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The Sin Bin Slaughter
"Stop the car!"
Sasuke slammed the brakes immediately, causing the three men in the car to lurch forward as the tires screeched. Another car honked angrily as it passed by, the driver screaming curses at the three men. Naruto leaned out the passenger-side window at threw a few choice words back and flipping off the other driver before leaning back into the car. Sasuke quickly threw the car into park and turned in his to glare at Kiba.
"What the fuck, man?" he hissed angrily. "Why you tell me to fucking stop?"
Kiba nodded toward the right side of the street with an angry look on his face. Sasuke raised an eyebrow in mild surprise and turned to look. On the side of the street was a small building with a large, pink neon sign flashing the words, "Baki's Sin Bin." Several scantily dressed women strutted along the street in front of the building. Sasuke frowned in confusion. 'What, really? Right now?'
Naruto snickered at the sight. "I know you just broke up with Kin, Kiba, but don't you think we've got better things to be doing right."
Kiba smacked Naruto in the forehead and glared at the two of them. "No, you retard. Just shut the hell up, both of you. And that means you too, Sasuke. I know you were thinking it too, you sick fucks." Sasuke smirked. Kiba knew him better than he thought. Kiba continued to fume as he looked at the place, and the two brothers watched as he pointed toward the place.
"Kabuto, that motherfucker," Kiba started quietly. "He's Orochimaru's right hand man, right? He's the one that set me up. Then he went around shooting his mouth off, telling everyone I was as good as dead."
"What the fuck's that got to do with this place?" Sasuke asked as Kiba let the information sink in.
"Shut up and listen," Kiba shot back. He pointed toward the entrance to the building. "He goes in there every Wednesday night around 10:00, and he jerks off in the same booth to the same titty dancer. Never misses."
The two brothers stared at Kiba for a moment. Sasuke leaned away from Kiba a little bit. 'How the fuck's he know that kind of shit?'
"So?" Naruto asked suddenly. "Why do we need to know that?"
Kiba gaped at the two of them for a moment, then ran his hands through his hair in frustration. "So let's kill the motherfucker! I mean, what are you guys? That's like your new thing right?"
Sasuke raised an eyebrow and looked over at Naruto, who shrugged in response. "Yeah, but, well..."
Kiba scoffed as the two struggled for words. "Oh, what the fuck? How do you guys decide who you're going after? I mean, who makes the cut? Is there, like, some sort of a raffle or something?"
"Well," Naruto said sheepishly, scratching the back of his head, "truth be told, those first ones just kinda fell into our laps."
"Well, what do you do?" Kiba asked, looking between the two expectantly.
Sasuke faced back toward the road and leaned back in his seat in thought. He hadn't really considered what they'd do after those Mist Mob guys. He'd thought about going after more Mist men, or even start after the Sound Mafia, but in reality, he realized… he didn't know how the fuck they'd do that. They had no idea where to find anybody that really was a high-profile villain. The only way they could find out was if they got into the whole underground crime thing themselves, and that was pretty much the exact opposite of what they were going for.
He turned back in his seat to look at Kiba and shrugged. "I guess we really don't have a system of deciding who."
Kiba slumped back into his seat and stared at the two in shock. He furrowed his brows in thought for a moment and stared at the floor. Suddenly, his eyes shot back up to the brothers with a look of glee in his eyes, as he began bouncing around in the back seat, pointing at himself.
"Me! ME! I'm the guy! I know everyone! I know their habits, where they hang out, who they talk to. I know where they live. I KNOW WHO THEY'RE FUCKING!" He slouched back into his seat in exasperation and then began speaking quietly. "We could kill everyone."
Sasuke turned back toward the road again, his eyes wide with amazement. Kiba was perfect! He'd been a delivery boy for the Sound for who knows how long, and Sasuke knew he'd been asked occasionally to take packages to other cities for the Mob. And Kiba had told them stories about heavy hitting killers and assassins he'd met and had to work with. Kiba was right. With Kiba's knowledge and help, the three of them could wipe out the entire Sound Mafia!
A grin spread across Sasuke's face as he felt a tapping on his shoulder. He looked up to see Naruto grinning at him expectantly. "So what do you think?" Sasuke chuckled at his brother's enthusiasm. He smirked as he glanced as Kiba, who watched him expectantly as well. He smirked as he turned back to the road and put the car in gear.
"I'm strangely comfortable with it," he said slyly, and Naruto and Kiba cheered and high-fived.
"But first," he said, and the two quieted as he thrust his thumb at Kiba, "we need to get you something better than a fucking six-pack of shuriken."
