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Chapter 6

Nightmares

Shadows lurking,

Seeping into our dreams

Crumbling the foundations of which they once stood.

Dreams disintegrating

Mutating,

Into nightmares.

Cannot escape,

Cannot run,

Cannot hide.

They're coming for us,

They're scaring us,

They're sending us to insanity.

--Sakura (Day6)

That is what I put in the journal. As we sit around a large circular table eating our breakfast, silence has over come all of us. The guys seem to be afraid after this morning's event. It was horrible. Turns out I'm not the only one who experienced it, they other girls have too.

"S-so, h-how was everyone's m-mornings?" Ten-ten asked shakily.

"Disturbing." Ino glumly answered.

"Indeed." I whispered.

"I-I-I s-second t-that." Hinata trembled.

We just sat there looking at our food. The same thing crossed our mind, we've lost our appetites. They guys looked at us; they too were disturbed, after all most of them did awake to screaming girls.

"Uhm. What happened?" Naruto asked curiously as he sweat dropped.

"Don't want to really talk about it." Ino grumbled.

"Nightmares." I said in an unusual cool mysterious tone.

"Nightmares?" Naruto cocked his head to the side.

"I-Ino, what was y-yours about? It c-couldn't have been as b-bad as mine." Ten-ten asked.

Ino thought about it and described it.

--Dream--

Ino was happily prancing through the woods on her way to another town; delivering some flowers. It was still noon but shadows were already peeking out from trees. Ino continued on her way but was stopped when a dark figure wrapped his arms around her and pulled her against a tree.

"W-what?" Ino gasped.

He laid his lips against her neck and sucked, making Ino moan. He dug his hands into her body and it got more intense. He was hurting her, but in the same time it was pleasing her. He turned her around to face him and it was a blank face but it was like Ino knew who it was, his figure was very familiar. His lips met hers and begged for entrance and she allowed it, they were going all out and they fell over. Ino caught a glimpse of the guy's face.

--end dream--

She whispered the dream to the other girls so they guys couldn't hear it.

"So who was the guy?" Ten-ten asked as she took a sip of her glass of water.

Ino stopped and her eye twitched, "It…it was… Super Eyebrows Chief!"

Ten-ten splashed water all over the place as the girls all were freaked out, "WHAT!"

Ten-ten's eyes twitched, "That is beyond horrible! That's a nightmare!"

Naruto was listening in, "Who's Super Eyebrows Chief?" He asked aloud.

All of the girls turned their head slowly and shakily towards him.

"He's the original moron who kidnapped us… NASTY! I can picture his eyebrows now!" Ino shook her head violently.

"Originally kidnapped you?" Neji asked.

They blinked, that's right, they didn't know.

"You kidnapped the kidnapped on accident." Sakura said in the cool mysterious tone.

"Anyway, what about you Ten-ten?" Ino asked.

"Uhm, well… just as bad as yours…" Ten-ten looked down as she recited the dream, this time to the whole table.

--Dream--

Ten-ten was walking into a fancy restaurant. It was a beautiful place, and very romantic. She approached a table for two and saw man with a blank face; she smiled at the thin but tall figure. He was holding a crimson rose. A group of people passed by and Ten-ten blinked. When she opened her eyes the man was replaced by another. Ten-ten was horrified by the person as the restaurant was covered in crimson roses; covered in dripping blood.

--End dream--

"Who was he?" Hinata asked.

"I don't know. He was a buff guy with short kind of bowel shape brown hair and…" Ten-ten was cut off by Sakura.

"Ew."

They all looked at Sakura. Ino asked, "Do you know who it is?"

"You guys should know him." Sakura said as her eye twitched, "Wasn't his name Dominick?"

Ino's eye's widened and her mouth dropped, "That GUY!" She started laughing but it soon stopped as she realized how wrong it was.

"Who?" Ten-ten asked, she questioned Ino's laughter.

"Are you serious?" Ino asked as Ten-ten nodded, "You know… that guy from your town. The one we made fun of because of how you described him to us. They guy with the brain the size of an ant."

Ten-ten's widened in horror, "NOOOO!" Ten-ten fell out of her chair, absolutely traumatized.

"Who's Dominick?" Neji asked in his normal demeanor.

