Chapter Five: Who is who?
Asuka stirred from the ground, feeling as if someone was shaking him.
"Son, Son wake up!" the senior detective insisted, worried beyond belief.
"It's not her," Asuka Jr. muttered, he words making little sense.
"What are you taking about?" he father demanded.
"St. Tail," he coughed as he found he could sit up, "Didn't send the threat."
"How can you be so sure?" the older man asked.
"Yeah, how do you know Asuka?" Rina asked from his other side.
"Rina, you know who, she is." He coughed about to pass out, "Help her," and he failed to move.
"I need medical attention right now!!!" His father shouted loudly. Those who heard, heard because they weren't looking at the roof.
"Detective Asuka?" Rina said importantly to her friends father, finally putting two and two together, " Asuka Jr. is correct, St. Tail didn't send the threat, she was with me when the one who did appeared and made herself known."
"Then you must know who St. Tail is." He said simply. "Who?"
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"Oka-san?" Meimi choked out, "Why?" she whispered.
"Because I had to know." She said simply, "You kept sneaking out and I knew St. Tail was a remarkable acrobat but I had to know for sure it was you."
"But why the bomb?"
"It needed to be serious didn't it?" she smiled, "You needed to take me seriously enough so, I went extreme."
"They'll have you in jail for this!" she shouted. Everyone heard this if not the mother parts.
"Oh no. Just like they wont catch you, they can't catch me."
"DO you want me in jail that badly Oka-san?" Meimi pleaded, "Right now I'm considered a nuisance. I can stop whenever I want and they wont care. Now even if I stop they'll come after me!!"
"No child, they know it is me," she smiled, "your friend has already notified the officals that it isn't you so."
"Haneoka Meimi! Come down so that we know it's you, so that we don't arrest the wrong thief."
Meimi looked at her mother pleading. She smiled in return "I do know a few tricks Meimi, don't worry I'll be fine."
She nodded, and flipped off the roof.
She could hear her classmates muttering, "Haneoka?"
"Her, St. Tail??"
"I don't believe it."
The police men ran up to her, but she realized what they were up to, and fled to a near by tree. "NO!" she shouted.
"Ms. Haneoka," One of the officers said calmly, "If you don't come with us we can't prove it wasn't you!"
"I said no! The only person who I will let catch me is and forever will be Asuka Jr.!" she cried.
"He's in no condition right now!" another officer explained.
"He's horribly injured, please come with us!" a third asked.
Her eyes opened wide, "No, h-he-he's hurt?" She jumped in the air and flipped over the group of officers and ran to the ambulance, where they were just starting to load him on. She landed near him and took him non- injured arm and brought his hand to her face.
"Please," she whispered, "catch me."
"He's asleep mame, induced, he wont wake for a while." One of the emergency physicians informed her.
"Then I will stay till he wakes," she turned to the officers glaring is red blood shot eyes from her tears, "I will stay with him and when he wakes he can catch me, then you may take me off where you want, I promise you I will stay with him!"
She jumped onto the ambulance as she sped off to the hospital.
Detective Asuka looked at Rina and asked simply, "She loves him?"
Rina nodded, "Yes, that's why she only wants him to catch her. If she can't do anything else for him, she'll let him catch her."
Now this was something he had to think over.
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Back at the Haneoka residence Mrs. Haneoka sat sipping tea and watching her husband do some more practice tricks.
In all the Confusion her daughter had caused, she had slipped off and returned home.
"I hope Meimi is alright at school." She said suddenly, her husband looked at her lovingly.
"Of course she is." He picked up a medallion, "Now watch this."
**~~*~*~*~*~*~~*
Meimi, true to her word, never left Asuka's side, his father, having followed them in his car, stood behind her as she paced the hallway waiting until Asuka was stable enough to be seen.
"You may enter," a nurse said softly to the two standing there.
Meimi's thoughts were far from escape as she entered the small room.
"Haneoka?" a tired strained voice called form the bed. She rushed over and took his hand in hers.
"I'm fine, what about you?"
"Did you let then catch you?"
She smiled at this, "No Detective, I'm still free as a dove, I won't let anyone but you catch me remember?"
He nodded softly and drifted back to sleep.
"He knew of this?" his father asked shocked, "He knew you would hand yourself over to him and only him?"
"Yes, I promised it a long time ago."
"Then why haven't you been caught?" he asked again.
"Because," she moved some of his bangs from his face in a futile gesture, "He loves the case as much as I do." She looked at him sadly, "Also because he knows, that as long as I'm out there, other thieves cannot exist. I help him catch the other ones while he's chasing me down. It's a game." She explained.
The elder detective looked as if something had hit him for the very first time, "Asuka knew it wasn't you who sent the note, before today, didn't he?"
"Yes." She said softly.
"Then, how?"
