A Twist of Fate.

[Kaede Soshi]

The day shown bright as our favorite hero made his way to the nest of vipers he was planning to expose. Though he could just as easily be walking into a nest of mongoose for all he knew. He must have been insane, no that would have given insane people a bad rap, he must have been off his rocker, fuck nut crazy to even contemplate something like this!! Let alone go threw with it!! But sexy ladys had always been his weakness, and that woman from a few nights before had deferentially been sexy.....And mysterious.....And by all the stars in heaven Kaede just loved a mystery.....And at the center of this one was well a sexy lady!! IT dawned on Kaede then that he should never make powerful enemys, because all they would need to do to kill him is higher a female assassin...One eye lash flutter and he was done!!

Hell thats all it had taken to get him to come to one of the rougher areas of the city, alone, and with no help near by. Hell he was even out of uniform(And his own shirt) to boot so he got no more respect then your other seven foot tall giants, which was a lot admittedly but...more then likely not enough given the part of town he was in. Right then and there he would have given anything to have his uniform on....Not for protection...But so he could arrests some of these blatant criminals!! Peddling drugs and worse and broad day light? What the hell was this world coming to?

Ahh well he could always come back on a later date and make some arrests...Hell he could take Kasumi, he knew how much she loved shit like this....Hell it could almost be a date!! Who else would take their girl out to fight some crime? NO ONE!! Thats why he would win that womans heart in the end!! IT would just take some time....And time is what he had plenty off being as young as he was....

After he had finished his little day dream he found that he was finally at his target location, a packed market street,,,,How the hell was he supposed to find her in all this? My luck? A bit of magic? She had said look for her hair but....THERE WAS SO MUCH HAIR MOVING ABOUT!!! With a sigh and a shake of his head he proceeded into what could only be described as a death trap....Look for her hair indeed. PFFT!

So...Kaede did not do to well packed like he was in between to many people to count...It made him feel exposed and a little vulnerable. That was not a feeling he enjoyed in the slightest. He felt even more exposed because he couldn't carry his blade out of uniform...It would just cause to many problems....HE walked around for a good fifteen minutes and still had not caught the sight of that exotic hair.....The fuck was she keeping him waiting for? He patted his concealed fire arm and started back to the edge of the market....Fucking wild goose chases....

[Guest]

She stared at the rushing people, the fruit carts and the various smells and sights surrounding the vendors. It was the usual crowded day and the sun was blaring above. Lovely. She looked down from the building she was atop of and spotted Kaede immediately. Well, it was hard not to with his chiseled abs gleaming in the light. She guessed he forgot his shirt again, either that or he just loved showing off those guns. Osamu was clothed in rounded glasses, a grey plaid skirt with black cotton leggings, a white shirt with a black tie and shiny red shoes. To top that off was a black backpack and her skin was golden brown and her hair black. She looked nothing like she did in the bar. The only thing similar was her eyes.

Kaede Soshi was a formidable man in which she knew he was clean from the Yakuza, which was a feat in itself. Not only that but he is the most outspoken about the filth of the Yakuza. He was physically strong, smart at certain points, was able to stay on the ball at any time and had the potential to rise at the occasion. Osamu was a bit tired plugging and chugging in her usual time and after this one hit, she would wipe her hands of her family. No, she shouldn't even think about it until it was done. If she showed her intentions she would be dead in a second. She sat down at the edge and pulled out her pocket book, removing a phone. She called a man down at the vendors. " Steal his wallet or his gun and lead him into a dead end alleyway." She could hear the mans' nervous breathing. She could imagine what horrible smell it was from the previous encounter she had with him on the side street to hire him in the first place. " But he's a cop! He could can my ass..." Osamu let out a sharp breath, annoyed at the man's stupidity. " He can't "can" you if he's off duty. Do it." She turned off her phone and dropped it down a drainpipe. No need using it again.

After convincing the man to steal Kaede's things, she took her time going down the fire escape the led into the alleyway that he would be driven into. She didn't have much confidence in the man that was doing it, but she had a few options for him to give the cop. If the man steals and actually leads him to the alleyway she could have a conversation with him, Kaede could catch him and the man would lead him here or Kaede could beat him to a pulp and take back his things but with a hearing device toggled onto it. Any of those three would fit into Osamu's plan.

She sat on a pile of cinder blocks, the only thing for her to do now was wait. Her favorite part of the plan. She wondered what would enfold and whether dear Kaede Shoshi had the determination to make his life so much better and her life so much more free.

[Kaede Soshi]

Like always his first impression of the place was correct...It was a place of scum and villainy and it seemed like every sort of crime short of murder and rape where going on before his eyes, and he was sure if he just waited he could catch those two going on as well. All in all it made him sick...How could human beings do this to them selves? What could drop them to such desperate levels? He knew the answers to these questions, he knew them all to well...But that couldn't and didn't stop him from asking them. Desperation was the answer, lack of hope.....Humans would do next to anything to survive...Even those things that where at the same time degrading to the human spirit and against their own moral core. IT was a sad reality they lived, but it could change and Kaede did his best to change it for the better, the fact that others seemed to want to make it worse didn't matter...As long as a few of them strived to do good in the world, as long as some of them tried to hold up the ideals of justice and honor then in the end everything would turn out for the better. One good and just person could change the world...Thats all it took.

He laughed some then at his own naivety, and admitted to him self that it was in fact childish....But as Kas always said, he was just a child in the body of a smokin hot man. He shook his head, his good eye tearing a little and the bells in his hair making a soft jingling sound. Thats when he felt it, a soft brush of a hand against his pocket and the sudden lightness that fallowed.

