I've wished to write a cop story for such a long time, and I finally have the inspiration to write it. Hopefully, it will be successful.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, only the plot :D

A Deadly Couple

Chapter 1- A double suicide?

"Don't take my mommy away from me!" a little girl cried as she grabbed the detective's shirt with both her little hands and hold tightly onto it. The detective sat on her knees, so she would be at the same level as the child. The girl let go of her shirt and took both her hands to her face. She cried harder and harder, big fat tears streaming down her beautiful olive cheeks. The detective took the little girl's hands from her face and cupped the girl's face with her own, wiping the hot tears away with her thumbs.

"Don't cry, sweetie." she said as she looked in the girl's big chocolate brown eyes. "Everything will be OK, I promise."

The said girl was approximately 8 years old and her name was Maria. She had long blonde hair and the same Italian accent just like her mother, Louisa.

Near Maria and the detective, there was a police car that had the sirens on. On the car's door was written TPD or Tokyo Police Department. Maria's mother just got in the police's car, tight handcuffs around her wrists. She was accused of first degree murder for murdering her husband and was going to spend the rest of her life in prison.

As the car drove off, Maria started crying louder and louder for her mother. The detective tried calming her down, but failed. The girl wouldn't stop crying.

"Calm down, Maria, please…" the detective begged her as he hugged the little girl in an attempt to comfort the child. "Crying does no good to you, you know that. Now be a good girl and stop crying. I know that you will miss your mother and father, but there is nothing we can do."

"I will calm down, only if you bring my mommy back." she said between sobs.

"Mommy isn't coming back, Maria…"

As the detective's words left her mouth, the little girl started crying again, this time even harder and louder than before. The detective got up and went to her colleague.

"I hate these cases when children are involved…it's just heartbreaking."

"I hate them too Sakura-chan, but there is nothing we can do about them." her blonde colleague replied as he lighten up a cigarette. "Only they can by stopping violence in their families or stop involving them in different illegal stuff." he sighed. "But that's never going to happen." After he spoke, there was a pregnant silence. They could hear the little girl sobbing behind them, repeating over and over again the word 'mommy'. Sakura closed her eyes.

"Poor girl…" she whispered. "She lost both parents tonight."

"So, what are we going to do with her? Take her to an adoption center?"

"That's out of discussion." She opened her jade pools. "I will take care of her." the woman said, determined. The blonde looked back at her with wide cerulean. He was totally taken aback by what his teammate had just said.

"What? Why?"

"I feel like it is my duty, Naruto. I was the one who took her remaining parent away. And besides, Maria reminds me of how I was when I was a little girl." the woman answered, staring at the pavement.

"Lonely?"

"Yeah…" she replied, a sad smile present on her lips as she turned around to look at Maria. She looked at her wrist watch. 10 Pm. It was getting late. Sakura went to the little girl, took her in her arms and went to her car.

"Where are we going?" Maria asked with big red eyes while she put her arms around the detective's neck.

"We're going home, Maria. We're going home."

Sakura took her keys from her pocket and unlocked the door to her apartment. She grabbed the doorknob and swang it open. Before Maria, who was standing behind her, could enter, she went to turn up the lights. After doing so, Sakura took the blonde girl's hand and invited her in. The girl looked at her, scared. The woman smiled kindly. "It's Ok. You're in your new home now. There's no need to be scared. I know it's kind of big and scary right now, but in the morning you'll see that it isn't that bad."

Suddenly, the girl heard a loud sound coming from the kitchen. She hid behind Sakura's legs. Sakura started laughing. She took Maria in her arms and went in the kitchen to see what made that noise. The pinkette turned the light on. There, sitting on a chair, was a small black kitten. As soon as the kitten saw her owner, she started crying.

"Meow." the kitten continuously repeated as she shook the peak of her fluffy tale.

Sakura put Maria down so she could play with the adorable little cat. Maria approached the kitten and started patting her on her small fluffy head. The cat started purring.

"What's her name?" Maria asked as she turned around to face the detective.

"Ayame" She smiled as she told her. "She's cute, isn't she?"

"Yes." the blonde girl replied. All of the sudden, Maria let her head down and started crying. "I miss my mommy!"

"Now, now." the pink haired said as she took the girl in her loving arms. "I promised it is going to be Ok and I will keep my word. You should get over the fact that your mother is no longer with you." She looked into the girl's big chocolate eyes. The girl was at the verge of crying again. "No, no. I'm not saying that you should forget you mother. She was the one who gave you life. I'm just saying that-"But Sakura was interrupted by her ringing cell phone.

