I do not own the Naruto universe, I just like to borrow the characters for my own morbid satisfaction, I hope this is good enough for you all. This story is dedicated to Slipknotgirl14 for the wonderful title she threw at me after my quandary of not being able to think of one! Thank you Slipknotgirl14!

Deliver Us to Evil

Prologue

Bad timing…

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream- Edgar Allan Poe-

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.-Edgar Allan Poe-

June 1,2007 1:30a.m.

The house was silent now, the only sounds came from the bathroom as the girl was soaking in the tub. Softly she laughed, she seemed so sweet and kind, on closer look though you could see it in her eyes, the emptiness and the cruelty. Her life had been a pampered one, where she was well loved by her family, so no one could blame her up bringing for the crimes that she had just committed. No, her parents had indulged her every whim, if she wanted something, all she had to do was ask for it and they would get it for her. Lifting her arm, she lazily ran her hand over it, smearing the blood over the smooth surface.

A hand reached down towards her face to cup her chin and kiss her on the lips, opening her eyes, she looked up at her boyfriend and smiled demurely. He never knew what happened to him as she took the slender knife and quickly slit his throat. His eyes widened and he involuntarily tightened his hand, nearly crushing her throat as his blood spilled out of his neck, showering her in the rich thick liquid. She had cut his throat deep enough to cause him to not be able to speak and all she could hear was the beautiful sound of gurgling from him as he started to panic.

"Poor baby…" she softly murmured as she absently licked the blood that was on her mouth. It tasted good, and the blood mixed in with the other blood that was in the tub, and before he died, she leaned up and covered his throat with her mouth and greedily drank the blood that was still coming out of his neck.

She watched his face as she drank his life into her, and at the moment of his death, she could feel the thrill of it all. As he was about to die, she lifted the knife once more and on his forehead, just like all the others, she carved the symbol that she was using to claim his soul.

That death made a nice two dozen in less than twenty four hours.

June 1,2007 2:10a.m.

Gai woke up to get some water, he had another nightmare that he couldn't quite place. Glancing in the bed next to him he sighed, it was still empty. Putting his slippers on, he padded down to the kitchen and got some ice water. Standing next to the stainless steel fridge, Gai took a long swallow from the icy water. Glancing out the window, he noticed that every light was on in the boarding house next door.

"That's strange…" he mumbled to himself. Here he was, standing in his dark kitchen drinking water at two in the morning and next door every light was on.

Getting closer to the window, he scrutinized all the windows. No movement was noticed.

As he stood there looking at the windows, a image appeared in the second floor, a lone young woman. She was ethereal with her beauty, her hair was damp, and hung down from her to her waist… she looked like a angel. Gai wanted to know why she was painted red though, it looked like she had doused herself in red paint.

The more he gazed at her, the more he realized that she was not a angel, a fear started to take hold of him and he was not sure why.

As if she could see him as well, she looked directly at him. It was just his imagination, no way could she see into his home when his lights were out and she was bathed in light. That thought though was no consolation, and slowly he backed away from the window.

Something was not right, he could feel it in the pit of his stomach. A gnawing fear that she was going to kill him took hold. Shaking his head, he double checked to make sure the house was locked tight. Once he was sure that he was indeed locked safely inside his house, he made his way back upstairs to his room. He was at the top of the stairs when he heard the back door glass break. This couldn't be happening, he tried to calm his racing heart beat as he went into his room, locking the door as he went. Taking a deep breath, he leaned against the door before quietly going towards his bed where his cell phone was.

Present Day…

Naruto tossed the Frisbee to Kankuro, things were more than a little quiet lately, in the past seven months that the three siblings had lived with Naruto and his other friends, only a handful of cases had come in. And those had been run of the mill atypical cases. Nothing more than a little cleansing would take care of them. Naruto didn't know what to expect at first, yet he had thought it would be more exciting than it was.

"Pay attention when I throw the Frisbee at you." Kankuro yelled, a tad bit frustrated at the slow going of the paranormal also.

"Sorry." Naruto mumbled.

Suigetsu laughed as he fell on the grass in front of the large house that was now peaceful thanks in part to Gaara. "I think Naruto is just going stir crazy. He is not used to staying in one place this long with nothing to do."

"Are you getting cabin fever in the spring Naruto?" Sasuke teased as he joined his boyfriend on the grass to watch Naruto toss the Frisbee back and forth with Kankuro.

"Just don't do what the guy in the Shining did." Kankuro laughed also, "Didn't that happen somewhere here in Colorado?"

"It was just a book…" Naruto grumbled good naturedly.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, Stephen King wrote it…" Suigetsu said.

"It was based on fact though." Sasuke said all serious.

"No way!" Suigetsu shuddered and slid closer to Sasuke.

"Stop bull shittin us." Naruto tossed the Frisbee directly at the duck headed guy.

