!WARNING! Contains romance between an uncle and niece. Or in other words between Dojima and Female version of Yu. So if you don't like that sort of thing, do not read! Again, if you don't like a story of romance between an uncle and niece, DO NOT READ! !WARNING!

Akemi crept out of her room and slowly closed the door behind her. Keeping quiet as to avoid waking her family, she slowly made her way down the stairs to the kitchen. This wasn't the first time she had waken in the middle of the night, only to come down to the kitchen to munch on something to clear her head. It's usually only happens when they first find out someone in in the TV, or when she couldn't stop thinking of something one of her friends had said. This time was different, though.

This time her feelings for someone were keeping her up. And not just any person, but her uncle. Just the thought of him brought up a so many emotions that she couldn't sort one out before another came down, and another, and another, like an avalanche. Each one stacking and stacking and stacking till her mind was so weighed down she couldn't think straight. She trued to push him from her mind as she continued to the kitchen.

Akemi opened the fridge and peered in, searching for something to snack on. Her eyes caught on something and she smiled. Grapes, her favorite. Grabbing the bowl, she closed the door with her hip. She didn't notice how hard she had hit it till she heard it slam behind her back.

She froze and held her breath as she stood as still as possible, listening to see if she woke up anyone in the house. When a couple minutes passed with no sign of disturbance, Akemi breathed a sigh of relief. She continued her way towards the back door reached towards the handle.

"What are you doing up?" A voice behind her asked, scaring Akemi so bad she nearly dropped the grapes.

"Dojima!" She gasped, before quieting herself, remembering Nanako. "I could ask you the same thing." She could already feel her heartbeat start to pick up.

"I asked first." He returned.

"I-I couldn't sleep." She shrugged.

"Same here." Silence began to grow between before he speaks up. "You gonna share those?'

Akemi looks down to see the grapes she was still holding. "Sure." She smiled, opening the back door.

Sitting out on the back porch they silently ate the grapes. Akemi looked out to the night sky, struggling to get things straight in her head.

What is wrong with me? She thought. What are these feelings I always seem to get when I think about him? Why does my heart start beating faster whenever I'm with him?

"So," Dojima said, snapping her out of her thoughts. "why can't you sleep?"

She sighed and shook her head. "I got a lot on my mind."

"You too, huh?" He chuckled.

"What's on you mind?" She asked, curiosity piqued.

"Issues in my personal life, don't worry about it. What about you, what would you have on your mind that would cause you to lose sleep?"

This time it was her turn to laugh. "You'd be surprised."

"Seriously, the only thing you should be worrying about is grades and boys."

"Well-"

"Or girls, I'm not judging."

"Dojima!" She punched his arm. "Yeah, well you're half right."

"You having issues with your grades?" He raised an eyebrow, obviously not believing it.

"No!" She whined."The other half."

Realization showed on his face, as he rubbed his neck in awkwardness. "Oh."

"Yeah." She confirmed. They both stopped talking, and looked out at the sky. Akemi hoped that the conversation would be over, not wanting to discuss guy problems with the one causing the problem. But no such luck.

"Who is he?" Dojima asked, getting that detective voice that always gave her goosebumps.

She wasn't expecting that, and could feel her face start to heat up. She was so caught of guard that she couldn't think of a name quickly enough, and her brain improvised.

"Someone you know well." She uttered, nearly punching her self at her own stupidity.

"Hmm." He said, thinking things over. "Is it the Junes kid?"

Akemi nearly laughed at the thought. "Youske? No, no no, that's is definitely not it."

"The delinquent?"

"No."

"The weird kid?"

"They have names you know?"

"Your point?"

"Never mind, and no it not Teddie either."

"Then who?"

She looked around nervously, trying to think of a way out of this. I could tell him the truth. She thought. No, she knew she couldn't bring herself to do that. Maybe I could give him hints and just tell him when he guesses right? It was a stupid plan, but she was freaking out so bad she couldn't think of anything else.

"He's older."

"How much older." She could hear the detective voice kicking into full gear.

"Uh… he not in school anymore." She offers, not comfortable just coming out and telling the age difference, 'cause she wasn't sure how she felt about it herself.

"Where does he work?"

"Uh… he's in law enforcement."

He seemed to think it over, until a look of shock washes over him. "Akemi-"

"I know it's wrong, and I know I shouldn't"

"What- why- how-?"

"I don't know, I don't even remember when it started."

"Adachi!?"

She blinked at him. "What?"

"You have feeling for Adachi?" Dojima asked, astounded.

Akemi groaned, and dropped her face into her hands. "No, not Adachi!"

She could hear him breath a sigh of relief. "Oh, thank god."

"You say that now." She mumbled from in her palms.

"Well, if it's not Adachi, then who?"

"Oh for GOD'S sake, it's you, alright?!" She admits, nearly screaming.

"Wha-"

"But I'm not even sure I know WHAT I feel for you. Is it a crush? Could it be more? I don't know, I've never felt this way before! Every time I'm with you, my heart just goes wild. I've nearly had a heart attack just being out here with you! I can't-"

Dojima grabed her shoulders and forced her to look at him. "Akemi, breath!" She does, inhaling deeply. "Now, you said something about not knowing how you feel about me." He took a deep breath himself, seeming to steel his nerves. "Why don't you tell me how I make you feel, and we'll go from there."

"Can we please not. Can't we just forget I said anythin-"

"Akemi." Dojima interrupted, and she knew that there was no arguing. She'd have to tell him, no matter how embarrassing.

She sighed and turned back towards the sky. "A-Alright." She could already feel herself blush. "Well, I always enjoy being around you."

