Impatience
Video Surveillance From The Women’s Bathroom Of Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha
October 29th, 2007
The camera shows the footage of the sinks but a conversation between a feminine and a masculine voice can be heard.
“Sasuke-kun we’re going to end up going to jail for what we just did!”
“Sakura you’re being too loud. If someone were to walk in here then hear you yelling about what we did then we’re fucked.”
“It was only meant to be some harmless prank one could say wasn't even our fault.”
“What about the other one? The fire?”
“Fine, the fire was definitely our fault but…”
“What?! If anyone finds out we did either then they will find out the other one which means jail.”
“Oh alright just…”
“...”
“...Just we can never tell him. Instead, we can leave clues around so they can never try to get rid of him. If that works they will think of us as crazy for leaving so stupid notes around if they do search our stuff.”
“Hn”
“Sasuke-kun?”
“...”
“I’m horrified. What if someone finds out? He’ll be so devastated and his life may as well be ruined.”
“Sakura I won’t allow that to happen. Both of you will be safe.”
“I love you Sasuke-kun…”
“I do as well.”
December 31st, 2020
An icy breeze swooped in on the cemetery. Light fog surrounded the air. The wind was howling sounding as something or someone was calling out for help.
Shikamaru had gone to Asuma's grave right after speaking to Ino. The detective pulled out the lighter he had received from the man right before he died. Shikamaru reached into his jacket pocket searching for a cigarette.
Sticking the cigarette into his mouth, he was about to light it when he heard a roaring noise come from behind him, "Shikamaru Nara! I swear if you even dare to try and light the cigarette I swear you won't live till the new year." The familiar voice being Temari who had finished laying down the flowers with Shikadai on Shikaku's grave.
The lighter was pushed straight back into his coat pocket and the cigarette was taken out of his mouth and held in between Shikamaru's pointer finger and middle finger. If they had been any other place then the detective would have dropped the smoke and stepped on it. But since Shikamaru would never dare to disrespect Asuma like that he refused.
Looking back on his family, Shikadai was playing on his phone bored obviously not caring for the disrespect he was showing for the dead. Shikamaru sighed, kids these days hardly care for anything but their electronics.
Temari clapped her hands together getting everyone to look at her, "Now let's get going, family! We need to quickly head to my side of the family so we can spend New Years' with them. Shikadai you'll get to see your cousin and Shikamaru for once you'll get a break."
The Nara family all made their way back to the car leaving the cemetery almost untouched. Although it was clear they had visited by the flowers left behind on the two graves. A bouquet of Anemone; meaning sacrifice, was left on Asuma's grave. While on Shikaku's a bouquet of Gladiolus; meaning remembrance and honor.
The Naras' arrived in Suna at 6:00 just in time for the family to have dinner with their relatives. Shikamaru was talking with Gaara, his brother-in-law while Temari was catching up with her brother Kankuro and her father, Rasa. Shikadai was just sitting by Shinki while the two boys watched some television of some stupid show that Shikamaru never learned the name of.
Shikamaru had put on his front that he was interested in whatever Gaara was saying but really he just wanted to get back work. Although he knew that wouldn't happen for over 2 weeks. The detective muttered his catchphrase, "What a drag." Which for once was heard by the person he was speaking to.
"Shikamaru, it had come to my understanding that you have no interest in being here. While I also did not want to have you over since it would mean my father would also have to come, I can't help but wonder what reason you have for not wanting to be here." Gaara spoke his eyes lingering on his father when he spoke of him.
"Aa. You see I've taken a case that was never truly figured out. It was as quickly opened as closed. First, it was just declared as a missing person case until some students were interviewed it was declared a double suicide. The case typically would have still been investigated to see what was happening that led to that but the parents of one of the dead students demanded them to close the case." Shikamaru scanned around the room searching for anything that could record that conversation.
Gaara seemingly noticing this spoke out, "Do not worry. You see when we rented out this fancy restaurant I made sure to check that no bugs or video cameras were around."
Shikamaru nodded for Gaara to continue what he was going to say.
