I finally crawled out from being hiatus for so long. And my brain decided this should be the first plot to write about. Make sure to read the explanation section at the end of the chapter, I have some explanation to do regarding this story's journey, read it (especially the second one).

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or any familiar words/titles mentioned in the story. Words approx. ; 1900.

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One Night Wrong by Writer's Lullaby

Hyuuga Natsume nicknamed as The Initiator rarely made wrong in his judgement ever since he became a lawyer. Yet a decision he made this one night ended his spotless record. And he only found out about his error years later. Of which totally changed his life.

Chapter 1 : Hyuuga Natsume

He opened the door to his luxury condominium with an easy grace after a long tiring day. The vast space on the front of his eyes was dimmed, lightly illuminated by the window thanks to the flashing lights from the busy city life outside. Natsume stepped to said window at the same time loosening the tie on his neck. Three steps away from the glass window, he next began unbuttoning his dress shirt slowly with firmness.

As he looked out the horizon, everything that happened around him for the past few days began playing on his mind as flashbacks.

Once again, he was able to win his case gloriously and as per usual; it made to the papers. All the news had mentioned about how Hyuuga Natsume, nicknamed as The Initiator had again struck. When public heard he had taken another legal case, everyone knew that it was already a sure win. And to public's eye, The Initiator was never wrong, they believed that the defendant for every case he took was never wrong as he was after all; The Initiator, he took responsibility of helping the wronged to be in the right. He was known in his field to choose his customers meticulously with great care as his firm's slogan was "To Be & To Serve: The Right".

The latest case he took that that he had won was a murder case of the renowned Japanese top model, Koizumi Luna. As a criminal counsel, he had to defend for Serio Rei who was charged murder in the case. Serio, the national rock star in a top-selling records Japanese band namely KuRhoshi, was known for his maddening drumming skills had been intimately dating the model for months in an on and off relationship.

Tabloids and gossip columns were always following the news of said celeb couple as they were both big icons in the industry. The latest news was that the two had another falling out just few weeks ago after a big red carpet event both had attended but not together; the top model was seen in the arms of another rising model meanwhile the other came with his band mates. The two were never seen on speaking terms again after that and neither addressed the matter on their own, both letting their publicists control the damage they had done. Neither came out to the light telling their own two cents of the story.

Fans were shocked of the breakup but no one was too saddened as they were convinced that the two would patch up things again as they always had before. Some of them who had not supported the pairing had took it as tickets to lash out how neither stars suited each other.

No one saw the news of her death coming. Ten days after the public stunt the model pulled off; she had once again made it to the headlines but this time it was not about any of her social endeavours, or her illicit going outs with other hot stars. She had been found dead in a VIP suite of a hotel by the housekeeper. The hotel also suffered from bad press as they were known to be patronised by other high-end customers.

The workers in charge of housekeeping the room found the model dead in a pool of blood at the jacuzzi of the bathroom. The poor girl was set to fits of hysterical screaming seeing the inhumane and gory scene. Thankfully, the other two stayed sane and called management who then took action to report to the police; the model's manager and talent agency had also been contacted. Her manager had deem it necessary to inform her family of the grim news. Within hours, the case had managed to gain full footage at the hotel.

Autopsy was run to determine the cause of her death as her body was badly damaged when found. If it had not been for the hotel records saying she was the current patron of said suite, they would not be able to discern who she was. The model known for her unrivalled beauty was sporting a dislocated jaw, broken teeth and swollen body parts especially on her face. There were also cuts and red marks all over her body but the worst were at her inner thighs in where the cuts were done deep.

It simply was not the act of a human and if it was, the person was surely possessed.

The in results from the autopsy reported there was drug substance in her body and she had likely died due to being overdosed. The first shot of drug in her body was barely traced, indicating it began more than three days before her corpse was found. Before death, she was tortured and physical pain was inflicted upon her. She was also raped several times before the murderer had taken her to the jacuzzi and cut her bits by bits. As she was bleeding herself dry, drugs were injected into her again which resulted to her overdosing. She was dead twenty hours before being found by the housekeeper.

Natsume shook his head from the memory as grim set in him. "It was so inhumane." Still lost on thoughts, he sought the view his luxury condominium afforded him. It was unfortunate how he was not able to see any stars adorned up on the sky; one of the cons of living in a metropolitan city. The absence however did not hinder his thoughts wandering about the case.

Upon investigation, one and another obvious clues that had popped up led to Serio being the prime suspect of the murder. Few staffs of the hotel whose testimonies were taken, admitted to seeing Serio at the hotel during Koizumi's stay. The receptionists said the couple had registered the suite room together late at night, two days prior to the red carpet event. The next morning, the couple was seen having a heated conversation at the hotel lobby with him ending up leaving with a dangerous scowl on his face and his body seeming to be in tension.

