A/N: Because more people than I figured decided to review and asked me to continue the story, I continued it! So a BIG thanks to the following people who reviewed!

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Italics are thoughts

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The dark haired boy walked with a purpose, his eyes training to find a sight of pink. Not the cherry blossom pink though. A pink paired with emerald. A manila file clutched in his left hand and two cups of tea in his right. Coffee wasn't something this pink and emerald took a liking to, so instead preferred tea, English Black Tea at that.

As he continued to walk down the hallways of this maze of a school, his thoughts ran away from him. What was she doing here anyway? Her mother had said she had failed multiple classes. Which lead her to lose her financial aid. So then why was she here? He had went to her house looking for her earlier in the morning. Not because he missed her or her cheery personality. Not because she had 'forgiven' him and was the only person that would talk to him like a person and not a criminal. No he was looking for her because he found something. And he needed to understand what and how it was related to his brother. Her being the only witness that was willing to talk to him made her the only person he could talk to. Maybe,a slight part of him wanted to see her because he wanted to feel like a human, normal person again. As he stood at her front porch though her mother had said she was at school and was probably in the gym. Which led him to an hour of fighting traffic and another hour of looking for parking, mainly following a student to their car and taking their spot after they left. When he FINALLY reached the doors to the gym his gaze automatically caught sight of emerald paired with pink.

She held a basketball in her right hand running from the baseline to the opposite rim in the motion of a layup. He watched as the ball cleared the rim and went down inside of the net with a "swish". He smirked and walked through the door quietly and watched as the ball rolled over to him. He kicked the ball back over to the pink haired girl, who finally realized someone was there. "Oh, Uchiha-San. It's nice to see you again." She smiled as she walked over to him. As she was picking up the ball and balancing the ball between her arm, he looked more closely and he could still see bandages on her abdomen and shoulders under her top. Her pink tank top didn't hide them well. She was still wounded and she was running basketball drills? How stupid is she?!

After analyzing her, he nodded in greeting before offering a cup of hot tea. Her smile widened as she took a cup from him. She motioned for him to follow her to the bleachers where her backpack and gym bags were located. She sat down she sipped her tea, sighing, relaxing as she looked up at him from under her eyelashes. He smirked before turning to sit down next to her. He took a sip of his tea before speaking, "Sorry to intrude on you. I went to your house and your mother informed me you were here." The girl giggled as she began to dribble the ball in between her legs with her hand that wasn't holding her tea. Her arm tensed slightly every so often indicating she felt some kind of pain. "It's the only place I know of that has a gym, great places to dance, lots of computers, food, Starbucks, and places to draw." He raised an eyebrow. She came here for that? Okay so she was artistic but all of that? Dance and drawing? Sports and photography? He shook his head; well she is unique as her choice of hair color.

"I see. Well as much as I enjoy your optimistic and carefree view of the world, I am here actually on official and serious business. Mind if we go and talk somewhere more private?" Her emerald eyes furrowed and darkened.

"Like police? I already gave them my statement."

"I know, I read it. I'm actually working on the case as to why this all happened" he didn't tell her how he fought tooth and nail against his Commander Hatake, on why his team and him need to handle this case. He didn't mention how it was his loud blond partner's quick thinking that used his relationship, which was fairly new and barley forming, with the pink haired girl in front of him that got him and his team the case. Apparently this Haruno Sakura was a big deal to his mentor and boss. "So, you're not with internal affairs?" He raised his head and frowned. Did she have a bad experience with internal affairs? "That guy with the long black hair gives me the creeps". Ah, Orochimaru has that effect on people.
"Aa"


Both young adults, sat down in a soundproof study room in the library. After closing the blinds the place was almost felt like an interrogation room. Sakura had changed into jeans and a red T-shirt with black squares over it in some kind of design. She played with cup in her hand as she processed the information. "Why do you think I would understand these codes and random numbers, Uchiha?" The man in question took his time in replying. He leaned against the back of his chair, slightly slouching. His arms had crossed over his chest as his gaze never left the young lady in front of him. Observing all the tell-tale signs of her knowing exactly what all these numbers meant. The twitch of her fingers, the widen eyes, and the tensed posture; oh she knows what these are. His eyes hardened before replying, "Because Ms. Haruno, you seem to observe everything. And by the way I saw you react as I rattled off those numbers means you do know. So enlighten me."

Her eyes closed briefly before she walked over to the white board in the room. Her left hand holding her phone and her right holding a black dry erase marker. Her eyes opened as she wrote numbers, dates it seemed. Then she drew a line between each day separating them and wrote all of the numbers he rattled off under them. His eyebrows furrowed and he frowned deeper. So she matched some of the numbers to dates? Just as he was about to question or voice his curiosity, she grabbed a new color, blue, marker and threw her phone on the table he was sitting at and began to draw a map of the mall writing down where the gun shdots or where he was sure she thought they had taken place. After she drew the map, in another color, red, she would square off certain areas. In those areas she would write down the number correlating to a date. Uchiha Sasuke was confused. He still didn't understand what the numbers meant but now he knew that they were related to certain dates and places in the mall.

"It's a kind of like monoalphabetic substitution cipher but instead of using the alphabet they used other numbers. The other numbers here are relatively the same. It's only after the decimal is where the numbers change. These numbers with letters? I thought it was just the usual 'change numbers to letters' but it didn't make sense so I left the numbers the same and used the letters to make a word. One word; four letters: Mall. So I used the mall and referring to the numbers paired with letters sectioned off according to the square ft. the dates and other numbers correspond based on the decimal place value. My guess is that the numbers under the dates is an estimate of foot traffic in that one area on a certain date." Ms. Haruno took a deep breath before walking back to her chair with a frown on her face.

Sasuke raised an eyebrow, he may have only understood the last part, cryptography was Nara's specialty, but he understood. So why was she frowning? She let her gaze leave her cup of tea in front of her and wandered to the drawing on the board. She glared before looking at the confused Uchiha. A small smile made its way on to her face as she saw his confused eyes and raised eyebrow, "I took a year and a half of Information Technology Security System and well there were a few classes primarily focusing on codes and hacking. I was top of the class for most of my time there." The smile faded as she spoke again, "that being said. Whoever developed this code is good and would have either the time or the technology to monitor the foot traffic of the mall. Seeing how security would be suspicious of someone monitoring the mall over an extended amount of time, I would bet that this someone had some sort of technology at their disposal. Maybe like a direct feed of the security cameras to their personal devices or something."

The Uchiha let out a sigh. This doesn't look good at all. He straightened in his chair and fixed the young lady in front of him with hardened eyes. The young girl seemed to sense the change of atmosphere and straightened as well. Sasuke took out more photos from the manila envelope. All codes and numbers written on papers, walls, and chalk boards, photo after photo were being placed on the table. Codes and numbers were covering the place in the photos; she couldn't even see the original wall anymore. Her eyes widened as she kept looking at the photos. It was a hell of a code. The Uchiha paused on letting one of the photos out. Should I show her?

A picture of light pink and emerald eyes filled the picture. A wall of hundreds of pictures of her, all doing different things. Walking home, at work, on break at Starbucks, they were following her. And the next words that the young Uchiha spoke broke her and turned her world upside down even more,

"These were found in the apartments of the people that my brother shot."


A/N: So There is Chapter 2! Well Again thank you for reading and let me know what you think!

~M:)