Love and Crime
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Chapter 1
After inspecting the body special F.B.I. Agent Neji Hyuuga turned back to the girl called Tenten who had witnessed the killing of the 8th victim, Yume Naegino. Inspecting Tenten he decided it wasn't possible to gather information out of her yet.
"Neji the victim has 5 stab wound 2 in the gut and 3 in the chest area. The cause of death was one to the chest that had hit directly at her heart." had reported the pathologist(A/N: the person who does autopsies).
"Thank you, Sakura. Anything else in particular about the body?" Neji had asked turning his face towards the pathologist named Sakura with her pink hair and emerald eyes.
"Well there was no sign of any recent injuries suggesting that she didn't put up a fight possible meaning she did see it coming or knew her killer." replied Sakura. Sakura then spotted Tenten standing off by the wall with a baby blue blanket wrapped around her.
"Poor girl. To have to witness this. She's as pale as paper. What are we going to do with her after we hear what she saw?" asked Sakura still stare sympathetically at Tenten who was staring at the white plastic blanket covering Yume.
"She'll probably be sent to witness protection." he replied sending a quick glance a Tenten then looked back at Sakura, "Try not to get too involved." His statement had made Sakura look at his with the look of disbelief that also said 'can't-you-be-more-sensitive-about-this' and then started to walk to Tenten.
"Hello I'm Sakura Haruno. You must be Tenten I'm I correct?" asked Sakura with a warm smile.
Looking away from Yume's body for the first time after the police had arrived Tenten looked at Sakura with a lost look in her eye she nodded as yes with her head and then spoke with a horse voice, "I'm Tenten."
"How are you feeling? Would you like a drink or something to eat?"
"I'll be fine." Tenten said turning her head back to see Yume in a stretcher and being brought in to the ambulance.
"Here let go sit down" Sakura said putting an arm around Tenten's shoulders who was hesitant before letting her lead her to Sakura's car. Tenten sat side ways in the passenger's seat with her legs hanging out. Sakura then took a seat on the ground beside Tenten. Thinking that she should probably do her job so Neji wouldn't get upset with her. Sakura then asked, "Could you tell me what exactly you saw happened to the victim?"
"Yume." stated Tenten.
"Excuse me, what?" asked Sakura confusedly.
"Her name was Yume." once again stated Tenten, "As for what I saw I really don't remember it all happened so fast and in a blur. All I can clearly remember was his dark blue eyes stare directly at me."
"Who's blue eye's?"asked Sakura even more confused.
"The serial killer's." she had replied simply.
"He saw you." asked..no more like stated a new voice of a male.
Tenten looked up to see a tall man. The man had long dark brown hair that was tied in to a low ponytail which was some thing Tenten didn't see to often on males. Though what really caught her eyes was his eyes. The were a pool of a faint lavender color. Tenten had started to stare into his eye when she had finally comprehended what he had just said.
"Neji what are we going to do he saw our witness?" Sakura had asked the tall guy called Neji.
"The same thing we would do like before. We get the information out of her and then hand her over to witness protection. Except this time we have Hinata get the details of the killer's face from her and sketch the face and we'll be a couple of steps closer to catching our killer. Then when we catch him we'll get her to testify in court then she'll be free to live life normally again."
"No way I'm going into witness protection." shouted Tenten standing up, "My best and closest friend just got murdered in front of me and you expect me just to go into witness protection and just sit there, when HE'S out there plotting to get his next victim!?"
"Yes I am expecting you to go into witness protection and just sit there." Neji had replied calmly yet coldly.
"Well think again. I'm not going"Tenten said stubbornly, dropping the blanket and jabbed her finger into Neji's chest.
"We'll see about that. Just to let you know there has been none of our witnesses that hasn't gone into the Witness protection program before so I highly doubt you'll be able to wiggle out of this." he stated and then turned around and said, "Sakura I'll let you handle her until we get back in to the office. I'd say we'll be leaving in about another 30 minute." then walked off to inspect a piece of evidence.
"What a jerk he is." Said Tenten, who stubbornly crossed her arms around her chest than sat back down.
