Fandom: Naruto, Criminal Minds, Heroes
Author: deceiving rumour
Beta-Reader: One word: Asuka. Because I'm a bitch and she spoils me.
Pairing: SasuSaku, NaruKarin.
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." Dead bodies aren't the only thing they are going to find.
Note: Today is my anniversary of being exactly one year on FF. 09/05/08—09/05/09 (at least it was then I uploaded this chapter the first time) This is now Beta-ed. Enjoy! :)
mistyfire's code is securealmost guessed who is Sakura 0.2. Close, but she is not exactly a clone.
Random Useless Note For those who read manga: Just die Kishi, just die. I can't take so much bullshit; it's like reading Twilight again, only now he kills the hottie and leaves us with the crimson haired crazy emo boy. I want Sasuke-kun back...at least he knows how to work his looks and didn't turn into a poster boy for anorexia. And he doesn't pull all that crap about peace (because honestly! the peace Nagito talks about, well it doesn't work that way. Kishi obviously didn't do his homework on that subject. My advice: read comic books!) and just wants to destroy stuff. And what kind of fucked up stuff is Naruto pulling now? His love for Jiraya helped him overcome his hatred~!? WFT!
P.S. Naruto was carrying a book under his shirt all the time! I could have fallen out of his pockets so long ago Pein could have stepped on it during "Rock Meet Pein" scene. This is even more unrealistic than Hinata's perky boobs that are supported by a bra straight from the 80s and they are not affected by the laws of gravity.
Disclaimer: Lalalalalalalalala...Mine! All Mine!

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

Chapter Five: When The Secret Is Out
Hide under the Bed of your parents

Japan. Tokyo. Uchiha Sasuke's apartment. Around three in the morning.

Uchiha Sasuke isn't the type to hesitate. He would have, of course, calculated his options before rushing into a fight (usually though). Sasuke is the type of guy who rationally would observe the situation before coming up with the best fitted solution. He was a man who knew that hesitation of any kind can cost a life.

And yet, he could bring himself up to make his next move. Onyx eyes flicked in the dim light of the nightstand lamp as he ran his hand through damp hair, letting the icy cold drops of water run down his naked broad shoulders.

—and the latest news about series of murders which occur all around the world. Interpol believes that a group of terrorist are responsible, many of the in-set forces have ca—

Sasuke switched the channel.

—the weather tomorrow is promised to be sunny with a chan—

Click.

—our very own correspondent from the states. Tomako, do you think fed reserve will be able to pull—

Click. Click. Click.

—bonds right now are in no danger; US will just support them with more printed dollars. However that will make the dollar itself and euro invaluable. So judging from my personal opinion in this situation it is better to rely on gold—

Click.

As the light in the display disappeared Sasuke threw the remote control on the bed he was sitting on.

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Be—

Long fingers picked up a cell. His eyes studied to contains of the message he had just received:

From Tsuande
Team Twenty-three had found a new corpse.
Find exactly who kills Numbers.
Bring Uzumaki.

Sasuke was never this eager to quit this mission and jump a case. In fact, he never did so. But then again, some rules have exceptions. And today was one of those days.

Dropping his towel from slim hips Sasuke sighed and opened a drawer right above his underwear. Taking out an old photo that was taken during a Christmas carnival, Sasuke wondered how 0.2. would react. The Uchiha recalled something Kakashi mentioned to him. "Her father will announce the date of the funeral soon."

Officially Haruno Sakura's death was caused by drowning. Dummy witnesses swear that they had seen her, identification is absolute. Because officially her body was never recovered.

They are going to bury an empty casket.

He wasn't invited though. Her family never knew about him nor did they needed to, yet only a white scar that shattered the night sky and an explosion like thunder was the only answer to his doubts. A piercing blue light enlightened the room shading out the outline of a lone and naked figure.

The Company's Morgue. Left wing. Section C. Time Unknown.

Naruto yawned. Karin was keeping him up at night almost every day. And as much as he liked what they did, it could be rather exhausting. He flipped his Sony Ericson open and checked his mail again.

From LeBastard
Meet me in the Company's morgue.
Don't come drunk.

"Che, as if I ever came drunk..." Blond eyebrows knitted. "well recently I didn't."

Naruto remembered Sakura. She was a girl Sasuke once started protecting, following her every wimp, appearing in public events with her as his escort. Their relationship was...sick. Not healthy for either of them. They were too different and yet seemed as an invisible link was tied to them.

Of course she was attractive, cute in the wild way, but Sakura was way too young. Not many noticed her age because of her height and obsession with the color magenta but—

"Usuratonkachi." Sasuke's voice cut off blond's thought.

