"Listen up soldier!" Weber said sternly now as he pointed to a blank 'dry-erase' board.

"Uh, why are you pointing at that?" Sousuke wondered from his chair that was placed before the board.

"Don't question my teaching methods!"

"They don't seem reliable."

"Look, I just wanted this because it made me look professional and cool."

"Only when you actually use it."

Kurz gave him a snide reply and turned to the board writing his name. "There, I'm Teacher Weber now."

"Yes, will you finally get onto it? It's almost two in the morning, and, I think you're drunk."

"Hey! You drank more than me!"

"Yes, but I've built up a tolerance for it."

Kurz did not reply. He simply broke the pointer he had. "Let's get on with this!"

"I'm listening."

"To begin, you will not see Kaname."

Sousuke raises his hand. "I thought you said earlier that I should. Strike while the iron is warm and all."

"I did. Now, if you didn't interrupt me I was going to get into that."

"Continue then."

"You want to not see her right away, but instead wait about a week or so. Though, in the mean time you will show up randomly at places she will be and you will be off to the side or in the distance and let her see you and then you will disappear. That will get her thinking about you in the meantime."

"You will be assisting in this?"

"Yes, I'm glad you asked. I plan on dressing as you so that we can get that multiple 'Sousuke effect'."

"In other words, making her think she was seeing me everywhere."

"Yes. You catch on fast."

"What else?"

"We will find out who this boyfriend of hers' is, and then we will find out as much as we can on him without overstepping our boundaries."

"Understood. Surveillance."

"Uh, yeah."

"When do we commence with the operation?"

"We are now, this is a flashback in your mind! So stop daydreaming Sousuke!"

Sousuke snapped awake as he arrived at his stop. "What?"

"I said are you awake?" Kurz—in Sousuke guise--questioned.

"Uh, yeah." Sousuke was not used to looking at himself. Mithril sure does good work at this sort of thing. "So, why are we here?"

"I looked into it and Chidori works at that building there." Kurz pointed out an office building as they got out from the subway. "And, she frequents that place there," He points to a restaurant. "For lunch."

"So, what do I do?"

"Well, I know you will suffer restraining orders and being thrown in jail for her again and, well, again, but we don't want her to do that right away so we can't let her know you're after her affections."

"So, the plan to make her think she sees me in random guys?"

"Exactly."

"How do we work it?"

"You just walk around once you know she's out, and then you disappear as if you were never there. Meanwhile I will pop up in another direction and confuse her."

"That's it?"

"Yeah."

"It should be a simple operation then."

And, the two went about their work. Each hiding out in an alleyway on different side of the street. Nearing the afternoon one Ms. Kaname Chidori exited the building of business she worked for famished and ready for lunch. A neutral look to her face as she waited to cross the street. It was that moment she saw Sousuke. She almost shouted out, but, then he just disappeared, and she was confused. Maybe he was there, and maybe he was not. There's also the possibility he's on the job and was doing some strange covert tactic to not be seen. Then as she stood waiting for the traffic to die so she could cross she thought she saw him coming right behind her. She turned to him and instead of him found a man with black hair that looked nothing like Sousuke. He did not even have the same face or hair style. Kurz kept walking. He was proud of his double mask tactic. One that looks like Sousuke and somebody totally different. Kaname would have picked him out otherwise.

She was confused. Then she decided that she was just hungry and finally was able to cross the street. Sousuke and Kurz met back up around on the other side of the city block.

"How do you think we did?" Sousuke wondered.

"Calm down. It was the first attempt, and I think it was partially successful. I'm sure that we at least got her thinking about you. In what sense remains a mystery."

"What do, you mean 'in what sense'?" Sousuke questioned.

"Well, we can't say if she likes you, or if you're just her friend in her mind."

Sousuke grabbed the other man. "The whole point is to get her NOT to think of me as some friend."

"I know. So calm down. It was only the first take. We will have plenty more." Kurz comforted. Sousuke backed away. "Now, to concentrate on the second part of my plan. We find out who her boyfriend is."

"How do we do that?"

"That's my job. I'll have the answer for you by tomorrow morning. Now, if you don't mind I have work to do."

"Wait, what do you mean?"

"Don't worry about it. I got it covered. Tomorrow. I won't be home tonight so don't wait up!" The blonde gave a wave and a grin and darted away. Sousuke stood pondering what he was up to. What sort of skill would Kurz have? Oh, no. He did not want to know how he was going to gather information from a colleague or friend of Kaname, he just hopes his comrade uses protection.

Getting that out of his mind he stepped out from the alley and made his way for the train again. Unfortunately, "Sousuke?"

"Uh," He blinked. Kaname. He sort of tensed. "Hi."

"I thought I saw you."

"Don't tell anyone you did. You know how...we're all hush-hush on my job." Sousuke nervously replied.

"Are you okay?"

"The enemy may be watching. I have to bail on you. Sorry." With that he darted away. Tripped over a mailbox. Got back up. Fell into the gutter. Finally got back up and jumped into a nearby bush before climbing the fence he dived into and then wound up on his train just as it was departing. Unfortunately he was on the roof. Kaname just stared after worried he was acting a bit funny.

"Was it..." She did not bother to go on. She just touched her lips and walked away.