The rest of Sousuke's Wednesday was spent going over Thursday with Mikoshiba. They were going to the shooting range at 3 and then picking a up a regular beat cop shift from 4:30-6, then they were going back to the department to go over filling out reports after arrests or firing a gun. He got home after that to spend time with Makoto, he had this feeling that his time was limited with Makoto. It was probably because Makoto's shifts were normally super late.

Sousuke had to come into work at at 2:30 so he slept in until 2, courtesy of all the paperwork he had building up from being busy investigating Takada keeping him up until 3 AM.

Sousuke drug himself out of bed at 2 and saw a note from Makoto sitting on the kitchen counter. He blushed at how Makoto could be cute simply through the use of smiley face doodles. He ate an apple and got his clothes on, after that he left for the ICPD.

When he got there he saw Rin talking to Mikoshiba.

"You want to come with us Rin? Kisumi wouldn't care all that much."

"Haha, as much as I would love to, I'm getting off in a couple minutes."

"Just you and me Yamazaki!"

"Great." Sousuke deadpanned, "Come on we're leaving for the shooting range."

"Good luck, Sou." Rin called.

When they got there Sousuke was shocked at how terrible of a shot Mikoshiba was. By the time 30 minutes hit Mikoshiba improved but not by much. He had nearly hit a vital point but admitted that he was aiming for the shoulder. It was going to be a hard day, Sousuke could feel it.


On the other hand, Makoto was up on Thursday at 6:30 AM. He made himself breakfast and then left a note for Sousuke telling him to have a good day, he blushed at the couple-y things they were now doing.

When he got to work he greeted everyone, the front desk ladies, the nurses, the doctors, his secretary, even his previous patients.

"You're in a good mood today." Ryugazaki commented.

"So have you lately, does it have something to do with Hazuki-san that I saw you at dinner with?"

"Tachibana-san!"

"So it does. I'm glad for you, Hazuki-san seems like a nice man."

"He is, in his own way I mean." Ryugazaki blushed. "Your patient is prepped and ready by the way."

"Alright I''l go brief his loved one on what's happening. Thank you, Ryugazaki."

His patient had an early stage of thyroid cancer, not bad but enough to have to remove the entire thing.

He debriefed the man's girlfriend that it should take about 4 hours and that if anything was to happen that she would be alerted immediately. After that they brought the man into the operating room and started the procedure. Makoto finished up completely about 4 hours and 15 minutes later.

He thought about seeing Sousuke later tonight but he got a weird feeling in the pit of his stomach. It must've been nerves. He was happy to spend time with him, to have someone who knew everything about him, not that Haru didn't but he didn't know about his relationship with razor blades.

Everything was going so fantastic for him and he couldn't have felt better.


Rin had just gotten back from the ICPD. It was 5 and he was taking Haru to Ikamura's. He was nervous and he fiddled with the small box in his pocket.

"Oi, Rin are you ready? I am now."

"Oh yeah sorry, let's go."

The ride to Ikamura's was quiet and awkward unlike how loud it normally was. Haru had noticed Rin's strange behavior and he was concerned. He wasn't worried about being broken up with because he was well aware of how much Rin cared for him.

His mind was taken off of Rin's attitude when he saw saw the small waterfall and koi pond in the side of the restaurant. They were seated and they ordered their drinks and food.

Rin's mouth was running dry and he really could use that glass of water ASAP. He was switching between ringing his hands together and fiddling with the box in his pocket. Their food came out and after they ate Rin cleared his throat loudly.

"Are you alright?" Haru asked at the scratchy sound of Rin clearing his throat.

"Um Haru, we've um, we've been going out for a really long time, huh?"

"Yes? 2 years, why are you-"

"God, such a long time." Rin laughed awkwardly, he had a speech written and memorized but he had forgotten it all in that instant. "You know how much I love you Haru."

Haru started to get scared by that. "Yes, I love you just as much, you know that."

"I hope you do, Sousuke's boldness with Makoto inspired this so here goes nothing." Before Haru could question him, Rin got on a knee and pulled out the box he had been messing around with all night.

"Haruka, I love you so much. Would you do me the honor of immortalizing it by marrying me maybe?" Rin's voice cracked slightly at the end of the sentence when he opened the box to reveal a ring.

A rare smile broke onto Haru's face. Not a small grin or a smirk, a full blown smile, he felt tears creeping into his eyes.

"Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes, of course yes." Rin smiled and slipped the ring onto Haru's finger. He jumped up and hugged Haru after jumping around a bit, like a kid who had scored his first goal in soccer.

Haru whipped out his phone and texted Makoto, who would be content that he won his bet with Sousuke about when Rin would pop the pretty question. He wasn't exactly right but he was closer.


Sousuke and Mikoshiba were nearing the end of their beat shift. They were in downtown Iwatobi and the day was going by slowly, Sousuke was getting a bit annoyed by Mikoshiba's overbearing personality, just as he did with Rin's on occasion.

They were about to walk to get dinner when Sousuke saw a bright red-orange head in the crowd leaving the town's drama club. "Kaoru? I thought Rin was-" he cut himself off when he saw a man nearing him. He looked shifty and kept looking around, he turned around enough to expose his face. "Takada? Oh my god."

"What Yamazaki?"

"Mikoshiba, this is a serious situation. I need you to call Kisumi right now and have him ready to sen d back up. The Iwatobi murder is over there with your nephew."

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my-"

"Momotaru! Calm down, we have control, we'll follow him and Kisumi will have back up sent. Dial his number, have it ready to go. We follow them now, do not be obvious."

"Right, alright."

Takada was talking to Kaoru and making him laugh. Takada started pointing in another direction, to the abandon building by where they currently standing. Kaoru looked unsure but then nodded and followed his mother's spin class instructor.

"Alright Mikoshiba, we follow them, Takada will respond violently if we try to confront him now, he has a gun and knows that I am a cop. I'm giving you my 2nd gun so you have something, alright?" Momo nodded and took the gun from Sousuke and they proceeded to follow them into the abandon building. Sousuke's phone buzzed in his pocket, whoever it was had to wait.

Sousuke saw Takada scratch the bottom of his back, moving his jacket to reveal a gun shaped outline and a strangely colored metal. The primary murder weapon.

"Momo, call Kisumi now, ask for back up at our exact address, I'm going ahead, proceed with caution once you are off the phone." Momo nodded frantically and removed the phone from his pocket and called Kisumi as Sousuke went ahead.

Sousuke made his way up the stairs in time to see Takada pull the tool out on Kaoru. Sousuke angled his gun to the the ground and tried to move forward to get close enough to put his gun to Takada's head, getting him to put the tool down. He moved slowly and it would've worked for him until-

"Uncle Sousuke help!" Kaoru screamed. Before Sousuke could react, Takada had ripped his gun from it's position and pointed it to Sousuke.

Sousuke felt a sharp pain in the middle of his chest where he had shot many before. He felt he shirt saturate quickly and heard Kaoru scream before everything went black.


i always do this kind of shit im sorry