As night settled again in Konoha and the primary populace slowly lulled itself to sleep, the red light district downtown had just begun to wake up. Nocturnal people of the night slowly began to emerge from the cracks and shadows of the alleyways of the city. Pimps and drug dealers slipped and scurried through the slits between buildings, vanishing and reappearing in the rays of streetlight striping the street.
Naruto stood across the street from the club, hiding in the shadows of an alley, carefully watching the entrance of the club and it's passerby with loathing. He loved Konoha with all his heart, and had always thought of it as a beautiful and wonderful place. Places like this filled Naruto with anger. These people sullied the name and image of the city with their actions. They were the worse creatures of the earth in Naruto's eyes.
While these people angered him, Naruto did realize that some had no other choice. The world could be a cruel and merciless place, he knew. While some of these people scrounged for even the most meager of necessities, others grew fat and wealthy by controlling them. Naruto had seen them before. Drug dealers who forced orphan children to push weed and crack in exchange for protection from the elements. Prostitutes tempting men, then killing them for their money, and running off scot-free. These people couldn't be forgiven.
Naruto glared in disgust as a pimp walked smarmily down the street, walking tall with cane in his hands and uncaring of the looks of hatred he received from those he passed by. Naruto watched in silence as a young woman came up to him and began speaking to him. He could hear their voices grow louder and angrier as they disagreed on something.
Naruto's eyes flashed and his fists tightened in anger as the pimp suddenly struck the woman across the face with his cane. He reached instinctively for the shuriken holster on his leg as he strode forward to teach the pimp a lesson in… etiquette. However, he was stopped as a hand roughly grabbed his shoulder and pulled him back. He turned in anger to find himself face-to-face with Sasuke, who glared at him warningly.
"Leave him be," Sasuke whispered quietly. Naruto's eyes narrowed in anger, hearing the silent threat in his voice. "He'll get his punishment, that much is certain; but save it for another day. We've got more deserving men to handle right now."
Naruto growled in frustration, glaring at Sasuke in challenge. Sasuke glared right back, and the two stood staring into each other's eyes, gauging the others' resolve against their own. The two of them hadn't gotten into a real fight with each other in years, but they'd been tempted over the years. Naruto quickly pondered whether he could win in a fight with Sasuke at the moment, and began seriously considering his odds, before the two of them were shaken out of their standoff by Kiba.
"Jesus. Calm down, you dumb bastards."
Naruto turned his head and glared at Kiba, who has currently leaning against a trashcan while chewing a stick of pocky. Kiba frowned at Naruto's look and shrugged. "We're still here for that fucker Kabuto, right? Don't tell me you're gonna pussy out now."
Naruto shot glares between Kiba and Sasuke for a few moments, before huffing in resignation. "Fine, you heartless bastards. But, I swear, first chance we get, I'm coming back and wasting that fucker."
Kiba sighed in frustration, but Sasuke chuckled a bit. "Whatever you say, Dobe." Sasuke shook his head in amusement before turning to Kiba. "Time check?"
Kiba hastily shuffled with his overcoat, pulling back his sleeve and checking his watch. "9:59. That fucker'll be here any second now."
As if on cue, a tricked-out purple car drove up to the "Sin Bin" and screeched to a halt in the closest parking spot. Naruto watched carefully as Kiba motioned excitedly toward the car. A tall man with glasses and in a fine purple suit exited the vehicle and strode hastily into the building. He seemed fidgety and shoved s pair of hookers out of the way that were lounging in front of the building as he hurried in. He heard Kiba spit in disgust, "Sick, perverted fucker."
Naruto turned toward Sasuke and Kiba and motioned toward the alley connecting to the back of the club, and the two others nodded in agreement. The three of them turned to the street and strode silently across the street toward the far end of the building the club was connected to. As they vanished into the alley, they passed by the pimp Naruto had seen earlier, and Naruto shot him a look of pure hatred that caused the far to fall on his back in fear.
The three men slipped silently through the alley, hopping over trashcans and avoiding puddles. In a few moments, they arrived stepped under a small light illuminating the back door to the club. Naruto and Sasuke took flank on both sides of the door, while Kiba stood behind them, impatiently tapping his feet. The brothers quickly checked in both directions for witnesses or passer-by, before nodding to each other and Kiba. Turning back to the door, the three of them slipped on their gloves and black masks before each of them reached for their holsters of their preferred weapons.
"Okay Kiba," Naruto whispered quietly, turning to his friend, "this is…" he sputtered to a stop as his eyes landed of Kiba's face, and immediately broke out in laughter. He smacked Sasuke's shoulder and pointed his thumb at Kiba. Sasuke turned to look and burst out laughing as well. Kiba looked between the two of them in confusion.
