"After him!"

The sound of many heavy feet echoed through the chapel of the Victorian style church as the police force made another vain attempt to capture the elusive thief.

"How the hell are you the best this city has to offer?! You wouldn't last a day elsewhere." A deep voice yelled out through the rafters. If you want a thief caught track him yourself. Dark eyes took in the curving stairwell in a sweep. From what he knew the thief was in pretty great shape, he could have easily handled the long stair. Long legs carried him further up into the church tower as the thunk of feet up ahead sounded to his acute hearing.

He rounded the last turn and blinked in the sudden onslaught of moonlight that filtered into the circular room around him. As he turned he noticed a small figure standing near one of the glass-less windows that took up the majority of the walls. Dark hair shifted subtly as the masked thief raised his head and stared at him with deep blue eyes the color of a cloudless day. No guilt or regret lingered there as he had seen in so many criminals that he had caught. Only light amusement shone in the depths. Lips moved under the black mask that covered his lower face (think Kakashi without his headband or Lelouch when he dresses up as Zero). The bastard was smirking at him.

"Took you long enough." The other boy said simply. Gracefully long hands settled on slim black-clothed hips. "It's been no fun with those other cops. They don't use their heads, unlike you. I like that."

"You have the right to remain-"

"Silent, yeah yeah yeah, blah blah. Can't you revise the rights? They get so boring after a while. Besides I don't think I'll be using them for now." He gave him a two-fingered salute and flipped out over the windowsill.

The remaining soul rushed to the window and peered over into the night. He watched as a kunai knife shot out of the sleeve and wound around the forearm of a gargoyle perched on top of one of the adjacent buildings. The line went taunt as the weight of the boy tugged on it. He swung around and alighted upon a nearby roof before gaining a running start and leaping across the long gap that separated the two buildings. The moonlight shone through his dark hair as he landed only to twist around with an ease built of long years of training. He waved a gloved hand and shouted "Don't forget to use your head!"

A piece of paper floating down snapped the young officer out of his daze. He caught it as it attempted to drift past his face. He carefully unfolded the note and his obsidian eyes scanned the letters there.

Thanks for an eventful night

Hope to see you at my next play

Keep up the good work

And maybe you might come close to catching me one day

,Sasuke

Love,

You Know Who

The little bastard even had the nerve to sign it with a smiley face.

Man how he hated the ones that better than him.

~~~~~~~~~69~~~~~~~~~

"Sasuke?" His blonde secretary knocked on his door. He looked up from the thick case file with a questioning look. "The eyewitness from the street robbery is here for questioning."

"Tell him I'll be there in a minute." The detective stood up with his hands braced against the solid sood of his desk.

The secretary looked a little awkward.

"What?"

"Well…um…there's a little communication problem…." She fidgeted with he hands.

Sasuke just raised one of his eyebrows.

"Well, you see, he can't talk."

"You mean he's mute or he's retarded?" His voice was monotonous. He didn't have time for this.

"Just mute, he hasn't talked since his parents died."

Cliché. "Oh, well at least he will know what he's talking about." He walked out of his office leaving the blonde to follow.

--O.O--

"Naruto." The small blonde looked up and smiled slightly at Sasuke as he walked in. His tiny wave was greeted with a nod.

The pink-haired woman behind him stiffened a little as the gorgeous man strode into the interrogation room.

"I'm Sakura, Naruto's personal interpreter." Another nod greeted the statement.

Sasuke sat down at the table across from Naruto, who doodled in a notebook. "Now , Naruto, I want to-" He was cut off by a piece of paper being shoved towards him. He blinked then he blinked again. Did someone really just interrupt him? Picking up the piece of paper Sasuke saw that it had the suspect's aprox. age, height, build, ect. As he scanned down the page he saw a bulky paragraph at the bottom, which threatened to spill off the limits of the page. Dark eyes read and reread the words. It was exactly the information he was going to ask Naruto to give him.

Another page fluttered into his view.

I figured you'd want to know all this. Did i miss anything?

"Ahh...no, no you didn't, but if you'd be so kind as to come back when we need your help in a lineup that would be great." He received a nod back and he stood up to leave, but a note once again stopped him.

What about the woman in the hospital?

Sasuke growled before turning to one of the police officers stationed behind him. "You never told me a woman got injured. If she is killed from that it could turn into a homicide case!" The guards shifted uneasily. The raven haired boy smacked his face before turning back to the pinkette and blonde. "If we have any update on her condition we'll alert you, ok?" another nod and they got up and left.

Sasuke rounded on the guards again. "You people are imbeciles. How can I guide an investigation if I don't know all the details you already know!" With that he stalked out the door back to his office.

