Hey everyone! This is a little heads up: this is Dragon Ruler 06's first chapter of the story. Dragon Ruler gave me the story, so I adopted it. I'm going to upload the exsisting chapters first, then upload mine. Thank you again Dragon Ruler 06 again! I love this story!
There was a legend of many mysterious deaths. No one ever found out who killed the people or if the people committed suicide, but others thought that the suicide idea was insane. The wounds and conditions of the bodies were too much for it to be a simple suicide. Some say that when you go there, you never come out alive during the night. There was one person who had lost his older brother to that dreaded place, but the police said that they could never find his body. Eventually, they gave up, as did the boy's parents, but the boy never did. Him and another two whom had lost their father to the same place.
Let's start from the beginning, shall we?
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"Aniki, I want to go with you," a young teen whined, gripping onto the jeans of his older brother, who looked down at the small brunet that clung to him.
"Sasuke, come on," the taller brunet sighed. "We already talked about this. You can't come with me where we're going. It's too dangerous."
"Then why are you going?" Sasuke asked, looking up at his older brother, Itachi.
"We're just going to see if the stories about that place are true. Sasuke, let go already."
"No! I don't want you to go! And if you do, I'm going with you!"
"Sasuke," a blond teenager called to the small brunet. "You can't come with us, un. Listen to your older brother, un."
"But I want to go! I'm not afraid!"
"It doesn't matter if you're afraid or not, kid," the tallest of the group spoke. "We aren't coming for your own safety."
"I thought you would be on my side, Kisame!" Sasuke whined, pouting a little at the blue-skinned teenager.
"I'd prefer being on Itachi's side that way he doesn't skin me for trying to convince him to let you come. I'm a little crazy, but not that much. Tobi's that crazy."
"But Tobi's a good boy," a teenager that strangely always wore an orange and black mask with only on eye-hole spoke.
Itachi sighed a little before kneeling down once he got his younger brother to back off a little bit. "Sasuke, I'll tell you what," the older sibling said. "If you let us go and not follow us, I promise that as soon as I get back, I'll teach you some skateboarding moves and let you pay my PS2 for a month and any of my games that you want. Deal?" Sasuke reluctantly nodded his head before his aniki poked him on the forehead with a couple of fingers and stood up. "Alright then. We'll be back by Monday, so chill out." A knock on the door echoed into the room. "That's gotta be Arashi," Itachi said as he walked over to the door and opened it, revealing three people standing outside.
Two blonds and a red-head teen with, strangely enough, red eyes as well that looked beyond bored. "Hey, Itachi," the oldest blond said.
"What made you bring them?" Itachi asked, looking at the younger two.
"I'm playing baby-sitter to both of our brothers," the red-head simply stated. "Dad here thought it would be a good idea since your parents aren't home and you can't just leave Sasuke all by his little lonesome." The shortest member of the trio ran into the house, zipping right by Itachi, before jumping right onto Sasuke, who fell back onto the floor from impact.
"Naruto!" Sasuke yelled out, ignoring the laughs he was receiving from the group around him. "Dobe! Get off!"
"No!" Naruto yelled back. "My teme!"
"Hey!" the red-head yelled this time. "Knock it off! I will not be head responsible if you two hurt each other!"
"Yeah you will, Kyuubi," the one of only other red-heads in the room, Sasori, stated. "You're the baby-sitter, so if they get hurt, you'll be taking the consequences of it. And no one will believe it not being your fault or anything because you are older and can easily pull them apart if they start real fights."
"Sasori," Kyuubi softly said, but in a warning tone. "Can you not be a smartass before you leave?" Sasori smirked before shaking his head 'no', which make Kyuubi glare heavily at him.
"Look after your brother and Sasuke, Kyuubi," Arashi said. "Come on, guys. Let's get going. Pein, stop touching Umi." (Me: I don't know the name of the blue-haired woman in the Akatsuki, so I am naming her Umi. ok?)
Pein, the third red-head in the room, groaned a little as the blue-haired teenage girl got off of his lap. "Have a safe trip!" Naruto yelled, waving bye to his father as the large group left. Kyuubi just gave a small wave while Sasuke pouted at the idea of his older brother still leaving him behind.
"Well be back on Monday, okay, Kyuubi?" Arashi said to his oldest son. "Think you can handle your brother that long?"
"Yeah," Kyuubi's sighed reply met the older blonde's ears. Arashi chuckled a little before walking out the door as well after saying his good-byes to his children.
