Alright here's the new chapter.

Akane

November four, already two weeks has passed since Mr. Ginoza was rescued and the criminal Seiho Yoshida is still on the run from the law. No one knows where he is or what he's currently doing. Inspector Shisui believes that he must have fled the country by now but I highly doubt it that he would just run away like that.

I haven't seen Mr. Ginoza yet, two weeks and he still won't see me. All I know is that he hasn't been cleared to leave the medical center by the doctor due to unforeseen complications that occurred a week ago or something but he's been overseeing division one's reports, approving and sending them to the chief by using his laptop in his room, removing some workload off my shoulders a bit but still.

I honestly don't even know what to think at this point with him anymore. Mr. Kougami and Mr. Masaoka have been saying that he'll be fine and that he is doing better every day but to me he looks like he might be getting worst by avoiding me like I have the plague or something.

After inspector Aoyanagi was attacked, the chief feared for the safety or the other inspectors and demanded that we all be in safety confinement within the bureau until further notice. In a way doing this probably is what silenced Seiho in the first place; he probably just doesn't know what his next move should be. By his last actions I would assume that he would attack us inspectors in order to get us riled up but with the chief's decision his plan backfired and now he just doesn't know what to do.

I feared that maybe he could go after my parents or my grandmother but so far they are alright and like Mr. Kougami said, chances are that he doesn't even know who they are in the first place. Unlike the other inspectors I haven't been around that long for him to know much about me and if his focus was mainly on Mr. Ginoza for so many years chances are that he never bothered to learn anything of importance about any of the inspectors other than Mr. Ginoza and if that's the case we can assume that all our relatives will be safe.

Now the only danger is when a stress level area jumps and we have to go out in the field. All we know at this point is that Seiho can avoid the street scanners to some extend so we have no way of knowing if he's nearby when we go out in the field. So far we haven't had any incidents related to him but the fact that the enforcers don't go far from us inspectors is probably what stops Seiho from acting, he knows that the enforcers can be brutal and that's the problem he has at the moment but I'm sure he's formulating his situation.

Lately things have calmed down a bit, this week the stress level rose about twice already but it was nothing serious. Nothing violent and we haven't had to use the dominators to subdue the target to bring them in for therapy which is what I consider a good day. If only every time we are called on the field the situation could be resolved this peacefully-.

"Piece of shit!" Kagari's yelling followed with a loud bang makes me jump in my seat as I quickly look up from my screen to find Kagari beating his computer.

"Will you stop abusing the machine?" Ms. Kunizuka says in an irritated tone as she continues working on her report.

"No! I'm pissed off; I was fucking finished with my report! I was just about to send it and this piece of shit froze!" He yells some more as he spoke with his face turning red. "Akane seriously isn't there something you can do about this? You're an inspector can you request a working computer?"

"I can't I was told that I'm not the lead inspector for division one so it's not my call to make but I messaged Mr. Ginoza about it yesterday but he hasn't answered yet." I reply as I quickly check my emails just in case that he did but nothing.

"So you haven't heard a thing from Gino?" Kagari asks as he holds down the power button for his computer to shut down but nothing happens much to his frustration but I can see that he's doing his best to put his anger on a lid. I'd be angry too if I had just finished working on a report and my computer would freeze causing me to redo it all over again.

"No I haven't… Have you?" I reply as I check my emails again and still nothing.

Kagari gets up when he gave up trying to shut his computer down when after a minute of holding the power button didn't work and sits back in his chair. "Well yeah, this morning actually."

"Seriously? How was he?" I quickly get up slamming both hands on my desk making Kagari jump in his chair as he looks at me. I can't even believe it; this only helps to fuel my own frustration towards Mr. Ginoza, what is exactly his problem with me.

"Like his normal self. It was a little awkward at first but he looks better than when we found him. The swelling in his face is gone and only a few bruises are still visible on his jaw and neck but other than that he's fine." Kagari replies as he grabs his handheld gaming console and turns it on to start playing since there's nothing else he can do at the moment.

"So all of you have seen him but he won't see me?" I ask. They all nod that they had, yeah I knew for Mr. Masaoka and Mr. Kougami and I understand why Mr. Ginoza would want to see them too since Mr. Masaoka is his dad and Mr. Kougami is his best friend but I was still surprised that he accepted to see Ms. Kunizuka and Kagari since they don't seem to talk much to Mr. Ginoza and I work with the man, I'm his partner so why am I the one left out? Does Mr. Ginoza have that little faith in me is that it?

