Here's the next chapter! I had a little writers block with it and rushed with it too. So it's not really good...

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Wings of Espers

Chapter 4 – Introducing a New World

My face heated up like furnace, I stepped back and fell to the ground.

'Our faces were so close' I pondered, embarrassed.

Sasuke looked at me surprised and stretched out an arm to help me up, probably oblivious to the closeness.

"Oi!!! Hurry up and introduce her to us Sasuke-teme!!!" shouted a boy.

I turned to see a group of teenagers, the one who shouted just now was a blonde haired boy, clad in an orange jumpsuit.

"Keep it down Naruto!" hissed a girl with brunette hair in two buns.

The rest of the people sighed, there were six of them, apart from Sasuke and I.

The group walked towards us, apart from the blonde boy who jogged happily.

Within that moment, everything felt like a blur, as if I was just dreaming. One minute I'm leading a normal life, then I can do strange things and next, I suddenly teleported out of my room! I was worried if my parents found out that I wasn't at home and that I was actually somewhere else. Where even I don't know!

"She's cute!" said the blonde boy, I blushed.

"Naruto, there's no time for flattery." said a girl with sandy blonde hair tied in four ponytails. "And I'm expecting it more from lazy ass here." She smirked at a guy with a spiked ponytail.

"Women are so troublesome…"

"Men are pathetic." The girl smirked.

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki!" said the blonde boy, he grinned sheepishly.

I smiled at him shyly, "I'm Sakura Haruno." my voice sounding hoarse.

"Can't believe you've able to survive with Sasuke, being with him for a few seconds would kill me! And he's such a bastard! He called us people instead of his friends!!" Naruto had rambled. I guess I now know why Sasuke had corrected his mistake on Mxit when he said that some people had wanted to meet me.

"Introductions later, now that you've seen her. Can we get started?" ordered Sasuke, seemingly annoyed.

I shifted a bit, uncomfortable from the stares of the group. I still wondered how I got myself into this mess. 'Why was I here anyway?'

"We're going to go check out a haunted house."

"Wha-what!?"

"You heard him." grinned the brunette girl, "A haunted house." She said excitedly.

"Don't worry," said a shy looking girl, with long raven hair. "I'm pretty much scared, too."

I smiled, she was so sweet.

It instantly reminded me of someone. My smile was about to drop, but her kindness made me want to feel happy and forget about the past.

"I'm Hinata Hyuuga. It's very nice to meet you." She smiled softly.

"Let's hurry now, Hinata. The others are already leaving." said a guy with long brown hair tied in a low ponytail.

I looked up to see where the others were, and was surprised to see them far down the street already. It then clicked in me that I was in the middle of a street with surrounding houses. 'Did anyone see me pop out of nowhere?' I panicked.

The others seemed calm about it, so I tried not to let it bother me. 'It's really quiet here, too…'

"Let's go, Sakura." said Hinata, who waited for me patiently.

I smiled, "Okay."

o.O.0.O.o

Creak.

Just like how the door would sound in every haunted house. The house did look quite isolated and old.

"Um, what are we suppose to do?" I asked.

The girl called Temari, who Hinata said her name was, grinned at me. The rest just ignored me, though Hinata gave me a small reassuring smile and so did Naruto.

I was careful to not think something sarcastic, that way I didn't have to have Sasuke read my mind.

The 'haunted' house we went into was just like any other ordinary house, apart from the cold shiver I felt run down my spine every now and then.

'Things are just happening too fast.' I thought.

'No, their not.'

My eyes instantly landed on Sasukes figure.

'You're reading my mind again!' I complained.

I didn't like the fact that he could read my mind. It gave me no privacy at all.

'I probably will never think again.'

'I can read peoples mind when I want to.' He said, annoyed. 'Yours is just too loud.'

I followed the others walk around the house; we first entered the living room, and then we walked upstairs.

All of them were inspecting certain objects and seemed to see whether anything was out of the ordinary. I just stood there, clueless.

When Sasuke reached the top of the stairs, he paused, letting go of his hold on the banister. Which made me notice that he was touching all the objects he came across.

"I sense a spirit up there." Hinata said quietly.

'A spirit… I felt a strange presence up there, could that be a spirit?'

"What was the history of this house, Shikamaru?" Sasuke asked.

I looked over to Shikamaru; he was behind me, standing next to Neji.

"Do I always end up being your encyclopaedia?" grumbled Shikamaru, who scratched his head.

"Stop being lazy and just tell him already." Temari rolled her eyes.

"All the intense waiting is making me hungry." Naruto's stomach growled.

"Hungry? At this time?" I asked, an eyebrow raised.

Tenten sighed, "He's always hungry." and shook her head.

Crash.

A sound of a broken glass erupted from one of the rooms upstairs. Sasuke was the only one at the top of the stairs; therefore he heard the sound more clearly. Sasuke quickly went into one of the rooms, followed by the others and myself.

