Chaotic Stray Dogs

An old book, Alice Through the Looking-Glass touches the subject of impossible. The White Queen mentions that she believed in six impossible things before breakfast. The young man standing in front of the meeting table had read that book once or twice when he was child. He didn't like it that much, that world was utterly confusing. He was one to enjoy history books.

But right now being in the room with the leaders of three organisation that fought each other in such big war, he was reminded of that character. Given this meeting was impossible and he had not eaten breakfast yet, he supposed he did believe one impossible thing before breakfast.

Maybe the second one would be that the group he left behind and the rest of his team would steer clear of causing trouble. Though even the craziest hatters would have hard time believing that. After everyone sat down, he took a deep breath.

"Thank you again, for listening. Now shall we start?"

𝘍𝘶𝘬𝘶𝘻𝘢𝘸𝘢 𝘋𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘰: 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯

𝘈𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭

"Now, first of all I'll explain who we are and what we do. During Decay of Angels' plan of world domination an organisation took this as a chance to launch an attack. They are known as The Ring. Stupid name I know. With most of the strong organisations busy, they targeted Japan, England, America and Russia. You will notice that these countries are housing big scale organisations.

Japan has multiple strong ability groups such as Hunting Dogs or you two" he pointed at Mori and Fukuzawa. They both nodded. "Despite our large groups, due to almost all of them involving in Commander Fukuchi's plot, Japan or more accurately Yokohama suffered a great loss."

"I do not know the inner politics of the rest of those countries but I know Francis Fitzgerald and Dame Christie was affected. While their damage was small, excluding one big insident in Los Angeles book fair..." he faltered.

𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩...

Daishiro continued "They both survived with small losses. Meanwhile, you" here he turned to Fyodor "suffered a great deal." said man furrowed his brows.

"Fyodor-san, again I don't know much but from what I've heard during years, yours is the strongest organisation in Russia. Is it correct?"

"Well my organisation is quite big. I control almost all ability users from St. Petersburg to the capital. Alas Russia is a large country. Even I don't know all organisations towards east. I suppose we could say I have strongest organisation in European Russia." Fyodor explained.

"Well back then when the attack happened you thought it was targeting the organisations I counted. The Ring has one clear purpose. Can you guess it?"

No one in the room thought even for a second.

"The book" they all said with a tired sigh.

"Someone should destroy that thing" Kunikida spoke "Its mere existence is causing trouble. And how do we even know it's in Yokohama!?"

"We have our sources" Fyodor smiled.

"Well their attempts to get the book was much stronger anyone could have ever imagined. Their purpose? The Ring believes humans are nothing but animals. Well we are, but one thing that sets us apart is the ability to think."

"So they'll use the book to remove that? That sounds..." Ranpo thought what to say.

"Animalistic?" Dazai smiled. If looks could kill Kunikida would've been a murderer. Daishiro opted to ignore the joke.

"Since it is... an ambitious goal, they need the whole book instead of a page. They can't do a situation to remove our intelligence after all."

"That gives you a quite advantage." his father said. "Yokohama is your home turf. If you defend it well, you'll win."

"That's exactly what we're trying to do. Ring has many members hiding in the government. We're trying to defend the city from both inside and outside-"

"Let me guess." Koyo interrupted "It was hard for Agency or Mafia to handle it alone. So we joined forces."

Daishiro smirked. "Perceptive as always Koyo-san. You're right. While Port Mafia and Agency joined forces to protect Yokohama, Guild, Decay of Angels and even the Order of the Clock Tower made a temporary truce to protect their countries. Fyodor-san came to Japan for personal reasons three years ago. When he did, we joined forces with him as well."

"Well that's... unexpected." Fukuzawa voiced, no one said anything else.

"So, what is your involvement in this?" Ranpo asked munching on jelly beans. Daishiro never figured where he hid his sweet stash but appearantly he had access to it even now.

