(Rated T for mild gore and language)

AN: Hang on tight, this is gonna be an interesting ride. (Well hopefully :P) I wanted something different, unique, and serious yet fun. A different world but still the same characters to the core, the baka's still a baka and the medic's a medic. It's just instead of ninjas who fight evil you have the Purgers (a merge of police and crime scene investigators) who fight crime. This is my first time doing a mystery/crime story so I hope I planned out the seven days this takes place in well. Also note, even I admit my writing ain't good but I'm striving to improve. And hopefully the unexpected happens and there's surprises along the way in this tale :3 And yes this is a revamp of an old fic on a junk account.

Note, the prologue is not supposed to make perfect sense. Yet. (Be patient with me…) Consider the prologue a taste sample of future events. Mwa ha ha, I'd be glad for predictions anytime in reviews.

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PROLOGUE-DAY 4

He only had three more days to solve the case and so far he hadn't had a squat of luck. Yesterday, a most excellent example of his increasingly worsening luck, had been a downright failure as he had hit a dead end hard-harder than a racecar driving at full speed strait into a damn brick wall. He could just hear the sound effects, the screech of the tires and the booming crash, play in his head as he thought the day's event over. He chuckled bitterly as he got up from where he had been drinking. His mood was foul, he needed to walk. As he left his current hideout he, in his frustration, slammed the door behind him. The air outside was cool and the night was black as dried blood, the kind so old that it cracked from age.

Nighttime was dangerous-especially on this side of town, but not as dangerous as daytime when people were about their business till they saw him-then you'd have the few who didn't know how to mind their own damn business and would report him into the Purge Headquarters, home of the Purge police force. If he got caught he would be detained, thus he'd be back at square one again. That was the last thing he needed or wanted…all the hell he had gone through just to get to this point, as insignificant as it was, and the trouble a number of the Purge members were getting into for his sake…all of it would go to complete waste if he was caught now.

He walked through the streets seething in anger. He prayed the stroll in the clear nighttime air would help calm his anxiety. He had to think this through and he only had a few more days to do so…but…How the heck was he supposed to crack the case when he was a runaway convict? Or rather an innocent runaway convict who was sought after by not only Purge Headquarters but perhaps every criminal in town at that? Oh, how he desperately wished pieces to this great puzzle before him would just fall into place, liberating him from this cross that was forced upon him.

The Purge was the greatest column supporting the metropolis in more ways than one. It'd always appeared like a flawless system that purged the evildoers from the streets, supported, and kept the city safe. Well up till that most terrible fated Day 1 anyway. Everything had fallen miserably straight to hell from there. The Week had started with slaughter and he'd be damned if it ended with more slaughterish bloodshed-well he was already damned anyway. Now while most everyone was chasing after him the real murderer was still on the loose…It was a foul miscarriage of justice indeed. One that would have drastic effects not only on the Purge itself but even the city which they'd sworn to protect….

[DELETED IN 2017 TO PREVENT SPOILERS FOR COMPLETE REMASTER, SEVEN DEVILS]

The game appeared to be over-and it hadn't even been seven days yet…

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Day 1 Part 1: SLAUGHTER-Welcome to the Purge!

"Sorry I'm late, Sai," Captain Kakashi Hatake said as he pushed his way to the scene of the crime. It was early in the morning, 7:25 A.M. to be exact. "I was speeding here when my car ran over a cat, and I just couldn't leave its body in the middle of the road so I was forced to park and ever so tenderly move the cat's corpse to the sidewalk. But then a little girl came and saw, she kind of came to the wrong conclusion, see?"

Sai chuckled, "yet another tall excuse, eh? What would a little girl be doing walking through the streets so early in the morning, on a Saturday at that?"

"Maybe I was mistaken…" Kakashi paused realizing the flaw in his story. He should have known Sai would have caught on to any mistakes, even the tiniest ones. Now if he had been speaking to Naruto on the other hand…"It was an elderly woman, yeah a rather short elderly woman. Perhaps she was out buying prunes, there's a first-come-first-serve sale today at a local market."

