Warning: This story is rated M for a reason, throughout the course of the story you will find somewhat detailed descriptions of corpses, along with coarse language and sexual references (Maybe content in the future as well). Proceed with discretion.


The Aishi trial


Building of the Supreme Court of Japan, Tokyo; Monday, October 16th of 1989

Oh, the final day of the Aishi trial. It was supposed to be the big day for the prosecution, they had done everything in their power to pull it off; they presented all the evidence the journalist had handed over to the Buraza Police to both the judge and the jury, plus all the DNA and fingerprint tests, unfortunately; all star witnesses excepting the journalist suddenly 'disappeared' prior to the testimony hearing and all the evidence was refuted by Ryoba Aishi's lawyer, which he claimed to be 'planted' 'forged' and whatnot, all complimented by Aishi's 'Crying and innocent girl' act. Everyone on the prosecution thought (And they weren't wrong) that this was udder and blatant lies, a strategy designed to try and get on both the judge and the jury's sensitive side, but the prosecution was optimistic, if this didn't get Ryoba Aishi the death row, or by the very least life behind bars, all hope was lost on Japan's legal system, and a murdering maniac would be left to roam the streets scot-free for their despicable actions, something that nobody in the prosecution bench wanted to happen.

After several hours of deliberation, the jury finally decided to step out of their hiding, orderly taking back their seats on the jury bench. The head of the jury holds a paper with their verdict and remains stood, looking at the judge, said judge proceeds to do his job.

"Miss Tsuno, how does the jury find the accused; Ryoba Aishi?" The judge, stern and commanding as always, asked

"Your honor, after hours of evidence and statement reviewing. This jury hereby finds the accused; Ryoba Aishi… Innocent of ten charges of murder in first degree"

That was… Definitely anticlimactic, that was without a doubt a verdict the prosecution didn't expect to hear.

"WHAT?!" A resounding male voice pleaded from the prosecution bench

"Ahem, if you could allow me to resume… Thank you; this jury hereby finds the accused innocent of all charges. We think that the evidence presented; as overwhelming as it may be, it is not sufficient to justify the incarceration of the accused. Not to mention that the one providing all of the evidence is no-one less than the only witness who could testify on court in this trial. The jury thinks; in a ratio of two-to-one, that the evidence presented could have been forged in a convincing way to incriminate the accused, and that this could be a possible personal vendetta or a cover-up for their own crimes coming from the only witness in this trial, but we cannot back this claim as of now and we just think of it as a theory" The head of the jury elaborated

"Thank you Miss Tsuno... Well, using the verdict of the jury and my own personal expertise; this court hereby declares the accused; Ryoba Aishi, acquitted of all charges. Case dismissed" The grand judge said before dropping his hammer and declaring the case as over-and-done-with

Of course, the prosecution didn't take this kindly, with most members of it clutching their heads and going limp against the table in frustration, except for one prosecutor, whose hands are balled into fists and whose left eyebrow is twitching madly. The prosecutor decides to stand up and face the judge, once the prosecutor is at talking distance, the judge addresses him.

"Ah, prosecutor Akiyama! I can see that you are not satisfied with the verdict" The judge said in a fake friendly tone whilst taking a break of filing papers

"You have any idea of what you have done?!" The prosecutor; whose surname has been revealed as Akiyama, said angrily

"Yes, I have let an innocent schoolgirl return to her normal life after the Buraza Police kept her in a jail cell for three months"

"NO! YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG! RYOBA AISHI IS A DERANGED, MURDEROUS PSYCHOPATH! THAT'S WHO YOU LET GO!" Akiyama said in a fit of anger whilst pointing at Ryoba, who is leaving the courtroom with a grin of satisfaction in her face

"QUIET DOWN AKIYAMA! OR I'LL HAVE YOU SUSPENDED FOR DISRESPECT…! Anyway, I have never seen you this pent up over an accused being declared innocent, what is wrong with this case?" The judge said at first with a menacing tone, only to settle down with an inquisitive one shortly after

"Your honor, in my twelve years of career I have dealt with many kinds of cases: Fraud, drug dealing, tax evasion, racketeering; heck! Even disputes for parking tickets! But there is a kind of crime where I don't forgive anything and I relentlessly seek justice for the victims, and that is murder, but you just let a murderer walk away like if she didn't do a damn!"

