"Oh, you've gotta be kidding me!"

Halle pulled at her hair frustratingly, turning around in circles and wandering around Tokyo's streets aimlessly. Several people walking by her on the crosswalks shot her weird looks at her awkward outbursts occasionally, but they continued to walk down the streets and sidewalks minding their own business.

She left her station two hours ago for the MPD, and she still hadn't found it yet.

Halle pouted furiously to herself as she desperately tried to look for some sort of sign to guide her to the police station, but she was having no luck. To anyone walking by, she looked like a lost tourist spinning around in circles with a silly frown on her face.

Not only was she lost, again, but she didn't understand the sudden transfer. Not that she was complaining, but it was a little strange. Was it a mistake? It had to be for someone like her to get transferred, right? It's not like she was bad at her job, but... Special Investigations? Getting promoted to that unit, and to the MPD no less, was a huge shock. A dream come true, even!

Halle stopped in front of a large, eighteen floor office building of some sort. Based on the look on her face, all enthusiasm and hope that this really was a dream come true had been crushed.

This has to be a mistake...

And with that thought, she whirled around with the intention of going back the way she came.

Except...

"Ow!"

"Ouch!"

"Hey, watch where you're going..."

"Oops, I'm so sorry!"

Halle had turned around and slammed right into some poor guy walking her way. The man was dressed in a three-piece black suit and a red tie, and he had light brown hair a similar shade to her own that was short and spiky. Unlike her raspberry-kissed eyes, he had sharp brown ones that looked like they could go anywhere between unnervingly kind to insanely fierce.

Halle looked completely distraught and inwardly kicked herself as she frowned sadly to the man. "I'm really, really sorry! God, I'm such a klutz!" She abruptly slapped her forehead hard, making a very awkward and scatter-brained first impression.

He chuckled at her amusing reaction, not expecting a woman to backlash in such a way. "What brings you to the MPD today?"

"The MPD?" Halle dropped all of her gusto as she blinked at this man strangely. "What do you mean?"

He smiled at her wryly before pointing to the building they were standing in front of. "You're standing right in front of it..."

Halle dropped her jaw and whirled around, and she pulled at her hair again when she realized she had nearly passed right by the gargantuan building. "What!? I can't believe I almost got lost again!"

The man made a "pfft" sound as he scoffed at the peculiar woman. He looked her up and down quickly before coming to a conclusion. "Are you a tourist?"

"A tourist?" Halle tilted her head to the side as she looked at the man curiously.

Well, she didn't really look Japanese, to be fair. Her mother was a French heiress, and her father was a rich Japanese businessman; both her and her brother were only half Japanese. Halle had raspberry colored eyes for crying out loud and light brown hair, taking after her mother in the looks department. It made sense that he would think she was a tourist.

Halle quickly shook her head. "Oh, no, I..."

The man didn't let her finish as he stood next to her, placing one hand on her shoulder and using the other to point in a different direction. "Head this way to get to the Imperial Palace, go that way to Ginza, and the other way for the International Forum." Stone-faced, he pointed her in a variety of directions.

...she had lived in Japan her whole life and didn't know any of those things off the top of her head. You know, since her sense of direction sucked.

"Oh, wait, no... I think you have the wrong idea." Halle waved her hands back and forth defensively, trying to get a word in. "You see, I..."

The man didn't seem to hear her at all as he turned to her with a kind smile. "Got it?" He wondered if she understood the directions he just gave her.

She took a step backwards, intimidated by the strength of his intense gaze. "...yeah. I got it."

"Well, take care." He waved good-bye to her without even giving her a second thought, and the man strode towards the entrance of the MPD building.

Halle found herself staring at his back as she watched him go, and she frowned a little to herself. "I guess he's a detective here or something..."

Suddenly, the man stopped and turned back to look at her once more, having just thought of something else to add. "You should hurry and go. Someone will think you're suspicious, loitering around here like that."

Halle dropped her jaw down to the floor. "Suspicious!?" She yelled at him, and all he did in return was laugh at her.

Hey, that was mean! She was a bit dorky, yes, but not suspicious looking!

He shrugged his shoulders as if he noticed nothing wrong with what he said. "I mean, I thought so."

And with that, he quickly went into the building.

What was that all about? Suspicious...? Yeah, right! She was a detective too!