Sai sighed tiredly; they both knew what he had really been doing: reading certain very mature fiction. Kakashi laughed, his mouth hidden by his scarf. Sai, nor anyone else on Squad 7 for that matter, had never actually seen their own Captain's mouth all these years. He was always wearing a scarf or going around in a medical mask as he claimed it was flu season or he had allergies. It wasn't a big deal but at the same time it was most amusing. Many humorous stories and rumors of Kakashi's real reasons were floating around Purge Headquarters-the most popular hypothesis being it was to hide his bloody nose as he frequently reads perverted books.

Wearing an eye-patch on his left eye, a testimonial battle scar, Kakashi was no doubt one of the coolest and laid back Squad captains in all of PH. He was also one fine detective. Hatake was one of the five reasons Squad 7 was considered the best. The other four reasons Squad 7 was PH's finest teams was its renowned medical examiner and crime-laboratory technician, Sakura Haruno, second only to the great Tsunade herself. Her medical abilities made her an absolute necessity to the team.

Then Sai himself who was the newest squad member, his magic fingers for rebuilding the crime-scene perfectly in the complex computer software from his very meticulous photographs and sketches made him irreplaceable and he'd solved many a case. Last but not least was the rival duo. Ever competing to outdo each other, Naruto Uzumaki-the more brawns then brains officer, and cool Sasuke Uchiha, a prodigy in practically all areas, quickly gained a reputation of fear to the Underworld. #1 rule in this city: never tick either of them off-especiallythe Uchiha.

Getting down to business, the silver-headed detective then stared out at the scene of the crime before him. He closed his eyes shaking his head; it was a heavy case indeed. As heavy as it got…Sai held up his bulky camera. "Be careful not to disturb anything. I've not got all the pictures yet. As you can see…"

Kakashi nodded. The scene that lay before them was gruesome…and all over the place. What was once the glorious Uchiha estate was now covered in bloodied and mutilated bodies. Many small numbered yellow flags, which Sai had put down marking all necessary places of evidence, littered the area. The bodies, already traced with chalk, were young and old alike. 'It appears,' Kakashi thought solemnly, 'no one was spared from this butchery.

'From the looks of it,' he figured upon closely examining the obvious external trauma via blood pooling out an open wound on one of the corpses, 'the perp just went through this place stabbing victims and tossing them to the ground so they could quickly hit the next person. So many bodies…And to think, we're only at the front of the estate.' It was a difficult sight, but Kakashi was well experienced. As for Sai, well he was bred for perfection and lived to get the job done.

Even though both had experience the stench polluting the air around them was still terrible as well as barely tolerable. The massacre had to have happened that night thus the bodies had not begun rotting but even so, with the amount of fresh blood soaking into the ground the smell made for a strong and foul stench of rust. It was said that after three minutes of being in such a foul odor one would no longer smell as the olfactory nerves went numb. Kakashi prayed this would happen to him but had a feeling he wouldn't be so lucky today.

Clicks from Sai's camera ticked on as he took numerous pictures and occasionally scribbled and sketched in his notebook what he saw, it would no doubt take him a good amount of time to cover everything. Taking pictures and taking notes on the crime scene involved capturing every little detail that could prove useful to solving the case, every victim, their wounds, footsteps, and car tracks (which strangely Kakashi couldn't see any visible prints or tracks of any kind. Something told him this bastard had known what he was doing.) There was much to cover and it was a huge estate. Kakashi predicted they had a long night ahead of them, multiple all nighters realistically.

As Kakashi gazed out at the gory sight before him he thought carefully about how to go about this case as one of his own squad members was, in fact, an Uchiha. He was concerned with how Sasuke would take the news of the slaughter of the seemingly entire Uchiha family. Sasuke had just happened to stay at PH last night finishing up reports on a recently solved case but if he hadn't…he, too, would have certainly fell victim.

When Kakashi had left that morning upon being dispatched by the second in charge, Sasuke was asleep on the break room's couch (*1), the pile of finished reports on the coffee table. Kakashi, not yet realizing the horror of the case before them, fortunately had left Sasuke be. Lord knows that kid needs all the sleep he can get. Though when he wakes… his world will never be the same again….Kakashi felt sincere pity sweep through him for the young man.

