Chapter 2: The Trial
Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, and Rock Lee: three best friends that have done everything friends can do together: they each shared similar interests: they each shared the same classes since they met in elementary school: they even once had the flu at the exact same time.
But Sasuke, Naruto, and Lee were each very different men: Sasuke, a twenty seven year old Caucasian male with onyx black eyes and spikey, black hair: born into a half German and half Italian heritage.
Naruto, a twenty seven year old Caucasian male with spikey, blond hair and blue eyes: born into a half Native American and half British bloodline.
Lee, a twenty seven year old half Japanese male with thin, black hair: born into a half Japanese, half Spanish (Spain) heritage.
Interestingly enough, Sasuke, Naruto, and Lee's grandfathers were Army officers in 1944, and served in the Normandy Campaign, after that they joined Lucky Luciano's organization. Their fathers were each in command of a MAC-V SOG unit during the Vietnam War, and eventually each became very successful businessmen. Sasuke, Naruto, and Lee each individually learned of their fathers' and grandfather's military services, and decided to follow in their footsteps: they each joined the Army shortly after finishing college, and as Naruto and Lee became Sergeants, Sasuke went on to become a commanding officer, and took command of the same unit Naruto and Lee were in right as they graduated from Ranger school.
Before we continue you're probably wondering why three New York Police officers are driving a Ferrari 458 Italia, a Ferrari California, and a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta right?
Well it's an interesting story, Sasuke, Naruto, and Lee (as stated recently) are each former Army Rangers: and after saving up their income money from their duty, and after leaving the Rangers they joined the NYPD and used their saved wages, and the money the trust funds their grandfathers and fathers left behind provided to buy the cars.
Anyway, November 25th, 2013: the trial of Laceration Larry was going to take place that morning, and it started out as a normal morning for Sasuke, he woke up at seven thirty in the morning to the sound of his alarm clock going off.
He opened the cabinet of his bed-side table to retrieve his M1911, then got dressed in his Khaki pants, tied his boots into place, and then after he put on his Polo shirt, he pulled his trench coat off the coat rack (since it was fall, and almost thirty degrees outside), and after sliding his gun into its holster and retrieving his badge from the table, he walked out to his Ferrari 458.
Sasuke arrived at the NYPD office building at 8:30 A.M. to be greeted by Naruto and Lee who just pulled up in their cars, Sasuke, Naruto, and Lee walked into the elevator that carried them to their floor in the offices of the NYPD Bureau of Organized Crime.
"Sasuke, Naruto, Lee," their boss, Inspector Ethan said as he walked up to their desks.
"Good morning sir," Sasuke said as he saluted his boss.
"At ease Detective," Ethan said, "As you all know Laceration Larry's trial is today, and I want you three to go to his court hearing."
"Yes sir," Sasuke said as he saluted his superior, and he, Naruto, and Lee walked off.
A half an hour later Sasuke, Naruto, and Lee parked their cars in the parking lot of the Manhattan Island US District Court at 500 Pearl Street, they exited their cars, and as Sasuke was walking watching the Court House, he walked into a woman dressed in a black dress with black high-heels, and accidently knocked her over, "Oh god," Sasuke said as he knelt down to the woman, "I am sorry about tha…," Sasuke was soon looking into the familiar green eyes of his high school friend, Sakura Haruno, "Sakura?" "Sasuke," Sakura asked in shock when she saw him, Sasuke helped Sakura to her feet, "What are you doing here?" "I should be asking you the same thing." Sasuke said.
"I'm here doing a report on Laceration Larry's trial," Sakura said as she held up her press badge. "You're a reporter now," Sasuke said, "Well then," he pulled out his wallet, "I might be able to help you and your friends out there a bit," he held out his wallet to show off his badge. "We always knew you boys would end up in Police work," Ino Yamanaka said as she pulled her camera out of her carrying case.
"Ino," Lee said when he saw here, "The cameraman, why am I not surprised?"
