Fandom: Naruto, Criminal Minds, Heroes
Author: deceiving rumour
Beta-Reader: xXAsuka-chanXx
Pairing: SasuSaku (?)
Summary: AU. Coal eyed man grabbed pink-haired beauty by the arm pulling her closer, his velvet voice hissed into her ear-shell. "If you want to live, you will stay away from me." The killer is out there and both of them are his prey.
Notes: Originally it was more light and humour-ish probably even Mary Sue and cliché. Now it's more dark and angsty.
Disclaimer: Nope, still not mine...

Small town Superstar
:She was a beauty. And he was a work of art.

Chapter One: Look Out Kiddies
Your worst nightmare is out to get you

Japan. Tokyo. Hanami Building Site. 3: 28 a.m.

Uzumaki Naruto took out his handkerchief and covered his nose with it. The smell was unbelievable, especially for someone like him. He shivered as the cold morning breeze flushed his face. His partner kneeled before the squished bodies examining the scene of crime.

"...Shit."

Uchiha Sasuke sighed, Naruto swore and the latter's face turned light green.

"You know what, bastard?" Sasuke didn't acknowledge the call. "After all this time I would have guessed that someday, maybe just someday a homicide wouldn't happen in the middle of the freaking night! And just look at this mess. Do you know how much paperwork this is going to take up? Hours! By the time we're done—"

"Naruto," Sasuke stood up eyes flickering back to their normal color face showing no sympathy for the dead. "Shut up. This is our kind of case. We're heading back to the Station." With that, the taller—and more sensible one—of the two turned on his heels and left in the thick mist of the morning.

Naruto was about to protest but turned his handsome face back to the crime scene. There was so much blood everywhere that it had literally splashed onto the ground under the platform.

No one was ever going to buy apartments in this development.

"...Kuso."

Kami-sama, Naruto hated Mondays.

He, actually, preferred dealing with UnSubs; mass-murders and other scum on the streets. But, don't get him wrong, it wasn't because it was rewarding but much safer and calmer than his and Sasuke's previous one. But it was also defiantly less generous.

The payment sucked. Big time.

Once in the car Naruto grinned from ear to ear; prepared to tell Sasuke all about his wonderful—but cut short because of the urgent call—night with the flaming red-head from the bar. Secretly, of course, he hoped that the bastard would be jealous of his lady skills.

Sasuke turned on the engine and then: "We're returning to the Company." He said bluntly.

"What?! Why?! Teme you better have a good reason—"

"One of the killed men on the site was Gekko Hayate." Sasuke explained. Naruto gaped. "As you recall he's one of the Numbers. I believe he isn't the first one or the last. You know what this means."

Naruto, pale as his partner, choked out a dry "Yes."

Japan. Tokyo. Konoha Military Police Station. 4: 49 a.m.

"What!"

Sasuke pinched his nose bridge with his index finger and thumb. It seemed that every blonde's mission today was to leave him either deaf or with a terrible headache. "We—" Naruto threw Sasuke a dirty glance at the word which Uchiha-prodigy ignored completely. "—want this case. But not as official business, that fuss we will close in less than two weeks, but as Company members."

Tsunade raised her picked brow glancing at the both men. "I thought you two wanted to do nothing more with Company." She popped her elbow on the hard surface of the wooden table. "Not to mention how are both of you supposed to solve this if you haven't been field agents in two years?"

Naruto loosened up his bright orange tie and rolled his eyes in the 'duh' manner. "Hey, that's not true. Pretty Boy and I are detectives after all, we do field work! Besides we're in our top shape as always baa-chan. And a little excitement in our lives wouldn't hurt. Because do you know how boring it is to sit all day in the same room with Mr. Ego—"

Tsunade closed her eyes trying to save the last of her patience.

"That's not what I meant, Uzumaki. I know you too well. You must have a pretty damngood reason why you two are coming back into the Company, willingly. After that incident in London I thought you two swore to never participate with 'lying bastards'—" Tsunade passed to use her fingers to make quotation marks. "—that control the Company."

Naruto let out an indignant snarl.

