Summary: At the stroke of midnight, Sakura was organizing the piles of salvaged files that survived the Pein Invasion until she stumbled upon a profile of a deceased person.

A/N: A stroke of inspiration hit me when I read a profile of Shisui Uchina, his circumstantial death and Kabuto's brief mention about his inability to locate his body at Narutopidea Wiki. My hyperactive muses suddenly conjure out a really interesting theory on why did Kabuto unable to locate his body. That theory had a quite twist of fate…I want to try that one. Though, my primary priority to write is The Pink and White Drabbles, i will occasionally update this story in time to time.

Time Year Index: AWCE - After Warring Clan Era, BWCE- Before Warring Clan Era

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or anything affiliated with any other video game, anime, manga, or comic.

Prompt: Paper

Naka River, Fire Country 1345 hours, 96 AWCE

Itachi's eyes went wide as he watched his best friend ripped off his own left eye from his left eye socket with his bare hand.

'Shisui...' He thought in a mix of admiration and sadness.

Shisui smiled pleadingly as his eyes were now both closed, his left cheek stained with a trail of his blood, his eye trapped in his clenched bloody left hand that offered toward him.

"...You're my best friend, the only one I can ask this. Please protect the village...and the Uchiha's name."

Konoha, Fire Country 2358 hours, 105 AWCE

On a cloudless warm night, a bright moon hovered over the sleeping and slowly rebuilding Konoha except the few awake guards patrolled down the streets, and a young woman on a midnight shift, working on the assignment that a still recovering Tsunade gave her.

A dull glowing light over the isolated and newly built Record Room, a living lone soul sat on the chair, took the papers from the piles of savaged paper and placed them in organized and separate piles of papers in orderly manner. A 16 years old med-nin stopped for a minute, looking at the seemly endless piles of papers , then slumped in a mix of despair and tiredness.

Whoosshhh

A wind from the opened window on the side of the record office nearby her was entering and blowing gently.

"Oh!" An soft exclamation in surprise spilled out of her mouth as the some of papers on the top of many piles along the savaged papers fluttered and some went flying anywhere. They floated down as soon as a wind was disappearing. All of them fell on the floor,shattering all over a place.

She took off her chair, stood up and walked around a table to bend down to pick up the papers that shattered all over the newly polished wooden floor. She quickly collected the papers until she picked up a last paper that look like at a least 9 years old, from judging its age of a last paper.

This paper in her hand has no picture and looked like something official report file.

Then something written on a top of last paper caught her sharp green eyes.

Uchiha Shisui.

Sakura inhaled sharply if her chest felt like being knocking out of the air as she realized that an aged paper she held was a official report on a decreased member of the nearly extinct Uchiha clan. Her heart clenched painfully as she remember a last time she encounter sasuke, her former teammate, now international criminal on the loose.

She wondered about what's still going on in his mind.

She knew the Uchiha Massacre incident was being prominent on his revenge-driven mind, made a huge impact, so profound that made him willing to abandon the village and her team. She always wanted to know anything that connecting to the Uchiha Sasuke, so she could understand why and how regarding him better.

She inhaled deeply, she moved her hand to get a closer look on an aged paper.

Her heart pounded frantically as if she was about to opening a figurative Pandora's box.

Clenched other papers with her other hand, she started to read a profile paper slowly.

Name: Uchiha Shisui

Ninja Registration: 011673

Birth: February 29, 79 AWCE

Gender: Male

Height: 178 cm

Weight: 57.9 kg

Current Age: 17 (deceased)

Current Rank: Jounin

Academy Grad. Age: 8

Chunin Prom. Age: 11

Jounin Prom. Age: 15

Official Missions Comp.: 429 Total Official Missions completed, 127 D-rank, 142 C-rank, 89 B-rank, 66 A-rank, 5 S-rank

Family: Uchiha Kagami (Father- Deceased), Uchiha Akiko (Mother-Deceased), Uchiha Obito (Older Brother-KIA, Deceased)

Status: Decreased.

Causes of Death: Suicide. A medical report concluded that he died by asphyxiation due to drowning in Naka River.

Notes: He went MIA after the Konoha Military Police Force commissioned him a clan-relating mission. As soon as the Uchiha Clan filed a missing file report on him, his corpse had been found drowned with a suicide note attached to him by Yorusake Uchiha and Kyousu Uchiha at 1604 hours, July 12th, 96 AWCE. The Uchiha Clan had been identifying and confirming his identity according to a missing person identification process. According to the suicide note that he wrote, he was tired of carrying out the clan's duties.

However, The Uchiha Clan found it highly unusual and uncharacteristic of him to commit a suicide, since he was reputed for being very devoted to the Uchiha Clan. They suspected that he was murdered by someone who was possibly from the same clan.

The Konoha Military Police Force investigated the alleged suicide of Uchiha Shisui. Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Tekka and Uchiha Inabi were assigned to this case. They interviewed the people who had been in a last contract with the victim and checked their alias whereabouts prior to his death.

