Who's the Killer
By: Late-Sleeper
Beta-reader: Pay Backs a Bitch
Disclaimer: I don't own a thing…
Chapter 8: End of Sin
Naruto looked at himself at the mirror. He wanted to scream or throw something at the mirror…he didn't like what he saw on his reflection…he did not like who he had become.
He thought he already buried that memory behind…he thought he had Kyuubi in control…
He fucking even became a novelist specializing in crime and mystery so that he could have a channel for his inner demon.
There on his novel, Kyuubi was free to kill, free to plot massacre, free to make any twisted thoughts…
But this was real…the killings were real…
Kyuubi had emerged.
A loud scream escaped from his lips as he punched the mirror not minding the pain the broken mirror cut through his fist. His eyes were blazing with fury…eyes turning to a dark red hue.
Blood trickled down his fist and a sharp pain jolted him from his trance. He looked down on his hand and was sadden by how blood now covered his fist.
He loose control. Again.
A tear rolled from his eye as he silently cried inside. His body slumped from the floor. He wanted to die now. He wanted to end it all.
Out of nowhere he had a sudden urge to look at his right and like on automatic his head turned and he was shocked to see the wall with the bloody written message. Curious he stood up and inspected the written words…this was the first he was actually inspecting the message written in blood coz the first time he saw it was just for a few seconds.
It was the message when Chouji was first attacked.
Chouji…
He never actually saw Chouji's body after he was killed. Maybe it was time he visited his friend…his victim…at least to say sorry.
He slowly dragged himself towards the door and went out. He trekked down towards the room were Chouji was supposed to be confined. He gave a loud sigh as he reached for the knob of the door and opened it. The room was well lit; it was actually clean for a crime scene.
He walked towards the bed where a big lump was in sight.
Down, lying on the bed Naruto saw Chouji's serene calm face; if he hadn't known he was dead he would think that the fat man was just sleeping. He looked peaceful.
Naruto grazed his eyes on Chouji's body, saved from the scratches on his thigh, Chouji's body was not that desecrated. Somehow, in the back of his mind, he wondered how Chouji died. He never asked Shikamaru or the others how he died. He just assumed the worst possible way, but now seeing the injury his friend received he couldn't really tell how he died.
He couldn't die due to blood loss, the laceration and bruises from his thigh couldn't killed him that fast…Chouji could still scream for help.
Naruto frowned at that thought. The new information greatly intrigued him.
He made up his mind; he wanted to see Kiba's body.
With that Naruto dash out of the house to where they had parked the cars. He remembered that Kiba was found near his car. He made a beeline towards his car and sure thing the corpse of Kiba was lying beside it.
He walked towards it no longer minding that it was a dead body, his friend's dead body. He inspected Kiba's appearance. The dog boy did not look like he fought. There were no sign of struggle only a cut on the wrist…both wrists…
The possibility of blood loss was high…but not in a matter of minutes…Kiba and Chouji's dead was very peculiar…something was different…
…though one thing was sure, the lacerations are where they had touched him…
Shino was saying it. Sai was telling him touches were deadly…but why him? Is he right? Was it Kyuubi's doing?
Gaara. He needed to see Gaara's body.
He ran towards the house and went towards the room where they've seen Gaara. Naruto felt shivers run down his spine but shrugged it off. He needed to know. He needed to find out.
He opened the door and Gaara's body was the first thing he saw. For a moment, he thought Gaara's eyes were open and was staring straight at him. For a second he wanted to run and hide, forget about everything, but he needed to do it, for his friends, for him, for his peace of mind.
He slowly walked towards the corpse and tried hard to look at it. He shivered a bit when his mind conjures the thought that it was moving. He stared at Gaara's hand, his arm, the bruises…he knew those bruises…he knew them…
He caused them…
His mouth gaped in sudden realization. It was all coming back to him now. He fought Gaara…but he couldn't remember killing him…
His eyes traveled from Gaara's arm to his face…just as the other said it was almost scratched off but it was the hanging that caused his death. He circled around the body when he noticed a blood soaking the rope slightly from the nape area. At the back, Gaara's nape was also cut, multiple times.
He shivered at the memory at how Gaara touched his nape in the kitchen when the redhead suddenly went on him from behind, frightening him like hell.
Only he and Gaara knew those touches…
He shook his head…
No someone was watching him at that time…he felt eyes on him.
Shino…maybe Shino's body had clues.
He hurriedly walked away from the body of Gaara, thankful that he could be out of the room, away from Gaara's presence or at least what was left of Gaara's presence. On the doorway he could feel eyes burning on his back.
Gaara's.
He shook his head.
Gaara's dead. Though the lingering touches Gaara's hands made on him, burned like fire…he couldn't rubbed it off, he couldn't take the feeling off…Gaara's touches… caresses were imbedded inside his mind…
He shivered at that thought.
