A/N: One of the plans was going to alternative endings to Declining Adventure of Lupin with one set in the future and one ending more typical of Lupin. The other plan was a side story to that however it was hard to think of a plot.
Then there was going to be a long AU story involving Mamoru, Motoki and Shingo as they leave behind their life to go to America and then Italy. Strangely enough, two plot elements from that going into this, one being the main focus of this story and the other the B plot.
So yeah, this is the result. A story mainly about Inspector Zenigata and Usagi but leads to more. Basically the opposite to the other story where this is a traditional crossover rather than what happened to Lupin. It is a what if AU story where Episode 25 onwards did not happen. Unless mentioned, referenced or otherwise, there are no Sailor Senshi transformations or youma.
It is only rated a T (12) due to a violent scene at the first chapter, hints of abuse, drinking alcohol and some language, the latter mostly from Zenigata. Also I don't own the rights to any character that appears in this story, (the late) Monkey Punch/TMS and Naoko Takeuchi owns those.
Even though the story was not originally meant to be this way... It was finished in memory of Monkey Punch who passed away at the time of writing this story (16 April 2019).
Tottsan and the Odango (or Pops and Dumplings)
Chapter 1
It was a late night at the headquarters of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, by the desk there was a man with grey hair who was overweight and had a green suit with paperwork that was just pileing up, he looked very stressed due to all the crimes that was being reported with nothing being done. Suddenly there was a phone call and the man picked it up.
The grey haired man sighed, "What now? Uhh... Masato Sanjoin has disappeared or was it murdered? Gah... It's so hard to tell these days. We'll look into the case. Bye."
By the door, a man with a orange trenchcoat just entered the room. He wore a hat, looked like he was in his late thirties, had a butt chin and he was tall, taller than the other man who was sat down on his black chair.
The grey haired man smiled, "Oh Inspector Zenigata, just the man that we need!"
"Superintendent General sir, why did you call me when you know damn well that I'm still chasing after Lupin?", replied Zenigata in an angry tone as he was waving his arms then put his fist on his left hand.
"I know that it was extremely short notice considering that you are busy but the department badly needs your help", the Superintendent General explained. "We are very short staffed due to a massive corruption scandal, most of the staff from the Minato special ward have gone and to make matters worse, we found out that there was also incompetence within the force. That includes the original Superintendent General Natsuna Sakurada."
Zenigata just sighed with his hand on his cheek knowing that he feels that he would have to do ten peoples job by himself.
"Just yesterday we had to fire Minako Aino for dressing up as Sailor V instead of her uniform and the new recruits who we have left are not qualified enough."
"Sounds like the department has gone down the toilet during the past few years...", muttered Zenigata to himself.
The Superintendent General informed, "For the past month, there have been outbreaks of crime around Azabu-Juban and if the reports are true, some pretty strange stuff."
"Azabu-Juban? I'm not going there!", yelled Zenigata while pointing his finger to the Superintendent General.
Zenigata crossed his arms as he knew that there was something not right about that part of the Minato ward.
"We have reports of robberies and bulgaries around the area, diamonds and money have been stolen."
There was only one person that the inspector could think of that would do something like that and surprised him that he did not notice earlier.
"LUPIN!", shouted Zenigata. He then saluted the Superintendent General and noted, "Sir, I will patrol the area with one exception. I will not enter the Game Center Crown even if there is a case there."
The Superintendent General scratched his head on why Zenigata would refuse to enter the building, then he figured out that there might be personal reasons and then nodded. Zenigata and the Superintendent General both shook their hands, then the inspector turned to the other direction and ran straight towards the door, opened and then slammed it.
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Early next morning, Zenigata was patroling in a brown car around Azabu-Juban and it was raining. Not a heavy downpour but rather spittingHe was depressed on the wheel because he had to patrol an area that he did not want to do, anywhere else in Tokyo was fine for him but not Azabu-Juban. Zenigata was also depressed because he wanted to chase Lupin around instead of doing a job that any other police officer would do.
