A/N: Bear with me in this chapter...I'm trying my real best in the description...and I really like to make this like a start of a Holmes-Watson duo...not immediately anyway, since both of them has issues...I'll tell on further. the first part is more of 'He' pronoun...I'm just testing something :)
Currently at Moyano's residence...
"What a drag, this is… where could that be..."
Shikamaru went inside the house looking for something; he checked the living room, nada of the material he's searching. He went upstairs, none also, so he proceeded in the office, He looked above and then his eyes squinted and took note of something above some drawers, he walks over and gets the files.
"So this is where you are."
Then he went to the room and noticed something again, he bent down on the corner near the balcony of the room where Mr. Moyano fell with Aiko, to check on something then he walked near the entrance door of the room, that's when he saw a strand of hair and some dried brown stains. "Shit." He grabbed a plastic and a glove and then picked the hair and gets some of the brown stains using a cotton bud.
He went down and decided to walk in the kitchen, they have a back door leading to the garage, it was slightly open and he's sure that everything out there is checked also, he sighed and entered nonetheless.
He skimmed the surroundings and then checked out the garage, its dirty, oily and full of dirt, Moyano must be changing oils or something, the car must've been left in that state too, he saw some towels left beside the car with oil, and that got his attention. "Towels and oil? Doesn't seem like the good idea."
He picked all the towels and placed it on his plastic. "Choji'll be happy with this." However his curiosity was piqued a lot more when he saw an almost indistinguishable line under the car tire.
At Iwagakure...
"Hello, I'm working from an insurance company, I was just wondering if you know where the Mizuki's are? I'm Nobita, by the way." Shikamaru was literally wearing Nobita's disguise making him like some salary man looking guy, he gets something from his pocket and gives it to the lady vendor. "My calling card."
"Ok..." the vendor stared at it."If you're looking for the Mizuki's though, they're gone here, the family just vanished all of a sudden, and they've had no relatives here also."
"Oh...that's too bad...but I need some details before I report it, you know like other beneficiaries?"
"I don't know any, really, except...Mr. Moyano."
"Oh? Who's that?" He gets a pen and scribbles on his note.
"There's a rumor going around that that guy and Mrs. Mizuki were having an affair." The vendor whispered. "He's an architect that Mr. Mizuki hired for their house; however he became really close with Mrs. Mizuki."
"I see..." He nods.
"But that guy's from Konoha, very far from here."
"Yeah, very troublesome."
"What?"
"Nothing, some said they were missing though?"
"Oh, that? Yeah…Rumor has it that Mrs. Mizuki went with Mr. Moyano and then her husband took their daughter away, they went abroad."
"Is that true?"
"Well…That's the speculation going on."
"I see, thank you for your time." Shikamaru bowed before he walked away, he hates disguises like this.
At Mizuki's residence in Iwagakure…
"This town really is full of speculations." Since, just a co-worker reported Mr. Mizuki not coming to work, all of the people here thought that the family have just disbanded, this is the bad news about this place… people live away from each other, not even one witness to confirm about everything that happened to the Mizuki's.
"Police never really cared too." He looks around until, a stench passed to his nose. He got a hanky and covered his nose and then followed the smell, it lead him outside, to the garden, he stopped however when he saw a somewhat uneven ground, like something was hurriedly buried underneath.
"Really? You gotta be kidding me."
Back to present...
"He hit you?" Sakura asked again. "So it's possible that he also did that to her...or that other woman you are saying?"
"Yes...he has some mental issues, I guess...and I'm not the person to listen to his apology, I saw him with that other woman and confronted him, but instead of explaining, he instantly hit me on the face." Kiyoko answered. "But I know staying with him might put me in more deep waters, so I decided to end our relationship early."
"Good call."
"This case is a lot more disoriented than I thought. Dattebayo."
"That woman seemed like she's hiding something, though." Kiyoko said.
"Yes, but I think she can't remember anything, maybe she really can't, Memories you are having some problems with are harder to retrieve, especially under pressure." Sakura glanced at Nagato.
"It still doesn't change the fact that she admitted and also she's involved on the death of her real husband, Mr. Mizuki." Nagato answered and he went out of the room.
"Ohhh…when he looks like that, He's now considering Shikamaru's help." Naruto said and it earned Sakura's attention.
"Shikamaru? He knows Shikamaru too?"
"Every police force in Konoha, knows Shikamaru." Naruto answered.
Sakura stared at the number 22, she's not really sure if she can knock right now, but she remembers him telling he got far on the case and Naruto tells her about him already having the solution for the case. She breaths deep and then knocked.
"Who is it?" She heard him ask.
"Its Sakura Haruno from room 27." She heard something click and the door unlocks. "Hey."
"Oh? Dr. Sakura? I was about to ask you something, good thing you came." He moved aside and lets her in, she had a glimpse of something boiling on a lightly opened door which is labeled 'chemical room'.
"Are you doing something?"
"Yes, an annoying drug trial, anyway it works in cases of acidosis. You know what acidosis is, right?" Shikamaru asked as they sat on the chair.
