001 [Shinnosuke and Kouta as Buddy Cops]

[ The day is not going to plan. Shinnosuke was supposed to take the rookie under his wing - like he has done with various rookies a hundred times! - and show him the ropes by taking him out on the beat. It was unlikely that anything extreme was going to happen, considering it's a day shift and criminals tend to like the added cover of darkness to obscure their work, but this, this is just...

Shinnosuke sighs, wishing they'd stayed in the patrol car and not parked it a few blocks away. If they had been cruising along in a car this wouldn't have happened. He wouldn't have an elderly woman hanging off his arm and smiling up at him gratefully, thanking him for helping her cross the road. Although it isn't really a chore, and she is very sweet about it... It's just embarrassing; he's nearly twice her size! And she told him he reminded her of her grandson. Of course.

And rather than wait back on the other side of the road the rookie shadowed him the entire time, didn't he. Prolonging the agony. And now he's grinning. ]

You better not be laughing at me.

[Though, the more Shinnosuke peers at Detective Kazuraba the more genuinely and harmlessly happy the smile seems to be. He's just been super perky all day so far.

Shinnosuke needs a coffee. ]