Kakashi pulled his radio out. "Tsunade boss," he said calling in to the second in charge of the Purge, "do not dispatch the rest of Squad 7, I repeat do not. Any other Squad but them."

'Don't do this to him…Not like this…'

He heard a sigh on the other end. "How bad is it?"

"Define massacre."

Her breath caught for a moment. "I understand…Sakura is holed up conducting an autopsy for another Squad and Uzumaki hasn't reported in to PH anyway-that bum is, I expect, sleeping in late. I'm docking his pay," she complained. "But what do you want me to do about Sasuke?"

Whoever had done this would surely have Sasuke to fear. More clicks from Sai's camera ticked by as he made his way while trying to carefully step over the numerous bodies.

Kakashi sighed, "Keep him ignorant until I have a chance to personally talk to him. This is going to be hard for him…You know how he gets when he's upset-he lets his rage blind him. He's going to want revenge and he's going to want to spill the blood himself."

"I see. Since because of Officer Uzumaki's tardiness this morning I dispatched Officer Akimichi to patrol the Uchiha estate earlier, I will send out the rest of Squad 10 to handle the scene. You and Sai stay put though as I am not dismissing you from the case. Out."

Kakashi nodded thankful for Tsunade's cooperation. It wasn't normal to split and mix up squads -this was most likely a onetime thing only. He was grateful he'd have Shikamaru's help with this case. That kid had brains; he was a valuable Purge member who handled not only evidence collection but also he was one of the Purge's best crime-laboratory technicians as well. Ino, on the other hand, was inferior to Squad 7's Sakura as a medical examiner unfortunately but any help this case could get was much needed-besides it didn't take a huge medical degree to see that these victims were dead as could be. Speaking of the Squad 10, where was their officer, Choji?

As the captain was about to step outside the black gates that surrounded the Uchiha estate a silver object caught his eyesight as it glinted in the rising sun's light. The object was caught in the black bars of the gate.

"Hey! Sai," Kakashi called, "by the gate, look."

Sai stopped and walked towards the object Kakashi had pointed out. It was a bloodied knife. He quickly began taking pictures capturing its position, measurements, and location from multiple angles and distances.

"Seeing as how no one reported gunshots last night and the victims appear to be killed by a sharp weapon…this just might be a murder weapon," Sai said. "Maybe the assailant, in his haste, unexpectedly dropped it. Dispatch did say the caller who reported the scene in saw a figure rush off around 4 A.M."

"Yes," Kakashi mumbled. "Hopefully the perp left a few good fingerprints on there for us to find."

"It would make this case so much easier," Sai said as he carefully picked up the knife by its tip in his gloved hands. He pulled out his flashlight and examined the knife closely.

"Thank goodness," he said pulling out his kit. "There're some prints. I'm going to go ahead and powder it."

"While you're doing that I'm going to check in with Officer Akimichi about the person who called this scene in."

"Yes, Captain Kakashi."

Outside the gates the smell was less putrid. Kakashi was thankful for the fresh air. He looked back and forth; it appeared Choji had done a fine job taping off the perimeter with the yellow tape giving them plenty of space. As he inspected the exterior of the estate while searching for Choji he noticed another body on the ground nearby. Strange, this one appeared to be the onlyone outside the estate's gates.

He approached them carefully as if any noise he'd make would disturb their lingering spirit. He recognized their face immediately, she was Sasuke's mother. "Oh God," he whispered. For a split second she looked like Rin and Kakashi's heart stopped beating for the briefest moment. He shook his head shaking the solemn and ever haunting memory away.

He crouched next to her, his heart feeling heavier as the full gravity of the situation just kept sinking further and further in. This…was a tragedy and she yet another innocent victim. She had been stabbed multiple times and by the look of the blood drops and puddles she had repeatedly tried to keep going but had collapsed numerous times in the process till she finally dropped for the last time, succumbing to her all too early death by blood loss.

