Warning. This is a NaruSasuNaru which means y-a-o-i .:shudders:. y-a-o-i .:giggles:.

If you don't like it, you don't have to read it

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Title: Never Leave Me
Authors: Cupricanka & Yuuko Uchiha
Rating: will be PG-17
Genre: Horror/Supernatural
Beta: Dolphina23
Summary: While preparing for their new assignment, Naruto & Sasuke had a hard time believing that anything they come across could be more problematic then the cover they were working under – as lovers. They were proved right.

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Tsunade's office smelled faintly of alcohol almost always; Naruto's nose confirmed that today was not an exception. She knew that there was a running bet around the office about whether or not she was actually drinking it or using hard liquor for something else because, despite the smell, no one had ever caught her drunk. On the contrary, her sharp eyes were always quick to catch all the things that needed yelling about, like the lack of freshly made coffee.

The most problematic partnership in the police station was sitting across from her in plain wooden chairs. Just looking at the two of them, sitting close enough to elbow each other at the first disagreement – which was just a matter of minutes, really – was giving her a headache.

But the thought of shipping them off, and everyone else being rid of an obvious problem, gave her the necessary strength to start the briefing.

"You are going to take a vacation," Tsunade said as she handed a folder to Sasuke.

"What?!" Naruto almost shrieked, standing up. "Why are you punishing us? It's not fair! I bet it was Sasuke's fault anyway."

There must have been a better way to start it, though. It seemed that the very idea of an undeserved suspension was making Naruto panic. Well, it should bother him - a suspension went on his record, after all - but did he really have to yell?

"It's an assignment, idiot," Sasuke fortunately answered, not even bothering to spare Naruto a glance as he picked through the contents of the folder.

"An assignment?" Naruto asked, puzzled. He was watching Sasuke, but then he glanced up towards Tsunade before turning to Sasuke again.

"An undercover mission," Sasuke informed him, raising a questioning eyebrow at his boss.

Naruto blinked once and sat down with only an 'Oh!' as the answer. His eyes lit up, though. After all that asking and begging for an exciting case, he should be happy about this; never mind that he was not chosen to work on it because of his competence.

"Yes, it's an undercover mission," Tsunade finally started again. "In a small, nearby town, the Chief of the police department went missing a couple of days ago. The local police has requested our assistance."

Sasuke had started flipping through files again while she was still speaking. Tsunade now wished she had given the folder to him after explaining her part.

"Not all these files are on the missing Chief if the police," Sasuke stated, trying at the same time to elbow Naruto away from him. Tsunade almost rolled her eyes. If Sasuke really wanted Naruto to stop looking over his shoulder, he was smart enough to then take half of the files out of the folder and hand them over to read.

"No. Inside are also all the files the Chief was working on at the time of and before his disappearance," Tsunade said. Sasuke was still looking over the files, but she knew he was listening. On the other hand, she was glad Naruto was looking at her. "He was named Chief five months ago, when the old one retired. He was transferred from another town, so it seems it took him a couple of months to get used to the new place and the townsfolk."

"Name, age, rank, special prizes," Sasuke rang out, almost to himself, finally picking out a file and handing it over to Naruto. After reading shortly from another one, he took that one out as well. "Cases he had solved. For a small town cop, this is pretty impressive."

Because Naruto was busy reading, Sasuke left the solved cases file on his lap. The thin paper folder, of course, slid right to the floor. Naruto stopped reading to glare sideways. Tsunade said quickly, to intercept the inevitable blow, "Yes, that's why, even though it has been only a couple of days, his co-workers don't want to wait."

"Do they have a reason to believe he is dead?" Sasuke asked. "The cases he was working on…"

"What?" Naruto asked. "What was he working on?"

"Read the file," Sasuke instructed him before turning back to Tsunade. "These unsolved cases; he may have gotten too close to the answer."

"That is a possibility," Tsunade agreed.

"But," Naruto asked. "Why is this mission undercover? I mean the police department asked for our help, didn't they?"

Sasuke and Tsunade exchanged a knowing glance.

"One of the cases he was working on involves a police officer," Tsunade explained.

"Ah." Puzzled, Naruto glanced at the folder and then towards Tsunade. "Really?"

"Asuma Sarutobi," Tsunade said, after a short effort to remember the name she had only read once. "His nephew was involved in a case of vandalism. It wouldn't be that big of a deal in such a small town, but the same cop was the last person to see our missing person."

Sasuke took the files again. "He was also working on the missing children case and a robbery."