"That case..." Gaara trailed off, "What are the names of the students who died?"
"Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno."
"Uchiha and Haruno. Huh." Gaara closed his eyes searching for an answer. His pale blue-green eyes shot up and stared into Shikamaru's brown eyes, "Uchiha, that family I've met them before. Mikoto and Fugaku Uchiha that is his parents, correct?" The detective nodded, "Yes they would do anything to keep a clear name. They even disowned their eldest son although I do not have a clue of what he had done. Haruno is another name I am familiar with. The girl, she's an orphan."
Shikamaru's forehead furrowed, "How do you know these things. I can't recall all of this information being broadcasted on the news."
Gaara scratched his forehead, moving his red hair that was blocking the kanji that rested on his forehead, "Rich families such as mine, and others like the Uchiha's and Hyūga's all met up together every year and we hear such gossip. Although I know the Haruno name from something else. This was a thing told on the television, the Haruno murders. Mebuki Haruno and Kizashi Haruno were killed in cold blood. Brutal even to me."
Shikamaru picked up his glass of wine a took a small sip, "Interesting I had no clue of a thing. When did these murders occur?"
"Back when I was only six. Seeing as that, the girl must have been six as well. Now Shikamaru I think we should stop discussing these things as I do not want my sister getting angry at me for making you work." The redhead and the raven-haired both turned their heads to see Temari squinting her eyes at the two of them trying to figure out what they were talking about.
The two looked back at each other a found something small talk about. The whole family set off fireworks for New Years' before quickly going back instead as everyone was complaining about the cold even though they were in Suna.
January 15th, 2021
The two weeks quickly flew by. Shikamaru had taken a break and was able to clear his mind for his next case.
Shikadai was sitting in the backseat of Shikamaru's car while he was driving over to the Yamanaka's. The boy would be returning to school the next week and he was receiving the work he missed from Inojin today.
Shikamaru quickly pulled up into the driveway with Shikadai unbuckling and running to the door which was quickly answered by Inojin.
The two boys ran into the blond's bedroom while Shikamaru made his way to the living room where Ino sat behind a glass coffee table that had a kettle with some steaming hot tea and two empty glasses.
"Shikamaru! Great, you're here." The blonde smiled as she reached over to the kettle, "Would you like some tea?" The detective shook his head, and the blonde faltered to pour herself tea.
"Ino. Skipping all pleasantries what can you tell me about Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha and what lead up to their deaths." Shikamaru watched as Ino hesitated to speak.
"We'll let's see. I went to the same schools as them all the way up their deaths. Sasuke he's a real handsome one. I definitely had a crush on him but that is until I met my Sai. From what I remember back in middle school Sasuke got into this fight with a boy named Naruto because he found out that Sakura and he were living together alone. I'm pretty sure Sasuke liked Sakura back then and sometimes I even thought Naruto liked her back but I may be incorrect." Ino blew on her tea before taking a sip.
"Living together alone. I had believed that the two of them lived together with their godparents." Shikamaru scrunched his eyebrows together.
"No. Those god awful godparents of their's left them alone while they went to the states to try and figure something out. Still don't know why, it always seemed dumb to me. Oh! I can totally give you their old home address. No one lives in it but I'm pretty sure someone still owns it so you're gonna need a search warrant." As Ino finished she got up and opened a door that looks led to a closet. The blonde then pulled out a big box that helps all sorts of things like pictures and books.
Searching through the box Ino found a yearbook that said on the cover, 2004 to 2005. She quickly flipped through a few pages until she stopped on the page that everyone in 5th grade that the last names started with an H was on.
Ino handed the book right to Shikamaru and continued talking, "As you can see there is her address. Now back to what you asked, Sakura and I were a little close. I think I may have been the closest girl to her other than her neglectful godmother. Although Sakura and Sasuke's death didn't really seem to be such a shock to our whole school everyone saw how depressed they were after the death of our headmaster. Although even at the beginning of the year Sasuke was even more protective of Sakura but on September 20th that was when everything changed. Mr. Sarutobi was poisoned and that had affected almost everyone."
