Chapter 2. A strange past and a stranger resemblance
Normal P.O.V
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO.
A/N: Just to prevent any confusion, the year right now in this fanfiction is 2112. Don't ask why. Just read. Special thanks to Rose-Aki and Ms. Awesomeness for being my first reviewers. You guys really motivated me! Cookies for the two of you! :D All right, ON WITH THE STORY!
The day was turning out to be pretty good so far. It was lunch time and Temari was making her way to the library to get a book about the history of Konoha for Social Studies. Kakashi wanted everyone in the class to get at least one interesting book about Konoha and make a summary about it. The assignment wasn't due until Thursday but Temari just wanted to get it over with so that she won't have to forget about it and do it at the last minute. She got several books of the same topic and placed the stack onto the table. She took a seat and grabbed one of the books. The book was thick and the pages were brown and crispy signaling that it was a very old book. She opened it and was immediatly absorbing the information that she was reading.
Temari found the history of Konoha interesting and loved it, especially the mysterious part. She read about a mysterious death that happened around 100 years ago. It said that a girl about her age with red hair and glasses died while staying at the school over night. She was with 5 other girls that survived the mysterious attack. She was also the leader of the group. On the side, it showed a picture of the girls. The color of the picture was very faded so she couldn't make out the color of the girls hair. Temari looked at the girl that stood in the middle of the group. She assumed that she was probably the leader of the group since she was the only one wearing glasses. Temari assumed that she must've been the red haired girl since she was the only one in the group that wore glasses. She shifted her gaze to the girl on the right of Mikazuki. The girl had the top part of her hair tied up into 2 pony tails and the bottom half was down. Her short bangs lying down carefully on her face. Her expression was calm and her smile was beautiful.
She looks alot like me... Temari stared at the girl in the picture for a moment and looked away from the picture. She then continued to read. She read in her head:
The 5 girls were questioned the next day later about what happened to Mikazuki Oshio, the red haired girl that died the night before. The 5 girls were reluctant to tell and only provided little information about what happened. They did say that they were all walking through the hallways by themselves looking for something important. They had all said that they were to meet at the library if they found it. When they couldn't find it, they all texted each other saying to meet at the library anyway so that they would return home together. Once the group was there, only Mikazuki was missing. The girls were worried and looked everywhere for her. They were all afraid of walking through the school alone again so they decided to stick with each other. They walked through out the school looking for her until 11 pm. That was when the new moon glowed brightly and they heard a shrill scream. They ran to the direction of the scream and saw the leader of their group lying down in front of the main building lifeless. Mikazuki wasn't bleeding so the cause of her death was unknown. Some girls in the group thought that she might've been poisoned before going to the school but when they ran tests later that day, they found no poison. It was a mysterious death indeed. No marks, No bruise, No bump. Nothing.
That was all what they could say about what happened that night. They've been kept watch in secret though since the police still did not know who the murderer was and didn't trust them.. The police had suspicions that it might be one of the girls since they were the only ones there in the school with the red head. The girls protested saying that it wasn't either of them and since the police had no other evidence to prove it was them, they let the girls go, but still watched them secretly.
The group was called into a meeting to discuss the death of Mikazuki a week later. During the meeting, the police interrogated the girls about what happened that night and what was the real reason why they went to the school in the middle of the night. The girls looked at each oher with unsure faces like they were all debating whether or not they should tell them or not. They all nodded and turned to the police with a frown on their faces. Right when the girl with dirty blonde hair was about to answer for the group, all 5 of the girls phone beeped simutaniously. The girls sat stiffly in their seats and turned pale. The brunette of the group was the first to break from the trans. She chuckled nervously and appologized to the police. That made the other girls snap out of their trans as well. When the police asked if they were gonna check their phones, the girls just shook their heads quickly saying that it probably wasn't important. The police were very hesitant to believe them so they dismissed the girls cutting the meeting short.
When the girls were out, one of the FBI that was keeping watch of them was able to listen to them talk. The girls pulled their phones and read aloud together.
"You'll never know who I am no matter how much you try. The game has already begun bitches so watch your back. Unknown."
"Ugh, this freak has been texting us ever since the death of Mikazuki. When is he/she gonna stop!?" the girl with the dark pink hair said in frustration.
"I dont know... But don't worry, we'll find this person soon" the blue haired girl said with a slight voice of doubt.
"Liar..." mummbled the brunette.
"Girls, we WILL find out who this freak is. I mean, this person could be the same person that killed Mikazuki! We can just let him/her get away with that." the dirty blonde said confidently.
"Let's hope so.." the girl with light blonde hair replied sadly.
The FBI wasn't able to hear the rest of their conversation because he had already begun to walk away after the dirty blonded girl looked at him suspiciously. He headed towards the direction of the police station happy with the new information that he's recieved. After the FBI reported to the chief, they continued on with their case with new founded knowledge.
