Welcome to Dreamcatcher Nights!
Some scenes are gathered from the original story. Please enjoy! ^^
Disclaimer: I own Naruto not.
Warnings: Gore factor. Colorful (bad) words. Things in between. Homo hints.
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Summary: Totally revised. Taken away from humans and locked in a place comparable to a purgatory, Naruto must work his way around all the souls within the center. Will he make it out alive? SasuNaru ^^
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Red.
All I see is red. Starting from the red liquid that drips from my forehead to the figures embracing everything in the center.
Hot.
I feel extreme pain whenever those figures of red spiky smoke kiss my body. And it feels like…
Burning.
I look around… seeing nothing but the white smoke filling up the room. My lungs start to stop from breathing in the poisonous air and weakness starts to creep within me. I fall hardly to the supposed-to-be cold floor and pant for the next minutes of survival… which is impossible to happen.
Death.
It seems to creep and rob me of my hopes of living. Am I…
Dying…
Dreamcatcher Nights
Rei Haruno
Night 1: White Room
'I never thought in this room of serenity… lie shadows of unthinkable past.'
Walking across the alley called the Terror Street, a teenage blond with a whiskered face stops in front of the poorly operating hospital. He gazes at the empty reception and whispers, "Poor place… ghost stories can surely destroy a place's business, huh." He then continues to walk… and passes by another alley leading to the backside of the hospital. He feels a different presence coming from the alley and so he looks to its direction. A long horizon stretches to the darkness of the place… but a faint image of a girl standing far away grabs his attention. He squints his azure buds to make the image clearer but it fades into the shadows.
"Fuck." He whispers and walks faster away and eventually runs home. The very creepy feeling envelopes the blond as he runs home… with the image of the girl in his head. He stops, pants and looks back… as a soft voice seems to speak. No one is there… he is all alone. He gulps and continues to run…
"Hic." A drunk drives his car across the streets as he happily sings off-tune. He is closing his eyes in sleepiness, exhaustion and dizziness. The hang-over starts to get to his head and he tries to shake it off by singing. But it is ineffective indeed. He begins to snore while the car is speeding along the way.
The blond crosses the street.
The car won't stop.
The blond notices the headlights… and look.
Too late to run.
Just too late.
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Clash.
The frame on the side drawer falls off with no one moving the surface. A redhead lady comes near it and picks up the broken frame, "What's taking Naruto so long?" She gazes at the clock.
Tick. 1:01
It is already past 1 in the morning and her son is still not home. She whimpers a bit and goes upstairs and to the master bedroom. There works a man in the laptop at the desk. Files tower at his sides and he asks the woman without looking, "Naruto's not home yet? I've called every classmate of his I know… but they say he's not with them. Now, where did he go? Didn't he tell you about any sleepovers?"
"Nothing." She sits at the bed and clutches her hands in fright. Their only son is not yet home and she is worried about him. Very worried. Then the man stops working at the laptop and looks soulfully at his wife. He whispers, "Kushina."
Then the man's phone rings and he answers it, "Yes?"
"Uh, sir. I think you should come here quick. At the UM MedCenter…"
"Huh? Why?"
"Naruto got hit by a car. And now, he's in critical condition."
Freeze.
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"Naruto!" His parents go in the room where Naruto rests… and they see Naruto lying unconscious at the bed. He is heavily bandaged and his heart beat is pretty low. Kushina cries as she covers her face with her hands, "Minato! What exactly happened to him?"
"I don't know. Tsume just called and… told me about it." The man answers and the doctor comes to meet the teen's parents. He explains a series of possible complications and the possibility of comatose… and death. The parents go emotional and Kushina walks to Naruto to run her hands at the boy's bandaged head, "Naruto, don't leave us please. It's too early for you to leave. Naruto, I beg of you…"
His parents decide to stay in for the night at Naruto's room. Both of them are sleeping by his side at the chairs allotted for them. A sudden tick of the clock seems to wake Naruto and so he opens his eyes. He looks around as he rises to sit at the bed. He sees his parents and he feels very sad… for making them worry.
"Naruto."
He looks around and seems to look for the caller. A soft voice whispers to him yet again and so he tries to get off the bed… despite the bandages and casts embracing his body. Tug. Tug. Tug. He tries to walk out the room without waking his parents and looks around the place. It is indeed a hospital… but a certain feeling makes the whole place creepy for the blond.
