Okay, so picture this: A killer decides to become the copy cat Jack the Ripper and targets all the prostitutes in South Japan. Emotions begin to run umuck(lol idk how to spell that) and tentions run high. Sweat rolling down your back when you feel like you're being stalked, only to see yourself from the big clouds ahead, your lifeless body hanging from a dumpster or lying on the sidewalk. Yeah, that's pretty much how Sasuke and Sakura feel at this point because the killer isn't only after the prostitutes, but them as well!

Chapter 1

Taxis and cars passed by the sidewalk quickly, picking up people on their way around the blocks. Some honked their horns at other cars or pedestrians crossing in front of their paths and they scurried out of the way. Japan lit up perfectly at night, the lights from the buildings lighting up the streets. There were hardly any crimes committed there since the new police force came into action the year before, the rookies catching on quickly to the cases they received. On the other side of the sidewalk, two people walked briskly, one clutching her purse while the other one was trying to convince her to listen to him.

"Wait! Please just listen to me for a second!" the man shouted. The woman lifted her nose in the air and looked at him from the corner of her eye.

"I'm not going to come back to you, Kaoru!" she shouted back. "I caught you in the act! You were with that whore you yourself said was no one you knew! And now you're in bed with her?"

"She came on to me! I tried to stop her, Kiki! I swear!"

"Yeah, with your pants down!"

"Please understand-Oh my God…" The man stopped in his tracks as he looked down an alley where something was sticking out from the dumpster. The woman watched him as he inched closer into the alley to investigate the object in the dumpster, moving slowly in case something jumped out at him. Once he was out of her sight, the woman followed him carefully and warily, not liking the atmosphere. Suddenly, the man began running backwards, his hand over his mouth in horror as he looked back at the dumpster.

"Kaoru? What's-OH MY GOD!" She screamed when she saw the dead body of a woman hanging out of the dumpster, staring blankly at the starry sky as blood dripped from the slit in her neck.

The phone rang through the whole apartment, immediately waking the sleeping inhabitant. The person grumbled and stumbled to the phone on the other side of the room, tripping a couple times over strewn clothes in the process that had been lazily put there. Getting there on the third ring, the person picked it up.

"Detective Haruno here," the girl announced. She nearly dropped her phone when a screaming voice shrieked back at her.

"Where the hell are you, Haruno?" her boss yelled. "You were supposed to be here over an hour ago!"

"What?" the young detective yelled. She looked at the clock and saw it was five in the morning. "But I don't have to be in for another hour!"

"Day light savings!" she heard in the background. Groaning loudly, she murmured an apology and slammed the phone back on the receiver before going to get ready for work. SVU, or Special Victims Unit, helped those who experienced rape and homicide in their lives, and they would solve the murders until the suspects were brought in for their sentence in court. They would go without sleep for days until they caught the rapists and murderers, leaving no evidence behind. Sakura Haruno was one of those cops that specialized in rape victims, being one herself when she had been a teenager and her rapist had never been caught. She devoted herself to catching murderers and rapists like hers with the help of her comrades, who also wanted to help her in her time of need.

Sakura squealed in pain as she rounded the corner and stubbed her toe on a chair leg, pulling her dress on she wore to work. It came to the top of her knees and tied in the back, the bow it created in the back drooping in the back along with her mood that day. It was blue and swayed with every move of her hips, attracting their targets most of the time instead of them finding them. She pulled on the inch heels that went with it and turned another corner sharply, grabbing her small backpack that was slung on the hat pole near the door.

"Bye Mom! Bye Dad! Take care of the house!" Sakura yelled to the picture of her parents on the bar top. They had died in the attack when Sakura was raped, her mother being a victim while her father had been forced to watch. Sakura sped down the stairs, the heels making loud clacking sounds on the metal steps as she ran down them. Her neighbor looked out her door and when she saw Sakura run past, she shook her head and smiled hopelessly. 'When will that girl ever learn to be on time?' she thought as she closed her door.