She put Maria down and took her phone from her pocket. She looked at the caller's id. Naruto. She immediately answered.

"Naruto..." she sighed. "What now? You forgot something in my car?"

"Sakura-chan. We have another case. A potential suicide this time."

"You're kidding, right?" the woman asked her colleague as she ran her hand through her short bubble gum hair. "I just arrived home. Plus, what are you doing there? We work in the homicide department, remember?"

"Yeah, Sakura-chan, but you know how these cases turn up, right?"

"Yeah, yeah, some turn up to be murders." She sighed. "Can I come tomorrow?"

"You know very well that you can't come tomorrow." He sighed. "Please come now. It happened at Sumida River near Tokyo Bay."

Sakura took a big breath of air before she answered. "Ok. I'll be there in 15 minutes." She ended the converstaion and looked at the little girl.

"You have to go?" Maria asked as she looked down at her feet.

"Yes." The pinkette smiled sadly. "But not until you go to bed."

Sakura parked her black Mercedes close to where the other police cars were. She looked at the clock in the car. 11:23 Pm. God, she hated working so late at night. She opened the car's door, got out and went near her teammate.

"So, what did you found out so far?" the detective asked as she took her notebook and a pen, waiting for Naruto to tell her.

"Well, there were three teenagers passing by this part of the river and they saw something in the water. First, they thought that maybe it was a plastic bag. But when they got closer they noticed the fact that there was a body flowing on the surface of the water. They immediately called 911."

"Are the teenagers still here?" the pinkette asked. "I would like to ask them some questions."

Her colleague shook his head. "No. I've let them go home. They were all really shocked of the discovery. I told them to meet me at the police station tomorrow morning to give me a statement."

"Alright then. Anything else? Witnesses?"

"No. We went to some houses that are nearby to talk with the owners to see if they've seen something."

"And?"

"Nobody saw anything…"

After hearing that, she narrowed her superb apple-green eyes. "Where's the body?" she asked while gazing at the river.

The blonde man shoved his hands in his pockets. "Well, after we had taken some pictures we send it to the morgue."

"Have any of you looked in his pockets?" the bubbled gum haired woman asked while eyeing her comrade questioningly.

"No." he simply and quickly replied. "We haven't."

Sakura turned around and headed towards her car.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Naruto shouted and started running after her.

"To the morgue." She stopped and turned around to face him. "Someone must assist the medical examiner while she's performing the autopsy."

It was 5 in the morning. There was no trace of the sun on the baby blue sky, even though it was the middle of July. In a flat in Downtown Tokyo, in the district of Koto, a man was sleeping peacefully under his fluffy covers. He had his raven hair messed up on the white pillow his head was resting on. He was turning from one side to another, trying to find a more comfortable position when his pager started vibrating on the nightstand. The man opened his mysterious dark eyes and took the pager in his hand. He started reading the message.

'Hey Uchiha, we've got a case and I think the serial killer you're desperately searching for is involved.'

The man wasted no time and immediately got up from bed, took a really quick shower, put some clothes on, took his 7,65 caliber revolver from his nightstand and rushed out of his apartment.

"Morning!" the pinkette yelled as she burst in Naruto's office. The blonde smiled, got up from his seat and went to hug the detective. Sakura responded to the hug, wearing a big warm smile on her face.

"Why so happy, Sakura-chan?" her colleague asked her.

"Well, apart from discovering who the person in the river was, I found something in the pocket of his shorts." She broke the hug and searched in her bag for a small piece of paper. She gave it to Naruto. "Read it."

"'Dear mom and dad, I'm sorry for what I am going to do, but neither I nor my girlfriend could stand it anymore. Yesterday I found out I got cancer, and not just that, but I also found out that it was in its final stage. The doctor said I will live for approximately 2 months. We were so sad about it that we've decided to end our lives so we can be together forever. I know you probably are sad, but you don't have to be. Love, Nagashi.' A goodbye letter?" the blonde turned to look at Sakura.

She nodded. "And now we know the motive for committing suicide, but there still are some questions unanswered." She closed her jade eyes and took a big breath of air. "Where is the girlfriend's body? If they indeed committed suicide because he had cancer, why last night, when I was assisting Shizune at the autopsy, she found no tumor no where?"

So this is the end of the first chapter. I really hope you enjoyed reading it because I sure did enjoyed writing it xD I'm not sure when I'll update next, but I will try my best to finish writing it next week.

Please review and tell me your opinion about this chapter because I really want to know if you like it so far!

~Sakura2cute4u~