KotoUmi Fanfiction ~The Seagulls Duo~
Prologue
*Knock* *Knock*
"Come in" the older looking grey haired woman answered the knock
"Sorry to interrupt you, Chief" the voice behind the door, then makes her entrance into the room, once she hears the approval.
Entering the dim-lilted room, the person who just walk in, saw the figured of her superior who is seems to be busying doing some of her works as she can see a bundle of paper work stacked up on the work table. Even with the heavy load of work, her superior is still able to keep her desk tidy as you expected from Chief Minami, the figure then stand in front of her superior table in a respectful stand.
"As you requested of my presence, I have come here due to your request, Chief!" after saying the words, the figure then gave a salute towards her superior until the chief looks up on her.
The older grey ash haired woman then put down her pen down when she was able to find a stopping point where she could stop her writing, looking up at the person who is currently standing in front of her, the superior then let out a lightly chuckle and spoke to the person with a gentle tone.
"No need to be that tense, relax your body a bit Kotori, don't worry you are not in any sort of trouble" the chief let out amusement smile seeing the state of the nervous looking inspector.
Wearing a white blazer police uniform with golden bordered at the cuffs, shoulder and the blazer collar area, also with a golden roped dangled at her uniform which was attached at her right shoulder blazer, also wearing a white and grey stripes collar clothes inside the white uniform with a raven black tie, she also wore a white gloves at both of her hands, not forgetting a gold and white stripes armband that is wrapped at her left arms, Kotori also wears a small black bowler hat with a golden straps embedded around the hat with the police force logo also embedded at the bowler. Her lower appearance is layered with a black raven colored short skirt which looks fitting with her uniforms.
The amber colored eyes who also have the same similar colored hair with her superior though with most likely in lighter color, then relaxed her thoughts a bit after hearing those reassuring words from her chief.
"Then if it's nothing trouble, so why is my presence is required here Chief?" asked Kotori with a puzzled expression
"Ah about that…actually there is something important that I wanted to discuss with you" said the Chief giving out a seriously looks, lean her face more closer to the inspector eye sight
Kotori focuses her attention to her Chief faces with a serious expression.
"Actually…..I would like to know what do you want to eat for dinner tonight~" the Chief serious face quickly changes into a warmly smile.
"EHHH!" Making Kotori almost fell down from her position due to the chief question's, still even in the dumbfounded state, Kotori was still able to answer the question though she was able to regain back her thoughts half of her answer
"Let's see urm….how about a curry-eh wait a minute mother! Ah! I meant chief" said the inspector in a stuttering state
"Ahahahaha, I'm just kidding since your body posture looks so tense" still showing her motherly smile
"Muuu~ I'm not being that tense, beside it's rarely for you to summon me here so I thought it could be an important matter or something" Kotori responded with a pouting face then she regain back her face expression to normal when she realized that they are still in work.
To be truth, the Chief is actually Kotori's mother who happens to be her superior in the Police Force, Kotori decided to take the job as she was inspired with her mother's achievement in the Police Force which made her motivated her to become one of the police force for her sense of justice personality which she experienced it during her childhood by someone she meet a long time ago. Kotori decided to apply this work once she is already aged enough to be part of the force. At first it was kind of tough for Kotori when she have to do several test and some physical examination, to make sure that she is fit's to be in the Police Force, after several trials she was qualify and worked her way up with difficult cases that she was ordered to handle, during her work time she did got scolded for her error also her faulty during one of her works, but she never gave up and finally she managed to reached several high ranks and getting the Inspector Rank through her own hard work.
Her mother was quite impressed with her daughter determination though she didn't give any special attention to Kotori even if she is her daughter ,as she prefer not to mix work life with her private life even though the Chief would sometimes act normally with her daughter especially when it's just the two of them.
"Awww, you could just act normally when it's only the two of us though~" the chief responded with a playful tone
"Well only during certain time, beside we are still at work…..though just calling you mother would be sufficient enough?"