The delivering blow that ended up with Rei being arrested was the CCTV footage that had records of yet another discussion between the love birds. Koizumi was seen crying in the video looking dishevelled, her lush body covered in a thin oversized shirt. She was telling Serio to quit playing games and that if he wanted her back, they could work it out. Serio in the video dressed in black leather was similarly frustrated. He was talking in a raised but composed voice asking what she was talking about. "I'm fucking receiving death threats here asking why I went to the red carpet with another guy, who else would it be aside of you?!" said Koizumi. Serio denied the accusation.

The footage ended with Serio consoling her and they disappeared from the edge of the camera. Mysteriously, the rest of the CCTV's footage disappeared and the hotel was heavily criticised for the lack of security. Apparently the footage was taken just five hours before Koizumi became unreachable and no one knew the whereabouts of the rock star. The autopsy result also showed that Koizumi received her first dose of drugs within ten hours of the video's footage.

Needless to say, Serio was caught in a dead end.

He was immediately arrested but since there was not enough evidence, he was allowed to bail out within hours. During his arrest, on his family and bandmates' urge, his manager tried to acquire one of the best criminal counsel there was. Through connections, he managed to get in touch with Natsume. The manager turned out to be good friends with Harada Misaki whose fiancé Andou Tsubasa was Nogi Ruka's foster brother.

Ruka being the angel he was had put in good words for them to Natsume.

In short, that was how Natsume got himself a high profile criminal case this time.

He was first reluctant to accept the case considering how it was getting a lot of media attention. He wanted to lay low as he felt he was not getting much freedom to do his work without the constant meddling of the media when he accepted few similarly high profile cases before. He was already building a good reputation when he successfully defended his clients to win before that. However, his firm's reputation really sky-rocketed along with his name after he won a case against the most notorious district attorney ever known to the Japanese; Enjouji Kuonji.

Since then, high profile cases had been finding their way to the door of his firm; consisting a lot of high-classed clients. Following the firm's slogan, Natsume had ordered his workers to filter the demanding requests with meticulous care; and the undertakings of the cases would not be approved by anyone other than him himself.

When Natsume got the call after being informed by Ruka, he did not promise to take the case immediately, he only agreed to meet Serio first to deem the case befitting of his aspiration or not.

Upon meeting Serio, Natsume was battling the urge to leave without an agreement. He was irked with Serio's devil-may-care attitude with the situation. The latter was acting as though everything would work out to his favours by the end of the day. With the way the things were progressing during their meeting, Natsume found himself surprised when he grudgingly agreed to take upon the case considering how the rock star's attitude far than ticked him off. Of course he kept his composure because it was only befitting of his career, more so when he was a criminal counsel; where he had to deal with many kinds of demanding characters.

Perhaps it was his spot-on guts that drove him to take the case because as he searched for any clues to help him in the case; one thing became clear to him. Serio was definitely not in the wrong. Unfortunately, the rock star had close to zero alibi because no one knew where he was during the time the murder happened. Although according to said person himself, he was on a five-day-four-night trip to Ine in the Kyoto Prefecture to take his mind off the world. It was understood he put on a disguise to travel by the bullet train.

"No wonder he had no alibi back then," muttered Natsume under his breath. Now shirtless, he walked to the kitchen and took a pitcher of cold water from the fridge. Using a tall glass he took from the the cabinet, he poured cold water into it and drank the water in one gulp. "But of course the idiot was stupid enough he switched off his numbers making it impossible to reach him. Then he had to go and extend the stay." By this point, Natsume realised he was grumbling about his latest impossible client. He could definitely prepare a complete list on what irked him when he was dealing the case.

The sound of his phone ringing crashed his wool-gathering.

Checking the clock hung on the wall, Natsume made a questioning look and head to his phone which was placed on the living room's table. "Who would be crazy enough to call me at almost midnight?" He reached his phone a mere seconds too late as the ringing sound went silent.

His face flashed in recognition upon seeing the caller's ID, it was Youichi.

-end of chapter-


This section exists solely for explanation and credits. (ES)

- Enjouji Kuonji : Enjouji is not the ESP's real name, I made it up. it felt weird introducing him without a full name.
- Originally, what you read as a first chapter of the story was supposed to be a smaller portion of the original first chapter (I was only intending to do 5 chapters for this story). The length of the story got too long to my liking for the first chapter and at one point writing it today, I was simply doing word-vomit (a phrase I borrowed from a friend). So I decided to break it down into smaller parts and based on my calculation, I have wrote enough for 3 chapters. You will not meet Mikan until chapter 4, I am warning you.
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I have never before write a law-related story and neither do I study law, so if you notice any awkward terms, do tell.
- And before you tell me I might've misspelt any 'z' as 's' and put too much 'u' in my words, I'm writing the Queen's English. To those who get it, thank you.
- Writing this, I actually encountered few confusions as to how long does someone stay arrested if said person is suspicious of murder etc, so I actually saved a few links for future references. I didn't share the links here but if any of you are interested. Feel free to mention in the review or PM me. ^^


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Created ; 4:30 am, 14 July 2017
Finished ; 3:57 am, 18 July 2017
Updated ; 10:54 pm, 28 July 2017 (special thanks to Purple-Hime:)

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