"This guy Ten-ten knew before she was kidnapped. He's really buff and pretty dumb… probably dumber than Naruto here." Naruto pouted as Ino explained.

"T-that's a pretty bad nightmare…" Hinata whispered, everyone heard her though.

Shikamaru turned toward Hinata, "What about you? What's your nightmare?"

Hinata's face lost color. Sakura rested her hand on Hinata's shoulder, "Was he in it?"

Hinata nodded. And Ten-ten hugged her, "It's ok. If he ever comes back, we'll tackle his ass!"

Hinata faintly smiled as she began her story.

--Dream--

Hinata sat around on her porch as leaves from the tree in front of her fell onto the ground. Hinata was smiling and a figure was sitting next to her, she smiled because of the figure. She was happy, harmony washed over her. Hinata continued to watch the leaves and she turned to look at the person. He was gone, but instead he was replaced by someone holding a whip and red eyes glowering down at her.

Her attacked her, Hinata couldn't move. She endured the cut, punches, kicks and the blood dripping from her body. She hurt all over as she looked up at him.

--End dream--

Everyone sat silent. But the girls were all hugging Hinata, they wouldn't let go of her. And Hinata was just silent.

"Hinata…" Sakura's voice was calming and comforting, "It's ok. It was just a dream."

The guys just watched the girls. They had no idea about their lives until now, well, they still don't really know but they learned some things. Ino was obviously creeped out by the original person who kidnapped them. Ten-ten must've at one point liked this Dominick person, but not anymore. Hinata came from an abusive family. And Sakura?

Once they were all calm again, Sasuke looked at Sakura and said, "And you?"

Sakura's gaze fell to her plate. Sasuke must be enjoying himself, hearing how these stupid little things were our nightmares. Sakura just shivered. And Sasuke noticed the looks from the other girls.

"Sasuke, leave her alone. Sakura has nightmares more often than us." Ino glared at him.

Sasuke just glared back. But little did they know that the shadow still loomed over them, watching their every move.

I couldn't stop looking down at my plate, looking at the reflection in it. My pink hair was unusual, yes. My teal eyes were also unusual. Why do I exist? Ino is sticking up for me right now, and I don't really want to talk about my nightmare. The villager's always will make me cower in fear, fear of being different and no one accepting me. But here I am, with these people; they've accepted me, right? I just… want to sleep.

And I did. I'm not sure how or why, but at that moment my head slumped down onto the plate. Everyone was staring at me. Why do I stand out?

"Sakura!" Ino screamed.

Sakura had fallen out of her chair after her head hit the plate. It was like she magically fell asleep. I don't know why, but all of their nightmares seemed a bit childish and creepy to me. I hate them, but I hate Sakura more or less? I'm not sure anymore. Like everyone else, I went over to see what was going on. I looked down at her and I sensed something.

"Do you guys feel that?" They all looked at me.

Neji realized what I meant and activated his Byakugan.

"He's right. There's remaining chakra here, it's none of ours." He was looking around us and stopped. He pointed toward the left of us, "Over there."

We ran over there, while I carried Sakura. Nothing was there. But a scream from Ino made us all look. What the hell was going on? Ino was being swallowed up by a dark shadow.

"Shikamaru!" Naruto yelled. I looked at him.

"It's not me." He shook his head

Shikamaru ran towards her and took hold of her hand and pulled. It was no use; Shikamaru got stuck in the shadow and was being pulled in it. Shikamaru and Ino were swirled into the center; like a spiral. And in a matter of seconds the two vanished along with the shadow. This isn't good, three down and six to go.

"Shit!" Naruto yelled.

We continued to run through the corridors in the direction Neji pointed to. A flash of black zoomed passed my eyes and toward Hinata. It was like a black shadow rope and it clung around Hinata's neck. She shrieked in pain and it tightened and wrapped itself around her entire body. Naruto had jumped in to save her, now they both were stuck. Ten-ten pulled out a kunai and slashed at it, but the darkness was too thick.

The shadow was coiled around the two in a spiral. And the next thing they knew the disappeared. Ten-ten fell to the ground and started to pound at the ground with her fists, she screamed uncomprehendable things. But we had to continue on before we lost anymore. Kiba pulled her up and we began running, we knew the next target; Ten-ten.

