Still, she didn't want to drag him into the same mess that she was in. He had a family that was depending on him, while she only risked herself if something went wrong. That was something she couldn't risk, even if she found that she couldn't lie to him.
So, she leaned back and blew out a breath as she told him. "She wasn't just a friend, she was nearly family."
"Oh, she was?" went Tadeo, "How so?"
"Our dads trained together, and became the best of friends. When she and her father came back to the city after a training journey, they stayed with us. There were a whole lot of things that happened during that time, but they aren't exactly important. What was was the fact that she and I grew close, and I even helped her get married."
"You did?"
"Yeah. Not really hard in a legal sense, but there were some problems which I dealt with."
"So she was close to you?"
"Exactly," the brunette said with a nod.
"But you don't believe that she died the way that it was explained?"
That got a small snort. "I had seen her in action, and if there were that sort of problem, she would have gotten out, no doubt about that. As soon as I heard about it, I knew that something stank about the whole thing. There was no way that she or her husband would have just stayed there like that and died."
"And you don't think that it was suicide?"
"Her? Of course not. For the first time in her life, things were going really well. He doted on her, she loved him and they had losts of money and plenty of people devoted to serving them."
"'Serving'?" her partner asked.
"He was some prince from some long forgotten kingdom, but that's not important. What is happens to be the fact that both of them were in peak physical ability. Neither one should have succumbed so easily."
"Which made you suspicious."
She gave him a tight nod. "With the way that things didn't add up, I sure was."
"Any suspects?"
"Plenty. Any that I can prove? Not a chance."
"Well then, I suppose that means that there is only one question left to ask."
"And what's that?"
"Do you need any help?" Tadeo asked her.
"No... You have enough to worry about with your own family," Nabiki told him with a smile as she reached oer to pat his shoulder, "I can handle this myself."
"You sure about that?"
"Positive. But if I need your help, I'll ask for it, deal?"
"Deal," he replied while:
(Posted Fri, 01 Aug 2003 17:28)
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