After Ryoma left, the regulars stared back at Inui with more than the usual fear and astonishment.

"Is there anything you'd like to tell us Inui?" Tezuka asked with more patience than he was feeling. Inui checked his cell phone again and muttered something incomprehensible.

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Ryoma started walking briskly to the subway, but couldn't contain himself as he broke into a run. Who do they think they are, following me like that? I could beat them all in less than a second if they would show themselves. He glanced around

himself quickly to make sure they weren't following him. Good, he must have outrun them

God, when did this start happening? One day he was praised at being the best examiner/coroner DDS had seen in years and the next he was on house arrest with spies watching his every move and he didn't even know why! They'll see, I'll show them I'm better than this.

"Train leaving for xxxStation will depart in 3 minutes. All passengers please report to xxx" (AN: Sorry, I don't really know much about Japanese subways :p)

Ryoma's eyes shone in determination and anger as he distinguished the group that he would be working with for the time being from the rest of the crowd.

There was one tall guy that looked like the oldest of the group. He looked 16…17, maybe 18 at most and had short hair and a semi-childish grin. His muscles were slender, but noticeable; he must be working hard on them.

The male next to him looked a lot younger, maybe thirteen. His hair was the same color as Ryoma's only with white highlights. He was dressed in a school uniform and wore a happy-go-lucky smile that almost made Ryoma think he was 10. Ryoma hated those types of noisy people.

The man standing to a girl with pink hair though looked like the exact opposite of the other male. He had lavender colored hair, looked around 14, maybe older, and was extremely pale, paler than even Ryoma on a bad day. He also wore a black necklace, had cold, gray eyes, and was very slim. We should get along well.

The girl next to him had pink hair, as mentioned, wore a traditional shirt-and-skirt uniform only it was sky blue with mary-janes and long socks. She looked around the same age as the other two and was smiling and blushing at the same time.

The last detective looked remotely younger than the others. He looked shorter, around the high of an 11 year old and by his attire, Ryoma could tell he was a computer geek. He wore clothes from the children's section of a department store and was ferociously typing and navigating himself through a laptop with one hand while holding the laptop in the other. Ryoma waved at their direction to be noticed.

"Ah! Echizen-kun, over here!" the older guy exclaimed and ran towards him with the rest of the group. They greeted him by smiling. Even the pale guy had a small grin.

The guy with white highlights stepped forward as the leader and proceeded to introduce everyone with his happy-go-lucky voice.

"Welcome to DDS Japan Campus Echizen-kun! We're Class Q and we hope you have a great time here!" If I knew why I was here in the first place that would help a lot. "This is Toyama Kintaro," –he pointed at the older guy- "Megu," he pointed at the girl- "Kuzuma," – the 11 year old nodded- "Ryu," he motioned towards the pale guy- "and I'm Kyu" he smiled again "Yoroshiku!"

MEANWHILE AT THE SUSI RESTAURANT…

"This is why you don't socialize with geniuses, you just don't…" sighed Momo.

"He's just nervous. I mean we approached him so suddenly he didn't know how to react! We should have been more subtle," argued mother-hen Oishi.

Tezuka remained silent carefully eyeing Inui. Fuji wore one of his continuing smiles with both his eyes closed (thankfully). "So… what do you make of this Tezuka?" the tensai teased playfully. Tezuka made no answer, but visibly twitched a bit. He was almost tempted to admit defeat, but, for some unknown reason Inui had interest in this freshman, and Inui was not to be taken lightly. Not to mention Fuji; if Inui started this 'befriend-the-new-kid' game Fuji was sure to follow. Even Tezuka himself saw something interesting in that boy. He had a hint of mischief with raw determination in his eyes. At first glance his potential looked like it was exercised to the brink, but there was something missing. Judging from first impressions, Echizen was still an immature kid working in medicine and law enforcement just for the sake of it. Tezuka would have to do something about it. The boy was a perfect piece of clay getting ready to be molded. Now, if only he played tennis…

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Oh dear… what will happen to our little Kitten-san when the bochou, tensai, and data man with Inui juice get interested? Poor, annoyed, confused Ryoma. Will it end with a murder at Seigaku or a last minute trick?

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How was it I added the little bit at the end for a weak attept at dramatic effect. Pathetic. Yeah. I've already started chapter 7 and I hope to post it some time early December along with a continuation of Transplant. Thanks for waiting!