We entered the training room and Neji lost the track, which is impossible. I had no choice but to use it. I closed my eyes and reopened them with force. The Sharingan occupied my eyes now. I looked around; there was in fact no trace of the track anymore. We've lost our lead. Hold on. My eyes caught strange glowing shape on Sakura's shoulder (well between the neck and shoulder); it glowed through her clothes and blinded me. It was odd, what was it?

But then something moved in the corner of my eye and I looked over and saw another spiral shadow cloud. Neji, Ten-ten, and Kiba also saw it. We stood in front of Ten-ten and protected her as the cloud zoomed toward us. It pushed us aside and engulfed Ten-ten. She coughed, she couldn't breathe. Neji jumped into the dark cloud after her and the cloud disintegrated into a puff of smoke before we could do anything.

A squeaky cackle echoed through the room. I looked in the direction of the sound and saw a dark figure standing against a tree trunk. He was smiling, or so you would think. He had short black hair that stuck to the shape of his head and he wore an ANBU uniform. He had dark eyes and a face that pissed me off.

"Sai…?" Kiba asked.

"Mm? Looks like another butt ugly girl is still left?" Sai stared emotionless at the pink haired girl I carried.

I smirked, Sai, I don't know him because he's always away acting as an ANBU member. I wonder why he's back. He 'smiled' and took out a parchment and ink pen and his drawing came to life. This time a giant lion made of spirals came to life. It's shadowy figure raced towards us. My chakra was used up a bit so I couldn't sustain the Sharingan, which was bad because the lion was indeed fast. Before I knew it I was thrown back against a tree trunk. That fucking hurt, a lot. I looked at the lion and saw that is was walking toward the pink haired girl that I dropped when I flew back.

Where's that Kiba! I looked over and saw that he was lying on the ground unconscious. Just great. I struggled to my feet, ignoring the pain. I must at least have three broken bones and a broken rib. I looked over at Sai; he was still 'smiling'.

"What are you smiling at?" I growled.

"I'm surprised that this girl lasted. There's currently a technique going that you can't refuse to slumber and when you fully do you disappear to where ever I want. This one here was my first target, but she didn't go where I wanted her." Sai was no expressionless.

The lion continued it's way until it stood over Sakura. Wait, she's asleep. But how can I wake her up? Thoughts raced through my head as the lion's paw raised and it's claws popped out. The lion roared as the paw fell down and, POW!

Sakura punched the Lion. Very expected since the Lion woke her up. I rubbed my cheek in memory of that one time I woke her up. Sakura blinked a few times and she must've realized what was going on. There's a lion in front of you, your friends have disappeared, your room mate is injured and there's an ugly guy 'smiling' over there; how can she not figure it out?

Sakura stood up and darted over to me. "What the hell?"

"Hn?" She's so stupid.

"Who's he?" She asked pointing toward Sai.

"The guy who's made everyone disappear, and almost killed you." I said in my usual tone.

She just blinked, "Oh really?"

She is in fact stupid. Why of all people did I get stuck with her?

"Looks like she's awake." Sai was 'smiling' again.

"Sai? Right?" Sakura asked.

How did she know that? I never told her.

"Looks like butt ugly is smart." Sai cooed.

Uh oh. I don't think that was the right thing to say as well, as soon as it left his mouth she appeared in front of him and bashed her fist into his stomach.

He stumbled backwards as blood escaped his mouth. Stupid Sai. Stupid Sakura. Sakura advanced on him, I decided that I'd let her handle it, I don't really care. She was hovering over him now and she thrust her fist down only to be caught by Itachi. Itachi? What is he doing here?

"Sai. If you continue to piss off this one here, she'll kill you." He said in his cold voice.

Itachi threw back Sakura's fist and she walked back to me mumbling. She stood next to me and glared at me, she gave me the I-hate-everything-about-you-and-your-brother look. I don't blame her; I'd be pissed if I was stopped in the middle of beating the crap of someone. But then again I hate her, so I don't really care.

Itachi continued to stare down at Sai, "You wouldn't want me to kill you over something like this, now would you? Undo your technique."

Sai complied and the bodies of all of their companions appeared in a pile.

And here we are at the end of another chapter.

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