"Where she at?" a man whined to his partner. The man beside him sighed and shrugged, flipping through his magazine in boredom. "You know, you should have at least told her that today was day light savings, ya know?"

"Stop whining," the man finally said. "She'll be here soon."

"What makes you say that?" The man held up his cell phone and his partner squinted at it, reading the text Sakura had sent: 'Will be there ASAP! Oh, btw, I'm gonna kill you Sasuke!' "Haha! You got yelled at, Sasuke!" The man named Sasuke clicked his tongue and crossed his arms angrily, his eyes closed against his partners bantering. Sasuke Uchiha was one of Sakura's partners and possibly the hottest man in the country of Japan, or according to all the women in the country. The only emotion he ever showed was anger and the occasional soft spot for kids, but when he was jerked the wrong way, things could turn nasty in the blink of an eye. Except one, and that was Sakura Haruno. She would be able to control him better than everyone, besides the fact the two of them got in fights whenever they were together.

Their other partner was Naruto Uzumaki, the knucklehead of the team, and the one who had all the connections to even the lowest parts of the ghetto of Japan. Having both been born in it, they had somehow met Sakura when they had all applied for the job in SVU the year before. Ironically, they had all gone to the same high school, just never actually met, but they had been made known since Sakura had been a football cheerleader and Naruto and Sasuke had been the football players.

Suddenly, the door banged open and the people in the office looked around in curiosity to it, halting in their work. Sakura stood there hunched over, breathing as if she had run a marathon, but when they saw the look on her face, they immediately resumed their work. Naruto stopped laughing and fear crossed her face quickly, cowering quickly behind his desk.

"Sasuke!" Sakura screamed. "You son of a bitch, I'm gonna fucking kill you!" Sasuke raised an eyebrow and, without looking at her, flipped the page of his magazine again.

"It's not my fault you forgot day light savings," he said. Sakura snarled and stomped over to her clean desk, slamming her bag on the poor desk. Then, she turned and pointed straight at Sasuke, who had walked over to his desk and sat down in the fifteen seconds Sakura had gone to hers.

"You could have at least told me that it was day light savings!" screamed Sakura. Naruto smiled weakly and held up a pointed finger.

"T-That's what I told him, Sakura-chan, but he didn't listen to me! And now you're angry and I don't like you like that because you're really scary and you tend to hurt people-mostly me-and Kakashi wants to see you in his office!" Sakura had been threatening Sasuke, who looked very bored, and holding him by the collar, shaking him a few times to emphasize how miserable she felt. She looked over at him with a confused looked and dropped Sasuke, walking over to Naruto and putting her hands on her hips.

"He does? What for?" she asked.

"There's been a rape and homicide on the west side of Tokyo. A woman was found raped and dead in a dumpster by a fighting couple," Kakashi Hatake said with his back turned to them. Sakura shifted her weight to her left leg and put her hands behind her back innocently. "Sakura, you need to get updated on the time or I'll put you on desk work until you do."

"B-But, sir-!"

"Get going before the reporters get there." Sakura and Naruto sighed and looked at each other before saluting and turning away to walk out. Sasuke watched them go and looked back at his boss.

"Could it be another serial rapist, Kakashi?" he asked. Kakashi shrugged and waved a hand to dismiss him. Sasuke saluted and walked out to follow his teammates. His boss groaned and put a hand to his forehead in defeat.

"I don't think they'll going to ever get along," Kakashi sighed and took an aspirin.

"Dude, that's gruesome," Naruto said as they took pictures of the body. They had taken the body out of the dumpster and were now investigating the area around the body to search for any evidence. "He practically shredded her."

"Victim is a twenty-two female that goes to the local university," Sasuke said. "One of the people that found her knew her, but weren't close enough to hang around each other. Said her name was Kimiko Kiamichi."