"Why don't you just go and see him, don't ask the nurses just go. He's in room seven." Ms. Kunizuka quickly adds as she sends in her report and I get a notification about receiving it successfully. "That's what Shion and I did, I doubt that he'll turn you away inspector."

"Yeah Akane don't ask permission to the nurses they will always tell you no. I just walked right in this morning. Of course the nurses weren't too happy about it, especially the one that works at the front desk but Gino didn't turn me away either." Kagari states and I guess that's a good idea and it's not like I haven't thought about doing that. I just didn't want to disturb anyone down in the medical center but enough is enough, this whole game is getting old.

"Alright then. I'll be back soon and Kagari for your report I'll accept that it is not sent on time due to complications with your computer." I tell him as I walk out, leaving the enforcers to themselves.

So many things are going through my mind as I make my way towards the medical center. I've got a few things to say to Mr. Ginoza for how he's been the last two weeks. I can accept that he might not want to see me in person but he can at least respond to me by email, to actually answer the messages that I send him. He's completely ignoring me and it's infuriating. I understand that he's been through a lot, from what we know some people would have had a mental break down and their hue would have gotten heavily clouded but it doesn't give him the right to act the way he's acting.

The same nurse as usual is at the front desk. I ignore her like Kagari suggested as I pass by, hearing her telling me that I can't just enter as I please but I simply ignore her and go straight for room seven with her right behind me complaining but I don't care. I open the door ready to unleash all the frustration I've had on my chest for weeks only to find Mr. Ginoza sleeping but the nurse's complains and the sound of the door woke him up.

"Tsunemori?" He asks. He rubs his eyes to wake himself up as he sits up straight, clearly disoriented and half asleep.

"Sorry to wake you." I quickly apologize in a bow when I feel my arm being yank by that nurse as she tries to make me leave the room and I put up a struggle to try to get her to release my arm.

"Its fine, let go of her arm." Mr. Ginoza voices out obliging the nurse to let go of me but I can see that she's not in a good mood at all as she walks away. What's her problem?

I quietly close the door behind me and go take a seat in the chair next to the bed as Mr. Ginoza stretches his arms over his head, a bit more awake now.

"You look good." I tell him not really sure how I should start the conversation since I woke him up and ended up making a complete fool of myself in the process. Kagari was correct when he said that Mr. Ginoza looked much better, the last time I saw him was in here but he was still unconscious at the time.

"I feel better too, especially now that the pneumonia is gone." He quickly replies as he rubs his chest, he sounds in a good mood even though I woke him up so suddenly which is good for me at least.

"So that's what the complications were…" I blurt out almost regretting it when he looks at me rather odd as if he thought that I knew about it. Considering that he was exposed for a large amount of time in the cold he was lucky that pneumonia was the only thing that he got, I've never experienced pneumonia but I've been told that it is really painful, your lungs feel like they are being crushed and that they are on fire as you try to breathe…

I look around the room quickly, his laptop is on the table in the corner and next to it is a broken up clock and it's only now that I notice that there should be one on top of the door but there isn't. Is that was Mr. Kougami said he had fun killing the other day? If so that would explain why the nurses aren't too happy for Mr. Ginoza to get visitors.

"What is it? I doubt it that you came here just to check up on me." His questioned killed the awkward silence taking me out of my thoughts as he looks at me waiting for an answer and yet his eyes are softer than usual, maybe because he's not wearing his glasses but I could get used to that side of him though…

No used walking around in circles and just get to the point as I take a deep breath and hoping that he won't get mad at me for it. "I sent you a message yesterday, you haven't answered me yet. You've been ignoring me for the last two weeks!" There it's said and to my relief his expression hasn't changed.

"I haven't checked my messages yet." Was his response followed by a yarn as he covered his mouth until it passed.

That's a good excuse as any, I don't know what he did yesterday and all I know about this morning is that he was still sleeping when I got here but it still doesn't change the fact for how he's been acting since he got back. "I've been trying to see you every day for the past two weeks but you kept refusing my requests and yet you allowed our enforcers to see you. How do you think that makes me feel?"

A confused expression formed on his face as he rubs his forehead. "I only received one request and that was when I first woke up here and I wasn't feeling well but I had no idea you came by every day after that."

"So that's how it is here then, just be rude and let yourself right in… Now I feel like a fool… I'm sorry for my outburst…" That nurse, she's been lying to me for the last two weeks, she kept telling me that he didn't want to see me when she was the one that didn't want me to see Mr. Ginoza but why? Seriously what did I ever do to her?

"What did you want to talk about Tsunemori? Since you're here we might as well get it over with." He says and yet he's got a point, better discuss the problem I wanted to talk about now than wait for his reply on an email.