"I call shotgun!" Kisame randomly yelled out, jumping into the black Convertible while Itachi just got in on the driver's side. Deidara and Sasori just shrugged before climbing into the dark red Jaguar. Tobi and Zetsu went into the same car as Arashi as Pein and Umi went into the midnight blue Mustang. Hidan and Kakuzu got into the same car as Sasori and Deidara. Arashi was the one who took the lead, ignoring Tobi and Zetsu's arguments that they sometimes had. He could hear Itachi blasting his speaker, hearing the song 'Whispers in the Dark' even thought the Uchiha was two cars away, right behind Sasori and Deidara, who were behind Pein and Umi. No doubt that they were listening to the radio as well just so they wouldn't hear Itachi's music.
A few hours later and they were all parked outside of the opened gate of an old abandoned hotel. "So this is the place?" Pein boredly asked, scanning his eyes over the run-down building. Paint was peeling off the sides, broken window, some even had wooden planks all over them.
"Yep," Arashi sighed in a small sigh.
"So what's the story on this place?" Umi asked. She had heard it before, but sometimes forgot. She hadn't been around the gang long enough to actually remember it all that well even though they always talk about it.
"You go in, you'd be lucky to come back out," Itachi simply stated. "Everyone that goes in there never last an entire night. Everyone says there's something in there, and we're here to see if the stories are true or not."
"You really think it's a good idea?"
"If you're scared, you could have stayed home," Pein stated.
"And leave you here? I think not, Pein!"
Itachi rolled his eyes a bit before grabbing a duffle bag that was in the truck and opening it. "Channel four is the clearest, so everyone on that channel," the Uchiha stated, tossing everyone a walkie talkie. "We do have weapons of some sort, right?" he asked, looking towards Hidan and Kakuzu, who always brought weapons no matter if they were going to a park or anywhere else. Everyone just thought that the two were paranoid, especially Kakuzu, who always carried a small hand gun on his person so he can shoot whoever tries to steal his money. They can steal anything from Kakuzu, but if someone tried to steal his money, they usually end up with a bullet in their leg or arm. Depended on how much they tried to steal.
"Of course we brought them," Hidan replied, dropping another duffle bag onto the ground, making it create a loud noise of metal hitting metal multiple times. He unzipped the bag to reveal handguns and even a few shotguns, not to mention enough daggers for each person to have two.
"If you guys don't believe the stories, then why do we have weapons?" Umi asked.
"It's better to have them and not need them then to need them and not have them," Sasori simply stated, picking up a small handgun before tucking it into his boot and picking up a slightly larger one and tucking that one into his belt. Kisame, Hidan, Kakuzu, and Arashi had shotguns while everyone else had two or three handguns. Itachi had three: one in his pocket, another in his boot, and the third under his belt. Deidara hand handgun straps on his arms, so that where he put his weapons while Umi and Pein kept theirs in their hands. Zetsu and Tobi had their tucking into their belts.
"Everyone good?" Arashi asked, sheathing a dagger before placing it on his belt on the opposite side of the other one. When the group nodded, they turned and walked into the hotel. The front door slammed closed behind them, startling Umi a little bit, but calmed down when Pein tightly head onto her hand. Kisame, wanting to make sure that the door wasn't stuck, walked over and pulled on the handle, but the door didn't budge.
"This thing isn't opening anytime soon," Kisame stated, shrugging a little bit as he rested the shotgun on his shoulders while everyone else turned on flashlights that they all brought along.
"Ok, we're going to be splitting into groups and you guys can check which every floor you want. Pein and Umi are one group, Zetsu and Tobi are another, Hidan and Kakuzu, Itachi and Kisame, Sasori and Deidara, and I'll be going with Itachi and Kisame to make sure that they don't get too excited. Mainly Kisame." The teen glared at the oldest blond, who just laughed along with the others. Well, Itachi and Sasori just smirked a bit. "Okay, find anything, trouble or anything like that, call everyone on the walkie talkies. Kisame, what do you have in that bag?" the blond asked, eyes landing on the bag that Kisame just seemed to have pulled out of his coat and placed it down.
"Camcorders," Kisame replied, opening it up to reveal five camcorders. "I thought that if those stories are just a bunch of junk, then why get some evidence on it?"
"Good idea," Pein agreed. "So if we don't run into any trouble, we can just prove that those stories are just that: stories." He caught the camcorder that Kisame tossed to him before the taller teen tossed at least one person in each group a camcorder.
