Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End

Dancing. Everyone was dancing and laughing and smiling. They finally did it, they took down the killer. It was time to celebrate, it was time to drink, it was time to laugh, and most importantly, it was time to finally let himself fall in love.

Naruto laughed with his friends, each one congratulating him, giving him a pat on the back and a 'job well done' speech. He'd even earned an award. He didn't care about any of those though. He only had one thought on his mind: the woman that he planned to kiss and ravish tonight.

His best friend Sasuke even gave him a smile and light pat on the back, something that doesn't happen much for the Uchiha. It was at that moment that Naruto saw her, she had just walked out of the elegant golden elevator at the front of the room with a bunch of other women. She saw him and made her way to the staircase leading to the dance floor.

She was gorgeous. Her dress clung to her perfectly, showing every curve and every outline of her strong body. It had a long slit down the side of her thigh and diamonds beneath her breasts which wrapped around to cross her back. Of course she would wear red, knowing her she did it to tease him. She knows how sexy he thinks red is on her. His jaw dropped and she smiled at him as she began to walk down the broad stairway.

Beautiful. Absolutely stunning. Breath taking. He has so many words and descriptions going through his head of how elegant and ravishing she looks, but none of them seem to fully define her. They all lack something important, no words could ever come close to describing how alluring she was at the moment. Especially when she smiled, even from this distance, Naruto could see the twinkle in her eyes.

God, she was absolutely beautiful.

He made his way towards her, picking his jaw up and turning it into a smirk, ready to say some witty comment and listen to her laugh. Her laugh was music to his ears, soft and happy, full of passion and kindness.

She finally made it to the bottom of the stairs, after what felt like an eternity of having his breath stolen, he smiled and opened his mouth at the same time she did, but nothing ever left his mouth as a loud bang sounded throughout the room and he felt a hot white pain pierce his chest and the last thing he saw was her scream and run towards him.

Naruto Uzumaki's body hit the floor with a loud thud as the room progressed into the perfect chaos.

3 Months Earlier

"Today is a new day," Naruto told himself as he stared into his porcelain blue eyes in the mirror, "New city, new people, new house, new life. Today things start to get better. Got it, Uzumaki? No more sulking around." Exiting the bathroom, Naruto grabbed a cup from his cabinet and poured hot black coffee into it. Taking a large gulp he sighed and moved to grab his dark navy blue suit jacket from across the top of his chair to complete his outfit consisting of matching slacks, a white button up, and black tie.

Stepping into the early morning fog, Naruto took in a big breath. He lived towards the edge of the Konoha so he could get away from the smell factories and sewers brought. All he smelled around here was fresh trees and water. It was a beautiful sight, clear view of the mountain, a creek nearby, and the fog made it enchanting. He started his 2008 Audi A4 and pulled away from the small cozy house he'd be calling his home from now on. Konoha was a large town, it had quite a few housing complexes, a mall, a few parks here and there, and some big factories and buildings; including the Konoha Police Department, which is where he was headed now. It was his first day of work as Special Agent Supervisor of homicide Naruto Uzumaki, or in shorter terms, Lieutenant Naruto.

It's about a 20 minute drive from Naruto's new home to the department, and he'd be lying if he said he wasn't nervous the whole way there. So it wasn't unexpected when he stayed in his car an extra couple of minutes to collect his thoughts. 'Big breaths Naruto. This is the beginning of something good.' Entering the building, Naruto was greeted by a shy young women with long dark hair. She smiled up at him and asked: "H- hello, sir. I-is there anything I can h-help you with?" she blushed and stuttered.

"Uh, yes. Please, Ms.-"he glanced at the name tag sitting on her desk, "Hyuuga. Could you point me in the direction of the Chiefs office? Special Agent Supervisor Naruto Uzumaki." He replied as he showed her his shiny new badge.

She glanced at his badge and her eyes widened slightly in recognition, "Oh! You're the n-new guy! It's nice to m-meet you. I'm Hinata. T-the Chiefs office is down that hall," she pointed to her left, "first door on the left."

"Thank you, Hinata." He smiled as he made his way to the Chiefs office. On the door, the sign read: Chief Tsunade Senju. Knocking on the door, he heard a shout from the inside to enter. "Chief Tsunade? Naruto Uzumaki, I just transferred here." The woman looked to be in her late 30's or early 40's. She had two long blonde pigtails and she was wearing a extremely revealing green shirt.

Tsunade barely glanced in his direction before yelling out the door, "Kakashi!"

Another head poked it's way in the door, he looked to be in his late 20's, early 30's with a messy mop of gray hair. His face was covered with a mask and an eye patch only exposing his right eye. He looked like a mummy in Naruto's opinion. "Yes Chief?" His voice was low and calm.

"Naruto, this is Captain Kakashi. He's in charge of the homicide unit. Meaning; besides me, he's your boss. Show him around, Kakashi." And with a wave of her hand, Naruto and Kakashi were sent out of the room.