"Way to greet a friend," Naruto murmured. Naruto looked around as both men stepped into an old rusty elevator. 'Holy ramen! No wonder medics hate section C... it's like a hospital from those cheap-ass scary movies!' he thought as a metal box made a displeased sound. "I thought you would've left by now, bastard." He said to his raven haired partner.

Sasuke pushed the lowest button on the platter without looking at him. The walls shook a tad as a yellow light appeared above the gutter. "Inuzuka Hana's body was recovered."

"You gonna bail after this? Figures... just don't leave me with Neji. That guy scares the shit outta me!"

"Yeah. Not to leave you with Neji." Sasuke replied impassively, but his frown didn't escaped blonde's keen eyesight. "Sure. Whatever."

"Why do I get a feeling you are not paying attention to me?"

"Aa,"

A wicked grin broke Naruto's face suddenly as an idea came to him. "Oi teme...you're gay."

Sasuke, unamused, set his teeth. "Fuck you."

Fluttering his eyelashes Naruto put his hand on the taller man's shoulder. "I know you want to, babe. But let's keep it discreet shall we? There could be kids here."

Black haired man shoved off the alien hand off his body and smirked. "I bet you were up all night, working on that one. While you were doing that, I was doing your girlfriend."

"At least I can get one, bastard. I bet you finished as soon as you took your medicine to pimp up."

"Which will, still, be longer than your stiffness."

"My girls take pills cos I get them knocked up while you shoot blanks, feminine man."

"Feminine? Why you find me irresistible?"

"Oh, yeah baby, I want you come. Come." Naruto replied in a completely dry voice.

"Is that a statement or a come-hither?"

"The second one. What tripped you off, your gaydar?"

"Yeah. You would know better than anyone would, dobe, since you were bitting the pillow last night."

Before Naruto could reply with 'if I bend then your hook is crooked' but the doors opened and in the shinning white light a figure appeared.

"Here, it's on the right. Don't stumble on the massive amount of corpses on the floor. Our made called in sick today." Neji chuckled as his pale fingers pulled on latex gloves.

Naruto made a gagging face to the medic's back. The huge white room, in which Neji in his pale cloves looked almost invisible, was empty aside of three covered humans under the grey sheets.

Sasuke walked towards the latest of the covered hills and pulled the cloth off. Instantly a disgusting smell reached them, and foam started leaking out of the bones.

"Kami what's that smell?!!"Naruto demanded as he slapped a hand over his nose in disgust. "And what the hell is that green foam?"

Sasuke covered his nose with the corner of his scarf cautiously. "Is it toxic?"

Neji made a face, his lips pressed together. "Every serologic and biologic diagnostic I run comes up the same. No drugs, no viruses, no poisons. Also other test had shown no evidence of arsenic, ethylene glycol or cyanide. And we are not in lock down. So I can safely say that there are no signs of any toxins."

Sasuke slightly narrowed his eyes at the Hyuuga medic but said nothing.

Neji looked at the cart. "Unknown. The eggs of bugs which I tested say that she was dead for approximately five days but the tissue shows a much higher level of decomposition. So I can't be sure when did she die."

Naruto squinted his eyes. "Do you know why?"

"Wouldn't be telling you if I didn't?"

Naruto, once again, resisted an urge to just wipe off that look of a supreme-being of Neji's face. He can take it from Sasuke—who after all is blond's friend—but not the Hyuuga. Before any damage to medic's handsome face could be done Sasuke interrupted.

"What is," Sasuke's Sharingan activated eyes had noticed an alien object in the rotten flesh. "this?"

Neji studied carefully the broken carpus at which Uchiha's long fingers pointed.

"It appears to be a piece of metal but I can't be sure. If we just look under a magnifier lamp..." Neji adjusted the said object right above the green body. His fingers touched the "on-off" button and with a flicker of—

"Shit!" the corpse busted into bright blue flames.

"Well at least we found out that these remains were emitting with hydrogen gas." Sasuke looked at his watch. "Call us then you find something more Hyuuga."

As Sasuke turned on his heels towards to elevator exit he began to grow more irritable. 'Pointless.' He thought before Neji spoke.

"Not so fast, Uchiha. We recovered what's left of Haruno Sakura's body."Neji pushed his glasses back and moved onto the next autopsy table. On it, in a less bloody mess as it could have been parts of tissue flesh and bone fragments were.

"Her identity was confirmed by her dental records. So far her bones told me nothing. Because of that fall most of them were fractured, there was a powerful blow, however. As you can see from this wound at the frontal lobe, the victim was striked by a dense object. So this could be your potential murderer weapon."

"Tenten said she was alive when she was pushed down the elevator shaft."