...just a very lost detective who got turned around too many times on her way here.

He seemed like a real straight-laced, top-notch investigator of some sort.

...and she had totally ran right into him because of her klutziness.

Halle whirled around and abruptly slammed her head on a nearby light post, squinting her eyes shut in embarrassment. "Ugh, I'm such an idiot!"

MPD Special Investigations: seventh floor, Second Unit.

First Unit was a bunch of cops gunning for the glory, and they were all very strict and uptight. They were considered the best cops in the MPD, despite their awful personalities and lack of common sense in the police work area of expertise, but the Second Unit...

Well, simply put, they were cops as good as First Unit, but they were a bunch of weirdos.

"YES! THE TIGERS WON!" An overjoyed man sprung up from his desk and held his phone high up in the air victoriously, grinning brightly at the victory of his favorite baseball team.

His name was Yutaka Tennoji, a spiky red-haired man who always dressed casually in a white T-Shirt and a grungy leather jacket and jeans. Tennoji was six feet tall, and the tallest detective out of the bunch. He was one of Second Unit's best detectives, and the one with the highest arrest-rate, despite only being twenty six years old.

Lieutenant Hiroshi Kirisawa, the big boss of Second Unit, smiled wryly at Tennoji's sudden outburst that was really unlike him. "You and your baseball obsession..."

"Oi, it's not an obsession!" Tennoji went back to his usual, bitter bad attitude he always had as he reprimanded his boss.

Kirisawa was the leader of MPD Special Investigation's Second Unit, despite only being twenty nine. He had short black hair combed back out of his face that sprung about widely, drawing attention to his kind smile. He was always smoking a cigarette, and he wore a simple white button-up, a black blazer, and black work pants. Kirisawa was a good-hearted guy, but Tennoji had him beat height-wise by a mere inch.

"Are you really surprised?"

That snarky laugh came from twenty-two-year-old Eiki Yachigusa, the youngest out of the bunch who was actually a Japanese-American NYPD officer working in Japan. He had crazy wild brown hair and always had a smile on his face. He was always dressed the most casual, only wearing a white T-Shirt, a black denim vest, light washed jeans, and a dog tag around his neck. He was the more laid back detective in Second Unit, always cracking jokes and making people laugh.

A man with short, tame black hair dressed in a grey suit looked up from his laptop, momentarily taking a break from hacking away at some complex algorithm. He pushed the thin-framed glasses he wore up the bridge of his nose, and he was completely straight-faced as he observed his colleagues joke around with each other.

Yachigusa walked over to said man, peering over his desk and staring at what was on his laptop screen. "Whatcha working on, Kyobashi?"

Katsuyuki Kyobashi, the twenty-five-year-old resident hacker working as one of Second Unit's detectives, quickly shut his laptop and plastered a fake smile on his face. "Nothing you need to concern yourself with."

The door to the room opened, and the man who had a rather...interesting encounter with a klutzy woman out front of the station walked in. He sighed as he plopped down in his desk, brushing the loose strands of brown hair from his eyes. Kazusa Hanai: easily Second Unit's most arrogant, conceited, know-it-all on the force. He was an amazing detective and criminal profiler, and he often rivaled with Tennoji's detective skills. He was a very blunt and direct person, and he appeared to have no flaws at all. The man was literally perfect.

"Hey, Hanai." Kirisawa greeted the master detective with a warm smile. "Good morning."

"Good morning." Hanai flashed his boss a warm grin before he turned his head to look at the sleeping blue-haired sniper next to him. "Asano's really out this morning, huh?"

Everyone directed their attention to Shusuke Asano, Metro PD's best sniper. He was always the quiet type, and whenever he wasn't being socially awkward and mysterious, he was spaced out or asleep. The twenty-four-year-old was always calm and quiet, but direct. And half asleep most of the time.

"Alright, everyone. Listen up." Kirisawa stood tall as he demanded the room's full attention. "The new kid's coming today, so be nice when they get here any minute now."

The rumored 'new kid' was five minutes late already, so Kirisawa figured he'd give the kid at least a fighting chance by talking to his men first.

"Are they any good?" Tennoji rose an eyebrow curiously, only half paying attention to this debrief.

