A/N: Hey everyone, please note that there will be a TON going on in this fic. So naturally it will be pretty lengthy and hopefully many of you will get to see a character you favor written about. That being said, all criticism is humbly accepted as this is my first time mentioning a lot of these characters. Kiba, Ino, and Haku to name a few. The story itself is a little darker but you can still expect your fluff between Naruto and Hinata as well as some other pairings
So let's take the plunge shall we?
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Hunger gnawed at my sanity as I stared through the bars of what could best be described as a human sized dog kennel. I sat leaned back, my arms barely supporting me as I gazed at the ceiling of a dank, dreary basement. Listening closely to the sound of dripping water that splashed in the corner of my cell.
Drip, drip... drip
It's consistency being the only thing I could focus on to keep my mind from slipping.
"809, 810, 811, 81-"
"Could you at least count to yourself?"
The sound of a faint voice could barely be heard from a cage shortly to the right of me. "You're counting is driving me absolutely mental."
The voice came from one of my best friends since childhood. Sakura Haruno, a fiery girl with a temperamental demeanor.
"Sakura if it makes you feel better I will. But it's the only way I know how long I've been awake." I looked over to see a defeated look on the pinkett's face. Her facial features every so lightly visible in the dimly lit room. I could barely recognize the strong girl I once knew. I imagine her appearance greatly reflected my own. Pink hair was matted and disheveled, a shapely face now thinning with sickness. And an air of acceptance that seemed to stem beyond just the acceptance of captivity, but an acceptance of defeat. I tried not to dwell too much on the later as I went back to quietly counting my water drops.
" 895, 896, 897- "
"Do you think we'll ever get out of here?" This time the voice came from my left. I turned to see an indigo haired girl staring at me with big lavender eyes. Belonging to Hinata Hyuga. Someone I had shared a much more... complicated relationship than with Sakura, for the last 2 years or so.
To be honest, my hope was diminishing by the day, or at least what I was assuming was days passing by. But for this girl, I could at least muster a weak smile.
"Trust me, I'll take you out of here myself." She seemed to take comfort in my words as she returned my gesture with a meek smile.
" 990, 991, 992. Hey, it's almost time." I looked left and right at the girls in their respective cells. Someone had been paying us a visit periodically every thousand or so drops.
A tall slim figure had been checking in on us, clad in a long white lab coat that only seemed to make his long dark hair and snake-like, angular appearance creepier than he already was. Coming and sitting in a desk chair so that he could see all three of us. He's come by to visit at least six or seven times now, at what my brain was assuming the end (or beginning) of the day. Each time saying nothing as he crossed his legs, observing us quietly with a notebook in hand. All the while ignoring the barrage of frantic, angry questions we hurled his way. But this time was different, he came at us with a greater purpose.
He came right on time as I thought he would. Slowly descending a steep, metal staircase to come stand before us. This time when he sat down and pulled two grass green vials from the deep pockets of his lab coat, a faint look of content on his pale face.
"I have your answers children, I'm sure your curious as to why you woke up here six days ago."
'Curious!? This sick bastard.'
"Why the hell are we here creep?" A half assed chuckle was the response I received as he motioned with his free hand to the three green vials.
Normally I'd try to tear through the bars to wipe that smile off his face, but I could feel my body collapsing in on itself from hunger. The added aggression I was putting off was more than exhausting in itself.
"For your salvation, my boy. You see, none of you are very special in anyway. Just in the wrong place at the right time I suppose. You were brought here to become part of my new world. Right now, you are beneath the Sound Village in my personal lab, Eden." He stood up and walked over to my cage until he was directly in front of me.
"And that makes you Naruto Uzumaki, Adam. " A cackling laugh accompanied his statement as he looked around the room.
"So I suppose that makes one of these lovely ladies Eve, eh?" Even more laughing from the deranged man.
"Let me out of here so I can kick your ass!" I reached for his coat collar through the bar and immediately regretted my decision as he stabbed into my arm with one of the vials he had prepared.
" AGhH, Fuck!" I riled in pain on the floor, my world was turning black as I fell to the floor. I could so barely hear Hinata and Sakura screaming my name. I attempted to stand but ended up just being able to roll over to my back. My head being the only thing with any real mobility. I could faintly make out Sakura passing out at the edge of her cage. From fear, or exhaustion, I couldn't be too sure.
"We'll I guess that makes my decision easier, doesn't it?" The mad man proceeded to pull out a shadow black revolver and slapped it open. Loading the last vile into a shell and placing it in the gun. Then walking over to Sakura's cage, opening it with a small silver key.
"Hey, stay away from her!" I could feel the words leaving my mouth, but they sounded like a jumbled mess as I struggled to stay conscious.
