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“Stop that Kid!”

Heads turned quickly towards the shout. People stopped what they were doing to watch the events.

“Stop that Kid!”

Heads looked up again and blinked at the blur that ran past. A boy, a teenager. People dropped what they were looking out and walked out into the corridor to watch the boy.

The masses were startled again as the police officer flashed past them. More moved out of the shops to watch. Bryan growled under his breath.

Yeah, that’s right, don’t listen to me and just watch. You bunch of lazy ingrates.

He willed his legs on faster, having given up shouting. No one was going to listen so he may as well just do it himself. The crowds still watching the procession with curiosity. Those behind him had returned to what they were originally doing, too caught up in their world to worry about anything else.

The boy looked behind quickly before turning back. His pace was starting to slacken. Bryan smirked and put on another burst of speed.

Got’cha.

Bryan was drawing closer now, just a few more inches and he could…

The boy’s foot slipped, Bryan took advantage of this and dived. The pair of them came crashing to the hard ground in front of the little group of spectators. Bryan grinned and reached back for his hand cuffs, using his weight to immobilise the teen. He pulled the others hands together a locked the cuffs with a click, getting to his feet and dragging the other up with him.

“Think you could get away, eh, punk? Caused me too much trouble for that you damn kid,” the platinum blonde muttered. The ‘punk’ stared straight in front of him, unfazed. His garnet eyes flicked to look at Bryan.

“Aren’t you supposed to give me some ‘you have the right to remain silent’ lecture?” he mumbled. Bryan raised an eyebrow. “What do you think this is? A movie? I don’t have to tell you anything, now c’mon,” he stated, rather irritated with the ordeal before giving the other a shove to walk. The teen stumbled, glared over his shoulder at his captor but walked forward nonetheless.

“Now where’s that thing you took? You better hand it over now,” Bryan ordered. The other stopped and turned, looking up at Bryan incredulously. “What thing?”

Bryan’s eyebrows shot up. Was this kid for real?

(-)

“Look lady,” Bryan said for the thousandth time, “I’m not the regular police, so I’m sorry I couldn’t retrieve the object you lost and it’s unlikely I’ll be able to help any further.”

He sighed, tiredly, “Maybe one of the regular police officers could help, I investigate serious crimes.”Sort of.

The lady looked up at the man towering over her, she gave him a glare and flicked her greying hair out of her dark eyes, “Maybe you should done the right thing in the first place, instead you come back with different person altogether! That was expensive item! Not replaceable!”

Bryan groaned, “I’m sorry, but he ran I thought he was the one who took it.” He looked over his shoulder at the teen sitting at the table in the room behind him. What a load of trouble he had caused.

“Look, I’m sorry, but you’ll have to excuse me,” he muttered, “Maybe someone else could help you?” He turned and opened the door, about to walk into the room.

The lady huffed. “I should think so. They much better helper than you,” she said before turning to seek out another officer. Bryan rolled his eyes and walked into the room, closing the door behind. Little old ladies and petty thieves weren’t part of his job description.

The teen’s garnet eyes flicked up, eyeing the older man off but didn’t acknowledge him and further. Bryan moved to take a seat at the opposite end of the table. He sat there quietly for a moment, watching the teen, seeing if he would say something first.

This wasn’t going to be the case. Bryan leaned forward on his arms, the other lifted up his head now to look at him, mildly interested.

“You’ve caused me a lot of trouble, y’know,” Bryan started.

“And? What are you going to do about it? Not my problem,” the other snapped back.

Bryan narrowed his eyes. “I’m going to ask you to shut up and think before you open that big mouth of yours. And you’ll find this is your problem. I want to know how your going to make up for all this trouble.”

He shrugged, “Send you a card?”

“Watch it, smartass,” Bryan growled, “What’s your name, kid?”

“Kai.”

“And does Kai have a last name?”

“Hiwatari,” Kai mumbled.

Bryan’s eyebrows shot up. Hiwatari was a well known name around these parts. Why would one of the Hiwatari kids get into trouble like this? They were pretty well off. Bryan shook his head.

“Ok, Kai, do you know why your in here?” He had to at least try to act civil, even though this kid was going to piss him off some way or another.

Kai nodded, “Because you’re a jerk and jumped me.”

Bryan could feel his eyebrow twitched. He breathed out loudly through his nose and tried to control the outburst that was imminent.

“No,” he said through gritted teeth, “you’re in here because we suspected you of stealing a valu-“

“I didn’t steal anything!” Kai stood up angrily and shouted.

