Sasuke:Legend of L
Hello dear readers it is I, AraelDranoth once again.
I am warning you now that this will be a longer chapter than most of my other chapters as there is a lot that I want to get through in this chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Naruto Shippuden nor do I own Death Note. This story is mine however as are all of the OC's that may crop up in any and all of my stories.
So does anyone have any ideas yet as to who the killer might be?
Let me know if you think you know.
Warning: If you haven't seen Death Note and Naruto then you will struggle to understand what is going on.
Looking at the rapidly retreating form of Anko, L smiled.
Looking back at the body L frowned.
I'm getting nowhere with this.
Then the idea hit him.
He still needed to play a part in the Chunnin exams.
Reaching into his pocket L pulled out a microphone and attached it to his ear.
Using one of the emergency frequencies L contacted the Hokage to tell him of his plan.
Half an hour later he got the answer he wanted from the Hokage.
"Ibiki can you hear me? This is L" He asked into the microphone.
A slight pause greeted him.
"Yes, I'm present what is it L?" The aged interrogater asked.
"I want you to do something for me" L told him.
Ibiki chuckled upon hearing his instructions.
"Anko is not going to be happy about this, you better tell her before she gets here."
There were quite a few gennins left after the pressure test. More than he expected to be honest but maybe that had to do with the blonde kid in orange yelling 'NEVER GIVE UP' all the time.
"So what now? when do we move onto the second test?" Naruto asked excitedly.
Hinata blushed whenever the blonde would accidently lean towards her in his seat from all his bobbing around.
Ibiki thanked Kami that the headache pills had kicked in and fixed his hangover otherwise the jinchuuriki would have been left little more than a glorified slab of meat by now.
"You don't get to go to the first exam yet. Not until someone speaks with you all." Ibiki informed them.
"What! Why the hell do we have to do that?" Asked one of the shinobi from Amegakure.
Ibiki glared at the speaker.
"Because L and the Hokage said so, got it?" Ibiki warned him.
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Ibiki called.
The door opened.
L slouched into the room with his hands in his jeans and wearing his standard long- sleeved white shirt.
Walking up to Ibiki, He clambered onto the desk and assumed his hunched sitting position.
"Hello there all of you here at the Chunnin exams my name is Rue Ryuuzaki and I am a detective with the police force here at the Village Hidden in the Leaves." L announced cheerily.
The gennins looked at the strange boy incredulously.
Hinata looked at L with a small smile on her face, whilst Naruto's jaw dropped beside her.
The brief look that L gave Naruto was enough to silence the orange-wearing ninja before he could blurt something out.
"I must say that I am also quite surprised to see that so many of you were competent enough or brave enough to pass the first part of the exams but I must warn you that it will not be so easy from now on... or at least that's what I've been told. Remember though as a word of warning that there is now a curfew in effect for all gennins and civilians that will come into effect every night at 9. This is for your own safety, Thank you." L told them.
It was at that moment that Anko crashed through the window and unveiled her banner.
"So what are your thoughts, did I miss anyone?" Ibiki asked L as he sat on the desk next to the detective, albeit in a normal sitting position.
Anko had taken all of the gennins with her to the Forest of Death after giving her introduction.
L looked at Ibiki with his thumb in his mouth.
"Let's go for cake." L suggested.
Ibiki raised an eyebrow but followed L nonetheless.
"What's this all about then, L?" Ibiki questioned as the two sat down inside of The Sweet Tooth.
"Ah thank you Mayu!" L thanked the old lady as she handed them the menus.
Mayu nodded graciously before moving onto another customer.
"L, answer me." Ibiki told him.
L stared out of the window in thought.
He absently placed his index finger on the table surface and began tracing circles into the wood whilst in thought.
Ibiki merely continued to stare at the boy until he recieved an appropriate answer.
"I think that we have a serious problem we need to investigate." L told him.
Ibiki raised an eyebrow.
"What problem are we talking about here?"
L looked away from the window and began browsing through the menu, his face lighting up whenever he spotted something especially sugary looking.
"You didn't notice it when I walked into the room?" L asked him, his tone almost disappointed.
Ibiki glared silently at L in askance.
L sighed in defeat.
"When I walked into the room I noticed several things. Firstly was the high pressure in the air."
Ibiki chuckled.
"It is when a ninja raises their chakra levels in the air around them to warn off a potential threat or as a show of ones power. It is quite similar to when cats hiss at each other. We call it 'Killing Intent', corny I know but true. It is quite common for it to be around during the Chunnin Exams. There are a lot of young shinobi looking to prove themselves remember? Don't read into it so much." Ibiki explained.
