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Chapter 3: Days of Blue

"This is seriously the best movie ever made," said Goto, tucked up on the bed beside him Hidaka hummed in agreement, resting her head on his shoulder.

"I hear the next one is coming out in a couple of years," said Hidaka, conversationally, as the Avengers fought the Loki's invasion on screen.

"Yeah, should be good," Goto agreed, the hand on her hip playing with the tassels on her skirt, Hidaka found the warmth soothing.

"Should be awesome," she corrected.

They were silent for the movie's ending and when it was finished Hidaka sighed and began sweeping up the empty chip packets and empty lolly rappers and drink cans and dumping them into the bin.

"Damn, I really missed our movie nights," Hidaka said. She flopped back down on the bed, "but it's easier to set them up now that Enomoto and Fuse got together, they're less opposed to us kicking one of them out of their rooms," it was either be kicked out of their own rooms or sit there with earphones while Akira and Ren screamed at the screen.

"I really don't want to think too much about why the two of them are less opposed to spending time together than they were before." Goto admitted, Hidaka snickered and waggled her eyebrows suggestively making Goto choke on a laugh.

"Really don't want to think about it," he corrected himself.

"Oh come on, they're engaged, Akiyama and Domyoji are together, Kamo and Benzai are together, really, we're the only two members of the special squad that aren't. It's not that weird anymore," said Hidaka. At first, when Enomoto and Fuse had gotten together, Hidaka had been worried that they'd get in trouble for their relationship. 'No work place relationships' wasn't an official rule but it had always seemed to be a rule regardless. But, as it turned out, as long as it didn't impact on your work neither the Captain nor the Lieutenant cared what (or, more appropriately, who) you did.

"Yeah but it still feels weird," said Ren, brushing his blue-black hair back.

It kind of still did, he was right about that.

Goto sat up, "I was just thinking, about us being the only pair in the special squad who aren't together."

Akira sat up too, "why? Want to fix that," her voice sounded teasing but she really wasn't. Hidaka was curious, she hadn't forgotten what Enomoto had said a few days ago, that Goto was in love with her. She had denied that, when she really thought about it she wasn't so sure Tatsuya had been wrong, Goto had been leaving a lot of not too subtle clues, especially of late, but there was one, overall, compelling argument against that.

Ren Goto was her best friend. If he was in love with her he would have told her.

Wouldn't he?

"Maybe I do want to fix that," he admitted, "but you probably knew that already," he leaned over and brushed a lock of her short hair away from her face.

"I suspected," she admitted, "you weren't very subtle."

"Is that a problem?" He asked, his voice was light but his green eyes betrayed a hint of nervousness.

Akira leaned forwards and kissed him, "no, Ren, of course it isn't," there was a pleasant warmth in her chest, she wouldn't call it love, but she definitely adored being around Ren, she adored Ren. They could give this a chance and see where it went. No matter what happened, he would always be her best friend.

Goto cupped her cheeks and deepened the kiss, Hidaka inched forwards until she was practically sitting on his lap and wrapped her arms around his neck, her heart beat accelerated.

The door opened, they broke the kiss as they both looked around, "I'm sorry," Enomoto said meekly, "I just thought the movie would be over by now, I'm sorry, I'll come back later, I'm sorry." Her cheeks looked as though they were on fire.

Hidaka couldn't help it, the look on Enomoto's face was too priceless, she started to laugh. She ducked her head into Goto shoulder as her own shoulders shook, by the time the giggles had escaped her throat Goto was laughing with her.

As her hand slipped into his Akira smiled, one of the things she liked best about Ren was his sense of humour, most members of Scepter 4 were fairly humourless, or if they had a sense of humour, it was dry and hard to detect. She loved Goto's openness; it worked well because Hidaka's very literal mind didn't always catch on to the subtle, snarky humour used by Fuse and Akiyama.

That or she was just stupid, but Hidaka preferred to think of herself as literal minded.

She tugged him to the left, "come on, we can see the fireworks better from here," she dragged him to a small hillock and they sat down on the grass.

Goto sighed contentedly, "after all the craziness we've been through it's nice just to do something fun like go to a festival and watch fireworks."

Akira leaned on his shoulder and snuggled in closer, "yeah, this is nice," she agreed.

There were gasps and cries of awe as the first firework exploded, Hidaka caught her breath.

Goto leaned down and kissed her, Hidaka responded and the two stayed there, lost in each other as the shower of sparks burst and fizzled over their heads.

"Steady," Hidaka whispered, she was barely breathing her attention was so totally focused on what Goto was doing. "Steady..." she held her breath as Goto dribbled the icing on the cake in the shape of flowers.

Ren glanced over at her with a smile ever so slightly present on his handsome features, "that is incredibly off-putting, do you think you could do something else?" He prompted gently.

Akira, who had been crouched so she was at eye-level with the cake on the bench, straightened up quickly.

"You're right, you're right, I'm sorry," she apologized and quickly backed off, looking for something else to do.

