Myself vs. I

By: Jaha Canon

Disclaimer: I do not own any of Clamp's characters. As my last sentence suggested, they belong to CLAMP.

This is my first story for Clamp School Detectives or Man of Many Faces, but definitely not my first story here at ff.net. I should warn you beforehand that I have only read the first two volumes of the Clamp School Detectives manga, and the first of Man of Many Faces… all other information I got from reading fan fiction, so I am sorry if I am incorrect about anything. I do plan to see the Clamp School anime pretty soon. I have a tape coming in the mail (HURRAH!)

Anyways, I'm also curious as to why people in this second call Clamp School Detectives CCD. Shouldn't it be CSD? *confused*

Anyways, I'm sorry for the long author's note. Please enjoy my story!

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Wedesday Night:

4th grader, Akira Ijyuin was in his kitchen one evening, preparing an late dinner for his mothers. His duties as Class Treasurer kept him after school. The chairman, the secretary, and himself had spent most of the day trying to find a all-important missing purse, which was lost by one of the less-bright students at Clamp school. When they returned to the office, they (mostly Nokoru) were bombarded with piles of paper work… courtesy of Suoh. How the secretary gained power to boss the chairman around was far beyond Akira.

He almost cut himself with a knife as his two mothers came barging into the kitchen. Squealing, giggling, and crying at the same time.

"WE WANT IT!!!!" they screamed.

The over tired Akira blinked one eye, and then another. He was almost scared to ask, but he did anyways.

Mother A showed Akira a picture in a magazine. It was a small diamond unicorn statue.

And then another picture caught his attention, right next to the unicorn picture, was a familiar face.

The wealthy kindergarten chairlady Utako Ogawa's face smiled at him from the picture.

'Not again!' Akira thought. The last person he in the world he wanted to steal from...

Akira reluctantly agreed. He couldn't say no to his mothers.

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Thursday:

The next morning, Akira left for school right after he finished sending out the notice of 20 Menso's upcoming caper. Why he had to warn people ahead of time was beyond him, I guess it was something his father did as the original 20 Faces.

"Good morning, Ryusuke-san!" Akira said as he caught up to a high school student.

"Morning!" Ryusuke replied cheerfully.

Only Akira knew that once they reached the school, Ryusuke's mood wasn't going to be so cheerful anymore.

"Watch out 20 faces! I'll get out this time!" the high school student yelled.

"Your losing your enthusiasm, Kobayashi-kun" Akechi-sensei told Ryusuke.

Ryusuke spun angrily around to see his teacher grinning as he usually does.

"Why you-"

"Good morning Akechi-sensei!" Akira chirped.

Ryusuke walked away grumbling. Akechi-sensei excused himself and walked away.

"But SUOOH!" came a familiar voice, Akira turned to see an annoyed looking Suoh dragging a struggling Nokoru.

"You're going to be late for class, Chairman!" Suoh scolded. "You don't need to personally greet every female student we pass."

Nokoru grinned, and took out a fan that said "Satisfaction Guaranteed" and stood on top of a bench.

"And disappoint all the lovely ladies at this school? You never know if they may be feeling sad, do you Suoh? A hello just might make their day."

"Get down from there!" was Suoh reply, but then he noticed the applauding behind him. He turn to see Akira looking up at Nokoru in impressed awe.

"Well said, Chairman!" Akira said.

Nokoru got down from the bench, obviously proud of himself. Suoh shook his head. Akira beamed.

Suoh walked up to the board where the 20 Faces notice was posted. Akira tried to stop the "eep!" he could feel coming.

"Looks like 20 Faces has another target" Suoh said. "Chairlady Ogawa again…"

"Stealing from a lady is a horrible offense!" Nokoru exclaimed.

Akira tripped over his own feet.

"Uhh… I couldn't agree more!" he said as he struggled up.

"He's robbed from her before, why didn't you do anything then?" Suoh asked.

Nokoru just stood there, pondering this himself.

"Well, this is a job for the Clamp School Detectives!" he finally said.

"R-right!" exclaimed Akira.

Akira found that he couldn't say no to Nokoru either.

At Saturday, Akira was to try to catch 20 Faces.

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Interested to see how Akira pulls off this one? I sure am! R+R please.

((And explain the CCD as opposed to CSD if you can please))