The Lost Rabbit

Chapter 1: The Case of 'The White Rabbit'

                                                            The case of 'The White Rabbit' 

    

      I stared at the almost completely blank document on my computer screen, Daiki's arms resting around my waist while his legs sat on either side of me. He feathered small kisses on my shoulder and neck while his eyes remained glued to the TV. I looked up for a second and glared at the TV, he was watching some documentary on the Russo-Japanese war. I sighed and rubbed my temples and Daiki took the computer from my lap. 

"Stop. You're gonna hurt yourself. There's not enough information, It'll take some time to solve this one." He smiled at me and my heart skipped a beat. Despite having been dating for almost a year now, his smile still makes my heart race. Incredible. I lean back against his chest and run my hands through my hair. "Good Chibi-kun." He nuzzled his face into my hair and I could feel his whole body shake when he laughed. 

"My name is not Chibi-kun, Takahashi-sama." He laughed harder and pulled his head away from mine.

"Hey hey hey, there's no need to talk so formally." I smiled despite myself and wanted to hit myself in the face for it. Why does this giant idiot make me smile?  I took the computer back from his grasp, closed it, and placed it on the table. "Are you giving up for the night?" He teased and I could practically hear him purr it. 

"Of course not, who do you think I am? We're going to visit YuanShokai tomorrow, i'll call Takeguchi-san and have her schedule a time tomorrow we can go." I stood up and grabbed my phone then walked out to the small balcony of our apartment, my small dauschund following in close pursuit. Akachan looked up at me and I bent down to pet her. I soon returned my attention to my phone and looked through my contacts to find Mio-san's number. After a couple seconds of ringing she picked up.

"Sherlock,"  Her pet name for me (always spoken in English), "you're calling late. Is something wrong?"

"Sorry, It is slightly urgent though. I need you to call YuanShokai Institute and schedule when we can visit."

"Ah, so we're finally gonna investigate it?"

"Yes. I would like to visit tomorrow, if that's at all possible."

"Alright, i'll see what I can do." I almost take the phone away from my ear but then she starts talking again, "I have her records, if you need them I can send them to you. We'll need to check out the twins while we're there. They were apparently quite close."  Twins? I'm about to question what she meant but the line goes dead and I walk back to my computer, sitting down and launching into my research.

"Really?" Daiki gives an exasperated sigh. "We haven't had a movie night in a while; don't even try and tell me you don't enjoy them."

"Of course I enjoy them," I sigh, "but if we're going to visit the Institute tomorrow, I need to look over Tsugomiya-sama's file. Takeguchi-san also mentioned something about twins." Another sigh.

"You stress yourself too much." Just as Daiki grabs the computer from me and opens it in his lap, the laptop gave a loud "Ping", telling me that Mio-san has sent the information I requested. 

"Alright, Jessica, Tsugomiya." He opens the file and I sit down next to him, peering over his shoulder.

"Aren't you going to finish your movie?" I ask. He just shakes his head and turns off the TV, leaving us alone with the glare of the computer screen. We look over the file for a little while and see that during the time outside of their rooms Jessica-sama often spent her time with a pair of twins with shared psychosis. Psychic twins. Tomorrow will be interesting, that's for sure. Their names are Hayashi Satomi, and Sayomi. I can't remember most of what we read after that, I don't even remember falling asleep. When morning came I found myself  in Daiki's lap, and someone was insistently banging on the door. Our other, smaller dog, Chibi-Monsuta was sitting on the coffee table and giving me a very annoyed Iook.