Katomi: Hey everyone, well this chapter might be a bit short, I don't know yet. But I hope you enjoy it.
Sasuke: Hn.
Katomi: Don't be that way, Sasuke!
Sasuke: Whatever. Tch.
Katomi: He's really sweet when he wants to be, but I love him just this way. Anyway, enjoy. It's intense.
Chapter One: Words Unspoken
"No!" A voice yelled. He reached his hand to the one reaching, but the hand seemed to disappear before his very eyes. The blue eyes falling into the darkness, never seeming to wake again. Sasuke shot up from his bed, sweat pouring down his face.
His body shivered as he got out of the bed, his apartment was dark as he went into the bathroom. Splashing water on his face, he closed his eyes. His mind seeing those beautiful blue eyes again, and he shot them open. He took a deep breath again.
How long was he going to keep reminding himself this way? He would have these dreams...these nightmares every so often. Those blue eyes haunting him, he could never get away from them. Nor did he try to, he held himself responsible. Responsible for the life he let slip away. He threw the bottle of aspirin against the wall. It had been nearly two years since Naruto was killed. His partner, his friend.
As Sasuke fell back asleep, he thought of Naruto once more. He was more than a friend, Naruto was his lover. They had their differences, but he could remember the smell of his skin, the taste of his kisses, the touch of his hands. Sasuke stared at the ceiling, it was his fault Naruto was dead. Sasuke would never forgive himself.
As he reached the station, Sasuke heard the Chief call him into his office.
"Sasuke, sit down." And Sasuke did as the Chief asked. Looking around the office, he saw what was normal for a Chief's office to be like. Files everywhere, the phone ringing like crazy, and the Chief right there at his desk. He looked to Sasuke and said,
"I'm assigning you a new partner." His voice firm and seemed to be saying that it's final. But Sasuke protested, like a little child insisting to have a cookie before dinner.
"Chief, I don't need a partner. I work better alone." Sasuke retorted, and the Chief snorted. A loud sound from a big and sturdy man like the Chief.
"Look, Sasuke. You need a partner, and you need help on some cases."
"Chief, I don't need a partner." Sasuke replied standing and beginning to leave. The Chief heaved a heavy sigh, and Sasuke figured he had him, but the Chief said.
"It's been two years, Sasuke. It wasn't your fault, and you're taking your new partner." Sasuke then heaved a heavy and weary sigh, and stomped out of the office.
As he looked to his desk, he saw someone leaning against it, and he glared at him. "Who the hell are you?" He asked. "I'm Neji, your new partner." The guy said, stuffing his hands in his jeans. Sasuke simply ignored him when he got a call that there had been a murder. He looked Neji up and down for a moment, and then said roughly,
"Come on, we've got a murder to solve." The guy simply nodded, and headed to the car.
Once inside, Sasuke examined his new 'partner' as the Chief called it. He had jet black hair, pulled into a ponytail, with a white shirt, and jeans. His badge and gun on his right hip, where he could have easy access to it. They finally arrived at the crime scene, Sasuke getting out quickly to examine the body, it was a female of the age twenty-three, two years younger than him. As the sheet covered the rest of her body but her face, he examined the cuts across her right cheek. The symbol embedded on the cheek, the blood now dry.
Makes sense, the coroner told him she had been dead for at least forty-eight hours. Two whole days, as he looked under the sheet, Sasuke heard his partner say,
"That symbol's in ancient history, the Egyptian's 'Was scepter', it represents Power."
"I see, so this guy wants us to know he's powerful?" Sasuke asked, and Neji nodded.
Neji examined the body some more. "Looks like she was strangled first, then cut." Sasuke had concluded what he said. Someone choked this woman, and then used her as his personal cutting board. Sasuke watched as the coroner took the woman's body away. Neji seemed to be looking for some clues, when Sakura, a crime scene investigator came up to Sasuke.
"I think I have something you might like." She guided him over to the scene, and pointed to some broken glass.
"Something was broken here, at first I was thinking just a beer bottle, but looking at the glass more carefully, it seemed to be stained. Like stained glass windows in most churchs." Sasuke hung on her every word, he needed some clue in this homicide. "Anyway, examining it more, I found that it might have belonged to a charm or amulet of something. When I get the lab work done on it, I can narrow it down from there."
Sasuke sighed leaving Sakura to work, he and Neji then went back to the victim's house. The victim's name was Kira Ookami, twenty-three years old, a nurse. She seemed pleasant enough. As they searched through her house, they found out that she had an appointment with a Dr. Hataki, they would head there next. What was it about this woman that she had to be killed for?
Sasuke saw a picture tucked in a folder, he pulled it out and froze. She knew...Naruto? The picture was of her and him a few years back, he had his stupid grin on, and his blonde hair in the same style. He smiled to the pic, Naruto was always something, making people laugh, and sometimes annoying. God, he was annoying to Sasuke, but he loved that about him. As much as he annoyed him, he always made Sasuke happy.
How did she know Naruto? Maybe they were college friends, or roomates a time ago. She seemed like a popular and fun woman, he stared at the picture of Naruto, a ping of pain went through his body, his heart seemed to drop, he had missed him so much. They had been partners for nearly four years until he...died. He closed his eyes, and taking a deep breathe trying to calm himself down. After all, he was the one who killed Naruto.
Katomi-Sorry, it's short. I know. Hope you enjoyed it. Byies.P