Shikamaru narrowed his eyes had those two have something to do with the death of Asuma's father. The detective at first felt like this was just a case of no one noticing anything happening with these kids that almost everyone loved but maybe that hadn't been the case. Were Sakura and Sasuke actually monsters who finally rejected their actions enough to kill themselves. Shikamaru didn't know how to feel about them and now his opinion on them just worsened.
"Hey...Shikamaru."
"Yes?"
For once Ino let go of her cheerful facade and glared start toward Shikamaru, "Whatever you're thinking about them stop. Sakura would never hurt a fly plus Sasuke although is rude to people wouldn't do anything of the sort. I get that you've never met them but assuming stuff like that is just wrong and you're a detective you know better than to assume. I think this case is getting too personal for you. It'd be best for you to drop it and let another person take it."
"I was just thinking it was a possibility-"
"Of course it's not!" Ino raised her voice as if she was scolding Inojin was misbehaving, "The police ruled his death as a prank gone wrong. Mr. Sarutobi did have enemies like Danzo Shirmua and his elder friends, even some students hated the dude. Sakura and Sasuke had no reason to hate him maybe they were just paranoid that something could happen to them."
Shikamaru scratched the back of his head, "Yeah... I'm sorry for thinking that way. I guess ever since the death of Asuma and my Dad I've been always looking at things negatively."
Ino pointed at Shikamaru with her right hand, "Don't you forgot my father was also killed during that case. So how 'bout you pop by the flower shop and I'll help brighten up your real dull life. Like seriously get some flowers around your house they'll always cheer you up."
"Yeah, sure." Shikamaru passed it off by waving, "Well I'm going to get going I'll be back to pick up Shikadai." The raven-haired man got up and began to walk away but stopped when he heard Ino's voice.
"Before you go Shikamaru." The detective turned his head to see the blonde with a pained face, "Don't just go with things that piece up together. I know Sakura and in my heart, I believe that she would never do such a thing. You can't just assume things about someone you've never met. Just promise me that..."
Shikamaru turned his head back and walked straight to the door, opening it he said something loud enough Ino could hear it but just barely, "I promise."
Shikamaru easily made his way to the address in the book. The building is a big building that had small apartments inside. Looking at it he wondered if two growing kids could have really lived alone there.
The building looked abandoned. Cobwebs surrounding it and some cracks. It didn't even look like a good place back 15 years. The surrendering places all look unsafe and that you could get yourself easily killed...
Shikamaru pushed the remarks to the back of his brain and began to locate the apartment being their own. The number on the book had said 7 so Shikamaru looked around for an apartment that had a seven on it.
Quickly finding the apartment Shikamaru twisted the doorknob open with his shirt sleeve trying to see if he would have to bust the door down. Thankfully the door was left unlocked, the detective looked around seeing if anyone was passing by before walking into the dust invested room.
The room had the bare minimum with a few books covered in best on a wooden coffee table. Shikamaru doubted that even the cheapest television ever existed in the house. There were only two doors from the room Shikamaru was standing in. One presumably leads to the bathroom and the other leads to the bedroom.
The raven-haired man walked straight into the bedroom as he believes that, The bedroom is where man keep all their secrets.
The bedroom under all the dust had two twin size beds, one having pink covers and the other having an orange cover. The beds were elevated off the ground that a full-grown man could hide beneath although they would struggle.
Shikamaru took the initiative to see if anything was hidden underneath the beds. Looking under the orange bed first there was nothing but a few books from the Icha Icha series that Kakashi loves so much.
Then the pink bed held a few school textbooks and books that looked like diaries. Bending down Shikamaru grabbed the diaries.
The raven-haired man looked at the first book on the pile that read, Diary of Sasuke Uchiha. Shikamaru frowned, there was no reason for someone's diary to be left at someone else's house and for that matter even your girlfriends.
Shikamaru quickly piled the books together and promised himself he would come back to look more but for now, he would look through the books he had collected.
But first Shikamaru would have to leave the shady apartment complex without being caught and then pick up Shikadai.