-In 2023, not all parents hold their children to traditional standards for love and marriage, but modern lifestyles are still not always accepted. Especially not when your younger sibling is getting married first and your parents are practically jum...
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The following morning, just as you and Sawamura planned, you meet up with him at the police station. Since that's where he works, it's no big deal when you walk right into one of the offices marked with the same last name as yours.
"Morning," you smile as you hand him a warm cup of coffee you stole from the break room before walking in.
"Morning," he says while looking at the computer in front of him. Only when he notices the mug you place beside him does he finally look up.
"Why do you have Tanaka's 'I like big busts and I cannot lie' mug on my desk?" he asks curiously.
"Oh, uh, he wanted me to give it to you," you laugh awkwardly. "He said it was a late wedding gift."
"Fat chance. He loves this thing more than his job. Pretty sure it's the only reason why he works here," he shakes his head. "I'll drink the coffee. But then we're-"
"We're what? You're going to make me give it back and apologize, right?" you chuckle as you sit down across from him.
"What if we don't..." he mutters as he looks up at you.
"What if we don't, what? Give it back? Wow, Sawamura, marriage has changed you. And not in the way I thought it would," you tease.
"It's a pretty shitty mug. I like big busts. Really?" he shakes his head as he picks up the mug "He'd be better off with one that says 'World's Okayest Cop' like Sato's says."
"Yeah, that doesn't really scream Tanaka to me though," you grin as you pull out the paperwork he had asked you to bring.
"Guess you're right," he nods as he takes a sip from the coffee and sets it back down on his desk. "Now. Let's take a look at those documents, shall we?"
"Yes," you hum as you pass him everything you've brought. He then begins to scan it all over while sipping his coffee from Tanaka's mug.
"Still can't believe this is the guy you settled on," he sighs as he turns back to his computer and begins typing.
"What's wrong with him? He's pretty good-looking for my first husband, I'd say," you chuckle to yourself. "What're you working on, by the way?"
"I'm trying to look him up, see if he's ever been printed before but I don't see anything so far..."
"Well, what can we do-" you begin just before there's a knock at the door.
"Come in," your brother calls out without looking up from his computer. But you observe the second that Tanaka steps into the room. Your eyes widen and you hope that he doesn't see his mug on your brother's desk. But, of course, that's the first thing he notices after smiling at you.
"What's my mug doing in here? I swear I left it in the break room. Hey, Sawamura, what the hell?" he grumbles.
"Ask Y/N," he sighs. "She must've thought it was mine since I'm always talking about how much I love big busts."
Tanaka tries to cover up his laughter and red face by placing his hand over his mouth, but once he remembers why he walked in, he clears his throat and puts his hand down.
"Well then, hopefully, you'll just return it when you're done. Thank you. But, uh, Daichi, Chief's lookin' for all of us to meet real quick. Something about the black widow case," he explains.
Your brother then looks over at you, a bit at a loss for words since he did promise he'd help you out.
"Don't worry about it. Just go," you tell him. "Mind if I use your computer while I wait? I won't look at anything classified or whatever. Just want to search up how to file for a no-fault divorce."
"That's fine," he nods. "Thanks, Y/N. I'll be back as soon as I can, okay?"
"No problem," you smile as you wave goodbye to Tanaka. "See you guys."
Once they leave, you walk over and take your brother's seat. You scoot yourself in and hover the mouse around the screen. Sawamura's got about two dozen tabs open which is probably why he was so frustrated. It looks like it's running at about 13 frames per second.
After looking through a few tabs and subsequently deleting them, you open up something new and search for no-fault divorce. Because you and Adam both got married in a drunken heat of the moment, you're pretty sure you'll be able to get a quick divorce and annulment.
Just as you're closing out of the tabs, you catch eye of the folders on Sawamura's home page. To your surprise, you find a file titled: Fuyuko.
You hover your mouse towards it, curiosity growing within you until the door opens and Sawamura steps into the room. Immediately, you drag the mouse away and look up at him with a smile on your face.
"Well you're back quick. Everything go alright?" you ask.
"Yeah, Chief's just got some of the guys investigating a new lead and he wanted all of us to be aware. But we're good to keep going now. Did you find anything out about that no-fault thing?" he asks.
"Uh, kinda," you shrug. "Adam doesn't necessarily need to agree with the whole thing, but a signature would help make the whole process go a lot quicker."
"Then that's what we'll have to do," he nods, taking the seat you occupied previously.
"I was thinking about his Uber profile, too," you explain to him. "I wonder if it really was just a coincidence that I ran into him the other night."
"Well it is possible that he only accepts rides from young women in an attempt to trap them in his car and talk about his feelings until he marries all of them," he teases.
"I'm being serious," you grumble, leaning back in your brother's desk chair.
"Look, we can't just go around asking for Ubers all day long until we stumble upon him. He might not even be working in this area for all we know," he shrugs.
"You're right!" you smile brightly as a new idea comes to him. "If I were a driver I'd hang around downtown, especially at night. The clubs downtown might be a good place to start. We can create a new profile with a random woman's face and see if he bites."
"Not half bad, Y/N," Sawamura nods as he thinks about your idea. "I'm in. See you tonight?"