"Akiyama, and what proof do you have to frame Ms. Aishi for murder huh? And don't talk about the evidence used in this case, it's out of commission"

"I have heard her talk when she's not crying, I was present during the interrogations; she sounds robotic and emotionless at times, and most importantly, have you seen the grin she has?! And don't tell me that's a smile, I know smiles; they are good and sincere, and that isn't either one. Overall, I have a feeling" The prosecutor explained

"Akiyama, you need more than a feeling or a theory to ensure a conviction, you need hard evidence, reliable and verified statements which can be stated in court, and the most important thing: A confession" The judge elaborated

"You think she can confess her crimes, your honor?! She's a professional liar and convinces herself to a level where she believes that her own bullshit is either true or justified!"

"ENOUGH! Ryoba Aishi will remain acquitted of these charges unless you can gather enough evidence to prove her guilty and that's final! Get out of my sight Akiyama! Or I will have you suspended! AND I MEAN IT THIS TIME!" The judge angrily exclaimed, tired of Akiyama's arguments

Akiyama also got tired of the judge's stubbornness, so he simply extended his arms to the heavens in frustration, turned around, headed once again for the prosecution bench, picked up his suitcase and walked away; in the way to the exit, he whispered something to a dark purple-haired woman carrying a toddler of approximately a year of age in her arms.

"Let's get outta here sweetie, that stupid prick has me pissed off, let me carry Toru for a while" The prosecutor Akiyama said to the woman whilst extending his arms to the kid

"Sure Kimihito, Toru missed you a ton, I swear he was going to jump the half-wall into your arms when he recognized the back of your head amongst the prosecutors" The woman said whilst handing over the little kid to Akiyama

"HA HA! There you are smiling again you crazy, lovable little one! You missed daddy, didn't you? Let's get outta here and get you to that American fast food restaurant on Shinjuku, I know you love the slides! Hey! Want a piggyback ride?" Akiyama said cheerfully to the kid as he leaped him in the air whilst walking away from the courtroom, as if all of his worries regarding the case disappeared with just seeing the kid smile and hearing it laugh

"Hi hi! Piggy!" This kid of brown, silky hair, cut in a similar fashion that is shared with many Asian toddlers and wearing a blue overall with a white polo with orange horizontal stripes, cheerily replied with a giggle

This kid was Toru Akiyama, the only child of Kimihito Akiyama. One of the most feared prosecutors in Japan… Until this one case; the infamous Aishi case, struck Kimihito.

As Kimihito and the mother of Toru (Yes, that's right, they weren't even married. Despite being efficient at his job, Kimihito Akiyama was a man who could easily fall prey to the… Pleasures of life) exited the courtroom, hordes of reporters and journalists of all walks of the national, regional and local media came to get the prosecutor's declarations, Kimihito could've sworn he saw even a junior journalist from a school newspaper, the Aishi case sure made ratings jump and papers sell like hot cakes.

"Prosecutor Akiyama! Prosecutor Akiyama! How is Ryoba Aishi walking free today?!" A reporter asked, pointing her microphone at Kimihito's mouth

"Prosecutor Akiyama, how does it feel not being able to bring a conviction to an accused?" A journalist asked, pen and notebook in hand and ready to write down every word uttered by the prosecutor

Kimihito initially ignored all the journalists and reporters until he got ahead of them down the steps; his son and gal in tow, but after a while, they were getting more and more annoying, so he proceeded to address them.

"Look people of the press, today is a dark day for our honorable justice system which; as any other legal system in the world, has its weaknesses, and the main weakness of the Japanese justice system is the softness of the human emotions, contained in our honorable judges and juries, which can variably influence the verdict of a trial. And in this case, we have unknowingly allowed a psychotic murderer disguised as a crying schoolgirl to roam the streets once again. That's all I have to say" Akiyama, once again regaining a professional tone, sternly addressed the press only to quickly turn around and resume his walk with his companions to his vehicle

Of course, the press wanted more than Akiyama's initial statement, so they began pressing him for more.

"Prosecutor! What proof do you have to imply that Ryoba Aishi is a murderer if she was declared innocent by both the jury and the judge?"