She looked over to him, wanting to see is reaction, only to see him staring into the sky with a blank face. She took another breath and continued on. "My heart beats like crazy when I'm with you. I can't stop thinking about you, and when I'm not thinking about you specifically I'm thinking about a life WITH you."

"I even thought about every flaw you had, the smoking, how you work to much, how you can be kinda of a hard ass sometimes, and even then I just think about how good of a father you are, how, when you're not worrying about work, you're fun to be around, that glint you get in your eye whenever you talk about a perp you caught, and how easy it to talk to you and how I can always talk to you about anything that's on my mind."

More or less She thought. The entire time she talking she can feel her heart beating a mile a minute. She was freaking out on the inside, which freaked her out even more cause she's never this discombobulated when talking to anyone else. Except Dojima.

She took a deep breath before finishing her admission. "And, and sometimes I think about what it would be like to," She starred at her feet, face becoming even hotter then it was before. "kiss you." She finished quietly.

What the hell?! You didn't need to say that! She berated herself.

She continues to stare at her feet, listening to hear his reaction. As the time stretched on and she still heard nothing she began to jump to conclusions.

Maybe he left. She thought. No, he wouldn't do that. But maybe the situation was so awkward for him he had to leave. She continued to think of more and more scenarios, all the while still looking at her feat. She finally couldn't take it anymore and looked up at him.

He had a conflicted look on his face as he still only looked at the sky. Akemi fidgeted in her spot, getting agitated even more as time continued to pass. Finally he sighed and his head dropped.

Here he goes, gonna tell you it's just a crush, or that this is inappropriate. "You're just a kid, you can't love anyone." She thought.

"Damn it." He finally said.

What? Akemi was shocked, that was not the reaction she was expecting. "What's wrong?" She asked.

"Well Akemi, the way you described it, it sounds like," He took a deep breath and exhaled before continuing "love."

She blushed and turned away. "Oh." Definitely not what I expected.

"Yeah."

"So, w-what now?" She stuttered, much to her embarrassment.

Dojima sighed. "Akemi, remember when I said I had issues in my personal life?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, it was actually just one issue and," He sighed again. "and it's you."

"Huh?" She gasped.

"Ever since the first day you got here and I saw how much you've grown I've been freaking out over the thoughts that have been going through my mind. Just now when you said you had boy trouble I thought my heart was gonna break, with scared me to no end. Everything about you is beautiful to me. Your laugh, your smile, the way you treat Nanako. And I know how I feel about you, but I can't. We can't. I'm your uncle for god sake Akemi."

"I know." She mumbled looking back at her feat.

"But damn-it if I don't think of all the ways we could every single day." He groaned and put his face into his hands.

Akemi thought for a minute, before responding. "Well, can't we try?"

He sighed. "Akemi, you know-"

"No, it's okay, I did the research. Incest isn't illegal in Inaba." She had gotten excited and had hopped up onto her knees as she turned towards him.

"Jesus Akemi!" Dojima exclaimed, hand on forehead.

"I know, I know. But I was just curious one day and I couldn't stop myself. But since I did we can be together and it won't be illegal."

"Akemi we can't, what would your parents think?"

"If we don't tell them, and I move back out here when I'm done with high school, then we won't have to worry about them."

He stared at her for a minute before sighing. "You've thought this out haven't you?"

Akemi smiled sheepishly. "Yeah, but I never thought I'd be telling you this all. I expected to keep my fantasy at that, a fantasy."

Dojima smiled. "What other fantasy's were I apart of?"

She laughed. "How much time do you have?" They both laughed then, which was a nice change from the awkwardness of the past topics. Though they both knew they'd have to return to it eventually.

"Akemi." He said, looking back at the sky.

"Yeah?" she responded.

"You serious about this?" He asked.

"About… us?"

He nodded. "Oh, uh, well, I'd say yes. I'd love to try a relationship with you."

"But if we fail then our relationship will never be the same."

"I'm willing to risk it," She grabbed his hand "to be with you." She smiled at him.

Dojima looked at their hands together and smiled, squeezing her hand. He sighed again. "Alright we can try this out."

She gasped. "Really?"

"Yeah." He smiled at her again. She loved his smiled, she needed to make him smile more. But at the moment she was to busy wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling his lips to her, kissing him with all the might she could muster. Pulling back once they ran out of air they both shared a breathy laugh.

They sat there, arms around each other, foreheads pressed against the others. She smiled at him, which he returned.

"I love you Akemi." Dojima confessed. She could have died right there, she was so happy.

"I love you, too." She returned softly. "You should smile more."

"Huh?" He asked, laughing softly.

"You look so peaceful when you smile, I like it."

"Well I'll try." He laughed again. "We need ground rules."

"Like?" Akemi asked, leaning back on his lap.

"You're only 17, so no sex."

"Yeah, obviously."

"And don't tell any of your friends. Not yet, anyway. Let's wait until we sure about this."

"Got it."

He untangled them and stood up, offering her hand. "Well it's late, we should go to bed."

"Okay." Taking his hand, he pulled her up and onto her feat. They walked to the stairs. Once there though Akemi looked between the stars going to her room and the door to Dojima's. Next to her she could hear chuckling and Dojima opened his door.

"Come on" He smiled, offering his hand. She took it and he pulled her into the room.

And there it is. And no, they aren't going to have sex. Didn't you read the ground rules? This isn't the end of this story, next time Nanako will be in the mix (no, not like that). Also, since I'm horrible with keeping a story in past tense or present tense there might be some inconsistency with the tense. I apology if that has occurred.