His eyes scanned the crowed....There where just so many people who could have lifted his wallet....Sooo many...But only one of them had done it...But which one? He scanned the retreating heads and the faces around him.....Who was it....In all honesty it could have been one of any number of people...But...he saw a man swiftly retreating towards an ally and smiled...fucking amateur...Every good pick pocket knew to stay on the same route they where traveling....Not freak out and make a quick escape

He fallowed him, no quickly, not slowly and made up the distance on the man a small smile coming across his face,the fucker had been dumb enough to mess with him while he was in this mood.....As soon as he got to the mouth of the ally he noticed it ended rather abruptly at a rather high chain link fence. The stupid fucker couldn't even get this much right.....Criminals where just going down hill...He walked toward the now trapped man, a rather bemused smile on his face, as he walked the tiny bells that he wore in his hair jingled merrily."Now why would you go and do something so stupid?" He saw some fear in the mans eye and he seemed to stunned to talk. So with out any hesitation he lashed out, his large hand coiling around the other mans neck and he ohh so gently picked the man up off his feet. "Id like my wallet please." He smiles wider as he shakily reaches inside his coat and draws out the item in question and hands it over."Good boy..." He tosses the man like a rag doll against the fence and bends low so that hes at eye level with the man and take other the offenders wallet and takes his ID card."I dont want to hear about you doing something like this again...." He looks at the card."Takashi Marumuto....Because if i do you will suffer from more then a bruised ego i promise you that." He laughed patted the mans cheek and stood up and started to make his way from the ally....and to search for that damned hair,,,,

[Guest]

It was abmirable that Kaede let the man go. To be honest he was a rookie beyond belief and this encounter would most likely set him straight. There were some people that shouldn't enter into the so called filth of the world. Osamu never tried understanding the human condition of why they crawled so low in society. She never tried being an expert. All Osamu thought of was how it would affect her. So far, it hasn't. At least to her knowledge. The man fell into a pile of trash cans and scrambled for his ID card, his face with a look on it as if he ate something sour. He was found out and would be more wary now...

Matsumoto climbed the chain link fence hurriedly, clumsily turning over the top as Osamu made herself known. She was in the alley the entire and in the mouth of the division between the market and Kaede. She sat neatly on top of the cinder blocks with her legs crossed. " So that's what his name was." Matsumoto fell with a thud on the opposite side of the fence and ran off. " Well at least I remember yours. Do you remember mine?" She winked in a familiar motion. If Kaede could remember, he would pull that motion from a long night at the bar with an albino woman with purple and red eyes. The same orbs that was set into this woman with two rounded circles of glass protecting them.

She pulled her backpack from her shoulders and unzipped it. It was a heavy bag and seemed to be filled with several things. Things that Osamu didn't want Kaede to see yet, except for the one thing that she was drawing from it now. It was a camera that seemed to have a large zoom accessory on it. " You said you wanted to get the Yakuza? I know how to get their 6 year old apprentice." She held out the camera for him to look through the memory. " Think of it as a declaration of war against them in favor of the Aerugese military of defense."

She wondered what he would do. Is he actually apart of the Yakuza like the rest? Would he destroy the camera? Would he refuse or worst of all would he accept the task and not follow through? She hated times like this when she would pair up with someone that she hadn't quite felt out yet. Trusting wasn't in her vocabulary.

[Kaede Soshi]

Some days he could respect criminals....But only if they where good ones, it was a profession that took legitimate skill and there where a few out there that could claim to be artists....Thats more then what could be said for allot of professions,\. But it really did piss him off to see crimes committed in such a way that they where actually begging to be caught.....It was just a downer and made his job all the more tedious because of it. Thats not say hen approved of them by any stretch of the imagination....But you had to have some sort of respect for those you hunted, other wise you could end up dead. It was a fact of life he had come to understand vary well in his time as an officer of the law.

" So that's what his name was."

Dah fuck? He yet again comes out of his philosophical ramblings to find....Whats her name with her odd hair....And even odder eyes....Now where did she come from? Because he could have sworn that no one was there just a few seconds ago..." Well at least I remember yours. Do you remember mine?" It was something odd....As odd as her hair...and as his mind processed this information his body was already acting on instinct, and reaching for his holstered weapon...He stopped him self right before he drew though...Because he remembered her name!! OSAMU!!! Unique...Vary unique......"Osamu the waitress..." Though no ordinary waitress would get the drop on him...She must have been some sort of super waitress....

Ahh well at least he had found the person that he was looking for, the fact that she had been the one to find him honestly didn't matter all that much. " You said you wanted to get the Yakuza? I know how to get their 6 year old apprentice." He took the camera as she handed it to him and started to snap threw some rather stalker-esk photos....From bushs, in cars, hell a few of them looked like they had been taken threw an outside window into a little girls bedroom...All in all it was ODD with capital D's and a capital O, to top it all off she kinda looked like a younger version of the girl in front of him. " Think of it as a declaration of war against them in favor of the Aerugese military of defense."

Pfft...First off, why the hell does a criminal organization have a six year old girl? Secondly how do you declare war on a criminal organization that has government backing? Pfft! But truth be told......He liked the idea of a solo crusade against over whelming odds...He almost grinned at the thought of it....But held it back and looked the girl dead in the eye(The seriousness of the situation was kinda lost by the fact that he had yet again taken off his shirt)."Your declaring war? WAR? Your one person.....And as much as i like the thought of sticking it to the yakuza, i am not suicidal, nor am i an idiot, and im sorry to say the same cant be said for you." He looked the girl over one more time and it hit him...She was young, vary young."How old are you anyways? eighteen? Not much older then that....." She was the same age he had been when he had lost his eye....No...No he would not be drawn into a hair brained plan.... especially when it was pitched to him in these rather....odd circumstance, by what appeared to be an oversexed teenage girl. Though he had to admit she did have rather pretty eyes.....He mentally kicked him self then and went back to the stoic stare. It had worked on criminals, and people much harder then this girl, it was not going to fail him now."This is not a game, go home and for the love of god stop this shit."

[Guest]

She looked through his reactions. He went from confusion, to being legitimately surprised and then to his cop instincts of staring hard into her eyes in all a matter of a few small minutes. Very nicely done. She had never been caught by a cop before but she knew of that stare. That stare of her drill instructors. She bowed her head automatically against that look. Her own orbs staring at her knees. Though as she did so, she thought of all of the times that the world has stood up against things that were backed by their own government. She might as well give him a history lesson.

"There have been several times in history in which a few has influenced the many. Whether it was two or two hundred, as they did so they made things better for everyone after the wars had died down." Osamu hopped off of the cinder blocks and onto the asphalt that laid the groundwork. She walked towards him, staring back at those eyes forcefully and took back the camera, though she left her bag by the pile of blocks. She flipped it to a picture of a man and a girl. It was the little girl and the Yakuza head. " This is Makoto the Waka, the head of the whole mob and that little girl was taken in by the Yakuza. That one girl ruthlessly murdered two civilians and two of your men with a 45, a hunting knife and a metal wire against a man's throat. She can hack into every mainframe of every country in the world and has the IQ of Einstein. She is a major asset to the future of the Yakuza and they are preening her to be a full fledged mob boss. You think what she did was horrible now? Think of the things she'll do in the future with that kind of upbringing. " she turned off the camera and held up an index finger pointing to him. " napping this one child will rile up Makoto for us to get him off guard. It wont be one if I have you and two is enough for this job."

