"Three months, five days and four hours to the second since I've had a case" groaned the exasperated Haruno Sakura. She sat in her office staring at the round, white clock on the wall above the window. Papers were scattered across the room, nothing was organised at all- Just the way she liked it. Sakura liked to think of herself as a detective who could solve cases on her intuition and gut feeling alone. Maybe that was why she hadn't had many cases recently… Sakura confided herself by glancing at the diplomas on her wall and the medals she'd won. She was the best private detective there was this side of town. She couldn't say as much for the other side.

"Cuso! Damn that Uchiha!" She wailed, punching her desk. Next door her secretary winced; Sakura had been having many of these outbursts recently, it had cost much of the little she earned to replace what Sakura damaged in her rage. It hadn't always been like this, Sakura was once inundated with case requests. Suspicious house wives, jealous boyfriends, recovering lost family members, tracking down childhood sweet hearts and even looking for escaped pets. She'd done some pretty huge cases, investigating huge scandals within dominant and tyrannical companies and politics. She however had preferred to handle the personal cases. Sakura liked to see the smiles on her clients' faces when she told them the good news.

Sadly, since the revolution none of her clients left smiling. Missing person cases were everywhere, she couldn't help any of them. Her heart was tearing apart; these people had come to her; hoping and praying for the best so they had come to the best. These families, their loved ones had disappeared without a trace. She had looked for anything, anything. But it was no good those who went missing stayed missing.

She blamed the new government, what were they playing at? In her opinion if they couldn't look after the country they shouldn't have taken the country. Only five years ago this had been a prospering and successful country. The other countries envied how good life was here. Ironically it was the only country still ruled by a Monarchy; the rest had moved away from royalty and were led by parliaments and senates. The Monarchy had been the prestigious Hyuga family- famed for their kind judgement, strict family values and their looks. Each Hyuga was very beautiful; they had iridescent pale skin, thick dark hair and pale lavender eyes. Their pearly orbs were a subject of much gossip during their reign though they kept the true implications of their eye genetics a secret to the country.

Before the revolution a dispute began between the main house and the branch house. Many of the branch family felt that the heiress; Hinata; was unfit to rule the country. She was a small timid girl who shied away from the position as heiress. Sadly this was not the main reason for the dispute, the small girl was blind. The branch family believed the younger sister, Hanabi, would be a better choice for leader. The King wanted to support his small child, he insisted that she would take her rightful place, he would train her to be the best diplomat, she didn't need to see to pass judgement. In his eyes it would eliminate prejudice of appearance when she was called upon to make a decision.

Still the Branch family rebelled and within the year the King had to give into their demands. He was due to publicly announce his decision during the month of July but on the date of the 22nd of June the youngest Hyuga had gone missing. When the word reached the public all hell broke loose. Most of the population were royalist supporters but rumours of betrayal and deception spread like wild fire across the land. A revolutionist under the alias of Yuriko Kojima had taken the country by storm, whipping up a frenzy among the citizens, Yuriko claimed that the main house had disposed of their own child Hanabi in order to keep Hinata on the thrown. The siege of the palace began, many mourning for the disappearance of the young, popular princess. Makyō no Ran, war of evil men or so the tabloids had called it.

Yuriko soon usurped the throne and became the self declared Danna or Master. The revolution had been quick as the Hyugas had swiftly lost popularity and power, their undoing left Yuriko-Danna free to do anything with the now economically unstable country. Within two years of Yuriko's reign people began to go missing and Sakura's business went down the drain.

Sakura hated this new world, though she was still young she had been a detective for eight years. It had been her life and her passion she would do anything to keep herself in the detective business. She had pulled herself into this business with her own two hands and she would stay her, even if it meant digging her nails into any case, no matter how bad, that came her way. She would drag her feet all the way out. Haruno Sakura was here to stay. She took her eyes off the clock she had been absent mindedly keeping her eyes on while day dreaming. She glanced downwards and out the window, the sky was grey.

"Same old same old" she muttered. The sky was always dark these days; she hadn't seen summer since she was a child. It sleeted nearly everyday. She could never work out why the weather seemed hell bent on making her grumpy, never sun and never real snow. She glowered at the slush on the windowsill and went to slam the window closed, cutting out the sound of roaring traffic crawling sluggishly below. She felt extremely peeved today. Her cereal had been soggy, her coffee spilt all over her new white shirt and her car refused to start. She hated days like this.

"Well it cant get any worse" she snarled as she got back to filling in forms. Beep… Beep… "Miss Haruno, a Mrs Nara is here to see you. Miss Haruno?? Shall I send her in?" Sakura wondered what Ino could be doing here at this time, she never made work called. Ino hated the dreary office and the smell of printing inks from the photocopying room next door. Once Ino had been a highly respected journalist partnered with the famous photographer Nara Shikamaru, they had tackled any story together and soon fell in love. They had a fairytale life, only having eyes for eachother and their beautiful daughter Sachiko. "Miss Haruno? Hello are you there? Shall I send her in?" the voice broke her thoughts she pressed the intercom button.

"Yes thank you Kimi send her in" she took her finger off the button and waited for Ino's loud commanding voice to fill her small quiet office.

Step… Three

Step… Two

Step… One

Prepare to cover ears… commence noise… Sakura waited a few seconds, astounded not to have been blasted backwards by a wall of sound. She looked up to see a tearful Ino and pushed her chair back, running to her friend's side. She embraced Ino stroking her head. Sachiko poked her head out from behind her mother. Sakura scooped up the frightened little girl.

"Ino? Ino? What's wrong? What's happened?" she asked, concerned as to why her friend was in such a state.

"Shika's gone!" wailed Ino. Sakura looked at her in shock, she feared the worse. Another disappearance and now it affected her directly. She glanced at the whimpering Sachiko in her arms.

"Ino, calm down. When did you last see or har from him?" her brain was already formulating how to handle the investigation.

"Last night he called, he, he said he would be home in half an hour" She sobbed into Sakura's shoulders. Sakura began to file the information last seen Wednesday 18th of May, reported Thursday 19th of May at 16.46.

"Ino what time did he call?"

"Around fiveish, who's doing this Sakura? You got to help me! I need him!" Ino was so distraught it made Sakura's blood boil. She would find Shikamaru and if this was some kind of sick joke she would pound his face in. She had to put an end to these abductions as soon as possible; she had to solve what was going on.

Yeah... I so did a first chapter because my prologue was crap sorry bout that so please ReadnReview and critism would help and dont worry I got this story vaguely planned out next chapter... Introduce Sasuke D

"What do you mean Nara is missing?!"

RnR please... it would make my exam filled month D Well toodles see you around oh yeah quick compo (and I will think of a prize)

1) Whos attack is

Makyō no Ran?

2) How is the new dictator revolutionist's name formed (clue Seiyu) and what character does it relate to?