Howdy, howdy, howdy! Still can't seem to come up with anything for my other fics, so I'll just work on this one for now. I see most of you or all of you liked the ending of the last chapter lol. Hmm... now I just need to find out what I'm going to do about all this now. Oh well, I'll think of something. This whole story has been created just by me winging it. Never do plan anything ahead of time, lol. Wonder how my stories would turn out if I do that? Write is as it comes, that's my philosophy.
Disclaimer- I close my eyes, and I see... you standing there, I cry tears of sorrow, I die... for not being able to own anything associated with Tenchi Muyo blah blah blah!
Chapter 14- Kiyone's Investigation
"Are you sure about this?" The petite red head, Washu, asks.
Tsunami closes her eyes, lowering her head in thought, "Yes, I'm sure. It's time for this to happen. This will make things easier down below. " Tsunami lifts her head up, opening her eyes. A small sad smile graces Tsunami's lips, "It was wrong for me to take it back then. It's time I give it back."
Washu nods her head once in understanding, "I shall begin the preparations. It will take a week or two, then you just need to decide when this will happen." Washu turns around and begins heading out of the office, then a thought crosses her mind, making her turn around, "Shall I give the usual?"
Tsunami shakes her head, "No, that would be too noticeable. Just do what I asked, nothing more."
"Alright.... you won't be able to change this once it's done, so don't change your mind."
"I won't." Tsunami replies. She watches Washu walk out of her office before turning around, she walks over to the large window and looks out into the endless blue sky. She watches as souls dance around in a twirling dance outside heaven's gates, passing the time as they wait to be accepted through the gates. A memory of years ago crosses her mind, one that she can never forget.
Doctors and nurses seem to flood into the emergency room, as body is wheeled into the room. A voice in the speakers throughout the hospital continues to call for doctors and nurses to hurry to the emergency room. The doctors in the emergency begin working on the bloody body of a young woman. The head doctor begins analyzing the body, "Multiple gunshot wounds, glass shards in the skin, a knife wound in the abdomen, skin is slightly burned." The heart monitor gives off a steady 'beep' letting the doctors know their patient is still alive.
The doctors work for hours, getting the bullets out of the woman's body, and cleaning up the wounds, along with closing up the wounds after stopping the bleeding. When they finally finish, each of the doctors' and nurses' white uniforms are stained crimson from the blood lose. The head doctor turns to all the others and gives a realized smile, "Although she has a excessive amount of blood lose, she'll be fine. Good work everyone, the patient will be fine once her blood builds up again. I'll go speak to the police, everyone get take a break." The head doctor begins walking out of the room.
'I'm sorry.....'
The heart monitor sounding gives of a long 'beep' as the patient's heart stops beating. The doctors and nurses immediately begin searching for the problem, "What's going on!?" The head doctor shouts. They try to revive the patient, "Why is this happening, she should be just fine!" The head doctor says in confusion. After working on their patient for fifteen minutes, unsuccessful in bringing their patient back, they pull the sheet over the patients head. The head doctor shakes his head in disappointment, "I'm calling it... patient died at three twenty-one a.m."
Officer Kiyone Makibi remains calm as the driver continues to rant on about that he wasn't doing anything, to be pulled over. She keeps her expression neutral, having been doing this for a so long she's used to furious drivers. "You were speeding sir, you'll have thirty days to pay the ticket. If you refuse to pay the ticket then there will be a warrant out for your arrest. If you wish, you can try to fight the ticket in court."
The driver of the Mercedes gives a few curses and holds out his hand. Kiyone hands him the ticket, "The cost of the ticket is one-hundred and thirty dollars." That just made the driver blow up once again, yelling a countless numbers of swears. In the drivers fury he rids the ticket in half and crumbles it up before he throws outside his car. Kiyone remains calm throughout this, she points down at the paper, "Sir, please pick that up or I'll have to charge you for littering." Kiyone contains the smirk that wants to cross her face for that comment.
The driver steps out of his car, picks the ticket up and gets back into his vehicle. "You missed some." Kiyone says calmly as she points at the other half of the ticket. The drivers swears before stepping out of his vehicle and picking up the other half of the ticket. Kiyone can't help herself, she has to say it. She gives a friendly smile and says, "Have a nice day sir." The driver immediately drives away form the police officer. Kiyone smirks as she turns around and heads back to her patrol car, 'Serves him right, asshole.'
Kiyone gets into her patrol car and drives off. She places her left elbow on her door and leans her head on her fist as she drives down the road, glancing at people who she passes. Oh, how she hates being a regular traffic cop, she needs to get back to being a detective again. She screwed up once and she's immediately brought down to this. It could be worse though, she could be sitting behind a desk all day.
Kiyone stops at the red light and glances over to the people on the sidewalks. A pair of men grabs her attention. 'I've seen them before.... but where?' She just knows she's seen them before. She turns off her radio so no one can contact her, following her gut feeling she waits for the light to turn green before going around the corner and parking her patrol car. She gets out and locks it before walking down the sidewalk. Across the street she sees the two strangely familiar men. They turn a corner and begin heading down a street off the main road. Kiyone quickly crosses the road and begins following them, making sure to remain hidden.
