Ok, Here it is this is an experiment of sorts. I've been working on this story for a while and I wasn't going to do anything with it until I had the Majority of it done, which I don't. In fact I just barely started the second chapter. This is more of a test run to see the response to it. See the later chapters, once the real plot starts, are kinda, well past the range on M on here. So it'll probably move to Adult Fanfiction and this is a prelude/introduction of sorts.
So all comments and critics on it are encouraged and appreciated. Yes i know its sort, but its really just a sneak peak after all. Please enjoy.
I don't own Naruto, but I wish I owned Gaara, and Tobi and Deidara. (evil smile)
Anyways, Warnings- Horror, Twisted Romance, Haunted House, Detailed Descriptions, No completely moronic Naruto, Yaoi, M/M/M (threesome), Incest, Slight Necrophilia, Cursing, Black Magic, and use of corndog's in Inappropriate ways. There's more but, most of them don't cover this part.
Oh and this is A Naruto/Itachi/Sasuke, in that order with Naruto as seme.
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Haunted
"Are you sure you want to got through with this?" A pink haired girl asked, turning toward her companion.
"Yeah, I'm positive about it. The place just gives off this vibe." Her blond companion answered, shrugging at the girl's obvious shiver.
"Of course it gives off a 'vibe' its calling out loud and clear 'death' 'murder' 'any one who comes near is never seen again', Naruto. And only complete fools are positive about anything." Sakura argued back placing her hands on her hips and glaring at the calm boy in front of her.
"Look I've already bought the place, tomorrow I'm going to have a full look around, then decide what needs to be done with it before I can move my stuff in. And anyway Sakura, you're the one that wanted me out of your house." Naruto smiled back.
"Fine, fine, fine, but if you get your ass into any trouble because of the house don't come to me to save it. I have enough problems helping you with the company; I don't need to add your stupid decisions to them." She sighed; arguing with the blond was like arguing with a wall.
"Thanks Sakura, I knew you were my best friend for a reason." Naruto's smile widened, forcing his eyes closed and the whisker like marks on his cheeks to puff out more.
"Yeah, though I still can't see why you bought the Uchiha Manor." Still she smiled back reminding herself that her companion was normally right with any vibe he got from someone or something, so if he wasn't freaked out by it then for the moment she wouldn't be either. "Just be careful tomorrow, that place is old and hasn't been lived in for almost a century."
"Hai, I'll talk to you later Sakura, I still need to finish the reports you left on my desk this morning." The blond waved and ran off out the door to the lounge before getting a response.
Sakura stood silent a moment processing the blonds' last words before a tick mark appeared on her forehead.
"NARUTO!!!!" The pink heads voice shook the walls of the building, scaring several new employees down the hall getting their first assignment. The others however just laughed as the blond haired, blue eyed boy, sporting ripped blue jeans and an orange t-shirt dashed down the hall. Their Naruto was back, and it seemed his first run in that day with his vice president didn't go to well. Soon the flaming pink haired girl was seen following the trail the blond just ran, oh how entertaining that afternoon was going to be.
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Naruto replaced the bag of ice he held against his head, once again wishing the painkillers would start working on his headache. He couldn't understand what he'd done to Sakura to get her so mad. She beat him to near unconsciousness five times that day after he went to work on the reports she had given him that morning.
It wasn't his fault the real-estate agent was so edgy about him backing out of the deal on the house that she come to the office this morning and begged him to finalize the papers. Which stopped him from working on the reports Sakura had given him, so why was she so mad at him? Maybe things with Lee weren't going so good? Nah Lee wouldn't do anything to Sakura. Maybe it was just her time of the month? That was probably it.
Naruto relaxed back onto his bed in Sakura's attic. He really needed to find a way to pay her back for all the stuff she's done for him. Though at the moments the pile of papers relating the history and ownership rights to the manor he'd just bought were more interesting. Sitting back up Naruto waited out the sudden dizziness, then he began to read over the supposed history and claims made on the house.
So far Sakura had been right about the place screaming death and murder. Two hundred and thirteen people had been killed in the manor, the majority being killed in four different mass murders committed by insanely power hunger members of the Uchiha family. Only two suicides in the house were reported. Two brothers who were the survivors of the last mass murder in the house. Which was almost a century ago.
The names weren't mentioned, but with manor's that were held in families for generations, names and other information were usually kept in the house. That was another reason he needed to look through the house tomorrow.
Naruto chuckled lightly, glad Sakura didn't know about his little obsession with history, mostly with family histories and genealogies. It was possibly due to the fact that he was an orphan and there by couldn't trace his family to anything, but he enjoyed learning about people. None of his friends knew of course, well except Neji and Shika. Shika only knew because, well he's a fricken genius and shared albeit a slightly more lazy love of history as Naruto did.
As for Neji, he found out from Shika, when he was having a major teenlife crises over a small fact about his family history. Shika told him that Naruto was into that stuff and could help him out, which of course he did. Naruto had to laugh at the memory, it was the first time Neji had ever talked to him with out insulting him once, and Naruto didn't pass up the opportunity to put some effort into the study of the Hyuuga family history. That started their now comfortable friendship, though they still disagreed on Neji's view that everything's controlled by fate.