She had spoken a lot this time. She wasn't used to speaking so much. Usually it was just a 'yes' here or a 'hello' there and such. Now she had literally made a speech to a cop. What a day this was. Osamu placed the camera into the bag and zipped it up. " If you're not as brave as my 17 year old self then I'll at least tell you when I'll be making the drop." She shouldered the bag and face him again. " The Yakuza are going to be fighting the Xing tonight to get back at them for a little something. The girl will be joining the brawl. When things get crazy I'll be napping her and taking her to the outskirts of Kyoto to give her back to her family." Osamu didn't mention that it was her family too and that the girl wasn't exactly going to make age 7 alive. Osamu set her eyebrows inwards and her chin out like she was disappointed in him and was about to make her way out. Her purple and red eyes staring back at him.

She knew with this display he wouldn't leave her alone to do the job and that it was for a good purpose. The kicker was that he now knew that a teenager had more balls than him so that would give a little gas in his tank too. It may not be now but it might be later. She stopped and pulled out a slip from her pocketbook. She walked back hand handed it to him. It showed the place and time of the fight. She turned to leave.

[Kaede Soshi]

He let her speak, she like everyone else deserved that respect. He could remember when he was her age, and no one had bothered to listen to a single word he had to say and he could remember how angry he had been because of that. The young where not stupid as much as those who where older hoped that they where. It was sad that most people never came to figure that simple fact out, in fact teenager's and children had some rather interesting insights into many situations. So he listened and he listened well filing everything she said away, and all the while he maintained eye contact. It was in all honesty a rather interesting tale she wove, a genius girl who had a murder or two under her belt all ready, who was destined to become the most feared crime boss that the yakuza had ever seen. But that didn't change the fact that this girl could just as easily be lying. But not once did he let his doubt cross his features, he remained passive and nodded once or twice to make sure she knew he was in fact paying attention.

But then she made a mistake, as the young and not so young tend to do from time to time, she attempted to bait him, to challenge him, and worst of all she had insulted him when he had done nothing to warrant it. He had shown respect and she had spit in his face. That was crossing the line, and then she turned to leave...With out even waiting for a response.

"You know whats odd about this situation? Its not the fact that you know a little to much about me, its not that you come with wild claims and vary little proof, nor is it the fact that you had me robbed, hell its not even the fucking strange way you had for setting up this meeting." Most people would be angry by this point, but raised voices and anger didn't get you the results you wanted most days, in fact it made things worse. No his tone was calm, if a little cold, and he spoke as easily as if he was reciting a grocery list."No what bothers me is the fact that even though i put up with all that and went on your little treasure hunt and have shown you nothing but respect....You feel the need to insult me. You came to me for help and like a child you demanded it, and when i didn't bow down before your will and do exactly like you asked you threw a tantrum or something close enough to count"

He took a deep breath then and walked towards to young woman and past her, his longer legs making that an easy feat."Im sorry to say this but you've got a lot of growing up to do, and you had best do it quickly if you want any type of help from me." He walked out of the ally and into the crowded street with out a second glance. Ether she would grow up and apologize for her behavior or she wouldn't, Ether way a kid should not be in the hands of the yakuza....And she wouldn't be for long.

[Guest]

As Kaede left into the market, brushing past Osamu's form... she smiled. She may have screwed up to use that tactic against a stable person but she knew that his high morals wouldn't let that little girl stay there. She gave him the place, the position and the time which was perfect to relieve her of that life. To relieve her of this society.

The girl within the alleyway took off her glasses which were useless and ran her fingers through her black hair. As her skin brushed against those raven strands they paled to grey and into white all the way from the roots to the clean cut tips. She let the strands fall and back onto her cheeks, her hair a different color than which she started out with. Her eyes determined once again. She would find more out about Kaede and the cop motif.

She walked out after a few seconds and into a restroom not far. She hooked her bag in the stall and flipped it shut. She sat on the throne, crossing her legs. She stared at the bag and thought of the route she should go. A long time passed as she stared at that bag filled with what was needed. What was required for a job like this. The real question was, how to go about it. She pulled out her cell phone and pulled up the GPS app. She had placed a gps clip in both the wallet and his phone. Well, not her. The thief that she hired to steal his wallet placed it on there before he was caught. She looked at his location. Good, they were both on the move at the same time. She turned on the sound to confirm he still had it with him....confirmed.

She took off her clothes and placed them in the bag and switched them out with a different set of black slacks, a salmon pink tank and comfortable shoes. She took out a red wig and started to turn her skin dark brown as she did so. If she was to follow this man, she would have to look completely different. After that, she placed sun glasses on and walked out with the backpack in an over sized NORDSTROMS bag she found while walking on the street. Next was to follow his movements on foot first. If he was to go in a cop car or any sort of transportation she would be able to meet up later on and track him more. As long as she had that gps and sound system.

She would put her ear to her phone to double check every so often of what he was doing. What was he doing...?

[Kaede Soshi]

Ugggg he had taken a sick day off for this?!?! Gawd!!! He couldn't help but think of how big a wast it was, he could have taken a day trip to a spa, gone fishing, done any number of interesting things(not that fishing was interesting) but no he had gone on some sort of wild goose chase instead...and gotten some information that may or may not be true....No...it was true...But something didn't sit right about what she had told him...He didn;t know what exactly but she left something important out....With a sigh he came out into the main street and headed for his parked car....Not sure what to do with the rest of his time....Something productive maybe?

He glanced at the piece of paper in his hand....it had a time and a place......"Id better check this out...sighs" If he was going to stage a rescue operation he needed to know the lay of the land as it where. One did not stage a kidnapping with out knowing all they could about an area......He did a double take..Kamahen?Kamahen!?!?!?! That...That...That was what one called a trip.

So....he didn't have the option of seeing the ground first hand, luckily there was this thing called google maps....And they had real time imagery of nearly every part of the planet. So with a smile he jumped into his car and made his way to the public library...The place had saved his life on more then one occasion and now wasn't any different.

He arrived about an hour later(Traffic at this time a day was horrific) and parked out side the rather old fashioned building before checking to make sure he had all his cloths on(His pants had wondered off some how but he threw those back on) and walked into one of his favorite buildings in the entire city. Thats when he noticed it...a feeling like someone had walked over his grave. He glanced around him but no one seemed to be paying him the slightest attention. With a shrug he walked up and into the building in question, his bells jingling happily as he did so.

