How To Be Dead 101

Summary: Sakura Is dead, she shouldn't be here at all, but alas, the Kami didn't think so. With the help of Forensic Anthropologist/ Crime Investigator/ Ghost Whisperer, Dr. Sasuke Uchiha, She goes on an adventure of a lifetime... Solving her own murder, with a little romance on the side. Well as much romance a dead person can have of course. "I'm not solving my own murder, No, It's stupid and should be impossible." Inspired by the T.V show Bones, and Tumblr Prompts.

Genre: AU, Crime, Drama, Humor, Romance.

Rating: T

Warning: Language, dead people, and OCC-ness. I have no beta so expect mistakes.

Chapter 4

Sakura wanted to cry. She wanted to laugh and scream, and….

Kami, she really wanted to hit something. Really, really bad. She wanted throw something, anything really. She just really wanted to touch something. Something physical. Something she could come into contact with, not something that she just touch. Something she could feel. Really feel.

Was that really too much to ask for?

Apparently yes. It was too much to ask for.

So instead of flailing her arms around in hopes to touch something she laughed. She laughed hard. Sakura laughed until her sides ached and when the ghost feel of tears ran down her cheeks. She would wipe furiously at them hoping, praying that she could somehow feel the wetness of her own tears but nothing was there.

Because she was dead.

A victim of a psychotic serial killer.

Lovely.

And in the midst of her breakdown Sakura had forgotten about Sasuke. In truth she didn't care if he was there at all. So she missed the devastated look that flashed across his face. She missed the way his hand twitched towards her and how his whole posture changed as if to almost shield her. She missed the slight clench in his jaw and the determined glint in his eye. Because he was going to help her. He was going to catch the pathetic low life that killed her.

And anyone else be damned if they said otherwise.

"Mr. Uchiha?"

Sakura's head snapped up from her place in the corner of the unnecessarily large and plain office (Sasuke's office was as bigger than her apartment) and sat a little bit straighter when a very familiar woman walked into the room. The women was very pretty, long dark hair and pupil-less eyes. Sakura wondered if she was blind for a moment.

Sasuke didn't even bother to look up. "Yes, Hinata?"

Sakura watched as the woman, Hinata, tensed and there was a slight quiver in her voice when she spoke. "I have a identity. The woman's name was Sakura Haruno. She was twenty-five highly skilled medic, she ran the hospital in downtown." Hinata drew in a shaky breath. "Sakura has no living family members left."

Sasuke finally set his papers down and looked at Hinata. "You knew her." He said.

Sakura's gaze flashed to Hinata. She'd be sure if she knew her, Sakura didn't forget things. She never did. Hinata looked down."Y-yes I did."

He glanced at Sakura for a brief moment. "Alright, I want an address and a list of anyone close to her. See if you can pull up any phone records. I want a list of anyone she contacted in the last five weeks."

The woman nodded. "Y-yes sir."

"Hinata." He called out right before she crossed the threshold leading out to his office. She turned with a small smile on her face.

"Yes sir?"

He paused slightly before he spoke again. "Tell Naruto to come to my office. If you knew Ms. Haruno it's more than likely that Naruto knew her as well."

The smile on her face faltered a bit before it came back a little more fake than the one before. "Of course sir. He'll be here shortly."

"Good."

Hinata closed the door behind her and Sakura was in front of Sasuke in a flash. She took in slight pleasure when she saw him jump at her sudden actions and she felt herself smile. "So," She began, trailing a transparent finger over his desk. "Got any leads on the bastard who killed me?"

"No."

Sakura choked on air. "What?!" She tried to slam her hands on his desk but instead she fell right through, coming face to face with some very expensive shoes. She held back a curse and pulled herself up. Sakura didn't miss the slight smirk on his face and gave him a dirty look before continuing. "Back to what I was saying. You don't have anything? Nada? Nothing to go after." She threw her hands up in the air. "I mean, this guy... or girl has killed more than...I don't know six people? and you have absolutely nothing? He or she leaves bodies on the side of a highway for kami's sake. I died from a knife wound, I think, It's not that hard to find someone that sloppy."

"That," He looked up at her. He almost never looked up from his papers she noticed. "Is were you're wrong."

"What do you mean?" She asked.

"The killer has left nothing to follow. No fingerprints, no DNA, no murder weapons to be found, the places he...or she." He added as an after thought. "Dumps the bodies are completely random. There's no patterns. Except for his victims."

Sakura looked up at the ceiling in exasperation. "That's a lead."

He smirked. "All the victims appear to be females in their twenties. All of them highly respectable and successful. All of them randomly placed." He paused. "But what we do know is that they all lived in one area. Konohagakure."

"So," She started slowly. "The killer lives around here."

"That is correct."

"And he...or she is going after highly respectable and successful twenty year old women right?"

"Yes."

"So why don't you bait them?" she shrugged.

He leaned forward. "What do you mean?"

"What I mean is-"

"Yo, Sasuke-teme. You called?" A overly cheery blonde came into the room. Naruto... Her mind whispered and suddenly Sakura had a very bad feeling about this. Sasuke's eyes flickered to her.

"Yes." He motioned over to the two chairs in front of his desk. "Why don't you have a seat."

The blonde raised an eyebrow. "Alright" He said cautiously. He flung himself to one of the chairs and propped his feet on Sasuke's desk. Sasuke ignored this but there was a slight clench in his jaw and a sort of nervous air around him that Sakura didn't miss.

"You okay?" Sakura asked but he ignored her, his eyes were transfixed on Naruto.

"There was a case brought in today." He began and handed a file of what Sakura believed to be the details of her murder. "Twenty five year old female with no living family members left. She was found on the ridge of highway 15. It is to be assumed that she had been there for two weeks."

Naruto raised his eyes from the folder in his hands. "There isn't a name on here."

Sakura held her breath.

"Yes, the victim's name is Sakura Haruno. You knew her."

Outside the office there was a loud crash and scream of denial that could be heard from every employee and in her own office Hinata closed her eyes. A small tear escaping her eye before she went back to work.

Ah...I feel like this chapter is too rushed... don't you?

Anyways, I'm sorry for the long wait... I've been busy to say the least. But I'm back! I tried to make this chapter as long as I could without rushing the plot but I'm not satisfied with it's length. I'll try to make the next chapters longer.

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Until next time...