I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR SAW. My grammar is not the best, but the story is readable which is all that matters. If you have a problem with it, then please tell me nicely. Any similarities with other fics is purely unintentional unless otherwise stated. This is an investigation chapter, part of the Investigation series of chapters, where you will find out about the other victims of the previous games. This is a slow chapter, with not much happening, so bare with me. Now, enjoy, because this was a real pain in the ass to write.

SAW

'Investigations Part I'


Sasuke, Shizune, Sakura, Tsunade, and Ibiki, who's team had been dismissed for the night, were scanning through the case files of The Bijuu's 'games'. They all silently wondered where Naruto was, since they had made him go and get something to eat, which was over an hour ago. They all breathed a sigh of relief when he walked into the 'Investigations' room with a plastic bug full of food in his left hand, and a scroll in the other. He walked over to them and placed the food on his desk. "Here, sorry it took so long. But you might not want to eat anything."

Sasuke looked from the food to Naruto with his eyebrow raised. "Why? Did they spit in it or something?" Naruto shook his head and handed him the scroll. "No, The Bijuu has struck just again, and I don't want the food ending up on the floor of the crime scene." Tsunade snapped her head up in shock at this, while the rest of them stared at Naruto.

"Who is his latest victim?", Ibiki asked. Naruto popped his neck, and let out a yawn. "A village woman. Thirty. Name was Sunaki Hotoro. And judging from what ANBU told me the scene is pretty gruesome." Tsunade stood up and grabbed her 'gamble' coat. "Lets go then...we better check it out now." The only others in the room nodded and followed her out of the tower, then they switched and followed Naruto.


Sakura, Shizune, and Tsunade grabbed their mouths to keep from throwing up. Sasuke grimaced at the scene in front of him. While Ibiki and Naruto were impassive. The doors were open and the bottom half of them were covered in blood, as was the bottom half of the piece of stone blocking the door. There was a small gap under the stone where there was nothing but red, what looks like an elbow and what was once a leg, that was ripped open, showing the crushed bone inside, stuck out from the gap. Overall a very gruesome site...

The male ANBU Captain in a boar mask standing next to them pointed at the door. "The door had twenty sliding locks on it, attached to a mechanism at the keyhole. The locks are alternating from left to right all the way down, and are held to the door by small slots." Tsunade nodded, having finally fought back the urge to vomit. "Very well, we'll investigate the crime scene a little ourselves, then hand it over to you." The ANBU Captain bowed, and walked out of the small warehouse. Naruto looked around, and finally noticed the gears and pulleys above the makeshift room. "Look up there." The group looked up and saw what he was pointing at. They all look at each other and nod.

They pump Chakra into their feet and jump up onto a conveniently placed walkway. Naruto looked around, and spotted something. "Interesting, looks like the ceiling was spilt into sections." Sasuke looked at him. "What makes you say that?" Naruto sighed, and rubbed his eyes. "There are seven levers up here. Not to also mention I can see the cracks in the floor...er...ceiling." Naruto then spotted timers next to the six smaller levers above the sections. "Interesting...looks like the levers were set on timers. So I guess that makes this lever..." He walked over to the largest lever near the back wall. "The main lever."

Sasuke walked over to it and inspected it. "Yeah, I'd say that is a pretty good guess. This is certainly a new 'game'." Naruto nodded and walked over to the first lever. "Hey, Tsunade-obaachan! You, Sakura, and Shizune go down to the doors and wait, I'm going to try and raise the ceiling." Tsunade sighed at the 'obaachan' part, but nodded and motioned for Sakura and Shizune to follow her down. Naruto cracked his fingers, and pulled the first lever, making the first section rise out of the room. "Well, looks like I was right."

While Naruto pulled the levers, Ibiki and Sasuke wrote down information on the mechanism. When Naruto got to the last lever, he hesitated. "Hey, you girls may want to look away when I raise the last section, the victim might...stick." Tsunade, Sakura, and Shizune flinched, and turned away. Naruto pulled the last lever and the last section raised. The body of the victim stuck to the bottom of the section until it got halfway up, when it peeled off making a sound so sickening that Sakura ran outside and threw up. Tsunade and Shizune managed to not throw up...until they looked at the body. "Oh...oh god!" Both Tsunade and Shizune ran outside and threw up, almost hitting Sakura.

Naruto sighed and jumped down to the lower level, with Ibiki and Sasuke right behind him. What they saw chilled them, though they would never admit it. The chest of the victim was exploded open, the remnants of the ribcage and organs clearly visible. Limbs were bent at odd angles, and completely torn up, showing to the crushed bone. The skull was crushed on the right side, with the remnants of the crushed brain somewhat visible, the right eyeball popped out from its socket. Sasuke visibly flinched, while Ibiki and Naruto are still impassive, if a little shaken on the inside. "Uh, how in the hell can you guys not throw up when you look at this?", Sakura asked, trying not to look at the body.

