Heyyou should read this! (short stories updated: August 17th)

[heyyouhiya]

So its actually a three part story
but since its only three parts I'm putting it in my short story area
I'm changing it to four parts because having all the interviews into one part I think would get boring
(and no I have not abandoned One Minute...just a short break until I have more time =])
I honestly had this idea and never thought I would write any bit of it
because I think its really random/corny/stupid but that doesn't mean you shouldn't read it or not comment it (actually comments would make me feel better about writing this haha)
I just think...idk
but it wouldn't leave my head so here it is...

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Happy...forever? 1/4

“I would put the time of death at around ten o’ clock last night. From the wound I would say she died within ten or fifteen minutes after being struck.” The detective stood up from the corpse and looked around the room trying to find some type of clue in this one sweeping glance. All the girls looked equally nervous and most avoided his gaze. This was going to be difficult. He turned away from them and looked around the room.

There wasn’t even a sign of a struggle besides the blood and of course the now deceased young woman laying face down in the middle of the room; her brown wavy hair now slightly reddened and sticky because of the blood. “Of course, no murder weapon on sight.” The detective sighed and then looked over at one of the police officers standing in the corner. “Can you get these girls out of here and in some other room? Plus I need to know if there is some type of video recording at the exits to this building. We need to know who was still here between 9:45 and about 10:30.” He nodded and began to usher the girls out of the room as they began to chat amongst themselves quietly.

“Better solve this one quick before the news gets there hands on it.”

* * * * *

A young staff member ran up to the detective with a video tape in his hands. “Mr. Higashi! You asked about a security camera?”

Shimura Higashi took the tape out of the kids hand and looked at it. “Is there only one exit?”

“Uhmm, no sir.” Higashi raised an eyebrow at him, “But uhmm.” He stuttered a little. “After eight we have all the other doors locked and you can only get out this way.”

“You’re sure?”

“Yes,” he replied nervously.

“Good job then,” Higashi turned away from the man and over to a room the company had lent to the police and himself to use during the investigation. They were smart enough to have already brought him a television set complete with VCR. Plugging the tape in with a pad and paper in hand he began to watch and record when everyone left starting at 9:40 and watching until this morning.

9:50 Kamei Eri stands by entrance door as if waiting for someone.
9:52 Nakazawa Yuko leaves.
9:58 Tanaka Reina meets up with Kamei Eri at entrance.
10:00 Tanaka Reina and Kamei Eri exit together.
10:03 Yoshizawa Hitomi leaves.
10:08 Takahashi Ai leaves with Niigaki Risa.
10:19 Matsuura Aya leaves.
10:25 Shibata Ayumi and Ishikawa Rika leave together.
No more activity on tape until morning so assume no one was left in the building.

Higashi stared at his list for a couple of minutes trying to piece together some more information, but nothing came to mine. “You,” he pointed to another police officer. “I want you to assemble these nine girls outside this room in this order, tell the others they have permission to leave. But start with Miss Nakazawa.” The officer nodded and took the list leaving the room.

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Yea its a really short first part

[ringo-hime]

wow cool..
suspense?.

[sweeety]

nice..new....but who did kill Miki? Unless....KOHARU? lol, but she doesn't have brown hair. I dunno...I mean Shibata was there too so it could be anyone frm HP...But I dunno...I just thought Miki straight away. I could've been anyone... Interesting. I am dying to know what happens next.

[lonewind]

^ yep i was thinking Miki too, with the long wavy brown hair. please update soon! 

[Sukoshi]

ooo I like a good mystery

so it appears that only the 9 were present...  I'll have to guess Reina if it's just from the 9.  Only because Eri had to wait for her..meaning she was off doing something else. 

[JFC]

MIKI-SAMA NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

[kRisZ]

Miki? 

[heyyouhiya]

I changed this story into four parts because I think having all the interviews in one part would be too boring
Anyways here is the second part...
I might get the third up tonight...but thats only a maybe

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Happy...Forever? 2/4

“Head…ache” Higashi rubbed his temples as he sat across from Nakazawa Yuko who had her arms crossed in front of her chest and a very determined look on her face. She was being difficult to the detective by only answering in Yes or No answers even if it didn’t make sense. But for some reason she didn’t seem guilty, for she was just being difficult, not suspicious.

“Ok let’s go over this one last time.”

Nakazawa waved her hand dismissively, “If you must.”

“Ok, you’re saying you left the building at around eight pm?” she nodded, “but you realized you left your…flask in one of the dressing room so at around nine thirty or sometime close you came back to get it.” He paused, “Then at nine fifty-two you left again and went to a bar on Main Street?”

