[Tenten]

"Are we taking them back to headquarters?" Rock Lee hastily poses to his partner after he safely secures both the mother and son in the back seat of their cruiser.

His pearly white eyes were tediously scanning the crowd for an opening since security was expeditiously funneling the attendees out of the theater.

"We have no other choice. Besides, I have orders to return as soon as possible once my routine is over." Neji abruptly reminds him about his obligation to immediately report to the Director.

The raven haired male deeply sighs, folds his arms in front of his chest when he utters, "It still doesn't make any sense. Who would want to kidnap such a youthful spirit?"

The brunette clicks his turn signal to indicate he plans to merge with the traffic before he supplies a reasonable explanation, "Child Trafficking predators".

'Just like how they kidnapped Hinata and demanded for my uncle's head as ransom. But instead of my uncle, they willingly sent my father in his place.' He mentally recalled a similar incident that personally affected not just him but his entire family.

"Such despicable creatures!" Rock Lee furiously asserted while he physically punched the palm of his hand as a way to release his built up frustration.

"Tell me about it." Neji solemnly agrees before he focuses his attention on to the traffic in front of their police cruiser.

[KDEA]

"Are all groups equally divided?" Kakashi promptly inquires as his eye frequently glances over the officers' name that was available on the list.

A unified response of "Yes sir" resoundingly emits from the group in front of them.

"As per the Director's order, we have to case these six individuals. One of them," A feminine voice briefly pauses in order to point at an image of a rosy haired woman. "Sakura Haruno is currently at the morgue and is an open homicidal case. If you are on Haruno's team, you'll need to actively collaborate with the Konohagukure Police Department."

"The current senior officers over that case are Hatake, Kakashi as the Supervising Officer and Hiurzen, Asuma as the Investigating Officer, who will supply you the case number." Anko dutifully discloses the parameters of being in the Sakura Haruno group.

"As for the others, make sure the research is thoroughly done, the Director will personally review each and every one before it even touches the CTM (Case Tracking Manager) desk again." The silver haired male was firmly reminding them to put their best foot forward with casing this group of women.

"Yes, sir."

Haruno group

"She went by the stage name Cherry and was a second year Med Student at K.U." Sasuke reads from her basic profile before he checks out her family lineage.

"Parents are currently alive and is the only child." He reveals to his team once he removes manila folders that contains her schedule and academic profile that details her matriculation at K.U.

'So why was she the first one to be murdered?' The young man curiously wonders as they search through her folders.

Hyuga group

"Yo, is she really Neji's cousin?" An officer curiously poses to his comrades as he holds up a picture of Hinata for the others to see.

A whistle loudly escapes from one of the officer's mouth after he sincerely compliments her, "She's a really beauty."

"It says so right here." Another officer confirms her familal connection to the other brunette Hyuga male in the force.

"I wonder why she has the name Ice?" The first officer wonders exactly how the indigo haired woman earns such a chilling name.

Yamanaka group

"Isn't this the gold digger, the Director talked about earlier?" A male officer speaks up as he points at the platinum blonde's mugshot.

Anko meticulously pours through the young woman's financial records while she honestly reckons, "She's got the looks for it."

"Whew, talk about a dumb blonde." The male officer quietly quips to himself about the girl's naivety after he verbally notes she frequently falls victim to scams.

A pair of ocean blue eyes occasionally glances over in the direction of a particular group before Naruto inwardly grumbles, 'Why couldn't I have been in Hinata's group?'

Tenten group

"She's a single mother." Guy shockingly notes about the brunette woman with two buns in her hair when he reviews a piece of paper, "The father's name isn't written on the birth certificate either."

Another officer notices a Witness Document in her file, skims the information, and makes known, "There was a case she was involved in as a Witness that was recently settled. Turns out she was one of the five rape victims from the Dorm Room Bandit case."

Temari group

"She's not from Konoha?" A junior officer points out the dirty blonde's birthplace being something different from Konohagakure.

An officer snatches the picture from his comrade's hand, observes her facial features and admits, "She definitely has an exotic look to her."

"Do you see whose sister she is?" The junior officer voices after he grabs the picture back from his comrade and shows her family's lineage.

"Damn, this is big."

Uzumaki group

"Look at her rep sheet…" A male with a banana tied around his shoulder length brunette hair uttered in awe before he glanced over at the three page file until he discovered exactly when she committed her first offense.

"She's been in and out of the system since she was 16 years old."

One of the officers peers around at the other groups before he excitingly murmurs, "Have you heard, Shizune is our senior officer for this group."

A "cool" emits from the other officer's mouth at the fact that they may have the opportunity to work with the woman.

Kurenai group

"She's smoking hot, man!" An officer excitingly shrieks at the sight of the beautiful raven haired woman.

A "whoa" emits from his mouth as he teasingly remarks, "Her looks scream fierce in bed."

"We have to focus on the facts not the looks." An officer with circular black glasses advises while he pushes them back on to the bridge of his nose.

He casually flipped through her folder when he noticed the amount of tickets that she racked up in her life.