A month after the meeting and Mikazukis death, the girls had begun to start acting strange. The girls were looking at everyone suspiciously and walking into random neighborhoods. At first, the onlookers thought that it was normal, but when they soon found out about the case, since it was in the morning paper and news, they just looked at the girls in pity, disgust, or in disapointment. The girls didn't seem to care about what the othes thought and continued on with their business.
A year later, the police noticed something strange. It seemed that most of the people close to the girls were either dead, or in a rehabiliation hospital. The people that died were the people that know of the girls secret. The people in the rehabilitaion hospital know only half. And the last ones that were much more important to them than the rest, know nothing about what happened except for the death of their beloved best friend.
The girls decided to move to Suna along with their loved one. Of course, one of the FBI were able to follow them and keep track of their wherabouts.
The girls stayed in Suna for about 4 years, finishing school at the Academy there. During the 4 years, the FBI found nothing suspicious going on with the girls. They only seemed to be more happy and worry-free there. Some of the girls were getting home sick and decided to be going back to Konoha, trusting that the murder was gone. On the day that the girls were going to leave, only the dirty blonde stayed at Suna with her husband. She bid the girls farewell. That was the last that the police have heard about the girls, becase once the girls arrived at Konoha, everyone seemed to have forgiven them for the crime that they claim that they didnt do. Even the police seemed to have given up with the case leaving it incomplete.
Temari stopped reading, noticing that the last pages of the book ripped out. She saw 5 numbers written on the bottom right hand corner of the last page. 27081.
It must be a code of some sort. Temari thought as she stared at the five numbers.
"Having fun reading there?" said a voice behind her. Temari turned around and saw a girl with red hair and glasses smiling down to her. Her eyes widened.
She looks ALOT like the girl in the picture. Temari noticed that there were 4 other girls behind the red head. One had short light pink hair with emerald eyes, the other was a brunette that put her hair up into two buns, another had lavender eyes similar to Nejis and long blue hair, and the last one had platnum blonde hair with sharp light blue eyes. The girls that were standing in front of her right now looked so much like the girls in the picture. Even them... What is going on? Temari furrowed her eyebrows together in wonder.
"Hello? Are you okay" The red head asked in a concerned tone. Temari shook her head.
"I'm fine."
"You don't look like it. You're really pale right now." the pink haired said. Temari gulped and shook her head again.
"I said I'm fine..." she mumbled. "what are you doing here anyways? I'm kinda busy right now"
"we noticed that you looked new here so we're here to introduce ourselves" the blonde one chirped happily. "I'm Ino"
"I'm Sakura" the pink haired one said.
"I'm H-Hinata" the lavender eyed one said timidly.
"I'm Tenten" the brunette said.
"And I'm Karin" the red head announced proudly. All of the girls then took a seat on the opposite side of Temari. The table was pretty big so it could seat about 13 people.
"I'm Temari and as you can see, I am currently in the middle of choosing the correct book for class and I believe that I have found it" Temari picked up the book that she was reading showing it to the girls "Now if you'll excuse-"
"Temari-chan!" yelled a familiar voice. The girls looked at the direction of the voice and saw Naruto standing outside of the library along with the rest of the boys behind him. They all walked inside and took a seat at Temari's side of the table.
"Who're your new friends Temari?" Kiba asked pointing to the girls across from him. Temari introduced everyone to each other and when she finally got to Neji, she continued to introduce him to the other people even though she knew that he was paying no attention.
Indeed, Neji was paying no attention to the introduction at all for he was staring at the book in Temaris hand the whole time since they arrived. Temari noticed his gaze towards the book.
"Ehh, Neji, what are you looking at?" Temari asked
Neji looked at the book a little while longer then, he shifted his gaze to Temari, and then to the girls. That was when his mind clicked. He grab the book from Temari's hand. Temari and everyone else at the table was looking at him curiously as he skimmed through the pages.
"I knew it" he mumbled to himself.
"Know what Neji?" Chouji asked. Even he was curious to know since he abruptedly stopped chewing on his chips when Neji took the book. Neji looked at the page of the book and then placed the book in the middle of the desk so that everyone could see. It was the page with the picture of Mikazuki and the other 5 girls. Everyones eyes grew wide.
"This." was all Neji said as he sat back stiffly on his seat.
The boys looked from the girls in the picture, to the girls that were sitting in front of them at that very moment, noticing the exact resemblance that they shared.
Even Temari looks alot like the girl in the picture. The hell is going on?! Shikamaru thought as he squinted his eyebrows in wonder.
"Neji-san, how did you find out about this?" Tenten said.
"I was bored and wanted to read something. So I went to the library and found this book. It looked decrepit so I thought that it might've been a good thing to read it since the oldest things can contain many interesting information. I borrowed it and read the rest at home. The day when I saw that picture was the same day that I saw all 5 of you" Neji said as he stared at the girls except for Temari. "I thought that it must've been a coincidence so I ignored it. But when Temari came, I knew that she looked familiar but I just couldn't remember where I saw her. And when I saw here with you guys, that was when I finally remembered where I saw her."
