Sakura woke up to find herself alone on the couch. No one was in the room and the t.v. was turned off. She heard sizzling coming in from another room, the kitchen. She got up and walked to the kitchen to find Sasuke scrambling some eggs.
"Are you hungry?" Came his monatone voice.
She smiled lightly,"Sure."
He continued cooking as Sakura sat at the table,"What time did you wake up?"
Sasuke kept him focus on the eggs, he didn't want them to burn,"Maybe about twenty minutes before you did."
He devided the the scramble eggs so they both would have an equal share. He sat her plate infront of her on the table and sat the fork on top of it. Sasuke then walked over to the chair and sat in it, infront of Sakura.
Sakura took a bite of the eggs,"Wow, your a good cook."
Sasuke picked up a piece of his eggs with his fork."Anybody can make crambled eggs."
"Yea, but, yours just got a special taste to them." Sakura said smiling.
They we're quite for a few moments before Sasuke brought up the investigation,"So, do you have any ideas about who killed your mom? I figured we start this investigation as soon as we could."
She swollowed another piece of the eggs,"Yes I do, It has to be either one of these three guys that my mom has dated in the past. Either Mario Alivanko, Surgio Bruso, or Orochimaru. I foud out where the first two lived, but for the last one, I saw him on t.v. He has a car dealership, so we can just visit him there.
Sasuke walked up to the cabinet and took out two glasses and took orange juice out of the fridge,"I forgot our drinks, but anyway, very good. I figure we should start with the first person and work our way down to the last. Lets visit Mario Alivanko first. Where does he live at?"
Sasuke sat there drinks at the table and he sat back down as Sakura began," Well, Mario Alivanko lives at 39 Ichi Ave. Do you just want to take your car there or mine?"
They were about finished with there breakfast,"I think we should take my car because I just got a new one, so that means no one would really have seen me in it, plus, it would be best to use a car that no one has seen, so that no one would follow us. If we use your car or the one I always use, some one might follow us knowning that one of us or both of us is in one of those cars.."
Their breakfast was finished as Sakura began again,"Can we first stop at my house because I would like to change into some new clothes."
Sasuke got up from his chair,"Yes, actually I think it would be best if you come live with me until this case is solved, otherwise you may be in danger if you still stay at your place."
She looked up at him,"Alright."
Sakura couldn't argue with that. She was still young and wasn't in a hurry to die so soon. Sasuke went in his room to change. He took off his pajamas and stuck on black jeans and a dark blue tee-shirt. Then he took out of his closet his black with blue laces and trimming DC's. He brushed his teeth and then he brushed his hair and walked down stairs to find Sakura in her buisness suit from before.
"Ready to go?" Sasuke asked.
Sakura smiled,"Yep."
Sasuke's new car was a black landberginie, one of the fastest cars in the world. They both got in and buckeled their seat belts. Sakura looked the car over inside, Everything was so detailed. The seats were leather and the seat belts had a padding on them so they would lay comfortably on you. He had a high definition radio/CD player. Just about everything was digital. The mileage glowed and the numbers would change to show how fast you were going, plus, it would even let you know if you were going north, south, east, west, northeast, northwest, southeast, or even southwest. It even had a digital mapping below the raido/CD player so if you need to go somewhere you don't know or if you got lost, it would tell you where your at or how to get to your destination. The windows would go up or down with a push of a botton. Even the locking could be controled up front. In the back seat Sakura saw a computer.
She looked at him as he began to drive,"Wow, you really have a nice car. I was wondering, why do you have a laptop in the back seat?"
He kept his eyes on the road,"You never know when you might need to track down someone."
"You must really get into your line of work. I have to admit, your probably better at this than I am." Sakura said looking out the window.
He glanced at her in the corner of his eyes,"I wouldn't say that. There has been a few cases where you would figure them out before I did. You just don't give yourself much credit. Myself personally, I think your brilliant."
Her eyes grew wide. 'Does he really think I'm that great?' Sakura thougth to herself. She couldn't help but blush.
She looked at him with her cheeks a little bit tinted pink,"Thanks, I think your pretty great yourself."
Sasuke's smile was gentle. He placed his right hand ontop of her left hand and he squeezed it gently. Again all Sakura could do was blush.
