Wellzzz, this is Chapter 3... I'm pretty proud of this chapter... I hope you like it! The story gets better in the next chapter (which just so happens to be one of meh favs! :D) in which I will be getting up very shortly! So I now present:

ROA3: The Elevator

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The darkness clouded their vision, the cold metal floor freezing their bare feet, freezing them in fright. Hinata could feel Gai's quickening heartbeat against his chest. She squeezed tighter against him, closing her eyes shut.

Hinata felt her own heartbeat quicken its pace. That was the only sound she heard for a moment before a large bang echoed through the dark space, making her breathing loud and shallow.

"Gai-sensei?! Where are we!? What is this place!?" Hinata gasped, keeping her eyes closed tightly.

"Really... I don't know." Gai calmly stated, his eyes squinted lazily as he stumbled forward.

Gai launched his arms in front of his body, reaching for some type of unseen object to guide his way.
There were small sounds of falling objects, from the echoing bang, to the sound of something around the size of a small needle hitting the ground. The sounds seemed so far off, like the room they stood in was miles wide. It seemed to go on forever.
BANG!

Gai stumbled into another cold, metal surface, much like the floor. But, this side was... mesh. The wall seemed to be made of mesh, lightly wound, made of metal, and unmovable. Gai's eyes widened to their full extent.

Hinata's eyes opened along with them as the two felt the strange surface of the wall. She parted from Gai, her arm still wrapped around his thin waist, and she limped around to look for the mirror they had apparently walked through.

There it was, a speck of light, of movement, of cleanliness. She could see the bathroom she had been in only moments ago, staring at her sensei, watching him study her features through the mirror, she came with him throiugh the mirror, she thought of the bloody demise into this utter darkness.

The mirror shattered as she stared at it, the small opening to the other side, their only way out, and fell to the floor in thousands of glassy peices.

"AHH!" She screamed and turned, keeping weight off of her throbbing ankle. She grabbed onto Gai again. She listened to the shattering of the clean glass that had been showing it's way to the other world, to their world.

Gai held Hinata's crutch in one of his hands. He looked down at the invisable girl hugging him as she screamed.

"Hinata! What is it?!" Gai boomed. A small illumination clouded the two's fuzzy vision. Gai looked to the point of the light, only to see various, dim-litted lights around the room. He looked at the mesh wall. The wall was rusted and cold, splattered with freah scarlet, and older crimson. Blood.

"EHG!" Gai groaned, discusted at the new smell of rotting flesh filling his lungs, and the sight of fresh and old blood and rust covering the mesh wall and metal floor.
He turned around, and saw just how little the room was, only about 6 feet wide in both directions. There was mesh on all of the walls. All the walls but one of them. On the far side that the two stood, there was an elevator door, with the numbers: -1000 through 13 in small numbers above the door. The door was covered in blood, and formed into a cross-like symbol, the blood still dripping from the corners of the drawing.

Hinata looked around the room, she saw the same gruesome door covered in blood, and the same walls, the same numbers, the same dim lighting, and the same blood and rust that covered walls and floor. she dare not look at the ceiling.

"Gai-sensei? Where on earth are we?" Hinata gasped.

"Well... we're not in Konoha anymore... I'll tell you that right now." He plainly stated.

There was a ringing in Gai's ears. So high-pitched he could barely hear it. The ringing grew louder, deeper, more sinister, into childrens' laughter. They grew loud, louder, louder... a drop of fresh, scarlet blood dripped from Gai's right ear, down his pale and slightly bony cheek, and dripped off of his jaw, onto his black shirt.
He gasped in horror as the voices shreiked with terrifying laughter. He put his hands over his ears.

"AHH!" He screamed, trying to block out the pain and the terrorizing tiny voices in his ears.

"GAI-SENSEI!" Hinata yelled as Gai dropped to the floor, dropping her crutch with it. She picked up the crutch and put it down beside herself.
Gai couldn't bear the pain and the blood leaking from his ears, staining his clothes. He began shaking madly, holding his ears, like he was having a severe seizure of sorts.

"AHH!" he screamed again.

'STOP! STOP LAUGHING AT ME! PLEASE! IT HURTS!! IT STINGS! STOP!'

Gai thought. The voices began to disappear from his subconciousness. He opened his eyes and looked around the old elevator they were trapped in. He took his palms off of his ears and looked at the blood cascading from one of his hands, stained from his bleeding ear. He looked to Hinata. She was shaking, staring at nothing in particular, and shaking as madly as he himself had been only seconds earlier.

"Hinata?" He asked kindly, crawling over to her as she sat there, shaking more and more, shaking violently.
He reached out one of his arms and protectivley wrapped it around her form, trying to wake her from her subconcious, silent nightmare.

"Hinata!" he called her name. "It's alright! Everything's going to be fine." Gai held her close as the elevator rattled and shook, causing a clanking and grinding metal sound to ring in their ears. "It'll be fine!" he whispered as the elevator began to shakily move downward.

Suddenly, the elevator began to drop violently, faster then the speed of gravity. It was taking them down. He looked at the numbers on the top of the door, they moved from 3, to 2, to 1 to 0, to -1, then, before he knew it, Gai was looking at the light shining on the number -15. It was dropping fast!

Gai closed his eyes quickly and tightly, holding back tears of fright. Where were they!? What was happening?! Why was this place covered in blood!? It frightened him so much.

"IT'S FINE! EVERYTHING'S FINE!" Gai began screaming, holding onto the screaming Hinata.

He looked at he girl for only a moment to see her screamng with her fingers in her ears. There were lights quickly rising with the falling elevator, the floors were rising too quickly to be counted as the elevator dropped and rattled violently.

Gai closed his eyes tightly again.

The next time he opened his eyes, Gai looked to the elevator lights to the floors. -9998, then to -9999, then to -1000. The elevator slowed down to a rusty stop, metal curling and ringing in Gai's bleeding ears.

Hinata lay on the floor and shook madly, the feel of dropping faster than gravity in this horrible chamber was too terrible for words, too scary, too discusting. It was too discusting to curl and twitch on the floor, rolling in the filth and in the warm blood, and around on the cold metal, the cold iron, and the rust. When it stopped, she was relieved, but fright fell over her again when the thought of where the doors would open up to next, waved over her.

"Gai-sensei!" she called as he lay over her.

"Hinata! Are you alright!?" He asked as he brushed the short, dark hair from her face to look at her pale features.

"I-I think s-so... are you a-alright?" She kindly asked.

"I don't know at the moment." Gai said, looking up as the doors squeeked and opened up slowly to a dark hallway with steam erupting from the floor, and dripping blood and rust covering the walls completely.

"I just wonder where we are..." Gai gasped.

...to be continued

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