Here is chapter 19, I know some of you guys didn't like how the last chapter ended XD well here it is.

Kougami

Pops is ready to move on the signal as Risa backs away to give some distance but stays on high alert and is ready to fire if need be as she alerts her division and the rest of division one to our location so we can regroup and corner that fucking bastard. There won't be a way for him to escape no matter where he tries to run off.

With my own dominator at hand, ready to fire I quickly jump out into the open as I shout out freeze catching Seiho by surprise as he puts his arm around Gino's neck, using him as a shield while he pulls his gun and places it to Gino's head. So the bastard cuffed himself unto Gino I didn't notice that shit, this could be problematic to our plan but it can still work though. He took Gino, tied him up and wants me to believe that he's actually going to kill him. He really must think I'm an idiot; he won't kill him he would have done it already if that would have been the case and he hasn't.

I see Gino saying something to Seiho; I'm not sure what he's telling him but the bastard says something back. It's the expression in his face and the look in his eyes that I don't like as he puts his gun down for a few seconds and it looks like he's about to give up only to put it against his own head. Fuck! He can't be thinking what I think he's going to do. Fuck no! He's going to commit suicide and he's going to kill Gino along with him.

I start running towards them and Gino starts to struggle against Seiho's hold. My gaze switch to the gun as his finger pulls on the trigger followed by a loud crack of the gunshot. Blood splatters covering Gino's head and the worst comes into mind as Seiho goes limp but to my relief the shot missed Gino maybe only by an inch resulting in Seiho only killing himself in his vain suicide to take Gino with him.

My relief is short lived when the weight of Seiho's lifeless body pulls Gino backwards as they fall into the water head first. I quickly threw away my dominator on the ground as I leap into the water right after them. Blood mixing with the water helps to spot them and I swim as fast as I can. I seeing Gino sinking in the distance but he's barely moving as he does a few attempts to go up but the weight of Seiho's dead body just keeps pulling him down and without being able to use his arm isn't helping. By the time I can reach him he's no longer moving and his eyes are closed. I take hold of his face in my hands, he doesn't look hurt but this isn't good.

I wrap my arms around his chest as I try to pull him up but I can't with Seiho's weight, both of them together are too heavy for me to pull on my own. I then reach for the cuffs and I try to break the chain by pulling but it doesn't work so I then try to twist it but again it's no use and I just give up on that, I'll have to find another way to free him. I quickly search Gino's jacket for the keys to the cuffs but there not anywhere on him. I then shift my attention unto Seiho's body as quickly as I can but it's not there either and I'm forced to resurface for air.

"Risa! I need the keys to your cuffs!" I shout as I swim to the pier after catching my breath. She quickly runs towards me as she searches her jacket, wasting no time giving them to me and I re-submerge underwater.

By the time I managed to get to Gino again they've sunk completely to the bottom, blood surrounding them and the adrenaline flowing through my veins in a rush helps to swim faster, too much time has been wasted already. I reach for Gino's right hand unlocking the cuffs setting him free as I speed up to the surface leaving Seiho behind and praying that nothing comes to attack us due to the blood in the water.

Gino's deadweight body is heavier than I could have imagined as I have to use all my strength to stop myself from sinking back to the bottom when I reached the surface and I swim back to the pier. Pops helps to pull Gino out of the water laying him flat on the ground as I climb up on the pier. I look at Gino's body, his lips have a blue tint to them this isn't good he needs to breathe and fast.

Pops carefully tries to cut the zip ties, doing his best not to further injure Gino but his wrists have swollen too much and the ties are already too tight to begin with that pops accidentally cut him a little but once both zip ties were removed the cut wasn't too bad when pops managed to stop the bleeding.

Risa quickly takes over as she completely unzips Gino's jacket, unbuttons his blazer and starts administering CPR to Gino as she checks for his heart beat first and places his head straight, tilting it backwards a little before pinching his nose and opening his mouth as she connects hers to his to blow air into his lungs.

