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SUMMARY
Sasuke Uchiha, an almost famous detective, has traveled to a small city town to find an incredibly annoying criminal. He has a run in with the local cop station via Naruto Uzumaki. This small, boring city becomes far more exciting as he is pulled into an underground hunt for a legendary ruby, coinceidently all leading back to Naruto.

WARNUNG! ACHTUNG! ATTENZIONE! WATCH OUT!

homosexuality... bit of blood later on... and torture, minimal gore

Prologue.

Sasuke knew he was being followed. He had noticed the hooded figure when he had entered the pub, and had thought nothing of it until he ordered only a glass of water. He had not pulled back his hood and sat, back to the bar, facing the entire room. He sat there sipping on his water the whole time, until Sasuke left. The stalker amateurishly followed him directly out of the pub. Sasuke was a tall man with fair skin, in his late twenties, and very handsome. If he wasn't such a stoic and silent character, with a poor personality, he would probably have been married many years ago. As it was he had to deal with stalkers regularly, in fact, his line of work almost called for it. And he could tell that this hooded figure was a beginner; he had made so many mistakes!

First of all the hood was a big 'no-no', if you want to make someone wary of you then by all means wear a hood, but if you're trying to follow them discreetly and not cause alarm, leave the hoody at home. Then he drinks water at a pub; that was his biggest and most obvious mistake. There were smaller things too, stumbling to change direction when Sasuke entered the bar, looking around in search when exiting the pub. And even as Sasuke was walking away from the pub the stalker was so scared of losing him he was walking carelessly close. It was infuriating! Was nobody good at anything these days?

He made a decision; if this man was going to play it dumb then so was Sasuke, if for no other reason than to prove a point. He rounded a corner quickly and waited. Just as he expected the hooded figure stalked rounded the corner and was caught by surprise as Sasuke left hooked him in the cheek bone, knocking him to the ground. He quickly rolled out of the way though and was on his feet again. Before the stranger could gather his bearings Sasuke was on him, he picked him up by the front of his jumper and slammed him against the wall, a feeling of satisfaction sweeping through him as he heard a definite 'thunk' of head on brick. Without a moment's hesitation he used his heel to pull the stalkers feet out from under him and dropped him to the ground flat on his back. The man elicited a dizzied moan as Sasuke sat on him and wrenched back his hood.

'Who are you!' he yelled at the man before him. It was dark and difficult to see in the alleyway but Sasuke knew he did not recognise this man. He had light brown or blond hair and tanned, Caucasian skin. He was trying to open his eyes to look at Sasuke but his eyebrows were furrowed in pain. Sasuke pulled his shoulders up and slammed them back down repeating; 'Who are you!'

After a moment the man groaned out, 'mm- police, arsehole.'

Sasuke frowned; police officer? He didn't believe the man before him and so flipped him over onto his stomach and began rummaging through his pockets. The man seemed to be waking up because he started to struggle against Sasuke's roaming hands.

'Oi! Oi! Get your hands off! Hey!'

Sasuke found the man's wallet and opened it discover the police badge, but Sasuke was not yet convinced; it could be stolen. But as he was about to grab some ID the man used the brief distraction as an opening and threw Sasuke up in the air, and he landed on the ground with a surprised 'oomf'. The wallet was cast aside, forgotten. He was punched twice in the face before pressed face first into the ground, his arms wrenched behind him.

'What do you think you're doing?' he growled furiously as he realised he was being handcuffed.

'I am placing you under arrest,' was the reply, Sasuke was dragged to his feet and pushed forward to walk, 'under the suspicions of breaking and entering, theft, undesirable behaviour and; attacking a police officer.'

'What?' Sasuke cried, 'let go of me! I'm a detective you idiot!' he struggled to get away from the police officer but to no avail.

'Su~ure you are.' The man replied sarcastically, 'you can tell us all about it at the station.'

Sasuke was propelled forward and he heard his captor call into his radio for someone to pick them up. When the patrol car arrived Sasuke was forced into the backseat, though he was no longer struggling. This was the worst. Well almost; life for the blond after they found out who Sasuke was, was going to be a lot worse. But still Sasuke was seething, what he wouldn't give to be back in his apartment right now. He'd already taken time off of his case in order to figure out who his stalker was, how he regretted that now, he didn't want to be wasting any more of his expensive and valuable time.

He was read his rights on the way back to the station, but he stared out of the window watching the city lights blur past him. He knew all his rights anyway, knew them off the top of his head, after all he had been a police officer once. Now he was an inspector and detective. He was going to let this policeman and his whole station really have it when they found out he was Sasuke Uchiha.

Earlier that day

It was another busy morning at the police station, the night shift signing out and still bringing in the late night criminals; from petty thieves to murderers. Naruto Uzumaki, a young police officer was sitting at his desk going through some of his reports. He had short, unkempt blond hair and naturally tanned skin. While he was not the brightest tool in the shed he was a very successful police officer, strong and agile and very just. He heaved a tired sigh as he tapped his reports into a neat pile.

'Hey Uzumaki,' one of his co-workers growled, 'you on patrol today?'

'Yeah,' he replied looking up at his colleague and friend, Kiba Inuzuka, 'double, ten til four, then six til twelve.'

