A/N: This is the next chapter of Ishigami's Ending. There will be also "Another Story" which picks up at the end of chapter 2 with a completely different twist and ending to this story.

Chapter 4 (Ishigami's Ending)

Kurosawa sat for awhile brewing over why Aira had snapped at him. He felt increasingly bad for stressing her out. He finally decided to head over to her apartment and apologize. He became increasingly concerned when he noticed the door to her apartment slightly ajar. He glanced at the lock and noticed in had burn and scratch marks on it. He took out his gun and pushed the door open.

He checked the entire apartment. Her lamps had been broke, her bed over turned, her dresser knocked over. He let out an exasperated sigh when he saw her phone on the floor.

"So much for the GPS," He inspected the phone. He snapped some pictures with his phone and went back to the station as fast as he could.

"Where have you been?" Ishigami stood there with his arms cross giving a cold stare towards the door where Kurosawa was standing.

Katsuragi and his team were also at the station.

"What's going on?" Kurosawa asked.

"Hmph if you had been here when we called you would know." Subaru smirked adjusting his tie. "Our dear princess is gone."

"Huh?"

Goto chimed in at the dumb expression Kurosawa was making, "He means the Prime Minister's daughter, Seii, has gone missing."

"They drugged Mizuki." Kaiji added.

Kurosawa nodded, "No I got that the Prime Minister's daughter went missing. But it's all so strange."

"What is?" Ishigami said with a scowl, clearly not in the mood for Kurosawa's guessing games.

"Goto call Aira's phone." Kurosawa said. Goto took out his phone and dialed the new phone number for Aira. The phone rang from Kurosawa's pocket and he pulled it out. Goto grabbed the collar to Kurosawa's suit

"What did you do to her?" He growled. Everyone was surprised at his outburst it was completely out of character for Goto. Subaru grabbed Goto's wrist and pried his hand away from Kurosawa.

"Getting angry at him won't solve anything." Subaru said pulling Goto off to the side.

Kurosawa fixed his suit and scoffed.

"She was kidnapped, her apartment was completely ransacked." He pulled up the pictures on his phone and showed Katsuragi. He knew he would be the only one who had a level head when it came to Aira.

"Saving the Prime Minister's daughter is our first priority." He reminded everyone.

"But we have no clue where she is." Kaiji chimed in.

"That's not true." Katsuragi said. He pulled out his phone and pulled up a progam. "Seii has a tracking device I put on her clothes. She said the other day she felt like someone was watching her, and she felt uneasy."

Ishigami's phone rang. He looked at the screen "It's that same unknown number." He answered it, "Hello?"

"Would you truly like to hear her scream this time?" The same sketchy voice from the other day spoke.

"Don't you hurt her!" He scowled.

"Oh no, I don't want to hurt her." The voice sneered, "But the question is, who is her? I'll give you a choice, and a chance to think it over. Pick one of the girls, and that one lives, the other dies. What use is a girl with a broken heart anyways? You have 1 hour, and no funny business, you try to save either and they both will be gone." There was a buzz sound on the other end indicating he had hung up.

Ishigami's blood was boiling. He replayed the message for everyone else to hear.

"His voice is bone chilling." Kurosawa said.

"He's using a voice scrambler, and masking his voice." Katsuragi said calmly.

"You're going to save Seii right?" Sora asked.

"How could you even ask that?" Goto snapped.

"She's the Prime Minister's daughter!" He protested.

"We have an obligation to Seii because we are her bodyguards." Subaru said in a calm voice, "But Ishigami is a cop; his obligation is to protect the public."

"And protect the public is exactly what I'm going to do." Ishigami stated.

Ishigami stood with his phone in his hand, waiting for the call. He checked the time. It had been more than an hour. The phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Who did you pick?"

"My job is to protect, and I will protect them both." Ishigami snapped.

"Wrong answer." The line went dead.

"Let's move!" Katsuragi signaled to his team.

Paired into groups of two they entered the building where they were getting the signal from Seii.

Kaiji and Ishigami were the first to arrive in the room where Seii was at.

"Hideki!" Seii yelled and she got up and tried to run towards him.

"Wait!" Aira screamed, before the chain began to pull on her neck. She wrapped her fingers around the chain desperately trying to pull it away from her neck. She squeezed her eyes shut.

Ishigami quickly saw what was happening and ran to Seii and led her backwards, but the contraption was already automatically pulling her chain in.

Sora ran over to Seii.

"Let's hurry up and get this off of her." He and Kaiji scrambled to take the chain off her neck. "You okay?"

"It was so scary!" She clung to Ishigami.

"Aira!" Goto called out.

Ishigami's eyes got wide as he looked over at Aira, helpless to do anything.

There was a bang, and Aira's body fell onto the ground.

Ishigami looked back to see Goto holding his gun, smoke coming from the end.

Kaiji ran over to her lifeless body. "You shot her!" He then noticed the chain was separated. Goto ran over as well.

"Let's get out of here." Katsuragi yelled.

Ishigami picked up Seii princess style, and Goto scooped Aira into his arms.

"We have to take her to the hospital." Goto said. They all ran out of the building. Sudden flames spewed from the building.

"Take cover it's going to blow!" Ishigami used his body to shield Seii as parts of the building went flying.

"Go with the body guards." Ishigami said as he gentle pushed Seii towards Kaiji. "Let's go Goto."

"Wait, you need to be the hero." Goto pushed Aira's body into his arms. "I think she'll be okay, she was gasping for air. We just need to get her to the hospital."

Aira's began to cough. Ishigami slowly stroked her cheek and kissed her forehead.

"Please be okay." He whispered.

It had been more than a week since the incident, Aira still hadn't woken up. Ishigami stopped by her room at the hospital. Goto was there.

"How is she doing?" Ishigami asked.

"Still nothing." He said with a sigh.

Ishigami sat in a chair next to her bed and took her hand in his.

"I know how you feel, you want to protect her, but you are afraid to get close. In our line of work, it's impossible to have loved ones. So to protect her, I need to let her go." Ishigami said to Goto as he stared at Aira's sleeping face.

He turned and faced Goto.

"I'm not a hero I put her in the danger." He went to pull his hand from hers when her grip tightens around his hand. "Aira?"

She let out a soft moan.

"Being the hero only means saving the day." She said in a soft whisper, "You saved my life, didn't you?"

He pulled his hand from her grip. He eyed Goto.

"No I didn't." He said before he turned and left the room.

Few days later Aira was released from the hospital. She was moved into a different apartment, and continued to work at the café.

"Good morning!" She greeted the 4 police officers that walked in.

"Coffee, please." The cops ordered.

"Okay, coming right up." She smiled.

"Are you really okay with this Ishigami and Goto?" Kurosawa leaned over and said after Aira walked away.

"Look at that smile, she's happy. As long as she is happy, why does it matter if she remembers who we are?" Ishigami said.

"I still can't believe she lost her memory after all that." Kenta said.

Ishigami and Goto sat at a table. Ishigami gave Goto a knowing look.

"It's better this way." He said.

Goto sighed, "That smile was never meant for me."