He hurriedly went towards the room where Shino died.
Upon reaching the hallway, Naruto eyes traveled on the switch. Curious, he walk towards it and smelled it.
He frowned when he realized that he was right, he couldn't believe it but his senses wouldn't lie. Shaking his head Naruto walked towards the room where Shino's body lies. The door was open so the first thing that revealed to him was the blood pooling from Shino's body.
He frowned at that.
Shino must have done something that really irritated the killer…or him.
Naruto walked towards the body and looked down on it. Multiple lacerations, stab wounds on the stomach, bruises were seen on Shino's waist and some part of his body. He stared at Shino's face.
…and the face stared back at him.
A fear run down his body as the eyes of the murdered victim stared back at him…and in just a flicker of a second he actually thought the face smirked at him…taunting him.
Naruto shook his head…he couldn't force himself to check at Shino's body. He can't. The eyes felt like it were staring at him.
Naruto tried to shake the feelings away and turned his attention around the room, trying to look around just to take his eyes off the body…off those piercing eyes.
The room, except for the bloodied body of Shino, was immaculately clean. The person who's rooming inside must be an OC.
Neji.
Naruto frowned and went towards the dresser to look at the pictures, mindful not to look above where the message was written in blood. He took a picture frame and look at it. The picture was he and Neji. He smiled at how the young Neji tried hard not to smile and be a pompous stoic bastard that he portrayed to be but failed.
Naruto look at another one, and another one, and another.
He frowned; all the pictures are just him and Neji.
…and a single picture of him, alone smiling at the camera.
Naruto frowned more. Why would someone put a picture of just him on a frame?
Still frowning…Naruto looked around for more pictures but something caught his eyes.
Vials…
Drugs…
He already had seen those drugs before…
Curious, Naruto took one and examined the label his eyes grew huge when he saw the name.
The same words a while ago. Secobarbital.
It can't be.
It can't be.
Naruto without even thinking run out of the room, feeling suffocated on the air and his new found knowledge. He needed to find Neji before another killing could take place.
Scurrying away Naruto tripped on a slippery substance. He fell down, chest colliding with the floor, he tried to stand up, and he pushed himself up by his hands planted on the floor but failed as his hands slipped once again by the slippery substance.
The blond groaned in pain as his face collided on the floor; he cursed his luck and tried to rub the sore on his nose away by his right hand but was assaulted by distinctive smell of blood.
His eyes went wild and he stared at his hand. Blood.
In fright, adrenaline in use, the blond stood up hurriedly. Panicked was written allover his face at the thought of being covered by someone else blood. He searched for the source of it, following the pool of blood his eyes had fallen on a closed door.
He walked towards it and prayed to all deity hoping it's not who he thinks it is. He involuntarily gulped, feeling something was obstructing his throat…he couldn't breath, the air is suffocating him…the anticipation was killing him.
He reached for the knob and turned it, he felt his breath was caught in his throat as the door opened. He looked inside…
…when something caught his eyes…
…his jaw dropped slightly as a loud gasped escaped his lips…
There on a chair was the bloodied body of someone, a raven man.
Sai.
Naruto tried to calm himself before he approached the body. Upon seeing Sai in a close distance Naruto almost wished he hadn't approached it. On closer inspection, Naruto realized that Sai was tied on the chair; his hands and chest were adorned with heavy slashes…slashes which were the same as the previous killings…
There were also hand prints on Sai's neck; the killer might have strangled the raven to death.
Naruto eyes trailed on Sai's face and cringed as the face stared back at him grinning…Sai was actually grinning when he died. He must have been mocking the killer.
Naruto almost averted his gaze immediately but something caught his eyes, he looked closely at Sai's mouth, the pooling of blood inside it. Odd.
Naruto summoning enough courage looked more closely, his face mere inches from the corpse face, and somehow he felt Sai's breath on his cheeks…
He shook his head to clear it up.
Sai is dead.
He frowned at how imaginative his mind could be. He turned again his attention on Sai's lips…the blood pooling from inside his mouth. Naruto gulped once again as he gently raised his hand towards Sai's chin.
Gently he opened the cadaver's mouth by lowering Sai's chin a bit.
He almost lost his control when he saw Sai's tongue…or at least what was left of it. Hurriedly he took away his hands like it was on fire. The killer must have been angry at Sai to kill him like this…the killer was getting more and more sadistic then ever before…
Although feeling the cold creeping through his being Naruto continued to inspect Sai's whole body.
A cut tongue.
Slashes and laceration on his hands, arms and chest.
A stab on his right thigh.
A laceration on his neck.
Another stab at the back.
Yes, definitely the killer was mad at him for something.
But something was missing. He inspected the body once again, looking for that particular thing but he got none.
Odd.
