Yay! The second chapter is here! So what I only got 5 reviews :cough, cough: I still got over 85 hits and that means that people still have atleast read it...hoprefully. And I admit to being one of those people who rarely reviews because they're not really as articulate as others, so I can see where everyone is coming from. But don't let that stop you! I am warning people ahead of time that there will be serious italics abuse in this chapter, just because we want to know what happening to Naruto, so be warned. And since he's also undercover, there will also be a bit of secret codes involved. So if at any point you do not understand what he is trying to say, let me know and I'll provide a key of some sort to translate it. Because even the author who created this story, had times when she had to reason out the thought process behind the letters.

Chapter 2: Criminal Communication

He scrolled down the screen reading the news articles once again. It listed numerous robberies in the last week by a group of teens. What was odd about it was that they all took place in either a pharmacy, hardware or electronics store. And aside from the last one, it was rather unheard of for a teen to rob places like those when they could most likely find someone on the street with whatever they needed. But it was clear that for them to rob those places, they must've went to those store so they could look for parts. Most likely needed to put something together. And that meant, that there was probably someone else, who was much more experienced with techknowledgy and chemicals, pulling the strings over these teens.

"I had heard talk by the coffee machine saying that you were trying to wiggle into one of my knucklehead's cases. Are you being jealous or do you just want to prove yourself?"a voice asked nonchalantly from behind him. He bit back a snarky remark and turn around with an impassive look on his face. As he expected there before him was the Head of Bureau, who was not only his father's adoptive brother, but the second bane of his existence. Since without a doubt his older brother who would always take first place.

"Looking at the news isn't a crime Kakashi. And I don't need to lower myself to stealing someone's case in order to prove my worth. It's already obvious" he said sneered.

"I see now. This is one of those unresolved sexual tension things, isn't it? He leaves with a quick kiss goodbye and disappears off the face of the earth for a few months, and then you're ready to hunt him down and give him a piece of your mind. I hate to break it to you but neither of you established an 'I need to know where you are at all times' basis. In fact, you were lucky enough to get that. You do know there's a large degree of differences between friends with benefits and fuck buddies. The main one being that fuck buddies don't usually care about each other's life, since it's only based around the sex"

"You've been reading too many of your dirty romance novels again. Am I the only rational thinking enforcer in this department? He's been gone for nearly 3 months, with little to no contact with us" he said angrily.

"Now who told you that? I can personally attest to the statement that he contacts us regularly and when he can. He even sends us presents!" he said in a bubbly voice. But by the way the sergeant's eyes darkened, Kakashi knew that wasn't something he should have mention. Oh well...

"He's been sending notes to you then? That's a rather amateur move to pull. It's obvious how inexperienced he is at this. You might as well start putting your backup for him, together. There are a list of people I'd recommend if you like" he said after a small pause.

"Look Sasuke, if Iruka ever found out I did this, he'd rip me a new one...but I can see how worried this is making you so I'm going to let you see the stuff he's brought us so far. And remember this is strictly for closure methods, okay?"

"Hn" was all the raven replied.

"Good! Now let's go" he said before leading him away.

Kakashi led him up the elevator and to the 4th floor where his sector was. Then they went into his office and he pulled out a small safe that was located in his coat closet. He tapped in a code that to the normal human eye looked like it was simply a flurry of numbers and symbols and then the lock just clicked open. Inside the box though, were letters written on whatever they could be put on, from actual paper to food wrappers. On top of them were also sticky notes that numbered 1 through 7 and dated them in what he assumed was the order they had come in. Sasuke picked up the paper that was labeled 1 and started reading.

I've never been to an amusement park like this before. It's not too clean because it seems like everyone has been here. I finally got off the roller coaster in one piece even though I swore the loops I had to ride through would've gotten me throw out of the cart and flattened somewhere. I met some guys here that want to show me the works so I'm gonna stick around for a while so I can come back with great stories to tell you. Be sure to watch my birdie for me. We weren't getting along when I left. Most likely because he didn't like the newspaper I lined his cage with. Give him a treat and he'll stop squawking soon. His favorites are yellow bananas that resemble my finger because he can pretend he's gnawing my finger to the bone marrow. Take care!

Sasuke scowled as he read the part about the bird, obviously getting the symbolism that was involved and not liking it one bit. His casual manner in his writing didn't stave off his anger much either.

"Please don't just glare at those until they catch on fire. We kind of need them. And if you want to finish before everyone gets back, you might want to finish up" he heard Kakashi speak up behind him.

"Hn" Sasuke grunted, before moving on to the next letter.

