Catch Me If You Can

Wanted for fraud, Naruto is being pursued by Sasuke, a detective. So how is Sakura caught in the middle? All of the Konoha crew is twisted in this modern AU. R&R!

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"Thank you ." The woman said to the man with blonde hair and vibrant blue eyes. He stood about 6'2 and had the most charming smile on his face. He was a charmer indeed, everything about him just exuded confidence and charm and made women swoon nearly everywhere he went.

smiled just enough that his teeth were showing and extended his hand and accepted the three hundred dollars he withdrew from "his" account. After smoothly removing the money from the woman's hand, Naruto bowed slight and pulled the back of her hand to his mouth and placed a soft kiss on it. He looked up to see her smiling and smirked.

"You're welcome, Suki." He replied after a moment. He straightened his back, turned on his heels, and left the bank. He was dressed in a dapper three-piece suit complete with a pair of expensive Gucci sunglasses. As he stepped outside he looked left and right then deployed his sunglasses to combat the bright sun.

"Damn, it's a good day." Naruto said loud enough for himself to hear and began to walk down the busy sidewalk to his left. And with that, Naruto disappeared with the rest of Konoha population.

Across town, the police department's main briefing room was dark as the only thing on was a projector displaying information on the increase in fraudulent charges in the area. The room was filled with Uchiha men. Around the table in no order, one would look to see Fugaku, Itachi, Shisui, Sasuke, Madara, and Obito Uchiha sitting at the oblong table.

With Madara being the police captain, and Fugaku being the police lieutenant leaving the rest of men as the elite detectives on the force. This presentation is presented by the two heads of the detective force, Madara, and Fugaku. The younger men in the room watched intensely as the list of fifteen suspect's names popped up on the screen. Sasuke squinted at the list, his vision was great, but one name stood out to him: "Naruto Uzumaki".

"Tch. That Dobe? He couldn't fix a straw if it was bent." Sasuke thought to himself.

Sitting near the back of the room, Sasuke caught his brother glancing at him. It was a warning to pay attention. All the Uchiha's had this silent language they communicated with their eyes. It was an asset, but also creepy to those who didn't get it.

"-I'm assigning a select few of these criminals to you all. Itachi, I'm giving you Temari Subaku. Shishui; Hinata Hyuuga. Obito; Neji Hyuuga. Sasuke; Naruto Uzumaki." Boomed Madara while Fugaku nodded with his eyes closed.

"Naruto? This should be a piece of cake. Those other suspects would be harder." Sasuke thought to himself. He did feel a little jealous though. The other suspects were harder. He was always being given the easier assignments in comparison to his cohort. They were more senior, but he still a good detective- junior detective to be technical. He let out a little sigh to himself as the meeting was adjourned and the lights came on.

Sasuke gathered his files in front of him stood and stretched then left the room. He went back to his cubicle in the massive open space that was called the bullpen. His cubical was left of Itachi's and right of Shisui's. He was in the middle because his father felt having experienced detectives in the immediate vicinity would be beneficial to the three-month-old detective.

"Naruto….Naruto…I guess the first thing is the find out where he lives. Canvas that for a little and then monitor his movements? That is IF I get permission from lieutenant Uchiha." Sasuke thought to himself. He logged onto his desktop computer and began to look up all the information in the system on Naruto Uzumaki.

"Finally!" Sakura exclaimed. Her pink hair flaring in the wind as she sat at an outside bistro awaiting her one of the two best friends, Naruto Uzumaki, to arrive.

"I was just about to leave before everyone thought I was a loser and got stood up." She said rising to hug him. Naruto laughed in response. She was pretty funny when she had every right to be mad.

"How was work, Sakura?" He asked now sitting from their hug.

"Decent, I saw three children today with the flu. I really felt bad for them." Sakura said with a little huff of a sigh. She worked at the hospital as a physician, her residency was still ongoing. She was specializing as a hospitalist physician so she gets to float around the hospital.

"Sounds exciting?" Naruto said with a quizzical look on his face. He didn't find that interesting.

"Well, that's awfully judgmental from the man who's an auto mechanic." Sakura poked playfully. She now looked at his appearance, he was in a suit? That's not typical of a mechanic. Naruto must have seen her face because he was already building an excuse for his atypical attire.

"Speaking of which" Sakura began "Where do you work? The Royal Palace? Geeze! That's rather, extravagant for a run-of-the-mill auto tech." She asked one eyebrow raised.

Coolly, as to dismiss her potential concern, Naruto skillfully added: "I was at a wedding earlier today and just wanted to look good for once." Not a word of truth was in that sentence, but he knew she'd buy it. She had been since they became friends when he first moved here four years ago. "Besides, you know you'd like some eye candy in your life." He joked. He did look quite good in the suit. He then began to tell her intricate details of this made-up wedding for some made-up people. Naruto's skill with lying was extraordinarily impressive. He was able to spin a web of lies AND remember his lies with missing a beat. Well, he was profession criminal, it's a skill that's mandatory for the job.

