Hello! I'm back from a ridiculously long break that was totally my fault for being lazy. Sorry! For those of you who read my other story, Alone in the Dark, thank you! You can expect chapter 12 in the next few days! Though I may be bad at updating, please stick with me!

Anime: Naruto

Pairing: Sasuke female Naruto...hints of Naru/All

Genre: Mystery/Romance/Supernatural

Rating:T for now. Don't worry, I'll warn you if I decide to up the rating if you now what I mean.

Warnings: Religious themes, Language, blood. That's about it for now.

Ok! Enough talking and on with the show!

"Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that."- Terence Fisher

Portam Inferni

Prologue

~AllenNlavi~

"What is it you need old man?"

"Do you have any idea why I called you here brat?" The blonde haired girl huffed, plopping down in the hard plastic chair on the other side of Jiraiya's desk. She crossed her arms across her chest and threw her boot clad feet atop the mountain of unfinished paperwork on the old man's desk.

"To talk about the good ol' times while I bask in the awesomeness that is me?" A sly smile spread across her tanned face and her blue eyes shined with mirth. Jiraiya smirked, already expecting that response from the girl he had come to love like a daughter.

After Naruto's parents had died in a crash when the girl was only two, he had taken her in with him. Minato was like a son to him and that meant that Naruto was family. Ever since then, Naruto had worked for him, claiming that she would not live with him if she was not helping him in some way.

That 'some way' was working for his privately owned detective agency.

At first when she was seven and had told him this, he had been more than skeptical. Who in their right mind would let an eight year old do something like that?

Apparently him.

She did small things at first, like finding lost pets and what not. As time went on and the girl grew, so did her skill. Now, a few months shy of twenty, she was the best agent he had. She had grown into a beautiful girl.

Long sun kissed hair that went to her waist, a womanly body, though she was rather short. Large azure eyes framed with long golden lashes and three parallel scars that ran on each tanned cheek. She had got them when she turned eight on a case that went wrong. She had never told him the details, but there were times when those blue eyes would glaze with some unknown emotion.

She wouldn't eat for days after that...

"Hello~ Anyone there? Damn it, stop daydreaming you old pervert!" Naruto grit her teeth in annoyance, watching as his eyes glazed over. She had been called here after she just finished her last case. The blond was dead tired, collapsing in her bed right when she walked into her room. She had been enjoying her little journey through the Land of Nod, when the old man called her for something urgent.

Was 'urgent' watching him daydream?

Jaraiya had better pray to the Gods of Ramen that this was important...

Jaraiya cleared his throat and tossed her a manilla envelope. Naruto eyed it wearily for a moment before picking it up. It was pretty heavy, and scrawled in cursive script across the front was the name Segovia.

She raised a golden brow in confusion. "Segovia? That abandoned Monastery? The one they made into a boarding school 12 years ago?"

"You know an awful lot. How's that?" Naruto smiled slightly and her fingers traced the cross that lay over her heart with a fond smile.

"Someone important to me attends that school." The smile that was on her face instantly disappeared as realization hit her.

"What's happened there?" She asked, her tone filled with tension and-

Was that panic?

Since when did Uzumaki Naruto panic?

Jaraiya shrugged and nodded his head toward the envelope Naruto was crushing in her grip. She tore it open without hesitation and her eyes flew across the page. The words jumbled together chaotically inside her mind. She fell back into her seat in a boneless heap and Jaraiya jumped slightly, concern in his eyes.

"What is it? What happened Naruto?" She breathed deeply and closed her eyes.

"Students are starting to go missing. A total thirteen missing from approximately one hundred thirty students." Jaraiya sighed deeply and nodded solemnly, an odd expression that seemed off on his normally goofy face.

"I'll send Sasori undercover to check things out-"

"I'm doing it." Jaraiya blinked in surprise.

"Huh?" Naruto stood abruptly and banged her hands onto the wood of the desk, shaking the mug of coffee that stood cold and untouched.

"I'm the one that will be doing it." She stated with conviction, causing him to groan.

"Naruto, I'm not sure you understand. This is an-"

"All boys school, right?" Jaraiya's eyebrows shot past his hair line.

"You expect me to let you go undercover to that school posing as a student while pretending to be male?"

His answer was the hard set of her jaw and the determination burning in her eyes like a flame.

He closed his eyes in surrender and nodded once. "I want you packed by tonight."

She didn't answer, but instead spun on her heel and left the room, her hands clutching the necklace that lay over her heart with steady fingers.

To be continued