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'ARASHI' (CHAPTER 2 2/3:THE TRUTH)
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GRUU~
(. . .)
GRUU~
“Guys, I’m hungry~”
“Shh!!! Your voice is too loud! I know you’re hungry. Your stomach made that sound for the sixth times already!”
Aiba pouted.
“But Matsujun, your voice is louder than me…”
“Seventh time I guess…Ne, ne, Nino, don’t you feel hungry?
“You ask the wrong person Aiba-chan. You know I can survive without eating for entire day.”
“Okay. I guess I regret it for asking you… How about you Oh-chan ?”
“A bit. Jun-kun, what time is it?”
“Almost 11.30 p.m. 8 hours already passed.”
“We should eat or at least buy some food before hiding here.”
“We have no choice. It’s difficult to enter this school once we step outside… Except, if Sho-kun come with us.”
“But if Sho-chan know we're doing this, he will be angry…”
(. . .)
“Ne, Aiba-chan…”
“Yup.”
“I’m still curious about ‘the secret’ that you and Becky talked about. What was it?”
“Now when I think again, Becky’s face become pale when you said about ‘those things’.”
“I’m sorry guys, but I’d promise not to tell anyone about this.”
All of sudden, they heard someone tried to unlock the door.
“Guys, we will catch the culprit when he’s leaving this room.”
Ohno and Aiba gave Matsumoto a nod while Ninomiya set his phone in camcorder mode and focus toward the door. A second later, the door was opened from outside. Soon, they saw a man's shadow entered the room. However they can’t see his face clearly as the room was in a really dark state. As the four guys just keep their eyes on the man, they saw the man stopped in front of the switch panel for a while, probably hesitate whether he should turn the light on or not. Yet he seems gave up on it as he started to search for something under the student council's sofas and behind the cupboard. They noticed how the man looked so scare as his hands shivered hardly for the entire time. After a few minutes, the man finally found something inside the dustbin. He gave out a relief sigh and quickly ran toward the door before-
“Now!”
-the boys get out from the cupboard and behind the curtain and jumped on him.
“Don’t try to run away! I’ve recorded your face!”
“No! Please remove it! I beg you! I promise I’ll give anything you want!”
The culprit panicky begged. For the four guys on the other hand, the voice somehow sound familiar for them.
“I think I've heard that voice before...“
Matsumoto then moved his torchlight towards the man face.
“Eeeeeeh????? ?!!!!!!
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The next Saturday morning.
*Ding Dong*
“Good morning boys! Please come in.”
“Thank you auntie.”
“Where’s Sho-chan ? Does his hand is getting better now?”
“His hand just broke 5 days ago and now you're asking if his hand is getting better?!”
“He’s getting better now Aiba-kun. He’s in his room now… Ah! I almost forgot, Toma-kun came here yesterday.”
“Why?”
“Sho didn’t tell me anything about it. But maybe he will tell you guys.”
After thanked the mother, the four of them went to Sakurai’s bedroom. They knocked the door before Sakurai's 'come in' came from the other side of the door. As soon as they opened the door, they greeted by the sight of Sakurai sat on his study chair.
“Ah, long time no see! Miss me already?”
“Not at all.”
“Don’t you dare to enter my room.”
Despite of the threat, Ninomiya just pretended like he didn’t hear anything and enter Sakurai’s room with a shameless face. Ohno, Aiba, Ninomiya and Matsumoto then sat on the bed while Sakurai turned to them.
“Your mom told us that Toma-kun came here yesterday.”
“Yup.”
“Something happened?”
“He apologized for broke the student council room’s door.”
“Eh?! So he's the one who broke it?! You must be kidding me!”
“Wait, wait. Who’s Toma?”
“He’s ‘the certain people’ that you said before.”
“Of course he’s ‘the certain people’. The trick was TOO lame, right Sho-kun?”
“Yeah, yeah you’re right. Whatever.”
“Why he broke the door?”
“He told me that he heard something crush inside the student’s council room. He broke the door to get inside since he didn’t have the room's key.”
“So the crush sound that he heard from inside the room was the sound of something broke the window?”
“Exactly.”
“Who did it?”
“School’s soccer team. They kicked the ball too hard and it broke the window. Toma-kun returned the ball to them after they apologized and paid for the damages.”
“How about the bucket prank?”
“Well, his friends just playing with him. He said that’s normal in his class. ”
“But why he didn’t tell you earlier?”