"You tried getting away, didn't you? But they were relentless…Try resting peace now, I'll watch over your son for you and I swear I'll get the bastard who did this to you and your family."

He stood up, face expression grim. Walking some more around the perimeter he finally saw the Squad 10 Officer. He was arguing with a reporter who was standing within the taped off area.

'Oh boy,' Kakashi thought, 'It begins.' Prying the eager-for-stories reporters from the scene of the crime could be such a chore….

"Excuse me, is there a problem here?" Kakashi asked in a loud authoritative voice as he approached the bickering reporter and officer.

"Yes, Captain Kakashi. She refuses to leave," Choji said pointing at the reporter.

It was Temari, her blonde hair held up in multiple tails. Her thin and curvy frame stood tall. She was the perfect image for an anchorwoman-it was no wonder why she was most popular for 5 News. She held on to her video camera and sneered, "Well if it isn't the Detective Hatake."

"Temari…Isn't' it a little too early for news coverage?"

"Well, you know what they say," she smiled, rather maliciously. "The early bird catches the scoop. Besides…I gotta make a living somehow since my dear daddy fell victim to a mafia because a certain organization failed to protect him."

Choji groaned. Kakashi patted him on the shoulder. "You go on ahead, I'll handle her."

Anything for the briefest respite from the morbid slaughter…

Choji quickly rushed off praising Kakashi's timing. She was one of the most persistent reporters he'd ever encountered.

"Temari, you are behind police lines and are possibly contaminating potential evidence. GO," Kakashi demanded.

She sighed, "You know…I just happen to be the person who called this in. You should show me some respect…No…Gratitude."

Kakashi shook his head. It was obvious she still had a grudge about the whole Gaara Incident …

"Listen Temari, I feel so sorry that my Squad wasn't able to save your family, but if you don't get off the premises the same thing that happened to you is going to happen to one of my squad members."

Seeing your family dead on the TV screen as a news reporter rambled on about the horror when they couldn't even begin to understand how much it hurt… Temari had went through this a year of two ago as her family was wiped out simultaneously. Temari's father, who had been the mayor, died by the hands of the Akatsuki. Because of the Akatsuki's puppet user, Sasori, her brother Kankuro died to poisoning and Gaara's body was never found….The Akatsuki was a nasty gang but with the help of Purgers the Akatsuki was now broken up. A few members were still imprisoned in PH's jail: The Black Wing.

The news about the mayor and his sons' deaths spread all over the place, TV, radios, papers, and the internet. Temari was forced through the torture of hearing about it over and over and having the wound keep opening again and again…Her grudge for Squad 7's failure was understandable. But it's not like Squad 7 didn't try their best. Naruto himself was still upset about it, mentioning Gaara's name around him was absolute taboo. He had lost a dear friend….

"Please," Kakashi said, "I can't repay you for what was lost…but if you so kindly get behind the tape we can make this easier for everyone. I'll question you about what you saw and after that the Purgers will find more evidence then you can make your report. But not yet… And if you don't get behind the line I'll have you arrested. I don't want to do that."

Temari stubbornly crossed her arms. Looks like things were going to have to be done the hard way. Kakashi pulled out a pair of tweezers and picked a strand of blonde hair from the grass. His eyes never missed anything.

"Look what I just found, if this hair matches yours you just went from being a witness to a suspect."

"WHAT!?" she hissed. "But I called it in! I'm just a reporter!"

He frowned as he dropped the hair in a small bag and sealed it. The hair, if it belonged to her, was too short to not be from her bangs. If it wasn't hers it was possibly a male's hair. On the front of the plastic bag he wrote in marker:

K.H.

E. Piece #1

Outside Uchiha Estate Gates.

Blonde Hair found to approx. four yards to the left of entrance.

Kakashi continued as he put the piece of evidence away, "you're a reporter who just happens to be standing at a crime-scene before anyone else. How do I know you aren't the murderer and are just using your job as a way to cover up your tracks? You guys have been running out of good stories lately so maybe that's your motive. You also possibly want revenge. Perhaps you want Squad 7 to go through the exact thing you went through…It just happens Naruto is an orphan and doesn't have any family for you to kill. Someone long got to them before you could so you struck Sasuke's home first."

