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Heres the second Chapter. I was shocked at the respones to the first chapter and I'm glad so many like it. After this chapter I'm not sure and how fast I can update so bare with me okay? Anyway enough of my talking, heres the next chapter.

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Haunted

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Upon opening the door, which to needed to be oiled seeing as it made a horrendous grinding noise on its hinges when pushed, Naruto stepped into a dim, stuffy hallway. Peering around, he discovered that to the side of the genkan(1) several pairs of uwabaki(2) sat, undisturbed by the years. Naruto tilted his head. Those shoes should defiantly not be there, or at least not in such great looking condition.

Thirty years of being out in the open like that, should have left the material, which appeared silk, ruined beyond repair. Yet the uwabaki sitting before him seemed almost brand new. He looked up from the shoes, pushing the door open more. Light skipped across the wood floor from the fully opened door, making Naruto take notice of a dark span of wood, just slightly red tinted a few steps away from him.

"The reports really weren't kidding about the stains were they?" He said with a small chuckle and flinch as another rumble of thunder descended upon the village.

The hallway was short, turning both right and left, a dozen feet away from the genkan. A painting, darkened by dust, filled the wall at the junction; its edges hiding behind the corners. The other walls were barren save for a few darker patches that hung above the stain on the floor.

Naruto moved to step up on to the hard wood floor before stopping and looking back down at the uwabaki; in a swift movement Naruto slipped out of his own light orange sneakers and into the last pair of slippers, usually reserved for the guests. For after all he was still just a guest, as the house would always and forever be the Uchiha Manor. After placing his shoes in the place the slippers occupied, he stepped up on to the wood floor, deciding to keep the front door open to get some air moving in the small space.

While he surmised he couldn't and really wouldn't try to remove the stain, now under his feet, the floor did need to be washed and waxed, that task was also added to his list. Naruto walked the rest of the way down the short hall, until he was in the middle of the junction. The painting, coated thickly in dust, was twice the size he originally thought. It took up the whole wall from the left corner to the right corner, a span of roughly twenty feet. The image it portrayed was too obscured by the coating of dust to make out anything of relevance.

Naruto peered at it a few more seconds, before the overwhelming feeling of being watched crawled slowly over his skin. The sensation was different from the first time, darker and more overpowering, almost like being wrapped in a heavy blanket against your will. Naruto refused to allow the shutter wishing to run through him go. He'd met business men with such auras in the past, he wasn't going to let a presence he couldn't see freak him out. It was a challenge, to see if he'd run or continue farther and by the gods Naruto never backed away from a challenge so bluntly placed before him.

He took a step back from the painting, noted that he would also have to call Deidara, to look at the painting, and any others, if they were all in the same condition, and turned right; assuming that's where the living areas were. With a tug on his backpack strap, Naruto started walking, keenly aware that the presence and the cold spot he just passed, were following him as he pressed his way deeper into the house.

~As the blond rounded the corner, the front door shut and the lock clicked, cloaking the hallway in darkness once again.~

The hours passed slowing finding Naruto in what appeared to be an old study or office. He was sitting on a zabuton(3) behind a low desk, checking over his repair list. He had been surprised that the only major damage so far to the buildings structure was a portion of the roof that had collapsed. Other then that, the most Naruto found he had to do was basic house work, cleaning mostly, and some renovations to get the pluming and electrical up-to-date.

Repairs and major work would have to be put into the gardens to get them to the state they used to be in but all-in-all as long as no other problems surfaced it would only take a few months to get the house and grounds back into perfect condition.

Naruto sighed and rubbed his eyes. In truth he was only half way through the first half of the living space, there still was the rest of the east side of the house to look through and then the west side, along with the grounds he couldn't view from the rooms that bordered the gardens. He laid his head down on the desk. To say he was exhausted would be an understatement. Staying up late the night before, then getting up early and spending the day wondering around a huge house was not a very good idea.

Closing his eye's briefly, he noticed that his watcher, as he dubbed the presence following him, wavered slightly in its imposing feel. Naruto lifted his head at this and shook the idea out of his head. He was just being paranoid like normal and figured he really wouldn't be surprised all that much if the thing following him turned out to be a mouse looking for food. He stretched and yawned, standing up, only to jump as a massive flash of light lit the room, followed by an explosive rumble of thunder. He stumbled back grasping his shirt over his heart.

