Criminal Love – Chapter 10 Do or don't?

Criminal Love

Kirei shuffled down the street manoeuvring around the people slowly.

'I feel terrible' She sighed and bleakly looking on ward, flashing back to that day before.

"Uchiha Itachi is a notorious villain for the slaughtering of the entire Uchiha clan" Kirei gasped, covering her mouth. Tears seeped through her eyes, as she choked on her breath, trembling horribly. She blinked causing her tears to run free down her cheeks. She took her hands away from her mouth and wiped at her cheeks.

"N-no...it can't be..." Itachi smirked at her in her distant memories. She crashed back to reality; she leaned over and sobbed into her palms. Tamaki's partner flustered over her.

"Ms. Kirei!" While Tamaki himself turned through the door and faced back.

"I think she needs time to herself"

"But-but Tamaki!"

"No, now let's her have some time" Tamaki and his partner then left her apartment with Kirei continuing to sob, glaring at the door where he stood 'Tamaki you idiot!'
Tamaki smirked walking down the hall 'Hmph! Now that Kirei's learned that Itachi's a monster, she'll have to forget all about him and come back to me!'

Kirei came back to the early morning at the plaza. She moodily shifted from side to side, as she shuffled down the concrete 'I have to be depressed some other time...no-one likes a moody shop clerk...forgetting I even remembered him would be the best...I'd probably never see him anyway' Kirei stopped in front of her store to stare at something very interesting...

Over at the police centre, in a reference library Tamaki sulked on a wheelie chair as his partner sifted through the files.

"Oh, don't worry Tamaki; there are other fish in the sea"

"But I don't understand why anyone would dump me?"

"She was probably still upset with the news you gave her" Secretly he was actually thinking; 'Probably more by the way you told it' but Tamaki just denies everything!

"That's not a reason to dump me!" His cries were ignored as his partner rushed through the files.

"Ah! Found it!" He lifted up a file and patted down the others in the draw. Tamaki swung around in the chair.

"Hm? Found what?"

"That guy's regional police record"

"I remembered a while ago...some updates. Aha! Just as I thought! Almost one year ago...Uchiha Itachi had been confirmed dead!"

"Eh?" Suddenly the door to the small library was forcefully opened. Two men stood just outside of it. The men had animal masks and wore tough armour only on their torsos.

"Excuse me are you two Tamaki and Usugi?"

Back at the plaza the fountain spat its water out and it poured down the sides, Leah; Kirei's current arch enemy. Was playing with a cucumber, stuck with olives on parallel to each other, she held it on the counter rolling it back and forth making "BRMM BRMM" noises each time it moved. Kirei stood staring at her.

"What...are you doing?" Leah sharply looked up at her, chucking the "cucumber car" behind her somewhere and then standing up. Dusting herself off. She lifted a wooden plant that sat on the counter and flipped it over, so it sat on in front of the stall saying "Cucumbers" She glared at Kirei.

"I sell cucumbers now; your petty apples don't stand a chance!" Kirei could only stare hollowly.

Back at the police office, Tamaki sat on his chair as the Konoha black ops began their interrogation.

"We would like to question you about a recent sighting"

"Eh? You mean Uchiha Itachi"

"Yes Exactly" Tamaki smirked.

"Alright, I'll tell you everything"

"In detail please"

Somewhere else, very far away, in a place which seems to look like a cave, sat a man in an empty carved out square room, his face hidden by a swirly orange mask. Another man stood behind him, covered by a thick cloak.

"You may leave"

"Yes, sir" The 'Pumpkin face' man clasped his hands and leaned his chin on top.

"Tsk, Tsk Itachi...I wonder what ever was so important to be spotted?" He chuckled, causing an echo to run down the hall.

At the police centre, the two stared at Tamaki after he had answered their questions.

"So let me get this straight...you...beat the crap out of him...then him cringing on the ground...begged you for mercy" Tamaki smirked proudly.

"Yup, exactly" The two sighed, looked at each other and then began to turn out the door.

"I should have known it was another excuse for fame"

"Wait" Usugi remained on the ground as he ratted out his fake partner.

"Even though I personally haven't seen him, we found Tamaki unconscious on the ground, just outside of the town, uninjured"

"Usugi!" Tamaki cried he couldn't believe this betrayal.

"And there is another witness...Kirei, Kaa. Apparently her last name, information given to her allegedly by Uchiha Itachi, who seems to be some kind of 'old friend'"

"Is there anything else?"

Kirei began to pull up the barricades on her stall as Leah poked her head out of her stall.

"Don't bother! You're not going to sell anything against my cucumbers!" Kirei lifted the roll up irrigated iron barricades up and hidden it under the fabric roof. She sighed and leaned over the counter.

"Perhaps you're right"

Later, Kirei returned to her apartment after a long day, she collapsed onto her bed, fluffing up her pillow and shoved her face into the pillow.