"How dare you!" she yelled, the rage in her voice clear. "I would never sink so low! Yes I hate the Purge but I would never kill!" she grabbed her camera and swiftly stepped over the tape. "This city deserves to see you guys fall! And I'll be the one to unmask you guys for what you really are."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Kakashi inquired grimly.

She didn't answer but mumbled under her breath leaving the scene. Kakashi sighed exasperated. Man he hoped she had listened to him…

He heard a dog barking off in the distance, which reminded him of Akamaru. Kiba and his dog, Akamaru, were PH's only K-9 Unit members. Because this case was recent they were searching for the perp who had to be nearby…Kakashi was beginning to regret that decision made by dispatch. If there was a psychopath insane enough to butcher so many and smart enough to wipe their tracks…then they no doubt laid traps as well.

Kakashi had to warn Sai. Back inside the estate Kakashi called for Sai. "Sai! Wait!"

The young man looked up, "What is it, Captain?"

"We better wait for Akamaru to go through here before you continue; this creep might have laid traps out."

"I think its fine. If there were traps I would have ran into them by now, and here, the index card containing the prints I found. Can you go ahead and drop this off at headquarters?" asked Sai as he handed the card to Kakashi. Kakashi pocketed it. Sai no doubt wanted to get the perp's name before Kiba did. Everything in the Purge became a contest when different Squads were involved.

"Alright, but be careful. Squad 10 should be here to help assist soon. After I'm done scanning this I'm going to have Temari questioned or interrogated-however it needs put."

Sai nodded smiling. "Oh, reporters."

"Heh, you can say that again."

Leaving Sai, Kakashi carefully looked at the index card containing the fingerprint, and actually Sai had managed to get a palm print too. They belonged to an average-sized right hand. Now… if they could just find a match then surely this atrocious criminal would be caught-putting some relief to this mess. Then there was Sasuke to worry about. How does one tell a young man his family has been massacred and he just might be the last one alive?

Kakashi was in his car when the explosions went off. It was so sudden it took him quite by surprise. "SAI!" he yelled as he saw monstrous amounts of fire and smoke discharged from the Uchiha estate. It was too late. He banged his head on the steering wheel with a loud curse. This was a nightmare. He quickly pulled out his radio. "Tsunade, the estate just blew up- we need firefighters and a medic immediately! Have them salvage anything they can!"

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-TBC-

Oh who oh who left the fingerprint, and what about the rest of the evidence and poor Sai?

Just what happened to the Uchiha estate and how will Kakashi break the news to the possibly last Uchiha?

Next time: Day 1 Part 2: Suspect-The evidence never lies…

(And for crap's sake, where's Squad 7's #1 knucklehead doofus when ya need him XD)

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*1-The couch-In my particular school in a certain classroom there is a friggen COUCH! (a long green one) So I though why not here too? The Purger's are like family anyways

And because this is the Purge there are going to be some changes to what you have in real life-just mild ones though.

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Purgers : A mix of police and crime scene investigators. A Purge squad is comprised of an officer, ident, and a detective as a captain. They are assigned to a case and are responsible for carrying out justice. Purgers are bound by the unwritten law of never showing favoritism among criminals though they are allowed to treat higher up (better behaved) crims to partial liberty. Example: Nagato Uzumaki formerly known as Pain, the former head of Akatsuki frequently took walks outside with his distant relative (Naruto Uzumaki) for long talks. Officer Uzumaki deemed him fully Purged and ready for another chance in society. Purgers have the power to release Purged criminals on good behavior if the Alpha consents.

Purge Headquarters: (referred to as simply "PH" by employees) is where Purgers work, examining evidence and monitoring the criminals in a separate part of the PH building. The PH is said to be the spinal column of the city. If the Purge falls, so does the city.

(PH reminds me of "pH" in which ironically "7" is considered neutral. And PH's also the abbreviation for Public Health and Purple Heart XD none of that was done on purpose but let's pretend it was cuz I'm good like that! JK :P)