A/N: I do not own Hawaii Five 0. I wish I did. I could change some critical aspects. This was supposed to be a one shot. But it became too long. It will be posted as a short multichapter one, instead. No specific time. McKono obviously. All the team is there, though.

Please tell me what you think.


"Permission? you asked for permission? why would you ask for permission? you never ask for permission. To be honest, I could swear you wouldn't recognize permission if it sat on your head singing the national anthem."

"I thought it'd be cute..."

"Cute?!"

"You know, polite. Old fashioned. I thought it would make him think that I'm thoughtful and that I respect his opinion."

"Yeah..." Danny looks at him dubiously "so how did it go?"

"Terrible" Steve says holding his face in his hands, as they sit there in his office "I start to think it was a really stupid idea."

"Why?" Danny looks at his partner questioningly "what happened?"

"What happened?" Steve looks at him in despair "he said no..."

()()()

She stands in the middle of the room with Chin and they both look at the scene in silence. The room is a standard motel room, with big bed in the middle covered with old and overly used bedspread. There are also a small table near the curtain covered window, a chair, a television set, two nightstands and a small cupboard. The only thing that is not standard is the numerous splatters of blood on the wall and on the nightstand, and the big bloody cleaver that is thrown unceremoniously on the bed.

"No body?" she asks Chin again.

"No body" he confirms "no signs of blood outside the room either."

"A car?"

"Multiple tire marks in the dirt on the parking lot in front of the room. But there are 20 rooms around it, so we'll have to map all of them first."

"So..." she looks around her again.

"So..." Chin smiles "it's not exactly the traditional murder scene, but I think we can say it looks... somewhat suspicious..."

She laughs at his keen observation, and pulls out her phone to call Danny and Steve. Before she has the chance to dial the number, the phone rings and her mother's name appears on the screen.

"My mom" she mumbles to Chin "strange, I've talked to her yesterday. Ok... I'll have to get back to her." She ignores the call and calls the office. She gives Steve the address and a short description of what they found, when she makes another call to Charlie at the lab, right after that, she has a call waiting from her mother, again. When she finishes the call, just before she disconnects, Chin's phone starts to ring.

"It's your mother" he says curiously "now she's calling me."

"Really?" he shows her the phone "well, answer it..."

"No way" he shakes his head "she sounds furious."

"What do you mean she sounds furious?" Kono looks at him like he's crazy "it's a telephone ringtone. How can it sound furious?"

"Oh... I know her " Chin tells her seriously "she's furious, I can practically sense the vibrations. She's your mother, and I'm not getting involved, you answer her!"

"You are a coward, cuz" she informs him when he steps outside, and leaves her to make the call. Then she stands there, in the middle of the bloody crime scene, listens to her mother for long fifteen minutes, getting angrier and angrier by the second.

()()()

She steps out of the room eventually, to see Chin taking pictures of the tire marks in the parking lot. He tries to have them all documented and mapped, before the other crews get there and drive all over them. She stands on the higher wood platform, arms crossed, silent and furious.

"What's up cuz?" he asks curiously, "something's wrong?"

"No. Nothing" she says casually "basically, I think it's good news. I think I found us a corpse to investigate."

"Really?" he looks at her, a bit surprised.

"Yes" she nods decisively "just wait a few more minutes, till Steve gets here. I'm going to fucking kill him!"

()()()

He stops the Camaro next to Chin's van. Danny is out of the car in an instant, but he still sits there, in the driver seat, searching for her around the place. She's nowhere in sight. Probably inside the motel room, with Chin. He looks around him, two police cars are already parked there, in the parking lot, and there's a CSI van right next to them.

"Are you coming, babe?" Danny leans through the window "I believe we have some work to do."

"Yeah" he murmurs quietly "I'm just..."

"Don't worry, babe. I've got your back, you know. Besides, there are a lot of armed officers here. I'm pretty sure, she can't hurt you."

"You say that..." Steve grumbles "but we both know she can take all of you with her eyes closed."