He walks again. Tug. Tug. Tug. Then another blurry image of the same girl in a dress appears before him. It is too far to decipher her face and so Naruto tires to get near… but the distance seems to remain and so Naruto asks, "Who are you? Do you want something form me?"
"Naruto." The soft voice speaks yet again and Naruto looks behind him… to see another image of the same girl. The earlier image before him vanishes and so he faces the image nearer to him. The girl has long dark hair and has a good figure. Her face is covered by her bangs. Her lips are not moving and yet a voice comes from her, "Naruto."
"Yes?" Naruto answers and the figure vanishes. He frowns and decides to walk some more distance. Tug. Tug. Tug. His legs are aching and it seems to bleed under the cast. He walks some more to find a seat. He starts to drag his legs… and at one time he falls over in pain and bleeding. He slams hardly at the corridors and he groans at the impact. He then feels a presence beside him. He looks at his right and an open door welcomes him in. He crawls in and sees a teenager sitting at the elevated bed. He is looking outside the open window… staring at the dark sky. Seems to be counting the stars, his lips are mumbling words the blond can't make out. The blond tries to sit and asks, "Uhm, excuse me?"
The guy pulls his covers overhead and wriggling actions become evident from the shape of the blanket. The middle part seems to rise and a hand comes out. A voice asks, "What do you want?"
"Uhm, well. Can you help me up? You see, I'm a… I can't really walk… for now." Naruto smiles and the hand recalls inside… as a sign of refusal. Naruto pouts and remains seated at the floor, "Then I'll stay here until morning."
"Fine." The figure wiggles yet again and Naruto watches it settle in a position. Then he seems to smell something… unpleasant. He looks around and tries to know what causes the strong odor. He asks the guy, "What's that smell?"
"…" No answer comes from the guy and Naruto shrugs his shoulders. Then a certain sound of splash comes to Naruto's ears and he flings to the bed. Blood is flowing from under the blanket and it is creeping towards his legs. The figure under the covers moves vigorously as the blood seems to flow endlessly. The blond, struck by fear and paralysis, can only tremble in fear. The blood starts flooding the floor and staining his bandages and his clothes. Snapping out of it, Naruto tries to pull himself out the room but the door slams shut and he screams in fright and surprise. A bloody hand stretches from under the blanket and the guy speaks, "Don't… leave."
"Let me go!" Naruto yells and a certain tick of the clock seems to make the things freeze aside from the blond. His sight becomes dark and he feels like his eyes have been forced to shut. He then tries to open them… and succeeds. He sees bright light and so he groan for getting blinded by the lights. Then a familiar voice calls to him, "Naruto! Dear, are you okay!"
"Mom?" He whispers and Kushina comes to embrace him. He tries to move… but unlike before he is miraculously brought back to his own room, he can't even move a finger. He even has difficulties in speaking. Minato comes to him as well and asks, "Are you alright? Does something hurt?" He talks to Kushina, "I'll call the doctor to check him, okay? Everything's fine now. Naruto will be alright." The mother nods and the father goes to find the doctor. Naruto tries to move a leg… but great pain stops him from doing so. He cries and Kushina tells him, "Naruto? Please don't try to move. Your body is still heavily bruised from the accident. Oh my God, Naruto. Why to you?"
"Mom. Did you take me back here?"
"Huh? You were there the whole time. Why Naruto?" Kushina twitches and asks with great worry. Naruto looks away and rewinds the scenes a while in his head.
It is real.
The pain is real.
He did walk outside the room but…
Wait, there is a witness! The guy with the bloody room. He asks his mother, "Mom. I walked outside this room a while ago before I feel like getting unconscious. I even talked to a guy at the other room. Can't I even have a wheelchair to look around?"
"I'll get you one." Kushina responds still pondering on what Naruto has said. She looks at the door, left open by Minato… and then the father comes with the doctor. They have a talk about Naruto's condition and the approval of Naruto's wheelchair.