"DAMN!, I forgot about the storm. Here I am trying not to scare myself and I end up almost passing out due to a little lightening. Geez, Sakura is right, I can be such a scardy cat sometimes." Naruto rambled out, getting his breathing under control.

He surveyed the room again, it was much brighter then others he had viewed so far as well as a lot more orderly. The other study's he had looked around, five in all, were dark and for lack of a better saying lived in. Papers were every where, pens, ink wells, files to, all the hallmarks of a frequently used office, that fact alone kept him out of them. As one, it just plain crept him out that after all these year the study's still looked used, and two, because they looked used he felt he was intruding into someone else's space.

He stretched again, stifling a yawn. He rather liked this room, the sliding door's opened to a small side garden that looked like it still had some life to it, for remnants of past years flowers littered the ground. The room itself wasn't massive but five people could comfortably sit and move around in it. Every thing was in good condition and unlike most parts of the house, he has seen so far, it didn't have the burdened, heavy feel.

Naruto turned toward the door as a movement of something black caught his attention from the corner of his eye. He looked at the partly opened door, tilting his head, hadn't he shut that? He stepped around the desk, leaving his bag on the floor, the closer he got to the door the thicker and colder the air seemed. He stopped.

Not only was the imposing feeling of his watcher closer to the door but so was another, lighter presence. He narrowed his eyes, that one hadn't been there a few moments ago. Racking his brain to see if he had felt that one before now, Naruto moved forward and closed the door. Another explosion of thunder rumbled through the house, followed distinctly by the chorus of 'The Bitch Song' by Bowling for Soup.

Your a bitch, but I love you anyway.

You cant sing, but you still put me to sleep.

Baby your a bitch, you make me sick,

But don't ever go away.

Naruto went back to the desk and his bag, rummaging through the former looking for the source of the every humorous music.

"What is Sakura calling me for? Didn't she have a date today with Lee?" He questioned as he opened his cell and bringing it to his ear.

"Naruto where are you!?"

"I'm still at the manor, why?"

"Damn I though you'd be done with that by now………"

"What's wrong Sakura? I told you I'd be here all day…"

"The storm Naruto, that's what's wrong. It's the first heavy rain we've had in nearly a year, you moron. The streets and roads are flooding. You wont be able to leave the manor until the water levels lower, you know how bad it gets up there."

"You mean I have to stay the night her…. that's fine, it might of happened like that anyway, this place is so big. You don't have to worry about me, every thing here in in pretty good condition, I'm sure I can find a place to sleep tonight."

"Naruto………… how can you know what's good condition and what's dilapidated. You thought your last apartment was in good condition and look what happened to it!"

"Don't bring my last place into this, someone torched it, it had nothing to do with its structural integrity." Naruto rubbed the bridge of his nose, damn now she was going to yell at him saying he didn't know what those words meant.

"Don't use words you don't understand, it doesn't make your argument anymore successful. …… look can't I be worried about you? Your like my brother, and if you get into trouble up there, you can't get any help up there ok? And lets face it Naruto, you can be such a huge klutz."

"Yeah, I know Sakura. Don't worry I'll be fin……" Naruto had looked up from the floor and found he was facing the door. The fully open door. The door that he had just closed a few minutes ago. He forced his mouth shut and quelled the urge to run. He was just way more tired then he had thought, he probably didn't even go near the door.

"Naruto? Naruto? Answer me damn it!"

"What Sakura?"

"What's going on Naruto? I've been trying to get your attention for the last five minutes. You just stopped talking in the middle of a sentence."

"Oh…… hehehe sorry Sakura, I think I just spaced out." As he answered he rubbed the back of his head, he eyes nervously watching the now open door.

"You really got to stop doing that, you know. Its not the most reassuring thing in the world to watch your eyes glaze over and for you to stop all activity."

"Hai Sakura, I'm sorry about that. I'll try to stop. Well I think I should go now, there's no reliable electricity here and I don't know how long my cell battery is going to last. I'll call you when I leave ok?"

"You better Naruto Uzumaki, or else your ass is mine and you wont be able to sit right for weeks."

"Hai, Hai, bye now." Naruto chuckled a little at his best friends threat. He seriously doubted that she could do any major damage to his rear-end, since the only one to do permanent damage to it was Gaara and that was mostly his fault for pushing the Kazikage to far in his teasing.

