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This is the second story of a series! Please go to my profile to start at the beginning, if you favor this couple and don't want to hear the rest... well I guess I can't stop you... but I warned you.
Ami was reading her book and munching on her low fat pumpkin muffin when the scream was heard. She frowned and made a red mark in her book. She quickly pulled out her cell phone and called up the police, "yes I would like to report a dead body in the alley on 54th meets 72nd, yes my name is Ami, thank you." Ami hung up her cell phone and made another mark with her red pin. 'Two grammar marks in on one page? This is going to be a hard read,' she thought with a sigh.
A to Z an Ami and Zoicite story
"Maybe he was it by a rock falling from above," one of the policemen said looking at the dead man as they cleared the area for inspection.
"But there are some marks on his shirt that looks like it was burned," said another officer raising his eye brow at the other.
"Well then maybe the rock was on fire," said the first policeman editing his theory slightly.
The chief walked in to the crime scene shaking his head, 'this is what I have to work with? Good thing crimes are rare this day in age.'
"Start cleaning up this place, if a nail is out of place I want it marked," said the chief as the policemen went about their job.
"Who called it in chief?" asked the officer in charge.
"The only witness we have, a girl named Ami," said the chief looking at his rarely used notepad as he creased the fresh paper to fold back.
"Who has the case?" asked the officer hoping for the challenge.
"My superior called up and had someone special brought in for this case," said the chief with a sigh. He rarely got a call from his boss but to have someone called in? Clearly this case was larger then he thought.
"Wow boss I didn't know you had a superior," said the officer slightly taken back. This was the first time the chief even mentioned such a person.
"Everyone has a boss kid. Even the queen answers to someone," said the chief with a cheeky smile.
"Please get into the bath tub," Serenity was on her knees to reach the height of her daughter who was abnormally stubborn. "Please Rini, do you want to be stinky? Everyone walking around wondering if it's you." No matter how much Serenity begged her daughter would stomp her foot and her head would shake no, she didn't blame the girl. The poor child rarely got time with her mother and if a small tiff would get her just one more minute Rini would keep it up.
Serenity's communicator went off and forced the queen to stand to her actual height and answer the call.
"Serenity what are you doing?" asked Luna, Serenity was already late for a meeting.
"Saving the world from Rini's stench!" Serenity said sarcastically as Luna could hear Rini in the background saying,
"I'm not stinky!"
"Tell that to the people who walk by and then promptly faint. I'm sorry Luna but could you send Endymion? I'm locked into negotiations with stinky pits," she said as the small girl crossed her arms, then as subtle as a child could be smelt under her arms. Luna let out a deep sigh but agreed and Serenity shut her communicator only to go back down to Rini's level. "Ok will you take a bath if I take one with you?" Serenity saw the little girls face light up.
"Will there be bubbles?" asked Rini in glee.
"Oh yes there is always bubbles," Serenity said picking up her only child her prize and joy.
A tall man with shoulder length blond hair got out of the transport unit in front of the police station. Its been a while since he was in the Tokyo Police Station but he still remembered the way to the chiefs office. Knocking only to enter without being allowed in Zoicite stepped inside to see an older looking man and an officer holding paperwork clearly reviewing the file.
"Ah good to see you made it so quickly mr...," said the chief coming up to Zoicite to shake his hand.
"Anderson, Zoicite. I hear you have a case for me," Zoicite said shaking the chiefs hand. The policeman looked at Zoicite surprised, they brought in this young punk to do the case?
"Yes, a man was killed in an alley. No ID yet but this guy is a little hard to trace," said the chief offering the folder out to Zoicite.
"Is there any witnesses?" Zoicite asked reviewing the paperwork.
"Just one, a lady named Ami Mizuno. We have her number if you would like to call her up. Her number is in the file," the chief said as Zoicite was already pulling out his cell phone and dialing up the number.
"Do I have an office?" Zoicite asked quickly as the officer pointed to the room right next door. He nodded and finished dialing the number leaving the two men blinking.
"Hola Ami hablando," Ami said answering the phone cheerfully. Zoicite blinked and took a while to respond, this lady spoke spanish?
"Hello this is the Tokyo Police Station," Zoicite said hesitantly hoping his one witness knew Japanese. After a slight pause Zoicite thought he lost her on the other line.
"Yes, I would guess this is a call back about the body in the alley," said Ami in perfect Japanese, Zoicite gave a sigh of relief.
"Yes it is I was just..." Zoicite was cut off by the the woman again.
"Have you gone over the evidence?" Ami asked rather quickly. Zoicite paused again, what was up with this lady?
"Well no, I just got it," he said honestly he had an odd feeling he could only tell the truth to this stranger, even if he tried to lie she could probably tell quickly.
