[Day: Wednsday, February 5th. Time: 3:15 p.m.] [Weather: Very cloudy, with a chance of snow later on. Cold.] [Just a few minutes ago, the group got into a fight with Remi from Seiryuu High, who came into the school angry and accusing them of framing her friend. After setting her on fire and a long conversation, she agreed to hear their side of the story.] (the setting on fire was what really convinced her ^_~) (I'm effective that way. =P) [Presently, they are near the lockers. Kyon said he knows somebody who can help. Now who could that be?] [Session Start] * Remi is still with you, by the way. * Katie looks to Kyon. * Satoshi eyes Remi. * DeMenchi is now known as Demota * Haruko looks distant. * Kyon straightens up, and rolls his shoulders. He turns and starts to head down the hallway... towards the newspaper office. * Remi ignores Satoshi and follows Kyon. She doesn't look too happy. * Katie walks after Kyon. * Satoshi shrugs and follows the rest. * Taki dusts off her legs and follows Katie. * Haruko glances up and realizing that she's been left behind, rushes after everyone else. [The newspaper office is... well, it hasn't moved :P . Chikako is inside, busily writing some Important Looking Documents.] * WeDislikeThisGuy is now known as Chikako * Kyon knocks on the door very perfunctorily as he opens it. He heads in, and nods. "Hey." * Chikako looks up and grins. "Kyon! You came to see me! That's so cool!" I looked for you guys before, but I guess I missed you. It wasn't very cool. * Kyon nods tersely, and smiles very slightly. "Yeah, we missed your newspaper run. Had to stop by and get one." * Katie enters behind Kyon, glancing around. She smiles apologetically at Chikako. * Remi looks from Chikako to Kyon. "Her?" * Satoshi waves. "Hey, Chikako." * Chikako grins. "You guys just keep making new friends! That's so cool!" * Taki tries to make her way into the increasingly crowded room, "G'morning Chikako." * Chikako blinks at Taki. "It's afternoon." * Kyon walks quickly over and stands next to the desk. He nods at Remi. "Yeah. Mind giving me a paper, Chikako?" * Chikako nodnods. "Yeah, cool." She pulls one off a nearby stack and hands it to Kyon. * Haruko catches up, passing the office before she remembers that's where everyone was going. She slips while making a hurried u-turn, and slips into the office, hoping no one noticed. * Chikako waves to Haruko. "Wow, the whole gang's here! That's so cool!" * Kyon takes it, and starts scanning it. * Haruko waves back, and grins sheepishly. Yes, but it's the first time we've met today, so it seemed like the right thing to say, but you're right 'good afternoon' it is. * Katie smiles a little at Haruko. * Remi folds her arms and stares at Kyon. "So?" * Kyon pages through the paper, raises his eyebrow once, but pretty much just skims through it. Can I have a paper too, Chikako? * Chikako nodnods and hands Katie a paper. * Kyon lays it down, and looks sidewise at Remi as he gestures at her. "Chikako, this girl's from Seiryuu. She's a friend of that girl who died here, and that one that got arrested, too." * Katie opens the paper and skims. * Satoshi looks over Katie's shoulder, as she hasn't caught him yet. ;p * Chikako blinks and peers at her. "You must be Remi Okui! That's so cool!" * Haruko pretends not to notice Katie's smile, and gets her own paper. [The paper has nothing particularly interesting. Meimi's column is in there, but it's not about anything noteworthy.] * Katie finishes with it and just holds it over her shoulder to Satoshi. "Here." * Satoshi takes it. "Aheh. Thanks." ^^; * Remi frowns. "Yeah. Cool." She glances at Kyon again. * Kyon nods again, and looks slightly impressedly at Chikako. "Yeah, she is. You wrote that article about the murder in the paper, right?" * Chikako nods. "Uh-huh! They didn't let me print the cool important information, though." * Kyon nods tersely, and straightens up. "Really? What was that about, then? I know the Seiryuu girl's very curious." * Haruko skims her paper, then sets it down, and glances around at Chikako's equipment. * Satoshi blinks when he notices Meimi's column, then finishes skimming and folds the paper in half. Well, they wouldn't let me print the girl's name... Didn't I tell you that