Ah and I deliver with another chapter for you pretty people. Spelling and grammatical errors get much worse because it's late and I want to sleep. I'm only going to ask you to review at the end of the last chapter, but feel free to review anytime, yeah?
"How could her being the killer mean that one of you have to be taken to prison?" Kokoa demanded.
"Because we're not going to let our sister suffer for something she couldn't control." Ura replied, pulling Moka close.
"But that's not fair!" Aqua shouted.
Ura shook her head. "It doesn't matter. She's our sister." Sighing she turned to her siblings. "Since she looks most like me, I'll take the blame. After all, the victims all thought I was the murderer anyway."
"No!" Aqua and Kokoa shouted, jumping at the girl.
"Please, we'll help you cover any evidence that she was the killer, just don't do that."
Ura stared at them both. "You've both gone insane with grief." She murmured.
"No we haven't." Kokoa scoffed. "You're offering to help a murderer that killed your sister." The silverette pointed out.
"Because she's close to the girl we love." Aqua explained, brown eyes looking up into red pleadingly.
"It would be impossible to cover up evidence with two witnesses to what she's done." Ura told them, her eyes flicking momentarily to Tsukune and Mizore. The two took a step towards the door, but found Omote blocking their path.
"Y-you're not going to kill us… are you?" Tsukune gulped.
"Only if you pose a liability to us." Ura murmured, hefting the knife that Omote had given her as Omote pulled a pair of scissors from her pouch.
"Well, I'm alright with leaving everything behind me tonight." Mizore shrugged, stepping forward and holding out her hand. Ura shook her hand and turned to Tsukune.
"Please, Tsukune?" Omote begged. The ghoul stared into the green eyes and sighed. "Alright, but once the police are done, you guys have to help me clean up the house."
"Deal." Ura nodded.
"Thanks, Tsukune!" Omote jumped forward and hugged him.
"We need to get everything cleaned before the police get here." Ura told them. "The bodies need to be cleaned of any evidence pointing to Moka and we all need to convene back to get our stories straight."
"Thank you all." Moka murmured, bowing her head. "I really am sorry." The remaining group were unsure of how to respond.
"Omote," Ura said softly. "Take Moka to our room and give her one of outfits to wear." The pinkette nodded and guided the murderess out of the room. Ura turned to the rest of the group and crossed her arms.
"What do you want?" she asked, pinning them all in her gaze.
Tsukune started and replied, "What do you mean?"
"Why are you agreeing to help us even though she killed people that all of you were close to? What do you want from us? Money? Benefits? Our lives in exchange?"
"No!" Aqua and Kokoa exclaimed hurriedly.
"Well, I wouldn't mind the money." Mizore murmured. "But she did knock off three of my rivals so I'll consider us even."
Ura glanced at them. The only ones left through all this hell: Aqua, Kokoa, Mizore and Tsukune. And yet, even after tonight, they were still willing to help them and stand by her and Omote. Smiling, she split them up to begin cleaning the evidence.
Mizore and Tsukune were to do the top three floors, Aqua and Kokoa were assigned the bottom floor and the three Akashiya girls took care of the bloodiest floors, the second and third. The sky was beginning to lighten when the police lights arrived. The battering ram was applied to the front door, knocking it over so that the teenagers could be guided out. Just as discussed, they all raced out, shouting about there being someone trying to kill them and begging the police to keep them safe.
They were all guided to different sections of the large gardens. Mizore was among the treeline, Tsukune stayed a little closer to his house, Omote, Ura and Moka were near the rose part of the garden and Aqua and Kokoa moved to where the violets were growing.
The chief of police moved forward, talking to one officer. "Yeah, Prickler's car never returned. We found his remains in the forest. He must have been taken out before he could reach the house."
Ura overheard the conversation and rounded on Moka. "You killed a police officer?" she hissed.
"No!" Moka squeaked. "You know how much I hate the dark. I wanted to catch that girl before she went to the forest because if she got there, I knew I couldn't follow." Ura sighed and turned back to where Omote was keeping the officer busy.
The chief walked over to Tsukune and began the interrogation.
"Alright, who all was invited here tonight, son?" the chief asked.
