Kono walked behind the guard silently, looking straight ahead. The cold, gray, lifeless stone walls mirrored her feelings in that moment. Walking toward the large room, she focused on the task that was in front of her. It was a conversation that she never wanted to have, but knew, in her heart, had to be done.
While working on a case concerning trafficking of drugs and prostitutes being smuggled onto the island, Kono recognized some of the names on the manifests. These were men who worked for Adam's father. Adam had told her all of his father's ties to Yakuza were severed when he cleaned the business up. However, these men were still using the same channels Adam's company did. A few of the documents had Adam's own signature on them. While interrogating two of the men, who they nabbed while trying to board a plane to Japan, one of them, a Haruto Azuma, negotiated a deal; his boss for witness protection. Adam's name was listed as the head of the entire operation.
Kono had run out of the interrogation room and into the women's lockers, emptying her stomach into the toilet. She curled up on the floor of the bathroom into a tiny ball. Her heart broke in despair as the last few years flew in front of her eyes. Everything they had been through together, every time they ran, every dangerous situation they were in, was because Adam said he wanted out. Knowing what she knew now, it felt like it was just a game, that she was just a game.
Sitting down in the chair the guard pointed to, she waited patiently, eyes focused straight ahead, her arms folded in front of her. She was eerily calm on the outside, but there was an inner-turmoil that she thought she would crumble under if she gave into it.
Adam was escorted into the room; his hands folded in front of him, and was led to the chair on the other side of the bullet-proof panel. He held his cuffed hands out while the guard clamped the cuffs to the front of the table. Adam's eyes, however, were focused on his wife in front of him. He had a smile on his beard-clad face.
Once the guard walked away, he leaned in toward the glass, his cuffed hands reaching through the small hole to try to hold Kono's. She immediately moved them back toward her, though her face remained impassive. His smile faltered for a moment, and then he smiled again.
"It's so good to see your face," he said, his eyes filled with emotion.
"Hello, Adam," she said, her voice showing no emotion whatsoever.
"Kono, what's wrong? It's been over a month since I've seen you, and all I'm getting is the cold shoulder," he whispered roughly, clearly annoyed at her attitude.
Her eyes finally focused on his face. She noticed the beard, the sunken cheeks, obviously due to the lack of food he was accustomed to. She looked into his eyes, those eyes that held so much love for her, and wondered if he really knew what damage he had done to her. He made her trust him with her love, with her heart. He lied to her, and he didn't even blink an eye.
"I came to tell you something. I wanted to do it myself. Steve was going to do it, but I told him this was my responsibility. You see, I brought you into my life, my Ohana's life. I am the one that needs to finish this."
His eyes furrowed, confused as she was talking, "Kono, what are you talking abo-"
"Haruto Azuma sends his regards," she told him, venom in her words.
She watched as Adam's face turned pure white, and his hands began to shake. She watched as his eyes looked around the room nervously.
"I don't know what he told you-"
"He told us everything, Adam. He told us how you have been continuing in your father's footsteps. He let us in on how you never really stopped any of the dealings your father was into. He regaled us with all of what has been happening behind closed doors, behind my back!" Her voice got louder with each sentence. She held her tears back, refusing to cry in front of him, as her face went from impassive to disgust.
"Kono, please, you have to let me explain!" He begged, his hands trying to reach for hers again.
"Explain it to me, Adam. Explain to me how you can look me in the eye and lie to me all of these months. Explain how you can stand on that alter, promising to love and cherish me, all the while hiding the one thing you knew would ruin us from me. Explain to me how you could pull this whole thing off, you going to jail for killing two men in self-defense, only to use it as a front so you look clean and innocent, all the while dealing with the scum of the earth. Explain it all to me, Adam."
"I didn't want to lie to you, Kono! I knew you would never stay with me if you knew I had continued with my father's legacy. I had no choice! Don't you understand?!"
"You had a choice! You should have chosen me! You kept telling me you loved me enough to leave that life behind! You said you were making changes, good changes!"
"It would have never worked, Kono! I was in too deep to ever really get out! Are you really so naïve to think it could be that easy?" His voice was filled with resentment, for what she wasn't sure; either at her for wanting him to get clean, or the fact that the team was smart enough to eventually figure it out.
She shook her head, "No, it wouldn't have been easy. But you told me it was worth it. You told me I was worth it," she choked out, her emotions getting to her.
"I left my home, and went on the run with you. I left my family, my friends, everything I knew for you! I have been on the run, shot at, tied up! I had my teeth pulled out and tortured! All for you! All because I believed you and all of your lies! I put my family at risk! I put my job on the line for you!"
"That was all your choice, Kono! I never forced it on you," he spat out, his eyes turning to glare at her.
She looked at him, shocked at the words coming out of his mouth, "I did it because I loved you, and I believed that you really wanted to make a clean start. I did it because you said all the right things and did all the right things. And I was too much in love with you to really see through the lies."
Silence fell over the two for a few moments, both of them looking ragged and raw. Kono swallowed a large lump in her throat before speaking.
"You are being charged with Drug, Firearms, and Human Trafficking, distribution of drugs, prostitution and firearms, and murder. Yes murder, Adam. One of your thugs got greedy, didn't he? He wanted more money for getting his hands dirty for you. So you had another one of your scum employees silence him."
Adam looked straight in front of him, his eyes focused on the wall behind her. He listened, stoically while she ran off the list of charges against him. He never said a word, and just sat back in his chair as she spoke, his face showing nothing.
"You don't have to say a word, Adam. We have you on every single charge. Once Azuma rolled over on you, three others did the same. You and your organization are through," she said. And so are we. It was unspoken, but the words were there, in every word she spoke.
She stood up in front of him, reaching for her left hand. Slowly, she pulled her rings off of her finger, and threw them on the table in front of her. While she still ached for the love that she thought would last forever, she felt lighter, like a weight was lifted off her shoulders. Straightening her back, looking right into his dead eyes, she said, "Goodbye, Adam," and walked out of the room, leaving him there, still looking ahead, anger and hate marring his features.