A/N: I will try to update this story every Wednesday since its a middle of the week day. So keep your eyes peeled on Wednesdays for this baby.
Another A/N: I feel so silly for one of the mistakes that I made and a reviewer pointed it out to me. So this review I am replying before hand
- .Didi - Thanks for liking my story. It actually means the world to me that all my reviewers take the time to review and sometimes point out my mistakes. A not so big shocker as to say that English is not my first language. My first language is Afrikaans (very close to Deutsche or German) and Cousin in Afrikaans is actually Nefie which almost sounds the same as nephew. I always get it confused. Enough said about that. You are right! Shisui is in fact Sasuke and Itachi's cousin and not Nephew. Thanks so much for pointing that out. Oh and about me saying Anyway's and not anyways - I blame it all on the spell checker that I got. hehe.
Well enough rambling and on with the show!
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO
The Morning After
Chapter 8
by corpsedollie
Another murder. How could there be another murder in his part of the town. Black colored eyes scanned the photos of the crime scene that could leave any person with a weak stomach vomiting for weeks. It was not for the faint hearted. And how in the hell did the press get a hold of the story. As far as he knew, the story was still very hush-hush. The man leaned back in his office chair as he ran his fingers through his silver gray messed up hair. He felt tired. He was tired and that was a simple fact. He needed a holiday away from his office. Or just a plain holiday in his room reading his Icha-icha books. Staying up late working night after night on the one case that would simply just not crack.
A knock on the door brought the young detective out of his daydreaming. Hoping it was the one person he was longing all day to see.
"Yeah. Come in" he said as he quickly covered up the photos of the torn appart bodies with other case files and the newspapers. Menatlly facepalming himself for his desk to be so unorganised, later he would have to look for the photos again.
"Kakashi?" a brunnette head popped in by the side of the door. A small smile graced her feauteres at the sight of said man.
"Mmm" concentration brought back to reality as his first name was called by the one woman he could tolerate and adored at the same time.
"What are you still doing at the office. Its night time already" her voice spoke with concern. She made her way in and closed the blindes covering the windows, blocking all moonlight from streaming in. She made her way to the extra chair in Kakashi's office with the bento box she carried in her one hand. "And I bet you have not eaten today yet?"
The silver haired detective stared at the girl in confusion. His mind did not even consider the fact of food yet. The day passed on so quickly without even wondering what was for supper.
"Thank you, Shizune" he said as he grabbed one of the bento boxes that she so neatly prepared for him. Shizune grabbed the other one and they dug in.
"So... what's your newest case?" Shizune asked as she dug her copsticks into the bento box, grabbing a small rice ball and shoving it into her mouth.
"Just another case, one of those type of cases that I cannot get my head wrapped around" Kakashi said as he took a mouth full of food under his facemask before anything else could be revealed (Like for instance his nose and his mouth)
Shizune froze, looking at Kakashi with serious eyes "What are you hiding, Scarecrow. You never stay out so late working on a case. You would be home already, watching your porno's or reading the god-forsaken Icha-icha books"
Kakashi's expresion dropped. He dug his chopsticks between the food mixing it around. His eye seemed to be a million miles away. "Its this case. The bodies that we have found have been completly decapitated. Torn appart like some animal had done it. But to all our records, we have not seen something like this. We have not seen animals with giant claws like these marks on these bodies. The gapes that the claws or talons left behind is pretty big. I would like to show you the photos but its rather gruesom"
The last statement earned Kakashi another look of disbelief. The same type of look that could say in so many words: you-know-I-can-handle-it-I-am-a-doctor-for-crying-out-loud.
A short silence grew between the two, in which Kakashi was contemplating in showing the girl the photos but in the end decided with it. He placed his close-to-empty bento box aside and shifted the files aside to reveal the gorry photos. Collecting them all, he handed them to the brunnette.
"Maybe you can give me some insight to this" Kakashi said.