"I won't answer any more questions, the prosecutor's office will release a statement concerning the situation when the time is right and we have evidence to back our claims. In the meantime, let me take my son to eat!" Akiyama said whilst quickening his pace

Whilst walking, he was able to spot Ryoba Aishi and her parents hailing a cab in the distance, Kimihito took this moment to sigh and direct a couple of words to his son.

"Toru? Can you see that girl that's alongside her parents on the sidewalk?"

"Huh…? Yes daddy! She cute!" The little Toru said, judging by the appearances

"Her name is Ryoba Aishi son, pay close attention, and make sure you remember her for the rest of your life because… That is the murderer who ruined my career"

Little Toru was confused, and he wasn't sure if the words his father was saying to him made sense, but what he didn't knew, is that this would start to make sense… Nearly thirty years later.


Last day in burglary


Buraza Town; September 14th of 2016. Twenty-six years; ten months; four weeks and one day since Ryoba Aishi's 'Innocent' verdict

Ahhh, Buraza Town, it brings a tear to my eye. The small town just two hours away from Tokyo that many desired to live in. Sure; Saikou Corporation has a strong hold on the town, but it's still pretty nice to live in, even after all that happened and all the people that moved out, I guess it became bad publicity.

By 2016 many things had changed, Kimihito Akiyama died in 1999 after his life became a wreck because of the Aishi fiasco, and due to contracting Alzheimer's; the poor man forgot how to breathe. And Toru's mother; Kyoko Meiya, had moved into Buraza because it was her hometown, taking Toru with her and she tried to give him the best education she could, but eventually she couldn't control Toru's thirst for justice for his father, because the doctors concluded that all the pressure that the aftermath of the Aishi case generated put a heavy toll on him. Fun fact: every Akiyama for the last ten generations likely had a job at law firms that worked as prosecutors or in law enforcement, and they're usually pretty prone to succeed. At age eighteen Toru fled his home for America, where he landed at Hawaii to become a policeman, he received education and graduated from the police academy with honors and patrolled Honolulu's streets for two years before returning to his homeland to seek for justice. He eventually enrolled in the Buraza Police Academy, but due to his previous training in Hawaii he just took an orientation class to grasp what things are different from American law enforcement; which is honestly not that big of a difference. He spent a handful of years on the beat before finally getting to wear a suit as a detective in early 2015, excelling at being able to close cases with arrests in short periods of time.

Alaco gas station, outskirts of Buraza; 2:41 A.M

Toru always thought he was destined to bring justice in one way or another, either sitting in a prosecution bench like his father or putting his foot down on the streets and dealing with the lowest of scums; obviously he chose the latter, otherwise, we wouldn't be here.

It was Toru's fifth month on the burglary department, him and his partner Aiko Ruto; a young, petite, happy-go-lucky detective who rarely took any credit for her work and was more than content with helping newbies to burglary to settle in, were investigating a string of robberies that had taken the town by surprise, at that time they were following a lead of a mysterious limousine that tended to appear every time a robbery was about to happen and were stopped at a gas station filling the tank up to investigate some more.

*Yawn* "So, a black limo stops by the targeted house, drops off the robbers, does a couple of rounds and when the robbers are done it picks them up right when they're needed?" The Detective Ruto asked her partner, she was obviously tired

"Yeah, that's about the M.O of the crime. Seven out of ten house break-ins in Buraza last week had some sort of stretch limo involved, the others are isolated cases and the robbers usually don't have vehicles, witnesses say that the limo usually takes this road to Shisuta Town, so all we need to do is be alert" The Detective Akiyama elaborated whilst refilling

"Geez, I wish we had a Starbucks over here in Buraza, the closest one is in Tokyo, and that's two hours away, I need a really loaded latte! How come you're not tired with this lack of caffeine Akiyama?" Ruto said whilst reentering their unmarked car

"I don't need caffeine to get through the day"

"Are you serious? I'm starting to think you're either high or some sort of vampire"

"Again with the supernatural things Aiko? I can't believe it, I thought you were a rational person"

"Oh, blame my niece, she's such an oddball, I'm the only one that listens to her rambling. She's such a shrinking violet, she doesn't dare to talk to anyone and well, because of the things she talks about I get why nobody wants to be close to her"

"Why is that?"

