Chapter I

-221B Baker Street-

It was just another ordinary day for Sherlock. The sun shining, the birds chirping, the news on the telly and the people outside going about their business. How very boring for Sherlock on this dull day. He just sat on the couch with a gun firing rounds on the wall. The sound of course would always wake up his flatmate John at 6 in the morning, or worse at 5 in the morning.

"Again with this Sherlock!?" he exclaimed, "All of the neighbors complain to me about this noise you know!" "It's better than watching crap telly." Sherlock told him as he continued to fire at the wall, "Besides I haven't been getting any good cases lately, nothing really exciting. Nothing but the boring kind."

J.W: "You checked on the website didn't you? What about Mrs. Jones missing daughter?"

S.H: "Simply got tired of her and ran away to another country."

J.W: "But what about that old prison that said to be haunted?"

S.H: "Don't be silly John, that's nothing but a fairytale no such thing as haunted."

J.W: "How about the-"

S.H: "Unimportant."

J.W: "And what-"

S.H: "Dull."

J.W: "What about-"

S.H: "Boring.

J.W: "Also the-"

S.H: "All of the cases are boring John, in fact I'll be damned if I survive another week listening to all the dull cases."

J.W: "Then maybe, you should. I don't know get a real job."

S.H: "Don't be stupid. It's a waste of my time."

J.W: "Well you can't spend the rest of the week shooting at the bloody wall!"

S.H: "Can't think of anything else to do around here."

J.W: "I'm sure some kind of case will turn up."

Just than a knock came upon the door downstairs of the apartment. John gave out a sigh cause he knew he was going to have to answer it since Sherlock normally doesn't answer the door. As John went down stairs the knocking continued, and he could already tell that this person was the impatient type.

He opened the door, and it revealed to be a young lady. The young lady had green eyes and short black hair and a light eye shadow at the tips of her eyes. She was wearing a kind of clothing that looked like she belonged in a biker gang; of course it was all black with a few red dragon and white bird designs on it. Her pants were leather along with her boots that had heels.

"Hi, I'm Alice Liddell." she said politely "I don't believe we've meet before."

"No, we haven't." John choked, "I'm uh, John Watson."

A.L: "Nice to meet you Doctor Watson."

J.W: "How did you know I was a doctor?"

A.L: "Lucky guess. I'm new around here in this part of London. I live a few blocks down on this street."

J.W: "Oh, I didn't know there was an apartment for sale."

A.L: "Believe me you would be surprised. I heard that a consulting detective named Sherlock Holmes lives here, is that true?"

J.W: "Yeah, I happen to be his flatmate."

A.L: "Kind of figured that Doctor. Do you mind if I speak with him?"

J.W: "Sure, I don't see why not. He's not busy at the moment."

John led Alice inside the apartment only to hear more gunshots coming from the room upstairs. "Sorry about." John told her "He does that when his bored." "That's quite alright, I'm used to it." Said Alice. As John and Alice entered the room, Sherlock immediately ceased his firing knowing that they're was someone else with his flatmate. "Who's the girl behind you John?" he asked him, "Sherlock, this is Alice Liddel." He told the detective "She said she wanted to talk you about a case I believe."

Sherlock took a good look at the young woman and quickly analyzed her before he said to her "Have a seat." "Don't mind if I do." She replied before taking a seat just opposite from Sherlock. The detective quickly sat himself up and put the gun down on the coffee table. "Care for tea?" he offered, "No thank you I'm good." She told him.

S.H: "So what did you come here for?"

A.L: "I heard that you were bored from the good Doctor here, and I came here with a case."

S.H: "Obviously, what's the case?"

A.L: "Let me ask you something. Have you ever heard of the story of a child that has said to make a group of boys at an orphanage disappear into thin air?"

S.H: "I've heard the stories why?"

A.L: "The Garage Kids and I have confirmed that the story is true, and from a very reliable source, we were told that she came to London."

J.W: "Garage Kids? So they are specialists?"

A.L: "Sort of. They're consulting police and bounty hunters. As well as I am."

S.H: "You said that the child was a she. How do you know that?"

A.L: "As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words."

Alice pulled out a few pictures from the pocket of her coat and handed them to Sherlock. On the photograph the girl had short brown hair, and green eyes. She was wearing a hood to cover her face and she wore black sweat pants with sneakers to go with it. Sherlock notice that she was holding two leashes in one hand, and there were two dogs; one was walking beside the other was walking in front of her.

"These are some of the pictures that was taken from one of the London security camera's." She explained, "Scotland yard had confirmed that she came here in London with no passport, or adult." "Obviously. " Sherlock stated, "How did you obtain these pictures?"

A.L: "Let's just say that I borrowed them."

S.H: "What's her name?"

A.L: "Her name is Sakura Kinomoto and from what know so far her father is a college professor, and her mother is a model and fashion designer."

S.H: "Are they alive or dead?"

A.L: "Dead. Since she was three actually."

S.H: "Who are the two dogs?"

A.L: "We're not sure what her dogs name is as well as the breed. All we know is one is supposed to be a guard slash service dog, and the other is supposed to be the nanny dog to Sakura.

S.H: "What makes this girl so special?"

A.L: "Excuse me?"

S.H: "You wouldn't come to me if it wasn't important, so why come to me? What makes her so special that you had to get the one and only consulting detective?"

A.L: "What if I told you that her mind works like a hard drive? Just like your head but it worked differently?"

Sherlock's eyes widen at the statement that Alice had said to him. A mind that worked like his, that is just to be brilliant for Sherlock. He could already tell that this case was going to be a blast. This was his only opportunity to have himself entertained.

S.H: "What exactly do you mean?"

A.L: "She is almost observant as you, but the thing is her mind evolves every time she uses her brain. So in other words she is not one the idiots off the street like you would normally say to any person or a police man."