"She's not always like that. She has a lot of stress and pressure on her at the moment. This case is taking a lot out of her." Kakashi finally said after they were down the hall, on their way to the locker room. "This is the locker room, you can keep your stuff here."

"Thanks, I already planned on that." Naruto replied sarcastically, "But, are you referring to the Erickson case? Five cops dead, beginning with Sakura Haruno and ending with Noah Fairweather?"

Kakashi looked at him and blinked, "Yes. We requested you for that case, you know. You're in charge. You'll get to meet your partner later. She's a feisty one that charges in guns blazing and fists swinging. I think you'll like her."

"Great. Back to that case, anything I need to know?"He asked as Kakashi led him to a small cut off room with a couple other cops chatting.

"This is the break room. We always have coffee because only God knows how much caffeine we're going to need to make it through the day. The case, hmmm, you already know the targets are cops. So far that's our only lead. Men and women, different police stations within a 20 mile radius. It's been going on for nearly four months now and we still have squat. We don't know the killers motives. Not even a list of suspects. So whoever this guy is, he's hiding really fucking good."

"Not even a list of suspects, huh?"

"I saw your record, I'm hoping you'll be able to find some more strings to connect. You're good Uzumaki, no question about it."

After the short tour of the station, Kakashi waled towards a group of guys in the break room, following him, Naruto gave one of his winning grins. "Naruto, these are some of your coworkers," he began, "Kiba, Shino, Shikamaru, Choji, and Neji. Guys, this is Naruto. I expect you to treat him nicely." And with that, Kakashi left with a strange grin on his face and an orange book in his hands.

"Hi. I'm Naruto. I just transferred here." Naruto smiled.

A guy with messy brown hair and a huge ass grin on his face was the first to speak, "Hey, man. Kiba Inuzuka. Special Investigations sergeant."

"Neji Hyuuga. Inuzuka's partner." Neji has long black hair tied in the back and he doesn't seem like the smiling type.

"Choji Akimichi. Air support sergeant." A chubby guy with light brown hair smiled.

The next guy had dark brown hair tied in a messy ponytail, he looked tired and bored, "Shikamaru Nara. Air support lieutenant. I'm Choji's partner." he yawned.

The last guy was creepier than Kakashi. He had his hood pulled over his face, was wearing a face mask, and sunglasses. Who does that? Wears sunglasses inside. It's just weird! "Shino Aburame. I am a cop because i have always wanted to be a cop, ever since i was little. Why did i want to be a cop? I don't really know. But-" He was cut off by Kiba who laughed and said something along the lines of 'Fucking weirdo.'

Turning to Naruto, he smiled, "We're going to the bar in a bit. Wan't to join us mate?"

Smiling back, Naruto replied, "Sure. A drink sounds pretty damn good right about now."

At the bar, Naruto was laughing with the guys he just met. They all seemed okay, Kiba was funny and he could see himself being good friends with him, Shikamaru seemed to be asleep, Choji laughed and got a word in here and there, Shino was quiet and again, kind of creepy, and Neji seemed to have a stick up his ass the whole time. But all in all, it was a good night.

"So whats the last case you worked?" Kiba asked him.

Naruto gulped, not expecting him to ask about his previous cases. "Well, I've been taking a break the past month, but before that, i was doing this case where a woman was killed over her necklace. Turned out to be the neighbor. It's sad, wouldn't you say? That humans will kill other humans over something as insignificant as money? The people left behind from a murder, the loved ones, i mean, they have nothing left for them. They just sit there and try to figure out what they did wrong, how they could've prevented it from happening, why it happened. It's just... sad."Naruto took a large gulp of his whiskey.

"Yeah, I get that completely." Kiba also took a large gulp of his beverage. "Alright, man, I've got to get going. Can't worry my dog, Akumaru, too much. You gonna be all good on your own?"

"On my own?" Naruto looked around the table and noticed that the others had already left. When did that happen? "Oh, right. Yeah, man, i'm just going to finish my drink and head out too. Ill see you tomorrow." With a smile, Kiba turned and walked out of the bar.

Looking around the bar, Naruto noticed a pair of light blue eyes staring at him. Standing, the blue eyes walked towards him, every step was seductive and full of promise for pleasure. Pink glossed lips, long wavy blonde hair. She had an hour glass figure. A tight dress that showed enough to be sexy, and kept hidden the parts Naruto really wanted to see. She smiled at him as she reached the table and bent over, revealing her big creamy white skin covered breasts. She was beautiful, Naruto could definitely agree on that.

"Hey, handsome," she purred, "Whatcha doing over here all by yourself? Need some company?"

Naruto didn't release his stare from hers, "I was actually about to leave."

"Awe," she pouted, "I was hoping we could talk for a little bit. What's a girl got to do to get a handsome man to notice her around here?"