Shizune's eyes grew as wide in shock. Before closing her mouth she observed all the photos. From all the different angles. A few minutes past by, where neither of them said anything and the only sound to be heard was that of Kakashi scraping last bits and pieces out of his bento box.
"Well...?" Kakashi asked placing down the empty box before leaning back in his chair, a lone eye looking at the brunnette.
"I can tell you one thing after observing all of these photos. Whatever attacked this person is really not human, nor any animal attack that I have ever seen"
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"A round of shots for my friends, bartender" Ino yelled at the bartender as he was already pouring drinks for somebody else.
Sakura decided to hang out with her new found friends and the old ones as the night was still young and so was she. Ino invited all that was still able to party with her, including Shikimaru, Naruto, Hinata, Kiba whom seemed to be over Hinata as he saw how happy she was with Naruto and Tenten.
Ino loved alcohol almost as much as she loved herself. But it was not something that Sakura was complaining about. Infact having a friend like Ino was sometimes nice to blow of some steam after a long day of work and another crappy night of a man running of on their date.
Sakura grabbed one of the shot glasses that made their way and lifted in unison with the other friends as Ino made a speach "Here is to making new friends and keeping the old" she winked at Sakura as she said the last part before everybody drank the strange black concoxion that Ino ordered for all of them.
Ino sat again in between Sakura and Shikimaru as she grabbed them both around the neck with her long slender arms. "I love you guys"
"We love you too, Ino" Sakura said as she patted her best friends head in agreement. Shikimaru just smiled at the blonde girl before being pulled in by her with one long kiss. Ino even managed to pull his hair loose, causing his hair to fall to the side and frame his face. He seemed like a completly different person with loose hair.
The sound of talking and soft music was heard in the good duration of the night as they all made small chit chatter with each other, catchig up on recent event. Introducing each other to themselves and just plainly getting to know each other as they spoke. Alcohol flowed as freely as the conversation did. Everybody got more comfortable with each other as they loosened up more.
After all the small talk a tall blond with curly blonde hair, pushed her way through the crowd and came to sit next to Shikimaru and Naruto on the couch where everybody else was sitting, litteraly forcing herself in between the two. Ino and Sakura observed the girl as she made herself 'cosy'.
"Hi Shikimaru" she said leaning into Shikimaru, whispering in the shell of his ear. Trying to catch his attention with all of her womanly parts
Said man, whom was not even paying attention to the eager girl, just glanced to his side before uttering "Hi Temari" and brought his attention back to Ino, brushing Ino's long blond hair behind her ear.
"How do you like my dress?" she asked again with a second attempt trying to get his attention.
His eyes glanced to her side quickly observing the dress whilst Temari was squeezing her boobs to make them seem bigger. To her knowledge, all men like things that are bigger. That's how she got the previous men in her life.
Temari was about to continue when a man collapsed onher, his face making contact with her breasts. The crowd now watching didn't know what was the funnier part. The fact that Kiba fell into her lap with direct contact to her breasts or the fact that he stayed there for a while before getting up. She blushed heavily as she felt exposed and being touched by not the man she wanted.
"I am soo sorry" Kiba persisted as he got up from where he collapsed.
"You better be" Temari said fury in her voice as she got up with a snap and stormed off as she pushed her way out of the crowd again.
Everybody started laughing as they all observed Temari's retreating from. Kiba later on admitted that he purpously fell into her lap to get a quick feel. Everybody laughed even louder as he demonstrated how 'clumsy' he was.
It was when the DJ amped up the volume in music and set of the laser light work and smoke machines, when Ino's eyes grew as wide as saucers and she pulled the poor pinkette to the dance floor as they started dancing. Sakura felt her limbs move to the music as she danced, letting her hair loose and letting herself fall for the music. It felt like when she listened to the music and move to the rythms that all her problems just faded away. It melted into the rythm of what was to be heard. For a long time all of them danced as to the songs the DJ switched. Shikimaru came to dance with Ino later on feeling each other up as they did so.
