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Never Again
Chapter 1: Conviction
A ferocious knock pounds on the door of Apartment 14C. The door opens slowly, revealing a pregnant women with sparkling green eyes and rose petal-pink hair.
"Can... can I help you?" She weakly asks. The two men standing at the door have stone-cold looks on their faces. One holds up a badge.
"Detective Hayagawa," the man holding the badge says, slipping the metal object back on a loop on his belt. "NYPD. Is your boyfriend home?"
"Yes. Let me get him. Please... come in if you want." The men enter the apartment in silence as the woman goes into what is presumably a bedroom. A man with jet black hair and stone-cold eyes exits the bedroom and comes out to greet the men.
"Can I help you?" He asks, pulling a beer from the refrigerator. He twists off the cap and takes a long pull of the drink.
"Yes, you may," Hayagawa replies. "We're here investigating the death of Miss Ino Yamanaka."
"She was a former girlfriend of mine. How did she die?"
"She was hit by a vehicle at 12:45 PM last night."
"What does this have to do with me?"
"It was your car that hit her, wasn't it?" The second man speaks for the first time since the two officers arrived. The room falls silent. Another gulp of beer. The ticking of the wall clock in the background.
"What do you mean it was his car?!" The green-eyed woman asks frantically to the officers.
"It... it was an accident. I swear it was." The man says quietly.
"You... you KILLED someone?! I swear to God, if this is a joke-" But it isn't a joke.
The two officers very clearly point out the camera feed that captured both the murder and the license plate of the car. The woman begins to cry and swear at the man as the police cuff him.
"Mister Sasuke Uchiha, you are under arrest for the murder of Ino Yamanaka. You have the right to remain silent; anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you..."
"Sasuke Uchiha, you are hereby sentenced to seven years in prison for vehicular homicide." The gavel smashed down on the boards in the courthouse. Sasuke Uchiha's head stayed still, pointed towards the ground, shame covering his entire face, unbeknownst to the jurors or to anyone watching. Detective Hayagawa cuffed him behind his back and led him out to a car waiting to take him to his home for the next seven years.
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"Is this all you do with your life now? You work out all day and then refuse to eat? You're going to die if you keep that up. But that really isn't any concern of mine, now is it? I didn't kill anyone." The pink-haired woman is back, sitting on the other side of a plexi-glass window, staring with cold eyes at her former lover. Only one thing has changed about her; she is no longer pregnant. She slides a photograph under the glass of a tiny baby, sleeping in a smiling mother's arms. The man holds the photograph up inspecting the baby.
"What's her name?" He asks, misty-eyed. I missed it, he thinks, I missed the birth of my own child. My own daughter...
"Her name is Saki Rei Haruno. I took the liberty of giving her my last name instead of a killers." Her eyes squint mercilessly at the man. He simply nods and pockets the photo.
The woman sighs. "It's been three months, hasn't it?" Nod. "Have you eaten anything? Anything that's going to keep you alive?" Shrug. Head shake. Another sigh escapes her lips, "Start eating. If you come out anorexic, I don't know what I'd do."
"You wouldn't do much of anything, would you?" The man answers for her, "You would just keep her even farther from me than you're already going to." The woman's face turns steely.
"Goodbye, Sasuke. I'm glad neither Saki or myself will be seeing you again. Ever again." The woman stands up, grabs her purse, hangs up the phone, and leaves. The man formerly sitting across from her closes his eyes and forces back the tears once again.
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