"Steve, she's a professional. She knows we're in the middle of a murder scene. What will she do, shoot you on sight?" Danny smiles at him and claps his back when he finally gets out of the car "it's fine, really" he continues when they walk slowly towards the room she described earlier "you know perfectly well, she'd want to torture you first. Only then, she'll shoot you..."

()()()

When they enter the room he still has some hope that she doesn't know yet. He means, it's a possibility, right? He knows she speaks to her mom almost every day, but it's still early, and she's working. Maybe he can still be the one who tells her first... When she hears them coming, though, and she turns around to greet them, he can see how her eyes burn with fury, behind her seemingly professional, well controlled expression. She holds what he assumes is the murder weapon, in her gloved hand, and he can see for a fleeting moment how her eyes flicker form him to the bloody cleaver, as if she's weighing her options.

"You" he calls to one of the SCI officers who takes photos of the room "take the knife from officer Kalakaua, and bag it. Do it now, and I'll recommend you for a promotion, deal?"

The guy nods enthusiastically, and rushes to take the cleaver from Kono's hand. He's not entirely sure, but it looks like the guy really has to force her to release it, for a second. When she finally lets it go, he exhales sharply. It actually feels much safer.

"We'll talk about it later" he tells her quietly "OK?"

"We'll talk about it?" she laughs at him incredulously "so you think we're talking?"

"I can explain, I promise" he whispers.

"No, Steve" she looks at him seriously "you really can't..."

()()()

"The room was rented to a couple" Chin says when he comes back from the reception "their names are Paula and Ron Smith."

"Did they show any papers for identification?" Danny asks.

"Yes. Ron's driver's license. The receptionist gave it back, but she kept the car details. A blue 2009 Ford pickup truck. A rental. I have the plate number."

"Good" Steve says "put it in the system. Let's keep HPD and the ports authority in the loop, too. They gave the car's plate number when they rented the room, so I think we should assume it's not the best lead. We have to keep our eyes open for another getaway car. Kono, what can you tell me about the scene?"

"Well" she says carefully "it looks like we have two areas of interest. The big room, specifically there on the right side of the bed, near the wall. As you can see there are multiple splatters of blood, the bed is shoved a little to the left, like it was pushed, and there's a broken lamp on the floor that was probably positioned initially on the nightstand."

"Looks like a fight" Danny says.

"Yes" Kono nods "but it looks like this is only part of the action. In the bathroom, it looks even worse."

She takes them to the bathroom, and shows them the gruesome image of a torn up bath curtain, pools of blood everywhere, a broken mirror, and a few towels thrown on the floor, with clotted blood all over them.

"Wow..." Steve looks around him, obviously impressed.

"Yes" Danny says with a weird smile "It's practically a blood bath in here." They don't laugh. All three of them look at him with annoyance "what?" he asks with a huff "too soon?"

"CSI says there's a lot of organic substance in the bath" Kono says after they all finish to look at Danny angrily "hair is the most obvious one, but they say ,maybe more."

"More?" Steve asks with alarm "what do you mean more?"

"By the amount of blood, and the residues..." she says slowly "whatever happened here, was pretty violent. Also, the technician says he thinks there's another substance in the blood. He's right. I smelt it the minute I entered the room. I think it might be bleach."

"Bleach?" Chin asks "if it's mixed with the blood, it might damage the evidence, especially DNA."

"I already informed Charlie" she tells them "he said he'll do his best."

"Right" Steve looks around him "any clothes in the room? personal items? bags?"

"No. The room was stripped clean. We couldn't even find trash in the trash can."

"Great" Steve sighs "so we have what looks like a murder scene, but we have no body to prove it. We think a couple was involved. Probably one of them, is our victim. Not a lot to work with. is it?"

"The receptionist said the girl had a long blonde hair" Chin says "the hairs CSI found were blond too. Everything in the scene suggests it was quite a fight, and took a lot of effort. I'd bet the victim is the wife."

"Yes, that's logical." Steve and Danny willingly agree.

