Kenshin and Sano were hovering above Saitou who was typing in Gohei's name into the criminal computer database within the hustle and bustle of the police station. He typed the last letters and hit enter.

It seconds it took for the computer to find a positive match seemed to drag themselves out for Kenshin with the thoughts of Kaoru worried his mind.

"There, Gohei Hiruma," read Saito. He gave a brief chuck with surprise, "It turns out the Gohei did have a run in with the law in his early years."

Kenshin and Sano leaned in closer, their breath annoying Saitou's neck as he read on. "He was brought in for assault in a dojo. Beat up a couple of his fellow students real good too, but his sensei managed to restrain him by injuring his hand so that he would never be able to hold a sword again."

"Does it say what dojo," asked Sano.

Saitou narrowed his eyes as he skimmed through the information, "The Kamiya Dojo."

Kenshin and Sano instantly turned to each other, recognizing the name. Saitou looked back at the two wanting to be filled in.

"Kamiya…that's Kaoru's last name," explained Kenshin as his hands formed into a strong fist. "This is why Gohei planted the drugs. As payback to the Kamiya family."

Sano punched his fist into his open hand, "Now that we have the dirty on Gohei lets bring him down!"

Saitou rolled his eyes and lit up another cigarette, "Sagara, for once in our life use that walnut-sized brain in your head. You think this is really enough to get Gohei? This can only be used a probable motive if we have proof that he actually was responsible for planting the drugs."

"So…what do we do?" Sano asked Kenshin.

Kenshin took a breathe to calm his rage, "Simple. We get proof."

Meanwhile Aoshi was tuning his already skills in the kendo room. Ever since the incident in the hall with Misao he'd been feeling a little off. There was always a little voice in his head now reminding him of that moment and most of all Misao. He'd managed to avoid her ever since, not knowing what one is to say after a unique encounter such as the one they shared. So to take his mind off Misao, who of late had become a frequent topic for his mind 24/7, he'd been practicing kendo during his spare time.

"AOSHI!"

Aoshi looked in the direction of the voice to see Soujiro racing up to him. As odd as this was for Soujiro, Aoshi wasn't in the mood to hear it.

"Aoshi," huffed Soujiro as he struggled to catch his breath.

"Get out of here squirt," demanded Aoshi as he tried to continue with his training.

"No…Aoshi…you've got…to listen to me," said Soujiro. "Misao…"

"Misao's your problem now remember?" he scoffed. "She is after all your girlfriend."

"Just listen to me!" pleaded Soujiro as he followed Aoshi around the kendo mats.

"Deal with your shit squirt."

"LISTEN TO ME!"

Aoshi looked to roommate annoyed and spoke in a firm low voice, "Fine, if you won't leave and insist on yelling I don't suppose I don't have much of a choice."

Finally the dumb ice cube feels like paying attention, thought Soujiro. "Misao and Kaoru. Gohei caught them with a drugs in their room."

The words hit him like a ton of bricks only to be followed by onslaught of emotions. Though not for one minute did the notion of Misao having drugs seem feasible. "Who set them up?"

"I don't know, no one does. But right now the two of them are in Gohei's office," replied Soujiro. "They're facing expulsion, Aoshi."

"We need to find Kenshin," said Aoshi and all at once he ran out of the kendo room with Soujiro at his side in search of Kenshin.

Soujiro watched Aoshi as they ran and noticed the unusual worry in his eyes. I can't believe it…he really does care about Misao.

"Aoshi?"

"What?" asked Aoshi as he made a sharp turn.

"I have to tell you something," said Soujiro starting the confession of his false love with Misao.

"You want to tell me that Misao and you weren't really going out and that she was only using you to get back at me, right?"

Soujiro was blown away. His legs started to fail him in the sudden shock and he stopped right there in the middle of the hall gaping.

Aoshi noticed that he was no longer at his side and slowed down. He looked back to Soujiro and shrugged, "I just know these things. Now come on lets go!"

Then WAM! Aoshi fell to the floor in a daze. A sharp pain went through his head like someone just put a cleaver through it. Soujiro came to his side as he rubbed the large red bump on his forehead.

"HEY! Watch where you're going punk!"

Aoshi recognized the voice and let Soujiro help him to his feet, "Sagara?"

"Shinomori?"

It was indeed Sano and at his fallen side was Kenshin helping him up and a Hajime Saitou smoking and rolling his eyes. Aoshi and Soujiro as well as the whole of the university were well familiar with Saitou one way or another. Everyone knew him as the badass cop who always seemed to know exactly where all the wild parties were.

"Ugh." Sano got to his feat with a little dizziness. "What the hell are you two doing?"

"What do you think?" replied Soujiro. "Trying to help out Misao and Kaoru."

"By running into people?" said Sano bitterly messaging his own large red place of impact.

"As touching as this little reunion is," cut in Saitou. "But I didn't get dragged down here for nothing."

"Speaking of which what are you doing here?" questioned Aoshi.

"Like I said I got dragged down. Now if happy hour is over could we finally get this over with?"

So the troupe of five set off down the narrow stretch of hallway until Kenshin stopped in front of the girls' room. He reached for the knob but it was locked.

"Oh get out of the way," said Saitou as he shoved Kenshin aside and pulled out something that looked like a wallet. He removed two small lock picks and went to work. A few seconds later the door creaked open. "Amateurs."

They all walked and gazed upon the unsettling sight of the room being turned upside down with the presence of life faint within it.