While immersing myself in my roots, I decided that I'd start wearing my old favorite color again. Red seems to be more comfortable to wear here since it was an amusement park a little smaller than this where I bought a nice red shirt that grew on me. I think I'll wear one while I'm here, just for old time's sake, even though I personally know I can't pull off the color anymore. It must be all the blue I started wearing for the last few years. Even though I've got my red shirt on, deep down I still remember the blue one I left in my closet back home. Every time I get a stain on this red one, I feel really horrible about it, and so far I've gotten some pretty bad ones and the red makes them look worse. Now, I've gotten to the point where I have to do something nice for anyone who is wearing a blue shirt because I feel bad that I can't manage to keep my red one clean. All these stains I get on my shirt remind me that I couldn't keep wearing red all the time and that's why I started to be in favor of blue. Sometimes I go to bed wishing I had my blue shirts again but I've found out my favorite tie makes up for their absence. I think I'm gonna need to go shopping when I get back since I'm getting so much stains on my shirt and you are going to be footing the bill with that nice piece of plastic you own. And if you try to refuse I'll just go to the aquarium for it.

K

Sasuke did not like the vibes he was getting from this letter. It sounded like he was really getting shaken up from watching what they did there, wherever that was. But it was giving him a little comfort to be reminded of the tie the blonde had kept for himself. Sasuke had learned of his past already and he was worried that he might mess up, if something reminded him too much of the reason why his gang had an abrupt ending. Then if he managed to get out alive, he'd still have extensive emotional damage to deal with. As he went on through the letters, his mood got even darker of possible.

Today we went to the circus finally. We had been passing it for the longest while and now we earned the tickets to go in. they've got weird animals in there and they all look like they've got a dormant dose of rabies in them. I think if I would have visited before they were fed, I'd be in someone's belly. The side show people sometimes get parts in the circus too. Depending on how much they rake in, is how revered they are by the ring master. He has 5 favorites. A psychic , a pair of Siamese twins, a real spider man, the world's strongest/fattest man, and a musician that can "raise the dead" with her magic flute. They're all pretty creepy and that's not when they go Hulk mode. The ring master, who is apparently under the weather most of the time, rarely comes out so 2-5 take over for him. The psychic doubles as the doctor so he is usually by his side. This circus is pretty much for grownups since it looks like kids will run around get lost and end up being someone's dinner, and that would be very bad. Actually don't come unless you bring someone who is a retired exterminator, zoologist, or doctor. In fact, don't come unless you have them all in your party.

K

Sasuke took an extra moment to decode that one. It was like he was warning about the gang he had been let into. The way he stated it, if they were to bust in now, they'd be taken out without a sweat. They way he described it, they'd need their special group nicknamed the ANBU in order to leave and breathing and without the aid of a machine.

It bothered him because this was the letter he stopped joking around in, which was hard to picture because he could never imagine the blonde man without his idiotic grin on his face. It made him feel like scouring the entire district to find the place, just to get the moron out so he could still see his smile when this was all done with.

"Sasuke, I think this was a bad idea. I forgot about the latest ones he left and we still have to take them back and analyze them some more. I'll bring you back to read them some other time. Okay?" he said taking the last four away from him. Any other person would have nodded and went ahead with their other business and even though Sasuke did the same, he wasn't fooled by Kakashi's excuse. He knew that they weren't going to be analyzed anymore since the last one dated to about two weeks ago. And they could have easily taken less than an entire week to look at them as a group for hidden messages. It was obvious that he didn't want Sasuke to read the rest. But he should've known by now how persistent Sasuke could be when he wanted to...and also the secret to why he was efficient at his job, his hereditary photographic memory.

Sasuke had it all planned out...

He was going find some reason to get Kakashi to leave the building for a long duration of time which would most likely revolve around his Head of Divisions, who also happened to be his uncle's boyfriend. It was no secret that he would bend over backwards to please his boyfriend, and that was always because he was a pervert and did something to upset him and wanted to make up for it. But the problem lied in the hard to believe fact that Kakashi was still Head of the Bureau, meaning it would take more than a little deception in order to fool him.

After nearly a week he was ready to give up...

That is, until some deity had pity on Sasuke, and decided to help. Because on this day, there happened to be a new book to a series that Kakashi was obsessed with, being put on shelves, Icha-Icha Paradise: Violence. And of course Kakashi had been running 2 hours late as it was, because he was no doubt standing outside the bookstore waiting for it to open and give him the chance to buy the new book. That meant he had around 7 hours to find the papers again (since Kakashi had no doubt hidden them in another location) and then find somewhere to read them in peace, and after that come back and meticulously make sure it looked like he had not been there. It sounded easy but if it was Kakashi he was dealing with, he'd need every second he got.

