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Ikura Mitsutsugi
Death: 2/1
Cause of Death: Strangling
Location: Akihabara

Shota Murokami
Death: 2/3
Cause of Death: Strangling
Location: Akihabara

Jessie Mclain
Death: 2/8
Cause of Death: Strangling
Location: Akihbara

Kira Hitagi
Death: 2/10
Cause of Death: Strangling
Location: Akihabara

"Woah, this totally looks like a serial killer case!" Zombina shouted when she looked at the case files that Naruto was looking over at the moment. Now, normally this type of stuff was a job for detetives and the police in general, but since the strangle marks didn't seem human, they had been called for the case.

They were all in the hospital, looking at the bodies.

"Super creepy." Tio shivered when she saw the dead human bodies that were lined up on tables, the body inspections having already been finished by the medical professionals. "I need some tail fluffs when this is over." Tio looked at Naruto in his true form, and she saw all nine of his tails being super fluffy.

If they weren't working right now, she would have already scooped him up and hugged him until she was satisfied.

"Manako, see anything unusual about the bodies?" Naruto asked the best eye on the team. To see if she could notice anything that the health examiners would more naturally miss.

"They are all men, and it seems they were choked from behind... but I don't see any finger marks?" Manako looked at their necks. All the victims were dudes, and despite one of the guys not being Japanese, the victims were all handsome guys. "They are all very handsome?" Manako stated after a moment, when she noticed that was something that was out of the ordinary.

Zombina gave the bodies a glance, before she whistled to get everyone to ignore the fact that she was a zombie and that she was standing in the same room as human corpses.

She wanted to bite, not eat but bite, then bodies just a little.

'A waste that such handsome men died.' Zombina thought to herself.

"Yeah, it's super sad."

"It's sad either way, being handsome or ugly doesn't change the sadness of death. No fingers, but strangled to death by something soft and fleshy." Naruto hummed, rubbing his chin in thought as he went over some of the facts of the case.

Smith walked in, and she offered him a coffee.

It was super early in the morning after all.

"How is it going squad?"

"It's super boring." Zombina had been standing around doing nothing for 15 minutes now. She wasn't intelligent enough to really contribute to the discovery of possible murder suspects. She didn't even know what could be said about the clues given so far. All they had was cause of death, location, and the date they died.

"Creepy... I could really do with some fluffy."

"No." Naruto stated in response to Tio.

"Wow, these guys are all hunks... and pretty well off. Seems somebody is killing handsome men, maybe jealousy?" Smith asked Naruto, and she looked at him with expectant eyes. Naruto leaned down towards the bodies, and gave a sniff towards their neck. He walked to each corpse and sniffed the necks, trying to focus on any non-human scent mixed into the bodies.

Manako felt sorry for Naruto, having to sniff dead bodies, and she felt worse for him when he needed to sniff the body that had been dead the longest. He recoiled from that one a little bit, and shivered at the stink.

"It's a monster girl, that is for sure... strong scent too. Haven't smelt a scent like this one, so I can't pinpoint it... smells dirt and aphrodisiacs." Naruto waved the smell away from his nose. He took a step back from the bodies, and he shook his head. Smith placed her hand between his ears when he seemed to get unbalanced by the strong scent.

Weakness of having a strong nose.

"Well, looking at the dates, it seems the next victim will get targetted in Akihabara on the 15th." Manako stated as she pointed out the dates.

"Good going Manako!"

"Nice, but I think the next murder will take place on the 17nd... the murders are all taking place on days where the Host club these guys work at do mixed dating." Naruto rubbed the bridge of his nose. That was another common thing between the guys, that they all worked together at the same Host club. The girls didn't have access to that information, but he did since he was looking at their place of business in their private files.

That wasn't a clue to who the killer was though.

"Don't Host clubs cater to girls anyway?" Zombina pointed out.

"The Full Moon will be on the 15th, and this business allows monster girls to pay less on these days of the week to enter the club. A lot of places that are adult stores don't allow monster girls or monster boys to enter the store on full moons." Naruto knew that he wouldn't trust his own kind to not try something illegal on the night of a full moon. That was when monsters had their animal instincts at their strongest, and of course sexual temptation was hard to resist on those nights.

Nobody asked why he knew that.

Smith knew why he knew that, since it was something she had talked to him about while they had been drunk.