"Are you trying to seduce me?"

"Is it working?" She smiled all glossy lips and dazzling eyes.

"Yes."

She laughed, "Wanna get out of here? I'm tired of this place anyways, everyone here is a fucking loser."

Naruto stood from his spot at the table, "Okay."

The woman walked up to him and pressed herself up against his body. He could feel her breath on his lips, all he could think about was peppermint. This woman smelt like peppermint. He wondered if she tasted like it too. "Lead the way, hot stuff." she breathed.

She grabbed his hand and Naruto showed her the way to his car. They talked on the way to Naruto's house, just small things. He never learned her name, when he asked she would just smile and say something along the lines of 'it doesn't matter.' They talked about the summer time and the hot air and flowers it brings, the winter and the white snow, building snowmen and throwing snowballs. They talked about where they grew up, while Naruto only just moved here, she had lived here her whole life.

The woman was charming, intelligent, funny, sarcastic, and seductive. But when they pulled up to Naruto's house, talk time was over. Stepping out of the car, the woman grabbed Naruto by the tie and roughly pressed her mouth to his. he reciprocated with just as much power and ferocity. Lip tugging, hair pulling, neck nipping, and swollen lips occurred. It felt like forever they were battling one another with their tongues, but it was probably only five minutes. Pulling away for air, Naruto unlocked his door in time for the woman to be tugging his shirt up and over his head.

Leading her to the bedroom, the woman roughly shoved him onto the bed. She stripped her dress off and stood in all her naked glory. Of course the woman was without panties or a bra. But she damn sure was a sight for Naruto to behold. She was breath taking. Climbing her way onto Naruto she kissed his lips once more before moving down to nibble on his neck. Naruto let out a loud groan, and she smiled at him. "You're hot when you make that noise. Lets see if i can get you to do it again."

Before she could get her lips on his neck again, Naruto flipped them. He was now on top pinning the woman beneath him. Pressing his lips to hers in a bruising kiss he shoved his tongue in her mouth, exploring and dominating her. Sucking her and making her pant and moan into his mouth. He could feel the growing budge in his pants and had no doubt she could too, but by the was she was shivering and moaning beneath him, she was soaking and excited.

Naruto let his hand roam around her body. He caressed her hips, fondled her breasts and tweaked her nipples. He loved the reaction he got from that, her eyes bulged and she thrusted her hips up into Naruto's and let out one of the sexiest moans Naruto had ever heard. Moving his hand down between their hips, he rubbed at the warm moist spot between her legs.

She thrust her hips into his fingers trying to get more friction, but Naruto pulled back. She let out a sound of disappointment and began to protest but that quickly turned into a moan as Naruto kissed her neck, her collarbone, her naval, her hips, and finally placing her mouth where she really wanted it. He licked at the wetness, tasting her in all her glory, she was delicious. He sucked like he was starving, she squirmed and moaned and pulled on his hair as she finally began to feel her climax coming.

"Oh God!" She screamed, "Don't st-op!" She rocked her hips as she went into a daze, overpowered by the bliss that her orgasm caused. It felt like it lasted hours, it was definitely the best she ever had. Naruto pulled back up and kissed her again, on the lips. She could still feel the bulge in his pants, reaching down she began to unbuckle him and pull his pants off. "Do you have a condom?"

He reached into his bedside table and pulled out the gold foil. He smiled and she couldn't help but smirk when she saw his goofy grin. After that, the night went by in a blur, Naruto never did learn her name that night, he remembers the sensations she made him fell, the clenching of her moist walls around him, hugging him, making him release and listening to her sexy moaning and his grunting. It was damn good sex. He remembers pulling out and laying next to her in bed, knowing that when he wakes up in the morning she will be gone, never to be seen by him again. After all, this was just a one night stand. A one night stand with a beautiful, dangerous, and seductive woman.

Sleeping that night was easier than it had been in months for Naruto. He didn't get nightmares, he didn't dream of saving the one person he really wanted to save, he didn't dream about losing those close to him. For once, in what felt like an eternity, Naruto slept peacefully. He didn't dream. And when he woke in the morning, he was right. The woman was gone, the place she slept the night before was cold, it was like she had never been there at all. And Naruto wondered if maybe, she never was and it was just a figment of his imagination.

"Uzumaki!" Tsunade yelled for him when he got to work, "Come to my office."

Poking his head in through the door, Naruto saw a person sitting in one of the plush chairs facing the chiefs desk. "I want you to meet your new partner. I hope you like her because you'll be spending a lot of time together from now on trying to solve this case."

The girl turned around and smiled at him, light blue eyes met with widening porcelain blue eyes. Blonde hair, creamy white skin, perfect hour glass figure, pink glossed lips.

It was the girl from last night.

"Hi." She smiled as if she didn't even recognize him from last night, "I'm Ino Yamanaka. I'm sure it will be a pleasure working with you."