Naruto: Creatures

Chapter 1 – Just Human.

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It's another typical night for bloody nurse Sakura Haruno. She was busy attaching new limbs to zombies, restitching live rag dolls, and she had a ton of paperwork to fill out for Lady Tsunade. Halloween night is always this hectic for her, but at least her friends came for support.

"When are you going to be done Sakura chan?" Naruto complained. "The Halloween party over at the Hyuga mansion is going to start in ten minutes!"

Maybe 'support' wasn't the right word. Finishing up reattaching a zombie's arm back to his body, the blood covered cherry blossom was able to speak to her three friends before turning her attention back to the patients.

"I told you guys to go without me." She spun around to help a mummy out with applying new bandages. "I'm probably going to be stuck here all night."

"But Sakura chan, this is the party of the year!" The blonde demon explained. "Huh Sai?"

The mime nodded.

"See!" Naruto and his friends followed Sakura into another room where she had to rip off a fractured leg and apply a new one to a skeleton.

"A good reason why you guys need to go to it." She hustled down the hallway and filed a handful of papers before smiling to her friends. "I will be fine here."

"You've been talking about this party all year." The Uchiha vampire finally spoke up. "You're okay missing out on it?"

Sakura frowned. She really wanted to go to Hinata's Halloween bash. But thanks to all the work Tsunade piled on her shoulders, there was no way she could sneak off with her teammates and enjoy herself. Walking over to the group, another crimson coated nurse with her long blonde hair tied back in low ponytails examined Sakura.

"I'm impress that you've done so much in the last half hour."

"Granny Tsunade!" Naruto gave the pixie a stern face. "You can't keep Sakura chan here all night! It's Halloween night!"

Sai nodded and pointed to a calendar hanging above Sakura's work desk to show Tsunade what the date was.

"Halloween already huh?" Tsunade rubbed her head. "Where did the year go?"

"Training nonstop with Kakashi." Naruto sighed. "And now Sakura's here doing all the work while your other nurses are busy partying the night away."

"It's their day off."

"It's the most important holiday for Haunted Konoha. Almost everyone has the day off." Sasuke half lidded his ruby red eyes. "Everyone besides Sakura."

Tsunade watched as Sakura ran from room to room assisting everyone that needed her help.

"You kids have a point. She needs a break." The pixie crossed her arms across her large chest. "Out of all my students, I haven't met anyone so devoted to their job like her. She's close to surpassing me."

"Hey Sakura chan!" Naruto shouted from the little sitting area around her work space. "Granny Tsunade said you could have a break!"

"Really?" Sakura brushed back her hair and smiled. "Thanks Tsunade sama!"

"But I want you here bright and first thing tomorrow! Mummies aren't going to wrap themselves you know!"

"Let's go!" After putting her medical supplies away, Sakura and the rest of her friends headed out of the asylum hospital. It was a beautiful full moon night, a perfect time to relax and have a great Halloween with her teammates. But there were two people missing.

"Have any of you guys seen Kakashi sensei or Yamato?" Sakura asked. "I haven't seen them all day.

Sai shook his head.

"They're probably celebrating Halloween their own way. The adult way." Naruto suggested. "In a few years, we'll be able to experience how adults party on Halloween."

"I've heard enough tales from Tsunade that have scarred me for life." Sakura shook her head. "Like last year, she told me Kakashi hooked up with some random chick..."

"Alright Kakashi sensei!" The demon laughed. "Who knows? Maybe I'll find a cutie at the Hyuga mansion tonight!"

"Only someone completely insane would even consider of hooking up with you." Sasuke rolled his eyes. "You're the biggest idiot in Haunted Konoha."

Sakura giggled. Smiling wide, Sai looked on the horizon and pointed to a large building.

"I'm not an idiot!" The blonde noticed Sai was pointing at something and looked. "We're here!" Naruto cheered.

Looking through the windows, team seven could see groups of ninja creatures dancing throughout the house.

"Looks like everyone we know is here." Sakura could see her fairy ex childhood friend Ino dancing with a zombie.

"Then what are we doing out here for?" Naruto marched up the stairs. "Let's have a Halloween we will never forget!"

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"This will be a Halloween Haunted Konoha will never forget." In the shadows of a cave faraway from any village, a man wearing a black and red cloak spoke up to his comrades. "For this will be the year that we will take over the village!"

"And how do you plan on doing that Pein sama? Arr." A pirate with his blonde hair tied up asked. "We have been trying to take over Haunted Konoha every year now and we haven't succeed once."

"I've came up with a fool proof plan." The leader smirked evilly. "Not even Hidan could mess it up."

"What's that suppose to mean?!" The loud grim reaper shouted. "I've only messed up trying to take over Haunted Konoha once and that was because Kakazu just had to steal candy from a group of villagers!"

The Bogyman shrugged. "I thought they were loaded with cash. They had some pretty expensive costumes on."