"Ok then. What floor are you guys taking?" Arashi asked, putting the camcorder into his pocket.
"Floor five," Pein replied.
"Ten," Hidan replied before Kakuzu could say anything.
"We'll stay on this floor and check it out," Zetsu said, turning around to look down a hall.
"We'll take the eighth floor," Sasori replied while Deidara stared down the same hall as Zetsu, trying to figure out what the green-haired teen was looking at.
"Alright then," Arashi said. "Itachi, Kisame, and I will look on the fifteenth floor. We meet back here in two hours, ok? Keep the walkie talkies on." Everyone nodded before separating.
"What are you looking at, Zetsu?" Tobi asked when he noticed that the other teen was staring down the hallway.
"We're going to check down here first," Zetsu simply stated before walking down the hall. Tobi, being the 'good boy' that he was, followed after.
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"Sasori?" Deidara called to the red-head. "Do you believe the stories about this place, un?"
"Not really," Sasori replied. "I find it as someone being a little paranoid about this place since there was a mass murder here."
"Do you believe in ghost, un?"
"Yeah. I saw a couple when I was younger. My parents."
"Sorry, un."
"For what?"
"Bringing up your parents, un."
"Don't worry about it," Sasori said, smirking a bit as he wrapped an arm around the blonde's waist. "Come on. Let's get going." They walked around for another thirty minutes until Deidara jumped in surprise and snapped around. "Deidara? What's wrong?"
"I thought I heard something back there, un," the blond replied, pulling out the camcorder that Kisame had given him before turning it on. He pointed the lenses toward him before speaking again. "Hello. My name is Deidara, un." Then he pointed the camera towards Sasori. "That's my boyfriend, Sasori, un. Right now we're in Sune-ku Hotel to see if these stories are true, un."
"Deidara, put the thing away before you run the batteries down until they're dead," Sasori spoke
"Wait, Sasori! I think I saw something down there, un!"
"If this is for that camera-" the red-head froze in mid-sentence when he turned around to see that something was in the hallway with them. Deidara was frozen as well, slightly shaking as his breathing hitched from time to time. "What is that?" the red-head whispered, pulling the blond towards him and further away from the thing down the hallway. The sound of popping bones echoed in the hallway as glowing red eyes stared at them. The thing was bloody as heck and one of its arms was missing, being held by the other hand. "Deidara," Sasori whispered to the still frozen blond when he saw the fangs in the creature's mouth. "Deidara," he called to the blond again before he pinched the blonde's arm, making Deidara jump a bit. "I want you to run. Now."
"But Sasori-"
"Now, Deidara!" the red-head yelled this time when the creature started to run towards the pair. Sasori pulled out the gun he had tucked in his belt as he pushed the blond away. He shot a few rounds at the creature, but it showed no signs of stopping. "Deidara! Run! Now!" The blond scrambled to his feet before running down the hall, turning corner after corner, hearing the shots of Sasori's gun go off repeatedly. The sounds faded away until they suddenly stopped and a scream of pain was heard. Deidara went into a room, slamming the door close before he collapsed onto the floor, his shoulders shaking as he started to sob.
"Deidara!" a voice from the walkie talkie called out. "Deidara! It's Hidan! What happened?!"
Deidara tried to calm his breathing down, but was failing as he picked up the walkie talkie from his pocket. "There was something in the hallway, un," Deidara replied, his voice shaking. "Sasori told me to run. He kept shooting at it, but it didn't stop or anything, un! He told me to run, and I did, but then I heard him yell!" Now Deidara was sobbing like no tomorrow.
"Deidara, calm down," Hidan spoke. "Where are you? Kakuzu and I will come and get you, ok?"
"Eighth floor," Deidara replied.
"We know that much!" Kakuzu's voice came from the walkie talkie. "Which room?"
"I didn't check," Deidara replied. "And I don't want to leave this room in case that thing's still there, un."
"Okay, Deidara," Hidan's voice came from the walkie talkie once again. "Kakuzu and I are coming down to find you, ok? If you hear us coming towards you, make some kind of noise, alright?"
"Alright," Deidara choked out.
"Okay. Stay put." Deidara nodded, not caring that Hidan couldn't see it before he brought his knees to his chest and started to cry again.
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"Was that Sasori?" Kisame asked, turning around when he heard the pain-filled yell.
"Sounded like him," Arashi replied before pulling out his walkie talkie. "Sasori? Sasori can you hear me?"
"He might be out," Itachi stated. "Try Deidara."
