A/N: I feel like I haven't updated in a while... probably because I had like five things to post and then my computer just... died. May it RIP.

Although I was originally going to post a Harry Potter crossover two-shot, since my computer decided to take most of my fics down with it, I had to post this odd piece instead. Let me know what you think about the style.

Disclaimer: I don't own, blah blah blah. More importantly, if I don't get my NaruHina ending, Kishimoto, I swear I'll convert to Rowling's fanbase! *flails arm in more-clumsy-than-threatening manner*

Day 1

He notices her. She is beautiful, smart, and confident.

She is bright in his dull world.

Day 2

She stops to buy coffee after work. She smiles at the employee behind the counter, lighting up the cafe. He hates those places, decorated in neutral tones with the occasional bright color, offering a fake coziness to the multitudes.

He continues on his way, stepping out of the awning before someone notices him standing behind the huge windows.

She walks out, unfolding a purple umbrella, while juggling her keys and her coffee.

Day 3

He is reading the newspaper when she walks past again. He wonders why she is in this job. He thinks she would be more suited to something bright and cheerful.

A voice in his head tells him he just doesn't like the thought of her spending her days trying to see things from the criminals' eyes.

Day 4

Detective Uzumaki introduces them. Pale blue eyes flit up to his briefly, before moving on to the next person. The graveyard shift worker's meeting is over, and she leaves with Uzumaki following her. Uzumaki will shadow her for the day, taking her under his wing, because the detective is the type of person that just does that when he sees a new victim to inflict his cheery grins and hyperactivity on.

She doesn't react like most. She remains calm most of the time but when Uzumaki begins to get annoying she matches his loudness.

He shakes his head and follows Kakuzu down to their office.

Day 5

She notices him when he walks into the break room with blood on his hands.

He smirks when she rolls her eyes at him.

Day 6

He is reprimanded for his language -again- and she overhears it. She calls the Old Man a prick, and winks. He expounds on that.

She decisively names him a silver-haired idiot and leaves, laughing at his "fuck you!".

Indignation is only one of his feelings.

Day 7

He is covered in blood again. Everyone but Kakuzu assumes he is sadistic -which he might be, just a little. Kakuzu knows he is actually very clumsy. She just tells him that red isn't his color.

He tells her to piss off.

She hits him on the arm and saunters off, flipping her hair. It swings in his face and stings.

Perhaps he is also masochistic.

Day 8

They catch a criminal who she successfully profiled. It's her first since she was transferred from the ANBU agency -where her father apparently works. Uzumaki calls for a party. Thankfully, Uchiha Junior drags Uzumaki off before the idiot opens his mouth again.

She goes back to work, on a file detailing a serial murderer.

He sips his coffee and wonders if she is blushing from Uzumaki's exuberance or his not-so-discrete scrutiny.

Day 9

Kakuzu confronts him. He ignores the jerk and focuses on successfully delivering a sample of blood to the lab for testing. Asking her to go out for drinks is completely crazy. Kakuzu is insane.

She is there, casually flirting with Uchiha Junior, who looks uncomfortable, in front of the only pink-haired scientist he's ever met. Haruno eventually gets mad enough to shout at her, and she grins in triumph.

He steps backward in shock, before a smirk steadily takes over.

Day 10

She is upset about something.

He snickers as he passes her, because she is stomping as she walks.

Day 11

He decides to do something about her.

She is flirting with Uchiha Junior in front of Haruno again.

He turns around and goes back to the darkness of the morgue.

Day 12

She pops in to ask about the theory behind the weapon used on their newest victim. Kakuzu answers because he is too busy marvelling at the way she lights up the room.

She glances over and asks for his name.

He gives it.

She smiles.

He faints.

Day 13

At the hospital they tell him he breathed in fumes from a chemical he was using. Kakuzu punches him for not wearing a mask. His personal thoughts are screw protocol. He spends the day bored, until there's a knock on the door.

She is there, and hands him a bright yellow balloon with a smiley face drawn on it.

Day 14

He gives her a blue balloon and tells her to pop it.

There is a ticket for a new movie in it.

She blushes.

Day 15

Uchiha Junior and Haruno pass her. She doesn't do anything but lightly trace the rim of the pot of flowers on her desk and smirk.

He wonders if he should have given her chocolates, too.

Day 16

Haruno cuts her hair.

She is upset all day.

He feels like he's coming down with the flu and cusses more than usual.

Day 17

He's sick.

She's sick of Haruno's attitude and punches her.

Day 18

He feels like fecal matter.

Haruno ambushes her and lands a punch in.

Day 19

He's better already.

She proves a point.

Day 20

He comes back, wishing he'd gone to the doctor just so he'd know the name of the strange bug he caught.

Her hair is cut short. She twirls it nervously and flushes as she looks at him.

He thinks it looks hot.

Day 21

Haruno stares at the mark on her neck.

He grins and heads back to the paperwork.

Day 22

Uchiha Junior leaves to join a special government agency. Uzumaki and Haruno mope around all day.

He implies they had relationship problems.

She laughs and tells him she's sure it involved the stick shoved up Uchiha's ass.

Day 23

She asks about his family as they eat lunch together.

She holds his hand comfortingly when he shakes his head.

Day 24

She makes mac and cheese for dinner. They drink red wine at his house as they watch hockey together.

He wonders if it's too soon to be looking at rings.

Day 25

Kakuzu says it's too soon to be looking at rings. Kakuzu also tells him to shut up about his personal life and finish the autopsy.

Day 26

She reveals to him that her flirting isn't all bark and no bite.

He spends an hour looking at rings.

Day 27

Hypothetically speaking, she wants to be proposed to under the stars, so he invites her over to make dinner again at his place.

She wants him at her place instead.

She has a roommate with pink hair.

He goes home with the ring still in his pocket.

Day 28

This time, after praying to Jashin for luck, he takes her on a walk.

She says yes.

The ring is a size too big so she slips it on her middle finger, before kissing him. They walk back to his place hand-in-hand.

Day 29

Haruno won't shut up.

She gives her the one-fingered salute.

Haruno shuts up.

Day 30

He wants to elope. She wants a big wedding.

They settle for a big wedding.

Kakuzu tells him he's whipped, and no matter how much he swears at the jerk he knows Kakuzu is right.

Day 31

He realizes he's only known her for a month.

She appears in the doorway of his living room in an oversized hockey pullover, holding two bottles of beer with her sunshine hair framing her cheerful face.

He decides it doesn't matter.

A/N: Okay, for the people who missed the summary: the unnamed male is Hidan, and the unnamed female is Ino. For the slightly confused: Ino is a criminal profiler, Hidan and Kakuzu are medical examiners/coroners, Sasuke and Naruto are detectives, and Sakura is a forensic scientist (fingerprints, DNA analysis, ballistics, etc...). Don't ask why Hidan and Ino like hockey, because that was beyond random on my part.

Plans for future updates: because of my computer dying, I'm not sure when I'll next update this particular fic. As for my other fics, Sai's Adventure may be taken off of hiatus, my new modern AU series might have a new KibaIno fic soon, and a multi-chapter featuring Akatsuki as cops is in the works.

I appreciate every form of feedback, whether alerts or favorites or reviews, but being able to read your thoughts are what truly make writing fanfiction such a joy to me.