So, this took forever to write, I hope you guys like it and also a quick announcement that I know ill probably bum some of my readers out, but this is the last fic thing I'm posting to Fanfiction dot net, after this I'm moving to AO3 fully, if you want to read any of my newer stories just look for Zygarde22 like on here.
Chie was sick to her stomach, and for once it wasn't from food, though what she was seeing would probably not allow her to keep any food she ate down for weeks. She was standing before a dead man and his dead wife, in an apparent murder suicide. Standing next to her taking notes was Ryutaro Dojima and Naoto Shirogane. The two had asked for her personally to help them catalog and document the crime scene. She remembered when she first entered the police academy one of the things they did was try to desensitize you to the sight of a dead body, with pictures from both Japan and around the world of some of the most gruesome things from car accidents to grizzly homicides. And while Chie would like to think that they stuck, she still got chills when she saw dead bodies. Probably just a natural response for her.
"Hmm, Satonaka-chan mind if you snap a picture of this here." Naoto said as she pointed to an item on the ground, a bloodied knife that was probably the murder weapon. Chie nodded and pulled out the camera she had with her and snapped a few photos of the weapon. After taking a few more notes, Chie asked to be excused for a moment. When she left the house she promptly found the nearest garbage can and vomited into it. Another kneejerk reaction she had to the sight of a corpse.
"Yeah, that happened to me the first time I saw a real dead body." She heard Dojima say from behind her, he had a lit cigarette in his mouth and was looking up at the sky, "They try to make you not think about that stuff when you become a cop, but even after several years doing it, it still gets to me sometimes." He said as he took a puff from the cigarette and exhaled a cloud of smoke.
"I guess I'm just not used to it yet." Chie said as she whipped some of the vomit from her chin with a spare napkin she had in her pocket, "But I'm ready to go back in again sir!" Chie said ready to get back into her job, even with her rather squeamish attitude towards a dead body. Dojima shook his head and pointed to Naoto who was exiting the crime scene.
"No need, we've gotten everything we need for today, so head on back to precinct." Dojima said as he walked off, leaving Chie and Naoto to walk back to the precinct alone. All the while Chie couldn't get the thought of the dead body out of her mind, she then looked at Naoto who was the epitome of calm and collected about the whole thing.
"How do you deal with it Naoto?" Chie asked her younger friend, "How do you, you know see all these horrible crimes and not just, curl into yourself?" Chie continued to ask the two stopping as Naoto thought for a moment on the best way to answer that question. She then spoke up a small grin on her face.
"Thing is, it doesn't become easier to deal with, you just learn to rely on those around you to help." Naoto said as she adjusted her hat and turned to look at the sky, "I have my grandfather, Yu-kun and all my other friends to help me make sure I stay from the dark." Naoto said as she turned to Chie.
"I imagine you still have Youske and your daughter to keep you tethered, am I correct Chie-kun?" Naoto asked when Chie nodded she smiled again, "Always look to them, they can keep you from going down any path too dark." Naoto said as they walked the rest of the way in silence. When her shift was over, Chie returned home, stepping inside her home she announced her return to her husband.
"Yosuke, I'm home!" Chie shouted as she slipped off her shoes, she saw her husband poke his head out of the kitchen and give her a warm smile, in his arms was their two-year-old daughter, Yumi.
"Welcome back dear, how was work?" Yosuke asked as he returned to the kitchen as he finished cooking their meal for that day, Chie put her police coat and hat onto the hanger near the door. She let out a tired sigh and sat down at their table when Yosuke returned with the food.
"It was…interesting." Chie said as she pulled her daughter into her lap holding her close and giving her a gentle kiss on the head. Yosuke nodded as he put some karaage into his mouth. Chie doing the same while she adjusted the baby bottle that was feeding Yumi.
"Interesting as good, or interesting as bad?" Yosuke asked trying to get more info about the day she had. Chie sighed and began describing how she felt looking at the corpses and how it made her sick to her stomach.
"You'd think that we'd be used to dead thing after we solved a murder case when we were in high school." Yosuke said jokingly, it had been eight years since that event of their lives, looking at the two most important women in his life he found it rather funny.
"Yosuke, what do you think of me becoming a detective?" Chie asked taking a sip of some beer, Yosuke thought for a moment and then answered.
"Do what you think its best." Youske answered, "I think you'd be a great detective." He said to Chie, she sighed but smiled that was how Yosuke went about things, it was sometimes a good thing and a bad thing, but it was a charm of his. He didn't force her to do anything but would give her space and tell her what he thought was best but let her do things on her own volition.
"I'm…just worried, you know?" She said thinking of the things that would make their live harder, "I mean what if our lives end up like Dojima-san's?" Chie said worried about the possibility of one of them dying early and leaving the other to raise their daughter alone. It was a thought she had many, many times before when she was pregnant with Yumi, it was a thought she didn't like, but it was a possibility.
"That's a risk we take every day, but I think if you want to be a detective, then go for it." Yosuke said smiling at her, the two finished dinner and Yosuke put their daughter to bed while Chie did the dishes, it all that was going through her mind was whether she should put int the request to be come a detective. It was one she would not be able to figure out herself. The next day when the two were preparing to go to work, Chie had given Youske her choice.
"I'm going to become a detective." Chie said confident in her decision, Youske smiled and gave her a gentle kiss on the lips, making her end up flustered more than she wanted to be.
"Good, I'll see you when you get home." He said as Chie went out the door, she didn't know what the future held, for her or her family, but she was going to face it like she did the many challenges she did when she was younger with a pep in her step and a kick to the face of anything that got in her way.