"She is obsessed with the supernatural, she talks about demons, dark vibes; heck, she even told me once that she thought that two of her schoolmates were vampires! No wonder why she leads the 'Occult Club' over at Akademi High, I seriously don't know what went wrong with Oka, but hey! At least she's passionate about something that isn't drugs or guns! Unlike my youngest cousin" Ruto explained

"Well, as long as we don't have to investigate a case that involves her stealing things because she got 'possessed', we'll be fine" Akiyama joked

"Oh, if that ever gets to happen I'll be the one conducting the interrogation, I always get the truth out of her"

"I have multiple reasons to doubt that statement" Toru deadpanned

"Baka…" Aiko muttered


4:03 A.M

Some good time had passed, and the Detective Ruto was soundly asleep, whereas Akiyama was alert at the road, but no limos had appeared on the road heading to Shisuta Town up until now... And predictably, now the limo finally showed up! Black with all the chrome painted up and lacking license plates, this definitely had to be it.

"Hey! Aiko! Wake up! The limo showed up! Call it in and tell central we're following them" Toru said whilst starting the engine on their unmarked cruiser and

"Huh? Nani? Okay, let me *Yawn* recover my composure a bit…" Aiko said whilst slowly trying to reach the CB radio's microphone

"Aw crap, if you're gonna awake first then I'm gonna call this in myself… Here" Akiyama said defiantly before swiftly grabbing the microphone faster than Ruto and giving it to her

"Okay okay…! Central, this is car 5- Gōtō reporting a possible suspect vehicle in the limo burglaries, standby for details"

"Where are they headed dammit?"

"Maybe to Shisuta Town, if that's the case, we'll need to block them off so they don't get away from our jurisdiction"

"I have a feeling that they aren't headed towards Shisuta…" Akiyama muttered

"How come?" Ruto inquired

"Well, they just put their turning signals on and they're headed towards a dirt road on the right side of the road, look"

Effectively the limousine had turned right onto a dirt road, Akiyama thought that the best thing to do to avoid raising suspicion was to drive by the road until the limo entered the forest a bit.

"Uh… You went past the road!"

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing, quick, log into Saikou Maps and tell me if there's any buildings along the road" Akiyama commanded, even though he wasn't the chief detective

"Okay… Aha! There's a ranch at the end of the road… 'Yasei Ranch', the road is about five to seven-hundred metres, no other exits, just the ranch" Ruto commented on the discoveries she made through the on-board computer

"Alright, let's hit it"

With that, Akiyama turned off the headlights of their cruiser, did a 180-degree turn and headed off onto the trail.


Yasei Ranch, outskirts of Buraza Town; 4:07 A.M

"Well, this is way bigger than I expected" Aiko yelped in surprise

"Nothing we can't deal with actually" Akiyama said confidently

What they were those two talking about? Well, they were talking about the fact that this 'Yasei Ranch' wasn't a ranch at all, it was rather a massive warehouse guarded by armed thugs, with a massive fleet of black limos like the one they were following in the yard, with several of them unloading stolen appliances.

"What are you talking about?! We're absolutely outnumbered! We couldn't disarm each one without getting shot!"

"Disarm? With our bare hands? Aiko, don't be a dreamer right now. We either call black and whites, wait about ten minutes to an hour until they arrive; not to mention the fact they'll come with their sirens on, alerting the perps. Or we can storm the place right now and considering there's enough evidence to make a couple dozen arrests, and get a giant commendation, a medal, or better yet, a promotion" Toru said determinately

"Ehhh… You know I wouldn't like to get promoted right? The homicide squad is pretty gloomy… And yucky… But the medal will do! What's the plan Mr. Honolulu swatter?"

"Just so you know, I never was in the HPD SWAT team… Anyway, here's the plan, you jump the fence from the back, and I'll run a distraction through the front. Take your radio with you so you can call for uniformed back-up when they fire the first shot, if we're lucky enough, we should be able to clear the ranch before our back-up arrives" Akiyama elaborated in a commanding voice

"Okay… How will I know when they fire the first shot?" Ruto asked

"No need to know who, all you need to know is when"

"Got it! Let's hit it!" The Detective Ruto said enthusiastically whilst drawing a .38 caliber revolver

"Really? A .38? What is this? 1947?" Akiyama joked

"What? I've been for longer in the force so they let me carry a revolver!"

