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Satsugaisha
By XTsukimiOdangoX
Chapter 1
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"OK, Chiba-san," Tsukino Usagi began, taking a seat across the table from him, "I'm going to ask you a few questions, all right?"
Mamoru rolled his eyes. "Goodie…" He rested his chin in his palms. "Shoot."
Usagi leaned forward in her chair and flipped open a small notepad to a clean page. The blonde took her pen out of her pocket and pulled the cap off with her teeth. "Question number one," she mumbled around the cap, then spit it out into her palm, "when were you attacked?"
"Earlier this morning." Mamoru leaned back in his chair, teetering on the hind legs.
"It's only 11:30, Chiba-san. How early are we talking here?" Usagi could tell this was going to be the interrogation from hell.
"5:32 and forty-six seconds." The raven haired man grinned. "That descriptive enough?"
Usagi scowled. "Peachy," she bit out. She scribbled a few things down in her book. "Where were you attacked?"
"In an alleyway."
The blonde eyed Mamoru suspiciously. "What were you doing in an alleyway at 5:30 in the morning?"
"5:32," Mamoru corrected. He grinned. "I was taking a shortcut."
"To where?" She raised an eyebrow. He was giving her very half-assed answers…
"My best friend's store."
"Who's your friend?" Usagi poised her pen over the paper, ready to write down the name.
"Why does it matter?" Mamoru's gaze went flat.
Tsukino Usagi blinked. "You're giving me incredibly sketchy answers, Chiba-san. I think I have good reason to believe that your story is –"
"I just don't want to have to involve innocent people!" he shouted, standing up so abruptly his chair flew back two feet.
Usagi blinked in surprise. "Chiba-san, sit down." Mamoru didn't budge. "Onegai…*" the blonde pleaded. "I take it back, just… onegai." Usagi's shoulders slumped. "I need your help. You could be a major key to this case, so… Just…"
Mamoru sighed and slowly shook his head. He reclaimed his seat and smiled crookedly. "No, it's not your fault. I'm sorry…" He scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "I'll try to refrain from further outbursts."
Usagi giggled softly. Mamoru looked up at her in slight surprise. A slow smile graced his lips.
"Ya know, before when you were so uptight I didn't really notice it as much… but now that you're smiling…" Mamoru leaned forward slightly, "you're… beautiful."
Tsukino Usagi gasped. She could feel her face burning with an uncontrollable blush all the way to the roots of her hair. The blonde looked down nervously. She cleared her throat, twirling her pen between her fingers.
"Umm… Arigatou…** Demo***, we should really continue the interrogation…" Usagi squirmed in her chair. "If you're not going to tell me you're friend's name then –"
"Furuhata Motoki."
Usagi looked up to the man across from her. She smiled and wrote the name down on her pad. "Arigatou, Chiba-san."
"Anything to see you smile."
A small blush graced the blonde's cheeks. "You're quite the flirt, ya know, Chiba-san…" She crossed her legs and looked up to him. "But I really need to finish up this interrogation. So… how about you tell me where your Furuhata-san's store is, and why you were going there so early."
"His store?" Mamoru rolled his eyes. "Don't tell me you're going to go over there and interrogate him like you're doing to me!"
Usagi clenched her fists. Talk about mood swings! "Look, Chiba-san, your friend could be very –"
"I didn't even make it to his store, so why does it matter?!"
"Why do you keep trying to conceal very important information from me?!"
"Because it's not important!"
Usagi sighed in exasperation. "You are the most annoying man I have ever met!!"
"And you're the most annoying… female I've ever met."
Usagi glared up at Mamoru. "What was that supposed to mean?!"
The raven haired man shrugged. "Nothin'…"
"I hate you," Usagi growled.
"Good to know the feeling is mutual…"
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"I CAN'T STAND IT!!!"
Urawa Ryo stared, mouth agape as Tsukino Usagi stormed out of the interrogation room and out the station door.
"What was that all about?" Ryo asked the boy with spiky brown hair and coke bottle glasses next to him.
The boy shrugged. "How the hell should I know?" He sighed. "Just another one of her outbursts I suppose."
Ryo handed the boy a bottle of pills. "Go find Tsukino-san and bring her infamous aspirin pills to her; would ya, Umino-san?"
Umino Gurio sighed again and took the bottle. "Yeah, fine, whatever…" he grumbled as he trudged out of the police station.
"Usa- I mean, Tsukino-san!" Gurio called out, running after the fuming blonde. They had been friends since they were little children, and he just couldn't get used to calling her Tsukino-san.
Usagi stopped mid-step and slowly turned around. She glared at her "sidekick" evilly.
"What?" she spat out.
Gurio held out the bottle of pills. "I know this was supposed to be your day off, and it's obvious you have a headache –"
"Migraine," the blonde corrected.
"Um, right. Anyway…" Gurio continued, "despite all this –"
"And the fact that Chiba Mamoru is a prick."
"Yes, that too… We really need you to try to get more information out of him."
Usagi's gaze went flat. "You're my so-called "sidekick", why don't you do it?"
Umino Gurio gulped. "Um… Well…" If he told her the truth… told her what Ryo had planned to keep Mamoru safe… then she would have an aneurysm and definitely not come back…. "You're a girl!" he cried out quickly.
"Very good!" Usagi smiled sarcastically. "You've finally figured out the difference between male, female, and you! Congratulations!"
Gurio gritted his teeth. Sometimes he really hated this girl… "What I meant was, you're a female with… redeeming qualities… and you could… ya know… flirt the answers out of him."
Usagi cocked a curious eyebrow. Well, if she didn't go back in there and get some answers out of him, she might loose a huge lead…
She grabbed the aspirin bottle and fumbled with the cap. Usagi weakly stumbled back into the police station. She was holding her head in her one hand, and popping an aspirin in her mouth with the other. The blonde gulped it down dryly.
Gurio patted her on the back and led her into the seat at her desk He cast a sideways glance over at Ryo. He was speaking with Chiba Mamoru,
desperately trying to convince him into answering Usagi's questions.
"Um, Usagi-cha-"
"That's Tsukino-san to you, Umino-san" the blonde bit out. Gurio smiled crookedly.
"Right… Well, um, what happened?" Gurio sat down on the edge of her desk. "Why did he piss you off so much?"
Usagi scowled. The brunette man blinked twice in surprise. She roughly pushed herself up out of the chair and brushed past the confused Gurio. Before anyone could even register what was happening, Usagi had pried herself between Ryo and Mamoru, pinned the raven haired man against the wall, and cracked him across the face.
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Notes:
* Onegai - please
** Arigatou - Thank you
*** Demo- but
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Author's Notes: Well, that took long enough! Sorry that this took a week. I've been contemplating whether I should keep the chapter going form there or not. You can obviously see my decision. ^_^;; Probably not a very good one, but whatever. See ya!
