Zouo Sadao was typing up a report onto the computer when he heard yelling coming from the interrogation room. He peered over from his desk, which was within site of the room just in time to see Officer Tachibana storm out of the room with a young man. He quickly recognized the young man as her nephew.

Officer Zouo stuck a pencil into his mouth and began to suck and chew angrily on the end of the pencil end. He had great animosity against Kaoruko as he felt that a woman should not be an officer, expesully one that dealt with homicide. He had felt long ago that he should have been the one placed into her position.

It was his decisive mindset that the only reason that she had gotten the position that she had was because she was a female and they were looking to make it seem like the female cops were moving ahead. All of society was getting away from the ideal that women should be wives and mothers, which irritated him.

Suddenly he saw a women bustle over to the Tachibanas. He had to hold back his laughter at the woman's horrible appearance. There was way too much makeup. There was so much makeup that he felt like calling her a fat geisha to her face, but he knew that he would get slapped with sexual harassment by his fellow officers. By the looks of it, the woman would push for it too.

He already had enough complaints about how he had treated the female officers in the division. He noticed though that Kaoruko was irritated with the fact that the women was there. Sadao decided that he couldn't miss the interaction for the world, the whole fact being that it was likely that those two women's personalities were going to clash drastically. So he ambled over to hear the conversation.

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Kaoruko and Sakon had stepped out of the room. The officer's partner was yelling a lecture at the rookie cop. Kaoruko carefully placed the wooden puppet into Sakon's arms and he hugged the puppet close. "Ukon!"

Ukon then went onto Sakon's hand and the puppet stretched then went into a pout. "I can't believe that moron is a cop! I would say today was useless except for the fact that I got to see Auntie make a very funny face!"

Ukon had a grin on his face, but this was quickly washed away as Kaoruko pulled his ear. "There is no way I reacted in any way funny to seeing you sitting in my partners chair handcuffed!"

"Thankfully that one cop had keys to his partner's handcuffs. He must be really dumb." This statement caused Kaoruko stare in disbelief at Ukon.

"One can simply tell that by the fact you couldn't have a copy and Ukon no longer has handcuffs on." Sakon stated, directing her attention else where. She was looking down the hallway when her jaw dropped. "What is it?"

Both Sakon and Ukon turned to look at what she had seen and their eyes went wide with disbelief. There, coming towards them was the lady they had met on the bus earlier. The woman hurried over to them. She looked them up and down with disgust. "I left my purse and came back to get it when I found out that you are letting this miscreant go."

"Ahh, hello Mrs. Yami." Kaoruko stated.

"That is Ms. Yami. I thought that female cops would better the police force, but apparently from you, I was wrong. Letting him go." The woman stated, her fat lips pursed and the lipstick sticking as her mouth opened and closed, causing Sakon and Ukon to take a step away from her. "See, he is guilty, no?"

"This young man is my nephew, Sakon Tachibana. The puppet belongs to him, so he didn't steal it. He's been taught puppetry since he was a child." Kaoruko stated, trying to soften the subject.

"Tachibana… as in Saemon Tachibana?" The woman nodded her head as the two Tachibana's looked away and Ukon nodded his head saying it was true. Her eyes lit with anger. "To think that someone so prestigious would have such a mentally ill grandson."

Kaoruko's eyes in turn blazed with anger. "My nephew is not insane. And I am taking him home, thank you."

"He still caused a disturbance. I personally wonder if this boy won't cause harm to another person." The lady snapped.

"My nephew…" Kaoruko started, only to be interrupted by another person.

"Officer Tachibana, she has a point, no?" Someone stated from near by. Kaoruko turned to the voice and grimaced. "And you know what happens when someone files such a complaint?"

Kaoruko pursed her lips, not wanting to answer. He turned to the woman. "It means that we need to have a psych evaluation done on the boy. You know that."

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Kaoruko was not in a good mood and wasn't speaking to her nephew or his wooden friend on the way home. But they weren't speaking to each other either, which worried her. In fact, Sakon had put Ukon into his box. Suddenly, he spoke to her in a whisper. "Aunt Kaoruko, I'm sorry you got embarrassed at work today."

This caused Kaoruko to look over to the passenger seat. She bit her lip not saying anything. She heard his two feet click in a rhythm on the floor. It was obvious that he was upset. She couldn't think of anything to say to him though, so it was Sakon who ended up speaking up. "I was supposed to be getting groceries for Mama, but…"

"You got interrupted?" Kaoruko asked. "I guess it was for tonight's dinner. Tell you what, I'll buy dinner for the family tonight. I need to speak to the old man and sis about the situation anyways."

"I just became the head of the family and already I've disgraced them…" Sakon stated.

"Don't say that Sakon!" Kaoruko said, turning to her nephew, only to get no response.