Detective Tezuka Chapter 18

[tacuma]

Title: Detective Tezuka chapter 18 – One Man Army
Writer: Tacuma
Pairing: Perfect Pair
Chapter: 18/ ?
Genre: AU, romance, angst, crime
Word count: words
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis

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Chapter 18 – One Man Army

'You look very happy,' said Yagyuu when Tezuka entered the office. 'You must have had a nice weekend.'

It was true. Tezuka's weekend had been wonderful. He had finally been able to admire Fuji's naked body and enjoyed it a lot. But he wasn't going to tell Yagyuu about that. He just answered with his usual 'ah' as he sat down at his desk.

'Still nothing about Kamio-san?' he asked.

'Nothing,' answered Yagyuu. 'Like the man never existed. It must have something to do with the yakuza. They're the only ones who would and could kill him without leaving any traces. I can't think of anything else.'

'Yes,' said Tezuka. 'He doesn't look like it, but you could be right. The question is: 'why did he have to die?''

The Detective Sergeant couldn't answer the question either. 'Where are Sengoku, Oishi and Ohtori?' he asked instead.

'Yukimura needed them for something,' said Tezuka as he started his computer. 'He said I didn't need them, since I couldn't find anything about our victim anyway. They would be wasting their time, so he would find a better use for them. Until we close this case or until there will be another dead body.'

'Great, so now we have to do everything with just the two of us,' Yagyuu sighed. 'Did he forget how much paperwork we have to do? Especially because we don't know anything about Kamio-san.'

'Stop complaining,' said Tezuka. 'We don't have anything better to do at the moment. Unless you know another way to search for information about him.'

Yagyuu started working without saying another word. Tezuka started his email. He read it every day, but there were so many meaningless messages, and he gets tired of it. Especially, the emails from Yukimura where he kept asking about the case, and if they had found anything yet. Tezuka had grown sick and tired of those by now. He wanted to end this. Either by finding the killer or by closing the case, he didn't care anymore.

Tezuka scrolled through the emails. There was one of Yukimura again, but he didn't open it. The others were from colleagues who asked for help and from the three guys of his team who informed him about their recent activities. There were a few emails from Fuji too. Luckily, he had stopped using hearts as the subject of his messages. It had been embarrassing. Then, at the end, there was one message from an unknown sender. There was no name and no subject either and Tezuka wondered why it didn't end up marked as spam. Warily, he clicked it and slowly it loaded. The entire email was blank. No text, nothing, only an attachment. The Chief Inspector wasn't sure what to do. He was very curious, but he didn't want a virus on his computer. He thought about it for a few minutes then switched the sound off. He decided he would click it, but in case it had audio, like a porn video or something, he wanted to be sure Yagyuu wouldn't notice. This could be one of Sengoku's stupid jokes.

It was a video, a video of a room. You could see a table, some chairs and the windows behind it. Tezuka immediately recognizes the place. It was Kamio-san's house. He momentarily stills the video and calls Yagyuu. The Detective Sergeant looked at the screen and knew exactly what was going on as well. He grabbed his chair before Tezuka clicked the 'play' button again.

Kamio-san was on the video. He was talking, but there was no sound, so the policemen had no idea what he was saying. It was obvious he was arguing with somebody, though. Suddenly, he stepped back and the other person came into view for a second. He swung the statue only a few inches past Kamio-san's head. Kamio-san had stepped out of view, making the attacker take another step forward. Tezuka and Yagyuu looked at each other when they recognized the other person.

'Akutsu Jin,' said Tezuka. They watched the ending of the video. It showed how Akutsu managed to hit Kamio-san a few times before the man fell on the floor. Only his arm was in view of the video, as was the statue that dropped there.

'Couldn't be more obvious,' said Yagyuu when the video ended and the screen turned black. 'This is more than enough evidence to charge him. Should I give Sengoku a call and turn him in?'

Tezuka rewinds the video until there was a clear picture of Akutsu. 'Why would he kill Kamio-san? What were they arguing about and who filmed this all? Most of all, why would that person make this video and send it to us?'

'I wouldn't be surprised if Akutsu was a member of a yakuza group,' answered Yagyuu.

'Me neither,' answered Tezuka. 'But why did he kill Kamio-san? Why did Akutsu have to kill him? Kamio-san must have had contacts with the yakuza group too, but they probably aren't very eager to tell us anything. We have to find the sender of this video. Maybe he or she could tell us more.'

'Maybe Ohtori can take a look at the email for us, or at the video,' said Yagyuu a little impatient. Tezuka took his phone and called Yukimura. He explained that there was new information in their murder case, and that he needed his men back. Only ten minutes later Sengoku came running into the office.

'I thought I was going to die!' he shouted. 'We had to clean the archives and there was so much dust we were almost buried alive!'

Oishi and Ohtori followed him. Their hair was dusty, just as Sengoku's. Tezuka showed them the video. Sengoku was as impatient as Yagyuu, so Tezuka told him, he could come. Oishi had to come with them as well.

'Ohtori, please try to find out how that video was made and where that email comes from,' said Tezuka before they left. He didn't like leaving Ohtori behind on his own, but they would need four men to turn in Akutsu. More didn't fit in the car.

