Naruto's hand reached over the handle of the door to the left, jerking it back as though he had been burned when he felt a bug crawl on the boy's outstretched skin. "GET IT OFF'A ME!" He screamed before nearly running into Sakura whom had shrieked herself; afraid he was being attacked.

Finally flinging the bug off, he turned his head over to glance at the very angry girl who had just now found out it was a bug instead of a ghost. "Damn it Naruto! You scared me to death!" The girl sighed, leaning against the opposite door as she caught her lost breath.

Naruto reached for the door again after a few moments, and finally pushed it open. There was nothing special about this room, just a few cupboards hanging on the opposite wall and a door to the far right. Proceeding towards the next sliding screen; Naruto's head swam with a vision on what laid beyond it.

Sasuke walked down the corridor, his faded pupils of possession not even glancing at the many ghosts that seemed to be running away from something. "The Kusabi is coming!" they screamed at him, though he kept walking. A small hall branched off to the left hand side and from what Naruto could see; there was bloodied hand prints everywhere. Turning the corner at the very end to the right, the boy headed towards the rice paper door that was at the end of this hallway, on the right hand side. Naruto could hear Sae's voice scream for the villager to run; as if mocking them. "Why did you leave me back then?"

The image began to sputter and swirl; telling Naruto that he was soon to move again and he would have been in high spirits had he not heard a familiar male voice whisper in his ear. "Come back to me…come perform the Crimson Ritual and become one with me Naruto…"

Screaming and causing Sakura who had been face to face with him, calling him for him the whole time he had blanked out, to also shriek and land on her ass. "Naruto!" She whined, rubbing her backside.

This was the second time for crying out loud! 'What did he see to get him so afraid?' She suddenly wondered studying the boy's face that was dripping with sweat and an extra shade of pale now. The boy's hand's shook violently as he listened to an eerie song that played in his head over and over again.

'Please, please forgive me…but I won't be home again…isn't something missing? You won't cry for my absences I know…You forgot me long ago…am I that unimportant…am I that insignificant? Isn't something missing? Isn't someone missing?'

"Stop it!" Naruto cried out, hitting his head against the nearby wooden wall, nearly causing it to collapse from the force he had put into the head butt.

"Naruto! Don't do that! What's wrong with you?" Sakura cried out, holding her hands above her mouth; wondering why he seemed to suddenly be losing it.

Her guess was that the loss of Sasuke and Kakashi was getting to him as the youth screamed again, his head filling with agony as the song continued. The haunting voice of a boy and girl sung together; the blonde instantly recognizing just who it was. "Shut up Sae! Give him back you damn witch!" He cried out, grabbing the handle to the sliding door again and yanking it open.

He was now in the hallway that he had just seen Sasuke walk through in the vision that replayed over and over in his mind as he gripped Sakura's arm suddenly and ran down the corridor. ' Though I'm the sacrifice, you won't try for me…not now…though I'd die to know you love me….I'm all alone…isn't someone missing me?'

Frustrated and in pain as the melody seemed to tear at his very soul, the words rip apart his flesh from the inside and the female voice making his blood boil. Rounding the corner that Sasuke had come upon, Naruto suddenly cried out in pain as he ran smack into a hostile ghost. "Damn it!" The boy coughed out, falling to the ground and nearly taking the kunoichi down with him.

' Please, PLEASE forgive me…but I won't be home again, I know what you do to yourself…isn't someone missing me? Though I'm the sacrifice, you wont' try for me; not now. Though I'd die to know you love me…I'm all alone…isn't someone missing me?'

Again, the stabbing pain in his brain like a thousand knives piercing through hit him head on; giving the bloody man ghost an opening which he took. Slamming against the wall; Naruto felt his spiritual strength fade into almost nothing. The song had some kind of an effect on him; and the only guess he had was because him and Sasuke had such a strong bond that his feelings of hate and sorrow in the song, mixed Sae's evil and malevolent power. Naruto heard a faint scream as he was being held up by the spirit by the neck; though he could guess that it was Sakura anyways. 'Sakura…no! I can't leave her by herself! Not now! We're to close….to finding him again…' he thought as darkness threatened to consume him. Using what little power he could muster, he managed to grab the man's arms that held him and flung him over his shoulder and into the wall behind him. Taking this moment, Sakura ran over and picked up the blonde, rushing for the door and practically throwing it off the hinges.

Slamming the faintly painted rice paper door shut again, Sakura collapsed on the ground, Naruto rolling a few feet away from her; his blue eyes fixed on her with a grin on his face. Slowly, the girl looked back at him with her emerald eyes and gave him a thumbs up which he returned after a moment of catching what little breath he had left. Glancing around him, he could see they were in guest room by the looks of it. There was a smaller room squared off, inside of this one, it's walls lined with rice paper and a two openings to go through. Inside the smaller room was a fireplace from what Naruto could see. Standing once more, Naruto looked around the corner to see another door where he could hear the faint sound of rain. So they were close to outdoors? A good sign or so the blonde took it as. It meant more room for him to run around and dodge apparition's attacks. Sakura soon stood beside him, holding her arm at the elbow and looking down the hall with sad eyes. She could feel so much malice in the room that it was smothering the air. Something terrible had happened in this room and she could feel it, and deeply till her heart throbbed.

