Wow, two chapters in one day! I love the weekends! Ownership as said in other chapters. Please enjoy and maybe review
When Sasuke come from the kitchen with a bowl of cereal he was quite surprised to, one, find Naruto up, and, two, to find him reading the paper. Sasuke put the bowl on the table and sat down. He reached over and tweaked the paper so that he could see the name. It was 'The NARA'.
"Since when do you read the paper?" Sasuke asked before taking his first mouthful. Naruto stuck his tongue out at him. He had a cup of milk in front of him.
"I don't," he replied, taking a swing of milk. "I thought you might find this interesting though." Naruto held out the paper, folded to show the front page. Sasuke took it.
"'Police Incompetency'," Sasuke read out loud. He raised an eyebrow. "Very interesting," he said dryly.
"No, no. Keep on reading," Naruto said, now reaching over to point further down. "See? 'After ten years of silence, the murderer from the chilling Blood Angel Incident is back'-"
"'With a second murder'?!" Sasuke exclaimed. "What?! There's only been one!" He quickly scanned the rest of the article. "'After receiving a tip off from a 'not-so-nice' source, the police fail to act and prevent the murderer of Orochimaru, (56) , renowned Goth Singer'." Sasuke put the paper down on the table and bit his thumbnail in thought. What was going on?
"What?" Naruto asked, worried. "Isn't this just the same case you're working on?"
"It's not. This is another one." Another one... Sasuke shuddered.
"What's wrong?" But Sasuke couldn't hear him. All he saw was blood. He tried to stand but collapsed on the floor, shaking. "Sasuke!" Naruto yelled, dropping next to him, propping Sasuke up on one knee. "Oy, Sasuke!" Sasuke shut his eyes and concentrated on Naruto's voice, trying to dispel the hallucination. When he opened his eyes he saw Naruto looking down at him with worried eyes.
"Naruto..."
"Geez! Don't scare me like that!" Naruto chided as he helped Sasuke to his feet. He was still a little shaky, so he held onto Naruto's shoulder. "What was that?"
"A hallucination."
"Huh? Hallucination? Of what?" Sasuke glared at the ground and didn't answer.
"I need to get to the station. Is it alright if you get to school this early?" Naruto nodded.
"I usually only get there just as the bell rings," he replied, "but will you be okay?" Touched by Naruto's concern, Sasuke tried to smile, but it came out wrongly.
"I'll be okay," Sasuke replied as he started to gather the things he would need. "Really," he added when he saw that Naruto wasn't convinced.
"Fine. But I'm driving," Naruto said.
"What? No. You're underage."
"So? I can still drive," Naruto said pouting. If it had been any other day, Sasuke would have completely quashed this train of thought. C'mon, who drives underage with a police officer in the car? But today, Sasuke was almost relieved by Naruto's 'offer'. He didn't think he could steer a bike, let alone a car.
"Fine. You drive to school, but I'm taking the car to work." Naruto nodded, satisfied with the compromise.
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It had felt strange to be able to stare out of the window, not having to drive the car and just watch the scenery pass by. So Sasuke was glad when he took over the wheel from Naruto. The blonde had only had unofficial driving lessons from Sasuke, who had never taught someone himself. He now parked quickly and hurried into the station, running down the unfamiliar hallways to his superior officer's office. Coming to the door, Sasuke slowed, reaching out to the door knob as he reached it. Gritting his teeth he turned the knob, the newspaper held tightly in his other hand.
Opening the door, Sasuke walked into Itachi's room. Sakura, Ino and some other officers and the like were already inside. There was a sudden silence when Sasuke walked in. No one moved.
"You're late," Itachi said simply from his desk, not even looking up. Sasuke ignored this and walked to his older brother's desk, dropping the newspaper face-up in front of Itachi.
"There was another murder," Sasuke said. It wasn't a question. It was a statement. Itachi looked up, glazed eyes surveying his brother.
"Yes?"
"The police had received a tip on it, but it was ignored. Why?" Sasuke replied coolly, meeting Itachi's gaze with his own hatred filled one. Itachi shifted back in his seat so that he sat up straight in his chair, his elbows propped up on the arm rests, his hands folded in front of his face.
"The source was deemed untrustworthy." Sasuke slammed his hands down on the desk.
"Screw trustworthiness! Someone died! There should have been someone sent to protect this guy!"
