Sorry for the delay, everyone!! Here's the last chapter, hope you guys enjoyed the fanfic! =) ENJOY!!
Chapter 9
Later on in the night, the 3 boys woke up and began on their plans. Sasuke peeked out of the tent to see if the surrounding area was clear. When everything was all clear, they all sneaked out behind Sasuke and followed him into the darkest area of the forest once again as a pair of eyes followed them curiously.
Naruto began conjuring up a couple of shadow clones and changed them to all look differently from each other. Then they dressed them up in white clothing and using genjutsu, they made them glow white. After preparing everything the three boys ran back to their tents and watch their plan as it comes to life.
The 5 shadow clones walked out into the opening where all the ninjas slept soundlessly in their tents. The 5 shadow clones began to make eerie sounds as to make someone wake up. A ninja in one of the tents woke up from the sound she kept hearing and nudged her tent mates awake.
"Hey guys….I hear something out there." whispered the girl.
"I-I hear it too…" said another person.
Apparently, the people in the next tent over heard the voices too and woke up. Both ninjas in the two tents peeked out of their tents and saw something white glowing in the distance not too far ahead. Not only were they woken up, but about 2 other tents of ninjas had been woken up due to the eerie sounds they were hearing. They all slowly got out of their tents and joined each other whether they were ninjas from Konoha or Suna; they just didn't want to be left alone.
They all traveled slowly across all the other tents and wound up in the middle facing the 7 ghostly figures standing there. (Yes…I said 7) There were 7 figures standing there in the middle of nowhere staring at them, glowing eerily. No words spoken, no movements, nothing out of the ordinary; just standing there like statues. There were 3 female figures and 4 male figures. Each one distinct from the other.
Sasuke, Naruto and Kiba hid there watching the entire thing.
"Where did the other 2 come from? So that's the little girl everyone's talking about? And who's the little boy standing next to her?" thought Sasuke.
"Oi! Who are the other 2? I didn't conjure them!" whispered Naruto.
"Shut up, you idiot!" scolded Kiba.
The ninjas facing the apparitions began shaking in their pajamas and starting talking to the ghost just to keep some sound going.
"Oi! What are you guys doing up? You should be sleeping! The teachers will scold you for wandering around in the night!"
"Oi! Didn't you hear him! Please, go back to sleep!"
The 2 real ghosts floated off their own way. Upon seeing those 2 disappear, the shadow clones didn't know what to do since they weren't apart of the plan. One of the shadow clones decided to move closer to the ninjas standing in front of them. As he moved closer, he was suddenly poofed away.
The shinobis looked at each one of the shadow clones disappearing one by one in surprise when suddenly Kakashi appeared before them.
"Kakashi sensei!"
"Are you guys OK?" asked Kakashi.
"Ahh…yeah…nothing happened much."
"Good."
"It's as I suspected, these are pranks that have been happening lately, and as for the little girl and boy, they seem to be the actual ghost of this part of the country. Although they seem harmless…I wonder what they're here for. To warn us to stop such nonsense? I'll have to talk to the others about this and to the Hokage."
"Alright guys, go back to sleep. I'm going to wake up the other teachers and let them know of the situation as well as the Hokage."
'Hai!"
Kakashi left the kids and went to the teacher camp. Everyone was woken up and Kakashi explained the situation to them.
"So that's what's going on…." said Tsunade.
"Ah…it appears to be a couple of shinobis from our side causing the pranks."
"Really? Who is it?"
"Sasuke, Naruto and Kiba."
"Naruto, I can understand, but Kiba and Sasuke too?"
"Yeah…should we confront them?"
"No…leave them to continue what them doing…we will do something ourselves that will have them running to us with their tails between their legs." said Tsunade with an evil smirk on her face.
"Are you sure you want to do that, Tsunade-sama?" asked Shizune.
"Ah…you guys are dismissed!"
The next morning was raved with lots of talking about the ghosts haunting the grounds they sleep on. A lot of rumors were spread about how the ghosts wanted to kill them in their sleeps or how they wanted to enter one of their bodies and have fun for the night.
"Hey, Sasuke…I think we should stop the pranks now…it seems like it's gotten a little out of hand." said Kiba.
"Ah…I agree…we gotta practice our parts for the play anyways, besides I can't seem to think up any kind of plan scary enough for our guests…tell Naruto we're not doing it anymore."
"Ok…"
Kiba searched the entire area and couldn't find Naruto anywhere. Everyone was out and about but where was this numb-skull. Kiba went back to the tent since he had forgotten his script and peered in. Once his head was in…he found the one person he had been looking for for about 30 minutes.
"Freakin' Naruto! Where have you been?!?! I've been looking all over for you!" screamed Kiba.
