The Demons Within

Chapter 2

Ryuu

I sat straight up in bed. Something was making a lot of noise. I looked at the clock. Six fifteen AM. I was going to find whatever was making the noise, kill them and then go back to sleep. Needless to say, I am not a morning person. One of the few I share in common with Michiko. I got out of bed and walked out of the room. Most of the guys were coming out of their rooms looking around in confusion. Kiba came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around him, Akamaru trailing behind him.

"You couldn't have put some clothes on?" It was Shino. First time I ever heard him talk.

"No. What the fuck was that?" We all just shrugged. "Well let's go see if we can find out." Kiba led the charge downstairs. The girls were all coming out of their rooms too. All except for Sora and Michiko. They could sleep through anything. Lucky them.

"Do you guys know what that was? Oh and Kiba. Put some clothes on would ya?" Kiba glared at her and we all said we had no idea.

"Oh I bet I know what it was!" Naruto pushed through the others. "Yesterday I was talking to some woman about the experiment and she wanted to know where it was so I told her and she knew the place and she said that it was haunted!"

We all looked at one another and burst out laughing. There is no such thing as ghosts.

"No seriously! Apparently this family lived here and the husband was an abusive bastard and one day the woman had enough and killed him and left with her kids."

"Well it sounds likely enough. I guess." Shikamaru said from somewhere in the crowd. "Those kinds of bastards deserve to die." Many agreed. I didn't

"No. They deserve worse then death. It's too easy a way out. Let's go see if we can find what made the noise." I'd rather know what made it then talk about this anymore. It hit too close to home.

"Let's check the kitchen first. It's the most likely place." Sakura took charge and led us into the kitchen where we saw Kakashi cooking.

"Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura had the funniest puzzled look on her face.

"Oh hi. I was just starting breakfast. If you were wondering about that noise it was me. Sorry if I woke you up." He turned back to what he was doing.

"See Naruto. No ghosts." Sakura turned and left. We all followed her grumbling about being woken. When we got in the hallway, Michiko and Sora were there.

"What's everyone doing out here so early? Oh god. Kiba put some clothes on!" Sora said.

Kiba let out a strangled yell and stomped off.

"What's his problem?" Michiko turned and headed with Sora to their rooms.

I decided to go back to sleep. This would be a long day.

Sora

We had heard all the noise the others were making and woke up. I went back in my room to get my things to get ready for the day. I had put my bathroom things in a locker in the bathroom but I needed clothing. I wasn't going to pull a Kiba. I pulled out a black stretchy shirt, red tank top, black long shorts, my sandals, and black fingerless gloves. I headed out to the bathroom with clothing. Michiko met me in the hallway. She was carrying her fishnet top, blue tank top, black skirt, stretchy shorts, fish net legging, leg bandages and kunai holder. We went in the bathroom, took showers and got dressed.

"Hey Sora, could you help with my hair?" She had the longest hair I had ever seen. It was almost down to her ankles. She didn't have it that long just for decoration though. She usually kept it up in various braids tied together. I helped her braid it and pinned the upper half of the braids up into a bun. The lower halves of the braids were left to hang down to her hips. I could never put up with all that hair so I always kept my hair short, hanging at mid neck.

"Let's go. I want my coffee." We walked to the kitchen where Kakashi was finishing breakfast. I grabbed the nearest glass, shoved Shikamaru out of my way and poured myself some nice hot coffee. Mmmm, caffeine. The others came streaming into the room. We all grabbed some food and sat around the tables. Ryuu joined Michiko and me at our end of the table. All around us the guys were in an eating frenzy. They ate like it was going out of style.

"Ok guys, listen up. Today you will have to divide up the chores. You will also be going through some preliminary testing so we can get a gauge on your current skills and abilities. That will take place at around two. Until then you may do what you want. Well, see you then." Kakashi left the room and presumably the building.

"Good. I need to go into town any way." Everything was falling into place.

"Really? Why?" Why did Naruto have to be so nosy?

"I need to pick up something." Which was true actually.

"What?"

"Dammit Naruto, just keep your nose out of her business." Sakura proceeded to smack him on the back of the head. It was hilarious.

We finished up breakfast and I went back to my room.

"You picking up your…"

"Shut up Michiko. You want everyone to know?"

"Sorry."

"Its ok, just be more careful. It's not like I want people to add two and two."

Naruto

I heard their conversation and decided to follow Sora and see what she was picking up. I didn't have much else to do. She went in her room for a bit and then locked up and headed out the door. She talked to some one on the street who pointed her in the direction she wanted to go. She thanked them and headed in the pointed direction. She stopped in the middle of the block and looked around. She went to talk to someone else presumably for more directions. They started talking pretty animatedly so I decided to get a closer look.

"What are you doing?" Gaara appeared from seemingly nowhere nearly giving me a heart attack in the process.

"Shhh. Keep your voice down. I'm trying to find out what she's picking up."

"Hmm. Oddly I'd like to know too."

"Well if you're going to follow keep your voice down."

She stopped talking to the person and headed further down the street until she stopped in front of a drug store. She went in.

"Let's go see what she's doing."

We followed her in and saw her talking to the man behind the counter.

"….But I need them."

"I'm sorry but you're too young to be getting tranquilizers."

"Why? I'm a ninja for God's sake. I'm old enough to go on dangerous life-threatening missions, but I'm too young to get some stupid tranquilizers?"

"Sorry, but that's how it is. Have your sensei get them for you if you need them so bad."

Gaara pulled me out of there.

"Why does she need tranquilizers?" He looked puzzled for a moment before she came out of the store. She went back to the house. She looked really pissed off.

She asked someone where Kakashi-sensei was. They pointed out back. We went around the front.

"Kakashi-sensei?" He climbed down from the tree he was in.

"Yeah? "

"Well due to my 'special conditions', as you call it, I need tranquilizers. But the guy at the store wouldn't let me get them. Too young."

"Why do you need them, if you don't mind me asking?"

"Well, during thunderstorms, the thing goes crazy. If I don't knock myself out, it causes some serious damage. These things tend to do that."

"Yeah I saw what could result recently in the land of waves. I'll get you the tranquilizers. I'll get them to you before the tests alright?"

"That'll be great. Thanks Kakashi-sensei."

"What was that about? What 'special condition' could she possibly have?" Gaara was almost as confused as I was.

"I saw everything in the land of waves that he did. The only things that caused a lot of damage were Zabuza and the….." Suddenly it dawned on me. The Kyubbi. "She has a biju sealed in her."