New Beginnings
A Psycho-Pass fanfic
Inspector Kiru Hodosan watched the rays of light slowly drift in between the buildings. The sun was setting quickly, and he had to move quickly before his target managed to outrun him again. Unfortunately, the new Enforcer was late, and it was looking like it might cost him the case.
That was when he saw her. Probably the most beautiful woman he would ever see. Her blue eyes shone with confidence, and her brown hair fell around her shoulders like a waterfall of dark, creamy chocolate. She held out her hand for him to shake. "The name's Doneako. I'm the new Enforcer assigned to work with you. Pleased to meet you, senpai!"
The Inspector was more than a little taken aback. "Pleased to meet you too, Enforcer," He said, shaking her extended hand warily. He knew from experience that you couldn't trust someone just based on their looks. But this woman's looks were so good it was almost as if she was meant to be trusted.
With great effort, he shook off the enchantment and turned towards the alleyway before him. "Earlier this week, a man by the name of Watare Hotomaki was flagged by a street scanner and slated for therapy. He agreed to go, but then never showed up to the session. Earlier this morning, we sent some people to his residence to check in on him. It was completely abandoned. Thankfully, we were able to track him to around this location, and as far as we know this is where he still is."
"So the plan is just to go in and apprehend him?" Doneako asked. Kiru gave her a nod, and she nodded back. "Sounds easy enough. Wanna get to it?" She grabbed a Dominator from nearby and immediately started down the alleyway. Shocked, the inspector called after her, but she just kept on walking. Cursing, he lifted his own Dominator and ran after her.
Doneako moved quickly, checking her corners and doing everything she could to remain at her very best. She wanted to make the very best of impressions on the new inspector. Especially after seeing him in person… but for now she had to stay focused on the matter at hand; finding Watare Hotomaki.
If I can find the target, maybe senpai will notice me! She thought. With this motivation, she continued on, moving like a hunting cat stalking its prey. As she made her way through the labyrinthine streets, she moved faster and faster, her excitement growing with each step.
The Inspector was barely able to keep up. He had almost completely lost her when she saw a flash of motion out of the corner of her eye. She signaled to him, and then silently moved towards the place where she had seen the movement.
She turned the corner and this time she saw him, a middle-aged man wearing a loose dress-shirt. She pointed the Dominator at him, and it confirmed his identity as Hotomaki. It also confirmed that his Psycho-Pass score was 132. The trigger unlocked, and she fired off a paralyzer shot. It hit him squarely in the back, and he fell to the ground.
She turned around just as the Inspector rounded the corner. "Look senpai, I did it!" She exclaimed with a proud look on her face. He just responded with his own look of surprise, and then he called in to report the occurrence.
Once they got back to the CID headquarters, he had to spend quite a bit of time debriefing her. There were a lot of questions that needed asking about the state of the target and the circumstances under which she had fired her Dominator and just what on earth she had thought that she was doing?! She seemed rather anxious the entire time, even after Kiru had finished asking the questions and started filing away his reports. Finally, she spoke up. "Senpai… did I do well?" She asked timidly.
Yet again, Kiru was rather surprised by this unique woman sitting across from him. He answered without quite regaining his composure, and as such his mouth kind of ran ahead of his mind. He had no idea what he was saying or why he was saying it, but this is what came out: "I'm going to answer that question with a question, Doneako. Would you like to go out with me? Not on a proper date, since you're an Enforcer, but you know, maybe we could go to lunch sometime? Like, now? I'll even buy it!"
Now Doneako was looking pretty surprised, too. "What, are you serious?" He nodded in response. After thinking on it a while, she finally gave her response. "Sure, I'll have lunch with you." She smiled at him as she said it, and in return he gave her a huge grin. He still had no idea what he was doing as they walked to get lunch. But he had decided that whatever it was, he liked it.
An hour and a half later, they had finished their meal and were on their way back to Doneako's quarters. They were having a wonderful time. But Kiru could still see some anxiety hidden in the Enforcer's expression. "Doneako, what's wrong?" He asked.
She looked up from her food slightly, blushing just a bit. "Well… you never answered my question before. About whether I did well or not."
Kiru laughed a bit, startling her. "I must not have been clear enough," He said, seeming rather amused by the situation. "When I asked you out, it was because you did well. You did fantastic, really. Well, that and the fact that you seem to be a funny, daring, gorgeous girl who no man in his right mind could resist… sorry, am I laying it on too thickly?" He asked, seeing her blushing much harder now.
"No, not at all… in fact, you're much kinder to me than most people are. But… aren't you afraid that your hue will get all cloudy? I mean, if you hang around with me too much, alongside working with me, wouldn't your psychological stress level go through the roof?"
He grabbed her hand softly and caringly, making her blush even more; by now she was so red that he half expected her head to explode. He found it absolutely adorable. "First of all, my hue isn't exactly as clear as can be, either. In fact, at this point I'm kind of surprised that they still keep me on as an Inspector. Suffice to say, I've had a… troubling past. Second of all, I cannot think of a single way in which being around you could ever, ever be stressful. Ok?"
She nodded, incredibly flustered, still blushing like crazy. "Y-yes, senpai!" She replied. Then she stopped in front of a particular door. "These are my quarters… I guess I'll see you later, senpai?"
Kiru grinned. "You most definitely will, beautiful," He said. And then he did one more thing that surprised them both a great deal. He leaned in and kissed her right on the lips, softly and lovingly, a chaste kiss, but one that conveyed everything he was feeling for her at that moment, all the compassion and happiness and yes, possibly even love. As he finally pulled away and walked off, he knew this was the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
