Title: What is Real? Chapter 3: Inspection's Prelude

Written for: Live Journal Community: 30kisses

Author/Artist: mellonemrys

Pairing: Narumi Ayumu and Eyes Rutherford
Fandom: Spiral Suiri no Kizuna
Theme: #1: Look over here

Words: 1,180
Disclaimer: Spiral does not belong to me…sadly enough…but the manga is finally licensed!

Thanks to: cocacat15 for beta-ing!

Notes/ Warning: This has spoilers for the very end of the anime…as well as some for the manga, but if you have only seen the anime (all of it) then you should be fine. This chapter is Captain Chevallier and Captain Arai's POV, the story takes place about eight years after the anime ends, everything else is explained, so please read and review! Inspector Wood, Captain Chevallier, Captain Haseo Arai and any other extra characters are of my own design.

When we want to find something we look where it is most expected, then work away from there. But if you were to start at the beginning and work forward you would have a better chance of finding that which is lost. Otherwise you can turn the world upside down and backward, and still find nothing.

Captain Chevallier watched the bustle from his office window. It had been a while since one of their own had gone missing, and the place was in an uproar. What he couldn't pin down was why one of the best operatives in the organization would let himself be over taken so easily. But of course the plan had been well thought out; Interpol had been duped with the false case to begin with.

A light flashed on his phone and a secretary re-laid that someone was waiting for him. Thanking her he opened his office door and was surprised to see the man they had questioned earlier. He let him in and motioned for him to sit down. "Well, this is a bit of a surprise, Monsieur Rutherford. I wasn't expecting you."

"I know where they are," he said, face straight and serious. Pulling out a small piece of paper from his pocket, he laid it in front of the captain. "This was sent to me about an hour ago."

Chevallier looked down at the slip of paper. 'Go to the beginning of the spiral' was scrawled hastily across the paper. Looking back up at Monsieur Rutherford, he asked, "How do you know where they went from this?" In response, Eyes also pulled out his cell phone, searching through it for a moment before showing it to him. Yet another nonsense message was on the screen, 'The spiral of your destiny has begun to spin again.' Frowning, the detective looked up; Monsieur Rutherford was silent, watching his motions.

He was about to say something when the phone rang. Picking it up, he waited for the person on the other line to introduce themselves.

"Captain Chevallier? This is Captain Haseo Arai of the Tokyo office. We have word that your operative and Mr. Hilbert left the Tokyo airport about four hours ago Tokyo time."

"Are you positive? Why the hell are they there? Have someone find them! I'll send Narumi's partner Inspector Holms, which should help."

"Yes it would, I will have my men on it as soon as possible and keep you informed, Captain."

Putting down the phone, he felt Monsieur Rutherford watching him. He wasn't sure how much he should tell him; there were rumors of the relationship between him and Inspector Narumi.

"I am going with his partner."

"What? You can't go on an Interpol mission." He laughed; this must be a joke, just because you were close to someone didn't mean you could interfere with an investigation, and this man seemed intelligent enough to know that.

"They are in Japan, and have been for a few hours at least. I know both the language and the people involved. I think it would be wise to have someone who knew Kanone speak with him since he isn't always…reasonable."

"You cannot interfere with this investigation."

"If you do not allow me to go with your men I will interfere."

"Darlene! Get Inspector Holms in here now! You can go on one condition. If Holms wants you out of the way you get out."

A few hours later, Chevallier drove home to his wife and children. He had not been able to remove the young man's fire and ice cold determination to go with his operative. He was willing to interfere with an Interpol investigation in order to help his friend. Yet it seemed more than just a friendship to him. Inspector Narumi had been working with Chevallier since the younger man had come to Interpol, but he still didn't know much about him other than that he lived with the world famous pianist Eyes Rutherford. Now there were rumors all over the papers about the two of them being together in a more intimate way and such but the papers would print anything to sell now days. Chevallier only hoped he had done the right thing by allowing Rutherford to chase after Inspector Narumi and this old friend of theirs.

"Haseo, the two operatives are here from London. Would you like to see them?"

"Of coruse, show them to the study, dear."

Standing up from his reading he stretched his legs and watched his wife escort the two Londoners into the room. One was a very tall brown haired man of about forty while the other was in his late twenties with platinum hair and ice blue eyes. He wondered if either of them knew any Japanese at all but then he recognized the second man. The world famous pianist his daughter had had a crush on for years.

"Welcome Inspectors, I hope your flight was comfortable."

The tall man - Inspector Holms - looked at him in confusion as the other began to answer.

"It was very nice, thank you, Captain Arai. But I am only here as an informant and translator for you and Inspector Holms."

"Your Japanese is very good," the captain replied in English, "you are Eyes Rutherford, correct?"

"Yes, it is very nice to meet you."

He motioned for them to all sit down, then offered them tea. "So, you are acting as an informant, Rutherford-san?"

"Yes, I know both Inspector Narumi and Kanone Hilbert. I might be of some help to the case. I have also lived in Tokyo from time to time."

"It has been hours since they arrived here though, they won't be anywhere close," the inspector spoke for the first time. He had a harsh English accent and fierce hazel eyes that complimented his sharp features.

"They will be in the area. Kanone has something planned. He wants me…us to find him. Otherwise Inspector Narumi would already be dead."

Haseo watched the two of them carefully. Rutherford-san was very confident in his prediction, but he could feel the hidden emotion in his hard, steady voice. It was also apparent to him that the two men in front of him had only met just before they left London, and they hadn't gotten along well on the plane.

"How would you expect Hilbert-san to contact us," Haseo looked over to Inspector Holms and added, "If he does want us to find him?"

"He will either come to us or he will call us and tell us to meet him. He isn't afraid of Interpol, or any other organization for that matter."

"Well, I have three groups in the field and people manning every police and Interpol phone. You both should get some rest; it is almost night time in London and you look tired."

Looking can take hours to find something that you want. But sometimes waiting will also find lost things. Time lost looking is time spent waiting to be in the right place at the right time. You must follow clues and footprints in order to find a missing person. Unless they want to be found - then there are phone messages and meetings to stay up and wait for.