Bryan jumped up and slammed his hands on the table. “THEN WHY DID YOU RUN?!” Outburst over.

Kai averted his eyes quickly, looking down at the ground. Bryan almost didn’t pick up what he said.

“I thought my grandfather sent you after me.”

Bryan’s eyebrows furrowed. Grandfather? There was a knock at the door and someone entered. Bryan turned around to meet them.

“Any luck?” he asked.

The intruder shook his head, “No, nothing Sir. They’re long gone.”

Bryan sighed and muttered, “Great, just great.”

The police officer gave him a half smile. “Don’t want to face the wrath of the lady and her lost revenue?”

Bryan rolled his eyes. “I take it you got the lecture too?”

The other nodded. “Yep. Well, I leave you to do what you were doing. Sorry for the bad news, Sir.”

Bryan nodded and the other left. He turned to find Kai looking at him curiously. He raised an eyebrow in question.

“What got taken?”

Bryan sat down and sighed. “Not that it’s any of your business but it was a rare antique of some sort. Worth about 3 grand.”

Kai sat down as well. “I’ll pay for it.”

Bryan looked over at him and blinked. “What?”

Kai rolled his eyes. “I said I’d pay for it, jerk, if that would help.”

Bryan narrowed his eyes. “Fine, do what you want. I don’t care” Damn Hiwatari’s, flinging there money around.

Kai glared at the older of the two. “Fine, I will.”

They sat there glaring at each other for a while before Bryan sighed. “Go on, get out of here. We’ve got nothing to keep you here for.” And good riddance.

Kai nodded and stood up, walking around Bryan and out the door. Bryan rubbed his temples and sat for a while. What a waste of a day that was. Go out intending to find leads and end up chasing some snot nosed brat around. Do I even look like a regular police officer to you?

It was true. They only thing he wore that gave any clue to him being in authority was his badge. He sighed and stood up. And I don’t trust those two that I left in charge at the office.

He walked out of the room and down the hall. When he got to the foyer he was surprised by that lady again.

“Ah! Sir!” She ambled over to him, “I said wrong, you did wonderful job with this boy,” she smiled.

Bryan looked up; crimson eyes met green and then looked away. Bryan looked back at the lady and smiled.

“Just doing my job,” he stated before walking out the glass doors and down the steps, What a waste of time.

Kai watched him as he held the pay phone to his ear, continuing to until the other end was picked up.

Bryan pulled out his mobile and punched in the number at his office. He looked around waiting for someone to pick up, slowly walking towards his car. It wasn’t long before they did.

“Yeah, it’s me,” Bryan said, “Hm? … Oh, no. I didn’t find anything … Well I was busy chasing kids around, ok?... Why? Because I’m too nice and there were no security guards around!” he snapped. He sighed and waited for the laughter to die down at the other end, fishing his car keys out of his pocket in the meantime.

“Is it really that hard to imagine me as nice? Never mind, how did you guys go with the tra-? … Oh Ha ha, no need to rub it in that you two are getting somewhere with this case. I’ll look at it after the weekend…Bye.”

He flipped the phone shut and opened the driver’s side door and getting in his car.
(-)

The keys jangled as Bryan wearily opened the door to his shared apartment. He walked in, closing the door quietly with his foot.

He had tried to chase a few things up after that fruitless ‘cops and robber game’ but hadn’t succeeded in finding anything. He had been to worked up about that brat wasting everyone’s time.

He dropped his briefcase on the ground, loosening the top buttons on his shirt as he walked into the lounge room. Maybe collapsing on the couch was in order.

He stopped short once he had entered, eye falling on the dual-toned hair sticking over the top of the couch. He blinked. He must have been seeing things. He walked out of the room and then back.

“Your still there,” he said incredulously. The hair moved and turned so that Kai was able to look at him. He blinked and raised both eyebrows.

“It’s you,” he said.

Bryan nodded and grimaced, “Yer it’s me. What the hell are you doing…here?”

“Me? What the hell are you doing here?” Kai retorted, standing up.

Bryan narrowed his eyes. “I live here, you brat so tell me what the hell are doing in my home?”

“It’s not just your home,” Kai snapped back, “And I refuse to believe you do live here. You must have got the wrong door, you jerk.”

“Oh, really? We’ll see about that.”

“Yeah, we will.”

“TALA!” was the simultaneous yell.


Tbc

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