"He knows me, he knows I always inform him before I do a job. I want him to catch me, but he can't manage to, I always am one step ahead. He knew I wouldn't do something like that."
"Then I'll leave you, and pray my son lets you go." He turned.
"You can't." she called back, "You know who I am and in knowing you are freely allowing a criminal to be free from justice, it's against your code and contract."
"We can't call you the thief if we don't have proof, I trust nothing you have stolen is in your possession?"
"No, all the stuff is back with its popper owners why?"
"No proof, we can't hold anything against you, we can only catch you in the act. And since you haven't at anytime today done anything wrong, and we have an entire school to testify that there were two St. Tails there, and you came calmly, we have no proof that you have done anything wrong. In fact we have more proof that you haven't done something wrong. So you haven't, and your innocent." He explained and left the room.
Tears came and she looked over and saw Askua smiling faintly at her, "He's right you know, I can't catch you today." He brought up his hand, "Meimi," he said softly, using her name for the first time, as he caressed her cheek softly before bringing his hand back down. "I should I have guessed long before now, but I didn't want it to be you, everything said it was."
"I never wanted you to find out." She admitted.
"But you wanted me to catch you?" he grinned.
"You had to earn it detective." She said adapting her kick name for him.
"I know, that's why I tried so hard. You can leave, I have nothing against you so I can't catch you, there is no reason for you to stay here."
Meimi stood and took her magic hat out. "Thank you Kami Sama for watching over me one two three!" She brought the hat over her head and dragged it down. As she did she reverted back into her school uniform and stood before him.
"I can stay and visit with a friend can't I?" She asked simply.
"I would like that." He nodded as she pulled up a chair, "So tell me, how did you do it?"
"A true magician never reveals her secrets." She informed him.
"Can you tell me who the Copy cat was?"
"Sorry, I didn't see who it was." She informed him, lying and praying mentally for forgiveness.
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AN:
END
What do you think?
I hope all of you enjoyed and so you know I like Rina personally, she's just ambitious, and that's hardly a crime.
I know a lot of you are confused on why I used Meimi's mother.
First of all in one episode on the Anime, her mom makes it quite clear she realizes Meimi is sneaking out, she also compliments St. Tails form, she also knows a few trick her husband taught her of magic and last but not least, she looks almost exactly like Meimi.
There, that should clear a few things up. Plus who else has the form to match St. Tail?
I hope you all are satisfied with my ending. And yes I know its only five chapters.
Review!
Relena
Asuka stirred from the ground, feeling as if someone was shaking him.
"Son, Son wake up!" the senior detective insisted, worried beyond belief.
"It's not her," Asuka Jr. muttered, he words making little sense.
"What are you taking about?" he father demanded.
"St. Tail," he coughed as he found he could sit up, "Didn't send the threat."
"How can you be so sure?" the older man asked.
"Yeah, how do you know Asuka?" Rina asked from his other side.
"Rina, you know who, she is." He coughed about to pass out, "Help her," and he failed to move.
"I need medical attention right now!!!" His father shouted loudly. Those who heard, heard because they weren't looking at the roof.
"Detective Asuka?" Rina said importantly to her friends father, finally putting two and two together, " Asuka Jr. is correct, St. Tail didn't send the threat, she was with me when the one who did appeared and made herself known."
"Then you must know who St. Tail is." He said simply. "Who?"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Oka-san?" Meimi choked out, "Why?" she whispered.
"Because I had to know." She said simply, "You kept sneaking out and I knew St. Tail was a remarkable acrobat but I had to know for sure it was you."
"But why the bomb?"
"It needed to be serious didn't it?" she smiled, "You needed to take me seriously enough so, I went extreme."
"They'll have you in jail for this!" she shouted. Everyone heard this if not the mother parts.
"Oh no. Just like they wont catch you, they can't catch me."
"DO you want me in jail that badly Oka-san?" Meimi pleaded, "Right now I'm considered a nuisance. I can stop whenever I want and they wont care. Now even if I stop they'll come after me!!"
"No child, they know it is me," she smiled, "your friend has already notified the officals that it isn't you so."
"Haneoka Meimi! Come down so that we know it's you, so that we don't arrest the wrong thief."
Meimi looked at her mother pleading. She smiled in return "I do know a few tricks Meimi, don't worry I'll be fine."
She nodded, and flipped off the roof.
She could hear her classmates muttering, "Haneoka?"
"Her, St. Tail??"
"I don't believe it."
The police men ran up to her, but she realized what they were up to, and fled to a near by tree. "NO!" she shouted.
"Ms. Haneoka," One of the officers said calmly, "If you don't come with us we can't prove it wasn't you!"
"I said no! The only person who I will let catch me is and forever will be Asuka Jr.!" she cried.
"He's in no condition right now!" another officer explained.
"He's horribly injured, please come with us!" a third asked.
