I wanted to get this out rather quickly because I'm so excited for chapter four C: It's like alkfjaslfkjsafjaf (to me!) I'm also having the urge to write my own originial slash fiction on fictionpress... but I'm a little hesitant you know? ;o. Gah. Maybe I'll just stick to fanfiction. Also I'm pretty bummed. Soo this A/N will be short. Tonight's just not my night.
Warning: Right now I feel pretty boring because I want to cuddle but I have no one to cuddle with so this really isn't a warning for the actual story D: You can say there's a little progress. That or Naruto just likes to touch our little raven a little too much c; NO SHAAAAME!
Disclaimer: Can SOPA censor that word or...?
Enjoy :D!
Chapter Three: Casual Encounters
Naruto peered through the dust-covered window of M. Jewelers. "No one in sight... for now." he muttered and dug into his hair for his handy dandy bobby pin. "Never leave home without it," Naruto smirked and tip-toed over to the back door. He crouched down and shoved the bobby pin into the keyhole, shimming it around and around until he heard the gentle click of the lock opening. "Bingooo."
Inside was dark and filled to the brim of nothing but overwhelming perfume. Naruto stuck out his tongue and nearly gagged, "Women... they always over-indulge." Well, that couldn't necessarily be a bad thing since it was normally the ones who over-indulged he got the biggest pay from. With the silence of a shadow Naruto crossed the distance between him and his prize in a matter of seconds. His mouth poured out a waterfall when his eyes landed on his prize...
"Oh God..." he licked his lips and wiggled his fingertips. "I don't care if everything thinks I'm a whack job with a sickness—stealing shiny stuff will never not be fun to steal!" Naruto dug into his pocket and pulled out a tiny little vial of concentrated acid. 'Kiba...' Naruto pulled off the cork and stuck that in his pocket, 'I don't want to know where the hell you get this stuff, but I love you.'
For jobs, Naruto took the time to be as careful and discreet as possible. He wore gloves, slipped on a wig and glasses, purposefully wore a pair of combat boots two pairs bigger, and placed a photograph of the empty store in front of any visible or non-visible cameras. It was a safety precaution as well as something to screw the cops up with. Thinking of one cop in particular...
"I bet Sasuke's gonna flip," Naruto chuckled as he pulled out his prized earrings and held them up in the air. "Oh, the look on his face. Damn when that man is angry..." a shiver tangoed up his spine. His wild obsession with the raven had spurred into an on again off again fire that would come and go whenever he thought of the man. It was the sort of affection that once it came, it went away but left some scars in its path—scars that radiated gentle bursts of heat whenever Sasuke happened to pop into his mind.
The blond smirked and pulled out a little plastic baggy to drop in the earrings. "You, my dearies, are going to give Papa Naru a beautiful bundle of green!" he kissed the baggy and dropped it in a little compartment inside his jacket. "Now then... a little decoy," he grabbed a random stuffed animal he picked up at the toy store a few blocks away and dropped in onto of the cushion. "There! Like they were never even stolen."
He didn't bother to make sure the glass case looked not tampered with because really, it would be quite obvious in the morning the earrings were stolen. Until then Naruto turned a blind eye and walked out of the store, whistling a happy tune; very unaware that eyes were following him all the way down the street...
+Borrowed+
"Ma'am, I can't understand you if you're bawling incoherently."
It was four o'clock in the morning when Sasuke was rudely by his walkie-talkie informing him of a break-in at a local jeweler. Just his luck the jeweler was an hour's drive from his house and heading through traffic was like trying to navigate the lower pits of Hell. So, having to deal with a babbling, spastic, incomprehensible woman at five-thirty in the morning was grating on the last bits of Sasuke's sanity.
"My... my jewels—my babies! They're gone! Gone I tell you! Do you know how much I spend to have those beautiful gems in my collection?" the woman blew into her hanky and shot Sasuke a pointed glare that dared him to ask.
"I'm betting you paid a lot, Ma'am."
"4.6 million yen! That's how much!"
Sasuke held back the urge to scoff at the clearly traumatized woman. 'Why even ask me if you were going to answer it yourself...?' And this is why Sasuke couldn't handle women—they were so damn confusing. He inwardly sighed and prayed that someone would step in right now so he wouldn't have to handle this psychotic woman all by himself.