"She has had some minor infractions from routine traffic stops."

Meanwhile…

"Out of all my years being in law enforcement hell even in the medicinal field have I ever been met with such an indescribable scenario such as this! We have to gain some type of control over this situation immediately."

"Jiraya, the floor is yours." Tsunade relinquishes the floor to her Assistant Director, who then appears in front of the Executive officers.

"So far we have an attempted suicide, attempted murder, murder and most recently added attempted kidnapping of a minor. That leaves us with five living witnesses/suspects in our case."

"However after processing additional interrogation information, we are led to believe that their boss has some connection to Pharmaceutical Companies. Which is the reason why we have a strung out woman that has id him as a major player…and even possible her direct supplier." He runs down the recent updates that they were able to glean from a 24 hour period.

"So she's being bumped up to a major key witness." The silver haired male announces the changes to Karin's status as of a few minutes ago.

"Once we locate him, we will be one step closer to the actual suspect."

"What about casing the other suspects?" One of the officers asked about the current task that is assigned to the Special and Junior Officers.

"Besides the simple fact of the matter is...these women either saw or heard about an audition for the Dollhouse. At some point in their lives they unknowingly met or gathered." Jiraya explains why he still has them on the case detail.

He physically lifts a finger to imply, "Plus, it allows us to flesh these women out from more than what we already know."

Tsunade then reappears in front of the group to broadcast, "As of this moment, most of our manpower will be on this case. Understood?"

"Yes ma'am," The higher ranking officers responded in a unified manner before the blonde promptly dismissed, "Get to work".

[Kabuto]

"How are you feeling sir?" The silver haired male enquiringly questions once he enters inside of a darken room.

A mummified body wearily raised its upper body at the sight of light overhead plus the sound of noise.

"Like a brand new person." Orochimaru was softly muttering due to the tight cloth binding that was surrounding his face and body.

"Glad I could be of service, my Lord." Kabuto proudly chimes in with a smirk on his face as he approaches the man.

A golden eye tracks his companion's movement when he curiously poses, "Are there any developments on Kimimaro's end?"

A few "tings" softly echoes as metal connects with metal before the silver haired male faces his boss with a syringe in his hand.

"My contacts just informed me that two are currently in the hospital on stable condition." Kabuto dutifully reveals as he carefully inserts the needle through an open hole in the cloth.

Orochimaru visibly releases a sigh of frustration at the news before he solemnly voices, "Take care of them before I get a migraine."

"With pleasure, my lord." He cheerfully agrees at the idea that he was now in charge of the removal of his Lord's thorns in the side.

'Sheesh! Do I have to do everything myself?' Kabuto inwardly groaned at the lack of execution that Kimimaro recently displayed with his mission.

[KDEA]

Hinata leisurely enters inside of the interrogation room only to find Karin with a visibly daze expression present on her face.

"So they finally decided to corral us together." The red head teasingly alleges after she faces her former coworker as her daze look morphs to a placid facial expression.

"I've never been compared to an animal before." She honestly admits after she hears her friend use the word "corral" to describe their situation.

Karin deeply sighs, closes her eyes, leans against the chair and solemnly asserts, "There's a first for everything. So how long are you in for?"

A chuckle emits from the young lady, who then implies, "You make it sound as if we're in prison."

"Why not? At least you know you get an hour for recess and awesome slop food on a routine schedule. Besides, it's not like we can just up and walk oug on our own free will." The red head woman positively highlights the good things about being in prison.

Hinata briefly considers the possibility when she honestly acknowledges, "Good point".

"I've only ever been in jail, both county and city, but they say its way worse in prison. I think I could play the part of someone's girlfriend pretty well." The young woman sincerely retorts after she reveals where her stints took place at.

"What?!" The indigo haired woman astonishingly quips from the sincerity in Karin's tone.

She releases yet another sigh before she genuinely voices, "But I don't think I'm really cut out for it, Ice."

"Hey, do you know what love is?" The red head woman unexpectedly pops the question about the idea of love as her sights now land directly on the woman in front of her.

Her pearly white pupils glean shock from the topic of their conversation as she unintentionally utters, "Love?"

"Yeah, so there's this guy right that my friend doesn't know whether or not she likes like or love the guy. He's super freaking annoying, you know that digging and settling in your skin to fester kind of annoying? But anyway, he unexpectedly had this nice side that was gentle and caring." Karin spiels about her friend's predicament with the idea of love and a relationship.

"It completely scared my friend so much so that she constantly builds a wall around her heart. So…what should she do?" The young woman inquisitively poses to her friend while the light brightly reflects off of her glasses.

'It's so obvious that she's talking about herself.' Hinata instantly deemed since she already connected the guy's identity as none other than Suigetsu.

"Honestly, I don't know what love really is either. I mean, I've read of it in fairytales and seen it between others but personally no." The indigo haired woman gravely confesses with a shake of her head at her lack of personally knowledge about that particular emotion.

She then closes her eyes, releases a gentle sigh before she renders her verdict, "My opinion would do your friend more harm than good, but I would tell her to at least give it a chance."