Tsunade shrugged, a little movement to express her opinion on the dullness of the small town's police business. "As you will see in the files, the children began to disappear a couple years ago, but it stopped on its own eventually."

Naruto was paying attention again and in order to keep it that way, Tsunade turned to him.

"At the beginning, the townsfolk thought the kids were getting lost in the forest because of some old folklore tales. You should probably ask around about that." There could be some clues in them, depending on what was talked about. Tsunade had read about it, but there were no details of the folktale in the file. There might be some old mine there, or something else that was dangerous for children to play around. "They had organized the search parties and investigated, of course, but not even one child was ever found. After a while, they had to assume that someone was kidnapping the kids and they even had a suspect, but no proof strong enough to prosecute. The case was just lying around until the new chief came to town and decided to dig a little deeper on his own."

Naruto was nodding with approval, as if to say that he would have done that, too. His amazing sense of justice was one of the reasons why Tsunade liked him despite several glaring flaws.

"The robbery was committed in a 'do it yourself' shop. The cash of the day was taken, but also some products which they thought could be sold later," Tsunade informed them about the second case, and pointed out the file. "There is the list included."

Sasuke, predictably, found it right away and scanned thought the items.

Tsunade continued: "And the vandalism, well... it was in a local inn. The police believe that a local gang was responsible, of which Sarutobi's nephew was a member. But the owner of the house didn't want to file a complaint. She was pretty upset, though."

"Seriously?" Naruto snorted. "Those are some minor crimes. It must be the missing children's case."

"I told you, it's a quiet town," Tsunade reminded him. Privately, she agreed with Naruto, even though she knew all about what sort of things might make a person snap and start to kill. A robbery or vandalism just didn't sound serious enough to do that to – or cause someone to kidnap, she must remember he was officially just missing – a cop. "And you should know by now, not everything is what it seems. Investigate all his cases carefully."

Sasuke hummed in agreement, getting a glare from Naruto in return.

When he got no response, Naruto asked, "What's our cover?"

Inside, Tsunade was grinning like a wolf that had stumbled on a lonely sheep. On the outside, she was very professional. "Sasuke is working for a nature magazine and he is doing an article on the local fauna."

"You gotta be kidding me," Sasuke whispered, annoyed. Naruto chuckled.

Tsunade ignored the comment. "As for Naruto… On such a boring job assignment journey, no one can blame a young, healthy reporter for wanting to bring along some company."

Both young men were frowning. Tsunade graciously waited until they processed the information.

"No way." Sasuke reacted first. "No way in hell. Who's going to believe that? Just no."

That was three rejections in the first try. Tsunade considered it success.

"Who's gonna believe what?" Naruto asked suspiciously, watching her with his eyes narrowed. "This is not what I think it is, is it?"

"If you were any slower you would be crawling backwards," Sasuke snapped at him, probably because he couldn't snap at Tsunade.

"Hey! I'm not slow!" Yeah, right, Tsunade wanted to snort. "You're just talking in riddles on purpose."

If anyone asked her, Tsunade, as the authority figure she was, would deny it, but deep inside she was enjoying this. They were just so sweet and oblivious. By now, she knew exactly what insult would be the next one to come. So she was itching to tell Sasuke that he was one, too, even before he said, "Idiot."

Naruto was predictable, and also right to some degree. "Bastard."

And now it was time for Sasuke's moderately lucid reasoning for why everything was Naruto's fault. It was one of Tsunade's favorite parts, because she could adopt some of his points and yell at Naruto later.

"This is your entire fault." Tsunade almost rolled her eyes, it was so predictable. "If you hadn't scratched her car..." Tsunade leaned forward, angry and amused at the same time. She'd been looking for the offender everywhere. And she obviously never would have realized who it was if they hadn't all thought she knew everything that was happening around her. "She wouldn't have made us do this."

"Are you saying," Naruto said, invading Sasuke's personal space boldly just to give him a glare. "That we aren't good enough to get an assignment as important as this? We can get a dangerous mission because we can solve it, not just because the boss wants to get rid of me!"

"No." Sasuke leaned right back toward Naruto. They were practically nose-to-nose. Tsunade almost forgot about her car and the revenge that was starting to brew for when they came back over the sheer amount of electrical sparks that were filling her office rapidly. "What I'm saying is that if you weren't a lousy driver you wouldn't have pissed her off, yet again, and then we wouldn't have to pretend to be lovers because of it!"

Naruto flinched back like he'd been burned. His eyes widened comically. Like a deer caught in the headlights, Tsunade thought gleefully.

