Misao's sneakers squeaked as she walked down the abandoned tiled hall leading to the offices of the university. She'd just returned from her Sunday morning jog, a part of her new exercise regiment. Ever since kendo was cancelled she'd noticed a few extra pounds when it was time to step on the scale. As soon as she walked into the foyer she was bombarded by students all asking her questions that only confused her. Only until one of the many secretaries of the school came up and retrieved her from the crowd and sent her down the hall.

"Go down to the fifth door on the right, Gohei Hiruma is waiting for you," said the secretary.

So here Misao was outside the fifth door on the right, her stomach churning uneasily and wringing her hands subconsciously. She slowly tapped on the door, the sound was just barely audible.

"Come in," barked a voice from inside.

Misao carefully let herself into the room. To her right she saw the Kaoru's back hunched over in a chair and Gohei standing behind his large wood desk with both palms planted on the tabletop.

"Ah, Miss Makimachi so nice of you to join us," said Gohei smiling devilishly. He gestured to a the other free chair next to Kaoru, "Please have a seat."

Misao did as she was told and looked to Kaoru. Her face was flushed red, her eyes looked like they'd been crying, and even more disturbing she hadn't even acknowledged that Misao had even entered the room. She just kept staring down at Gohei's golden nameplate on his desk.

"Miss Makimachi," said Gohei breaking Misao's attention on Kaoru. "Do you know why you are here?"

"No Sir," replied Misao.

Gohei grunted in amusement. He folded his hands behind his back and started pacing around the room, "Miss Makimachi you and Miss Kamiya here are roommates, correct?"

"Yes Sir."

"And you and Miss Kamiya are good friends, correct?"

"Yes…" Misao was getting nervous, she wasn't sure where all this was going.

"Miss Makimachi since you share living space with Miss Kamiya you would be aware of most if not all affairs going on within your room, correct?"

"Yes, I suppose. But what do you mean affairs?" questioned Misao.

Gohei ignored the girl's question and continued on with his own. Now to put on the pressure. "Miss Makimachi have you ever witnessed Miss Kamiya coming in contact with any illegal substances?"

Misao looked up to Gohei in surprise and then to Kaoru who still hadn't shown any sign of life other than blinking, breathing and the odd sniffle. Illegal substances? Misao now knew exactly where this conversation, or more appropriately interrogation, was going. "No Sir, I can't say I have."

Gohei smiled, exposing his bleached teeth, and cocked an eyebrow. "Miss Makimachi you are aware of the penalty of lying to administration, aren't you?"

"I'm not lying," said Misao trying to keep a leash on her rising temper. They must think Kaoru is involved in some drug stuff. But how could they? She's a straight A student, a, well former kendo captain, etc, etc. Something here doesn't smell right…

"Miss Makimachi please answer the question."

Misao clenched her teeth, "Yes."

Gohei stopped pacing right in front of his desk and opened the drawer. "Then would you mind explaining what was doing in your room?" He quickly raised the small plastic bag filled with white powder to Misao who gasped.

"Its not ours I swear! Me and Kaoru have never done anything illegal within this school," confessed Misao.

But Gohei only sighed and placed the bag onto his desk. "Yes well even if that is true Miss Makimachi everyone who gets caught pulls that excuse out of their ass. And as nice as I'm sure your ass is I can't very well take your word over every other person who was in your position now."

Misao's hands became fists shaking with fury. That bastard…he did all this. But why?

"So Miss Makimachi what do you think I should do with you and Miss Kamiya?" asked Gohei as he took a seat in his chair and propped his feet onto his desk. "Well you know the punishment for drug possession within the university is quite strict and with this much cocaine I don't think you'll be getting any breaks."

"Hiruma…"

Misao and Gohei both looked to Kaoru in surprise. It was words she uttered since Misao entered the room.

"Kaoru?"

But Kaoru remained indifferent to the workings around her and just narrowed her eyes at Gohei's nameplate. "Hiruma…"

Meanwhile Kenshin and Sano were sitting in their room both feeling quite sullen and heavy hearted. Kenshin kept thinking of Kaoru and the haunting image of her distressed face as she was led away by that dog, Gohei. He could only imagine what she must be going through now… and how much he want to be by her side and protect her. Sano on the other hand felt this overwhelming sense of guilt in the pit of his chest. So many feelings of regret, anger, self-hate, everything was building up inside getting ready to lash out.

Kenshin got up from his Lazy-Boy and headed for the kitchen to fix himself a glass of water without saying a word. He grabbed a glass from the overhead cupboard and started to fill it with tap water. On the counter just beside the sink Kenshin's caught the glimmer of Sano's keys. But underneath the keys was a piece of paper that looked awfully familiar. Suddenly the cold sensation of the water overflowing in the glass and raining down upon his hand made him jump. He quickly turned off the tap and set the wet glass down and picked up the paper from underneath Sano's keys and then he realized why the paper looked so familiar. It was another speeding ticket to add to Sano's ever-growing collection.

Wait a minute!

Kenshin eyes darted immediately to the bottom of the ticket where the officer signed, Hajime Saitou. "Sano quick! We have to drive down to the police station!"

A/N: Yes people I know I said I would update last week but life's been really odd and intense and I just needed to reboot before I got back into my everyday skin. Sorry to all those who waited so long. Currently I'd say I'm still rebooting, eating and sleeping habits are all off and I feel happy and whimsical one day and cool and withdrawn the next, oh well. I hope you liked the chapter...if not then oh well sucks to you. Oh by the way everyone I'm so friggan happy that Franz Ferdinand's new record's coming out soon! I just bought the last CD not too long ago, my friend found it for me undreneath some CD's on a rack when we thought they were all sold out so I was super happy. Now I'm listening to it non-stop I'm not even sick of it! Isn't it wonderful! Um but yeah there's going to be only 2 more chapters because I'm sort of sick of writing this story when I got so many new ideas. Well Toodles everyone! R&R