Day Twenty Sacrifice

[A/n: we are getting there, slowly but surely I'm writing them all. And I don't know when I will finish them, I fell behind and will upload them as I finish them because life is crazy right now.]

Summary: AU Sasuke and Sakura are looking into a serial killer. [Meaning I don't know and I was stuck]

The pair removed their masks and the onyx eyed one regretted it at the full array of smells hit his nose, the green eyed woman faired far better, she was a doctor she had smelled this before.

"She looks awful…" the woman spoke first the sadness but also anger evident in her voice.

"Can you get a time of death?" he asked and watched as she moved around the blood to look at the damage, the swelling, the decay, the blood.

"Less than 24 hours." She commented keeping the latex gloves on.

"Sakura…" he started and by the way she looked he wasn't sure he needed to ask. "Dead, or alive when this happened…?"

"She was alive." It was now that Sakura took in a shaken breath and walked around the scene, her boots on the ground stuck from the drying blood as she walked. "She was alive when it started, not when it ended… it doesn't look complete… It's as though they needed her alive while they did this…" she looked back at him; he was still rooted in place by the door camera in hand and took photos of the scene.

"You're thinking he will do it again?"

"I don't know what they will do again." She sighed and started towards the doorway. They both left leaving the cleanup to another team specialized in it. She went outside and hosed off her boots, discarding her gloves.

That event had been a few months ago… since then six others had been slaughtered in the same way and it seemed each was just a tad different, they survived their torture longer than the one before. However that thought wasn't comforting. Sasuke looked at the girl beside him poring over reports of wanted criminals from everywhere, released prisoners, people who might have done this. Sasuke didn't know how she hadn't gotten sick from the stench, perks of being a medic, he supposed.

"Sakura…" he spoke and she looked at him "Come here…" he was sitting against the wall of their "office" which was really just a room in their home, they were married, they lived together, he had barley let her out of his sight since this all started. She nodded grabbing the most recent file she had been looking over and rested her head on his lap letting out a deep yawn in the process.

"Sasuke-kun…" she cooed softly the file resting on her stomach. "He's not going to hurt me."

"Why do you think that?" he whispered back and slowly moved her starting to carry her to their room tossing the file back in the pile and shutting the door.

"I don't fit the right type," she told him "I haven't done anything he considers to be 'defiance' or 'immoral' the people he killed were innocent, they hadn't done anything wrong, but they had things about them he deemed as such." She yawned again as he got her ready to sleep. She continued to rattle on information until the words came slower and finally ended.

It was another week before they had a suspect pool. Hidan, a sadistic man convicted of similar things against animals. They brought him in for questioning the pair watching his every move as he sat in the chair. The questioning took hours both growing tired of his repetitive chants and strange prayers.

"Enough!" she snapped and he looked at her as she only glared back. "I'm sick and tired of your weird ass bullshit!" she continued on. "Tell me where you were on these nights now."

"Tell me, have you ever sinned."

"Not by your standards." She replied noticing Sasuke and how on edge he was

"You've altered your appearance no?"

"No. My hair is this color, my eyes are this color, I've done no sin." She spoke evenly her words being fed by one of their annalists Shikamaru.

"You have scarred your skin with the color of red." He gestured to the tattoo on her shoulder for the ANBU.

"It's fake." She replied easily putting some chakra and soon it was covered.

"You cannot be perfect."

"I never claimed to be as such by your standards I have not sinned." She paused listening to Shikamaru talk in her ear and didn't really want to continue on. "I'm married, I've had one person in my life, and I've never been with another, so again, I have not sinned." She told him and he continued on with rattling off weird things to which she only rolled her eyes at.

It was another few days before he admitted, almost proudly that he had done it that he had killed them.

"I killed all ten of them." he admitted proudly and the pair looked at one another

"Where are the other three…?" Sasuke asked but Hidan said nothing.

It was another week before they found them or rather what was left, it was three people all killed one after another in the same space, the scene was the worst of them all. The bodies dismembered the blood over everything, their internal organs all but organized. Throats cut, legs hacked off. It was horrid to look at. They were taken back to the morgue and cleaned Sakura spent another 2 days putting them back together for their families. It was over, it was done. There wouldn't be any more of this again.

[a/n: yeah it's probably pretty sucky… I tried]