So after about 4 hours raiding through his entire office, he gave up and slid down against one of the walls, and banged his head while groaning in frustration. But as he banged it, he heard a hollow echo from inside the wall behind him. When he turned around, he noticed that the wall hid the outlining of a secret compartment that no one would ever notice thanks to the odd taste in wall paper that Kakashi had, (who actually lined the bottom half of their room in checkered squares anyway?) Returning back to the desk, he searched for something that would fit in the crevice and wedge it open. And 3 paperclips later, he had succeeded in sliding the secret door out enough for him to pull the rest out with his hands. He sighed with relief as he saw the familiar safe lying inside of it. Pulling it out, he set it on the ground and put in the numbers and symbols he had seen Kakashi press yesterday. Then with a soft click, it was open and he pulled out all of the letters and resumed his reading.

They woke me up early to see 2-5 acts. It was interesting to say the least. The Siamese twins actually split in half like they're magnetic which I assume happens because they have magnets in their blood. The flute girl isn't really a red head who raises the dead. She said she manipulates the sounds waves in the air and when they're sent to the brain it makes you hallucinate. I found that out when I asked everyone who saw it, what they had seen. Everyone said that they saw their own deceased relative, instead of the ones she said her special flute raises at her will. The real spiderman didn't get bit by a radioactive spider, he got made into one probably. I only say this because all of the spiderman comics I've read never had him getting 4 arms and spitting out webs. Nothing much to say about the fat guy. He's big, strong and slightly balding. Don't ever try to take his food or you'll end up dead. The psychic I don't know much about since he's always with the ring master. But he can read minds if you're not careful. Watch out for when his nerd glasses light up, because they don't reflect light all the time. He's also not too discreet when it comes to gossip. I guess he keeps things under control by relaying the ringmaster's wishes. They're all like one big family and I'm the boyfriend that the daughter brought home one day. And I have yet to see the jealous sister. That might make this whole thing go differently. Since I'm the self-proclaimed boyfriend, I can safely say that it's too early to double date because they're warming up to me and want me all to themselves.

K

It was odd reading over this letter. In it, Naruto mentioned how strong they were and they're most notable features to look out for, but he kept mentioning the danger of trying to bring him back. Was he in such a lethal place that one hint of deception would get him killed? With such little trust in whatever place he was in, it made him cringe at the lengths he had to go to in order to get into this gang's inner circle. This led to him recalling the "stains" that Naruto had mentioned in his previous letter. He didn't want to think about how bad it had been for him, and as he read the next letter his sentiments only doubled.

Do you remember that time when Grandma and Grandpa took me to that lake? I never told you this but that day, we were out in the park right next to it and I was running around and then I saw a black and white snake with yellow eyes that slithered near me. I had no idea where it came from. Hell, at that age I didn't even know what a snake was! But I remember how I felt when it stuck it's tongue out and licked it's lips before it slithered around me. I just stood there as the tongue mapped out my body like an instruction manual. It was probably just imagining how my skin would taste when it sunk his thin teeth into my skin and sent venom coursing through my body. But then I remembered it was a frog that saved my life, he just suddenly popped out of nowhere and landed on the snakes mouth making it sinks it's fangs into it's own tongue. That was probably the first time a frog saved my life, but certainly not the last. But today I didn't have my frog to save me, or even the slug that he likes to follow around. It was like that entire scene from the park replayed in my mind today, and a bit further. Today I saw the snake capture another little boy. I saw it slither around his body before it inserted it's fangs. After that, the boy began to shudder and convulse. The entire time I watched, all I saw was myself in his place. It was me frozen on that cold surface, staring into the face that still could petrify me with a simple smile. I guess it's true when they say that "history is doomed to repeat it's self". Because I'm still the boy seconds away from being the snake's next victim.

This time, the letter wasn't signed. There was one small dried up circle where the ink had gotten blurry, like a drop of water had fallen on it, and that's when something clicked in his mind.

'He...he was crying when he wrote this' Sasuke thought in shock. Suddenly all the excitement he had gotten from finding the letters to finish reading them, drained from him and he found himself hesitant to continue. He didn't want to know that this task was becoming too difficult for Naruto to complete, while trying to maintain his sanity. He just wanted to remember the blonde idiot he (accidentally) lost his first kiss and later, virginity to. But he knew that he had to keep going in order to know how he could respond to it all, because deep down a part of him knew Naruto wouldn't return the way Sasuke remembered him unless he, himself, brought him back. That's the reason why he had to suck it up and keep reading them, if only to save the one person who had once saved him.