"Says so right here." Kirisawa squinted his eyes at a paper he was holding in his hand, and he took a puff of smoke from his cigarette. "Kid's resume is pretty impressive, despite the lack of field work they've done. Studied martial arts for ten years, is a pretty decent shot, great at being able to tell when someone is lying... Kid should have no problem fitting in here."

Right as Kirisawa finished reading off the newbie's resume and impressing his men with the kid's skill, the sound of the doorknob being fiddled with directed everyone's attention to it. Suddenly, the door swung open, and a very frazzled looking young woman stepped in the room looking very out of breath with joyful, yet distressed tears streaming down her face.

"Please tell me this is Special Investigation's Second Unit!" The young woman none other than Halle Mitchell exasperatedly pulled at her hair with her trench coat hanging over her arm, exhausted beyond belief. "I've already gotten lost like four times on my way here...!"

All six men stared at this blubbering emotional mess of a woman, completely stunned by her "grand" entrance.

"The good shot!?" Yachigusa dropped his jaw and let it clatter to the floor as he stood stunned by this gorgeous woman who was just all over the place.

"The human lie detector?" Kyobashi simply rose an eyebrow at this frazzled woman, a little surprised himself.

"The kid who studied martial arts for a decade!?" Tennoji's eyes got so wide with surprise that he nearly fell over.

"The new recruit is a woman?" Asano had woken up to the chaos, and he stared at the girl curiously, who was now the only woman to ever work in Second Unit.

Halle's eyes darted from one man to another, not really understanding what was going on. So she did have the right room this time...?

She was about to speak up and say something when she met the eyes of the man she had just met outside the station, and she pointed an accusing finger at him. "You!?"

"What?" Hanai blinked his eyes repeatedly at Halle. "Ms. Suspicious from before?"

"Ms. Suspicious!?" Halle fumed at the ridiculous nickname, and she clenched her fists tightly as her face grew red.

Kirisawa seemed to be the only one in the room not shocked at all, since he had read her resume, and he just laughed out loud at the new kid and Hanai. "Well look at that, you guys are buddies already!"

Halle bitterly grimaced as she felt sick to her stomach from Kirisawa's horribly false accusation. "Not really..."

"Well, guys! This is the new kid!" Kirisawa clapped his hands together with a big smile on his face. "Give a warm welcome to miss...er, what was your name again, new kid?"

Halle blinked her eyes owlishly at her new boss, and she gasped sharply when she realized he had asked her a question. "Oh! I'm Halle Mitchell from the West Arai Community Safety Unit." She grinned brightly at the six men before her, waving to them adorably. "Hi, guys! Nice to meet you!" She awkwardly scratched the back of her head as a sheepish smile found its way to her lips. "It's my first day at the MPD, so I'm a little nervous..."

"You're nervous?" Tennoji's jaw only dropped even further at the sound of that.

Hanai smirked at her curiously with a hint of arrogance gleaming in his soft eyes. "You sure don't look nervous."

"Maybe she's trying to win us over with a shy little girl act?" Kyobashi let a flirty grin tug at the corner of his mouth as he looked Halle up and down.

"You think she's being fake?" Yachigusa stared slack-jawed at Kyobashi, a little stunned by the accusation himself.

Suddenly self conscious from Kyobashi's flirty gaze, Halle hugged her trench coat close to her chest as her cheeks flushed red in embarrassment. "I'm not trying to do anything like that!"

Asano seemed to be the only guy in the room who couldn't honestly care any less than he already did. "Meh, whatever..."

"Shut it, guys!" Kirisawa's booming voice commanded all attention in an instant. "Stop talking all at once!" He crossed his arms bitterly over his chest as he reprimanded his men seriously. "Now, hurry and introduce yourselves."

"I'm Kazusa Hanai." Hanai beat the others to the punch, and he stepped closer to Halle as he smirked down at the shorter woman. "So, you weren't a sketchy loiterer or a tourist, you're a detective!"

Halle shrunk back into her skin at his intimidating presence. "Yes... I'm a detective..." She found herself lowering her voice unconsciously, and she nearly squeaked out the words. Hanai was a cute guy, but something about him just rubbed Halle the wrong way.

Tennoji grinned menacingly at the new girl, placing a hand on his hip. "My name is Yutaka Tennoji. I hate the Giants and girls with no manners."

