Mika never thought in her career would she have to work a whole 24 hour shift with the CID.
No amount of coffee was working anymore, it seemed.
Her and Inspector Tsunemori had interviewed everyone that they could come across in Yamada Hanako's history. It seemed never ending.
The worst part was having to watch THEM interact the whole time.
She glanced over to Akane's desk and saw Enforcer Kogami talking to her with a serious look on his face.
She strained to hear them, but they were speaking too quiet.
"I'm serious, Akane. You need rest. We can handle things for a few hours."
"No, Kogami. I am not leaving Gino and Shimotsuki to work on this investigation alone."
"Ginoza has only been here for 12 hours. You've been on the clock for 24. Go. Sleep."
"No." She said, continuing to type away.
Kogami looked over to Ginoza's desk. "Hey, Inspector Ginoza. Inspector Tsunemori has done enough for the day, right?"
"Yeah. She can go get some rest and get a fresh start in a few hours. I can handle things here with Inspector Shimotsuki."
"But I've been here as long as she has!" Mika protested.
"Inspector Tsunemori is a senior Inspector. She needs her rest." Ginoza shot her a glare. "I'll let you have a couple of hours when she returns."
"That's ridiculous!" Mika put her hands on her hips. "She should be used to the long hours, right?"
"No arguing." Akane interrupted. "I'm fine. I can stay up as long as I need to."
Ginoza narrowed his eyes at Akane.
"Enforcer Kogami, I give you permission to start rotation with Enforcer Masaoka. Please take Inspector Tsunemori with you, so that you both may rest."
"Ginoza!" Akane glared.
"You heard him, Inspector." Kogami smirked and lifted Akane over his shoulder.
"Put me down, Kogami!" She kicked her legs and hit his back.
"We'll be back in a few hours."
Mika stared in disbelief as the door shut behind them.
"What was that?"
"Well, our queen does need her rest." Kagari shrugged from his desk. "And since coffee is a no go, she needs energy the old fashioned way."
"Inspector Tsunemori can't have coffee?"
"Well of course not." Ginoza said as he worked at his computer. "It's not good for her."
"I wouldn't worry, though. Ko is good at making her do things she refuses to."
Mika couldn't believe how casual they were acting. An ENFORCER just carried off an Inspector against her will!
Could it be that Inspector Ginoza was aware of their inappropriate relationship?
—-
"I'm pissed off at you. Go away." Akane glared at Kogami when he came in his room after his shower.
"Come on, Akane. Don't be like that." He sighed and got in bed next to her. She moved to the edge so he wouldn't be able to touch her where he was.
"No cuddling. No touching." She growled.
"Fine." He sighed. "Just remember that you can't just think about only yourself anymore."
He turned on the opposite side of her and went to sleep.
Akane looked over her shoulder to his broad back. She knew that the only reason he did what he did was because he was worried about her.
But still, there was a woman missing, and she could be killed.
Akane slowly slipped out of the bed when she was absolutely positive that he was sleeping and left.
—-
"Akane, what are you doing back here? I thought you went to go rest." Ginoza asked when she came back in the office.
"Inspector Shimotsuki may go. I think I'm on to something." She answered, quickly sitting at her desk.
"Finally." The young inspector breathed out as she shut off her computer and stood. "I will be back in-"
"Four hours." Gino interrupted. "You have four hours. Go to the last room on the enforcer's floor. It's empty and usable for us until we are done with this case."
"Yes sir." Mika sighed and walked out. She was hoping to maybe get more rest time, but she would take what she could get.
"Isn't it bad to work this long while you're pregnant?" Kagari asked, glancing up from his desk.
"I've already had this talk with Kogami, I don't want any spew he from any of you guys too."
"I'm just sayin-"
"Got him!" Ginoza said, standing up fast and grabbing his jacket.
"Wait, what?"
"Call Kogami and Shimotsuki." He ordered as they all stood up and started following him out. "Karanomori just contacted me and said that she got an image of Yamada through a window of an old abandoned building in the Hidachi ward."
Once they made it to the place Shion had directed them to, they quietly surrounded the building.