"How the hell are we supposed to find any sort of evidence in this mess?" complained Sano.

"Just no one touch anything. Its more likely you'll just screw it up," said Saitou as he carefully maneuvered around the various items scattered about the floor.

The other four stood there watching Saitou check specific but what seemed to be random places in the room. Only until he walked into the bathroom was he out of view and earshot.

"How did you guys manage to get Saitou to help us?" said Aoshi in a hushed tone.

Sano smiled devilishly, "I should show you my little black album."

Saitou stepped back out of the bathroom.

"Well did you find anything?" asked Kenshin hopefully.

He laughed sarcastically, "It wouldn't even matter if I found a fingerprint of Gohei in this mess. You guys said he's already been in here with the police under witness of a fair amount of people. It'd be worthless."

The four of them got an increased feeling of failure and disappointment. Kenshin and Aoshi both managed to resist the urge to punch something, most ideally Gohei.

"Look you must at least be able to stop Gohei from looking over the girls' case. If you presented when we already know wouldn't that prove that he's compromised or something?" Sano protest.

Saitou considered it. "I could but that would only put more pressure on us to find evidence sooner, and by the looks of things we can't take that chance."

"Wait, what do you guys already know?" said Aoshi.

Kenshin quickly summed up what they uncovered earlier and it only seemed to make him and Soujiro angrier that they had such damning evidence yet they could do nothing about it.

Then finally the unthinkable happened. "Hey guys I've got an idea!" said Sano as the metaphorical light bulb went off in his 'walnut'.

Saitou sighed and lit up, "Did you hurt yourself, Sagara?"

"Shut your mouth Saitou!" yelled Sano. He turned to his friends who were actually willing to listen, "Kenshin remember I told you how Gohei got me to ruin the girls' kendo team."

Kenshin nodded his head and again quickly explained to Aoshi, Soujiro and Saitou about Sano's little run in with cocaine and Gohei.

"Well maybe if the cocaine that Gohei planted was the same one he confiscated from me."

The others waited for Sano to finish making sense. "Yeah, so…how would that help us?" said Soujiro.

"If the cocaine Gohei planted is the same as Sagara's then they'll be chemically identical because they came from the same batch," said Saitou. "When you're a cop hanging around a university you learn a lot about narcotics."

Kenshin looked to Sano confused, "But Sano, I thought Gohei took all of your cocaine. How would we have any to compare to?"

"Well…" Sano tried to look innocent. "Gohei only took one bag of coke, I still kind of have another."

"What!" cried Kenshin. "Sano you lied to me!"

Sano only shrugged.

"Well I guess its to our benefit this time," Kenshin sighed. "Okay but this means we're going to have to get our hands on the cocaine Gohei probably has in his office with Kaoru and Misao. How we're going to do that?"

"Leave that to me," said Saitou as he sucked on his cigarette.

So after they left the girls' room Sano went and retrieved his extra baggie of cocaine and met up with everyone else just outside the hallway that would lead to Gohei's office.

"So how are we going to do this?" Aoshi asked Saitou.

"Simple."

Out of no where Saitou grabbed Sano by the ear and started dragging him down the hallway. The secretary stood up from her desk to object but was quickly put down at the fact Saitou was wearing his uniform and flashed his badge.

"SAITOU!" roared Sano in pain as he was yanked further on. "What are you doing!"

Saitou only ignored the insolent young man's request and stopped right in front of Gohei's office door. He took his fist and started pounding on it. "GOHEI! OPEN UP!"

There was a rustling from inside and the Gohei answered the door look from the overpowered Sanosuke and the nonchalant Saitou staring him in the eyes.

"Gohei, its about time you do something about your wild students," began Saitou as he tugged Sano by the ear. "This one especially is becoming a real nuisance of mine."

"Officer," said Gohei calmly in efforts to quiet the ruffled policeman. " Please understand that our school is always doing everything we can to tame our students to fall into line. And at the moment I am dealing with a case of that nature."

He started to explain Kaoru and Misao's situation but it did little to relax this on-edge officer.

"I always thought you were a little soft with your students!" bellowed Saitou as he pushed his way inside the office, taking in Sano by the ear. He began to take out his rage on Gohei as he complained about how often the university students got into trouble.

Kaoru and Misao watched the unusual interruption until Sano caught Kaoru's eye.

"Pass me the drugs," Sano mouth to her.

Kaoru was unsure at first but when Sano gave her a pleading look of haste she looked to Gohei's desk and snatched the small packet while Saitou kept him busy. She slowly and carefully slid the bag just out of Sano's reach. Suddenly Saitou, who was playing the part so well, gave a sharp pull at Sano's ear causing him to fall onto the floor right on top of the cocaine.

Saitou stopped yelling and looked down at Sano, "Get up you delinquent." He yanked up Sano, who had the small bag of cocaine hidden in his fist. Saitou pushed him out the door and bade a coarse good day to Gohei.

As soon as they were past the secretary and around the corner did Saitou release Sano's ear and were joined by the rest of the group.

"So did you get it?" asked Soujiro anxiously.

Sano first cracked his sore neck and massaged his beat red ear before he held out his palm on which the small plastic bag of fine white powder rested.

A/N: Okay, yes I know it was like forever since I last posted but you know its almost summer vacation and school's been stressful, especially since I have exams coming up. But anwayI hope this chapter was okay, I really do. Well perhaps the length of it will make up for the amount of time you all had to wait for it. Well I got to go so don't forget read and review!