~~~~~~~~~69~~~~~~~~~ (a/n ~~69~~=long time and/or scene change -O.O-=time change same scene or nearby scene)

Sasuke rubbed his eyes. He'd been in the office for hours on end and he'd been unable to find any clues to the mugger/murder case. The woman had never made it out of the operation room and had been pronounced dead after only a few minutes working to get the bullet out. His autopsy team had processed the body and announced that the bullet wound was indeed what killed her. The young Uchiha let out a moan. He'd have to alert the family, try and catch the perp, and get Naruto to come up to the station and confirm him. All in all tomorrow was going to be hell.

"Commander Uchiha!" a rough voice called from the hall as Sasuke heard thudding feet running along the carpeted floor. "It's the thief again. He's robbed another church!."(a/n NO!!! he didn't take $$$ from them he took things like paintings and stuff) The raven jumped to his feet knocking over his chair in his haste. He's not going to get away with it this time.

~~~~~~~~~69~~~~~~~~~

Sasuke glared at the blank wall that used to hold the church's most prized painting, The "Cursed Maiden" by and unknown artist. It had been donated to the church more than one hundred years ago. He had started to notice a connection between everything the thief was stealing. First of all, it was always something rather old, Secondly, it usually had a mysterious past, Third, it usually was associated with some myth about it being cursed or something of that nature.

A noise from behind startled him. He spun around on his heel and found himself face to face with the very person he'd been searching for.

"Looking for me?" The crook cocked his head to the side and Sasuke found it slightly odd that he could still do that while hanging upside down. His black hair looked even stranger as it hung in waves away from his face. Blue eyes regarded him thoroughly. "Well?"

"Ah...yes?"

"You don't sound too sure of yourself."

"You don't sound too down to earth to me."

"True, but I at least can come down whenever I feel the urge. It would take you forever to get into my position."

Grr...."Why are you here?"

"Isn't it obvious? To take back the paintings."

Take...back? That's something new. "What do you mean?"

"I mean they were taken from us. What else do you thin I would mean, dobe."

A vein ticked on Sasuke's forehead. "And who's 'us'?"

"Now, now I can't tell you that, can I? It would ruin the fun." The other boy's voice purred. "Besides, you'd just freak out it I told you."

"Why are you doing all this?" A flash of something crossed through the others gorgeous blue eyes, but before Sasuke could analyze it the thief flipped down onto the floor, settling into a crouch to absorb the impact. He straitened up, crossing his arms across his chest.

"Do you really want to know?" The abrupt change of tone caught the Uchiha off guard. "You really think you want to know why I have to do what I do? You don't have the guts to even think about my reasons, so fuck off."

That snapped the young detective out of the confusion at the sudden change in the boy's posture and voice. "You think my life's been easy? Well it sure hasn't been a fucking cake walk(:D fuck yeah i can make Sasuke say shit like that!/evil laughter/)."

"Hn." He simply turned his back and began walking away. Sasuke stood rooted to the spot before his mind processed the tiny part of his brain that was still working in order to remember that he was supposed to be chasing this guy.

"Shit." He began running after the strange younger boy, but before he even got a few feet the other boy was already out the door and sprinting down the hall.

"Ja ne, Sasuke-chan!" What the fuck did he just call me?!

Several guards stood in awe as the brunette thief shot pasted them laughing as a pissed Uchiha bore down on his tail. Needless to say they quietly backed away from the hall and vowed to never mention it to any of their colleagues.

Sasuke rounded a corner only to find old mortar and thick stone set in tidy patterns. To the left were huge ceiling high windows, gothic arches overshadowing a granite floor. He rushed over in time to see...nothing, he couldn't see the thief swinging out of sight as he did every other attempt to arrest him. Suddenly a face filled his vision, blue eyes sparkling with mischief. He felt warm lips press against his forehead and before he could look up the boy had already pulled his mask back up and had dropped down to the ledge below, stopping at the corner of the building to leap down onto one of the trees in the courtyard. Sasuke fell back with a thud onto the cold stone floor. The hell is with this fucking guy?

~~~~sasunaru~~~~

yeah well i thought it was a good place to stop and it's already like twice as long as a normal chapter for me so be happy. also i kinda like giving all Sasuke's usual traits to the other one hehe it's fun. anywho i hope you like it review if you want another chapter i'ma try and actually update this one i really do try but it's just how much life decides to hate me that rules my updating.

Cute quote for this chappy: When I get an idea the plot bunnies don't hit me over the head...they take a fourty-two mm rilfle to me and demand i write it down. They're so mean T.T

R&R pls