I feel I should mention that I know nothing about real police protocols when it comes to someone being arrested. It was hard to find out this information, as I imagine each situation is different, and it wasn't exactly something that I was keen to experience myself :p

Everything here is fictional and comedy, not reflective of any policing methods or personnel, this is fiction guys…

Also I own nothing.

The call came at seven in the morning on a Saturday. Muramasa hadn't quite woken up, the past week had been a hellish one with little sleep and all he wanted to do was sleep in at the start of the weekend. But it would seem that someone was intent on putting a stop to his peaceful weekend before it began.

Before he even picked up the call, a sense of dread drifted through him, and he figured that today might not be such a great day.

"Muramasa." The single word greeting met him over a crackly line when he picked up.

Muramasa really was not surprised to hear Kyo's voice this early in the morning, especially when he didn't recall him returning home last night. He only wished that Kyo had called a little later than 7am. At least then maybe Mayumi would have been awake and made her wonderful coffee that was the only mixture of that brown swirl he could stand to drink.

"Kyo. Where are you?" Here, there was no point in trying to begin berating him about not having returned home the night before as that would only have led to an argument and him hanging up, leaving Muramasa even more in the dark as to what his adoptive son had been up to.

"I spent the night in the police barracks," he shot straight to the point, "I was driving down Tokai road a little too fast."

"What," he began, taking a deep breath to prepare himself for the oncoming response, "is a little too fast?"

There was a hesitant pause, which with any other child would probably have indicated guilt, but with Kyo it probably meant he was trying to contain the sound of his glee over the phone. "190."

Here was his adoptive son. The boy he had raised from the tender age of five. The product of his care and love, his unwanted cooing and codling. The boy he had pushed and pulled to the brink of manhood, had been flying down a road at 190kmh. Breathing out steadily, Muramasa responded coolly with. "That's more than a little too fast."

Once again Kyo agreed, sounding less smug and a little more docile. "You will have to pay fines and probably for a lawyer. And I won't come down to bail you out."

"I know. I wouldn't want you to. There's a good crowd here." He could hear Kyo grinning at that.

Sighing now in growing agitation, Muramasa figured that Kyo was being way too understanding about this, if anything seemed to be having fun. "You are aware that at that speed, had anything happened, your tire blown or if you had even sneezed, you would have died."

"Yeah I know that. Cop did the right thing pulling me over, you know we can't all be going around doing 190. He put up a good fight too." Muramasa would have put money on the grin that was on his face right now had got bigger and toothier.

"I did not buy you a car so that you can drive recklessly Kyo."

"It wasn't reckless driving."

Muramasa was stunned. He had agreed with everything so far, that he had to take charge and pay his own fines and lawyer and that he needed to be pulled over, addressing the fight with the cop would come later… but of all things that he could have objected too, it was that he was driving recklessly!

"What would you call it?"

"Calling it reckless driving would suggest that I was not paying attention to what I was doing. But I was. I made the deliberate choice of driving down an empty stretch of road, in good light, with good sight lines and no traffic. I was only driving."

"Kyo-"

"If it makes you feel any better, I was really focused."

Strangely, it did make him feel better. Which if anything, was what was bothering him. Muramasa put it all down to his sleepiness.

"Why didn't you call about this earlier?" He managed to get out while suppressing a yawn.

"Didn't want to wake the whole house up just over this." Kyo's near dismissal would certainly have to be something that they talked about at a later date, but it was a hot Saturday morning and Muramasa was probably going back to join his wife in bed once this was over. Mahiro would be up in an hour or so wanting breakfast, so they didn't have long to relish the morning together.

"Fine. I'll see you at home. I really hope that you didn't do all this just to impress some girl." The comment slipped out unintentionally, and he really had not meant it to tease his adoptive son. The moment it left he began piecing some of the story together.

It had been strange that Kyo had chosen to drive 'recklessly' down Tokai road, it wasn't somewhere he occasioned regularly. It was a bare and empty road with the exception of one house. The Shina residence. "Please don't tell me it was to impress Nozomu Shina's younger sister." Muramasa finally groaned out.

"That doesn't take much."

"Kyo-" His tone warning.

On the other side Kyo was laughing loudly and he could hear someone telling him that this wasn't a courtesy call and that he had to hang up.

"Nozomu wants nothing more than to see you locked up for flirting with her, so you had better not be doing this to just anger him." Muramasa wanted to quickly get in, hoping with all his might that Kyo really wasn't so petty as to flirt with that young girl simply to annoy the towns beloved doctor.

Kyoshirou did not count in this case, as he was still training but beloved none the less. Although, the boy was likely to be just as annoyed by it too, being very protective over his long time girlfriends younger sister.

A suddenly more serious tone appeared over the line and it took Muramasa a fraction of a second to notice that it was still Kyo speaking. "I wouldn't do that to her."

At that moment it was clear that whoever had been overseeing his one call had had enough and the line was cut.

Still Muramasa remained there with the receiver to his ear as his mind ran over Kyo's final words in a muddled state. Muramasa really could not think in his entire time knowing Kyo have ever heard him use such a serious tone. There was definitely more here to the story that he planned to gently probe from his son. If he wasn't going to tell him himself, then no doubt Yuya would be happy to tell him.

A sly grin formed on his face as he put down the receiver and walked back to bed.

This day might turn out to be not so bad after all.