"But why?" Naruto asked after several startled seconds.

Now, the dilemma came. The truth wasn't an option. She couldn't tell her employees 'because, although we know it's not exactly ethical, we all just want you two to fuck and get it over with'. Her choice was to either lie or...

"To help you get along better." Tell them a half truth.

Naruto huffed. "But I get along with this bastard. Right, asshole?"

Sasuke seemingly agreed with Tsunade that Naruto was not choosing the right words to convince her. "Tsk... idiot."

Enough was enough.

"Language!" Tsunade finally yelled. "I've had enough of your complains! You know very well that we are short in workforce. And besides," She sighed, because she didn't want to say it. Naruto could take it too much to heart. "You are very good at what you do."

"That doesn't explain the fact that we have to pretend to be a couple," Sasuke insisted "No one is going to believe that."

"Then better work extra hard to make them believe," Tsunade told him sharply. "This is not open to discussion."

It was Naruto's turn to try again, and he opened his mouth. Tsunade turned her hardest stare on him. "That will be all. If I hear a single complaining word from either one of you two, I am suspending you both. Without pay."

"Hey! I'm not saying we don't want the case," Naruto cried out, sounding almost offended. "It's just that, he's right. No one is gonna believe that!"

Yet, you both talk like one, Tsunade thought and suppressed another sigh. There was only one thing left for her to say, and she did it happily.

"Get out of my office and start the necessary preparations for your trip," she instructed them in her most commanding manner. "You're leaving as soon as I take care of the paperwork."

Glaring mostly at her, and some at each other, both parts of the most annoying partnership the precinct ever had walked out of her office. Tsunade tasted a little bit of Nirvana. She would enjoy the next couple of days with the two of them out of her way and decided it was celebration time.

Now, where had she put that bottle?

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What Sasuke had planned on doing after he got out of Tsunade's office was to make sure that the mechanic checked out his car before the trip, because they obviously couldn't use the patrol one, then go back to his apartment to pack and find his boots. What he was actually doing was sitting at his desk, right across from Naruto's, and glaring at his partner who was exchanging some cheesy joke or another with Inuzuka, and laughing.

Did he forget about their assignment already? That would be just like him. But this was not a game. Didn't the moron see that? Did he even realize that they were expected to sleep in the same bed for, at the very least, several nights? Not just say it, but play the role fully?

Probably not, because then he wouldn't have gotten over it so fast. Fucking hell. How were they supposed to pull this off without maiming each other?

A hand hitting the desk in front of him snapped Sasuke out of his thoughts. "Yo, you coming or what?"

"Where?" When had Naruto come so close anyway?

"Kiba has the gym booked." Naruto grinned. It probably meant that Inuzuka sent the rookies on a wild goose chase and claimed their reservation. "I want to kick your ass before we go."

Sasuke didn't feel much like sparring. But saying no to Naruto was not an option. He had an annoying habit of going behind Sasuke all day long and calling him a chicken. It was unacceptable. Naruto was already shifting his weight from one foot to another, warming up and waggling his eyebrows in a friendly way. But his eyes told a different tale; not accepting a challenge like this one was not an option.

Besides, even when Sasuke was in a bad mood he would never pass up a chance for a good training session with Naruto because of it. Because the required physical preparation for the job became somewhat of an obsession, Sasuke couldn't find many people who could keep up with him. And on that short list, Naruto was at the top.

He stood up to follow Naruto and Kiba to the locker room. Not surprisingly, when the few officers who were training saw them enter they came closer to the area of the gym where they usually sparred. People liked blood, Naruto liked attention and Sasuke wasn't averse to either.

Sasuke barely managed to catch the focus pads when Naruto threw them. That was all of the equipment the two of them were using, despite the regulations. And only because Naruto had literally dropped his gun in the middle of a raid after he had lost all feeling in his arms from one of their nastier training sessions they'd had earlier in the day. They had invented their own game after that. The one with the pads was supposed to avoid the hits the other one was trying to land. Sasuke put them on without complaint. His turn would come soon enough.

Barefoot on the set of joined mats, Sasuke turned to face his partner. Naruto had a big, fox-like and slightly crazy grin on his face as he rolled his shoulders and then stretched with his arms high above his head. A shiver of excitement made Sasuke smirk back at him. Not in the mood, right. Like that was even possible.

Without giving a warning, Naruto started. The first two hits Sasuke met half-way, to remind himself just how strong Naruto was and how little he held it back. The impact surged through his arms, almost paralyzing them. So when Naruto's third punch came, Sasuke avoided it by moving at the last second. His fist ended up in the air a couple of inches to the right from his face. Naruto's grin widened and another series of strikes began.