"Enough." Pein silenced them. "Sasori and Deidara, I want you two to scout through Haunted Konoha to find what I am looking for."

"Ugh, why am I stuck with Woody? Arr."

Sasori rolled his eyes. "I don't like this any more than you Deidara, but it's the leader's orders."

"I would rather work with the Uchiha vampire showoff." The pirate mumbled under his breath, looking over to see Itachi staring at him. "What are you looking at?"

"Don't fail the mission." The Uchiha answered.

"Easy for you to say. Arr." Deidara scoffed. "You're not going."

Pein rubbed his chin. "On second thought... Itachi."

"Yes?"

"You will go with Sasori and Deidara." The leader said. "Make sure the goofballs focus on the plan and nothing more."

Itachi nodded, leaving Sasori and Deidara furious.

"Is something wrong?" Pein glared at the pirate and puppet with glaring violet eyes.

"No leader..." They sighed.

"Good. Things will be different this year. No one and nothing will stand in our way of taking over the village." Pein turned his attention to a blue haired member that he has known since he was a kid. "Ready Konan?"

She nodded, scattering into a million pieces of paper and leaving the cave.

"Then let's begin Halloween..."

"With a bang! Arr!" Deidara pulled up his mobile cannon.

"..." The whole Akatsuki glared at him.

"You can be stupid at times, you know that?" Sasori face palmed himself. "So what's the great plan leader?"

Pein informed his group, knowing that his plan wasn't going to fail. Not again.

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"Welcome to the Hyuga mansion, come inside."

"Whoa!" Back at the Hyuga mansion, Naruto spun around and studied his surroundings. "This place is even bigger on the inside!"

"It's the largest home in Haunted Konoha." Neji bragged. "Now if you excuse me, I am needed upstairs." He hurried up the stairs.

"Sasuke kun!" Jumping from a room, a blonde haired fairy giggled as she embraced Sasuke. "You're finally here! What took you?"

"Ino pig..." Sakura's pink eyebrow twitched. "Get off of him!"

"I would love to see you try billboard brow!" She hissed back. "The last time I checked, I was the stronger one between the two of us."

"I have changed." Sakura crossed her armors across her chest. "Thanks to Lady Tsunade and Kakashi sensei, I've become a better ninja."

Ino let out a hysterical cry of laughter. "Oh please Sakura! We all know you are the weakest being out of all of the creature groups in Haunted Konoha!"

"That's enough." Sasuke rubbed the fairy off of him. "We came here to party, not to start any drama."

"Too late." Sakura cracked her fingers. "Ino. You and me. Outside. Now."

"Are you challenging me?" She chuckled. "This will only prove how awesome I am compared to you."

Sakura glared into Ino's pupil lacking eyes. "Want to bet?"

"Sakura chan, she's not worth it..." Naruto tried to back his friend out of the fight.

"It is worth it." Sakura stomped outside. Ino soon followed her.

"What's with all the ruckus?" A werewolf and his pet dog came down the stairs.

"It's nothing." Sasuke answered. "Go back to the party."

"Sakura chan and Ino are about to have a nasty cat fight!" Naruto blurred out.

"Sweet! Hey everyone! Sakura and Ino are going to have a duel!"

Sasuke shot Naruto an annoyed look.

"Oops." Naruto didn't realized what he caused until everyone from the party hurried outside to watch.

"Neji..." Walking into her cousin's room. "Do you like it?"

Turning away from his computer, the white eyed vampire could see his shy cousin costume wearing a beautiful blue dress.

"It's nice Hinata." He smiled. "It looks good on you."

"Thanks." She blushed. "Tenten helped me finish the glass slippers that goes perfectly with this dress. Ready to head to the party?"

Hearing a commotion, the Hyugas walked over to the window to see what was wrong.

"Naruto kun..." Hinata noticed he was standing with the others around a large circle. "What's going on Neji?"

"Looks like Sakura and Ino are going to fight." Neji's white eyes examined the situation. "And it appears that everyone is outside."

"We need to stop it." Hinata hurried over to the door. "Are you coming?"

"Yeah..." He nodded, following the other vampire.

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"Ready to lose again billboard?" Ino smirked, pulling out a kunai and fluttering her wings.

"I can do this." Sakura also pulled out a kunai. "Lady Tsunade and Kakashi sensei have been training me nonstop. If I lose to Ino again, then I really am the weakest thing in Haunted Konoha."

"You can do it Sakura chan!" Naruto and a leprechaun cheered from the sidelines.

"Stop it." Sasuke hissed, showing his fangs. "We need to break this up before something bad happens."

"Oh Sasuke, you need to be more youthful!" The leprechaun placed his arm around the Uchiha. "This is nothing more than a little fun."

"No it isn't." Sasuke pushed Rock Lee's arm off of him. "She's going to get hurt if we don't end this now."

