what?" Hiroshi said in an irritated voice.
" Eiri never meant to hurt Mr. Shindou."
"And how do you know that?" He asked.
"Because Tatsuha told me." She said with a serious tone that made Hiroshi's eyes go wide. "He was with Eiri the night of the accident. He told me that when Eiri saw the news, he broke down crying. And not once have I ever seen Eiri cry."
"I-"
"That's not all." She went on. "Tatsuha said that Eiri confessed his true feelings for Shuichi. And that after you and his family left the hospital, he went back to see him."
"What?" Hiroshi said surprised.
"Eiri held his hand and spoke to him." Ayaka told him.
"Did...Tatsuha tell you what he said?" Hiroshi asked combing his fingers through his hair.
"I think it was 'You're here because of me' and 'You better not die on me, Brat.'"
"He really said all of that?" Hiroshi asked chuckling.
"Yes." Ayaka said simply.
"Well then...er..." Hiroshi struggled to say. Something still didn't seem right to him. "If he cares so much about him, why did he kick him out?"
"I don't know Eiri's reason for that," Ayaka replied, "but Tatsuha thinks it has something to do with Mr. Seguchi."
"Mr. Seguchi?" Hiroshi said dumbfounded. "Why?"
"I don't know." Ayaka said. "I mean he is their brother-in-law. But Tatsuha can't stand him for some reason."
"I wonder why." Hiroshi said to himself.
"Anyways," she said interupting his thoughts, "I think you should give Eiri a break. I don't know why he acts the way he does towards Shuichi, but I know he has strong feelings for him. I can see it in his eyes. I can hear it in his voice."
"You're absolutely certain about this, aren't you?" Hiroshi asked in all seriousness.
"Yes." She replied.
"..."
"..."
"Alright then." Hiroshi said softly.
"Thank you Hiroshi." Ayaka said.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him in for a kiss.
"No." He said breaking the kiss. "Thank you."
~Meanwhile~
Detective Lenner made his way to the interagation room. His partner, a raven haired woman sat across the table from an elderly man with long white hair and a gotee. There were some teeth missing in his mouth. He had liesions on his arms. His lips were chapped and there were dark circles under his eyes. Obvious signs of a homeless person. But the case wasn't about him. It was a case that had not been settled in seven years.
"What did you see that day, Mr. Gordon." She asked him stirnly.
"I didn't see nothin'." The old man said. "All I heard were five shots go off."
"What else?" The woman asked.
"Uh-uh...there...there was this Asian guy walkin' by when it happened. He stopped and looked up at the spot where the shot went off."
"What did he do?" She asked.
"He stood there for a minute with this crazy look on his face and then he said somethin'."
"Did you hear what he said?" She asked.
"I couldn't understand him. He was speakin' in a different language."
"Did he go inside the building?" The woman asked him.
"Yeah." Mr. Gordon replied. "He went in."
"Can you remember the words he used?" The woman asked him. "Maybe we can translate it."
"You expect me to remember what he said after seven years?" Mr. Gordon snorted. "Is this brawd crazy or somethin'?"
"Alright!" Detective Lenner said holding up his hand. "Can you at least discribe the guy for us? What he looked like? What he was wearing?"
"Yeah." Mr. Gordon said. "He was about 5'6, 5'7, white blonde hair, uh...black turtleneck sweater, and khaki pants. Oh, and...he was also wearing white sneakers with uh...some...red design on it."
"Alright." Detectiver Lenner said nodding his head. "Thank you, Mr. Gordon. "You're free to go now. We'll be in touch."
"Yeah, sure." The old man said as he got up to leave the room.
Detective Lenner gathered up all of the information he and his partner collected. He was going to have one hell of a long night.
"Tired?" The woman asked.
"Oh, you have no idea." Lenner chuckled rubbing the back of his neck. "Seven years and this case has just been opened."
"Yeah, no kidding." The woman said standing up from her chair. "You need help with any of this?"
"No, it's alright, Deb." Detective Lenner said. "You should head on home and get some sleep. We've got another big day tomorrow."
"Alright then." Deb said gathering up her belongings. "See you tomorrow then."
