Warning: Yaoi: but do we really need a warning for that at this point?
I don't own Naruto, or Sasuke… dammit.
Sorry everyone, it's been a long time since I updated anything … My life has been shit lately, I won't bore you with the details, (I'm sure everyone agrees covid has been hell). Someone left me a terrible hurtful review and I was a little oversensitive about it but oh well I'm over it. I appreciate all the good reviews though and I hope you guys enjoy this :)
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I will try my best to get back into the grove of writing this, though I haven't seen this show in forever… but I still have a soft spot in my heart for this pairing and I promised y'all I'd finish it so here we go.
Onward!
Helping People
It's So Much Harder When They're Cranky
"We need to find his body, he says it's in his headmaster's basement, in the crawl space," Naruto shuddered, "That guy is one creepy mother fucker."
"Orochimaru?" Itachi's hands clenched into fists, "I knew that damn bastard had something to do with Sasuke's disappearance, but I could never find any evidence. Are you sure the body's still there?"
Sasuke shrugged, "All I know is that he put it there, he has no real reason to move it."
Naruto smiled, "Pretty sure."
Itachi smirked rather evilly, "Let's go arrest his ass… or better yet, let's go shoot him in the face."
"Itachi," His boyfriend admonished, good-naturedly, "Hi, I never introduced myself, I'm Deidara" he proffered his hand to Naruto.
"Naruto Uzumaki," he gestured over his shoulder to Sasuke that no one else could see, "and this is Sasuke."
"A pleasure."
Chapter 11
"Okay, to arrest him we need to find evidence," Itachi began pacing "He moved his video porn collection or something because we couldn't find it. However a guy like that would never get rid of his trophies entirely, so they're either in another location or on his computer."
"Probably both actually, especially if he still uses them to dissuade disobedience" the detective sat on the couch with Sasuke pulled close to his side, "Babe, will you be up to doing some recon for us? Going to Orochimaru's house and snooping around for any money trails to storage units and the like?" He rubbed Sasuke's shoulder in a calming manner, "It'll likely be very traumatizing and I'm really sorry about that but you're our best chance since you're invisible."
"Yeah, I think I can do that," Sasuke took a deep breath and steeled his resolve. "What about Tobi? He's in the FBI too and I'm sure in the past he did all he could to hide evidence and thwart the investigation."
"Who the fuck is Tobi?" Naruto scoffed, not remembering their conversation at the hotel the other day.
"Tobi, as in cousin Tobi?" Itachi asked, "Does he have something to do with this?"
At Sasuke's raised eyebrow, Naruto remembered, "Oh right, He hit Sasuke over the head with a lamp when he was about to escape, and he's probably been running interference with the investigation."
"That bastard."
"We need something to tie two respected members of society to the heinous crimes of rape, murder and a child pornography, human trafficking ring, one of them a fed, and I have no idea how I'm going to do that. It's got to be big; irrefutable, I don't want either of them to walk free to do this to someone else."
"Well we have the body right? Won't that be enough?"
"Depends on what there is for forensic evidence probably, Sasuke remembers there being a drain in the torture room so it's not likely there's blood for evidence and this was fifteen years ago now, any evidence to be found lying around the crime scene is long gone. Did you guys not find the suspicious room in the basement?"
"Nope, not sure what he did with it."
"A room like that doesn't just disappear and a predator like that doesn't just stop, I'm sure he's still up to his sick games we just have to find his more recent victims. We wouldn't be allowed to interview minors currently enrolled in the school without an ongoing investigation but maybe Kakashi can help us."
"I have another question though, why did you think your brother had just disappeared? Kakashi told me you always believed he was out there somewhere and you would find him, he was well adjusted had plans to attend college. Did you think he just ran away?"
"The night Sasuke disappeared our father received an anonymous tip that he was involved in an inappropriate relationship with his history teacher, when he confronted my brother about this they had a fight and Sasuke threatened to leave and never come back. So when he ran off and never returned I figured he made good on his threat. Needless to say, Kakashi was at the top of my list of suspects until I met el creepo and he gave me the heebie-jeebies.
Sasuke went to sneak into Orochimaru's house again, this time the results wouldn't be fatal, Naruto was waiting close by ready to offer any emotional support should the trauma prove too much for the ghost to handle. He didn't really feel comfortable asking Sasuke to do this, it seemed like the spirit was one big push away from complete disintegration but the detective had little choice without evidence for a warrant anything they found snooping around would be inadmissible in court anyway.
In order to be granted permission to dig up the basement of an upstanding citizen with no record they would need a hell of a probable cause, like something that places Sasuke in Orochimaru's house the night of his death. Any prints would be gone, no eyewitnesses would have forgotten by now, this was a very cold case and extremely frustrating. They needed some sort of smoking gun and fast.
