Confessions of a serial killer
folder
Naruto › General
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
6
Views:
1,901
Reviews:
6
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
Category:
Naruto › General
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
6
Views:
1,901
Reviews:
6
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
Disclaimer:
Naruto and all its characters belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. I make absolutely no profit, and write purely out of enjoyment. I do not own Naruto, or it's characters; it's purely fan fiction.
Chapter Two
The majority of diagnosed psychopaths, and murderers that Sakura interviewed were men – except today, Monday morning, unfortunately women are not immune to the condition. This woman admitted to causing blunt-force trauma to the head of any person she kidnapped before stabbing them specifically 105 times, but the person they found barely alive was only stabbed 25 times. Re-watching the video, Sakura took note of her unwavering responses to every question, she would just start giggling like a school girl – she could turn off fear and remorse like it was a button, the woman’s name was Konan, she was known for her art skills a long time ago, before she snapped. ‘’So you believe she’s being set up too, Sakura?’’
Biting on her pen, she stared down at the soundless video, watching Konan’s reactions from their previous sessions – if there were any at all. It didn’t surprise Sakura, she was use to this – she was just trying to figure out more dirt on the Hidan case, and asking similar cases didn’t hurt, and she didn’t have a choice, it was her job to talk to these criminals whether she liked it or not. Though, this time she had a police officer in the room with her, just in case. ‘’Konan doesn’t leave me to believe she’s part of it…she’s just crazy,’’ Sakura shrugged before dropping onto the leather couch in Kakashi’s office.
It’d been about two weeks from the incident with Hidan, Sakura started to feel less and less as the days went on but she was also getting more information on Suigetsu as well; she wanted to know who he was, where he came from, anything she could really…
‘’so why is it you need information on my officers?’’
Ah, he knew – of course, what didn’t Kakashi know? Pushing herself upright, sitting properly she stared. ‘’sense of security, mainly.’’
‘’Do you not feel safe here, sakura?’’
Shaking her head, she grabbed her clip bored, pressing pause on the video on Konan. ‘’no, I don’t, because the guy human resources hired and the guy you approved through human resources, wasn’t on his post, I was nearly raped and killed – so no Sir, I don’t feel safe, not now, not since then.’’ She explained, taking the folder on Suigetsu. ‘’So If you don’t mind, I’d like to know all there is to know about this new cop you hired, if that’s okay with you.’’
The attitude and seriousness in her voice caught Kakashi a little off guard; she was definitely right, maybe hiring someone new was a bad idea – but whatever, he didn’t care, she was safe now. ‘’Well alright then,’’ He half-smiled at her watching her route through the pages upon pages of information, she would ask Sai about him…but she didn’t trust Sai, not after the way he acted – she hadn’t seen Ino or Sai in quite some time with the wedding coming up next week.
There was an abrupt knock on the door, walking in was Shikamaru. ‘’sir, I do apologize for the interruption but we have someone with Intel on the Hidan case.’’ He glanced at Sakura who looked as equally as interested as Kakashi. ‘’She’s willing to cooperate as long as we can guarantee her safety.’’
A cocked brow, Kakashi stood up. ‘’why would we need to guarantee her safety, Shikamaru…’’
He didn’t answer, he merely gave him a look. ‘’She’s sitting in my office, we didn’t handcuff her but, she had quite a bit of detail,’’ He paused. ‘’I don’t know if it would be appropriate for Sakura to attend,’’
‘’Nonsense,’’ Sakura snapped. ‘’I need an explanation to Hidan just as much as the two of you. Its Kakashi’s bad hiring skills that almost got me killed.’’
She wasn’t wrong… but she was stepping out of line – but he knew she was right. ‘’No, it’s alright Shikamaru she can come.’’
The woman sitting in Shikamaru’s office was the same woman who was once working for Orochimaru… but it wasn’t that simple to just leave as you pleased; not with that line of work. She looked a little pale, and to be in pain – not having gone to the hospital when she got stabbed, her wound had gotten slightly infected; Juugo had first-aid, but he didn’t have the proper tools to stitch her wound properly. The infection was spreading, but it wasn’t incurable, she would go to the hospital as soon as the confirmed her safety, maybe have an escort. ‘’So this is the woman?’’ Kakashi wandered in, her red hair looked brighter than it was in the dimly lit office.
Shikamaru nodded. ‘’She’s willing to confess to everything, no interrogation needed this time.’’
Sakura stood leaning against the door, why was this woman confessing? She noticed the way she sat, and how she grasped her side – looking to be in pain. ‘’Sir, she looks to be in pain…’’
‘’I am,’’ Karin spat, wincing. ‘’That mother fucker stabbed me’’
‘’Who?’’
‘’My boss, Orochimaru’’
Kakashi sat across from Karin, fingers folded neat. ‘’Tell us everything, and we’ll guarantee your safety to the best of our abilities.’’
‘’Orochimaru isn’t the main guy in this stupid thing, all I know is that he’s the one who set up Hidan – Hidan was killing all of those people, but only by Orochimaru’s choice; he set everything up, Hidan just happened to break under pressure’’ Karin coughed, feeling blood in her mouth. ‘’I don’t know much else, I just know he’s fucking crazy.’’
‘’So what were you to this Orochimaru,’’ Kakashi heard the name before – he was a criminal, but it’d been years since his release...but clearly he was working under someone. ‘’Do you know who Orochimaru’s boss is, is there anything else you can tell us? Why is he setting up these killings, please, tell us all that you can.’’
‘’I don’t fucking know, I worked for him – you know, walked his dog and shit-‘’ She was lying, Sakura could tell. ‘’He just stabbed me because I wouldn’t do something for him.’’
‘’She’s lying.’’ Sakura stated, staring her down.
‘’Fuck you bitch, I’m not lying.’’
Kakashi sighed heavily; she wasn’t exactly answering his questions. ‘’Alright, take her to the medic…we’ll question her more once her memory isn’t so clouded with pain…’’
Shikamaru left with Karin, leaving Kakashi and Sakura alone once more. ‘’She’s lying,’’
‘’How can you tell, exactly?’’
Sakura headed for the door. ‘’It’s my job. Anyway, tell me what she says later, I have to be somewhere.’’
It wasn’t exactly a lie, Sakura had to go meet up with Ino for her dress fitting, but the last person she expected was there. ‘’Yo!’’ Naruto, a big dumb grin on his big dumb face pissed off Sakura more than she liked to admit – great, more company she didn’t need.
‘’Oh, why are you here?’’
‘’Ino invited me, duh’’ His smile widened, she just wanted to punch him so hard his teeth would fall out – why was he always so cheerful…she wandered in the back where Ino sat in her gorgeous wedding dress, glass of champagne in her hand – came with buying a dress, they fed you alcohol and sweets. ‘’You made it!’’ She ran over, twirling. ‘’Isn’t it gorgeous?’’
It really was, strapless and all. ‘’Ino you look beautiful,’’ She smiled, she really did look lovely – she couldn’t deny it, jealousy was hitting at her heart. ‘’Uh…’’ She blinked, noticing Sasuke slumping into one of the chairs. ‘’…who’s he?’’ Even though she knew exactly who he was, she acted clueless.
‘’Oh!! That’s naruto’s absolutely gorgeous best friend!’’
