Addicted

14: Open Hearts

   Two large doors swung open with a large slam; the hallway in which it was connected to echoed vigorously as Tsukauchi jogged forward. The building in question, well, it was none other than the headquarters for the Safety Commission itself.

   The beige coat wearing man stormed forward, and eventually made his way to the elevators on the right side of a man at his desk in the center of the hallway. The man in question urgently asked the detective, "Sir, do you have reason to be within this building at a time like this?!".

    With nigh no time to explain he replied pressing a specific floor button, "I do, but I haven't the time to explain! Just tell security that I have reason to be here!".

   The detective was well known among the civilians, meaning that he was infamous among that of the Safety Commission's members, so the desk man agreed with no further resistance. The doors to the elevator shut with a soft thud, then left the inside with a loud hum; however, there was the added noise of the man tapping his foot with urgency. Whatever he had to speak of had to be urgent, oh it was, in fact it wasn't urgent just for the law, but for Himiko and Izuku alike whom neither were found yet by All Might or the police.

   Many deputies urged for their superiors to make the blood thirsty villains escape known to the public to allow for other heroes to help search, and to keep the citizens inside and out of harms way. The detective, however, denied this as he felt that would only cause widespread panic to all citizens in the regions, and it would cause unnecessary amounts of heroes to join a cause when All Might himself was already on the scene. To the police men it seemed as a very reasonable reason not to do it, but in truth he just wanted to prevent Midoriya from being arrested for harboring a deadly criminal.

    Honestly, he was always on edge about this whole entire thing; Himiko Toga was a ruthless killer for nearly a year straight, and she'd been the same animal he'd been hunting for that long with no change in her actions or personality. Then suddenly this young green horn pulls out of nowhere and redeems her just like that? It was understanding why he was skeptical, in fact he was originally planning on detaining the both of them, not just Toga, but he hesitated due to her rehabilitator being his best friends predecessor.

   Actually, he posted the idea to All Might that they could still capture the ash blonde haired girl without needing to arrest Midoriya, but All Might had other plans. And even though he didn't like them at first, he conceded not to his higher up, but to his friend. And he'll admit, he actually liked the shy boy, and even begun to take a liking to the girl after being in a room with her without her going for his throat.

    So did Tsukauchi like the yandere? Not necessarily, but did he loath her, not at all. Besides, that wasn't the reason as to why he was here.

    A soft ding sung from the speaker of the elevator, and before the doors could fully open Tsukauchi had already dashed out of them and bee-lined it after taking a left turn. He ran down the hallway with the glass leading to the dark night to his left, and to his right was passing rooms, offices, and conferences that all flew by in a flash of color. The room he was looking for however wasn't located at his side, nor was it any old office; it was the den of this whole places boss.

   Finally, he stopped; his chest heaved and ho'd as he stood in front of a black marble designed door with the handles being a shiny gold. He swallowed this brand new knot in his neck not in fatigue, nor was it out of fear for whom was behind these doors, it was meant as a final push forward because if he didn't execute this sudden meeting correctly, well...

    He could very well lose his position as detective, doesn't matter who he was friends with.

    The man was about to finally step through, before he realized that his suit was all roughed up from running so fast; he quickly fixed it up, straightened any wrinkles, smoothed out the flabs and collars, and of course take off his hat out of respect. This was it, he needed to remain a cool, calm, and firm posture if he was going to try and convince this woman of what he thought could be true, if she doesn't chew him out for like ten different things that have just happened across the past few hours.