Racing Death
Part Four
By Boejangles
Temari pulled open the door to the staircase as soon as everyone had caught up. She was counting them lucky, they got through the fifth floor with only two deaths. Her eyes then went to the dark haired girl that didn't look to good, maybe three, if the dog counted four.
The stairs ended with a door leading to the fourth floor. If they could get across this floor then they would be able to take the stairs back down to the first floor.
Kiba looked down at the girl in his arms with a worried expression. Her skin had become pale and her lips were losing color. "Guys we need to stop and let me trying and better stop the bleeding." After he said this he kicked open the door to his left and walked inside.
"We don't have time to stop!" Temari shouted aggravated.
"Just let me rewrap the wound!" Kiba barked back setting Hinata on the metal table. The room itself was a mess; cables were hanging from the ceiling where equipment was removed a few giving of occasional sparks since there was nowhere for the electricity to go. The floor was covered in a inch of water from a pipe that had snapped and leaked. The walls paint had started to chip and peel and the drawers where opened, some even on the floor.
Temari gave an angry grunt and stood in the doorway keeping everyone else from entering the room, that way when the wound was rewrapped they could leave faster.
Kiba's brow furrowed as Hinata become less and less responsive. He lifted the cloth that was covering the wound and saw just how much she had bleed. "Hinata stay with me." There was no response. "Hinata, hey can you hear me." Nothing. "Hinata say something!" Not even a moan. "No! Stay with me! Stay with me!" He shook her slightly trying to wake her up. Her body just acted like a rag doll in his hands. "Wake up, come on wake up!"
Temari walked into the room and set her hand on his shoulder. "She's not going to wake up. Come on we should go." The blonde girl said quietly trying to comfort him, yet get him to move at the same time. She jumped back when violet eyes shot open. On instinct she yanked up her gun pointing it at the dark haired girl.
Kiba saw Temari pull up the gun and he attacked her arm yanking the gun away. He pointed it at the blonde causing her to back up, "What the hell do you think you were doing!"
"She's dead, she's not real." She tried to explain taking another step back towards the door and away from the angry brunette.
Kiba looked from the blonde back to Hinata who had turned her head to look at him. "You're wrong she just fell asleep." He said taking a step towards the retreating girl.
Temari shook her head trying to explain how wrong he was with just the simple head motion. Her hand reach out and steadied herself on the door jam.
"Kiba, I'm cold." Hinata said quietly. Kiba looked over at his girlfriend and started walking towards where she was laying down.
"No!" Temari shouted, "Don't listen to her it's a trick." The words caused the brown haired boy to stop in his movement and take a closer look at the violet-eyed girl.
"Why aren't you coming? Don't you love me?" Hinata asked as she began to sit up.
"Kiba! Snap out of it and shoot her before one of us dies!" Temari chided wishing she had the gun back.
Kiba's eyes held sadness and pain, but also love. "I cant…" He said quietly.
Hinata was getting off of the table, "I loved you and then you are just going to leave me here."
"I'm sorry."
"You don't love me."
"Shoot her!" Temari tried screaming again.
Kiba looked back at the blonde and the forwards towards his love. "Why?" He asked in a choked voice.
"You don't love me!" Hinata screamed again.
Kiba backed his way towards the door. Temari let out the breath she was holding glad that the brunette had finally snapped to his senses.
"Why are you leaving me? You never loved me! You're a liar! Why don't you love me!" Hinata spoke softly at first but ended yelling and walking slowly towards him.
Kiba threw the gun at Temari before slamming the door in her face and throwing the lock.
The blonde pounded on the door trying to get the brown haired boy to open it again. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? You are going to die!"
Kiba turned back to Hinata who was making her way towards him. The water splashed slightly as he took a step towards her.
"Why don't you love me?" The violet-eyed girl asked again.
He reached out and pulled her into a hug, "I always loved you." He said reaching up and grabbing hold of a wire that gave off a spark. As soon as he did electricity surged through him and since he was holding Hinata her as well. The water caused the electricity's power to intensify. When their bodies stopped convulsing they fell to the ground, lovers side-by-side, and completely lifeless.
Temari leaned her head against the door after watching what happened through the window of the door.
Tenten had to keep from crying again. She grabbed a hold of Neji's shirt and let tears fall onto his shoulder.
Ino slid down against the wall shuddering her face a mix of panic and fear.
Naruto punched the hallway wall, as all his sadness became anger, "Damnit!"
Sasuke was clenching and unclenching his fists trying to contain his emotions.
You couldn't tell what Shino was thinking, but you could read the pain on his face. He was the closest to the two that had just died.
Shikamaru went up and rubbed Temari's arm, in a way to comfort yet get her attention at the same time. "I think you should explain to us what's going on."
Temari looked up slightly dazed and nodded slowly before sitting down leaning against the door. "Maybe it would help if everyone knew. We can stay here for only a little while." She looked at the door behind her, "They wont come out, it's locked and they can't open locks. If they cant break the door down they are stuck."
Shikamaru nodded and sat down next to her before looking over the group. "You all should rest too, it'd be our best bet to get out of here if we all have clear heads."
Temari took a deep breath. "You all must know at least some of the legends that surround this place or you wouldn't be here. It's told that back when this hospital was actually up and running the fifth floor was used to house all the mentally unstable patients. That was until a terrible fire started killing everyone who was trapped on the fifth floor along with a few others that couldn't get out. It was after that when all the stories of ghosts started up.
My brother was really into it, so he got me, my youngest brother and our friends to come. We spilt up into two groups, each had a list; we were supposed to find the items on the list and then meet back up the first group at the meeting point won. It was after that strange things began to happen. My group took the elevator all the way up to the fifth floor planning on working our way down. Tayuya ended up getting stuck in a room when the door slammed locking me and the others out. We didn't know what was going on except for the screams until blood came from under the door. We ran all the way down to the fourth floor before jumping back into the elevator to go the rest of the way down only to end up on the fifth floor again. Kidoumaru died before we made it back to the fourth floor." She paused taken a deep breath to steady herself.
"It was on that floor, this floor." Temari indicated pointing to the tile she was sitting on, "That Tayuya came back trying to convince us that she was fine. When I wouldn't stop asking questions she attacked and I…I…" The blonde chocked off not able to finish her sentence. She swallowed so that she could continue talking, "The story goes that some of the spirits that were trapped in the fire want to get out and live again. But for that they need a body. So they kill anyone that comes into the building and take over the body when it no longer has a soul. But the bodies don't last since they already died, but they keep trying anyways. If we can just get out of this hospital, they can't reach us."
Shikamaru nodded also understanding she didn't want to tell everything that happened. "So if we die that gives them a body." He looked up at the roof "Do you think Sakura will be?"
Temari shook her head, "Her body was in really bad shape I don't know how long it would last, and then again Tayuya's body was in really bad shape. Lets hope not, but we should probably get moving."
Ino was shaking; these spirits were killing people and taking over bodies. "We need to get out of here and fast!"