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Kushina pushes Naruto's wheelchair and the two is looking around the almost empty hospital. Naruto yells, "This one! Here! Here! I went inside this room!" Kushina shushes him gently, "Naruto, not so loud." She touches the knob and a nurse from behind them says, "There's a wild patient beyond that door. Visitors are prohibited to enter." Naruto twitches and asks, "Wild?"
Kushina pulls back from the door and walks the wheelchair towards the nurse. The nurse answers, "He have been hurting himself and bleeds every now and then. He doesn't accept food and he hurts visitors. If I were you, I wouldn't go in there. Are you acquainted to the patient?"
"A while ago, I entered that room. He didn't hurt me, though." Naruto says and the nurse wonders, "That can't be. That door has been locked… for years now. You can't be able to get in there… and…" The nurse whispers to the two, "We have been hearing the same things from the other patients before. That they are walking in that room and finds blood flooding the room. But then after some more days… those patients die from unexplained bleeding while lying at the beds. So don't joke like that, young man."
"Oh God." Kushina says and Naruto looks at the sealed door. And then he asks the nurse again, "Are there someone that made the same complain that is… not yet dead?" The nurse shakes her head and Kushina pulls the chair away and says, "Then we'll be at his room." She rushes and starts to sermon Naruto about talking about nonsense. Naruto tries to defend for himself but the image of the girl in a dress appears at a hallway that they just passed by. Naruto yells, "Mom! STOP!"
"Uh—!" Kushina wonders as she gets shocked and Naruto tries to move the wheelchair with his hands… dealing with great pain. He goes to the hallway where he has seen the girl. She is gone and Naruto frowns at the view. Kushina then grabs the handle of the chair, "Are you seeing things Naruto?"
"Mom, where are we?" Naruto asks the question he should have asked earlier. Kushina answers, "UM MedCenter, Naruto. The by-standers saw the accident and they rushed you to the nearest hospital even they knew of the horrible ghost stories that paints this hospital."
"That means…" Naruto says in a very serious voice, "I may be really seeing ghosts."
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Naruto is sitting at his bed which has the upper half elevated… waiting for nothing. His mother and father are on their works for now and are struggling to get a leave so they can take care of Naruto at the hospital. The blond, however, can't go to school since he is somehow paralyzed… completely. He is shoving his head at the fluffy pillows behind him and is staring at the morning sky. 'Damn, I wish they will be visiting me. However, I am not expecting them to know that I am confined in a hospital… particularly UM MedCenter.'
The lights start to flicker which breaks his flow of thoughts. He looks up and the room starts to get dimmer. The lace tying the curtain open loosens and the window gets covered by the drapes. He looks at the mirror and the reflection is something very scary. The room is covered with blood and there is— Naruto looks at the door and it is opening slowly. The same girl that dawn comes in and she starts to chant for his name again. He frowns and asks, "What do you want from me?"
"Nothing really, Naruto."
For the first time she responded and it surprised Naruto. He unintentionally blurts out as he shoots his finger to point at her, "Then what are you doing here!" Getting surprised that he can move again, he gets dazed while staring at his hands as he recalls the arm that shot out.
The girl walks to him and says as she reaches out, "Come… with me."
"No way. You might take me away from my parents!" 'And I don't know how much Sakura could be worried!' Naruto gives a blunt refusal and the girl recalls her hand that reaches out to him. She then faces the door and says, "You can't be leaving this place now. I hope you can understand that, Naruto." She vanishes…
Flash.
Naruto opens his eyes after a sudden time stop. The room is back to normal and he can't possibly move around again. He sighs and then looks at the clock at his drawer.
4:59…
Huh?
Naruto gets trapped in daze as he realizes that so much time has passed. The last time he checked it was just 9 in the morning. He blinks… and blinks… then a certain sound of an opening door takes his attention. Students come in and Naruto gets surprised by their arrival. Those are his classmates and among them is a cute pink-haired girl… with the name of Sakura. She walks to Naruto and says, "Hello, Uzumaki. I brought you some apples, do you want to eat?"
Naruto nods a bit… and seems to forget the pain of moving seeing the girl of his dreams. A guy looks around and whistles, "It doesn't seem to be a place of ghost stories, though." Another girl gets angry at the guy, "Oi, Inuzuka. The spirits might hear you… and what's worst? Eat you!"