Sasuke had to focus more than usual to avoid them. So, before he realized it, there was a wall only a couple of steps behind him. If he continued in the pattern Naruto was commanding, he would end up flat against it. While trying to find a way to get out of it, Sasuke let Naruto hit the pads a couple of times, holding his ground. It was the wrong thing to do.

After the first contact, Naruto growled, really growled, and when the second punch came it was stronger. The third one was hard enough for Sasuke to feel it in his spine, the fourth one actually hurt. Naruto was too far gone; that had only happened a couple of times before. He was really upset back then, so that must be the case now, too. Good, both of them should let their frustrations out before getting stuck together twenty four hours out of the day.

And shit, this wasn't about him having to share a bed with Sasuke for a couple of nights, was it? He couldn't be this upset about that, could he? It wasn't that big of a deal. Naruto couldn't be that repulsed with the prospect, right? Right?

Instead of avoiding the fifth hit, Sasuke picked it up with his right padded hand and brushed it aside. Naruto lost his stability for a moment. Sasuke used the first step forward just to position himself better. The second one turned into a half-kick to push Naruto back as far as possible.

Naruto stumbled backwards, but he didn't fall. He lifted his hands up to his face, almost as if he was trying to hide the intense look in his eyes. But a moment later, they fell to his sides and curled back into fists.

"Take them off!"

"What, my pants?" Sasuke sneered. "What was all that complaining about, if you're that eager?"

The catcalls of the people who were watching reminded Sasuke that they weren't alone. Naruto turned so red his face looked like a ripe tomato. It would be funny, if Sasuke didn't want to make a crack in it with his own hand right then.

"The focus pads, you asshole!"

Naruto was yelling, but Sasuke was sure that there was a panicked quality in his voice. It made him even angrier. He took off the pads and threw him at Naruto one by one. They were mostly soft, but Naruto jerked automatically to avoid them, which was just the perfect opening.

Sasuke stepped closer again - which took them right back where they had started, in the middle of the mat – and landed the first real hit, picking up Naruto's chin with the side of his hand. There was no time to waste. If Naruto recovered his balance, Sasuke would be in trouble. He used the small kick Naruto avoided as a leverage to gain more speed and force by changing his legs as Naruto retreated to kick higher.

It worked. From under Naruto's raised arm, the side of Sasuke's heel connected to his ribs. Naruto took the hit and grunted in pain. Sasuke almost regretted it, almost. But then he felt Naruto's arm wrapping around his leg and was pushed back hard. There was no way for Sasuke to even try to keep himself up. But he was able to get the hold of Naruto – or more like his shirt – so that when he fell down, Naruto fell with him.

For a moment, neither of them moved. Sasuke had landed on his hip and elbow with Naruto still holding one of his legs and sitting on the other, which was weird and painful. Instead of moving out of the grip, Sasuke carefully pushed to check just how much damage he had done. A hiss of pain replaced the short flicker of worry in Naruto's blue yes and Sasuke had just enough time to think, -- when did he get a set of such perfect teeth? -- before Naruto's fist exploded on his jaw.

Sasuke pushed harder with his foot now, but Naruto ignored the pain and used his automatic advantage. He was already sitting on Sasuke's thigh, so when he leaned over heavily and shoved on Sasuke's shoulder, there was no choice but to lay back down.

Naruto had won this fight, but he was glaring down at Sasuke, probably waiting for the voiced confirmation. Sasuke smirked. Well, he had better be ready to sit there all day long, because he would not get that.

But then it happened. They were too close; so close that when his eyes slipped from Naruto's and ended up on his mouth, Sasuke couldn't deny it. He couldn't deny that for one insane moment there, he was tempted.

Naruto wouldn't let go when he jerked to free himself, though. Sasuke gritted out, "What the fuck is your problem? It's just an assignment. It doesn't mean anything."

Naruto blinked and frowned, and when the words reached his brain, he let go and stood up so fast that he had to wince from the pain of his bruised ribs. Sasuke smirked again, this time to cover for the regret. That kick had been really powerful and Naruto hadn't even hit his jaw hard enough to distract him. He was sorry, and he will make sure it never happened again, but Naruto had no business knowing that.

