Control is Everything

AN: Hey, sorry for the long wait for the update, but I was busy with...life. Here's the next chapter hope you'll enjoy it.

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Chapter 4

You Don’t Know Your Own Son

Kakashi and Asuma arrived at the Uchiha compound within an hour and a half. It was huge, bigger than anything they ever seen, well beside from where they work, which was two story tall. But they never had seen so many big buildings scattered out in a secluded area before. They only lived in an apartment within the city, so they really never came up upon the outer part of the city. They wish they did, and then maybe they could have some place quiet to stay, maybe even safer.

“Wow, this place is huge,” Asuma whistled.

“Yeah, the rich and the famous lifestyle,” Kakashi joked.

They came to the open gates, where some officers were taping a crime scene and explaining to some people, who had gathered around to ask what had happened. It was the usual, so nothing really new to Asuma and Kakashi. They stepped out of their car when they found a place to park within distance range from the crowd and the scene.

They walked the rest of the way to the gate and entered.

“What do we have here,” Asuma asked an officer who was taking pictures with a Polaroid camera stopped to talk to them.

“Uhm, we have a male, thirty-six, found dead at eight-thirty am this morning, by a jogger who lived within the compound. She’s over there, being questioned by my partner sir,” the young officer pointed at the woman who was being questioned and continued, “We believed he’s been dead around late last night, but we won’t know for sure until the coroner gets here.”

“Is this connected to the child being missing,” Kakashi asked.

“We don’t know. We just know that at the same night, the child went missing in the same night that the house was burglarized and the security officer was presumed dead.’

“Burglarized,” Asuma asked.

“Yes, sir. The family that reported that their child was missing was the same family that their house was burglarized.”

Asuma looked at Kakashi, who only raised an eyebrow. Could they both be connected to the others, he was thinking.

“Thank you, officer. Keep up the good work,” Kakashi stated and begin to walk down the sidewalk, looking at the note of the address for their case.

“So do you think they are connected,” Asuma asked as he caught up with his partner.

“It sounds like it, and I bet the boy was alone when it happened too.”

When they got to the house they were looking for, they rung the door bell. The door was opened by an old man in a suit. He had a worried look on his face, probably somebody related.

“Are you the officers here to find Sasuke,” the old man asked.

“Yes, we are, I’m Detective Hatake and this is my partner, Detective Sarutobi. May we come in,” Kakashi introduced.

The old man nod and open the door wider for them. “Sasuke’s parents are in the living room, please excuse the mess.”

They bowed to the man out of respect and walked in the direction the man pointed to. There they found the parents of Sasuke seating on the sofa, surrounded by all kinds of mess. The woman appeared to be in her mid-thirties, while the man looked to be around his early forties. They must be the parents. The woman had tears in her eyes but they never fell, she would just wipe them away or held them back…she was trying to be strong. Her husband had a firm look to him. There was no kind of sadness to his expression, just a grim look about him.

“Mr. and Mrs. Uchiha, I’m Detective Hatake and this is my partner, Detective Sarutobi. You called about your son being missing. Would you like to explain to us about what happened when you got home,” Kakashi asked politely.

Mrs. Uchiha spoke first, “I got home first. I walked in and found that the house was a mess…all my priceless China and glasses were ruined. I called the police…to report it…when I remembered my son. He must’ve been really scared. So before I called…I ran to my son’s room to find it empty.”

Asuma wrote down what she said in his small notepad, “What time was that, Ma’am,” he asked.

“Oh, uhm…I think around eight forty-five. I came in through the back gate of the compound; it’s shorter to get to my house.”

“Okay, thank you. And what about you, sir, what time did you get home,” Kakashi asked.

“Around nine o’clock, I too walked in and found the rooms a mess. I then called the police to report it, and that’s when my wife came downstairs to tell me that our son was missing,” Mr. Uchiha stated plainly. Asuma wrote everything down.

“I see, do you know what time your son came home last night,” Asuma asked.

There was silence, but Mrs. Uchiha shook her head, no.

“Do you know of any friends your son might have stayed with last night? It could have been that he got scared and ran off to a friend’s house,” Asuma continued.

Once again silence and Mrs. Uchiha shaking her head, no.

“Does your son play any sports at school; maybe he had a game to get to and forgot to tell you,” Kakashi asked this time.

“Our son doesn’t play any sports, not since his…brother… Anyway, he skipped school yesterday, I got a phone call from the school telling me that he skipped…again,” Mr. Uchiha answered.

“What, how come you didn’t tell me,” Mrs. Uchiha asked.

“I didn’t want to worry you, dear.”

“But if our son was skipping school, don’t you think you should have called me and told me.”

“Not now, dear,” Mr. Uchiha said firmly.

Asuma cleared his throat to get the couple back on subject, “So your son skip school often,” he asked.

Mrs. Uchiha nodded her head, yes.

“So you don’t know if he was even home to begin with,” Kakashi made clear.

“Well…he must have because I had called to tell him that I…would be home late and that there was leftover in the refrigerator, but I…just got…g-got the answer machine,” she begin to cry. She stopped suddenly, hope in her voice, “But I did find a plate of food in his room, so I know he was home and his school uniform was lying about in his bedroom floor,” she stated.

Asuma wrote it down, as a note to be certain of; these people have no idea of anything about their son.