"I am not shitting you." Sasuke said.

His tone was deathly calm, and the look on his face said to trust him.

"You lie!" Naruto said, even though he said it, he was not too sure how true it was what he said. A small part in his brain said that Sasuke was in fact telling the truth.

That was when Sasuke laughed and threw the Frisbee back to the thunderstruck Naruto. "It is so fun to get you Naruto!"

Naruto shrugged his shoulders, he was used to the way Sasuke teased, even Suigetsu was used to it, yet they both still believed him.

Suigetsu playfully smacked Sasuke in the arm and said, "You know about the boy that cried wolf. When the wolf really showed up, no one believed him. And all the animals were slaughtered, is that what you want? For Naruto and I to be slaughtered like lambs?"

"You two are far from lambs." Kankuro laughed. "More like horses…"

"Gaara will protect me." Naruto said confidently.

"From what?" Gaara had just shown up from inside the house.

"From Suigetsu's wolves." Kankuro chuckled.

"You have wolves?" Gaara believed it.

Naruto put his arm around Gaara, "No, unless you count Sasuke."

Sasuke laughed good naturedly and said, "Yeah, however I think I will just devour Suigetsu." with that he picked up the one in question and proceeded to take a squealing Suigetsu back into the house to have some privacy.

Naruto sat down on the grass also and urged Gaara to sit next to him, Kankuro mysteriously vanished as well. Naruto had been contemplating how to let Gaara know just how much he wanted to develop more than just the close friendship that they shared for the past two months. To begin with it was fine, to just be friends, however as time wore on Naruto began to want more, to want to be intimate and affectionate with the red head. To want to drag the red head away like Sasuke often did with Suigetsu and even Shikamaru was starting to do with Temari. Maybe Gaara didn't even feel the same, he just had to find out. And this was his opportunity to do just that.

"Gaara," Naruto began once the red head was sitting next to him, "What do you think of Sasuke and Suigetsu's relationship?"

Gaara looked at the blond and raised his eye questioningly, "What do you mean?"

"Do you think that they should not be together because of them being the same sex?"

Gaara didn't know exactly what to say, he was momentarily confused, "They love each other that's all that counts. Are you wanting them to break up?"

Softly, Naruto nervously laughed, "No, I love that they are happy together. I just wanted to make sure that you didn't mind that they were together." Naruto looked away as he continued, "Some people find it wrong…"

"Love knows no bounds." Gaara said softly, he wanted to lean over and kiss Naruto, something said for him to do it, however Gaara ignored it and just watched as Naruto struggled with what it was he was wanting to say.

Without blinking, Naruto turned toward Gaara, nearly got in his lap, and hurriedly said, "I think I like you that way. So if you hate me now, I don't blame you, I am sorry though."

Each word echoed over and over in Gaara's startled brain until it hit the red head what exactly Naruto had said. The entire process of Gaara's thoughts were relatively short, so Naruto didn't have to wait long for Gaara's reply. Which surprised them both.

Gaara leaned over and softly kissed Naruto. It was a first kiss for Gaara, yet Naruto couldn't tell, as their mouths softly caressed one another's, Naruto slowly brought his arms up and held Gaara against him, successfully capturing the red head in his arms. Unwilling now to let him go, his hormones kicked in and they both slid down to the grass, Gaara fully under Naruto. Their bodies pressed intimately against one another.

Feeling slightly brave, Gaara reached up and pulled Naruto's face even closer, deepening the kiss. When Naruto's tongue traced his lips a shiver went through his body radiating to Naruto. Hesitantly, Gaara parted his lips and allowed the tongue to explore his virgin mouth.

Readjusting himself, Naruto reached down and started to caress Gaara's slender hips, feeling all the while that he must be dreaming, that Gaara would allow him to touch him in these places was like drinking a eight ounce shot of vodka straight, it went to his head and made him dizzy. Naruto was slowly regaining his composure when a voice from behind them interrupted the moment.

"It's about time, you two took forever."

Looking over, Naruto saw Temari, groaning, he slowly pulled away from the red head as she approached.

"We just got a call from a girl in Massachusetts. She claims that her new house is haunted," Temari said, "Its probably something from the Salem Witch Hunt."

"All the way back then?" Naruto was intrigued.

"Yeah." Temari said, "She wouldn't give much detail other than the fact that she is staying at her neighbors place for the time being."

"Where exactly in Massachusetts?" Gaara inquired.

"Worcester, I think that's what she said," Temari helped both Gaara and Naruto stand up, "She is going to call back in twenty minutes to talk to you."

"That's where the Spider Gates are." Gaara mumbled to himself.

"Spider gates?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah, it is suppose to be haunted." Gaara was saying, "I would love to check it out and see if it really is."

"My brother, always looking for trouble." Temari sighed.