Three seconds later Goto could feel Hidaka's breath on his neck as she leaned up to peer over his shoulder, he shivered ever so slightly, "you're doing it again, distracting me," he said softly.

She didn't move, "sorry."

Goto's hands trembled ever so slightly but he didn't let it mess up his design.

"There you go, the cake we said we'd bake you," said Hidaka proudly as Goto placed the cake beside Andy's arm as she worked.

Big green eyes looked up and blinked, "oh my God, you actually made me a cake?" A sunny smile lit up her face as she leaped to her feet. She hugged them both, "thank you so much! I thought I'd die if I didn't get something sweet and soon."

She dashed off to get plates, calling out to Akiyama, Benzai, Kamo, Enomoto and Fuse, "we're having cake!"

Benzai glanced up at them from where she had been leaning over Kamo's shoulder, "you two spent eight and a half hours in that kitchen, baking one cake. What on Earth were you doing?"

Hidaka and Goto glanced at each other, "actually there were three cakes," Goto admitted, "we burnt the first two."

Well they'd burnt the first one; the only apt description of what they'd done to the second one was destroyed.

Benzai lifted an eyebrow, her longish hair brushing her shoulder as she pushed it back, "I reiterate; what were you two doing?" There was a knowing look in her eye.

"Not what I believe you think we were doing," Hidaka laughed, while Goto snickered.

Andy cut the cake gushing about the designs on the icing and served it out to everyone, Scepter 4 sat around laughing and talking, enjoying a brief reprieve and, as Ren put his arm around her shoulders, Akira thought that, just for now, life was pretty perfect.

"So," said Domyoji, one day, as the two women ended up having lunch together, "what's been going on with you and Goto over the last few weeks?"

"Hmm," said Hidaka thoughtfully, she stirred her drink with her straw idly, "I'm not really sure what to call it," she confessed.

Andy huffed, in her book there were two definitions, you were either together, or you weren't, she didn't over think things, it never worked out for her.

"So are you together, or aren't you?" She asked impatiently.

Hidaka took a sip of her drink, "I'm not really sure. I'd say we are together... but I wouldn't actually call us boyfriend and girlfriend or anything like that. Does that make sense?"

Only kinda, but Domyoji was aware that most relationships only kinda made sense.

"A little, but you like him? Like, romantically?" She added, well aware that Hidaka obviously liked Goto platonically, and, being very literal-minded, she would probably interpret the question that way.

Hidaka nodded.

Andy smiled, "well good for you. Goto's a great guy, though he's not my type, and the two of you deserve each other."

Hidaka smiled, "thank you, I do really like him," she thought about the last month with her and Goto acting like a couple, it had been nice, it had been really nice.

A small smile crept onto Hidaka's lips; Domyoji ducked her head, choking on a laugh.

And what's so funny?" Hidaka demanded, raising her own eyebrows at the other woman.

"You look like you're in love," she teased.

"Meow," Hidaka looked around for the unfamiliar sound, either Goto had started mewling or there was a cat around here somewhere.

She turned to her blue-haired companion, "did you hear that?"

Goto was looking around too, "yes, I did," he muttered.

"There!" Said Hidaka pointing.

It was a little red and black striped kitten, its fur drenched and sticking out around its face like a tiny lion's mane. To take shelter from the rain it had run under a low windowsill that stuck out from the clothes shop it was part of because the sill was full of flowerpots, there it sat, mewling pitifully, as though it was just waiting for the two members of the Blue Clan to walk by and find him or her.

Hidaka knelt down by the windowsill and held her hand out to the kitten, Goto moved their large umbrella so it still covered her and, after sniffing Hidaka warily for a few seconds, the kitten rubbed up against her hand, purring.

Hidaka picked the tiny thing up, it really was very tiny, it couldn't be very old. Its fur was matted and dirty and it looked skinny and underfed, it probably had worms and fleas and other horrible things but Hidaka knew she would never be able to leave the poor thing, especially not while it was raining like this.

She cradled the kitten against her coat where it snuggled against her, purring. She smiled slightly, "come on, let's get this one back," she said.

Goto nodded and together the three of them went back to Scepter 4.

While Goto and Hidaka changed into clothes that weren't spotted with ran, Akiyama looked up on the internet what young kittens should be fed while Domyoji ran around to see if they had those things, Enomoto towel dried the creature gently while Fuse walked over to the administration building to ask Goki Zenjo from Internal Affairs for any advice on kittens. The members of Internal Affairs had a cat of their own, named Kuro, which slept in the library or one of the offices, they knew a lot about cats.

"What should we call him?" Benzai wondered.

"Nobody's calling him anything," said Kamo in his best I-am-the-adult-you-will-listen-to-me voice, he was the 'Dad' member of the team. Part of the reason why he and Benzai, the 'Mum' member of the team, made such a good couple. "If you name him, you'll get attached, we cannot get attached. Internal Affairs might be able to keep a cat but we can't."

A melancholic air fell over them all, they'd already gotten attached. They couldn't help it. They were only human, and kittens were adorable. Even the lieutenant could occasionally be seen smiling as she watched them. The only person who didn't seem to share in the happiness was, naturally, Mr. Fushimi the second he heard they had an animal in the building he walked into his spray-painted red office and hadn't come out yet.