Sasuke, Naruto, and Lee led the girls up the front steps of the courthouse, "Can I help you sir," the first officer said as he held his hand out to Sasuke, Sasuke held up his badge, "Detective Mc'polsih sir, I'm very sorry Sir," the officers moved aside to let Sasuke, Naruto, and Lee through, then after Sakura and Ino showed their press badges to the officers, they entered the courthouse.
After taking their seats in the isles, Laceration Larry was brought into the courthouse in a pair of heavy duty hand-cuffs.
"All rise for the honorable Judge Luther Lawrence presiding," the bailiff said as Judge Lawrence entered. Everyone rose to their feet, and Ino started filming. "Please be seated," Judge Lawrence said, everyone took their seats as Judge Lawrence picked up the trial readings, "We are gathered to discuss the case of the city of New York Verses Larry A. Simon, AKA Laceration Larry, for the charges of murder, grand larceny, human trafficking, distributing illegal substances, and smuggling: how does the defendant plead?"
"He does not," Laceration Larry's lawyer said as he looked up at Judge Lawrence.
His plead would soon be overturned when he was found guilty as charged after two days into the trial, and sentenced to life in prison.
But the sentence wouldn't last long: a week later, the precinct was quite until there was the sound of the elevator opening, and several men stepped off carrying Heckler and Koch MP5 Sub Machine Guns (The HK MP5 'Kurz' model is of German design, and is a shortened variant allowing for compact mobility in extreme close quarters, several other variants exist to chamber various ammunition calibers, some designed specifically for United States agencies such as the FBI), "EVERYBODY ON THE GROUND," the first man yelled as he fired a round into the ceiling.
"Is he serious," Sasuke asked as he looked at Naruto and Lee.
The detectives in the room grabbed their guns, and aimed at the armed men, it was then that one of the armed men got spooked and his weapon discharged, and shot Detective William Hoover in the shin.
Sasuke returned fire by shooting the one that opened fire first dead center in the chest, the others responded by shooting at air, the detectives ducked behind their desks as the hostiles opened fire.
"Hey Naruto, Lee," Sasuke called over the gunfire, "You remember Afghanistan: the office building raid?"
"I got you," Naruto said as he pushed over a filing cabinet that Sasuke crawled behind to avoid being attacked.
As soon as Sasuke was in the clear, he crawled around to an opening in the desk to secure one of the dead hostile's guns, he picked it up, moved into position next to the hostiles, and opened full auto, killing each one of them.
After the firefight was over, Sasuke, Naruto, Lee, and several other detectives were stepping over the bodies of the dead hostiles, "What I don't understand boys," Sasuke said, "Is what could these guys possibly gain by attacking our precinct?"
There was then a plainclothes officer that ran into the offices with a startling report of several members of Laceration Larry's thugs breaking him out while he was being transported to his Maximum Security prison, "Show time," Naruto said as he, Sasuke, and Lee ran to the car-park.
Sasuke, Naruto, Lee, and several other officers arrived at the scene where the prison transport where Laceration Larry was being transported in a SWAT van, the SWAT officers were being held captive inside the van and several of Laceration Larry's thugs were keeping the alleyway to warehouse where the van was.
Arriving on the scene, it sounded like a warzone, and the situation was not looking good for the cops: several officers were injured, and the criminals were holding up very well. "What's the situation here," Sasuke asked as he walked up to one of the recently freed SWAT officers.
"We were transporting Laceration Larry to his cell at The Hold when several armed thugs pulled us out of the van at gun-point, and drove us here," the SWAT Sergeant said, "We were freed, but they took our guns and Kevlar, and left our radios, we radioed for help, and here we are."
"Not like Larry's thugs," Sasuke said as he walked by one of the SWAT weapon-mounts, and picked up a M39 EMR (the M39 EMR was developed from the tried-and-true Springfield M39 assault rifle of 1959, which itself is a further development of the very successful and very famous semi-auto rifle of WWII, the M1 Garand), loaded it, and pulled back on the cocking drive.
