"So, you caught him!?"

"We did! He's a repeat offender, so I'm glad we were able to get him off the streets quickly."

"I'm so relieved! Thank you, Officer Mitchell!"

"Don't mention it." The young woman set her elbows on her desk as she let her charming, smiling face rest in her hands, looking up at the old woman standing before her. "It's all thanks to your eyewitness information, ma'am."

Her name was Halle Mitchell, and this bright, young, twenty-four-year-old was easily the most talented and kind woman in her entire police department. She was a simple public safety officer working in Japan, but she took pride in her job.

She was also about as crazy, short-tempered, and daring as they came. 'Nice' was just one of her better qualities.

Halle was a short one, standing at five feet and four inches tall. She had a light almond-colored bob haircut that dusted at her shoulders, and it was naturally straight and framed her face. Two obscure pieces of hair on each side of her head always stuck
out, which annoyed her to no ends, since she could never get them to stay down no matter what hair product she used. Her coworkers thought it just made her look even cuter than she already did. Her bright, raspberry-colored eyes shone behind
her short bangs cut straight across her forehead, and her milky-colored skin glowed in the warm sunlight.

Although you were expected to dress plain and professional-like for this type of job, that didn't stop Halle from bending the rules slightly to make herself look nicer when she was at work. She wore the same black work slacks as every other woman in her
department, but she modified the remainder of her wardrobe just a little.

Instead of wearing a less-flattering pair of one-inch black heels for the sake of convenience, Halle wore stylish black platform pumps with a four inch heel.

Rather than a boring button-up buttoned all the way up to the collar as her shirt, she wore a cute little white button-up blouse that clung to her figure nicely, and she only buttoned it up to the top of her chest, leaving a good portion of her neck and
chest exposed. This allowed for the little blue amulet she always wore to be seen; she liked to wear it with pride.

She rolled up her sleeves halfway up her arms to be less restricting, and swung over her office chair was her floor-length black trench coat that she always wore.

She kept her short hair down every day, since there really was no need to put it up given that it was only shoulder-length.

Halle always had a cute, but respectable amount of makeup on her face that drew more attention to her eyes, rather than the two pistols she had tucked under her arms resting in the holster she wore over her shoulders. She wore her badge proudly and pinned
it right on her hip, allowing anyone walking by to see it.

Halle was a proud, confident woman who knew how to handle herself pretty well. She was a lot more mature than most women her age, and although she could be a little reckless, she was very wise. Halle often gave her friends, family, and coworkers great
problem-solving advice, but ironically she never knew where to start when it came to solving her own personal problems.

Everyone had their flaws, right? Well, that was just one of her many flaws. She was dense, oblivious, had a terrible sense of direction, was unable to trust guys with her heart enough to date anyone, was a huge klutz most of the time, and not to
mention the bottomless pit that was her stomach...

"Is that you, Halle?"

"Hmm?" Halle snapped out of her thoughts as she lifted her head up from her hands, and she peered over at the man who spoke to her. His name was Mr. Sato, and he was another citizen Halle had been helping recently. "Oh, Mr. Sato! How's everything going?"

"Great!" The gentleman in his mid-forties clapped his hands together excitedly as he beamed at the young woman. "Your advice really helped with our peeping-tom situation."

"Really?" Halle elicited the brightest, delighted grin as she listened to this.

He nodded his head vigorously, and he began to use his hands to demonstrate his methods. "I put that gravel down outside the window, just like you said. Now, you can hear it crunch whenever someone walks by!" He smiled brightly at the police officer before
him. "Now, the peeping-toms don't come around anymore!"

Halle felt a huge weight get lifted from her chest as a sense of relief washed over her nerves. "That's great!"

She worked in the West Arai Police Department's Community Safety Unit. As far as job titles go, she was a detective. She was still super green, however, this only being her second year on the force. And technically, she was considered a "detective,"
but not the type of detective she really wanted to be. Halle hadn't even done any work in the field yet, for god's sake! (Unless you counted getting into bar fights occasionally and winning as field work...). It was really depressing
for a wild one like her to be cooped up at her desk all day, but at least it was something. She was the best in her department, although that didn't really say much... There really wasn't much to compete against here at West Arai.

Her friends always told her she didn't look like a detective, and that she didn't really carry herself as one either. Well of course she didn't; Halle carried herself as a woman, and any girl that adorable looking and young wouldn't look like a
detective on the outside. That didn't stop her from dreaming of becoming a real detective one day, though. A detective who went out in the field and fought with bad guys, inevitably making Japan a better, safer place to live in.

The old woman from earlier smiled gently at Halle from where she stood next to Mr. Sato. "We can rest easy with you around, Officer Mitchell."

Mr. Sato nodded his head in agreement. "Yes, we're in good hands with you."

Halle's cheeks flushed a slight pink shade as she awkwardly averted her gaze. "You guys are too kind, really..."

She didn't deal with serial killers, terrorists, the mafia, or even plain old murderers, even though that was what she really wanted to do... People came to her with their problems, and they worked together to solve them. That was the kind of detective
work she was best at.

...or at least the only detective work she had done in the past two years.

