Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Dead on the Surface ❯ Taking the News ( Chapter 2 )

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Dead on the Surface by digidude5
Co-Categories: Drama/Mystery
Sub-Category: Tragedy
Chapter 2

YAGAMI HOUSEHOLD :: Day One, 11:00 PM
(Part One)

At nighttime Taichi Yagami, Hikari's brother, ordered an emergency meeting with his group of friends that they met at their so-called trip they all had about a year ago. He called up on Hikari's friends: Miyako Inoue and Ken Ichijouji, an intellectual couple who were as close as Hikari with Takeru, and Daisuke Motomiya, an obnoxious leader of their group during their trip. They were the intermediate group that was always together. Taichi also managed to bring Sora Takenouchi, part of Taichi's and Yamato's love triangle. Yamato, the young victim's brother, couldn't make it because he was in the hospital still trying to recuperate the shock of what he found. Even though Yamato was a strong willed man, he never had seen a death, actually two, right in front of his eyes leading him to suffer mentally.

Everyone was all discussing to each other in bewilderment about why they were all called upon to the Yagami residence at eleven o'clock at night. Basically no one knew about the crime except Taichi who still stood up silent near the television. News of the murders didn't break right away, and people living in the apartment buildings, interestingly enough, thought little of the sirens from the ambulances and the police blocking traffic on the busiest Odaiba streets.

"Why are we all here may I ask?" Daisuke was adjusting his googles, "And where is Hikari? Humph, I bet TP took her away to the movies without notifying me to take her first." Takeru's nickname to some people was TK, yet this idiot forgets the last letter every time. "And I need to leave, I have to watch Furi Kuri [another anime/OVA]. I want to see if Naota will spit out a sexy lady out of his head next."

Taichi yelled at him, "Just shut the hell up please Dai? You can just leave if you don't want to hear the news that I am about to announce to you. It is very important and should not be intervened." Daisuke knew he was in a bad mood. It looked like Daisuke just wanted to test Taichi's attitude. First, it is because he doesn't know any of the news yet, and also because he doesn't have common sense. Taichi didn't want to take any of this nonsense from Daisuke.

"Fine… what ever you say…" Daisuke rolled his eyes, "I won't bother you." Taichi was wondering why Daisuke was acting insubordinate to him. Taichi was always his idol during soccer practice in which they had every Sunday, but of course, he's Daisuke.

"Okay everybody," Taichi announced, "I have something to show everybody on the television. This is what happened earlier today that has become a tragedy to us all. Unfortunately, I was going to bring Yamato, but he is at the hospital recovering from a mental pain."

Miyako said, "What do you mean mental pain? What happened to Yamato?"

Taichi ignored Miyako and placed his finger perpendicular over his mouth and said "Shh…" He got the remote control and turned on the television. For some peculiar reason, he caught the right channel and timing.

The television clicked on, "BROADCAST LIVE FROM OJB (Odaiba, Japan Broadcasts) HERE WE REPORT BREAKING NEWS BY MIRA SINURA. 'Thank you. As you can see here at the Odaiba apartments tonight, there are two teenagers that have been murdered. It is an atrocity that has broken the Odaiba barriers of the crime rate of .01%, in which we never had a report like this for over ten years. The names of the two who were found were: a blonde 16-year old, Takeru Takaishi," Shock and gasps rose from the group, "and Hikari Yagami, also 16 but brunette," A hellhole of screams and cries were coming from the girls watching. "The apartment door was somehow unlocked before the intruder came in and then struck at the children with gunshots and rape."

"The witness who saw this is by the name Yamato Ishida, the victim's stepbrother. He was rushed over to the hospital after the police found him in cardiac arrest and lying on the floor after he called 911. Fortunately, it was only a minor thing, so he will be able to recover in the next week." As the reporter said this, ambulance workers from the steps of the complex carried two black body bags, of the same size of Hikari and Takeru, at each end of the handles while in the middle, the bags were drooping almost to the floor. They were placed in the ambulance vehicle, yet the sirens didn't go on. "Reporting live from the Odaiba Complex, Mira Sinura of OJB, back to you."

"Thank y-," the broadcaster said, but was cut off by Taichi's turning off the television.