Sasuke found a bill for a storage unit, waiting to be paid, on the kitchen table. Orochimaru had been careful, always paying in cash to void a paper trail and opening to unit under a fake name but he still had the bill sent to his house. At the storage unit they found box after box of tapes documenting Orochimaru's perversion, tapes that Naruto could barely bring himself to watch. While watching one tape they got lucky when they saw the headmaster's partner on the tape, engaging in illegal activity. They finally had something linking Tobi to the whole debacle and could finally get a warrant to search Orochimaru's house with probable cause.
During the search they discovered the torture room, the door had been covered with drywall to hide it, and the crawl space still containing Sasuke's body with incriminating evidence still present thanks to it being wrapped in a plastic tarp this whole time. Complete with two sets of fingerprints as well as DNA evidence since the perpetrators didn't bother using a condom for someone they planned to murder.
When both killers had been arrested and handed over to Itachi for processing the mood between Naruto and his best friend was somber. With tears in his eyes, Naruto was waiting for the other shoe to drop, for Sasuke to disappear like he almost did when they met Itachi.
"I don't want you to go,"
"I know, I don't want to go either but I can feel a pulling on my soul, I don't think I have much choice."
Clutching at Sasuke's spirit like a lifeline, Naruto could feel him slipping away and started to sob, "Please, please … I'll do anything don't leave me."
"I love you, I'll always be with you," form translucent now, Sasuke's voice was fading, "wait for me, my soul will always find you." with those words he faded away, becoming nothing more than a memory and Naruto started to scream.
Five Years Later
The Dallas sun was blistering as Naruto strolled down the street clutching a bouquet of sunflowers, it was the anniversary of the day the love of his life disappeared, and he always got flowers to remember Sasuke by and put them in his window. He had learned many things in the last five years, that his godmother had realized Sasuke was real because of a teddy bear placed in his room at the hospital. That his captain, Iruka, loved him like a son and supported him in all his endeavors, but somehow with all the things he'd learned, he couldn't learn to move on.
The wound in his soul had not lessened in the five years since it happened, it was still raw, still agonizing despite numerous set up attempts by well-meaning coworkers and friends. Naruto's heart just wasn't here anymore.
Out of the corner of his eye he saw a child running up to him at a rapid pace giggling, he looked to be about four with spiked black hair. "Whoa there kiddo," he cautioned as he forestalled the kid's headlong trajectory straight into the sidewalk.
"Found you! I found you!" the child squealed with glee, holding onto the detective's leg
A pretty dark-haired woman, which Naruto could only assume was the child's mother hurried his way, "Sasuke! You can't just run off and accost strangers!"
"It's okay ma'am, I'm a police officer," Naruto squatted down to the kid's level heart caught in his throat, "You're mother's right though, you should beware of strangers kid." he chastised in a gentle tone.
"You're not a stranger, you're my dobe!"
"Is that so? Well there's something I'd like you to have if it's okay with your mom," The woman looked skeptical yet nodded. He took off his blue crystal necklace that he'd never removed since his godmother had given it to him so long ago, and put it around the young boy's neck. "This necklace belonged to a friend of mine but I'm sure he'd want you to have it, it's a symbol kid, a reminder to be wary of strangers but always trust a policeman to protect you if you need it, okay?" The detective smiled and handed him the bouquet, "These flowers too, you like those?"
"Yeah! They remind me of you, tall and yellow on top!"
"My friend used to tell me that too kid."
With one last smile at the little tyke, Naruto pushed him gently closer to his mom, heart light at the thought of Sasuke finally finding happiness. "If you're ever in trouble ask for Naruto at the police station."
After one last look behind him and a jovial wave Naruto stepped off the sidewalk and got hit by a bus. With the darkness descending, his last thought was of his love.
"My soul will find yours, wait for me."
The End
Author's note
I've been watching a bit too much NCIS on netflix and SVU on hulu … it makes me hate the world … And I watched the whole of Brooklyn 99 which I surprisingly loved :D. Dammit now I wish I would've saved Tsunade for the role of captain Holt T-T
Okay, I know this took me a LONG time to write and I apologize. Hope it was worth the wait? But this chapter is probably boring with too much explanation and not enough humor and I apologize but it mostly needed to be done. Wow the end got sad, sorry about that.
I'll get started on something more entertaining and post it here or on AO3 or both I'm unsure at this point.
I've decided to branch out and write something new in a different fandom but haven't completely made my choice as of yet … I have such a strange conglomeration of ships it's a little ridiculous! I am trying to chose between Stranger Things (Harringrove) and The Witcher (Geralt/Jaskier) at the moment. I am still writing the rest of my Naruto works with a couple spin-offs of Rules of the Bathroom so don't despair.
My love goes out to all my reviewers, thanks for all the encouragement.