"Oh my then we are talking much too soon," at that there was a dead tone.
"Wha?!" Zoicite couldn't believe it. Did his one witness just hang up on him? This is so cheap.
Nik was rather surprised to get a call from Lita. The past few weeks have been interesting. Well if you consider meeting a beautiful woman dating her and then finding out she owned the largest planet in the solar system. It was just starting to sink in for Nik. "Hey Lita you off work?" he asked shuffling his paperwork to the other hand to talk easily.
"Yes hugged a baby, christened a new boat and got some training in its my police force. I should be free for the next few days," Lita lips circled into a smile. She felt like such a sneaky girl. None of her friends know Neflight was reborn and she wasn't about to tell them.
"Hugged a baby eh? Such dedication, how about I treat you to dinner for your hard work?" he cooed playfully.
"I bet I will beat ya to your apartment!" was Litas joyous reply ending the call and finishing up the last of her paperwork.
If there was a maximum capacity for Zoicites oak desk he passed it a week ago. He was moving along in this case in millimeters, no, even a smaller form of measurement. Well it would help if he knew who had died, but the dead body had yet to be identified. Nothing absolutely nothing was at the scene hinted about the cause of death. So far the dim witted policeman's 'flaming rock' theory was looking good. And to top it off he was about to file a missing persons report on his only witness because she hasn't answered any of his calls!
Zoicite let out a deep sigh and pushed the case papers back, he practically has them memorized, the cournier told him two very important clues. The first that the burns were not actually burns at all more like frost bite. How was that even possible in the down town Tokyo alley way? The other clue was the man was a celic, which meant his body went through childhood quickly. Actually a person with celic could go through their first twenty years of life in just three years. This was a strong lead, since celic is so rare Zoicite is hoping to find the bodies name through the birth effect.
Zoicite knew a lot about celic's from being one himself. He had the look of a twenty-three year old but actually he was about four years old. His syndrome stopped very recently, abnormally late, people with celic's normally stop growing at the perceived age of eighteen. Some rare cases varied. Zoicite just so happened to be one of them, he excelled at school, most celic's did. Some believed that it was because most of them remember their past life. Still some cases didn't remember anything so it was never proven. Zoicite wheeled back in his chair and looked to the window. On the wall was a piece of paper framed, it was the release form from the person handing him over to the orphanage he grew up at. Sadly this page was the only connection to the person he assumed to be his parent, there wasn't even a name but the hand writing was very elegant. This was his only clue to who they were.
Getting back to work he looked at the report once again. 'The body had a black pocket of dark matter next to his heart. Substance unknown but it was helping the heart pump blood. Zoicite read this line over and over knowing it must be another clue. Connected to the heart... Like giving it energy? Gosh, this was just too confusing for him. Break, yes, that's what he needed. So me coffee or even tea. Something to get his mind off of working and cracking this case.
"Hey Mercury long time no talk and for us one week is like a year," said Venus into her cell phone.
"I had to make an emergency trip to my planet that look longer then expected," said Mercury just getting off the transport unit.
"Ah yes the reception is a little weak we should get that fixed. I can't call up Haruka without it being all scratchy. Just yesterday I called her up and it was actually Michiru. Low blow on my part, Haruka is going to make fun of me for years, I just feel it coming. This is the only time rarely seeing them is a good thing...Why did you go away anyways?" asked Mina ranting on and on with no easy way to cut in.
"Another issue with the reception? Arg add it to the list. The polarity on my planet got messed up and for a planet that is constantly striving to keep both halfs a good temperature...it was bad news. I will have to draft up some revisions to the core unit in my non existent spare time. If you talk to me about quantum physics I might hang up on you," Ami sighed, normally when she goes to her planet it's a bit more relaxing but this week she barley got to sleep a few hours for the whole week. Now all she really wanted was go to a nice coffee shop get her pumpkin muffin and read her poor grammared book.
"I'm certainly never going to bring up quandoom or whatever you just said. Sadly I have to get back to my own work. We should all have dinner sometime! Ciao," and with that Mina hung up her phone not even giving the chance for Ami to say goodbye or tell Mina a dinner out with everyone was almost impossible. Ami shook her head, no more of those thoughts she had a hot date with Cinderella's last pumpkin cooked into a wonderful muffin waiting for her.
The maid for the police station peeked into Zoicite's office, taking that moment to sneak in and clean up. Sweeping around the large desk her broom handle hit one of the desks corners making the table shift and a stack of papers cascaded down onto the floor. The maids eyes got big but as she let out a sigh of rest of papers from the desk crashed down soon after. She started to well up in shock, she knew there was no way she could clean everything back up correctly.
