CHAPTER 24: INVESTIGATION
'If I remember correctly Steve said he was studying in the college of business', I thought to myself. I pack up and clean my stuff from the laboratory. I went straight to the college of business trying to find Steve the drug dealer. Seriously even in a place as prestigious as Harvard, you will still sometimes get bad apples. Not complaining though, this drug has piqued my interest.
"Excuse me, do you know a guy named Steve he went to the party in River house yesterday," I asked a random stranger. Seriously this university is too huge for me to check everywhere just to find one guy.
"No man, sorry," the guy said as he walks pass me.
'Damn it, Steve, where the hell are you?', I thought.
I kept asking random strangers if they know a guy named Steve. I had been searching for a while when a random guy approaches me.
"Hey man, you looking for Steve?" a caucasian student wearing a hoodie said.
"Yeah, you know where he is?" I asked.
"Yeah, for 50 dollars I'll lead you where he is," he said.
"Seriously man, aren't you an opportunistic fellow. Is everyone in the college of business the same as you?" I jest at him.
"Look, man, you want to go to him or not?", he said with an annoyed expression.
"Fine, but I'm only giving you the money after you take me to him," I said.
He leads the way and he took me to one of the freshman houses, House Mather if I'm not wrong. He took me straight to Steve's bedroom and he knocks multiple times on the door.
"Steve someone is here to see you", he said. We both waited for Steve to come out of his room. It was clear that Steve was sleeping.
"Come on man, seriously I was sleeping couldn't you wait like 2 hours for this", he said as he rubs his eyes.
"Pay up", the guy said. I gave him his 50 bucks and he gave it to Steve.
"Here 50 dollars give me a gram", the guy said.
"Okay, okay, geez people these days can't wait anymore", Steve said as he returned to his room and took a small pouch of Vertigo and gave it to the guy accompanying me.
"You're a lucky bastard this is my last stock. Enjoy and please do come back. I welcome your daily patronage", he said. He took the vertigo pouch and left.
"Aren't you the guy who bought from me at the party in River House? Sorry bro, if you want vertigo you need to wait tomorrow. That guy just bought my last stock. I need to restock from my guy tonight", he said to me.
"Oh..okay, tomorrow then", I said faking a sad expression. He closed his door and I went out of his dorm house.
'Looks like I'm going to tail him tonight", I said to myself.
LATER THAT NIGHT:
I was just chilling on a large tree outside of Mather House. It was already 11 pm.
'Seriously I had been here since 7 pm and this guy just woke up an hour ago", I thought as I look at the window where Steve's bedroom is.
I had wrapped some bandages below my elbow up to my wrist. Not much, just enough for me to write some seals. One of these seals is a storage seal where I place some snacks. Watching someone for a few hours is tiring. I took some chips and a can of coke while waiting for Steve to leave.
'I wonder if ninjas in naruto world do this?', I thought while eating my snacks.
Steve finally left his room at 11:32 pm and went straight to his car. He went to the nearest McDonalds and ate something. Lucky for me there were some large trees and some houses along the way. I didn't want people to see me running at something like 50 miles/hour.
At 12 midnight someone places something at Steve's table. Steve took an envelope which I presume to have cash in it and gave it to the guy. He left after the exchange. I made a hand sign to make a shadow clone. That shadow clone will follow Steve for the rest of the night while I follow the guy who took the envelope.
After following Steve's friend, I realized we arrived in an abandoned warehouse. There was a small window in the roof of the warehouse. I decided to enter the warehouse there. Inside I could see the guy I was following talking to a guy wearing gloves, an apron, and goggles.
"Did you get the money?" asked the guy with googles.
"Yeah, with these I believe you can make a good amount of vertigo", the second guy said.
The goggles wearing guy took the cash and counted it, he had a satisfied expression marking his face.
"This is more than enough for me to make at least 25 pounds of vertigo," the other guy said.
"I already bought some of the members of the Cicada gang. They have already seen that Vertigo is more profitable than heroin or cocaine. They want to be part of our growing business. Right now their fighting about what product to sell. I bought off some of the guys in the gang to promote our drug instead of heroin and cocaine," the first guy said.
The guy wearing an apron return back in making vertigo while the guy I was following took a smoke.
The cicada gang is a local gang that has been extremely active in Massachusetts as of late. The police said that they were a fractured group that broke out of the American Mafia.
'Well, they did say if you want to dream, dream big. Making drugs for a gang could be classified as dreaming big, I guess,', I thought.
Suddenly there is a rat crawling in the warehouse. The guy I was following had an angry expression on his face with a quick flick of his hand he shot the rat with something. The rat was punctured with something causing it to die on the spot.
'Is that a bone?' I thought as I look at the thing that killed the rat.
"Do you think Jiaying is still looking for us brother?", ask the guy who was having a smoke.
"...There is a huge chance that she is...With Gordon by her side, she'll find us eventually", the guy cooking the drugs replied.
"....." The guy wearing goggles wanted to say something but decided not to speak.
Seeing this the guy who took a smoke just sighed.
'These guys are Inhumans?...F*ck, is this a divergence from canon???' I thought with worry.