The Accursed Tower Chapter 10, a naruto fanfic

Chapter 10

The great leader of Akatsuki makes his move!

"How long has it been?" Pain asks.

Konan stops. "Since your phone disappeared or since we left? Or is it since the others left?"

"So many questions... Why? Why must I be put through this pain? No one understands.. true pain.."

Konan ignores him. "I think that's the one."

Pain looks up from his melodramatic depression. "How can you tell? There are so many of these stupid towers here. Which genius came up with the idea of a Tower Country anyway? After this, I'm going to conquer it."

"Oh, come on, it's unique, better than naming all the countries after something related to nature like fire, sand, rice and whatever. And that specific tower is the one. It has blinking neon lights that say "This is the one!"."

The both of them stare at that tower for a while.

Pain breaks the silence, "come to think of it, there are more useless neon signs. But since they are helpful in distinguishing which is the one, they shall be put on my wall of fame later. Now, let's make a special entrance. Something magnificent for this special chapter, something special, that specializes us-!"

"Stop saying special," Konan butts in. "And 'specializes' doesn't really fit the context there. You're ruining the word by overusing it."

"You're horrible to me.. See? This is why it never worked out," Pain whines.

"What are you talking about?" Konan looks at him puzzled. "Anyway, let's get going, we know the place now. I want to crack those idiots' heads open."

"Right…" And with a heavy heart, Pain follows suit. They fought their way through each step of the seemingly endless stairs, up the tower with courage and dignity(while they still had it).

And when they reached the top, Pain examines the door, and the Gaara in front of it, then he says, "I'm beat! That was… the most horrible… can't breathe…" and faints with fatigue.

"You're pathetic," Konan mutters and catches up to him. "Why is the ichibi here?"

"More importantly, Gaara! Did everyone come through this door?" Pain asks hurriedly, getting up from his fake faint.

"More importantly?" Konan retorts. "Isn't that (pointing at Gaara) the reason why we sent every one of those frocked morons out here?"

"In here," Gaara speaks for the first time since they arrived.

"I don't care about all that, just answer my question," Pain argues.

"Yup, everyone went in there. My siblings and the Konoha ninjas are in there as well," Gaara states.

"Drat!" Pain swears. "Then we need to be different and come in through the window! We need to be special!"

"Um, sorry, Deidara and Sasori came in through the window," Gaara points out.

"Double drat! Now what do we do? Which window did they come in by?"

Gaara sighs exasperatedly. "There's only one window, stupid."

"Why are the gods testing me? Wait, I am god. Why am I testing myself?"

"Is someone out there?" Shino pipes up. There is a rustle from the room, followed by murmurs and a tensed atmosphere. "More importantly… Did someone just say "Why"? You know, I have the answers!" Shino starts getting excited. "I haven't answered that question in ages!"

Thud. There is a muffled scream and then silence.

"You heard nothing!" A voice from inside calls out.

"Kakashi, you didn't have to go that far!" Asuma yells irritably.

"You're right, I shouldn't have whacked him with my book. A boot would have sufficed."

"Hatake Kakashi's in there?" Pain says disbelievingly.

"Pain-sama? Is that you?" A chorus of greets from the frocked people comes.

"What in the—Are you all in there?" Pain is unhinged. "Oi, I thought I told you to capture both of the tailed beasts? And Zetsu, didn't you even tell me about some thetalkingtree-oniisan person? Why are all of you goofing off in there with the Konoha nins?" Pain chides.

"Not like we had a choice," Kisame grumbles.

"Pain-sama, listen! Don't come through that door! This tower's cursed—" Itachi begins explaining but was cut off by Sasuke.

"Accursed. The tower's accursed. Foolish brother, you've got it wrong."

"Like that matters! Both mean the same anyway!"

"See there? It's your lack of concern for insignificant details like this that will lead you to your demise. And I'll be there. We'll see who has the last laugh!"

"Itachi stop messing around with your brother and finish what you were saying! I hate it when sentences are cut off—like this," Pain gets vexed.

"Fine, fine, as I was saying," Itachi continues. "This accursed tower will prevent anyone who gets trapped in the highest floor from leaving."

"I heard that there's a window in there," Konan says sceptically.

"We can't jump out! There's a moat full of genetically modified piranhas down there, didn't you see it on your way up?" Itachi argues.