‘’I don’t want to be here,’’ Sasuke announced. ‘’He dragged me.’’
Sakura nodded. ‘’Um, right,’’ She blinked, wide-eyed – jeez he was attractive, she bit her bottom lip and went back to Ino.
‘’I can’t believe you’re here, you idiot! Do you have any idea what they’re gonna do to you if they found out you gave Orochimaru up to the cops!! Come on Karin, how fucking stupid do you have to be?’’
The tarnished lights in the medic’s room made everything seem dark and gloomy – the medic had just finished stitching Karin up, after writing a prescription for the infection, and gave her a few pain killers – she was handcuffed to the chair she sat in…just a precaution of Kakashi’s incase she decided to leave last minute, the cuff itself hurt – though she wouldn’t tell Suigetsu that, who had the key…so she was technically stuck there, if she wanted she could spread her legs and he would let her go, it was easy. ‘’Would you keep that big mouth of yours closed,’’ Her tone was but a whisper, noises in this place echoed – she noticed that earlier on when the medic was speaking to her. ‘’Don’t get your panties in a knot, Sui…I’m fine, and so are you.’’ Her painted red lips curved. ‘’no fucking way was I continuing to work with Orochimaru – he fucking stabbed me, because of you.’’
‘’Because of me, what the fuck did I do,’’
‘’you know what you did,’’ She winced as she crossed her legs. ‘’Damn pain…we went behind his back, technically,’’
‘’I don’t work for Orochimaru, he’s just pissed off that I went up to the bigger leads, which means technically I work for his boss.’’
‘’yeah well, Orochimaru doesn’t see it that way. He sees it as betrayal – you’re lucky he hasn’t had you killed yet.’’
Suigetsu crossed his arms as he leaned against the wall, watching her. ‘’well I’m not too worried, you shouldn’t be either, he shouldn’t have stabbed you.’’
The atmosphere was thick with tension as the door opened, Kakashi stood with Shikamaru. ‘’We’ll be holding you over night, Karin’’ He explained, looking just as tired as ever. ‘’Now that we have some information on Orochimaru, we would like to do some research before we ask any further questions, you’ll be escorted by Suigetsu and another officer of mine, and in the morning, we’ll talk – you’ll be watched, and protected by two officers – so your safety is guaranteed.’’ He looked at Suigetsu, and back at Shikamaru. ‘’Officer Nara will escort you and the officers to your sleeping quarters…’’ He looked at the clock, it was close to supper. ‘’I’ll see you in the early morning, so you best be prepared to answer anything we have for you.’’ He warned, leaving them with Shikamaru before departing himself.
Meanwhile, at Ino’s dress fitting – she was on about her fifth or seventh dress by this point, on her third or fourth drink of champagne, but it was most definitely watered down – if it wasn’t, the blonde would be plastered by this point in time, however she wasn’t. ‘’So tell me again why you invited tweedle-dee and tweedle-dumb…’’
Ino smacked Sakura’s shoulder. ‘’Sakura, come on! They’re nice, besides, It wasn’t like you were super available today, and you’re supposed to be my maid of honour, maybe you’re not worthy of the title, I mean…look at Naruto – ‘’
The blonde had on a tiara and was dancing around Sasuke like the sugar plumb fairy herself…he didn’t look bad – Sakura’s head tilted and she sighed, not understanding how Ino made friends so quickly. ‘’Okay so how long are we going to be here,’’ She followed Ino into her dressing room as she stripped off her final dress and stepped into some casual sweats.
‘’Well…actually,’’ She smiled, biting her lip. ‘’Would you mind if they came to your house…’’
‘’Uh…’’ She blinked, looking at Naruto and Sasuke through a crack in the door. ‘’Why exactly…’’
Ino pulled a t-shirt over her head and grabbed the dress beneath her feet. ‘’well because we’re invited to their work event…and I really want to go….and you have to come with me! Since I am the bride and all, you have to.’’
It wasn’t like she had a choice; what harm could it do…letting in two complete strangers into her house…after already being attacked in a place she thought she was safe, but it wasn’t as if she had much of a choice – Ino would never let her live it down if she didn’t agree to any of this. It wasn’t like she didn’t want to know them…sure they seemed like nice people – but her trust was lacking in anyone lately; but since she didn’t have a choice, her and Ino jumped in Sakura’s car, and Naruto and Sasuke followed in Sasuke’s car…great, now they were going to know where she lived…just great.
‘’Is this where you live Ino, this place is beautiful! Not like my place at all,’’ Naruto wandered into Sakura’s apartment like it was his own, going straight for the fridge. ‘’man, I’m starving!’’
‘’It’s actually Sakura’s place,’’ She informed him, wandering behind him – leaving Sasuke in the door way with Sakura, how awkward.
‘’Um…’’ She looked at him wide-eyed. ‘’Make yourself at home…’’ Without another word from her and before Sasuke could even get a word in, she bolted for the bathroom in her room – she needed cold water splashed against her face, she felt as if she was having an anxiety attack in her own apartment. Slamming the door, she nearly collapsed as she reached the sink – turning the tap and instantly soaking her face, and the back of her neck with crisp cold water. Hearing Naruto rattle around her kitchen, she glanced in the mirror – she’d been doing that a lot lately since the attack, unsure as to why – sense of security. Not looking tired for once, she blushed; that cute guy was in her apartment, well two cute guys – one of them seemed interesting, but the black haired guy named Sasuke just put her on edge.
‘’Hey! Sakura hurry it up!’’
Oh god, did Ino bring them into her bedroom! HER BED WASN’T MADE. ‘’Oh lord…’’ She dried her face, and she was right – Ino had brought them both into her bedroom…but the bed was made, thankfully. Inhaling a breath of relief, she eyed Ino in her walk-in closet. ‘’So, where exactly are we going…’’
‘’It’s an event at the café’.’’ Naruto explained, lying on her bed holding a pillow – as if they were old friends or something. ‘’Invite only,’’ He was grinning, go figure. Her room was large, with hard-wood flooring, a small balcony leading outside over a pretty nice view – that’s where Sasuke was, standing just at the door of the balcony – the fresh air felt nice no matter how the weather was.
Glasses clattered together as Itachi brought them down from a high shelf in the bar; getting everything organized for the event tonight – it was his bar, Naruto and Sasuke just happened to run things with him – they were running late, but that wasn’t anything new for Naruto, but for Sasuke…he felt somewhat suspicious with everything going on lately – he use to work for Orochimaru, amongst his other so called family members…family members that were willing to betray you without a second thought – he shook his head, glancing at Shikamaru who was sitting at the bar, and had been for about an hour now…something was up – and he knew it.
‘’Listen Nara, I don’t know what you want me to tell you; I’m not in that game anymore, you already know this.’’ Itachi informed him, wiping the sweat from his brow – the black shirt he wore complimented his very nicely toned arms as he continued moving heavy boxes of glasses and alcohol. ‘’Besides, tonight is the event, so unless you have an invite, we’re closed.’’ He was half-smiling, half serious at this point. ‘’I can’t have any more people I love getting in trouble, especially not Sasuke.’’ He explained, though it sounded more like a warning to Shikamaru than anything. It wasn’t like Itachi enjoyed trouble – he might have once upon a time, but he was getting too old for this drama.
