Title: You've got to be kidding
Author: MissingNeurotic
Summery: Neuro is slowly turning human, yako knows this. What she didn't know is that he'd be human enough to get sick. Ah well, a feverish demon can't be THAT bad... right? Wrong. Light YakoxNeuro
--My first Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro fanfic! D--
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Chapter 1: Cold
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Somewhere in the streets of the city
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Yako ran towards the office, then bottom of her blue scarf licking at the top of her warm boots. It had unraveled from her neck while she ran through japan's city sidewalks, blanketed in a thin layer of fluffy white snow. Shivering, she cursing herself for wearing a skirt instead of regular pants like everyone else. She gasped as a slightly raised part of the sidewalk caught the tip of her boot and she tripped, flying forewards and hitting the ground with enough force to make her yelp.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow..." She whined, picking herself up from the freezing ground. She stood and wiped some snow from her brown jacket and deep blueish green skirt. shaking white fluff from her hair and continued running. Being late was one thing but one thing she could not afford is being even later.
Reaching the building she grappled the door handle and twisted the knob, yanking the door open and running in. Surprisingly the building wasn't much warmer then outside, maybe the heater was broken?
"Neuros gonna kill me!" She said, dashing up the stairs at what might be exaggerated as 'mach 5'. She stopped abuptly in front of the office door which held the demonic force she dreaded. Taking a deep breath she gasped the doorknob, turning it, slowly opening the door.
"I'm sorry i'm la-" She was cut off by some familiar claws stabbing into the wall next to her head, her face in the hand's palm. She dropped her bag and stared, horrified, at the freakish threat frozen in front of her face.
"Oops" Neuro chimed in a mocking tone. "I wanted to kill that fly but you got in the way." He added, his eyes following a fly which took flight from the wall next to yako's head and made it's way in front of neuro's face to the desk. He had before a lot more menacing lately because of the lack of 'food'. None in almost a month.
"S... Sure. Can you move your hand now...?" She asked, tapping his hand with the fingers of her right.
"Oh?" He questioned, his claws leaving the wall only to lock around her head, starting to clench onto it. "The slave is ordering the master?" He asked, his grip tightening. Yako whined loudly.
"I'm sorry!" She wailed just as Godai entered the room. Neuro released his grip on Yako and turned to Godai, smiling maliciously.
"Hey monster. I just came by to drop these damn files off, then i'm leaving. I don't have any time for your shit." He growling, dropping the box he was carrying onto the table. Neuro's eyes glowed and Godai shot backwards into the hall, attacked by an unseen force.
Neuro made his way to the desk and the computer and clicked the mouse several times before looking up at yako, who haden't moved an inch.
"Stop standing there with the vacant look on your face and get to work arthropod." He said before turning back to the screen. Yako swallowed and quickly sat on the couch, looking through the things Godai had dropped off.
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The Office - 2:57pm
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"Oh?" Neuro mumbled, his hairclip floating slightly. Yako turned to him, knowing well what the floating clip meant. There was a short silence.
The comfortable silence in the room was interrupted when the door was smashed open.
"Please! Please help me!" A small teenaged girl yelled, her eyes shining with hope and desperation. Neuro shot up from his seat, his oh-so-famous innocent look on.
"Welcome to the Katsuragi Detective Agency! How can we help?" He chirped happily, walking to the couch and sitting down, gesturing to the other couch, parallel to the one he was already sitting on. Yako took Neuro's hint and got up, sitting beside him. The girl stood in the doorway, shivering. Moving to the couch she sat down, her long black hair dripping onto the cushions. The black hair was tipped with white.
"Well... I... Ah..." She stuttered, looking down, biting her lip. Her eyes stared down at her black jeans which her long slender pale fingers fiddled with the seams of. She shivered, looking fairly afraid for some reason.
"Whats the problem?" Neuro asked gently, his kindess being very convincing at the moment. The girl looked up at him, taking a breath. Yako shot back a bit in her seat, noticing the colors of her eyes, they were mismatched. One was a pale china blue and the other laser green, like neuro's bit lighter. She let out that breath, lifting her hands into the pockets of her black and red sleeveless sweater.