Zenigata sulked, "Ugh... I hope that I don't die today..."
There was something that did make him smile, he saw a brunette woman walking down the street and judging by the body language of her movement as well as the breasts it was someone that Zenigata recognised.
"You're under arrest!", shouted Zenigata.
The brunette responded, "Hey!"
Zenigata grinned towards the brunette as there was a chance that he arrested someone that was connected to Lupin, the brunette gritted her teeth thinking why would she be arrested as soon as the handcuffs were locked in her arms. Since he had a feeling that she would escape, he threw a sphere towards her and within that sphere was some gas that caused her to fall asleep. Zenigata lifted her from underneath and realised that she was quite heavy however there were no signs of pain coming from the inspector. He put the brunette at the back of the police car taking both seats, got a pillow to put on her head as he did not want her hurt and wanted her to sleep comfortable, then closed the door.
Zenigata thought, "I guess Lupin isn't far away."
As the drizzle cleared up, there was a strange looking blonde haired girl who wore a school uniform that had a blue skirt. What was unusual about the girl was her hair style, there were two bulges that looked like dumplings on the top and two straw like pigtails going right down to her skirt. She looked like someone who had spaghetti and meatballs on top of her head. Her facial expressions were also not human like being more exaugrated. Alongside her was a purple cat that had a bag in its mouth. They ran down a narrow street as she was getting late for school and bumped into a man who had a purple shirt and had black trousers. She did not look where she was going and both landed onto the floor, the man hurt his leg by the blonde girl's clumsyness and while she apologised the man did not take it as an answer.
There were two other men who looked like that they were part of a gang next to the purple shirted man. One had razor short brown hair, a green tank top, was tanned skinned and had green trousers. The other had a black hair cut like a greaser, wore blue sunglasses, had an orange shirt and blue trousers.
The greaser intimidated the blonde dumpling girl who shook her head, very quickly the muscled man grabbed her by her dumplings and was violently kicking her at her chest. Afterwards he let go of her then pushed her towards the wall and was punching her right at the face. All the blonde dumpling girl could do was scream as she heavily cried as the goon was beating her up. The greaser was also kicking her with his legs.
Suddenly Zenigata heard a loud scream and was literally running to the scene of the crime. It was hard to tell whether they were apartment blocks or a parking garage since it was covered in white however there was a fence by the narrow street. Zenigata was very angry as he saw the street gang with his fists up as they were beating someone up.
The greaser turned towards Zenigata and sleezed, "What moves have you got old man?"
It appears that Inspector Zenigata is stronger than he looks as he went directly towards the greaser and punch him right at the chest, very slowly the greaser went down towards the ground.
"These moves", growled Zenigata.
The goon was still punching the blonde, Zenigata tapped him by the shoulder causing him to look then quickly punched him right in the face then as he was wobbling, Zenigata gave him a further kick causing him to be down. As the purple shirted man was trying to run away, Zenigata grabbed his shirt and then heavily pushed him to the ground. After the three gang members were taken out, Zenigata arrested them by throwing three lots of handcuffs and all of them directly landed into their wrists.
"A Zenigata? I'm staying away. We don't get along at all, they blame me for their deaths!" The purple cat sensed and then sighed to herself, "The reincarnation of Sailor Jupiter was suppose to save her today..."
The purple cat ran away as she dropped the bag containing the blonde girl's lunch. Zenigata looked as the dumpling blonde girl stopped screaming and crying, she smiled towards the inspector knowing that he saved her life. Had Zenigata or someone else not been there taking down the gang, she might have even had to be in hospital. Zenigata picked up the bag and gave it towards the girl however he got a closer look at the girl and his serious frown changed to a shock. His eyes were wide open, his mouth wide open and he screamed as he was shaking. He knew how strange Azabu-Juban was but he never saw anyone with her hair style or her facial expressions in his life. Lupin might be comical however were still within bounds of looking like a human, by comparison the blonde looked like an alien.