L cocked his head at the examiner, an unreadable expression on his face.
"What?" Ibiki asked.
L put his thumb to his mouth.
"As interesting as that piece of information is, I also noticed that there were two central sources that the increased pressure was coming from." L told him.
"Where?"
L smiled slightly.
"A gennin situated in the fifth row and twentieth seat to the left. Red hair and a Kanji standing for 'Love' on his left brow. Has eyes like mine but their green." L described motioning to the bruising under his eyes from lack of sleep.
Ibiki thought about it for a second.
"Oh yes, I know the gennin that you're talking about. He is Gaara Subaku also known as 'Gaara of the Desert'. I have only read his basic abilities but from what I do know he has never even been wounded once during his career as a shinobi and he is a bit homicidal-" Ibiki stopped when he saw L raise an eyebrow.
Ibiki coughed.
"Right... we will keep an eye on him then, who else?"
L frowned slightly.
"There was a female shinobi that was sitting in the back row, seat closest to the window. There was something about that one that seemed to scream falsehood. When I entered the room she wasn't onfused at my appearance and in fact seemed unjustifiably happy at my appearance... I want a close eye kept on that one." L explained.
Ibiki nodded.
"Did you see which village she was from?" He asked taking out a notepad and pen from within his coat.
"Hidden Grass if I read it correctly." L told him.
Mayu shuffled over to them.
"What can I get for you dears?" She asked them turning to Ibiki first.
"Coffee, black with no sugar" Ibiki ordered gruffly.
Mayu wrote it down before turning to L with a smile on her face.
"And what can I get for my best customer?" She asked.
L's face lit up like a Christmas Tree when he heard the compliment that she gave to him.
"I'll have a Strawberry Banana Split please, Mayu." He told her politely.
She nodded kindly and moved off.
Ibiki grinned.
"I'm surprised you haven't eaten all of their wares yet, knowing what I know about you so far." Ibki joked.
L frowned.
"That's a bit mean. I mean to say that they would run out of food is just plain cruelty, Ibiki." L scolded him.
Ibiki merely continued to grin.
"There is one more person I would like for you to investigate. Wears round spectacles, purple top and silver hair like Kakashi. Wore the symbol of the Leaf Village but I don't recall coming across him in the ninja database."
Ibiki stiffened.
"I will look into it immediately."
L nodded and began staring outside the window again.
"What is it L?" Ibiki asked him.
L sighed after a long moment of silence.
"I have a bad feeling about these upcoming exams and I don't think that there is very much I can do about it. It is a shinobi matter, not mine. Dark Times Are Looming."
Ibiki merely nodded as Mayu brought their orders and they enjoyed the silence.
Eventually L stood up.
"Where you headed off to?" Ibiki asked.
L shrugged.
"The Hyuuga Killer won't be caught if I'm just standing here... I am going to take a look at the body." L informed him.
Ibiki nodded and waved goodbye.
"What do you have for me, doc?" L asked as he entered the morgue.
Dr. Hibiki looked up from his work to see the detective walk into the morgue without even the mildest sense of disgust at all of the bodies surrounding him on surgical tables.
Dr. Hibiki was one of the few who was informed about who L was and for the sole purpose of the nature of the work that his field was frequently involved in.
"It's nice to see you too." Hibiki greeted the slovenly detective with a grimace.
Why couldn't L at least wear shoes?
L ignored his greeting and stood next to the cloth-covered body of the Hyuuga killers next victim/s.
Hibiki pulled back the cloth.
"I have already removed the eyes and returned them to the Hyuuga clan as per the law. Aside from that I can tell you that we are looking at a total of thirteen victims, only one of those can be confirmed as actually dead, that being the head donor of course." Hibiki explained.
L looked at the stitch-work on the improvised body.
"Cause of death?"
"Decapitation. The abrasions shown on the wound along the stitching indicate no chakra was involved but that it was done with a saw of some kind."
"Were we able to identify any of the body parts?" L asked.
Hibiki nodded.
"We were able to identify three of the victims, two from using dental records and fingerprints. The head belongs to an unidentified ninja, low-class, probably a rogue ninja... didn't even make it into the bingo book. The other, the fingerprints, belong to Hyuuga ninja elder, confirmed analysis identifies him as elder Hoku."
L nodded as he took in the information.