‘’I’m surprised your uncle is letting you off so easily, that isn’t like him.’’ Shikamaru grabbed his jacket and left a twenty on the bar before pulling his keys and his cigarettes out of his pockets.
‘’Those will kill you,’’
‘’There are worse things than cigarettes…’’He waved, and went on his way back to the office – though they wouldn’t be confronting miss Karin until tomorrow morning, so more research for the rest of the night.
‘’I can’t believe I’m going out with a bunch of strangers,’’ Sakura sighed, rubbing the back of her neck as her and Ino followed the boys in, finding a booth-like seat. ‘’Sasuke has to help his brother behind the bar, but I’ll keep you guys company!’’ Naruto was grinning, they had one or two drinks at Sakura’s, but that didn’t explain how much energy he had – she already felt like climbing into bed and passing out for who knows how long.
‘’Oh come on! I invited Sai and his friends too,’’ Ino was smiling – great, now she could just feel uneasy the rest of the night; she sighed. ‘’I’m getting a drink,’’
Approaching the bar wasn’t as chaotic as Sakura assumed – the ‘event’ the boys invited them to was a small, business like event, and Sakura felt completely out of place and under dressed in her blue jeans and a tank-top. ‘’Well this isn’t awkward at all…’’ She mumbled plopping down in a bar stood, Itachi overheard her and smiled. ‘’Feeling out of place?’’ He was drying a very large glass, Sakura noticed the distinctive features, he must be Sasuke’s older brother, unable to help herself she turned a shade of red and looked down – jeez, what was it with these Uchiha guys, she looked back up and awkwardly – but Sai interrupted her train of thought. ‘’Itachi, so nice to see you again;’’ Sai was standing next to Ino, who was now standing next to Sakura. ‘’You’ve met my fiance’s good friend Sakura, she works with Kakashi you know,’’ He winked – Sakura’s paranoia was right, something was most definitely off…but she couldn’t figure out what.
‘’Oh, you must be Sasuke’s older brother!’’ Ino smiled, curling her finger around her pony tail. ‘’I must say, you Uchiha are quite attractive!’’ Giggling, Sakura moved passed her half-intoxicated bride to be and headed for the washroom; only to be stopped by Naruto. ‘’Well this seems familiar!’’ He was grinning; she didn’t have time for this – grabbing him by the collar, and with strength she didn’t know she possessed, yanked him into the girl’s washroom – and slammed him into a stall, covering his mouth – as two ladies wandered out of different stalls.
‘’Oh my gosh, the bartender is cute!’’
‘’I know, so is the waiters! I should apply here!’’
Their voices echoed as the door closed, and Sakura took the opportunity to lock the bathroom door from the inside, so no one could get in.
‘’Whoa, what’s up with you!’’ Thankfully he wasn’t drinking like Ino had been, that grin was still on his face which just annoyed the stressed out pinkette. ‘’Listen,’’ She grabbed him by the collar again, pulling him out of the stall, nearly falling into one of the sinks – he managed to catch himself, suddenly worried. ‘’man, what’s going on – this is weird, even for someone I just technically met,’’
‘’Listen,’’ She rubbed the back of her neck. ‘’My best friends fiancé is a bad guy, and I’m afraid he’s going to hurt her, and I’m also afraid he’s going to hurt me, or worse.’’
The confusion on his face grew, and then he smiled. ‘’is this some kind of a joke? Did Sasuke put you up to this?’’
‘’No!’’ She wanted to hit him. ‘’This isn’t a joke okay?! I work for the cops!!’’ She was wide-eyed and panicked and Naruto could see it on her face. ‘’You’re really not okay…’’ The smile faded on his face, down to a somewhat pale look. ‘’What’s going on exactly…’’
‘’You seem like a nice guy,’’ She sighed, she shouldn’t have brought him into this but it was too late now. ‘’That guy out there beside Ino, his name is Sai – her fiancé…and he’s always been weird, but lately I’ve been noticing it more and more after… meeting his friend, who’s technically a cop – but the thing is I don’t think he’s a cop! And ugh, because of him I was attacked, and I don’t know, the whole thing – I’m just going crazy.’’
‘’Wait, attacked?’’ Naruto blinked, wide-eyed; Sakura sighed. ‘’I’m a psychiatrist, I work with the criminals….and one of them attacked me a few weeks ago,’’ She sighed. ‘’The cop who was supposed to be on duty wasn’t and it turns out he’s good friends with Sai.’’ She ran a hand through her hair. ‘’I shouldn’t even be telling you, but I didn’t know how else to get you to shut up.’’
‘’You could of kissed me,’’ He grinned, making light of the dark situation – but that only lead to Sakura giving him the stink eye, she came so close to punching him that time. ‘’this isn’t a game,’’ She paused – there was loud banging on the door. ‘’Yo! Whoever locked this door better come out!’’
It was Sasuke’s voice; a few people must have tried to come in – Sakura hadn’t realized how long they’d been in there; she sighed, and unlocked the door before Sasuke physically kicked it in – he stared at both Naruto and Sakura. ‘’Sorry Sasuke! We were just talking,’’ Naruto was grinning, and Sakura looked less than amused as she passed Sasuke. ‘’Naruto was being pervy, just like the first-time,’’ She muttered, assuming Sasuke knew about what happened at the ramen hut. Wandering past him, eyeing the bar, Sai was still there – with Ino, talking to Itachi, but Itachi himself didn’t look overly please, something was definitely up.
‘’I have to go,’’ She moved passed a few women crowding toward the washroom, before getting grabbed by Sasuke, which was completely unlikely – and pulled her into a backroom before even Naruto noticed. ‘’Hey! What’s your deal!’’ He threw her into the leather coach in the back office, it reminded her of Kakashi’s office…what was with the whole leather coach…he slammed, and locked the door – looking rather pissed off. ‘’Who do you work for!?’’ He yelled, looking as if he may strike her.
Pushing herself up off of the leather coach, hair a mess, she turned back – half on the coach, half off, looking disoriented. ‘’What the hell! What’s your deal! You can’t just throw someone around like that!’’
‘’I can do whatever the fuck I please,’’ He crossed his arms, and leaned against the door – implying to her that she wasn’t going anywhere until she answered him. ‘’Now fess up, who the fuck do you work for.’’
What the hell was this guy’s deal, she didn’t do anything wrong, If anything he was wrong for throwing her into his office without an explanation. ‘’I work with the cops! Jesus! I’m a fucking psychiatrist, what the hell gives you any right to throw me into a room like that!’’ Her temper flared – she always did have a bad one when she let it shine; he looked at her, unmoving for a few minutes – silence and mainly heavy breathing from Sakura. ‘’If you work for the police, then why are you hanging around such a scum bag,’’
Straightening her tank top, and calming herself – she stood, staring. ‘’who are you talking about’’
‘’don’t play dumb, the guy, Suigetsu, your friends fiancé.’’
So he was really a scum bag. ‘’Listen,’’ She pushed her hair behind her ears and sighed, almost wanting to laugh. ‘’I don’t know him like you think I do.’’ She paused. ‘’All I know is that recently I found out he’s friends with a dirty cop – and that’s all I’m aware of, before that, I just thought he was really weird…’’
Sasuke didn’t move, he just stared at her.
