Chapter 6: Information
Sasuke walked in the next morning to see Naruto and Lee sitting at their desk with bandages on the back of their necks, "Naruto, Lee," Sasuke said as he walked up to his partners.
Naruto and Lee stood up, and walked over to Sasuke; Sasuke grabbed Naruto's hand as it came in, placed his shoulder against Naruto's chest, and slapped his friend on the back: it was vice versa for Lee.
"Morning boys," Hinata said as she walked up to them wearing a black long-sleeve button-up shirt, a pair of khaki pants, and high-heel leather shoes.
"What are you doing in that," Sasuke asked as he brushed some dust off the sleeve of his white long-sleeve button-up shirt, some off his jeans, and then flicked some dirt off his shoe.
"Inspector Ethan has given me a job in Special Investigation," Hinata said, "I made detective."
"Congratulations," Sasuke said as he held out his hand to Hinata who shook it, "Welcome to Special Activities as we call it."
"Alright," Lee said, "So Lance told us that you think the darts that hit us were government-issued?"
"Yep," Sasuke said, "I've managed to get in touch with one of our informants that might have found a dealer in the black market that has sold the same kind of dart."
"Then what do we do?" Naruto asked.
"Simple," Sasuke said as he picked up his phone, "I'm going to need to make a phone call first."
Sasuke had a plan for getting the black-market dealer before he could get away, and discussed it with Naruto, Lee, and Hinata.
That night Sasuke was dressed like a High-End Mafia member, and approached the dealer, "Excuse me man," Sasuke said as he approached the dealer.
"You must be Alec Carter," the dealer said as he held out his hand, "Stephan Sharp."
Sasuke shook Sharp's hand, "My friend told me you're in the business of selling government issued property." Sasuke said.
"I have the property," Sharp said, "The question is," Sharp held out his hand, "Do you have the money?"
Sasuke reached into the pocket of his leather jacket, and pulled out a manila envelope, "This is it," Sasuke said as he held it out to Sharp who took it, and started going over the amount.
"This way," Sharp said as he pointed the envelope towards a small warehouse.
Sasuke followed Sharp to a warehouse where a row of four black vans were parked in the center of the warehouse, Sharp opened each van one at a time, and pointed to the van at the end of the line.
"The one on the end has military-grade weapon upgrades," Sharp said then pointed to the second, "Number two there are more weapons," Sharp moved onto the third, "Number three has various legal papers that can get you out of any arrests," Sharp went to number four, "And the last one has various types of body armors."
"Very nice," Sasuke said, "You've got the mother-load here, and another thing," Sasuke reached into his jacket, and swiftly pulled his M1911 out of his jacket pocket, "You're under arrest."
It was then that Naruto, Lee, and Hinata burst into the warehouse with M4s drawn.
"Don't try anything funny," Naruto said as Hinata put the man in handcuffs, planted him against the side of the fourth van, and searched him.
"He's clean," Hinata said as she turned to Sasuke, then turned back to the dealer, and shoved him to the ground, "Sit down."
Sasuke walked over to the first van, and looked inside: finding only silencers, scopes for pistols, extended magazines, and various other things.
"Anything," Naruto asked as he looked at Sasuke.
"Nothing yet," Sasuke said as he moved over to the second van, finding the dart gun, "Aha! Bingo," he exclaimed as he picked up the gun, then turned his attention to the dealer, "Has there been any recent purchased this weapon recently?"
"Only one," the dealer said, "I can tell you who, but you must protect…" It was then that there was the sound of a puff of air, and the dealer gasped as he was shot in the heart.
Sasuke reached into the second van, and pulled out a M32 Multiple Grenade Launcher (the M32 MGL is currently in trials with the United States Marine Corps in the Iraqi Theater of War), and turned swiftly around to cover Hinata as she grabbed her handkerchief, and placed it against the dealer's wound.
"We're losing him!" Hinata exclaimed.
Sasuke turned around to the dealer, and placed his hand against the handkerchief, it wasn't enough: the dealer was dead within thirty seconds.
"Fuck!" Sasuke exclaimed as he threw the M32 against the bumper, and sat against the bumper he just threw the M32 onto.
"Our only lead, dead," Hinata said as she sat next to Sasuke.
"We can't blame ourselves," Sasuke said, "I failed to take in every variable."
"Maybe our investigation isn't over," Naruto said as he pulled a book out of the front seat. "What's that," Sasuke asked as he looked at the book.
"It's a ledger," Naruto said as he flipped through the pages, "It's flooded with all kinds of names, and purchases."
Sasuke and Hinata stood up to look into the ledger, and read over the hundreds of names scratched into the page (obviously written with a heavy hand).
"Let's start running down these names," Sasuke said as his pulled out his phone, "I'm calling the coroner, we're going to need a body-bag."
Guess what happens next…