To me, this seemed a rather short chapter. I hope it's alright. I also rewrote the outline, but there won't be any changes to the first two chapters, just a different storyline from here on, though the basic storyline is still the same. But of course, you guys never saw the original storyline. Lol. Again, I hope you enjoy.
I own only the storyline and how OOC everyone is, nothing else. The characters belong to their respective owner. Yeah.
Chapter 3:
The drive to the police station was not a fun one and by the time they got the there, Sasuke was completely convinced of his loathing of Karen and Hinata. While one was loud and obnoxious, the other was extremely quite and shy, but when she did say something, it always related back to Naruto. Whether Naruto realized this or not, Sasuke couldn't tell. Either way, it ticked him off. Badly.
"Sasuke Uchiha," Sasuke said as he held up his ID card to the guard at the counter of the police station. He nodded and waved him forward. "He's with me," he added when the guard asked Naruto what he was doing there.
He opened the door for Naruto and walked through it himself, leaving Hinata and Karen outside as Karen searched for her ID card in her handbag.
For the second day in a row, Sasuke and Naruto wound their way through the throngs of people to Kakashi's office. As they neared the door, a tall woman intervened.
"I'm sorry, Superintendent Hatake is currently unavailable and he has asked me to not allow any unauthorized personnel into his private office," said Chief Inspector Kurenai. Sasuke pouted.
"Thanks. Could you tell him later that I came?" Sasuke replied as he turned back, not caring whether Kurenai gave his message or not.
"What are we going to do now?" Naruto asked as he caught up to Sasuke who was now heading out of the station.
"I'm going to go check out the crash scene," he replied, glancing at the blonde that walked beside him. "You don't have to come if you don't want to."
"No, no. I have to go," Naruto retorted. "I want to help." Sasuke sighed.
"Fine." Naruto grinned. At this point, Karen, having finally found her ID card, came bustling, Hinata in tow.
"Ah, Sasuke! Did you find Kakashi?" Karen asked. Sasuke glared at her. "Fine then! I'll just go back to work!" And she stalked off, looked back over her shoulder to see what kind of an impact she had made. The damage was zero.
After nodding to Naruto and ignoring Sasuke, Hinata quickly trotted off toward Kakashi's office and Kurenai allowed her in. A maid was always welcome to clean up the Superintendent's office.
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After returning to his flat to retrieve his car, Sasuke was now driving his car down the crowded of the main city and to the site of the crash. Naruto sat silently in the passenger's seat, observing the scenes outside of the car.
"What happened this morning?" Sasuke asked suddenly. He looked over at Naruto to see his reaction. "Sorry." Naruto look up.
"Nah, it's all right," he replied, then paused before continuing. "We were moving to America because of my dad had gotten a job offer there. The company even offered to give us a house to live in. It seemed like a good deal." Naruto smirked. "The income was pretty nice too.
"We were going to the airport today. On the way we stopped over at a cafe to have a small meal. Actually, Hinata works there part-time, we had a chat while we were there. She asked where I was going and I told her about us moving. She didn't seem too happy about it, for some reason."
How thick can you get? Though Sasuke, but he said nothing and instead nodded, letting Naruto continue.
"After we finished eating, we bought some water and continued to the airport." He looked out the window again. "It was raining hard." They were now coming up to the section of road where the accident had happened. Sasuke slowed his car to a stop, pulling the keys out of the engine as he opened the door and stepped out. Naruto did the same. The blonde walked over to the dented guardrail, running his hand over it.
"A person jumped out from over there," he said, gesturing to the other side of the road where there were bushes, large enough to conceal a person. "Dad swerved and hit the guardrail here. I was unconscious for the most part. A few minutes later I came around just as another car was driving up. They were the ones that called the police." He looked back at Sasuke. "That's about it."
Sasuke nodded as he walked over to where Naruto stood and patted the blonde's back.
"You okay?"
"Mmm. Should be soon," the blonde replied, but though he grinned Sasuke could see the sadness just under the surface. Not knowing what to do, he looked up the road, back the way they had come. Back the way Minato and Kushina had come and not returned. The raven stretched out an arm, using it to trace the route they had come. He frowned. The trajectory was wrong.
"What's wrong?" Naruto asked.
"The angle is wrong," he mumbled back, still wondering why it was wrong. "If they'd driven down here," he said pointing that section of road, "and swerved at this point, the impact of the guardrail wouldn't have been that hard."
"It was raining though. The car probably slid further, faster."
"Even so, the grass here would have provided enough friction to prevent any major damage, and certainly prevent death. Which would probably also explain why you, and you alone, survived that crash."
Naruto frowned.
"So what happened then? Why did they," his voiced trailed off.
"Die?" Sasuke asked. Naruto nodded.
"Yeah, why did they?"
"I really don't--" Sasuke started to say, but he was interupted by his ringing phone. He flicked it open. It was Kakashi. He scowled and answered.
"Why the hell are you calling me now?" he said. He heard chuckling on the other side of the line.
"If you're mad about me not being there, well, I'm not going to apologize. What I was doing was really important to this case.," Kakashi said.
"Really? How so?"
"Why don't you and Naruto come in, and I'll tell you," the Superintendent said, laughingly.
"Hell, no," came the reply, making Kakashi laugh even more. "Why don't you just tell me now and save me the gas going to the station?" Kakashi stopped laughing and sighed.
"Fine."
He told him, and Sasuke went pale, glancing at Naruto.
"Kay, we'll be right there." Not waiting for an answer, Sasuke ended the call and flipped closed his phone.
"What is it?" asked Naruto. He'd only been able to hear part of the conversation. Sasuke paused before saying anything, trying to figure out how to say it right.
"The autopsy team found, uh, foreign agents in the bodies of your parents. Minato and Kushina survived the crash, but they were killed with poison."
How was that? Did you expect it? As I said at the beginning, it is a rather short chapter, but I'm hoping to make the tones in the future longer. Cheers.
