Okay, So again I have no Idea where I am going with this- just let it flow I Suppose.

Oh, and Again: I don't own Naruto, This Idea however I do.

Chapter Two:

Enough is enough!; Curiosity gets the best of me.


Sakura worried her lip again, for the second time that she could remember that morning as she stood in the now very-bright kitchen. She was staring at an electric clock she'd placed on the counter next to the stove the previous owners put in. The night before, was something to marvel at, in fact thinking on it made the college student shiver with doubt. What would she do? Lee wasn't going to believe that the door upstairs opened by itself! Let alone the ghost story she was going to have to tell him when Hinata finished looking it up.

'This is so lame' her face contorted and she hissed her dislike for the situation out to the empty room the counter was facing. Grabbing at a cup that lay helplessly on the counter she grumbled filling it; at quick flick of the wrist, with water, shutting the tap off to down it in one gulp. It was stressful, only because Sakura didn't believe in ghosts- and if this was some elaborate joke she was going to be so pissed. That and whoever it was, she was going to beat into the next millennium.

"Sakura!" Called Hinata from down the hall in alarm, "I've found some information! Come look at this!" Her roommate sounded rather surprised, so Sakura being the person she was- Ran down the hallway in a hurry skidding to a stop at the open door walking over to her crossing the room with ease. "What?" Grabbing the back of the chair with one hand, the pink haired thing leaned forward and squinted a bit at the screen.

"Okay, so it says here that this house when built was inhabited by a rich young, aristocrat by the name of Kakuzu…No last name listed." Hinata seemed to be skim reading as she scrolled down faster then Sakura herself could read so upon giving up she sunk back and up into an up-right position leaving heavily on her right leg arms crossing. "Apparently he fell in love some- some guy and there relationship was- well healthy but people didn't take this well obviously…um…" She was really skim reading this time- no detail but Sakura could go without for now. "Wait they were both men?" There was a long pause, "I guess so…" Hinata said just as stunned as Sakura squinting her eyes leaning back in the chair.

"…How, strange..." Sakura supplied watching Hinata with an expecting gaze.

"That's not it, either. I've read through a few articles about it but apparently they both died- one outside of unknown causes and the other upstairs in the study- he was reported to be dead by heart attack.…There was other people living here with them too, a girl by the name of Sally Hithers and a handful of servants who's names are not listed," Hinata crossed her arms tapping her fingers against her arm. "Either way, that doesn't really help-.."

"What was his name?" Sakura asked looking around the room with a sound scoff and a scowl evident on her brow line.

"Huh? Oh Kakuzu. I said that."

"No, Idiot, the other guy's name" She growled out looking back at the screen.

"Ah, it didn't say." Hinata said sheepishly. "I haven't found much on it. Apparently this Kakuzu guy was one rich son-of-a-bitch. Everything is about him." There was a pause then and while anticipating this was going to be bad, she didn't quite think it'd be this freaking weird.

'A puzzle, there is nothing on the other man, but everything seemed to focus on this, Kakuzu, person. I love puzzles.'

Sakura grinned suddenly, "Well, Hinata I suppose we get to play detective in our own home." She leaned back on her heels, "A mystery!" Sakura declared making Hinata laugh whole-heartedly. The spunky flower-colored girl was back in action! And had a new mission in life right now.

"This will be it, Hinata! It could help you with your book and me not die of boredom and work!" She spun on her heel and turned leaving the room with new-found courage and a whole lot of determination.

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Lee showed up later that day at around ten. Sakura had already though figured out what she was going to do about this little 'haunting' which was really going to be a big problem if she didn't take control of it. It took however a lot of convincing to make Lee lay off the idea of pests being in the walls, and for a while both girls thought he was planning on moving in with them which wouldn't of been bad if they didn't already have to clean up after what that pesky Thing did upstairs with the chains.

It was nearing two hours of searching when he finally made the decision to go upstairs, which both Sakura and Hinata agreed wouldn't be necessary and had to drag and beg Lee to let it go. Which for Sakura brought on a whole assortment of kisses and hugs and tugs and giggles and whines which Hinata could have gone without looking at or hearing.

"I'm going to work on my story." Hinata huffed turning around smiling kindly, "I've been struck with inspiration!" She quipped walking towards her room letting the door stay open to listen to any conversation going on while she was down the hallway. The sound in the house- wasn't great. It echoed a lot if you used a loud voice in the main room or kitchen or (As they both learned last night) on the stairs but everywhere else was kind of muted by the rooms and doors and such.

Seating herself down, Hinata booted up the computer and opened a word document with a sigh lurching back in her chair to wait on it.