"My name is Ouka Sheishou. A... About two days ago i was sitting at home doing homework, as usual for around the time. It was maybe around five o'clock in the afternoon. We usually have lunch around three, but i haden't been called down to eat. Wondering what my mother was doing, i went downstairs. When i came down it was eeriely silent. It's almost never quiet at my house so i was very curious to see what had happened." She shook slightly, her black combat boots tapping against the floor. "I... I turned into the kitchen and..." Her voice started to quiver. "I saw my mother, or, what was my mother. She was laid over the stove burned all over, cut up everywhere, near the fallen ceiling fan, the whole area covered in blood. I could tell it was her, she was in her lovely blue dress." She sobbed. Yako frowned, before her eyes widened a bit.
"Where was your dad?" Yako asked, her blond hair flipping a bit over her face to be wiped away and reclipped.
"My dad works nearby, he's an electrition." She mumbled, wiping away tears. "Please! Please find out who did this! This couldn't have been an accident!"
"Um, i have a question." Yako spoke up. the girl looked up and made a quisitive noise. "How old are you?" she asked. The girl swallowed.
"I'm thirteen." She said, softly.
"Thats so young. I'm so sorry." Yako frowned, understanding her feeling of loss.
"Leave it to us! We'll solve this case in no time!" Neuro chirped chipperly. The girl brightened.
"Oh! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" She chimed happily. She bow repectively, thanking them again, before leaving. Neuro smirked.
"Interesting mystery." He whispered to himself before returning to his computer. "Arthropod, call that cop man and get her adress and some info if you can about her parents are nearby family. Yako nodded towards him and dialed sasazuka on her cellphone.
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The Office - 3:09pm
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"Okay, thank you Sasazuka-san." She said, hanging up. She turned to Neuro. "Okay, i have the adress and some information on nearby family members and her parents." She said, Neuro looking up from the screen.
"Good work cockroach." He said, rising from his seat. "Lets go." He said, walking to the door and leaving the Office, Yako following closely after him, accidently leaving her jacket on the couch.
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Ouka's home - Sheishou household - 3:25
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Yako shivered, hugging herself for warmth. Neuro growled slightly in annoyance, she had been making pathetic whimpering noises since they left the office.
"Stupid worm." She said, taking off his jacket and gracelessly throwing it at her. Yako messily caught it.
"N-Neuro..." She blinked, confused. She put it on nonetheless. Neuro walked towards the medium sized house and stopped at the front door. Yako had slipped on his jacket, much bigger then she had thought it was, and it was warm, really warm.
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Okay, my computer crashed and i lost all the document i was typing so over half of this is missing but i'm gonna skip over to when they solve the mystery, i might fix this later if i get enough reveiws but for now i'm like "Fuck this shit!"
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Ouka's home - Sheishou household - 4:02
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"Now sensei, why don't you point out the murderer. Neuro said, his eyes glowing. The father and Ouka both froze and watched as Yako's hand slowly came up. Sasazuka asnd Ishigaki watched in silence.
"The culprit is..." Yako start, the tension in the air building. The father bit his lip and Ouka held her breath.
"YOU!" she yelled, her finger pointing past Ouka, to her Father, Hiro. Ouka turned around and faced her dad. Her dad coughed, pulling the medical mask on tighter.
"Otou-san... did you really do it? Even sick with a start of a fever you still killed her, even much you felt better when he helped you?" she asked, her eyes filled with tears. The father said nothing but then laughed.
"Of course not! I would ne-"
"Why did we find your tools in the crawlspace where the ceiling fan was held where some cords were expertly clipped? Only someone like an eletriction could have done it." Neuro said with an evil smirk. Ouka's eyes watered.
"Y-You monster! You killed Okaa-san!" She screamed.
"No i didn't!" He pleaded, obviously a front.
"Oh yes you did. Let me explain for sensei." Neuro started, stepping forwards. "Before you left for work one the day your wife died you snuck into your daughter's bathroom which is just above the ceiling fan. You carefully removed a single loose tile and a underlying plank of wood. You cut several cords you placed in certain electric devices like these." Neuro explained, holding up a small LED. ((LED Light Emtting diode)) "You wired then wrong so the fan spun much faster then it was designed to and after a certain predictable time it would break the circut, and since you loosened the bolts, drop the fan. You knew your wife rarely left the kitchen while cooking so it was perfect. The ceiling fan dropped at a fast spin rate and fell onto your wife, cutting her up easily and severely. She fell and smashed onto the stove, tipping over boiling water onto herself and onto the burners, making the burns. Unfortunately, you were careless enough to leave labeled tools behind. Therefore, the culprit is you." Neuro ended the explaination. The father froze coughed a biy before cackling. Sasazuka reached into his coat and pulled out handcuffs and Ishigaki stood there trying to register what that all meant.