"Ah... so the next murder will happen in Akihabara on the 17th... the killer is following a pattern then."

"The killer is a monster girl with no fingers, that smells of dirt and aphrodisiac, who visits this club whenever she can pay less to visit." Naruto summarized what he had deduced so far. "Or... she doesn't visit, but instead she uses those nights to scout out her victims where she won't be suspected... hmmm?" Naruto hummed in thought when he saw something else that he hadn't noticed on first glance.

Doppel came into the room.

Naruto reached down and looked at the right hand on each of the men, and he looked at their ring fingers.

"I've got drinks, since we're going to be here for awhile."

"No, I've got this case figured out... and I'm going to need Tio and Zombina for this one." Naruto stated as he moved his hand off of the corpse's hand.

-On the 17th-

"Wow, you two look amazing!"

Manako was shocked to see how handsome boy Zombina was, since currently Zombina had removed her boobs and slicked her hair backwards. She looked like a pretty boy with her hair like that, and with the fake teeth to cover her real teeth, and a black suit, she looked just like a handsome man with a feminine face.

Naruto was transformed into his fully human, full adult form.

His hair was even combed to the side, and cropped shorter, making him look like a mature man.

"Hello, sorry... but you guys needed my help with something?" A handsome man came into the changing room, a Host at the club. Naruto gestured to the man, and nodded his head. There were other Hosts getting changed in the changing room, and it was causing Manako to blush as she averted her gaze.

None of them men seemed to mind them too much.

"So, what do you need me for?" Tio asked with a wide smile on her face.

She was dressed in her finest clothes, just like what Naruto told her.

"Sorry Takashi-kun, but can I have that ring off your finger?" Naruto asked the Host that had been asked to help them. He was wearing a gold ring with a ruby in the center of it, and he blinked and looked at his ring.

He looked hesitant.

"Sorry, but this was a present from a client who used to come here regularly... I would rather not give it to you guys."

"Just temporary, I promise you. Your fellow Hosts all died wearing these rings as well, and we need to protect you. At the end of the night, Zombina will give you the ring back. She needs to wear it now though." Naruto placed his hands together and very nicely asked the man. Him having that ring was a danger to him, and there plans to catch the criminal responsible for the murder of his coworkers.

He was hesitant, but he took the ring off and gave it over to Zombina, and she put it on herself with an odd look towards Naruto.

"Is this going to work... if this woman is the killer, she will know that Zombina wasn't the person she gave the ring too." Tio mentioned with a tilt of her head.

For a massive girl, she was adorable.

"You... I see... that's pretty clever of you." Doppel figured out what Naruto was doing when she realized what the others were missing. They had been working out details on the case for several days now, and Naruto had stayed in his room and researched something for the last few days.

Then he came up with this plan.

"Uh... sorry ma'am but we do request that those not needed back here leave the changing room."

"Well, that is our sign to leave." Smith walked out of the changing room, with Doppel and Manako behind with her. "Think you guys got this?" Smith asked, before Naruto held his hand up.

Blue flames appeared in his hands.

They took the form of handcuffs.

"Here, that is Fox-fire, shaped like handcuffs. It's safe for people to touch, so when it's time, you guys should use that. Tonight, either Zombina or I are going to be targetted by the killer. Since Zombina is dead that's fine." Naruto stated, since he knew that Zombina wasn't going to die from what was about to happen tonight.

-Later-

"Sorry my fair lady... but a beauty like you deserves more than just our finest beverage." Naruto took Tio's hand in his own, and planted a gentle kiss on top of it. Tio had been drinking a little, but she was remaining sober enough to do her job if she needed to do it. This was his sign that he was telling her she was getting too drunk, and that it was time for her to stop drinking. "I'm sure out there exists somebody who can create a beverage that can match your beauty." Naruto reached up and gently caressed her face.

Even in his adult form, she still towered more than a foot taller than him, to the point he only came up to her boobs. That was simply because of her species though, and not because his adult human form was short.

Zombina was flirting with Manako, who was disguised as a customer as well.

Zombina was subtly glancing around for anyone who was watching them, and she kept looking to Naruto to see what his reaction to everything was. Naruto nodded his head to her, and she pushed Manako up against the wall with one hand.