All the men in the room watching the broadcast were silent and looked like they were almost about to cry while trying to hold it in, especially for Daisuke, being the loud mouth before the TV was on, had his head all the way down weeping silently. Yet the girls, Miyako and Sora, were shedding puddles trying to forget what actually happened. Taichi was still being silent and he was still trying to hold back the water falling from his eyes. All of the people were crying and also trying to pray for their two beloved friends for the next ten minutes.

"Why did they have to die damn it!" Taichi screamed in pain. He couldn't stand what was going on here, and he broke the stillness of the room.

Ken answered, "Taichi-sama, please don't yell, we've been through terrible times like this before in the Digital World [referring to a place they had as their own], and we have to try to live with it.

"HOW CAN YOU BE SO CALM AT A TIME LIKE THIS?" Sora screamed in a piercing, hoarse tone, "I'VE KNOWN THOSE TWO FOR ABOUT ALL MY LIFE, AND I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW WELL YOU ARE TAKING THIS!" She knew how Taichi felt and wouldn't want to let him down.

"LEAVE HIM ALONE SORA! HE WAS JUST TRYING TO MAKE TAICHI FEEL BETTER, THAT'S ALL, YOU DON'T HAVE TO STRIKE BACK!" Daisuke said, "WE NEED TO COME ACROSS A WAY TO RESOLVE THIS CONFLICT WITHOUT CAUSING UP AN UPROAR."

Sora said sarcastically back to Dai, "Oh so now you think your king of the goggle heads, eh now Mr. Hypocrite. You and your talk before THE NEWS EVEN STARTED!" She couldn't stand it that Daisuke was talking back to someone who was years older than him.

Taichi then left for the door of the room. "No! I didn't mean you Taichi!" Sora tried to reach for him. She thought that when she said "goggle head" Taichi got offended, since he wears goggles on his head too, but it seems that Taichi was only going because he couldn't take part of the miserable conversation while his sister was lying in a darkened body bag in a serene driven ambulance. Everyone else was still sitting there un-chaperoned from the host of the meeting.

Miyako, who was sitting in the background somewhere, finally announced, "I think we made Taichi a bit mad, don't you think? You all don't know what he has been going through and Yamato who lost his brother too, who is recovering from the state of shock he had when he found them. Oh, I didn't mean he found them. I… actually… I'll just be quiet now."

Everyone left the Yagami place except for Daisuke who was hanging around in the house going to say, "sorry" to Taichi about what he said earlier. "Taichi-sama? I wish I didn't say what I said before. I just didn't think this sort of thing could happen in our neighborhood, and here I am acting like my old unbearable nature."

"It's fine Dai, no problem; don't worry about it…" Taichi was sitting on the couch, teary-eyed and inhaling back from his nose running.

Daisuke started for the door inaudibly. As he opened the door, he glanced at Taichi, who was red in the face in which was hidden by two hands. His head was down all the way that Taichi could only see the floor. Daisuke frowned for that moment and slowly closed the door back to his apartment… to his apartment…

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ODAIBA CORONOR'S OFFICE AND FORENSICS :: Day Two 3:00 PM
(Part Two)

"Detective Misaru," the medical examiner announced, "Okay detective," The medical examiner lifted up the white cover on the autopsy table. Misaru was being prepared to glimpse what was under it. Hikari lay there peacefully, her eyes closed, except there were marks around her body because she put up a hard fight trying to get away from her murderer. "I have found ligature marks on this girl's neck here, you see? It looks like the murderer tied her bandana, that she was wearing, around her neckline." The ME then enclosed the white sheet covering the victim, Hikari.

"I believe he didn't use a belt or anything of his own, eh? It'd probably be too common to use it for strangulation. This bastard had her bandana, THAT SHE WAS WEARING, around her neck. He unlaced the red bandana and abusively used it to tie it to her neck as tight as possible. Damn, this guy must have really planned this out.

The examiner continued, "I also have been looking through the girl's body for any foreign substances or semen. It appears that there is no sign of drugs or alcohol in her body. I also recognize that she has been raped due to the rape kit I used this morning, but I can't find any semen or anything from the murderer. He must've used a condom. It looks like the durable kind that doesn't break easily. We couldn't find the condom though; it wasn't found any where in the crime scene. We only saw the wrapper. Well anyway, according to my findings, he or she forced on clothes he or she had, and posed her with Takeru." The ME drew to a close and then suddenly grew silent.