A few moments later Sasuke spoke up,"I think though you should come back each day so it doesn't look like we're on to them. I wouldn't talk about the investigation in the house or say anything that could lead to it. Just talk like you don't know anything, the only thing you really could talk about would be about the brick that went through your window, but don't talk about yourself knowing about the recordings in your house. We're going to keep this on the low, and have this remain a secret between us both, so if we talk in the house we shoud just talk about normal stuff, just don't make it seem too ovious."
"I'm glad you brought that up. I was thinking the same thing. The only thing I would say is, if I do go to my house each day, you shouldn't be with me. I don't know if there is any web cams through out the house, but if would seem strange if us two we're seen together. What I mean is, it would seem weird that two detectives are seeing each other all of a sudden, unless you some how bring it up that you would want to go on a date with me or something, like you called my house and asked to come over and then when you come over after awhile you ask me if I would like to go on a date with you., well, that is if you wanted to." Sakura blushed and looked the other way.
Sasuke couldn't help but smile again lightly as he made it to her house and parked in the back,"Sure, actually I was meaning to ask you on a date. That is, if you want to go on a date with me, but noticing from your stament, I take it as if you would like to go on a date with me.
'I really need to quit blushing.' Sakura mentally said to herself.
"Sure, I would like that." She smiled.
"You know, I was thinking, what happened to the girl that was so competitive and wasn't so nice to me?" Sasuke said smirking.
Sakura replied,"I dont know, but I should be asking you the same question. How come all of a sudden you like me?"
Sasuke unbuckeled his seat belt,"Like I said Sakura, your smart, nice, funny,classy, very sucessful, responsable, pretty, and seriously, who wouldn't want to date someone like you?"
'Again with the blushing.' Sakura mentally said.
"Thank you Sasuke, to be honest, I've always liked you, even thought sometimes you could be a jerk. I've always found you smart, or well smarter than me. Your very handsome, and your also very sucessful, and responsable. To me you seem so perfect, where with myself I find that I struggle. To be honest, I'm very impressed with you Sasuke."
Sasuke kissed her cheek,"I'm very impressed with you too Miss. Haruno."
Sakura giggled and said,"I'll be right back, just let me get a few things."
She got out of the car and unlocked her back door. Sakura walked inside and went up stairs. She went through the hallway and into her room, walking in and open her closet. She took her light green tank top and her dark blue short shorts out and took off her suit and put them on. She was a teenager after all. They had to look normal so no one would think they were searching for her mother's killer. They couldn't go around wearing their buisness suits because they only wore that when they were working. Remember, this had to be kept a secret.
Sasuke was in the car waiting for Sakura to come out. He looked over at her house and saw someone moving around downstairs through her window. 'Someone must be in there. Oh shit, Sakura is in there, she probably doesn't even know someone is in the house.' Sasuke mentally yelled to himself. He got out of the car and hid around the bushes until he reached the back door. He didn't want the person to see him through the window. Sasuke opened the door lightly.'Of all the times to not have my gun with me.' Sasuke again mentally yelled at himself. He looked around the corner and crept inside. He saw a person in the living room his back facing him. The burglar was heading up stairs. 'Shit, and that's where Sakura is at.' Sasuke thought to himself. He had to hurry and think of something. The intruder probably had a weapon with him. The only thing Sasuke could think of was to quitely go behind him and tackle him down, so that's what he did.
Sakura heard a man yell with a thump. She came out of her room to see Sasuke hitting a man covered in black with a ski mask over his face.
"Sakura, stay in your room, I'll handle this." Sasuke said yelling up the stairs to Sakura.
Sakura ran to the bottom of the stairs where the two men were fighting,"No Sasuke, you need my help and you know it."
She punched him in the gut while Sasuke was using the martial arts he new. He ducked down and did a sweap kick to the mans ankle and he fell. The man did a back hand spring with a kick that hit Sasuke in the face. Sasuke fell to the ground. Sakura started swinging at him and doing some turn kicks. The burglar dodged them and punched her in the stomach hard.She fell to her knees holding her stomach. Sasuke came from behind him to grab him, but the man moved to the side and Sasuke had fallen forward, and the man hit him in the back sending him to fall on Sakura. The man hurried and took the lamp and threw it at the window. He jumped out and ran to a car that was out front waiting for him. They took off.