The smell of blood once more assaulted his senses and he almost gag at the foul smell. Thinking that the stench would suffocate him, Naruto decided to get away from the crime scene, fast.
As he scrammed out of the room, he thanked the cool breeze that cleared the stench clouding his nose. He took a deep breath as he tried to clear his mind. Another killing took place.
Another was dead.
So it means only he, Sasuke, Shikamaru and Neji were still alive.
He frowned at that thought. Something on the back of his brain is thumping loudly. Something important that he forgot….but what?
Shit!
He shook his head again to clear it up but Sai's face and Gaara's eyes were flashing on his mind, taunting, mocking, smirking, and pulling him to insanity.
He thumped the back of his head on the wall where he was leaning on and made a loud sigh. Guilt was really creeping up on him as he remember Gaara's angry face when he was hitting him…he wondered if Sai had the same reaction when he did that to him…that's it he really was the killer.
Shit!
How could he kill all those people?
How could he hurt those he value as family?
A slumped down on the ground as he thought about his dead comrades; tears were already building up in his eyes…
He could not let another killing take place…the three most important people to him were the only people left…he couldn't bare to see them hurt…
He couldn't hurt them…
He remembered Shikamaru's paling face as the killer choked him to death…he couldn't let that happ…
Wait.
He was there. He was there when Shikamaru was attacked. He was fucking there!!! The killer even attacked him.
So that means.
"Oh shit!"
Naruto gaped; his eyes grew huge like a saucer in sudden realization of his idiocy. He banged his head on the wall this time hard enough to really cause some physical pain to himself as punishment for being an utterly idiot.
Damn! How could he not think that before!!! He was fucking there and even saved Shikamaru from being killed…good thing he was looking for something that's why he went down to the kitchen to get a key or anything to unlock the…
"Oh fuck!" Naruto cursed himself once more for being an idiot. He hurriedly sprinted down the kitchen to look for something to unlock the mystery door he wanted to open before he saw Shikamaru.
He felt an adrenaline rush as he scampered from cabinet to cabinet looking for the master key or anything that could open the room. Frowning, he rattled his brain to remember where Sasuke hid the master key.
He remembered Sasuke saying something about a jar.
'The cookie jar!' Upon remembering and praying that he was indeed right Naruto dashed toward the jar on top of the counter and lifted the lid off. He gave a triumphant grin as his eyes fell on the shiny keys inside it. Heh, bingo.
Feeling good about himself Naruto ran towards the second floor and turn towards the wing where the mystery room was located.
Though upon reaching it, his nerves gave way. He had a gut feeling who is inside the room…and that made him want to shout out and cry.
Shaking his fear he tried to insert one of the keys on the keyhole and like the Lady of Luck was on his side the door opened
Upon realizing the he had opened the door, fear once again crept up his body. The ominous feeling enveloped his whole body. With shaky fingers he tried to push the door open, and open it did and the scene that welcomed him almost took his breath away.
There on the wall Neji was hanging with a large chuck of wood piercing his left chest, the doctor's heart is clearly the one being aimed for. Naruto's hand instinctively flew towards his agape lips and he felt something obstructing his throat. He can't breathe. He felt his mouth gone dry. His knees felt like jelly…and he wanted to die.
Like on automatic his shaky feet carried him towards his friend's body, his eyes roamed Neji's bloodied corpse, still couldn't believe what he was seeing.
He raised a shaky hand towards Neji's cheek and gently caressed it, not even minding the blood that's not staining his hands. Tears started rolling from his eyes as he strokes the already cold skin of Neji's face.
"Why?" He asked to no one in particular. He don't get why the killing took place…why is the killer taking everything he valued and loved.
Naruto rested his forehead on Neji's forehead as he cried silently for his departed friend when his hand touched something sticking on Neji's body.
A syringe.
Naruto looked around and for the first time he realized that vials were scattered all over the place. Curious he walked towards a pile of vials, tablets and pills; he took one and read it.
His eyes gone wild as he read the labeled.
It can't be!
It can't be!
"Sasuke!"
:TSUZUKI:
Late-Sleeper: -reads review- Ran Mouri…Ran Mouri?! -huggles Ran Mouri- yay! I miss you. -scratches head- ehehehe sorry I haven't updated my gravitation fic I told you about hehehe
Killer: Oi! Get on with the story.
Late-Sleeper: oh yeah…the next chapter is the last one.
Killer: -rubs hands- good
Late-Sleeper: I was actually thinking of a rape scene…but I guess it's not as popular as I thought it would be so I'm flushing that idea out
Sasuke: WHAT?! Why?!
Late-Sleeper: because many readers don't like rape.
Sasuke: No they like rape! They adore lemon! They want it!
Late-Sleeper: No they don't! Beside the killer would be doing it…that is unless you're the killer… -frowns- are you?