Misaru bawled, "What do you mean? You have to find something! You know I don't want this to become a cold case if that's what you are assuming. I've seen too much of it in the past, and I am not willing to see it again!" Misaru became pissed and started clutching his stress ball he always took along with him, because he was under an immense deal of pressure.

"I'm not saying anything certain detective, but trust me, we are going to try our hardest on this. Scouts honor…" the medical examiner joked, realizing only that Misaru was not smiling back. I can't believe she can gag at a time like this Misaru thought.

The medical examiner then moved to the other table of the room with the boy with blonde hair. He also was lying down on the autopsy table basically covered by the mysterious ashen sheet. The ME uncovered him, "Takeru," looking at the tag on his toe "was shot three times, one in the middle of the forehead, and two through his chest." He was basically untouched compared to the girl who was made humiliated in the crime scene.

"That is all the information I have at this point about the murders. I'll get back to you on what I found on their clothes." She had a paper bag of Takeru's bloodied green and yellow clothes with his special beach hat, and a bag for Hikari's pink blouse and blue jeans placed on top of the counter. Her bandana was placed in a sanitary plastic bag for evidence. She covered Takeru's body and walked off to Misaru.

Misaru closed his eyes trying to maintain from thinking any further. "All right, thank you very much." He gave the examiner his work phone number to keep in touch and left.

Misaru ended the note. How could anyone have done such a thing? This guy is really something; I wonder how he can make a crime scene so hard to figure while keeping away from evidence. I just have to get into this a bit further if I want to make sure those two kids rest in peace.

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YAGAMI HOUSEHOLD :: Day Two, 3:00 PM
(Part Three)

Taichi was lying down in bed until three o'clock still thinking of his memories with his little sister. While he was doing this, he heard his parents conversing with each other quietly with papers ruffling through his bedroom door. Taichi was assuming they were starting to fill in papers that would take care of the funeral costs for Hikari.

"Our baby… died in the worst way possible… I thought she was going to marry Takeru, those two were always together hand in hand. I certainly could have been a grandmother at the rate they were going. I even imagined Hikari to live up to at least one hundred years old, since she recovered from her illness," Mrs. Yagami said. There is some background information to this. About eight years ago, Hikari was diagnosed by a severe sickness, which led her to stay in bed often and vomit when in the bathroom. She was often left at home when her family went out, which the doctor thought would cure her. Her parents thought she wouldn't live up to fourteen years old by the way she was fighting this.

Fortunately, in about less than three years, she recovered fully from her sickness, and was able to go with her family everywhere, especially with her older and faithful brother Taichi, who was nice to her in every manner. Hikari's parents now thought she'd be living a healthy life for a long time, and they were held in a worse state of awe thinking that karma wasn't by their daughter's side for the rest of her life. Mr. Yagami answered his wife, "Well, me too… I wished she would have been rich and famous and give all the credits to her old man," he then scoffed and his face became saddened, "but here we are… trying to find a way to give the best for our daughter's afterlife, God bless her now. We have descended to debt now, which we must recover but that isn't the major problem. It is that we lost our only girl… that shined light upon us (pun not intended for those who watched the series) that made sure we were never upset or mad."

Taichi remembered all those good times way back when, even when he had responsibility of her in a parallel world called the Digital World. He remembered her whistle she would take around with her blowing it to everyone around, in which they would all notice her and wave. He remembered the thought of Hikari being a photographer. She would always take pictures of everybody, especially him, and place them in her photo scrapbook to show everyone. But those times have ended now… now that she will no longer brighten up his life with her smile, yet she will always remain in her brother's heart forever…

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END OF CHAPTER TWO
Second chapter done… I hope you liked it. Compliment or flame me all you want, so I know what I am doing next time. :-P If this should be rated more than a PG-13, tell me, because yeah, it seems to be a bit graphic and strong language comes at certain points. Well when you are finished reading my story completely. YES YOU MUST UNDERSTAND IT! Please send in a review. Thanks.