A/N: Are you all still with me? LOL. I know that I keep putting you on a cliff, but you will get to find out what is in the letter and the fate of Daisuke in this chapter (kind of). Do you think he will realize what kind of man his cousin is? I know the poor man has to go up against Kyoya, Hunny, and Mori. I don't envy that position. LOL. Here is the chapter, enjoy it and let me know what you think if you are able.
PS… Don't forget the poll. So far Kyoya is in the lead with 6 votes.
Chapter 26 – Interrogation
Yasu was not a patient man and today he seemed even more impatient than usual. He didn't just want to know how much trouble his letter caused and how panicked Haruhi was now, he had to know. It was as essential as eating and breathing. He couldn't control the urge, the need; so he didn't fight it. Hailing a taxi, Yasu decided to use some of the meager amount of money the prison gave him and surrendered to his yearnings.
Driving to the apartment, Yasu was giddy with excitement. He couldn't wait to see the results of his planning and cleverness. Oh there was nothing in that letter that the cops could put him back in jail for, but for Haruhi, it will serve as a precursor to her punishment. He was very careful that cops would not be able to get him, but Haruhi would know he was watching her. Laughing to himself, he looked out the window. The apartment was coming up. The anticipation grew and he could barely contain himself.
As the taxi passed the apartment building, there were a couple of things that Yasu noticed: everything was very quiet and everything was dark, too quiet and too dark. Had the plan failed? Did she not read the letter? Are they not taking him seriously? He told himself to calm down and then started to reason with himself, "She probably has not made it home yet and that is why it is so dark. When she gets home she will read the letter and all hell will break loose. In fact Daisuke will probably be called in for this. Just be patient Yasu." He wanted to get out and watch from afar, but he couldn't risk getting caught. So he would be patient and forgo witnessing the fruits of this particular labor.
When Hunny had arrived at Kyoya's office building, Mori was also there waiting. He had not thought to call his cousin because he was so focused on Daisuke and Haruhi, and now he was grateful to Kyoya for having the foresight to call Mori. Being so focused and wrapped up could be his downfall if he is not careful. Taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes and started to calm himself from the inside out. He was a martial arts master, not a person that would easily anger. Yasu was a master manipulator and Hunny would listen before he acted. He would find out the truth and then if needed, Daisuke would pay.
Mori watched his cousin close his eyes and breathe. "Good, he needs to be calm when he faces this adversary," he thought to himself when he realized that Hunny was mediating. Kyoya had been right to call him because when he had gotten into the limo, Hunny had been agitated and anger was flowing off of him to the point Kyoya and he could feel it. If Hunny could not calm himself, he did not need to be in the room with Daisuke.
Kyoya wasn't sure what he would see when he got into the limo. Hunny was angry, Kyoya could feel it, but he was also scared. When the older man started to meditate and calm down, Kyoya breathed a sigh of relief. He did not want to mess with a Hunny that was angry and could hinder getting answers. He was nervous and scared also, and wanted to know what was in that letter, but he could be patient. In case Daisuke tried to say there had been foul play, Kyoya had decided to open the letter in front of the man.
The car pulled up to the Black Onion Squad HQ and soon came to a stop. Kyoya stepped out of the car first and talked to the officer that had met them. When Hunny and Mori stepped out of the back of the car also, the three of them followed the officer into the building to meet with the captain that had brought Daisuke in. They were led to a small room where they could see into another room, and that is where Daisuke was sitting looking a little scared and a lot irritated.
"Has he said anything captain?" Kyoya asked looking upon the man in the other room.
"No sir. He has not said anything. Daisuke has just been sitting there staring at the wall since we brought him here. It hasn't been that long though," Captain Yamamoto answered.
"He hasn't even asked why he is here?" Hunny asked.
"No, once we left our posts and came here, he stopped saying anything. We told him that we were requested back at HQ for a meeting, but that is it. I am sure by now, he knows that this no ordinary meeting," the captain said.
