A/N: Hey guys here is the updated version of chapter 2 of 'the beauty of lying' enjoy!

The room was dim lighted and the walls were painted light blue. It looked so familiar to him but he couldn't place his finger on where he was at the moment. There were kids toys scattered across the floor and on top of shelves. From where he was standing or should he say lying he could tell that this was indeed a child's room and he was in their bed. He then looked forward and in front of him were two people standing at the end of the bed. One was a red haired woman with a kind smile on her face and the other was a blonde haired man with his arm around the woman's shoulder and an equally kind smile as the woman. The red haired woman then came towards him and gave him a deep hug before whispering into his ear. He couldn't make out what she was saying but her face morphed from a kind look to one of shock and worry when there was a sudden crash outside the room. The man looked equally surprised which only increased when the door opened and in front of them was a humanoid figure holding a gun in his hand. The rest went so fast for him to comprehend what was going on. At first the blonde haired man went forward to grab the gun from the person but then collapsed on the floor when a flash of light entered the room and the sound of a bang. The women then clutched him tighter and tighter when the person approached them. He wanted to get up so badly and try and stop the advancing figure, but as much he wanted to he couldn't. The figure grabbed her by the hair and flung her against the blue wall. The muzzle of the gun went against her head and she then screamed at the top of her lungs before the loud bang.

"Naruto!"

Naruto shot up from his bed and panted frantically before observing his surroundings. The walls were white; there were no kid's toys, no bodies and definitely no one holding a gun. Naruto lay back down on the bed and began rubbing his eyes in hopes to waken up a bit.

'Same dream… every goddamn night.' He thought to himself. He looked over towards his alarm clock and then sighed. 'Back to work, I guess.'

Naruto stood up from his bed and then stretched his arms out as far as they could go. After putting on his orange shirt, black tie and jacket he went down stairs and boiled pot ramen for himself. He then grabbed his work case, left his apartment and began his daily walk to Konoha's police department. Upon entering the building he was greeted by a friendly face at the reception table.

"Good morning . Did you have a nice time last night with the others?" The person who said this was none other than Tenten. She continued to flash her amazing smile at him but don't let that fool you. Tenten is in fact the most badass and terrifying woman Naruto had ever met. She was previously a police Sargent before settling down after she accidently shot a fellow officer at a drug bust. That moment had a major effect on her and she swore on that day to never use a gun again. Besides that one time however, Tenten never misses. Naruto shuddered at the memory of her throwing a pen at him and landed dead centre of his head because he made a joke about her hair style.

Despite that particularly sore experience they were friends and so he flashed a smile back at her. "Good morning to you to Tenten and I wasn't actually with the other detectives last night, I was a bit tired." He said stopping at her desk.

"That's a shame, heard it was quiet the night." She said. Naruto nodded and then turned to walk to his own desk but bumped into someone he did not expect to see this early in the morning.

"S-Sargent Hatake!" Naruto stammered the words out of his mouth; his blue eyes were wide in shock. But before the man in front of him could say anything Naruto continued. "Y-you are actually early!?"

Yes the grey haired man known as Kakashi Hatake or Sargent Hatake, had a reputation of being extremely late to work. The grey haired and masked man would probably get fired if he wasn't perhaps the best man on the force. Kakashi just sighed at Naruto and looked down at the floor. "Is it really that surprising?" He said.

"Well you do come in at half-past twelve before coming up with a piss ass of an excuse to why you were late, nearly every day." Tenten said rolling her eyes at him.

Kakashi was about to retort to this but the only thing that came out his mouth was "B-but I… Well…!" He gave up and just looked at the floor again. "Naruto you dropped your bag and some documents." Kakashi pointed out.

Naruto also looked down and realised that he was so shocked at Kakashi's sudden arrival that he dropped all his stuff. He went down to pick up his bag and then his documents, but before he could get the last one a tanned hand picked it up from the floor. Naruto looked up to see that it was his partner, Kiba. Naruto tried to snatch it out of his hand but failed miserably.

Kiba looked at the document in his hand and then opened the first page. Kiba raised a brow and then looked at Naruto with questioning look. "The Masked Man, huh? You know he is just an urban legend made up by conspiracy theorists and whack jobs."

"Good morning to you to asshole." Naruto said with sarcasm dripping from his voice. Naruto finally was able to grab the document from Kiba and put it into his bag. Naruto looked at the folder that was in his bag and frowned.

Kiba chuckled. "Man, I knew you were bored but I didn't know you were willing to investigate myths."

Kakashi shook his head at Kiba's rudeness. "Why are you looking into the Masked Man, Naruto?" He asked with mild interest.

Naruto just continued to frown but he looked like he was in deep thoughts. "I don't know actually, I have always felt drawn towards the story ever since I was a kid."

Naruto felt Kakashi's hand land on his shoulder and then squeezed it hard reassuringly. "Don't worry about it Naruto." He said before his face cracked into smile, but Naruto could hardly tell because of that damn mask. "We all do things we don't understand. For example I don't know why I read the 'Icha Icha' series when everyone complains about how detailed the romance scenes are."

