Hope you guys liked the first chapter although it wasn't much...I'm not really good with scary stories but I guess when I'm done, you'll have to figure out yourself whether you like it or not. =\
Enjoy chap.2! =)
Chapter 2
Naruto and the rest of the gang woke up to pots and pans crashing together. Naruto jumped up out of his sleeping bag and looked out the tent. He saw Iruka and the rest of the teachers banging cooking utensils loudly to make the kids wake up. Everyone slowly got out of their tent and made their way to the river to freshen up. About an hour later, everyone was back in the auditorium to begin on the play.
Naruto slowly dragged himself onto the auditorium stage. The script was written out by none other than the famous Jiraiya. There were at least 100-200 copies of the script since there were so many shinobis. Naruto flipped through the pages to see so many lines that it seemed to be giving him a headache before he even started trying to memorize it. It seemed never ending.
"Alright, everyone! I guess we'll begin by making props for the stage. We've got only 2 weeks so chop-chop!" said Iruka.
Naruto was so tired that his eyes were drooping before Iruka finished talking. His head was bobbing every 5 seconds as he stood there. Trying to fight the sleep that wanted to overtake him was not helping. Giving in would be too easy, fighting it would only make it worse since he couldn't keep his eyes open anymore. Naruto closed his eyes and let the darkness engulf him as he drifted away in sleep. His entire body dropped to the floor and he landed with a loud THUD!!
Everyone in the room turned their gazing eyes from Iruka to the loud sound that had caught their attention. A giant 'X' formed on Iruka's head, giving him the frustration power to purposely crush the papers he had in his hands.
"NA-RU-TO!!!!" yelled Iruka. "NARUTO!! WAKE UP!!!"
Naruto slowly opened his eyes to see a massive crowd of people staring at him. He gradually stood up without realizing that he was drooling from his mouth in his less-than-one-minute-sleep.
"Doofus!" said Sasuke under his breath.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?!" yelled Naruto as he was shaking his fist at Sasuke. "I DARE YOU TO SAY THAT AGAIN!!!!"
"Sure, why not! Doofus!"
"WHY YOU LITTLE!?!?!? I'M GOING TO POUND YOU, BASTARD!!!"
Naruto rolled up his sleeves and was about to lunge at Sasuke when Iruka grabbed Naruto from the back of his suit collar, stopping him.
"LEMME GO! LEMME GO!! I HAVE TO KICK HIS ASS FOR BEING SUCH A DICK!!!!" yelled Naruto as he was kicking and screaming from Iruka's grip.
"NARUTO! Calm down! If you keep messing around, we will never get a start on this play and everyone will be mad at you!"
Naruto stopping squirming and slowly looked at everyone in the room to see death stares from every single person.
Sasuke abruptly turned his head away and said, "Moron!"
Naruto's eyes widened with the "anime-freak-out-face" as he began to once again lunge forward at Sasuke. And once again, Iruka held him back.
"LEMME GO!!! LEMME GO!!! I'M GOING TO KICK HIS ASS!!! HE'S PISSING ME OFF!!
"NAAAAA-RUUUUU-TOOOO!!!! IF YOU DON'T STOP THIS RIGHT NOW, I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS!!!!" screamed Sakura.
Naruto stopped in his tracks and obediently shut his mouth. Iruka finished off what he was instructing the students to do with the props for the play. The students shuffled their way around to find cardboards, scissors, glue, coloring utensils, boxes, and anything else that would help in making the stage props.
As they went about digging through the piles of useful equipments, Sasuke and Kiba snuck off behind the curtains. Off to the side, Naruto looked through a stack of cloth to find something for the dress he would have to be wearing in the play. Out of nowhere, a hand reaches out from behind the curtains, grabs Naruto and pulls him in. Naruto opened his mouth and was about to scream when a hand covered his mouth tightly. Naruto squirmed and squirmed hoping that whatever had caught him wouldn't eat him alive.
"Stop moving, you idiot!" scolded Sasuke.
Naruto stopped when he heard the familiar sound of the voice. He turned around to see Sasuke and Kiba looking at him as if he was insane.
"You're so jumpy, Naruto." said Kiba.
Akamaru barked in agreement.
"Well…if someone didn't grab me from behind, then I wouldn't be in this situation! Hmph!"
"Whatever! Let's come up with ideas of how we're going to put our plan into action." said Sasuke.
"But what exactly are we going to do?" asked Naruto.
There was silence for a moment between the three boys as they thought about what they should do for their early Halloween prank. About 5 minutes later……there was still silence. A moment later, Naruto broke the silence.
"I KNOW!!!" Naruto signaled his arms to let the other two boys know to move into a circle. "How about we … (whispers) … and we … (whispers) …?"
"That sounds good, Naruto! But it seems a little too original, don't you think?" asked Kiba.
"What about this?" Everyone leaned in to listen to Sasuke. "We could … (whispers) and … (whispers) …then …. How about that?"