"Yes, its a condition where blood pH is decreased. Why?"
"What are the adverse effects of that?"
"Well...low pH meant high hydrogen in the blood which could disrupt body electrolytes and could alter the excitability of neurons."
"Alright, and so?"
"It can cause coma, reduced mental awareness and confusion."
"I see." Shikamaru nods. "I've read an article regarding starvation and metabolic acidosis, what can you say about that?"
"Well they say that if you had a fasting for 40 days your body can take it, because it will convert other substances in our body into glucose for energy, example in cases of the body using fatty acid, its oxidation releases ketones that can be metabolized and used as body energy, however it can be worse, it can cause other problems such as confusion and hallucinations and will also cause acidosis, why do you ask?"
"So if a person is starved enough, it can cause confusion. Ok, just one detail and it'll be done. Such a drag."
"What would be done? The drug?" Sakura asked.
"No, the case, Inspector Nagato called me and said they'll be here tomorrow at around 8am sharp, if you're gonna ask about the case, I suggest you come that time. I'm still checking on other chemical properties."
"You really are a chemist?"
"Yeah." Shikamaru answered.
"Yet you do these things." Sakura said. "How come you're a lot better working than the other detectives, yet you're not a detective."
"I don't know. How about you? You're an ER doctor, yet you go deep this case? Why?"
"I'm confusing myself with that too."
"It's because, if you got to the hang of this, such experiences will be etched in your memory forever." Sakura thought about that. "Anyway, I've worked as a Private Investigator before, but my clients and I prefer to use anonymity with each other, I don't really know if this'll me good but it's troublesome to keep it from you... one of my clients, had you investigated."
"What?"
"That's why I already knew who you are." Shikamaru sighed. "Just take that as a warning and I don't do PI work so you can't have me do that for you or whatever."
"That's...Good night." Sakura just said and went out of the room, feeling a bit bothered.
The next day...
Sakura came inside the room at the time Shikamaru had given and the two other officers were already there when she came, Nagato was surprised to see her again.
"Why are you here?"
"Sakura-chan." Naruto greets.
"She's here because I need her medical advice and she's been too involved with this case, inspector Nagato." Shikamaru answered.
"Naruto have told me, he already came to you, I should've known... he have reached that far, even coming up with records from Iwagakure, he can't do that on his own."
"What? So not true, I'm so good at being a detective." Naruto boasted. "Neh, Sakura-chan?"
"Yeah."
Shikamaru handed some files to Nagato, which he checked and his brow scrunched. "I went to a lot of places, first I checked on the house again, then to Iwagakure."
"So that means you're the one who saw Mr. Mizuki's body?" Shikamaru nods.
"Mr. Nagoya Moyano is definitely a womanizer, and he might have a crush on Mrs. Mizuki, but it turns out that she's not available anymore, so he went to make her available." Shikamaru started. "He might've spread rumors that there is something going on between them, so the neighbors believe that it is just a case of a cheating wife and a father that took custody of a child and went away to move on…unfortunately that town where they live is a town that have houses built farther from each other, which is troublesome, especially if you're looking for an eyewitness."
"Are you saying Mr. Moyano's the one that killed Mizuki?"
"That's still a working theory, the only one who can answer that is his wife, but before we get to that, read the next page." Nagato followed him. "I went out of my way and investigated the house; some angles just didn't fit for me, so I went there and visualize the crime."
"The room is rectangular in place, it has a straight way from the entrance door up to the door leading to the balcony, from which the couple fell, from the right side of the entrance door was the king size bed and a bed side table and on the left is a built in closet, on the floor of it was a brown fur carpet."
"I really like focusing on minute details, so I thought of looking at the weird slanted position of the carpet, and then when I checked on the floor I saw some specks of the fur still on it, it could've stuck on the floor especially when someone was standing on it for a long time and when I traced the specks, an oval figure that looked extended came into view, follow its trail and it ends on the current position of the carpet, if you study that you'll come up with a notion that the carpet was moved from its normal position, reluctantly, and the fact that it can still be distinguished meant it's pretty recent."
Nagato nodded, following his theory. "So maybe someone standing from that rag was pushed and the rag moved because of that"
"Yes. If you looked at the distance of it from the balcony, that place where the carpet was, is nearer the entrance door, so if ever there is a struggle that means the one pushed can easily run through the door, it might be Mr. Moyano or Aiko and yet…they both fell in the Balcony, which is farther."
"Right…" Naruto understood. "The blood was also near the balcony so it meant the stabbing happened near where they fell."
"And the hair I found belonged to Aiko, I have it checked by Choji on the lab. DNA matches."
"Dude! You got Choji to do it? Did you bribe him with pork again?" Naruto accused and Nagato just looked at him dubiously, probably to shut his mouth.
"So the one pushed down is Aiko…But the man was first stabbed with a shallow wound so he could've fought with her there and pushed her."
"I've thought that too. So Imagine, a stabbed person who was able to throw her away, do you think he will let her pass that and let himself be pushed on the balcony?"
"Maybe not, considering he was already able to push her that far and if he moved towards her, she have to exert a lot more effort in order to push him out of the balcony."
