To the incident One Year back….

That day started like a normal one. Shinjuku was as usual free of crimes because of Ryo. Saeko was in a shop, buying some groceries for herself. "Ryo must be having a good business going on", she thought. She came out, and saw that there was a commotion on the crossing in front of the shop she was in. She rushed there. As she was the chief of the police of Shinjuku, it was a part of her duty to attend to any spot of an accident. "Oh man, can't they be a little more cautious? After all, this is not a busy time at the day, its evening. Hope the person is all right." she thought and as he reached the spot, pushing the crowd around the spot, her eyes widened. She couldn't believe her eyes, It was Kaori! At first she thought that she had mistook her face with the victim's due to some resemblance, and was a bit assured due to it. But Kaori muttered something that made her understand her mistake, "I…. am… sorry…. Ryo….." No one else could understand those words, but Saeko had a prior training to read lips. It was a part of her elite training before being appointed as the Chief of Shinjuku Police. Those were apparently Kaori's last words before she passed out. Saeko thought at first that she was dead as couldn't find any pulse. She called for an ambulance then and there, and herself helped to move Kaori's body to the hospital. The doctors in the hospital found out that she was alive and breathing, but before that She had already informed Ryo who was with a client at Cat's Eye café. Umibozu and Miki were there too. The client was as usual, a female, and it was so normal of Ryo to ogle at her assets. After all, it was the great womanizer Saeba Ryo. As Saeko reached the café, panting, out of breath, Miki helped her with a glass of water. She sat on a chair beside Ryo and his client, at the counter; Saeko could still remember that it was Kaori's favourite chair. She used to sit on it whenever she visited the café for cappuccino with Ryo. Ryo was busy ogling at his client, when she blurted out the news "Kaori is dead!" She paused for a moment and then added "She met with an accident at the crossing at kabuki-Cho. I got her to Shinjuku City hospital for postmortem." Ryo had a Stallion-of-Shinjuku smile on his lips, which faded the moment Saeko finished. Ryo froze in his place for a moment then opened the door and vanished on the street in a blink leaving his client dazed and puzzled. After sometime she too left the place. After she was gone, Miki was nowhere to be seen, and Umibozu had a dark, grim face. "What's the matter with you Saeko? When did you learn to play practical jokes so well, huh? U got me there for a moment, I must say this. Don't try this again please. I don't like practical jokes like these, actually never did like it in the first place." Umibozu said and resumed his work. Saeko gave a hoarse cry of pain and disgust, "What do you people think of me, huh? I will go mad if this goes on any longer! I am not joking. You get it? It's true. Kaori is really dead. She had no pulse. She met with an accident on Kabuki-Cho. I was there. I just heard a loud commotion and ran there and when I reached the crossing, it was over. She was gone!" As she was telling all this, her phone rang. It was from the hospital, she had put Kaori in. She came out of the café. The authorities had two news to offer, the first one was that Kaori was still alive. She still had pulse, feeble of course, but she was breathing alright. If she was attended by an expert, it's probable that she might revive. The second news was that a man with a blue overcoat and black trousers was barging at the counter of the hospital to meet this patient. The authorities asked her what their action should be in this matter. Saeko told them to tell him that Kaori was dead and if he further presses them to show her, then they should show him a dead body of someone else. "But the Body must be in such a condition that it should not be identified", she had mentioned and then disconnected the phone. After 5 minutes Saeko came out of the café and rushed to the hospital, and what happened after was officially a secret for the world. Only two persons knew about this, Saeko herself and the Old Doc of the Hanazano Clinic. She moved Kaori within about 30 minutes to the Hanazano Clinic and arranged for expert supervision for her. She also had police posted around the clinic as she had a suspicion that it was not an accident which had affected Kaori. By then it was evident from the report of the experts that Kaori was in a coma due to shock and severe hit on the hind brain. Since then the Old Doc was in charge of Kaori, for the past year. He was strictly prohibited to talk about her to anyone. Saeko knew what would happen if Ryo came to know about this, so she wanted this to be a perfect secret. Even Umibozu and Miki were not allowed to know about this. But for the past few days Kaori was often having seizures in her state of unconsciousness. The experts had told beforehand that it might be a life risk for her if she continued to have these seizures. They named this as 'Arrhythmia.' Hearing this Saeko had no other way but to tell Umibozu and Miki and seek help from them. But there was something that no one doesn't know of yet. It was, when Kaori was awake after being moved to the hospital from the site of the accident, she had asked Saeko to bring Ryo before her so that she could see him just once more. Saeko couldn't arrange for it. It was for this reason that she had gone to the café, not to give the news. But sadly She couldn't tell him this, instead she did what seemed the most suitable at that moment: hide the truth from Ryo. This went on for the past year until today….

Both of them saw the couple sleeping soundly in the computer screen and were happy themselves for being able to see this.