already, though? [Chikako has very standard, unamusing equipment.] * Haruko looks slightly downcast, and leans against a wall. * Taki leans over to Satoshi and asks him if he's done with the paper. Oh, sure. Here you go. * Satoshi hands the paper to Taki. * Remi frowns more. Thanks. ::takes the paper and unfolds it so she can read it:: * Kyon nods. "Yeah, I remember that part... but what were the details? Can you tell me them?" * Chikako blinks. "Which details?" * Kyon leans down, and smiles a little. "The 'cool important ones.' Why're they so cool?" They used one of those cool fencing swords, and... oh, the cool dective stuff! Well, you know how they put one of those cool swords in, um, a 'certain student's' locker. But that was just a cool move by the killer to throw everyone off track! * Kyon raises an eyebrow, and nods quickly. "Yeah, that's what I thought. What'd they find?" * Haruko glances up at the locker comment, but quickly resumes looking down. Although, the pose is no longer an entirely natural one. * Satoshi folds his arms and listens. * Taki turns the page. They found a strand of Eiko Amano's hair on Miki. They used a cool DNA test. That's how they found out! * Remi growls, clenching her hands into fists. "That's a lie!" * Kyon nods at Chikako, and turns to look sidewise at Remi. "I've been reading these newspapers for a while, and her sources have always been good." * Katie blinks. "A DNA test?" * Chikako shakes her head. "No it's not! I heard the police talking about it. Cool, huh?" Why'd they even think to do that? * Taki puts down her newspaper and looks up at Remi. Seems kinda unusual. * Remi looks from Kyon to Chikako and back. "Then... Then it was planted." Or maybe Miki just saw Eiko beforehand. * Katie shakes her head and looks over at Remi. "It didn't have to be planeted. She could have- yes." Yeah, they were friends right? Not so unusual to occassionally shed on your friends stuff. ^_^ * Remi nods. "That's right." * Kyon shrugs, and looks back at Chikako. "Was that all they found?" * Haruko begins playing with her hair. Um, not all of it... They found some of Eiko's skin cells under her fingernails. Their hypothesis is that she scratched her. Like there was a struggle? * Chikako grins. "Hypothesis is such a cool word." * Chikako nods to Satoshi. * Katie considers. * Taki blinks. Did Miki have any scratches when they found her? Nope. Just the wound from those cool swords. Then if she did scratch her, it probably wasn't with any goal to hurt her. * Taki thinks and then nods. * Remi eyes Katie. "What are you trying to say? That Eiko killed her without hurting her?" * Haruko frowns, "No, she means that it wasn't a deep scratch, one intented to inflict damage." * Katie nods at Haruko. * Kyon rolls his shoulder, and shrugs. "Or it was, and she missed." ... Oh. * Haruko looks at Kyon "But it would probably have had to been two different fights, I don't think scratching goes with fencing, right?" If it was a fight, then yeah. * Kyon looks sidewise at Haruko. "Depends on if you fence by the rules. You can swing in to punch, then retreat, if you don't." * Chikako grins at Kyon. "Fencing is so cool!" * Kyon nods tersely at Chikako, and smirks. "That's why I do it." Oh? hmmm... I guess so. Well, anyways, the evidence isn't really compelling. Eiko might not have been framed, she could just be unlucky. Yeah. It doesn't solve who really did it, though. There's no clear reason for Eiko to have done it, is there? But they're still convinced. * Remi slams a fist into her palm. "Dammit. If I could just find her...!" * Remi looks to everyone. "Well?" * Haruko shrugs, "We could go to your usual places, you may have missed something as you are naturally pretty stressed out." * Remi sighs. "If you think that will work, fine. I don't know what I could have missed, though." We'll figure it out, Remi. We have to. As far as I know she's not hiding in my room, and that's about all I know. Sorry. There has to be something though... * Kyon leans against the wall behind the desk, and shrugs. "She has to be somewhere. Someone will find her." * Satoshi runs a hand through his hair. "I can't think of anything else." Yeah, but what if the police find her first? I wonder where they're looking. * Kyon shrugs