Okay, of course I will give the resolution chapter. Ideas pop out in my mind, the idea of harumichi fanfic become partner-in-crime also tickles me a bit. First, I want to thanks all the reviews~

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Nalia-san - They will be more than friends, definitely. This is HARUMICHI afterall.

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Everything turned back to normal. Two weeks after the incident that shook the city. The case closed, the bodies buried, the remains rebuilt, the loss would be remembered. No matter how much the grief, how pain it feels, life must continue. Human tend to forget, that characteristic somehow helping them through the shadow of the past. However for someone who cannot, they only left with two options. Fall deep and dwell in it forever or fighting it.

"What the hell are you doing, Haruka?" Mamoru surprised when he saw his partner was lurking around the precinct. Mamoru knew that the blonde didn't get the clearance yet for active duty.

"I am a guest, see? Visitor in peace." Haruka showed a visitor ID to her partner. She felt ridiculous being banned out from her own office.

"Then act as a visitor." Mamoru huffed, he caught Haruka was observing some cases through the computer.

"I am not doing anything!" The blonde pouted, her pride hurt.

"What? You are searching for a way to ask a girl out from google?" Mamoru guessed, he put down his warm coffee and walked to see the monitor closer.

"How do you know?" Haruka replied innocently.

"I'm a detective, Haruka. I thought you have already asked her out, it has been 2 weeks for Godsake!" Mamoru pulled a chair closer to his partner.

Haruka didn't answer. This type of conversation wasn't really appropriate right now. So, she switched the topic.

"What has been happening here while I was out?" Haruka asked. Mamoru opened his mouth but was cut by the sound of footsteps approaching them.

"Ah… Hi, Haruka! I don't know you are back today!" The perkiness could be detected from 2 yards perimeter. Wherever this person going, she always bring cheerful aura around her. Minako has the appearance like a supermodel, personality like a comedian, and a job of butchering dead people. Talk about uniqueness…

"I haven't get clearance yet. Hi, Minako." Haruka turned around. She didn't ready for the maximum cheerfulness Minako brought.

"Good morning, Haruka." Another person came up behind the medical examiner. Haruka only needed seconds to process the scene before her. Rei, the chief of assault team came together with Minako, the medical examiner.

"Morning, Rei…" Haruka shot a look to Mamoru, confirming if her suspicions was right. Mamoru only grinned.

"I must go down to the morgue now. I have 3 bodies to process today…" Minako checked her wristwatch before looking at Rei.

"See you at lunch, Rei-bear…" She flashed a smile and ran to the elevator. She never caught the blushes crept out from the chief's face.

"Ah…" Haruka nodded as she got the evidence. "Rei-bear…" Haruka chuckled.

"Please… don't." Rei begged to either Mamoru and Haruka.

"Don't worry, Rei. My partner has the same problem with you too." Haruka glared at his partner to shut up.

"Same problem?" Rei tilted her head, didn't get what Mamoru said.

"Chick, love, problem, complicated, how-to." Mamoru hinted the keywords to Rei.

"Ah…" Rei nodded after a long pause. She had understanding expression toward the blonde detective.

"Can you stop making that face? We aren't stuck in the same situation! This still one sided feeling, not like you and Minako…" Haruka stopped while she heard Mamoru huffed and Rei coughed a little.

"What? Am I wrong?"

"Haruka? Even blind people can see that Michiru has a crush on you!" Rei said.

"Yeah, the way she looks at you like…" Mamoru couldn't find the right word.

"Like a lover… unless you are her cousin or something…" Mamoru continued.

"What? But… she didn't say anything!" Haruka frowned, her mind busy with some flashbacks, recollected what had happened in the past two weeks. She and Michiru spent the time like a best friend not more or less.

"Haruka, you really don't understand heart of a lady…"

Michiru finished the trial early, her days have been well compared than 2 weeks ago. She rested on a couch inside her office. Her body was tired… No - not just her body, her heart and her mind also ached. Her life had been a roller coaster ever since she met Haruka. She remembered the event 2 weeks ago. The aftermath followed after the blonde out from a light surgery.

Michiru's POV

"I get a cool cast here on my arm…" those are the words Haruka said to me and her fellow officers.

"Don't be so cocky there. I heard that you gain a month to rest?" One of the officers said. Mamoru glared at him, Haruka supposed to know the information after this, not now. Now, the blonde will go to berserk mode.

A month is a long time.

"Are you kidding me? A month? It's just a cracked arm and captain gives me a month! Crap!"

"Hey, calm there. First, they are broken not cracked. Second, within a month Jack Elliot will get his trial, captain wanted you to sleep through it and concentrate." Mamoru reassured his friend. I personally agree with his words.