There wasn't much going on today, was it because it was day time? Either way Hinata found she liked the quiet not so dark house over the submerged in the back abyssal of hell with two things you can't see while screaming and running from things being thrown at you- rather violently might one add- house.

Clicking her tongue, she drew in a deep breath and moved her mouse around a little to test it, opening up word document then a file labeled 'The forest of Gabriel'. Words fluttered across the blank sheet of the previous document as the page count went from one to seventy three. Using the mouse's scroll bar to good use she clicked on the center piece and moved the mouse down a little fluttering the page all the way to the last, clicking to finalize the action.

A pleased noise erupted from her throat as she settled her fingers onto the keys and closed her eyes, brainstorming a moment before beginning:

'It was dark, and the blond stood alone in library filled to the brim with books and other things. Letting her blue eyes pass over many titles she paused lifting a finger to rest against the brim of one pulling at the spine. A book on vampires, she never liked them. Never believed they existed really, and won't ever, either no matter how many people obsess over them they aren't that great…'

Hinata stared at the two lines of text for a while and erased them both hitting the back space key several times after that to eliminate the last few words.

Her inspiration was, and still is, gone.

Her face heated up slightly in reprieve and she clicked the 'x' button on the corner of the document closing it out without saving any changes she'd made because there wasn't any. Frustration now rising in her body she tapped her fingers against the mouse for a moment looking around the room as if someone was watching her do something bad, which it wasn't, it was harmless research.

She clicked on the small 'E' at the bottom bar of the computer and up opened internet Explorer. It took her experienced fingers only a few seconds to type in what she wished to search for and upon hitting enter got many articles about the house.

"This guy was seriously nuts with money huh?" Hinata murmured to herself scrolling through the page that was explaining all about him and almost nothing about the other Man that wasn't mentioned yet. It was seriously irritating when you wanted to know who the other guy was. "No pictures…" She murmured to herself clicking on a link to read more, "No last name.." She grit her teeth pushing 'back' and going to the next web-site, "No relatives.." She sighed, "No nothing." Lost, beaten in the battle to find internet assistance on what had happened in the house.

"It's useless…If I want to learn more the only way I'm going to is to go up there.." The thought, though it crossed her mind several times- never came out to being so simple sounding. If only she wasn't terrified to go up the stairs without someone right next to her, with them she'd be up there already wouldn't she? Leaning back in her chair she grumbled rubbing her face with both hands, disheveling her hair when she ran fingers into it, scratching lightly at her scalp.

"I have to do this." She groaned to herself. No point in acting like a coward now, right? She took this moment to sit in silence closing her eyes leaning on her knees, elbows propping her head up hands in her face to hold it in place.

'Tak, tak, tak, tak, tak, tak'

Her head jerked up eyes wide at the sudden invasion of noise. It was soft, no doubt but it was there. Today was going to be easy, as Sakura announced she was leaving for work, tonight however was bound to be hellish.

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"Hinata?" Sakura called from her room, door open. It was night and the cold of rain still loomed outside clouds still covering the sky. She'd just arrived back at the house and it was a quarter to ten. She was tired of waiting on people who were jerks, but that was her job.

"Hinata are you working on homework? Or that story of yours?" There was another long laps of silence. "Hinata Answer me, damn it!"

"Sorry, Sakura got caught up in thinking is all." It was a short soft reply which she could handle. "I'm out for the night." Sakura yawned covering her mouth flopping back onto her bed, staring at the ceiling for a while.

"Good night!" She yelled standing and walking towards the door closing it with a snap, stalking tiredly over to her bed, falling back on it eyes closed. "Ah, sweet pillow…" She murmured drifting fast.

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It felt like she'd done this before. No, she has done this before, the night before actually. Huffing Sakura turned her head, laying flat on her back now, reading the clock.

3:07 AM

The red lights of the Alarm clock screamed at her as she stared at them puzzled for a moment. 'Oh my god I woke up exactly this time yesterday!' the girl was smart, and made the connection quick but she heard nothing. She couldn't remember any dream, so that's not what woke her up and it wasn't the tapping so what was it? Sitting up she looked around eyes narrowing in the dark to focus on things.

"Oh come on." She snorted reaching out to a bed-side lamp that she just didn't think to turn on last time. The room was illuminated seconds later as she looked around the room.

Thump- bang!

"Holy!" Sakura, startled jumped and fell out of bed, wrestling with the blanket that fell with her for a few minutes before poking her head out to stare down the hallway with a raised brow.