Sorry about the whole emo thing last time. I was just having flashbacks too much. Speaking of emos, how's my cockatoo doing? I heard he earned himself a bigger cage. You better watch him though. Bigger cages mean more room to mess around with things he's not suppose to, as I've already found out. Make sure the latch closes correctly or he'll get loose. I already left a message telling him to be nice and wait for me to come home. Feel free to play it back to him when he gets lonely so he can hear my voice. Obviously you failed with the banana thing so this is Plan B. I'm counting on you to keep him out of trouble so he doesn't get eaten. So be a good sitter and keep an eye on him!

K

It used all of Sasuke's control to keep him from crumbling up this letter and setting it on fire to satisfy his bloodlust. He always despised it when Naruto use to do this back in high school. When something got him upset he'd let it show for a moment and then he'd shrug it off with the brightest smile he could muster, even if it killed him on the inside. That stupid dobe dealt with all of his problems by pretending they weren't there, and only an idiot couldn't see through it...or maybe Sasuke had just been around him long enough to be able to see through it. If that were the case, then he'd get pleasure in showing the dobe that he couldn't fool him anymore and then, beat some sense into him every time he tried to.

I had a nearly deadly slip today but since I'm still alive since ghosts can't hold pens in their hands. This place is loaded with "aspiring doctors" who want to make me feel better and give me things to make sure it doesn't happen again. But thanks to my permanent fear of white lab coats, I've decided to get better the old fashion way, with rest and relaxation so I can keep them away. But that also means I won't be writing to you for a while. They believe they're on a medical breakthrough when it comes to modifying the human structure and if I get hurt they'll jump at the chance to test on me, so I'm going to be taking a little break. Send my love to everyone!

K

That was the last letter he sent. Today would make it two weeks since he sent it. In that amount of time, anything could have happened. And until he sent the next letter they had no idea what was going on. But one thing was certain, time was of the essence and the only way the could confirm Naruto's safety was when these people were locked up and the blonde was back in his office doing crossword puzzles when he had a pile of reports to finish right next to him. There was a lot of ground to cover, and the dobe already had a 3 month head start on him, so that meant he had to find some short cuts. The main ones being that he got into the place where Naruto was located, and then into the circle Naruto was a part of.

'Hn. Easier said than done. It's going to be even harder since I've got no criminal record to speak for me' he thought frowning.

"So, now that you've gotten this out of your system, do we need to lock you up until he comes back or will you move on and go do your work?" Kakashi asked with a bored tone. Sasuke whipped around to see him leaning against the door frame casually.

"Why are you here? The bookstores just opened up an hour ago!" he asked incredulously.

"Silly little Sasuke. I slept outside of the door as soon as I was off duty. Not to mention I had already reserved and pre-ordered a copy for myself. So I was just hanging around with Ru-ru until I felt I gave you enough time to read them all"

"Figures..." he muttered under his breath.

"I'll let you in on a secret though. He usually makes contact with us weekly, even if he has to use others as the medium to send along his messages. I made it mandatory for him to do it, so we could make sure he was okay. The Chief obviously has taken a liking to him, so I have to watch him even closer than the others because I will be blamed if anything happens to him, you know how she is. So he sent that last letter just to throw anyone else off, incase he was being watched. But he truly has not contacted us in any way for the past two weeks, so that makes me concerned. Luckily, with the new protocol the Chief has set up, we're allowed to start looking into things after 3 weeks without any contact from him. Just like you can't report a missing person for 24 hours. It's dumb, but those are the rules"

"Why are you telling me this?" he asked with annoyance.

"Well as shocking as it may seem...at this point in time, you are the closest one to him. Therefore I feel the need to assuage your worries the most. So I'm going to strike a deal with you, if you wait until the end of this week like a good little boy, then you can form his rescue team yourself...but only if you wait until the end of the week or if he contacts us by then. Think you can handle it?"

"Hn. Whatever" he grunted sticking his hands into his pockets.

"Good! Now run along and play cops and robbers like a good little nephew! Us grown ups have work to do!" he said grinning.

(O.o) Well, well, well. I know all of you are starting to get interested. I know you're all probably wanting to see what Naruto's been up to lately. Well the next chapter will be all him, and then you will see exactly what Kakashi meant by him contacting each other through 'mediums'.

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