"What? You guys got masks." Naruto burst out laughing again. Kiba was wearing a black mask that covered his neck and lower face up to his nose and had a loose-hanging blue bandana that slightly draped over his left eye.
"You, ha… You look, haha!... You look fucking ridiculous!" Naruto managed to wheeze out between laughs.
"Yeah, heh…" Sasuke gasped out. He cocked his head slightly then patted Naruto's arm with a grin. "You know, he kinda looks like that fucker from the police station, now. You know, the guy with the books?" Naruto burst out laughing again as he remembered. Kiba looked just like the cop that read all those "adult" books.
"Fine! Fuck it!" Kiba yelled angrily, pulling off the mask and bandana. "When we're done, what bitch is in there can I.D. me. I don't care. Just trying to be professional, but nooooo…"
"No. NO," Sasuke choked out, trying to calm himself. "No. No. It looks good. C'mon, put them back on. They're good."
Kiba glared at the two of them as they continued to force down their laughter, before begrudgingly putting the mask and bandana back on. As he finished tying the back of the bandana, the three of them reassumed their positions; Naruto on the left, Sasuke on the right, and Kiba taking up the rear. Naruto put up a ready stance to kick the door in, and Sasuke held up three fingers to signal a countdown.
But before they could count down, Sasuke snorted quietly in laughter. "Now, Kiba, are you sure you don't want to bust into this place for… other reasons?"
As Naruto snorted in laughter, Kiba punched Sasuke in the back. "Fuck you! Just fucking go you stupid prick!"
Sasuke motioned toward the door as he chuckled, and with a smirk, Naruto threw his foot forward to connect with the door. The wood around the knob splintered and cracked, sending shrapnel into the building as the door burst open and the men rushed in.
The front door of "Baki's Sin Bin" creaked open. Kakashi turned his head toward the noise and saw Agent Sai stride into the room. He raised an eyebrow as Sai climbed the front stairs into the large, circular room that Kakashi stood in now and observed the scene.
Kakashi currently stood in a small, circular, pink room. The room had several small chairs and had a stripper pole in the center of the room. There were several racks of revealing and erotic outfits off to one side of the room, and there was a doorway of beads on the other side connecting to the dressing rooms and back alleyway. Near the door Sai had come in through was a small, pink fluffy couch where Asuma was comforting a stripper. The stripper, a young blonde woman with a long ponytail and bangs covering her right eye, was crying on the sofa, apparently traumatized after being held hostage.
On the side of the room opposing Sai, three large glass windows stretched across the walls of the room. The windows had buttons on the sides of them, which opened and closed sliding panels over the windows. However, at the moment, the windows were all shattered inward into small rooms on the other side of the glass, where three men lay dead on the floor, riddled with kunai and shuriken. The walls were covered in blood; Kakashi could tell the assault on all of them had been quick and brutal. Kakashi smirked in humor; all three men had figuratively and literally been caught with their pants down. But the murder itself wasn't the worst part.
The man in the center had been labeled as a high-ranking member of the Sound Mafia.
As Sai's gaze landed on the crying stripper, Kakashi spoke up. "She was in here when it went down."
"Can she I.D. them?" Sai asked, unenthusiastically. He obviously didn't think she would.
He was right. "They were wearing masks."
"Of course they were," Sai said grimly, striding past Kakashi towards the glass panels, or what remained of them.
Sasuke stormed into the room next to Naruto, with Kiba right behind, tearing through a bead doorway into a large round room. Three panels covered the far wall, and a stripper pole occupied the center of the room. He heard an audible squeak behind him, and turned, kunai at the ready.
Sprawled against the wall in fear was a blonde stripper, eyes wide with fear. Sasuke quickly motioned to Kiba, who leapt forward and covered the girl's mouth and placed a brand new, incredibly sharp shuriken to the girl's neck. Sasuke heard the girl squeal in fear as a slight trickle of blood slid down the girl's neck. Sasuke glared at Kiba, who caught the look and slackened his grip a little.
"Which one is he in?" Kiba hissed, turning his attention back to the stripper. The girl whimpered in mild confusion, causing Kiba to shake her a little to scare her. "Don't act you don't know who the fuck I'm talking about! Which one?!"
A look of mild realization crossed the girl's eyes, and she pointed toward the middle panel shakily. Kiba looked toward Sasuke for approval, and Sasuke nodded in return, pointing towards the door. Kiba began dragging the stripper toward the door. As he got up against the wall next to the sliding panel, he released his hand from the girl's mouth.
"What's his routine?" he asked, motioning toward the door with his free hand.
"H-h-he jerks off i-in there," the stripper stuttered quietly, visibly shaking. "Th-then he puts m-money through the slot and I raise the d-door.
"How?" Naruto asked loudly, making the girl jump in fright.