Naruto was sitting in the far corner of their tent with his arms wrapped around his legs; rocking back and forth and mumbling to himself.
"Oi! Get yourself together!" said Kiba as he slapped Naruto in the face.
Naruto once again snapped out of his daydream and looked at Kiba.
"What do you want?"
"Sasuke said we're not to do anymore pranking. It's gotten out of hand and now the teachers know about what's going on."
"Oh….ok…Oh well…we had fun while it lasted."
Kiba left Naruto in the tent and went to join his teammates. Naruto sat there thinking about the rumors flying around; the thought made him shuddered. Naruto gave up and went on practicing his lines for the play.
…4 days later….
The practicing now took place on stage where they had to act out the scenes and say their lines.
"Line!" yelled Naruto.
"Oi Naruto! You better start memorizing your lines or you're going to ruin this play!!" yelled Tsunade.
"It's too much!!!!!"
"Train at it!"
"Train…?"
"Fine…fine…"
The day ended with Naruto having a lot of harsh words pierced through his heart by Tsunade…
The next day, the students practiced and practiced till night fell and the moon was high in the sky, for it was in early March. As 11 o'clock was about to hit..Naruto could've sworn he saw a white shadowy face flash at him from behind the curtains. Naruto rubbed his eyes and looked back at his lines.
"I must getting tired…what was that?"
On the other side of the curtains, another eerie white face flashes and disappears a good distant in front of Sasuke. Sasuke stood there shocked as if he was seeing things.
"What was that?" thought Sasuke.
Naruto and Sasuke wasn't the only one who saw something paranormal, Kiba also saw something. He saw a hand stretched out from behind the curtains and landed on one of the other ninjas shoulders.
"Oi! Watch out!!!!" screamed Kiba.
Everyone looked at Kiba as if he was crazy.
"Uhh…sorry…I thought I saw something…"
Kiba looked back to the place where the hand appeared from but it was gone.
"Was I seeing things? It is getting late…"
Kiba rubbed his eyes.
Naruto looked at Kiba and then at Sasuke…he knew that they must've seen it too and not just himself. When Naruto turned back around to face the audience, he saw the same face he saw before, floating right behind Tsunade as if it was a part of the audience itself.
"Oi!!! Tsunade-obaachan!!!! Watch out!!! There's a ghost behind you!!!!!" screamed Naruto into the crowd.
Tsunade turned around to see nothing behind her but a bunch of empty rows of chairs.
"Naruto…QUIT MESSING AROUND!!!"
"But I DID see it!!!"
"Well…I guess it is getting late and the drowsiness is probably getting to all of you…very well…go to sleep!"
Everyone left the building except for Naruto. He stayed behind to wait for Tsunade. When Tsunade came out, Naruto approached.
"Tsunade-obaachan…I really did see that ghost..I'm not lying! You have to believe me!!!"
Tsunade just looked at Naruto as if he was in too much stress.
"Naruto…get some rest. You're probably too stressed that your eyes are playing tricks on you. Come on…go on…go to sleep."
Naruto quietly walked along as Tsunade, Shizune, Kakashi, Iruka and Jiraiya walked behind him. Naruto walked over to his tent and looked back at the adults with non-reassuring eyes. He was so scared; he was about to pee in his pants. He slowly crawled into the tent that now was occupied with 2 other sleeping shinobis. They were already sound asleep…as least that's what it seemed like to Naruto. Naruto made his way into his own sleeping bag and hid under his covers.
Naruto was about to drift off to sleep when he began hearing whispers in the wind. The whispers apparently also caused Sasuke and Kiba to wake up. All 3 boys looked at each other, and Naruto once again covered himself under his sleeping bag.
"You guys hear that too, right?" asked Kiba.
"No shit, Sherlock!" answered Naruto.
"Tch! What now?"
Sasuke peeked out of the tent to hear if anyone else has woken up, but it seems that only the 3 of them had heard it. The teachers stood on the lookout as if everything was normal. He scanned the area to see if there was anything unusual, but all there was were all the tents the ninjas slept in and the teachers sitting around. He put his head back in the tent.
"I don't see anything strange." said Sasuke.
"We don't have to see it…we hear it!" exclaimed Naruto.
"Shut up! Any louder and the teachers will be over here before you can even put a sock in it." scolded Kiba.
All night long, the whispers kept them up and they couldn't get a good rest. As sunrise came, the whispers began to fade off and finally they were able to sleep. But as they nodded off, it was time to wake up.
As they practiced for the play, Naruto and Sasuke just couldn't get their lines right. Everything seemed to melt before their eyes and they felt drowsy to the point where they were closing their eyes when it wasn't their turn to talk.
When lunchtime rolled around, they were kept behind, including Kiba.
"What is wrong with you three this morning?" asked Tsunade.