"And the third victim?" L asked.
Hibiki gave a grim smile.
"That's where this gets interesting. You won't believe what I found in the stomach of this thing."
Reaching over Hibiki pulled out a small silver tray.
"This is what I found..."
L's eyes widened.
L sat in his chair inside of his quarters in front of his laptop.
"Ibiki, Anko please come here to HQ at once, this is urgent there has been a serious development in the case."
"Understood, on my way."
"I guess I can survive without the screams of Gennins for a few hours, it's not like they're going anywhere! HAHAHA! On my way."
L thought about it for a moment. He proceeded to scan through the information on his computer before making a choice.
"Ibiki I have a job for you. We are going to be having a few guests and I need you to pick them up please." L told him.
"Understood."
L stayed silent for a few moments, before dialling a number.
"Yes this is the Hokage's office, how may I help you?"
"Yes I need to speak with the Hokage immediately."
"I'm sorry sir but-"
"I don't have time for this, I know that you're ANBU, it's L."
Silence met him for a long moment.
"One moment please."
...
"This is the Hokage."
"Sir, this is L... I have something you need to see, it is quite urgent that you meet me and the taskforce at HQ immediately."
"I understand L, anything to get away from this damned paperwork."
L smiled.
Ibiki walked into the police station with determination.
Seeing all of the police officers walking about, he decided to save himself some trouble.
"Chief Zaiwa and Private Kaz are to come with me at once!" Ibiki yelled.
The entire station froze before two figures came scuttling out of the crowd to join him.
"Reporting for duty, Chief interrogater!" Kaz saluted.
"Sir." Zaiwa greeted, nodding his head.
"Come with me... L wants to speak with you in person."
Kabuto Yakushi jumped through the trees as fast as he could.
He was able to spot his target standing at the edge of a lake within the Forest of Death.
He silently crept up on his target, preparing for the strike...
"Kabuto" Came the voice of his master, sounding highly feminine.
Kneeling immediately, Kabuto looked at his master.
"Lord Orochimaru." He greeted.
Orochimaru looked at him and gave him a sickly grin.
"What a day this has been! Would you not agree Kabuto? To think that... after all this time, Sasuke Uchiha has reappeared." Orochimaru spoke.
Kabuto smiled.
"I guess this means that attempting to capture Itachi Uchiha is no longer our top priority?" He asked.
Orochimaru merely continued to grin, though his eyes flashed dangerously at the name.
"Heheheh, now things are getting interesting."
The two policemen entered the apartment with trepidation in their hearts.
What greeted them was the sight of a boy in jeans and a long white sleeved shirt, drinking tea.
"Ah! You must be the two I sent for! Zaiwa Inuzuka and Kazuhira Miroka, right?" L asked.
The two nodded.
"I am L." He told them.
Zaiwa nodded gruffly as though L merely confirmed his suspicions and Kaz...
Kaz just gaped in clear shock.
"Y-y-y-you're L?" Kaz asked pointing at him.
L nodded slowly as though that might help the fact sink in.
"Wow, you weren't who I was expecting that's for sure!" Kaz blurted out without thinking only to cover his mouth in shock.
Anko roared with laughter from the corner of the room and Ibiki grinned.
Anko's laughter was cut short as she was forced to dodge a flying teacup, thrown by L.
"Why are we here?" Zaiwa demanded.
L looked at the man with a small measure of respect for wanting to get to the facts so quickly.
"You two are now members of my personal taskforce, at least until the Hyuuga Killer is brought to justice."
A knock sounded on the door.
"Ah, Private Kazuhira if you would be so kind as to let our guest in, it would be greatly appreciated." L asked him as he swiveled his chair about to face the laptop.
Kaz nodded and opened the door only to freeze.
"Lord Hokage!" Kaz squeaked.
Kaz stood aside.
"L" Sarutobi greeted.
L waved his hand at the Hokage in greeting.
"Why do I need to be here? What is it that you have to show me?" The old man asked.
Silence prevailed for a few long moments before L answered the Hokage.
"You need to be here... because this case just got a whole lot bigger than we imagined."
Sarutobi frowned.
"What do you mean?"
L pressed a button on his laptop and a projector began running, showing an enlarged image.
"This is what was found on one of the body parts at the Park." L told them.
"Oh my God."
A head band was shown, its image staring right at them, almost mocking.
"This case just escalated."
The worst thing that could happen in this case had happened.
The worst faction to be involved was involved.
Cloud.
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