again, and smirks. "Then if she's really innocent, she'll be set free." * Remi scowls at Kyon. "She's innocent." Yes, but what little evidence that they do have is not in her favor. Innocent people get locked up all the time, Kyon. Guilty ones get locked up more often. Eiko is not guilty! * Chikako looks back and forth between people with interest. * Satoshi turns to Remi. "Is there any other place you can think of that you haven't checked yet? Not necessarily a usual place? Maybe the last place you'd think to look for her?" * Remi shakes her head. "Eiko's smart enough to stay away from those places." * Remi blinks. "Hey, what if she's been kidnapped?" Kidnapped? Yeah, maybe the killer kidnapped her and took her... Oh god. * Haruko looks up at that. "The murderer would be helped by that, if the prime suspect disappears..." Definitely. That would really be bad. They could be anywhere. Who would kidnap her, though? It doesn't make sense. The initial frame up of Kyon failed, so decisive action would be necessary, with Eiko out of the picture, she couldn't clear herself. * Remi nods at Katie and sighs. "I know. I'm stretching, aren't I?" But she IS innocent. I'm sure of that, at least. * Taki nods "People are going to keep looking for the murderer, even if he kidnaped somebody else" Maybe. But right now, stretching is what we need to do. * Katie turns to Kyon. "Who would frame you?" * Haruko shrugs, "Not if they think the kidnapped person was the murderer." * Remi laughs. "Maybe she caught a plane for America, for all I know." * Kyon hesitates for just a second, then straightens and smirks. "Like I've said before. There've been a lot of people that I haven't parted on good terms with." * Katie rolls her eyes. "I can imagine. Anyone in specific?" Was there anyone new around Miki before she was killed? An enemy of Kyon may have tried to earn her trust before killing her. Not that I know of. * Chikako has gone back to doing paperwork by now, and is mostly ignoring the conversation. * Haruko looks at Kyon, "Do any of your enemies have any connection to Miki, or her school?" * Satoshi sighs, wishing he could think of something helpful. Anything. * Kyon shrugs quickly at Katie. "Let me think about it." He turns to Chikako, and speaks softly. * Taki tries to put two and two together, but all she's got is .5 anda ¼. (That was neat.) * Chikako looks up and whispers something back to Kyon. * Kyon nods quickly, and smirks as he replies. * Remi blinks as she realizes something. "There was a boy... Yuji, that was his name. Eiko used to talk about him sometimes." Yuji? * Haruko smiles, "What did she say?" He's her neighbor, and she thought he had a crush on her. It's a longshot, I know, but just maybe he'd know something. It's better than nothing. Does he go to school here? * Katie looks over at Kyon and Chikako. * Chikako nods to Kyon and speaks back. Anything is better than nothing. * Remi shakes her head. "I don't think so. I don't really know much about him." * Haruko tilts her head and looks at Kyon, "Does Chikako keep track of your enemy list for you?" * Chikako looks over to Haruko. "I can do that if you want. It'd be so cool!" * Satoshi chuckles. * Kyon straightens up a bit, and speaks to Chikako. "So I'll talk to him, and see what I can get." He turns quickly to Haruko. "Not yet, but it's a decent idea." He smirks. * Chikako grins. "Cool!" She goes back to work. * Haruko smiles at Chikako, "Thanks, but as far as I know I don't have any, saves a lot of trouble I find." * Chikako looks up long enough to nod. "'Kay. Cool. If you do, though, just ask and I'll keep track!" * Katie giggles at that. * Haruko grins. "I'll remember that." If I ever make any, I'll be sure to tell you. * Chikako nods. I don't think I have any, do I? Though if we make any, Chikako will probably know sooner than we do. Then she can tell me so I can tell her...or something like that. * Haruko giggles at Taki's comment. * Demota has joined #Arcana * Remi checks her watch and frowns. "I'm going to find Yuji's house." [Time: 4:00 p.m.] * Kyon rocks back on his heels, and smirks. "You even know what his name is?" His full name? * Remi shakes her head. "No, but he lives right next to Eiko's house. He's got to be left or right." * Haruko