Sasuke pushed himself up and almost collided with the hand in front of his face. Naruto's face was serious and maybe a little anxious. Sasuke snorted and took his hand to help him up. Naruto should know better. They had lived through so much; through life-threatening situations, all night stakeouts, family emergencies and a palette of love interests. This would be no different; at first a reluctant but now firm friendship had been established. And though it had its flaws, it had to survive.

It just had to.

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A green wall of trees was surrounding them. Naruto, with his head resting on the car's window, was trying to count the trees as they passed them. But he was just able to see the green blur because Sasuke was driving too fast. The afternoon's sun was hidden behind the treetops and a heavy layer of clouds, so the light was dim and nostalgic.

In his hands was the file of the case they were working on. Sasuke would know it by heart by now, Naruto could tell. But he couldn't make himself to read it enough to learn all the details. Naruto sighed; they had never worked that way. It was Sasuke's part to read and learn and then tell Naruto all he needed to know, just as it was Naruto's to follow his gut, and to make sure Sasuke ate whenever he got too involved in a case.

They would be staying at the inn that had been vandalized and it seemed like everything would go from there. Sasuke was supposed to be working on a magazine article that would give them an excuse to wander through the forest and their outsiders' status to ask questions. Naruto still wished he was allowed to flash his badge if the need for it arose because, from his experience, people found it inspirational when it came to talking.

He was mostly trying not to think about their cover.

The trip so far had been quiet; Sasuke was focused on the road that was slippery from the light rain. Naruto was restless on his seat. The gloomy atmosphere with the chilly weather made him wish he was back home, cuddled in the covers of his bed. Sasuke had been edgy ever since the fight, Naruto could tell by the way the muscles on his back were tensed, even though nothing insulting was said. In fact, the silence between them, the lack of insults and fighting, was the first sign things between them were not exactly good.

But it wasn't bad either. It was just some tension, they would work it out.

He could use a cup of warm chocolate, too, Naruto thought. It was just the right weather and Sasuke would roll his eyes when Naruto ordered it for them both. But he would drink it and it would do him a world of good. But before that, they would have to find the inn and check in as a couple; as lovers.

The word landed heavily in his mind and Naruto groaned.

Sasuke glanced sideways. "What are you groaning about?"

Had he been making noises all along? Naruto didn't think so, but he couldn't be sure. He sure felt like complaining and whining, but not to Sasuke. "Nothing, it's just cold."

"There will still be a while before we get there, especially in this weather," Sasuke said after another quick glance. "You can take a nap if you want to."

Great, if Sasuke decided to voice his concern about the circles around Naruto's eyes and general bad condition, he must look like a zombie. It was no wonder, though, that he was in bad shape. He hadn't been able to sleep very well last night; not very well at all.

"Nah, it's ok." Naruto refused anyway. It was how they worked. If Sasuke was driving - and he usually was - mostly because Naruto tended to park in the middle of the street when he would spot a wanted person, or drive through parks while chasing someone, then Naruto would stay awake to keep Sasuke alert and focused on the road. Granted, he was usually more efficient, mostly keeping Sasuke annoyed and on his toes by talking or changing radio stations.

"Hm ...," Sasuke added, in a tone of voice so familiar that Naruto knew exactly what was coming next. "Idiot."

Naruto turned his head to look outside, and he could see a smile forming on his lips in the window. When had that word stopped being an insult and become an endearment of sorts? And how dysfunctional was that, precisely?

Deciding he was useless anyway, Naruto closed his eyes against the beautiful landscape outside.

The little bit of sleep was more restful than all the endless hours Naruto had spent the previous night tossing on his bed. The smell that took him out of his slumber was familiar, so delicious that Naruto had almost written it off as a dream, before he realized that the car was not moving.

He opened his eyes, rubbing them with the back of his hands.

"Are we there yet?" Naruto asked even though he knew they weren't. Sasuke was smirking when he looked up at him, and Naruto just knew it. He didn't say a thing, though, when Sasuke offered him a paper cup of hot chocolate. But he had to frown when the smell of coffee reached him. It was so typical of Sasuke, to waste the perfect opportunity to drink the delicious beverage sent by the gods for something...

Well, okay, coffee wasn't that bad, but why did he always have to have it black? Geez, and besides, he was too tense for it. It would have been better if Naruto was the one buying today.

"No. I stopped to get gas," Sasuke answered. His hair was damp, sticking a little to his cheekbone. Naruto turned to look outside; the rain had intensified and the sky was practically black, like the clouds were made of ink.

"How long to get to town?" Naruto had definitely fallen asleep, but in this weather, he had no idea how long he'd been out. It could have been minutes, or hours. Sasuke gave him a one shoulder shrug, which didn't help much. "Are you tired?"

