Author's Note: I'm not dead! Yup, I'm back with a brand new story! Enjoy the show!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

"To your right, Naruto! Sakura shouted as Naruto maneuvered towards the left.

"Really, do you want to be left behind?"

"No Sakura-chan, I just-"

"Move to your right!"

Too late, Naruto moved left and was blocked from view by an ocean of trees.

"NARUTO!"

Naruto came to a stop at the edge of the forest.

"Sakura-chan? Kakashi-Sensei?"

Naruto was interrupted by a loud crack of thunder, followed by a torrent of rain.

"Guess I'd better find some shelter." Naruto thought out loud.

He started searching for shelter, natural or not.

Then he saw it.

An old, boarded up house screaming 'shelter'.

"What's a house doing way out here?" Naruto wondered as he made his way towards it.

"Oh well, shelter is shelter."

As he entered the house, a low moan could be heard from the basement.

If Naruto had heard it, it may have sounded like "one death per family".

Naruto had explored a little bit of the house and found a nice couch to crash on. It puzzled him as to why anyone would abandon a house without moving out.

The lights flickered, but Naruto assumed that was because they hadn't been used in a long time.

He got up and turned the lights off, then walked back to the couch and sat down.

Where were they? Sakura and Kakashi couldn't be that far away. Naruto threw a nearby blanket on the floor, coughing as he inhaled the dust.

He saw a light turn on in a nearby room.

He got up to investigate.

"Hello?"

Nobody answered. He opened the door to the room.

"Hello?"

Suddenly, he was thrown against the wall, squirming as he locked eyes with his attacker.

A family stood in front of the house. The man was paying a realtor and laughing at his good fortune. The woman was watching two children, a boy and a girl, as they played together.

The boy was taunting his sister when he fell down the stairs. As he got up, he was pelted by something off-white. The child screamed as he realized what it was. Desperately making his way upstairs, he didn't notice as the bones chased him up.

The boy didn't stop running until he reached the safety of his mother.

Naruto's breath was caught in his throat as he continued to struggle against the creature attacking him, killing him…

Then he woke up.

Naruto was back on the old couch in a sitting position. The lights were on which was strange as he didn't remember turning them on.

Naruto, still shaken from the dream, got up and flicked the switch. Nothing happened.

"Come on, work!"

But no matter how hard he tried, Naruto couldn't get the lights to turn off.

"Sakura-Chan, Kakashi-Sensei, where are you?"

"We have to sell the house." Emiko whispered to her husband.

"We can't do that. It won't let us." Jakerou whispered back.

"It already took our beloved Makoto from us. If it takes Suzuki too..." Emiko's voice trailed off.

"It's policy is only one. We won't lose Suzuki." Jakerou responded.

"Daddy... Daddy..." A voice came from nowhere, calling Jakerou.

"Makoto! Please come back! Please!" Emiko shouted.

Naruto's stomach growled. He wondered if there was anything edible left in the house.

As he wandered into the hallway, he couldn't help but feel a sense of deja vu. The kitchen light was on.

He walked into the kitchen and opened a cupboard. There was nothing in it.

As he closed the cupboard door, Naruto noticed some strange markings on the cupboard door. Almost like scratch marks.

He shuddered and left the kitchen.

Wait, why was he in the kitchen in the first place? He wasn't hungry. At least, he didn't feel hungry.

He walked back into the living room, flicking the lights on as he did.

Wait, hadn't the lights already been on? Hadn't he been unable to turn them off earlier? It felt like such a long time ago. Maybe he had turned them off and just forgot about it.

Naruto sat back down on the couch.

Then he noticed a door on the other side of the room. Had that been there before?

Either way, he felt a strange pull towards it. Almost like it was calling to him. He got up and started walking towards it.

Emiko scanned the room frantically for any sign of her son.

"Daddy... Daddy..." Makoto said.

Then Emiko saw him. In the closet doorway. She ran to him, overjoyed it had let her see him again.

"Emiko, no!" Jakerou called desperately to his wife.

Naruto pulled open the closet door. Clothes were on the floor. Naruto started to dig through the clothes until he hit something solid.

Throwing the clothes out of the way, he stepped back to revel in what he had found.

A woman's skeleton lay in the closet. Her clothes had been shredded and it was clear that she had been attacked by some sort of monster.

Naruto suddenly felt excited. He remembered her scream and beg for mercy as his claws tore her flesh. How easily she had been lured into the closet.

The man had yelled for her to come back, but she hadn't listened. The man wanted to get rid of him.

Emiko embraced her son, sobbing. Then she felt claws dig into her back.

"Hello, Mommy." Makoto whispered, his decaying face twisted into an evil smile.

"Do you love me, Mommy?"

Emiko was frozen in pure fear.

"Please don't hurt me. I'm begging you, Makoto! Don't you remember me?"

"I love you, Mommy." Makoto said as his claws ripped her apart.

Emiko screamed as she was killed by the thing that had once been her son.

Naruto pulled the skeleton out of the closet and marveled at his work. She had been so easy to kill. So easy to-

Naruto suddenly jolted back to reality. He was holding something. He took one look at it and dropped the skeleton. Where had he gotten that? He glanced around. There wasn't anything but the living room here. Shouldn't he still be in the kitchen, looking for anything that could potentially be edible?

Naruto shrugged and walked back into the kitchen. He'd worry about the skeleton later.

"Naruto..."

Naruto jerked his head up, trying to figure out where the voice was coming from.

"Naruto..."

There is was again! The voice seemed to be coming from everywhere.

"Naruto..."

SLAM!

A door slammed shut.

SLAM!

Another door closed.

"Naruto..."

SLAM!

Naruto jumped. That door sounded close.

"Join us, Naruto..."

Suddenly, the figures of a man and a little girl appeared.

"Where-Where did you come from? Who are you?" Naruto brandished a kunai, but his hands shook too much for it to of any use.

"Don't you know? I'm Suzuki. My dad and I have wanted to meet you." The little girl answered.

"Leave the talking to me, Suzuki." The man said. "I'll tell Naruto all about this."

The man turned to look at Naruto.

"My name is Jakerou. I live in this house with my wife, Emiko and our children, Suzuki and Makoto. You'll like it here. After all, you're staying forever."

"Staying forever...? No! I'm just waiting for the rest of my team. I'll leave when they find me."

Jakerou's face suddenly became changed, becoming decayed, flesh clinging to bare bone. Instinct told Naruto turned to run from the man, if he even was a man, but his legs wouldn't move.

Instead, he stared into Jakerou's haunting eye sockets.

"That's right. You're staying here forever, Naruto. Forever..."

Author's Note: Read and review, but go easy on me because this is my first horror. Constructive criticism welcome and needed!