Fandom: FAKE

Pairing: Dee/Ryo

Rating: Work safe. The first chapter for me is always normal until I can build up to something good. There is some language though.

Spoilers: After Vol. 7

Timing: First year of being together. Just after the end of the last volume for sure. I think somewhere in the middle of May maybe since I want it to be spring. Probably just a couple of months after getting together.

Summary: Dee and Ryo are now a couple and Ryo is trying to understand about this new kind of relationship. It's time to go on vacation and Ryo is looking for a place to spend the next two weeks with Dee.

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Dee, Ryo, J.J., Chief Smith, or Bikky. They belong to Sanami Matoh. I just like to write stories about them and play with them a bit. I do not make money for writing this. I do own Mrs. Stuckey though.

Author's Notes: I belive in an equal relationship between Dee and Ryo. I'm not fond of the idea of Ryo being a scardy uke. He's just as strong a man as any of them just with a softer heart. Also, I'll be posting my completed chapters on my Live Journal http:/stallianna. and it will be before I post anywhere else so if you want to see it there before it coming to here, please feel free to go and read. I've tried to d a FAKE fic before a long time ago but I never put it online. I did have a friend who said she liked it but now I'm not sure if it was ever the truth. So this is truly my first FAKE fic that I want to share with people. I don't have anyone to beta it so if you have the time, please feel free to PM me about it. I really need help with Japanese stuff. Since this is my opinion of a continuation of the story line, I'm going to assume that Ryo actually spoke some Japanese with his parents before they died. He just never bothered with it anymore after they died since it might have brought up some very sad memories. This was betad a bit by my hubby who writes wonderful songs so he's a great help with words and vocabulary. Plus he lived in NYC so I know his opinions are very trustful. Please read and review and any tips would be very helpful. I'm hoping this will be liked for me to do another chapter.

Trouble in Little New York

Chapter 1

As the work day wears on, we find our two favorite detectives sitting in their shared office doing some work before the end of their day. At least that's what it looks like to the nosey person who happens to look into the office.

Ryo is at his computer paying careful attention to whatever it is that he has on the screen. Dee is at his desk with papers and files in front of him and he's half-heartedly paying attention to them. At first Dee doesn't seem to mind that his partner isn't paying him any mind since he's at least trying to do his paper work. But after a while, he abandons the thought of getting things done and begins to stare at Ryo instead. He watches as Ryo's dark eyes, behind his reading glasses, scan across the screen in concentration. His gaze lingers first on the dark eyes that are the only minor giveaway that Ryo is half Japanese. Then his gaze travels along his lovers' jaw and then stops on his mouth. That sensual mouth was moving along with the words that were portrayed on the screen. As he watches Ryo's mouth move, he suddenly realizes that Ryo is not speaking English at all. He's watched Ryo's mouth move enough to know how it should look when he speaks English.

"Hey, Ryo. Whatcha up to?" he asks plaintively.

"Hmm?" Ryo looks away from the computer screen and what was absorbing his attention to lock his eyes with Dee's green eyes for the first time in about an hour. He gives a slight self conscious smile before he answers, "I was just looking for some sort of Japanese to English dictionary. I want to brush up on my Japanese before we go on our two week vacation. I was hoping to go somewhere I've never been before in my life even though my parents have spoken about it before."

Even though they're not letting anyone know that they're an item, Ryo and Dee's vacation time happens to fall on the exact same days of each other. They were told by the Chief that they could do this. It was probably because he didn't want the bad memories of their first vacation to England coming back to bite him in the ass.

"I wonder why the badger decided to let us have vacation time together this year," Dee mused.

"Maybe he wants to keep his sanity this time unlike two years ago when you practically broke his desk," Ryo retorted. They both laugh at the memory.

"So you want to go to Japan? That sounds like fun. What about the monkey-brat?" Dee asked as he began trying once again to do some more paper work.