This is to good to be true for Sherlock! For once besides Jim Moriarty there was another person like him out there somewhere in the streets of London, and it was none other than a child! Sherlock couldn't help but smile at this but he had held back just so that he can savior it. He gave out a deep sigh to hold it all back until Alice had left and he said to her:

"Go on."

Alice knew that it was to good to be true that Sherlock may in fact accept the case, since she was a little short on consulting hunters as well as consulting police. At first Alice and the others knew that trying to find Sakura was the real challenge since she had something unusual.

She knew that she would be hard to find her and not to mention that the police have been looking at this case for some time now. So of course Alice was happy to obliged with Sherlock's request to continue. She knew that Sherlock would enjoy something like this, especially if it was paranormal

A.L: "Have you ever heard of the laboratory called Baskerville?"

S.H: "I have solved a case related to it, why?"

A.L: "Sakura happens to be an escaped patient from that lab."

S.H: "She was a test subject?"

J.W: "They're using people?"

A.L: "Yes. From what we recovered from Baskerville her records show that she had unnatural abilities since she the day she was born."

S.H: "What kind of abilities?"

A.L: "You see that's the problem. We don't know."

S.H: "Interesting. How did she obtain those abilities?"

A.L: "It's amazing what you can get from your parents at birth."

S.H: "Which parent?"

A.L: "Her athletic skills she got it from her dad and the unnatural talents she got from her mother."

S.H: "How did you obtain her records?"

A.L: "Two of the Garage Kids broke into Baskerville and risked their own necks to obtain those files."

S.H: "Besides her parents does she have any other relatives?"

A.L: "Unfortunately no. They all died on the same date her parents died."

S.H: "On which day?"

A.L: "The 20th of April."

S.H: "What else did they manage to find?"

A.L: "A DNA sample."

In the opposite of her coat pocket Alice took out a test tube; inside the test tube was a hair sample of Sakura; she handed it to Sherlock. Sherlock took the tube from her hand and looked at it carefully without dropping it.

A.L: "Before you ask that is her DNA."

S.H: "I can tell."

A.L: "You didn't think I would come here without a sample did you?"

S.H: "No."

A.L: "Of course. I should've thought so."

S.H: "Why bring me a sample?"

A.L: "To start things off, consider it a present."

S.H: "Where did you get this?"

A.L: "Where do you think?"

S.H: "Baskerville?"

A.L: "Baskerville."

The conversation had suddenly turned into deep silence. Sherlock began to think real hard about what Alice was saying. He began to collect his thoughts about this whole thing. A girl that had escaped from Baskerville, unnatural talents since the day she was born, and every relative would mysteriously die on the 20th of April. Sherlock was immediately excited about the whole thing.

Thinking about the whole thing just send chills down his spine. He actually wanted to spend time with this girl and hopefully learn how her mind works and see what mankind really has to offer. He was snapped out of his train of thought only than he heard Alice say: "So what do you say detective? Will you take the case?"

A long pause came from the detective. Alice was excited that Sherlock may in fact take the case, but at the same time she was worried that he might not. If he didn't take the case she would have no choice but to leave Sakura to die. Finally Sherlock took another deep sigh and said to her: "I'll take the case, but on one condition." "Condition?" Alice and John both said. Honestly they were both shocked to hear Sherlock say something like that. John has heard him say so many unusual things, but this time Sherlock was very serious about this. "What condition?" she had asked him.

S.H: "I would like for her to stay here as well as her guardian."

J.W & A.L: "Her guardian?"

S.H: "Isn't it obvious? Who else could've raised her, her aunt and uncle?"

J.W: "Good point."

S.H: "I always make one. So miss Liddell a deal?"

Alice at that point didn't know what to do. Alice and her team had agreed to have her stay over at headquarters, but than again they didn't have much room in their cramped apartment. With a sigh Alice held out her hand and said: "Deal."

Sherlock shook her hand to make sure that the deal was sealed. Alice got up and turned to leave to break the news to the team. "Just one more question." Sherlock said to her, "How did you know John was a doctor?" Alice stopped in her tracks and she gave a light laugh. "The same way you identified him when you meet him detective." She said, "If you'll excuse me, I think my tea is getting cold. Until than detective."

She turned and walked down the stairs toward the exit. Sherlock and John heard the door shut down stairs. As soon as they heard Alice leave Sherlock suddenly jumped out of his chair and yelled out: "Brilliant!" John suddenly jumped from Sherlock's unexpected reaction. "Finally a case that's finally exciting and not dull!" Sherlock yelled out, "Oh, pinch me I must be dreaming!" "I can tell you're happy." John said sarcastically, "Of course I am!" Sherlock had said, "I finally have a case after weeks and weeks watching telly and hearing a bunch of nonsense!"

J.W: "I glad your that your glad Sherlock, but I just have one question."

S.H: "And what's that?"

J.W: "How do propose we find her? Alice didn't tell us our exact location of where she might be, and we don't even know she was last seen."

S.H: "Simple we ask everyone around to see if she has been seen or just look it up on the internet."

J.W: "Why didn't I think of that?"

S.H: "Cause you're an idiot."

J.W: "Right, so where do we start to look?"

S.H: "Where the security camera's took these photographs."

Sherlock grabbed his coat and began to walk towards the exit of 221B, as did John. They both exited out of the door and caught a cab. Sherlock knew the moment he accepted this case from Alice, he would be in one hell of a ride than the other cases. However questions kept rising to the top of his mind like a bubble. How long has Baskerville been experimenting on humans? What talents does her guardian have? And why does her relatives die every year on the 20th of April? Only time will tell him the answers to this mystery but for now, he and John had bigger problems to worry about.

Finding the girl.

-End Of Chapter One-