"We...couldn't sleep last night…"
"Why not?"
Naruto looked at Sasuke and Kiba. When they didn't say anything, Naruto spoke up.
"We heard whispers. It was the ghosts, Tsunade-obaachan!!! I told you last night, but you didn't believe me!! They're real!!"
"Naruto…are you sure it wasn't your imagination. Are you it's not just because you're afraid of ghosts?"
"I'm telling the truth! Tell them, Sasuke!"
Sasuke stood there looking at the Hokage.
"It's true…"
"So why is it that only you guys can see and hear them?"
"I don't know…" replied the raven-haired boy.
"Have you guys done anything to arouse the dead?" asked Tsunade. "Maybe that's why they're after you?"
"No!!! We didn't do anything!!!" screamed Naruto.
"So then…if you guys know…tell me what is that big giant half of a wolf doing lying around in the middle of the deepest part of the forest?"
"Huh?"
"I had a couple of the Jounin teachers go out there to investigate. It didn't add up right when students said they were seeing a giant wolf. There are no giant wolves around this part of the country at all. We wanted to make sure to see if they so-called wolf was indeed an apparition or a prank that someone was playing." explained Tsunade.
All 3 boys looked at each other and took a big gulp.
"Well…why are you telling us…we didn't do anything of that sort." lied Sasuke.
"I thought you ought to know, that's all. And besides, everyone will eventually know who was behind it all. After all, Kakashi has found footprints before, and ghosts don't leave behind footprints, now do they?" sneered Tsunade.
She stared hardcore at the 3 boys until it seemed as they she can break them with her menacing glare. Naruto began to sweat like a madman. What were they going to do now? Tsunade knows everything and she definitely knew it was them.
"You're right, Hokage."
Naruto turned around to look at Sasuke.
"But it just so happens, we just barely woke up that night when that incident happened and we heard people screaming."
"I see…well then, go eat your lunch and get back to practice!"
"HAI!"
The 3 boys ran away from the auditorium to their tent.
"What are we going to do? They're on to us!" said Kiba.
"We have about 2 more days for practice and then the real play comes. We should just try to play it cool and act as if everything is normal." said Sasuke. "If Kakashi-sensei is involved, we might be exposed pretty fast."
"Mm! Mm!!" answered Naruto who apparently had a loss for words.
"Now go eat before we won't even have time to eat." said Sasuke.
…35 minutes later…
Back into the auditorium they go and once again back to practicing. It went on like this for the last 2 days and eventually they had 1 day left for rest, then the actual play will be shown to the entire village.
On the day of the rest, Naruto, Sasuke and Kiba kept to themselves and dare say or do anything irrational. Kiba spent the day with his teammates and hung out with them for the day while Naruto and Sasuke took their own ways. Of course, Sasuke never had the intention of hanging out with his teammates.
"Naruto….where's Sasuke?" asked Sakura when she noticed that they were both apart from each other.
"I don't know…" answered Naruto.
"Have you memorized all your lines yet for the play?" asked Sakura.
"Uhh…kinda…I guess I'll make it up if I can't remember….it's not like the audience will know…"
Sakura took a big sigh. There was no way in talking Naruto out of that, so she sat down in silence next to him.
"Umm…Naruto…I heard that you, Sasuke and Kiba have been seeing these ghosts that keep appearing..is that true?"
Naruto looked at Sakura. She returned his gaze with curiosity in her eyes.
"No…I don't know where you've heard that, but I don't ever recall seeing one. I would hope not to see one.." chuckled Naruto.
"Oh..I see…"
Naruto turned around to look over to the other side of the river and saw something staring back at him. He squinted a little and realized it was the same face that he had seen about 3 days ago.
"Uhh….S-Sakura-chan! Do you see what I see? There! Across the river!"
By the time Sakura had turned her head around, the face had disappeared already.
"See what?"
When Naruto turned back around, he saw nothing. Naruto looked around manically and gave up when he couldn't find it.
"Are you sure you really aren't seeing the ghosts?"
"Uhh…I guess I was just seeing things…heh…heh…"
Finally, the day has come when the play is to be performed. People old and young, big and small entered the auditorium and crowded the entire place.
"Please, everyone move to the center of the rows so that other guests may get a seat. Remember, there are no reserving seats or saving seats. This is first come, first serve." echoed Iruka's voice through the microphone.
Everyone was so nervous that they would mess up that they began hyperventilating.
"I'm gonna mess up! I'm gonna mess up!! I'm gonna mess up!!!" thought about almost everyone in backstage.
…20 minutes later…
The play began…
Throughout the entire play, 3 of the boys kept seeing what they think are the ghosts who seem to be punishing them for playing all those pranks. Although they try to keep their cool, they stumbled on the words they were to speak and sometimes stumbled on their feet.
