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“Of course you can all stay here for as long as you need to,” Ria told them all soothingly, “Where’s Dan?”

“He left a while before we heard about the attack, he should have had long enough to get home safely,” Naruto told her with a smile that didn’t quite reach his eyes.

Sasuke watched him and made a note to ask about it later when they had some time alone.

“If any of you need to you can stay over the night and if either of you boys wants to call your parents you can, they might like to know that you’re safe,” she told Diran and Ryo in a motherly voice.

“Thank you very much,” Ryo said politely, “Where might I find the phone?”

“Well you might find it down the hall here,” she led the two boys away to the phone.

“Sassi,” Nico said hurriedly, “Do you have Dan’s number on your mobile? Can you ring and make sure he’s okay?”

“I don’t think I have it Nic,” the raven said apologetically as he scrolled through the numbers on his phone, “Nope sorry.”

“How about you Rae?” she asked hopefully.

“I don’t even have a phone Nico,” the blonde boy told her softly, “Don’t worry he’ll be fine, he had plenty of time to get home.”

“But what if it was him that was attacked?” she worried, “We should never have let him go off alone.”

“I think Kakashi would have said something if that was the case, the principal probably would have told him if it was one of his students,” Sasuke tried to calm the worried girl.

“I wish I knew his phone number, next time I see him I am going to make sure I get his number!” Nico declared impulsively as Diran rejoined them.

“Get whose number?” he asked casually, although Sasuke noted the tightening around his eyes trying not to smile.

“Dan’s! That way I won’t have to worry about him when he does something stupid like this,” she said triumphantly.

“You’re acting like he’s your boyfriend or something,” Kae teased.

“He is not!” she replied hotly, “He’s just an idiot, I worry about all of you, you know that.”

“Yeah yeah, whatever you reckon,” her cousin poked her tongue out at her.

“Don’t worry you’re just as stupid and I worry about you too,” the blue haired girl sniffed.


“Alright, what happened and who did it happen to?” Kakashi asked as soon as they walked in.

“Detective Carr was taken from his office, the whole area has been cordoned off for you to examine sir,” the officer at the front desk told him standing to lead the pair to said office.

“What was he doing at the time?” Iruka asked.

“Going over the physical evidence from the last crime scene acting on some of your hunches and ideas,” he told the younger man flinching at the look Kakashi was giving him.

“Wow that was remarkably uninforming. Enough avoiding the subject, what did he actually do?” the jounin asked directly.

“See for yourself,” the officer said directing them to the office. It had police tape across the door and a few officers stationed outside the open door.

They both walked in and saw what the officer had obviously been avoiding talking about. The detective had taken out all of the braches and flowers and leaves out of their evidence bags and reconstructed the altar down to every detail. The office had been trashed, consistent with a struggle and the window was smashed.

“Idiot!” Kakashi fumed, “Total utter moron! How could he be so stupid?!”

“It was deliberate,” Iruka said softly, “My guess is he wanted this to be solved no matter the cost, he has tried to give us what no one else could.”

“Yeah but we need to know who is directing the creature and him sacrificing himself really doesn’t help us with that,” Iruka could feel the waves of infuriated chakra rolling off his boyfriend. He calmly placed his hand on the older man’s shoulder.

“Let’s just find what he’s left us to work with shall we?” the brunette suggested. He pressed the stop button on the webcam and began searching the cupboards for hidden cameras. The detective was obviously a very thorough and dedicated man, he had placed three cameras aside from the webcam on his computer which had been running the whole time. Iruka started watching the webcam footage whilst Kakashi began on one of the other cameras.


The teens had decided to have their own Lord of the Rings marathon while they were all basically under house arrest. Kani, Mikel and Ria had all joined them immediately while it was a bit longer before a rather dressed up looking Torya and Jules joined them.

“Where were you guys?” Sasuke whispered when the couple sat down.

“We went out to a club for the night but then mum called all frantic so we thought we’d better head home before she had a heart attack. I was having fun too,” he sighed wistfully.

“More fun than a Lord of the Rings marathon with all of us?” Naruto asked jokingly.

“I know, how could we possibly top that?” Jules agreed lightly.

“Shh, this is one of my favourite bits,” Torya ordered.

“You love any bit with Merry and Pippin,” his boyfriend smiled tolerantly.

“Either shut up or get lost,” Nico’s eldest brother growled. The other just chuckled and leaned against him.


The videos were downright tedious, but the duo’s attention to their mission wouldn’t allow them to press the fast forward button, still, there really isn’t much interest in watching a police officer type up reports.

“Have you seen anything yet?” Iruka asked tiredly, their actions from earlier were catching up on the young teacher.

“Nothing, he must have set these up first thing this morning, bloody long videos, I hope they caught what we need,” Kakashi said stretching whilst keeping one eye trained on the small screen.


Much as he loved the trilogy watching the bits of Two Towers with only Sam and Frodo was annoying. And Naruto could think of much more interesting things to do, although most of them probably couldn’t be done in Nico’s house, unfortunately.

“Teme,” the bored blonde whispered.

“What?” Sasuke whispered back, this was his least favourite of the three, he’d seen it way too many times.

“Want to go do something else?” Naruto offered.

Myriad possibilities popped into his head, none of which were rated G, nor even PG for that matter, Kakashi would have been proud.
“Sure,” the Uchiha agreed, ever the eloquent one.

The two stood up quietly and left the room, they sat down in the kitchen and Sasuke made them each a hot drink, chocolate for Naruto and tea for himself. As was usual in Ria’s house there was a barrel of homemade bikkies in the middle of the table so Naruto helped himself.

“I have seen that movie way too many times,” Sasuke sighed sipping his tea.

“The Frodo and Sam parts annoy me, actually so do the bits with Arwen and Aragorn. She was awesome in the start but then she got all annoying,” Naruto explained biting into a biscuit.

“Yeah I know what you mean, I only ever got halfway through the second book,” Sasuke admitted, “I really should finish it someday.”

“I never actually started,” Naruto chuckled, “Keeping up with you never left me much spare time.”

“It’s not my fault I’m awesome,” Sasuke smirked at the smaller blonde.

“That’s not what I said,” his boyfriend said, his eye twitching slightly.

The raven boy grinned, “Its okay dear I can read between the lines,” he winked.

“Oh my god, Sasuke Uchiha winked at me!” Naruto exclaimed fanning himself, “Oh just wait until I tell the girls back home, Sasuke winks, the flirty bastard. Oh wow, Ino is going to melt.”

It was Sasuke’s turn to twitch slightly, Naruto came out with some random shit when he was bored, “Too bad for them, I don’t share.”

“Oh of course your royal Uchihaness, I wouldn’t make you share with anyone,” he pretended to think for a second, “So I had better move our beds apart when we get home, don’t let me forget.”

The Uchiha chuckled, “Okay so maybe I can survive sharing if I must.”

“Do you think we’ll actually be going home tonight?” Naruto asked seriously.

“I don’t know, I guess it depends how long they’re needed, they’ll probably call up and then swing by to pick us up. After all they couldn’t just let us walk home alone. Although it might be safer if we stay here,” Sasuke told him, the blonde watched his eyes, clearing picking up the double meaning of the words.

Naruto led the raven down the hallway into an empty room, “I think you’d better know what Dan said before he left, you might be to find a different meaning.”


Iruka jumped and pressed pause, his eyes wide and at the same time he heard Kakashi whistle.

“Holy shit…”