"Th-the orange button!" she answered quickly, motioning towards the controls next to the panel.
"Then what?" Kiba asked quickly. The stripper hiccupped in fear and began sobbing quietly. Kiba growled and pressed the shuriken a little closer to her throat. "Tell me!"
"H-he watches me d-do my t-thing and f-finishes himself off," she choked out, breaking down into tears.
Kiba pulled the kunai away from the girl's throat, glancing at Sasuke and Naruto with a look of confusion and regret in his eyes. 'Looks like he might have the heart for this kinda shit after all,' Sasuke thought with a bit of pride. As Kiba shook his head and got his game face back on, he dragged the stripper over towards the door towards a peep hole in the sliding panel. He glanced in for a moment before leaping back in disgust. "Oh, man. He is one fucked up sicko…"
"How many where there?"
Kakashi raised an eyebrow as Sai walked up to him. Sai had a slightly disheveled look about him at the moment, after looking around the room a bit. Sai sighed in frustration and shook his head. He nodded toward the stripper. "Killers. How many where there?"
Kakashi nodded slightly and held up his fingers. "Three, it seems."
Sai raised an eyebrow and gave Kakashi a surprised look. "Really? That many?"
"Yeah," Kakashi sighed. "But only two did the shooting; or, at least, for the middle one."
Kiba grinned wildly. He'd been waiting for this moment since the day he'd met that bastard, Kabuto. His only regret was that he wasn't the one that would have the pleasure of killing that sick fucker. He chuckled sinisterly again at the thought of a dead Kabuto, killed in the most embarrassing way possible.
At the moment, Kiba still held the struggling blonde stripper and had his hand over her mouth so she wouldn't make too much noise. His other hand was twitching nervously as it hovered over the orange button on the control panel. He glanced over to Naruto and Sasuke, who each had three kunai or shuriken in their hands, respectively. He waited for their signal, but gave the two brothers a confused look as they began speaking a prayer of some sort.
His confused look vanished quickly, though, once the two finished and looked up at Kiba, nodding and getting into position. Kiba tapped the button with a snickered and quickly dragged the struggling girl away from the opening panel. He saw Naruto and Sasuke wince from the sight behind the glass, but giggled in glee as they launched their weapons. Oh, how he wished he could see the look on Kabuto's face right now!
He leaned quickly over to get a better look as the weapons burst through the glass, spraying Kabuto with shrapnel as all of the kunai and shuriken shredded through his body, spraying the walls with Kabuto's blood in his dying moments. In his excitement, Kiba through the stripper against the nearby sofa and strode forward quickly to watch Kabuto fall to the floor in a gory mess.
He turned in shock as he heard a dampened thump from behind him, and saw Sasuke and Naruto turn as well. But the three of them quickly calmed down as they found the stripper passed out on the floor.
"Nice one, letting the girl fall like that," Naruto said with a grin. "You're a real gentleman, you know that?"
Kiba turned and glared at Naruto. "Shut the fuck up, you blonde prick."
"So what are you thinking," Kakashi asked, turning to Sai. "Mist retaliation?"
"No, it's too early for that," Sai said, shaking his head sullenly. Kakashi could see his frustration in his furrowed brows and annoyed eyes. "Half their infrastructure got taken out at the St. Minato Hotel. Besides, if you're a hitter, you're either working for the Mist or the Sound. There's no riding the fence. Our little theory from last night just got blown to shit."
Kakashi looked nervously over to Asuma and Ebisu, who both had confused looks on their faces. The weapons and techniques employed by the killers was pretty much the same in both incidents, and what Sai said was true: you couldn't work for both the Mist and the Sound. Not in this town at least.
Sai walked slowly over toward the middle panel and studied the scene. He muttered quietly, so soft Kakashi barely caught it. "Something… new is going on here."
Kakashi frowned. Something wrong was definitely going on here in Konoha. First the mass butchering of nine heavily armed, incredibly powerful Mist Mafiosos in one of the most popular hotels in all off Konoha. That was unlikely enough in the first place; but the fact that whoever did it, they left zero clues at all? Damn near impossible. At least with that information, if gave them hints at a hit attempt from the Sound Mafia.
But now? With a major Sound man dead in the same manner? Same style, same weapons, no clues at all? That meant that there was no chance the Sound set up the Hotel incident. But what the hell did it mean? If the Sound didn't hire these people to kill off the Mist men, then who did, and why?
"Let's review what we know," Sai said quietly, catching Kakashi's attention. He turned back to the three other detectives, who quickly gathered around, hoping said could shed some light on the situation. "After talking to the dancer we know that their mark was the guy in the middle booth. After she watches them take him down, she passes out."
