A/N
Hey Y'all!! Hope you enjoy this chapter, this was gonna be a double pov with both Nari and Tsukauchi but I knew I was gonna be took long. So I gave them their own chapter.
enjoy..
Tsukauchi
Tsukauchi was irritated.
He couldn't recall a time when his job had worked him up so much. Standing just outside of the outskirts of the infamous Kohitsuji society, he and just about all of the officers dispatched to the area were growing impatient.
" How long has it been?" He turned to Chief Tsurugamae, whose canine nose wrinkled, and sniffed the area intensely.
" Just passed the two-hour mark. We can't move in yet, we have to put together a team for them to speak to." The chief responded, huffing in annoyance.
Tsukauchi rolled his eyes, " So what, they won't cooperate until we have a team of quirkless officers? Are we really about to give them that?"
" Yes, we are. Detective, our hands are tied. If we want the perp, and to rescue the Mayor, then we have to comply. Our jurisdiction ended about fifty miles ago, anything within their land happens at their say so. If they want a team with no quirks, then that's what they'll get." Tsurugamae was handling the situation much more rationally than these people deserved.
Perfect.
When Tsukauchi got the assignment twelve hours ago, he was a little excited. As a detective, he had always wanted to sniff around the mystery that was the Kohitsuji Society, not just because of their elusiveness but also due to the many times their name had come up in the interrogation room.
Whenever a criminal in the drug business was apprehended, it seemed like the same family name had dealings within the industry.
But he needed the right circumstances to open a case or else he'd be going off hearsay, and a breach of their borders was his chance to do that finally. If he could get inside and snoop around a little, he just might get that case he'd been itching for.
But as the details of the case unfolded during the briefing, his excitement turned into mush.
He had his fair share of experience when it came to the privileged, so he knew how they could get. But... man these people were incompetent.
The suspect used his quirk to break through the wall at about eight that evening and rampaged through the town according to the correspondent they spoke to from the inside.
The Mayor of an outside city just down the Mountain had been let inside to attend an apparent 'Match Ball'.
He sent a distress signal from the ball at approximately eight-fifty, which got the police force involved.
Everyone assumed the reason he sent the signal was for the villain, but after another was sent an hour later things got confusing.
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" Chief, I don't understand. If the villain breached at eight, why would the signal be sent fifty minutes later? And then another, an hour after that?" One of the officers asked at the briefing.
" Because, according to our correspondent, the Mayor sent the initial signal when the city alarms started sounding. The second one was sent after the villain had been taken down." The chief answered, circling things on the whiteboard.
" Taken down?! You said the villain is a quirk user right?" Another officer questioned.
Tsukauchi answered this time, " He is a quirk user. And yes, although it is unlikely, the quirkless law enforcement there managed to take him down themselves."
" These people are ballsy. But this still doesn't explain the signal after the villain was already down."
The chief took over again, he could see Tsukauchi getting annoyed with all the questions.
" The last signal came in the form of a phone call. Due to the lack of reception there, he had a hard time reaching the local police department. But he managed to get a few bars. We have the recording right here."
He nodded to Tsukauchi, who pressed play on the device in his hand.
The Mayor's shaky voice met the ears of the many officers in the room,
" I need an escort outside of the Kohitsuji borders urgently, there was an intruder ... taken dow-... a little girl! The founders have gone insane... locked down the entrance.. No one is allowed in or out-." The distressed man's voice was cut off after the call dropped.
There was a beat of silence before the room erupted with questions. Tsukauchi had to rub his temples to ease his already growing headache.
" I'm confused, did he say the intruder was a little girl? Or they were taken down by a little girl?" One woman asked, getting a few chuckles from the crowd.
" You think a little quirkless girl took down the perp, Jess?" someone laughed in disbelief.
The detective interrupted their mocking laughter, " As funny as it may sound, that could be what happened. As policemen, you should know not to write out any possibilities, especially when the details are limited." Tsukauchi silenced the laughter in the room.
" We don't know the name of the kid the Mayor mentions in the call because, despite having an inside correspondent, they refuse to talk about her. All we know now is that she and the suspect are both being detained inside the private home of the Head Martial."
" Wait, detained?"Another person asked, " Why would they detain her if she's just a kid?"
" I don't know. But as of right now, your jobs are to detain, and transfer. I'm in charge of finding out the details, so let's all stick to our respective assignments." Tsukauchi finalized the briefing, leaving the squadron assignment to his boss.
He prayed that this would be worth his while.
...
" Tell me again why no one contacted the hero association?" Tsukauchi spoke boredly, with an undertone of annoyance in his voice.
He and six other quirkless men and women were allowed entry to the Society. Three were assigned to collect the Mayor while he and two others would apprehend the villain.
Everyone was on guard as the sun fell below the horizon, and it was soon dark in the cold mountain forest.
Tsukauchi had just begun to prepare himself when the meters-tall gate opened with a loud creek. Slowly a sleek, all-white car drove out from the low-lit entrance and stopped before them.
Just then, Tsurugamae gets a call on his burner phone, " Hello. Change of plans? I have my men at the ready, why are you diverting from the original agreement?" He began barking into the phone, angry beyond belief.
"We've been out here for hours! You mean I brought all these squads out here for nothing?!"
Feeling a headache coming on, Tsukauchi began rubbing his temples again. How wonderful, not only had they wasted their time briefing, but they had also wasted resources getting officers to join a mission that would normally be handled by a hero.
These quirks haters were pulling a rage from him he hadn't felt since he was an adolescent.
The car finally stopped its slow trek, and as soon as the break was fully pressed the Mayor flung open the door and rushed to the nearest officer he could find. Which so happened to be a female officer who had to push him away when he tried to seek comfort in her bosom.
" My apologies! I'm just so grateful that you all came for me!" He was in tears and bent at a ninety-degree angle.
Everyone had to hold back a scowl at the weak and creepy old man.
Soon after, a man in an all-white uniform with a white cuff around his wrist exited the vehicle. At the sight of the many visible quirk users around him, he faltered in his step. He was terrified.
The Chief stepped forward. " Where is the villain?"
The man looked as confused as he looked terrified. " Villain? I don't know what you mean." He said shakily, making everyone scratch their heads.
" The man we were sent to apprehend. Where is he?" Tsukauchi said, having a harder time hiding his frustration.
" I'm sorry, I don't know what a villain is or what man you speak of, but the intruder is in the back of the car right now waiting to be transported." The young martial nodded his head once and walked to the backseat of the car to pull it open.
The chief and the detective huddle together to speak, " He doesn't know what a villain is? Is he trying to piss us off by playing dumb?" Tsukauchi rolled his eyes, even though he already guessed that the man might not be joking.
" Stay calm. Let's just go get the suspect, we aren't gonna get any answers until we have him in our custody. You already know these people won't talk." He mellowed the growing annoyance in his friend.
Tsukauchi couldn't be more heated. He wasn't gonna get to open that case after all, not if he had no way inside. His only hope now was the villain, who most likely would keep his lips sealed.
Shaking his head in defeat, the chief and the detective walked to the now open backseat door of the white vehicle. Ready to read the villain his rights.
But instead of the burly man they were expecting to meet, the door opens to the sight of a chocolate-skinned young girl. No older than fourteen, sitting perfectly still on the seat.
She didn't move, she didn't blink, and she hardly breathed.
She only stared blankly at the ripped and bloody tulle of her dress, waiting for whatever fate would come at the hands of the men surrounding her.
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