"We, Stray Dogs, are a shadow organisation. Founded by Natsume-sensei and our leader five years ago. We have two jobs. One of them is to protect Yokohama in case the government, Agency and all their allies fail. To be honest this is our first mission ever. We always thought our parents failing to be... impossible." Daishiro took a deep breath "It seems it wasn't. Our other and more important job is to protect the peace within your alliance."

Everyone looked at him to continue but Ranpo took over.

"I see. Since you are children of both organisations you prevent a civil war. Similar to old royalty. They would marry each other to avoid wars."

Daishiro nodded "That's the simple way to put-"

Suddenly there was a big crashing sound.

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST CALL ME!?" an angry scream.

"I'M SORRY I DIDN'T CHOOSE MY PARENTS!" and a panicked shrill.

Daishiro and Koyo simultaniously sighed.

"I'll handle it" the elder executive said and rose from her chair. Of course curiousity kills the cat and almost everyone went to the to see what was happening. Answer was: Nakahara Chuuya.

He was held down by half of the people and the other half tried to take a chair away from his hands. Meanwhile Fumiya was hugging a terrified Sigma, and another chair was lying behind them, probably was thrown by the gravity user. Daishiro went out next to Koyo and made eye contact with a really amused underling of his.

𝘍𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘺𝘬𝘢 𝘍. 𝘎𝘰𝘨𝘰𝘭: 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘧

𝘈𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘯

He was sitting next to his dad, both Gogol's enjoying a bowl of popcorn. God knows where that came from. He sent Fadeyka a questioning look but the younger only shrugged.

"Chuuya! What is going on?" Koyo called out with an unimpressed look. This seemed to work on the man as he stopped wrestling over the chair and simply let Kenji take it.

"That brat!" Chuuya pointed at Fumiya "Is telling stupid lies! Also get the fuck off of me!" he saved himself from everyone that has been trying to hold him down.

"Still, agression and violence is not a smart decision, especially right now." Koyo glared.

"And also I wasn't lying!" Fumiya piped from behind Sigma.

"Fumiya, be quiet" Daishiro ordered. He didn't know how to handle him if Chuuya got angry again. Said boy pouted.

"Ah ahh is little chibi can't be left alone without causing a scene?" Dazai poked his out so obvious that he wanted to annoy the other man.

𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.

And just like Daishiro thought Chuuya simply tsked and turned his head.

"I need some strong vine" he sighed. Dazai frowned clearly upset over the lack of interraction. Was he really that desparate for his attention? Dazai was truly pathetic in the past it seemed.

Yosano seemed to took pity on the man and his current predicament. She rose from her seat with a smile "I have some in my locker. I suppose I can lent you a glass."

Chuuya's desperation for wine was bigger than Dazai's desperation for him. The executive didn't even question and just followed the doctor with a nod of his head.

"I liked her. She's elegant" Koyo smiled, eyes trailing behind Yosano. Fumiya and Fadeyka shared a knowing glance.

"What got him so worked up that much?" Kunikida asked. Fumiya smirked.

"Let's say he has very complicated feelings"

"You're lucky Chuuya-san did not use his ability" Akutagawa broke his long silence, glaring at the boy "Or you would be dead"

Fumiya's smirk turned into a grin "Trust me, he couldn't have use it even if he wanted. Honestly, Akutagawa-san just what do you think my ability does?" he teased.

𝘋𝘢𝘻𝘢𝘪 𝘍𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘺𝘢: 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵

𝘈𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺: 𝘕𝘰 𝘙𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺

Fumiya tapped his foot, getting the attention to the ground where the tiles had turned colourless. Everyone looked down to inspect it. The ability had caused every area up umtil their ankles to look black and white. Daishiro could see the confused looks on their faces.

Kunikida frowned. "You are an ability user? Is this the effect?"

"Daishiro-san. Hate to tell you how to do your job but what exactly are you talking about in there? We're all ability users you know!" Fumiya sent him an unamused look.