"I see."

The vibration from her phone suddenly catches her attention as she casually reaches inside of her underwear and removes the device.

There was a simple message in all capital letters that read, "DUCK!"

[GEN POV]

A piercing "boom" was abruptly ricocheting through the lobby of the KDEA building. The loud noise prompts officers to quickly recollect themselves until the sight of masked people in black cloaks swiftly swarm in the room.

Gunshots were ripping through the chaotic scene as officers were instinctively reacting by drawing their service weapons.

Hinata hops to her feet, stalks over to the door and attempts to figure out the source of the noise. On the other hand, Karin speedily ducked under the table.

A series of "buzzes" prompt her to check the burner phone only to see the message display, "KNOCK OUT ICE".

Her red eyes occasionally stare at the phone screen then to her indigo haired friend until her need to survive immediately kicks in.

The red head casually approached the distracted woman, who peered out of the small window.

Her knuckles were turning ghastly white from tightly clutching the chair in her grasp. She then blantantly smashed it against her upper body.

Karin merely watches the woman's body limply crumple underneath her own weight before she aimlessly tosses aside the chair.

Another "buzz" catches her attention, "CRAWL LEFT TILL 1ST EXIT".

In the lobby…

Anko continuously glances around at her familiar surroundings until she finally locates her cubicle. The good thing is it was only a few inches from within her reach.

"Watch my six," She loudly yells at Kakashi over the "bangs" and "pows" that reverberates throughout their office space.

The pair simultaneously counts down to one as the slate haired male provides her with cover fire until she safely tumbles inside of her cubicle.

His good eye was unexpectedly catching sight of a long slender round barrel emerging from the door's opening. It was at that moment did she release a round into the unsuspecting ambushers.

"Where did you get that?!" Kakashi was astonishingly questioning at the image of the petite woman easily firing off a round of bullets from an extremely powerful gun.

"Saving it for a special occasion!" Anko happily asserts with a diabolical expression on her face while she answers his question.

"Who are these people anyway?!" Asuma irritably grumbles while he awkwardly leans off to the side of a cubicle and carefully aims his barrel at one of the intruders.

"Don't know." Both of them provided a similar answer before a "pow" along with a voice that painfully screamed, "Shit! I've been hit!".

"Ha! I got one in the knee." The purple haired woman gleefully exasperates as she manically chuckles and proceeds to fire off another round.

"How in the hell did you get that?!" The brunette haired male startlingly challenges at the sight of a ZB-53 within her possession.

"My personal secret," She adamantly declares with a devlish smirk on her face while she lovingly strokes the long barrel with her hand.

Interrogation Room

Karin deliberately crawled in places where dense objects were used to either block or slow the trajectory of the bullets down.

Her red eyes then glanced up to a brightly illuminated "EXIT" sign over a gray doorway.

She swiftly stumbles to her feet, deliberately throws her weight against the door and haphazardly tumbles down a handicap ramp.

"I know they always say make a grand entrance but not one where you fall completely on your ass." A familiar masculine voice sincerely lips along with a chuckle at the woman's ungraceful entrance.

Karin angrily hisses, "You're not in that fucking hell hole with bullets flying every damn where!"

"Look…as much as I would love to pick your brains, I have important news that mostly deal with your safety." Suigetsu calmly claims while he briefly peers down at his watch to check the time.

"Right about now...he should have extracted Hinata from that room." He softly utters to himself before he remembers that he was on a tight time schedule.

"Listen Karin, they're kidnapping Hinata under the guise that you somehow manage to escape from here."

"Do you remember the warehouse we always passed by whenever we have to go to Orochimaru? They're taking her there."

"Don't tell them until three days from now at exactly noon. Any earlier or later than the appointed time, they'll kill Ice." The white haired male speedily discloses critical information that he needs to relay in order for his plan to work.

His violet purple eyes then peek at his watch for the third time again when he issues her some instructions, "Go back in and pretend like you were there the entire time."

"But…" Karin was voicing because a lot of stuff was happening at a fast pace for her until she was on the receiving end of his yelling, "Go or I'll have to kill you!"

"Fine." She ultimately conceded to the idea as she turned around and headed back inside of the building.

'Good. She's safe.' Suigetsu mentally judges his additional part of the mission to be successful.

He then reached for the radio attached to his hip, clicked it on, fired a few shots at the wall and disclosed, "The back is all clear."

"Moving one package to the rear. Other package is unaccounted for." Kimimaro's voice emits from the device when his violet eyes glance over at the unmark van.

"Transport is ready." He reveals once he quickly slides inside of the van's driver seat, cranks it up, and patiently waits for the group to exit from the building.

"Move out,"

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Author's Note:

I will temporarily place this story on a one month hiatus since I want to write an actual awesome ending. And no, it's not because I'm not receding the amount of reviews I would like for the story because you all have been awesome about that. There are a lot of POVs that will be critical starting from now and I want to make sure that I deliver the right Drama and Mystery. Thanks for understanding. Feel free to read and review any of my other fanfictions for the time being.

Sincerely,

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