Just as he was putting his cell and note pad back into his bag, it seemed the storm finally showed its true colors. Multiple resonating claps of thunder rang through the building as everything was lit brightly by the never ending flashes of lightening. Naruto stood amazed at the show for a few seconds before an excruciatingly loud crash met his ears.

"That wasn't thunder" Naruto commented striding over to the door and looking out. The odd fact of it opening utterly forgotten as worry past over his face. The image of the collapsed section of the roof crossed his mind and he took off in the direction he thought the crash came from.

After several wrong turns and dead ends, as well as discovering that the farther into the house you went the larger and more common the stains and damage was, Naruto found the source for the crash, and it wasn't good. A good portion of the roof had caved in, allowing the raging storms rain to rapidly cascade in to the hallway.

He looked around quickly, noting that this area was further into the interior of the building then the offices and most of the door's were labeled with carved plaques. Water continued to spill in, filling the hall with the liquid. He needed to give the water a place to go, preferably back outside. That meant he had to open a whole in the floor.

"A small hole in the floor or a completely ruined and flooded section in the building?………Hole it is." Naruto decided in a rush, as it was always easier to fix a few holes in the floor then an entire flooded section of a house.

~A pair of black red tinted eyes watched the blond make his rushed decision, as they had watched him for the last dozen hours. He seemed different then the others that had been in the house. For one it was clear he could sense them, to what extent, the carrier of the eyes didn't know, but it was quite apparent the blond didn't think to much of it. Second the blond had grabbed his little brothers attention, which in and of its self was unusual, as his little brother took little interest in anything.

The eyes refocused on the blond as a rather loud cracking sound ricocheted through the hall. The blond was nowhere to be seen but in his place was an indentation in the floor that sloped down to a decent sized hole. The eyes twitched. He had damaged the house. Yet just as the eyes were going to punish the blond for such desecration of the property, the blond appeared from the hole, covered in dirt. The eyes moved closer, then looked down, all the water was flowing back and out the hole the blond had just made. He had stopped the hall from flooding.~

Naruto pulled himself from the broken floor, his hands and arms bleeding. While he did feel bad about having to do that, his haphazard plan had worked, as the floor was now sloped enough to help make the hole act as a drain. Now he had time to find a way to keep the water from getting in, in the first place. He needed to find a tarp or something like that, he also needed to get on to the roof, a lot easier said then done.

Half an hour later Naruto found himself fighting a large canvas tarp, on the roof, in the pouring rain, trying his best to get the of tan colored fabric to cover the gaping hole in the terracotta. It wasn't going so well. He was drenched, his bare feet barely had any purchase on the slippery tiles, and the tarp was trying to and succeeding in strangling him.

When he had found a way to the roof, after discovering the tarp, he thought the storm had calmed down. It seemed that its calm was only for a brief moment. For the second Naruto planted his feet on the roof the wind whipped up again and the rain pelted the whole property. God someone really must hate him.

"What god did I piss off in the last week really?" Naruto muttered under his breath at the same time he got the second corner of the tarp secured to the tiles.

He violently pushed limp blond hair from his eyes. This really wasn't how he wanted to spend his day, but considering the alternative, a flooded hallway and an increased amount of damage, Naruto figured as long as he didn't fall off the roof this was a splendid way to spend his time. By now, the third corner was locked down under the tiles and Naruto was climbing over the peak of the water darkened roof to reach the anchor point for the last corner.

~A second pair of eyes joined in watching the rain soaked blond struggle across the roof. They narrowed as one of the boys feet lost its precious grip on the tile and the body slide a few feet down until a hand regained the hold the foot had lost. After a few more slip ups the blond reached his desired stopping point that pulled the material from his mouth, attaching it to the tile. Lighting raced across the sky and the boy jumped, sliding down until nearly the edge. He caught himself seconds before his body followed his feet over the end of the tiles.

"Hn, baka." The eyes blinked and were gone.~

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1- Gekan- entryway of the house, lower then the rest of the floor.

2- Uwabaki- house slippers, worn to protect the bamboo mats used as floor covering in most rooms.

3- Zabuton- thin flat cushions used as chairs or seats.

So that was the second chapter, I thank those who read and reviewed or faved/alerted the first chapter. I appreciate it.

Thanks for reading please review and tell me what you think. Bye.