”sᴀɢᴜʀᴜ!”
There was no time for any other words- shouting her partner’s name would cost her dearly, blowing her cover to the enemy. Akira shot down the two enemies sniping out the detective, but she suffered a blow to the left shoulder from a third, hidden enemy and retreated, gun close to her chest.
“Got it!”
Although Hakuba still wasn’t entirely comfortable with using their first names, he hadn’t really been given the opportunity to argue. It didn’t matter in the heat of the moment, anyway; dodging, ducking, and rolling a shoulder against a pillar to safety.
God, he’d almost been shot – again. Frustrated, he cursed under his breath and continued on his way, strafing down the long corridor that left him almost entirely open until he could roll around the next corner and duck behind a pile of barrels. He’d really been slipping lately, and he used to be so good at this game. Then again, he’d been less distracted before, too.
Gun at the ready, he very carefully moved, mentally tracking Akira’s movements through the arena’s maze-like layout. If he knew her typical pattern, she would be waiting to regroup with him at the charging station just far enough within enemy territory to allow for retreat where necessary. It was a dangerous location, but did afford them a certain offensive advantage.
Once he caught his breath, the detective slipped through, crouching to move under a slip of net that the Japanese players, he knew, would have little trouble with. It wasn’t nearly as easy for someone as tall and admittedly bulky as he was, but he’d also had some basic training at the academy, and far more stubborn determination than a foreigner was expected to– they wouldn’t see him coming.
And they didn’t. He took out another two enemies, though right in the back which he thought was very unsportsmanlike, and then ran the rest of the way to the rendezvous spot, quickly getting winded again. The whole affair, while useful, had him sweating and embarrassed, so completely informal and silly. But then, it was better than hot yoga, so he kept his complaints to himself.