Disclaimer: I don't own Hana Yori Dango, I just like writing about it. so please don't sue me cuz I have no money anyways.
It was early morning. Tsukushi Makino walked out of her apartment building heading for the subway station just a block away. A crisp cold wind blew past her and Tsukushi shivered, pulling her coat tightly around her.
'Brrr, fall already and soon it's going to be winter,' Tsukushi thought.
She never really liked the fall and especially winter. In her mind she could never get warm enough no matter how many layers of clothing she put on. However she would never think of moving away from New York City to live in a place where it is constantly hot even if she did like spring and summer. She loved living in the city too much because it held so much diversity and eclectic things where nothing and nobody were really the same. She rushed down the stairs of the subway station and squeezed herself in the train along the other people rushing to work. She got off her stop and headed to her workplace. She had been working as a detective in the FBI for a few years now and loved her job. Solving crime was her passion and the people she worked with were a bonus. Yuki Matsuoka was her coworker and closest friend. Tsukushi even had her boss Greg Shepard acting as a father figure to her sometimes. She smiled as these thoughts and entered the lobby doors She was about to head towards her office when her boss called her name.
"Detective Makino, can you come in here for a moment please?"
"Good morning Detective Shepard, you wanted to talk to me?" Tsukushi asked and looked at her boss who was in his early fifties.
"Makino, please sit down. I know this is very unprofessional of me to do telling you at the last minute but I have just received a call from a man in the CIA. He wanted the FBI to with together with the CIA on the baby doll case that we have been working on for the past month. They have sent one of their best lead detectives to come here and work with us."
"I see, well I think it would actually be a good idea. We need all the help we can get," Tsukushi commented.
Shepard looked at her uneasily then and said, "Well yes, and since you're one of the people who's in charge of this case the man from the CIA and I agreed that it would be best if you partner up with the guy they will send here."
"What?! What do you mean partners?! I don't need to have a partner, plus how could you just tell me in the last minute!" Tsukushi exclaimed as she bolted up from her seat, her eyes becoming red with anger.
"Eh. Hehehe. Makino, calm down," Shepard said as he cowered down from his desk while sweat rolled down from his forehead.
"I had no choice in the matter, the CIA called me just this morning. There was no way I could tell you any other way."
"Fine, but why me? There are four other people working with me on this case. Why weren't they picked to be partnered with this guy?"
"Well, because all of the other four are men and we need two people of the opposite sex on this case for reasons I will tell you in a few minutes. Plus, the CIA had said that although the guy they are sending here is one of their best, he also has a slight personality deficiency. So I though, who could be more better to handle him than you?"
Tsukushi was looking at her boss as if he grew another head.
"What the hell do you mean 'a slight personality dificiency'?" she asked. "If he has some mental problem, then he shouldn't be in the CIA in the first place!"
"Well, I wouldn't call it that. It's just that the people in his job found it difficult to say the least to work with him."
Tsukushi sighed in defeat, "Fine, so does this guy have a name?"
"His name is Tsukasa Doumyouji. He's suppose to be arriving here in a few minutes."
As if on cue, there was a knock on her boss' door. A tall man came in and Tsukushi had to crane her neck a bit to look at him. He had a blank expression on his face and turned to Tsukushi.
"So, are you suppose to be the one I'm working with. If you are, as long as you stay out of my way we'll get along. I don't need to babysit a girl while working on this case."
Tsukushi stared at him in shock and starting getting red with anger.
'Who the hell does this person think he is?! And he dared call me a 'girl'. I'm 27 years old for crying out loud!'
"Look here asshole, I didn't ask for this either. And I have never or will ever need a fucking babysitter. I've taken care of myself all my life so you better watch your damn mouth," Tsukushi retorted.
Doumyouji just looked back at her with eyes turning into slits. He was about to say something back when her boss intervened.
"Enough! Detective Doumyouji, you weren't sent here so that you can have a fight with one of my people. Both of you are going to work together whether you like it or not or I'll throw the both of you out of this case."
The only reply Shepard got from the two angry people was a 'hhmp'.
"Now, I don't want to do that because I need the both of you in an undercover assignment the FBI and CIA has set up. You'll be disguising yourselves as a couple. We believe the murderer of the baby doll case is temporarily residing in the city so it's your job to investigate him and eventually catch him with enough evidence. Do you both understand that?" Shepard asked them with a stern look.
"Yes, I understand," Tsukushi said. She knew it was no use fighting with her boss when he gives that tone of voice.
"Yeah, whatever," Doumyouji replied.
"Good, now before you both leave, Tsukushi you'll be sharing your office with Doumyouji for a while, I've already had men put an extra desk in there," Shepard said as he closed his door on the two. 'Well this is going to be interesting. I hope those two don't kill each other.' Shepard thought as he went back to his paperwork.