"If we can't keep him what are we going to do with him?" Asked Akiyama.

"Is it a him?" Benzai asked logically.

Enomoto lifted the kitten's tail, it gave a small mewl but otherwise made no protest, "it's a her," she confirmed.

"Okay, what are we going to do with her then?" Asked Akiyama.

"Does anyone have a relative who might want a cat?" Asked Enomoto.

Walking back into the room, Goto and Hidaka both shook their heads, Goto's parents were both elderly and couldn't have any pets, Hidaka's parents had her brother, that was more than enough work, neither of them really had any other relatives. Kamo, Benzai and Akiyama all said no, as did Domyoji and Fuse when they came back.

The kitten ate hungrily as they all stared, wondering what to do with it.

"Well there are places you can give kittens so they'll be adopted," said Benzai logically. Akiyama, Kamo and Fuse agreed.

"I'd rather give her to someone I know will take good care of her," said the more emotional Enomoto. Goto, Hidaka and Domyoji all nodded.

The lieutenant walked back into the room, every eye swung to her, "no. I don't want a cat," said Seri, not looking up from her PDA.

Everyone looked back down, disappointed.

"Maybe Internal Affairs would like another cat? A friend for Kuro?" Suggested Hidaka.

"No, Kuro hates other cats, that's why he likes it here so much, there are no other cats in Scepter 4. I already asked Mr. Zenjo," said Fuse immediately.

Everyone sighed, "anybody else?" Hidaka asked gloomily.

Just then the Captain walked into the room, everyone sat up straighter.

The Captain's violet eyes immediately saw the newest member in their midst, "hello. And who's this?" She moved forward and extended an elegant hand to the kitten. Everyone tensed, the Captain was odd around people, they had absolutely no knowledge of how animals would react to her.

To everyone's surprise, no, amazement, the kitten sniffed Munakata's hand for a second and then immediately jumped into her arms and started purring at the top of her tiny lungs.

Everyone else gaped, the kitten was alright with Hidaka and Enomoto but was still wary around all the others, they were shocked to see it take so quickly to the Captain of all people.

Munakata smiled as she scratched the kitten under the chin, "and where did you come from little one?" She asked the kitten, smiling.

"Um, Goto and I found her out on the street, ma'am," said Hidaka, almost nervously, the Captain intimidated her the same way she did everyone else.

"Poor thing," said Munakata, stroking the kitten's fur while the kitten purred so hard she practically vibrated.

"We don't have anywhere for her to go," said Goto.

Munakata's violet eyes looked sad, "poor little thing," she said again, "how terrible, to have no one."

Akira glanced from her fellow Clansmen, who looked as politely bewildered at this last, rather random statement, to her Captain, still cuddling the kitten. Her Captain who had her own house...

"Captain," she began hesitantly, "would... you be interested in taking in a kitten?"

Munakata's violet eyes seemed to light up, "if no one else has any other options for this little one I would be delighted to take her in?" She looked questioningly at her troops, all of whom shook their heads, they had no other ideas for where the cat could live.

This time when she smiled Reisi Munakata seemed to glow so brightly the very air around her sparkled, "very well. I shall take this kitten in. She can live with me. If anyone has any ideas for her name please do let me know."

Since no one would dare tell Munakata what to name her own cat everyone else remained silent, but they all went about their day cheered that their little stray had found itself a home.

A few weeks later, back at her own home, Reisi Munakata's mouth twitched into a smile as her kitten jumped up onto her lap and began to purr. Her kitten, which she still had not named, was incredibly lazy, only ever lying around in the sun, eating all her food and then going back to sleep. The only break in the kitten's routine was when she jumped up on Munakata's lap and demanded attention from her human.

Munakata rather thought she'd name the kitten Mikoto. A wistful, slightly sad smile touched her lips. It seemed such an appropriate name.

Done! That's all for this chapter. Hope you enjoyed guys!

Okay, I was talking with a friend of mine and we have a couple of questions, firstly; who is the hottest Scepter 4 mook: Himori Akiyama, Yujiro Benzai, Ryuho Kamo, Andy Domyoji, Tatsuya Enomoto, Daiki Fuse, Ren Goto or Akira Hidaka?

And when I say 'hottest' I mean just the most aesthetically pleasing, not talking about personalities, or actions or lines, just shallow physical appearance. Please drop me a review and tell me which one you like most, it would mean a lot to me and totally help us settle this disagreement once and for all!

Also, which of the HOMRA mooks do you find most attractive: Shouhei Akagi, Saburota Bandou, You Chitose, Masaomi Dewa, Eric Solt or Kouske Fujishima? Same as before guys, just talking about their looks and if you could drop me a review or PM me and let me know that would be great. Thanks.

And lastly, who is the most attractive character overall? There's a poll for this on my profile page so if you could vote and/or review and leave me your opinion that would help so much.
Hope you enjoyed guys, see you next fic hopefully. Bye!