AIC | By : KuroKitsune Category: Naruto AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 2700 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Soooooo very very sorry about the long wait. E-mails have been messing up and muses are bitches. Not in that order. Anyway here is the next chapter. I do have an out line for the next one so the next update MIGHT not take too long. Reveiws make my muse sing!
Betaed by the amazeing MisatosPenPen!
Naruto was dreading this call. It was noon and still no Sasuke. The Pit Bar had closed by the time he and Kiba had gotten word from Kuromaru, the man they found with Sasuke’s phone. And to add more bad news to a bad day, Itachi had called. Naruto, in a state of panic, had let it go to voicemail. Itachi left a massage saying he was worried about Sasuke not answering his mobile on one of his few days off.
“Wait a minute! You found out Sasuke was gone over five hours ago and you still haven’t told his big brother?! Are you insane or do you have a death wish?” Kiba demanded.
“I don’t have a death wish! I just don’t know how to tell him. It’s not like I can call him and say ‘Hey, Itachi your brother didn’t answer his phone because he dropped it when he was kidnapped and we’ve been looking for him for several hours with nothing to show for it. How was your day?’ It doesn’t work like that!”
“Then just get one of the cops to tell him! You don’t have to. If he asks tell him you where busy looking for Sasuke.”
Naruto looked at him with wide eyes. He couldn’t believe Kiba had thought of that before he had. After doing what Kiba said, he went over the file of people that where at the bar last night.
They were trying to track down some people from the bar. A man named Sai had apparently been sitting next to Sasuke for nearly an hour. According to the bartender on duty last night, Sai had been hitting on him until he left the bar. This Sai guy was the last person to see him, so Naruto had the cops run a background check on him. He was a single 23 year old artist from Jersey. He had no priors and, as far as Kiba and he could tell, he had no connection to Sakura.
“Why are we going after this guy when we already know who has Sasuke?” Naruto asked. He had been patient so far but the need to find Sasuke quickly was winning out.
“Because we need to make sure she really does have him,” Kiba explained. “If we barge in and he’s not there we risk spending hours to clean up the mess. We have to make sure he’s with her. Then you can go all white knight and save him.”
“Fine. I just hate the thought that he’s with some psycho and I can’t do anything about it.”
“You are doing something. You are tracking him down. Don’t worry, Naruto, Sakura believes she loves him, she won’t hurt him.”
“It’s not her hurting him I’m worried about….”
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“Can I help you?” the man asked.
“Yes, we are looking for a man named Sai. He may have been the last person to have seen someone before they were kidnapped and we have a few questions for him,” Kiba said nicely.
“Yeah, he’s here. Go down that hall ‘til you get to a door that’s marked ‘Studio 1’,” the man said. “He should be in there. If not you might have to wait till he comes back from lunch.”
“Thank you very much,” Kiba said as he and Naruto started walking down the directed hallway. As they reached the door Naruto knocked and opened it without waiting for a response. As soon as the door was opened, it was shut with a loud bang.
“Dude? The hell?” Kiba asked.
“I think we should wait a bit,” Naruto said, his voice slightly strained.
“Wha-” Kiba was cut off by a loud cry from inside the room. “Oh,” he said as he connected the dots. It was another half an hour before a blond woman walked out, her hair messed up slightly. Then a guy with short black hair stepped out behind her. “So, can I buy you lunch tomorrow?” he asked with a smile not suitable for anything outside a bedroom.
“Sure. You have my number so give me a call later,” she said and walked away. His eyes followed her ass all the way down the hall.
“Sai? Sai Inkuchi?” Naruto asked.
“Naruto? It’s been a long time. I thought you might have finally bit it. And it’s not Inkuchi anymore. It’s Irezumi. What brings you to my quite little part of town?” Sai asked as he ushered them into the room.
“I’m looking for someone. He was kidnapped right outside The Pit Bar you were at last night. The bartender said that you sat next to him for over an hour.”
“I think I know who you’re talking about. Dark hair, black eyes, and kind of an asshole?”
“That’s him.”
“Yeah, he tried to get me to back off, but for some reason I felt like I couldn’t just leave him alone. It was really weird. But just before he left, he said that he was only there to blow off steam after a spat with his boyfriend, said something about not being a cheater too, but I was pretty smashed by then. After he said that, he drank what was in-front of him and left. I could vaguely smell something in the glass that shouldn’t have been there, but like I said I was smashed. That’s when I met Ino. The girl that just left. Apparently, she was dragged to that bar by one of her friends. Lucky for me.”
“That friend of hers, did you by any chance get her name?” Kiba asked.
“Like I said, I was smashed. I think I might remember if I heard it again, but I’m nowhere near certain.”