"Well, I did see neon signs but no moat full of mutant fish," Pain says.

"Aha, so what did you think of my work?" Gaara speaks all of a sudden. "The neon signs, I mean. I made them myself. I just had so much free time while the authors were on hiatus leaving the idiots behind this door to their impending doom."

"…"

After a moment of awkward silence, Konan is distempered. "So what then? We're supposed to make our own entrance or something?"

Pain stares at Konan as the dramatic inspirational music in the background starts playing. "I've had an epiphany! Come on Konan, let's go!" Pain exclaims and drags Konan to the rooftop of the tower(which was higher than the highest floor because it was a rooftop and rooftops are flat and easily accessible).

Gaara watches them go, impressed. "Smartest idiots I've seen since I arrived. They decided to leave."

"Noo! Why? They're just abandoning us?" Ino cries.

"But they're the enemy so it doesn't matter right?" Shikamaru asks, puzzled.

"True, hmm, but they're not our enemy, hmm!" Deidara hmmed.

"Well, whatever, we're all going to die," Whitey says disdainfully.

"Stop being so negative! It's ironic that you're the white one," Zetsu's Blacky snaps.

Meanwhile, on the roof…

"Standing on the rooftops! Everybody scream your heart out!" –(Rooftops© by The Lost Prophets)

"Stop singing, Pain. It's painful" (This pun is also painful)

"Yes, ma'am."

"Do something useful. The authors even made a 'Meanwhile, on the roof…' for you."

"Right, my epiphany. Do you have vine?"

"Vine? Why would I have vine?"

"Fine, a rope then, or any long, strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material 1." Pain reads off of his Dictionary[.]com app.

"I thought you lost your phone..?"

"Oh yeah.." Pain tosses it off the tower. "Umm, please make me some rope with your paper power."

"Paper power sounds so retarded.. nevertheless, NO"

"Why?"

"You weren't polite."

"But I said please!"

"Oh. Sorry. Say it again, I must've missed it."

"Paper power please?"

"Here you go," Konan delightfully hands him a coil of paper rope.

"Thank you," Pain takes the paper rope. "Now I'll tie this end of the rope to one of the tower's merlons and then…"

"What's a merlon?" Konan shot him a scornful look.

"Oh, it's the upward portion of a crenelation, the part of the top wall located between the embrasures or crenels. 2 "

"… I still don't know what it is. I didn't know you were capable of such smart-sounding things."

Pain rolls his eyes irritably. "It's this thingy _|-|_|-|_|-|_. The wavy thing on the top of the castle."

"Oh, I see!" Konan says enthusiastically before regaining her composure "Proceed."

"Then, I shall swing from it and crash into the wall which will create a hole! So, be prepared because when the hole is made, you have to grab the jinchuuriki before it escapes!"

"Got it…"

"If.. if I don't make it back, tell the kids that I love them."

"What in tarnation are you saying?"

" Ah, right, we never had them. In that case, I have no regrets."

"…"

"You can have my phone instead then. If you can find it. Here I go!" And Pain sets his plan into action by clinging onto the flimsy paper rope as if it was dear life itself and flings himself off of the tower. The cold wind ruffles his hair as he gets into position.

Crash.

"Did you hear something, hmm?"

"I think I just saw Pain flying!"

"Shut up Kakuzu, hmm! Pain can't fly. Only I can, hmm!"

"But you heard the crash right?"

"Only I crash, hmm! Art is my bang, hmm! My bang, crash, kaboom etc. hmm!"

"I wish I had money," thus Kakuzu finishes this conversation with Deidara in a most irrelevant manner.

Meanwhile, in the second highest floor of the accursed tower… (the one below the highest where our heroes[subjectable] are trapped)

"Ow…" Pain groans. He pokes his head out of the hole in the wall.

"I shall not let you escape, you stupid jinchuuriki!" Konan screams and wraps Pain up with her paper blanket.

"Wha—wait, it's me!" Pain manages to cry out before he is completely mummified.

"Oh, sorry," Konan says and she climbs down the paper rope into the room Pain crashed in. "By the way, we're in the wrong room."

"I can see that. There's no one here," Pain grumbles. Before they had time to do anything else, the wall that they crashed into starts healing itself.

"Huh? What's happening?" Konan looks at the closing hole, disquietened.

"No! It's closing up! Stop it!" Pain rushes towards the hole, but alas, all was in vain as the hole had closed up and there was no way to escape.

