Life without Kogami Shinya was, in a word, different. Without him to push her, Akane felt that she was lacking the drive that she had come into division one with. Even with the new additions to her division, including Inspector Shimotsuki and Enforcers Hinakawa and Togane. Sho had been a great help to her since the death of Togane, taking the place of the confidante and and even a younger brother. But try as she might, things had never really felt whole since Kogami left.
Four years later, she was at war. Not that ybil would ever call it war mind you, that would be acknowledging that that Sybil had enemies that could stand against it. Four years is a long time, people can change a lot in four years. Case and point Akane herself. Since she joined division one, Akane has grown from a girl that believes in the absolute power of the judgement of Sybil, now, well she takes everything with a grain of salt. She's said before and she'll say it again that she'll go to hell and back for the Sybil System. In fact she already has, she will do down with this ship, for good or for ill.
When she and her team are shipped out to Shambala Float to fight the terrorist threat to SEAUn, she is prepared for the worst, what she finds, is even worse. When she creeps into the warehouse where a known terrorist is hiding she is not prepared for what she finds there. Because the the judgment of Sybil has been voided twice in her experience as an Inspector, she no longer takes chances on that sort of thing. Now along with the regulation dominator and the stun pistol she carries a gun. When she looks into the eyes of the man, they look familiar, they're eyes that she hasn't seen for four years. Those are eyes he never expected to see again.
No matter who he was to her in the past, now he is an enemy, a terrorist, a treat to Sybil. She levels her gun at him, pointing the gun at his chest. His eyes are steady at first then they widen in surprise. It seemed like he hadn't expected her she threatened him considering their past. " Put your hands up, turn around, and remove your mask and maybe I won't shoot you." He turns around and stares at her, eyes widened. He reaches up to remove his mask and she raised his gun to mirror him.
" Relax Tsunemori-san i'm just doing what you said." she lowers her gun a bit relaxes slightly.
" It's good to see you again Tsunemori-san, it's been too long" he says as he turns to face her at last, a small smile in his lips.
" It's been a while Kogami-san, although I have to say that I didn't expect to see you again like this after all these years " she replied with a steady voice, barely masking the trepidation she felt inside.
" I agree, in fact I believed that I'd never see you again but you have proved me wrong like you always do" he said, his smile widening, " I've really missed you Akane Tsunemori. "
" I've missed you to Kogami Shinya"