…1 hr and 15 minutes later…
During their 15 minutes intermission, Naruto, Sasuke and Kiba had already looked as if they had done the play about a thousand times over.
"Did you guys see them too?" asked Naruto.
"Ah…sure did…" said Kiba.
"What are we going to do?" asked Naruto.
"Who knows?...Come on, let's get back to the play…"
Once again the play began again and the audience goes wild and then fell silent as the play went on.
…another 1 hr later…
As the play came to an end, Akai and Kana got married and was about to kiss each other in holy matrimony when "Kana" saw something flash before her eyes. She got scared, stepped back and accidently stepped on her dress and was about to fall when…
"Shit! If Naruto falls, we're going to be in big trouble once this play is over!!" thought Sasuke.
Sasuke reaches out to grab Naruto's left arm and he pulls him up and accidently slips on a banana peel. Sasuke slipped forward while Naruto slipped towards Sasuke and they both landed in for a kiss. (LAAAAAA in the background)
"I'm scarred for life!!!!" thought both boys.
And the curtain closes…while the audience claps at the wonderfully made play.
Naruto and Sasuke pulled away from each other as some of the other ninjas began laughing at them.
"I'm going to kill you, Naruto!!!" choked Sasuke.
"Hurry! We have to bow!!" yelled one of the other ninjas.
As the curtains reopen, all the cast members lined up in a row and bowed twice and once again the curtains closed again. Once the curtains were closed, Sasuke began strangling Naruto.
"That's twice that's happened!!!!!" screamed Sasuke.
"W-what….do….you….want….me….to….do….about….it…..!!?!?" said Naruto as he choked out the words. "Besides…it….wasn't…..my….fault!! You…pulled…me!!!"
"SHUT UP!!!!" screamed Sasuke.
Sasuke kept choking Naruto and pushing him back and forth until Kakashi came to stop them along with Iruka.
Everyone in the auditorium began going home, leaving several scattered all over the place. The cast stayed behind to see what would become of them next.
….20 minutes later…
Tsunade came over to scold Naruto and Sasuke.
"I want to talk to you two and bring Kiba along."
All three boys followed Tsunade out into the opening and waited for her to begin talking. Kiba looked at the other two and then caught Sasuke's eyes and Sasuke nodded.
"So…What happened? Did you see another ghost or something?"
"Uhh…how'd you know? " asked Naruto.
"It was quite obviously from your reaction on stage when you stepped backwards, Naruto." said Tsunade as she turned around to face them. "So, would you like to explain why it's only the three of you who can see these apparitions while the rest of us cannot?"
Naruto sweat-dropped and began stuttering.
"It was all Naruto's idea, Hokage-sama!!!" said Kiba.
"Yeah! We didn't want to do it but he forced us to!" agreed Sasuke.
At that moment, everyone else in the auditorium had walked out to head out to the campsite when they saw Tsunade scolding the three boys. Of course, they had to listen in to see what happened.
"WHAT?!?! MY IDEA?!?! THIS WAS YOUR IDEA, STUPID KIBA!!!"
"I don't know what he's talking about, Tsunade-sama, but all the ghosts that have been happening the last 2 weeks had been all Naruto's ideas. He pressured us into joining him! And then the real ones started appearing as if they were punishing us for something Naruto made us do!!"
"WHAT?!?! TSUNADE-OBAACHAN! YOU'RE NOT GONNA BELIEVE HIM, ARE YOU!?!?!?"
"So Naruto…is that how it went?"
"What!??! NO!!!!!"
"NAAAA-RUUUU-TOOOO!!!!"
Naruto turned around to see an angry mob of ninjas.
"S-Sakura-chan! You have to believe me!!! It wasn't my idea!!!"
"HOW CAN YOU DRAG MY PRECIOUS SASUKE-KUN INTO YOUR STUPID PRANKS!!?!?!?!"
The giant mass of crowd stomped in closer to Naruto as he backed away from them.
"H-Hey…w-wait…hold on!!!
Everyone closed in on Naruto and beat him to a pulp in a mass of white smoke. Amazingly, Naruto slipped out of the blob and began running for his life.
"There he goes!!!" yelled someone.
Everyone looked up to see Naruto running away with tears strolling down his cheeks.
"I SWEAR IT WASN'T MY IDEA!!!!" screamed Naruto as he ran away.
The crowd chased after him and into the dawn.
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Hope you all liked it… =\....i know it sucks…maybe I should work on one-shot stories…lol. Please R&R! Thank!
Translation for the Japanese Words:
-Shinobi: Ninja
-Sensei: Teacher
-Hai: Yes
-Obaachan: Grandma; or in Naruto's case: Granny
-Jounin: High class ninja