An overnight stay
Fear and Courage
She was backing away, she has to because if she stopped, she will be killed. Even if she doesn't have the strength to move back she has to put her limits to it... because, like stated earlier...
She will be killed.
Her eyes showed the horror she had felt at this time. The tears won't stop flowing. She was sweating cold even if it's cold outside. She never had experienced this feeling before.
Right before her eyes was the killer. The psycho. The caretaker.
'Ino...Naruto...Hinata...Neji-san...Shikamaru...Tenten...S-sasuke-kun...'
"SAKURA!!!" She heard her best friend's shrieking voice from her back.
She was shakily turning her head to her side to see if she wasn't hallucinating. Slowly and trembling, she opened her mouth. Her ears were right.
It was really Ino.
Together with Shikamaru, Tenten and Hinata.
'I-Ino...'
The blonde hair girl went closer to the window and started banging it, hoping it would break so that she could take her best friend away from the psycho killer.
"Sakura!! Sakura!!"
The pink haired girl noticed the total wet appearance of her best friend from the other side. They must have been looking for her the entire time that they even went outside for wide scouting. She sniffed. Next thing she saw was Shikamaru holding Ino's arms away from the window. Hinata followed them and started pointing something inside.
She was panicking, Sakura felt when Hinata was gagging from the outside.
Then she felt a warm atmosphere around her. Hastily, she looked down on the floor and saw a large shadow casting down on her. She couldn't turn her head to see what's in front of her because she knew already who owned the shadow.
'Help me...'
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Neji saw Wakku already lifting his weapon as if he was going to slash down his victim. He must find a way to distract that person. But before he could do something, he saw a flash of black in front of him, hastily making his way inside the room.
Indeed, that person was Sasuke, who came inside and jumped and kicked the caretaker's side as he flung towards the opposite direction. Naruto followed the scene and saw his pink haired best friend, still crying in front of them.
Her eyes were still, though she was still sobbing so loudly. He hastily went to her side, knelt down and clamped his hand to her right shoulder.
"Sakura-chan, are you okay?" He asked as concern as he could.
There was no reply, she continued sobbing and finally threw herself in Naruto's chest.
"WAAHHHH!!!" She cried out her heart in relief to see her friends and saved her.
Neji soon came in and saw Sasuke raging so badly as he was standing right in front of Naruto and Sakura. Sasuke, have his eyes glued to the man who had been sitting on the floor. Yes, that Uchiha was strong. Soon after, he could hear their other friends' voices coming out of the window. They were soaking wet and Shikamaru was trying his best to calm Ino. He set his eyes on his cousin who was telling something about 'get anything from there and throw it towards the window'. He took out one of the chairs and carried it in front of the window just beside the window where he could see the others. Hinata and Tenten backed as far as they could while Shikamaru hastily pulled Ino from the window where they saw Sakura.
With a loud noise of glass breaking, Sasuke and Naruto looked to the side where Neji had stood with his arms paused in the midair after he had thrown the chair towards the window. Quickly, Naruto knew the purpose of breaking the glass window and through that, he focused back to Sakura, who was but still crying in his chest.
"Ne, ne Sakura-chan, stand up now. We're going to get out this place."
Sakura didn't move. It was as if her mind was still fresh from the incident and from the latter scenes. All her energy had been gone due to extreme horror and unearthly encounters. Neji had called Naruto twice to help Sakura and get out using the window but Naruto always says that Sakura wasn't even listening to him.
And that made our Uchiha moved from his position, crouching down beside Sakura and placed his hand on Sakura's back, comforting her.
"Sakura..." He started with an unimaginary soft tone of voice, "C'mon now, we're getting out of here. Hold on ok?"
Her sobbings finally calmed. Slowly, she pull herself from Naruto and found Sasuke beside her.
"Sasuke...S-Sasuke-kun..." She uttered between her sobs. Using her back hand, she removed the fresh tears out of her cheeks.
"Yeah, it's me Sakura."
And expectedly, she threw herself to Sasuke, pulling him helplessly and resumed her crying.
"Sakura-chan..."
They weren't moving when they saw what they saw next. It was like as if they were forced to watch the succession of the events. But the emotions they felt had reached its maximum that they need to save themselves and get the hell out of here.
