Last Request
The next morning, Shikamaru Watson went looking for Naruto. He came to the bar he was last night and went upstairs to find him. "Watson?" Naruto asked. Hearing it was him, Naruto went on to explain what he was doing "Shikamaru, what started mainly as an experiment has brought me on the threshold of a monumental discovery". "Watch, when I play a chromatic scale on my violin the trapped flies give no measurable response" explained pointing to the flies he had trapped in a beaker.
Shikamaru was uninterested and turned his attention to what Naruto was eating. "You know what you put in your ramen this time is meant for people who need to defecate right? And you say Tenten is trying to poison you" he said as he gave Naruto an antidote; apparently Naruto had a habit of experimenting with things to make ramen taste even better.
"Hm, thought I was going more than usual" he remarked but pressed on. "Now look at this, and this is amazing, if I which to atonal cluster...viola, they fly in counter clockwise circles like a regimented flock" he explained as Shikamaru watched. "Watson, this is amazing. I, using musical theory, have created order out of chaos" Naruto ended.
There was a slight pause form Shikamaru "How'd you get them in there?" he asked.
Naruto had to remember this "Excellent question, to make a long story short; I was at it for six hours" he explained proving how dedicated he was to his experiments at times.
This was a waste of a life in Shikamaru's opinion. "And what happens if I do this:" Shikamaru asked as he opened the beaker and shooed the flies out. Naruto just stared at the flies fly away apparently just tossing aside the experiment like it was nothing now. "Get dressed, YOU are Orochimaru's last request" Shikamaru said. He then noticed the jacket Naruto loved in the corner. "Good, the jacket she gave you could fit all the evidence of any crime you encounter along the way" Shikamaru ended hoping to perk Naruto's interest to find work.
"I don't do guys if that's what he wants" Naruto explained as he left the room. There was evidence that Orochimaru could be a pedophile but it was never 100% proven. As they got in the carriage Naruto Holmes tried to engage Shikamaru in small talk "Did you know the opera house is featuring "Don Giovanni" I can easily get us some tickets if you like, I got connections" he said.
Shikamaru just looked at him, he was still angry that Naruto somewhat insulted Temari last night but he had an ace up his sleeve. "Oh yes, if I was the secret lover of "her" I could get anything I wanted too" he said. Holmes tried to hide the shocked look on his face "What, you didn't think I knew, she's only Tenten's best friend" he said. "Neji Lestrade would kick your ass if he knew" he further explained.
"That's not funny, and I am sorry, Temari knows that" Holmes said as he tried to change the subject. "So that's "no" to the opera then?" Naruto asked causing Shikamaru to become more annoyed as he exclaimed he should just go with "her". It was obvious he was talking about Neji Lestrade's cousin Lady Hinata Lestrade. Her father was a powerful lord that called on Naruto's assistance a lot but if he figured out that his daughter finally got what she has wanted since she was three, Lord Lestrade would sick the entire Scotland Yard, navy, and army on the world's greatest detective to make him the world's deadest detective.
As they approached the jail, Naruto was escorted to the cells by Izumo and Kotetsu. However, as they entered the cells, Naruto couldn't help but notice that there was no one in the cells. "It uh, seems you have lots of rooms to let" he said
"He had to move the prisoners Mr. Holmes, otherwise we were gonna have a riot on our hands" Izumo explained.
Kotetsu further explained "He has a…well…peculiar effect on the inmates as if…" he ended as both men stopped before going anywhere near Orochimaru's cell. "…get inside their heads" he ended fearfully. Apparently it wasn't just the prisoners' heads he could get into.
Naruto just stared at them, he understood they were afraid. Orochimaru had a reputation to be in line with Lucifer himself. "I can find my own way if you guys have other duties that must be performed" he said to make them feel better and so they could leave.
"Much obliged sir, thank you Mr. Holmes" they both said as they hurried away. They didn't run but they didn't walk away either.
Naruto then walked toward the cell he heard Orochimaru saying something, he also took note at all the sketches that Orochimaru made all over his cell. He heard Orochimaru preaching from a satanic bible "If any man an ear than let him hear. As I stood upon the sand of the sea I saw a beast rise up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns. Upon his heads were seven crowns and the name of blasphemy and they worshiped a dragon which gave them power unto the beast saying "Who is like unto the beast?" The beast I saw was like a leopard. His feet were of a bear and his mouth was of a lion and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority" he was reading boring Naruto.
"I love what you've done to the place" Naruto said wanting to shut Orochimaru up. Naruto was a Christian, neither the typical Irish catholic or English protestant, but just a plain one so hearing these ramblings was as offensive to him as it was boring and annoying.
Orochimaru just smiled as he realized he was there "So glad you could accept my invitation" he said. He then heard Naruto had a bit of a problem since three weeks ago. "How can I help?" he asked the detective that caught him.
"Well, while my heart primarily went out to whatever family or friends of the victims I could find, I couldn't help but notice a sense criminal mastery in the stroke of your brush" Holmes explained. He was saying that in the world of crime, Orochimaru is like an artist, and a decent one at that.
Orochimaru smiled "You're too kind".
"However, by comparison, your work in the crypt was more akin to a finger painting" Naruto corrected. He knew that after Orochimaru killed Dosu, Zaku, Sakon and Ukon, and Kimimaro that how he did it was masterful but how he tried to kill Karin wasn't anything like what he normally did.
Orochimaru then turned to him with a slight smile; Naruto was as genius as they said when he was solving crimes…elsewhere he was kind of crazy. "So now you are wondering wither there is a larger game afoot" he replied. "Those lives were, necessity, four meaningless creature called upon to serve a greater purpose…Kimimaro was useful, but he was gonna die from a disease so he said go for it" Orochimaru stated.
"I wonder if they'll let, Watson and I dissect your brain, after you're hanged of course" Naruto said to show he wasn't AS twisted as Orochimaru. This caused even the satanic man himself to become a little shocked. "I'd wager there is some deformity or tumor in there that might prove scientifically significant, so then you too can serve a greater purpose" he said with his back to the bars.
Suddenly Orochimaru went right up against the bars and whispered not sweet nothings but insane claims in Holmes ear. "Holmes you must widen your gaze, for beneath your mask of logic I sense fragility; that worries me. Steel your mind Holmes…I need you" he said.
"I say, you've come a long way down from the House of Lords" Naruto said nonchalantly wanting to get his backside away from the near confirmed pedophile.
"And I shall rise again" Orochimaru defended. "Now pay attention. In three days, three more will die. And the last sane thought through your head, will be acknowledging you made all this possible" he ended as Naruto walked away.
Naruto couldn't help but notice all the officers waiting to see what the madman wanted with the man that caught him. "I'm not sure" he said to Neji as he asked him. But he knew that something was up, the other man in the crypt might be the real brains or an accomplice. But he went to see Hinata in her safe box to watch the hanging to make sure for himself.
"Lord Orochimaru Blackwood, you are sentenced to death for practicing black arts, the unholy murder of five innocent people, and the attempted murder of a sixth. Have you any final words?" asked Lord Hiashi Lestrade
"Death is only the beginning" Orochimaru claimed as he was hung. Hinata looked away because she didn't like death but Naruto wanted to make sure with his previous threat.
Shikamaru came down and check Orochimaru's pulse. He also told Naruto they weren't going to dissect his brain or stab him in the heart with a silver stake just to make sure. "That is the end of Lord Orochimaru Blackwood" Watson said.
To be continued