"No way" Kono shakes her head determinedly "this kind of fury? only a guy can cause so much rage. Trust me, it was the husband who was killed. By his wife. Frankly, I'm not sure I can blame her..."

()()()

They go through everything around the motel. Steve and Danny interview the rest of the staff, while Kono and Chin finish to process the scene. When they're done, they make sure all the evidences are bagged and sent to the lab. Then, they have nothing more to do there. They are making their last preparations to go back to HQ when Chin gets a phone call from HPD, about the missing car. The Ford was found abandoned in a gas station in the North Shore, so Steve and Danny go to check it out. When she and Chin are back at HQ, they start to analyze the photos from the scene. They upload the photos Chin took of the different tire marks, and try to run them against the commercial database. It takes them a while to make sense of the numerous tires, and they spend a lot of time at the smart table, moving the pictures, and arguing, and telling each other they're wrong. They are still deeply absorbed in solving this puzzle, when the guys are back.

()()()

"The Ford was clean, no signs of a break in." Danny informs them as he and Steve come to stand near the computer.

"Any progress at your end?" Steve asks hopefully.

"Not yet" Chin informs them "we're still trying to separate the marks to different vehicles. It's... challenging... especially when you have an angry and impatient partner working beside you. Seriously, barh, what have you done?"

He looks at her carefully when Chin says it. She ignores him. So it seems. Even though, he is certain he can see her looking at him from the corner of her eye, challenging him to say something.

"Go on..." Danny mouths to him, nudging him.

"Right..." Steve mumbles "about that... Look, Kono. I'm sorry. I know how it looks... you probably think I've made a mistake..."

"A mistake?!" she cries incredulously "a mistake? A mistake is when you accidently punch a suspect too hard, or when you drive the Camaro into a ditch."

"Twice" Danny says from his corner.

"Or when you try to argue with Danny about... well about anything, really. A mistake?! Steve, this was practically an intentional sabotage!"

"Sabotage?" he objects "I swear, I had the purest intentions. I really thought I was doing the right thing, it's not my fault that he's..."

"That he's..." she looks at him threateningly "oh, please... go on..."

"Don't" Danny cries "shut up now, before you say something stupid!"

"That he's so petty and resentful" Steve says.

"Yeah, that's right..." Danny sighs "before you say something stupid like that!"

"What have you done?" Chin looks at him apprehensively "Kono, what did he do?"

"He went to my parents house, last night, without telling me and asked my father for permission" She hisses in anger.

"Permission?" Chin looks at the both of them, as they stand there looking at each other furiously "permission to do what?"

"Permission to fucking marry me!"

()()()

"He did what?" Chin whispers in shock.

"He went there last night, after dinner, unannounced" she explains patiently "knocked on the door, almost caused my mom a heart attack, because she was sure he came to tell her I was shot dead on the job or something. Then he sat with them in the living room, my mom, my dad, Tutu and the boys and declared that he wants to marry me, and he came to ask for my father's permission."

"Marry you?" Chin looks at her like she just told him there's snow in Hawaii "since when does he want to marry you?"

"What?" she looks at her cousin with confusion "since.. a while... what difference does it make? it's not the point... Chin, he went to my dad..."

"Since when do you want to marry her?" he looks at Steve with anger "you never mentioned anything about marriage. Did you know about it?" he looks at Danny with accusation.

"Me?" Danny snorts "he never tells me anything! I have to beg him to share things with me. He said something about them getting married a few weeks ago, but we were in the middle of a chase at the time, and a few people were shooting at us, so I thought I misheard him."

"When did you ask her to marry you?" Chin looks at Steve pointedly.

"Yes, babe" Danny looks at him curiously "actually, it's a good question, when did you propose to her?"

"What do you mean ask her?" he looks at the two of them like they're crazy "why the hell should I ask her to marry me? I mean, it's... pretty obvious. I don't need to ask her."

