A short but important chapter. Ironically, it took me much longer to write this than the others since I was writing Shoujo Will Request and drawing and blogging and gaming and general procrastination. I also did homework . I think the writing style and personalities of the characters change about half way since I stopped writing around there, then got back into it today. I hope you enjoy is incredibly short chapter. TAT
"So what will you do?"
Sasuke considered Naruto's question.
"Dunno. I'll think of something," he replied. He and Naruto were sitting in Sasuke's car just outside of Naruto's school. "Go on. You'll be late." Naruto pouted and opened the car door. Quickly he walked around the car and onto the sidewalk. He turned just before the gate and waved back at Sasuke. Sasuke waved him away making Naruto chuckle before he ran into school just as the bell rang.
Smoothly, Sasuke backed the car out of the parallel parking space, nearly ramming right into the car behind him. Sasuke bit his lower lip and drove out of the small space with more care. And soon he was driving down the highway again, to where he didn't know. There was a loud beeping from his pocket and, while keeping his eyes on the road, he pulled out his phone. Glancing at it he saw he had received a text message. Opening it he quickly read it.
"Meet you at Cafe de Coral – Sakura"
Interesting, he thought, putting his phone away and swerving so that he was now driving down an exit that would eventually take him to the area where Cafe de Coral was. After nearly running a red light, he pulled in at another parallel park.
Getting out, he fed the machine coins after locking his car. Satisfied with one hour of parking time, Sasuke left his car and walked toward where a Cafe de Coral sign was. He had decided to take the stairs so when he reached the right floor he was a little out of breath. Looking around he saw Sakura sitting at a table that over looked the street he had just come from. Her pink hair contrasted with the orange furniture and décor of the place making her easy to point out.
Sasuke walked over to her, taking up the seat opposite her.
"Yo," he said, distracting her from her daydreams.
"Ah, hi," she replied. "I saw you park." Pointing to out the window.
"Right." There was an awkward silence. "So?"
"I really don't think Itachi had the right to take you off the case," Sakura said quickly. "I don't understand your relationship, but it really seemed the wrong thing to do."
"Huh."
"So, uh, I complied a file about the most recent murder of Orochimaru," she prattled on, pulling a green file out of her bag. "Here." She held it out and Sasuke took it. Flipping it open he saw that it was highly condensed and contained every possible information about the murder from not just Itachi's department's investigation but from also the forensics department. "Oh, and about the previous murder, there were anesthetics found in the victim's body."
"Anesthetics?"
"Yes." Interesting
"Anything else?" Sakura shook her head.
"No," Sakura replied. Sasuke gestured to the file.
"This is really well done. But I thought Itachi said for me not to get information from anyone involved with the case? That kind of counts you in." Sakura looked away and bit her lip.
"I guess I really shouldn't, but even if I didn't you would have still asked or found out someother way, wouldn't you?" Sakura said.
"I suppose your right. Thanks for this," Sasuke replied, standing. "I'll be going then. Bye" Sakura nodded.
"See you later."
"Hn." Sasuke then walked back to the exit, this time deciding to take the lift.
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"And then he gave me detention."
"Really?" Sasuke asked, though he was really concentrating on the cars that were swerving around him on the highway. It was four thirty and he had just picked Naruto up from school. The blonde was now complaining about his day while Sasuke just listened, keen to get his mind off the gruesome case.
"Yeah. I hadn't even done anything!" Naruto exclaimed, throwing his hands up to show how injust it had been. "He made me clean all the chalkboards in the whole school during lunch," he added, pouting. "Anyway, enough about me. How was your day?"
"Uhhh... not that much. I met with Sakura and she gave me information on the murder."
"Huh? But I thought you said Itachi kicked you off the case?"
"He did. But who said I have to listen to him?" Sasuke asked in return. Naruto smirked.
"I dunno. You just seem to be the type that would follow the rules," Naruto quipped, earning him a knock on the head. "So what else did you do?"
"Not much else." Naruto rolled his eyes.
"What about the case? Didn't Sakura give you some stuff?" Sasuke sighed.
"It's in the bag," he said, pointing to the black bag at the back. Naruto grinned and reached around his seat the grabbed it. After riffling through it's contents for a few seconds, Naruto finally pulled out the file Sakura had given Sasuke.
"This one?" Naruto asked, holding up the folder. Sasuke nodded.
"Don't loose anything from it. I won't be getting another one."
"Hai, hai!" Naruto chanted, opening the file. "Urg. Same killer huh?" He was looking at the photographs. "Orochimaru. He looks weird." Sasuke chuckled.
"You're lucky he's dead. He probably would have sued you sorry ass if he heard you say that."
"You know him?"
"Uhhh... some what..." Sasuke replied reluctantly. "It was Itachi who he was friends with."
"Whoa! Seriously?"
"...Yeah." Sasuke replied coldly and Naruto knew the subject was closed. Absentmindedly he flipped through the pictures, stopping here and there to make a comment. After a while he fell silent, only glancing at Sasuke. He was brooding.
Suddenly Naruto laughed, surprising Sasuke. Sometimes he wondered if all this exposure to such gruesome crimes was such a good thing for the blonde. He was only seventeen years old. He frowned. I'm only eighteen, Sasuke reminded himself.
"What's so funny?" Sasuke asked, genuinely curious at what Naruto had found laughable about this case. If anything, this case was damn bloody. Not a string of humorous comedies.
"There's a pattern here," Naruto replied, grinning.
"Where?"
"See here," the blonde replied, pointing at a picture of the orientation of Orochimaru's body when he was found. "If you think of this like a clock," tracing the room, "then the first victim's body are the hands of the clock. So it reads four-ten, which is the time of the second murder!" They had stopped at a red light so Sasuke was able to give his full attention to this discovery.
"You're right... But it seems a little far fetched," Sasuke said. Naruto shook his head.
"No, remember this is a crazy maniacally guy. He cuts wings into people's backs! Something like this would be fun to him." Sasuke saw the logic in that, but had to turn back to the wheel as the traffic started to move again. A crazy maniac huh? Suits him...
"What are you smirking about?"
"Huh? Oh nothing." So the murderer used the orientation of the body to predict the time of the next murder... Interesting.
And there it is. I really lack inspiration for this story. Especially when I have Shoujo Will to contest for my attention. I hope it won't be long til my next update ... Cheers!