Wa I feel sick, I curse you cold and stomach ache! Mwahaha-hack.

Oh yeah, and this takes place in medival times, with magic yada yada yada.

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Sakura's POV

"How do you NOT know?" Sasuke asked me as the thing slowly advanced towards me.

"Do you think I know?! What is it?!" I screamed at him pointing to it. I stared at it, the thing was still coming closer, I could make out that it DID have a face. It had black beady eyes, one nose but no ears. The eyes were interesting, you could see different swirls of color if you looked, the swirls seemed to be moving...

"They are the Lost Ones, the ones who are bound by dark magic, become mindless killing machines, torture creatures and change some into them, and you haven't heard of them?" Sasuke asked, but it sounded far off. I lost sight of everything but the swirly eyes and my body felt like it was floating.

Suddenly something knocked me down and I looked up to see Sasuke looking down at me.

"S-Sasuke?" I blushed when I realized he was, well on top of me, but as soon as I said his name, he got up, helping me up to. Sasuke darted past the thing. jumped onto Soot and galloped back over to me. I jumped on the horse and Sasuke started to make Soot go towards the inn.

"Don't EVER look into their eyes!" he said annoyed. Well FINE, considering I never knew about these... things, I SHOULD know not to look in their eyes and so he had every right to be annoyed.

I looked around and saw the Lost Ones slowly slinking around, and I shuddered, they were creepy. Some tried to get us and out of fear I buried my face into Sasuke's back, he smelled like pine trees and cinnamon.

Sasuke slowed Soot to a stop in front of the inn and I started to freak out.

"Why are we stopping?! Those things could get us!" I yelled at him and he just smirked as he tied Soot to a pole. I turned around and saw LO's (lost ones) staying about fifteen feet away from the inn. Could this day get anymore confusing? Sasuke and I walked in and saw a man with blonde hair sitting there looking bored. He looked up at Sasuke and grinned.

"Hey teme, get the horse from Kakashi?" (a/n yeah you all thought it was Naruto was the king!) the blonde asked with a grin as Sasuke frowned. (suprise suprise)

"Dobe, it's outside." he said.

"He, not it." I blurted out and I earned a glare from him.

"Better hope nothing happens to it, that protection spell's wearing off, no witches around here in awhile to cast it!" the blonde said happily, but you could hear the concern in his voice.

"How much longer can we stay here before we're caught Naruto- oh Sasuke-kun!!!" a girl with blue eyes started to say to the blonde, apparently called Naruto, but when she saw Sasuke she stopped in her tracks and ran up to hug him. Sasuke pushed her off with a look of utter annoyance and strangely I felt the urge to yell, 'In your face, pig! Sasuke doesn't like you!'

"Well, we need to leave by tomorrow, Ino, but I'm not sure if the others are ready." Naruto said to Ino and she nodded and headed back upstairs, obviously disheartened by Sasuke's rejection. Wait... others?

"Sasuke? What's going on?" I asked him, but was completely ignored. I sighed and looked around. The place was pretty messy, dishes laying around everywhere, crumbs all over the tables, and oddly there were shurikens and katanas stuck in the walls. I resisted the urge to start cleaning up this pigsty and went back to eavesdropping on the conversation.

"How many people are still here?" Sasuke asked anxiously, but Naruto looked down.

"Sasuke, we did try our best but one night all of the buildings, except by some miracle this one, well the buildings spells wore off and we didn't have time to do anything. Sasuke, we're the only ones left." Naruto said looking down. Sasuke let out a curse and slammed his fist on a nearby table, and to my suprise, the table collapsed.

"What about Selea did she-"

"Sasuke, I saw her die with my own eyes." Naruto interrupted quietly.

"How?" Sasuke growled, you could practically feel the temperature drop.

'Who's she?' I thought to myself, feeling a pang of jealousy, but I stayed quiet.

"She had gone to see her brother, but when she didn't come back at dusk, I worried and went after her. That's when we found out the barriers were breaking, I had to head back to tell the others, and when I finally got to Selea, a Lost One... was eating her. I'm sorry Sasuke, I was too late." Naruto said biting his lip.

"How long?" Sasuke asked, his voice barely above a whisper.

"Just the day before yesterday."

Sasuke didn't say anything and headed up the stairs. Not knowing what to do I followed after Sasuke up the stairs. He went into a room at the end of the hallway up the steps and slammed the door behind him. Gingerly, I opened the door and stepped in.

"Sasuke, are you okay? I-"

"Leave." Sasuke interupted me, looking at me with a look that would have made a LO shrivel up.

"W-What?!" I asked him.

"You saved my life, I saved yours, we're even." He replied coldly. So he expected me to leave, and go outside where those THINGS are?!

"Sasuke, I know what it's like to lose a, a loved one! I'm-" I said desperately, the old hag had kind of hinted about finding the one person who could see and hear me and I wasn't about to let him go!

"You? You don't know what it's like to lose a precious person to you so NEVER say that you understand anything about me." he said, and my temper flared.

"You think I don't know?! I SAW my mom roasted ALIVE at a stake by people I had known my whole life and she didn't do anything! Do you know what it's like to be hated? Despised by former friends and see them kill your own mother?!" I asked him and his eyes widened before he resumed his uncaring pose.

I took a deep breath to try to calm myself down and I turned around and walked out of the room...

And straight into a man with long brown hair and white eyes. He and I both fell down and he looked around with, 'What the heck?' written all over his face. He and I got up and I moved aside as he walked into Sasuke's room.

"Sasuke, Tenten just got back from the woods, she was attacked." the chocolate hair said as calmly as he could. Sasuke and chocolate boy quickly walked into the hallway and went down the steps. I followed behind them and went down the steps.

As I walked in my attention was drawn to the girl that had been laid out on a cloth on the floor. She had cuts all along her body, ranging from shallow to deep, and she had a cut on her forehead. I saw chocolate boy's face as he looked at the one he called Tenten, it was full of worry.

Ino and another girl who looked like chocolate boy were kneeling beside her, Naruto was grabbing rags to use as bandages, and another guy was in the corner and he looked to be asleep. I went and stood by them, trying to keep myself from bandaging the wounds.

"Heal, please heal." I said focusing on one of the more serious cuts, and to my suprise the cut moved, but when I blinked it looked just as it had before.

The two girls worked frantically, chocolate boy paced, Sasuke stared at me (it was starting to get creepy too), the guy in the corner opened his eyes and looked at Tenten, and Naruto was running around looking for water to use.

I looked outside and saw the LOs moving around as close as they could get without touching the invisible barrier.

"Why haven't I heard about those things?" I asked myself quietly and looked away. I sat down on the floor and looked at Sasuke, who's stare changed to a glare.

"We don't have any water!" Naruto yelled, without any water they couldn't clean the cuts, and at least half of them would become infected.

Sasuke looked up at Naruto before he grabbed a pail and headed outside towards the well, the well that was past the barrier. I looked at everyone, they all looked worried, well except for Naruto. I looked around one last time before I ran out after Sasuke, but as I ran out I heard a,

"Damn, I wanted to be the one to go out." from Naruto. I grinned, he did seem like the show-offy type.

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BETA I NEED A BETA!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!

Sorry for the overdue update.

Oh and the guy who appeared to be asleep was Shikamaru in his thinking position.