"Her purse is missing, if she even had one with her," Sakura concluded. "Poor girl, didn't even get to graduate college." She stood up from taking a picture of the slit in her neck, wincing slightly at how messy it was. The woman was missing several of her fingers and her chest was carved in various crude designs, as if the killer wanted to mark her as his own.

"Whoever did it knew how to do it," their coroner, Hinata Hyuuga, said smartly. Pointing to the slice on the woman's neck, she said, "See this? He placed the tip of the knife first and played with her before actually doing it. He sliced through the jugular and other major arteries to an almost perfect incision. He probably had her tied up when he did it, seeing as how there are rope marks on her wrists and ankles." She pointed those out, too and Sakura snapped pictures of those, taking in the effects of the bruised skin. Hinata Hyuuga was normally a shy girl, stuttering in her sentences; but when it came to her job, she took it very seriously. She moved her long, lavender hair from her face and stood up to place her hands on her hips. "I should be able to get more info when we get back."

"Do we know where she was killed yet?" Sasuke asked. Sakura shook her head and looked up at him.

"Her apartment, maybe?" Sasuke nodded and motioned for Naruto to come over.

"Go back to the station and get Kiba. Take him and find out if she has any family." He looked down at the dead woman in pity. "They'll want to know their daughter is gone." Sakura stared at the woman's body carefully, checking to see if they missed anything before turning to her partners.

"We need to check the garbage cans to see if he left the murder weapon," she stated. Naruto scoffed and turned to the nearest garbage can. Lifting the lid, his voice echoed off the empty sides as he said, "Our job just gets better and better, no?" Sakura rolled her eyes and walked over to a garbage can and lifted the lid carefully, wrinkling her nose at the stench. Sasuke looked around the dumpster where the woman had been found to see if any of her missing appendages ended up being thrown in with her. Suddenly, Sakura squealed in horror and her partners whipped around to see her eyes wide in surprise and fear as she stared down into a garbage can. They ran over to her and looked down into the can, but they pulled back in disgust as they looked down at the dead body of a large cat.

"That's just sick, man," Naruto gagged.

"I don't think that cat was there before the killer dumped the body," Sasuke said with his nose covered. Sakura nodded and looked over her shoulder. All of a sudden, a shadow passed through the dark recesses of the alley and she squinted her eyes at it. When nothing happened, she shrugged and turned back around.

"Hinata!" she called. "We have another body over here, but we think it was put here when the girl was killed." Hinata got up from her spot next to the body and walked over to the can the dead cat was in. Leaning over, she pulled the cat out of the garbage and laid it out on the ground, inspecting it closely.

"This might be just another object that got in his way while he had his time with her. Might be hers, too. I'll take it to the lab and see what I can find." The blond girl gingerly placed the cat in a small body bag while the other investigators packed up the dead girl, being careful not to ruin any other evidence. Sakura narrowed her eyes and stared down the dark alley, unsure if the shadow she saw had been an animal or something entirely different.

Sasuke and Sakura walked up the steps in the apartment building they were in, which had apparently seen better days. Sakura covered the lower part of her face when a foul odor reached her nose from a dark corner; several mouse traps sat on the floor, each containing more than one rat or mouse. She looked up at her partner and saw no expression on his face, the only movement a twitch of his jaw muscle. 'Even the stench is getting to him. It's only a wonder why this place hasn't been closed down.' They came upon a door that had a crack in it that seemed to be tearing the thing apart.

"Sasuke, this is it," Sakura whispered. Sasuke grunted in reply and reached up to knock on the door, but the door opened and a girl stood there. She was a little taller than Sakura and had dark, curly brown hair that reached her back. She couldn't have been more than twenty, it looked like she was a foreigner, possibly from America, and she had the look of a prostitute all over her, right down to her painted toenails.

"May I help you, cutie?" the girl asked. Sakura frowned at the way she had talked to Sasuke and stepped forward.

"Yes, you can," said Sakura. "Are you Kimiko Kiamichi's roommate?" The girl gave her such a horrible look that made the detective want to kick her ass into the next century, but she refrained herself and smoothed her hair back with a shaking hand. "Are you going to answer me?"