giggles. "Premature smirk Kyon?" * Katie shrugs. "I'll go with you, Remi." * Remi makes her way to the door. Given the choice of doing a weeks worth of homework or tracking down a killer...I think I'll hit him with the books... * Katie snickers at Taki and heads for the door as well. * Satoshi can't help but laugh at that. * Chikako waves. * Kyon rocks forward, and shrugs. "You take your lead. I've got something of my own to check on. We can meet up later." He looks over at Satoshi, and raises an eyebrow. "Come along?" Seeya tomarrow Chikako. * Satoshi blinks in surprise. "Uh... yeah, sure, if you think I'd be helpful." * Haruko smiles and follows Remi. * Kyon shrugs. "Best I've got. Come on." He waves to Chikako as he goes out. "Later." * Taki follows the rest of the girls out the door. * Satoshi waves to the girls. "Take care. See you later." * Satoshi follows Kyon. Bye Satoshi. * Haruko waves, looking slightly puzzled. [Time: 4:30 p.m.] [You're in a suburban area. Lots of two story houses that all look pretty similar.] * Katie glances around, then looks to Remi. * Haruko scopes out any visible cars, but sticks with the group. * Remi looks around and frowns. "Stupid houses all look exactly the same... Ah! That one's Eiko's." She walks towards a house that really does look like all the others. There's a police car outside, but it takes off before you get too close. [There's actually a bunch of cars around ^^] So, shall we try the left or the right first? Or split up and try them both at the same time? * Katie heads after Remi. [There's a middle aged woman outside, watching the police car drive off.] I suppose we'll ask Mrs. Amano. * Taki sweatdrops. "That works too." * Katie nods. * Remi walks up to the woman. She turns and smiles. "Oh, hello, Remi." * Haruko stares at an interesting car, and nods in a disinterested manner. ( And Brett regrets having so many NPCs X.x ) * Remi saves time by motioning for you guys to wait there. She walks up and converses with Mrs. Amano a bit before coming back. * Katie tilts her head. * Taki spends time looking at the two nearly identicle houses on either side of the Amano home. * Remi points to the house on the left. "That one." That's the one to check, then. * Remi goes to that house! * Katie starts thataway, putting her ear helpers on as she does so. * Haruko finished her inspection while Remi was talking, and so follows along. * Taki follows Remi and Katie. * Remi knocks on the door. A middle-aged man answers it! ( Gah. NPCs doing all the work. I feel bad ;_; ) (What else are we supposed to do? ^^;) * Katie blinks up at the man. "Yes?" Sir? My name is Remi Okui. Is Yuji around? "No, he went out about ten minutes ago. Going to visit the arcade, he said." * Remi nods. "Thank you." [The man nods and shuts the door. Remi turns back to you all.] Is there an obvious arcade nearby? * Katie breathes out a sigh. "That's where we're going, then." * Remi nods. "Yippie! Arcade. Eiko used to like to make pictures with the photo machine." * Katie laughs a little. "Okay then." * Taki nods, "What does Yuji look like? So we can spot him when we get there." (And Eiko has been hiding in the picture machine for the past few days, the line outside has gotten long, and restless.) Mrs. Amano said he had brown, kind of wild hair. She saw him leave in a brown windbreaker. Shouldn't be that hard to spot, then. Do you know where the closest arcade is? Shouldn't be too hard sp...I thought she said the Yippie! ? * Remi nods. * Remi goes that way, too ^^; * Haruko follows. * Taki follows Remi to the Yippie!. * Katie goes to the arcade! [The Yippie! Arcade is a one floor building with an entrence about the size of a garage door. A big yellow awning has "Yippie! Arcade" printed across the front.] [Time: 4:40 p.m.] * Katie glances around, then heads on in. * Haruko heads in, and looks for a guy matching the description. * Remi goes in and looks around. * Taki also goes in and looks at people, but she also spends some time looking at the games. [The games are wai! They're mostly a year or two old, but there's some newer ones around.] [KoF 2000 seems to be pretty popular.] (Knew I should have taken Gameing -- DDR) [DDR is pretty popular, too. So's Parapara Paradise.] * Haruko