Blue Fuku, White Collar
A.N. Good day dear readers. Today, I present a comedy - a semi AU buddy cop story about Ami, a convicted cyber criminal and Minako, the cop who's responsible for her.
Long story short, they crack jokes, investigate crime, and annoy the crap out of each other. Should be fun!
Enjoy the story!
Prologue: Wherein the author breaks the fourth wall to explain what's happening, and then we see just how much exposition I can cram into 1500 words.
List of major characters:
Dr Mizuno Ami
The Loveable Rogue of our little buddy cop story today. 25 years old and possesses an IQ rumoured to be 300+. Ami also transforms into the pretty sailor suited senshi Sailor Mercury when the occasion arises.
Ami has, in the past, turned that genius level IQ to less than legal purposes. She is an accomplished hacker and as of one year ago, a convicted cyber criminal. Ami pled guilty to -information redacted at request of Interpol– and was sentenced to an extraordinarily lenient 15 months of probation. She was then released into the personal custody of the superhero codenamed Sailor V.
Today, Ami is 10 months into serving her sentence under the watchful eye of friend and roommate-by-legal-necessity, Sailor V (aka Aino Minako). Much to the chagrin of her warden, Ami has come to regard the probation period as a sort of life-vacation. Not having any real responsibilities or goals is a new experience for the formerly driven and disciplined young prodigy. Privately, Ami might be having a somewhat difficult time of things, but she is really trying hard to take herself less seriously and have some fun where she can.
Professionally speaking, Ami is a licensed medical doctor, but she has been rendered pretty much unemployable due to her criminal record. Since the end of that career path, Ami has taken a random string of odd jobs that all went hilariously wrong for whatever reason – absolutely none of it her fault of course. She even considers it a point of pride that she's managed to get fired from 6 different jobs in as many months. To the relief of Minako, Ami has very recently found stable employment as a mechanic in a shop owned by a kindly widow.
Ami is currently bored as hell - besides the chronic un/underemployment, being legally barred from accessing the internet is driving her nuts. Consequently, her best entertainment these days is finding new and exciting ways to annoy Minako. It's either that, or binge watching action movies for hours on end. Both good. Both work to keep her mind off her troubles and keep her from dwelling on her long-time friend, crush, and complication - the princesse lontaine Kino Makoto.
All that however, is another story for another day...
Police Sergeant Aino Minako
The Straight Man of our comedy. 25 years old. Capable, energetic and street-smart...also known to a select few as Sailor V and/or Sailor Venus.
Minako is a charming, pragmatic and dedicated police officer who is a natural born leader. As a young and upcoming officer with Tokyo PD, she has recently been assigned to Section 4- Burglary/Kidnapping/Blackmail division of the Criminal Investigation Bureau.
Minako is the personal favourite of her boss, Police Superintendent Natsuna Sakurada, due to her secret identity as the previously mentioned superhero Sailor V. Because of this, she gets away with throwing the rulebook out the window occasionally. Which is perfect, since Minako doesn't really believe in rulebooks anyways. In fact, she takes pride in beating the expectation that proves the rule...or however that saying goes.
On a more personal note, Minako is the self proclaimed Goddess of Love and has even managed to find herself a girlfriend – one Hino Rei (who will unfortunately, not be appearing too much in this story due to plot constraints) Minako also has a strong sense of responsibility and a knowledge of pop culture rivaled only by her annyoing-ass roomate Mizuno Ami (seriously, that girl has had WAY too much time on her hands lately...)
Minako is currently feeling rather stressed out. The life of a police officer is never a quiet one. The newest case to come across Officer Aino's desk is proving to be somewhat more problematic than usual...
Dr Chiba Mamoru
The more or less damsel in distress for the purposes of our story today (Sorry Mamoru). 28 years old. Likes roses and giving motivational speeches while standing on tall objects. As Tuxedo Kamen, Mamoru is the Protector of Earth and the devoted one true love of Tsukino Usagi aka Sailor Moon aka she who regularly saves the world with the power of love.
Mamoru is a practicing family doctor with privileges at Juuban Medical University Hospital (JMUH). He has recently opened his own clinic near by. It has his name on the door and everything. As a doctor, he has also become the bromantic partner to our hero, Dr Mizuno Ami. From debating the specifics of anatomy, to translating ancient Babylonian texts, Mamoru's finally found someone he can geek out with. It's nice to have a friend to swap annotated medical science journals with sometimes...
Life is good for Mamoru, except that he is currently suspicious of certain activities by certain individuals at JMUH...we shall see what he thinks in a few chapters when we get there.
And now, on with the actual story.
A.N.
Hi again everyone! First off. A special welcome and sincere apology to anyone following this story from Walking Towards Light: Ami Redux.
While this story does technically follow 9 months-ish after ch 13 of "Walking Towards Light" this is not the sequel you were looking for. This is a silly little side-trip I wrote because I missed writing comedy, and because the premise of an Ami-Minako buddy cop story seemed so bizarre that I wanted to see what happened next.
In fact, to paraphrase immortal words of Monty Python
"And now...for something completely different."
Probably for the best if we all treat this as a standalone until further notice :p.
For everyone who is new to my own personal headcanon *waves* Hi! I hope you're all Ami fans, because I talk about her alot.
Cheers,
-Drifter