Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto, Shuheisha, Inc.

Summary: [AU] Sakura is a successful young surgeon who knows little about her family dark history, which trapped her in an unexpected marriage with Sasuke, a detective who cares nothing but his vengeance towards her family. But will love be able to bloom from the hatred the two share to each other?

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[ The Doctor & The Detective ]

It was another hectic day for Sakura Haruno, a young surgeon who always put her duty above everything else but still below her family matter. She went through surgery after surgery and still had to deal with explaining the procedure to both the patient and their families.

The nurse informed her about the upcoming patient's list and Sakura could only sigh when another wave was coming after lunch. She was a well-known surgeon in her area, which was the reason why people had queued since morning until midnight. Not that she hated it because saving people's lives was the dedication she upheld since she decided to become a doctor.

However, it didn't mean she had a flawless record.

After her last patient left her room, Sakura stretched her body, feeling relieved that she could finally call it a day. Trudging towards her locker room, Sakura shoved her hand into her lab jacket to pick her vibrating phone. A soft smile spread on her lips upon seeing her father's name on the displayed screen. She slid her thumb over the screen to accept the call.

"Hello, Tou-san," she said to the phone.

"Hello! How's my Baby Doctor doing lately?" said her father's throaty but cheerful voice.

"Busy as always, Tou-san." She clamped her phone between her cheek and her shoulder as she shoved her key into her locker. "But I'm just finished and was about to call you so you're calling me at the right moment."

Her father chuckled on the other side of the line. "Are you sure you're not lying about that?"

She slapped her thigh as her laughter escaped her lips. "No, Tou-san! Trust me! You don't know how much I miss you, do you?"

"I miss you too, Baby. When can I see you?"

Sakura put her finger on her chin while reviewing her schedule that week inside her mind. "Hmm… I think I can go home this Saturday, though I'll have to leave as soon as I get an emergency call."

"No problem. I'll see you then. I love you, Baby Doctor."

"I love you too, Tou-san. I'll see you later!" She pursed her lips and made a kissing sound at the end of the line.

Smiling to herself, the plan to visit her father that weekend made her dance as she changed back into her clothes. She decided that she would cook her father's favourite napolitan spaghetti and strawberry lemonade for their dinner that day. It was their family's favourite and she still ordered it at the restaurant that served the food because it always reminded her of her home. Though Ino was never pleased to see her ordering it due to the amount of the oil and sugar they contained.

Riding her white BMW, she turned on her music player and drummed her fingers against her steering wheel, following the R&B beat. The path she had to take to go home seemed so long and at that moment she felt like she wanted nothing but threw herself to her comfortable bed. Parking her car on her appointed slot, she locked the door and walked towards her two-story apartment. She was living in the apartment since the beginning of her career and she loved her place. The area was peaceful and she hardly hears anything but stray cats' meow. She had good relationships with her neighborhoods and her landlord was her mother's best friend. It was a perfect place for single lady like her.

Sakura deeply inhaled the scent of her house when she unlocked the door to her apartment. She put cherry blossom aromatherapy around her apartment. The scent of her favorite flower always did its magic to relax her and it had nothing to do with her name. A lot of people was making fun of the colors of her pink hair and called her a walking tree, especially because her parent named her after the flower tree. Most of them didn't take her seriously because of it especially in her career field, but she never took it to her heart.

Her heels echoed on her wooden floor when she strolled towards her shoes rack to store her precious heels in it. Her feet felt cool and comfortable against the wooden floor. Release a relief sigh, she scooted towards her comfortable couch and allowed herself to sink into it. . She felt her tensed muscle started to loosen a little and if she closed her eyes longer than she did at that moment, she'd fall asleep anytime now.

But no matter how much she wanted to go straight to her bed, she had to fulfill the demand that came from her growling stomach. She lazily trudged towards her refrigerator to check for any available food and her lips quirked in disappointment when she found nothing but the sandwich she saved from yesterday.

She preheated the sandwich on her microwave, waiting until it made a ding sound and placing it on her plate while walking back to her couch. Taking a bite of her chicken sandwich, her eyes lingered on the photo framed that decorated her wall. She stopped chewing her food when her eyes stopped on the one that had her family in it. She only had her father now since her mother passed away back when she was in her junior high. Her mother had breast cancer and struggle with it for three long years before she finally lost the combat. It was her most painful moment in her life, but she decided to morph the pain into the will to save people by becoming a doctor.