Kyoya turned away from the glass, "Where is the letter?" He was immediately handed a pile of mail. Scanning through it all, he took out the letter and handed the pile back to the captain, "This is the only thing I need, the rest of that needs to go back to the Fujioka residence.
Captain Yamamoto bowed and said, "I will make sure it gets done."
Turning to Mori and Hunny, Kyoya said, "Will you allow me to conduct the first part of the interview myself? You two can watch and listen in here. I do promise that you will have a chance to interrogate him and get your own answers."
Hunny didn't like it. He wanted to be in there now, but he also knew that there was an order to things and he needed to be patient. Answers were the priority right now and after that, he would have his chance. Looking up at Mori and then back to Kyoya, he said, "Go, we will stay here."
"Thank you Hunny," Kyoya said walking out of the door. He knew that it had been hard for him to stay back in the other room, but Hunny was strong in both body and character.
Kyoya strode down the call to the other door and another officer unlocked and opened it for him. Walking in, he sat the letter down on the table and sat down across from Daisuke. He noticed when the other man saw the letter his eyes momentarily grew and then the mask was once more firmly in place. Kyoya also placed Daisuke's service file on the table and opened it once he was seated
"Master Kyoya, why am I here?" Daisuke asked sounding confused.
"I believe I will be the one asking the questions for now. I want you to answer truthfully, and if you can do that, you may survive your punishment," Kyoya said with a sneer.
Daisuke swallowed hard. He knew as soon as he was placed in this room that he was not here for a mere meeting, he was here for questioning. It wasn't until he saw the letter that he understood what was happening, "Yes sir."
"You have been an exemplary officer since you started your service to my family's private police force almost five years ago. You have received commendations and were being considered for additional training that could lead to advancement, but it appears that has been thrown out of the window by you," Kyoya said as he watched the man some more. His head popped up from looking at the table, but he said nothing so Kyoya continued, "You knew that Yasu Sato was the man that we were guarding Haruhi Fujioka from and you are related. Not only that, but you visited him in jail and passed on key information to him. Then you take a letter from him and instead of handing it over to your superiors or myself, you decided to deliver it to Haruhi yourself. Do you know what is in the letter?"
"No sir I do not," Daisuke said quietly. His head was turning about the implications of what Kyoya had said and what it could mean.
"Shall we find out together? I have the letter right here and it is unopened. Would you like to do the honors? I don't want to be accused of switching the letter out and planting evidence."
Clearing his throat, Daisuke said, "The letter could have already been switched sir."
"Yes, it could have, but it hasn't been. I will let you open it and see your cousin's handwriting for yourself."
Nodding, Daisuke grabbed the letter and opened the envelope. It was Yasu's handwriting and as he scanned the letter, he grew confused.
"Why don't you read it out loud?" Kyoya ordered.
"Yes sir," Daisuke answered.
My dear Haruhi,
As you read this, I am sure you are well aware that I am finally out of that place you put me almost a year ago. I am having my cousin, Daisuke, deliver this to you because per the police, I am not allowed anywhere near you. What a pity that is. We had a lot of fun together, didn't we? It is too bad that we didn't finish what we started. I know that you were scared, but that you liked it as much as I did. I forgive you for what you did, but do not be fooled if you think we ended there.
I hear that you are back with your rich friends and that they are protecting you with a guard detail. I guess I was right about all of that, wasn't I? You may have said that you wanted me, but you wanted them too. The money will not bring you happiness but I can. You know that don't you? The guards will not be there forever and your friends will get bored with you again, but I will be there.
I will be all around and I will not give up and leave so easily. I will have my life back. Everything in my life will be mine again, and I mean everything. I suggest that you come to terms with things as they are because nothing will change.
Until we meet again. Your beloved,
Yasu
By the time that Daisuke had finished reading the letter, he felt a bit disturbed. His cousin had used his name in the letter which would insure that he got in trouble. Next his cousin had implied that he would get Haruhi back, but that was not possible. He was confused and when he looked up from the letter, four pictures were laid out in front of him. They were a girl and her injuries, and they made him physically blanch. Looking up into the eyes of Kyoya Ootori, his fear grew.