Halle stared at the red-haired man in awe as he flashed her a wry smile. "No manners!?"

What a jerk!

Yachigusa seemed unfazed by the jerky behavior that came from both Tennoji and Hanai, and he took it upon himself to introduce himself next. "I'm Eiki Yachigusa. I'm actually from the NYPD, but I'm here in Tokyo for training!"

Halle felt herself relax into a soft smile. Finally, a normal guy amongst the weirdos!

She shook his hand and smiled brightly at him. "It's nice to meet you." Her eyes suddenly widened in shock as he caught her off guard with a kiss to the hand. "W-wha!?"

"Just a little New York-style greeting for you!" Yachigusa laughed a little as he beamed his cute grin to her.

Kyobashi looked the woman up and down, then stared down at his computer, disinterested. "Four."

"Four?" Halle stared at him oddly, trying to figure out what that meant. Wait...four points!? Did he just rate her a four!?

...was that a four out of five, or a four out of ten? Or one hundred!?

Halle gawked at him as Kirisawa was quick to scold him. "Hey, hey. Kyobashi, actually introduce yourself to her."

"Alright." Kyobashi heaved a sigh as he stood up, and he looked over to Halle, the 'four.' "I'm Katsuyuki Kyobashi, but you've probably heard my name around before." He peered down at the frail woman with his dark eyes, judging her as he adjusted his glasses. "You don't seem that clueless."

All she could do really was stare at him in shock and raise a single finger in defense. "Um, well..."

That wasn't exactly polite...

"Let's see, and lastly there's..." Kyobashi looked around the room at the other guys until his gaze landed on the blue-haired man in the white shirt. "...Asano!" He moved back to his seat, calling over Asano as he did so.

"I'm Shusuke Asano." The tall man with dark blue hair gave Halle a slight head nod, introducing himself.

...

Was that it?

A nervous bead of sweat rolled down Halle's forehead as she realized that was really all he had to say to her.

Kirisawa chuckled amusedly at this little exchange. "Don't worry about him, he's always like that." He walked over to Halle and held out a hand for her to shake. "Anyways, I'm Hiroshi Kirisawa."

Hanai suddenly appeared right behind Halle, and she jumped a little at his voice. "Kirisawa's the head of Second Unit."

"He's our boss." Tennoji leaned back casually onto his desk, crossing his arms over his strong chest.

Halle elicited a cute grin as she outstretched her arms to everyone. "I look forward to working with all of you!"

Hanai and Tennoji stood side-by-side as they grew very quite, just staring at Halle with serious looks on their faces. Even Yachigusa and Kyobashi were quiet as they silently stared at her. Halle wasn't all that fazed by Asano's disinterest in her, though.

Halle's outstretched arms fell down to her sides as she frowned a little, feeling as if she just got rejected for a hug. "What...?"

Hanai tilted his head to the side, and he replaced that serious look with a devilish smirk on his face. "You're a very..."

"A very what?" Halle stared at him quizzically, wondering what he was about to say.

Hanai studied her harshly as he stared at her with that intense gaze of his. "...awkward person."

Halle's expression shattered at that stab to her delicate heart, and her whole face flared up a deep shade of red in embarrassment. "I'm so sorry! I'm really bad at first impressions!"

The guys all just sweatdropped at they watched the over-dramatic woman abruptly slam her head on a nearby wall, sulking in a corner as she talked to herself.

"I'm trying to work on it, honestly!" She sulked even more as a dark purple cloud of depression seemed to float around her. "God, I'm such an idiot!"

Kirisawa chuckled at Halle's little outburst, and he shook his head at his men. "Come on, guys! Give her a better reaction than that!"

"Boss, are you sure this girl's a detective?" Hanai suspiciously looked Halle up and down, who was still sulking in her little corner, not really sure what to believe at this point.

Tennoji seemed to be on the same page as Hanai. "Why was she transferred here?"

"Hmm. I dunno." Kirisawa mused out loud, staring at the woman who had just now recovered from her embarrassment and was standing before him once again.

Hanai stood right next to her as he studied her face, and Halle leaned backwards in attempt to keep a reasonable distance between their faces. "She doesn't seem like a detective, does she?"

