Rajveer and all the cadets sat at the dining table. Rajveer was siting at the head while Naina sat at on his side.She still hadn't said a word. She was staring at him silently. Rajveer decidedly looked at the others.He gaze was somehow different, filled with innumerable questions. It made him really nervous. He decided to steer away.

"Guys. I know tum logon ke mann mei mere liye unginat sawal honge.Confused honge ki yeh sabkya ho raha hai . Jo mein kar raha hu ye sahi hai ya galat. Mein tumlogon se kuch nai chupana chahta. I want to give you guys all the information so that you know what you are getting into. And I will totally understand if you'll want to backout. So you can ask me anything. Anything.  So who wants to go first ."

Pooja raised her hand.

"Yes, Cadet Ghai"

"Sir,Kya aapne Col Shakti Chandra ko maara tha?"

Everyone stared at her. " What?" , she said "Sir only said ask anything. And it is best to be clear from the start."

Rajveer smiled at her. " You are right Cadet Ghai. It is good to clear everything  out. And I will answer your question. He was killed by the bullet from my gun, but I did not press the trigger.In the struggle, the trigger was pulled. I did not kill him." Rajveer concluded firmly.

Huda put up his hand. 

"Yes, Cadet Huda".

"Kya aapne Captain Naveen ko maara tha ?"

Rajveer took a deep breath, glanced once at Naina and turned to Huda. " That depends on what you call killing Cadet Huda. Captain Naveen was being slow poisoned. The entire army was behind him. In that state, he requested me to free him, which I did. I regret that situation , but I do not regret what I did".

"Yes, Cadet Yudi".

"Sir, Col Shakti ka aur Captain Naveen ke case ka kya relation hai ?"

"Mein Captain Naveen ka case kai saalon se investigate kar raha tha. Col Shakti mere commanding officer the. KMA mein, mujhe unhone hi bheja. But I din't know ki woh mujhe pe nazar bhi rakhe hue the. When I started coming close to the Red box, he started watching me closely. When I got my hands on the Red box, he confiscated it from me. He had his orders. I requested him to show me the Red box. He had denied, but I begged him to let me see it once. He reluctantly agreed. Once, I saw the contents, everything that happened with Naveen was crystal clear. He had the proof of he conspiracy that was happening at the army. Many official's names were in the box. No wonder the person who was at the head of this operation wanted it gone. Naveen had even put his own blood report in the papers which proved that they were close to him too. Naveen must have known his end was near, that is why he hid the red box and made the code so that someday , me, Abhi and Naina can get it and finish his mission. I thought that would be it. But on that day", he gestured towards Pooja. "You know what happened. We lost the box and I was kidnapped. But then, someone started contacting me saying they will give me the red box back, IF I do something for them in return. I agreed not because I believed them , but because, I wanted to be in contact  and know more about this person. I was waiting for a small slip from their end so that I could know who they really were."

"Col Shakti and I were working on this case. We had both understood that someone was playing with us. Col Shakti used his influence and old friends in finding out more about the people whose name we saw in the red box. He must have found out something that put him in danger. And he went AWOL. I did my best to try and find him but couldn't. Then on the day before your mission, the same person contacted me again asking me to meet him. I went and walked right into their trap."

Naina looked at him . He was doing so much under the wraps. In KMA , he was teaching them, playing football with them, occasionally spending time with them, but behind closed doors he was fighting a war...for her brother. She felt ashamed of the way she behaved with him, blaming him , accusing him, hiding the code from him.

"Yes,Cadet Alekh"

"Sir, aap jaante the ki yeh log kaise hai, toh aap akele kyun gaye ?"

"Kisse kehta ? Kaun meri baat pe yakeen karta . Kisine ne Red box ke contents nahi dekhe. Aur mein kis pe bharosa karta ? Iss system mein kaun sahi aur kaun galat pehchanna mushkil tha. Mujhe pata tha ki mein mana kar sakta tha, par mujhe yeh risk lena tha. Agar mujhe kisi bhi tarah woh saboot milne ka mauka tha, toh mein usse gavana nahi chahta tha."

The cadets considered him strangely. He took such a huge risk for ..?

Rajveer realized how it looked. None of them knew his friendship with Naveen. They all knew Naveen as Naina's brother only.

"Naveen was a good army officer, guys. A great soldier and a great friend. He deserved to get his honor back."

"Yes Cadet Ali."

"Sir, jo log yeh kar rahe hai, unke haathon red box aa chuka tha. Toh woh aapko kyun fasa rahe the?"

"Kyunki mein aur COl Shakti Chandra iss baat ko chod nahi rahe the. Hum donon hi the jisne uss red box ke contents ko dekha. Aur unhe laga hoga, ki hum donon ko khatam kar denge, toh woh red box ki existence ki baat hi kabhi bahar nahi aayega."

All of them nodded.They understood what a huge conspiracy was woven to silence him. He was just fighting for the truth as Naveen was. How powerful were these people who could do so much. How ruthless.

Rajveer slowly looked at Naina. However he tried not to look at her, there was a magnetic pull that ultimately made him look towards her. The same thing used to happen in the academy. Only he knew how he had trained himself not to get lost in the pool of her deep black eyes. She was staring at him, stone faced.

Rajveer immediately looked away. " Toh agar sab ke sawal khatam toh.."

"Mera ek sawal hai sir." Naina said.

Alekh looked at Naina.

 Kya aap mujhse pyaar krte hai ?