"Mr. Kougami!" Akane's voice catches my attention off Gino and unto her as she's running this way with her dominator in her hands and with a worried expression on her face followed by Kunizuka and a limping Kagari.

I look away to place my attention back unto Gino as I listen to Risa count with each compress she does on Gino's chest but nothing. She tilts his head back again and pinches his nose, opens his mouth meeting hers to blow more air into his lungs and then follows up with ten more compresses to the chest and repeats to blow more air and the cycle continues with no positive results yet.

"Where is Seiho?" Akane asks as she joins me on the pier.

"Down there…" I answer as I nudge towards the water without really caring. He can be fish food and rot for all I care that sick son of a bitch. In the end he chose the death of a coward, he knew he was beaten and he took the easy way out and what further infuriates me is that he tried to take Gino with him.

For a brief second Gino and I made eye contact and at that moment he knew something was wrong and he began to struggle and if he hadn't done that, things would have turned out a lot different, it would have been in a sense a double suicide. Gino lowered his head just at the last minute, shit I never been this scared in my life I honestly thought that was it. Before I saw Gino open his eyes after the shot I thought it was over…

I turn back my gaze unto Risa as she started to burst into tears as she continues administering CPR but without any success. If only I could have broken the chains of the cuffs, if only I could have found Gino's keys to unlock it right then and there… I had to resurface because I ran out of air, I couldn't afford that, Gino couldn't afford that… How is it that every damn fucking time he needs me the most, I'm never fucking there? Fuck!

Is this really how it ends? Gino who had so much he could still do dies while I'm the lowest of the lows, nothing more than a hunting dog and I get to live. That bastard is finally dead, we won the battle but we still lost the war in the end…

A good ten minutes has past already and Gino's not waking or showing any signs of coming back. Pops is anxiously pacing around as he lets Risa work but I can tell all he wants to do right now is hold Gino in his arms. I have to control the urges to just grab Gino's shoulders and just shake him to wake him up but I know that won't do any good. Come on damn it! Gino don't do this to me, wake up!

"Inspector… He's gone…" Kunizuka finally says it out loud after five more minutes goes by as she holds her injured shoulder. Hearing her say those two words just pierced me, I don't want to hear it, I can't accept it. Risa ignores as she continues trying to get Gino to breath but the longer she tries the more she cries and the effectiveness of her CPR is no longer doing much good as she finally breaks down in tears.

Kunizuka gets closer to Risa, she seems to want to give comfort but doesn't know exactly how to approach her as Kagari limps away closer to the edge of the pier starring at the water. Pops walks away and returns as he holds his head, he does this a few times before he finally decides to sit down with his head in his hands, elbows resting on his knees; I don't know what to say. He was against this plan to begin with because it would have placed Gino is danger but… Gino was okay with that if it meant that we would be able to take down Seiho and get him off the streets so no other innocent people would get hurt by him. His reasons for risking it were understandable and I agreed to go along with it because of that. It was only because I was confident that we would have been able to take him down without Seiho even coming near to Gino. I agreed to put on a bulletproof vest even though I didn't think I would even need it considering guns are very hard to get in Japan, it's practically impossible to get one unless your relatives had one from the old days as a relic. It was foolish of me for thinking that Seiho wouldn't have gotten hold of such a weapon and he got me. If it hadn't been for that vest I wouldn't be here right now and who knows what would have happened to Gino. From the looks of it, I'd say he was planning on fleeing the country by boat and I can just imagine the hell Gino would have had to endure. My guesses at that point, I think he would have really committed suicide to escape Seiho's hands, there wouldn't have been any ways for us to go after them. Japan cut off all alliance with foreign countries after Sibyl was established; we wouldn't have been able to ask them for help nor would we have been given permission to go after Seiho to retrieve Gino by the chief even if an inspector had been abducted out of the country. His fate would have been sealed the moment they would have left the borders but now what does it matter… We failed…

Pops was right, thinking back at Gino and pops' argument they had in the office before the operation. Gino stating that he wasn't a child and pops shouting back that he was his child still sends shivers down my spine thinking about it; Gino just wanting to be seen by pops that he was old enough and capable of doing the task but to pops no matter how old Gino would be, he'd always be his child…

"Inspector…" Kunizuka's voice takes me out of my thoughts as I look towards Risa who is still trying to give CPR. She locks her mouth unto his but she barely is able to blow any air as she cries and kisses him before resting her forehead unto his chest clenching onto his soaked shirt.

