I said I would update this story sometime next week, but since today I have some free time on my shoulder I have decided to update. Personally I think this is my favorite chapter of all the chapters I wrote so far. I hope you do enjoy and please leave a review, not any flames.
Disclaimer: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin series. I wish I did but I don't. : (Tragedy Outline
Chapter 5
Saito, Police Commissioner of the Tokyo police was on his way home for the night when he received an incoming call on an accident nearby the entrance of the airport. It looked like a big accident, for if it weren't, then he would have never been notified about it. He gritted his teeth in frustration. He wanted to get home to see his wife, but it looked like his work took up most of his time then to be with his wife. He made a promise to himself to find someway to make up to his precious wife in the near future.
Just when he was about to turn off at the next street corner, his phone rang. He hit the button on his cell phone and talked through his earpiece. "Hello."
"Hello anata," said a sleepy voice from the other end. Automatically Saito recognized the other voice as his wife's voice. "When are you coming home? You've been working forever."
"I'll be home as soon as possible Koshii. It's just that I have one more scene to investigate before getting home," said Saito grumpily, hating the fact to disappoint his wife. Around other people he may be cold, but around his wife, he just could not hide his true emotions.
"Is this a private investigation in which you could not tell me about, or just one of the regular?" asked his wife.
"It's one of the regular investigations. Apparently there was an accident near the airport entrance. It has to be important if the police department notified me about it. I'll try to get home as soon as possible, so please don't wait up for me," said Saito as gently as he could muster.
"Okay anata. See you when you get home." The other phone clicked, letting Saito know that his wife hung up. He hated the fact that he had to work almost 24 hours and seven days a week. He decided to take an early vacation, so that he and his wife could spend more quality time together.
As he finally made his final turn, his eyes widened with astonishment at the accident scene before him. The police department was right to notify about this accident. The scene of the accident itself looked very gruesome, in which two cars collided together. The passenger in one car got stuck between the seat and the compartment, the body looked twisted like. Saito could tell from that position alone, the passenger was dead. The eyes bulged right out, lifeless and looked forever haunting. The scars on the passenger's head was purple, pinkish, the skin deadly pale. Wounds were slashed from left to right, yet it there was not so much blood in the car like the other one. On the windshield of the other car, a trail of blood could be seen. There was a ribbon, looked like a bluish color, stained with blood and covered by shards of glass. From the position in which Saito was standing he could tell that the car got smashed near the front side where the driver was located. The steering wheel closed in on the now empty car seat. The car had so much smeared blood on it that it horrified Saito. He had seen many murders with lost of a lot of blood, but this one was extreme. The window on the door side of the driver shattered, therefore leaving this driver, perhaps dead. It would take a miracle for a driver to survive this accident.
"Sir, you made it," said one of the junior officers who was now walking into Saito's way. "The accident I say happened like two minutes before it hit midnight. We don't really have any eyewitnesses."
"What do you mean we really don't have any eyewitnesses?" asked Saito with a deadly calm voice. He set his amber eyes on the short looking junior officer, looking for an answer.
"I mean that there was no one in sight when the accident happened, but when someone saw the conditions of the cars and the people whom were in it, they called the police," said the junior officer with a timid voice. Saito's amber eyes could scare anyone to hell. He was the type of man no one should mess with.
"Hmmm…" Saito put his long, strong slender fingers under his chin as his mind was deep in thought. "So they are no survivors from this accident?"
"Actually in total of three people, two of them survived. One of them was able to tell their side of the story. The other, well…"
"What was the story of the survivor?" Saito turned all of his undivided attention to the junior offlicer, awaiting the information he was going to reveal.
"Well sir, he said as he was turning from the deserted street right over there, he looked to see if the road was clear. According to him, he said the road was clear and he made a turn when all of a sudden another car appeared out of nowhere. He said he never saw the car, and when he did, he tried his best to smash his breaks in time, to only have his car collide into the other car. The side in which passenger was located in, died from the extreme impact and left the other driver with serious critical conditions. The paramedics are not sure if the woman will make it."
"The driver was a woman?" asked Saito with grim look on his face.
"Yes sir," answered the junior officer.
"Describe this woman to me. Did you find any ID?"