"Otou-san...?" Ouka asked before being swatted aside by her father.
"I guess you found me out! How clever!" He yelled, ripping off his mask. "Yes! I killed my lovely wife Malu! It felt good!" He cackled.
"It was easy to solve such a case when the culprit is dumb enough to leave tools behind." The father stopped laughing at Neuro's words.
"A useless wife is gone because of me! She was a waste of skin! I am the judge of her usefulness!"
"And you are completely useless." Neuro mocked again. The father, with his short fuse, snapped.
"I am the judge and you are most useless!" He yelled, pulling out a wire cutter and jumping him. "Die!" He yelled, spitting a bit on Neuro as he brought them both to the ground. Ouka screamed, backing up into the open closet, smashing into the vaccum cleaner. She screamed again as she pressed a button on accident, the vaccum letting up a great puff of dust which filled the room's air.
"You spit on me vermin." Neuro said calmly as Hiro, the father, prepared to snip his jugular vein in his neck.
"Die!" He yelled, trusting down to cut the vein. Neuro's hand shot out and grabbed his neck, making the snip off target. He did feel the cutter snip a part of his neck though. Neuro was a bit surprised, he was slightly expecting him to stop completely.
"777 tools of the demon world. Evil Electricity." He said, a small black LED looking object appearing in his hand. He jabbed it into the man's neck, a massive shock going through his body.
Hiro yelled in agony as an electric shock pulsed through his whole body. Neuro's head become that of a bird's as he prepared to eat.
"Itadakimasu." He said before his teeth found their places on the mans neck as neuro fed.
Yako looked up as the dust cleared, wiping some of the filth of Neuro's jacket which she was still wearing. Neuro laid on the ground, bleeding profusely from the neck. The man who had tackled him took a shuddering breath, coughed, and fell unconscious.
"Neuro!" Yako yelled, Neuro sitting up, not noticing the cut on his neck and how much it was bleeding. Neuro shook his head at the man as if disappointed. "Neuro are you alright!?" Yako panicked. she stopped screaming just when Neuro looked up at her with a slightly hurt looking face. Oh yeah, thats right, he acted so fucking innocent in front of sasazuka and the others.
"I-I think so." He spoke softly, the innocence in his voice so convincing at the moment Yako almost beleived it. Sasazuka quickly came to him.
"You're bleeding a bit, are you sure you're alright?" He asked, sounding almost unconcerned, it was deceiving. Neuro blinked and raised a hand to his neck. Pulling it away he saw blood, he nodded anyway.
"Yeah..." Neuro said, turning to yako. "Sensei with fix this up back at the office. right sensei?"
"Oh, yeah." Yako spoke lightly, standing up again. Sasazuka took another quick glance at the cut and turned away, handcuffing the unconscious man.
"You didn't act quickly enough, maggot." Neuro hissed at Yako, grasping her neck and sqeezing fairly hard. She gasped for air, knowing what awaited her when they got back, torture.
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A block away from the office - 4:36
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Neuro practically ran down the streets, dragging Yako by the throat. His cut hadn't stopped bleeding but it had slowed down. He had taken the care to wrap his scarf(?) around the cut so no one noticed it. The only thing anyone had noticed was that he was wearing a sleevless buttonup shirt with no jacket since Yako was wearing it at the moment.
"N-Neuro...!" Yako choked out before being stopped from any other words by a firm grip tightening around her neck. she stayed silent until they reached the office where Neuro roughly thew her in. He quickly slammed the door shut.
"Because of you maggot, I, was damaged by this mystery and by the look in that cop's eyes, barely missed being forcily given medical attention." Neuro growled angrily. Yako had learned that if there was one thing he disliked, it was being bugged so much about a scratch like he had just received.
"S-Sorry..."
"You're working until eight." He said coldly before sitting in front of the computer at his desk, grumbling. This was weird. He wasn't usually this moody. Moody yes, but not this moody. Yako sighed, also mumbling something unhappily.
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Alright, there, i had a hard time keeping Neuro IC and Yako IC during this. I know i know, he isn't sick in this chapter, but it's coming soon! Keep your pants on! Please! No one wants to see what you wear under those pants! Probably had hearts on it anyway...
Reveiw! D