Zenigata ran away trying to get away from the strange looking blonde girl running the same way back.
"I'm never coming back to Azabu-Juban ever again! I don't care if the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department need me, all I care about is stopping Lupin. Every single Zenigata died here and I don't want to be the next one!" He looked behind seeing that the blonde dumpling girl was following him and screamed, "Now an alien is after me!"
"Please come back, you saved me!", happily exclaimed the dumpling blonde.
Zenigata reached towards his patrol car and ready to get into the driver's seat when the dumpling blonde caught up with him, he looked terrified that she managed to follow him and was bitting his fingernails.
Zenigata welped, "Please let me live, I don't want to die just yet..."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you...", cried the dumpling blonde.
"I've never seen anyone with that hair style before, you must be an alien."
The dumpling blonde giggled but then she had a look at the inspector who was very stressed with his eyes and his face had a blank expression. She tried to reach his shoulder to comfort the inspector however he was too tall so she could only reach his chest and she was gently touching it.
The blonde girl smiled, "Thanks for saving me from that gang."
Zenigata realised that the person that he saved was friendly and started to calm down knowing that she would not hurt him.
"No problem, no one deserves to be beaten up even if they have a strange hair style", awkwardly grinned Zenigata.
The dumpling blonde screamed, "I'm gonna be late for school!"
"I'll make sure that you get there, who's your teacher?", grouchily asked Zenigata.
In the same tone as before, she replied, "She's Miss Sakurada and she's so mean!"
"I've heard of her, her sister used to work at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and complained how immature she was."
"Immature?"
"Well... she acts like a kid. A bit like you."
"I'm gonna get told off..."
"You won't be. She's not the only one who can shout all day."
As they both got into the car, Zenigata turned the ignition key and push the accelerator pedal to drive off. While he was driving, the dumpling blonde looked at the back seat to see the brunette who was asleep.
The dumpling blonde asked, "Who's at the back seat? She looks so sleepy."
"She's a well known criminal, steals jewellery and money. I think if I didn't come to save you, you would have been robbed by her yourself", grumbled Zenigata.
"She doesn't look bad."
"Looks can be deceiving miss, she's a master of disguise and can do whatever she wants."
The dumpling blonde girl and Zenigata arrived at Juban Junior High School, the inspector parked his police car and looked at his watch. The class started four minutes ago and she would have missed more if Zenigata did not pick her up in his car. The girl got out of the car and she straight away tripped up hurting herself, she cried as she landed on the ground. Zenigata sighed and carried her all the way to class as he was running to make sure that she got there. Outside of the classroom, Zenigata put her down and she managed to stand up. Zenigata knocked on the door then opened the classroom door.
They both entered the classroom and it was almost full with only two empty seats. There was a short blue haired girl, a chubby red head girl with curly hair, a blond haired boy with swirly glasses and a red head who had short wavy hair with bangs at the front and a blue bow at the back all sat down looking at their books. There was also a female stood up who looked like she was in her late twenties or early thirties, she had long brown hair that was a bit wavy and she was wearing a pink top. The girl looked at the person and she seemed scared knowing that it was her teacher because she was angry.
Zenigata growled while glancing at the teacher, "Sorry she's late miss, she's been badly beaten up by a street gang and I had to save her."
Miss Sakurada was going to shout at the blonde as usual however she had a look at her face and noticed the massive bruises around it, she also looked at Zenigata and he frowned knowing that it was serious, he also kept glaring at her to make her feel uncomfortable. She looked away knowing that the girl has had a bad day with a bit of guilt.
"Oh my... Well I'll make sure that she's safe and thanks", smiled Miss Sakurada.
Zenigata smiled back towards the teacher and nodded. As soon as Inspector Zenigata closed the door and the blonde got to her seat in class, she then put the book over her head as she did not want others to look at her face.
Miss Sakurada grunted, "There was suppose to be someone else coming to school today..."