"Yes, I am." Her tone was chilling, but this didn't affect the two detectives; they dealt with worse tones than this.

"You wanna invite us in?" Sakura asked. The girl moved to the side and opened the door wider, allowing them to pass. Unknown to Sasuke, Sakura saw the hoe look at his ass and lick her lips as if wanting to lick him all over. 'Sick bitch,' Sakura thought.

"So, what has she done this time?" the girl asked. "Do I need to come and bail her yet again?" Sasuke and Sakura exchanged glances before Sasuke said, "Kimiko was murdered either last night or the night before." Kimiko's roommate looked shocked and she brought a hand to her mouth in horror. "Oh my God…I told her to not go out last night, and when she didn't come back I assumed she had been arrested again."

"What do you mean again?" Sakura asked. "You also mentioned something along the lines of having to bail her again if she had been arrested. Did that happen a lot before?"

She nodded. "Yes. From shoplifting to drug possession, she was always in jail for something. I was the first person she called to come bail her out and I had to do it or she would blame something on me. Now look where we live: in this hell hole 'cause of her irresponsible way of living."

"You're not the exact role model yourself," Sakura muttered under breath, but that breath was lost when Sasuke nudged her harshly when the roommate wasn't looking.

"Did Kimiko have a boyfriend by any chance?" Sasuke asked. The girl shook her head from side to side, her dark curly hair moving against her cheeks.

"Not that I know of. But who am I to know? She never told me anything about her personal life, let alone her love life." She scoffed and looked out at the cloudy sky. "Who knew something like this would happen?" Sasuke was so engulfed in her story in case he missed something that it surprised Sakura when he jumped a foot in the air as his phone vibrated in his back pocket. He took it out carefully and stood up to answer it, leaving the two girls to themselves.

"Were you and Kimiko close?" This was a stupid question seeing as how the victim's roommate completely loathed her, but it was worth the shot.

"No, not really. Say, is your friend single?" Sakura's eye twitched.

"Yes, but he's not looking for a relationship right now." No way was she letting this slut get to Sasuke. Disappointment crossed the other girl's face quickly.

"That sucks…Have you ever tried?"

"Tried what?"

"You know: to hook up with him! He's not a man you could find easily, ya know!" Sakura blushed and shook her head. No, she didn't like Sasuke like that and she knew for a fact that he didn't like her. There was no possible way he would EVER like her that way, even if they were the last two people on the entire Earth and it was their job to repopulate the world. Just the thought of it sounded utterly ridiculous!

"Sakura." Sasuke's voice interrupted her thoughts and she whirled around to face him. The look on his face was grave and dark. "Hinata found something she wants us to see."

SVU Coronary Lab 10:00 AM

"Kimiko was carved up more than I thought she was," the lavender haired woman started. The body of the girl was laid out on the metal slab, the bruises on her body more prominent than they had been in the alley. "The main cause of death was the cut to the neck, and she's missing her liver and ovaries. At first glance, it looks like he tortured her first before killing her. But, when I cleaned up most of the blood, this appeared." She removed the white sheet covering the girl's body to reveal a clear image carved into her skin. Sakura leaned forward to examine it closely, but Sasuke held out a hand to stop her.

"What?" she asked. Her expression turned from surprise to curiosity at his wide eyes. It looked like he had seen a ghost that had truly scared him into the next century or two. "Sasuke?"

Have you told Kakashi yet?" Sasuke suddenly asked. Hinata's face turned bitter and shook her head slowly.

"No. I was hoping you could." Sakura stared from one to the other, and then back at the unfortunate girl on the slab. The message carved into the girl's sternum was all too clear:

I'M BACK

This is mah newest story! The original title was called Law and Order SVU: Naruto Style! but it was too long for the little boxy thing where you insert the title. For more details on this piece of work, please go to mah homepage and look at that shiz on that! Please comment/review!

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