And for a moment a pregnant pause hung in the air. Until Sasuke spoke up.

"Someone has commenced open fire on Numbers. And with all due respect—" Now it was Tsunade's turn to growl. The damned brat didn't have any respect for anyone. "—I think the idiot over there," he gestured towards Naruto. "and I are the best candidates for this case."

Tsunade palmed her face, mentally wishing she wasn't their Contact with the Company-better yet wishing she had never met those two in the first place. "Even if I'll allow you to take the case what makes you think Danzo will agree?"

Sasuke's thin lips curved into a cocky smirk. "Danzo has no idea who is hunting the Numbers down, no?" and here his eyes flickered over to the notice-board, where the pictures of the construction were covered in blood. "He needs us because I recall that Morino is in the Facility for E.D.C."

Tsunade groaned. She could see where he was going with this. Damn Uchiha and his damn logic. And his damn powers.

"Jiraya was supposed to keep tabs on every one of them."

"Then it means pervert did a lousy job! Someone got their hands on the files and now out there hunting!" Naruto swung his hands in the air. "Soon it's not gonna be just Numbers, Company members are on the lists too, you know."

"All right," Tsunade breathed, obviously defeated. Sasuke and Naruto were an unstoppable pair, and would not be denied. She knew this from experience. "it's a good thing that you two never officially quit the job. I'll make arrangements so your badges and authorized—" Tsunade wiggled her brows in Naruto's direction who didn't even have the decency to look ashamed of himself. "—guns will be returned."

She made a hand gesture saying that they are dismissed.

"And Sasuke," The said man turned his attention to the blond woman. "do it by the book this time. Try not to jump into the action without your partner. The Company stopped making teams like yours a long time ago, remember that."

Sasuke turned on his heels so his back was facing her again and spoke not a word of acknowledgment for the woman's advice and walked out of the room. Naruto following.

"Oi Sasuke-teme you do know we just threw ourselves back into the system of the Company, and" Blue eyes glanced over his shoulder at the office they just left. "baa-chan doesn't seem to happy about this."

"Of course she isn't, dobe. It's an ultimatum, she's our Contact." Slipping the coffee in his hand Sasuke made a face about its taste. The coffee was never good. "Remember the terms she left with the boss."

"But you never said why we're doing this in the first place!" Naruto protested. "I mean, after London I thought we quit." He smiled suddenly at an unspoken memory. "I guess working kills us...these past years were so boring. Compared to what we used to do, homicide seems so plain."

"Aa." Sasuke replied before turning away. "I want this case..." He trailed off.

"Don't me tell. I'll guess." Naruto's face twisted because of Sasuke's obsession. "You think he's behind this."

"Hn."

"I didn't expect a straight answer anyway." The Delta Class Company member studied his Superior Omega Class Partner.

"What did she meant by stopped making teams like ours?"

"Our kind is rare despite the statistics. Now teams are one of us and one of them."

"Normals?" Naruto scoffed. "Please. It couldn't have gotten that bad, could it?"

"A lot has changed while we were away. Normals are dominant in the Company members now."

Blue eyes widen. "But it's been only two years!?"

"A lot can change in two years." Sasuke shook his head. "A lot."

I wonder where she is now...

TBC...

Author's Note: Like I said, I'm rewriting. The plot didn't change...much. But I'm working on my style of writing. Suspense is really hard to write, but so far so good. This chapter however ended up like a prologue.

Also congrads for me, I'd finally moved! Yay! *Cheers for herself and falls because of the chair* though my room is a tab smaller than I wanted and defiantly smaller than the one I used to have, anyone who lives in England will feel my pain about 4x3 meter rooms.

Now I'm advertising a cool story that isn't getting the attention it deserves: Star Route 2847 by LadyofTheDarkSky. It's amazing, like Star Trek or Star Wars. By the way have any of you watched new trailer for Star Trek? Because Zachary Quinto, who is playing the new Spock, looked so much hotter in his Heroes-Emo-Version than in this new Elf-Gayish-Look-With-Pointy-Ears-And-Tights-Version.

Happy early Merry Christmas, and even if holidays are here I will not stop updating.