A/N: I'm sorry if I updated a little late, I've been going out a lot this past week and we've been having guest in and out of our house...anyways, hope you enjoy this chapter!

'No no no no no no no' Inner Sakura was screaming furiously inside.

She was always sensitive with horror stuff. Sure she was a great medic by now, but that frightening image she saw about two years ago was not pleasing. She hated mutilated body parts ever since the day she saw Sasuke's head poking from the ground. That striking feeling she experienced never left her for days. She swore that if she ever sees that happening again, she would not only faint but be in a coma for decades. She shivered at the thought, never once did she liked horror stuff from that day onwards.

"We haven't entered yet" Sasuke took notice of her shivering. Wouldn't it be odd to see someone shaking in fear when there is completely nothing to fear about, especially if you are WITH that person?

"Oh…I'm just…reminiscing" She gave him a nervous smile.

It was true they had entered the gate but they haven't entered the house/mansion. They were still a few steps from it, for now they were walking on the grounds of what looked like a graveyard. She looked to the far left from where they were, she could see where they would be exiting later, it was very very far from them that's for sure…

Her eyes traveled to the two statues guarding the entrance to the house/mansion, it was a wreck. It looked like…like…Gai and Lee! This really is a scary place to be in. She thanked God that it was just a statue or is it?

She grabbed onto Sasuke's left arm as the door opened revealing nothing but darkness, her eyes never leaving the statue. She had a feeling they were both staring at her…wait they had passed the statue from the front and they were still staring at her…that could only mean that the statue, gulp, moved!

Before she could focus her sight at the statues, the door closed…automatically. It took her full self-control to not jump on Sasuke at this situation.

"I-Ino-pig…H-Hinata…?" A few seconds passed before she could clearly adjust to the dark. Her eyes roamed around the hallway they were in. She can't exactly say this is what she was expecting because…she doesn't know what to expect.

Paintings…spooky paintings…staring at them…and they were all…paintings of…of…the wanted…most hated…person in…the village…the…molester…snake-eyed freak…Orochimaru! In different poses!

"What the heck!" If Kakashi is doing this just to spite him! Then he's giving him a reason to desire mangekyou sharingan…make Kakashi die a thousand deaths!

The portraits were hideous. His right eye started to twitch; his eyes will never be the same again. His eyes traveled from portrait to portrait…stuck-out tongue, he cringed…smiling so sincerely, looks like a psycho…wait, is that a dress, Sasuke's eyes went round. Nothing could possibly top that ridiculous displa-…he's eyes halted on a certain picture. Orochimaru in s swimsuit! It felt like his eyes were bleeding.

While Sasuke was twitching in his place, Sakura was all freaked-out.

She was also staring at the paintings and she wanted to puke…definitely a homo…just when she was so into gawk at the things she was seeing, their eyes moved! She focused on the next one it's the same it was looking at her! She turned to the previous one it's the same she was so sure. Then she witnessed it…all of the Orochimaru's eyes moved to stare at her. That was all it took for her to runaway.

Sasuke was back in reality as he heard a familiar scream. He quickly looked at his side where Sakura should be. Not there, Damn it! What was he doing! The girl was scared of the dark and she's there somewhere on this surprisingly huge mansion, where there are no signs on where to go next…there are random routes for her to have taken.

Which one…which one!

"So don't be scared kay?"

And he has the guts to talk crap when he let this kind of things happen.

"Sakura!" Damn it, answer! So this wasn't a deadly situation, but he couldn't care less. The girl that he swore to protect, even if it goes unnoticed, is scared to death out there in the darkness.

And as if he was given a sign, a creaking sound came from upstairs. Never giving a second thought he dashed for the staircase.

No way! No way! No way!

She ran! She ran without thinking! The only person that could possibly stay at her side all the time was left behind! SHE left him behind.

This would all be fine…if she knows what the usual things happen around a haunted house. She refuses to watch scary movies so how would she know. But she did hear something about…

One by one…your comrades go missing…and when you're alone…that's when they strike!

