Hello everyone. I haven't updated this in 2 years. I have no excuses other than me not being interested in fanfiction anymore. And that's the truth. But I found the love back. Have been reading a lot of Final Fantasy VII fanfiction a lot lately and because of that I really felt I had to continue this story. So here's the new chapter. I hope you enjoy. I'm not gonna give you a date when I'll get chapter 5 up, because I know that's not gonna work for me, haha.
Warnings/disclaimers and stuff in the other chapters. I don't feel like repeating them.
Chapter 4: Don't worry, be happy
'I'd rather not if you don't mind,' Itachi remarks back at Kisame. 'She wasn't talking shit!' Kisame says still looking at the headline with a very shocked expression on his face. 'Obviously.'
'What does it say?' Sasuke leans in to read what is under the headline. After three seconds his eyes get wide as he continues his reading. If possible, his eyes are even wider after finishing the article. 'By the look on your face, I assume that it is not true?' Sasuke asks him cautiously, but he already knows the answer.
The older Uchiha sighs. 'Wonderful.' 'That woman is a smart one Itachi. She set you up. Probably wanting money from you.' Itachi shakes his head to what Kisame is saying. 'I don't think she wants money. I think she wants something else.' Sasuke blinks. 'What do you mean by that, Itachi?' Kisame nudges the younger Uchiha with his shoulder. 'I think your big brother should hide himself from the police, Sasuke. Maybe we have to hide ourselves as well.'
The older Uchiha shakes his head to the words of the drummer. 'I haven't done anything, so I don't think that something like that would be necessary,' he sighs. 'Let's go and go to our hotel room and discuss this further over there. I don't want any prying ears on this matter.'
The band follows Itachi as he walks to the room he and Sasuke are sharing. They all sit on the bed. Itachi supports his head on his hand and looks at Sasuke, who is about to say something. 'Where to go? Police station?' Sasuke asks slowly. 'I have the feeling I won't have to go to them, but that they'll find me.' Itachi answers his little brother.
Itachi overthinks the entire case. He could turn himself in and get into jail, but he knows he hasn't done anything. They would probably not have any evidence against him. He did not have sex with Charlene, so no semen or any traces of any kind would be found. No bruises, no semen, no nothing, no traces at all. So what's there to worry anyway? The raven thought.
'I don't like this at all, 'Tachi.' Kisame says suddenly. The big man gets up from the bed and paces the room. 'Y'know, I have the feeling that this is not gonna be so easy and all.' He looks the raven directly in the eyes as he says this.
Itachi gives him somewhat of a smile. 'Don't worry Kisame.' Although he does not agree with what he's saying himself at all. Kisame is right. Something is really, really odd about all of this. Itachi approaches the drummer and tries to reassure him with a hand on the man's shoulder. It seems to calm the drummer, who is returning to the bed. Itachi is the one who keeps standing n the middle of the room, though.
Suddenly the band members hear a loud bang on the door. Another one. And then voices. 'Itachi Uchiha, Police! Open up the door!' a authoritative sounding voice yells from the other side of the door to their hotel room. Itachi calmly moves to it and twists the doorknob to open up the door. A man in a police uniform is standing right in front of him. 'Itachi Uchiha?' he questions, although Itachi is sure the police officer knows it's him already.
Itachi gives the man a nod with his head. 'Yes, that would be me.' 'Sir, you are under suspicion of assault and rape. We are here to arrest you to be questioned at the police station,' the an announces. He tells Itachi that he has the right to get a lawyer and anything that he says can be used against him while his hands are getting cuffed, the calm look from before still evident on his face.
Other policemen are entering the room as well as Itachi is taking away by the man who cuffed him just now. Sasuke approaches one of the policemen. 'Where are they going to take him? I'm his brother, I would like to know,' he says with a pleading look on his face. The police officer gives the boy before him a small smile. 'He is to be taken to the police station near to this hotel where he will be questioned. You can go there, but are not allowed to travel with us by policecar. You have to wait till the questioning is over.' Sasuke gives the man a nod and turns to Kisame and Deidare to give them the news. The drummer and bassist are sitting with a dumbfounded look on their faces. Frozen on their spot on the bed.
'Why didn't we do anything to stop them from taking Itachi,' Deidara almost scream, finally realization kicking in. 'Don't worry, it will be fine like Itachi said,' says the only raven left in the room. 'They will question him and let him go, because there won't be any evidence. Besides, if you would've struggled against the arrest of Itachi, they would've arrested you as well. And I don't think I could handle that, Deidara.'
'Hmm, I guess you're right.' The blond man gives Sasuke a wink, trying to loosen up the tension in the room a bit.