"I was getting to it. Until you caused a scene and rudely interrupted our meeting" Daishiro send his own look at him. He liked Fumiya, he really did but sometimes the boy was too annoying. He could understand why his sister always yelled at him. Fumiya smiled sheepishly.

"It won't happen again."

"Good. Behave all of you." Daishiro took a calming breath. "Now, I think I should mention the abilities and our parents."

"Gogol, send some popcorn over here!" Ranpo called out, his gaze wandering over to each kid. It was obvious he already knew about their families. "This is going to be very entertaining."

Nikolai seemed a bit surprised to be called in such a friendly manner, by an Agency member no less but he gave a cheshire grin and send yet another bowl to the detective using his ability.

"Why do I feel like you kids are going to be nothing but trouble?" Koyo asked. Daishiro smiled sympathetically

"Trust me Koyo-san. We four are the least problematic ones." he turned to enter the room "You have three years of peace before I, the eldest is born. Then for the next twenty years we're going to be in your life." he smiled to himself as he closed the door, thinking about the dread everyone must have been feeling. These people were no parent material. Daishiro doubted they even wanted kids. He was still surprised that they ended up as decent parents despite everything.

Don't worry. You did not raise us for nothing. No matter what, we will save you.

He took his place in front of the table again. "Shall we resume the meeting then?"

~~~

𝘈𝘬𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘸𝘢 𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪: 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘵

𝘈𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺: 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘯 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥

Takashi was by no means a lazy person. They would do every order they were given, no matter what. But now they were trapped in 23 years in the past, with Fumiya and Fadeyka and without no one to hold them from absolutely going nuts.

They loved them. Being older brothers, both were protective and responsible. You felt safe with them. But sometimes, they needed some stress relief. Though angering the most strongest ability user in the city was a bad idea. Like, Fumiya how in the world you could be so dense? And Fadeyka, why in the world would you challenge everyone to play poker with you THEN CHEAT!?

Now Tachihara was in the verge of murder with their father, second strongest ability user in the GODDAMN PORT MAFIA, backing him up. Their dad, Atsushi, beating him had really angered the black haired man. So now, with the captain being busy, Fumiya in the middle of explaining Gods know what to Tanizaki, Poe and Kyoka, haven't even noticed that his best friend is about to be murdered. Takashi had to stop Tachihara and Akutagawa! Nikolai hyping the duo up wasn't helping either!

It was safe to say Takashi was tired of this mission already.

"Father, please calm down! Losing is a very normal event!" they tried again.

"Stop calling me that! Jinko and that boy cheated!"

"Why do you drag me into this!?"

"You cheated Jinko and you know it!"

"Stop fighting- Tachihara-san I see you! Back off!"

"This brat cheated! There's no way he could've won five times in a row!" Tachihara yelled readying his gun.

"Maybe you suck at this? Don't be a sore loser Michizo!" Fadeyka retorded.

"Why you-"

"Aunty a little help here please!" Takashi begged, looking at Gin. Assassin seemed confused, but then she glanced at Akutagawa, who was still arguing with Atsushi, and seemed to realise if Takashi was Akutagawa's child then she was their aunt. She took pity on the poor kid and signalled Higuchi.

Now that Tachihara problem was over (thank their aunts) Takashi now turned to a worser problem. Atsushi and Akutagawa were still screaming at each other, attracting everyone's attention. Even Chuuya and Yosano (who had gone to taste some of her wine) poked their heads from the door. Takashi noticed Fumiya watching them with great attention, and the floor beneath them was completely grey.

𝘈𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴...

Though even with Fumiya they could still cause problems. Takashi had to act fast but before they could even interfere Tachihara tapped their shoulder.