As soon as I reached the top of the stairs, I saw Sasuke trying to open a door. "It won't budge." He told us.

"The sound came from that room, I suppose?" asked Naruto.

This was strange, apart from us, they is no one in this house. Was it really haunted?

"Let me help with that." I heard Tenten say from behind me. She walked towards Sasuke, who stepped aside for me. I watched as she waved a hand over the lock.

Nothing happened, but when she lightly held down the handle, the door opened.

"Woah…" she gasped, her eyes widened in surprise.

I quickly walked beside Tenten, confused how she opened the door and curious at her surprise. When I took a peak inside the room, I noticed how messy it was.

My eyebrows furrowed, "I only just heard one object break, not everything." I couldn't help but say. "This isn't normal is it?" I asked everyone.

"Nope." Temari calmly said, with a smile.

CRASH.

CRASH.

CRASH.

More crashing sounds were heard throughout the house, causing the house to slightly shake.

"What's happening?" I asked, my voice slightly quivering. I quickly dodged a falling vase off the table.

"Seems like the spirit has gone impatient with us being in here." said Neji. "I knew this was gonna happen."

'He knew?'

"Hinata, do you think that you can try to calm the spirit?" Sasuke asked her through the commotion. Not bothered by it at all.

Hinata pointed her two index fingers together, seemingly to be nervous and scared at the same time. "I can try…"

I honestly didn't know what was going on. This house being haunted, the spirit becoming impatient with us being in here and these strange powers we all have.

"Shikamaru, tell us what you know about this house and the family." Sasuke asked him once again.

Shikamaru turned to him with a serious look, "This house was built 4 years ago in a new area. The family that brought this house is the Odari's. They were a family of four, a younger son and an older daughter with their mother and father. But the boy died at the age of 6 from cancer."

A frown found a way to my face, such a young boy dying from cancer. How crappy can life get? I carried on paying attention to Shikamaru, even though there were still many breaking sounds in the house. 'He better hurry with the story' I worriedly thought.

"The daughter grew up having to please her parents. Her parents were really strict with her. One day she couldn't take it anymore, when her parents were giving her a lecture, she killed them. With what I know, it's a kitchen knife. But through her madness, she ended up killing herself. There." Shikamaru finally finished the story.

"So because she's still in denial, she hasn't…" I hesitated, "moved on?"

Using the word 'moved on' was below me, I didn't enjoy using that word. It was the fact that that word exists; spirits who haven't moved on were rather the sad ones and that it was expected that every dead person's spirit should be in heaven now.

"We don't have time for conversations, Hinata, try to calm it now." ordered Sasuke.

'What an asshole.' I twitched in irritation.

Sasuke turned to face me with a glare. 'Whoops, he heard.'

I avoided his gaze and watched Hinata; she had her hands clasped together with her eyes closed.

"What is she doing?" I asked no one in particular, it didn't look like she was trying to calm it down.

"She's pinpointing where the spirit is." Tenten came and stood next to me.

"Oh…" I replied. "It could be anywhere in the house, I suppose."

"I found her." Hinata said when her eyes were open. "She's downstairs in the kitchen now."

Everyone ran downstairs towards the kitchen, I followed behind.

"Won't the kitchen be a little dangerous to be in?" I asked, knowing that the kitchen has many knifes and plates.

Naruto faced me with a grin, "Actually it's really dangerous."

I gulped.

"Don't scare her Naruto!" yelled Temari.

We now stood outside the kitchen. I walked into the kitchen, right behind Sasuke. Unlike the other rooms, it wasn't in a mess. I was shocked.

"This is where she killed her parents and herself. We forgot to check the kitchen." Sasuke bluntly stated.

"Where the death happened…" I muttered, that must've been horrible.

My family expected many things from me too; they always thought that they were right and I was wrong. I had no freedom, I couldn't go and hang out with my friends, I couldn't go anywhere without them there and I wasn't allowed a life. My life was always caged up.

"Help."

'Huh? What was that voice?' It sounded like someone was in need of help.

I looked around the kitchen; there was nothing out of the ordinary. So why did I hear that voice? It didn't sound like the others either.

"Please help me, I don't wanna be here anymore. I want to be free."

I heard the voice sobbing, it was a female voice, was she crying? She sounded awfully sad. Who could it be?

Wait.

'A female voice, could it be…?'

'What are you talking about?' Sasuke asked all of a sudden.

I was too busy trying to figure out where her voice exactly had come from, so I ignored Sasuke.

'Where are you?' I asked in my head

"I'm here."

I froze and my eyes widened. All of a sudden the kitchen disappeared and I saw a girl standing infront of me. Darkness surrounding the girl and I.

"Please help me." Tears were running down her eyes, full of sadness.

'What the hell happened!?'


How was it? Not good right? It's finally holiday time on my side, so I will try to update soon. Please review, a little 'I read it' will do.

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ClippedWing

Editted 08/04/10