“Does the name Sakura ring any bells?”
“That might be it actually. It sounds right anyway. I could call and ask if you want me to.”
“That won’t be necessary. If she really is who we think she is, then we don’t want to tip her off.” Sai nodded.
“Smart. So what do you plan to do? You can’t do anything too drastic.”
“I’m thinking breaking a door or two is all we need to do. We just need to make sure she has him,” Naruto answered.
“Okay. Can you try to leave Ino out of it though? I really don’t think she knew what was in the drink when she handed it to him.”
“We will try, but I make you no promises,” Naruto said.
“Well I think it’s time to call your cop friend,” Kiba said as they left. “We have more than enough proof that Sakura has him, now let’s go get him.”
“Let’s.”
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It was half an hour later that the cops arrived at Sakura’s house. After knocking and identifying themselves, the door was knocked in and Naruto entered followed by a hand full of cops. After clearing every room it was obvious that Sakura wasn’t here. And neither was Sasuke.
“He’s not here,” Kiba said. “I don’t think she even planned to bring him here. There’s no rope or cuffs. Windows are left open and the back door is unlocked. But Naruto, I did find something I think you should see.” As Kiba led him through the halls, Naruto took stock of the house. Either the girl never cleaned or she hadn’t been back in over a month. Dust littered every surface and the musty smell hinted at mold. But that was nothing compared to the girl’s room. Naruto stood shocked into silence as he looked over the room. On every single inch of wall space was pictures of Sasuke. Some where from magazines, some were taken from a distance, and some where old. Sasuke’s age in the pictures ranged from his current age of 28 to back when he was 17.
“Oh, my god. How long before she got a camera was she stalking him?” Naruto muttered. “A long time. Check these out. They’re journals. They seem to go back a long ways.” Kiba said pulling one out from its place on the short book shelf. After a moment, Naruto pulled one out and flipping to a page began to read. It went into detail about her vacation with her family for a few pages before moving on to her starting school. After skimming nearly the entire book he came to an entry that caught his eye. It was her parents death. From what the girl had written they died in a bank robbery gone wrong.
After finding the next book he started from the beginning. After the death she went downhill fast. The writing was akin to a suicide note. But it all changed rather dramatically when Sasuke’s name started showing up. The journal spoke of how he had saved her from a car and how the car held her parents’ killers.
“No wonder the girl developed a fixation for Sasuke. Hey Kiba read this.” He handed the book over. After a few minutes Kiba shook his head.
“That’s twisted man. I mean, what are the odds? But it does explain why she chose him of all people. This is the connection we’ve been looking for. With this, we may be able to manipulate her into letting Sasuke go without force.”
“That would make things easier. But really with this kind of fixation do you think that she will just let him go after she finally got him?” “No. But it could help throw her off enough to get him away from her. But now the trouble is finding them. The background check didn’t say anything about other properties.”
“Maybe the journals have something?”
“I don’t know, man. That’s a lot of reading. It could take days to get through all of it, even with help.” Naruto sighed. Kiba was right and they didn’t have that kind of time. Who knew what that crazy bitch was doing to Sasuke? They had to work fast. But where could she be?
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“Hey, Naruto?” a cop called from down the hall.
“What Asuma?”
“You’re gonna want to come see this,” he said, but his voice sounded different from his words.
“What?” Naruto said as he entered the kitchen, Kiba right behind him.
“We found a hidden door in the pantry. It leads to a basement. But before you get your hopes up, Sasuke isn’t there. And that’s a good thing. A few of my officers have already lost their lunch.” Giving Asuma a look, Naruto walked past him to the hidden door. Kiba was stopped however.
“You don’t want to go down there,” was all the cop said. Kiba looked ready to go anyway when Naruto came back with his hand over his mouth, looking a little green.
“Things just got worse,” he said behind his hand.
“What’s down there?”
“Bodies. All of them girls. I recognize a few. They are—were, leaders of Sasuke’s fan club. They all have restraining orders on them and all of them have at one point tried to get to Sasuke in one way or another. I had just assumed they gave up when I started being his bodyguard…..”
“It’s not your fault. There’s nothing you could have done. Sakura’s crazy, and you can’t fix crazy. You can send it to therapy and give it medication but you can really fix it,” Kiba said giving Naruto a small smile.
“Thanks man. But this is worse than what we had originally though. She gave no indication of being this unstable. We need to find Sasuke fast. Have your men turned up anything?” he asked turning to Asuma.
“Nothing so far. Our tech unit is going over every aspect of her life as we speak. If they don’t find anything, it either doesn’t exist or its illegal.” Naruto and Kiba nodded before heading back to Sasuke’s house. It would be a bit before they would be able to do anything helpful so they decided lunch might help them think of something they missed.
