Hey guys! It's foxluvur64 here! Sorry about not uploading for a while now. It's the common thing with a high school kid like me; school, stress, annoying people, new off-topic ideas, etc. Anyway, here's chapter three. Enjoy~!

CHAPTER 3

While Kitazawa was being transferred to a rehabilitation center, Enforcer Kougami and young Tsunemori Junichi now stood in front of Chief Kasei Jusho's office doors. The young boy had a small frown on his face, with Kougami raising a brow at the way Junichi acted.

With the office doors sliding open now, the Tsunemori boy quickly entered, storming in. Kasei saw Junichi and Kougami coming, but ignored the Enforcer, her steel-greys focused on the young boy. The chief greets him in a more professional mocking manner. "Ah, Tsunemori Junichi-kun. It is good to finally see you face to face. Tell me how is your mother, Tsunemori Aohime?"

Junichi's frown turned into a scowl nasty enough to scare a Russian Bear away. "Cut the crap, Kasei! What is it that you want?"

Kougami trained his eyes on the boy, wondering what was going on at the moment. From what he could tell is that there's bad blood gained in some indirect way.

The chief retained her sight on Junichi then voiced her demand. "I want you to form a Special Ops Retrieval unit for the Japanese Public Safety Bureau."

Junichi is confused. "What?"

Kougami is also shocked, but believes he knows where the elderly woman might go with this. "Chief, why are you having him form the team? Who'll be the leader?"

"Tsunemori-kun will."

"Why? He's just a kid."

Why is he defending me?

"Well," Kasei began, drawling out the word a bit. "Due to how his mother raised him out and about in the world, Junichi recognizes the ways a special ops unit moves. His knowledge- "

"Aside from that," Junichi interrupted rather rudely. "The Bureau has about twenty other special ops units in a few other countries, minimum." Junichi's red-bronze had been out of focus, as if seeing a memory, but now focused sharply on the woman behind the desk. "But Japan doesn't have one. The Hunting-Dog units won't always be available which could leave this building, and a few other important ones, defenseless. That would simply be a perfect moment for alien units to attack. . . unless the Japanese Bureau were to have a hidden special op unit. The "retrieval" part of the title is exactly as it means: Retrieving the targeted person or object. Isn't that right, Kasei?"

Kasei gave a curt nod. "Not only that, you yourself could benefit from this, Tsunemori-kun."

Junichi furrowed his brows. "What do mean, Kasei?"

"Uncover the true reasons of the actions of your father."

The young, scowling boy became silent. True. Junichi has constantly been asking himself as to why his father did all those Nazi-like actions west of Japan. He's also been wondering what had suddenly caused the negativity between his mother and father, that possibly lead to her death a little over half a year ago.

In his silence, Kougami was studying the young boy's behavior. In a way, Junichi was just as knowledgeable as his aunt, Akane. Kougami was sure that the boy had other similar behaviors as hers. But what are they talking about?

The Enforcer asks about his presence. "Chief, I'd like to know as to why I'm here?"

Junichi nodded his head in agreement to the older man's question.

"What do you think Inspector Tsunemori would say if she found out about this?"

Kougami answers in a heartbeat. "She'd oppose as any sane woman would."

The elderly chief gives a curt nod. "Exactly so. Inspector Tsunemori may not have a child of her own, but she is still a woman in her primes. As such, her dormant maternal instincts will indeed flare when it comes to her nephew here."

Junichi still didn't get it, but apparently Kougami did. "With me on the team, you think Akane will allow him, despite her reluctance, since she trusts me, isn't that, right?"

Once again, Kasei nods. "Precisely."

"But why," the young boy in question began to ask. "Why does my aunt Akane trust this guy?"

Kougami faces Junichi with a small smirk dancing across his face. "Maybe you can ask her yourself."

Junichi glowers at the man beside him. This mutt's getting on my nerves!

Returning his steel-blue gaze to Kasei, the Enforcer gave her his confirmation of agreement. "Alright. I'll join his team but only if I'm still with Inspector Akane as her Enforcer."

Kasei agrees. "Done. And you, Tsunemori-kun?"

Junichi stays quiet for a bit, then gives his response. "Fine, but I've got my conditions."

"Name them."

The young boy's face became solid with seriousness. "Here are my conditions: Number 1) I choose the members, excluding Kougami Shinya. Number 2) If the team's going to be under my wing, it'll be my rules, my way. Number 3) My team and I will choose our jobs, both regarding the Bureau and external problems. This also means that whatever payment we get from the external jobs, the team members and I keep it. Number 4) Whatever cases Inspector Tsunemori Akane goes on to investigate while me and the team are stationed here, "we" follow along. Lastly, number 5) Ask for the why about number Three, then the team will NOT form."

Kasei furrowed her thin brows in a slight frown but, nonetheless, agreed. "Very well, but you will report to me about whatever cases you take on, understood?"

Junichi curtly nods. "Very."

"Simply out of curiosity, do you have an idea about the members?"

Kougami was just at the open sliding door with Junichi going to meet him. The young boy turns to face Kasei at her desk. A smirk of sorts dancing on his lips with his red-bronze eyes sparkling with an unknown excitement, and his brows furrowed making his eyes sharper.

"Yeah. She's a good friend of sorts. Her name's Alyse Merlo."

OMAKE

Walking down the corridor back to the first division's office, both the Enforcer and the young new special ops leader had a thick wall of deafening silence in between them. A certain question was continuously jabbing at the boy's mind and it was starting to annoy him. So he spoke up. "Hey, Mutt?"

The Enforcer didn't glance at the boy. "What is it, Pup?"

"Are you going to tell me what you think of my aunty?"

The older man allows a small smirk. "No."

The young boy huffed in annoyance. "Are you going to ever tell me what my aunty is to you?"

The man chuckled. "Ha! Nope."

Shocked, the boy stopped in his tracks. The Enforcer kept on walking. "You're the special ops leader, you figure it out. . ."

Looking back at the boy, Junichi had just shaken himself out of his shock, when Kougami gave him a taunting smirk.

". . . Pup~."

With his jaw fallen open, Junichi snapped his mouth shut as his let out an audible growl at the Kougami's back. "Damn you, you fucking Mutt!"

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