"Goodnight." Lenner said yawning. He continued looking through the information. He pulled out a sheet of paper from a manilla folder and looked it over.
There were names of murder victoms and suspects from the case he was working on.
"Derek White." Lenner read out loud to himself. "African American male, 6'1, brown eyes. Age: 28." He read the next name. "William Martinson. White male, 5'9, blue eyes, age: 30, brown hair."
He kept on reading. "Yuki Kitazawa. Asian male, 5'9, brown eyes, age: 27. Brunette."
Detective Lenner looked at the name. He had heard that name a couple of times in the past. It had something to do with murder victoms that had been raped before being killed. When eye witnesses came forward, they all mentioned seeing an asian male fleeing the scene. It was always the same exact description. Asian male, 5'8, brunette. Detective Lenner pulled out his cell phone and decided to make a phone call.
"Stan," he greeted the person over the phone, "it's Lenner. Listen, I need you to do a background check on all three murder victoms from this case I'm working on. Derek White, William Martinson, and Yuki Kitazawa. -Yeah- thorough background checks -yeah - thanks."
With that, Lenner hung up the phone. He went through the folder again. This time, he pulled out a piece of paper with only two names on it. The name at the top was a victom/suspect. The other was a witness/suspect. Lenner looked at the two names.
"Eiri Uesugi." He said to himself. "Tohma Seguchi. Eiri Uesugi. White male, 5'5, hazel eyes, golden blonde hair. Age: 16. Tohma Seguchi. Asian male, 5'7, blue eyes, white blonde hair. Age: 24."
Something didn't seem right to the detective. He looked at the names again. "Eiri Uesugi. White male. Golden blonde hair. Hazel eyes. ... ...Eiri Ue-su-gi. The name sounds Asian. He can't possibly be white."
Like a lightning bolt, a sudden thought struck Lenner. The name Tohma Seguchi. He read the man's description again.
"Tohma Seguchi." He read out loud. "Asian male. 5'7, blue eyes, white blonde hair...holy shit."
FLASH BACK
"He was about 5'6, 5'7," Mr. Gordon explained, "white blonde hair, black turtleneck sweater, and khaki pants. Oh, and... he was also wearing white sneakers with uh...a red design on it."
END FLASH BACK
Lenner couldn't believe it. But he also couldn't let himself get carried away. The description that the old man gave hm was more than accurate. He just hoped it wasn't a coincidence. He pulled out his cell phone one last time and dialed Stan again.
"Hey, Stan- yeah sorry to bother you again. I need two more names. Eiri Uesugi and Tohma Seguchi. -Yeah, thanks alot. Bye." He hung up the phone."Thank you, Mr. Gordon, you old geezer." Lenner chuckled. "You just made my job a whole lot easier. So much for a long night."
The detective gathered up the papers and placed them back in the folder. He left the interogation room and went to the main office where they kept all of their files. After placing the folder in the filing cabinet, he took off with a plan already in mind.
The next day, Lenner walked into his office ready to work; the manilla folder in hand. His partner, Deb strolled in after him. She couldn't help but notice the look of satisfaction on his face.
"Well you seem to be in a good mood after a long night's work." She teased.
"That's because I didn't have a long night." He said grinning from ear to ear.
"What?" Deb said looking utterly confused.
"Mr. Gordon just made my work load easier for me." Lenner told her completely amused with himself.
"How so?" Deb asked standing over his desk.
Lenner took the papers he was looking at out of the folder and handed them to Deb. "Look at all of those names and tell me if you notice any similarities." He told her.
Deb took the papers from him and looked them over. She looked at the murder victoms' names. Derek White. William Martinson. Yuki Kitazawa. Then came the victom/suspect. Eiri Uesugi. Then the witness/suspect. Tohma Seguchi.
"Well, these three names are obviously Asian." Deb said. "Wait. Eiri Uesugi. White male, 5'5, golden blonde hair, hazel eyes, age: 16. That name sounds Asian to me."
"Yeah," Lenner told her, "that's the same thing I said."
"Well maybe there was a mistake in his identity." Deb told him curiously. "Or he could have been adopted by an Asian family living here in New York."
"Or a birth defect." Lenner said jokingly.
