A/N: Oh my word! People read my story! I'm going to thank all of the people who followed/favorited my story and especially those who reviewed! It makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside that you actually like it! So, here is the next chapter! It is going to go back into the past of Chin and Kono's relationship. This is the beginning of a very fun plot to write! I can not wait for you to read and Review! Enjoy!
Once Kono and Chin arrive at the hotel, they go talk to the manager, who gives them a key to the room and then leads them to their destination. Upon reaching the door, they notice forced entry. The door handle is broken and the very door itself is cracked. "I wonder if McGarrett is behind this," Chin jokes, "It sure looks like his work." Kono smirks as she pulls on a pair of black gloves. She takes pictures of the door with her phone and carefully nudges it open, making sure not to break it. The room is just as, if not more, broken and beat up as the door.
"Obviously," Kono states, "there was a struggle."
Chin adds, "I don't see any blood, so I'm willing to assume that she is alive."
"Great," she sarcastically sighs.
"I doubt that you've told Grover, but do Steve and Danny know?" he asks. She shakes her head. "You know, cuz, I get why you are holding out, but you might want to think about telling them. It's gonna come up in this case and you know it." She nods once more and they go back to their search. "What if they believe her? Everyone else did. What if they abandon me like my 'famiy'? I really hope I don't have to tell them," she thinks to herself.
She continues rummaging through a purse lying on the ground and find nothing but an old picture of the family. It was on a sunny day and she has her arms wrapped around her step-sister and her half-brother. The guys and her dad stand behind her, and Irene leans on her step-sister. They all looked genuinely happy. She shoves it back into the bag as deep as she can force it. She knows where that picture was taken. The Choral Prince T-shirt says it all. She walks into the bathroom and continues her search. Chin finds a smashed phone and an empty wallet, but despite their efforts, nothing else comes up during their search.
On their way to Fong's they don't speak. She looks over at her cousin and despite everything going on today, she almost laughs at the jurassic shift in their relationship. She decides not to think about the case and instead thinks about her cousin and their friendship. Before the incident, he could not stand her, but now they are inseparable. He glances over at her and cocks his head in confusion, but she just shakes her head as she remembers another time.
She sits on her board waiting for a wave. Well, actually she's waiting for her cousin to take her home, but he's with his girlfriend, so she decided to keep surfing. The only issue is that the waves are awful! Chin couldn't have chosen a worse spot if he tried! The only reason he picked this spot is because of the big rocks where he and his girlfriend slipped off to about an hour ago. Deciding that all of these waves are pathetic, she paddles to shore, grabs her towel, and marches over to where the rocks are.
"Chin! Cousin! Cuz?" she screams as she climbs over the rocks. She stops when she sees him and his girlfriend with their lips locked. She ducks down confused at what they are doing. She knows what they are doing, but something seems weird. Chin's rash guard is off and he is standing barefoot in his swim trunks. His girlfriend is still in her bikini, but her hair isn't in a ponytail anymore. One of her hands clutches his black hair and the other rubs up and down on his back. Chin's hands rub her bare back and his fingers play with the strings of her bikini top. Their tongues are circling around each others mouths as they move their heads and moan like ghosts. The little girl has only seen kissing like this on TV. Without the background music it is really gross.
"Ew!" she says to herself as she watches in disgust. Chin backs up his girlfriend into the rock and puts both of his hands on her waist. His eyes open and he rests his forehead on hers. She opens her eyes and they begin to whisper to each other as his hand moves up and down her side higher and lower each time. He seems to be trying to convince her of something. The little girl leans in to hear better but her hand slips knocking some stones down. They both turn to see her in her hiding place.
"Kono! What are you doing here? I told you that I'd be back by sundown! You're supposed to be surfing!" Chin yells. His face is red with anger and embarrassment.
"Brah! There ain't no waves!" she complains. He pulls her by her rash guard back to the beach. He sternly says to go back to the ocean and that they will leave when he wants to leave. She sits and pouts on the sand until Chin and his girlfriend emerges. It was no where near sundown when they left, and as Chin hops back in the car after dropping his girlfriend off, the little girl can tell that he is mad. When he parks in front of her house, he locks the doors.
"You are not to tell anyone about what you saw," he hisses through gritted teeth, "If you do, you will wish you hadn't. Understand?" She nods her head and hops out of the car. She hears him speed away as she walks up to her door.
A week later she gets the talk. A week later she knows what she interrupted. A week later she knows why he is so mad at her. A week later she was glad that she did. She did not want to see that!
"What are you laughing at?" Chin asks.
"Remember that time at the beach? The one behind the rocks?" she asks. After receiving a death stare from her cousin she continues, "I was thinking about what could have happened if I didn't slip!"
"Don't think about that!" he warns, but she is giggling. Eventually he starts laughing along with her.
Steve and Danny sit in an empty conference room in HPD. Across from them is Nash and Theo March. Nash is a big man about six foot seven, and is all muscle. His short brown hair just barely brushes over his ice cold eyes. Theo is just a little bit shorter than McGarrett and has a similar build. His hair is spiked up with gel and is the same color as his brother's. His brown eyes are much warmer than the former, and the look of concern on his face gives the impression that he is the mama's boy of the family. Steve takes a breath and begins, "Nash and Theo March, my name is Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett. This is Detective Danny Williams. We are from the Governor's specialized task force, 5-0. Our team has been put on this case because of your relation to the late August March."