".. Urgh.. what a stupid place. There's no door, no window, no nothing!" Konan complains.

"No exit.. trapped… enclosed space.. no, I'm claustrophobic, help! I think the walls are closing in on me!" Pain wails, sitting in a corner, hugging his knees.

Meanwhile, in the highest story.. (one floor above)

"Do you hear something?" Sakura asks.

"Nah, probably just the wind," Chouji says.

Meanwhile, one floor below…

"I'm trapped, I'm scared, I'm not special and I think I have a yeuk on my butt. The meanwhile thing is so cliché," Pain howls.

"Shut up! We're not going to be stuck here. It's too nostalgic."

"Oh, you mean like that time we went on our fisrt date?"

"Man, that was a disaster…" Konan is drawn into her horrible memories for awhile. "Anyway, I think that's the exit," she says, pointing to a trap door on the ceiling.

"A trap door on the ceiling? We're saved!"

"What kind of exit-less room has a trap door on the ceiling?" Konan scoffs.

"An oubliette."

"A whatsammacallit?"

"A dungeon or cell with the only opening being a trap door in the ceiling 2 ," Pain says in a matter-of-fact tone.

"How do you know all this stuff about castles?"

"I took castlelology in University."

"Wow."

A few moments later… (Not so cliché now is it?)

"I see all of them!" Pain exclaims.

"Huh? Pain-sama? What're you doing under there?" Itachi says.

"Pain? He's under the bed?" Lee says in dramatic disbelief.

"Hehehe…" Sasuke smirks.

"Yeah, it's a trap door!" Pain crawls out, followed by Konan.

"DON'T CLOSE THAT DOOR!" Everyone screams.

"Oh, all right." They leave it open. "But I don't know what good that will do but in any case, here." Pain shifts the bed aside. "It's not an exit."

"What? Then how did you get in there?" Kankuro questions.

"I crashed into it," Pain says.

"What?"

"Long story," Konan finishes. "You're better off in this room. There are no windows or doors down there. It's an oubliette."

"Ah," everyone says understandingly.

"All of you know what an oubliette is?" Konan asks, disquieted.

"Yeah, of course. We're not stupid," Naruto says.

"Even the idiot knows?" Konan is shocked. Am I the only one who didn't know? Konan thinks and sits on the bed, hugging her knees in depression.

"It's all right, I'll still love you," Pain pats her on the back. Everyone stares.

"Umm.. did I say love? I meant.. employ. I'll still employ her.. because she's my employee, and I'm her employer.. ah-hm." Pain stumbles. There is another awkward silence.

"Hehehe…" Sasuke smirks again.

"Would you cut that out?" Itachi snaps.

"Hehehe… Pain, Konan…" Sasuke gives them a very creepy grin. "The bed has been soiled."

"What the-?" Konan jumps off of it hastily.

"All right, who's the wise guy?" Pain looks around cynically but everyone returns to their original routine. "Wait, are we stuck here?"

"Pretty much," Neji says.

"You can't be serious! I don't wanna! Stop it, I'm a god, I don't deserve this sort of treatment! Do something! Stop ignoring me! Stoppitstoppitstoppi—"

Thud.

"Used the boot this time, didn't ya."

"Yup."

Meanwhile outside the room…

Gaara sighs, preparing for his daily nap. "All's well that ends well."

Meanwhile in Konoha…

"It's been a while," Tsunade says in an eerily silent voice.

"That's because the authors were on hiatus, Tsunade-sama," Shizune explains.

"They were slacking off! Just like the rest of those pigs! No offence, Tonton"

"But…"

"They have no excuse. As if the GSCEs are so important. Now, I'll have to take drastic measures," Tsunade decides.

"Gasp! You don't mean…" Shizune is shocked by this decision. "Please think about it!"

"I've had a lot of time to think. I'm firm on this. We need professionals. Get me my Japanese to English dictionary," Tsunade orders. "We're calling James Bond."

-END-

Note: Ah, feels good to be writing again. Sorry for the long hiatus. We've had important exams this year, say, GCSEs, streaming and other irrelevant things in life which we might need to get a job so we can keep paying the electricity bills to keep the computer running to keep writing this fanfic. We shall try to write more, hope you enjoy~ Do look forward to the next chapter. It's another special muhuhahaha xD

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