AN: Sorry for the lack of update on this story, but here it is. This one is not as depressing as the rest, it has some humor in it and some good information, especially at the end...A BIG CLUE.
If you haven't notice already, I changed the genre from Suspense/Drama to Suspense/Angst. After re-reading my chapters, I've notice how...well, angry and tomenting my fanfics sounded. I hope it didn't scare off most of my reviewers. But I think it works for something like this, so the angst will stay, so you guys will know.
Enjoy
Chapter 11
Crime Scene Comparison and Mistaken Identity
Kakashi woke to the smell of freshly made coffee, French Vanilla to be exact. He tossed over in his bed and pulled the blankets over his head, he didn't feel like getting up just yet, he was still tired. But his tiredness didn't last long as he just realized that he was at home in his own bed and not at the station. He tossed the blankets from over his head and sat straight up. His door opened at that precise time and Asuma walked in with a tray of eggs and toast and a cup of hot, steamy coffee. It was the only thing he knew how to make and truly it was the only thing he could find in Kakashi's kitchen.
"Morning, sleepy-head, I was wondering when you were going to wake up?" Asuma placed the food on Kakashi's lap and the cup on the night stand. "Hurry up and eat, the gang is waiting for you in the living room."
"Gang," Kakashi asked.
"Yeah, Kurenai and Genma, we got something to tell you."
Kakashi stared at Asuma for a moment and then he replayed what he could remember from last night, and yeah, he was sure he was still in the office before exhaustion took over, so that could only mean one thing…Asuma brought him home.
"Thanks," he proudly said and started eating his breakfast.
Asuma smiled, "Hey, you needed it," and he wasn't talking about the rest his friend so badly needed, but he knew Kakashi would know what he was talking about. He made it to the door, before turning around, "See you out in ten," he asked.
Kakashi nodded as an answer and downed his toast.
Five minutes later, Kakashi was done with his small breakfast and halfway done with his coffee. In that time, he thought over last night and sighed. He really did need that moment of release. Physically, he was drained, but in a good way, mentally he was okay, he didn't feel so stuff and pressured like he use to, so he was clear-headed, and emotionally, he was…, he was okay for now, but overall, he was doing good, not great, not perfect, just, okay for right now.
He stretched before getting out of bed, grabbing some clothes and into his bathroom, ten minutes later, he was ready and heading out his bedroom and into the living room, where he found his partners sitting around the small coffee table, papers and folders scattered all over it.
Kurenai was the first to notice him and she smiled up at him.
"How was the rest," she asked.
"Good," he said before walking in the kitchen for another cup of coffee. Once done, he sat on the couch next to Kurenai and looked over their piles of paperwork.
He noted that it was their work from the station and among other things; Obito was at the top of everything.
"What's this all about," he asked.
Asuma, who was sitting across from him in a table chair, spoke up, "We were thinking that it was best for us and for you, if we took the work somewhere else. You know a new atmosphere and not in that cramped up cubicle."
Kakashi knew the real reason though, "So Chief Tsunade found out about what I did last night?"
"Yeah…," Genma spoke, sitting in another table chair next to Asuma, "…and boy is she pissed," he laughed. "So we all thought that it was much safer if we just stayed away from the station for maybe a day or two."
Kakashi smiled, he was glad he had his friends to look out for him, especially from his short-tempered boss.
"So what's on the agenda," Kakashi asked changing the subject for something more important. It was now time to be serious. "You guys had something you wanted to talk to me about."
"Yeah," Asuma picked up a folded piece of paper and tossed it to Kakashi. "Read this."
Unfolding the paper, Kakashi read over the writings, "It's a search warrant," he stated out loud, "For both Sanko Muchi's and Obito's crime scene."
"Yeah," Asuma explained. "Since we weren't getting anywhere with our victims, we thought that maybe we should take a look at the crime scene…for comparison reason and to maybe find something that we're missing."
Asuma stopped there to stare at his friend and then at Kurenai who nodded her head for him to continue.
"But, we wanted to make sure it was okay with you, first, I mean…"
Kakashi looked away from the warrant and lift an eyebrow, telling his friend that he understood why he had his concern.
"I'll be fine, you should know that. I just needed some rest," Kakashi answered before refolding the paper and stuffing it in his pants pocket. "Let's go."
He went to the door and opened it; he grabbed his keys and a coat and left out afterwards.
The rest waited for the door to click shut before they made their own movements to head out the door. Genma grabbed the files, while Asuma shut and locked the door after everyone.
Sanko's scene was first. They had to get out and leave their cars behind to make their way to the crime scene. It was a long walk before they found the police tape surrounding the scene. It was pretty much like Obito's from what Kakashi could remember. Woody, ground wet, and bug infested, but now he was looking for something, he didn't know what, but something. They all were.
"According to the photos, Sanko's body was found here," Genma pointed to the empty ground where some trees formed a small half circle. "He was lying on his back, and according to autopsy and forensic entomology reports; he was dead and placed here for a week before police found him."
"Who discovered him," Kakashi asked, he wasn't too familiar with Muchi's case than he was with Obito's.
"A jogger, one morning, he was…" Genma trailed off, he looked around and then pointed at a path some feet away from where they were standing. "…he was jogging down that path when he saw the body and called the police using his cell phone."
Kakashi nodded, making a mental note of everything. He looked up at the path and noted that it was narrow and distinguished that no cars or trucks could travel on it. That was proven when they had to park their car some distance away from where the path and the scene were found.
"He would have had to carry the body unseen into the woods," Kakashi stated.
"So he dumped the body at night," Kurenai added.
"It would have been a very long walk to carry someone for that distance, he would have to rest a couple of times," Asuma made clear.
And it wasn't the fact that Sanko Muchi could have been a heavy person, his weight was an average one hundred-fifteen pounds for his age group, it was the fact that from where they had to leave their cars and the long walk they had to take to get to the crime scene was a long walk, a very long walk.
"It was night, he carried the boy's body for some distance…alone, but how could he see in the dark. He had to have had a flashlight, but how could he handle a flashlight and a body at the same time," Kakashi wondered.
"It could be possible," Kurenai debated. "I mean if he carried the boy on one side of his shoulders, it could work."
Kakashi nodded but it still didn't sound right to him. He knew a dead body was hard to handle, especially if one wanted to be discreet and hasten, and their number one factor was that the distance was too long for anyone to be in quick and hurry all by themselves. It didn't make sense.
"But still it doesn't make sense," he made clear soon afterwards after taking quick glances at the trees surrounding them. He couldn't see their cars and the path didn't start by any roads, it started somewhere in the distance in the middle of nowhere in the woods.
"He had an accomplice," Genma questioned.
Now that made sense, Kakashi thought. The perpetrator could quickly carry a body somewhere fast that way, and another person could hold a flashlight while the other person carried the body. They could even take turn carrying the body, it made perfect sense.
"Perfect," Kakashi blurted out. "If they wanted to be in a rush, two people could do the job. Okay, so now why this place out of all other places? It's not noticeable by everyone, which explains why he chose it to be cautious, but it is so off from everything else, from roads, from civilization. I bet only a handful of people really jogs here, but still the chances of discovery would be a low minimum."
"Not to mention that he must have really looked this place up in order to really find this place," Asuma suggested.
"Or he could be a jogger or he could have lived here for a while to have known about this place," Kurenai pondered.
"All good suggestions," Kakashi told his friends. They were really getting somewhere and not just about the crime scene itself, but about the perpetrator as well.
"Obito's," Genma inquired.
"Yeah," the three agreed.
Obito's crime scene turned out to be no different. Everything down to a "T" was just like the other scene, just in different locations. It was far from the city which was their biggest clue and the body was dumped completely off course from any roads or trails that could be taken by a car, once again suggesting that the perpetrator could have been a local or did some research on secluded places. One thing was different from Obito's scene than from Sanko's, there was no path and no joggers came around to jog here. But someone had to have found the body somehow, a call was made, according to their records, but it was made by an unknown person. The call was traced to a payphone at the corner of the police station, which in itself was scary, because when they looked over the street cameras videos, it showed no one at the phone booth and the video was looked at twice.
They headed back to Kakashi's place to sum up what they had found and discovered. By the time they discussed and wrote everything down, it was already late in the evening and sleep was making itself known between the detectives.
"Let's call this a night, I'm sure you guys are really tired," Kakashi offered.
"You sure," Genma asked during a yawn, he stretched, his body protesting with a popping sound from his back.
"Yeah, we can finish it tomorrow."
They all gathered up their supplies and Kakashi kept the folders at his place. Asuma was the last to leave.
"You going to be okay," he asked Kakashi before he left though.
Kakashi gave him a small smile and a nod.
"Good because I don't want to have to carry you when you faint again."
A pillow was thrown his way, but Asuma had already shut the door by then.
Kakashi stayed up that night, just to go over everything one more time. He couldn't get over the whole thought that they couldn't figure out who called about discovering Obito's body. And the tape from the street camera must have been tampered with because there was no way a phone call could be made by a mysterious being, it just wasn't possible.
With a yawn, he made his way to bed. There was nothing he could do now but he would look into it when he went back to work the following day.
Two days later, Kurenai burst into the Detective Division doors, startling everyone. She was flushed and her breathing was labored. In her hand she pressed sheets of papers towards her chest; she waited until her breathing had calmed down before she dropped her hands to her sides.
Looking around the big office, she spotted Asuma at his desk, looking over some files on his computer. She quickly walked over to him and dropped the papers on his desk. He looked up from his computer and eyed the documents.
"Where's Kakashi," she asked, she still sounded out of breath but not by much.
"Uhm, he's in the evidence storage room. Chief Tsunade put him there as punishment for messing up the cubicle. Why?"
She picked up the papers and headed out the doors towards the evidence room. Asuma followed close behind her, asking what the papers were for.
"I think I might have found something, but I want Kakashi to hear about it first," she told him. She turned a corner, Asuma not too far behind and opened some other doors. They found Kakashi in a chair behind a screened window, connected to the storage room; he looked up from his clipboard of which he was checking off the list of the items needed for evidence/Crime scene kits and how many items were in the evidence room.
"I hope you guys burst in here to help," Kakashi sarcastically asked.
"No, better," Kurenai answered and handed Kakashi the sheets of paper under the screen window.
Kakashi put down his clipboard on the counter and picked up the papers, he read them over. On each page his eyes would lighten up as a huge smile formed on his face.
"Where did you get this," he asked when he was finish reading the documents.
Kurenai smiled, "I had a friend from the academy who works with the FBI, and she's in the records department with them. I had her look up a certain name and this is what she pulled up."
"Had who look up whom? What's on the papers? And Kurenai, since when did you know anyone from FBI," Asuma asked, being left out wasn't something he liked so much.
Kakashi walked out from the storage room door and handed Asuma the papers, a smile still on his face, but it lessened some.
Asuma read it, "Oh. My. God."
"My exact same words," Kakashi stated. "Orochimaru isn't his real name."
AN: Wow, Orochimaru isn't his real name, man I wonder what it is? Hehe
I really wasn't going to put that in there, but I thinks it worked. I'm not sure how the whole process goes with changing your name, but I know people can do it, so here it is in my fanfic. Something I want you guys to know, the next two chapters will solely be about Sasuke, in a flashback of his life. This reason is because I couldn't put all that has happened to Sasuke in bits and pieces through his scenes, so I'm making two chapters out of it, Two-flashback chapters for our boy Sasuke. I got this whole idea and I think it will help you guys to understand him better and why he acts the way he does. I hope you will like it.
You know what to do, Review so I'll know if you like it or not, I said please didn't I? PRETTY PLEASE.
Oh, one more thing, I was wondering if I should put up a chapter summarizing all the clues and hints mentioned in this fanfic so far. You can either email me or put your answer in your review, just let me know, okay.
