Chapter 4, Murder

On the cover was one of Kurama's friends bleeding from five gun wounds in the chest.

"Kenji!" Kurama yelled. "No." he said, tears coming to his eyes.

Yusuke picked the article and read:

Kenji Ryu was murdered last night while

walking home from 12:16, a nightclub.

"Kenji Ryu was murdered anywhere from 9PM to 12 AM (midnight)." Says Detective Shizuru Kuwabara last night while examining the body.

Yusuke read no more.

Hiei was no good at comforting.

"Ur, um. It's okay." He said, patting Kurama's back.

"No, it's not!" said Kurama, crying in to Hiei's shag rug. "Kenji is dead .GO AWAY!"

"I'll drive him home, he's just upset," said Yusuke noticing no other guest were there.

As they left Hiei went to his couch and sat down with the newspaper to read the funnies.

As he was opening the newspaper he saw something on the front page;

A young woman named Botan, an employee of the Natural History Museum, reported the body to the police.

"Botan?" muttered Hiei to himself.

Acting fast Hiei grabbed his coat and ran down stairs wondering why he'd brought a coat on a warm summer night. He ran as fast as could (incredibly fast) and knew he had to get to Botan's house before someone else did.

OOOOOOOOOO

"Kurama? Are you sure you don't me to stay with you tonight?" said Yusuke in the car to Kurama. "Maybe we should listen to some music? Eh?"

"Shut up Yusuke."

"Last time I did you asked me why I wasn't talking."

"Yusuke, can't you be sympathetic at all?"

"When my Grandpa died I hated everyone being sympathetic."

"Stop it Yusuke, just stop it."

"Why?"

"No Yusuke. STOP THE CAR!"

Yusuke looked out his wndow just as another car crashed into his side of the car. Glass flew everywhere. And the car rolled off the bridge they had been driving on.

OOOOOOOOO

Hiei had a question and a plan, both were centred on Botan.

I wonder if I'm right. Could I be? Could Botan be a witness? Will my plan work?

Hiei was now running over the bridge. There had been some kind of car accident there. Hiei stopped running and looked at the car being towed out of the water.

Very few people have a 1960's navy blue coloured Jaguar with a bumper sticker that says I'M TOO COOL! And no one else's car had their hubcaps painted electric blue.

"Kurama? Yusuke?" Hiei grabbed the shoulders of one of the workmen.

"Sir. Where are the bodies of Yusuke and Shuichi?"

"Do you know them?" said the workmen. "We're still looking, we only just got here."

OOOOOOOOO

Kurama woke up on the riverbank. It took him a while to remember why he'd been in the river. He looked around him. No one was near him and it had started to rain he saw the bridge.

"Hey!" Kurama yelled.

A man shined a bright light in Kurama's face. "That him sir?"

"Yes, that's Shiuchi," said a familiar voice.

"Shine a light under the bridge," said the voice. "Shiuchi, it's me Hiei."

"Hiei?" Kurama wondered what Hiei was doing here. "What?"

"Can you see anyone under the bridge?" Hiei called.

Kurama looked he saw a silloette sit up and fall back.

"Yes someone's down there."

A few minutes later a man came down, strapped Kurama to a streacher and give a motion for someone to pull it up.

"Hiei, what are you doing here?" asked Kurama once they were in the ambulance.

"I have a hunch on how to find out who killed Kenji."

"How?"

"I'm not telling you in case I'm wrong! Which I'm probably not."

Yusuke opened his eyes on the riverbank. Bright lights were flashing all around him. He looked around; he saw a bright light shine on someone's face. Was that Kurama? It had to be. No one else's hair looked like silk when wet, well, maybe Botan's…

Yusuke tried, really tried, to sit up and fell back down.

Suddenly Yusuke realised. He couldn't remember anything that had happened that night. He put his hands over his eyes.

"No Yusuke! STOP THE CAR!" It had started to rain glass, glass. He remembered seeing someone running and silence, darkness, cold. And an eye.

Yusuke opened his eyes and seeing a man strapping him to a stretcher.

"Why c-can't I remember?"

"What's that? Never mind, up you go."

The rain was pelting down on Yusuke's face as he tried to remember anything, anything at all, but he couldn't, this whole year had been completely removed from his memory.