"Ah, Sasuke. I see you're calming down the victim rather nicely." of course it would be Kakashi to step in and take over things.
'Of all the people...' Sasuke gritted his teeth and nodded in response. "She's speaking coherently now." he's a miracle worker everyone...
Kakashi smiled. "Well that's always good." he bent down to the woman's level and brushed a few strands of her hair out of her eyes, "Come on now. Tell us everything you know. We'll do all we can to help."
Sasuke released a sigh of relief as he walked away from the weeping woman. 'Thank God for Kakashi.' Kakashi was better suited for handling reckless and distraught victims better than Sasuke could. The raven was more of a "give me the evidence, and I'll figure out the crime" sort of guy.
Other cops filtered in and out of the crime scene, examining different places for any hints of footprints, fingerprints, broken glass—whatever would lead to the perpetrator. 'The camera's a bust,' Sasuke thought, looking at the flickering TV the cops had brought in to look at the video footage from last night; nothing but an empty jewelry store. 'Crafty, but predictable.'
He stopped in his tracks in front of the tampered glass case. It sported a huge hole in the front—big enough for a hand to fit through. A flash of blond sparked through his mind immediately. 'I have a hunch a certain annoying kleptomaniac is behind this.' Sasuke gritted his teeth. He peered closer into the case and, to his surprise, saw small strands of golden hair lying where the earrings should have been.
"That little…" Sasuke whirled around and started for the door. Was this all some game for the blond? How could he leave such incriminating evidence behind at the crime scene like that? Naruto wasn't sloppy. He was a master thief, a perfectionist through and through.
Sasuke stormed passed Kakashi, only to be stopped by the man before he exited the store. "Going to find him, huh?"
The raven scoffed and opened the door, "No. I'm going to find him then kill him. No one plays games with me."
Kakashi watched the raven fly out the door and head for his car, shaking his head all the way. "He's so predictable…" with a sigh, he plastered on another smile and went back to comforting the victim. "It's going to be okay. We'll get your earrings back, no worries. Now would you like some coffee? I make a mean cup filled with vanilla and caramel."
+Stolen+
Naruto waltzed to the front door of a grand mansion—stained with marble, dipped in crystal, and overflowing with exuberance. "Ino always was one for making a big show out of anything." He stood off to the side, pressed on a slightly indented wall and watched with bored indifference as a small black box appeared.
The screen flickered and a picture of Ino Yamanaka appeared, practically glowing with excitement. "Naruto, is that you? My you've grown even cuter since I last saw you!"
"You saw me last week, Ino." Naruto chuckled.
"Last week equals ten years in my mind!" Ino waved her hand at the thought and pressed her face closer to the screen so Naruto only saw one ice blue eye. "So how did your latest borrow go? I do hope you have my precious babies! That wretched Lady M stole my earrings from me at my last auction and I haven't been the same since!"
Naruto dug into his pocket and pulled out the small plastic baggy holding the earrings. He shook his latest catch with pride. "I have them just like you requested. I even polished them up a little before I got here."
"Oh Naruto! You are too good to me!" She gushed. "Would you like to come in for some tea? My hubby's out on business and I'm really lonely all by myself."
"I would but I have to get to work soon. The bookstore's doing this midnight release of this new book that's wildly popular with the teenagers—especially the females." Naruto shuddered. Teenage girls were extremely ferocious when you got in the way of them and want they wanted. "I'll just put this in the slot and you can pick it up from there."
"Aww, all right." Ino pressed a button and a black slot popped out from the black box. "You really need to come over sometime, though! I miss having you around."
The blond nodded and slid the baggy into the slot. "I know. I know. I've just been really busy. I promise to come visit you when I have some free time."
"Good!" She beamed as she held up her earrings, practically tearing them out of the baggy and hooking them through her ears. She pulled back her long, platinum hair and smiled. "What do you think?"
"Gorgeous as always."
"Naruto you are truly a girl's best friend!"
+Borrowed+
When Sasuke had left the crime scene he had driven out of there more on blind fury rather than with a destination. So when he ended up in the middle of the shopping district, surrounded by people of various shapes and sizes, he was more than a little confused—and highly annoyed.