Sakura twitches and looks at the two other, "Can't you keep it down? Someone is supposed to be resting here." Naruto blushes and gulps… but a sudden temperature drop changes his mood. Sakura sits at the allotted chair and wonders why there are two of them. The other girl sits at the other chair and the guy at the bed beside Naruto. The guy asks, "Oi, Naruto. Tell me, are you seeing ghosts around here? You know, like how the rumors go?"
"…" Naruto stays silent and Sakura says, "Inuzuka, are you trying to scare him? Ino, can you look for a nurse. The room is getting colder, don't you think?" Ino, the other girl looks around and shivers, "Uh yeah. Oi, Inuzuka. You do it."
"Why me, Yamanaka? Aren't you the one Haruno asked to do so?" The guy pouts and the blonde girl huffs. She stands up and is about to go outside… when she stops walking. Her eyes seem to widen and she slams the door close. She starts to look utterly scared and Sakura asks, "What's wrong, Ino?"
"You saw something?" The guy teases and Naruto just looks at her. She rushes to the vacant chair and snuggles Sakura's arm in fear. She begins to babble, "Uhm, I think… we should get away from here!" Sakura wonders and says, "Huh? Did you see something, Ino?"
"Uh… a… a girl… in white and she has this… long hair… covering her face and—" Ino says and the guy doesn't believe her, "Stop talking nonsense, Yamanaka. Okay, I'll take a look." He stands up and walks to the door. Ino gets very scared and Sakura gulps in tension. Naruto watches the guy open the door and say, "Nuh-uh. No one's here. Come on, Yamanaka Ino. Stop making stories."
"But—" Ino snaps and tries to defend herself. Sakura clams her down, "You must be tired and you're seeing things. You're creeping Uzumaki out." She smiles at Naruto, "Ghosts are just children stories, Uzumaki. Don't let it get to you."
"I know." The blond murmurs and the guy asks, "Oi, Naruto. Aren't you scared when you're alone? I mean, we met patients a while ago that were begging to be transferred. They were saying a girl with red hair is rising from walls and she's scaring all of them. How about you? Someone visiting you?"
"Inuzuka Kiba." Sakura snaps and gets angry at the guy, "Stop scaring Uzumaki!" Kiba laughs at the pinky's reaction and the blonde girl hisses at him as well, "No stories, huh?" Naruto twitches as their bickering seems to lose voice and every background sound is maximizing. He hears running water… dripping liquid. He gazes at the mirror far away and the room starts to get filled with blood again. He gulps and it is so loud that the three stops bickering. Sakura asks, "Uzumaki? What's wrong?"
Naruto blinks and the running water seems to get stronger and stronger. Then he gazes at the window… the blood-stained window. He gazes at the floor… the floor flooding with blood. Then every piece of furniture starts to bleed… he is freaking out within but he can't just make a sound.
Torture.
Naruto gulps yet again and the three seems to realize that Naruto is in a heavy daze. They try to shake him and snap him out of it. The room starts to bleed heavily and a sudden portion of the wall starts to swell and bulge. The sore turns red and then the girl with red hair, the other patients are complaining about, rises half of her body from the bloody wall. She looks at Naruto and she says in a very human voice like how the dark hair lady speaks, "Greetings, Uzumaki Naruto."
"Who are you?" Naruto murmurs and the three hears it. They gaze at where Naruto is gazing at… only to find a plain wall. The girl chuckles and submerges in the wall. A trail of bulging wormlike figure runs through the wall and Naruto follows it with his gaze. It ends up at the ceiling and the girl rises yet again. She reaches out her bloody hands at Naruto and blood drips to his face.
The girl submerges back to the ceiling and a voice rings in his head, "The next drops will be yours."
[End of Chapter One]
Deidara: Hello, un. Since there are faint possibilities that the Akatsuki will be at this fic, we will be hosting the end comments, un.
Sasori: Let's see. *reading the paper I gave* This fic is a revision of Yoru no Durimukacha. The title is the translation of the Japanese and original title. Things might sound familiar but the flow of the story is greatly changed.
Deidara: Is she kidding me, un? There's no need for end comments in this chapter but that one, un. *a metal ball drops at his head* OUW, UN!
Sasori: I can't believe this. This ends the end comments. (I'm sure she'll begin abusing the others sooner.)