"I wanna go too." Naruto grinned.

Gaara smiled and looked over at the blond, "Sure!"

"Count me out." Temari said as they went into the house.

"So we are going to Massachusetts?" Naruto felt the excitement build up within him at the prospect of finally having a possible haunting that involved witch's that had been wrongly accused that were haunting a home.

"It sounds like it." Gaara smiled despite himself.

"So you decided already?" Kankuro asked as they all headed in to the library. Kankuro was sitting at the desk writing on a piece of paper and had looked up as Gaara, Temari and Naruto entered.

"I have always wanted to go to Massachusetts." Gaara said as he sat down in a wing back chair, "And this just gives me the chance to go."

Kankuro laughed at how Gaara was holding his excitement in, "Well, do you mind if I stay here? Naruto or Shikamaru can do what I do and this way I can stay here in case anyone calls needing a ghost buster." he too had picked up on the term ghost buster that Shikamaru still used. His statement though slightly confused Naruto, the blond had assumed that he was wanting a new case as well, goes to show how wrong Naruto could be in his assumptions.

Gaara also looked at Kankuro like he was betrayed. "If that is what you want…"

"Don't give me the guilt trip Gaara, please." Kankuro said, "You know that you can't work good with too many people around, and someone needs to stay here and manage things while you are gone."

"Temari can do that," Gaara said.

"Yeah, I wanted to stay anyway." she agreed, "Shikamaru and I agreed we would be the ones to stay here."

"So it would be you, me and Naruto." Gaara said to Kankuro.

Kankuro looked towards his sister questioningly, "Are you sure?"

"Yeah I am sure," she snorted at his question, "If it was up to you to look after things here, then we would have some major repairs when we got back. No offense Kankuro, you are great at what you do, you are just not a secretary."

This time it was Kankuro that snorted, "You got that right. Well that lady said she would call back soon to talk to you." he handed the cell phone to Gaara. "Give you all the details."

Gaara took it and was about to put it in his jacket when it rang. "Suna Psychic Puppets, how may I help you today?"

"My name is Ino, I just bought a house with my girlfriend and it seems to be haunted."

"Can you give me the details?" Gaara asked politely.

The girl on the other end of the phone sighed, before saying, "We bought the house about a month ago, it was a bargain, within our price range, and Sakura and I planed on having a respite home for the families that had terminal illness so that the ill person could be looked after while it gave the family a break. Sakura is a nurse and I am a Clinical Nurse aide. Well when we moved in everything seemed fine until about two weeks ago, right before we had decided to open for business. Things started to happen, not just minor things, stuff that would wake us up in the night screaming. Sometimes we could smell this really foul odor coming from the bath room, and there are stains on the walls and floor that were not there before. Our new neighbor is the guy that told us the history and he is letting us stay with him along with the guy that had originally owned the place."

"So what did he say happened?"

"Well that is just it, the place used to be a boarding house, one of the tenants went crazy and killed everyone, she nearly killed him too, he barely escaped. Lee, that is the guy that used to own it, well technically it was his mom, he said he had refused to go back to it, wouldn't even step inside, and Gai, he is the neighbor, told us that the crew that he had hired to clean up after the investigation was over had problems, he wouldn't tell us what though." her voice started to waiver as if she was getting scared just thinking about it. "When we looked around, we noticed how some of the stains that began showing up seemed like some ancient symbols that just sent shivers down my body."

"Where were these symbols at in the house?"

"Various rooms." her voice got husky with emotion.

"How long ago did all this happen?"

"Gai told us that it was June of 2007."

"So roughly four years ago, the house had been empty that entire time?"

"Yeah, why the hell do you think we got such a good deal for it?" her voice was now near hysteria, "Sakura said we should stay in Boston, but no I wanted this house…"

Gaara was silent for a moment to allow the girl to calm down somewhat. "I think I should go there and help you out." he finally said.

"Can it be fixed?" she sounded hopeful now.

"Most likely," he hesitatingly said, something told him that this would indeed be a very difficult case to 'fix', however he kept quiet about it, "I will have to see for myself before I can say for sure."

"Great, how many should I reserve for a flight then? We can pick you up in Boston."

Making the arrangements with her, Gaara was almost ready to say that Naruto couldn't go, something told him that Naruto would be better off staying, he didn't say anything though due to the hopeful looks Kankuro and Naruto shared between them. He would just have to protect Naruto himself.

"So when do we leave?" Kankuro was first to ask when Gaara hung the phone up.

"Tomorrow morning at ten, we leave from Denver to Boston." Gaara heaved a sigh and covered his eyes with his hand.

A/N: So here is chapter one of Deliver Us to Evil, please let me know what you think of it, also the fact that I had Naruto and Gaara kiss was the first step in their relationship which will go slow, yet it has now begun, they now know what the other thinks now at least.