Creepy sounds coming from nowhere…things moving on their own…

Alright, thinking of that stuff made things worse. Okay where was she? In some kind of room, the only thing there? A carpet, a bed and a knight in shining armor! Yesh! Sasuke-kun!

But no, it was just a rusty old armor…knight armor. And then a scream was heard.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH" Wait, it didn't come from her. IT was… "AHHHHHHHH" A blood-hurling scream. She's out of here! She turned for the door when …

Creek

Where did that come from? Waaa…I don't want them to strike me! Wait, what's going to strike me?

How she wished she never asked that. Next thing she knew, the armor was moving. Wait what was it holding? A sword! A real sword!

You're kidding me! This is a ride…a ride…it won't really hurt me; it's just trying to scare me that's all! I'm scared already no need to try harder! W-wait! It's coming near me…is it suppose to do that? I-is that what's going to strike me!

She's a kunoichi, a respectable one at that! But she can't be as quick as before since she's wearing a kimono! It slows her down. Which made her think why Sasuke couldn't catch up with her. And she left her weapons at home.

Now's not the time to think about how unarmed she was! She grabs the knob and finds it completely hard to turn. Since when is a knob hard to turn? When you don't know how to turn the knob properly that's when! She's struggling to open the door and stare at the approaching inanimate object.

It's really near. And it's holding the sword in the air, okay so she's 100 percent sure that's what was going to strike her. With a single twist the door is now open! So she was a little late, the sword is about to strike her when-

The real knight in shining has arrived…and now has his dear damsel in distress in his arms running in the hallway.

"S-Sasuke-kun!"

"I can't believe this" He threw a kunai at the walking/rushing/jogging? armor chasing after them.

"The damn things' empty!" They swerved to a corner still running…wait a silhouette can be seen at the far end…there are three no four of them. Thinking it was Naruto and the others he kept running forward.

Look at him, Uchiha Sasuke running! And away! Never have he dreamt on ever running away from anything but if he left Sakura on her feet who knows where she might end up next time.

Then he halted where the silhouettes in the dark where at, bringing he girl down and facing the suit who was lagging behind. He has to think fast on how to dispose this empty armor.

"S-Sa-Sa..kun" He can't even mutter a what at what he saw, he dropped Sakura face to face with overly covered, highly disguised, professionally skilled, rotting, decaying…oh the heck with it…zombies. And she's frozen to her spot.

Spitting out a curse or two, he picked her up again and ran to the narrow hallway to his right, so they were now being chased by a possessed armor and dead evolved monkeys. He can outrun them as fast as a snap, and that's what happened.

Wait, no it's not. Is he seeing a dead-end straight ahead? Yup he is. He stopped, he can drop her off and she can't run anywhere…and he can burn the living/non-living daylights out of all the pursuers.

So he dropped her off again…

Katon Housenka no jutsu

If he saw right, the zombies dodged and the armor…dropped to the ground. But in the end they all disappeared. All…even Sakura. Wait, what? When he turned around he came face to face with a wall.

Damn it, lost her again…

He kicked the idiotic, magic appearing wall in front of him and…it collapsed. What a mighty kick! Or what a dumb useless wallpaper. There revealed his pale-stricken princess. He sighed in relief.

Wait something wasn't right…when he turned again another wall was facing him. Something's telling him that he would be limping out of here if he decided to kick this one.

So he's trap…in the dark…surrounded by four walls…with Sakura who was now hysterical.

"Tch, it's over" It could've been 'it's alright now', 'don't cry' or 'everything's fine' but it just had to be that. At least she nodded. He settled himself on the nearest wall to him. She scooted to him. He smirked, he was expecting that. Was he that evil?

"Ne, Sasuke-kun…can I sit near you?" Her voice was shaky, who could blame her? No one can. Blame him! Him!

"Aa" She giggled in response.

"Whatever, right?" So she's trying to calm herself down…okay he'll ride along.

"No"

"Eh? But I thought-" She got a smirk. And then screaming was heard again. It was coming from above and then from the side…no, both!

And like magic, Shikamaru fell from above with Ino following. And from the side, Naruto skidded in with Hinata also following after.