"Hey babe, I've got an apartment near here, if you want to... see how long my shift is."

"Really?" Manako whispered at the lame pick-up line that Zombina used on her, and the dead girl just blushed when she realized how stupid that sounded. She sighed, before she smiled wide and pretended to be drunk. "We-well okay... I'm sure your shift is super long."

With that, Zombina started to lead Manako outside of the club.

Naruto gently kissed Tio's palm.

"Ma'am, I believe that my friend is correct. His partner was quite beautiful, but your beauty is unrivalled and deserves my private attention. Please do me the honor of escorting you somewhere I can give you every pleasure you deserve?" Naruto asked her, and she knew that it was an act, but she still blushed a little.

Tio nodded and took his hand, as he led her away and out of the club.

It was dark, and though not full the moon was bright. Naruto saw Zombina was still with Manako, and they were heading down the opposite direction. He made eye contact with Zombina, and nodded his head.

He walked with Tio for 15 minutes, before he turned to take her down an alley.

Tio was lifted up into the air by an invisible force, and tossed towards the dumpster out of nowhere. As if a psychic had control of her, she screamed in shock at the unexpected flying trip. She was mostly unharmed though, and if she had been human she would have been knocked out by the blow. As it were, she was only dazed.

"Girk!?"

Naruto held hands tighten around his neck tightly, lifting him up into the air and slamming him into the wall. Naruto felt his air cut off completely, and Tio looked shocked by what was happening as she stood back up.

"The murderer is psychic!"

"... cuffs... cuffs..." Naruto managed to get out as the bloodflow to his brain was cut off as well. Naruto slapped his hand up against his neck, and Tio blinked in surprise when she saw a white hand start to become slightly visible.

"O... OH RIGHT!" Tio shouted as she reached into her bag.

Naruto had tears, from the strangling, appearing in his eyes since he couldn't fight back against the killer. His body desperately craved for oxygen and for the blood to reach his brain, while Tio ran towards Naruto.

Naruto's transformation ended, and he returned to his true form as the air was still unable to reach his brain.

His eyes rolled into the back of his head, just as Tio slapped the handcuff around the translucent hand around his throat. The hand became instantly visible, and Tio saw the hand was going into the wall. She yanked on the cuff and pulled a white woman, with an entire body ghostly, from the wall. Tio shouted out in shock when she saw a ghost, and she tossed the now physical ghost to the ground. The woman had both of the handcuffs around her wrists, but since she was physical while the handcuffs were on her and she had no legs, she was unable to get up and run away.

Naruto's head smacked the dumpster's edge as he fell to the ground.

"Ah! That hurt... I almost died there." Naruto gasped for breath as he wiped the blood that was starting to stain his face. His eyes were looking around, before he saw the ghost girl was on the ground and looking around in confusion. "Miya Himekumo, you're under arrest for the murder of 4 humans, and attempted murder of an officer." Naruto stated as he made a finger gun with his hand, and pointed it at Miya's ghost.

"What is going on here!"

"Ghosts usually smell like dirt and whatever it was they were obsessed with before their death. This girl is a Poltergeist, all the Hosts who died were all wearing the same ring... the rings that had the same scent as their necks... she killed those Hosts because she wanted to be with them... and she was jealous they spent time with other girls." Naruto stated as Smith, Manako, Zombina, and Doppel rushed to the scene.

Manako was at his side, and she pushed her sleeve up against his forehead to stop the bleeding. She saw severe bruises around his neck, and realized he had offered himself up to be sacrificial bait.

"You idiot..."

"Well, we can't arrest a dead girl." Smith stated, and Naruto shook his head.

"Poltergeists are a monster species, and they can be deported to the afterlife if they commit any crimes. Right now, my Fox-fire handcuffs are keeping her rooted to the physical world... enough time to get her charged with her crimes and get a priest to deport her." Naruto was still gasping, and his heart rate was shooting way up. He was the only person who could make a ghost tangible enough for the cuffs to work, so he and Zombina were the only people who could play the bait.

Zombina was immortal.

"I see... well I consider that case solved, good work team!" Smith sent everyone a thumbs up.

"Good thing I'm dead, and when she choked me I was immune." Zombina had been choked as well, but the ghost had given up on her when she realized that she couldn't be choked out.

Naruto groaned.

He hated dealing with ghosts.

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