only has eyes for racing games. ^^ [There's a bunch of them, too, but they're mostly for unsophisticated Americans :P] [Nobody in sight matches the description.] Where could he be? * Haruko looks around for any booths or bathrooms where he could be hiding. * Taki takes a look in the photosticker booth. [Taki finds him. He turns his head to look just as the flash goes off. "Aw, man!"] (*snicker*) Sorry didn't mean to ru...Hey you're Yuji right? Yeah. Do I know you? Nope! But I know one of Eiko's friends. And she wanted to ask you something. So I came to help look for you. * Yuji sratches his head. "Oh? Can't imagine what." Nobody's seen Eiko since she ran off, you know. * Haruko notices that Taki has been looking in the booth for a little while, and heads over. * Taki nods. "Yeah, I know. Remi's been going crazy looking for her." Remi? Huh. Is there something strange about that? No, just surprised. Eiko's always talking about how strong Remi is. I'm sure she'd tell Remi not to worry, though. If we could find her, I mean. * Remi is looking in a different part of the arcade, so she doesn't see Yuji. * Taki nods. "You're probibly right. Still if you knew someplace she hadn't looked yet it'd probibly help calm her down a lot." * Katie wanders from that section of the arcade, blinks at the collection of people, and walks closer. She doesn't crowd next to the booth, though, eavesdropping instead. * Yuji shrugs. "What makes you think I'd know?" * Haruko looks around for Remi, and then goes to summon her. Remi said Eiko mentioned your name once or twice, and you live right next door, and we're kinda desperate. Still if you don't have any ideas, it can't be helped. * Remi is, Haruko finds, on the other side of the arcade. She's looking at the shooting games for Yuji. I think Taki found him, she was talking to some male voice inside the Photobooth. * Remi blinks and follows Haruko over. Although, Remi should be the one to talk to you, since I don't know everywhere she's looked. * Yuji shrugs again. "Sorry. I don't think I can help you. Eiko wouldn't want to be found, even by her best friend." * Katie walks up to the booth now. She looks from Taki to Yuji. "How do you know she wouldn't want to be found?" Hm? * Yuji looks to the side. "Well... Would you want to be found if you were falsely accused of murder?" * Katie smiles a little. "No. But her vanishing makes the case stronger. There's more, isn't there?" * Taki backs out of the crowded photobooth. * Remi gets there about now and listens. Not really, no. What else could there be? You tell me. Nothing to tell. * Haruko arrives. "Well, if Eiko could go to someone she trusted, someone the police wouldn't question, unlike her best friend...." What if she could? Doesn't mean anything. Trouble is, hiding isn't Eiko's only objective at this point, she also needs to figure who really is responsible, as the police haven't been able to. * Katie nods at Haruko. We're trying to help. That's what Remi has been doing, now Eiko shouldn't compromise her hiding spot, but maybe Remi doesn't know necessary to figure out who the real culprit is. * Yuji nods. "Well, I'm sure she realizes that, too." But I think she also knows she can rely on her friends. If she knows she can rely on her friends, why doesn't she want to be found by them so they can help? * Yuji shrugs. "I'm sure she has her reasons." * Katie crouches to look Yuji in the eyes. "And you don't know them?" Why would I? * Haruko smiles at Yuji. "And whatever person she trusts to keep her hidden would respect them. But maybe that person could find a way to get information Remi needs for the investigation." Maybe. Maybe not. * Haruko smiles and actively attempts to look cute. "I'm sure anyone Eiko trusts would be able to pull it off." * Yuji shrugs. "Could be. -I- certainly wouldn't know." * Haruko smile widens, "Of course you wouldn't. I'm just saying it would be great if such a person could talk to Eiko and find out if she knows anything." Oh, I agree. No one wants to hide forever, and that's the alternative if more evidence can't be found. Well... I'm sure Eiko has a plan. She's a smart girl. * Taki continues to listen from outside the booth. * Haruko continues to smile at Yuji, "Yep, I'm sure Eiko would