The monstrous ghost lifted his hand and his nail elongated and pierced the phone and Naruto's shoulder. The phone died slowly and Naruto screamed as blood continued to pool around him. The ghost that radiated killer intent twisted his nail that was still embedded in Naruto shoulder making the blonde cry out in pain.
"So you can hear the voices?" A cool calm voice asked. "That is impressive. Do you like hearing the ghosts?" It questioned.
Naruto shook his head slowly and the nail twisted again making the blood quicken in flow. He sobbed outright.
"Well that's too bad. Can you see me?" It asked. Naruto again shook his head. The voice chuckled darkly. "Can you see this?" Suddenly a flash of red shown in front of Naruto where the ghost's eyes should've been. Naruto jumped a bit, but yelped when the nail dug in his shoulder again. That told the ghost what he needed to know.
A sudden pounding brought Naruto out of his despair. "Naruto! Naruto! Are you okay?!" It was Kyuubi and Kiba who he could hear the most. "We can't get in Naruto, it's locked!" Naruto's face fell and tumbled into depression again. He was going to die. Just like everyone else before him.
"How about I kill you so you can see everyone, like your family? Do you miss them? I can kill you too if you want." The ghost said with a gleam in his eyes. Naruto's eyes widened at the subject of his parents, he whimpered and looked to the door.
"Heeelp…" He yelled in a raspy voice. It was very soft but Kyuubi heard it. "What's wrong Naruto?!" The pounding on the door became more violent and frantic.
The finger of the ghost slowly slid down and cut him like a hot knife through butter, getting closer and closer to his heart. The crying ghost boy in the corner of the room stopped crying and Naruto could hear the soft padding of his foot steps.
"Itachi?" The young ghost, about Naruto's age if not a year older, asked. Naruto was slipping in and out of consciousness from the lack of blood.
"Yes, Otouto?" He asked sweetly. Well as sweetly as a murdering son of a bitch could.
"Don't kill him too. Please?" The boy pleaded.
"If that's what you wish…" Itachi said. Naruto, even in his in-and-out consciousness, sighed with relief, but that quickly changed into another scream of pain as Itachi sliced off to the left and withdrew his talon.
"Why'd you do that!? I said don't kill him!" The young ghost gasped.
"I didn't kill him. I just made it very hard to stay alive. If he tries I'm sure he'll live…probably." Naruto heard the ghost's footsteps fade away along with his vision.
"Damn. You, this is going to be the scariest damn thing you've ever seen but it'll keep you alive. Don't die, dobe." The ghost said as he waved a hand in front of the blonde's eyes which immediately shut. That's when the front door swung open and collided with the wall with a loud, 'TUNK!'. He felt the ghosts disappear and Kyuubi's eyes on him. After that, he fell into a deep sleep, evil and traumatizing nightmares promised to come.
Kyuubi and everyone stared wide-eyed at their friend, leaning back against a wall with his head to the right side and a pool of blood that surrounded him. He had tears flowing from his closed eyes and his mouth was open in a silent plea for help.
"N-naruto?" Kyuubi asked hesitantly as though he expected the blonde boy to leap up any second and laugh at them.
They got no reply.
"Omigawd!" Neji threw up in the corner and Kyuubi rushed to Naruto's side along with Kiba, Lee and Gaara.
"Naruto? Are you okay? Answer me!" Kyuubi wailed. Neji kept far away from fear of throwing up on Naruto but he was crying to himself. Gaara was scared speechless more so than usual. Lee couldn't believe his eyes. Kiba still couldn't process his friend's condition as he knelt down in the blood to feel for his vitals.
"Guys! He's okay!" Kiba hollered over Kyuubi's sobs.
"We have to take him to a hospital! Quick!" Lee barked.
Kyuubi picked him up gingerly and ran out of the mansion.
"Now why did you go and do that, Otouto?" The ghost known as Itachi asked.
"Because I could." The young one replied and ran (…er, floated?) after Naruto.
Itachi scowled. "No one defies me. Not even my little brother. There will be hell to pay from this, Naruto." He cackled evilly to himself. "I'll make sure of it."
--In Naruto state of unconsciousness—
Blood. Everywhere. His friends' blood. Their bodies. His blood. He was still alive, but slowly bleeding to death.