Sasuke shook his head in amusement as Kiba sat down next to the passed out stripper, peeling off his mask and bandana and wiping off his forehead. "I don't know how the fuck you guys do it," he said in exhaustion. "These masks are fucking hot…"
Without pulling off his mask, Sasuke reached into his pocket and pulled out a half-empty roll of pennies. He tapped a grinning Naruto on the shoulder, and motioned toward the shattered glass. The two of them turned and leapt over the shattered remains of the glass into the small room.
"Kiba was right," Naruto muttered silently, looking down at their victim, whose right hand was still where it had been when the panel slid open. "This guy was a real sick fucker."
"Yeah, I guess," Sasuke said with a tone of revulsion in his voice. "But on the bright side, now he's a dead, real sick fucker."
Naruto chuckled a bit and grinned through his mask. "Yeah, you're right. Oh, and by the way, dibs on the left hand."
"Fuck!"
The two of them leaned forward over the corpse and crossed the man's arms over his chest (Sasuke with much reluctance), and place a penny in each of the man's eyes. They pulled out their cross necklaces and bowed their heads reverently, praying for the soul of the man they'd killed, before kissing their crosses and placing them back under their shirts.
As the two stood up, Naruto's attention turned toward a small TV set in the room, which seemed to be playing an incredibly graphic, but incredibly… violent film. "Christ, people actually get off on this shit?" Naruto said, shaking his head and turning off the TV. He turned back to the dead man and shook his head in disgust.
Sasuke chuckled a bit, and turned back to the main room to hop out and stopped dead. He pulled off his mask in surprise, hopping his reduced vision had deceived his eyesight; but no, he was right. Kiba was leaning over the passed out stripper, who'd apparently lost her top when she'd passed out, and was groping the poor girl with a very satisfied look on his face. He smacked Naruto, who turned as well and reeled in shock.
"What the fuck are you doing?!" Sasuke roared.
Kiba leapt to his feet in shock, his hands raised in surrender. His face was completely red in embarrassment. "I-I'll tip her," he said in fear of what they'd do to him.
Naruto shook his head in mock disgust and tapped Sasuke's shoulder. "We've teamed up with a sex offender," he said jokingly.
"So, when are you getting a plastic fuck doll?" Sasuke said, catching on and feigning disgust.
"All right," Kiba whimpered remorsefully. "I'm sorry. I'm pathetic." The brothers roared with laughter as Kiba took out his wallet and began piling dollar bills on the unconscious stripper.
"Why the two extra victims," Sai asked the detectives as he slowly paced between the two far rooms.
"Witnesses, maybe?" Ebisu ventured. Kakashi raised an eyebrow. He hadn't heard Ebisu talk even a little since Sai showed up at the scene. 'Probably didn't want to make an ass of himself again…'
"No, no," Sai responded quietly, approaching the booth on the left. He pushed a bright orange button gently, and a large steel panel slid shut over what remained of the glass barrier. "No, there was no way they could've seen it."
"Yeah, I guess…" Ebisu sighed.
"How do you know that?" Asuma asked. Kakashi choked back a surprised laugh and heard Ebisu do the same. Asuma turned and stared dumbly at Kakashi in confusion. Sai turned with a smirk and raised an eyebrow in mild amusement.
"So, I suppose you two know exactly how this system works then," Sai said, turning his attention to Kakashi and Sai. Kakashi balked in embarrassment and surprise at the question, and could feel his face growing hot. He looked over and saw Ebisu sputtering incomprehensibly. Kakashi hung his head slightly as the other officers on the scene began chuckling in amusement. "Guess so," Sai said with a grin, while Asuma grinned in mild retribution.
"Now, Detective Asuma," Sai said, catching Asuma's attention once again. "I assume you're married?"
"Yeah, actually."
"May I ask the name of your… better half?" Kakashi raised an eyebrow slightly at his slight accusation.
"Oh, uh, Kurenai Yuuhi."
"No shit," Sai said, actually raising an eyebrow in surprise. "The reporter?"
"Yep," Asuma said, an air of pride in his voice.
"Married young?"
"Um, at 19, actually. So, yeah, I guess," Asuma answered, scratching his head in thought.
"Really? Knock her up or something?"
"Uh, no…" Asuma said, turning slightly red from embarrassment. "Just caught doing… certain things by her father and, well, forced to get hitched. You know… that whole story." Kakashi raised an eyebrow in wonder. Asuma didn't talk about his and Kurenai's past often like he did now. Hell, the only reason Kakashi knew was because he'd been friends with him at the detective academy. Asuma obviously trusted Sai quite a bit; more than Kakashi did, at least.
"Makes sense, I suppose. She a stickler about what you do with your free time?"