As soon as Kakashi said this there was an awkward silence. Kiba and Naruto looked at him in shock and slight disturbance but Tenten just cringed in disgust. "Ugh, men..."

As soon as she finished saying this a police officer ran through the door panting. Everyone looked at him with a questioning look before he then walked towards Kakashi. "There has been a murder, a body was found in an alley at maple apartments!"

Naruto and Kiba looked at each other and immediately started bombarding the poor officer with questions. "What is the address of where the body was found?" Naruto asked.

"23 Maple ST. you can't miss it with the police cars and the crowd of journalists surrounding the poor bastard." The officer said.

"Thanks very much! Come on Naruto!" Kiba said and began to run out the building and towards his car.

"I'm coming!" Naruto shouted back and ran after Kiba who already started the engine. Naruto entered the car with a massive smile on his face. He felt excitement rushing through him. Half of him silently thanked the murderer but the other half also felt depressed that someone actually died after many months of peace and quiet.

"Are you excited as I am?" Kiba asked him as he drove out of the parking area and onto the road towards their destination. Naruto looked at him and nodded.

"You bet my ass was hurting like hell after sitting at that goddamn desk for six whole months!" He said.

Kiba chuckled and nodded his head in agreement. "Yep, it's about time some action happened though the asshole that did this is going down."

Naruto chuckled along with him before saying. "You know here I was thi-" Naruto was interrupted when he felt something wet run up his ear and the sound of breathing behind him. Naruto just turned and glared at Kiba. "You didn't."

Kiba looked at him confused. "What?"

Naruto's glare intensified. "Don't 'what' me! Why is he here!?" Naruto pointed his thumb behind him before receiving a barrage of wet and slobbery licks on the cheek.

Kiba looked at him with a smile on his face and said sincerely. "Well I brought him along just in case we are in need of his nose. Isn't that right Akamaru?"

The giant white dog named Akamaru barked back at his owner before continuing to lick Naruto. Naruto still wonders why Kiba insists that they should bring him along. In the past before Kiba was partnered with him, he and Akamaru were an unstoppable duo when it came to drug busts and robberies. Why one would ask. It is simple really Akamaru had the best scent of smell than any other dog in the police department even more than all of Kakashi's dogs scents put into one. But now that Kiba was a detective Akamaru is not as useful in finding murderers as he was in previous jobs, but he is still able to be useful sometimes.

"So quit your bitchin we're here so there is no going back now." Kiba said and then parked the car at the side of the pavement near one of the apartments.

Naruto grumbled angrily as he got out the car and shut it behind him. Kiba then got out and then opened the back of the car to let Akamaru out and he began to pet his dog's head. "Hurry up Kiba I am sure that petting that mutt can wait." Kiba glared at Naruto who then began to walk up to crowd of photographers and people who were wondering what was going on.

Kiba and Naruto were barely able to get through the massive gathering of people before being stopped by an officer. "Sorry no access, only police officers can enter." He said.

Kiba spoke up first. "My name is detective Inuzuka and this is my partner detective Uzumaki. We were sent here by Sargent Hatake to investigate here." He said coolly as he showed his badge of authority to him.

The officer looked closely at the badge before stepping aside. "On you go detective; just go on down that alley there." The officer pointed at the dark alley before he paused and looked at the dog in bewilderment. "Is the dog with you by the way?" Kiba just nodded at him.

Both him and Naruto were at the end of the ally at the smell of blood immediately hit their noses causing them to make a face at the scent. As the two of them walked further and further down the alley the smell of the corpse got worse.

They both gasped at the sight before them and both trying to form words. Before them was a body, without the head and a giant slash running down the man's body. "Jesus, just what happened here?" Kiba muttered after recovering from his shock, while Naruto looked like he was going to hurl any second.

"Good question Mr. Inuzuka."

Both detectives turned to the voice behind them to see the brains of the police department as well as the laziest man they ever met. Kiba grinned at their fellow detective. "Shikamaru Nara, what brings you here? I don't recall me getting a message that you were coming."

Shikamaru just raised a brow at him before answering. "Kakashi sent me a message to come to this address where I am supposed to assist you in your case, since the two of you will somehow cock everything up."

'Ouch.' Both Kiba and Naruto thought.

"Anyway I arrived early so this is what I gathered so far from basic analysis. Clearly homicide, the victim died at 1:40 AM more or less and the weapon used was a blade of sorts most likely a cleaver."

"Do you think this was the work of a Jashinist?" Naruto asked Shikamaru, however he shook his head.

"That is what I thought at first but none of the signs show it was a member of the Jashin religion. Usually there would be the symbol of Jashin somewhere to indicate where the Jashinist was praying and usually it's a puncture wound through the heart or other vital organs. However this looks like the killer was just mauled him like an animal. So in other words we are dealing with a new mass murderer."

Naruto looked confused. "What do you mean, this was the only murder he has done."

"You mean you don't know?" Shikamaru asked with disbelief. Both shook their heads at him. "Detective Hyuga has just reported that there are five other murders all over city with the same results; butchered people and all in the same night."