Her eyes opened wide, "No, h-he-he's hurt?" She jumped in the air and flipped over the group of officers and ran to the ambulance, where they were just starting to load him on. She landed near him and took him non- injured arm and brought his hand to her face.
"Please," she whispered, "catch me."
"He's asleep mame, induced, he wont wake for a while." One of the emergency physicians informed her.
"Then I will stay till he wakes," she turned to the officers glaring is red blood shot eyes from her tears, "I will stay with him and when he wakes he can catch me, then you may take me off where you want, I promise you I will stay with him!"
She jumped onto the ambulance as she sped off to the hospital.
Detective Asuka looked at Rina and asked simply, "She loves him?"
Rina nodded, "Yes, that's why she only wants him to catch her. If she can't do anything else for him, she'll let him catch her."
Now this was something he had to think over.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Back at the Haneoka residence Mrs. Haneoka sat sipping tea and watching her husband do some more practice tricks.
In all the Confusion her daughter had caused, she had slipped off and returned home.
"I hope Meimi is alright at school." She said suddenly, her husband looked at her lovingly.
"Of course she is." He picked up a medallion, "Now watch this."
**~~*~*~*~*~*~~*
Meimi, true to her word, never left Asuka's side, his father, having followed them in his car, stood behind her as she paced the hallway waiting until Asuka was stable enough to be seen.
"You may enter," a nurse said softly to the two standing there.
Meimi's thoughts were far from escape as she entered the small room.
"Haneoka?" a tired strained voice called form the bed. She rushed over and took his hand in hers.
"I'm fine, what about you?"
"Did you let then catch you?"
She smiled at this, "No Detective, I'm still free as a dove, I won't let anyone but you catch me remember?"
He nodded softly and drifted back to sleep.
"He knew of this?" his father asked shocked, "He knew you would hand yourself over to him and only him?"
"Yes, I promised it a long time ago."
"Then why haven't you been caught?" he asked again.
"Because," she moved some of his bangs from his face in a futile gesture, "He loves the case as much as I do." She looked at him sadly, "Also because he knows, that as long as I'm out there, other thieves cannot exist. I help him catch the other ones while he's chasing me down. It's a game." She explained.
The elder detective looked as if something had hit him for the very first time, "Asuka knew it wasn't you who sent the note, before today, didn't he?"
"Yes." She said softly.
"Then, how?"
"He knows me, he knows I always inform him before I do a job. I want him to catch me, but he can't manage to, I always am one step ahead. He knew I wouldn't do something like that."
"Then I'll leave you, and pray my son lets you go." He turned.
"You can't." she called back, "You know who I am and in knowing you are freely allowing a criminal to be free from justice, it's against your code and contract."
"We can't call you the thief if we don't have proof, I trust nothing you have stolen is in your possession?"
"No, all the stuff is back with its popper owners why?"
"No proof, we can't hold anything against you, we can only catch you in the act. And since you haven't at anytime today done anything wrong, and we have an entire school to testify that there were two St. Tails there, and you came calmly, we have no proof that you have done anything wrong. In fact we have more proof that you haven't done something wrong. So you haven't, and your innocent." He explained and left the room.
Tears came and she looked over and saw Askua smiling faintly at her, "He's right you know, I can't catch you today." He brought up his hand, "Meimi," he said softly, using her name for the first time, as he caressed her cheek softly before bringing his hand back down. "I should I have guessed long before now, but I didn't want it to be you, everything said it was."
"I never wanted you to find out." She admitted.
"But you wanted me to catch you?" he grinned.
"You had to earn it detective." She said adapting her kick name for him.
"I know, that's why I tried so hard. You can leave, I have nothing against you so I can't catch you, there is no reason for you to stay here."
Meimi stood and took her magic hat out. "Thank you Kami Sama for watching over me one two three!" She brought the hat over her head and dragged it down. As she did she reverted back into her school uniform and stood before him.
"I can stay and visit with a friend can't I?" She asked simply.
"I would like that." He nodded as she pulled up a chair, "So tell me, how did you do it?"
"A true magician never reveals her secrets." She informed him.
"Can you tell me who the Copy cat was?"
"Sorry, I didn't see who it was." She informed him, lying and praying mentally for forgiveness.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
AN:
END
What do you think?
I hope all of you enjoyed and so you know I like Rina personally, she's just ambitious, and that's hardly a crime.
I know a lot of you are confused on why I used Meimi's mother.
First of all in one episode on the Anime, her mom makes it quite clear she realizes Meimi is sneaking out, she also compliments St. Tails form, she also knows a few trick her husband taught her of magic and last but not least, she looks almost exactly like Meimi.
There, that should clear a few things up. Plus who else has the form to match St. Tail?
I hope you all are satisfied with my ending. And yes I know its only five chapters.
Review!
Relena