"Um, not really, no."
"She still… active in bedroom after all these years?"
Kakashi's eye widened in shock at Sai's bluntness, but Asuma just turned a little red and chuckled a bit. "Well, I suppose you could say that."
"Well, then," Sai began, grinning in understanding; "I suppose that answers that oddity. But let's not get too far off topic. Allow me to enlighten you gentlemen as to the protocol of the porno industry, at least, here in Konoha, since it seems that one of you has never been in a place like this before."
Sai strode over to the leftmost booth and motioned towards it. "Now, then, a man goes into the booth, puts the money in the slot. The dancer gets it on the other side. She hits the button, door goes up, now there is only glass between you and her. Then, of course, it's… fun time."
Asuma nodded in understanding. He turned to Kakashi, who turned slightly red again, and chuckled slightly, making Kakashi turn even redder. "Right, then. So no way they could have seen it?"
Sai nodded. "According to our only witness, at the time of the first murder, those doors were down… which means this: they looked down in through the peep hole, saw these guys and opened the doors from out here. They send kunai and shuriken through the glass, and down the other two go. But the question here is this: Why? Why the other two?"
As Naruto nimbly hopped out of the small room, his head turned as a slight rustling echoed out from his left. He followed the sound until it landed on a small slot on another sliding panel, where several large dollar bills slid through. A similar sound echoed from the room to Naruto's right, and he turned to see more money slide down through another sliding panel.
He nodded to Sasuke and headed toward the door on the left, while his brother took the right. He stood on his toes as he approached the panel and peeked through a peep hole down into the room. After only a glance, he reeled in disgust and pulled away from the door. He looked over and saw Sasuke sharing a similar feeling of revulsion.
"What?" he heard Kiba say in confusion. "What is it?"
"This place is like a scumbag yard sale," Sasuke said with distaste.
"No shit," Naruto said. "We should come down here once a week and just clean house with these slimeballs."
"Maybe the three of them had something in common," Ebisu suggested, surprising Kakashi with his sudden enthusiasm for his work. Ebisu seemed to have obtained a desire to better himself, at the very least for the sake of showing up Agent Sai.
'Looks like we may be able to make a decent detective out of him yet,' Kakashi thought with a short swell of pride.
"No," Sai said, shaking his head. He pointed toward the middle booth, "This guy is big time. The other two? Just a bunch of street-walking scum."
"Well, maybe that's what they had in common," Ebisu said with obvious traces of sarcasm. "They were all bad guys… now they're all dead bad guys."
Kakashi and Asuma smirked at the comment while Sai shook it off and continued pacing. If only it were that simple, then all cases would be a cakewalk. But Kakashi's amusement vanished as he saw Sai's face suddenly glanced back at Ebisu's grinning face and took on a strangely ponderous and disturbed look. A chill of fear raced down Kakashi's spine.
'What if it really is just that simple? What if someone really did knock off these two punks just because they were… bad men?'
Sasuke slipped his hands into his shuriken holster on his leg and counted his remaining shuriken. 'Eight. That's four each. And Naruto should have about… eight kunai left… convenient. Now we can be sure this sick bastards are wasted.' He nodded toward Naruto and turned toward the door on the left, but stopped as Kiba rushed up to the two of them.
"Wait, wait, wait, guys!" he said holding up his hands to stop the two. "Oh man, you guys. You gotta let me do these bastards. I-I-I'm such a moron. I gotta make up for the tit thing, you know?"
"No way," Sasuke said sternly, shoving Kiba aside. "I've been waiting for this opportunity like this since we started this thing, asshole. You're not gonna take it away from me now."
"Aw, c'mon," Kiba whined. "Look, I fucked up bad, guys. I gotta clear my family name here. I've brought shame to the Inuzuka clan, y'know?"
"C'mon, man," Naruto said sympathetically, patting Sasuke on the shoulder. "Give the guy a shot." Sasuke turned and glared at his brother, who grinned in amusement at Sasuke's frustration at the two of them. Sasuke groaned in disappointment at the thought at losing the two perverts behind the screens. He turned back to Kiba, who leaned back in mild fear as Sasuke glared at him, studying him.
'It's true that we need recruits for this mission of ours, and Kiba was ideally the first possible recruit; but is this kind of thing really for him? What we need if good men who are willing and capable of bringing down bad men through their own abilities. While Kiba's certainly willing to do this shit, he's not exactly the most honest or compassionate man in the world. Not to mention he just copped a feel from an unconscious stripper…
'Also, he has next to no talent or intuition when it comes to this kind of thing! He walked into an unknown situation with only a six-pack of shuriken, and nearly threw his life away last night just for the sake of money and power, when he could have walked away and tried when he had a better chance and better weapons. And to wipe out three men in the middle of the fucking day, out in public? He might be too… impulsive for this kind of thing. He needs to learn to think.'