"Oh, that is it!" She snapped jumping up from her spot, sliding near a closet to slip on some house slippers, doing so quickly grabbing a lantern, storming out of her room leaving with a colorful array of curses. For a while the fear she had for the upstairs was crippling, but now it was diminished by the anger she felt at the noise.

One step after another she fumed stopping dead in the middle of the hallway a scoff on her face, stomping her own foot. "Damn it, knock it off! People are trying to sleep here!" She walked to the first door- that opened it self and flung the thing open looking around- there was a desk in the corner, it looked aged, and there was book shelves with books in them still, there was Dust everywhere, layered so thick she couldn't imagine what it was going to be like cleaning that off.

Turning sharply eyes narrowed in a glare she left the door ajar and walked to the next one grabbing it and again, sliding it open with great force, peering into the room stopping dead in her tracks.

The room was the neatest thing next to Sasuke's she'd ever laid eyes on. Al-bet it was filthy as hell, but still. The cot- old and smelly, sat perfectly square with the frame above it, the small table that was pressed into the corner of the room had things on it placed perfectly and in the far right corner laid what could only be considered a Pike, or a metal stick with an extremely sharpened end and a capped off base side. On the wall's were pictures, and everything seemed articulate, almost to the point of OCD including the rather strange shape painted right onto the wood on the closet wall. A Triangle, end pointed to earth in a- circle? Or was it an oval? She couldn't hardly tell in the dark. Taking a moment to pause and think this room over she turned and went on, down the hallway turning when it did, another room- she threw the door open and gasped at the smell, coughing and waving her hand.

Dust flew everywhere but what was more potent was the smell of paint- lots and lots of paint. It reeked of rotting wood, paint and well just shit. This room was not only covered in dust, but sheets where over lots of different things. That strong stench of paint only got so little of a chance to make itself known before Sakura threw the door closed and gagged. "Holy hell.." She coughed moving to the next door her anger starting to simmer down a little.

"Ha….ha!" She threw the door open getting a face full of- what do you know- Dust. She took a moment to gag before gaining enough composure to look around, stepping inside the vast room. "Wow.." She said softly walking around looking at things with curiosity. Lots of very neat, very nice nick-naks where positioned around for show on shelves, or at least the ones she could see clearly. There was a cot on the floor on this room as well, the mattress hardly visible through all the damn dust in the air.

However she did notice the difference between this room and the one she first looked at, It wasn't as neat. The OCD neatness must have been with just that one person. Yeah, the place was tidy but not like the first room she entered. Looking around a little more she sighed saddened she didn't find anything but all there shit- shoved in one room and all the others un-touched. "Damn this is lame." Sakura turned around and started to exit the room, pausing when she heard voices standing very still next to the door to listen to them, eyes wide. Fear was grabbing at her chest, making it hard to breath as her heart rattled in her ears.

'Don't be like that, you know I can't allow...do..' The voice faltered- it was deep and kind of scary to listen to.

'Fuck you! I'll do what I want to….you…let me see you stop me!' It was a wail a little louder- maybe a silent ghostly fight? Or the paint fumes were getting to her head.

'Damn it, I said no…..mea….' There was a loud crashing noise- like something in the hallway hit the wall and Sakura was immediately out of the room in a rush.

"Hey!" She cried pausing her heart hammering still, breathing quickened as she stood there pale green eyes wide looking around the darkness. Nothing- there was nothing there. Exhaling slowly with a shaky breath she looked forward, seeing her breath spill out in the air before her. It was freezing suddenly; it was just as cold as a freezer box or something.

"Hello?" Silence ran through the hallway.

"I-I know someone's out there, you can't fool me!" There was another pause and before she knew what was going on a relic from the room she exited flew at her and dented the wood wall she was standing by. Screaming she ducked covering her head holding onto the lantern so tightly her knuckles were white.

"Alright! I'm going!" She screamed desperate for something to make this actually just a joke, she wanted it to be a joke. Running down the hallway she skid when she turned the sudden sharp turn and made her way to the stairs listening as the door she opened slid closed loudly behind her, her feet making the floor boards creek as she ran down the stairs- meeting the lavender gaze of her worried friend.

"Sakura!" Cried Hinata as the woman came down the stairs heaving in breaths, "Hinata!" Sakura shrieked back coming to a halt breathlessly, leaning forward to heave air in and out of her lungs. "I think, I think they had some kind of agreement…problem.." She had to pause to catch her breath a shaky grin crawling along her face. "..They wouldn't, couldn't…take orders from each other.." She cooed out laughing nervously as Hinata took the lantern from her hand and led her to the kitchen.

"Okay…" Hinata started slowly walking forward, "Explain Everything."