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'We meet again,' said Tezuka when he sat with Yagyuu and Akutsu in the interview room. It hadn't been hard to find the grey-haired man, but it had been hard to bring him to the police office. He had struggled like a wild animal.

'Why did you kill Kamio Akira?'

'I don't know what you are talking about,' said Akutsu. 'I don't know any Kamio Akira.'

'You were questioned about different murders before. I would cooperate if I were you, or we will reopen the cases. Just to make sure you weren't involved in those murders as well,' said Yagyuu.

'There is no 'as well',' said Akutsu. 'I didn't kill anyone.'

'We have a video that proves that you did kill Kamio Akira,' stated Tezuka. He opened the laptop in front of him and showed Akutsu the video. The face of the grey-haired man stayed emotionless as he watched the video. When it was over, he leaned back in his chair without saying a word.

'It was you who killed Kamio Akira,' said Tezuka. 'You can't deny it anymore. Who gave you order to kill him?'

Akutsu didn't answer, just shook his head, not even bothering to look at the policemen.

'Say it out loud for the tape,' said Yagyuu.

Akutsu suddenly stood up. His chair fell backwards, and slammed his hands on the table. 'DAMN IT! YOU KNOW IT CAN'T TELL YOU!'

Neither Tezuka nor Yagyuu was impressed by his sudden outburst. They just kept looking at him and waited until he picked up his chair and sat down again.

'Okay I killed him. But I will be dead if I tell you gave me the order, and you know that. I'm not going to tell you.'

'Then tell us at least why Kamio-san had to die,' said Tezuka.

'I can't tell for sure, but there were rumours,' said Akutsu as he leaned back in his chair. 'It is said that Kamio betrayed our group. He has been working for the other group as well.'

'You're talking about the two yakuza groups here in Tokyo?' Tezuka asked.

'Who knows,' answered the grey-haired man. 'He talked about our plans, and the other group informed you, the cops. Because of Kamio five of our men are in prison now. It probably wasn't all. He leaked more to others. We lost a lot of money, which is why he had to go.'

'The one who made this video of you, do you think he is of the 'other group' as well?' asked Yagyuu.

'Could be,' answered Akutsu. 'But it's not like Kamio could tell him what was about to happen this time. Not like anybody told him he was going to die.'

'Did Kamio-san ever leak anything about the other group to your group?' asked Tezuka.

'How should I know? I hardly knew the guy. Can I have a smoke now?'

'Yes, Yagyuu, take him to the smoking area.'

The Detective Sergeant took Akutsu to the smoking area, while Tezuka gathered his papers and returned to the office. He wasn't satisfied. He caught the killer, but he still didn't know who it was that send them the video and why.

'Ah, Tezuka-san, I found something interesting,' said Ohtori when Tezuka passed by the grey-haired man's desk. 'I found the IP address from where the video is sent. I'm not sure whose computer it is, but I'm working on that!'

'Very good,' said Tezuka. He sat down beside his own desk and organized his paperwork for this case. Oishi entered the office in a hurry and quickly approached Tezuka's desk.

'There is something you should see,' he said nervous.

Tezuka raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything. He simply stood up and followed Oishi. The black-haired man brought him to the entrance of the police station and pointed at the door. There was a cross, painted with black spray paint. For a moment, neither of them said a word. Then Tezuka spoke.

'I am the target.'

'Is that all you have to say?' asked Oishi. 'They know where you work. They know where you live! Tezuka, this is dangerous and you're acting like all surprised!' He almost started yelling.

'I'm the target. I thought they were after Fuji,' Tezuka mumbled. 'Good, call Inui, let him take a look at it and then clean this mess.'

Tezuka walked back inside. If he was the target, this case would change drastically. Fuji didn't have many enemies, but he had. He had locked up plenty of people, and they were all suspects now.

'Sengoku, find out which criminals got out of jail a few weeks ago when Fuji's photo was destroyed at the art gallery, and a few weeks before. Make a list with names of people I was involved with their arrest and who got out of jail during those weeks. Also, list the reasons why they were locked away.'

'I will,' said the redhead, and he quickly wrote some things down before he started searching.

They worked in silence for about an hour, but then Oishi came back with Inui's report.

'Inui says the perpetrator was the same person as the previous times this happened,' said Oishi. 'The paint matched and the way the spray was used is also very much like the other times. However, that's all he can tell us about it.'

'Thank you,' said Tezuka. It didn't help much, but at least they knew this wasn't done by a copycat. He was the target, and Fuji was safe.

'Found it!' said Ohtori suddenly. All the others looked at him. 'The computer, where the video was sent from, I found it.'

'That was quick,' said Sengoku surprised. 'You've only been working on it for about half an hour.

'Actually, I've been working on it since you showed me the email. The guy who sent it knew a little about computers, but not too much. I managed to find his IP address in no time. It was a bit harder to trace the number down through, but I managed. He bought his computer in a small store not too far away from here. They register their clients and the numbers of the computer they buy.'

'Who is it!' asked Sengoku impatiently.

'Taki Haginosuke.'

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Dear readers, I sort of lost my inspiration for this story. There aren't too many characters left I can work with and I don't want to add OC's to this story. I still have ideas for a final case, sort of a grande finale, so I will start with that soon. I hope you don't mind and understand it's not easy to write a story like this. I'm sorry!