"Let's do this." Sakura held out her weapon.

"I will end it with one swift movement!" Ino tossed the kunai at her.

"Sakura chan, watch out!" Naruto and Rock Lee shouted.

Before she could have the chance to counteract, someone jumped in front of Sakura and grabbed Ino's kunai.

"Huh?" Sakura looked at the creature who was blocking her from Ino.

"We're dead." Naruto gulped.

"What's going on here?" The wrapped mummy that had all but his left eye covered asked the others.

"Kakashi sensei..." Sakura whispered.

"We want an answer." Jumping down from the Hyuga mansion, a grand leprechaun looking like an older Rock Lee joined Kakashi in the middle of the ring of students.

"It was nothing but a friendly duel to prove to Sakura that she's still the loser of Haunted Konoha." It was Ino who was the first to reply.

"I'm not a loser!" Sakura growled, reaching out to attack Ino.

"Don't Sakura." Kakashi held out an arm to stop her.

"Of course you are. You are human after all." She scoffed, flipping back her pigtail to make a whipping sound.

"Ino Yamanaka!" Might Guy gasped. "This party is officially over! Everyone head home now before I inform your parents!"

Everyone but team seven and Might Guy left. The grand leprechaun looked over and asked, "Why aren't you two leaving?"

"No parents, so you don't scare us." Naruto shrugged.

"Ino started the fight." Sasuke informed his sensei. "She should be the only one heading home, not everyone else."

"That isn't the only reason why we sent them home." Kakashi put down his arm and looked over at his pink haired student. "How are you holding up?"

"Grand." She mumbled. "Thanks to the loud mouth, everyone was reminded that I'm a human."

"There's nothing wrong with being a human." Naruto stepped forward. "My dad was a pretty kick ass human before the demon spirit in my mom killed them both..."

"You don't understand..." Sakura held back her emotions. "Naruto, you are a demon. And Sasuke kun..."

The human nurse studied the vampire's blank face. "You don't even have to try because you are an Uchiha. Everyone knows you're clan is the strongest vampire family in the nation. Each and every person in Haunted Konoha are from some line of creatures. Everyone but me. And that's why I'm not as powerful as the rest of the students."

Sakura tighten her fists.

"We don't care if you're human or not." Sasuke finally spoke up. "You're fine just the way you are."

"No I'm not Sasuke kun!" She turned away from them and started to cry. "No matter how hard I train or how much I learn from Lady Tsunade, I will never be as strong as a creature. That's the reason why you guys are always protecting me. Because I only get in the way."

She wiped the tears away and ran her hands down her blood stained nurse uniform. "And here I thought I could defeat Ino. How stupid am I?"

"You're not stupid Sakura." Kakashi said.

"I'm sorry to cut in, but look." Might Guy was focused on the sky. "It's snowing!"

"It's never snowed on Halloween here before." Naruto held out his hand and caught some of the falling pieces of white.

Sai held his hand out and noticed the snow wasn't melting.

"This isn't snow. What is it?" Naruto looked over to Kakashi.

Kakashi held out his hands and caught a few pieces too.

"Paper?" Sakura sniffled, drying the tears away with her hands.

"It's started." Kakashi looked over at the leprechaun. "Guy! Go inform the Hokage that they have begun the attack."

"Attack?" Naruto gasped. "Who's attacking us?"

"The Akatsuki." Kakashi activated his vampire eye.

"Who are the Akatsuki?" Sasuke asked.

"There's no time to explain. You guys need to find some shelter. Hurry!"

"Let us help!" The demon said.

"No, these creatures are too powerful." Kakashi shot up. "Follow my orders and go hide immediately!"

The mummy made a hand sign and disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Sasuke, Sai, and Naruto started to run until they realized that Sakura wasn't with them.

"What are you standing around for?" Naruto called out.

"It's okay, my house is a few blocks and an alley away." Sakura shouted back. "You guys head out without me!"

"Kakashi wants us to find shelter close by." Sasuke reminded her.

Sakura started to walk away.

"Sakura!" Naruto screamed. "We need to go after her!"

"No." Sasuke grabbed Naruto's black jacket so that he couldn't follow after Sakura.

"What are you doing moron?!" The demon tried to escape the powerful vampire's grasp. "Sakura is our teammate! We can't let anything happen to her!"

Scanning the area, Sasuke founded a closed grocery store. He kicked the door open and tossed Naruto into the room. Sai walked in after and turned to face Sasuke who was still outside.

"I'm sure you're breaking more than one law!" Naruto stopped his teasing when he saw Sasuke walking away. "Where are you going?"

"I can't enter a building without permission from the owner." He answered while walking away. "Sai, make sure Naruto doesn't try to leave. I'll be back with Sakura."

"Be careful..." Naruto noticed the paper snowfall was getting heavier. "I have a bad feeling about this."

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