Meanwhile, Itachi is taking into the elevator by the police officer that put him into the handcuffs. Not a word is spoken as the man pushes the button for the ground floor. Itachi wiggles his wrists around. He definitely doesn't like the feeling of being handcuffed. They reach the ground floor and he sees another police officer standing in the lobby. He thinks about how it is a bit ridiculous that they need so many cops to take him in. He is not struggling at all against his binds. He can see the police car standing on the curb outside the hotel. He searches for paparazzi, but can't find any. Which is, of course, a good think. He doesn't want his photograph in the paper as well. The policeman takes him to the car and he is pushed inside. The engine starts running and they go on their way.
As they reach the police station Itachi is immediately taken to a interrogation room. The room consist of a steel table and two stairs facing each other. A man wearing a brownish suit is already sitting on one of the chairs. The policeman guides the raven to the other one and takes his handcuffs off. Itachi rubs both his wrists when they are free, glad that he can move his arms freely again.
'Good day, Mr. Uchiha. My name is John Freeland and I'm the detective on this case. Do you know the reason why you are here?' The man says once Itachi is seated. He has dark brown hair, stubble on his chin and a permanent frown on his face. Itachi guesses he's about 45 years old. The raven gives the man a silent nod. 'Good, I will tell you anyway. You are under suspicion of the assault and rape of Charlene Goodman.' What an ironic name he thinks.
Itachi shifts in his seat and tries to get a bit more comfortable. But with the hard steel stairs he quickly feels like that is going to be impossible. The man, John, speaks again. 'Can you tell what you have done that day?' Itachi looks directly into the man's eyes and says 'I had a performance with my band that night. I ended around 11 o'clock and then we went to our hotel by car.' John observes the way the raven speaks, trying to find any signs of him lying. 'Continue, please.'
'At the hotel the drummer of my band, Kisame, asked me to go out with him. He lead me to a place called The Matrix. Apparently it was a sex club.' The older man in front of him nods. 'And what did you do there?' he asks. 'We went to the VIP lounge, above the dancefloor. We got a drink and Kisame took off with a girl. I was left alone and went to sit at the bar. That's when I met Charlene. I bought her a drink and talked to her. She asked me to learn her how to play guitar, I refused and she got mad and threatened me, saying she knew who I was and wanted to blackmail me. That's when I left. And that's all that happened.'
'Were you aware of the fact that she was prostitute?' Itachi answers with a 'no'. 'Were you aware of the fact that The Matrix should be, in fact, just a 'normal' club, where prostitution is strictly forbidden?' 'I thought it was a sex club, because of what I saw around me. So, to answer your question, no.'
'Do you have any witnesses that you know of who can confirm this story you just told me?' John asks. 'The barman can confirm that I was talking to Charlene and he saw me leaving. My drummer can confirm that we left as well,' Itachi states. 'Can I ask you something?' he asks. The older man gives a nod. 'Do you have any evidence that I even touched the woman?'
The detective sighs. 'I'm sorry Mr. Uchiha, but I can't answer your question. This is, of course, confidential. I would like to take DNA samples from your body, though. This can be done without your consent, as this is concerning a sexual offence.'
'That's fine by me.' Itachi knows he has the right to get an attorney, but thinks this isn't really necessary. This would only cost him a lot of money.
In the lobby of the police station, the rest of the band is waiting for an answer to their question when they would release Itachi. 'Man, Itachi better be done within one hour, otherwise I'm fucking dragging him out of the station,' Deidara complains. They've been waiting for two hours already, without anyone willing to give them any information concerning Itachi. Kisame grunts at Deidara's remark. 'This is fucking madness! I'm tired of this shit. It's taking too damn long.' The drummer gets up from his seat and storms with heavy bonking feet to the counter, where a blond woman in her thirties is looking at him, unfazed by the normally intimidating appearance of Kisame. 'Sir, take a seat. I do not have any information for you just yet,' the woman says calmly. 'This shit is taking too long!' the big man snarls at her. 'Sir, I will not allow you to talk to me in that way. If you continue I'll call someone to arrest you.'
Sasuke sniggers quietly at the situation in front of him. The woman must be used to people like Kisame a lot, he thinks. Kisame grunts at the woman in disapproval and takes a seat again. 'Damn woman,' he says out loud when he plops down in the chair next to Deidara.
They sit in silence for another half hour, before they hear a piercing sound coming from the speaker on the wall. 'To the very rude big man sitting in the lobby and his friends, please come to the counter,' they hear a woman's voice saying sarcastically.
Sasuke immediately gets up from his seat and hurries to the counter. 'Hello dear', the woman says sweetly, showing an entirely different personality to him than to Kisame. 'I have information concerning Itachi Uchiha. He will be released in two hours.' Sasuke gives the woman a quick smile and thanks her.