"Right…so that could only be possible if he's distracted or… someone else is there."
"You mean another perpetrator?"
"Come to think of it, the original Kiyoko said that, Aiko is not the other woman of her ex-husband."
"Yes… and I presume you went into the garage?" Shikamaru asked.
"Garage, yeah we did…but It doesn't have anything much to do so we just checked on it…" Naruto said.
"Yes, you just checked on it… ever wondered why towels with engine oil are there arranged on the floor?"
"Well...it looks like he was doing something mechanical, like that…"
"Yeah maybe…however I just think it's troublesome to still keep those towels in a stack rather than throwing them away, after all, the oil will be a permanent stain on it, and why should he use several towels, when he could just use one… maybe he's covering something? Or maybe someone used that to cover their involvement with this case." Shikamaru sighed. "So I have them checked by Choji… blood DNA of Mr. Moyano is present and some skin snips or shedding and prints from another woman who was identified by other neighbors with Mr. Moyano."
"That maybe the other woman, Ms. Kiyoko Inori was saying. You have a picture?" Nagato asked.
"I'm sure that's the woman…her name is also Kiyoko, Kiyoko Inoshita, and right now she's on the run for something."
"Wow…How come cases run so fast when you help?" Naruto was amazed and so is Sakura, but she has a question, or questions she really wanted to ask. Shikamaru glanced at her.
"You want to ask something, right?"
"Well…why isn't she familiar with the other woman… and why does she thinks her name is Kiyoko and…she kept on saying She's Mr. Moyano's wife?"
"There's also another thing I've found." Shikamaru gave another file. "The car of Mr. Moyano had a spare key so I tried moving it a little, of course I pretended to be a relative to his neighbors, something beneath it just capture my attention, it's like a slit, so when I moved the car and got the area clear, I saw a door, it wasn't really obvious because it was camouflaged well by the lines of the parking space pavement. I opened it and saw few streaks of blood, some clothing that was stained with some kind of lipstick and a rope… I had it sent to Choji and…It's Mrs. Mizuki's DNA all over."
"Then that means she was held captive." Naruto asked suddenly Sakura realized something.
"This is why you asked me about acidosis?" Sakura asked. "He might've starved her in order to alter her mental state?"
"And he used some anti-cholinergics in order to retard her memory…some traces of Biperdin are still in that gag clothe." Shikamaru said. "She is a victim. A very poor victim."
"Well…That still doesn't answer Sakura's question? Maybe that can cause her memory to lose but, wouldn't it be common sense that if this guy locked you, that means he's not up to something good…why is she claiming that she loves him?"
"I think I answered that, Dr. Sakura."
"I remember just darkness and car screech sound like it passes above me, but it's just dark…and I can't remember anything past that." Sakura nodded as she remembered Aiko's description.
"Stockholm syndrome." She just said earning Nagato and Naruto's attention. "That is a psychological phenomenon happening to abductors and abductees, The abductees share positive feelings towards their captors, he probably released her when she's already becoming delirious and then treated her nicely…in this situations anything bad the captor did to you will be forgotten and all you will remember are the good things the captor did to you, and with her state, her memories jumbled she might've incorporated her real husband to Mr. Moyano."
"Right. That's it." Shikamaru said. "To confirm the latter statement Dr. Sakura said, I asked Moyano's wedding anniversary and husband's, or Mr. Moyano's birthday… She was telling me the anniversary date of Aiko and Kyota Mizuki and Kyota Mizuki's birthday. I knew then, she was pretty messed up."
"Ok…I still have a question…" Sakura said. "You went to Mizuki's residence and found Kyota Mizuki's dead body… how about the child? Yumi."
"Mr. Moyano sold her, those are the adoption papers you saw, and right now I've asked for the family that took her because the other Kiyoko, is after Yumi."
In a setting not far away, a girl around five years of age was playing with a Barbie outside their house, she was sad because her mommy left her with other adults, the guy who took her to them never came back, so she was really depressed, it has been a long time.
"Yumi…" Someone called so she glanced behind and then, she saw a pretty woman, really pretty, she's wearing a black shirt, jeans and a cap. "Yumi, right?"
The girl nodded slowly. "Yes…"
"Come here, I'm going to take you to your mom." She said happily, hearing about that made Yumi happy too, so she ran towards the unknown lady, she held her hand, but Yumi remembered her mom said not to go with strangers…but her mommy must've sent this woman.
"Who are you?" the kid asked, the lady bent so that she can be leveled with her.
"You can call me aunt Kiyoko."
A/N: Just a bit!
Character update - Forgive my naming...my sis' gave those to me...while she's checking a random Japanese magazine
Aiko Mizuki - the real name of the 'Kiyoko' gal that fell with Nagoya
Kiyoko Inori - The real Mrs. Moyano, though she's an Ex-wife now.
Kyota Mizuki - The husband of Aiko Mizuki, who also died and whose body was just found.
Yumi Mizuki - Kyota and Aiko's daughter. :)
Kiyoko Inoshita - The other woman/ suspect