“Yes,” she began to stand up.

“Now hold on,” he pointed back to the chair. “Just please answer this directly. Do you remember anything weird from when you came back to get your uhmm…flask.” Are they even allowed to have those in this building?

Yuko sat back down sighing, “Not really.”

“You’re positive?”

“Well…” she paused and stared up at the ceiling thanking. “I don’t remember much about last night because…well you can probably assume…but when I was getting my flask I vaguely remember seeing Miki a little before nine fifty leaving the locker room with Yocchan following closely behind. They didn’t even notice me because they were arguing about something.” She shrugged, “I don’t remember what. But it isn’t an uncommon thing to see them arguing…they do it all the time lately.”

Higashi wrote all of this down in his notebook and then began to chew on the end of his pen lost in thought. After a minute Nakazawa sighed very loud and noticeably causing Higashi to look back up at her. “Oh, I’m done questioning you for now.”

“So I can leave?”

“Not quiet yet. There may be more I have to ask you-“ he was cut off by a knock at the door. “Come in,” a police officer entered.

“Sorry to interrupt but Miss Tanaka and Miss Kamei just arrived by taxi. Would you like me to fill them in on what has happened?”

The detective thought about it for a moment. “Actually no. Just tell them that Miss Fujimoto has been found deceased and we need to talk to each of them at one point. Actually I believe Kamei is next?” The police officer nodded. “Ok then will you please escort Miss Nakazawa into another room. Oh and could you please make sure that each of the nine girls are in separate rooms. I don’t want them to converse with each other.” The officer nodded and exited with Nakazawa right behind him.

After about ten minutes a very shaken up Kamei Eri entered the room and sat across from Higashi. “Are you alright?” He asked sincerely.

She nodded and her eyes began to dart around the room. She looked extraordinarily nervous and kept playing with her hands. It was suspicious, but to be expect a little. She had just arrived for work and was now being questioned about a sudden murder…so Higashi let it slide a little bit.

“I’m just going to ask you a few questions and then you can leave. So if you cooperate I promise to make this as painless as possible.” The young girl nodded and looked down at the floor refusing to look Higashi in the eyes. “Now how about you start telling me about where you where from about nine last night till around eleven.”

She nodded, “Ok well…me and some of the girls decided to stay behind after dance practice to try and get in a couple more hours.”

Higashi interrupted her, “Which girls?”

“Uhmm,” she paused and looked up at the ceiling. “Reina, Ai-chan and Gaki-chan.” The detective scribbled this all down and then nodded for her to continue. “We all stayed there until a little before ten when Reina suggest that she and I leave because Gaki and Ai still wanted to dance more but…I think she did it because I kept yawning like I was tired.”

“So then you left?”

Eri nodded but then suddenly looked at him, “Well not right away. When we were almost to the entrance Reina said she forgot her jacket in the locker room and for me to wait by the door for her. So I did that and about ten minutes later she came back out. We talk about where to go and finally decided on my place and then left.”

“Hmm, and so after that I’m going to assume you did in fact go to your house?”

Eri nodded again and looked back down at the floor. Higashi stood up and went over to the door where a police officer was stationed outside. Whispering to the officer, “I want you to move Miss Tanaka to the end of the list please?” He nodded and Higashi returned back to his seat. “Is there anything that struck you as odd while you were still at the bulding.”

Kamei thought about it for a little while, “Well there was Nakazawa leaving mumbling something about needing a drink. But other than that…no.”

“Ok then, thank you very much Miss Kamei. Ken!” The same police officer entered the room once again. “Please take Miss Kamei back to her room and bring in Mist-uhmm Miss Yoshizawa.”

“Yes sir,” and then both left the room leaving Higashi a couple minutes to think. He studied his notes carefully and then thought back to the security camera. He was going to have an odd conversation with Miss Tanaka when her turn came up.

[ringo-hime]

wow cant wait for the other interviews.

[kRisZ]

Can’t be Yossie, right.?. Maybe someone who has grudge against Yossie or something

[strawb3rrykream]

Whoa, how did I miss this?!  This is a cool thing. I wonder who really did it.....so far it seems like it could be Yossy, Reina, Gaki-san, Ai-chan or maybe Nakazawa. But none of them seem like murderers! Can't wait to hear more interviews!

[sweeety]

Yeah, none of them seem like murderers..... Are you sure Miki is dead? Lol, had this been Gomatou it would've been fair game but now I'm thinking she isn't dead at all..