"Damn it all," he slammed his forehead against the top of his steering wheel. He was just so stressed this days and he didn't even know why! "No… I know why. That damned commissioner of mine has been bothering none stop about this case for days." The case, as you may already know, involved a pesky kleptomaniac with blond hair. Day in and day out Orochimaru would pull Sasuke into his office to talk about their plan.
"Get close to him. Make him feel safe and gain his trust. Then dig up anything you can about these string of robberies."
Sasuke scoffed as the words replayed over and over again in his mind. "Easier said than done…" It didn't help one bit that his conscience was screaming on and on about how wrong this was. He knew Naruto wasn't a bad guy—well, that was still up for debate—all those months studying the mysterious thief had told him that Naruto always gave back to whoever he "borrowed" from but Orochimaru didn't see it that way. "And now I'm going to have to earn his trust just to break it…"
Blindly, Sasuke fumbled for the radio dial hoping some music would drown out the guilt hanging heavily around his shoulders. Winter was here and all around the raven's car was a world of white. People looked a lot bulkier with their huge winter jackets on while Sasuke only had a black trench coat and some gloves to combat the cold. He shivered.
"I feel so damn pathetic." He risked looking up and a flash of blond caught his eyes. His jaw dropped slightly because he knew that back. He knew those spiky golden locks that reached for the December sky. On instinct his hands flew for the lock, pulled it open, and he dashed out of his car. He pushed through the flow of people, his hands outstretching for that back he so wanted to touch…
"Uzumaki!" he shouted and nearly tackled the blond to the ground.
Naruto turned around just in time to catch Sasuke though with the momentum and the raven's weight sent them hurdling for the ground anyways. "Oompf! Ugh… what in the…" he blinked sporadically, blue eyes opening up to stare at the raven looming over top of him. 'Oh… what a lovely surprise. Though I'm sure everyone around us is scarred for life.' Naruto smirked lazily and twirled his finger around a lock of raven hair, "Normally I like to top but I must say seeing you like this is making me change my preferences."
The blush that attacked Sasuke's face was way too cute for words.
"Shut up, Uzumaki. I'm bringing you in."
"For what? If anything I should be the one bringing you in." a mischievous glint shined in his eyes. "This time you'll be the one in handcuffs and I'll make sure to punish you thoroughly."
"I don't think so." And just to make sure the blond didn't have any hidden handcuffs anywhere, Sasuke grabbed Naruto's wrists and held them firmly in place. "You won't be going anywhere until you fess up."
"Fess up about what?" there was pure innocence written on Naruto's face—a sure sign that the blond was guilty of something.
"I'm not going to sit here and play Twenty Questions all day. You know what you did, now give back the earrings you stole."
"Sorry but I didn't steal any earrings. Although I did borrow a pair earlier today…"
Oh how Sasuke absolutely hated Naruto's sense of logic. It was twisted and warped just like the blond's mind. Sasuke gritted his teeth and added a little pressure to his grip. "Give them back Naruto and I promise you'll only get a week in jail."
"A week? Is that the best you can come up with Sasuke? And here I thought you would make this interesting for me seeing you have me pinned down in public…"
Sasuke finally remembered that they were in fact, surrounded by people. When he looked up he saw the mixed emotions of disgust, surprise, awe, and then some. He cleared his throat awkwardly and removed his hands from Naruto's wrists to get up only to have a strong pair of arms grip his waist and pull him down. He gasped at the motion. His body was completely flushed with Naruto's—molded and meshed. Their hips brushed against each other in scandalous ways.
Naruto saw the brief brush of pleasure come across the raven's face and inwardly cheered. 'He's so cute when he tries to fight me off.' A terribly wicked idea crossed his mind and being the sort of man he was he went through with it. His hands deftly found their way to Sasuke's ass and gave it a nice squeeze.
"Uzumaki!" Sasuke growled.
"Oh God I love it when you say my name."
"Stop this right now!"
"What's 'this' and why should I stop?" Naruto giggled as Sasuke started to sputter out gibberish out of anger. Yup. Making fun of Sasuke would never get old. "Ohhh, you mean embarrassing you in public? Well you could ask nicely…"
"Not a chance!"