"But you joined only two years earlier than me"

"Shut up and let's get to work" Aiko said before wandering off to find a back entrance leaving Toru to put his plan in motion

Akiyama sprinted back to the unmarked cruiser and headed for the front entrance.


4:10 A.M

The Detective Akiyama had a fool-proof plan, but that's because he would be doing the dumbest part of the plan, attempting to waltz right in through the front door without firing a single shot.

He got the cruiser down from the hill him and the Detective Ruto were settled to go down the front gate, blasted up the headlights in high beams and pulled over right in front of the gate, where one of the thugs obviously noticed.

"Hey! Civilian! What the hell are you doing?" The thug menacingly asked

"Civilian? You obviously got it all wrong pal! I come here to do my business!" Akiyama played it dumb whilst getting down from the cruiser and leaving the door open

"You're the one who obviously has it wrong. Get. Lost" The thug aimed at Akiyama's head with a shotgun

"Do you have any idea of who you're talking to?"

"No, and I don't care"

"Let me refresh your mind with two simple words: Buraza. Police" Akiyama said in a calm tone before swiftly punching the barrel of the shotgun down and the thug in the face, retrieving his shotgun and then shooting the thug with it… This is where the fun begins

Akiyama took cover with the car door that he opened and swiftly turned on the cruiser's police lights and siren to signal that the people they're trying to get a shot on are law enforcers… It's safe to say that it just got them angrier, with a bigger hellfire of bullets descending upon the car.

Using as much cover as possible, he used the CB radio to contact his partner in order to get some updates.

"Aiko! Aiko...! Shit! How are you holding up?!" Toru asked somewhat altered

"Unnoticed as of now! You have the spotlight partner!" Aiko cheerily replied

"Well, in this situation having the spotlight isn't very good! Can you help me out by clearing the idiots on higher ground?! You won't be noticed unless you expose yoursel-oh shit! Anyway, they're ganging up on me and I need help! They're using revolvers too so your shots shouldn't sound suspicious!" Akiyama said as a series of bullets nearly hit him

"Coming right up!"

"Drop your weapons! Cease and desist! Back-up is on the way!" Akiyama exclaimed as he took out some thugs by shooting them in the legs with his shotgun

After taking out some thugs on the entrance, Akiyama moved forward and took cover behind a stack of wooden planks, as he tried to blind-fire with the shotgun he was carrying, he realized the thing had ran out of bullets.

"Just my luck… Buraza Police! Cease the shooting!" Toru said whilst taking his concealed 9mm pistol out of the holster underneath his jacket

As he cleared the yard of the warehouse Toru released a bunch of witty remarks.

"How long you're gonna keep this up?" He said whilst shooting a thug in the abdomen

And there's also:

"What's wrong with these people?!"

Or maybe:

"A jail cell or both the cell and a wheelchair! Your choice! Not mine friend!" Akiyama smugly said before shooting a thug in the legs

Also:

"This is what I missed since I left Honolulu!"

And well:

"I'm getting awfully tired of this! Can't you all take the cuffs for once?!" He said whilst reloading his pistol

But in the end, he was either handicapping them or killing them the same with the bullets he fired.


Front warehouse entrance; 4:17 A.M

"Drop the weapon! I have your head in my sights!" Akiyama said to a thug that was pointing an assault rifle at him whilst Akiyama himself had his pistol pointed at the thug

"Make m-" The thug said as he got cut short by a bullet piercing his skull

As the corpse of the thug dropped to the ground it revealed the Detective Ruto reloading her revolver, she was pretty much unscathed, sadly, the same can't be said for Toru Akiyama as he reloaded too…

Akiyama had red spots all over his clothing, some spots bigger than others, most of them were in his shoulders and the sides of his thorax. Naturally, Akiyama's partner was worried about his health.

"Oi! What happened to you! You have more holes than a Swiss cheese!" Ruto said worryingly

Toru took a look at himself, he seemed unfazed by the fact he was riddled with bullets, and actually, he shrugged to let his partner know he didn't give a fuck.