"Especially one that knows martial arts." Tennoji rose an eyebrow at her curiously, ganging up on the young woman on her other side. "Hey, Mitchell, you know you can't lie on your resume, right?"

Halle gawked at Tennoji, and she quickly grew defensive. "I-I didn't lie about my skills! I really am a good shot, I have a pretty good sense of being able to tell when someone is lying, and I do know martial arts!"

Tennoji scoffed a little, not believing her for a second. "Do you have some special skill or something? Like, are you an explosives expert or something?"

"Yeah, what's your thing?" Kirisawa's eyes grew wide as he studied Halle, wondering that as well.

Halle narrowed her eyes at Tennoji as they got all up in each other's faces. "I told you, I'm good at martial arts!"

Tennoji studied her curiously, and a taunting smirk quickly grew on his face. "So, if I came at you like this... You'd be able to stop me?"

"H-hey! Cut it out!" Halle squeaked as Tennoji backed her up into a corner, leering over her menacingly.

Hanai widened his eyes a little, surprised by the idiot's unusually aggressive behavior. "Hey, Tennoji, leave her alone."

Tennoji scoffed a little in defiance. "Relax. I just want to see if she's lying." He grabbed onto Halle's arm, and that was a big mistake.

The world seemed to slow down as Halle's eyes quickly darted to look at Tennoji's rough hand gripping her arm, and she redirected her intense glare back to Tennoji's dark eyes. Tennoji's deep red eyes flashed with worry for a split second at the sight of her terrifying glare, and she moved so quick that he was too stunned and too slow to really stop her. It all happened within just two seconds.

Halle gripped his arm tightly and swung it back in a circle, bending it awkwardly. This is the move she used to dislocate one's shoulder, but she made sure not to seriously harm Tennoji as she jerked from his grip. She kicked her knee up and slammed it hard into Tennoji's gut, making the six foot tall man gasp as he lost his breath and stumble backwards. Lastly, Halle delivered one strong blow to his back by coming down on him with her elbow, slamming Tennoji down to the floor.

The guys all looked shocked beyond words as Halle bent down to Tennoji's level on the floor, shooting him a penetrating stare. "Listen up, cupcake." She sneered at the arrogant red-head. "Don't get all high and mighty on me, thinking you're better than me just because I'm a woman and half your size." She tilted her chin upwards as she glared down at him scornfully. "I get it, I'm a woman. But that doesn't mean you have the right to get up in my face like that and assume I'm just some useless nobody who only gets in the way." She rose to her feet and threw her trench coat over a nearby chair, leaning back onto an empty desk and crossing her arms over her white blouse. "You don't know me very well, but I'm a very honest person. I never say anything I don't mean, and I don't lie to people, so I suggest you grow up and learn some manners."

Yachigusa broke the awkward, tense silence with a fit of hysterical laughter, which Tennoji immediately glared at. Everyone in the room mentally agreed Halle earned some well deserved respect for that little display, with the exception of Tennoji, and even Hanai was a little impressed by the new rookie.

But the silence didn't last long, because the loud sound of a voice coming over the PA system seemed to disrupt the chaos.

"Emergency dispatch! Emergency dispatch! We've received information regarding a bomb threat at Ohi Warf. All personnel, move out!"

The relaxed atmosphere of just moments earlier was gone, and everyone immediately readied to move out.

"Let's go!" Kirisawa's strong voice barked the order to the six detectives working under him, and he ran out the door.

"Yes, sir!"

Halle fumbled to grab her trench coat and quickly throw it on, and she was already starting to fall behind. Hanai was about to dash out the door when he saw this, and he immediately sighed at the woman.

"Mitchell, let's go!" He ran over and grabbed her arm, pulling her along with him.

"S-sorry!" Halle quickly apologized, allowing Hanai to drag her with him. "I'm coming!"

Oooh :0 a humorous chapter that introduces the characters AND ends on a tense moment? Duhn duhn duhnnnnn...

Okay, so, all characters are introduced! Well, at least most of them are; I've still got a couple OCs up my sleeve, as well as a few supporting characters and antagonists coming up.

So I know it's hard to follow all of the characters and distinguish who's who with all the difficult names, so I tried my best to remind you guys who was who with little descriptions here and there. I hope this wasn't too hard to read...

Read, review, and enjoy my story! :)