It's quite alarming the way Chin and Danny turn their head and look straight at her, both at the same time. They look at her with great intensity, like they're ready for her to explode at any second, after Steve's last declaration.

"What?" she says resentfully "of course he doesn't need to ask me. What kind of girl do you think I am? you honestly think I would sit and wait until he'll be kind enough to offer? no way. This is not the way it works between us..."

"I see" Danny drawls slowly "so... just for laughs, you know, even though, I would probably regret it... how exactly does it work between you two?"

()()()

"He went to his training last month" she shrugs.

"Yes... I remember..." Danny encourages her.

"So when he came back, after three weeks, he brought home with him all this awful forms and paperwork they gave him, because he had to update his personal information. So he was trying to fill them out, and to put all the information about his past military service, and his insurance, and beneficiaries. And it took him ages, but you know him, when he's trying to do something, he gets really preoccupied, and obsessive, and he kept pushing all this special declarations and affidavits at me, and have me sign them, because he wanted to change the names, and put mine and Mary Ann's there instead of his father's and.. it was Saturday... and he wasn't home for three whole weeks... and we were trying to..."

"Please don't mention sex." Danny looks at her pleadingly.

"What?" she looks at him with confusion.

"Say surfing. Whenever you want to talk about you two having sex, just say surfing. It would be very kind of you."

"Fine" she grumbles "you see, I've missed him. He was back after such a long time, and we were trying to have... to surf." she looks pointedly at Danny "so I told him to get rid of the forms and that I don't want to ever see them again, and it hurt his feelings, like in every other occasion when I happen to suggest that I'm less than absolutely thrilled with the US fucking military, or the Navy or god forbid the SEALs. So he got out of bed, and started pacing around the room, and talking about how important the forms are, and how tenuous my position as his girlfriend really is, and he started to list all the horrible things that would happen if I don't have my name on the god damn paperwork, and... I really wanted to surf, and I thought to myself, just sign the fucking forms and have him relaxed enough to... you know... attend to... your board... so I said 'fine, put my name anywhere you want, and forget about it', and he said 'you know, it would be much easier if we got married and I could just file you as my wife, so they could just put your name in the system and we'd get rid of all the other statements.' So I said, 'fine, let's get married, just get into bed for god's sakes because I want to... surf?! you... so he did, and we did, for a couple of hours, and he was back home, and I was really happy, and I really thought he forgot about the whole thing, but obviously, he never forgets anything, and he probably had everything all figured out, and he just forgot to inform me, so now I'm hearing he went to my dad, and practically ruined everything!"

"Fuck" Danny says when there's a new, deep, intense silence around the smart table after her little speech.

"I think you mean, surf!" Chin tells him nonchalantly.

"That's the stupidest way to ask a woman to marry you, I have ever heard of. Congratulations Steven, I really think you hit a record with this one."

"What's wrong with it?" Steve looks at him with resentment.

"Military bureaucracy? seriously?" Danny looks at him like he's crazy "no 'I love you', 'I want to spend my life with you', 'I want you to have my children'... nothing?"

"Well... no..." he admits "I told you, it was pretty clear. I mean... we've been together for a year now, living together for six months. Where else could it be headed, if not for marriage?"

"You know, babe. I really thought it would be good for you to be with Kono" Danny muses quietly, as he watches his best friend with sorrow in his eyes "that you'll be calmer, more relaxed, and learn how to laugh about things, and take things easy."

"Danno..."

"I thought, if anything" he continues "you'll improve your decision making process."

"There's nothing wrong with..."

"Apparently I was wrong. You're just as bad as he is, aren't you, babe?" he looks at his young teammate who watches her boyfriend with clear disapproval "one look at his body and all your priorities are screwed up. You let him get away with this shit, and make him act fast and recklessly just because you want to... surf with him?"

"Well" she says decisively, crossing her arms over her chest "that's not gonna be an issue anymore, actually. After what he did with my father? He's not surfing with me anytime soon. Possibly ever again. I promise you!"

()()()

"So what happened?" Chin tries to focus again on the new McGarrett induced catastrophe in his cousin's life.