"Grandpa? What does he have to do with any of this?" Theo asks.
"Well, there was some speculation that once Mr. March had passed, your mother had picked up where he left off and was controling a good portion of the black market here remotely," Steve answers.
"That's not possible!" Nash snaps, "Our mother is clean! The only reason we came to this pineapple infested…" He sighs knowing that yelling at the men will not help get his mother back, "The only reason we came here is because our step-father, Kanji, has always wished to reunite with our step-sister. Some misunderstandings took place between them, and now she refuses to even step foot on the mainland. We haven't seen her in six and a half years."
"So you were coming to the islands to reconcile with your step-sister?" Danny asks.
"Yeah," Theo continues, "her name is Kona Surgo...I think."
"You don't know her name for sure?" Steve asks.
"Well...no. Kanji always called her various nicknames in Hawaiian, Japanese, and whatever other Asian country's language they know, so honestly I think I only heard her name once!" Theo explains.
McGarrett looks over at Danny and sighs, "Okay, we'll run a trace on the name Kona Surgo. What do you remember about the kidnapping? Were you even there?" Both of them shake their heads.
"We had gone out for drinks while Mom took a nap," Nash explains, "When we got back, she was gone and the room had been trashed!"
Danny asks, "Is there anything about your sister that could help us? What does she look like? What does she like to do? How old is she? What was the big misunderstanding about? As of right now, she is the closest thing we have to a suspect, and if the name doesn't come up with a match, then we need to have something else to go off of."
"Ok," Theo thinks, "She has brown hair, brown, slanted eyes, she shorter than me, she...uh...likes to surf, she eats those things, the doughnut things…"
"Malasadas?" McGarrett asks.
"Yeah!" he answers, "She is a couple years younger than me. She likes Xbox. She...well, that's all I can remember about her. So, the reason she doesn't particularly like our family is because when our parents got married, we made her move with us to Colorado. She hated the cold. We also weren't the nicest to her. To us, she became kind of a fun toy to mess around with, but that's what almost all big sibling do to their younger ones. Eventually she started getting hurt in these games, so she fought back. She stopped talking and rarely ate, so Mom took her to a shrink who was supposed to help her. He diagnosed her with depression, anger dissonance syndrome, and a bunch of other things that happened because of the move. He recommended we send her to this boarding school only a few miles out of town. She would stay there during the week, and Kanji would visit during the weekends. Well, turns out the shrink was a fraud. He was taking payoffs to recommend to send kids away to various places. She got wind of this, and figured that was what Mom did. Some how she ended up in the hospital, don't ask me how she managed that, and her family took her home. The thing is, her diagnosis was not incorrect. They dropped all of it once she got back home. Who knows what that kid's like off her meds!"
"That's all?" Steve said in disbelief.
"No, you forgot about the other incident," Nash interjects, "I'll tell this one. So, a couple of years ago, she was all on board for the "getting the whole family back together thing." I guess she missed her dad. We all came to town for a surfing competition that she was in. Our sister, Jacquelyn, and our little half-brother, Kaipo were also with us. I had bought the little guy a laser pointer at one of the little shops. During the competition, she was doing really good, I guess, until Kaipo did something that I specifically told him not to do. He pointed the laser pointer at her eye. It kinda temporarily blinded her and cost her the competition. She had to be taken to the hospital to get checked out, but when we went to go check on her, she refused to see us. Some guy, Adam, I think, told her who was the one who did it. She didn't press any charges, but she pretty much shut down any possible chance of reuniting the family. Kanji was heartbroken."
"Could Adam have been the guy's last name? Maybe Ian Adams?" Danny questions.
"Yeah, why?" Nash says.
"Well, I get why your sister was upset," Steve explains, "She must have been on the pro circuit. Ian Adams was the owner of Choral Prince, a major surfing company. That injury probably cost her her career." The brothers go pale. Their mouths hang open in disbelief as they register what Steve has just told them. He continues, "If this is a revenge plot, and her mental state is as you say it is, then we better get going." They shake hands and head outside. They drive without bickering for once, both lost in thought. Steve is so out of it that Danny is in the drivers seat. Once they arrive at HQ they go up to Grover.
"Do you have anything yet?" Steve asks.
He sighs, "Well, I looked at the footage over and over again, and this guy was a pro. We have a couple of shots of Irene and our kidnapper going out the back entrance. From what I can tell, this could have only been done by someone who knows what they are doing. The guy never looks at any cameras, never leaves any prints or anything. All I can make out is that the kidnapper is a lean five foot eight." Steve and Danny share a look. Grover sees this and asks, "What am I missing here?"
"The brothers identified a step-sister with a grudge, who likes to surf, and was possibly on the pro circuit with Choral Prince, but had her career ended by an injury resulting from a kid, who just so happens to be their half brother, with a laser pointer. Their description of her was vague, but I think I know who she is, and I hope I am wrong." He pulls up a search on the smart table. Once "Kona Surgo" comes up with nothing, he searches "Kono Surgo." A picture of a thin, little, Hawaiian girl pops up on the screen wearing a boarding school uniform. Everything in the file verifies what the brothers had said. After a little more digging, Steve points at the last page. It is a request to change the girl's last name to her mother's maiden name, Kalakaua.
Danny stutters, "Kono is our main suspect."