When the DJ switched on to the next song, a song that Sakura did not know but Ino did. Sakura decided it would be better to catch her breath. Moving through the hords of people dancing and making her way to the outside of the cool night air was more then overwelming.
It felt to her like the cool air nearly knocked the alcohol content out of her breath. Like a new life.
Sakura made her way to sit on one of the benches outside as she still tried catching her breath. Alot of the people sat on the outside talking to each other, or smoking. Most probably to the fact that they could not hear each other from the inside. Sakura smiled at some of the people as they pass her by. It was when she sat all by herself that she trully felt alone.
Alone. With no-one to confide to about her deepest feelings.
"We should stop bumping into each other like this" a deep voice spoke as smooth as velvet.
Sakura's green eye connected with deep black ones.
Sasuke.
She could not believe the man had the nerve to be standing here infront of her when he so was so quick to dissapear the previous night. Leaving her all alone.
"What are you doing here" she asked with more venom in her voice then intended on.
"I needed to see you again" spoke the man, never breaking eye contact with the green ones.
"What? So that you could run away again?" Sakura spat. Truth had to be something burning since it came out so quickly.
Sasuke pondered for a bit, thinking what should his next move be. For the next one could be the one that could hit a home run or loose her forever. He moved to sit next to Sakura on the bench before speaking softly.
"I am sick"
Sakura made a small sarcastic chuckle while rolling her eyes, as if in more in the line of like 'Like I haven't heard that one before'. "If you are so sick and so stinking rich, why haven't you gone to a doctor to fix the said illness"
"Because no doctor can fix what I have" the raven haired man said with some sadness in his eyes. Clearly whatever he had has taken a toll on who he was.
Sakura's expression changed. For the first time the night she felt sympathy. She felt the sympathy as she saw the sadness in the man's eyes. Clearly remembering the previous night to in how much pain the poor man was. It wasn't something that anybody could fake. And why would they?
She moved in closer to the man, grabbing his hand "I am so sorry, I didn't know" Sakura spoke, meeting the man's eyes again.
Sasuke was silent for a while.
He hardly ever spoke of his condition. The fact of his illness was not known to many, and fewer even knew the exact cause of his sickness and what it was. The illness was not something that he always liked to be topic of disscusion. He hated when people felt sympathy and plainly sorry for him. He would rather die then to hear the words 'Ahh poor Sasuke'
"It doesn't matter. I see you are a sucker for punishment. Isn't this your third night out this week" Sasuke asked
Sakura chuckled "The same I can say about you since I caught you for the third time this week"
Sasuke's face lit up in amusement "It must be faith if we keep on bumping into each other like this"
Sakura looked into his eyes, a small smile playing in the corner of her lips "It must be..."
"Would you like to go for a dinner?" asked Sasuke as he stood up. Already knowing what the answer to question would be.
"Yes" Sakura stood up aswell "Yes. I would."
A/n: Yes another Authers note. I just would like to thank all the reviews and Subscribers for taking the time out and to read my story since I never had so much faith in this story myself. You guys make me blush
corpsedollie Answers Reviews:
whenthesheepsaysbaa I would hope that it is interesting. Otherwise I would not continue with it
-banakiwi90 So strange that you would say that I must make it longer since Chapter 7 was one of the longest chapters that I have written
-BROWNeyes you make me blush ;) Chapter will be every Wednesday now
-themellyb123 So sad that you lost the necklace because it would be cool to have. My friend has a Sasuke kitana necklace which I still want to steal from her. haha. But anywho. Thanks for reviewing the chapers. It meanse the world to me.
-Kunoichi Uchiha Sakura This story is turning out better then I expected
-Life'sNotPerfect Thank you very much and I will do so
-samwhich-at-school Its only going to get more interesting from here onwards
LAST A/N: I don't know of you who is interested in OC stories where they just so happen to fall into the Naruto world but me and my imouto-chan is working on a story together and would like some input on it. If you guys are interested please let me know. I think I will post a link to the story on my bio