Sasuke shruged, "My time with Orochimaru probably has something to do with it."

Ibiki shruged as well, "Eh, when you've worked in Torture and Interrogation this kind of stuff doesn't bother you."

Naruto rubbed his neck, "I've seen worse..." The group stared at Naruto, and were only broken out of their thoughts when he screamed at them. "HELLO! A LIGHT PLEASE!" Ibiki reacted first, throwing Naruto a flashlight. Naruto rolled his tired eyes and turned the flashlight on, he then jumped over the body, and walked around the room, pointing the flashlight around, shining light around the dark room. "Pretty bare in here, though, I guess that's to be expected. I see some holes in the walls. Huh, hey what's this?" Naruto walked to the middle of the room and pointed the flashlight at the ground, the beam of light hitting an oddly shaped flat piece of metal. "What the...hmm..." He kneeled down to take a closer look. "Oh, it looks like a key. Damn, poor girl must have dropped it under the ceiling."

He shook his head and stood back up, making his way to the door. "We should go now, and leave ANBU to catalog this mess."

Sakura nodded. "I have no problem with that." Sasuke nodded and looked at Tsunade. Tsunade wanted to stay longer, but she was dead tired, and she had a council meeting at noon. "Alright fine, besides, Shikamaru will be helping us tomorrow, so we can start again first thing tomorrow." The rest of the group nodded, and walked out of the small warehouse, while Tsunade issued orders to the ANBU team waiting outside.


Shikamaru sighed as he sat at his new desk in the new Investigations department. He really just wanted to go home and rest, but he knew that he could be a great help to the investigation. Behind him was Sakura, and Sasuke sitting at their desks waiting for him to start, Naruto had been ordered to go home and get some sleep by both Shizune and Tsunade, he tried to fight it, but a fist to his head made his choice for him. After his friends were settled settled he stretched his neck and started asking questions.

"Ok, first I think we should go through each case one by one, lets starts with the first." Sasuke nodded and pulled out a large file, and handed the first 10 pages to Shikamaru. "The first 'game', as we have come to know them, was a simple room, but the ceiling, that had spikes in it, was coming down on the victims." He handed Shikamaru some pictures, showing the room. "The room was a good size, and was filled with quite a number objects, though nothing over three feet tall. They had to find a key to the only door, which had a simpler version of the mechanism in the latest game on it. If they didn't find it the ceiling would keep falling, and when it finally stopped, the spikes would fully deploy, driving straight through to the floor, killing everyone." Shikamaru nodded. "What about the victims?"

Sasuke pulled out a dozen papers and handed them to Shikamaru. "Seven males, ranging from ages thirty to fifty. They all died in the room sadly. One of them managed to get one of the objects unbolted from the floor, to use as a shield, but the spikes went through it." Shikamaru nodded and took the file from Sasuke, and read through the file for a few minutes, before putting it down. "Ok, what about the second case?"

Sasuke pulled out another large file, and handed him the first twenty pages. "This one was...truly sick. There were five victims, all women ranging from ages thirty to fifty-five. They were on a platform in a large underground dome. The room was half filled with oil, and was heated by special sealing scrolls submerged in the oil that were...very advanced. They had fire sealed into them, a lot of fire, and they were set to release certain amounts of it continuously, like a stove-top." Shikamaru nodded while he read the papers in the file. All the people in the room turned to the door when it opened, and bowed slightly when Tsunade walked through.

Sasuke stretched his legs out a bit, and continued on. "In order to get out they had to swim through the burning hot oil to the door, and they had to hurry because the door would lock after a set amount of time, not to also mention the platform they were on was lowering into the oil as well, so they couldn't stay safe on it. None of them made it out, they ended up being boiled alive. By the time we found them, which was thanks to a genin using to many explosive tags, they were boiled and...burnt to a crisp."

Tsunade flinched, along with some of the other ninja that were there that day. Shikamaru took the file from Sasuke and read through it. He was about to ask about the third case when Shizune burst into the room. "TSUNADE-SAMA! ANBU is chasing The Bijuu." All the people in the room gasped. Tsunade smirked and ran out of the room, Shizune hot on her tail, with Sasuke and Sakura following them. "We'll continue this if he isn't caught.", Sasuke said as he left the room. The Investigation team nodded, and went back to setting up the room.


A purple haired ANBU Captain by the name of Yugao Uzuki and her three man team, plus a few patrolling Jounin and ANBU members, were following after a tall man wearing a black ANBU robe and a Kyuubi mask. "Shit, this guy is fast.", an ANBU in a bird mask stated. Yugao silently agreed. 'He's right, this speed can't be human, he is even able to outrun us.'