"Yes sir. The woman we examined is about 5 feet and one inch."
"That means she's petite in size, something that might have given her a better chance to survive the crash encounter then anyone our size. Continue…"
"She was in a disheval state, her blood smeared the car seat and left a trail on top the car's hood where the ribbon was located."
"Yes, that has got to do with the shards of glass from the driver's door and the windshield. Conitnue…"
"From beneath the blood, we found that she had blood shut eyes."
"That could have been from drugs, alcohol, or…"
"Or what sir?"
"That could have been tears and also from the lack of sleep this young woman got. Tell me more." Saito now turned his back away from the junior officer and walked up to the crash scene. He made sure to make a thorough inspection and tried to make sure he didn't miss any detail.
"Well, the position in which the woman was in, may have caused strain on her back."
"Yes, after the car collided from into this car, the force pushed her small frame forward. That may have caused an outplace on her back joined to her hips. If she wakes in the hospital and she is not capable of feeling her legs, then the doctors will have to claim that she can never walk again."
"Are you saying she may become cripple sir?"
"Yes exactly that is what I am trying to say. This woman won't be able to do a lot of things she was able to do when she had a normal life. I don't think her life will ever be the same again for her. One of things we have to rule out is her ability to drive," said Saito rather calmly, looking at the street in which the woman made a turn from.
"What makes you say that sir?"
"You see over there?" Saito pointed out on the street where the woman was turning from before she got into a car accident. The junior officer looked on with fascination and excitement. "Over there, there are tire marks, which means the woman was speeding beyond her limit for some reason. That reason has got to do with the airport. She was going to the airport for someone or something."
"Or maybe she was driving there fast to tell someone goodbye," said another man who now walked into the scene. "I'm detective Yokishi Lee. It's pleasure to finally meet the amazing Police Commissioner, Saito Haijme." The man extended out his right hand, expecting a handshake from Saito, but the Police Commissioner never wavered from his stance.
"What makes you say that she was expecting to tell someone goodbye?" asked Saito calmly. The junior officer backed a little away from the scene. He could feel tension in the air already, and both of these men just met. He looked on though eager to see how both men carried about themselves.
"I questioned some people who work at the airport. According to them, they said that a flight left exactly at midnight, leaving here to go to New York. There was a man who waited till midnight for someone who never arrived. He waited along with another man, who was taller and seemed to be a very serious looking man," said Yokishi Lee, waiting to see Saito's expression. Saito gave none. He just remained rooted in his spot with a serious expression on his face.
"So this woman was rushing to see this man who waited for her. That explains everything. I would like to see this woman before I leave. It was interesting meeting you Mr. Lee," replied Saito. He turned around and sat down in his police car. Beside him the junior officer went to locate the hospital in which the woman was located. Yokishi watched the Police Commissioner pulled away from the scene, and when his car was out of site, Yokishi went to start cleaning the mess up with the other crew.
Saito entered the hospital with a serious look on his face. People watched in fascination as the Japan's famous Police Commissioner entered their hospital. None of them dared to get in his way. They all moved aside for him, clearing a pathway while he moved to the main quarter of the hospital. All the time his face remained passive. People could swear he was an obdurate man. Behind him the Junior Officer followed struggling to keep up to the famous man's man pace. He liked the attention he was receiving, but he made sure to forget about that and keep his mind focused on his task.
They stopped at the woman at the front desk. She stuttered her question, unsure how to address Saito. "How… may…I…I…help…you?"
"Can you please tell us what room Kaoru Kamiya is located in?" asked the Junior Officer politely.
The woman looked at him and forced a smiled. Then she looked down at her paper, searching for the name. Saito was the first to spot the name. He pointed at it with his long, strong, slender pointer finger. The woman's face flushed from embarrassment, but Saito made no reaction. He saw the room number and walked away from the woman, without muttering a word of appreciation.
"Thank you," said the Junior Officer quickly and he ran after Saito to keep up wit his pace.
Finally when they arrived in the room, a pale, small frame, covered in a white sheet welcomed Saito. His eyes inspected every inch of her, examining her cuts on her face, and slender throat. Her raven hair spread out fully under head, giving her a vulnerable look. Despite the deep wounds on her face, slender neck, and her exposed arms, he could see that she was a young woman, who was barely the age of twenty-four.
