Title: Professionals
Prompt: #18 - business
Characters: Sawa Nagisa is Nitta's. The inspectors and Kohaku are mine. The American in the second drabble is Sanami Matoh's.
Rating: G
Notes: Two 100-word drabbles. They are prequels to the ficlet I am currently working on for the Embracing Spring fest (caveat: if the plot gets any more out of control, I will table it for later and come up with something simpler and fluffier for the fest). There is in fact a travel advisory currently in effect regarding Roppongi bars.
Summary: There has been an epidemic of drinks being spiked in Roppongi. Some of the patrons are professionally interested in the situation.


As Assistant Inspector Akatsu led away the perpetrator, Inspector Osu turned to Sawa Nagisa and said, "Thank you for your help in apprehending him."

"The pleasure was mine," Sawa replied. "I don't get to revisit that part of my police career too often."

Osu gazed at a neon sign above them. "Do you miss being a professional detective?"

Sawa answered him with an elegant shrug. "Sometimes. When I'm writing a story that includes scenes with police officers."

"You have more freedom to write, being outside," Osu observed.

Sawa's smile was bittersweet. "For my characters, I have to pretend I'm still inside."

* * *

Two blocks away, "Like a Prayer" blared through the Pear. The club was crammed with foreigners determined to drench themselves in sensual gratification… which made it so easy for Kohaku to spike their drinks, the better to raid their pockets. He leaned toward his latest prey--

A hand closed around his wrist. He looked up into piercing green eyes.

"I'd stop if I were you," the man rumbled out. "This scene is not for amateurs."

Forgetting himself, Kohaku exclaimed, "Who are you to call me amateur?"

The American tossed Kohaku's own wallet at him. "Pros don't need chemical props."