Through the window, the gang from the outside watched how Sasuke, Naruto and Neji had helped Sakura from the first attack of the psycho. And when they were busy comforting Sakura, the psycho had stood up from where he was, grabbed his weapon and slowly raising it up as if it could reach the ceiling.
He will KILL whoever had tried to stop him.
Neji, who was the only person conscious at that time, urgently looked at the caretaker. Watching in horror, he immediately shouted Sasuke's name to evade the coming attack.
"Sasuke to your left!"
With fast reflexes, Sasuke pushed Sakura with his weight on top of her. Naruto immediately retreated from the scythe and sat still just beside Neji. His fear stricken eyes proved that he, too, was too shocked to what just happened.
The caretaker WILL surely KILL them for interrupting his plans.
At the same time, the girls' scream could be heard from the outside as they watched what had just happened in front of them. Shikamaru instinctively tightened his hug to Ino, who was but, burying her face in his chest, both hands covered her ears, and her once blue eyes were completely shut to avoid the terrifying sight she thought she had inside her mind.
Back in the room, Sasuke could hear Sakura's uneven breathing from where he was lying. She was still sobbing between her breathing and that wouldn't do any good if this continues. Well, that's because she might suffer a psychological dilemma such as trauma. And it may never leave her mind till she dies.
'She won't die...SHE WON'T!!'
Angrily, he immediately shifted his position where he was now sitting right beside her trembling body. Her eyes where shot wide open just right after the collision Sasuke did. Sasuke was sorry about what happened, but he was relieved that Sakura didn't hit her head on the floor. He ordered Sakura to get out using the window and he will take care of everything here.
Unfortunately, it was hard to digest any instructions because she was, sadly, almost suffering into a trauma.
"Just what the fuck happened?!" Naruto wailed while watching the old man pulling the tip of the scythe on the destroyed cement floor.
"He's trying to kill us all. We better get out before he injures anyone of us." Neji said hastily looking from the caretaker, to Sasuke, to Sakura and then to Naruto. "Help Sakura get out using that window. Hurry!"
"B-but!! What are you planning to do!?" The blonde kid whined once more, knowing Hyuuga Neji, he must an idea formulating in that head of his.
"Sasuke and I will divert him before he attacks Sakura again. Now hurry up and do what I told you to do!"
Haphazardly crawling his way to his friend and tripped more than once, he held Sakura's fetal position. He was deeply worried now that she was desperately clutching her head with terrifying widened eyes on her once pretty face. In a moment, he saw Sasuke's foot backing away as if forming a defensive stance, one that they learned from Kakashi's PE classes. Even though Sasuke's back was completely facing him, Naruto could sense the seriousness in his aura. How he found out, he didn't even know.
The determination to eliminate all those who had intruded his plans, provoked the killer to move on his own little gory plans. He attempted to smash the raven haired kid's torso in half but the kid barely hit as he dodged sideways. Later he sensed the other boy launching at him but he immediately sent him back with the use of his strong arms. Recovering from the fall, the raven haired kid watched his blonde friend aiding the pink haired girl to get up and have their way on the broken glass window. However, walking ever-so-slowly, the grudging deadly scythe was again lifted like a light load aiming at the poor sobbing girl's already worn out frail body.
"NOOO!!!!"
(To be continued)
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(SDA)
Author's Note: ok ok, so I know it's a late update but don't pound me!! It feels good that you, my friends, are giving me encouragement to continue this fic. The first time I wrote this one, I thought nobody would like it... sniffsniff. (after sneezing on to a tissue) After watching so many horror movies I was really inspired to continue this one, I'm thinking to put really gory scenes for the next chapter since it will be the second to the last... and yes, this story will finally end!! Your suspense will also end! The horrifying nightmare will also end! But... a sequel is brewing into my head... it's angsty and the original source was really frightening... hmm... I'll ask you later if you want one. I'm writing all my fics right now. Jumping from one file to another, coz I don't want to keep it in my head for so long, but really, I have to do some serious re-reading in every finished worked. Add the current situation where I really felt sick...sigh...
On a side note, I'm sorry that I did not reread this chapter. I found several typo and grammatical errors.