"Well Kagari's computer it just isn't working well. Again this morning it froze up just when he was about to submit his report and it just enrages him to no end. He can't get his work done with that thing; it really is a piece of trash." I tell him, still remembering how much he fought with that thing just this morning alone and that's ignoring since I started at the MWPSB which has been way too often for my taste and I can't help but feel sorry for him.

"I made a request for a new one in the beginning of October and it was approved the week later but I don't know when we'll get it." He tells me as he quickly checks his wrist terminal and closes it. I didn't even know that Mr. Ginoza had even made a request for a new computer and apparently Kagari didn't know either so was he trying to do a surprise to Kagari or something? So much as to not get close to the enforcers, Mr. Ginoza is a big softy he just doesn't want to admit it.

"What should I do in the meantime? I mean Kagari can't give me his report because of faulty equipment." I ask. I can't make Kagari try to write up another report on that computer, he'll hate me for sure even if I mention it.

"I'll take care of it." Mr. Ginoza tells me as he gets out of bed.

"Alright then." I get up, I'll take it that it's my time to leave and give Mr. Ginoza some privacy but before I leave I turned my attention back to him as I opened the door. "Is there anything I can do for you Mr. Ginoza?" I ask.

"Get me out of here."

Chapter 16.5

Kougami

Maybe I should have went with Akane to see Gino, I just hope that he won't turn her away or maybe I should have voiced my concern to him about that he hadn't see her once since he got back but I promised pops that I wouldn't nag him about those things. But I'm no stranger when it comes to the medical center and the staffs there are rather special and the nurses are just lazy and not to mention the one at the front desk I've seen her how she looks at Gino. It's quite obvious that she fancies him… She wouldn't go as far as decline Akane to see Gino due to jealousy would she? Somehow it feels plausible.

Akane's been gone over two hours, it's either she's having a long talk with Gino or she's having a hard time to see him because of the nurse or by Gino himself. One thing's for sure if Gino refuses to see her, his head is going to be spinning like hell so for his sake he better see her and be nice. Akane may be small and a little naïve at times but she's got an attitude hiding behind that smile, she can get fired up when she needs to that's without a doubt and I'd hate to be the one caught in her wrath.

"Seventeen days until Gino's birthday so is the party still on?" Kagari asks as he plays his game, from the sound of it my guesses are some sort of shooting game or something.

"Probably." I answer. With Shion planning the party, there's not a chance that it would be canceled. She's actually looking forward to the bet she did last year and from the looks of it when I was questioning Gino in September he doesn't seem to remember it so that will be hilarious but then again considering what he went through it may not be a good idea.

"So how old is Gino going to be again?" Kagari casually asks.

"Twenty-eight." Pops quickly declares, clearly proud and who wouldn't be. If we hadn't taken that gamble or if we had gone on the wrong path in that investigation; instead of celebrating a birthday we would have had attended a funeral instead. For pops seeing his kid grow a year older is more than a prize to him, it means the world.

"That old huh?" Kagari blurts out with a grin on his face as he looks directly at me.

"Are you implying that I'm old?" I shoot back.

"You said it Kou not me." He'll never change but it would be darn boring around here without Kagari around, he helps to change the atmosphere around here. The sound of the door opening catches my attention and well well look at what the cat dragged in.

"Alright listen up, vacation time is over." Gino voices out as he takes his seat and Akane does the same.

"We had a vacation? I must have missed it; I was busy picking a fight with my baby right here." Kagari declares as he pats his broken computer with affection, the fact that it's still on and frozen just makes it more hilarious.

"Anyway it's time we put a wrap on the Seiho Yoshida case. He's been free too long; we have to get him off the streets before more innocents get killed." Gino quickly states ignoring Kagari's sarcastic flirting with the computer but for a few seconds I could see a smile on his face at the younger enforcers joke as he turned his own computer on.

"Gino can I be the guy to ask the obvious question here, exactly how are we going to find him?" Kagari asks as he sits back in his chair.

"I asked inspector Aoyanagi to check something for me and my assumptions were correct." He says as he makes a map hologram appear and a few other files. "The house he used to do his murders actually belonged to an elderly couple and just like with his parents their bank account continued being as active as they were when they were alive. Division two furthermore inspected the property and were able to find the remains however due to the cold, the ground is too frozen to acquire the remains so we will only be able to get them out of the ground once spring comes but from the looks of them, they've been dead for a long time." Gino states as he shows us the pictures that Risa must have taken of the corps. From the look on the pictures I'd say at least six years minimum. I wouldn't give this guy a medal for hiding dead bodies, he buried parts of them but you'd have to be stupid not to notice them.

