Prologue:
Panting heavily, he flattened his body against the aged brick wall behind him, hoping the shadows of the alleyway would conceal his presence while he caught his breath. The man stood there for a long while, trying to collect his thoughts and consider his situation; it wasn't good. His heart skipped a beat as he heard the rapid pounding of footsteps enclosing. He couldn't move, not now; he was surrounded, they'd catch him soon enough.
"Did you see where he went?" He heard a voice say from the mouth of the long alleyway.
"We tailed him going up 5th," another lower voice replied. "After that we lost sight. He could be down to about 8th by now, if he ran fast."
The first man sighed, "Well, let me call in the chief…" There was a pause before the sounds of a cellular phone made its way to the hidden man's ears.
'Shit,' He thought, still remaining perfectly still except for his still-heaving chest. 'They'll catch me at this rate, and I didn't even do anything! Well, I guess I shouldn't have run… That won't help my case at all. Shit.' The man continued to internally berate himself as the two policemen who had been previously pursuing him made their call.
"…Alright, got it. Yes, sir. We'll report back by the half hour," the first officer hung up the phone with a sharp snap. "We gotta keep up the search for another hour," the second man groaned slightly, "and if we can't find him by then, we gotta continue the search tomorrow."
"Great. Just how I love to spend my weekend," the sound of rubber-soled shoes hitting concrete started up again as the two moved away from where their target was hiding. "Chasing down crazy, homicidal school-teachers…"
The footfalls of the district policemen grew further away and into nothingness, muffled by their distance and the sounds of traffic. From his hiding place in the alleyway, Iruka breathed a sigh of relief; they didn't catch him. Yet.
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Hey, shadow-purple here!
Well, this is my first (published) fic, so don't throw tomatoes, please! D:
Uhm. Yeah, I decided to try my hand at an AU fic... *cough* yeah, let's see how this blows over! :D
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