Sakura sat across from him listening intently to his account of his day. She glanced down at her watch to see it was a stroke past 4 pm, her next duty shift began in thirty minutes and the hospital was across town!

"Ah!" She exclaimed. "Naruto, I love ya man, but I gotta get to work! You were so late, I had missed of my break!"

She scurried to grab all of her stuff planted a kiss on Naruto's cheek and took off in her three-inch heels down the sidewalk to work. Her recognizable pink hair disappearing on the rather busy sidewalk. Naruto shrugged and began to walk away from the table when he bumped into a woman. She had long luxurious blonde hair and light blue eyes. She dropped her tray of glasses. They fell to the ground with a shattering sound drawing the attention of the of fellow patrons.

"Oh shoot!" She exclaimed.

"No, It's my fault darling." Naruto said calmly. She looked up to meet his gaze. He was dreamy and he smiled at her. She didn't know why she was blushing, but this good-looking man was now picking up the bits of glass off the ground before she could process what was happening. Handing her back the tray of now broken glass, he took her hand, kissed its back and placed a piece of paper in her hands and was swiftly walking down the street.

She blinked a few times to orient herself to reality again. "Had that man the that? So publicly? In front of everyone?" Her cheeks were burning.

She spun around and headed back to the kitchen when she remembered there was a piece of paper in her hands. She unfolded it to see a phone number and name written "554-555-5565, Lee Hiku….XO". She smiled.

Meanwhile, Sakura had made it back to work, grabbed a granola bar, and changed into her scrubs and some sensible shoes. Placing her stethoscope around her neck, name tag on the top right side of her scrub top, and donning her white lab coat she walked out onto the floor feeling the effects of her lack of sleep.

In her pocket, her pager went off alerting of a code-blue on one of her patients. She sighed and jogged to the elevator to assist with her case. "This is the life I chose," she thought to herself as she arrived at the room. She took a deep breath and began to work.

Sasuke was waiting outside the last known address for Naruto Uzumaki. It was on the poor side of town. Sasuke sat in his undercover police SUV and glared at the dilapidated apartment complex building with an observant eye. It was a single-story domicile with all three doors of entry broken down and looked abandoned. He felt his hip for his sidearm, grabbed his flashlight, and sighed and left the vehicle to go inspect. He knew Naruto didn't live here anymore. It became clear by the time he entered the shanty house to see three homeless men sitting on the floor shocked to see an officer in their "home".

He shined his flashlight on the men who began to scurry away he ran to intercept them only cornering one as the others escaped through the back of the apartment.

"Hey!" He shouted. They scattered

"HEY!" He yelled louder. "KPD, KPD! Stay where you are!" He stated.

The man stood still and after a moment Sasuke spoke again.

"I just need to ask you some questions about the building, ok? You're not under arrest!" The man let out a sigh let his guard down a little, but Sasuke knew he would more than likely try to make a run for it.

"What do you want ?" The man joked defensively.

Rolling his eyes, Sasuke replied, "How long has the building been abandoned?"

The gave a surprised look then narrowed his eyes "Why?"

"That's my business, not yours."

"Well, what's in it for me?"

"You get to stay here," Sasuke replied dryly.

"Hmm, you're a jerk aren't you?"

"….I can arrest you for obstructing justice. Keep playing."

"About a year, man. But those other guys said that they've been here for the past five years, I don't know their names, but-"

Sasuke stopped listening as he remembered the case file said Naruto just moved into this apartment six months ago.

"Hey man!" the stranger said jarring Sasuke from his thoughts. "Am I still going to get arrested? I told you everything I know, honest."

Sasuke knew the man was not telling him everything he knew, he was not being 100% honest.

"No, I'm not arresting you….today."

"Aw man, what do you mean 'not today'?" the man said paraphrasing Sasuke words.

Still shining his flashlight in the man's eyes, he reached into his pocket and withdrew his business card. "You call me the moment you have any more information you want to give, ok?"

Slowly extending his hand to take the card, the man obliged. "You never told me what I should call you with information about?"

"A man named Naruto Uzumaki."

The man's eyes widened. Sasuke took that as a sign of recognition of the name. This piqued Sasuke's interest.

"You know him?" He asked

"Nope never heard of him." The man lied.

Sasuke saw right through him. He didn't want to man to withhold any more information, but he couldn't pressure him. Sure, he could arrest him and bring him back to the station, hold him for 72 hours, and interrogate the crap out of him, but he chose not to. He needed the man's cooperation, not fear.

"I'll be in the area for the next few weeks if you find out anything," Sasuke said deactivating his flashlight. He replaced it in its holster and began to leave the place. The sun was still shining when he reached the to entryway. He looked up to see a few birds flying by and then down to see kids drawing with chalk on the sidewalk. He put on his sunglasses and walked over to his car, started it, and drove off. Naruto wasn't as dumb as he thought, huh?

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