"Of all people, this had to happen to a young woman like this," murmured Saito quietly. The Junior officer didn't hear him. He hoped this young woman could survive. Though she may never be able to drive again in her life, she was still to young to lose wjhat her life.
The doctor who wore a white robe entered the room. He looked down at the limp figure with seriousness in his eyes.
"What happened?" asked Saito, looking at the doctor.
"The woman is in serious condition. Other doctors and I would have to do surgery on her and the put her in coma. So far no one has come to claim her, and she has no insurance that could pay for her bills. If this continues we might have to transfer her out of this hospital to another one," said the doctor looking down seriously at the limp figure.
"Then charge the money under my name, and save this woman's life. She's too young to die and damn it, this is the best hospital that can save her life!"
The next day Sano walked out from his apartment to buy a newspaper. The front part of the newspaper didn't catch his eye at all. He was to busy looking at the job section, trying to see if he could apply to another good paying job.
"Yo! Check out the front of the newspaper!" said one man. "I never thought something serious like this could happen. Look at the picture. That is some serious, gruesome accident."
Sano stopped looking in the job section and turned to the front page. There he saw in big letter words:
Serious Accident that Cost One Life and Have Another in JeopardyTwo minutes before midnight, a tragic accident occurred which cost the life of one passenger, and is now putting another life in jeopardy. According to a survivor of the crash, he indicated he made a turn while heading to the airport, when all of a sudden another car came out of nowhere and crashed into his car. The accident killed a passenger from his car who he claimed to be his sister. In the other car, a young woman identified as Kaoru Kamiya, is now being hospitalized and is considered to be in serious critical condition. The doctors do not know whether this woman will survive. No one has yet claimed to know this young woman. Police Commissioner Saito Haijme and detective Yokishi Lee took on this case last night. The conclusion was that the young woman rushed to the airport to meet someone very imortant, but apparently never made it, because of the accident.
The whole of Tokyo city is lost on what to say about this tragic accident. All that can be hoped by all is that this young woman will survive, that she will fight her battle and come out from coma once the surgery process is done with her.
Sano stopped reading the newspaper immediately and ran toward the hospital destination.
Megumi finally reached her office. As she opened the door, she saw the television was on a certain news station. She didn't pay any attention to it at first until she heard other people talking about it. It was rumored that an accident happened near the airport last night. It automatically hit her about the fact that it could be her roommate in the accident, because she remembered she never saw Kaoru in the morning, plus her bed look like it was touched kast night.
Megumi left her office section and watched the news from her employer's section. There a reporter came out with the news of the accident:
Dimitri Yucan, survivor of last night's accident is setting up the funeral rights of his sister. The other survivor who is identified as Kaoru Kamiya, is now being hospitalized and is said to be in serious, critical condition.
Never did Megumi wait for any other news. She stopped working, excused herself from work and ran to the hospital to see her friend's condition.
Misao worked at Akabeko. When it reached midday, hardly any customers came because children and teenagers were at school. Plus workers were at work. It made Misao's job much easier for her. She noticed that Kaoru never came to work. She called her place this morning and no one answered the phone. Misao assumed Kaoru was at work. Now Kaoru was nowhere to be found.
"Misao! Misao!" yelled Tae who entered the kitchen where Misao was in charge for washing the dirty dishes.
"What! What happened?" asked Misao with a worried tone. She stopped washing the dishes and wiped her hands on the towel next to her. Then she went to put a soothing hand on Tae's shoulder, hoping that would comfort her just a little.
"It's about Kaoru!" said Tae breathlessly. Her worried eyes looked into Misao emerald eyes. Misao became really worried when she heard Kaoru's name.
"Tell me what happened and please say it in a way that I could understand," replied Misao. Her small hand tightened on Tae's shoulder unexpectedly.
"Kaoru got into an accident last night right near the airport! The news said she's in the hospital and she's in serious, critical condition!" shrieked Tae who now burst into tears. But before Tae could say anything more, Misao ran out of Akabeko without muttering another word.
(To be continued.)