"No you can't kill Fadeyka!" Takashi snapped.

"No not that. Umm..." Tachihara seemed nervous. He pointed to the corner of the room, and next to the window, there was a girl. She seemed relaxed, even enjoying herself. Her presence was well hidden, watching the scene unfold without anyone noticing her. She had shoulder-length brown hair and dark eyes. She wore a simple black polo shirt and red-green flannel skirt. She smiled happily when they made eye contact. Takashi was never so happy to see someone before.

"I was wondering when you'd notice me. Quite the chaos you have here!"

𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘌. 𝘈𝘥ı𝘷𝘢𝘳: 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯

𝘈𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘮𝘺𝘳𝘯𝘢

"Halide! You found us!"

"Of course. It's my job." she smiled. "You guys definitely love to get into trouble."

"You're right..." Takashi sighed.

"No worries. At least I found you. After overtime by the way!" she yelled suddenly, getting everyone's attention "Just because you don't go to school doesn't mean no one else does! Do you know how many work I have? My exams are near you know! I don't get paid enough for this!" she sighed and plopped down to something that appeared out of thin air.

"Hate to break it to you Hali, but we don't get paid at all." Fadeyka came next to Takashi.

"I know! That's the point!" the girl glared.

"Who got you in a bad mood?" Fumiya asked.

"You idiots, who else!?" she exploded. Then mumbled an apology.

𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

"I spent all day at school to find you. It was exhausting. Not to mention I was so worried."

"We're sorry. We didn't mean to time travel, it kind of happened." Fumiya apologised.

"How did you time travel anyways?" Yosano asked coming back into the room with a better looking Chuuya. The magic of alcohol.

"It's a bit complicated." Takashi started "Years ago a group of ability users fought and killed each other. But their abilities caused a singularity. Which are in the shape of charcoals. When you throw them in fire they send you back in time... But it's a bit confusing."

Understanding the logic of Charcoal Singularity was tricky. Takashi had never time traveled before anyways. Almost none of them did.

"It's full of unknown after all." Fumiya, the "expert" started "But the ongoing theory is that the amount of charcoal you burn determines how much past you go. Also, strangely you're more likely to stumble into big historical events or places."

"Like France 1793?" Fadeyka deadpanned.

"Or Egypt 1st century?" Takashi raised an eyebrow.

"Or Türkiye 1919?" Halide offered.

"THE POINT IS... that time travel is tricky. In order to return home we need to find diamond shards that the charcoal turned into. There's also weight of the timeline but I am not going to get into 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵."

"Well until you find those, you're stuck here. Might as well deal with The Ring." Halide offered, picking up her cat. The animal protested against her cuddling.

"Where did that come from?" Atsushi questioned, looking around.

"Oh right. I'm not actually here." the girl replied "My ability allows me to project myself into different places and dates. I'm currently in my room, in 2035. This is simply a hologram."

"That's... wow."

"Yeah, I know every secret of history and place. Let me tell you Area 55 is just plain boring. But the Eiffel Tower? That's just... damn. And don't get me started on Jack the Ripper! If you ever fall into 1880s in your time travels DON'T mess with her. If I were really there, I'd be dead."

"Halide really knows a lot- Wait 𝘩𝘦𝘳!?" Fadeyka stared at her. The girl just shrugged.

"Your ability is certainly amazing. It could help in a lot of situations." Yosano praised. Halide grinned.

"I know right! It's a bit hard to find out people since I need to determine the place, year, month, day, even the hour. But I did it under ten hours today!" she had the proudest grin on her face "That's why I'm the leader of the Communications Division."

"You are the only member of that division." Fumiya remarked.

"Anyways." Halide ignored the mafiosi "I'll just notify the others that you're here. For all I know you're lucky to be here. The Ring is giving a hard time for the Agency and co. For now re-grouping would be-" she abrubtly stopped. Then there was inaudiable talking coming from a different room.