"We should retrieve Seiho's body before it floats off and people see it causing stress levels to rise." Akane tells me as she puts her dominator away. Her tone isn't too convincing, we are all feeling the same way. We lost, in the end Seiho still won. What he had tried to do by blowing both his and Gino's head at the same time, he directly told us if he couldn't have him then no one could… He still got what he wanted in the end…

"Yeah…" I answer back never removing my gaze on Risa, not caring much about his damn body or the possibility of a possible stress level rising.

"Inspector Aoyanagi… She really loved Mr. Ginoza didn't she?" Her tone was sympathetic as she spoke.

"Yeah…" Was the only thing I could say but I can't bring myself to say the rest.

Did Risa love Gino? She loved him more than anything, she made that evident way too often in the past. She'd jump into a bottomless pit for him and the thing is that he'd do the same for her. Gino told me what happened between them the night Risa had been attacked, how she openly told him how she felt and he did the same, telling her that he just didn't know how he felt but he didn't want her to go when she gave him the choice. They actually ended up sleeping together that night; I can still see his embarrassed face the next day when I asked him what was with him. I knew something was up, that he was hiding something; it was hilarious seeing his face turn red, even more when Risa happened to come in and she quickly left when she realized that I knew.

Just when Risa finally got her wish, everything just falls apart like that in a matter of minutes. Say what you want but this miserable life just isn't fair as it keeps crushing you piece by piece ripping apart the little that you have until your left with nothing. I'm not just saying that because of Risa but for pops as well. He became an enforcer, got taken away from his family and had to live his life in solitude knowing that his family were being treated harshly because of his title. He missed so much on Gino growing up and for a father just knowing he missed all of that must have been hell. He then lost his wife knowing that she had been ill for years and now he just lost his only son, it just isn't fair. A human being can only handle just so much…

The sound of coughing caught my attention as I quickly turn towards the sound to see Gino cough up water as he gasps for air. Pops jolted to his feet so fast and was already by Gino's side using himself as a support for Gino to lie on in a sitting position and Risa began wiping her tears as she gave Gino a hug.

I let out a sigh of relief as I hear the siren of the ambulance in the distance coming closer not long after inspector Shisui arrived with division two's enforcers. Risa quickly takes back her composure before getting up to deal with her division as I take over for her. Gino is slowly regaining conscious as the color returns to his face and the bluish tint in his lips is fading away, showing signs that he's actually alive.

"Seiho?" He asks breaking the silence as pops wraps his arms around him, resting his head against Gino's.

"Dead." I answer back as I give him a smile and he gives me one back before coughing again a few times.

"Dad… Would you come to mom's grave with me?" Gino ask as he lifts his eyes to see pops' expression before closing his eyes.

"I'll go anywhere you want me to son." Pops replies and I leave them be as I join Kagari looking at the water putting more weight on his right leg with a soft smile on his face.

"So who's going to get Seiho out of there?" He asks but more of a playful tone as he tries to hide the pain from his leg.

"Leave it to division two, we did our share." If you really stop to think about it they weren't much help during this whole thing. I look towards Risa, clearly she's scolding her division and by the looks of it she wants them to go fetch Seiho and they don't look too please about it either which is funny but they can at least do that. We did our job, we deserve a break. I offer Kagari support to help him walk but he brushes it off as we make our way to the paddy wagon that just arrived. Kunizuka is the first to enter and we follow as the ambulance takes off and pops joins us, I know he would have given anything to ride in that ambulance with Gino but he's content. The doors begin to close, shutting out the light and the last I see before all goes black is Akane's smile.

This brings this fic to a wrap. I will thank to all the people who have read each chapters and messaged me every time. You guys are the sweetest.

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