"No," Sasuke said brusquely, even though it was perfectly clear that he was tired.

So Naruto offered. "Maybe I could drive?"

Sasuke gave him a look that said that Naruto would run right over a lady crossing the street if he only touched the wheel, like he didn't drive every single day to work. But the actual refusal was polite. "You're still sleepy."

"Whatever," Naruto said. The thing with Tsunade's car was an accident. It had only happened once. And it was, of course, just his luck that Sasuke had been around to see it.

"Your snores were louder than the music I had on." Sasuke spoke when he started the engine again. "I hope that was just a one time thing. I want to get some sleep, too, you know."

"What?" Naruto asked, before it hit him. They would be sleeping in the same bed that night. "I don't snore."

"You were snoring like a chainsaw just a minute ago."

Naruto glared at the side of Sasuke's face. "Well, I've shared a bed before and no one's complained."

Sasuke took his dark eyes off the road to look back at Naruto. He didn't seem angry or anything, but his gaze was searching. And it lasted longer than a driver on an unfamiliar wet road could afford, so Naruto tore his eyes away first, feeling a little shaken. A big mouthful of chocolate helped, but it didn't erase Sasuke's face that was flickering on and off in front Naruto's eyes, like broken light.

A minute passed, then two, and Naruto, not feeling tired in the slightest now, couldn't take it. He opened his mouth and talked about the first random thing that came to his mind; the first camping trip he went on when he was ten. Usually Sasuke complained about him talking like that, but now he was completely quiet. It took a while, but his shoulders eventually relaxed. So Naruto kept talking.

The rain was still heavy when they reached town. Fortunately, they had a map and the town itself wasn't really big, so it wasn't a problem to find the inn.

When Sasuke parked in front of it, Naruto looked out as carefully as the rain let him. It seemed like a nice old house, but there was something off with the picture. Maybe it was the downpour and the lack of sunlight and gloom that always went with such weather. Naruto couldn't help but frown. Houses shouldn't feel different when it's raining. He really hoped that, tomorrow, he would be able to look at the nice, ordinary white building and not have to suppress shivers.

For now, they had to get to the front door. If Sasuke remembered to pack an umbrella – which was not something Naruto would bet against – it was inside the luggage, too deep to dig for it.

"So," Naruto grinned at him. "It'll be a race?"

Sasuke took a deep breath and narrowed his eyes onto the muddy path that was leading to the house. Nodding, he exhaled.

Naruto stretched back to reach one of our suitcases, and Sasuke did the same. From the fugitive little glance Sasuke let escape Naruto had pretty good reason to believe he was just as aware of how their arms brushed against each other in the small space. In was all so crazy and they had to get used to the idea of sleeping in the same bed it if they meant to catch any sleep that night.

Naruto was distracted, so Sasuke got hold of his suitcase first. He waited for Naruto and they nodded to each other and stepped out of the car. As soon as his shoes felt the squishy ground, he was already drenched. Raindrops were dense and heavy on his shirt as they ran to the entrance. Naruto was the first one to arrive and he tried to open the doors, but they were locked. Listening to Sasuke curse behind him, Naruto grinned and knocked.

Everything was fine; even if the house still felt odd, Sasuke's hissing, annoyed voice was calming him down. Naruto took a half step back, tempted to reach out for the warmth of another human body when the loud sound of unlocking made his heart start to beat wildly and painfully in his chest. All the other sounds seemed to die when the hinges of the door made an acute, squealing sound. Naruto instinctively reached behind to grab Sasuke's wrist, only a breath away from panicking as the door opened, letting out a puff of warm air and a high-pitched scream.

"Good evening, boys." An unfamiliar female voice effectively cut through it. "I presume you are the guests I have been expecting?"

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Hahaha... I told Cupricanka that this would be only a 3 chapters fic, but we already have so much plot, that or the next chapter is huge, or we cut some details, or we write more chapters, but we really haven't talked about it XD

So, as you can see this is a collab between me and the amazing Cupricanka (aren't you jealous? ;)) I had have a wonderful time working with her... :D

I had a long list of rambling but I think I forgot what I wanted to say XD
Oh~ yeah... one of those things is a random warning, there will be some deaths, ok... after all this is supposed to be a police investigation, so you be warned about that...
I wonder if the atmosphere of the fic changed in the last few sentences.

All the love goes to Cupricanka... the death treats are for me. We are working on it, but it's me who is more lazy...

You know... comments always help :D