"Interesting letter, it implicates you and basically states that he will be coming for Haruhi. Unfortunately the police would not be able to do anything with the letter because it doesn't come out and threaten Haruhi directly. What do you think of these pictures? This is your cousin's handy work. When Haruhi finally got away from him, this is what he had done to her. I am sure there were other injuries that were minor, but these were the major injuries he caused. This is the monster that you decided to protect." Kyoya slammed his fist against the table causing the other man to jump.
Daisuke was feeling sick to his stomach. Surely those pictures had been doctored. Yasu was a good guy; he wouldn't do anything like that to someone. Why then did he feel guilty for delivering the letter? Why did he feel like there could be a side to his cousin that he doesn't know? "H-How do I know that these pictures are not fakes?"
"They are not. I promise you these are the real pictures that the police took that night. You do realize the fact that you delivered the letter and the fact that your name appears in it, when Yasu make his move, you will also be tried and convicted. You are now an accomplice. I believe he had every intention of making sure you went down for him."
"He wouldn't do that to me! We were best friends growing up!" Daisuke yelled.
"He is a master at manipulation and it seems he has manipulated you so far that you can't even find fault with him when you read it from his own words written by his own hand."
"It might not mean that he is after her. It could mean that he is moving on with his life and truly forgives her for putting him in prison."
"If you believe that, then you are a bigger fool than I originally thought. Here is something else to keep in mind. You chose to disobey orders and visited an enemy in prison. You gave him information that was not available to the public about Haruhi's guard detail."
"How do you know I did that?"
"You are the only one that has visited him since I assigned the guards. You disobeyed orders and gave information to an enemy, you delivered a letter that I consider a threat against a very dear friend, and accepted a post that you knew was a conflict of interest. Were you going to help kidnap her? Were you going to help torture her? Did you plan to help him carry out his plans?"
"It is not like that! He said that she lied because she didn't want to get in trouble. He said that he just wanted to apologize!"
"You could have come to one of us and let us know what is going on, but you chose to ignore protocol," Kyoya leered. Looking towards the two way glass, he said, "Hunny, you can come in now."
"Haruhi is here?"
Kyoya raised an eye brow and said, "No, Mitsukuni Haninozuka, whom we call Hunny, is here along with his cousin Takashi Morinozuka, also known as Mori. They wanted to be present for the questioning. If I were you, I would be very cooperative, Hunny is dating Haruhi."
As Kyoya finished his statement, the door opened and in walked the two cousins. They had heard everything and yet the man they were looking down at continued to try to defend his cousin. It was one thing to defend family, but when you are presented with evidence such as what had been given tonight, it bordered on crazy.
Hunny stepped forward and stopped when he was only a foot from the man. Everyone noticed that he was in striking distance of Daisuke. "It is honorable to defend family, but you are taking it too far when they are trying to make you take the blame. You also take it too far when you have evidence of his wrong doings and yet you persist on taking his side. Now you will answer my questions," Hunny glared.
"Y-Yes sir," Daisuke stammered. He was more afraid of Hunny than he was of Kyoya. His mind was turning with the information he just received. He thought his involvement in this mess was over with when he delivered the letter, how wrong he had been.
"Why do you defend him?"
"He is my cousin and he was always there for me."
"He has been using and manipulating you causing you to risk your career and your life for him. Where is he staying?"
"I don't know. I offered to put him up in a hotel somewhere, but he said he already had a place to stay and would not tell me where."
"When did you drop off the letter?"
"This afternoon, I waited until her father left and then put it through the mail slot."
"As you can see from the letter, that if I had not figured out who you were, we would have known who delivered the letter because your cousin told us," Hunny growled. When he saw the shocked expression written on the other man's face, he decided to explain. "I was reviewing officer files for additional training. You were in the list and when I matched up your mother's maiden name, I found information we did not have before. That is how I found out that you had visited him. I also knew that you were given something by him and now I know it was this letter."