I could see him dragging Sakura by her collar, her unconscious body sliding roughly against the gritty laboratory floor. Stopping only when he threw her at the feet of Hinata's cage. The look of shock on her face was enough to make me internally scream out in anger at our captor.
"Well hello Miss Hyuga, my name is Dr. Orochimaru. And if you'd be so nice as to be my Eve, I've brought you something you desperately need to try." He crouched down in front of her, mere inches from where her face hovered at the bar. But before she could back away, he did the unforeseeable.
Orochimaru grabbed her arm through the cage, holding her still in his grip, quickly aiming at her opposite shoulder with his weapon. Shooting her point blank.
'No.'
She fell limp without a scream. I could feel myself shedding tears now as I attempted to raise my hand in her direction. All the while I could see Orochimaru picking up Sakura and shoving her into Hinata's cage, closing it firmly behind him.
"Now take a nap children, the world wasn't made in a day." He then shuffled up the stairs, pulling out the same silver key. Carefully opening the door for himself before he turned to face me one more time.
"But just please remember this, there is no God here. Just me, you, and Eve." Those words were the last I heard before I lost consciousness.
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And till this day I wish I hadn't woken up. Because when I did, I awoke in my own nightmare. I immediately sat up and looked left, still slightly groggy from whatever drug the self-proclaimed doctor had given us.
"1, 2, 3, 4."
And speaking of that evil bastard, I could see him seated comfortably in a chair. Talking to a very distant Hinata.
"What's a matter dear? I brought it just for you."
"How dare you talk to her, leave her alone you bastard!" I shook as hard as I could at the bars, doing anything to tear through to the other side. My eyes red with fury. But my heart damn near skipped a beat when I saw the look on her face.
"33, 34, 35."
She was smiling, teeth bared and dimples visible. She either figured out how to get out of the cage or she's completely fucking lost it. Orochimaru, had yet to even acknowledge me, so I tried mouthing words to her from my cage, waving so she would see me.
"Did you find a way to get out?" But instead of a response, she kept smiling as she turned to stare at me. Staring straight through me. She eventually averted her gaze to a still unresponsive Sakura, eyes optimistic, gleaming with joy.
"Hinata?" A heart felt laugh could be heard from the doctor just outside her cage.
"That's right, go ahead. Eat the apple Eve."
What I saw next changed my life forever.
Hinata's smile began to twist into something inhuman. Canines began to tear down from the edges of her gums, a slow bleed accompanied they're sudden growth. Pale lavender eyes turned stark white, no signs of the girl I once knew in her face. Rounded ears pointed as thick blue veins began to bulge through her skin around the edges of her face. A monster, complete with growing teeth and jagged claws in place of nails.
What had this demon done to us? I watched in silent horror the transformation of beauty into beast.
"What... what have you done to her?!" I finally warranted a response from the man.
"Oh don't worry, you won't be left out Uzumaki. Don't you feel the urge too?"
I didn't have time to process the statement before I witnessed Hinata do something she could never take back.
Ripping clean through Sakura's shirt, she sunk her new sharpened canines mercilessly into Sakura's exposed collar bone. Biting viciously through flesh and bone. Causing a meek mumble of pain from an already dying girl. If my mind was thinking anything, my mouth didn't project its words. I fell to my knees, mouth agape at the act. She was halfway through Sakura's right arm when she turned to look at me, blood covered her face, and the feral look of a predator shaped her stare.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but she tastes so good, and I'm so hungry, I- I can- can't." I heard her words between the pauses of tearing flesh and rushed chewing.
"I can't STOP." Tears began to pool at the edge of her eyes as she shamefully continued her feast. Realization must have finally hit her as tears came streaming down, and there was no doubt there were tears on my own face as well.
Although not for the same reason. But for the horrific epiphany I'd just had.
That perhaps the worst thing happening wasn't that someone was being devoured, or who was committing the act. But the overbearing blood lust that was boiling inside of me, how much I wanted to sink my teeth into Sakura's limp body.
"I don't want to stop her, I want to join her." And the only thing I could do is grit my teeth. Watching as the girl I loved ate my best friend alive.
It resembled all too much the look of a predator feasting on the weak, and I wanted my taste...
'89, 90, 91...'
A/N: Typically, my writing tends to be a little of the darker variety, but that's to be expected with the horror genre and M rating. This fic will probably see its fair share of character deaths as well as a lengthy character roaster, so you've been warned. And I'd like to keep the story as long as necessary, teetering between the current story and a few flash backs for more substance and understanding (plus, who doesn't like background right?). But anyway.
Thoughts? Critiques?How'd Naruto end up in this situation? Let me know.
Peace- Sober T