The smell of old books made Kaede smile, there where few things better then a well worn book and an empty night. Hell if it wasn't for the library he would have died of boredom when he was younger. /he had spent hours at a time perusing the selves for his next great adventure, and thanks to that time he knew just where to go and what to do to find the information he needed.

But that feeling stuck with him...during the entire time he was searching and printing information.....Like eyes burning into the back of his skull...So after gathering his papers together he moved towards the back of the library...moving at random between the different selves, trying to catch sight of his would be tail...But maybe...Just maybe he was being paranoid...But he hadn't survived living on the streets by not listening to his instincts....It was better to be safe then sorry in this world...

[Guest]

She had him. Though she had to remember that this man wasn't unstable or weak minded. She wasn't used to such a person. The red headed woman sat in a cab staying a good mile away from the cop car as it drove to where she wanted. Keade had stopped in front of a library. Yes, that was good. She paid the cab money she swiped from someone and walked casually in the library. She looked around for any entrance and exit places. It had a front door where customers went into and an exit door for things to be thrown out in the back alleyway.

What a wonderful place to be, though she hadn't seen so many western books in one place in Aerugo. She picked up a random book that she could barely make out the Cretan title. Twi...lite..hm, must be a meteorology book. She read a few pages while keeping an eye on Kaede and OH-NO it was not such a thing..... boring little girl with a cop father and a boyfriend that spit glitter. No she was not going to read another page. Osamu set the book down and walked out, turning to Kaede's car. She pulled out a few tools to pop the lock in the trunk.

As she did so, she tossed her bag into the trunk and closed the trunk behind her. She would wait in the trunk until nightfall. She turned to her left and right. It seemed he was well armed in terms of firepower. Whatever Kaede was doing she took off the clothes again and got in her traditional outfit. Her black lower mask, her scarf, her long sleeve and vest, her haori, hakuma with several other protective gear. After that, she checked her phone to see what had happened now...

[Kaede Soshi]

He....Didn't see anyone...Or anything odd as he dodged between book cases, infact all he saw was a few random people giving him odd stares and appreciative nods...appreciative nods? Huh well that was a little odd, but maybe they just recognized him as a cop, ya that must be it. He walked back towards where he had been doing his research and sat back down to go over what he had found..Looking over the printed documents, when he heard a rather loud clearing of the throat behind him. He swivels his head and finds him self looking at the ample chest of a rather bemused looking librarian. To his credit he only stared for a few seconds before looking her in the eye."Umm can i help you...?" He honestly didn't know what the woman could want, he wasn't being loud, he had only ran a little bit and he was just being a swell guy."Sir...im going to have to ask you to leave....You have to be fully clothed to be on the premises...and well.." She blushed and looked him up and down quickly her eyes lingering on his chest and legs."You are not...." She blushed even deeper as he moved to stand and noticed for the first time that he was wearing nothing but his boxers and shoes... He quickly gathered up his materials and hurried from the building with out even bothering to look for his cloths (he could never find them so he never bothered looking), looking dead sexy as he did so.

He finally made it to his car and dropped the stuff he had into the back seat as he got in and started her up. He had to stop doing this to him self...He hated getting hurried out of places because he didn't have cloths on!! If he was a woman and had done the same thing no one would have cared...Hell everyone would have clapped if he wa some sort of sexy woman, the gender inequality real pissed Kaede off!!

His place was about half an hour from the library and he was taking his time all things told, but about half way the unspeakable happened.WEEEEEE-WHOOOOO-WEEEEEE-WHOOOOOOO" lights began to flash behind him and he started to pull over...The fuck was this about? With a sighs he stopped his car on the side of the road and checked his rear view mirror to see who stopped him over...And it was that fat slob Takashi....He looked dirty, but that was only on the surface, underneath all that grime...was yet more grim, the guy was as dirty as you can get"God damn it!!"

The other man smiled at Kaede as he rolled down the window."What...can i do for you officer?" His voice was strained as he spoke, he knew why the guy was doing this and there was nothing he could do about it...yet..."Please step out of the car sir...I need you to open the trunk, ive been tipped off your carrying drugs." Kaede glared at the man and took opened his door and spoke as he stood."You dont need to do this Takashi..." The man just laughed and took Kaede's keys as he was handed them and went directly to the trunk"You should have thought of that before you put your nose into my business" He stuck the key into the lock and slowly opened it....before staring dumb struck at the contents of his cargo area."The fuck is this!?!?!?!" Kaede hurried around to look at what he had found and.....stopped...Was there a ninja in his trunk?

[Guest]

She saw the dot move closer to the car and the shift of weight within it. Then nothing. Was he just going to sit in his car? Wasn't he on a tight schedule? Or was he not going to go after NIN at all and just go home? Well that would be a huge waste of time for her. Though she knew a vigilante like him wouldn't do that. Though like any person, she had her doubts. Suddenly the all-too familiar blare of the police siren. She guessed that meant trouble for a cop to be checked in by another cop. Osamu guessed as much for a clean cop to be checked on by a dirty police station.

She heard the scratch of the trunk lock and her eyes narrowed. The dot she had in her cell phone was still in the car. So this must be the cop. She shifted in the trunk and got ready to strike...

POP!

went the trunk and out came the ninja. She shot out her legs and kicked him square in the throat, making him pass out from shock. She felt a squish as it went in. She sighed. Why did cops even join the force if they weren't going to keep their figure? She had to keep her figure and she didn't even run down bad guys. She watched as the man smacked his head on the top of the trunk and fall to the ground. Useless.

She slid out of the trunk and sighed. Due to this man, she wouldn't be able to take a free ride to Kamahen. Lovely. Osamu picked up her NORDSTROMS bag and walked to the shotgun side of Kaede's car. She opened the door and sat down, coming face to face with a gun. Her eyes narrowed. Cute.

" I guess this is normal. Having a gun to my face by a half naked man isn't what I thought my morning would be, but hey I'm flexible." She stared at Kaede's eyes. He didn't know it was her. Maybe that was a good thing. " You here to get the child or not?"

If he asked who she was she would simply reply " Someone you need to trust." if he asked how she knew she would say " I'm her cousin. She was taken away two years ago from our village." And if he ordered for Osamu to show her face or put on cuffs she would make a joke. " Only if you take off the rest of those shorts." Which in her outfit would sound extremely homosexual. She was also using the traditional speak in which was used in the Edo period of 1800's and was very complicated to understand if you wern't used to it fully. Like listening to a thick english accent when you're from mississipii.

