A Riddle you Cannot Solve
Sakura walked around in the train station, she took Holmes's advice and decided to get out of London a lay low for a month or two. Her employer probably wouldn't be happy with her lack of work so she prepared to leave and stay away from his grasp, a man like him would obvious forget about her. He obviously had bigger plots on his mind than her. Ino had got her out of Nine Elms and they both agreed it was better to not wait for her employer's wrath. Sakura knew Ino was safe since no one knew she was her partner in crime.
Sakura turned to the man leading her to the first class cabin (she liked traveling in style), "Will the train be departing on time?" she asked hoping to leave as fast as she could.
"The train's been slightly delayed madam, shouldn't be long now though" he answered as she was escorted into the cabin with her things. She traveled light, leaving the valuable things under Ino's shop; it was better and smarter that way. She noticed the cabin was empty except for one person in the corner reading the paper. She couldn't see him as shadows covered his face along with the paper. She noticed the headlines read "HOLMES WANTED?" obviously their friend Shiho was trying to aid them with media help. She was just happy though it was all over on her end.
After Sakura relaxed, her "companion" put down his paper, "The train will depart when I tell it to" he said. Sakura's eyes instantly opened wide and she slowly turned to the man, she knew who it was. "And you are to leave my employment when I allow you to" he finished. It was the man that hired her, the man from the carriage.
Sakura took a second to regain her composure, "I found Reordan, he's in Scotland Yard mortuary. That's me finished" she said trying to explain herself.
However, her employer had different ideals, "YOU'RE job was to manipulate Holmes's past feelings for you, not to start succumbing to them" he calmly said. "I want what Reordan was creating for Blackwood" he assigned to her. "Now finish the job; or else the next dead body will be your little flower shop partner" he warned, as he ushered her out of the train.
Now Sakura was afraid, he knew about Ino, "Not even Holmes knows about me and Ino" she thought to herself as she hurried to find Naruto. Only he could get her to what her employer wanted.
At the hospital, Temari stood beside an injured Shikamaru as a doctor helped remove some shrapnel out of his shoulder. Shikamaru was healing well but work still needed to be done. However, Temari noticed something odd about the doctor. "I must go now" he said as he saw Temari becoming suspicious of him.
Temari wouldn't have it though, she trailed him "Is that really the best you can do?" she questioned, trying to look at the doctor's face.
"Yes I have other patients" he said hiding his face. He began hurrying away but Temari still trailed him.
"Doctor, PLEASE!" she yelled and turned him around revealing the doctor was in fact Naruto in a very unconvincing disguise. "Now I know you think this is your fault, but to stop this man and help out his friends, he'd tell you it was worth it" she said. It was then she saw the resolve return to Holmes's eyes.
"Thanks" Naruto said. However police then entered to stay near Watson incase Holmes showed up. "Eek!" Naruto said running away.
"Solve this!" Temari yelled as her brothers appeared comforting her that Naruto would do just that whether she said so or not.
At Holmes's secret hideaway above the bar he fights at, Temari's request was nowhere near completed. He had drew all the evidence on the walls, all the suspects, all the victims, everything. He played his violin to try and focus, the beat was an incredibly fast paced one as it matched how much he was frustrated. He played, played and thought along with the beat. He knew he only had a limited time to figure everything out before Orochimaru set his final plan into motion today. He only had one solid clue though; Reordan was the key to everything.
After awhile, Holmes genteelly threw his violin to the ground making sure not to damage it as he apparently gave up. He had never had a case like this; every shred of evidence had nothing to do with another piece of evidence. It was as if the murders had nothing in common. But Holmes knew they did, Blackwood wasn't like that, and he had a reason for all the deaths and the manner for which they were killed.
Naruto sat in a meditative stance he learned long ago, he pondered about everything and anything that might link everything together with Blackwood, Reordan, and the murders. Finally he remembered what one of the elders said "He draws his powers from the book of spells". This was it, sure magic didn't exist, but Orochimaru read that book like a bible, and all the murders had a supernatural twist to them so this could be the link to them.
Instantly, Holmes leapt to his feet and started melting candles so he could perform the rituals that Orochimaru performed so he could get into his head. Naruto began to consume things that the book told him to and instantly he felt weird. "Enlightened my ass" he murmured as he stumbled around feeling the effects of the drinks. He always knew that drug experimentation is what made the "intellectuals" think they were so wise but this just made him nearly hallucinate.
He placed the melted wax on the ground in the form of a pentagram and placed that objects he got from Homura crime scene. He silently apologized to God for doing this. He then placed them in perfect order and cut a lock of his hair off as the ritual stated. He dazzlingly cut his thumb to do his "vow" and placed his hand on the book. Instantly the world seemed to spin, and Holmes started seeing visions. He knew this was because of what he drank but still, it scared the shit out of him. All went dark and he could hear Orochimaru's voice speaking to him.
"Holmes…you must give up. This is a riddle you cannot solve" He mocked. This kept echoed in his head as all the evidence flew into his mind.