"Well, it's decided, I'm not wearing another white suit to work ever again… And don't you worry about this, as long as the adrenaline keeps running, I won't feel it" The wounded detective deadpanned

"No! You're not moving from here until our back-up arrives and we call for an ambulance! And since I'm your superior here, that's an order!" The petite detective commanded

And as they had their discussion, a dozen police sirens were heard entering the compound, it was the back-up they were desperately waiting for. And it had finally arrived, as the uniformed officers got down from their cruisers they pointed their weapons at the couple of detectives preemptively.

"Put the weapons down and identify yourselves!" The officer shouted, obviously uninformed of who he was dealing with

"No can do partner, detectives Ruto and Akiyama, burglary, badges 953 and 1123 respectively" Akiyama replied to the officer

"Oh, you're the ones that called for back-up? This place seems clear! I'm the officer Kaskabe, primary responder" The officer said whilst putting his weapon down

"The yard is clear, but the warehouse is full of goons officer, and as you can see, the Detective Akiyama is wounded" Ruto piped up

"Alright then, take a squad car and take the injured unit to the nearest medical center, I'm sure that the captain will want you out of here, we'll handle this"

"I can shoot goons and take the pain just fine!"

"Oh no, you can't! We're off to the hospital Toru!" Aiko said whilst pushing Toru to a squad car

"Oh Aiko…" Akiyama muttered


Buraza General Hospital, Downtown Buraza Town; 11:36 A.M

Ah, Toru Akiyama, toughest guy you'll ever meet, he took pain like candy and a bullet barely moved him. He used to say that he had so many of his nerves shot off that he wouldn't feel anything, I never believed that story, but it sure seemed like it once you saw him dealing with thugs on the beat, but that isn't relevant right now.

Toru and his partner were exiting the hospital after the former was discharged, they spent the whole morning writing the case report right after the uniformed officers gave them the lowdown of what they found, who was downed and who they could arrest in the ranch; well, rather Toru spent the whole morning writing the report, since Aiko fell asleep, the poor broad was really tired.

As they were going down the hospital ramp, the burglary captain; Hideo Yatsuda, greeted them.

"Hello there detectives! I heard about what went down at the Yasei Ranch, quite the story to tell isn't it?"

"Well, it is quite the tale, but I'll let the report do that for me in this case" Akiyama said whilst nonchalantly handing the report to the captain

"Wow, you never cease to amaze me with your straightforwardness Akiyama, always straight to business, and that's always a great thing in force!" The cap replied, cheery as always as he grabbed the case report

"Congratulations Ruto! It was no problem" Aiko sarcastically said in a way that sounded like if she was telling that to herself

"Well, I was getting to that detective! I heard what you did over at the ranch, always supportive of your partners, you did a stellar job taking care of those threats, and that deserves a commendation. I'll speak with the chief to see if I can get you both a nice and shiny medal, sounds good?"

"Sounds just great… Hey! You owe me a drink!" Aiko and Toru said at exactly the same time

"Huh, you two have a great chemistry, it's I'm ashamed that I must be the one to bring bad news for this partnership…" The captain said with a downcast look in his face and the tone to match it

"What's wrong Captain?" Aiko asked out of curiosity

"Well… The Detective Akiyama here… Just got approved a promotion to the homicide squad thanks to this case, the chief informed me early in the morning. Akiyama, you'll now have to report to the Captain Itachi Kobawa, starting tomorrow, you can take the day off… Ruto, I expect you in my office so I can take your declarations on this case"

"Copy that cap… So… You're now headed to homicide?" She at first said to the captain and then to Akiyama

"Seems like that's the case…" Toru said with a hint of sadness

"And I'll be off, see you at the precinct Ruto!" The captain said before walking off

"You know, I always thought that one of these days you'd get promoted, but I never thought it would be this soon, well, I had to imagine it, considering how you've been going like a blaze through the ranks… But hey, I'm proud of you Toru"

"Hey, don't worry, this isn't the last you've seen of me, I'll try to run into you as much as I can in the precinct"

"It's fine for me as long as it doesn't hamper your performance!" Aiko said cheerfully

"I've been working with you for the last five months and my performance hasn't reduced in the slightest dummy" Toru snapped

"That was mean…! Anyway, I'll be seeing you around… Partner" She said before giving Toru a bear hug and walking off

"And I'll be seeing you too…" Akiyama muttered as he was left alone with his thoughts

It looked like a tough break if you ask me, but Akiyama got through it since he knew Ruto wasn't going anywhere, she was just going to leave his side because he got too good for her.


