Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto...WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! The world is cruel...T.T

Title: Welcome to Dead House

Chapter Title: Meeting

Rating: PG-13 for now, rating will go up for violence, gore, blood, death

Pairings: SasuNaru

Warnings: None

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-Sasuke's Pov-

I'm scared. I think I'm going insane. That's understandable, of course, seeing as to what I went through. But this is really weird. Every time I close my eyes, I hear voices. But there's nobody there. Worse yet, there are some voices I know. Voices that I have permanently locked into my memory. Voices of my friends, my family.

I don't like it. I can't get the image of Sakura out of my head. She looked so sad, yet damn terrifying. I wonder why I saw her. I know that it was a hallucination, but at the same, time, I don't think it was. I don't know what I saw. All I know is that I don't want to see it again.

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-Normal Pov-

Sasuke lie on the bed, eyes open, lost in thought about the voices. He didn't want to hear them. They said things, things he didn't want or need to know.

The Uchiha yawned. God, he was tired. But he couldn't go to sleep. The voices would come. They would come, and he didn't want them to come. But he was so sleepy...

Maybe just a quick nap...

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-Sasuke's Pov-

"Help me..."

"My child!"

"You can hear us! Save us!"

Oh god, the voices! No, go away. I don't want to hear you! Go away...

"Sasuke, look at me."

'That's Kakashi's voice...' I thought. 'But he's dead. I know he is.' There was no point in opening my eyes to look at someone who wouldn't be there. But if I didn't open his eyes, the voices would continue. I didn't want the voices to continue. So I opened my eyes.

And I screamed.

Kakashi was at the end of my bed, but he had gaping holes all throughout his body. And he was covered in blood. Just like that night, when he died...

"Sasuke, help me..." he said.

I just stared. Then I started screaming again. He came over and he touched my face.

I screamed bloody murder. I heard frantic yelling coming from the halls, but I didn't care. I just kept screaming.

But the voices came again. God, there were so many! And Kakashi was talking to me...

It was too much. I couldn't help it. I blacked out.

But something was coming into my mind. A dream. But not a bad dream. It was a dream about the genin. We were in the Hokage's tower. No, this wasn't a dream. It was a memory.

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-Flashback-

Naruto had been right. Kakashi didn't show up any earlier than usual the following day. At 11:30, Team Seven began making their way to the Hokage Tower.

"What do think the proposition is about?" Sakura asked.

Sasuke shrugged. "Could be anything. They didn't look like they wanted a special mission done, and they could have just asked for that anyway."

Naruto just nodded his head.

It didn't take the three long to get to the Hokage Tower. However, when they opened the door, they were surprised at what they saw.

The rest of the genin (and Shikamaru, even though he was a chuunin) were all standing in the front hall, obviously waiting for someone. Rock Lee was the first to notice the new comers.

"Ohayo, Sakura-san!" he called enthusiastically. Sakura gave him a small smile, but did not walk over to him.

Team Seven walked inside the tower, confused. What were the other genin doing here? They had thought that they were the only ones that would be here, except for maybe a few Anbu or jounin.

"What are you guys doing here?" Naruto asked.

"We're here to listen to a proposition," Kiba answered, irritably. "Isn't that what you're here for, baka?"

Naruto fumed, but did not say anything.

"Yes, we're here for the proposition," Sakura said. "But we thought that we would be the only ones here."

"Yeah. We were surprised when Ino, Chouji and Shikamaru showed up," said Tenten. "We were the first team here, so we also didn't think anyone else was coming."

There was a few moments silence as the genin just looked at one another.

"So, what do you think the proposition is about?" asked Chouji. But he did not receive an answer, for at that moment, the fat and thin man walked through the door. They were smiling, but they did not look pleasant. It sent shivers up the genins spines.

"Hello, hello, hello!" the fat man said. "I do hope you haven't been waiting long."

The genins shook their heads.

"Well, that's good. Now, I'm sure all of you are wondering why we didn't tell you that your teams weren't going to be the only people here," said the thin man.

The genins nodded.

"Well, we were originally going to only ask one team to listen to this proposition," said the fat man. "But then we decided that that wouldn't be fair, so we asked everyone to come! And it just slipped our mind to tell you that others were coming."

The genins exchanged skeptical glances. The thin man must've noticed this, because he said, "Well, let's go then." And he started leading the genins toward one of the meeting rooms.

As soon as everyone was seated, the fat man began to talk.

"Now, I must tell you that you have to listen to the whole proposition before you make any decisions. You are not to leave at any time, so if you need to go to the bathroom, go now." He paused to see if anyone did. "No? Alright then, let's get started!"

The thin man flicked off the lights and started a slide projector up. A picture of a castle came onto the screen next to the fat man.

"This," he began, "is the Ishiyama Castle. It resides in Japan, near the Kii Mountains. No one has been there for hundreds of years. It's about 10 miles from a small city called Aoki (A/N: I own the idea for the city and the castle). Our proposition is asking you to stay there for one month."

"Why should we stay in some old rotting castle for a month?" Shikamaru asked, annoyed. "It's too troublesome." There were some murmurs of agreement from other people.

"Please let me finish," said the fat man. "This castle has been known to have some supernatural activity around it. But it's also a great attraction for tourists. They people who currently own the castle, our organization, need some people to stay there for a while to see if it's safe."

"Forget it. Get someone else," Kiba said. He started to stand up.

"Please sit down and let me finish," said the fat man.

"Why? I'm not going to spend a month in some dingy old castle just to see if it's okay for tourists!" Kiba snapped. He began walking toward the door.

"Would you do it for one million dollars, Inuzuka-san?" said the fat man.

Everyone in the room froze and stared at the fat man. Kiba stared at him, eyes wide as saucers. Surly this man must be kidding!

"O-one million dollars?" Kiba repeated, not daring to believe it. "As in, U.S. dollars?"

The fat man smiled. "Yes, one million U.S. dollars," he said.

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Author's Notes: Gah! This chapter took so long to put up! Why? Because the stupid formatting on FN.N didn't work! The story got clumped together and so I had to separate it into two chapters. Chapter four should be up sometime today...