Delirium.
[Medical term: delirium, meaning sudden severe and rapid change and confusion. A quick change of mental states..]

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the like. This story is based off the American tv drama Lie To Me, which was sadly cancelled. :( I don't own the show and anything else is purely coincidental. And lol, the main character Noele is based off of Dr. Lightman, and I actually can't help the fact that we're both British. So yeah. I own nothing except..well I own nothing. So. Yeah. I hope you guys like it~! This is my first story after my very long hiatus, please read well~

I was never really accepted anywhere because of my abilities. People were always..concerned or intimidated, when in reality, I couldn't really help that I was a natural at what I do. I couldn't help the fact that I read people. Some said I was pretty judgmental but I've learned that no one's opinion matters anyway. I wasn't out to kill anyone, I didn't mean any harm. It wasn't like I hated everyone.

I just simply..problem solved, if you will.

My name is Noele. I'm currently 24 years old. I'm a criminal investigator for the NYPD but I work independently..sort of. The police come by and check once in awhile, making sure everything is clean cut and orthodox. My own group was started about six years ago, I teamed up with a bunch of friends from college. Most of them pretty much quit after the first year except my friends Raven and Nina.

Raven was a really good friend of mine, Nina and I had our days, I suppose. Raven was more reliable than Nina but I'd honestly never tell her that to her face. Nina has a temper, God knows which side of her family she got it from. She was tall and Hispanic, sort of vain at times. I admit she is pretty, but sometimes she takes it a bit too far.

Raven and I relate more on a personal level for whatever reason. We always have and I don't know why. I met her back in primary school and she's been at my side since then. We stopped talking for awhile mainly because I got caught up in so many things and I didn't know which way was up or down, but our friendship was soon rekindled and things were back to the way they were.

"You're a bloody homewrecker!" Raven shouted across the lab, throwing papers because of her rage-induced fit probably based because of Nina. Like always.

I had to laugh at that, homewrecker was a nice term for Nina. A clean one, at least.

"Hey, I'm the Brit, alright? Don't steal my vocabulary. Now go to the break room or something, there's so much tension in here you could cut it with a knife. A bloody plastic one, and we all know how those are." I said, shoving Raven out of the lab in an attempt to separate the two.

I turned to Nina and scowled. "You two can't get along can you? This is the fourth week in a bloody row that you two have argued, causing me to distract myself from a case. Don't be a wanker, oi. Either get your act together or get out, Nina."

"I never said I was nice."

"I never asked you to be," I retorted. "However, respect is mandatory around these parts and if you don't show it, I won't show it either as I show you the door with some papers that won't look too lovely on your record."

Nina gave me one of those eye-roll-shoulder-hunch things and darted out of the room, making sure she slammed the door behind her.

Typical.

I turned my attention back to the case file; middle aged man at the wrong place at the wrong time convicted for murder and God knows what else. He had a list of felonies on the page about a mile long. I mean, if the guy was lying about not killing someone but yet committed so many felonies, then I was the Queen of England.

No pun intended.

As I started to reach for the file to read over it some more, my cell phone vibrated in my right pocket. I flipped it open.

"Dr. Carson?" The voice on the other end said without me even having time to answer.

"Yes?" I said hesitantly.

"You might want to step outside for a moment. There's an event that needs your attention asap."

I snapped my phone shut and carefully walked to the doorway. I only opened the door wide enough to see what was going on, and sure enough, I was certainly taken aback.

In the middle of my hallway was Nina, getting handcuffed by two police officers. The rest of the staff that maintained the building were in complete shock, and I saw that Raven's club deluxe sandwich was half eaten and fell to the floor. Raven rushed over to me with wide eyes.

"What's going on? Why is Nina getting arrested?" she asked. I laughed. I halfway expected this, Nina had been acting weird for more than quite awhile now, but her arrest was probably not the first thing on my "what-if" list.

I leaned back against the doorframe and sighed. "I don't know, Raven. Let's wait and see if anyone con-"

I was interrupted by Agent J, the head honcho at NYPD. He insisted we only call him Agent J and anything else was strictly prohibited. He often worked with us and was a good friend of mine, however he and Raven were barely on speaking terms.

"Dr. Carson, your assistant is getting arrested for the murder of a middle aged man that you had a case file on, were you aware of this?" He asked, taking off his sunglasses.

The water I was drinking was now all over the tiled floor.

"Ha, no I didn't, sir. However I suspected her weird behaviour. I just didn't connect it to a murder of all things."

Agent J nodded, writing something on a clipboard. He turned his eyes toward Raven, who looked kind of scared.

"Raven." He nodded.

"Agent J."

"Well, if I have further questioning I'll let you know. You'll probably be coming downtown with us in a bit, there's a lot of paperwork and such to be done. Oh, we're sending you a replacement in for Nina. He's about your age, graduated with honours and such. Smart guy. I think you'll like him and get along well."

I cocked an eyebrow. "Replacement? I think we're doing just fine here as is, no offense."

"None taken," he nodded. "But I can't let this guy's talent go to waste, you see. Plus he really needs a job."

"And so does 60% of the country, but they aren't coming here."

He sighed. "Noele, please. Just take him under your wing for a bit. If you don't like him, come talk to me and he'll work for us pushing papers or something. Just do this for us."

"Oh come on, Noele, I'm sure he's nothing like Nina. In both a biological and personal sense. Plus, he's a guy!" Raven said, raising her eyebrows. Agent J gave her a look and she just smiled.

"Ignore her. Okay, fine. What's his name?" I said, throwing my water bottle in the trashcan beside of the door.

"Kakashi. Kakashi Hatake."