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It had been an hour or so since the breach at Sakura’s, Naruto and Kiba had eaten and Kiba had called his hacker friend again. She didn’t have anything on Sakura that they didn’t already have. The two of them began to grow restless when Itachi showed up.
First, he berated Naruto for not telling him about Sasuke sooner, then for having an unknown cop tell him his brother was missing. Deidara just sat on the couch waiting for Itachi to calm down. When Itachi had finally run out of things to yell about, Deidara stood up and placed his hand on Itachi’s shoulder. Itachi’s next question had both men tensing.
“I know you are doing all you can. How close are you to finding Sasuke?” he asked softly. When neither answered, Itachi started yelling again. He had to stop his yelling when Kiba got a call.
“Did you find anything?” he asked. After a few minutes of listening, he said, “How does that help?” Another minute. “What the hell does that mean? Hey? Hey! She hung up on me!”
“Never mind that; who was it and did they find Sasuke?” Itachi snapped.
“That was my hacker friend. She just finished a trace on Sakura’s phone. It took a long time because the phone was turned off. The GPS puts it somewhere on route 3 headed out of the city. She said the signal wasn’t moving. She thinks it was thrown out a window.”
“What are you saying? That some crazy bitch took my brother out of the city? How are we supposed to find him now!”
“Where’d Deidara go?” Naruto suddenly asked. They all moved into the living room to see him standing on the back porch, talking into a cell phone. He smiled into the phone before hanging up and walking back in.
“Dei? What was that?” Itachi asked.
“I just called an few old friends of mine. Tobi works for the transportation department, so I thought he might be able to help. He said that no one with the name Haruno had purchased a ticket for either a train, or bus. He did find a rental car in her name though. And I called Jūgo. He works on a farm out near Na no Kuni. With the way the road is you have to pass by that town to get gas before you can go anywhere else. I asked him if he’s ever seen anyone that looked like Sakura pass that way. He said that he’s seen her several times. She stops in town to get gas once a month before heading back to the city. He’s even talked to her a few times. She told him that she had a farm house not too far from town. He doesn’t know where it is though.”
Everybody just stared at him, speechless. Suddenly everybody was a flurry of movement. Kiba had his phone out calling his friend back, Itachi was hugging him, and Naruto was on his laptop typing like mad.
“I’ve got it. Sakura’s grandfather used to have a farm out that way but lost it a few decades ago,” Naruto said.
“I can do you one better,” Kiba said hanging up his cell. “The farm was purchased by an old friend of the family. He died two weeks ago and the farm’s been abandoned while his family decides on whether to give it back to the Haruno family or sell it.”
“That fits the time line. The letters started around that time,” Naruto said, earning a look from Itachi.
“What letters? Why am I the last to know about this?” he snapped.
“Sasuke said he was going to tell you, so don’t look at me,” Naruto said.
“I was only called in on this yesterday!” Kiba chimed in.
“Whatever! Now what letters?” Itachi asked.
“Sakura started leaving Sasuke love letters, from there she grew bolder. Those chocolates where from her, but he gave them to you so see what would happen.”
“He used me as a Guinea pig?! Why do I not doubt that he would do that?”
“It may be because of all the boy toys you bring to see him. He hates when you do that. Do you know that every time you bring another boy to see him the entire floor starts a pool to see how long you keep him. Me or Sasuke usually win. I’ve made quite a bit off you.”
“You never told me that. You said your last boyfriend was an ass and you’ve been out of the dating scene,” Deidara said lowly. “You said that you haven’t been in a relationship in over a year!” he accused.
Kiba took the opportunity to begin to back away to the kitchen and Naruto raised his eyebrow.
“He can’t be talking about Kisame, could he? I mean that was so long ago!” Naruto said.
Deidara’s glare promised death. Itachi shot Naruto a ‘you’re not helping’ look and started to explain. “What I said was true! I haven’t been in a REAL relationship since my last boyfriend. Naruto said it himself, those men where all boy toys! They never meant anything! You can ask anyone at the office; I never kept them for more than a week at MOST…” and Itachi kept talking trying to talk Deidara out of killing him.
Naruto quickly tuned them out and followed Kiba into the kitchen. “I think it’s time to go now. They won’t be done for a while with all the fodder I just gave them, so we should leave now so they stay out of the way.”
“Smart move. They would only end up getting Sasuke or themselves hurt if they came along.” Kiba said nodding as he packed up the few things we would need and we snuck out the door to his car. After making sure they had enough gas, food and dog stuff they started the four and a half hour drive to Na no Kuni.
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