"Wam a terrimle day" She muffled through the pillow. Knocks rang on her bedroom window; she took one look and sat up immediately at the sight. Itachi, he was knocking on her bed room window, she immediately got up to open it.

Tamaki sat backwards on his wheelie chair glaring through the window. Usugi finished spewing out his information.

"I see...and where would we find this other witness"

"Probably at her home, now..."

Kirei opened the window to Itachi, standing on the roof of the below apartment, his cloak hood covering his face. He was cautious and kept scanning the area behind him.

"W-what are you doing here?"

"Well I just thought to give you some kind of good bye." He turned back from the scan of the area.

"Since I'll probably never see you again"

"Wha?"

Usugi opened the door for the two, outside the police main office.

"Follow me, I know a short cut"

Kirei made a pouty face.

"Never ever again?"

"Not after your boyfriend blabbed about me, you're going to be watched like a hawk from now on"

The group of men impended their dissent on Kirei's apartment, though they were still so far away.

"W-wait! So you did it then!" Itachi chuckled.

"So you've learned then?" He smirked at her.

"Would that be the reason you were sulking in your room the entire week?"

"Uh-um...ah..."

"I'll take that as a yes" Kirei looked away hiding her blush and avoided keeping eye contact with him.

"So did you do it or not?"

"I wouldn't be chased for 8 years if I didn't" Kirei remained silent staring at the bed before she gulped down a swig of courage.

"W-where are you going to go?" she whispered quietly.

"Not here"

The group ascended down the high walk way towards Kirei's apartment.

"There's her apartment"

Kirei turned back at Itachi, gripping her chest, staring him down as if she were almost trying to intimidate him.

"Could you...take me with you?" Itachi stepped back a bit; he stared at her with a questioning look.

"Take you...with me?"

"Yes...please"

"Even after what you've learned of me?"

"Of course"

"...Give me a reason why I should drag a useless person with me"

The trio containing of two ANBU and the police officer marched down the hall passing the many doors on the third floor. They approached Kirei's door. 3A.

"This is her place" They stood and waited as Usugi pressed the door bell button once, the sound of a mechanical hoarse tune could be heard through the door. They waited and waited.

"Hmm...no answer..." Usugi shook the door handle finding it open. He knocked on the door before entering and announcing his arrival.

"I'm coming in..." It didn't take much to see that something was wrong, just from the small tunnel vision of the table a head suggested that something awful has happened. The plant was tipped over and spilt over the table; there were glimpses of spilt liquids over the wooden panels that made the floor. Shattered bits of clay and card board covered over the liquid, dipping and slowly soaking up the blobs that sprawled the usually clean floor. Usugi staggered over to the end of the 'tunnel' and scanned over the damaged, which in short looked as if someone had a giant food fight with everything in the fridge. But what concerned the police officer was the rips and tears in the wall paper and the several kitchen knives that sunk into the wall, after either heavy stabbing or been throwing across the room.

"What's...this?" The ANBU also glanced over the scene but Usugi bolted for Kirei's bedroom.

"KIREI!" He thrusted the door open. This rooms was no different, the place was trashed the bed sheets thrown the bed stands toppled and broken, clothing thrown everywhere. Usugi could do nothing but stare, he stared and stared.

"She...she's gone..." One of the elite walked up behind him tapping him on the shoulder.

"Not quite yet"

Itachi sped through the forest; Kirei shut her eyes tight to avoid the great wind speed on them. She clung on to his back, keeping a tight grip as he bounced off the multiple tree branches. Itachi then suddenly stopped on a branch, stomping down hard on it. He made a small hop and landed on the ground. He leaned over so that Kirei could slide off easily.

"We can stay here for the night- you had better stay to your promise and not burden me" Kirei stepped on the ground lightly, keeping a hand on his shoulder.

"Well I'll try my best. It's not an easy promise to keep"

"Whatever, go gather some dry wood" Kirei huffed, staggering away from him as she began to compile a bunch of twigs in her arms. She reached down for another one with the bundle in her arms 'Well this feels familiar...'

Usugi walked down a small path leading away from the town, his black hair and sunglasses gleamed in the full moon. He approached the waiting ANBU's, one he had met before and another cloaked in a cream hood.

"So you're absolutely sure no one has passed this was..." The other nodded.

"Yes" Usugi stood next to the familiar ANBU as he turned to face him.

"It's not good; it seems that our hopes ride with the search team"

"So you defiantly think it's him?"

"Most certainly, not many people can pull a stunt like this" In a flash 4 images landed in their usual manor, blur. The two new elite ninja addressed them, accompanied by 2 dogs.

"Nothing" One said.

"The dogs lost the scent" He cursed under his masked breath. Usugi sombrely watched the calamity as it slowly came to him 'Kirei...'

'I hope you're safe...'

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No it's not finished yet...still more chapters to go, probably a LOT more chapters.

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