"Then forever stay glued to my pelvis. I must warn you my lower half is very insatiable and has issues keeping calm when a sexy little raven is lying on top of—"
He was cut off by Sasuke's swift knee to the groin that effectively brought the two apart. 'Okay, ouch! I deserved that but still…' Naruto slowly sat up from the ground; rubbing his abused crotch as he watched the raven try to gather up whatever dignity he had left. "Was that really necessary?"
Sasuke glared. "For you? Yes."
"Ooo," Naruto stood up and brushed small flakes of snow from his winter coat, "I feel so special."
"You're not. Now hand over what you stole."
"Borrowed," Naruto raised a finger in the air.
Sasuke glared even deeper. "Stole."
"Nooo, borrowed. Actually, more like returned but I was never one for specifics." He waved his hand at the matter, figuratively brushing it off.
This peaked Sasuke's interest—slightly. "Returned?" he asked with an eyebrow cocked highly in the air.
"Yep. Returned. She stole those earrings at the jeweler's—which I'm guessing you're talking about— from a good friend of mine. My friend was really distraught about it so being the good man I am I got them back for her."
"That's the biggest load of bull I think I've ever heard come out of your mouth."
"Well it's the truth." Naruto shrugged and jammed his hands in his pocket. The brisk air left a chill over his bones, causing a deep shiver to run through him. "You can believe me or you can brush me off and pull out those kinky handcuffs of yours. But if I were you I'd dig a little deeper into the woman's background. Lady M's not as innocent as she appears."
Sasuke took some time to process the information Naruto was throwing at him so easily. Could he really trust the blond? He seemed sincere… "How do I know you're not lying?"
"You don't. There's this thing called a gut and sometimes you're just gonna have to go with it." Naruto looked up towards the sky before clucking his tongue and giving Sasuke one of his killer smiles. "Sorry to cut this wonderful moment short but I have to be at work in…" he looked up at the sky again, "five minutes and if I'm late you'll probably never see me again."
"Can't say I'd miss you." Sasuke scoffed.
"You're so cute when you lie."
"Wasn't lying."
"Uh huh. Sure. But seriously, I'm running late. Come find me when you're done with your case and tell me how shocked Lady M looks when you find out her little secret." Naruto turned to walk away but a hand gripped onto his arm and made him stay put.
Sasuke had merely reached out on impulse than anything else. So when their eyes met—brilliant blue clashing with dull onyx—Sasuke had to think a little on what to say next. "H-How am I supposed to find you if I don't even know where you live?"
Naruto pondered this for a while before pulling out a pen and grabbing Sasuke's hand. He scribbled down a name and flashed a smile. "Come by here on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays. Those are my workdays. I'll treat you to some coffee and books. Don't keep me waiting too long! I love a good story!" With that Naruto pulled a part from the raven and disappeared into the ground.
Onyx eyes dropped down to his hand, the inking tickling his sensitive palm. He read over the name numerous times.
"The Hidden World," he read a loud. He scoffed and clenched his fingers. "Sounds like a place a criminal would hang out." Just then his phone rang—it was Kakashi. "Talk to me."
"Blunt as always I see."
"Don't waste my minutes. Any leads on the case?" Naruto's words ran over and over again through the raven's mind.
"A few… some more startling than others. Did you know that the earrings that were stolen previously belonged to a woman called Ino Yamanaka?"
"Of Yamanaka Enterprises?" Yamanaka Enterprises was a huge media company with its finger in every pie. If there was a secret hidden underneath the crust, you better believe Yamanaka Enterprises would be at the site digging up every inch until the secret was uncovered.
"That's the one. Apparently Lady M isn't as innocent as we thought. Come back to the station. We can talk more there."
Sasuke mumbled a goodbye and snapped his phone shut. This time Naruto's words hit him louder and harder.
"Lady M's not as innocent as she appears."
"Well I'll be…" Sasuke shook his head and headed back for his car. Who would have thought that Naruto was actually… right?
Was this chapter okay? I do hope so! Please leave a review so I know how you all like this story c: FOR THE PANDAS! LMFAO. I had to bring that back:D. But really your feedback would be really appreciative! Till next time:D