“He got fever because of it. So he couldn’t came to school for the past few days.”
“Hey leader, why you didn’t say anything?”
Ohno didn’t answer Matsumoto's question. Instead, he keep on staring every inch of Sakurai’s room until Aiba's voice startled him.
“Huh?”
“Something’s wrong?”
“Nope. I’m just thinking.”
“About what?”
“Sho-kun's room is so cool.”
“Eh? You already came here before, right?”
“Yup. But I was so sleepy so at that time, so I don’t really care about my surroundings.”
“Anyway, did you listen what we’re talking about before?”
“Which one?”
Yet the guy's lost expression was more than enough to answer their question already.
“So you don’t listen at all.”
“How about your investigation? Found anything?”
“Yeah. We discovered the person who created the messes in the student council room before!"
“Really?!”
“Yup.”
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(Flashback)
“Eeeeeeh????? ?!!!!!!
For a while Ohno, Aiba, Ninomiya and Matsumoto became so speechless. It required one minute before they finally overcome their shocked.
“Our vice principal?!”
“I’m so sorry for left this room in a mess state before…I-I was so scared… This school is too dark at night that’s why I-I……But, I swear I wasn’t the one who broke the door. I had the key…so…”
“But there’s no need to sneak into this room and search for it in the darkness doesn’t it? Sensei can just switch on the light.”
“I’m afraid if the guard can see the light and come to this room…I-I don’t know how to deceive him… All of you know that he will know immediately whether we’re lying him or not.”
“So, just tell the him the truth.”
“My good name will destroy if I tell him that I come here to find my precious wig!!!”
Aiba and Ninomiya tried hard not to laugh.
“Just laugh if you want, but promise me you guys wouldn’t tell anyone about this.”
“We will keep our mouth shut, but Sakurai-kun must know about this Sensei.”
“Just tell him alone about this. But aside of that, promise me that you will keep this as a secret.”
“We will sensei. Trust us.”
“I trust you guys…As the returned, I won't tell anyone you guys are here tonight.”
“Thank you sensei !”
The vice principal then quickly left the dark room. After make sure the vice principal already disappeared from the school area through the school’s back gate, the four 'Arashi' finally couldn't hold back their laugh anymore.
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“You guys are so lucky. Our vice principal is really strict about our school’s rule. It-It's really hard for me to believe this...”
“Well, we got two miracle boys here you know. Something unbelievable will happen as long as they’re beside us”
Ohno and Aiba smiled widely and showed Sakurai their thumb up.
“I know they’re our miracle boys, but what I mean is…you guys will be expelled from school if any Sensei find out you guys sneaked into our school last night did. Why you guys go till that far just to find out who’s the person behind these matter?”
“Because this case look so interesting. That’s why-”
“But you said the different things in front of Becky before.”
“Well, if I didn’t say that Becky wouldn’t give us the key.”
“But finally it was Aiba-kun who managed to persuade her, right?”
“I know! Nino actually feel too embarrassed to admit it!”
“What do you mean?”
“Actually he said before that he did this for your sa-”
Ninomiya shut Aiba’s mouth with his palm immediately. Slow and steady he whispered something to Aiba’s ear a second later.
“You say it and I swear you will suffer for the rest of your life.”
Aiba frozen and nodded immediately.
“Good boy!”
“Are you alright Aiba-kun ? You look pale.”
“I –I’m alright.”
As Ohno, Sakurai and Matsumoto realized that Ninomiya just said something creepy to Aiba, they immediately changed the topic.
“I think I know who attacked Becky before.”
“What do you mean?”
“Lately female students were robbed at that area. So I think that person is the same robber. What do you think Aiba-kun?”
“It’s possible. That area is a bit isolate and not so many people use the street except the student from our school. And I still remember that the robber only wanted her wallet, not her bag.”
“So, the robber has been caught already?”
“Not yet. But police start to patrol that area since yesterday.”
“Yokatta ne~”
“The last mystery now only the threat letter and the person who pushed me from behind.”
“Can you show us that letter, Sho-kun ?”
Sakurai nodded. He immediately took the letter from his drawer and gave it to Ohno.
“It looks so scary, doesn’t it?”
“This letter looks so weird.”
“Too many blank space.”
“Let me see.”
Ohno gave the letter to Ninomiya. And…Ninomiya laughed very hard when he saw something unusual with the letter content.