He had been truthful with Sakura in saying that the Manor gave off a vibe. It gave off such a strong aura that when he got back from Suna a week ago he had found himself standing in front of the front gate, reading the for sale sign and calling the number to set up an appointment to view the grounds. At first after realizing he had just made an appointment to view the house and grounds that had scared him so bad in as a kid he almost called the real-estate office back and cancelled, but the longer he stayed standing there gazing up at the graying stone the stronger the feeling that the house gave off got.
It wasn't until the next day when he hadn't seen any of his friends and many of the people in town had cursed him out that he figured out what the vibe from the house was, pure loneliness and a sense of emptiness. Oh how he knew those feeling all to well in his own life. He may be the owner and president of one of the largest corporations in the country, and have some awesome friends but that didn't mean it was always like that. In fact most of the people he considered friends now, besides Sakura, Shika, and Neji, only really started to talk to him after he got control of the company on his twenty-first birthday, which was two years ago.
Neji's wasn't the only family background he'd done, in fact all of his friends had several boxes of research about them in storage at the moment, same were complete and same he'd just started, that's one reason the house and the family that used to live in the manor, interested him so much. Everyone in town knew the legend that was the Uchiha clan but next to no one knew the real story.
Naruto shook his head, regretting the action slightly as his subsiding headache pulsed back to life. He looked over the papers in his hands again, not much more could be deduced from them. Twelve families had owned the property after the death of the younger brother. All had spent less then a month in the house, and moved out for various reasons, the most common being that bloodstains, odors, and other things that come from mass killings that are not found relatively fast, would not go away; or that they would only to comeback days later worst then they had been.
Other reports stated that members of the families would see things and people that shouldn't be there. The first five families had at least one member committed to an asylum for saying they seen such things. The last family to live in the manor was about thirty years ago. They had stayed two weeks before their youngest daughter become deathly ill and they had to move to a dryer clement.
Thinking back on that, Naruto remembered that a severed branch of Gaara's family had lived in Konaha not to long ago, and had moved back to Suna after some complication, in where they were living. Tilting his head, Naruto rested his chin on his palm. He would have to call Gaara about that later. The Kazikage had been interested in that part of his family and their role in events that led to the great fire twenty-three years ago. Something about having tainted blood in the family had spurred Gaara to do a complete family genealogy, though that part of the family seemed to be quite nomadic so tracking them down had been quite hard.
Still Naruto enjoyed helping out his anti-social friend, so if last residents of the Uchiha Manor had been the nomadic branch of his family, he felt quite happy about being able to inform the Kazikage that he found the house they stayed in.
Glancing back at his alarm clock, Naruto winced. Bright red numbers flashed 12:43pm. Oh how Sakura was going o kill him in the morning for being up so late. He let out a long sigh pushing the papers back into the folder and then back in to his bag. Hopefully the Manor wouldn't be in to bad of shape so he would be able to move in soon.
Sure Sakura was his best friend, but friendship could only go so far with someone's personality, and he deemed that him and Sakura should never share a house, or live together for longer then a few days. Due mostly to the fact that their personalities clashed way to often to co-habitat the same space for long periods of time, and he had already been living in her attic for six months.
Getting off the bed, he pushed the bag to the floor and pulled open a crate from what was functioning as his dresser. Pulling out a pair of flannel pajama bottoms and a loose tank top, Naruto preceded to get ready for bed. At least the pink haired disturber of peaceful sleep couldn't yell at him for going to sleep in his work clothes again. Not that there was much difference between his work clothes and those he wore in his down time, but Sakura had been adamant that he shouldn't sleep in the clothes he wore to work even if they were the some as what he wore on his off days. Naruto rubbed his eyes and plopped back down on the bed. Only minutes after turning off the lights his breathing evened out and he drifted off to dreamland.
A lazy cloud slowly crossed the sky, its presence foreshadowing a coming storm. The sun which was slowly being covered by the drifting clouds had passed its peak a few hours ago, while Naruto paced outside the iron gate marking the entrance to the Uchiha Manor. His stomach gave a irritated rumble which was followed by a brief sigh as he looked down at the ground.
"Oi, where is the real-estate lady? The meeting was at noon. I really should of gotten the keys from her at the office. Why don't I ever think that far ahead?" Naruto stopped pacing and rubbed his chin in thought.
His stomach gave off another rather loud rumble sound, which caused him to hang his head. With a loud sigh and a scratch taken care of on the back of his head, Naruto dragged his feet over to where his dark colored bag sat on the ground. He pulled a small note pad and pen out of his bag after flapping down next to the it. In matters of business his stomach always had the last say, so taking his stomach's advice he jotted down when he was here last and where he was going, just incase the real-estate lady showed up after he went to get some ramen. Right after attaching the note to the gate, where it was hard to miss, Naruto picked up his bag and made his way to his favorite ramen stand.
~Dark eyes followed the blond boy as he walked down the road. After a few moments the boy was out of sight around a corner. The eyes narrowed. Behind them stood another set of dark eyes that bled slightly red.
