Holding hands together, they happily entered the meeting room. Instead of being greeted by a warm "good morning" from their colleagues, they were snapped by Tatsumi's "two hours late, two of you, so that's four hours off your salaries. That makes 17 and a half hours of absence so far for this month." He wrote down in his notebook.
"Hey, but that's not fair!" Tsuzuki grimaced. "You know Soka and I just committed. Like newlyweds, we are blissfully in love. So we lost track of time, what's wrong about that!?" He argued.
"Shut up and let's start the late meeting!" Boss ordered with urgency. He introduced a new member to the team, Koroji, an experienced guardian of death that would help them to solve the latest serial rape case.
Hisoka stared at Koroji with interest. Tsuzuki noticed the special attention and frowned. "The newbie sure is young, dark, handsome, and I'm just an old man." He thought to himself.
The rape case was a strange series of events that happened only every Sunday at midnight. Common points among the victims were that they were all young women with short blonde hair, were raped, and then killed by a sharp object slashed through their throat. The weirdest, was that all the women were flat-chested and boyish-looking; not the usual hot sexy women with big boobs that men preferred.
"Maybe the rapist likes tomboys, who knows?" Tsuzuki commented.
"Or maybe, he liked young men, but could not bring himself to believe his homosexuality, so he picked young women with man-like anatomy." Koroji suggested.
The idea spiked some common agreement from the team. Hisoka was also considering the possibility.
"How do you know he's gay? He raped women, WOMEN! Not men." Tsuzuki sneered.
"But not vaginally. All the victims were raped anally." Koroji explained.
Now, the team agreed. Hisoka nodded too.
Tsuzuki was not sure how he felt about that, but one thing was clear: he did not like this Koroji dude. The guy smelled of Trouble, with a capital T.
At the end of the discussion, they decided that Koroji would team up with Hisoka for this investigation. Tsuzuki insisted that he wanted to help, but Boss did not like the lover-boys team working together. Arriving late to a meeting was no big deal, but arriving late at a rape/murder scene and risk losing a victim's life would definitely be unacceptable.
"Then let me team up with Koroji instead! Why does it have to be Soka?" Tsuzuki asked.
"Because you and Koroji don't get along, we can tell from just this meeting." Boss said calmly.
With that, Hisoka and Koroji headed out together. At the door, Hisoka turned to eye Tsuzuki with tenderness. "Love you." He mouthed. Tsuzuki nodded.
Maybe there was no need to worry. After all, they were committed now.
"But you're just an old man. The youth needs a hot body to sex him up." A voice inside him pronounced.
Tsuzuki bit his lips.