"Yeah! That's a good one, Sasuke! I never would have thought of that!" exclaimed Kiba.
"Pfft! I could've thought of that!" pouted Naruto.
"Yeah…sure you could! Doofus!" said Sasuke.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?! TEME!!!" yelled Naruto.
"Oi! Quiet down or they'll hear us, baka!" scolded Kiba. "Arf!" barked Akamaru.
"So we agree then? We meet tonight after everyone's asleep." said Sasuke.
Both Naruto and Kiba gave a nod towards him.
"Jaa, let's start looking for the things we'll need." Sasuke said to them.
"Ah!" exclaimed Naruto.
The 3 boys slipped back into the crowd of students without anyone knowing. They pretended as though nothing had happened and went about "helping" with the props.
As evening fast approached, the students had gotten nearly half of the stage props finished. They were able to make trees, woods, the castle, sky, witch's tower, and animal costumes. Hey, for a days' worth, they finished pretty fast. As night drew close, Iruka and the other teachers sent the students off for a good night's rest. The 3 boys ended up sharing a tent that night so it would be easier for them to begin their plan when it was time.
Sakura, Hinata, Ino and Tenten shared a tent not far from Naruto's tent.
"MOVE IT, INO PIG!!!" shouted Sakura.
"DON'T YOU TELL ME TO MOVE, FOREHEAD GIRL!!!"
"Oi guys! Calm down! Everyone's trying to sleep. Why don't you sleep over here, Ino?" offered Tenten.
A frown formed on the blonde's face.
"Hmph….whatever! As long as I'm not sleeping next to forehead girl!"
"What!?!?" yelled Sakura as she jumped in for the kill.
But Hinata held back Sakura while Tenten held back Ino with all their strength. They both stopped quarreling and Ino moved over to sleep next to Tenten while Hinata slept near Sakura.
"Good night, everyone." said Hinata in a soft voice.
They argued into the night saying things like, "forehead girl", "pig girl", "pink-haired freak", "blondie" and so on.
The shinobis drifted off into the night and let the darkness take over their bodies as they floated away into their dream world. As the hour reached the time for the 3 boys to come out from their tent, all 3 boys slowly crept out of their tent to ready their ingenious plan. The boys grabbed all the supplies they had supposedly taken from the props in the auditorium.
Naruto conjured up 2 kage bunshins and they all headed down to the river. The 3 boys dressed up the kage bunshins in farmer clothing or ones that are close to it; something dark. They handed one of the bunshins a shovel and made sure that their faces were covered so that no one would figure it was them. About 20 minutes later, all 3 boys went into hiding while the kage bunshins put their plan into effect.
Sakura woke up to the sound of rustling coming from outside her tent somewhere. Suddenly, she heard a thud sound out of nowhere and quickly became scared. She lowered her breathing to a control as to not get noticed. She slowly peeked out her tent and about 400 yards in front of her; she sees a figure shoveling in the dirt next to a giant tree with it's back facing her. As she was watching, the figure stood up as if it had heard something. Sakura quickly shuffled back into her tent and accidentally woke up Hinata along with it.
"What's--?"
"Shh! There's someone out there. I just saw him…I don't know what he was doing but it looked like he was digging a grave or something." whispered Sakura.
"W-what do you mean?" whispered back Hinata.
"I don't know….but….watch, come here…" Sakura used her hand to signal Hinata to move in closer.
Both girls poke their heads out of the tent and suddenly fog approached. Sasuke, apparently had used his genjutsu to make it more eerie, and that's not all. Sakura and Hinata both squinted to try and make out the figure that Sakura claimed to have seen. The more they squinted, the more it seemed as though the fog seemed to be lifting.
"I'll use my byakugan." whispered Hinata.
"Ok.."
Hinata used her byakugan and looked through the fog to see if she could spot anything. A moment later, she saw a figure of a man shoveling dirt into a giant hole.
"I see someone…." whispered Hinata.
"You see a man right? Looks like he's digging a grave right?" asked Sakura.
"Y-yes…"
As most of the fog had elevated already, the girls could see the figure almost clearly now except…Sakura's face whitened as she looked at the figure.
"S-sakura, what's wrong?" asked the now frightened Hinata.
"H-h-he….i-it l-looks like…he's closer than before."
Sakura gave a worried face towards Hinata.
"B-before he was about 400 yards away….now it looks as though h-he's 300 yards away…"
"Did he move closer when I went back into the tent?? But how? What should we do?"
"A-are you sure…Sakura?" asked Hinata in a worried voice.