"Needless to say we asked Shion to run an analysis on all elderly people within the city and division two has been busy verifying if they are in fact all alive. Unfortunately a few just disappeared." Gino states as he makes other files pop up and removes a few so we can see the bank accounts documents of those that went missing, without a doubt the activity says that they are in fact alive just like with the others.

"Safe to assume that their dead." I voice out, so that's how he's been pulling off his stunts. He attacks the elderly, kills them but continues keeping their banking account alive to reduce suspicion and then uses their homes as his hideouts but exactly how many people has he killed over the years?

"Exactly. He claimed that he murdered twenty-one people but by the new evidence found by division two we can assume that the body toll is closer to forty and that's ignoring his claims that he has committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and sodomy." Gino adds.

"This guy is seriously twisted in the head. What I don't get is how he's been able to commit all these crimes and yet he's never been spotted by a street scanner." Kagari's question is one that we would all like to have the answer to but at this point we can just assume that he's just really good at avoiding the scanners.

"Mr. Ginoza, we know a lot about Seiho but none of it actually helps us to find him. We know that the only reason he's gone silent is the fact that he can't attack any inspectors as long that we stay within the bureau's safety." Akane quickly states bringing an excellent point. Chances are that bastard would have continued attacking an inspector right after the other; even he could have come to a decision to take one hostage to get what he wants but when the inspectors were ordered to lay low that eliminated the possibility.

"And that's why we give him a reason to do a move. We let him think that we believe that he's fled the country; that should be enough to get him riled up." So that's the plan, have to admit that it's risky but doable.

"Aah I get it. We pretend to be investigating something; he thinks we're focused on the task at hand while division two has our backs right?" Kagari says as he places his hands in the back of his head and tilts the chair backwards a bit.

"Correct but even so we'll have to stay on high alert at all time." Gino adds as he turns off the hologram images and gets up.

I look at pops from the corner of my eye when I hear him mumble something as he gets up, he has a severe expression on his face and at that moment I know that shit's going to hit the fan. "Wait a darn minute; you're not suggesting what I think you are?"

"Division three will be responsible for any stress levels coming up within the city. Division one and two will be doing a joint effort. Division two will be in hiding while we'll be the main target." Gino continues briefing the plan as if pops didn't say anything at all, probably just trying to avoid an argument but can't say that it's wise on his part. Gino ignoring pops is only fueling his anger at the idea of the operation involving Gino as live bait.

I quickly glance around the room, studying the faces of everyone, pops' not the only one who's thinking the same thing. We all are but none the less it's a gamble but it's one that's certain to work to get Seiho out of hiding so we can shoot him with the dominator the moment that he does. The plan itself isn't bad, it's well thought of but we always have to consider the worst case scenario and right now I don't have any doubt that's what pops is thinking about.

"What on earth are you thinking; you are not going to use yourself as bait to lure in that mad man!" Pops is just not backing off as anger rises in his tone by the minute but no one dares to say anything as we just watch in silence.

"My concern is the public's safety and I'll do whatever it takes to ensure that." Gino shoots back.

"You can't go, I forbid you to go and place yourself back in the depths of that hell near that man!" The tone coming out from pops, I've never heard it before and let alone yell. By Gino's reaction to pops' tone I'd take it as he's never herd him raise his voice either.

"I'M NOT A CHILD!"

"YOU'RE MY CHILD!"

Kagari sunk himself in his chair as pops and Gino started yelling at one another, Kunizuka simply followed both of them with her eyes, not saying anything and I stayed silent. Getting involved in this argument would only turn sour; it's not my place to do so. Gino isn't wrong for wanting to go along with this plan and pops isn't wrong to object to it either, to side with one would only be a bad idea in my position.

"And that's why both Mr. Kougami and Mr. Masaoka are to be with Mr. Ginoza during the operation at all time and I'll be with Ms. Kunizuka and Kagari. At this point I don't see any other option but to go with this plan." Akane quickly cuts in as to try and ease the tension in the air, to say the least it worked, well a little.

"I don't like it." Pops voice out but he cools down fast enough as he sits back down. Nothing he can do much about it being an enforcer, it's the inspector's call and we just have to follow through.

Gino releases a sigh as he walks to the door. "I don't like the idea either but it's just as inspector Tsunemori said, we don't have any other option. The operation starts in less than three hours, use that time to get ready." With that he walks out of the office, in three hours I'll get my chance to get even with that bastard.

This chapter was a bit long. Anyway review, tell me what you guys think. Toodles.