"And to what avail?!" Itachi asked forcefully back, suddenly standing. He was about a head taller than Sasuke, so he looked down at him. "Don't think you can tell me how to do my job, little brother."
"Am I wrong, though?" Sasuke asked, glaring up at Itachi. "Do you want another Blood Angel Incident to happen?!"
"What do you know?"
"I know everything!" Sasuke retorted, loosing his cool. "Oh right!" Sasuke said in a mocking tone, "Of course you want another one to happen. You were the per-"
"SASUKE UCHIHA!" Itachi exploded, stopping Sasuke in mid-sentence, making him flinch unwillingly. "Your insubordination leaves me no choice. Hand in your badge and your weapon, you are now on enforced leave until further notice." Itachi seemed to thin a little. "You're also off this case, if that wasn't clear. Under no circumstances are you to investigate or contact any of the officers involved in this case, understood?"
Shocked at what happened, Sasuke just stood there. I shouldn't have gone so far... was the first thing he thought of, but of course, he didn't regret his actions. He relished them.
"I understand," Sasuke said coldly as he took out his badge from inside his jack and his gun from it's holster, dropping them on the desk with a loud thud.
In the silence that followed Sasuke's phone beeped and took it out wondering what was wrong. It was a text message from Naruto. He opened and read it.
"Teme! Can u cum here? Dis teacha wants 'parntal' permishin"
Sasuke sighed and deleted the message, making for the door.
"Where are you off to?" Itachi asked. Sasuke turned slightly to face him.
"I need to go to Naruto's school, if that's alright, Superintendent Uchiha," Sasuke replied, letting fake awe drip into the last two words.
"Oh, that orphaned bastard you adopted off the streets, right?"
Sasuke's fist made contact with his brother's face, taking him completely by surprise and nearly knocking the taller man to the ground. Blood seeped out of the side of his mouth, much to Sasuke's satisfaction.
"Don't you ever call Naruto that!" Sasuke spat out. "You can take me off the case, you can take away my badge, but don't you dare call Naruto that." He then stalked out the room, slamming the door loudly behind him.
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As it turned out Naruto already had the permission form to take part in the class. He had just misplaced it in his folder, so Sasuke wrote him up another one. At first he teacher hadn't believed him to be Naruto's legal guardian which led to a little disagreement in which Sasuke ended up pulling out his ID and driving license. But eventually it was cleared up and Naruto was allowed to attend the class.
"Sorry about that, Sasuke," Naruto apologized as soon as they were out of the office. Sasuke turned, a little surprised.
"Nah, you called at a good time. I wanted to get away," Sasuke replied. Naruto squinted at him.
"Something happened today," he probed. Sasuke suppressed a wince. Naruto could always see through him. Somehow.
"Yeah. My badge got taken," Sasuke said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"What?" Naruto asked. "Why?" Sasuke smirked sadistically.
"I'll tell you after school. Now, go learn, or whatever you do there." Naruto pouted and ran after his classmates who were already ready for the class, gathering around the entrance. Sasuke sighed and walked back to his car. What should I do for the rest of the day...?
In the end, he ended up driving home and booting up his PS2 for the first time in months. He hadn't actually bought the gaming device. It had been a gift from Kakashi when the man had randomly turned up at Sasuke's flat and found that the raven had no life out of police work. The older officer had also given him a few games and websites of where to download them. One of them had been a Taiko no Tatsujin game.
Curious as to what it was, Sasuke slid it out of it's white packet and inserted it into the PS2. The title screen came up, loads of Japanese filled the screen.
"Taiko no Tatsujin: Tatakon de Dodon ga Don...?" Sasuke was finally able to read. "What a mouth full." After getting to the song section of the game, Sasuke accidentally selected 'Fantasie Impromptu' on hard mode and failed miserably.
After failing it for the second time, Sasuke promptly switched of the PS2 and decided to sleep until three, when he would go out again to pick Naruto up from school. He lay down on the couch and closed his eyes, but images of bloody wings stared back at him and he was unable to sleep. He was extremely relieved when three o'clock finally rolled around and even left the house a little early, driving a little slower than usual.
"I guess I really don't have any life outside of work..." Sasuke said absentmindedly as he waited for the light to turn green.
Not too bad? I hope so. The name of the Taiko name at the end was suggested by Versatz. Sasuke's such a mum, structuring his day around dropping off and picking up Naruto from school. JKJK See you next time i guess.. Cheers.