"I've enlisted the help of Mrs. Stuckey to watch Bikky," replied Ryo. "She's going to get him up in the mornings and make sure he gets out of the apartment on time along with getting him breakfast, making him and afternoon snack, and making him dinner. Along with this she's going to be around during the weekend as well. She was very kind to do this for me for two weeks."

"What about your upkeep?" Dee sounded a little snarky.

Ryo looked at Dee though his glasses and then back at the screen. "She's going to help with the house cleaning as well. She knows where she's needed in the apartment. You should've known that." It was Ryo's turn to sound snarky.

"Oh well. Not my problem." Dee gives up again on his paperwork just so he could sit and look at his partner some more. "You know, there's another thing that has been nagging me in the back of my mind. J.J. should have been here a long time ago to annoy us with questions about our vacation. He should have found out long before now."

Before Ryo could get his thoughts out they hear the infamous running footsteps coming down the hall. "Speak of the devil," they say in unison.

Just then the door to their office bursts further open and J.J. hollers at the top of his voice, "Dee-Sempai!" But just as he comes in for the tackle, Dee quickly dodges out of the way and J.J. crashes into Dee's desk instead. As usual, he comes out of a collide like that unscathed but he has a hurt expression on his face and cute little pout as he stares at Dee. Then the complaints begin. "Dee! How could you let that happen to me? That really hurt you know. All I want to do is love you Mr. Sexy."

"And who in their right mind wants to be loved by a maniac like you?" Dee retorts back. "There's no way I want to be in constant danger by a hyper freak who likes to tackle people and make them have big bruises on various parts of their bodies."

J.J. pouts more at this statement and opens his mouth to say something more but gets interrupted by Ryo. "J.J.," he begins calmly, "Why are you here this time?"

"Oh yeah!" J.J.'s blue eyes brighten at what it is he was supposed to tell the two men. "The chief wants to see you both in his office ASAP."

"J.J.," Dee rolls his eyes at the younger man, "you would forget your head if it wasn't attached to your shoulders."

Both men leave J.J. to deal with his hurt pride as they speed walk to the elevator to take it down to the first floor.

"Damn badger calling us into his office. And knowing that we have a vacation coming up in a week," Dee grumbled during the elevator ride down. "I mean, what the hell can be so important that he has to call us in now?"

"Dee," sighs Ryo, "Let it go already. Maybe we'll get lucky this time and he won't spring up anything on us. Let's just get to his office and get this over with."

"It's about damned time you two bozos finally realize what it means to be on time!" bellows Chief Smith as soon as the door to his office opens.

"Umm. Thank you, sir," stammers Ryo, Dee just rolls his eyes.

Chief Smith gives one of his grins where he thinks that what he's about to say is super funny and true. "Maybe McLean is finally rubbing off on your lazy ass, Laytner," he states.

Ryo blushes at this comment and both men glance at each other for a short second and then Ryo looks away tying not to show his embarrassment at the comment. The chief doesn't seem to notice this exchange at all. "Sir," Dee begins in a normal voice for a change, "Why have you called us here?"

"Sorry about that, boys. Close the door and have a seat and I'll tell you what's going on right now." The grin that was once on his face is replaced with a solemn and apologetic look. He waits for the two detectives to sit down. "I'll make this as quick as I can," he sighs, "I'm sorry to tell you that I need you two to work on a very important case for me. I know it's so close to your vacation time but I really don't trust anyone else to get this done as efficiently as I know you two can. I'm afraid that you'll have to put your vacation on hold until this case is done, however."

Dee and Ryo stare at the chief in utter disbelief at this outward compliment that was just given to them. "If you feel that we can do this in the fastest and most legal manner, we'll do it," Ryo finally manages to get out since Dee's mouth seems to be stuck for words for a change.

"Thank you, boys. I really appreciate this all the way." The chief looks like he's able to relax knowing that the two detectives are more than willing to do this case. "Let me brief you on what's happening."

After the briefing, Dee and Ryo are heading back to their office to get ready to head home. Dee never once says a bad thing about Chief Smith the entire time they were walking.

