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Bullet casings filled the grey floor of the shootingrange as Motoko shot off round after round with her Seburo M5. Motoko was too wrapped up in her shooting to notice that Batou was just a few feet behind her. As he watched her he could tell that something was troubling her. He wanted to ask her what was wrong but he knew that wouldn't be the smart thing to do.

'I don't need her to be pissed at me.' Batou thought. After a few minutes of watching the Major unload clip after clip of ammo into the targets, He quietly left without making a sound.

As Batou walked the halls wondering what was bothering the Major, he ran into Chief Aramaki.

"Batou, have you seen the Major today?" the chief asked.

"Yeah, she's at the shooting range. Something is bothering her Chief. She's just gonna stand there until we run out of targets or ammo, whatever comes first." Batou told him with some concern in his voice.

"Really, maybe I should go talk to her about it." Aramaki said. Batou didn't say anything in reply. he just walked away while the Chief headed towards the shooting range.

Motoko was puting a fresh clip of ammo into her Seburo M5 when she saw Chief Aramaki enter the shooting range. He had his usual serious look on his face.

"Is everything alright Major?" he asked.

"Yeah, everything's fine. I'm just getting in some practice, that's all." she responded. Aramaki could easily tell that she was lying, but he decided not to press the issue right now and started to leave. Motoko saw him leaving and despite part of her telling her not to say anything, she decided to come clean and tell him the truth.

"Chief, wait." she called out. The Chief stopped and turned around to face her. "Everything is not alright. Something happened last night. Something I need to tell you about."

Togusa sat on the couch in the living room of his house. Everywhere he looked, there was a mess. Clothes were scattered through out the house. Vases, picture frames, and plates were smashed and broken all over the floor. His ears were still ringing from the screams of his now ex-wife.

"Well, she took that very well." Togusa jokinly said to himself. "I wish there was a better way to do this. I didin't want to hurt her. But if I didn't tell her now, she was just gonna get hurt even more in the future."

He then noticed something sitting on the floor in the middle of a couple broken vases. He got up off the couch and walked towards it. He carefully picked it out of the broken glass. The object was Miki's wedding ring. As Togusa held it in his hands and looked at it, a few tears started to trickle down his cheek. Then all of a sudden, the phone started to ring. He put the ring down on the table and picked up the phone.

"Hello"

"Togusa." said a voice.

"Motoko" he responded. Once again there was an akward silence between them.

"I can't do this." she said in a sad voice.

"You can't do what?" You don't want to talk to me, is that it?" Togusa asked.

"No that's not it. Togusa, can you come here to HQ? It will be easier to tell you in person." Motoko said as the phone line went dead.

Togusa hung up the phone, picked up his keys and left the house.

I know not much happened in that chapter because this is the setup to the climax. And after this story is done, there will be a sequel to this. So please review but I bet I won't get any because no body is gonna like this sorry excuse of a chapter.