Promotion


Buraza Police Central Precinct, Downtown Buraza Town; September 15th of 2016

Toru's first day on homicide… I remember it very clearly, he looked a bit downcast but at the same time optimistic, he greeted everyone as usual and almost got himself into the burglary debrief room out of habit, but before opening the door he realized his mistake and headed to the second floor, where the homicide debrief room was located, as he entered Toru's presence sure turned some heads, but he didn't give a damn to the attention and just took a seat as the captain entered the room with him.

"Okay ladies and gentlemen, I'm late for a meeting so let's make this quick, Toru Akiyama here present got promoted to our department from burglary blah blah blah, so I'm partnering him with Ichiro Suzuki so he can show Akiyama the ropes blah blah blah. Talking about ropes I got your first case already Akiyama: An apparent suicide occurred at Akademi High, the victim's name's 'Osana Najimi', she took a plunge from the school's rooftop, move it to Akademi and investigate it as a murder case, coroner's on the scene… And Akiyama, here we do things differently than in burglary. If you can't find solid evidence in eight hours we close the case and forget about the issue… Got it? Now move it" The Captain Kobawa said in a no-bullshit tone before moving onto the next couple of partners

Toru stood up and looked around, a man with black hair and grey eyes easily in his late forties approached him dressed in a rather badly treated beige suit, he knew this was his new partner.

"So you're my new partner, right? Let's hope you don't end like the last one" He kind-of-threateningly said

"What happened to them?"

"They ended up in Ad-Vice"

"That doesn't sound bad at all" Akiyama retorted

"If you knew what happens at Ad-Vice, you'd know that the place is hell on earth for honest guys like us" Suzuki deadpanned

As Ichiro said that, Toru was a bit confused, but he just shrugged it off and headed with his partner towards the parking lot, where their means of transportation was awaiting, in this case, a plain pale blue 1993 Ibishu Pessima.

"I don't know how much of a knack you have for driving so I'll leave it to you to decide, take the wheel and it's okay, don't take it and I'll drive us to Akademi" Ichiro sternly said as he stood beside the car

"Don't worry, I'll drive… And what's with this attitude of yours?" Toru asked as he opened the door and sat on the driver's seat

"Homicide makes you like this kid. The blood, the death of innocents, the incident in the eighties and the fact that no-one has been able to close a case with arrests since the beginning of the millennium because they placed that stupid time limit"

"I assume you mean that eight-hour limit right? Sounds unorthodox if you ask me, a murder investigation can take days if not weeks, I saw that all the time in Honolulu. But don't worry, I know how to work with what I'm given, we should be able to have everything wrapped up by sleep time"

"That outlook sounds exaggeratedly optimistic in my opinion" Suzuki deadpanned

"And your outlook is unbearably depressive in mine. Just follow my lead and you'll see how the pieces fall in place, maybe you'll even recover your faith in the homicide squad" Akiyama said whilst starting up the engine

"With all I've seen and our crime scene, I doubt it"

"Oh dear gods; with the exception of Aiko Ruto, why do I always get shitty partners?" Toru said to the heavens

"Hey! I heard that you asswipe" Ichiro complained

"I know, I just want you to have my personal opinion on you clear"

"Son of a bitch…" Suzuki muttered

And with that insult Exchange, they were off to Akademi High. What Toru Akiyama didn't knew, however, was that this case and the ones that would come follow would throw everything he thought he knew about police work to the trash…


La noteishon: Well, this is it, my next big project. A YanSim fanfic seen from the point of what would be an antagonist in the game. For now Akiyama seems pretty barebones but as of now imagine him as a young journalist with a badge and all the wits to pull an investigation this big, also I hope that the trial scene gives Y'all at least a little bit of reasons why Akiyama's gonna do what he's gonna do, if not, be sure to ask away! I'm always glad to clear up doubts… Unless you pull a Midori.

December the 4th chapter update: Corrected several spelling and grammar mistakes that were cringe-worthy.