[Kaede Soshi]

He should have seen it coming...He should have but he didn't. He knew the day he joined the force that something like this might have happened, that his looking into the darker side of the polices activity would inevitably get him into trouble with those same elements. He just didn't figure it would be so soon, he hadn't taken any sort of precautions and he should have...He had been sloppy and now it could cost him his job, his life, and maybe his friends and family. It was a sad thing really...If only he had...IF only he had what? He couldn't see the future, he couldn't see how all this was going to go down, so why blame himself for it?

CRASH!!!

What the fuck? He checked his mirror again and saw Takashi go FLYING!!! Then he saw movement, almost to fast for his eye to track, the good news was his body was already reacting before his mind had even caught up and he had his gun pointed at his new passenger, who for all intents and purposes looked like, get this, a NINJA! Now if that wasn't goofy enough, her/his gender was hard to tell at a glance, her/his frame was definitely feminine. He could tell that with nothing but a glance, as where her/his eyes...But with the lower part of her/his face covered it was hard to tell.....But it was the hair that gave it away natural white....There where to few young people white natural white hair...In fact there was only one such person that came to mind that had a reason to be in HIS trunk....IF that wasn't enough her eyes defiantly gave it away, two people with miss matched purple and red eyes in the same day? Not fucking likely. She must have thought him an idiot if this was all she did to mask her appearance...That...That just did wonders for his mood!!

He lowered his gun some and looked to young woman in the eyes, his usual playful stare hard and cold."Osamu, you have ten seconds to tell me why your stalking me and lying to me before things get dirty." His voice was hard, and lacked any sort of warmth...No he was not playing...HE didn't have the time to play."And i dont care how fast you think you are, your not going to out run my trigger finger, and your sure as hell not going to out run a bullet from this distance....So you had better get talking....Ten....Nine.."

[Guest]

She took a long drawn out impatient sigh. This was getting ridiculous. She shut the car door and turned fully to the gun, the barrel almost touching her left purple eye. She continued to talk in edo-speak. " The faster we get over your insecurities, the faster we can move." She held up her hands, which he could see that she had steel fist bracers, metal arm bracers and some sort of Kevlar vest. Though no protection for her face. " I haven't lied to you, Soshi-san. Never have." She used the formal name due to the fact that he had a gun to her face, though her eyes seemed bored.

She had been faced with guns before, but she knew that with all of her experience she wouldn't be able to take it from him. maybe that's why she kept following him. The first person she had to actually think before she acted. Which she hardly did for other parts of her job.

She slowly moved her left hand to get her seat belt and clicked herself into the chair. Osamu didn't want to say why she wanted that girl to be removed from the Yakuza, and honestly the yakuza was reason enough. Her mind raced while her eyes stayed loose and relaxed. In what way can she explain to him why she followed him? " Though the stalking part can easily be answered and I've said it once before: You're the only one that can help me save NIN." She used no suffix in her edo-speak quite naturally. She meant it to be out of place there too, so Kaede would know that she had a connection to her than just their hair. She had no cheesy photo of their family or when she was younger. Her clan never approved of those sorts of things. They were brought up that those things were not to be used at all. It caused too much unnecessary emotions. Her clan was right. She had no connection to NIN emotionally, though it was her sole duty to clean up her own mess and bring her back. If it meant to screw up time and again with a gun to her head, she knew she could pull through. “ I only lied about my family name. We get our personal names when we’re 15. NIN is our family name…”

[Kaede Soshi]

She started speaking before he had reached seven, which said a lot for the young woman in front of him, most people, hell most hardened police officers at least did a double take when looking down the barrel of a rather large gun!! But not this seventeen year old girl!! The balls on this chick must have been huge! Ahh well if he was just a year or two younger he would have given her chase...But as it is well, things may have been a little awkward. So he closed that route in his mind for now...But if she kept on playing the ice queen well she might just have him hooked. Though if he hadn't been so fucking angry and and more then a little freaked out right then it may have been a different story entirely."NExt time you want to ask for my help, smile sweetly, flash a little leg and bat your eye lash's, trust me when i say that will work a hell of a lot better then this sneaky ninja bull shit!" FUCK!! he lowered his gun, holstered it and put his car into drive."OR better yet, you could just have told me she was family!!"

As he merged back onto the free way he had to wonder why she was talking in such an out dated dialect....Was it just to throw him off? Or was there something else behind it.....Also what kind of family didn't name a kid tell they where fifteen? He knew that some people had odd custum, but this one just seem a little ridicules. " I mean really.....did you have to hide in my trunk?....." Now how exactly had she found him......Then it hit him....That pickpocket had lead him directly to her.... So with a quick glance at the road he pulled out his wallet and started to flick threw it looking...for something out of place. He would raise his eyes every now and then to make sure he wasn;t going to die but most of his attention was focused on the wallet. Finally after about thirty seconds of looking he pulled out a small metal transmitter and glanced over at Osamu, where the hell had she gotten military grade hardware?

YEt again the mystery's where staking up."You are just a mystery wrapped up tightly in an enigma aren't you Osamu?" He pulled onto an off ramp then and made his way back onto the main streets, should he take her to his place? Would it matter if he didn't? Considering how much she new of him already he guessed it wouldn't matter one way or another.

He pulled up in front of his apartment building and stopped the car, before slowly getting out and stretching his nearly nude body, he hated riding in a car for any sort of time but add stress and it became a hundred times worse. "You can come on in if you want...Just try using the front door, our windows are alarmed.: His voice was joking as he shut his door and began to move away,"And thank you...You saved me back there.." His back was to her as he walked and his voice was only just above a whisper but he had a feeling she had heard him despite all that and he really didn't care. He opened his door and stepped inside leaving it open a crack just in case the young woman decided to fallow. A part of him hoped she would, he just loved a good mystery.

[Guest]

She stared at him incrediously. He was the first person she had even hinted that she had a family and he didn't get angry at her for her weaknesses? Second of all he offered more tactics that she had already passed off as above him...? She relaxed her eyes again. Well, at least things worked out well and not on the opposite side of the spectrum that ended her lifelong career of breathing oxygen. She watched him drive, it looked like he found out her little bug. On his wallet anyway, not his cell phone. She crossed her arms, her mismatched eyes now looking through the windshield and into the traffic beyond. " It's more comfortable catching a ride than following one." Was all she said as they pulled into the driveway of his home.

"You are just a mystery wrapped up tightly in an enigma aren't you Osamu?"