Holmes continued to take all the insults as he felt something moving his body. Just as he thought he was lost to the darkness, light came back to him as he heard familiar voices calling back. As he opened his eyes, he saw Hinata, Sakura, and Tenten looking at him with worried faces. They cleared up as they saw him awaken. "Told you we knew where he was" Konohamaru and the rest of the Baker Street Irregulars announced revealing themselves to their boss
Naruto looked around and he saw Shikamaru sitting in a chair with Temari and her brothers. He thanked the girls and went over to check on him. "I'm fine" he told the detective. "Had to pull out some shrapnel myself, Temari said I had a lousy doctor" he teased letting him know he knew he tried to help him.
Holmes just sat next to him and slowly said "Well, I'm just…so happy you're, with us". The girls were happy to see that the duo was okay and good to go. Naruto then looked at Sakura "You know, I had a feeling you wouldn't leave" he said.
Sakura couldn't tell if he knew about her being forced but she could deduce that Holmes was just happy to her. This was good for her, she could still manipulate Holmes. "Somehow, I knew YOU were going to make front page" she rebuffed as she showed him the paper.
"Shiho says that the majority of the city is on your side about this. They don't seem to understand what is going on" Gaara brought up. "Our friend Kiba Baskerville gave me a letter saying you can hide with his family until the heat dies down"
Hinata then butted in "My father said Lord Danzō is the one who put out the warrant, but the reason was left blank" she explained. Naruto was happy to see her, but she was risking a lot being a lady of her social position with him. That and if Neji did find him, with her near him, Neji wouldn't hesitate to kill him.
Holmes then sat the group down and began to explain on how he solved the case, "Now first, I want to admit that my initial approach to this case was far too narrow. To solve this case, I had to broaden my horizons" he said as he opened his arms to the room to give them an explanation about the room's look. "In fact I might have just overturned years of theoretical theory and discovered other…" he explained enthusiastically.
"…." was the response from everyone.
"…Moving on, I have cracked Blackwood's Modus operandi. The religion which Blackwood worships reverses a sphinx, which is comprised of four creatures, a head of a man, body of a lion, wings of an eagle, and tail of an ox" he explained. "Now Blackwood's Modus operandi is killing people who represents these four parts" he further explained as he then directed them to a huge map. "Now, Reordan representing man was killed here in the cemetery here, Homura representing the ox for his position was killed here, and Koharu representing the eagle for the manner of her death was killed here" he explained.
Gaara raised his hand "Where's lion?" he asked. This was the question that was on everyone's mind right now. Already many of these things didn't make sense, why were these deaths absolutely needed? Did Orochimaru really have magic and has he really performing an evil ritual? The thoughts sent shivers up everyone's spines.
Holmes was happy they were paying attention "Excellent question, who is next? What in our society represents the lion?" he asked everyone already knowing the answer. He wanted to see if they could see the obvious answer.
Everyone else was kind of stumped; they weren't sure what it was. Then suddenly, Hinata remembering something from her father's lecture and her higher learning "Parliament! Remember everyone, "The British Lion"?" she said. Everyone noticed here figuring it out gave Naruto an erotic smile on his face.
"So Orochimaru's going to kill Parliament? How do you do that?" Tenten asked. Konohamaru and the rest of the Baker Street Irregulars came up with estranged theories that evolved summoning giant snakes from rainbows and other nonsense.
Naruto then picked up his stuff and gave them to Watson and Sakura causing everyone to be confused "That's what I'm going to find out now" Holmes replied. With this, the sounds of police entering the bar filled the room. "Called the police on myself" he explained as he opened a trapdoor and ushered the other down it. "Follow these instructions to the letter" he announced as he passed a letter to Watson. "Your turn my dear" Naruto to Hinata.
However, Hinata just shut the door, "No, this should be fun, that and I'm tired of hiding" she explained as Holmes reminded her that she wasn't going to have anything bad happen to her like him.
Instantly, the door was broken and Neji Lestrade and Clark Lee came in. Neji took a look around to see the pentagram and such "Well, did the devil turn up?" he asked until he realized he fell for another prank as Holmes just smiled at him insinuating that HE was the devil. Neji looked around again and finally took notice of his cousin in the room. "What are you doing here, and before you answer, think about how much the answer will affect me" he said.
Hinata made the biggest smile she could as she gave her answer "Consorting"
"NOOOOOOOOO! You defiled my cousin, I'll kill you!" Neji yelled as Police were restraining him and arresting Holmes. Neji and Lee led Naruto and Hinata into a wagon as they marched off. Neji anger could be heard throughout London.
Outside, the rest of the gang just watched, "How did we know that would be his reaction?" Watson mocked as he walked off. Tenten defended by saying that Neji is a good person but Watson was too used to mocking the inspector to care.
Now the clock began its countdown, noon was fast approaching and Orochimaru would be putting the final touches on his plan. Holmes had to convince Neji not to kill him, not to arrest him, get him to Danzō, save Parliament, stop Blackwood, and save London. "Better just call an undertaker" Holmes joked to himself. "This is going to be fun"