Sasuke sighed as he finished thinking and stared intently at Kiba, before speaking silently. "Kiba, this is the real deal. If you're gonna join us in our mission, you've got to learn now to be smart and deadly. We must kill without hesitation, without guilt, without remorse. Evil man, dead man."
Kiba stared in shock at Sasuke for a moment, before shaking his head. As he looked back at Sasuke, Sasuke grinned as Kiba put on a serious face and nodded intently. Sasuke quickly reached for his weapon pack and held out his remaining eight kunai. He turned and saw Naruto grin widely at his decision and hold out his kunai to Kiba as well. Kiba smirked slightly as he accepted the weapons and attached the two holsters to each of his legs.
"We got another thing to think about here," Sai said, turning and walking over to the rightmost room. "Seems there's a real mystery assassination going here. Now, from what we can tell from the witness' report as well as reports from crime lab and autopsy, there were two killers, and one associate. And we know for a fact that there were only two different weapons used. Personalized weapons it seems, too; a specially designed kunai made especially for speed, and a custom shuriken. The shuriken is not made by any known manufacturers, so they are most likely made by a civilian designer, a weapons specialist or something of the like."
The three detectives listened on eagerly as Sai continued telling the three of them what he'd found. They followed his the directions of his hands as he motioned toward the center stall. "We have also found, and we can see this ourselves, that the guy in the middle booth was killed by both types of weapon; this coincides with the testimony given to us by our witness."
Sai motioned back to the two booths on the left and right. "Now, we've had to piece together for ourselves what happened to Thing 1 and Thing 2 here. I'm sure you've seen this for yourselves; we've found that our man on the left died via kunai, and the other via shuriken. Therefore, we should be able to assume that each killer took out one of the scumbags, right? Not quite, and this is where it gets weird. There is the obvious change in skill with the victims. The man in the middle was killed with pinpoint accuracy, while the two on the sides are killed more due to surprise and the number of bullets than with talent. But the freakiest this is this: our ballistics men found a kunai embedded in the wall on the right side, and the same with a shuriken on the left.
"Now, the question is: why the crossover?" He turned back to the three other detectives, who all stood dumbfounded at the conundrum. He shook his head in frustration. They couldn't get it either then. Two, or four in this case, heads weren't better than one in some situations. "Any theories at all?"
"That's just fucking weird," Kakashi sighed. "I have no idea."
"Jesus. I just can't think anymore," Asuma sighed, rubbing his temples in frustration and exhaustion. "That scene over at the coffee shop today tapped me out."
"What? What story?" Sai said quickly, turning to Asuma. The three's eyes opened in surprise at the sudden interest in the story.
"J-Just a regular homicide," Asuma stuttered out. "A guy went nuts over off in West Konoha today. Killed three guys in a deli in broad daylight. Fled the scene. Don't have much on him."
"Why was I not informed of this?" Sai hissed angrily.
"They weren't related," Ebisu blurted angrily. Sai cocked his head and glared at Ebisu as the young detective resumed his former air of superiority, as though he was a genius. "The guy used your everyday, over the counter shuriken. And it was a completely messy situation as well. Totally amateur, not like this."
Sai scoffed and glared at the young detective. "And who were the victims, eh, Ebisu?"
Ebisu blinked in surprise and shrugged. "A couple of peons for the mob and…"
"Oh that's just BEAUTIFUL!" Sai roared in anger. The three detectives leapt back in surprise at Sai's outburst, as the man turned on the three of them in rage. "All the scumbags in Konoha start dropping dead and you think it's unrelated?! Ebisu, the day I want the Konoha Police doing my thinking for me, I will have a fucking tag on my toe!
"Now, get me a squad car and get me over there," Sai growled, turning toward the front door. "I want the crime scene photos and any witness statements NOW!"
Sai grabbed his coat off a frilly pink coat rack near the entrance and began to leave the building, before halting in his tracks, a memory from the previous case surfacing. The three detectives following close behind him screeched to a halt. 'Television… It couldn't be that simple could it?'
Sai turned immediately and shoved his way through the confused detectives and strode quickly into the center of the room, where he assumed a basic stance for throwing projectile objects in opposing directions. However, he altered his stance slightly to cross his arms, throwing to the left with his right hand and vice versa. He smirked slightly as the three detectives looked on, reaching the same conclusion as him.
"Television the first time, movies this time. Looks like we got ourselves a cowboy…"
Kiba stood calmly in the center of the large room and breathed slowly. He had placed the shuriken on his right leg and the kunai on his left, since he needed the extra dexterity of his right hand to handle the shuriken. His hands rested loosely at his sides and his fingers slid slowly along the weapons Sasuke and Naruto had given him.