“Is it alright if we look around, maybe get a feel of what might have happened here,” Kakashi asked.

“Sure,” Mr. Uchiha answered. He got up and showed them around the house, mostly the part where all the mess was.

“Was anything missing, anything of value,” Kakashi asked.

The Uchihas ponder that question for a moment and shook their heads. “Now that you mentioned it, nothing really seems to be missing, just most of our stuff seems to be broken, but mostly downstairs,” Mrs. Uchiha answered.

“May we have a look upstairs,” Asuma asked.

“Sure go right ahead, but please don’t go into the room to your left. That belong to our eldest son, we keep that room closed,” Mr. Uchiha said his voice a little softer than before for when it was much firmer and direct.

“Sure,” both of them said.

They made it to the top floor and looked around the hallway. They found a bat on the floor to their right, next to the bedroom door.

They read the name on the bat that read, ‘belong to Itachi Uchiha.’

When they entered Sasuke’s room they notice that Mrs. Uchiha was right, there was a plate with some food left on it and some school uniform were spread scattered about on the room floor.

“So, do you think the boy was home at the time,” Asuma asked.

“We can only assume, but for right now let just say that he was and this is now another case connected to the rest of the ones we got at the office, okay,” Kakashi answered.

“Okay,” Asuma agreed.

They left afterward, told the parents not to worry that they will find their son. They didn’t want to tell them that he could be part of a case of a killer who has a thing for lonely children, not when they weren’t even sure that it is was connected with the one they have now, but until then, the family would have to worry that their son was just missing. Not in the hands of a deranged psychopath.

When they made it back to the department, they were greeted with their new recruits, Kurenai and Genma. They met them before when they were in the academy and when they were just police officers in Konoha Police Department. It was just that Kakashi and Asuma decided to go for the detective division a little early than usual, so that was the only reason why they got promoted early, plus the fact that they were good. Not to say that Genma or Kurenai weren’t good, just they chose to wait until they were good and ready.

“Hey, long time no see. How you guys been doing,” Asuma greeted his old friends.

“Find and you guys? How are things,” Genma asked his eye paying more attention to Kakashi than anyone. They knew about what all had happened two years ago through Asuma. Asuma always told them about everything between the two once he and Kakashi got promoted. They were the ones that helped him through when his friend was depressing, and since Kakashi mostly isolated himself from him and the group. Asuma needed someone to reach out to, that’s where Kurenai came in, they hit it off for a good while, but things got complicated. They didn’t have enough time to spend together or just, work got in the way, so they broke it off. They still remain friends afterwards, just sometimes they wonder what if. Now, Kurenai was newly married with a guy she became involved with a year back. She’s been happy ever since.

“We’re doing fine,” Kakashi answered. “Did Tsunade fill you guys in on what we’re involved in,” he continued, mainly to get the subject off of him and to the one deemed more important.

“Yeah she did and we were happy to hear that we will be working with you guys,” Kurenai stated.

“Good, well let’s get you guys informed of our situation.”

They moved away from Asuma’s and Kakashi’s desk to a cubicle in the middle of the office where a table was set up for when they had office meetings. It was also used for team meeting to discuss their plans. When everyone was situation, Kakashi pulled out the files and thumb-nailed them to the billboard on the cubicle’s wall. The first photo and file was of Obito’s, one of his missing photo ad and the other one of his crime scene photos and then of the boy they found yesterday, also with his missing photo ad and his crime scene photos. The following were of the other missing children in order from missing dates and their files. He put the photo of the Uchiha kid separate from the rest. They weren’t sure if he was connected or not.

“Okay, let’s get started,” Kakashi said, once he put the photo up of the one that they got from the Uchihas of their son, Sasuke.

He and Asuma explained everything to Genma and Kurenai. They answered all the questions that the two asked and made sure that they explained everything plainly. Now they were striving for other clues to make connections.

“How does he know when they are alone,” Kurenai asked.

“He watches them. Learns their routine, and strikes when he is confident that everything will go as planned. He is organized, I’ll give him that,” Kakashi admitted.

“Okay so you guys figured out his M.O.,” Genma stated. “But, why do he choose these kids and why so many at once?”

“Desperation,” Asuma attempted. “Maybe he wants to make up for what he missed in a two year time frame. Obito probably was his first kill, maybe this was his plan to begin with, we don’t know, we just know that for right now, he has six victims all together.”

“These kids are different,” Kakashi said, looking at each photos carefully, “You can tell by looking at them, they all got different personalities, but there is something he likes about them. There is something that catches his attention, his reason for targeting these kids.” Kakashi ran a hand through his silvery white hair and looked towards his partners and friends. “We may need to re-question the parents and friends. We need to know the kids to know the man behind the kidnapping and murders.”

They all agreed. They’re first priority was to investigate the victims first. Then when they knew everything about them, then they will know the perpetrator.

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AN: This chapter was mainly of both Kakashi and Sasuke's past and life, well mostly of Sasuke's past and life, but there was some information on Kakashi and Asuma. I thought knowing a little about Sasuke's life will help you guys understand Sasuke a little better

Oh just in case you didn't know, M.O. means Mode of Operation- a criminal justice term on how a criminal goes about doing his crimes. There may be a pattern the detectives find to connect cases.

I'll try to update faster next time.