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Who: Asakura Ryoko, Suzumiya Haruhi, Natalia Luzu Kimlasca Lanvaldear and partners(?)
What: THE GREAT ASAKURA HUNT
When: April 3rd, post-sunset but not too late at night
Where: SOMEWHERE IN THE STREETS OF NEON MOST LIKELY.

Neon City was proving itself to be true to it's name, Asakura had found out these past few days she's been wandering about since she arrived in the digital world. or at least this section is all brightly lit and full of bustle, even after the sun had set.

Which is fine for Asakura, who is at this very moment simply window shopping in one of the more business-like areas of the large city. Unaware of the fact that some folks might be looking for her. What with how busy it can get she wouldn't even notice if she was being followed anyway.

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Haruhi yelped, and tried for a moment to hide behind a nearby tree... before realizing it was far too small and thin to hide anyone.

She puffed her cheeks, before sighing and taking off her fedora.

No sense running if the gig was up.

Natalia grit her teeth and armed her bow. Haruhi had already revealed herself, so there was no use protesting. Instead, she trained a shot on Asakura, ready to fire if she tried anything.

Asakura squinted at Haruhi, tilting her head to one side as she looked at the young woman carefully before she speaks again.

"Miss Suzumiya," she said cheerfully. "You've gotten old!"

Tact, Asakura isn't using it.

"I am a young woman thank you very much!" Haruhi snapped, before thrusting a finger out to point at Asakura. Patamon yelped and flapped off her shoulder. "And you're still a kid!"

"And yet I'm not the one playing dress up here, Miss Suzumiya," Asakura pointed out, her voice still full of cheer.

"Or stalking someone, which is illegal I do believe."

"It's called surveillance, and I have every right to do it!" Haruhi snapped.

Patamon winced, and flapped forward a bit. "U- um, we're Agents of DATS, Asakura-san..."

Haruhi gave her partner a deadpan expression. She almost chided him for showing politeness to the enemy, but for the moment, let it slide. If only to see how she reacted.

"DATS?"

And she's tilting her head in a way to, hopefully, get the fact that she has no clue what the heck that stands for.

"Then your little club doesn't exist anymore? That's somewhat sad, Miss Suzumiya."

"It...!"

She frowned.

Mikuru was still frozen. All there was else was Kyon. To be honest, she'd never been thinking of it in those terms. Putting it like that bothered her in a way she didn't really like.

"That doesn't matter! DATS is this world's peace keeping force, and I'm here to make sure you're not doing anything stupid!" she explained. "The last one of you that was here went around stabbing people, and it's my- our responsibility to make sure you're not doing anything stupid!"

"Something stupid?" as she's talking, Asakura is going to start walking towards Haruhi. But her path is more to walk past Haruhi instead of being confrontational.

"Like what you're doing now? If all of DATS is like this then it is no surprise that you haven't actually stopped the Demon Kings and their ilk."

"Miss Asakura."

Natalia had appeared behind the blue haired young woman, hands on her bow. She knew she could not threaten her, but the situation had pretty much reached a stalemate. However, that didn't mean she wasn't ready. So she had no choice but to make herself known.

"You are considered to be a threat to public safety. This is your only warning."

She then shot Haruhi a look that seemed to warn the other woman of the dangers of letting Asakura's words get to her.

Haruhi's tension drained out a bit with a bit of a startle as Natalia appeared and spoke up. At the least, it allowed her to think clearer for a moment. The way Asakura spoke, something about it felt...

It wasn't the same sort of way she would talk in the classroom. But it was similar to how the previous Asakura was.

Which only gave validity - at least in her mind - of a number of her suspicions.

"We're gonna be watching you," Haruhi said, after taking a calming breath. She tried to remember the sort of things she'd been taught over the past several months. The things she herself had approached DATS Command about learning. "We know you're not on the up and up, so there's no use pretending otherwise, and we don't have any plans of letting you hurt anyone. Got it?"

"Hurting people isn't what I plan on doing," Asakura said, turning a little so she can keep an eye on Natalia now. "At least not unless they give me a reason to hurt them."

She smiles at Natalia, a knowingly look on her face.

"May I go now? And perhaps you, Miss Bow, should let Miss Suzumiya know the real reason you all seem so worried about me."

A pause.

"Or maybe ask Kyon."

"The reason we're worried about you is your predecessors' actions," Natalia said, with a completely straight face. "That is all, and nothing more."

Haruhi tried not to visibly twitch, but she did. What the hell did she mean?

Or... The previous one did like to get under people's skins, too...

Natalia was her peer. They were both Captains. She should listen to her, and she bit back the incredible urge to take Asakura's bait.

She wasn't a kid anymore. She wanted to take this responsibility seriously, didn't she?

So, she bit her lip.

And for once, Suzumiya Haruhi said nothing, and just kept an even glare on Asakura.

Asakura sighs, as she goes to walk past Haruhi now. Since it seems like neither of the young women are actually going to stop her.

"How unfair, blaming me for something someone else did. It's safe to assume you'd do the same for anyone else in a similar situation then?" She asked, tucking her hands behind her back now.

"Or am I just that special and unique?"

"There is a difference between blaming you and putting you under watch," Natalia replied.

"Now... Captain Suzumiya... I believe we are done here?"

Haruhi held he hands at her side, clenched into fists.

She knew there was something wrong about this girl. She knew. She also couldn't prove it. Not for this one.

Not yet.

She tried her best to block out what Asakura said, and gave a short nod to Natalia. Her eyes flashed up briefly to a building in the distance, where a trail of golden hair vanished over a rooftop.

"...yeah," she said stiffly to Natalia.

"... Hm, well take care Miss Suzumiya and Miss Bow."

That was all Asakura was going to say, as she's going to go her own way and leave the two DATS agents to go about whatever other business they may have.

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