‘’So what’s your deal with him, and what can you tell me, because I seriously don’t need my friend involved in all of this.’’
‘’you’re just a psychiatrist, aren’t you?’’ Damn, he must have heard the end of her conversation with Naruto, that wasn’t a good thing - she sighed, wanting to leave the office; needing some fresh air at this point. ‘’I’ll tell you everything you need to know, as long as you tell me your side of the story…just not here,’’
Not moving momentarily, he stared, and finally unlocked the office door. ‘’Meet me at this address,’’ Grabbing one of Itachi’s business cards, he wrote down an address. ‘’Don’t tell anyone where you’re going.’’ He warned, opening the door. ‘’I’ll see you there,’’
Back out in the open, more people in suits had turned up – they were all mainly around the bar, where drunken Ino amused most of them. ‘’Jesus…’’ She glanced over to the booth and noticed Naruto sitting there solo, he looked pretty bummed out – she didn’t have to meet Sasuke for another two hours – after the bar closed. He seemed like a nice guy, so she approached him. ‘’Do you wanna get something to eat?’’ She half-smiled, looking a little overtired.
Before he could answer, Sai wandered over with drunken Ino hanging off of his arm. ‘’Do you mind taking her home, Sakura?’’
She stood there silently for a moment – she never noticed until now, Ino was always getting shit-faced around Sai, she was never sober, not even when she could be…suspicions grew higher, Naruto took Ino from Sai and literally picked her up, bridal style. ‘’I’ll help you get her home,’’ He was half-smiling. ‘’Then maybe we can grab a bite?’’
Sakura nodded, food sounded amazing at this point.
Driving to Ino’s felt like a bad idea, Sakura felt uneasy since the whole encounter with Sasuke – he just confirmed her suspicions about Sai; so she headed for her apartment instead, least she would be somewhat safe there. ‘’She’s heavier than she looks…’’ He mumbled, slightly laughing – unless he was joking, Sakura hoped he was, even she could pick up Ino. Inside, she felt somewhat relieved, she always felt safest in her own home – least she did. ‘’Where should I put her,’’
‘’Guest bedroom,’’ Sakura half-smiled, grabbing a bottle of water from the fridge; Ino wasn’t one to get sick when she drank, but she usually woke up in the middle of the night dehydrated, so leaving a bottle of water would keep her from going to the kitchen – after Naruto put her into bed, he met Sakura back out in the kitchen. ‘’you’re a good friend,’’ he was smiling – like always, but she was starting not to mind it so much. She felt like Ino’s mother more so than her friend as of lately – she thought all the drinking was pre-marital nerves but it wasn’t at all; ‘’Naruto,’’ She grabbed him a cup of coffee. ‘’Earlier, Sasuke pulled me into his office…he thought I was someone else,’’
Naruto sighed heavily, rubbing the back of his neck – it wasn’t really his place, and she wasn’t supposed to tell anyone – but the two of them seemed very close. ‘’I’m not really supposed to tell you anything.’’ He watched her pour boiling water into his cup, and then hers – it smelled delicious, making his mouth water, she handed him the cup, and sat across from him.
‘’well, I told him some, so now I want answers. Ino is my best friend, and I can’t risk anything happening to her.’’
A loud knock was heard from the front door and instantly sakura felt uneasy. ‘’I should get that,’’
‘’No, I will,’’ Naruto half-grinned and walked to the door – and as he opened it, both Kakashi and Sasuke were standing there. ‘’Uh…funny seeing you here,’’ He blinked, wide-eyed; Sasuke looked pissed, and Kakashi just looked tired. ‘’Come on in…hey Sakura,’’
Rounding the corner, Sakura almost fell over when she saw her boss and Sasuke together. ‘’Uh…hey sir, er….why are you-‘’
‘’Sasuke came to me,’’ He explained, removing his jacket. ‘’He thought you were the enemy….’’He muttered, bad choice of words. ‘’So I told him everything that’s been going on –‘’
‘’why would you tell him?’’ Sakura asked, brow arched – though she would have found out from Naruto If they hadn’t showed up, and later from Sasuke when she met with him.
‘’Grab me some coffee, it’s a long story.’’
It really was a long story; The Uchiha name had been tainted for decades – Itachi Uchiha wasn’t a known criminal but he did do the dirty work for his uncle Madara Uchiha; his father was killed, and so was his mother, and that’s why he chose to get out when he did. Itachi Uchiha never killed anyone, but he did other means of criminal activity. He was a kid, and once he realized what he’d been doing, and the murder of his parents – he stopped; and hid the truth from Sasuke for a while until as of lately. Madara Uchiha and Obito Uchiha, both mobsters…if that’s what you would call them, were responsible for some of the most horrific slaughters in the world – but they never got caught – the police force and investigators were aware of Madara and Obito but they hadn’t heard of the criminals working for them; they only just now heard of Orochimaru, and recently caught Hidan – but after talking with Sasuke, Kakashi was aware of Sai, amongst other names; and Sakura needed to get Ino out of there before it was too late.
‘’So you’re saying Sai is working for a scum bag, is it Orochimaru?’’
Kakashi shook his head, they weren’t sure who it was – they just knew Ino wasn’t safe around him. ‘’I knew something wasn’t right, what about Suigetsu?’’
Kakashi sighed, running a hand through his hair – he was on his second cup of coffee. ‘’We have Suigetsu under watch, though he doesn’t know it yet…I shouldn’t have hired him, I’m sorry Sakura.’’ He placed his cup down and looked at Naruto and Sasuke. ‘’As for Sasuke and Naruto, they just happened to get dragged in, like you, which could be a problem’’
‘’How are we a problem at all, if anything, we helped.’’ Sasuke defended, not having any tea or coffee himself, he just wanted to know all the information he could – staring down both Kakashi and Sakura. ‘’So you killed one guy, and you’re aware of someone else, is that all you got?’’
‘’we have a woman in for interrogation tomorrow morning,’’ He looked at Sakura. ‘’Apparently Orochimaru is a little twisted,’’
‘’Jeez,’’ Naruto rubbed the back of his neck, chowing down on some left over seven layered taco dip. ‘’So the guy you caught, the murderer, he attacked you Sakura?’’
‘’unfortunately, all thanks to Suigetsu,’’
‘’Suigetsu?’’ Sasuke clued in, not having noticed the name previously. ‘’And the woman you’re interrogating, what was her name,’’ He exchanged glances with Naruto.
‘’Her name is Karin,’’ Sakura looked at him, suspicious. ‘’Do you know them?’’
‘’Not technically,’’
‘’Oh come on Sasuke, Karin is so into him – it’s kind of weird.’’ Blabbing, Sasuke almost lunged onto Naruto for saying anything at all. ‘’What! It’s true!!’’
‘’so you know them?’’ Kakashi asked, but Sasuke shook his head. ‘’I’ve met Karin, and Suigetsu once or twice through Itachi back when, but I was never aware of their line of work – ‘’ He wasn’t lying, he really didn’t. ‘’They just came to the bar often, for drinks and food, but they never discussed work, or complained about it.’’ Crossing his arms, he finally sat down – tired of standing for two hours, after all that talking. Having both Sasuke, and Naruto involved wasn’t exactly uncommon – it was more of a help. ‘’I don’t think your brother would want you involved, Sasuke.’’ Kakashi warned, pushing himself up. ‘’Anyway, don’t speak a word of this to anyone – especially you, Sasuke, we can’t have this getting into the wrong hands.’’ Grabbing his jacket, he moved to the door. ‘’I’ll see you in the morning, Sakura?’’