"I told them to wait with the forms until I got everything settled" he explains.

"Not the forms, Steve... I mean..." he looks at Kono with what he believes is quite a legitimate feeling of desperation "Jeez cuz, I can't believe I introduced you to this guy..."

"You mean with Kono's parents?" he asks with apparent lack of enthusiasm.

"Yes" Chin confirms "tell me about you trying to kill my uncle."

"I didn't try to kill him" he clarifies "I really thought it would be a good idea. We finished work early, and when I came home Kono was already at the beach with Malia, so I thought about waiting for her, but..."

"You couldn't wait" they say it all together.

"Well, no" he admits "I mean, I've already decided, so... I figured I should just do it. I went there, and when her mother opened the door, I guess I looked a bit... a bit, serious, or preoccupied, because she took one look at me, and put her hand on her mouth and started crying. So I came in, but she kept walking away from me, and the boys all came, and they saw their mother, and they all started to shout, and her dad came, and they were all standing around me, talking together, all at the same time, so I didn't realize what was going on at first, but then her tutu showed up and asked me what happened to Kono, and I said that nothing, she's fine, and that I only came to talk to her dad, and there was a second or two when everybody were quiet, and just looked at me... jeez, I mean, I really think they were all pissed off at me, then and there. Even before I actually started..."

There's silence around the table when he tells them all that. They all look at him with a mixture of shock, disbelief and commiseration. They aren't saying anything, and when he looks at Kono she has this alarmed look on her face, he just takes a deep breath and continues.

"So... eventually, I had them all sitting down at the living room. Which mind you, was not my initial intention. I only meant to talk to her father, alone. Possibly her mother too, if absolutely necessary. But at this point the boys were practically beaming with joy, and refused to go, because as Kapali phrased it 'they really wanted a piece of the action'. So I stood there in the middle of the living room, and it's not that I'd prepared a speech or anything, so I said that Kono and I are very happy together, and would like to make it official, so I thought it would be nice if I came here to ask for Mr Kalakaua's permission to marry her."

"And...?" they all ask together with bated breaths.

"And... nothing. He didn't say anything, just looked at me like I was crazy. He took off his glasses, and crossed his arms, and I could see how he's tapping his fingers slowly, all the time looking at me like I did something wrong. I mean, I went through military training, I was taken captive, I was interrogated by the Taliban... neither came even close to this experience. The boys all started shouting, obviously. Makaio even started to run bets on the answer. Half of them were saying their dad will agree, and the other half said he'll kill me first. I mean, I thought they liked me. I took them camping and we went fishing together, and I took Nohoki to the shooting range, until... you know, until his mother found out. I really thought they would be thrilled... but they were all sitting there laughing their asses off, waiting to see blood."

"So he didn't say anything?" Danny asks with relief "so it's not so bad after all..."

"It's worse!"

She looks at Chin from her place near the table, Chin looks at her "go on" she sighs, and shakes her head towards her boyfriend "tell them."

"So..." he looks carefully at her "so I just stood there, looking at him, and he's not saying anything, right? So I took one step forward and crossed my arms, like I do in the interrogations room, and said I demanded an answer."

"Demanded?" Danny groans.

"Yes" he declares "demanded. I came there for a reason. I thought I should get my answer one way or the other."

"Did he ever meet your father?" Chin asks her with trepidation.

"Twice. But only briefly" she mumbles "I really hoped it would be enough..."

"Anyway" he continues "there was a heavy silence when I said it, and everyone was looking at her dad, and finally I saw him opening his mouth and I thought, OK, now I'll get my answer. Only before he had the time to speak Kono's mom asked 'is she pregnant?' and everything started all over again. I mean, this family is unbelievable, they all talk to each other all at the same time, and it seems like everyone has something clever to say, and they all think for some reason that everything that happens to one of them is everybody else's business. Kale started to say that he wished we had twins, and Kapali said that if I come to ask for permission to marry Kono, I should really do it before I knock her up, and Makaio started with the money and the bets again, and everybody were talking and shouting and laughing and I couldn't make them shut up... so... I whistled."