"Good enough!" hearing the words from her daughter, made her smile widely, then after a while her expression changed back to her serious looks when she remembered about the actual reason on calling the inspector, coughing a bit before speaking again…
"Anyways, about the important matter that you guess was indeed correct and I called you here to discuss about it"
The Chief then moved her right hands her towards the small drawer of her work desk, opening the drawer she started digging in the drawer finding the things that she wanted to show. A few seconds pass, the thing that she wanted to find reached her fingertips, feeling that it's the right item she then took it out and present it towards Kotori
"I believe you can easily recognize the sender of this card which is currently in my hands right now?" flickering the card, switching it to her left hands before handing it to Kotori.
Receiving the card, kotori started to inspect the surface of the cards and the content, she quickly was able to recognize the three big imprinted golden color letters at the card, her eyes widen a bit when seeing the words at the card and her expression rapidly changes into a serious expression as she said these following letter.
"K.K.E" looking at her superior, who is able to guess on what Kotori was thinking nodded as a sign of their same agreement about who is the sender might be.
"Kashikoi Kawaii Elichika" they both spoke it at the same time
K.K.E is a short abbreviation, which meant as cool and cute Elichika, was a signature sign of the famous Phantom Thief Eli who has been successful on stealing the national treasure and well known items in the Otonokizaka City. All of the challenge letter that was sent by her were successfully been able to steal the targeted items and also managed to avoided from being capture by the police force. Hardly none so far were able to catch this smart and slick phantom thief, she is also been marked down and putted up as a bounty by the police force. So for them to receive a letter from the phantom thief was quite alerted, as they wanted to prevent other ancient items to be stolen.
The Chief gave the permission for the inspector to check the content of the card,as she intended for Kotori to know about the challenge letter also, opening up the light colored blue card she reads the content of it.
"Within a few nights starting from the day of this fortunate event, as the clock strike to midnight and the chime of the big clock could be heard within the distance, I will be appearing to take the ancient treasure "Chun Chun" which has caught my attention, so please expect my appearance for this treasure~
P.S can you really capture me this time?"
"As you can see this phantom thief just love giving us riddle of her next targeted item, so it's a job for us to find out when is she going to strike up, So I'm going to leave this case to you"
"Is that so, in that ca-se…..Ehhh! What did you say again?" answered Kotori in shock of her superior wording
"Like I said, You'll be handling this case, which means you be in charge of this operation"
Trying to reason back with her superior, Kotori tried to refuse but before she was able to say anything as her words got cut off by her superior gentle encouraging words
"I think it's time for you to take a much more bigger case, beside this case might also help you boost up on getting a promotion of your rank, this would really be a chance for you to show your potential"
"But- I might mess up this operation and...-"
"Kotori" the Chief called her name in a firm tone, continuing her words
"I already seen your progress for the whole time since you started joining the force ,I can see your determination whenever you are doing the job that was given and you would intently listen to your comrade order, that's what would I say as your Chief though as your mother I would say you have done a great job until now and I believe that you can do this, try thinking it as some sort of challenge for your work line career and it also will give some experience" Giving her utmost encouragement towards her daughter who is as well her co-worker
Hearing those made Kotori thinking it back thoroughly, just like her mother said she could get take this as a challenge and it is also a big opportunity for her to gain this new kind of experience that she wasn't able to feel yet.
After deciding about it, Kotori look towards at her superior face with determine looks plaster at her face she gave out her gracious respectable smile.
"I have made my mind, I'm Inspector Kotori will gladly take this case in my hands" lifting her right hands for salutation while straighten her body posture.
Pleased with the inspector decision, the chief then moved her hands towards the two stacked file folder beside her sight of her work desk, taking the files with her fingertips then slid it to her palm. Passing one of the files towards the inspector, Kotori gracious accepted the file then returns back her sight toward her superior. Taking this chance as a sign for the chief to explain the detail about the investigation to the inspector
"Excellent! now that you are leading this operation ,I will give you a briefing about your duty for this case" while talking the chief did a hand gesture towards Kotori signaling that she got the approval to read the content of the files.