"Tch, this isn't exactly the payback I wanted…troublesome woman" So Shikamaru was lying on the floor with Ino comfortably landing on top of him.

"H-Hinata-chan! Where are you!" So Naruto was crawling in different directions nothing new there.

"What happened to you guys?"

"Naruto was-" Naruto quickly covered his girlfriend's mouth. " Hinata was really scared and just ran and ran and I ran after her and then she was taken in by a bloody hand inside a mirror so I dove after her!" Hinata just sighed and agreed hopelessly.

"And you?"

"Well, like I thought she was scared to death…but what I forgot was that I was with her and she used her big mouth to scare the things away from her, including me, troublesome woman" Shikamaru tried to get Ino off him but she stubbornly stayed on top.

"Heheh, I bet Sasuke-teme was scared to death ne Sakura-chan? That pretty boy is nothing but pretty!" Sasuke was wondering whether to be mad or freaked-out with Naruto calling him pretty.

"What did you say dead-last!"

"Well, you got nothing on me though. You're just pretty I'm overly handsome and good-looking. And I'm sexy!"

"Hah! I bet! Sakura, who do you think is more good-looking and sexy?" Sasuke gave of his favorite confident smirk

"Of course, it's-"

"That's not fair bastard! You can't ask Sakura-chan…she's head over heels for you. The decision is biased of course!"

"What did you say? Hah! what if I prove you wrong! I was about to say Hyuuga Neji!"

Everything went silent. A blinking Hinata, an open-mouthed Naruto, a wide-eyed Ino, a curious-looking Shikamaru…and an about to explode Uchiha.

"Hyuuga…Neji…" Wasn't she joking about liking Hyuuga earlier in their walk towards lunch? She was joking right? And she's still joking? Right?

"Hyuuga…Neji…" Maybe she chose the wrong person's name to blurt out?

"Hyuuga…" Everyone went to Sakura's side for the assured safety zone.

"…Ne-" Everyone closed their eyes, since they for one doesn't want to witness the wrath of Uchiha…Sasuke.

"-ji!" It came. They saw inferno. Well they saw a chance of escaping since Sasuke trashed the entire place muttering Hyuuga Neji over and over again. Cemented wall or not it went down to debris.

Her and her big mouth, but she can see sunlight again! Or maybe she'll never see sunlight again after this. The Uchiha snapped his attention towards her.

The truth The truth! The truth shall set you free! What truth! she muttered out a random name, he'll never take that as a reason. Quick explain before this whole place collapse on them.

"Well, you gave no choices…" Was that the right thing to say…She's guessing not. Did she saw a glint in his eyes? Her mistake she's seeing fire.

"There was no choice." There's only one answer to that question! It's Uchiha Sasuke! It's Sasuke-kun! It's Sasuke! It's the teme! It's the number one rookie of the year long ago! It's Sasuke Uchiha! Anythings acceptable as long as it spells HIM out.

A way…a way…aha! Everyone was rounded in a corner, far far away from the free, uncontrolled, raged, hyper demonic, and tomato face Sasuke. Watching in horror how Sakura succumbs to her doom.

Sakura got up and did the only thing she thought of calming Sasuke down. She pecks him on the cheek. So he's still red…maybe it didn't work

"That's who I think is more good-looking and sexy than Naruto. But I didn't say he's better than you Sasuke-kun. You're always the best, if not then to me you are"

She hasn't done this much ratting since she was really annoying…I mean young. When she would follow him everywhere and ask him on dates. She minimized all of that and look where it got her, she gets to bond with him…but maybe just maybe…bringing a little old Haruno Sakura habit might just do the trick.

"I better be" He smirked, they're saved!

So, after that very weird happening, Ino quickly dragged Shikamaru out from the whole Sasuke made to the outside world. While Naruto explained to Hinata why he twisted the story on their way out.

As for Sakura her smile reached her ears! Light! Light! Light! She's alive! But then again she knew she'd survive she was…Sasuke also changed over the years…she was sure Sasuke would never let anything happen to her there…but she wasn't expecting the latest event.

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