"That's not funny, Joe." Deb said putting her hands on her hips.
"I'm just saying," Lenner said, "it's possible."
"I suppose." Deb sighed. She looked at the names again. "Wait a second."
"What?" Lenner said with sudden interest.
"Yuki Kitazawa?" She said out loud. "Wasn't this guy a private tutor?"
"You tell me." Lenner replied. "His name popped up in past cases involving rape and murder, but-"
"But he was never questioned." Deb finished for him. "Do we have his record on file?"
"I called Stan last night." Lenner told her. "He should have their background checks done any time now."
Just then, a tall blonde haired male entered Lenner's office with a manilla folder in hand.
"Well, speak of the devil." Deb said with a smile.
"Ah! Just the man I wanted to see!" Lenner said literally jumping up from his chair.
"Down boy." Stan said jerking back playfully.
"Haha! So what do you have for me?"
"Background checks on all three guys as you requested." Stan smirked.
The blonde pulled out three photos. Each of the three murder victoms Lenner wanted. The photos had descriptions on all three males.
"Derek White." Stan said placing the photo on the desk. "Three sexual assult charges. Two women and one twelve year old boy."
"Oh God." Deb snorted in disgust.
"Yeah, I know." Stan replied in agreement. "He was given six months in jail without bail and then they released him."
"How the hell could they let someone like that out of jail?" Deb asked to no one in particular.
"Well, what do you expect?" Lenner replied. "Our whole system is fucked up. You send a drug addict selling marijuana to prison for life, but a rapist and a murderer only get six years."
"Next, William Martinson." Stan went on. "Two counts of house robbery, and two counts of sexual assult, one of which involved his own son."
"Jesus Christ." Lenner said rolling his eyes. "What was the other one?"
"An elderly woman." Stan told him.
"Did she press charges against him?" Deb asked.
"Sadly, no." Stan replied. "She didn't get to. She was rushed to the hospital afterwards and then she died soon after. As for Martinson's son, his wife took his ass to court and won full custody of the boy. Those two got a divorce and she got a restraining order."
"Good." Deb remarked with a sigh.
"Yeah," Stan went on, "except after the divorce and custody hearing, he never went near them again. That was it."
"He never even made an attempt to go near them?" Lenner asked.
"Nope." Stan said. "But you want to know what the really fucked up thing is? He only spent ninety days in jail."
"See? What did I say?" Lenner said with a smirk. "Our system is fucked up. Next."
"Oh, you're gonna love this one." Stan said as he slammed the photo down on the desk. "Yuki Kitazawa. Two speeding tickets and one count of drunk driving."
"And?" Lenner said waiting for him to drop the bomb.
"That's it." Stan said simply.
"That's it?" Both Lenner and Deb said in unison.
"That's right." Stan said grinning from ear to ear. "It also says here that Yuki Kitazawa had a little brother, Yoshiki Kitazawa; a wife, Yuzumi Kitazawa, who died from leukemia, and a son, Riku Kitazawa."
"Well, he's dead now." Deb said. "Who has custody of his son?'
"His brother, Yoshiki." Stan told her.
"Do you have his address?" Lenner asked.
"Uh, yeah right here." Stan said taking out another sheet of paper with the address on it.
"Good." Lenner said. "What about the other two I asked for?"
"No." Stan told him. "I typed in both names but neither of their names are in our system."
"Which means that they're not US citizens." Deb chimed in.
"Alright then. Do you know if Ryo is working today?" Lenner asked him.
"He should be coming in in an hour, why?"
"See if he can get in touch with his brother in Tokyo." Lenner said.
"What's he for?" Deb asked.
"I need him to do background checks on the other two."
Owari~
Angel Eyes Kiyone: Now, I'm not so sure how this whole law and order thing goes. I'm just writing this on a whim. I hope you guys enjoyed it though. I'm rather proud of this chapter though. Thank you to those that reviewed: Animecartooncomicgirl, white pedal, Junjou-Angel, Mafe Ly, Kayla (). Cookies for you. And thank you to those who added my story as their favorites. Reeses and snickers to you! I haven't given a name to the next chapter yet. But keep an eye out! Ja ne!