Nodded from the approval permission, Kotori then flip open the files and scanned through the paper which contains the information of the case, as the content of the file contains all the information about her mission and the details about the phantom thief and also the target items. Seeing the inspector who is focused on the inspection of the details, the chief took the chance to accurately explain the current situation and her job that she is required to do.
"As you can see, your duty right now is to find out when will the phantom thief make her appearance to steal this treasure since due to her riddle, it could be either tomorrow or the day after that unless we were able to find out when is the actual date, we could do a counter measure to prevent the treasure from being stolen, so your mission now is to solve the riddle and prevent the treasure to be to stolen" Explained the Chief.
Kotori nodded as the Chief finished her explanation as a sign that she took the understanding towards her briefing while jointing down notes that she thinks it will be useful information when she is doing her duty. Thinking that the info is sufficient enough, Kotori decided to excuse herself so that she can begin her work.
However before she was able to take a step, her superior stopped with a certain question that made Kotori halt her steps
"Kotori, before you leave…..is your lunchtime starting soon?"
Hearing those questions, Kotori looks at her watch which indicated to be 12:50PM.
"In just 10 minutes more then it will be my lunch time, is there something matter about it? Or could it be that you want to have lunch with me, mother?" she answered in well manner voice, thinking that it be ok to just calling her mother for once in while during work as it's just the two of them.
"Well as much as I like to, but not this time since I have another work for you to do and this would be easier for you two to get to know each other as you going to be paired up"
"Two? Paired? What do you mean by that?" Kotori ended up with a puzzled expression
"Did no one tell you about it? That we are getting a new recruit today" her mother let up a surprised look by how her daughter didn't know about this news
"Ah! I remember that Hanayo-chan was trying to tell me something earlier but I got caught up with something so I asked her to tell me later…..ehehe" scratching her cheeks lightly out of embarrassment
"Oh well, anyways since you are on break after this ,I wanted you to meet up with the new recruit as you both are going to be partner, it's best if you two meet up and bond a bit,are you ok with that?"
"Yeah I'm ok with that,also I'm pretty much excited to meet this new recruit and I hope we would get along fine~" said Kotori happily with a bit excitement tone
"Great,now here's the file which contains the profile of the new recruit and your meeting place will be at the Homura's Cafe" passing the dark blue file folder towards Kotori which has been seated at her work desk for quite a while.
"Now you are dismiss,have a nice lunch time"
Giving a salute to her superior, she then turns back and walk out of the room.
After a few seconds passed, the chief decided to resume doing her work but was stopped when she noticed a small rectangular image on top of her work desk, picking it up with her thumbs and index finger, flipping it over revealed her an image of a middle aged woman who seems to be in similar age like her daughter, an appearance of a long dark blue hair and amber colored eyes, simply just wearing a white collar shirt and a dark blue striped tie with stoic expression at her face.
"Ah! Isn't this the new recruit picture? It must have slip out from the file folder ,Kotori already left so I can't give it back to her,Hmmm….."
Still looking at the picture of the new recruit, She lightly then let out an assuring smile with a mix of amusement expression as her minds, did imagine a situation that might turn into something interesting between the encounter of those two.
Flickering the picture between her fingers before speaking to herself.
"Sonoda Umi,could you be the perfect pair with inspector Kotori?" letting out a light chuckles and mischievous smile after giving such questionable remarks ,she then slid in the picture into her drawer and decided to continue her work.
This is the first time i'm uploading one of my fan fiction that i wrote,Hope you guys can give me some opinions and critics...this is just the prologue and i'm currently working up on chapter 1.
Hope you guys could enjoy this fan fiction
Also i do not own Love Live,i'm just writing fanfiction out of enjoyment