Kaoruko sat next to Sakon, not happy with the entire situation while Tomonori paced back and forth. "Are you sure we can't take him home?"

"He's assigned to the mental hospital… unless it is revoked, we can't," Kaoruko's eyes were filled with misery. "He's always been coherent."

"Has uncle tried to get a lawyer to fight this?" her cousin suddenly asked, suddenly sounding hopeful.

"Not yet… I was going to suggest it, but…" Kaoruko shook her head. "The old man can't look anyone in the face. He's upset about this… you know Sakon's his pride and joy."

"Sure doesn't show it like one normally would," the man grumbled.

"It runs in the family Tomonori," Kaoruko narrowed her eyes. "Look at your father."

"My father didn't have a pride and joy… he never took great interest in any puppeteer until the head role got passed to Sakon,"

"Are you still holding a grudge against Sakon?"

Kaoruko narrowed her eyes at him."

"Uncle Saemon put an almost sixteen year old, fifteen year old child in charge of our family,"

"Do your saying that it should have been passed to your father?" Kaoruko frowned.

"That's not… look Kaoruko. Sakon is a child genius… and not just in puppetry mind you. Child geniuses tend to be… well, while it is easy to mold them to their genius, other aspects of their life tend to be hard to work with. I would much rather have seen Sakon placed under the mentorship of some one older then him for a couple of years."

"My sister is legal guardian of Sakon," Kaoruko shrugged her shoulders.

"Legally, his mother is, but it's really your old man who says what goes and what doesn't with the boy. If it wasn't, Sakon would never have been allowed to take Ukon to school and he might still be in school. Sakon is a spoiled brat!"

"Tomonori! As I recall, you've never been to fond of Sakon because he is such genius. Look at what you said to him. Look what you said when your father dies."

"I'll repeat what I said before. Sakon is a spoiled brat!"

A knock came on the doorframe. "I don't know how coherent Sakon seems or doesn't seem, but don't take the risk that he might remember something the two of you say later that you two don't want him too."

"Oh… Dr. Ikimono," Kaoruko's eyes regained some smidgen of light in them

"Is this the buffoon that stuck Sakon in the nut house when he doesn't belong there?" her cousin suddenly snapped.

"No… that would be my boss. Today's my day off, but I heard about Sakon's… predicament. May I ask, does he do anything with his right hand,"

A smirk came on Tomonori's face. "Sakon reserves his right hand for multi-tasking and puppetry. He is otherwise left handed."

"Thank you," the man stated, a small smile on his face.

"Hold on… what did you need that for?" the cousin frowned after the doctor.

"Let's just say, I don't believe Sakon did this,"

M

Officer Zouo Sadao was fiddling yet again with his notes when Dr. Ikimono washed over to him and spoke up. "I heard you are the one to see this case at the clinic."

"Yes… what of it?"

"Was the body stabbed right handed?" the doctor asked.

"Yes… how did you know that?" the officer became suddenly suspicious.

"Sakon Tachibana is left handed," came the quick reply. "I doubt that he did this."

"Sakon has solved cased before. The kids smart and if he wished to throw off the belief that he did something, I wouldn't put it past his ability,"

"But with the state of mind he's in now do you actually believe that?"

This caused the officer to blink once. "Do you have a better suspect?"

"As you can see, even if I didn't, Sakon isn't the best suspect anymore," Kibousuru stated clearly. "I'm better suspected then him."

"Are you saying you're turning yourself in to protect the boy?"

"You could say that… but not for the reasons you think… I don't think he did it at all… no, I have the feeling that he didn't. And I'm not the murder… but charging me with the murder may lax the real culprit. Meaning too that Sakon would be safe to return to the clinic."

"And I take it you in fact do have a better suspect?"

"I do… and here's their motive," Dr. Ikimono pulled out some notebooks.

Zouo glanced through them, then looked at the doctor," Are you sure about all of this?"

"Positive… I've been collecting this for some time now.

"And how is all of this…"

"If you can't guess…" Ikimono smirked.

M

Kaoruko was sitting there, wanting to pound her head on the table when her partner came in. "I was given permission to take Sakon back to the clinic."

"All ready?" came her response.

"Yeah… that Dr. Ikimono fellow just turned himself in. Apparently, he wasn't happy with the decision to put Sakon into the facility in the first place, so Officer Zouo tells me. Closed case,"

"No… I don't believe it!"

"Kaoruko… we have no choice but to believe it," Tomonori sighed.