The one

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Chapter 5

The police car pulled to a sudden stop. Officer Sarutobi, that's what his nametag thinger said, led us to the door of a large Victorian house. I nudged Hanabi telling her to run when I gave her a signal. She nodded in understanding.

"Don't even think about running," he said, pushing the door bell. A man with dark hair answered the door.

"He looks like a weasel," Hanabi whispered. I shushed her, even though I was thinking the very same thing. His appearance did remind you of a weasel. His dark eyes looked extremely tired. I grabbed Hanabi's wrist and looked at her watch. It was well past midnight.

"Hey is the captain here?" the officer asked.

"Where else would he be?" the man stepped back into the house, to let us in.

We were told to sit at the dining room table. The police captain and the man that let us in sat across from us.

"You know you two could be charged with tempering with a crime scene." He folded his fingers together neatly. He was waiting for one of to cry, I just knew he was. But that was never going to happen.

"If you're going to do that, leave my sister out of it."

"That's noble of you." The weasel man smiled brightly at me.

"What the hell is going on?!" a very tired looking Sasuke Uchiha came into the room.

"Did we wake you in the middle of your beauty sleep Sasu?" Itachi giggled.

"Shut it Itachi!" Sasuke glared at him.

"Stop!" Fugaku said.

"Hey cutie!" Hanabi smiled and waved at Sasuke.

"Hi." He stared at her and then looked directly at me. "Hey, Hyuuga."

"Hello Uchiha-san." I hung my head to stare at the table in front of me. My bangs hid my eyes, but I wasn't so sure about the blush on my cheeks.

"Sasuke you know this girl?" Fugaku asked his son.

"She's in my class." I still felt his gaze on me, but I refused to look up.

"Get out! I would like to speak to Miss Hyuuga alone." I looked up at the police captain. What did he want from me? Officer Sarutobi, the man named Itachi and Uchiha-san left. He looked at Hanabi.

"My sister stays." I surprised myself when I heard my voice growl.

"Fine."

"Don't mind him dear, all of my men are like this … brooding," she giggles. The woman sat beside him, across the table from us.

"Now since what you told me at the police station was a lie. Why were you really at the crime scene?"

"I can see dead people." He stared at me without flinching. "I help them into the light. The woman who was killed can't walk into the light. I need to know who the killer was so I can help her." He started laughing. He was laughing at me!

"It's not funny! She's telling the truth!" Hanabi cried.

"Tell him Mikoto is sitting next to him. Then he will believe you." Mikoto glanced over at her husband.

"Your wife is sitting next to you," I said

" My wife has been dead for almost eight years." He still doesn't believe me.

"That's why I can see her."

"Miss Hyuuga, I don't have time for you jokes." He stood up from his seat and walked over to the door. "This time I will call your parents personally." Oh great. I'm so screwed!

Sasuke crouched on the landing of the stairway, eavesdropping.

"Fugaku, I sincerely apologize for my daughter's actions. She is severely troubled. She has been that way since her mother passed away. But I can assure you that it will never happen again." Hiashi walked out the door to his car. Sasuke glanced out at Hinata. She sat with her sister in the back seat of the car.

"You should know better than to eavesdrop, Sasuke." Fugaku watched as the car holding the Hyuugas left the driveway.

"Sorry father… I was just curious."

"Curiosity killed the cat you know!" Itachi's voice echoed through the hallway.

"Shut it!" Sasuke's voice echoed back.

"Silence!" Fugaku's voice overpowered theirs by a landslide. "Go to bed, both of you."

"Stupid! Stupid!" I smashed my fists into the fluffy pillow laying innocently on my bed.

"Hinata! stop!" Hanabi grabbed both of my arms. "You're going to burst a blood vessel! There has to be something good that came out of this." Look at that, my sister is also the voice of reason. Maybe something good did come out of this. I learned Sasuke's mother's name. Mikoto.

"Mikoto …"

"Yes dear?" I screamed at the top of my lungs. She could be worse than her son.

"What?!" Neji ran into my room in his PJ's.

"Ghost" I muttered.

"Come on Hanabi," Neji sighed.

"But …"

"Now!" He turned into his room. Neji was the lucky one in the family. If he would wake up in the middle of the night he can go right back to sleep. Daddy, Hanabi and I aren't like that. Once we wake up we're up.

"You know we're lucky daddy wears earplugs when he sleeps," Hanabi muttered and went to her room, across the hall.

"Are you angry at me, dear?" Mikoto asked. I turned away from her. What the hell did she think?

" Mad? Yeah, I'm mad. I'm grounded until the end of forever, because of you!"

"So that means you can't date my Sasuke, huh?" Mikoto stared thoughtfully out into space.

"No … why do you want me to date him so badly?"

"I want him to be happy," Mikoto said. "And I think you can bring him happiness."

"How do you know?" I'm not the type of girl Sasuke likes anyway. How could I make him happy? Someone like Sakura could make him happy.

"A mother just knows … I want them all to be happy before I leave." That's all she wants… for them to be happy?

"… If I help them, will you walk into the light?"

"Yes … I will even help you." She smiled brightly at me. What did I need help with? "With that other ghost."

She … she could. she could help me contact Ayame.

"Mikoto Uchiha." She smiled at me again, but this time it was different. It was not a bright smile, it was a motherly one. "We have a deal. I'll help them to be happy if you help me with Ayame."

"Sounds good to me dear."

end of chapter 5

thanks for reading! actually this chapter was supposed to be a part of chapter four. it would have made it even longer. lol, but since i'm lazy i didn't feel like typing it out until now. anyway i hope you all like it. please review!XD