‘’Yes sir, sorry for all of this’’ She bowed her head – feeling somewhat defeated. Though, there wasn’t really a reason to – she helped more than anything.
[[More to come. I know the first little bit is short, hard to write while at work however!]]
Biting on her pen, she stared down at the soundless video, watching Konan’s reactions from their previous sessions – if there were any at all. It didn’t surprise Sakura, she was use to this – she was just trying to figure out more dirt on the Hidan case, and asking similar cases didn’t hurt, and she didn’t have a choice, it was her job to talk to these criminals whether she liked it or not. Though, this time she had a police officer in the room with her, just in case. ‘’Konan doesn’t leave me to believe she’s part of it…she’s just crazy,’’ Sakura shrugged before dropping onto the leather couch in Kakashi’s office.
It’d been about two weeks from the incident with Hidan, Sakura started to feel less and less as the days went on but she was also getting more information on Suigetsu as well; she wanted to know who he was, where he came from, anything she could really…
‘’so why is it you need information on my officers?’’
Ah, he knew – of course, what didn’t Kakashi know? Pushing herself upright, sitting properly she stared. ‘’sense of security, mainly.’’
‘’Do you not feel safe here, sakura?’’
Shaking her head, she grabbed her clip bored, pressing pause on the video on Konan. ‘’no, I don’t, because the guy human resources hired and the guy you approved through human resources, wasn’t on his post, I was nearly raped and killed – so no Sir, I don’t feel safe, not now, not since then.’’ She explained, taking the folder on Suigetsu. ‘’So If you don’t mind, I’d like to know all there is to know about this new cop you hired, if that’s okay with you.’’
The attitude and seriousness in her voice caught Kakashi a little off guard; she was definitely right, maybe hiring someone new was a bad idea – but whatever, he didn’t care, she was safe now. ‘’Well alright then,’’ He half-smiled at her watching her route through the pages upon pages of information, she would ask Sai about him…but she didn’t trust Sai, not after the way he acted – she hadn’t seen Ino or Sai in quite some time with the wedding coming up next week.
There was an abrupt knock on the door, walking in was Shikamaru. ‘’sir, I do apologize for the interruption but we have someone with Intel on the Hidan case.’’ He glanced at Sakura who looked as equally as interested as Kakashi. ‘’She’s willing to cooperate as long as we can guarantee her safety.’’
A cocked brow, Kakashi stood up. ‘’why would we need to guarantee her safety, Shikamaru…’’
He didn’t answer, he merely gave him a look. ‘’She’s sitting in my office, we didn’t handcuff her but, she had quite a bit of detail,’’ He paused. ‘’I don’t know if it would be appropriate for Sakura to attend,’’
‘’Nonsense,’’ Sakura snapped. ‘’I need an explanation to Hidan just as much as the two of you. Its Kakashi’s bad hiring skills that almost got me killed.’’
She wasn’t wrong… but she was stepping out of line – but he knew she was right. ‘’No, it’s alright Shikamaru she can come.’’
The woman sitting in Shikamaru’s office was the same woman who was once working for Orochimaru… but it wasn’t that simple to just leave as you pleased; not with that line of work. She looked a little pale, and to be in pain – not having gone to the hospital when she got stabbed, her wound had gotten slightly infected; Juugo had first-aid, but he didn’t have the proper tools to stitch her wound properly. The infection was spreading, but it wasn’t incurable, she would go to the hospital as soon as the confirmed her safety, maybe have an escort. ‘’So this is the woman?’’ Kakashi wandered in, her red hair looked brighter than it was in the dimly lit office.
Shikamaru nodded. ‘’She’s willing to confess to everything, no interrogation needed this time.’’
Sakura stood leaning against the door, why was this woman confessing? She noticed the way she sat, and how she grasped her side – looking to be in pain. ‘’Sir, she looks to be in pain…’’
‘’I am,’’ Karin spat, wincing. ‘’That mother fucker stabbed me’’
‘’Who?’’
‘’My boss, Orochimaru’’
Kakashi sat across from Karin, fingers folded neat. ‘’Tell us everything, and we’ll guarantee your safety to the best of our abilities.’’
‘’Orochimaru isn’t the main guy in this stupid thing, all I know is that he’s the one who set up Hidan – Hidan was killing all of those people, but only by Orochimaru’s choice; he set everything up, Hidan just happened to break under pressure’’ Karin coughed, feeling blood in her mouth. ‘’I don’t know much else, I just know he’s fucking crazy.’’
‘’So what were you to this Orochimaru,’’ Kakashi heard the name before – he was a criminal, but it’d been years since his release...but clearly he was working under someone. ‘’Do you know who Orochimaru’s boss is, is there anything else you can tell us? Why is he setting up these killings, please, tell us all that you can.’’
‘’I don’t fucking know, I worked for him – you know, walked his dog and shit-‘’ She was lying, Sakura could tell. ‘’He just stabbed me because I wouldn’t do something for him.’’
‘’She’s lying.’’ Sakura stated, staring her down.
‘’Fuck you bitch, I’m not lying.’’
Kakashi sighed heavily; she wasn’t exactly answering his questions. ‘’Alright, take her to the medic…we’ll question her more once her memory isn’t so clouded with pain…’’
Shikamaru left with Karin, leaving Kakashi and Sakura alone once more. ‘’She’s lying,’’
‘’How can you tell, exactly?’’
Sakura headed for the door. ‘’It’s my job. Anyway, tell me what she says later, I have to be somewhere.’’
It wasn’t exactly a lie, Sakura had to go meet up with Ino for her dress fitting, but the last person she expected was there. ‘’Yo!’’ Naruto, a big dumb grin on his big dumb face pissed off Sakura more than she liked to admit – great, more company she didn’t need.
‘’Oh, why are you here?’’
‘’Ino invited me, duh’’ His smile widened, she just wanted to punch him so hard his teeth would fall out – why was he always so cheerful…she wandered in the back where Ino sat in her gorgeous wedding dress, glass of champagne in her hand – came with buying a dress, they fed you alcohol and sweets. ‘’You made it!’’ She ran over, twirling. ‘’Isn’t it gorgeous?’’
It really was, strapless and all. ‘’Ino you look beautiful,’’ She smiled, she really did look lovely – she couldn’t deny it, jealousy was hitting at her heart. ‘’Uh…’’ She blinked, noticing Sasuke slumping into one of the chairs. ‘’…who’s he?’’ Even though she knew exactly who he was, she acted clueless.
‘’Oh!! That’s naruto’s absolutely gorgeous best friend!’’
‘’I don’t want to be here,’’ Sasuke announced. ‘’He dragged me.’’
Sakura nodded. ‘’Um, right,’’ She blinked, wide-eyed – jeez he was attractive, she bit her bottom lip and went back to Ino.
‘’I can’t believe you’re here, you idiot! Do you have any idea what they’re gonna do to you if they found out you gave Orochimaru up to the cops!! Come on Karin, how fucking stupid do you have to be?’’