Out of all the people that they interviewed, Uchiha Itachi was a last person to contract the victim. They believed that he was a prime suspect due to the handwriting on the suicide note had been analyzing and finding to be match to Itachi's handwriting. It was a possibility that Uchiha Itachi was responsible for murdering Uchiha Shisui via a drowning method and forging the suicide note since he had an easy access to him due to being a best friend of the victim.

Nonetheless, the handwriting on the suicide was inconclusive since someone can imitate other's handwriting though the sharingan. A suspect's ANBU occupation provided a solid alias and prevented them from investigating on him and his whereabouts prior to the victim's death.

The Chief Head of Konoha Military Police Force, Uchiha Fugaku dismissed Uchiha Itachi from a list of the suspects, concluding that there was no hard evidence that he involved in Uchiha Shisui's death.

At the result of the investigation yielded very little and no hard evidences to connect between the suspect and victim. Therefore, the Konoha Military Police Force declared a suicide-murder case of Uchiha Shisui as a cold case, until it open at a further date, should there are new evidence or information available in future.

10/31 96 AWCE, Updated: After a Uchiha Massacre incident, Among the burial counts of the Uchiha bodies, Uchiha Shisui's corpse was missing and had not been found. Due to a massive political chaos and the sudden shortage of the ninjas, ANBU were unavailable to investigate and pinpoint the whereabouts on this corpse. By the time the aftermaths of a Uchiha Massacre incident stabilized, a trail of this corpse had been completely erased. A cause of this corpse disappearance was unknown. The General of ANBU and Saidaime Hokage declared this case as a cold case, until it open at a further date, should there are new evidence or information available in future.

She was perfectly still as her mind ingested the new information regarding a decreased person who had a connection to the Uchiha clan that her former teammate came from. She heard of him briefly, for he was reputed for a mastery over the body flicker technique and died at a point before the Uchiha Massacre incident. But, for a first time, she had no idea that Uchiha Shisui, in somewhere at a point of his time being alive, was Uchiha Itachi's best friend.

A pink-haired girl mused that they must be cousins, probably growing up together in the Uchiha clan. She did remember to met Uchiha Itachi being a missing-nin, during the Kazekage Rescue Retrieval mission months ago. He seemed so...emotionless and monotone, how on the earth, for she has no idea, Uchiha Shisui stand his emotionless facade like that and befriend that person whom destined to became the culprit behind the Uchiha Massacre.

Probably he was befriending him for able to relating to him because, from what she saw his rank record, he was considering being a one of strongest shinobis in both his Uchiha clan and Konoha.

It was sad to know that, she mused, Uchiha Shisui have his life cutting off like that, being murdered by his own best friend whom he trusted with his life.

Without her awareness, a tiny seed-like curiosity was planting, buried deep in her unconscious part of her mind, waiting patiently for a chance to grow.

C-Caw!

Caw!

Caw-aw!

Suddenly she was snapped out of her muses startled by the cawing noises, her heart jolted in surprise, her head jerked toward a source of the noises, upon only finding no one there in dimmed lighted room where she stand alone.

Then she realized, that noises must come from outside, though the opened window, probably the crow was cawing nearby to that window.

'Oh, silly me!' Sakura berated herself silly over being startled by the simple cawing noise so easily, told herself that a next time, paying attention to the surroundings around her.

Her green eyes shifted, looked up the new clock that hanging on the wall.

12:24 AM

Oh! Better hurried to finish her assignment, because she didn't want to stay awake that so late, not fancied being depleted of a precious sleep at least 24 hours, since she was going to work again at hospital this afternoon.

In a hasty movement, she went back to her previous seat, sat down on the chair, intending to complete the assignment, so much focusing that she was completely forgoting about that aged paper that she was previously holding. That very paper regarding the decreased member of the once glorified and proud now nearly extinct clan, lost among the sea made of the organized piles of the papers.

Meanwhile nearby to outside of the opened window, a black crow was on the power-line wire that fed the electricity to a newly built buildings and puffed out his feathers, his head shifted and tilted in a bird-like manner.

Then, it jumped off the wire and flew away to the darkness, left a trail of few black feathers in the air almost if it left a trail of the whispering of ominous secrets shrouding in the darkness.

Unbeknownst to her, a first clue she previously held in her hand was a first step to finding more clues regarding the enigmatic Uchiha Shisui over a few years course, an answer the remained obscure in a darkness will come to an unsuspecting young woman some day in a future and rocking the foundation of Konoha and beyond.

A/N: So, Do you enjoy this new story so far? This is my first time to write the suspense story involved a cold case, i thought it's pretty cool to write Sakura being a detective and pick the bits and pieces of the clues.

Shisui Uchiha was an excellent choice for have a blank state with a little background information provide from Itachi, it allowed me to developing Shisui's character and past. Most of his past were purely fiction, but some came from canon or manga, and researching informations from Narutopidea Wiki.

I'm sure that you notice that informations i put Shisui's profile, some sounds reasonable due to my observation based on the people from canon or manga comments on Uchiha Shisui. A few information may possibly play an important role in a future.

Anyway, please kindly comment and review! or any questions you got for me? your reviews help my creative muses flowing.