 The evidence so far points at Yoshi. Or Reina. She left Eri alone in front of the camera and then escorted her outside but was alone for ten minutes. Yoshi was seen arguing with Miki before this. or after. Meanwhile Nakazawa just came in grabed her flask and left. It doesn't seem like any of them did it but the most suspicious looks to be Yoshi. Because she was arguing with the deceased on the night of the murder.

 They could've gotten into a more serious argument and Yoshi could have accidentally killed her. But I don't htink so. I know Yoshi better. I can't wait for the rest though... I hope we find out more soon. And yoshi is next on the chop block....interesting! oh please update soon!~

[heyyouhiya]

Mk so I skipped over a couple interviews because they are unimportant and uninteresting.

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Happy...Forever? 3/4


“Yea, Miki and I argued. What’s that got to do with anything?” Yosizawa scoffed at Higashi from the other side of the table with her hands planted firmly on the desk.

Higashi kept a calm look on his face. “Well considering that Miss Fujimoto is now dead, it’s got a lot to do with things.”

Yossui rolled her eyes, “I didn’t kill her. What kind of motive would I even have for that?”

“I’m not sure, why were you arguing with Miss Fujimoto?”

“Futsal.”

“Hmm?”

“Futsal. She really sucked during practice. We have game starting next month. I needed her to pick up her game.” Yossui rolled her eyes a little bit. “It’s my job as Captain to make sure everyone is ready.”

Higashi wrote this down in his notebook and then flipped back a few pages. “Yes but we heard that it was not uncommon to see you and Miss Fujimoto arguing. Was this also about Futsal?”

Yossui shrugged, “Sometimes. I guess you could say we haven’t been on good terms lately.”

“Why is that?”

Yossui shrugged once again, “I’m not sure. I just started to aggravate her all the time. If she were alive you could ask her.” She paused realizing that probably wasn’t the smartest thing to say right then. “Can I go now?”

“Almost, so you say you left Miki in her dressing room about ten minutes to ten, got your stuff and left. Where did you go after that?”

“I met up with Aya at my place to watch a movie.” Higashi raised his eyebrow a little, “What is that a crime now?”

“No…no…” he looked down at the times which all the suspects left the building. “Well thank you Miss Yoshizawa. I’ll ask you to please go back to your room and wait in case I have further questions.”

* * * * *

Both Takahashi and Niigakis interviews went very similar to each other. Both said they stayed after to practice dancing and they left together. Nothing suspicious…but one detail did help him.

Now it was the best friends turn, “Miss Matsuura.”

Aya looked up from her lap, her eyes were puffy and red from crying and she kept sniffling a little. Higashi pushed a Kleenex box over to her and she greatfully took it and blew her nose, drying her eyes a little as well. “I’m sorry. It’s just-“

“It’s okay. Losing a friend can be very painful. Now, why don’t you tell me about your night?”

“Well,” she sniffled once again. “I was in my dressing room for a while relaxing because my recording ran a lot later than expected. There was something wrong with the equipment. Then when I finally went to leave I ran into Yossui leaving Mikis dressing room.”

“Wait, so did you see Miss Fujimoto,” Aya nodded. “But you didn’t say anything?”

“I waved to her, but I was in a hurry to get home.”

Higashi looked down at his notes. “Yossui left before you did and she still took ten minutes after leaving Miss Fujimotos dressing room.”

“I stopped and talked with Rika and Ayumi who were in the Futsal practice room.”

So you stopped and talk to them but not Miki…he kept these thoughts to himself and let her continue.

“Then I left and met Yossui at her house.”

A lot of these things didn’t fit. But then again neither did Yossui or Reinas. He now had three people he was pin pointing.

* * * * *

“Ayumi and I we practiced Futsal together until about ten fifteen and then we left and both went home.”

“Did you see anything suspicious?”

Rika shook her head, “Not really. Uhmm when we got there Yossui and Miki were about to leave the locker room. Yossui looked angry and Miki was putting some sort of package in her locker. I said Hi to Yossui but Miki looked really sad or something…” Rika paused, “Sorry I can’t be more help.”

“No no…its fine.” Higashi flipped through all of his notes and went over to the door. “Ken, were going to postpone Miss Tanakas interview. Please take Ishikawa back to her room, I need to look into something.”

[strawb3rrykream]

Some ppl's stories are getting a little messed up here..... Why does the detective keep pushing Reina's interview back? So suspicious! I wanna know!!!! *has a little tantrum like Yaguchi in that one Haromoni skit*

[ringo-hime]

damn this is making me confused...
Reina?.. i wnder 

[lollipopgirl]

Ayaya and Yossy planned and executed it together

Its probably one of those things where everyone plays a part and thinks they did it but then Miki like fell over after they all left and killed herself

[sweeety]

haha loli you're funny!