The two men turn into an alley, Kiyone walks silently against the wall to the alley, she peeks around the corner and sees the two men with another person. The taller of the two men suddenly punches the person in the face, making him hit the wall. They follow up on this by kicking the person several times. The two men stops beating the person and exchange words with the man on the ground, words that Kiyone can't make out. After a moment the two men begin heading further down the alley.
Kiyone steps into the alley and begins walking down it, she glances over at the person still on the ground as she passes by. Then something clicks in her mind as she figures out who she's following, 'They're the ones that were beating Tenchi in the alley that one day.' If she wanted to, Kiyone could arrest the two men right now. But her gut is telling her not to, and follow them.
Kiyone can feel her heartbeat quicken as she follows then men, adrenaline courses through her body. This is the kind of thing Kiyone wants to do, investigation, not being some traffic cop giving tickets out to careless drivers. Kiyone's surprised when she figures out their destination, 'Tenchi's apartment..' Kiyone hides behind a vehicle and watches as the two men walk up to Tenchi's door.
The older man turns to his partner, "Alright Azaka, how about you do the honors."
Azaka smirks at the older man, "Kimedaki, you're too kind." Kiyone stores the names in her memory. Azaka begins beating on the door, "Masaki open up! We know you're in there!"
After a few moments, Kiyone sees the door open to reveal Tenchi, "Uh, hello" Kiyone hears Tenchi speak.
Kiyone inches her way to the end of the car, so she can here their conversation better. "You know what to do." Kimedaki says. Kiyone peeks around the end of the car getting a brief glance of something white that Tenchi puts in his pocket.
"Yea.." Tenchi replies.
"We'll be expecting a call from you soon." Kimedaki says.
Tenchi nods his head and closes the door. Kiyone quickly gets all the way behind the vehicle as Azaka and Kimedaki turns around. The two stop once they reach the sidewalk. Kiyone hears the sound of a lighter, telling her that one of them is lighting up a cigarette. "We have to be there in an hour, we'll have to catch a bus." She hears Kimedaki say.
"Alright, let's go then." Azaka replies. The two begin walking down the sidewalk in search of a bus stop.
Kiyone sits in her spot in thought, 'What did they give Tenchi.' She could go in and find out, but then she'd lose track of Azaka and Kimedaki. If she follows Azaka and Kimedaki, she may never find out what they gave Tenchi. Either way, she loses something. 'Damnit!' Kiyone yells in her mind as she gets out from her hiding place and follows Azaka and Kimedaki. Azaka and Kimedaki stop at a bus station and wait for the local transportation to arrive. Kiyone hides in front of a parked truck and watches the two as they wait silently.
The bus soon arrives, Azaka flicks his cigarette off to the side before the two walk onto the bus. Kiyone quickly jumps out of her hiding spot and runs over to the bus before it closes it's doors. She walks on calmly, she spots Azaka and Kimedaki sitting in the back. Kiyone takes the first seat on the right. She looks down and remembers she's in uniform. 'Hopefully they didn't notice.' She thinks to herself.
She quickly takes off her top part of her uniform, settling with the white shirt underneath it. She never wears the hat, it's too.... dorky for her to say the least. She folds her uniform shirt and puts it at her side. She glances down at her waist and takes off her holster. She tucks her pistol in her pants letting her shirt hide her weapon. Now all she has to do is wait.
The bus makes several stops and lets passengers off and new ones on. Kiyone makes sure not to look back to see if the two men are still back there, she knows they are. She'll know when they get off, they'll have to pass her in order to get off the bus. After riding the bus for thirty minutes, the bus stops again. Azaka and Kimedaki stand up and get off the bus. The doors to the bus close and begins driving off.
Kiyone stands up holding her badge so the driver can see, "Please do as I say, I'm a police officer." The driver gives a nervous nod. Kiyone points down a side street, "Pull in over there and stop." The driver does as he says and stops, opening up the bus doors. Kiyone picks up folded half of her uniform, "Here, look after this." She hands it over to the bus driver before getting off. The doors close and the bus drives off.
Kiyone quickly runs around the corner and looks across the street to where Azaka and Kimedaki got off. 'Where did they go...' She thinks to herself. Her gaze settles on the broken down warehouse across the street, which happens to be where Azaka and Kimedaki, 'That's too obvious.' Kiyone thinks to herself. But he instinct are telling her to go, 'Ah hell with it.' She quickly runs across the street to the warehouse. 'Can't very well enter through the front door.' Kiyone runs over the side of the warehouse and spots old rusty fire escape. She tries to be as quiet as possible as she climbs up the ladder.
As she climbs the ladder she notices the river behind the warehouse, she can easily make out the lights across the river in the night. She finally reaches the top where a shattered window is. Kiyone cautiously enters through the broken window, she winces when she hears the sound of the glass breaking under her foot on the other side. She manages to get all the way through without much difficulty. She stealthily walks to the wooden rail and glances down to the bottom of the warehouse. Azaka and Kimedaki stand in the middle of the dirt floor of the warehouse, as if waiting for someone.