This is your chance.
I know.
This is where you show those two that you can be more than just a thug for the Sound.
I know.
This is where you show them that you have the capacity to become a scion of righteousness, wiping out the evil men of the world.
I know.
Are you ready?
…Maybe.
Yes or no.
…Yes. Definitely.
Good.
Kiba raised his head and glanced to the left and right. Sasuke and Naruto both stood at the ready near the controls for the sliding panels. They bounced on their feet in preparation to press the buttons and run. Kiba inhaled deeply and sighed one last time before nodding to the two of them.
Simultaneously, the two brothers smacked the orange buttons on the controls and dove away from the windows as the panels slid open. Kiba had only a moment to catch the locations of the two men in the rooms, before he reached for his holsters and threw a kunai and shuriken into the opposing rooms. As the glass shattered, he heard the man on his right cry out in pain. Reaching down again, he threw two more projectiles, focusing more accuracy towards his left; his mouth twitched upwards slightly as we heard two satisfying impaling sounds.
He continued his onslaught, throwing another five projectiles into each room, adjusting his aim if he heard the weapon clatter against the far wall in the rooms. On the eighth throw, he realized that he only had one of each projectile left. In
the spur of the moment, and realizing that Naruto and Sasuke were watching, he took the weapons and crossed his arms, tossing the weapons into the opposite rooms.
"Wyatt-fuckin'-Earp, man!" he shouted in triumph, grinning wildly as the two men fell to the floor
Sasuke patted Kiba on the shoulder in congratulations as the three men walked out into the chilly alleyway. He was very proud of Kiba right now, and was secretly very glad that their first recruit had been someone that both he and Naruto knew and were good friends with. He admitted that Kiba's style was sloppy and reckless still, but perfecting his abilities could wait. "Not bad, dog breath," he chuckled as the three of them walked into the street towards their car.
"Shut up, duck butt," Kiba shot back, chuckling in embarrassment from the attention. "Hey, wait guys. You guys gotta teach me that prayer you were saying back there, man. That's some good shit. That some policy for you guys' mission or something?"
"Forget it," Sasuke said flatly. "It's a family prayer. You know, the whole, 'My father, his father before him,' that sort of shit."
"C'mon, man!" Kiba huffed indignantly. "I've known you guy for-fucking-ever! Aren't I kinda like family by now."
"Not a chance, fleabag."
"Okay, that's a low blow, you bastard. I only had fleas once, and that's cause my house was infested with them…"
The three continued arguing and laughing amongst themselves as they continued to get in the car and drive away from the club, as the formerly unconscious stripper ran out screaming in fright.
This is Kurenai Yuuhi, reporting live from the Akimichi Deli in West Konoha. Earlier today, we received reports that a man found to be a high-ranking member of the Sound Mafia was killed along with two other men were killed today. The victims were found at a local adult entertainment parlor. Police investigation has shown similarities between this murder and the massacre in the St. Minato Hotel. These murders, coupled with the three suspected mob-related killings that occurred at this local Konoha deli earlier this afternoon brings the death toll to six, just today. There is no doubt that the victims have all been criminals. Perhaps this explains why a public outcry to have these crimes stopped has not been heard.
A/N
Yays. Another chapter done. And for the record? The tit scene was the deciding factor for who'd play as Rocco. Going through the characters, I realized that Kiba was the most likely to pull something like that out of the genin nine and Team Gai.
Seriously, if I'm using the wrong names in this fic, someone tell me! I've watched the movie about a billion times, so managing the differences between it and the Naruto-casted scenes that are playing in my head gets a bit tricky. So, if you're like, "omg! Heez leik totahly uzin teh rong namz!" correct me, yah dumb bastards. (and yes I insult my readers! It amuses me to no end!)
Also, some people have said they won't read it because it's too much like the movie. Um, that's kinda the point, I think. I'm not really trying to be too incredibly creative in this story, just trying to get my writing style down, and hoping readers will give decent critiques so I can fix stuff (hint, hint, yet again). I'm trying to get my writing on par for at least a high school kid before I take a shot at the original Naruto fic I'm putting together after this bad boy's done.
Again, I'll throw out my ideas for the future. I'm definitely going to try my hand at an original Naruto story, staring some OCs. However, the plot is still in the making, so I'm thinking of doing a western-style Naruto AU fic first. I'd also put together another movie crossover (this time with a more offshooting storyline) if a good idea was suggested. I thought about 300, but I don't think I can make it fit…
Read and review, peoples. I'd do it for you, you ungrateful jerks…