"Y-yes…I-I'm sure…"
As they both look at the figure going about doing whatever he was doing, they saw an arm sticking out of the hole that he was covering. Hinata gasped at the horrific site which caught the attention of the figure. Sakura quickly covered Hinata's mouth with her hand and stopped her from squeaking another sound. Once again from our loving Sasuke, he used genjutsu and when the figure abruptly turned around, they saw blood all over one side of his face. Both Hinata and Sakura's face whitened and screamed as they shuffled back into the tent. They struggled and kicked and screamed and punched and woke up their tent mates as they went about freaking out. At this time, the 3 boys took the time to gather their things and get back into their tent since the teachers will be coming around to see what had just happened.
"STUPID FOREHEAD GIRL!!! WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!??! IT'S FUCKING 4 IN THE MORNING!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!??!?" screamed Ino.
Tenten woke up to them screaming and yelling and to the fact that the tent had fallen on them.
"What happened!!???! Sakura! Hinata!! Calm down! What's wrong?"
Both Sakura and Hinata slowly calmed down and told Ino and Tenten what they had just saw.
"What? Are you sure? Are you sure you're not having a nightmare, forehead girl?!?!" asked Ino.
"You look out there then!! INO PIG!!!" shouted Sakura.
At this time, Iruka and Kakashi were already on their way to see what was going on. Ino and Tenten, along with Sakura and Hinata peeked out of their tent to see what was all the commotion that had scared the 2 girls so. When Tenten and Ino looked out, they saw half of an arm lying right in front of their tent.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" screamed all 4 girls and shuffled back into their tent.
"WE'RE GONNA DIE!!! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!! AAAHHH!!!! I DON'T WANNA DIE!!!"
"YOU DON'T WANNA DIE!!??! WHAT ABOUT ME!??! I'M TOOO BEAUTIFUL TO DIE!!! HELP US!!! AAAHHHH!!"
By the time Iruka and Kakashi had gotten there, the arm had already vanished.
"Girls!! Girls!! What happened?!?!" asked Iruka.
"Iruka-sensei!! It was horrible!!! There was an arm right outside of our tent!!!" screamed Ino.
As the 2 teachers interrogate the girls, everyone else had woken up and peeked out of their tents to see what was going on.
"Alright girls, calm down! One at a time! Sakura, why don't you start first."
"It was horrible, Iruka-sensei! I saw a dark figure about 400 yards away, and…and… and it looked like he was digging a grave for someone. Hinata saw it too, except when Hinata saw it with me the second time, we saw an arm sticking out of the hole in the ground, and…and he got CLOSER!!! He wasn't 400 yards away like the first time I saw him, he was 100 yards closer than before!! We didn't know what to do, and I think he heard us…cause…..cause he turned around and h-his face was all bloody!!!!!" explained Sakura.
"Where was he at?" asked Kakashi.
"He was over there by that tree."
Kakashi went over to inspect the place.
"Is that true, Hinata?" asked Iruka.
"H-hai…we got scared and we started screaming…"
"Yeah…they woke us up…well as you can see we would've woken up anyways since our tent no longer stands." said Tenten.
"Alright, calm down, girls! Anything, Kakashi?" asked Iruka.
"Nothing out of the ordinary." replied Kakashi.
Out of nowhere, all the genin boys came by to see what had happened.
"Ah! Sakura-chan, what happened!??!" asked Naruto.
Sakura looked at Naruto for a while, then looked behind him to find Sasuke. She pushed Naruto out of the way and ran over to Sasuke and grabbed him.
"Oh, my god, Sasuke, it was horrible!! I'm so scared!"
"Hey! That's my line, forehead girl!!!" yelled Ino.
Ino and Sakura went at it at 4 something in the morning while Sasuke drew back his arm and walked away.
"I'm going back to sleep…" said Sasuke.
"Hold on, Sasuke!" said Iruka. "It's about dawn anyways, so we might as well patch things up and start a new day early. Besides we only have 2 weeks to prepare this play."
A frown formed on Sasuke's face since he didn't get his beauty sleep.
"Hinata, are you ok?" asked Kiba and Shino.
"Y-yes…"
"Tenten! What happened?" asked Lee.
Tenten told the story to Neji and Lee.
"What happened here, Ino?" asked Chouji and Shikamaru.
Their story had spread throughout the campsite to all the other teachers and students.
"Kakashi, may I talk to you in private?"
Kakashi walked over to Iruka away from the students.
"You don't think it's…you know…the legends, is it?"
Kakashi looked at Iruka and thought for a while.
"Nope…I'm pretty sure the spirits of the past shinobis wouldn't scare their own future villagers and ninjas, would they now?"
"I don't know, but I hope this won't happen again. It's a one time thing, even if they did see spirits or ghosts, they should be harmless, at least to the kids they should be."
"Iruka, ghosts are ghosts, they attack whoever they want and they allow whoever they want to see them. So it's not that they won't harm the students. It's will they harm them?"
"Then we better be careful."
"Ah…"
Translation for the Japanese words:
-Teme: Bastard
-Baka: Idiot
-Shinobi: Ninja
-Sensei: Teacher
-Hai: Yes