"Something catch your interest little brother?"
"Hn"
The first pair of eyes disappeared, leaving behind the second peering out the curtained window. A silent chuckle, echoed about the shadowed hall.
"Yes little brother I think this time, things might change for us."
The second pair of eyes vanished as they had never been there. The manor fell silent again. Waiting always waiting. ~
An hour and six bowls of ramen later Naruto was back outside the iron gates glaring at his note. It seemed that the real-estate agent did show up after all as a set of keys hung from the iron work next to the small piece of paper. With a twitch he grabbed the keys, turning as the first low rumblings of thunder reached the village.
"Couldn't ask for better weather to explore a haunted house could I?" With a shaky laugh Naruto unlocked the large iron padlock holding the gates closed.
After passing through the gates Naruto started his mental/written needs to be repaired list, starting with oiling the gates, which where loud enough to wake the dead, or highly irritate them, Naruto decided after taking a look around the front courtyard. Lone dried leaves shifted slightly from their resting spots on the aged stone walkway as a soft breeze made its way through the area. To the left a tall tree of unknown species lifted its barren braches toward the sky, seemingly standing guard over a medium sized pond that appeared dried up. Small stones and dirt surrounded the pond along with a few of the lone leaves.
Tuffs of yellowed grass could be spotted at the base of the tree and just barley along the stone where the grey slate meet the dirt. To the right the stone path joined with the front of the houses frame and curved around the far corner to disappear in the shadow the structure created. Near the back corner another tree reached its skeleton branches upward, at its base and nearly reaching the path was what Naruto assumed was once a rock garden. Several large boulders filled the space between the walkway and tree and a rough looking sand filled the remaining area.
Naruto suppressed a small shutter as his eyes trailed over the stone walkway again. Not dirt could be made out on it and though there were several leaves lightly gracing the stone with their presence, Naruto noted they looked out of place. He took a breath in and closed the gate behind him. The sounds of the outside world faded slowly bringing comfortable yet somehow strained silence to the courtyard.
He took a few steps further away from the gate and stopped looking back at the walkway, blinking. Maybe he had imaged the leaves where there? Because no matter how many times he blinked the grey stone walkway was bare. Not a single lone leaf grace the slate with its touch, for that matter no leaves could be found at all in the open courtyard. Well they had looked out of place right?
Naruto sighed and choose to ignore the mysterious leaves for the moment. Worrying about something that small would only lead to him creeping himself out before he even got to the inside of the house. He pulled out his small note book and the pen and noted that he'd have to contact Ino about the trees and yard, as she would surly kill him if he didn't let her work her plant magic on this place.
He turned his attention from the courtyard to the house itself and grinned. The Uchiha Manor was one of the last traditional style buildings left in the village and the only one in the fire country that was built to such a large scale. The main building alone occupied almost ten blocks, which didn't include the numerous large gardens and dojo that also sat on the property. It's last update with the modern world came a few years before the last massacre, which included the addition of electric lighting and gas heating through out most of the building. Finishing that thought Naruto noted that he should talk to Shika before he messed with any of that stuff.
Yes Shika was a genius but he had to be the laziest person he knew. He chuckled at the memory of finding out that the said genius had spent four years and then some at college to earn a high assed genius degree only to come home and work for his father. His father owed a small maintenance company that worked with gas, pluming, and electrical contracting stuff, fairly successful despite the two in charge, Shika and his father, who were both extremely lazy. Though maybe that's why they were successful, because though they were lazy that didn't mean that they did a half assed job, no it just meant that you got friendly service and if the problem wasn't endangering anything that it would take a few days to fix.
"Where to start? The grounds would be easier, but I really want to see the inside. Hmm" Naruto stopped moving in front of the steps, placing his hands behind his head. "Well if the floor plan is like that of the Hyuuga estate then most of the rooms should border a garden area…..Inside it is I guess." He grinned again while starting up the few steps to the immensely large carved front doors.
Pillars held up the overhanging roof, they also seemed to hold up the veranda as well. For as most of the traditional houses were held off the ground by a couple of feet thanks to the pillars that could be found through the place and support struts under the floors. Naruto turned away from the ornate doors to look at one of the dark wood pillars. It was just as finely carved as the door.
On closer inspection light paint flecks could just barely be made out against the dark color of the wood. He raised a fine blond eyebrow at the evidence of paint, turning his gaze to the rest of the facade. It was a mix of dark and light woods and stone that gave the structure an ominous feel. The carvings that he could see didn't help that feeling lift any either, despite that Naruto couldn't really imagine what the place would look like if it didn't have that feel to it.
Once again facing the door he lifted the keys from his pocket. Going to unlock the door until a sever chill ran down his spine and he froze. He didn't even need to turn around to know that someone was watching him. He breathed in and out in a slow steady rhythm, scaring the crap out of himself even before he got into the house was the last thing he needed to do. Naruto filed the feeling away in his mind and went on putting the key in the lock, opening the door. The best thing he could do right now was ignore the chill as he suspected he wouldn't be getting rid of it any time soon
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