Tsukune took a breath, thinking before listing the people who had been invited or he had been forced to invite. "The three Shuzen girls, the Akashiya triplets, Yukari Sendo, Kurumu Kurono, Mizore Shirayuki, Ruby Tojo, Ginei Morioka, San Otonashi, Haiji Miyamoto, Xia-Ling Miao and his cousin Routier, Fang-Fang Huang, Hokuto Kaneshiro and Keito Kumo."
"Now there were four extra boys killed here tonight?"
"Yes sir."
"And what were they doing here?"
"They came to play a prank on us. After we found the first body, Saizo Komiya, I assumed the murderer had gone and I invited the remaining three to stay."
"Understood. And you all couldn't leave because the house shut itself down?"
"Yes sir."
"Then how did the Miao girl end up outside?"
"We're not sure, sir. We never found any exit from the house."
A few meters away, out of earshot of Tsukune, Mizore was being interrogated by some of the police officers.
"No, I didn't come into contact with the murderer at all." The ice girl was saying.
"But some of the others did?" the officer, a blue-haired mermaid-like woman asked.
"Omote Akashiya was stabbed in the stomach, but the killer left her there when we arrived to help her. None of us could get a clear picture of what they looked like though, or at least I couldn't."
"Then how did Ura and Moka Akashiya get those markings over their eyes?"
"They were ambushed by two other teens that thought they were the murderer. Kurumu Kurono and Ginei Morioka both assumed that Ura and Moka were the respective killer. That's why the markings look slightly different from each other."
The officer nodded and wrote this information down.
Moka looked around at all of the teens, nervousness churning her stomach as she stayed close by her sisters.
Ura and Omote answered the questions the way they had been trained by their mother just in case something like this were to ever happen and they kept Moka at the back of things so that their sister wasn't pressured to answer anything.
While the pair were in the middle of explaining how Ura received her scars, another officer walked over to Moka and asked, "Miss, if you would come speak with me for a moment."
Moka looked up at the genie-esque Indian officer in fright, not emitting a sound as her sisters had instructed. "Miss, I need to get your statement in order for this case to come to a close." When Moka made no move to follow the officer, the woman grew impatient. The silver-and-pink-haired girl backed up and she bumped into Ura. The albino turned in confusion to see the Indian woman and she turned.
"She's struck dumb." Ura told the officer. "We're still teaching her sign language."
"My apologies." The officer said, bowing and walking away. The officer questioning Omote and Ura gave them a nod, walking off, Moka gave a sigh of relief.
"You know Mother is going to kill you when we get home." Ura chuckled.
"I know." Moka sighed. "I just wanted to join my sisters outside for once. I'm always locked away in the basement. I want to be with the rest of you."
"You know what has to happen once we get home, right?" Omote asked softly.
"Yes." Moka replied, hanging her head low.
Finally, as dawn peeked over the horizon, the cars finally took off and the entire group gave sighs of relief. "You guys go ahead and sleep." Ura told the four survivors. "We'll take care of the cleaning."
"We can't let you do that." Tsukune objected.
"Don't be rash; you're all nearly asleep on your feet. The adrenaline must be getting to you after all the events of the night. Not to mention that it should be easy since they removed the bodies. Really, all we'll have to do is apply Awesome to the carpets and scrub the walls and then everything will be fine."
The group nodded and all began moving beds into one room. After they stripped down from their bloody clothing, Kokoa and Aqua curled up on one bed while Mizore and Tsukune settled onto another. Moka saw Omote's eyes flash at the action and felt her hand twitch toward the blade still in her bag, but Ura's hand fell on hers.
"If you kill her, everything we just worked for will be screwed." The silverette growled, tugging both her sisters from the room. "Come on, we have cleaning to do."
Stripping from their clothing, the three girls went about the house, applying Awesome cleaning liquid to the carpets and any of their bloody clothing before beginning to scrub the walls and ceilings, making certain that all traces of blood were gone from the house so that when the Aono parents returned home the following day, they wouldn't be confronted with the sight of a bloodbath.
Once everything was finally cleaned up, the three sisters sank down onto a bed of their own in a separate room, exhaustion catching up with them as well. Within moments, they were all snoozing happily and the cleaning and cooking staff were none the wiser about the events of the previous night when they entered the house that morning.
Ah, now that's a beautiful thing to see, isn't it? But it's not over just yet... Make sure you review, I'm getting sleepy.