know what to do right now, how to move forward the investigation to clear her name." Well, I don't know about that... * Remi pushes her way to the booth. "Look, if you know something, just tell me!" * Satoshi arrives and walks up to the booth. "Hey, guys. What's going on?" I already told you I don't. * Katie looks up to Satoshi. "Hi. We found Yuji." * Taki turns around, "Hi Satoshi, how'd you get here? We're talking to somebody who might know something, but says he doesn't." * Yuji shrugs. "You're the ones who think I do. I'm just concerned for a friend." Chikako called, gave us Yuji's address because she didn't think we had it, we went there, found out he was here, and came here. And Kyon's smirking about someplace. * Haruko smiles. "Yep, we have here someone who Eiko has reason to trust." Kyon's always smirking about someplace. When isn't Kyon smirking about something? * Katie grins at Haruko. "This is true." * Yuji checks his watch. "Hey, it's getting late. Would you move so I can get out?" * Kyon stands by a nearby KoF 2000 machine, watching people play on it. * Satoshi moves. [One nerdy looking wimp is kicking everyone ass using only Kasumi Todo.] * Haruko doesn't move for a second. "If we track you down in a day or two is there any chance you'd have more information to help Eiko?" * Taki steps out of the way. (Is he wearing a black jean jacket and glasses?) [Yes, he is. Unfortunately he gets beaten by a silver-haird French girl ;_;] (Aww!) * Yuji shrugs. "Maybe. How would I know?" I'll look into it, of course. But I can't promise I'd have any answers. That's fine. We're not looking for promises. * Haruko smiles. "Fair enough, we could be back here in two days, and who knows something may fall into your lap." * Haruko moves out of the way as well. * Yuji shrugs. "Could be. We'll see." He heads out of the arcade. * Remi watches him go. "He's hiding something." * Satoshi watches him go, then turns to the others. No luck? * Katie watches Yuji go as she taps at her chin. "" She switches back to Japanese. "Not much." * Kyon turns from the machine to watch him go, and smirks quietly, then looks back to the game quickly before walking over. * Haruko replies to Remi, "Damn straight, we could have Kyon follow him, he'd notice any of us." * Taki nods at Remi "Yeah, but I don't think beating it out of him will help us any." I'll bet he runs straight to Eiko as soon as he feels it is safe. * Remi frowns at Taki. "What else can we do?" Follow. But yes. And Kyon's pretty easy to spot. What Haruko said, or we just wait a couple of days to...hmm then we'd have to find him again. * Remi frowns. "No, I'm going after him." She makes her way towards the exit. "I'm through waiting." If he finds out anything, he may just be waiting here, we know where he lives, it won't be hard. * Kyon shrugs. "I've followed people before. I've followed the biker girl. How hard can this guy be?" Remi! * Remi stops and turns. "What?" Let Kyon do it, he'll be watching for you for sure. ... Fine. * Katie walks quickly after Remi. "It's okay, we'll watch from a distance." She taps her satchel. Best part is, even if he notices Kyon, we could always pretend that he is with the police, and not with us, so we don't lose Yuji's trust. ( 'Cept he's wearing a Sakuragaoka uniform :P ) * Kyon smirks, and walks out to the door, muttering to himself in Chinese, ">No reason to follow, but something today's going right.<" He waits next to the door. ( or we could just claim he's the real killer, people already think that's a Sakuragaoka student ;p ) (The whole school's in on it!) [Kyon sees him! He's a good distance down the street.] * Haruko turns to Satoshi, "So what were you guys doing?" (He's also wearing a big leather jacket, and grey pants aren't the most distinctive things in the world. =P) (He's already been cleared of it though...suddenly realizes that Taki never introduced herself to Yuji, blech) * Kyon jams his hands in his pockets, and waits a few more seconds before he hits the door and goes through to follow. We went off and Kyon tried to talk to somebody. Somebody who'd obviously met him before, 'cause she didn't feel like answering. After that, Chikako called us, and eventually we made our way here. [Session, thou art ended!]