"Common, lets find that bastard and get the hell outta here…" Naruto said before pausing as his vision went black and white.

However, this time; there was no vision. He could see Sakura's foot right beside his as he looked down at the ground. Blinking, the boy screamed as corpses suddenly surrounded the two. Thousands of bloody, decaying corpses. Some of the men reached out; barely alive, as if asking for help. Sakura clung to the boy's arm, screaming with eyes like a deer in the headlights. However, the worse had yet to come as they suddenly heard nothing but the insane laughter of Sae's voice. Turning back to look at the opening, Naruto nearly died himself at the sight of the girl laughing at him, her eyes wide with malice and a evil grin plastered on her face as she cackled. What was worse, was for a split second, Naruto could see Sasuke replacing the white, blood stained, kimono girl. Sae suddenly lunged at the two of them; Naruto's lightening reflexes the only thing that saved them from being grabbed. Pushing Sakura towards the door, Naruto rolled up his sleeves and glared at the woman whom merely smiled back at him; seeming innocent. "Go! Go find Sasuke while I settle the score with this bitch!" Naruto spat towards Sakura, his very anger twisting him into the form of the nine-tails; red sparkling eyes glaring at their foe.

Sakura wanted to protest but the words were in her throat as she now only thought about Sasuke and how many terrible things this ghost could have done to him. Turning on her heel; Sakura hurried out the door calling behind her. "You'd better come and find me Naruto!"

Racing out the door, Sakura felt the breeze whip at her face suddenly. She was outside on a deck; a small garden cut out in a circle in the middle and stairs heading upward to her left. Wasting no time, the girl scrambled up the soggy and slippery wooden steps. For a moment, she swore that she could see Sasuke walking on the hallway above her, causing her to climb more furiously. "Sasuke-kun!" She cried out after his image as it disappeared behind a door.

Forgetting all about the storm, she was startled as a crack of lightening shone a few feet away from her, the thunder rumbling as she screamed and fell backward. By luck alone, she had managed to grab the built on stair beam, which thankfully held fast as she clung to it. Catching her wits, she quickly, but more carefully this time, hurried towards the only door on the second floor. It led her to a hallway, with a door on her left hand side and straight ahead of her. Following instinct alone, she left the first door behind her and kept straight. Inside the next room was an assortment of many books on shelves; though she disconcerted them and ran straight for the door on the right hand side, a little further back in the room. 'No time to look, no time to think. I have to save him! Sasuke!' Her mind screamed as she ran into the next room. This one was as creepy as the old Osaka house, with little lanterns that hung from the ceiling; their lights flickering. Again, she paid no attention to what other objects were around her besides a drawer that was beside the last door on the left hand side yet again.

'Sasuke-kun!' Sakura's mind screamed as she pulled the door open. Inside, a small doll stand stood immediately in front of her and in the back of the room she saw a rice paper screen that rounded off the last back piece of the room. A familiar shadow outline of Sasuke sat there, whispering to himself while holding something round like a ball…or a head. "…We didn't want to do the ritual…so we ran away…but I was caught…" The raspy voice whispered that sounded as far from Sasuke's voice as she could tell.

Still, she ran over to the screen and rounded it. There laid Sasuke, asleep on the floor like an innocent child. Reaching over, Sakura shook his shoulder causing him to awaken from his sleep. "S-sakura?"

Leaping into his arms, Sakura held the boy tightly. "Don't you ever let go of me again! Don't you ever leave me again! Oh Sasuke!" The girl sobbed into the boy's arms.

"Sakura, it's okay….I didn't mean to worry you guys…someone was calling me…telling me to perform the ritual again…" Sasuke whispered, standing and holding his head.

What had he been doing all this time? Sakura really didn't care; as long as he was safe. "Common we have to get back to Naruto!"

Sasuke's head snapped up at the sound of his lover's name; the urgency in Sakura's voice unnerving him. "What about Naruto?"

"He stayed behind to fight that girl Sae! We have to help him! Sasuke-kun!"

Another word was not needed for both kunoichi and shinobi had peeled out of the room, retracing Sakura's steps.

Naruto felt his head slam against the wall for the fifth time as Sae knocked him around and began to choke him. 'Why hasn't she finished me off yet…she could have done it a long time ago!' Naruto grimaced as he was thrown again, tearing down a paper wall. Sae laughed at his attempts to return to his feet before she kneeled down by him, wiping a small trail of blood from his lips. "Naruto-kun…allow me to help your love between Sasuke and yourself bloom…"

Naruto spat at the woman before he felt her hand run along a scarred whisker of his; shuttering to her very touch, he could only wish she would stop as she then placed her hand over his eyes. "I'll make it all better. Trust me…" Her voice hissed, prickling the back hair's of his neck before he slipped into an unconscious state.

/The song you may have noticed is by Evanescence called Missing. It's what inspired me to write this fanfic beside the game Fatal frame 2 and it's ending song Butterfly. I don't own Naruto, FF, or Evanescence...though I wish lol ' Keep the reviews comming and I'll get you chapter 9/