The Ghost Hunters chapter 1/opening
"Detective Arisawa, I apologize for pulling you away from your work but, there are some suspicious people asking to see you."
Tatsuki Arisawa looked up from the crime scene, Confusion written over her face. "Suspicious people?"
"Yes ma'am, they are both armed and refuse to state their names, when one of the officers attempted to apprehend them, they evade him until he crashed into a wall and fell unconscious" the officer responded sharply.
"How where they armed?" the detective asked a hint of understanding and anger could be heard underneath her confused tone.
"One of them, a tall man dressed as a cowboy had a pair of revolvers, one on each hip. The other was a young man looked about 14 maybe 15, silver hair, in a suit and tie. He had a long katana strapped to his back" as the officer described the pair the previous undertones blossomed full force on the young detectives face.
"Help those two detectives with the crime scene." Tatsuki ordered the officer. "Urashima, get over here we're going to see what these guys want!" she called to her partner as she practically bowled over every other person in the room on her way to the door.
Police chief Harai was the type of person who like to do things hands on, in the front lines so to speak. He didn't like to sit behind a desk, sign paper, and read reports. He also liked to know what was going on in the lives of he subordinates so that he could make their lives easier, help them out, and keep them safe. It was for the latter two reasons that he had come to hate any thing to do with detective Tatsuki Arisawa. It wasn't like was she a bad detective. Oh no far from it, in fact she was the best detective in the department often solving crimes that were closed and considered unsolved able or one's from other department. No Arisawa's problem came from two sources her fearless dare devil/ independent spirit and the skeletons in her closet. Harai knew Arisawa was a good cop and a good person. He also knew she was as clean as she could be. But, as clean as she could be, does not mean clean. Which why when he heard that a pair of armed individuals were looking for her he bolted for his car.
"Its very rude to pull some one away from their work, Stark, Toshiro." Tatsuki greet the armed men coldly.
"Don't be like that Tatsuki. You know I'd rather be sleeping than dragging you out here but orders are orders. So cut us some slack." The tall man replied.
"You know Stark, I would have but you just had to show up at a crime scene, ARMED and than you practically force the police officers to come find me." All watching the exchange could practically see flame flying from the women's mouth. "This is Japan for god sake, a katana is one thing but guns?! What possessed you to walk up to dozens of cops wearing contraband proudly on your person? Are you trying to get arrested?"
The cowboy scratched the back of his head awkwardly be for yawning, "sorry girl but it was kind of a rush an-"
Tatsuki cut him off. "But you had no right to do this in fact I believe it is specifically my right that you do not interrupt my wor-"
"Unless it is a priority 2 directive or higher. " For the first time the boy with silver hair spoke. "And while we do apologize for the inconvenience, our job was to deliver this to you" the boy's sharp green eyes piercing through all his listeners souls freezing them in place. He held out his hand and gave Tatsuki what looked like a tiny golden USB. The detective's eyes widened at the object in her hand. "We are also to inform you that there will be a meeting for all full members. It seems finally Icarus has his wing." And with that the boy turned around. "We should go Stark, I'm sure Lillynette will be glad to spend some time with you. See you later Arisawa."
The cowboy sighed as he turned to follow his friend "and here I thought I could take a nap." Behind them Tatsuki was paleface and muttering to herself.
Mitoko Urashima knew he wasn't the most the most observant individual to walk the face of the earth. But he had been with his partner for almost 2 year so he knew a thing or two about Tatsuki Arisawa. First she trained her ass off every day, in the gym, on the punching bag, in the ring, sprints, swimming, you name it she could do it and would work damn hard at it. The second she was a damn good detective and a good person. The third is that she was independent and did things at her pace. "Criminal making a break for it? I just walk after them." "They're getting away?" "That's fine I know where their going so there's nothing to worry about." "High speed chase at double the speed limit?" "They'll run out of gas at some point, no rush." No the usual rules about time and rushing did not apply to Detective Arisawa. The fourth thing Urashima knew was that his partner had a gold bracelet that she always wears and always fit her outfit whether it was standard uniform, casual or formal. The bracelet had black intersecting lines that resembled a circuit board. The fifth and most important was that Tatsuki Arisawa was absolutely indisputably fearless. Robbers armed with fully automatic weapons hold up in a bank surrounded by bullet prove glass? No problem I'll just charge the open 100 yards to the bank window empty my clip into the glass before smashing the panel by running through it so I can engage the bandits in hand to hand combat. How about a serial rapist with a thing for homicide and women with Tatsuki's body type and age? "That's very convenient let's set up a sting operation." or a brand new crime syndicate that takes over the Karakura underground and rules it for 5 YEARS without the police ever having heard of the group before and even then they only found out because that crime group explicitly told the police how they themselves exists. "So some names changed, big deal. Its not like it really changes anything about what we do." Yes, the women known, as Detective Tatsuki Arisawa was not supposed to know what fear was like.
And that was why it was so unnerving to see her sitting in their police cruiser right now. Her face was pale and tight with worry, her eyes flitted around cautious of every movement around her. She was tense, almost jumpy and her posture was a kin to a wild animal, ready to attack or run at the first sign of danger. On top of that Urashima was probably the only one close enough to hear what his partner had been saying as the pair had left.
Frankly he wanted answers, answers that probably only Tatsuki had. But he knew that pressing the issue now was a bad idea. Whatever those two had said had shaken his partner and right now she need support not more pressure.
I have to go comfort her sooner or later might as well get this ov- Is that the chief? Urashima thought to himself. That was, the chief would want answers and probably would be tactful about getting them. Normally the chief would leave personal business alone until you brought it up yourself, but two armed men had practically threatened a dozen of his officers and one of said officers had gotten hurt, admittedly through his own stupidity but that didn't matter much, to the chief this was no longer personal, his officers were in danger and that was all that mattered to him.
Urashima ran over to his cruiser hope to temper the chief's interrogation. "Chief I-" Urashima call as he reached the car.
"How much can you tell me?" chief Harai asked his hard eyes demand Tatsuki answer. Wait, what? 'How much can you tell me?' 'Not what's going on' or 'who were they'? Does the chief know something? His thoughts where interrupted as Tatsuki answer Harai.
"Not much, unfortunately. He's called a full meeting. I don't know why but ill probably find out to night. I'll probably need some time off. They also gave me this," she said holding out the gold chip she got earlier. The chief eyes widened then narrowed.
"Could you move around?" he ask and again his tone and eyes demanded an answer.
"Maybe a little but probably not much. I don-"
"Could you find something?"
"Um well may-"
"Could you find something?" the chief said more forcefully. Tatsuki was quite for a minute before responding.
"I could probably find out what they aren't in and maybe, just maybe, a name we don't have. Nothing incriminating though." she said finally looking the chief straight in the eye as she did.
"That's good enough. I'm putting this down as an undercover operation of undetermined length. Bring back what you can and be careful," the chief ordered his tone showing the seriousness of the situation. Then his face softened. "I need to Urashima here and you probably need some time to think so I'm pulling you two off this case and we're heading back to headquarters after that you have the day off Arisawa."
Tatsuki smile and nodded gratefully before looking at her partner. "Let's go Urashima"
A/N:
Okay so this is the opening to a story that has two potential direction's the first is an AU after the defeat of Grimjow to Ichigo but before he is killed by Nnoitra, the other is a total AU based around crime syndicates and honestly this will be much harder to write as they will still have powers just no shinigami and hollows i also don't really have a background for this setting. For those of you wondering Tatsuki is 26 and has been with the force for 3 years.