"And how would you know that?" the SWAT Sergeant asked.
"I know him," Sasuke said, "I studied him just before I arrested him. Organized Crime bosses like Laceration Larry don't change tactics like that, there must be something else going on, I can feel it. Rally the troops, we're about to march in."
Sasuke, Naruto, and Lee entered the alley into heavy fire, after taking cover behind an old air-conditioning vent, Sasuke quickly stood up, and fired two shots, dropping one of the thugs like a stone.
"How many are there?" Naruto asked.
"I'd say about seven," Sasuke said as he stood up, and fired twice, killing one, and narrowly missing another, "Six."
One of the SWAT officers threw Naruto a Franchi SPAS-12 (the SPAS-12 is a semi-automatic shotgun produced by the Italian firm of Franchi S.p.A., it entered production in the late 1970's as a police and military combat shotgun with two settings - an automatic mode featuring a self-loading semi-automatic setting and the base pump-action setting), "Thanks." Naruto said.
Lee quickly stood up with an MP5, and set off seven rounds, sending a single thug to the ground.
After another two seconds, Naruto stood up, and blew the last guard's head off with the SPAS-12.
The three teammates plus several officers approached the door to the warehouse when they all heard the sound of an engine approaching, "GET BACK!" Sasuke yelled.
Naruto quickly grabbed Sergeant Hinata, one of his old friends from the academy, and yanked her away from the door as a 2013 Porsche Cayenne jumped through the door, and flew towards the street.
"Let's move," Sasuke said as him, Naruto, and Lee scrambled to their feet and rushed towards their cars.
Naruto quickly jumped into his car as Sasuke slid over the hood of his 458, threw the door open, got in, and started up his car as Lee started up his F12 Berlinetta.
The three cops sprang into action, with a police helicopter in air-pursuit while, Sasuke, Naruto, and Lee followed in their Ferraris.
In the 458, Sasuke down-shifted into second, and grabbed the radio attached to the dashboard, "All officers in the vicinity of up-town Manhattan, we have a 10-33 at the old Planters Brick Factory," Sasuke said, "Three officers in hot pursuit of a gold Porsche Cayenne carrying a suspect believed to be heavily armed, and extremely dangerous. Mobilization Code 10-71! Repeat, Mobilization Code 10-71!"
Within half an hour, the Porsche, and Sasuke, Naruto, and Lee's Ferraris were all entering Times Square, but as soon as the Porsche entered Times Square, thousands of lights from a hundred Police cars lit up the entire area like the lights of Times Square themselves.
It was five seconds later that the Porsche stopped, as a hundred NYPD Blues rushed onto the streets and opened fire on the Porsche with automatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns.
Sasuke quickly stopped his Ferrari, ran up to the Porsche, grabbed his M1911, and yanked the door open, "Game over," he said as he pointed his gun into the wreckage of the Porsche, only to find a body-double of Laceration Larry sitting inside, his body riddled with bullets, "What the fuck," Naruto and Lee walked up to Sasuke, "This isn't him!"
Sasuke grabbed the body-double's wig, and yanked it off of the man's head as Naruto and Lee walked up to him, "We've been duped," Naruto said, "He was never here."
"The Bastard's eluded us again," Lee said, "How does he keep doing this?"
"We let our guard down," Sasuke said as the Blues rushed over, and dragged the bodies out of the bullet-ridden Porsche.
Back at the station, Sasuke gave his report to Inspector Ethan, "So I guess that means opening a new case," Inspector Ethan asked as he walked in front of him.
"Yes sir," Sasuke said as he looked at his boss, "I'm sorry sir."
"No apologies are necessary Detective Mc'polsih," Inspector Ethan said, "Go home, and get some rest, tomorrow: you, Naruto, and Lee have a lot of work to do."