Arashi nodded before pressing the button on the walkie talkie again. "Deidara? You there?"
He was glad when he heard Deidara's voice reply. "Arashi?" Deidara's shaky voice met their ears.
"Deidara? Where's Sasori? Is he alright? We heard him yell."
"I-I don't know!" Deidara replied before the three heard sobs from the walkie talkie.
"Deidara! Calm down! What happened?!"
"There's something in this place, un. And it got Sasori, un. It got him and I didn't do anything to help, un! I ran! Sasori told me to run and I did, un!"
"Calm down, Deidara," Itachi said, taking the walkie talkie from the taller blond. "Where are you?"
"Hidan and Kakuzu are coming to get me," Deidara replied.
"Alright. We'll call the others and get back to the front, alright? Try to stay calm, ok? If whatever got Sasori comes after you, shoot off a few rounds or yell or something and we'll come running to you. Understand?"
"Un," Deidara replied.
"Alright. Kisame, call the others." The taller teen nodded, picking up his walkie talkie before calling to the others to tell them to meet up at the front.
"Hidan and Kakuzu are here, un," Deidara's still shaky voice said.
"Alright then," Itachi replied. "Now all three of you get to the front where we came in. Understood? Keep an eye out." When he heard the 'alright' from all three, he turned towards Kisame before handing Arashi back the walkie talkie.
"Pein says that Umi's dead," Kisame stated, swearing under his breath. "And I can't get Tobi or Zetsu to reply."
"Damn it. They're still on the first floor, so when we get there, all we have to do is yell for them and they'll come," Arashi stated. "Come on. Let's get going." The other two nodded before they ran towards the stairs.
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"Tobi, put that camcorder away," Zetsu sighed when he saw the other teen pointing the camera in different direction, talking randomly. "Tobi!" the split-personality teen snapped, making the other stand perfectly still. "Give me the camera." Tobi handed it to Zetsu's outstretched hand. "You got the walkie talkie on, right?" he asked, eyeing the masked teen, who was shifting slightly, looking through his pockets to find the walkie talkie before pulling it out. "Tobi, it's not on."
"It isn't?" Tobi asked, eyeing the walkie talkie in his hand before he scratched his head with his index finger.
Zetsu sighed. No wonder he heard Sasori yell and didn't hear anything from the others about it. He took the walkie talkie from his partner before turning it on and speaking into it. "Zetsu to anybody," he spoke.
"Hello," Kisame's joking voice came on. "This is anybody. Nice to meet you. Where the hell were you?! I tried to contact you guys five minutes ago!"
"Tobi had the walkie talkie off," Zetsu replied. "I heard Sasori. What happened?"
"Deidara said that something attacked them," Kisame replied. "We're all meeting back up at the entrance."
"Don't," Zetsu said, eyeing something that was down the hall as he gave the camera back to Tobi.
"What?" three voice asked that time.
"Don't come down here," he replied, keeping an eye on the still figure in the hallway. "There's something down here."
"Where is it?"
"Right down the hall that Tobi and I are in," Zetsu simply replied. "Don't come down here. Tobi, run."
"But Zetsu!" Tobi began to protest.
"Don't argue with me! Just run! Now!" Both teens turned and ran the opposite way that the figure was. "Don't come down to the first floor! There's something down here! Get somewhere else!" he yelled into the walkie talkie before he pulled out a gun and fired at the creature that was running towards them, growling loudly. "Tobi! Come on!" he yelled again, grabbing onto his friend's hand, tugging on him to get the brunet to hurry up.
He felt a harsh tug on his hand before Tobi's hand left his. "Zetsu!" Tobi yelled out, being dragged away by the creature that was holding onto his leg.
"Tobi!" Zetsu yelled out, turning around to get to his friend. "Hold on!" he yelled again as he pointed the gun at the creature and fired about five rounds at it. The creature let go of Tobi's leg, running into a wall, slashing at it a bit, while Zetsu grabbed Tobi by his arm and pulled the teen away from the creature. The thing turned and looked at the two before shrieking loudly and chasing after them both. "Damn it!" Zetsu swore as he turned a corner with Tobi right behind him, holding onto the teen's hand to make sure that he wasn't left behind. He couldn't stand the hyper brunet, but that didn't mean that Zetsu would leave his companion behind.
"Zetsu! What's going on?! Zetsu!" Kisame's yell came from the walkie talkie in Zetsu's pocket.