"Odamdayım, geliyorum!" Halide screamed "My mom is back home! See ya!" and she dissappeared.

"Her family doesn't know that she's a Stray Dog" Takashi answered to their unasked questions.

"I'm surprised your parents allow you kids." Yosano said.

All kids shared a glance.

"They haven't got any idea, do they?" the doctor sighed. Fumiya answered with finger guns. But before anyone else could speak about Halide's abrupt visit a scream came inside the meeting room. Everyone shared a glance.

"There is no way!" Dazai's voice continued, followed by Ranpo's loud cackles. A few mumbled voices contiued before Fyodor, based on the Russian accent, let out a stunned yet loud "what" and followed by more laughs from Ranpo. Fadeyka and Fumiya shared a glance.

"Are they-?"

"Yes they are"

Takashi sighed at their expressions. Whatever was going on, they planned something chaotic for it. Fumiya quickly got up and went to the kitchen, only to return with two cups of water.

"Oh Atsushi, Akutagawa-san! You two must be very thirsty because of your fight earlier. Here have a drink."

The soukoku duo looked confused. But nevertheless they thought these kids wouldn't be stupid enough to try something here, like spiking the drink. Oh how mistaken they were about the objective. Just like Fumiya and Fadeyka, Takashi also figured what they were talking about inside. Their parents. And oh boy this was not going to end well. As both men took a sip, Dazai yelled again.

"Atsushi-kun and Akutagawa-kun are together!? As a couple!?"

Akutagawa choked on his water. Atsushi spit it out. Fadeyka and Fumiya fell down because of laughing.

"Real mature you two. Real mature." Takashi rolled their eyes, getting the water from their fathers while their Aunt Gin gently patted Akutagawa's back.

"WE FUCKING WHAT!?" Akutagawa screamed once he stopped caughing. He marched to the meeting room and finally putting an end to it. All occupants got out. Ranpo looked like he had the time of his life, he handed an empty bowl of popcorn to Nikolai. Mori and Fukuzawa walked out, avoiding eye contact with everyone, including each other. Kunikida was noting something on his notebook.

Koyo and Daishiro seemed very unaffected, only reaction from Koyo was that she glanced at Yosano for a second before smiling mysteriously. Said woman just raised her eyebrows. Dazai and Fyodor however had very pale faces, which was saying something considering Fyodor's usual complexion.

Fyodor simply headed for the door not saying anything at all but before he made it Fadeyka cleared his throat and said something in Russian. Takashi was certain that both Nikolai and Dazai spoke Russian very well but it seems they both didn't understand what the boy said. Meanwhile Fyodor turned to him, his face having the most angry expression Takashi has seen ever since he Tokyo Disaster.

"Следи за своим ртом!" and he made extra care to slam the door as he left.

"You two really need to stop angering your parents." Takashi sighed to stare at the chaotic duo. They just smiled. At the word "parents" Dazai and Chuuya made a brief eye contact, they both turned around and tried hide their reddening cheeks.

"Parents?" Nikolai mumbled eyes darted from Fadeyka to the door. Said boy grinned at him as Nikolai seemed to finally understand the situation. But unlike Fyodor he let out a laugh.

"Oh my! Looks like I failed to kill my best friend! I'm a little upset to lose our friendship though."

"Don't worry you still call... whatever you have friendship" Fadeyka reassured. Nikolai copied the younger boys grin.

"Well considering you let Fedya get out that easily, I will assume we work together?" Nikolai asked. Mori and Fukuzawa nodded.

"The enemy is strong, there is no doubt about it." Fukuzawa said.

"And while you could handle them, given how weak they were during this time, the moment we leave this timeline you will forget about us. That way the future will not face any changes due to us coming here." Daishiro explained.

"So we're stuck with them, they're stuck with us!" Ranpo added from his place. Fadeyka giggled and wrapped an arm around Sigma.

"It will be our pleasure doing business with you!" he exclaimed.

Now Takashi was no master at cold reading but in that moment they knew all everyone thought about in the Agency office was the same.

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳.