Common Delinquents

Chapter 24

"Shit." Sasuke can smell the crash before he can see it. The scent of burning metal fills his nostrils and he grimaces. "Shit. Shit. Shit."

"What's going on?" Kiba and Tenten are suddenly there, with Ino and Shikamaru in tow. They're all in his way at the moment, he rips through then, shoving them harshly aside. "What the fuck happened?!"

"Get out of my way." Sasuke mutters, he breaks into a sprint and steps to the corner, heart thudding heavily in his chest. He comes to see a heap of twisted metal and smoke and has to stop to pull himself together. He looks quickly at his blonde counterpart before facing the wreck ahead of him, "Naruto pull Neji out, I've got Hinata."

The car had been hit so hard it had landed on it's side, Hinata's side. That goes to say that Neji's side is pretty fucked up.

Sasuke slips towards the front of the vehicle as Naruto works on getting the door off. His breath comes out in short gasps as he looks through the already broken windshield to try to get to the smaller Hyuga.
Time slows down and Sasuke can't quite comprehend anything. He can't hear Naruto calling for Sakura so she could help Neji, he doesn't see the six cop cars pull up, he can't hear his gangs confused and worried yells. All he sees is an empty driver's seat and a bloody leftover Akatsuki scarf.

Fuck.

"Where the fuck is Hinata?" Sasuke can't breath he's so angry. He reaches into his coat pocket and pulls out a gun, ignoring the cops. He swears to God if he sees one of those Akatsuki or Hyuga bastards-he'll shoot them dead. That windshield break looks tooclean right now, no loose pieces of glass. The absence of a spider glass break makes his skin crawl, it's not right.

"Neji. Where the hell is Hinata?" Sasuke can't even bring himself to feel bad for yelling at an injured man. Besides, Neji looks more pissed than hurt. Although the blood running down his face doesn't look too good-neither does the cut on his lip, the bruise around his eye and cheekbone, or the unnatural angle his arm is in.

Actually the guy looks like he shouldn't even be conscious.

"Sasuke-don't yell at him, he's hurt," Sakura tries to say as she lays Neji down on the sidewalk and begins to try to stop the bleeding on Neji's head. A paramedic quickly approaches with a stretcher behind them but Naruto quickly distracts him, knowing that Sasuke needed to speak with Neji first. Naruto shrugs at them when the paramedic comes towards them anyway.

"They took her." Neji says, sitting up suddenly and then clutching his head quickly afterwards. He continues anyway, "They took her. They pulled her out of the fucking window and left.Those bastards fucking took her!"

"Sir you need to calm down," The paramedic arrives looking like he'd rather be anywhere else.

"Fuck you."

"Neji, seriously you need to listen to the paramedic." Sakura pushes his shoulders down and he lets out a howl of pain, losing her patience with the hysterical Hyuga. "You have a broken collarbone and a broken arm. You probably have a concussion. Just calm down, okay?"

"They took her?" Sasuke runs a hand through his hair before becoming very still. A vein ticks on his forehead. Then slowly he releases a breath and says, "Who took her and where the hell did they go?"

Neji throws up.

"Definitely a concussion..." Sakura confirms twisting her pink hair up and then assisting the paramedic in getting Neji onto the stretcher. She sends the paramedic and pitying look. "Sasuke you need to leave him alone for now."

"Fine whatever." Sasuke's hands search his pockets for cigarettes he doesn't have before coming to tighten into shaking fists. He gives up on that dead mission and pats Neji on the shoulder before the load him onto the ambulance.

"What's going on?" The rest of them catch up and crowd around Sasuke-all with the exception of Tenten and Lee who get on the back of the ambulance with Neji. Their faces lined with worry, all searching for the one person who isn't there.

Sasuke looks to Naruto to explain because he's too pissed to form words.

"The 'snitch' told that Hinata was on the move. She and Neji were pursued. Enemy car slammed into them to stop them and pulled Hinata out right after."

"She's gone?" Ino echoes, her eyes wide with fear. She searches Sasuke and Naruto's eyes like they're fucking lying to her- like this is some hilarious prank.

Sasuke snaps at her in annoyance, "What the fuck don't you understand about that? She. was. taken. Away."

"Uchiha, go chill out." Shikamaru takes out a cigarette and sighs. He's not even a leader of this damned gang and he finds himself taking charge when shit like this happens. "You won't help if you're freaking out on everyone. Kiba, can you and Akamaru search the enemy car for anything that might be helpful? Thanks. I'll talk to the police and try to smooth things over and press for info."

Sasuke stalks away, rolling his shoulders and cursing under his breath. This whole snitch thing is getting out of hand-if they don't find out who it is, they'll be done with fast. It makes him so angry-the fact that there's someone in his gang that he's trusted for years-someone in his family- who's decided to throw all that away. And for what? For power? For money? The Leaf as both of which-for the most part. So what exactly is the snitch's drive?

Sasuke sits down heavily on the curve. He's already ruled out everyone in his gang for being the snitch-which goes to say that he has no clue who it is. He's scanned every face, every motive, and every action any of them have taken and none seem suspicious. The only thing he can do is rule out the ones it can'tbe—and that's only a list composed of four people-the last two added because they are victims of the snitch's last tale. Naruto, Hinata, and Neji's names are all cleared according to Sasuke. As much as he'd like to add the rest of his gang's names to the list-he can't. He can't trust anyone right now.

"Tch." Sasuke stands easily as a smirking Shikamaru approaches him. He doesn't really know what the guy has to smirk about-but it better be good news.

"I decided that we should let the cops take care of this one, for the most part." Shikamaru tosses his pack of cigarettes to the gang leader, noticing his sour expression. At Sasuke's eyebrow lift the Nara boy elaborates. "They're handling this one as a kidnapping-for now. Eventually the Hyugas-assuming they're the kidnappees- will bribe the whole department into silence."

"Hn." Sasuke doesn't see why this is anything to smirk about. Shikamaru tosses him his lighter and continues.

"But until then, they can track Hinata's cell and probably find her location—which-"

"Could double as the secret Hyuga base." Sasuke continues. His eyebrows crash heavily over his eyes, "I don't really think-"

"Me neither. They wouldn't be stupid about their location. It may be just a meth lab of theirs or a weapon warehouse or something along those lines."

"Either way, if the cops pursued them-it'd be a bust." Sasuke and Shikamaru walk over to join Sakura and Naruto, "That is...if they get there on time. It may be beneficial if we just go ourselves and not involve the authorities."

"Its your call, Uchiha." Shikamaru lifts his shoulders in a lazy shrug. "Either way-we need to be fast or Hinata dies."

"Hn." Sasuke drops the cigarettes, "The cops are too slow for me, if you know what I mean."

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"Dammit." Deidara flattens the clay against the palm of his hand, frowning heavily. Nothing about this project is going right for him, the whole this is complete and utter crap. He probably would've blown it up already if it wasn't for the fact that he needed one last piece for his portfolio submission. He molds the clay into another shape, hoping that it would work better than his previous try.

On top of his project being shit, he couldn't really concentrate to save his life. He's been trying stay focused for the last hour but he has this annoying feeling in his gut-like something is wrong. Which is ridiculous because nothing important with his gang is happening tonight, so he should have nothing to worry about.

Deidara stands and rifles around his tiny studio, searching for more clay and a molding tool, when a set of headlights shines through one of his windows outside. He moves slowly towards the door, wondering who would show up to his studio at this hour.

The person wastes no time letting himself in. He reveals himself to be Deidara's red headed partner.

Deidara peers at him curiously and seats himself back in his swivel chair in front of his project. "What's up?"

Sasori makes a grunting sound and sits heavily in front of the blonde, eying his weird clay project before shaking his head, "My art is better."

Deidara glares through his layer of blonde hair that's always in his face, "Is that what you came to tell me , un?"

"No." Sasori sighs again like he can't believe he's doing this. "You owe me a huge favor for this."

Deidara only raises an eyebrow, "For coming here and complaining about my art?" He stabs a hole into the middle of a piece of clay with his thumb.

"No. For saving your girlfriend's ass."

"I don't have one of those, un." Deidara says offhandedly, ignoring the redhead now. Deidara doesn't have girlfriendshe has...well...he has 'lady friends'.

Sasori sighs again, contemplating going back home and going to bed. "The Hyuga bit—girl."

Deidara stills suddenly, and then tries to cover it up by moving quickly. His hands remain still but he's suddenly very interested in what Sasori has to say, "Yeah? What about her, un?"

Sasori rolls his eyes. Deidara can't be lowkey about anything, the boy obviously cares too much. "I overheard something...and thought you'd like to know." The redhead mutters, "Just don't go doing something stupid."

"Yeah whatever, un." Deidara finally sits up fully and looks Sasori in the eye. "What'd you hear?"

"Hiashi's ordered the capture of Hinata. The snitch told us that she was on the move tonight so Hiashi had one of his men intersect her route. She was taken and is probably on her way to Hiashi as we speak."

Deidara is suddenly on his feet and shrugging on his trademark leather jacket. He starts pacing around the small studio, picking up things and shoving them into his pockets. "Where?"

Sasori leans back, heavy lidded eyes still watching his frantic friend-now officially a traitor, he thinks. "One of his warehouses. The one on the corner of 23rd in Minamo."

Deidara nods and opens one of the cabinets, he brings out two guns and loads them before shoving them into his jacket and waistband of his pants.

"You going alone?"

"Don't see who else I'd go with, yeah."

"Hn." Sasori continues to observe Deidara's quick sharp movements, gathering things and moving things around. "Try giving your cousin a call. She's Hyuga's best friend, right?"

"Mm. Maybe. Don't want to get her associated with me."

"You've already associated yourself with the Hyuga. You might as well get some help." Sasori shrugs again. "It's your call. You're already basically a traitor."

Deidara snorts to himself and grabs his keys, "We'll see what happens." He jogs to the door, eyes stormy, a frown etched tight across his face, "Thanks a lot man."

Sasori raises his hand in acknowledgment and watches his best friend disappear from sight to save some girl he's come to care about.

The red head man leans back against the swivel chair, thinking about all the drama one girl has caused. He can only hope she's worth it, the fire in Deidara's eyes says he cares more than he should.

Sasori shakes his head, wondering what he's just gotten his friend into by only telling him what he's heard.

He exits Deidara's studio in time to see Deidara's car fly by quickly. Things just got interesting.

A/N: This chapter was so rushed, and the editing was even more. I hope it's not too bad, but I barely had any time to get an update in. Anyway, I hoped you liked this chapter. I'm more excited for the next one...c:

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