However, Halle was a strong believer in the community, and she always thought that creating a safe environment for people to live in was a very important job.

So even though she was stuck inside doing paperwork and helping out citizens in any way she could, Halle was just happy she was doing good and making a difference in the world.

Well, at least that was what she thought, until that young man called her name one day, unintentionally pushing her life into gear and leading her down the right path to her fate.

"Are you Detective Mitchell?"

Halle blinked owlishly at the person standing behind the old woman and Mr. Sato, and the two quickly dismissed themselves from her once they saw she was now busy.

The young man was about five-foot ten-inches tall, and he appeared to be around his early thirties. Thirty-three, perhaps? He was dressed in a warm-grey colored suit with a salmon tie, and he had orange-brown hair that was swept across his forehead to
the left. His brown eyes matched the color of his hair and the scruff on his chin, but his smile was kind, which set Halle at ease.

"Yes, sir." Halle folded her arms across her desk, studying his face quizzically. Who was this guy? She felt like she had seen him once before...

Without bothering to introduce himself, he firmly addressed her with some very unexpected information. "You're going to the MPD."

Halle was slack-jawed as this news reached her ears, and she dropped the pen she was holding and accidentally let it clatter on her desk. "The... Metropolitan Police Department!?"

"Yep." His eyes crinkled as he smiled brightly at her from just hearing the name of the MPD.

Halle's shoulders fell in astonishment, but she grew wary in attempt to not get her hopes up. "Um... Forgive me, but what do you mean by that?"

His smile fell into a more relaxed expression as he held out some sort of notice to her. "You're moving to the Metro Police Special Investigations Unit today. Look."

Halle accepted the memo from the unfamiliar man as she let her eyes skim the paper, reading the contents out loud. "Notice of Personnel Transfer. Detective Halle Mitchell is hereby transferred from the West Arai Community Safety Unit to the Metropolitan
Special Investigations: Second Unit. Effective immediately." As she finally reached the bottom of the page, her eyes flew up insanely quick to look at the man before her. "What!?"

"See?" He chuckled at her amusing reaction, not quite expecting her to be so surprised.

"Transferred?" Halle's jaw seemed to only drop further and further, so surprised she couldn't even process this. "But I haven't heard anything about this..."

"Well, yeah, obviously." The guy laughed a little at her silly expression. "This is my first time telling you."

Halle found herself tripping over her words, and her expression wavered a little. "I guess, but..."

"It's a promotion." He cut her off, trying to sound positive in attempt to persuade her. "The guys in Special Investigations are our best and brightest. They go after the big dogs."

"Best and brightest...?" Her anticipation seemed to only grow more and more with each passing word.

Best and brightest? The big dogs?

Could this be her one chance at being a big-shot detective in Japan!?

"Well, yes." The guys seemed to backtrack a little after hearing her repeat his compliment. "But they're definitely a little...eccentric, too."

She blinks her eyes once, twice. "...eccentric?"

"Never mind about that." His mouth fell open to form a bright smile, and he beamed at her brightly as he ignored her inquiry. "Anyway, good luck!"

"Hey, wait a second!" Halle shot straight up from her desk and nearly fell over as the man turned to leave, being a huge klutz as well.

"Oh, sorry about that." The guy seemed to remember now that he never even introduced himself, and he paused to flash her a charming smile. "I'm Tadanobu Nomura with the Metro PD." He reached out to shake her hand. "Just call me Nomura. Remember that name."

"No, that wasn't what I was going to..." Her words fell on deaf ears, because Nomura had already up and left her, practically disappearing into thin air. "...ask."

Halle plopped back down into her desk chair and sighed heavily from shock. Did that really just happen? She didn't fall asleep at her desk again, then just dream that whole thing, did she? Ouch! Nope, she definitely didn't fall asleep, according to that
pinch she just gave herself.

As this was beginning to process in her mind, a bright, joyful smile seemed to find its way to her pink lips. She shot straight up from her chair and grabbed her trench coat, throwing it on as she immediately ran off from her desk and motioned to start
making her way to Metro PD's headquarters.

Yes! She was finally going to be a real detective!

Helloooooo! So technically, this is a Metro PD: Close To You fanfiction, but it can honestly just be read as a normal romance novel just like my other voltage game fanfiction To Love The Lawyer. This is based on Kazusa Hanai's route, since I love him so much, and his personality is a perfect one to match my own character's.

Sooooooo I can tell you guys right now, I think you'll really like this book! I'm changing it up a bunch and adding my own personal touches, so you won't be bored, and you'll enjoy this! No regrets if you read this, I promise!

Halle Mitchell (Hal-lee Mi-ch-ull): main character in all of my voltage inc fan fictions, except they each differ in age, appearance, background, personality, etc... The only thing they have in common is their name.

Ground rules: do not, and I repeat do NOT review this story begging me to update. I hate those reviews.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of Voltage Inc's games. I just write fanfiction for them because I'm obsessed and my love life is as nonexistent as the transition period between Halloween and Christmas.

Claimer: I own my main character Halle, as well as any other OCs and any changes to the plot.

Read, review, and enjoy!