She said nothing in that retrospect. It was her job to be such a thing. She needed no reminding that she couldn't say a word about her family. Something nagged at her in the back of her head. She had already talked about her family and even one of their customs. She shook off that horrible feeling. She had seen what her father had done to one of her fellow chimeras for simply straying from the village to just look into the outside world. Wandering out from the village without clearance was punishable by....punishable by....well that was just it. She had never seen that girl again after her little adventure and getting caught. All her father spoke of it was that she was no longer apart of the family and that she was brought back to the doctor. She never knew of this doctor but it seemed he was a man not to be reconciled with. She got out of the car and shouldered her bag. She continued to talk in that annoying Edo speak.

" Is Ran here? He makes the best lunches." She commented, wiping away a strand of hair. Though it was good to know that the windows were alarmed. She also didn't have to tell him that that wasn't the only route she could take into entering his home unwillingly, but that wasn't the main point here. She gave him a look. A look that said "of course I won't you moron" and continued on. She knew it was odd of her to wear such an outfit but she had planned to be at Kamahen by the end of the end of the day. The man walked into his home while she was still outside.

"And thank you...You saved me back there.."

She walked into the home and didn't reply. She knew that being there was good enough of a reply. She held her bag tightly as she looked around. A tv, a couch, and a good kitchen. A bachelor pad if she ever saw one. She walked to the bathroom and began pulling off her scarf. " Since we're not going to Kamahen right away, I need a good shower." She hadn't bathed in quite a while and her hair was starting to clump together like feathers. She hated it when it did that. It reminded her that she wasn't entirely normal. Well, less normal than certain people in her family. After pulling off her scarf she had bumped into something.

[Kaede Soshi]

" Is Ran here? He makes the best lunches." Well....Well well, Looks like he was right as far as the home surveillance went, which really didn't surprise the gang banger turned police officer. IF someone knew more about you then they should, then it went to reason they knew about your close friends and family as well. Not only that, for everything she told him he was almost positive she held ten others back. So as she opened the door and some how managed to run into his mostly empty coat rack he smiled and called after her."Pfft all that guy can make is peanut butter and jelly samiches(Because hes a woman), i a real man knows how to make something much more appetizing then that!!" He walked into his room and managed to find some cloths that where not completely dirty and threw them on before hurrying out.

" Since we're not going to Kamahen right away, I need a good shower." Why the hell not? the poor girl looked like she needed it and whats the worst she could do? Bug the soap? Pfft now that was a goofy thought!! In fact he nearly laughed out loud right then and there but he managed to contain himself some how. Though he may have had a huge grin on his face as he waled back into the living room."Go on a head, its the second door on the right in the hall way.....If you didn't already know that is."

"While your in ill make us some lunch and tea....And when your out you will explain to me the entire situation and then we can decide on a course of action." His tone of voice was light, but the clipped way he spoke those words left no doubt that he would have his answers come hell or high water. Though he did smile slightly to take any sort of sting out of his words "Ohh by the way, your not going to sit at my table in that ninja outfit or what ever it is, but on some normal cloths! You can change again later."

With that he turned his back on her and made his way to the the kitchen and started to rummage around for what he would need for their midday meal...."What to make.....What to make..." He honestly didn't know...But for some reason he felt the need to show off his culinary talent so he decided....So yakisoba it was!! He pulled the veggies from the crisper drawer and started chopping away.

[Guest]

As she fumbled she had put a bug in each coat. As she pulled her scarf
off she made sure the bug was in an inner-lining or somewhere where it
wouldn't be evedent if you put it through the wash. They weren't water
friendly but they could be submerged for a few minutes with a little
damage. "Pfft all that guy can make is peanut butter
and jelly samiches(Because hes a woman), i a real man knows how to make
something much more appetizing then that!!" She turned around
and smiled. Her mask covering it up her eyes showing the story. Best
co-op so far. She folded her scarf carefully and placed it in her bag
along with the heavy stuff. The braces, the soft shoes, the Kevalar
jacket and her haori. She picked up her bag again and walked down to
where Kaede directed her. yes she knew where it was and she had been in
there a time or two, but she forgot how clean it was. " I guess Ran likes to clean..." She thought to herself, knowing that Kaede didn't have the hygiene of a woman.

"Ohh by the way, your not going to sit at my table in
that ninja outfit or what ever it is, but on some normal cloths! You can
change again later."

She began pulling off her clothing on by one until she reached her
underclothes, which was simply black underpants and a bandaged chest.
Instead of a sports bra, she bound her chest to make it easier to hide
her gender. People are more afraid of a male ninja than a female. She
unwrapped the front and tossed it haphazardly in a pile. After running a
hot bath she searched through his things more thoroughly. She bugged
his fan vent with a camera and sound recorder, she bugged the corner of
the bathroom behind a loose floorboard. She thought for a second. She
should put more bugs in more conspicuous areas to make sure the
well-hidden ones don't get found. She did so by them behind behind the
shower head, behind the toilet, under the sink in 3 different places and
one right next to the light. After that, she took her shower.


there was a thing with her chimera ability to blend, she couldn't
control it under boiling water. So as she took that shower, her body
went in and out of focus for anyone to see. Well, not anyone. She made
sure to lock the door and she put her heavy bag right in front of it
too. She used the shampoo in the shower along with the body wash. She
assumed it was Ran's since it was lightly scented. After drying off she
picked up her bag and walked out, a solid black over her breast and
privates in the shape of underclothes. " Is this normal enough for you?" she asked as she sat down at the table, her bag close to her. The edo speak lost in her voice and was replaced with regular speak.

[Kaede Soshi]

There was a chilling similarity between the feel of a sharp blade passing threw cabbage heads and the feel of a blade severing human flesh, of the two cutting into a living human was by far simpler to execute well. With cabbage finesse was needed, as well as a steady hand, not so with humans. You could hack and slash into them ALL day long with not an ounce of thought and you would get what you wanted, a corpse. To chop cabbage on the other hand you needed technique, needed to place the knife just so, exert only so much pressure, and draw the blade only in a particular way. IT could take years of training to learn to cut cabbage perfectly(Kaede did not have those years of training), years of training that helped you gain some measure of respect for what you where doing.

To kill you needed none of that, no respect, no training, no finesse all you needed was a sharp knife or better yet a cheap gun and you could murder to your hearts content. The same could be said of an amateur chef, All they needed was a knife, or better still a food processor and they could make just about an dish you could imagine. So what separated an amateur from a master then? The years of practice one could say. But that wasn't the right answer. No the right answer is that a master no matter their profession treated what they did as if it was art.