The tarnished lights in the medic’s room made everything seem dark and gloomy – the medic had just finished stitching Karin up, after writing a prescription for the infection, and gave her a few pain killers – she was handcuffed to the chair she sat in…just a precaution of Kakashi’s incase she decided to leave last minute, the cuff itself hurt – though she wouldn’t tell Suigetsu that, who had the key…so she was technically stuck there, if she wanted she could spread her legs and he would let her go, it was easy. ‘’Would you keep that big mouth of yours closed,’’ Her tone was but a whisper, noises in this place echoed – she noticed that earlier on when the medic was speaking to her. ‘’Don’t get your panties in a knot, Sui…I’m fine, and so are you.’’ Her painted red lips curved. ‘’no fucking way was I continuing to work with Orochimaru – he fucking stabbed me, because of you.’’
‘’Because of me, what the fuck did I do,’’
‘’you know what you did,’’ She winced as she crossed her legs. ‘’Damn pain…we went behind his back, technically,’’
‘’I don’t work for Orochimaru, he’s just pissed off that I went up to the bigger leads, which means technically I work for his boss.’’
‘’yeah well, Orochimaru doesn’t see it that way. He sees it as betrayal – you’re lucky he hasn’t had you killed yet.’’
Suigetsu crossed his arms as he leaned against the wall, watching her. ‘’well I’m not too worried, you shouldn’t be either, he shouldn’t have stabbed you.’’
The atmosphere was thick with tension as the door opened, Kakashi stood with Shikamaru. ‘’We’ll be holding you over night, Karin’’ He explained, looking just as tired as ever. ‘’Now that we have some information on Orochimaru, we would like to do some research before we ask any further questions, you’ll be escorted by Suigetsu and another officer of mine, and in the morning, we’ll talk – you’ll be watched, and protected by two officers – so your safety is guaranteed.’’ He looked at Suigetsu, and back at Shikamaru. ‘’Officer Nara will escort you and the officers to your sleeping quarters…’’ He looked at the clock, it was close to supper. ‘’I’ll see you in the early morning, so you best be prepared to answer anything we have for you.’’ He warned, leaving them with Shikamaru before departing himself.
Meanwhile, at Ino’s dress fitting – she was on about her fifth or seventh dress by this point, on her third or fourth drink of champagne, but it was most definitely watered down – if it wasn’t, the blonde would be plastered by this point in time, however she wasn’t. ‘’So tell me again why you invited tweedle-dee and tweedle-dumb…’’
Ino smacked Sakura’s shoulder. ‘’Sakura, come on! They’re nice, besides, It wasn’t like you were super available today, and you’re supposed to be my maid of honour, maybe you’re not worthy of the title, I mean…look at Naruto – ‘’
The blonde had on a tiara and was dancing around Sasuke like the sugar plumb fairy herself…he didn’t look bad – Sakura’s head tilted and she sighed, not understanding how Ino made friends so quickly. ‘’Okay so how long are we going to be here,’’ She followed Ino into her dressing room as she stripped off her final dress and stepped into some casual sweats.
‘’Well…actually,’’ She smiled, biting her lip. ‘’Would you mind if they came to your house…’’
‘’Uh…’’ She blinked, looking at Naruto and Sasuke through a crack in the door. ‘’Why exactly…’’
Ino pulled a t-shirt over her head and grabbed the dress beneath her feet. ‘’well because we’re invited to their work event…and I really want to go….and you have to come with me! Since I am the bride and all, you have to.’’
It wasn’t like she had a choice; what harm could it do…letting in two complete strangers into her house…after already being attacked in a place she thought she was safe, but it wasn’t as if she had much of a choice – Ino would never let her live it down if she didn’t agree to any of this. It wasn’t like she didn’t want to know them…sure they seemed like nice people – but her trust was lacking in anyone lately; but since she didn’t have a choice, her and Ino jumped in Sakura’s car, and Naruto and Sasuke followed in Sasuke’s car…great, now they were going to know where she lived…just great.
‘’Is this where you live Ino, this place is beautiful! Not like my place at all,’’ Naruto wandered into Sakura’s apartment like it was his own, going straight for the fridge. ‘’man, I’m starving!’’
‘’It’s actually Sakura’s place,’’ She informed him, wandering behind him – leaving Sasuke in the door way with Sakura, how awkward.
‘’Um…’’ She looked at him wide-eyed. ‘’Make yourself at home…’’ Without another word from her and before Sasuke could even get a word in, she bolted for the bathroom in her room – she needed cold water splashed against her face, she felt as if she was having an anxiety attack in her own apartment. Slamming the door, she nearly collapsed as she reached the sink – turning the tap and instantly soaking her face, and the back of her neck with crisp cold water. Hearing Naruto rattle around her kitchen, she glanced in the mirror – she’d been doing that a lot lately since the attack, unsure as to why – sense of security. Not looking tired for once, she blushed; that cute guy was in her apartment, well two cute guys – one of them seemed interesting, but the black haired guy named Sasuke just put her on edge.
‘’Hey! Sakura hurry it up!’’
Oh god, did Ino bring them into her bedroom! HER BED WASN’T MADE. ‘’Oh lord…’’ She dried her face, and she was right – Ino had brought them both into her bedroom…but the bed was made, thankfully. Inhaling a breath of relief, she eyed Ino in her walk-in closet. ‘’So, where exactly are we going…’’
‘’It’s an event at the café’.’’ Naruto explained, lying on her bed holding a pillow – as if they were old friends or something. ‘’Invite only,’’ He was grinning, go figure. Her room was large, with hard-wood flooring, a small balcony leading outside over a pretty nice view – that’s where Sasuke was, standing just at the door of the balcony – the fresh air felt nice no matter how the weather was.
Glasses clattered together as Itachi brought them down from a high shelf in the bar; getting everything organized for the event tonight – it was his bar, Naruto and Sasuke just happened to run things with him – they were running late, but that wasn’t anything new for Naruto, but for Sasuke…he felt somewhat suspicious with everything going on lately – he use to work for Orochimaru, amongst his other so called family members…family members that were willing to betray you without a second thought – he shook his head, glancing at Shikamaru who was sitting at the bar, and had been for about an hour now…something was up – and he knew it.
‘’Listen Nara, I don’t know what you want me to tell you; I’m not in that game anymore, you already know this.’’ Itachi informed him, wiping the sweat from his brow – the black shirt he wore complimented his very nicely toned arms as he continued moving heavy boxes of glasses and alcohol. ‘’Besides, tonight is the event, so unless you have an invite, we’re closed.’’ He was half-smiling, half serious at this point. ‘’I can’t have any more people I love getting in trouble, especially not Sasuke.’’ He explained, though it sounded more like a warning to Shikamaru than anything. It wasn’t like Itachi enjoyed trouble – he might have once upon a time, but he was getting too old for this drama.
‘’I’m surprised your uncle is letting you off so easily, that isn’t like him.’’ Shikamaru grabbed his jacket and left a twenty on the bar before pulling his keys and his cigarettes out of his pockets.
‘’Those will kill you,’’
‘’There are worse things than cigarettes…’’He waved, and went on his way back to the office – though they wouldn’t be confronting miss Karin until tomorrow morning, so more research for the rest of the night.