"Yes, but you can't always rely on Tenten." Murmuring something else about the brunette Neji continued. "I tested the remaining flesh like I could, and there were no signs of drugs or poison. However,"

He pulled out a transparent container with yellow-green liquid inside which two round organs floated.

"Look at these." Neji popped out an eyeball from a bottle, in the same second Naruto made a loud 'EEEEWWWW!!' "What do they tell you?"

Sasuke observed the organ. Pupils' wide, green iris barely visible, he tried to fight off the thought that this is Sakura's eyeball. His own eyes caught unto an obvious thing. "Her conjunctiva is red. It's a sign of strangulation but Sa—she wasn't strangled. She was chopped into pieces by an elevator."

"Correct Uchiha," Sasuke set his teeth to not return the comment. "I took out some of that and studied it. Guess what I found, no come on. Guess?"

Naruto tore off his gaze from the course. Still, it was Sakura...in a way. "Neji. Quit it. What the fuck is in that eyeball?"

A grin crept on the Hyuuga's face. "Ink." He said with a pause between syllables.

"Ink? As in ink that's in pens?"

"Aah, usuratonkachi." Sasuke snapped as he turned back to Neji. "That's exactly what he meant, idiot." Sasuke turned his head to Neji harshly. "What do you mean someone injected ink into her eyes?"

"I mean someone injected ink into her eyes." Neji answered in a more 'duh' manner. "There are no tricks in this one. And before you ask, no, I have no idea why in the world ink killed her."

"Ink killed her?"Naruto demanded.

"It's a theory I'm working on." Neji replied as he waved the statement away. "Now then. Sasuke, Naruto, please leave. Your presence is no longer required."

Naruto passionately glared at Neji while Sasuke almost hissed through his sharp teeth: "We will keep you informed about any intelligence we gather."

Neji waved his hand off; the detectives were no longer needed. His full attention was set on an interesting piece of bone he had found. "Yes, please, do that."

As the Company duo left slamming the morgue door behind them Naruto murmured loud enough for Neji to hear. "Fucking necromantic."

The medic laughed. And only silence had met him then.

Tokyo. Japan. West district apartment building. Seventh Floor. 7:19 a.m.

Piercing brown eyes narrowed. And a man shifted uncomfortably.

"Don't stare at me like that, Kyuubi, I'm not ordering take-out. We have plenty of ramen noodles and some left-overs." Blond ran his fingers through messy hair. He actually felt the animal behind him glare hatefully an original Uchiha Survivor™. "Once again, pull yourself together man! No females will be courted by you if you will have a floppy belly. So suck it up and go do something useful with yourself."

The dog barked and shook its orange head.

"I don't know what!? If you are so dreadfully hungry go cook something!" In a matter of minutes Uzumaki heard the TV program cheerfully advise its watches how to prepare prawn-chicken dumplings, special fried rice and tempura don. Kyuubi barked something censored again and Naruto murmured a relieved: "...finally."

"You have a new message." An automatically happy voice that belonged to a famous Japanese pop-singer chipped.

ID 27650506: Hello.

Naruto looked at the screen, the ID that had just popped out on his ICQ was unfamiliar; he swore he could instantly recall all the pennames on his friends list, and it wasn't a short one. Moreover most people who use this service had changed their given ID numbers to more personalized pennames...Maybe ID 27650506 knows something the Co—

Naruto slapped his face laughing loudly. His fingers typed:

Kinnikuman: Hi there.

—God! Look at him! He's being paranoid; Kakashi really must be rubbing off him. Whoever ID 27650506 is, he probably has no idea who Naruto is. That's right ID 27650506 must be just some teenage nubie who is just asking the infamous Kinnukum—

It wasn't long before another message popped up and the voice announced the usual memo.

ID 27650506: The Company is lying.

Naruto was startled. His fingers shook and entire body began covering with intense sweat. 'Oh shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

A second later Naruto typed:Do I know you?

ID 27650506: No. But I know a lot about you Uzumaki-san.

Blond eyebrow twitched. ID 27650506 knew his name! Okay relax, chill bro. He told himself, it's just this prankster looked at his profile. No biggie. ' Heh, everyone wants a piece of me—'

ID 27650506: Name: Uzumaki Naruto. Age: 23. Birth date: 10th of October. Height: 181 cm Weight: 67 kg. Currently seeing Hanazono Karin. Pet: Kyuu—

Naruto signed off. He flipping signed off. He wasn't there. He—

ID 27650506: —bi. Company ID number: 29047. Delta Class Member. Known relatives: mother – Uzumaki Kushina. Is this information enough Uzumaki-san or do I need to tell the name of your first girlfriend?