"You whistled?" Kono cries.

"Yes" he says apologetically "and a pretty strong whistle, too. But, what else could I do? I had to make them shut up so I can tell them you're not pregnant." he cries in despair. She looks at him with alarm mixed with fury. By the look of her, letting him impregnate her is the furthest thing from her mind "it made the trick" he says quietly "they all stopped talking immediately. But then... then, tutu's hearing aid started to make all these noises, and Kono's mother had to help her take it off, and to readjust it, and when they finally finished they were all looking at me with so much resentment, that when I told them Kono wasn't pregnant I could see how they all looked extremely relieved."

"What about my uncle?" Chin insists "what happened?"

"Your uncle?" Steve sighs, shaking his head "after that he stood up from the couch where he was sitting, and stood in front of me. I didn't realize he was so big before. I mean he's taller than me and he's... he's really big... He gave me the once over, and looked pointedly at his wife, then he said NO."

"He said no? just like that?" Danny asks with surprise.

"That's exactly what I asked" Steve nods vigorously "I said, what do you mean no? just like that? so he said he doesn't like me, that he feels like Kono could do better, that he wouldn't have said anything because usually he really trusts her judgment, because she's such a good kid and a pretty remarkable woman, but since I came here and asked, he has to be honest, so his answer is no."

"Wow" Danny says.

"Yeah, wow." Chin agrees.

"I know, right? I mean, do you think he was kidding?" he asks hopefully.

"Kidding?" Chin looks at him strangely "of course he's not kidding. He really doesn't like you."

"That's not true" Steve protests "of course he likes me. I'm a great guy. Everybody likes me."

"He hates you, babe." Danny tells him "I'm sorry."

"He doesn't hate me" Steve smiles to his partner "and besides, you never met the man, how would you know?"

"You're sleeping with his daughter. You're living with her, having hot heavy, wet, kinky, creepy sex with her all day, every day."

"It's not creepy..." he mumbles.

"I have a daughter, believe me. I would hate any man who'd use the same sidewalk she uses. You, my friend, with your advanced age, your guns, crazy stunts and your fucking tattoos, are his worst nightmare."

"You're talking crazy" he says apprehensively "Chin..."

"No, Steve. He's right. I'm your friend, and it still took me seven months from your first kiss and until I stopped wanting to shoot you every time you got near her. I mean, there are days when you're a little bit more... when it looks like you were..."

"Surfing?" Danny asks helpfully.

"Precisely" Chin nods "that I still automatically search for my gun."

He looks at them quietly, as he thinks about what they're saying. "No" he shakes his head decisively "no way. Kono's mom loves me, there's no reason for him to..."

"My mom doesn't love you" Kono cries from the other side of the table "what gave you this impression?"

"Of course she loves me. She keeps asking me how I am, and keeps bringing us food she knows I like, and she asks about my family all the time, and she looks at me with... kindness..."

"She doesn't like you, Steve" Kono insists "she only looks at your body, and inquire after your health and looks for details about hereditary diseases in your family because, as she sees it, there's a good chance you'll make her beautiful grandchildren."

"Grandchildren?" he looks at her unbelievingly.

"She doesn't like you, she likes your sperm" she clarifies.

He looks at her in silence for a long, long time. They all stand there around the table letting him process it all.

"I don't care" he cries finally "I'm going to fucking marry you, and they're all going to be there, and they're going to like it. Even if I have to drag their asses to city hall, and tie them to the chairs. Now get back to work, all of you" he shouts as he walks towards his office.

"Don't shout at everybody" she calls angrily after him "behave yourself. I'm mad at you as it is."

"I'm not shouting" he shouts back, from his office.

"You are shouting" she informs him "which is stupid, because I'm actually not talking to you."

"I don't care" he shouts "I'm fucking marrying you, even if I'll have to drag you and tie you to a chair in city hall, too."