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The Alice Agency
Written by Sitting in the Silence
Case #6 : Confrontation
NATSUME ENTERED THE ENORMOUS Alice Agency building and he went straight to the elevator, pushed the 4F button and went straight to the third room on the left. He was given some unfamiliarity glances by some of the agents there but they continued doing their works anyway.
He went inside the room; fiber glass surrounded the entire room acting as walls. He saw a blonde with glasses typing fast on the keyboard of the AA's computer and he seemed to be looking for a match with the fingerprint he got on the left screen. The right screen showed numerous different fingerprints running through it, fast.
Natsume knocked on the glass door that was ajar and the blonde turned around to face him.
"Oh! You must be Natsume. I'm Tobita Yuu. How can I be of help?" Yuu got off his chair as he leaned on the table that was in the middle of him and Natsume. He was wearing a dark brown, long-sleeved shirt and faded jeans.
Natsume showed a smirk, he was rather amused and he started thinking if gossips travel that fast in this agency, or that's just him? He also started to think that working in AA wasn't a bad idea after all. He pulled something out of his jeans' back pocket, "This." he said as he placed a cloth-covered hard disk drive on the table.
Yuu looked at it, "And this has something to do with the Neko Gang?" he asked, grabbing it in the process and unclothing it as well. He scrutinized the hard disk, turning it clockwise, counter-clockwise, flipping it sideways, he then looked at the bottom to see if he could find some serial numbers or the manufacturer itself.
"That's what you're going to find out." Natsume said as he started to walk out of the room, hands in his pockets, "Alert me once you do." He said, turning around to face the blonde who just blankly stared at him, "By the way, I think you've got a match." Natsume jerked his chin towards the computer that now showed a stable print on the right side of the screen, and then he left.
Yuu turned to face the screen and quickly typed a command. Soon, a window appeared and a picture showed on the screen together with some basic information. Yuu got his PDA, he pressed the screen in different ways and put the PDA on his ear.
"Shouda-san, I've got a match."
"HOTARUUUU-CHAAAN!" Mikan squealed as she ran to her best friend for a hug but when she was an inch away, Hotaru turned the opposite way, thus avoiding Mikan's hug.
"I'm busy, baka. Now go bug somebody else." She said, cold as ever, as she picked up a pile of folders on the desk adjacent to hers.
Mikan cried waterfalls, "Meanie!"
Hotaru looked at her cousin. She was kind of curious on how the hell they've encountered each other.
Hotami, seeing that Hotaru was looking at her, let out a nervous laugh, "Turned out that Mikan and I are on the same boat." She quickly explained as she went to her desk that was just across Hotaru's table.
Hotaru raised a brow, "Same boat?" she asked, eyeing her cousin that was fiddling through her fountain pen.
Hotami nodded, "Yeah. They – she and his partner – are investigating the Neko Gang."
Hotaru's glance shifted from her cousin, Hotami, to her best friend, Mikan. "Is that true, Mikan?" she managed to ask.
Mikan smiled, "Yes! Very much true. It's not like I had a choice or anything, you know how the agency works, Hotaru." Then Mikan got called by Hotami and Mikan went skipping on her way to her.
She then recognized the presence of Tsubasa, who was leaning his back against the wall near the entrance of the office, in the room. "Uh, Andou . . ." She said trying hard as to not sound shocked or anything.
"Yo!" Tsubasa greeted back, smirking.
"Wha- What are you doing here?" Hotaru asked. She felt nervous all of a sudden. She tried hard to keep herself up, she and her posture, but it's becoming too difficult because she doesn't know what's going on right now. Tsubasa Andou is standing right there, and she knew well that there's no way he could be . . . not until now.
"I came to see your cousin's work about the shadow-manipulator -" he said, as he started approaching Hotami's table, walking past Hotaru in the process.
And her eyes widened as he brushed past her.
"Did you really think that you're the only ones who managed to escape?"
Natsume stood outside the Tokyo Daily building. He pulled out the charmed-bracelet and sighed. He's now determined to get this over with. He walked in, asked the front desk which floor does Hotaru Imai work, asked for a visitor pass, gave in his Alice Agency ID in the process.
"Here, sir. Wear this and you're good to go." The lady in the front desk said. "Imai-san's office is on the fifth floor."
"Hn." Natsume replied and at that, he went to the elevator, waited for it to come down and whe it did, he went in and pushed the 5 button.
The doors parted and a raven-haired girl with amethyst eyes came into view.
He was just as shocked as her when they saw each other. Hotaru's eyes widened in disbelief; her day was going just fine not until Mikan and company started barging in her workplace. She never actually thought that a day like this would come. Well, maybe she has been thinking about it, but she didn't know that it would be this soon. Seeing Andou earlier was already a shock to her, and now Hyuuga is here, standing right before her . . . Has the world gone mad at her?
"Long time no see, Imai." She heard Natsume say. Hotaru almost gaped at this. She finally managed to gather her thoughts and she acted quickly without even thinking. She hurriedly entered the elevator and immediately pushed the close door button.
"Whoa. Take it easy, Imai. I didn't know you missed me that much." Natsume teased with a smirk.
Hotaru just glared at him, "Shut up Hyuuga." She then pressed the 6 button and when the doors parted she coldly gestured Natsume to follow her. Natsume obliged at this, he didn't have any other choice. They stood outside a wooden door with opaque glass placed in the upper-middle part. Hotaru swiped in her ID in the ID Swiper outside, it beeped and the door clicked open. Hotaru went in, dragging Natsume inside. It was a room full of boxes, like a storage room.
"Explain. Now." Hotaru demanded.
"Look Imai. I'm not going to do any explaining. This is my life and I will do whatever I wan –" but he was cut off when Hotaru's palm slapped his right cheek.
"You promised, Hyuuga." Hotaru started shaking. "You promised you'll leave us – HER – alone!" Hotaru stood there, palm red and burning. She's not usually like this but this is too much. She guessed seeing Andou was okay but seeing Hyuuga here was a different thing, especially when Mikan's around.
"You better go, Hyuuga. She's here and she can't see you." Hotaru said as she approached a shelf and started rummaging through the boxes, hands shaking, body trembling.
"Yeah, about that . . ." Natsume started, "I'm working as her partner."
Hotaru stopped, she turned to face him and she gritted her teeth. "WHAT?" She asked just to make sure if she'd heard it right.
"I'm working in the Alice Agency as her partner." Natsume said, arms crossed.
A/N: May Madness right? :) I actually don't know how that works. Anyways, I've updated, again! YEY! I didn't check for mistakes or such. And I think I need a beta-reader. -.-"
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