Blond gulped, his feelings were confused; he was either scared shitless or angry as hell. And frozen brain cells refused to pick which one exactly.

Naruto laughed. Truly Sasuke sucked at joking. "Dude, this isn't funny. And I'm not talking in the 'I'm-totally-freaked-out-manner' this is a friend's advice. Don't try to be cool. Really, help the society by saving us from the horror. Bastard how do you check on me?—"

He was about to write that down and send to Sasuke—who really, really, really, sucked at jokes—when:

"You have a new message." Naruto now hated the silky sweet voice that keep telling him this line, which brought to him this horrifying ancient knowledge of something inevitable.

ID 27650506: I told you, this isn't Uchiha-sama.

Click. Click.

Naruto closed the messenger window.

ID 27650506: I wouldn't advise you t—

...or at least he tried.

The window wouldn't close. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK!

"Fuck this!"

Quickly pulling the edit Note window he entered the basic HTML code of the program disabling any kind of—

It wasn't long before another message popped up.

ID 27650506: That would be useless. You can't block me.

Naruto checked his webcamera. This could be one of his friends, watching him through the webcamera and playing with the nervous blond. No it was off, but if this was a practical joke of some hacker then he would have no problem of hacking into the system and crashing the firewall which allowed him almost unlimited access to Naruto's PC, thus he could manipulate Uzumaki's computer from a far off distance. When if this is indeed a hacker why didn't he trash his computer already? He had plenty of time to do so, unless he wanted to pull time to get into the private files information in which is lethal and needed to be contained no matter what. But Shikamaru himself created the firewall and all the traps in the circular system however—

ID 27650506: Uzumaki-san you have been activated.

—they are defiantly creating a direct contact. Time to call it quits.

Naruto outstretched his hand trigging the wire, he sighed still just in case he had to pull it from the plug manually.

"You have a new message."

ID 27650506: Uzumaki-san you have been activated.

Kinnukuman: Who are you?

ID 27650506: I will provide you with the necessary info when you are needed.

Kinnukuman: Fuck you! What do you mean I'm activated!

Kinnukuman: Don't fuck with me! I swear then I find you

Kinnukuman: you will be wishing you were dead!

ID 27650506: That would be foolish of me. And you, Uzumaki-san, you wouldn't want your Kushina-sama to be—

Kinnukuman: Don't you dare touch my mother!

ID 27650506: Unless you want your sick mother to depart from this world you will follow my orders.

It took all of Naruto's will to not just smash the computer and pull that fuckers ass from the depts of hell for even thinking he can threaten his mother. Still, he had to be calm. What did Sasuke told him to act in no win scenarios?

Kinnukuman: What do you want from me?

ID 27650506: Smart choice Uzumaki-san. Exit through the back door and go to the docks on the north, find the hanger 4009484—I will contact you when.

Kinnukuman: How can you be sure I will come?

ID 27650506: I am everywhere Uzumaki-san.

He had heard the phrase before...from where Naruto could recall but something familiar was in the way ID 27650506 built his sentences.

Kinnukuman: who are you?

ID 27650506: you will find out.

Kinnukuman: when wi—

ID 27650506: soon. at the moment, however, I advise you to move fast Uzumaki-san. In 2.33000078 seconds Police and Interpol will pay you a visit. A series of gun purchase have been made under your name.

"What the...?"

ID 27650506: in huge amounts.

Naruto backed away from the computer. To think that this day started peacefully...

"Tokyo PD, open up! I repeat, Tokyo PD open up Uzumaki!"

Naruto, aghast, grabbed his phone and gun, and in a matter of seconds typed in the computer's 'disaster code' which would release a virus to wipe out the whole system.

"Kyuubi!" in just moments, his German Sheppard (originally at least, Naruto supposed) run through the hallway dragging an emergency bag especially kept for satiations like this. The orange blur barked and Naruto threw the backpack over his shoulder grabbing Kyuubi with his hands.

"Okay boys take it down!" was heard in the hallway.

At one last glance Naruto took at the screen he saw a message that was already partly eaten away by Varlock3000:

ID 27650506: you may call me B.

And Naruto jumped out of the window.

Author's Note:

I. Am. Back! *pulling a Terminator here* Perhaps, not for long though. Because soon I will have (tutududn!) exams. Oh the horror!

It's funny that I use a lot of electrical devises in this chapter. Every character is getting a message. :D And Kyuubi is one awesome dog.

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I'm glad so many of you like this story so far and leave wonderful reviews *hands out cookies* but as some know I a review addict (always eager to know everyone's opinion and muses) so remember the more you poke me to update the faster I will get on with it. :3

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