"I cannot believe it! What do you mean, you're sorry?", Sasuke growled at his brother Itachi. "I want to know where she is! You're the fucking police get me that information!", black eyes bored into another pair. Itachi's face hardened eventhough he felt pity for his brother.
"Someone drugged that guy that was in charge of looking at the livestream of your house. He is now in hospital because of that. Also we did not find a single thing that would lead us to Sakura.", he said with a serious tone but Sasuke was about to explode.
"You did not find a single thing? Are you for real? Look around!", he yelled while waving around. "Look at all that blood on the floor, the walls, the stairs, for god's sake!", anger boiled inside of him.
"We'll find her, Sasuke. Let's all calm down and trust in your brother and father.", Neji's calm voice came from behind and he placed a hand soothingly on Sasuke's shoulder.
"Fuck off, Neji! I...", just as he was about to explode one more time at his brother and his colleagues Naruto yelled.
"Sasuke! Get here, now!".
Sasuke knew how devastated Naruto was when they opened the door and were greeted by broken vases, torn curtains, shifted tables. But what really got to him were the bloody knife on the floor and the bullet hole in the wall and all the bloody places here and there. The blonde started screaming and crying, running all around the place to find his beloved pink haired cousin, crying out for her.
Their rooms were upside down, but they did not care to look if someone stole anything. All they cared about was where Sakura was.
Sasuke and Neji quickly walked to Naruto. His eyes were red, showing how worried he was about her.
"Your father just said that they have the tapes from the last days. It happened today. We were just a little too late. If we only drove faster maybe...", his voice crackled and Sasuke placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder and looked at his father. "Show us the tapes.".
His Father, Fugaku, hesitated as he looked at Kiba, Neji and Shikamaru. "Show us, we all live here.", he growled getting tired of everyone acting so slow.
"Are you sure, that you want to see it? It gets pretty... intense.", he said carefully and all the boys nodded but never did they think that they would see something like that.
"Kabuto, my colleague, is in charge of the tapes. He cut those videos so that we can see when they walked into which room.", he said while opening the laptop and pressed on play. They watched as a man opened hastily the door and closed it behind him, how he looked around the kitchen and slowly walked the up the stairs.
They saw a happy Sakura running across the garden into their house. They saw the way she stopped and yelled, calling out for them.
"She thought it was us.", Kiba said and a tear fell down his cheek.
They saw her worried face and how she took the knifes, heard her yelling once more and how she turned around to walk quickly back into the garden.
"The next few minutes you're not able to see a lot, as the camera only catches a little of the poolhouse. I'll go faster now a little, because there is a ten minute pause."
Naruto's hand tightly gripped the shirt on Sasuke's lower back. No one said a single word.
Fugaku normalised the video's speed and a few seconds later you were able to see Sakura running down the garden again.
Then someone jumped at her back.
"Oh my god.", Naruto whispered. "Sasuke!", he looked pleadingly into his best friend's black eyes. Sasuke wanted to cry but couldn't show off his feelings when he knew that Naruto would need now someone to be strong for him.
"How did he get there? Are there no recordings of him going into the poolhouse?", Shikamaru asked and looked at Sasuke's father and now everyone looked at him. Fugaku stopped the recordings one more time. "He probably jumped out of the window of the fourth room. We found out that the window was opened and he took the chance to climb out of it. There are no cameras that catch that angle." He pressed play again.
The guys gasped at the video of Sakura trying to fight her opponent and when she slammed her head against that man's Neji proudly said "Thank god she did that!", when that blonde guy let go of her.
They watched in agony the way Sakura ran inside the house and the whole crew that was in the house did not say anything when they heard Sakura yell and plead on the tapes.
"That's her ex. It must be him.", Shikamaru whispered with a thick voice and the guys nodded.
Sakura ran upstairs while that blonde man slowly walked after her. They watched as she walked into the storage room.
"Why on earth would she go in there!", Sasuke angrily spitted out the words and rampaged at his girlfriend's stupid idea of hiding in the probably smalles room of the house.
"What... the hell? Did he not see her there?", he asked trying to calm his nerves.
"She hid in the place where I always hide my ramen.", Naruto's voice crackled at the thought of his baby cousin sitting in that cold hole all by herself, wishing for nothing but for someone to help her.
Fugaku sped the tape again once more. "She'll come out now. Kabuto changed the perspective here. This gets more disturbing, I want to warn you guys.".