‘’I can’t believe I’m going out with a bunch of strangers,’’ Sakura sighed, rubbing the back of her neck as her and Ino followed the boys in, finding a booth-like seat. ‘’Sasuke has to help his brother behind the bar, but I’ll keep you guys company!’’ Naruto was grinning, they had one or two drinks at Sakura’s, but that didn’t explain how much energy he had – she already felt like climbing into bed and passing out for who knows how long.
‘’Oh come on! I invited Sai and his friends too,’’ Ino was smiling – great, now she could just feel uneasy the rest of the night; she sighed. ‘’I’m getting a drink,’’
Approaching the bar wasn’t as chaotic as Sakura assumed – the ‘event’ the boys invited them to was a small, business like event, and Sakura felt completely out of place and under dressed in her blue jeans and a tank-top. ‘’Well this isn’t awkward at all…’’ She mumbled plopping down in a bar stood, Itachi overheard her and smiled. ‘’Feeling out of place?’’ He was drying a very large glass, Sakura noticed the distinctive features, he must be Sasuke’s older brother, unable to help herself she turned a shade of red and looked down – jeez, what was it with these Uchiha guys, she looked back up and awkwardly – but Sai interrupted her train of thought. ‘’Itachi, so nice to see you again;’’ Sai was standing next to Ino, who was now standing next to Sakura. ‘’You’ve met my fiance’s good friend Sakura, she works with Kakashi you know,’’ He winked – Sakura’s paranoia was right, something was most definitely off…but she couldn’t figure out what.
‘’Oh, you must be Sasuke’s older brother!’’ Ino smiled, curling her finger around her pony tail. ‘’I must say, you Uchiha are quite attractive!’’ Giggling, Sakura moved passed her half-intoxicated bride to be and headed for the washroom; only to be stopped by Naruto. ‘’Well this seems familiar!’’ He was grinning; she didn’t have time for this – grabbing him by the collar, and with strength she didn’t know she possessed, yanked him into the girl’s washroom – and slammed him into a stall, covering his mouth – as two ladies wandered out of different stalls.
‘’Oh my gosh, the bartender is cute!’’
‘’I know, so is the waiters! I should apply here!’’
Their voices echoed as the door closed, and Sakura took the opportunity to lock the bathroom door from the inside, so no one could get in.
‘’Whoa, what’s up with you!’’ Thankfully he wasn’t drinking like Ino had been, that grin was still on his face which just annoyed the stressed out pinkette. ‘’Listen,’’ She grabbed him by the collar again, pulling him out of the stall, nearly falling into one of the sinks – he managed to catch himself, suddenly worried. ‘’man, what’s going on – this is weird, even for someone I just technically met,’’
‘’Listen,’’ She rubbed the back of her neck. ‘’My best friends fiancé is a bad guy, and I’m afraid he’s going to hurt her, and I’m also afraid he’s going to hurt me, or worse.’’
The confusion on his face grew, and then he smiled. ‘’is this some kind of a joke? Did Sasuke put you up to this?’’
‘’No!’’ She wanted to hit him. ‘’This isn’t a joke okay?! I work for the cops!!’’ She was wide-eyed and panicked and Naruto could see it on her face. ‘’You’re really not okay…’’ The smile faded on his face, down to a somewhat pale look. ‘’What’s going on exactly…’’
‘’You seem like a nice guy,’’ She sighed, she shouldn’t have brought him into this but it was too late now. ‘’That guy out there beside Ino, his name is Sai – her fiancé…and he’s always been weird, but lately I’ve been noticing it more and more after… meeting his friend, who’s technically a cop – but the thing is I don’t think he’s a cop! And ugh, because of him I was attacked, and I don’t know, the whole thing – I’m just going crazy.’’
‘’Wait, attacked?’’ Naruto blinked, wide-eyed; Sakura sighed. ‘’I’m a psychiatrist, I work with the criminals….and one of them attacked me a few weeks ago,’’ She sighed. ‘’The cop who was supposed to be on duty wasn’t and it turns out he’s good friends with Sai.’’ She ran a hand through her hair. ‘’I shouldn’t even be telling you, but I didn’t know how else to get you to shut up.’’
‘’You could of kissed me,’’ He grinned, making light of the dark situation – but that only lead to Sakura giving him the stink eye, she came so close to punching him that time. ‘’this isn’t a game,’’ She paused – there was loud banging on the door. ‘’Yo! Whoever locked this door better come out!’’
It was Sasuke’s voice; a few people must have tried to come in – Sakura hadn’t realized how long they’d been in there; she sighed, and unlocked the door before Sasuke physically kicked it in – he stared at both Naruto and Sakura. ‘’Sorry Sasuke! We were just talking,’’ Naruto was grinning, and Sakura looked less than amused as she passed Sasuke. ‘’Naruto was being pervy, just like the first-time,’’ She muttered, assuming Sasuke knew about what happened at the ramen hut. Wandering past him, eyeing the bar, Sai was still there – with Ino, talking to Itachi, but Itachi himself didn’t look overly please, something was definitely up.
‘’I have to go,’’ She moved passed a few women crowding toward the washroom, before getting grabbed by Sasuke, which was completely unlikely – and pulled her into a backroom before even Naruto noticed. ‘’Hey! What’s your deal!’’ He threw her into the leather coach in the back office, it reminded her of Kakashi’s office…what was with the whole leather coach…he slammed, and locked the door – looking rather pissed off. ‘’Who do you work for!?’’ He yelled, looking as if he may strike her.
Pushing herself up off of the leather coach, hair a mess, she turned back – half on the coach, half off, looking disoriented. ‘’What the hell! What’s your deal! You can’t just throw someone around like that!’’
‘’I can do whatever the fuck I please,’’ He crossed his arms, and leaned against the door – implying to her that she wasn’t going anywhere until she answered him. ‘’Now fess up, who the fuck do you work for.’’
What the hell was this guy’s deal, she didn’t do anything wrong, If anything he was wrong for throwing her into his office without an explanation. ‘’I work with the cops! Jesus! I’m a fucking psychiatrist, what the hell gives you any right to throw me into a room like that!’’ Her temper flared – she always did have a bad one when she let it shine; he looked at her, unmoving for a few minutes – silence and mainly heavy breathing from Sakura. ‘’If you work for the police, then why are you hanging around such a scum bag,’’
Straightening her tank top, and calming herself – she stood, staring. ‘’who are you talking about’’
‘’don’t play dumb, the guy, Suigetsu, your friends fiancé.’’
So he was really a scum bag. ‘’Listen,’’ She pushed her hair behind her ears and sighed, almost wanting to laugh. ‘’I don’t know him like you think I do.’’ She paused. ‘’All I know is that recently I found out he’s friends with a dirty cop – and that’s all I’m aware of, before that, I just thought he was really weird…’’
Sasuke didn’t move, he just stared at her.
‘’So what’s your deal with him, and what can you tell me, because I seriously don’t need my friend involved in all of this.’’