Akane was positioned in an alleyway behind Kagari and Kunizuka, while Mika was covering Masaoka and Gino and Kogami went in together.
Kogami had been acting cold to Akane the whole drive over. He wouldn't say a word to her, couldn't even make eye-contact with her. It was to the point that he was directing his questions to Inspector Shimotsuki of all people!
He was truly angry with Akane for sneaking out to work like she did.
Ginoza ordered for a door breach and he and Kogami charged right in with everyone else behind them.
"MWPSB! GET DOWN AND PUT YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM!"
"Shit!"
One of the two men started to make a run to the back of the building, but Gino's Dominator was faster. The
man fell to the floor, his coefficient only high enough to have the paralyzer issued.
The other man grabbed the woman that they had been looking for and held a knife to her throat.
"Don't come any closer, or I'll end her." He threatened.
Kogami and Ginoza looked at each other and nodded. They put their Dominators down, knowing that they had the building surrounded by the rest of division one.
Kagari had made his way quietly through the back and had a clear shot of the kidnapper's back.
"Ah. You're going to make a mess, dude." He smirked to himself and pulled the trigger on the gun, causing the man to explode in to a bloody pile of mush.
The woman screamed when she realized what happened.
Kogami stepped forward to help her, but someone shot their Dominator, causing her to pass out in the bloody pool.
"Who in the hell shot that?!" Gino yelled. He was furious. He and Akane had agreed that they would only use the Dominators on the people that committed a crime, not the victims if they could help it.
They knew that the risk of lasting trauma after a shot from a Dominator was too great to chance the psycho pass hue of a victim even more.
"I-it was me."
Mika came out from the back of the room, her Dominator in hand.
"We don't shoot the victim if we don't have to!"
The young inspector stared back in disbelief.
"But her crime coefficient was too high! The system told me to-"
"Of course it was too high! She's been enduring a hell of a lot during these past 72 hours!" Kogami yelled.
"But-"
"Give me a detailed report before you go home for the day." Gino glared. "I will be writing you up for this. You saw that we had it covered."
Mika remained quiet.
"Am I clear, Inspector?"
"Yes sir…"
Ginoza had Masaoka and Kunizuka restrain the first man that they had taken down, while he helped the paramedics put Ms. Yamada on the stretcher.
"Hey guys." Kagari said as he looked around the room. "Where did Inspector Tsunemori go? She was behind us earlier and she's not answering her communicator, either."
Gino and Kogami looked to each other.
"Ko, don't-"
Kogami tried to run out of the room, but Ginoza grabbed him by the shoulders and tried to pull him down.
"Ko, don't!" He shouted. "You can't just run off!"
Kagari rushed over and helped the inspector restrain their friend.
"You'll be acting on emotion if I let you look for her."
Kogami gave up struggling and laid on the ground, pissed off at himself for not being able to do anything. And most of all, for being an ass to Akane since they left the Bureau.
If something happened to her during all of the commotion, he would never be able to forgive himself.
"Inspector Shimotsuki, take Enforcers Kunizuka and Masaoka to go look for Inspector Tsunemori. Search the entire area." Gino ordered.
"Yes sir." She nodded, leaving the crime scene quickly with her enforcers.
"Why didn't you let me go out there?" Kogami glared to his best friend.
"Because Ko, if I let you out there with a Dominator in your hand, there is no telling what you will do. Especially when it comes to Inspector Tsunemori."
Gino's communicator beeped.
"Yeah, go ahead."
"We found Inspector Tsunemori passed out in the alleyway behind the building." Konizuka reported. "Inspector Shimotsuki has called for more medical assistance. She is unresponsive, but breathing."
"Okay, I'll be right there." Ginoza said, ending the connection. He looked down at his best friend, whose face had gone pale.
"It's my fault. I shouldn't have switched places with Kagari because of our stupid fight. I should have stayed behind so I could be near her."
"Did you not hear Kunizuka? She's breathing. She's alive."
The enforcer looked up to his superior, fear evident in his eyes.
Something could be seriously wrong with the mother of his unborn child, and there was nothing he could do.