They watched the petite young woman slowly walk towards the stairs and how her ex-boyfriend sneaked up behind her, the moment she turned around, her face full of fear and he pushed her down the stairs.
Sasuke's mouth opened and a strange noise came out. He wouldn't let the others see him cry, he had to be strong. For Naruto, for Sakura, but especially for himself.
The perspective changed again and they saw her falling down the stairs in three perspectives.
"Don't you think one time is enough!", Naruto cried.
"We need these different angles. We need to know exactly where she fell and if she maybe broke bones with that fall. It helps us to understand her medical situation.", Fugaku's deep voice sounded completely professionel.
"Oh my god, I can't. I'm sorry, I cannot look at how much she has gone through!", Kiba cried, too and walked away with Neji following him.
"It'll get even worse, Sasuke.", his father said. "Are you sure you want to see the rest?"
"Just play it!", Naruto answered. The video showed now the perspective of the hallway, you could clearly see blood on the stairs. "We do not know that for sure, but we are 90% sure that this blood comes from her back. In the beginning she placed a knife there, remember?", the three boys nodded.
The next minutes their heart broke into a million pieces as they watched Sakura fighting for her life, the way Dean nearly shot her, when she finally pulled that little knife out and tried to stab him, when she realised that she didn't have enough energy to do it right and slumped down only for him to grab her hair and slam her face a final time against the wall.
Shikamaru left them alone the minute Dean grabbed her hair. Both boys now looked at the wall. There was blood on it, quite a lot, Sasuke thought to himself.
"These are the last moments we know where your girlfriend was, son. I am sorry.", Fugaku explained as Naruto was having a mental breakdown watching Dean grab one of Sakura's legs and walk to the door while she slid on the floor, leaving a trail of light rose colour behind her like a slug. Her eyes were closed, her face bleeding big time.
Naruto loosened his grip on Sasuke's shirt to put his hands on his head and got on his knees. He cried and seemed to hyperventilate. If it was possible Sasuke turned even paler as realisation hit him. His mouth went dry, he couldn't even blink anymore.
"There is no footage of entrance outside of the house. He shot the camera. That man.." Sasuke interrupted him. "His name is Dean.", he whispered.
"Dean must have wanted this to be filmed.".
Sasuke's heart beat loud and fast, he was sure he would die now any second of an heartattack.
His lips quivered "Is... is she...", he was sure if he spoke it out loud it would turn into truth but Fugaku waited for his son to end the sentence.
"Is she dead?", the last word came out as a squeak and Fugaku took a deep breath.
"Due to our information of the footage it seems that she has lost lots of blood. This and the fact that he slammed her head so hard against the wall that it crackled a little underneath it, we must assume that your girlfriend and your cousin", he looked at Naruto who's eyes were glued to the floor. "could be dead.".
Hearing his father speaking out these hurtful words Sasuke's eyes widened shocked and filled with tears.
He was now sure that his heart would burst and all feelings he ever felt before came back twice. His head started to spin and now it was his time to hyperventilate.
"Calm down, Sasuke, please.", his father said in stern voice.
"CALM! YOU WANT ME TO BE FUCKING CALM!", he yelled so loud that all the officers stared at him. "How can you be so cruel! It is your job to..", Itachi slowly placed his hands from behind on Sasuke's shoulders.
"You are right, little brother. It is our job to keep calm in stressful situations. We are doing everything in our power to find them. But I must say that this situation is pretty clear. He threatened her and from what our profiler says he seems like a person that makes his threats come true. He did not show any sign of mercy, we must assume the worst now."
If there was just one piece not broken it would be now. Sasuke's anger rose and he was close to beat Itachi when he felt a cold, wet hand touch his.
It was Naruto.
His blue eyes were red from crying, he looked as if someone stole his heart.
"Stop it. It's not their fault.", he said hoarsely. "She is not dead. She can't be."
"But what if she is!", black eyes radiated anger.
"I won't accept that.", he took a deep breath. "As long as I don't see her dead body with my own eyes. She must be alive and I want you to fucking think that, too!", Naruto growled back.
"I will hunt him down.", Sasuke mumbled, his energy leaving him. "Please don't do something rash. We are already searching for them, brother. We need you to focus now on yourselves. It's better the media doesn't know anything about this, because as soon as it's on the internet or on TV he'll easily get his information how far we already got.", Naruto and Sasuke nodded tiredly and Itachi and Fugaku talked about evidence and tracks.
The two best friends looked at each other, both thought the same.
"We will find her.", Sasuke said.
"We must find her." Naruto approved.