Zoicite briskly walked across the street in a hurry to get his favorite drink and with luck a pumpkin muffin he had been craving. The door let off a small jingle alerting the staff of his arrival. There wasn't much people in the place 'perfect' he thought, just what he needed. He walked up to the counter and rubbed his hands together in glee over his wonderful selection. He was still in decision mode when the helper came over.
"Hello, what can I get for you today?" asked the helper with a smile.
"Extra hot Earl gray tea and a pumpkin muffin," he said making up his mind.
"I'm sorry sir but the lady over there bought the last one for today," the worker pointed over to a girl sitting alone reading a book and there was a half eaten muffin. Zoicite found himself doing a double take at the girl, maybe it was her odd blue hair color, it wasn't too abnormal in this modern age but he had never seen someone wear it so well. Almost like it was apart of her personality. The helper coughed trying to not be rude but Zoicite was staring at her a little long and the worker wanted to get back to cleaning.
"Just give me a berry scone then," he said with a sigh. He quickly paid for his food and went back to looking at the girl.
Ami felt eyes on her and just had to look up to see who was giving her such an intense stare. Seeing Zoicite standing here she nearly dropped her book. She wasn't suppose to see him now! A few more days of cat and mouse then dress up drop dead gorgeous to meet up with him. This jet lag indulgence Ami wasn't suppose to be introduced for another few months. His hair was shorter then he kept it in his past life, she certainly liked it better that way. Ami smiled up at him, "I was wondering when you would find me," she said up to Zoicite who looked around checking if the lady was talking to anyone else, then picking up his scone and tea.
"Unless you lost yourself Zoicite, then we are in a bit of a mess," said Ami frankly, all his tests went fine, of course she forgot how scatter brained he could be. He came over and sat in the chair opposite her.
"You took the last muffin," he said first giving her a sideways glance as if he wouldn't trust a word she said.
"Yes I hold that distinction," she said then eating some, Zoicite thought it was to spite him.
"You know my name," he stated then thinking that he should of brought up to start.
"And you know mine," she said back with a smile. Zoicite then got confused he knew her? Ok maybe she seem familiar but a name? "I mean you have been calling me all week," she then closed her book and took a drink of her coffee. Zoicites jaw fell open, it was now his turn to almost drop something. This was Ami? This was the lady who called in his case? The one witness he has? The one and only person he has wanted to talk to all week and she is now eating his muffin?!
"You can have some of it if you want," Ami said breaking Zoicite of his thoughts.
"What?" he was in such deep thought her voice almost made him jump again.
"The pumpkin muffin, if you stare it down any more it might combust," Ami said wanting to pull the poor thing out of view.
"Um no," he quickly moved his glance to her, "I actually wanted to talk to you," then giving her a good look. She was a smaller girl, certainly fitting for Japan but she also looked off worldly. Maybe she wasn't from this planet? Could that explain the lack of communication? Ami started to shuffle in her seat slightly uncomfortable with the intense gaze.
"Well Ami, what do you do?" he asked thinking it's good to open up questioning with something light, nothing dramatic like 'did you see a person running from the scene?' got to work up to those questions.
"I'm a book editor," Ami said picking up the hard bound book as proof, his eyebrow raised.
"Doesn't editing normally happen in manuscript form?"
"I have it bound for my reading pleasure," Ami said with a smile.
"Ok, why were you in the area of the crime?" he didn't want to be here all day asking her questions.
"Oh just passing through," then taking another bite from the muffin.
"Anything odd about the area?" Zoicite just pinching around for any facts.
"Overcast, it's not normal for clouds to formulate at such a low altitudes," Ami said after taking a pause to seriously consider the question. Zoicite blinked, great his witness noticed the clouds! Well that is just what he needed. His shoulders slumped visibly or was it just visible to Ami. "Anything else?" a simple plea in his voice.
"Have you found out the name of the person that had died?" Ami thought it might be a little harsh of her to drag him along like this, there wasn't a lot of evidence to go off of, she knew that for certain. Zoicite blatantly averted his eyes,
"No," he sounded like a young boy who wasn't getting his way. Ami shuffled around her things to find a pen.
"Well I have to go but if you go to this address at this time you might get more answers," she said writing some words down on a napkin packing up her things to go.
"But why can't I just talk to you?" he said getting up as she prepared to leave.
"Maybe later, bye Zoicite," and with that she quickly went toward the door only turning the last second to say, "and you can have the last part of the muffin."
Zoicite stood there with his mouth open and his head tilted to the side. He wondered how she knew his name, when he called her last he just said it was the Tokyo police station. Maybe she knew more then she was leading on. He flopped down in the open chair discouraged. Grabbing the muffin and taking a big bite he looked down at the napkin there was an address and just one name, "Rei Hino?"