Everyone at the table were silent for a moment. Temari and the other girls stared at the book containing the picture.
"So w-what does this mean?" Hinata spoke softly.
"I don't know.. We'll try to do some research on it."
"WE?" Karin said with emphasis
"Yes, we. Something weird is going on and we need to work together to find out what it is. This means sneaking into the police department to steal the documents. We need information about the girls that lived 100 years ago since the book only said the common things. The documents would have some more personal things and we need that. We also need-"
BING! Six phones beeped at the same time. Every one sat stiffly.
"uhh.. who's phones were that?" Naruto asked nervously still feeling uneasy with the picture. The girls raised their hands and looked at each other with a slight confusion on their face. Temari though, looked at Neji who was staring at the girls with a worried expression on his face.
The girls took out their Iphone X5. Temari's Iphone had a purple cover with a design of a weasel with a shirt eating a dango in the back. There was also a charm with an open fan with 3 purple circles on it dangling at the top left hand corner. Sakura's phone was pink with a picture of a cherry blossom in the back. Ino's phone was also purple but in a darker shade than Temaris. There was a picture of a bouquet of daisies in the back. Tenten's phone was maroon with a picture of a kunai and a shuriken charm dangling at the same corner as Temaris phone. Lastly Hinata's phone was lavender with a picture of yin and yang in the back. The girls slowly clicked on the text. Their eyes widened and stared at their flat touch screened phone with the look of fear in their eyes.
Sasuke coughed. "Aren't you going to read it out loud?" The girls looked at each other again and then to the boys. They all looked at their phones and spoke together:
"Looks like you sluts finally found it. It seems that the boys want to join this game as well. Round 2 begins now. Be prepared bitches. Unknown." The boys stared at the girls.
"What are you guys gonna do about this?" Chouji asked in concern.
Sakura sighed. "Well, we can't reply to the sender since its private. And we don't have any other plans... So, I guess we're going to have to do what Neji said. We're going to find out what is going on. Things are getting creepier by the second and the sooner we find out who this freak is, the sooner we can go on normally with the rest of our lives."
Everyone nodded their heads. "And what will WE do?" Shikamaru asked looking at Temari. His eyes were getting watery. Temari noticed and smirked.
"Don't worry crybaby, this is our problem, we can do this on our own. And besides, I don't want you to be risking your life just cause of this. We'll be fine" Temari smiled reassuringly. Though, she was very unsure in the inside.
Shikamaru looked unconvinced as he shook his head. "Temari, you don't understand. What if this freak kills you? "
"Don't worry about me. And besides why do you care? We just met."
"I care because you're the first girl in this school that never turned fangirl on me.."
"You'll never know Nara. What if I just randomly turn into one on a random day?" Temari taunted. Shikamaru scoffed
"Temari, I may have just met you, but what I do know is that you aren't the type of person to do that. You're too… YOU."
"And what's THAT supposed to mean?" Temari glared as she grabbed a random book on the table, ready to throw it at the pineapple haired boys head. Shikamaru stared at the book.
If I had to choose between this troublesome woman and a fangirl, I'd definitely choose the fangirl. Shikamaru saw a group of girls running towards him and the boys at the table with hearts in their eye, ready to pounce on them. Then again, at least this troublesome woman doesn't chase me around 24/7.
While Shikamaru was thinking , Temari slapped his head.
"Oi, Shikamaru, stop daydreaming about me"
Shikamaru turned pink as he rubbed his head and the girls at the table giggled. "Ouch! Woman, what's wrong with you?"
Temari glared at him.
"So, uh, the text…" Kiba said nervously. That seemed to snap Shikamaru and Temari back to reality. They stared at Temaris phone with the text on the screen. Ino sighed.
"What are we going to do?" she groaned.
"We're going to continue living our lives normally like this never happened, but still be aware of Unknown. It might be a joke, it might not. But if he/she continues, that's when round 2 REALLY begins." Sasuke said in a straight face. Why couldn't he have just been with his brother and his gang and avoid all this? The answer was unknown to him but he shrugged it off. Who knows? Maybe the person's not really as dangerous as we think.
A/N: Chapter 2 is done! Summary makes much more sense now eh? (; well, hope ya like it. This was a tricky chapter to come up with and it was pretty difficult to add some ShikaTema in here. I feel like it was pretty junky but eh, best having it in here than not having it at all. So! Chapter 3 will be up in 4 or 5 days. Still not sure when to finish it yet. But I will guarantee you all that there WILL be more ShikaTema :'D . LOL, review! I worked hard on this chapter and I need some motivation. Thank's for reading ! :)
- Fangasm
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