The Bijuu swung around mid jump and threw two daggers at her, one from his right hand, and one from left. She leaned to the right in midair to dodge the first, but flinched when the second cut into her right arm. She managed to swing around and regain her footing, falling in line with her team. "Are you alright?", Bird Mask said. She nodded and tried to speed up.

A loud crash made them look forward to see smoke in front of the now stopped Bijuu. A very pissed off Tsunade walked out from it. "Well Bijuu, this is the end of the line for you."

A rough and scratchy laugh came from The Bijuu. "I don't think so. I doubt you will be able to stop me, not until my tests are finished." Tsunade growled and threw a punch at him, which he dodged by leaning left and jumping away. You could almost see him smirk behind his mask, and you could also almost see it disappear as the tongue of a toad lashed out at him. He spun around and hit the tongue with a dagger, stopping it, then threw another dagger into the smoke where the tongue came from, making the summon toad disappear with a loud pop. He landed on the roof with a thud, and watched as the big form of Jiraiya walked out of the summon smoke. "No, you will be stopped here Bijuu. Your sick 'tests' end today."

The Bijuu let out a dry laugh. "No...even if I die, my tests will not end. Not even you both will be able to kill me." Jiraiya narrowed his eyes. 'That voice...it sounds familiar, where have I heard it before?' He didn't have time to think about that, as Bijuu threw four daggers at him, which he jumped over.

The Bijuu used that moment to start running away, along the rooftop, the group of ninja following behind him. He growled when Sasuke appeared in front of him, his Kusanagi sword in hand. Sasuke swung it at Bijuu, hoping to take off his head. The Bijuu spread his right leg in front of him and his left behind him, then bended his body down, sliding under the blade. When he was cleared of the blade Bijuu swung his left leg around and swept Sasuke's feet out from under him, then he swung around to the right and slammed his hand into Sasuke's neck, knocking him out temporarily.

Keeping the sliding momentum going he spun back around and continued going, before being stopped by Sakura's fist...to his face, knocking off his mask, but not throwing his hood back, as well as throwing him back quite a ways. A certain purple haired ANBU took that moment to try to kill him with her katana while he was sliding along the rooftop on his side, but he managed to spin around on his back, his hood still not falling surprisingly, and dodged the blade...or at least mostly dodged it, as he got partially sliced on his left leg, but managed to kick her left leg out from under her. After sliding for a few more feet, he flipped back up and spun around, throwing daggers at her thighs and shoulders, disabling her. He walked over to her, and grabbed her by the hair, lifting her up. "No hard feelings babe, but you are in my way." He threw her at the approaching group of ninja, and quickly picked up his mask, putting it back on.

Tsunade caught Yugao, and set her down on the roof of the building. She looked up at The Bijuu, and glared at him.

The Bijuu flicked his left wrist, making little red glass beads appear in his hand. "My time has been wasted long enough, I must be going now. It has been fun, hope we meet again someday." He jumped backwards into the air, and threw the beads on the roof as the group of ninja advanced, creating a large explosion. When the smoke cleared, The Bijuu was gone. Tsunade slammed her hands on the roof, making it crack

A familiar voice made their head turn. "HEY! WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON! I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!" The form of Naruto Uzumaki...correction...a very pissed off Naruto Uzumaki landed on the roof. Sakura blushed slightly and pounded her fist into his head. "Idiot, put some clothes on!" Naruto looked at her, and looked down, seeing that he was only wearing long boxer pants. "I see no problem." Sakura glared and aimed another punch at him, but is stopped by Sasuke, his neck being held still by his right hand, who stared at Naruto, suspicion in eyes. "Naruto I have a question. Why are you sweaty? Is the air conditioning in your place broken again?"

Naruto blinked, and sighed. "Actually it is, I haven't gotten around to getting someone to fix it." Sasuke eyed him in suspicion, but sighed and walked away, while Sakura walked with him to help fix his neck. Jiraiya walked over to Naruto. "We were chasing The Bijuu, he managed to get away though." Naruto nodded, and popped his neck. "Alright, well I am going back to sleep, later ero-sennin." Jiraiya glared at him as he walked away, never noticing something...off with his former student. "Little bastard, no respect."

And with that, he went over to the group of ninja to gather reports.


Slow chapter, I know. I might edit it later, since I will probably find something wrong. The next chapter will be better, hopefully. When it will come I don't know...however, more reviews might motivate me to write faster. Now, stats time!

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Made a minor age edit on 01/28/07.
Rewritten into paste-tense and partially edited on 07/06/07.