She didn't want to have more people suffer the loss she had been through because she knew how painful it was and thus the reason she cared for her father deeply because he was the only one she had in this world. Her father always told her that having too many friends mean having too many enemies. But even without her father telling her that, she always preferred to keep her circle of friendship as little as she could because there were so many backstabbers. She never asked about her other families since her father seemed to be upset whenever he told one or two stories about how cruel they were. He cut all the connections he had with his families for an unknown reason and she never heard anything about them ever since.

As soon as she finished her sandwich, she went to the bathroom to brush her teeth. She decided she was too tired to do anything else and her bed had summoned her. She strode towards her bed and plopped on it. When the cherry blossom scents from her shampoo seeped through her nostrils, she closed her eyes and slept through the dreamless night.

Drumming his fingers against his wooden oak table, Sasuke Uchiha had his onyx eyes impaling on the documents that arrived on his table not long ago. Inside the brown envelope was the information about the fourth victim that was discovered earlier that day. He had to deal with the case because his mentor also senior, Kakashi Hatake was assigned to a bigger case.

Piling below the newest documents were three older folders from Kakashi, containing the information about the three previous victims who were killed within two and half months. It didn't take a genius to decide that the serial-killer appeared to target young women, specifically with the age within twenty to thirty-years-old.

However, none of the documents that mounted before him contained any evidences that could lead him to the murderer. The psycho appeared to execute the same pattern for all victims. Money, however, wasn't in his agenda because he never asked for the ransom money. It appeared that he only did the killing to satisfy his personal need. He would kidnap the women, rape them, then he would drown his victims and threw them like garbage.

Sasuke wondered why the murderer had to drowned his victims. Konoha was located far in the centre of the continent, meaning that their city was far away from water resources, excluding the lake that was located miles away from the heart of the city and the sewers. It would take a lot of work to bring them to the spots where the victims were discovered.

However, the motive was clear; the psycho was killing for fun and so far he couldn't find any ulterior motive aside from that. He turned his seat around on the mind mapping he pasted on his wall, stabbing a red pin on the place where they discovered the fourth victim on Konoha city map and wrote down the name so he could pull the red line that could help him discover anything that could lead him to the perpetrator.

He reclined his back to his seat as he sighed in exasperation. As much as he wanted to solve the case, he couldn't keep on thinking about the murderer case and his other plan on his brother's vengeance at the same time. After years and years of investigation, he finally managed to find a way to torment the one who caused his brother's death. He wanted to execute his plan as soon as possible, but the case was disturbing his mind. He was a very dedicated detective, but he put his vengeance above everything else and it was far more important than capturing some random psychopath.

A sudden vibrate from his cell phone had made him flitting his alerted eyes from the map to his phone screen, noticing Naruto Uzumaki's name appeared on it. Sliding his thumb over the screen, he lifted the phone to his ear.

"Dobe."

"Bastard! Is that your way to greet a friend that has worked his ass all night for your sake?!"

"No time for chit chat, Dobe. What did you get?"

A disturbed sigh could be heard from the other side of the line. "It appears that your target has been secluding himself completely from the family. He's living in a small house in town now. The only living source he got is from his daughter's gains."

"Good," an icy cold smirk grazed on his cool feature.

"Hey Bastard, I don't mean to intervene, but I don't think you should do this. You're going to punish both yourself and her with something both of you completely innocent of. Don't you think you should move on instead?" He sincerely pleaded, but not enough to soften his cold heart.

"I'm not going to kill anybody, Dobe."

"Yeah, but you're going to put her into a misery! She doesn't have to suffer from something she knows nothing of! Don't make any decision you'll regret!"

"I won't, Dobe. Believe me I won't." He hung up the phone with nothing but vengeance in his head. Sasuke had lived his days for the sake of this plan and he would do anything to accomplish it—not even Naruto could stop him.

Sacrificing one or two on the way was a right price to pay.

A new message popped on his cell phone and he smirked when he saw the address Naruto had sent for him. His eyes flitted towards the full moon outside his window while a feeling of satisfaction building inside him. Soon enough, he was going to make his enemy's life bubbling towards catastrophe.

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