A New Discovery (SouHaru Fanfiction)

Prologue

"Alright men. We need to do this as quickly as possible." Sousuke huddled up his group of officers who were highly trained and briefed of the current situation. "Our goal is to get the perp and then search the house, got it?" All of the men nodded in understanding.

The raven haired man grabbed the gun that rested at his waist and cocked it, holding it with both hands, ready for anything. He tilted his head towards the door and a couple of the men stood before him. Sousuke nodded his head signaling them to kick down the door. Wham! The door flew open as they all began to rush into the house quickly, finding the man they were after sitting in the living room. The man tried to run to a window to escape but they caught him before he could.

A few of the men brought him to the cruiser and cuffed him, etc., meanwhile Sousuke and the others began searching the house. It was a very small and dirty place. How anyone could live in such filth disgusted the man. Upon further searching, the last place to check was the bathroom. Unsure if anyone else was in the house, they had all stayed alert.

Sousuke quickly opened the door, gun at the ready, only to see what seemed like a normal bathroom, but something was hanging over the edge of the tub. A fin? The man slowly walked into the room to find that what he saw was attached to a person. A man who looked like he was nearly dead. His face was completely submerged underwater along with the rest of his body except for the very top of the tail.

The raven quickly holstered his gun and knelt by the tub, reaching in to pull the man up. The body was limp, but still breathing. If this man truly was what he looked like, how were they supposed to deal with him?

"Call an ambulance!" He shouted to the others in the house. One of the men rushed to him.

"Tell the ambulance to have some kind of water supply. I'm not sure how were supposed to deal with this." He spoke nervously as he held the cold body. The man nodded and ran out of the room shouting to others.

Sousuke pulled the man completely out of the tub, his body and clothes now completely soaking wet from the water, and pulled the man close to his body. 'Heat.' He thought. 'Keep him warm, he can't die here.'

After a few minutes of sitting on the bathroom floor, holding this man, he noticed the scales on the man's fin began to look translucent. He softly ran one of his fingers across one of them and it began to move along with the rest of the scales. They slowly morphed into the skin that was underneath it which had now turned a flesh color. And before his eyes, the tail had split in half, slowly changing into two legs. Sousuke could not believe what he had just seen. He blinked a few times to make sure he wasn't dreaming, but it was real.

Before he had more time to think on the matter, he heard the sound of the ambulance closing in. He carefully stood up, making sure not to injure the man, and walked out of the house. The raven helped lay the man down on the stretcher and hopped in the vehicle. The paramedics quickly followed and closed the back so they could drive off.

They began by starting him on an IV to give him fluids. His skin was pale and despite being in that tub for who knows how long, his skin seemed perfectly unwrinkled and flawless. Sousuke grabbed a blanket and covered the naked man with it. Still in shock of the events that just occurred, he couldn't seem to take his eyes off of the man laying in front of him. His eyes were filled with so many questions, but if he were to ask, he wouldn't even know where to begin.