Daisuke looked down at the table again. His cousin had given everyone his name. He would have been blamed for the letter and anything that happened to Haruhi until Yasu was caught. He jeopardized his career for a man that had given him up to the wolves so easily. Did Yasu not care about what happened? The pictures he had seen, if they were real then Yasu lied. Did his cousin lie? Were there other things that were lies? Yasu had been so convincing in prison, he even cried. Looking up at the men in the room, he shook his head. Speaking softly, he said, "He cares about me and Haruhi. He even cried because he was hurting so much."
"If I needed to convince someone enough, I could make myself cry. I am a pro at it and used to turn on the water works all of the time when I was younger to get what I wanted," Hunny said. It was a trick that had gotten him a lot of cake and sweets in high school and it had even worked in college.
Daisuke looked up at the blonde when he confessed he could fake his tears. His cousin wouldn't do that, would he? People didn't fake tears.
Hunny looked down at the man sitting there. He felt sorry for him. Daisuke's world as he knew it had just been turned upside down and he had to face a new reality. Yasu had manipulated and controlled him to the point that the man did not know what was right and wrong any longer. Hunny turned on the tears to prove that it could be faked very easily. Looking at the man he whined, "Daisuke look at me. I am just trying to show you the truth about everything. I don't want to hurt you." Sniffling and rubbing his eyes, Hunny's act was very convincing.
Daisuke looked on at the crying man and instantly felt guilty. He was crying and he wanted to make him stop. It was very uncomfortable for him to witness.
"You can stop now Hunny. I think he gets the point," Kyoya said smirking. It had been a while since he had seen Hunny cry at the drop of a hat, but apparently the former host had not lost his touch.
"Ok Kyo-Chan," Hunny said as he instantly stopped crying.
Watching as Hunny went from crying to nothing in less than a minute, Daisuke knew that it was possible that Yasu had duped him, but he was family. Weren't you supposed to support family? He looked up at Kyoya, "I don't know what is right any more. He is or was one of my closest friends, but these pictures tell me a different story. That is not that man I know. You have to understand that."
"I do understand that very well, but you have to understand that I will protect my friends and I could care less what happens to you or him if it means Haruhi stays safe. I will not promise you things and you need to know where I am coming from. Haruhi is one of my oldest and closest friends from high school, and I will make sure that no harm comes to her," Kyoya said bluntly.
"Kyo-Chan is right. Haru-Chan is one of our best friends and she is the woman I love, and anyone that tries to hurt her will find himself hurting in the end. I protect what is mine. Are you prepared to be a martyr and sacrifice for him?"
Daisuke widened his eyes and slowly shook his head, "No."
"Good," Mori said for the first time since entering the room.
"What do you plan on doing now?" Hunny glowered.
"I will give you whatever information you need, but I don't know much. He wouldn't give me his address and I don't have a way to reach him. He is supposed to contact me if and when he needs something."
"Good then, let's get started. The more information we have the less chance he will have of trying to get around us," Kyoya said pulling out his trusty black notepad from under the employment file and opening it up in order to start writing.
"Apparently the shadow king still has his black notebook eh Takashi?," Hunny muttered as he looked up to his taller cousin and saw Mori nod.
"S-S-Shadow king?" Daisuke asked horrified.
"My nickname from high school. I believe that they still call me that," Kyoya leered knowing that he was causing Daisuke more anxiety.
Hunny knew what he was doing when he said what he did about Kyoya. He wanted Daisuke to understand who he was really dealing with. Yasu had nothing on Kyoya and the rest of the hosts, and it wasn't just because they had money and Yasu did not, "Let's get started then."
"What is going to happen to me?" Daisuke asked suddenly.
"Depending on your information, I will decide if you will be thrown in prison or if you will be allowed to walk out of her a free man with everything still attached," threatened Kyoya.
Gulping, Daisuke nodded and then said, "Ask anything you want. I will give you anything you need."