Kiba grinned, he had brown hair that challenged Naruto's in messiness, was a little chubbier than Naruto but just as fit and only marginally sharper. 'Cool; you're with me. We've got to keep an eye out for this guy.' He threw down a thin, dossier file and the young officer flipped it open to show a very poor photograph of a pale man with pitch black hair, carefully styled. There was limited information which Naruto skimmed over as Kiba explained.

'The photo was taken from a woman's phone. She claims this man has been following her, says he was following her in wind country and she moved here about a week ago and he's still hanging around.' Kiba frowned; 'says she doesn't know him though, has never met him before.'

'Must be a crazy.' Naruto mumbled, 'well I guess there's only one way to find out!'

Earlier still

Small towns annoyed Sasuke. Everybody knew somebody that knew somebody that knew you. Which means; everybody knew you. It made his job incredibly difficult. He was sure that this was why his current target had moved here. If he wasn't sure she knew he was tailing her; she knew now. He supposed he couldn't really call it a "small town", more a "small city" but still annoying none the less. He casually wandered the streets, simply scoping out the area, he'd followed the woman here a couple of days earlier but she had continued to evade him. The whole case was becoming increasingly frustrating and he longed for a new one, for this to be over with. The woman that he was following across the country went under the name "Karin" and she was an absolute nuisance. She was a serial criminal in petty crimes and the only reason Sasuke was charged with hunting her was because she was so elusive. He and his force knew who she was and could prove what she had done but simply could not catch her. It was embarrassing.

This new city was so petite and bright it looked as though it had never seen a criminal in its lifetime. Sasuke scoffed at the women whispering on the streets, pushing prams and giggling excitedly. These people were so open about their lives. Where Sasuke came from people kept to themselves, and certainly wouldn't be caught dead gossiping in the streets, and certainly not dressed like that! Deciding that the Karin case wasn't getting anywhere at that particular moment Sasuke sat down for a coffee and watched the locals mill about their day, so casual and carefree. Some of the women waved as a loud orange motorcycle drove past, the rider slowing down to wave back politely.

There was no way Sasuke would find Karin on this street! Everyone was way too friendly. Sasuke sipped his coffee, seething. Surely this tiny city had a dark side, where all the night owls hid. He had to find it. He knew Karin would be there, among her kind.

Presently

'Well done ya idiot!'

Naruto was surprised by a hard whack to the head; 'ow!' he exclaimed, annoyed; 'what was that for.'

Kakashi, a middle aged man with unfortunate prematurely grey hair stood over his subordinate with his arms crossed; 'you arrested an officer from cross border, congratulations; you're a real hero.' He drawled.

'What? You mean he really is an inspector?' Naruto cried, gobsmacked.

Kakashi threw his arms up in exasperation; 'he even told you!'

'Ah, ph-well, you know, I didn't really,' Naruto spluttered, 'people say that kind of thing all the time.'

'Do they?' his superior officer inquired, 'well why didn't you check his pocket and see if he had a badge!'

'Well why weren't we informed we had an over border's officer skulking around the city?' Naruto cried indignantly. He was getting defensive, being yelled at in front of his colleagues.

'Because I'm working undercover, and working undercover tends to require not letting other people know who you are.' A patronising voice projected across the room and the two arguing police officers looked up to see the detective standing smugly in the door way.

Sasuke was looking a lot more like a detective that morning, in a suit and tie, and his face had the arrogant look of someone on top.

'But since we all know who I am now,' he continued, strolling into the room and looking about leisurely, now addressing the room full of police officers, 'I may as well use your assistance. I am looking for someone and it has become obvious to me that you, at least one of you, have come into contact with her.' He held up a photograph of a woman with bright blond hair and sinister, heavily made up eyes, 'who took the report from this woman?' Sasuke addressed the whole room, but no one admonished.

After a silence Naruto called out; 'since she's a criminal do you think maybe she came in disguise?'

'huh, I hadn't thought of that,' Sasuke turned away from the blond with a roll of his eyes and dropped a pile of photos on the nearest desk, 'I want you all to look at these photographs if any of them look familiar you will let me know. See you all in the morning.'

And with that he left. Nobody in the office moved for a moment, unsure of how to react to a stranger telling them what to do. Finally the officer closest to the photos began picking some up and looking them over.

'What a prick.' Naruto looked around to see Kiba standing next to his desk, frowning at where the detective had been, 'he didn't even introduce himself, and he's telling us what to do!'

Kakashi heaved a sigh, 'his name is Sasuke Uchiha. He's a very well known detective and inspector he is highly recognised and well respected among many different countries. He is the best of his age ever, known as a true prodigy.'

'Doesn't stop him from being a dick though.' Naruto muttered to Kiba.

'Back to work you two,' Kakashi shook his head, 'and Naruto you're on nights all of next week.'

'What!' he hollered back.

'And then it's back to the offices until I see fit to put you on duty again! That's your punishment, put more thought into your actions next time!'

Naruto fell back into his seat with a heavy huff. 'oh come on!' he grumbled. And spent the rest of the night in a childish sulk.

It didn't take long for one of the officers to identify the woman, not knowing anything about their new detective or this mysterious woman they pinned the photo to the wall to wait til morning.

That's all folks!

for now at least.