‘’you’re just a psychiatrist, aren’t you?’’ Damn, he must have heard the end of her conversation with Naruto, that wasn’t a good thing - she sighed, wanting to leave the office; needing some fresh air at this point. ‘’I’ll tell you everything you need to know, as long as you tell me your side of the story…just not here,’’
Not moving momentarily, he stared, and finally unlocked the office door. ‘’Meet me at this address,’’ Grabbing one of Itachi’s business cards, he wrote down an address. ‘’Don’t tell anyone where you’re going.’’ He warned, opening the door. ‘’I’ll see you there,’’
Back out in the open, more people in suits had turned up – they were all mainly around the bar, where drunken Ino amused most of them. ‘’Jesus…’’ She glanced over to the booth and noticed Naruto sitting there solo, he looked pretty bummed out – she didn’t have to meet Sasuke for another two hours – after the bar closed. He seemed like a nice guy, so she approached him. ‘’Do you wanna get something to eat?’’ She half-smiled, looking a little overtired.
Before he could answer, Sai wandered over with drunken Ino hanging off of his arm. ‘’Do you mind taking her home, Sakura?’’
She stood there silently for a moment – she never noticed until now, Ino was always getting shit-faced around Sai, she was never sober, not even when she could be…suspicions grew higher, Naruto took Ino from Sai and literally picked her up, bridal style. ‘’I’ll help you get her home,’’ He was half-smiling. ‘’Then maybe we can grab a bite?’’
Sakura nodded, food sounded amazing at this point.
Driving to Ino’s felt like a bad idea, Sakura felt uneasy since the whole encounter with Sasuke – he just confirmed her suspicions about Sai; so she headed for her apartment instead, least she would be somewhat safe there. ‘’She’s heavier than she looks…’’ He mumbled, slightly laughing – unless he was joking, Sakura hoped he was, even she could pick up Ino. Inside, she felt somewhat relieved, she always felt safest in her own home – least she did. ‘’Where should I put her,’’
‘’Guest bedroom,’’ Sakura half-smiled, grabbing a bottle of water from the fridge; Ino wasn’t one to get sick when she drank, but she usually woke up in the middle of the night dehydrated, so leaving a bottle of water would keep her from going to the kitchen – after Naruto put her into bed, he met Sakura back out in the kitchen. ‘’you’re a good friend,’’ he was smiling – like always, but she was starting not to mind it so much. She felt like Ino’s mother more so than her friend as of lately – she thought all the drinking was pre-marital nerves but it wasn’t at all; ‘’Naruto,’’ She grabbed him a cup of coffee. ‘’Earlier, Sasuke pulled me into his office…he thought I was someone else,’’
Naruto sighed heavily, rubbing the back of his neck – it wasn’t really his place, and she wasn’t supposed to tell anyone – but the two of them seemed very close. ‘’I’m not really supposed to tell you anything.’’ He watched her pour boiling water into his cup, and then hers – it smelled delicious, making his mouth water, she handed him the cup, and sat across from him.
‘’well, I told him some, so now I want answers. Ino is my best friend, and I can’t risk anything happening to her.’’
A loud knock was heard from the front door and instantly sakura felt uneasy. ‘’I should get that,’’
‘’No, I will,’’ Naruto half-grinned and walked to the door – and as he opened it, both Kakashi and Sasuke were standing there. ‘’Uh…funny seeing you here,’’ He blinked, wide-eyed; Sasuke looked pissed, and Kakashi just looked tired. ‘’Come on in…hey Sakura,’’
Rounding the corner, Sakura almost fell over when she saw her boss and Sasuke together. ‘’Uh…hey sir, er….why are you-‘’
‘’Sasuke came to me,’’ He explained, removing his jacket. ‘’He thought you were the enemy….’’He muttered, bad choice of words. ‘’So I told him everything that’s been going on –‘’
‘’why would you tell him?’’ Sakura asked, brow arched – though she would have found out from Naruto If they hadn’t showed up, and later from Sasuke when she met with him.
‘’Grab me some coffee, it’s a long story.’’
It really was a long story; The Uchiha name had been tainted for decades – Itachi Uchiha wasn’t a known criminal but he did do the dirty work for his uncle Madara Uchiha; his father was killed, and so was his mother, and that’s why he chose to get out when he did. Itachi Uchiha never killed anyone, but he did other means of criminal activity. He was a kid, and once he realized what he’d been doing, and the murder of his parents – he stopped; and hid the truth from Sasuke for a while until as of lately. Madara Uchiha and Obito Uchiha, both mobsters…if that’s what you would call them, were responsible for some of the most horrific slaughters in the world – but they never got caught – the police force and investigators were aware of Madara and Obito but they hadn’t heard of the criminals working for them; they only just now heard of Orochimaru, and recently caught Hidan – but after talking with Sasuke, Kakashi was aware of Sai, amongst other names; and Sakura needed to get Ino out of there before it was too late.
‘’So you’re saying Sai is working for a scum bag, is it Orochimaru?’’
Kakashi shook his head, they weren’t sure who it was – they just knew Ino wasn’t safe around him. ‘’I knew something wasn’t right, what about Suigetsu?’’
Kakashi sighed, running a hand through his hair – he was on his second cup of coffee. ‘’We have Suigetsu under watch, though he doesn’t know it yet…I shouldn’t have hired him, I’m sorry Sakura.’’ He placed his cup down and looked at Naruto and Sasuke. ‘’As for Sasuke and Naruto, they just happened to get dragged in, like you, which could be a problem’’
‘’How are we a problem at all, if anything, we helped.’’ Sasuke defended, not having any tea or coffee himself, he just wanted to know all the information he could – staring down both Kakashi and Sakura. ‘’So you killed one guy, and you’re aware of someone else, is that all you got?’’
‘’we have a woman in for interrogation tomorrow morning,’’ He looked at Sakura. ‘’Apparently Orochimaru is a little twisted,’’
‘’Jeez,’’ Naruto rubbed the back of his neck, chowing down on some left over seven layered taco dip. ‘’So the guy you caught, the murderer, he attacked you Sakura?’’
‘’unfortunately, all thanks to Suigetsu,’’
‘’Suigetsu?’’ Sasuke clued in, not having noticed the name previously. ‘’And the woman you’re interrogating, what was her name,’’ He exchanged glances with Naruto.
‘’Her name is Karin,’’ Sakura looked at him, suspicious. ‘’Do you know them?’’
‘’Not technically,’’
‘’Oh come on Sasuke, Karin is so into him – it’s kind of weird.’’ Blabbing, Sasuke almost lunged onto Naruto for saying anything at all. ‘’What! It’s true!!’’
‘’so you know them?’’ Kakashi asked, but Sasuke shook his head. ‘’I’ve met Karin, and Suigetsu once or twice through Itachi back when, but I was never aware of their line of work – ‘’ He wasn’t lying, he really didn’t. ‘’They just came to the bar often, for drinks and food, but they never discussed work, or complained about it.’’ Crossing his arms, he finally sat down – tired of standing for two hours, after all that talking. Having both Sasuke, and Naruto involved wasn’t exactly uncommon – it was more of a help. ‘’I don’t think your brother would want you involved, Sasuke.’’ Kakashi warned, pushing himself up. ‘’Anyway, don’t speak a word of this to anyone – especially you, Sasuke, we can’t have this getting into the wrong hands.’’ Grabbing his jacket, he moved to the door. ‘’I’ll see you in the morning, Sakura?’’
‘’Yes sir, sorry for all of this’’ She bowed her head – feeling somewhat defeated. Though, there wasn’t really a reason to – she helped more than anything.
[[More to come. I know the first little bit is short, hard to write while at work however!]]