The week went by fairly quickly with Rinna and Harley using their time to build the Core Driviar tracking device and Shinnosuke and Kiriko looking at police reports of suspicious looking individuals near any of Harley's labs in case one matched Gou's appearance. Kiriko halfheartedly looked, knowing that none of the cases would match up. She already knew they were just a few hours away, hidden in one of Harley's smaller labs.

Harley finding time to talk to Kiriko alone actually had been fairly easy. Rinna excused herself every night after dinner to work on a project she had started in Japan that needed to be finished in a short time and Shinnosuke had to work on paperwork he still had to do for a few of his cases. Each night, Kiriko learned about everything that happened; the mental and physical healing the two went through, building Chase a body and his evolution, and how the boys were doing and what they had done while they had been living here.

Kiriko knew with each passing day that Harley was worried about the device he was helping to build. Rinna had mentioned at dinner that the professor had make a few errors in his notes and she corrected them for him. She knew that no matter what way he would try to sabotage the device, Rinna would immediately know the problem and fix it.

To top it off, Shinnosuke seemed to start getting nervous around her whenever the subject of Gou and Chase came up, quickly trying to change the subject. Kiriko felt like her partner was hiding something from her and she severely hoped that he didn't know about her secret talks with Harley. The two made sure that no one was around when they talked.

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Shinnosuke looked up from his computer after submitting the final document he had typed and looked at Kiriko staring at her computer. He knew that she wasn't working as hard as she usually did and after that first night of him eavesdropping on Harley and her, he knew why. He looked down at his computer, the culmination of his plans being sent to the appropriate people, and hoped he had done the right thing.

He sighed and looked at Kiriko one more time. He hated keeping secrets from her, but it was imperative that she didn't know until he actually knew her true feelings on everything that was going on. After her conversation with Harley, he knew exactly where both of their loyalties to Krim lied.

"Kiriko…I need to confess something to you."

The woman looked up and Shinnosuke was fixing to go on, when Rinna came through the doorway.

"Alright! With only three days to go before we have to go back, I think our Core Driviar tracking device is ready to be turned on! Come on you two! I want you to be present for this. Professor Harley is already in the lab."

Rinna ran back out and Shinnosuke furrowed his eyebrows as they stood up. "I'll…tell you later Kiriko."

—

The two walked in to see Rinna happily setting up the device while Harley was setting up his computer to show Krim the visuals of the lab and see firsthand if the device worked or not.

Rinna made sure everyone was watching her before starting her explanation. "Alright! Are we ready? How this works is once I turn on the device, it will start detecting for any Core Driviar technology in a radius of about two hundred miles and show it on this map. Obviously we won't be able to catch them for some time, especially since in the time it would take us to get to a location, say…a hundred miles away, they could be long gone. If the device is a success, I'll travel to Harley's other labs and set up devices there. I estimate we'll be able to have the entirety of the US covered in about a month and catch them in the next month, if not sooner."

Rinna flipped on the switches and the radar blipped a few times before settling on an area just barely in range of the device that was slowly moving northeast.

"That's…"

Everyone turned to look at Harley as the older man gave the radar a confused look. "That…looks like they might be heading to my lab in Colorado. But that would mean that they bypassed this lab here. Maybe they're able to tell that this lab was being used so that's why they never came here. I already set that lab to trigger my computer here if they enter it, so if it does, we'll know."

"Excellent work you two. As soon as Rinna gets the free time, I'll have her install devices like this in some of Harley's major labs in the next month. I'll see you in a few days." Krim ended the visual call on his end.

Rinna chuckled. "Well, we know the device works! It's perfectly detecting the little tracker bug I released yesterday! All I need to do is make a few more to go with the other decoy Core Driviar tracking devices in case problems occur."

Everyone turned to look at Rinna, shock apparent on their faces. She looked at each of them and shook her head. "Do you really think I was going to be a sell out to Gou and Chase? After everything they've gone through and accomplished? I've been undermining Krim this entire time, pretending to work for him to keep him from finding out what I was really going to make of this device. And…I may be ditzy from time to time…but I do have to remind you, I'm a genius. I saw through each of you as soon as we got here. So confess, all of you."

Kiriko looked at everyone and smiled softly. "My plan here was to confide in Professor Harley to see if I could privately find some way to find Gou and Chase since he seemed to not be as loyal to Krim as I thought everyone else was. Even if I couldn't see them, I wanted to at least let them know they had an ally in me. And then…when I found out everything from Harley…"

Harley chuckled. "Kiriko was right in thinking I wasn't loyal to Krim. I've been harboring both of them this entire time. And…Chase has his own body. I'd like to explain everything to you like I've done with Kiriko, but I think it would be better if Gou and Chase explained it to you. It's going to take a bit of convincing that they're not in any danger, but if I call them now, they can be home in a few hours."

The three turned to look at Shinnosuke who looked at Rinna and Harley before settling on Kiriko's face. "Kiriko…I could tell. I could tell how much Gou and Chase not being around affected you. It hurt so much to not see you smile or open yourself up to all of us like you used to. But…like Rinna and Harley…I had to pretend to be loyal to Krim, even more then them. Because I had to do everything I could to bring your smile back. I didn't know if you were pretending or not, so I had to keep secrets from you."

Shinnosuke opened his computer up. "I had to go back and revamp a few of the documents since I accidentally eavesdropped on your conversation the first night, but…I've been using my police connections to make up false identity documents for both Gou and Chase. The idea struck me when Gou used a fake identity to leave Japan and I thought to make something more permanent for them. That way, they'd be able to travel around without fear of getting caught since Krim has their identities flagged. I initially made them have different last names, but hearing they were more like brothers, I had to change the information before I submitted it. And Professor Harley…I hope you don't mind…but I gave them the last name that you use when you want to travel discreetly. It took a little digging, but I found it."

Harley smiled. "So you DID listen in that night… Thank you Shinnosuke. Anyway, if that's all the confessions, I think it's time that my boys come home so you can spend a few days with them."

—–

Chase furrowed his eyebrows and looked at Gou, confusion apparent on his face as he pushed End Call on his cellphone. "Gou…Harley wants us to come home. They're still there…but he said everything's okay and he'll explain everything once we get there. What should we do?"

"It could be a trap…but on the other hand…if Harley's being held hostage… If push comes to shove, I think we can take them. Krim isn't with them. And if Harley's telling the truth and everything IS okay, we'd be able to see our family again."

"I say we should go then Gou. Harley's never lied to us and if it was a trap, he'd give us some sort of code that he was in trouble."

"Alright. I'll start loading the car."