Looking at Tenten and seeing her in a better mood then before (a mopey, sad mood) Sakura giggled then smiled at her.
"What?" asked Tenten turning to Sakura when she giggled.
"Nothing really." she stated then turned to watch her co-workers work when she then heard a grumble from beside her.
"That offer for the food and drinks still up you know." said Sakura indicating to Tenten's grumbling stomach.
"You know what, some food does sound good right now." Tenten replied a little embarrassed at her stomach grumbling.
"Okay, I'll go get us something to eat so I'll be back in a couple of minute so don't be afraid to get comfortable." laughed Sakura heading toward the hallway to the inside of the W.W.N. Building.
Tenten started to look around watching people going back and forth looking at every unusual speck. She then eyed Neji. She studied his face to see that he wasn't just being cold to her but he was like that all the time and to everyone. Neji suspecting her gaze on him, turned to look at her. As if being as guilty as a kid stealing a lick of frosting from a cake, Tenten looked away into a random direction. When she felt his gaze had left her, she started to focus what she was now looking at. She saw all her co-workers there behind he yellow crime scene tap. As always most of the were gossiping, though 4 or 5 of them were cry either into their own hands or into someone else's shoulder who was comforting them back but some of them, the heartless ones, were complaining about having to go home or to other places and needing to get to there cars which had made Tenten clutch her fists on her pant legs in anger. Then she could see a pink head trying to push her way through to the front. When the pink head had gotten to the front Tenten then realized it was Sakura.
Making her way under the yellow tape to Tenten, Sakura held onto the food and drinks tightly, which she had gotten from the employee lounge, so she wouldn't drop anything.
"I'm not that hungry you didn't have to grab so much food."pointed out Tenten to Sakura's arms full of packaged food.
"I know that I just didn't know what you liked so I grabbed a bunch of stuff. Beside we can give the extra to Neji and the others." Sakura said in her defense.
"Others?"
"Yeah. Okay see that girl over there with the long dark hair with the bangs?" she said pointing to her and Tenten also recognized her eyes to be the same lavender color as Neji's. Tenten nodded. "She's Hinata Hyuuga. She is our sketch artist, you'll be meeting her latter on. She's also a relative of Neji. Cousins to be exact. She's really shy and timid but a great loyal friend. Over there is Naruto who just got yelled at by Neji for goofing off. He's the guy who discovers the murder weapons to a crime. He's a real idiot though but he is a good guy over all. And over there is Shino he determined where evidents comes from and the last girl with the long blond hair is Ino. She's our photographer and there are some others back at the lab that you might meet later on."
"I see." Tenten replied grabbing a big cream filled powdered donut.
"Okay. Sakura lets head back. We've done all we can here." said Neji walking towards them.
"Where are we heading?" Tenten asked looking at his cold expression, clueless.
"Where else we going to take you to the lab and have you sign the Witness Protection applications and then get you to Hin-" Neji was interrupted by Tenten's protests.
"What you mean is we'll go to the lab get the sketch and the send me home on my own." said Tenten stubbornly.
"Tenten, I really do think you should listen to Neji on this. If you don't go into witness protection you'll become an easy target for the killer to find." Sakura said trying to convince her.
"Sorry Sakura but my minds made up. I'm not going. Who knows maybe he will come looking for me and I might be able to get my revenge for Yume or I might just be killed, who knows." she said determinedly, which then made Sakura gave up hope of trying to convince her to go into witness protection quietly and gave Neji a look that had said 'convince-her-please'.
"Oh don't worry, I'll get you into witness protection weather you like it or not. You have to because you have just witnessed a major serial killer kill another victim." He said confidently.
"The 'victim' had a name, Yume, so stop calling her victim and we'll see about you getting me in." Tenten then slide in to the front seat and shut the door sticking her tongue out at him.
"Childish." whispered Neji sliding into Sakura's back set while Sakura had went around to the drivers seat. Once she got in she turned on the engine and started to drive.
The drive was too quite for Tenten but she was feeling too tired to break it so instead she had watched the city light go by as they past and she gradual fell asleep leaning on the car door.
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