Naruto paled when hearing this. Kiba then asked the next set questions. "Is there any additional information we should know about?"

"Well we were unable to identify the man since the head is nowhere to be found, obviously but I sent a blood sample of the victim for the boys in the lab to identify, detective Hyuga will be back with the results any moment. Also two people were reported to be seen at the scene of the crime as well as being there during the crime. They were brought into questioning, feel free to answer them any question you have for them."

Naruto thanked Shikamaru and left both him and Kiba to analyse the crime scene further in case they missed something. Naruto on the other hand left the alley and walked towards two people who were leaning against the brick wall of the apartment building nonchalantly one being a man and the other a women both looking like they were in their early twenties. Right now there was an officer talking to them but left when he saw Naruto approaching and stopped him in his tracks.

"Good luck detective because those two are as stubborn as a mule." Naruto nodded at him.

As he approached them both the man looked at Naruto and rolled his eyes. "Alright listen here, I'm going to say to you what I said to the other idiot that asked me retarded questions which is that I had nothing to do with this son of a bitch being killed and that is final. I'm speaking for the both of us as well."

"Well if you claim to not have anything to do with the crime that's fine but can you at least cooperate and answer a few questions that would be-"

The man shot a glare at Naruto that clearly said that he was pissed off. "Didn't you listen to me; I said 'I refuse to answer any questions.' Did you get that through your thick skull?"

This time it was Naruto's turn to glare but before he could lose his cool and throw a barrage of swear words at the man a hand gripped his shoulder. Naruto turned his head to see the stoic face of Neji Hyuga aka the coldest detective in the police department.

"Let me handle this detective." He said calmly before gently pushing Naruto aside and looking at the man in front of him.

"Great, another dumbass has come to harass me. Look I don't give a shit about some dead dude but what I do give a-" The man was cut off by a painful jab by Neji's finger to the chest as well as Neji's calm but threatening voice.

"Listen here you scum, this man has family who will grieve for months on end for their loss while you are being an insensitive bastard. So any trash like that coming from your trap again, I will have you smashed against this wall, beaten to pulp and thrown into police custody before you can shout 'police brutality'. Do I make myself clear?"

Naruto learned a long time ago not to fuck with Neji and even though he has gotten use to his cold and calm personality he is still taken back by his bad cop side. The man nodded and stuttered a 'yes' but he looked like he peed himself.

"Good. Where were you at around the time 2:40 and what were you doing?"

"We were here enjoying our time alone after going to a party we just got back from. Our apartment is at the top of the building across the road." This time it was the woman talking who sounded much more pleasant than the man and she gestured towards the apartment building across the road. "Anyway while we were out here, a man approached us, he had messy black hair and black eyes, I think. That was all I could tell from looking at him. He came up to us asking for help but we thought he was some sort of drunk person or hobo asking for money so we ignored him. After a couple of seconds another man came past us. I didn't get a good look at him but he looked more intimidating than the other one."

Neji pulled one of his rare smiles and said. "Thanks for your time and cooperation." Naruto watched as that both the man and woman walked away from the scene before turning to Neji who just slightly smirked at him. "I still got it."

Naruto rolled his eyes at him. "No shit. Anyway Shikamaru said that you've been busy trying to identify the victim, any luck?"

Neji nodded before going into detail about the man that now lay dead in an alley. "His name is Shisui Uchiha, aged 32, unmarried, an employee as Uchiha Industries head architect and his parents died in an accident."

"Guess that saves us the grief of telling a parent their son is dead." Naruto murmured under his breath despite the news being quite depressing.

"However he has close ties with his two cousins who live here Konoha. In fact one of them lives only half a mile from here so it's best that we confront him about the bad news first."

Naruto looked at Neji confused. "Did you say 'we'?"

"Yes." Neji said as if it sounded so simple but to Naruto it was unusual for Neji let someone tag along with him on a job let alone Naruto. The two were basically fire and ice, with Naruto's burning passion and Neji's cold personality it was impossible for them to work together. After recovering a bit Naruto tried to form an excuse to why he couldn't go with Neji.

"Well that's cool and all but I got a case with Kiba to handle right now." Naruto smiled nervously and began scratching the back of his head.

"It seems to me that Detective Nara and Inuzuka have it all under control. Besides I doubt Kiba will miss you." Neji said and before Naruto could come up with another excuse Neji was already walking towards his car. After that Naruto decided to give up and go with Neji on his little trip.

"Jesus Neji, you sure know how to make me feel good about myself." Naruto said with obvious sarcasm as he entered the car and plugged in his seat belt, however Neji just smirked.

"Of course, what kind of friend do you take me for Naruto?"

This was the second time Neji shocked Naruto today by going as far as calling him a friend. Naruto was able to cover his shock by rolling his eyes muttering swear words. "By the way what is the name of Shisui's cousin that we are visiting?"

"I believe his name is called Sasuke Uchiha."

A/N: Finally I have done the redraft for the second chapter, once again thank you my readers for taking the time to look at my story and hopefully I can update sooner this time. Don't forget to leave a comment, all comments are appreciated. Later!