Kaede was far from being a master in the kitchen but he still treated what he was doing as if he was making a fine painting. Each and every motion he makes precise and to the point. He hums as he cooks a slight smile coming to his face as the stress just seems to melt away. There was something about chopping the meat and the veggies that just made him so much calmer then he had been when he started, it might have been the fact that he was using a knife in a rather violent manner, or it could have been the soothing feel of passing a knife threw a head of cabbage....The world may never know. This cupled with the fact that the sound of noodles being pan fried(Which sounded like the sweetest music to KAedes ears) helped him get over the days stress and it also made the majority of his cloths fall from his body.

By the time he was stetting the table he was down to nothing but his rather tight black boxers and even those might have come off if he hadn't herd the bathroom door open. He turned to greet his rather odd house guest...and nearly stopped dead in his tracks She was wearing the most skintight set of under wear he had ever seen, in fact if she had been nude it would have been just about the same because these left nothing to the imagination!!(and he kinda liked it) Luckily he had the mental strength to resist doing a double take and looked her straight in the eye. "I wouldn't say its normal, but its a far sight better then what you had on earlier so i guess it will have to work." He pulled out her chair then walked back to his own place and plopped back down, his boxers some how falling off him as he did so. Luckily he was sitting and she wouldnt have caught but a flash as they fell from his body."So.....Tell me about this family of yours... I think its only fair considering how much you know about mine."

[Guest]

She raised a brow at the comment as she sat down, her chair being pulled out for her to sit. She looked at the spread of salad and delicious food. Not to mention the pleasing company that stood before her. She took up the fork, a little unaccustomed with it and began to eat. Her taste buds were in heaven.

"So.....Tell me about this family of yours... I think its only fair considering how much you know about mine."

She stared at him with a fork between her lips. She placed it down while she was still chewing, taking the napkin to wipe her lips. " You certainly know how to interrogate, I'll tell you that." She continued to eat, wondering what she should tell him.

That her family wasn't exactly a family but a clan? That the only reason why NIN is in the Yakuza was because she left the window open two years ago? Or that her family had been falling like flies around her because of her family? She set her glass down. No. Stay on topic. " If I told you I would have to kill you" She winked and took a bite of that delicious salad. After finishing her food she crossed her arms and set her elbows on the table, staring at Kaede. " But what you can know is that you make quite a dish."

[very short]

[Kaede Soshi]

" You certainly know how to interrogate, I'll tell you that." He chuckled a little at that, it was true of course. He had been put threw rigorous courses on various interrogation techniques and had aced all of those particular classes. It seemed he had a knack for getting information out of people and his instructors had been what one might call impressed. This talent had served him well when he had entered the force, and with in his first week of duty he had managed to catch him self a killer. Truthfully it had been a lucky break and he had just been at the right place at the right time but lucky or not he had managed what few other beat cops have ever done and it had earned him a promotion so Kaede was not about to complain. He returned her stare, his eyes dancing a little at this unvoiced contest of will. Who would look away first? Who would show weakness? It sure as hell wasn't going to be him. " If I told you I would have to kill you" Ohh his mild chuckle turned into a full blown laugh then, warm rich and deep and as his eyes crinkled he could see her playful wink and went back to eating his own food.

"It seems like youve had practice at dogging questions" He sets his fork down and places his elbows on the table and leans across to her."But what if i told you id be willing to risk your ninja wrath just for that tiny bit of information hmm?" He winked him self then and his grin broadened. For some reason he was enjoying this slight and friendly banter between the two of them, in fact it may have been the most fun he had had all week.

He leaned back and sighed placing his hands behind his head, his scarred and well muscled chest rippling with the simple movement and his eyes fell shut for a few seconds." But what you can know is that you make quite a dish." He felt a slight wave of pleasure wash over him, it was always gratifying to have your work complemented."If you ask nicely im sure i can share the recipe with you"

(Short sorry)

[Guest]

"It seems like you've had practice at dogging questions"

Oh-hoho! He had no idea.

"But what if I told you I'd be willing to risk your ninja wrath just for that tiny bit of information hmm?"

She took a refill of her plate and food. She hadn't eaten in a few days and was literally starving. Even though she didn't need to eat much to get full, she was getting seconds for two things. She didn't know when she would get the chance to eat again and to add more compliments to Kaede's cooking. Getting seconds was a kind gesture and would soften his approach. As she did so, she started to tap with her right fingernail on the table off beat. That throws off the best interrogators. She would also sometimes look past him as if admiring the room. That throws off a lot of interrogations too. She swallowed her food.

" That's too bad. I liked living." She never gave any details and was more preoccupied with eating than answering questions. Usually some people would get frustrated at this point. She also knew that Kaede wouldn't show his frustrations at first. Not if it was to further a point of get something out of her. Maybe a piece of information or a reaction to show what her limitations were. Good.

"If you ask nicely im sure i can share the recipe with you"


She smiled and picked up her glass. " No need for that, I never was good at cooking. I can either make a good drink or a tasty barbecue from any animal. That's the extent of my culinary expertise."
She took a sip of her drink and set it down quietly. She was eating slowly and surely so she didn't gorge herself or look displeasing to look at as they had their little banter. " Plus, I'd rather you cook it for me so we both have a reason not to kill each other." She stared across the room, her uneven eyes usually sending people at a tilt. They usually get the feeling of turning their heads when she stares at them. She wondered if it had the same effect on Kaede...

[I guess the reason why our posts are short is because our characters are stationary and so we're devoting our words with their internal and external debate besides the things that take up most of the space: large actions, describing the rooms, why they did this and that and what that character looks at that time.)

[Kaede Soshi]

No need for that, I never was good at cooking. I can either make a good drink or a tasty barbecue from any animal. That's the extent of my culinary expertise. Plus, I'd rather you cook it for me so we both have a reason not to kill each other." Well that made a twisted sort of sense didn't it? "Hahahahahaha!" He just couldn't help it, he burst out laughing and nothing he could do would stop it, and he didn't want to stop!! Ohh god it had been days sense had had managed a full blown belly laugh and it felt good! Now most people looked a little funny with a big goofy grin on their face while the bounced up and down, but not kaede. His was a face and a body where built for laughter and when he smiled or laughed well his entire being seemed to light up. It was astounding what a simple smile or laugh could do for a person, and Patch Adams had it right...Laughter was indeed the best medicine."Well im glad you dont want us to go out it!! Just imagine what all my coworkers would say when i told them i crossed swords with girl and lost!! It wouldn't matter if you where a ninja, id be the laughing stalk of the force!!"