Sasuke rolled off of Sakura and turned to her as Sakura said crying,"My side, it hurts so much."
Sasuke picked her up and laid her on the couch,"Here, let me see your side."
He lifted up her shirt a little just enough to see her stomach, it looked like her left side was red, probably was going to bruse soon.
"He must have broken a few ribs Sakura." Sasuke said touching it lightly as she flinched.
She tried to get up,"No, it's nothing, I'm fine."
Sasuke pushed her back down lightly,"Sakura quit being so stubburn,"Your hurt, your going to have to lay down for a while until the pain goes away and it heals up a bit. Do you have any bandages or some Advil anywhere?"
She rested her head on the pillow,"Yea, it's in the medicine cabinet."
He got up off his knees and went in the bathroom. He opened the medicine cabinet, and found different medicines and some bandages. He took out the advil and the bandages and then went in the kitchen. He grabbed a glass and filled it with some water and took an ice pack out of the fridge. He walked in the living room where Sakura was laying at.
He took out two pills and placed them on the table infront of the couch with the glass of water and the bandages.
Sasuke grabbed Sakura by her hands and pulled her up very carefully, not too rough so she wouldn't danmage anything else or be in more pain,"Here Sakura, I want you to take some medicine for the pain and when your done I'll bandage your left side for you."
She drank the water with the medicine and looked at Sasuke who was ready to help her with her broken ribs. Sakura lifted her shirt up to where at least it was covering her chest.
Sasuke placed the ice pack on the left side where her broken ribs were at,"Here, hold this here so I can put this bandage around it."
Sakura did as she was told. He held the beginning of the bandage until he wrapped the rest around it a few times to keep it in place. He told Sakura that she could let go of the bandage as he wrapped the rest of the bandages around it to keep it also in place. She laid her head back on the pillow as Sasuke put the stuff away. 'He's being so kind.' Sakura thought to herself.
He came back and sat on the chair. Sasuke looked at his knuckles that were sore. They were also red and had a few cuts on them, probably also going to bruse soon. He walked in the kitchen and took two other ice packs out of the fridge and got some more bandages out of the medicine cabinet. He placed the ice pack on his left hand where his knuckles were at and wrapped the bandages around it, same with the other hand. Sasuke then walked back into the living room and sat in the same seat.
"Sasuke, what are we going to do? If we're going to keep it a secret, you can't stay tonight, but your hurt too." Sakura said arching her head back with her eyes looking up to see him.
He thought for a few minutes,"I think it's best if I do stay tonight. We already just had one intruder come here, so there probably will be more. Also, your in no condition to fight and if someone breaks in your going to need someone to defend you. You got a few broken ribs and your going to need my help to help you sit up and stuff and get you your things so you don't do anymore danmage to your ribs. Plus, whoever that was already saw us together so there's no point of hiding it. The only thing I can do is stay tonight."
Sakura tried to fix herself on the couch but winced from the pain as Sasuke said with his monatone voice,"Don't move too much, your only going to make it feel worse."
She stayed in place. The house was so quite, almost as if nothing ever happened. The house was a mess from the fighting and broken glass was on the floor. She couldn't believe that she missed that guy when he was in the house. He must have been hiding so she wouldn't have seen him. Still, she didn't even hear a sound in the house. 'The guy must have had a key to the house, because no other windows were broken except a whole big enough to fit the brick. I like to know how he got a key to my house in the first place?' Sakura questioned in her mind.
She stayed in her place as she began talking,"Sasuke, I wonder what the man wanted?"
He leaned in the chair,"I don't know, probably to take the recordings that he had so far and replace them with new ones. He could have even been waiting for you Sakura."
Sakura gasped, she was thankful that Sasuke was there with her. If it wasn't for him, she could have been dead. 'I'm so glad I asked for his help.' Sakura thought to herself.
"Thank you Sasuke for helping me. I'm glad I did accept your offer and asked you for your help. If it wasn't for you, I could have been dead." Sakura said smiling.
He got out of his chair and knelt by the couch, he brushed some of the hair out of her face and kissed her on her forhead,"Your welcome. I'm glad to help you Sakura, For right now, I think it's best if you lay down for a few days and let your ribs heal. We'll continue our investigation when your better."
Sakura nodded and smiled.