Kiyone makes sure not to hit anything that'll make noise and give her position away as she waits for something to happen. She doesn't have to wait long however. The back doors of the warehouse slide open and a black limo drives in, all the windows tinted. The limo stops in front of Azaka and Kimedaki, the back window opens up and a hand reaches out. Kimedaki pulls something out of his pocket, to Kiyone it looks like a paper bag, and hands it to the person. The person pulls it in then hands out a folded white paper. Kimedaki nods once, placing the paper in his pocket.
'Who's in the limo..' Kiyone thinks to herself. She steps to the side, to get a better view, only to knocks a rusted can off the edge and crash down to the bottom. Kiyone's eyes widen as Azaka and Kimedaki quickly turn around and look up at her. Kiyone holds her breath and doesn't move. Kimedaki glances back to the limo and nods his head before pulling out a gun, Azaka follows suit and the two immediately start firing shots at Kiyone.
Kiyone jumps back from the edge, and jumps behind an old wooden crate. She hears tires screech as the limo speeds off. Azaka and Kimedaki continue to fire their guns at the wooden crate. Kiyone pulls out her pistol and holds it up to her chest. 'This is just great.' Kiyone thinks sourly. 'Stupid can.' The gunshots cease for a moment, the two obvious reloading. Kiyone takes this opportunity to come out and fire a couple of shots. The two men dodge off to the side in surprise, obviously they didn't think she was carrying a gun since they were standing out in the open.
"Azaka, go around back" Kiyone hears Kimedaki.
'Shit!' Kiyone thinks to herself. She hears a door open and close from below. She gets out of her hiding spot to look down below, Kimedaki immediately jumps out and fires a couple round at Kiyone. Kiyone quickly get back behind her crate, letting the bullets fly by her. Click! Kiyone's instincts kick in, she jumps out from behind the crate as a bullet flies by her from the window she came in from. Kiyone runs across the third floor of the warehouse, bullets fly behind her as Kimedaki fires at her as she runs. Kiyone fires down at Kimedaki, making the man jump back for cover. Shots are fired from behind her as Azaka jumps through the window.
'Damnit! How the hell am I going to get out of this!' She jumps behind some cover as she tries to find a solution to her problem. Her gaze falls on the lights hanging from the ceiling. Kiyone's eyes narrow before she stands up and shots a couple of the lights out, then jumping back behind her cover as bullets whiz pass her. She stands up and shots out the remaining lights out. Now she'll be able to hide better, but so will Azaka and Kimedaki.
Kiyone peeks out of her hiding spot to the edge of the third floor, she notices a rope hanging off the edge of the floor. 'My only chance.' Kiyone thinks to herself. She quickly stands up and begins running towards the edge, bullets soar around her as Azaka and Kimedaki shoot at her. Kiyone leaps of the edge of the third floor, her left hand outstretched to grab the rope. At the same time she's shooting her pistol down at the rope where a net is connected to the rope, holding up cargo. Just as she reaches the rope, the net holding the cargo breaks. Kiyone swings on the ropes as Azaka and Kimedaki try and hit her.
Kiyone let go of the rope falls into a bunch of cardboard boxes. Kiyone blinks a bit dazed from the fall before she scrambles to her feet and takes off for the back door of the warehouse. Kiyone gets outside and looks around, she sees a dock with a boat on it, she looks to her right, nothing but a road, she looks to her left, just a brick wall blocking her path. She hears a shot fired by Kimedaki and sprints off towards the dock. If she's lucky, the motor on the boat has fuel in it.
Kiyone's thoughts are blurred as adrenaline pumps through her veins, making her legs go faster, as she heads towards the end of the dock. She hears shots behind her, but it doesn't register in her mind that Kimedaki is chasing her. When she reaches the end of the dock another shot is fired. Kiyone's eyes go wide in pain, she drops her gun, and falls into the river.
Kimedaki stops at the end of the dock and fires shots into the water to makes sure the job is done. Azaka comes up from behind him and looks into the water. The two wait silently to see if she surfaces, "You get her?" Azaka finally asks.
Kimedaki glances down at the wooden dock, noticing the pistol and the spots of blood. Kimedaki holsters his gun, giving one last look around the river, he turns around and begins walking away, "She's dead." Azaka looks out into the river one last moment before following Kimedaki.
Kiyone bursts out of the water at the shore, away from the dock. She climbs onto the dry ground, taking several deep breaths. She winces at the pain in her right arm. The bullet may have just grazed her arm but it still hurts. Kiyone turns around and lays on her back and stares up at the night sky as she tries to catch her breath, 'Bastard almost hit me.' Kiyone frowns at the thought of having to get all the way back to her patrol car, then back home. Kiyone gives out a tired sigh, "I need a vacation."
Well that's it y'all! Sorry, no Tenchi, no Ryoko. Figured I'd do something a little different here. Hope you enjoyed it anyway. Well then... who's the person in the limo? I'll tell you this much, it was Azaka and Kimedaki's boss. Too bad I didn't give you any sort of description to go by heeheehee. I know, I'm so evil, it's fun though. Well anyways, review y'all, and tell me what ya think!