One week later, the two detectives are back in the chiefs' office again, but this time they are getting ready to leave the precinct for the next two weeks. They finished the case within the week. Even all of the paperwork was done, and done correctly. This was thanks to Ryo constantly reminding Dee that if it was done wrong, their vacation was going to get postponed again and then the work would have to be redone and with no mistakes or beating around the bush. The reason it took only a week for them to finish their case was because during their investigation of one of the suspects, something was said in a slip up and the rest was put together with no other questioning. "Well done, boys," Chief Smith's words could be heard booming down the hall and to the front of the precinct. "I've never seen anything done so fast in all of my years on the force! And the paperwork is complete and all correctly and in a timely manner even! I'm so proud of you boys! You've really outdone yourselves this time!"

"Ah shucks, chief," Dee grins widely, "Thanks for trusting us so thoroughly with this case. I sure did a fast job rounding the bad guys up." He rubs the back of his head still grinning stupidly.

Ryo rolls his eyes as the chief only snorts at Dee's comment. "Give me a break you lazy ass. I'm more than sure that your partner pushed you to your limits to get everything done in a timely manner. Now get out of here, the both you ya, and enjoy your vacation. I don't want to see you back here for two weeks."

Outside of the chiefs' office, Dee begins to get antsy. "Come on Ryo. I'm ready to get home so we can finish packing so we can catch that flight."

"Wait a minute, Dee," interrupts Ryo, "We should go back to our office and make sure it's all cleaned up and that we've taken all of our important papers home. I really don't want to return to a pigsty and have to clean it up after our vacation."

Dee looks indignant and begins to splutter, "But-"

"No buts, Dee," Ryo's face gets that stern and stubborn look it gets when he knows what he's saying is right. "Besides, don't you want to know if someone has riffled through your desk when you get back? If you clean it now, you'll know where everything is supposed to be. And also, how many times have you had to come back here because you left something important behind when we have a day off?"

"Fine," Dee sighs in defeat. "Let's do this quick so we can go."

In their shared office, Ryo has put the finishing touches on his desk and is on his way to help Dee with his desk when they hear the familiar running footsteps in the hall coming their way. Dee becomes petrified with the realization of what's to come and before he can even move, the door bursts open and J.J. rushes in with a squeal of delight as he pounces on top of Dee, which makes him falls head first onto his desk. "What the hell is your damned problem you sorry excuse of a human being!" he hollers at the top of his voice. "Don't you know that you've once again made me mar my beautiful face?" He ignores the innocent expression on the younger mans' face. "Stop running up to me and tackling me every time you think it's going to be cute, because it's fucking not! Why don't you do me a favor and go jump off the roof!"

"Dee-Sempai, don't be so mad. I just wanted to show you some love and affection."

Ryo wanders over and checks on Dee's forehead. He pushes the dark, silky hair aside to see if there would be a bruise. After seeing that his head won't bruise, Ryo gathers his belongings and begins to head out of the office. His silence alerts Dee to how Ryo might be feeling and he grabs his things too.

J.J. begins to pout as he watches his love leave out with that stuffy Ryo. "Mr. Sexy, why didn't you tell me that you were planning on a vacation? I could've taken time off and we could've gone someplace secluded together."

"J.J.," Dee looks back with an exasperated look on his face, "No one in their right mind would want to be alone with you someplace secluded just to be tackled by you day in and day out. And heaven only knows what you would try to do during the course of the night." He shivers at the thought. "I would rather stay at work than take a vacation with you." He grabs Ryo's hand after that last statement and drags him out of the office while keeping his eyes forward the whole time.

J.J. has a very unpleasant look on his face as he watches Ryo and Dee leave the office. His look doesn't change when Ryo turns to look back at him. But then his whole face turns into one of surprise as he sees, for the first time, a look of unpleasantness on the older man's face. He just couldn't fathom why Ryo would look so angry all of a sudden and towards him none the less.