I kind of like this story actually. I think I might actually be able to finish this multi-chapter fic.

As always, don't like, don't read. And don't flame either, please. Though if you have CONSTRUCTIVE ideas to help me fix it, then that's fine.

otherwise- enjoy. And forgive me for typos.

OH! and I forgot.

DISclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

There was a well. It had been there for as long as anyone could remember. And for as long as anyone could remember, everyone avoided the well. The well was dry, they said, no need to go near it if we aren't going to use it. So the well stayed where it was- untouched. So untouched that when a city was built up from the ruins of the town, the well was left alone, on the top of a hill.

Sasuke would have been perfectly fine pretending that the well didn't exist. But that wasn't a choice. His eight story apartment complex was built next to the well, and if he chose to, he could look out his window and see it. Another reason ignoring it wasn't an option was his brother. When he was a child and young enough to be easily frightened, his brother would tease him about going to the well.

"The well is bottomless," He would say, "And all the ghosts wander around- waiting for a little kid like yourself to wander over so they can snatch him up and take him to hell. Wanna go look? Nah, you're too chicken."

And then he'd dance around the apartment making poultry noises and flapping his arms until their mother told him off. Back in those days, it was benign joking around, and the only effect it would have was Sasuke cowering under his covers, thinking about the bottomless well. But he did begin to get reoccurring dreams about falling into the well- falling and falling and never landing.

Then, when he got older, he would dare his brother back: "If you want me to go to the well, then you'd better come with me. You gotta walk the walk before you talk the talk. Otherwise none of your little gang friends will accept you."

After Sasuke dared Itachi to join him to the well, Itachi stopped joking around. He became more serious, and joined their father in all of his business talks- even joining the family business meetings. Sasuke got the feeling that Itachi was avoiding him. It hurt since Itachi always seemed to be his only friend, but he decided that he was seven already and it was time for him to find friends of his own.

So Sasuke made friends with the other rich kids that lived in his apartment building. He grew especially close to Neji and Hinata Huuga. The three friends took to wandering the city at night- their families were too busy to care. It finally came to the point where they had seen most every part of the city: except the hill where the well was. And on the Full Moon, the three children made a pact never to visit the well.

"We don't want to go to hell." Sasuke said solemnly. They were sitting in Neji's room, sitting around a ceremonial candle. The blinds were drawn, but it wasn't quite enough to drown out the silver light of the moon. "That's what's at the bottom of the bottomless well. 'Tachi told me."

"Isn't the point of a bottomless well that it doesn't have a bottom?" Hinata asked shyly. Neji shrugged.

"If it can be bottomless, it can also hold hell. We are talking about illogical things. Even illogical things can be illogical within themselves." This was so brilliantly complicated that it made sense in the seven year olds' minds.

"We're in agreement." Sasuke said. They spat and snapped on it.

"If anyone disobeys the pact, may something dreadful happen to them." Hinata said. Neji and Sasuke looked shocked at Hinata's violence, but nodded.

"Something dreadful." They repeated. And Sasuke leaned down and blew out the candle.

The curse was cast. The dice were thrown. The three friends were on a dreadful path, and none of them knew it. Yet.

The next year- on the New Year, actually, there was a huge celebration. The whole city was in uproar, and Hinata was frightened. When she was three, she would always hide under her bed until the festival was over. She was extremely shy, and was only comfortable being herself around two people- Neji and Sasuke. But now that she was seven, she was expected to represent the family. Everyone crowded around her, and told her that she looked beautiful, and tried to hug her. Finally Hinata had enough.

Since she was so small, it was easy for her to slip through the crowd of people's legs to the door of the apartment. She saw Neji and Sasuke standing together, talking with important business people about important business things. Neither of them would be able to slip away from the party. She would have to go alone. Which was fine- seeing as she was a singleton by nature.

There was only one place she could go and be completely alone.

The well.

She had forgotten about the pact they had made. All three of the children had. Forgive them- they were only seven. Forgive them because Fate would not.

The New Year's Full Moon shone down on the pale pave stones as Hinata fled toward the hill. She darted through the colorful kimonos and fans, focused on the crumbling well. She finally reached it. She placed her hands on the side of the well, gasping to catch her breath. She was so, so tired. She wished she could just disappear. The wind whistled through the trees. But there were not trees in the city anymore. Hinata glanced around her. She was in a forest. Snow coated the pine leaves and fell from the sky, silencing everything. She gazed around happily. If this was a dream, it was a good one. Hinata had always loved the hush of snow.

But she could tell there was danger here. And now she wanted to go home. She pulled her hands from the well, and a growling could be heard around her. She whimpered, wrapping her arms around her, feeling cold and very lonely. Suddenly gold flecks appeared all around her.

Wolves.

Hinata screamed.

It was New Years. It was the Full Moon- and doubled upon that it was a New Years Blue Moon. These cards were the only ones playing for Hinata this night. Had it been any other time, and Hinata would have been eaten by the wolves. But the New Year and the Blue Moon were enough to protect her from what Fate had planned. Instead of being eaten, Hinata stepped backward and fell into the bottomless well.

Was this a better fate? You decide.

In hell, one of three devil fingers went down.

Like any curse, it could be undone

This tale has only just begun.

Two more mistakes- heaven forbid

Is there a hero that can make this undid?

Eyes that roll around and around

And a scream that makes not a sound

Can blue pull you out of the well

Or is your place fated down, down in hell?