He shook his head and gazed at the young woman with his one good eye and offered her a wink."I mean really if we fought i wouldn't stand a chance, ive always had a soft spot for pretty woman and its just rude to kill a house quest...My hands...would be tied!!" His voice was almost melodic as he spoke, his laughing coloring his words with one can only call joy. Kaede was finally feeling like Kaede again, what a fucking shock!! All the laughing had caused his plain black eye patch to slip slightly and with a rather deft movement he fixed it back in place hardly seeming to notice what he did.

He stood then still unaware of the fact that he was completely and utterly nude so when he moved from behind the table Osamu got a front row seat to a body that chip n' dails dancers dream off. Lucky for him he was not..Ahem excited and his length only swung a tiny bit as he walked towards the living area where he had dropped his papers when he had entered his home just an hour before. He bent forward to pick his papers up and gave the barely legal girl a fine view of his finely sculpted rear before walking yet again to the table and tossing the papers to the center of the table,

"So thats all i could find on that...Island, its about two days away by boat and a little longer still if we need to drive to port." His voice was still happy and his smile was still pleasant and all in all he seemed to finally be back to his old self. In fact he was dancing in his chair to a tune only he could hear."And it gets better from there...But ill let you read and form your own opinions before i give you mine, so have at it!!"

[Guest]

Hmm...He seemed to drop the subject. For now anyway. As he was laughing she watched him, chewing her food and taking another bite as the other went down. She didn't expect him to laugh, but she guessed it was a funny subject. The only way for the two to survive was to work together through some sort of project. Without the project, there would be no need for each others' company. Once she thought about it, it almost seemed poetic. Completely opposite of what Osamu was really.

"Well I'm glad you don't want us to go out it!! Just imagine what all my coworkers would say when I told them I crossed swords with girl and lost!! It wouldn't matter if you where a ninja, I'd be the laughingstock of The Force!!"

He shook his head and gazed at the young woman with his one good eye and offered her a wink."I mean really if we fought I wouldn't stand a chance, I've always had a soft spot for pretty woman and its just rude to kill a house quest...My hands...would be tied!!"

She set down her fork with a clatter as he rose from his chair and mooned her with his backside as he picked up a pair of papers. She lifted her napkin and coughed into it, trying to avoid her gaze from his fruit of the vine. She had seen several sets before, but none as blatantly presented. Especially while she was eating. Not only did he present her with that, but he also presented her with floor plans of Kamahen. She examined them, her eyes narrowed in concentration.

" Kamahen is a very large island, usually made up of several towns, small cities and the such. Their main fight would be at the northernmost area close to the shore for water tactics. Due to the high amount of trade, it would be where there would be little amount of people which is hard to come by on this island...so it would most likely be owned by either the yakuza or the Xing dragons. Since it's the Yakuza that are advancing to the fight then it's most likely the Xing dragons having the home advantage. That, and their illegal opium deals happen mostly in Kamahen."

She pulled out a pen from her bag and started crossing out areas on the map and circling three small ports. " There are three ports in which one deals with cod, another deals in spices and the third deals in cargo shipping for other countries. Since this is an ambush to the Xing, they might have beefed up security in all three places. Though the easiest one according to the floor plans you gave me..." She picked up the other papers and started scanning them and did some mathematical equations on the side that Kaede couldn't make heads or tails of. She was locating the probabilities of where the Yakuza would go. She stopped...and smiled.

" It's not in Kamahen. The probabilities didn't add up in course of where they would go. Which means the rumor was to throw off the real location." She took the pen and circled a piece of Aerugo. " The edge of the Desert and Aerugo. A place where they would fight if the Xing Dragons were to invade their territory and try to sell directly instead of the Opium smuggling."

She handed him the papers again and took a sip of her water again. " I wouldn't have been able to spot it without those papers. The floor plans is what made it evident."

[Kaede Soshi]

" Kamahen is a very large island, usually made up of several towns, small cities and the such. Their main fight would be at the northernmost area close to the shore for water tactics. Due to the high amount of trade, it would be where there would be little amount of people which is hard to come by on this island...so it would most likely be owned by either the yakuza or the Xing dragons. Since it's the Yakuza that are advancing to the fight then it's most likely the Xing dragons having the home advantage. That, and their illegal opium deals happen mostly in Kamahen." Yes,yes and yes he knew all this, in fact anyone with half a mind could figure that out. So did she think he was stupid or something? Maybe...He was after all just a cop and cops didn't know how to do anything but hit people with sharp pointy sticks. Hold on that wasn't cops....She was getting him mixed up with common ever day thugs!! The fact that he used to be one of said thugs really didn't matter all that much! He had gone to collage and graduated!! He didn't need shit like this explained to him!!

" There are three ports in which one deals with cod, another deals in spices and the third deals in cargo shipping for other countries. Since this is an ambush to the Xing, they might have beefed up security in all three places. Though the easiest one according to the floor plans you gave me..." Once she started crossing out sections of the map well...He may have been a little lost, but only for a few seconds. He watched as she crossed out the most unlikely places for combat to ensue and noticed something rather odd....Or more over felt something rather odd. Why where they fighting in and over a place that mattered sooo vary little? True it was a rather profitable market, but other markets where more easily obtained, with vary little risk to ones own investments.....So why start a truff war where you had no truff to begin with? It made no sense, no fucking sense at all, there was just no profit in it..."Its not going to be on that island.." It was more a breath then anything, his hushed voice would have been vary hard to hear over the scratching of paper and the woman's undulating voice.

As she handed him the papers back he smiled, some how she had come to the same conclusion as he him self had, though he suspected it was by a vary different means then he had used."The desert you say? Well that only means we have hundreds of miles of barren wasteland, and thousands of trails, paths and road where it could go down. Hell if we include places off the beaten path, there are literally millions of possibilities ." He looked over at her rather large probability formula and shook his head slightly, he was not that familiar with that type of math but...It didn't look nearly convoluted enough to take in all this possibility's."Hell even if we limited the possible areas to those known to harbor drug, and slave traffickers and the like well....Thats way more area then we can cover, and there are far to many variables for your little math problem to solve for."

He rapped his knuckles on the table as he thought and a wicked smile slowly made its way across her features."But i think i know a way to not only get the location, but the exact time, and the number of expected guests.....And i can get a little pay back at the same time" His grin was infectious, and as he gazed into the woman's miss matched eyes he could almost feel a spark leep from him to her."Why dont we give my dear friend Takashi a house call? Im sure he would just love seeing our smiling faces over his bed!"."

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