"Something's chasing us!" Zetsu replied. "It almost got Tobi! Meet up on the second floor! Don't come down to the first!" Zetsu turned a little to see if the creature was still running after them, which it was, before he shot at it again, hitting its head, but it only slowed down. It didn't fall down dead. "Damn it! Shots to the head don't work!"
"Are you kidding?!"
"Not one bit!" Once again, Tobi slipped from his hand before the teen turned around to see that the creature had once again gotten the brunet. "Damn it! Let him go!" Zetsu yelled out, shooting at the creature again. Zetsu ran after the creature, following Tobi's yells when he couldn't see it anymore. Eventually, there was one final scream of pain before there was silence. "Tobi," Zetsu breathed. "Tobi!" he yelled this time. "Tobi!"
"Zetsu! What happened?!" he heard Pein yelled out before the green-haired teen turned around to see the red-head running towards him.
"It just got Tobi!" Zetsu yelled furiously. "It got him! I tried! I tried to help him! But –"
"Zetsu!" Pein snapped, grabbing onto Zetsu's shoulders. "Calm down. What got Tobi?"
"I don't know what the hell it was! It just got him! I couldn't help him. I tried, but I couldn't," he whispered before his head landed on Pein's chest.
"It's alright," Pein said. "Come on. The others are at the entrance. Let's go." Zetsu nodded a bit before leaning away from the red-head. All three walked towards the entrance, seeing Hidan and Kakuzu trying to calm down a hyperventilating Deidara while Itachi leaned against the wall. Arashi was talking to Kisame before the blue-skinned teen spotted Zetsu.
"What happened? Where's Tobi?" he asked.
"It got him," Zetsu replied. "It got Tobi. I tried, but I couldn't get to him on time."
"What was it?" Arashi asked. "Deidara's too shocked to tell us. And he won't let go of the camera in his hands. And Pein said that he didn't get a good look at the one that got Umi."
"I don't know exactly how to describe it," Zetsu replied, lowering his head to stare at the floor.
"It wouldn't happen to look anything like that, would it?" Itachi asked, looking down a hallway where there were five human like figures. All missing at least one limb and glowing red eyes with pointed fangs. Zetsu nodded when he saw them, backing away a bit. "Deidara, time to get up," Itachi said, walking over to the blond before pulling Deidara up to his feet.
"Let's go," Arashi said, backing away from the things that were staring at them. Most of the group was facing forwards as they got further and further away from the creatures while the rest looked behind to make sure that they weren't being followed. Suddenly, before the group could turn the corner, all five of the creature shot towards them.
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Kyuubi laid on the couch, his legs crossed with one of his arms hanging off of the couch with the other bent next to him with the back of his hand against his forehead. In his hand that was hanging off the couch was a remote to the television, which was flipping through channels every time Kyuubi pressed a button. 'Boring,' Kyuubi thought to himself whenever he watched five seconds of each channel. 'Not interested, wait a minute!' He left the channel that he was on alone. On it was a TV Reporter woman.
"I am standing here at Sune-ku Hotel where six bodies were found," the reporter woman said.
"Naruto!" Kyuubi yelled out before his younger brother came running into the room. The blond didn't say anything when he saw that Kyuubi was watching the television with widen-eyes.
"There were originally ten teens and an adult according to Mr. Orochimaru, who had given permission to the group to explore through the hotel. Only six bodies of the teens were found. The rest were no where in the building."
"Dad's dead?" Naruto asked quietly.
"She said that six TEENS bodies were found, not that an adult was with them," Kyuubi replied, as his brother sat on the couch, shaking a bit.
"The bodies will be brought into Konoha to be examined and identified," the woman on the TV said before Kyuubi turned it off.
"We can go and see who it is later, alright?" Kyuubi asked, wrapping an arm around the blonde's shoulder before pulling the shorter teen to him. "It's alright." Somewhere else, Sasuke and his family were watching the news and heard what the reporter had said.
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A week had passed before Kyuubi, Naruto, Sasuke, and his family was called into the police station to identify the bodies. Sasuke was afraid to at first, not wanting to see them in case one was Itachi. None of the bodies was Itachi, but Sasuke and Naruto wished that they never saw them. They were barely recognizable from all the dagger wounds and some parts of their bodies ripped off. They were still able to tell who was who: Sasori, Tobi, Umi, Hidan, Kakuzu, and Kisame. As soon as Sasuke saw the bodies, he started demanding to know where Itachi was, believing that his older brother was still alive. Kyuubi and Naruto reacted the same way, only asking about their father. The policemen said that the rest of the group was missing.