 But I think Yoshi has a lot of explaining to do...wait a minute! I got it! She is innoccent! What she did in those ten minutes is break into Miki's locker to steal the package. Maybe it was something she wanted to give to someone and she didn't want her to get that someone.

   So that means...well, it was obviously someone other than Reina, Eri, Yuko or anyone before Yoshi. I think that since both Yoshi and Aya said they saw her alive that means that she probably died after she left her.. But that means that since Yoshi left her at 950 it puts Eri, Reina and so on back inv the game. Which means it might've been Reina.
 
 Ai and Gaki are their own alibis. But they were in the dancing room and we saw them get out of it and leave basically so I think they're innocent. Nakazawa may have caught the start of the murder but she was too drunk to realise or notice. She would've been on her way out anyway since it might take about two minutes for a drunken person to walk across the room or something which leaves Reina  up to about eight minutes.

 if the yoshi theory is right, it takes about 10-13 minutes to get from Miki's room to the dressing room to the door. Yuko took 22 minutes to get in and out. say she went straight away that would mean each trip to the door took about 10 minutes, from her room. She said she saw Yoshi and Miki coming out of the locker rooms at 9 50.. SO that would mean the locker rooms are about 2 minutes away from the door.

 Yuko saw this and left. If Yoshi was saying the truth (and didn't go for the package) she spent about ten minutes commuting from there to Miki's room to outside. Assuming the camera is situated outside the entrance that they all took, that would mean she spent 4 minutes going to her room from the lockers, 4 to get back to the lockers and 2 to get to the entrance/exit (where the camera is at).

Rika said at 10:15 she and Shiba left to go home. She was then 10 minutes away from the exit. that means she was at Miki's room when Rika had just left. That means that they saw her at 19 past  had she been in there because you still have not told us where she was killed. Assuming she died in there they were too late to kill her. On the other hand Aya is the last porrible person who could've killed her.

  But they also said that when they got there Miki and Yoshi were about to leave the locker room. This means they saw her before 9:50. So they didn't kill her. They must've spent at least 15 minutes practicing... Hang on. If it takes 2minutes from the locker rooms to Miki's that means that they saw them at about 9:48..and passed her room at 9:52. They played from 9:58 to 10:15 right? so they played for 17 minutes. They left at 10:15. passed her room again at 10: 21 and arrived at the door at about 10:25.

 This means that Aya must've gone from Miki's room at 9:50 to Rika and Shiba. Gotten there at 10. To leave at 10:19 she must've left at 9 past, speaking to them for seven minutes, passing Miki's room again at 10:15.----

 AAARGH! MIGRAINE~!! YOUUUU! WHY DIDN'T YOU GIMME MORE INFORMATION? I AM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THEY WERE BUT YOU DIDN'T EVEN TELL ME WHERE SHE DIED, WHAT TIME EXACTLY OR EVEN HOW THE PLACE IS LAYED OUT OR ABOUT THOSE OTHER THREE PEOPLE AND I CAN'T TELL WHO DID IT LIKE THIS.

 the way I see it

 place where R and S practiced futsal ------------->10 minutes from door
 Miki's room----------------> 6 minutes from door
 Locker room -------> 2 minutes from the door
 Ai and Risa's dancing room --> next to the door? I Don't know you haven't told me their statements.so basically this is the way I see it. And I've been working on this, pulling my hair all day but you didn't give enough information meanie! Im usually good at these but you gave me nothing but suspects and possibly fake alibis and I don't even get a hint as to which ones are fake!
 R & S ---->4min--->Miki's room--->4min----->locker room--->2min---->door

 thats all, gj keep it up, I want the next chapter like now cause I really wanna know if it says a few things I gotta know, like if Miki is even dead. And poor Ayaya and everyone else. You're forgetting that Miki (might be ) dead and everyone somehow answers those questions mechanically and with no feeling.. Aya was the only one that cried, and she didn't even spend time with her that night, less she killed her or actually hung out with her.

 I don't wanna talk about this anymore, I have a huge headache.

[lollipopgirl]

^ Don't forget how great Ayaya is at acting... Just coz she was the only one crying, doesn't mean she was actually affected by this... If she killed Miki (which I think/hope she did) then she doesn't want to be caught out and coz she is the closest to her, if she didn't cry, THAT would be suss... Ah yes, Aya is smart

Yossy knew as well

Ahhhh, why am I even here reading fics, I have a Kanji test tomorrow to study for!

[Yukari]

i think that it's ayaya, 'cause she wanted yossy only to herself 

[JFC]

Ooooooooooooooooooooh...the plot thickens.