"Damn." Haruka murmured. Haruka now looked at my direction. I didn't know what went through inside Haruka's mind, after that Haruka asked everyone left the room.

"Michiru, stay. I wanna talk." Haruka asked me. Then, I sat on a chair beside the bed.

"Long day…" Haruka said after Mamoru closed the door.

"A penny for your thought?" Haruka looked at me. There are worries, concerns, and some feelings that I unable to describe in the detective's eyes. Haruka asked me what I am thinking while myself didn't know and not really sure what is it.

"I survived. You survived." I said with low voice.

"This is how the final goes, you know? Everyone fine in the end. However, we will never know what shadows that left after bad things passed. Tell me." Haruka found my hands and gripped them with her good arm. I took a deep breath.

"I was scared. Yes. But, I am not scared anymore now. There are memories, I am sure that I will remember this day for the rest of my life…"

"Those aren't good… they are horrible memories, Michiru. You must forget it. Sometimes I feel that my existence only brings harm to you." Haruka's grip tightened. I saw her knuckles turned white, there were angers and regret in her words.

"No, no… Haruka." I replied quickly. How can the detective thinking like that?

"Don't you dare to say that… the opposite happens. Your existence has been keeping me safe."

After that they left the silence took over. Neither of them talked and I fell deep with my own thoughts.

Michiru wondered, when the blonde got her clues? Michiru waited… waited for two weeks for Haruka to take initiatives. Michiru had thrown hints like winks, gestures, and other million clues that very totally obvious. She already gave a green light and what Haruka only need to do is step on the gas.

Shit happened. The term is Haruka's favorite. Shit happened and another shit followed. That's perfectly what was happening to her. She didn't get inspiration and motivation what to do and suddenly the aquanette lawyer showed up in front of her. Haruka was late to make a quick escape and Michiru caught her while she was discussing things with Minako.

"I thought you are still in off duty." Michiru frowned. Then the lawyer realized what the blonde was doing. Haruka was talking with a beautiful blonde woman. The woman wore a white coat like doctor and a beautiful dress beneath it. She was like a sexy hot supermodel.

"I thought you still have the trial…" Haruka replied.

"The trial is finished… I am here because Capt. White wanted to meet me." Michiru glanced at Minako's direction.

"Ah, this is Minako Aino. Our medical examiner… Minako, this is Michiru…" Haruka introduced.

"That Michiru!" Minako smiled cheerfully, again her perkiness went off. "Haruka loves talking about you!" Minako cooed, she winked.

"If you don't mind… I have someone waiting for me. I left Mr. Jo's chest open and gonna stitch them close." She waved to Michiru, retreated herself. Minako maybe perky and cheerful but she isn't clueless. She knew when a war was going to happen.

"I thought you are home, resting?" Michiru's brow lifted, a sign for a question that must be answered.

"It's boring. I don't know how to spend my day without my job." Haruka answered honestly. She left out the part about her love research in google.

"That woman just now… Miss Aino… she is beautiful." Michiru said calmly. She waited for Haruka's reaction.

"Yeah, she is the weirdest medical examiner the departments ever have. You never know how she is when she cuts up dead people like a butcher… never mention about her clothing style…" Haruka shut up noticing the changing expression of the lawyer.

"You like her…?" the question hung on the air for awhile. There was a pause between them. Haruka's jaw dropped, how Michiru can assume like that?

"What? No no no, she just unique, yeah she is beautiful but… why we have this conversation? I don't like her romantically way if that's what you mean."

Michiru went quiet. She had a thought that she and Haruka could be more… well, more than this.

Haruka felt the lawyer didn't seem to believe her words.

"Michi… I swear it's not like that. Hell, I've been looking for a way to ask you out for a date in a way of manner. Yet you are here looking at me like I am totally douche guilty." Haruka murmured frustratingly.

"What?" Michiru asked.

"What what?"

"What you just said?" Michiru asked again impatiently.

Then Haruka realized she had let out the secret.

"I've been searching for a way, method for asking a girl out. You know a date… in this case the girl is you." The blonde sighed. She never thought the situation would turn out like this.

"This is not romantic at all… I should've brought roses or chocolates or make poems… What I've done…." Haruka cursed while talking to herself.

"Yes?" Michiru said.

"What?" Haruka's head shot up and her eyes found Michiru's. Whenever Haruka looked into Michiru's eyes she always found herself drawn into them.

"I said yes. I will go to our date tonight." Michiru continued. She smiled, circling her arms around Haruka's neck. She didn't need flowers, chocolates, and poems. Right now she needs Haruka and only her. Michiru poured out her feelings with a simple yet loving kiss on Haruka's lips.

Her green light was noticed.

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