A tall man with raven colored hair and bright blood red eyes was standing in front of him, laughing insanely. He was throwing knives into Naruto's body over and over and over again, and forced to watch his friends die in grotesque ways. Kiba's head was cut off. Kyuubi was disemboweled. Lee was hung. Neji was skinned alive. Gaara was cut into little pieces from the feet up. It was so gross that Naruto threw up repeatedly so many times he ran out of stomach enzymes and was throwing up blood. Their screams of death played over and over in his ears.
Now Itachi was killing slowly and painfully. Stabbing the sensitive parts but not vital parts first and then moved closer to his center and vital organs.
"Soon you'll see everyone. You'll be with everyone. Don't you want to be with your friends?" He mocked and kicked Kyuubi in the side.
"Fuck off!" Naruto yelled his arms chained up on the crucifix, like a dart board.
"Maybe later with you or one of your friends." Itachi ridiculed.
"That's so gross! Don't make me kill you bastard!" He pulled against the chains. Even if he's up against a ghost he wouldn't give in to death or act too kindly towards the murderer of his friends.
'Good! You have to want to live. None of this is real!' Avoice told him.
"I-it sure feels real." He whispered
"What was that?" Itachi asked.
"I won't say anything to a bastard like you." He hissed.
Itachi threw another knife directly adjacent to his heart and Naruto swore loudly as blood poured out of his body.
'It's a spell I put you under to live. It's not real.' It said.
"So this is your doing eh, well you know what sir?" Naruto asked.
'What?'
"You're a real t-teme." He choked on some blood.
'But you better not die in here.'
"Why's that, teme?" He asked.
'Cause you'll die out there too.'
"I see." He spit out more blood.
'You're waking up now.'
"Finally." The blonde smirked at his tormentor. "Bye bye." He spit in Itachi's eyes as his body started to disappear from the evil and painful world.
"Otouto, you did it again." Itachi growled in his fury.
"Yea…so what?" The younger ghost said and poofed out of the world as well, keeping tabs on the dobe.
--Back in reality—
"What if he doesn't make it!?" Kyuubi cried. "It'll be my entire fault!"
Neji rubbed circles on Kyuubi's back, coaxing him to stop crying. Kyuubi never cried unless it had something to do with Naruto, he was very protective of him since his parents were murdered.
"The doctors said he was stable now. Calm down." Lee comforted.
"You know he was lying! After all that blood he lost, I won't be able to breath without smelling that forever. His blood pressure is so weak too." He had cried so much that he ran out of tears and now they were just dry sobs.
"Ugh…" A groan came from the hospital bed.
"Naruto!" Kyuubi leapt up and motioned for everyone to come over.
"Anyone ever hear of breathing room?" Naruto asked. "Agh! I can't see!" He panicked.
"Naruto…open your eyes." Neji said calmly.
"Oh yeah. Hi everybody! Miss me?" He smiled, still lying down. He may be an idiot but he wasn't about to open his stitches.
Kyuubi glomped him. "You scared the fudge-nips out of me! Brat!" He shouted.
"Ouch! Kyu-chan! Down boy!" Naruto reprimanded him but with a smile none the less.
"Naruto what in the seven hells happened to you." Lee asked.
"I was attacked by a ghost! I swear!" He exclaimed. "And I'm not high this time!"
He got five odd stares from his friends. "I swear it! And this ghost guy who's like a year older than me saved me by putting me through hell and…AGH!" Naruto was strapped to his bed. "I'm not high! You have to believe me!"
Naruto's eyes got really big all of a sudden. "There he is! The ghost-teme!" He shouted and pointed at the empty space about his bed on a shelf.
"I think the shock made him crazy." The nurse said as he injected him with a sleeping shot.
"I think so. Will he be okay when he gets up?" Kiba asked.
"Probably. But that was a very traumatic experience he suffered, he died at one point. But we revived him." She explained.
"Wonder what really happened…" Lee pondered out loud.
"Itachi…" Naruto mumbled in his sleep and his eyes scrunched up in pain. The nurse dropped her chart.
"What's wrong miss?" Kyuubi asked politely.
"That name. You see? Itachi was a serial killer. He murdered his entire family and one, Uzumaki family, and then committed suicide after them. I thought it was just a coincidence, Naruto's name, but now…" She trailed off.
When Kyuubi heard her say Uzumaki he went deaf to the world around him. Naruto's family's killer almost killed Naruto…and it would've been his fault to lead him to the trap.
Naruto sat up in his sleep and called out, "Kyuubi…"
"What is it Naruto?" He walked up to his sleeping cousin.
"I see…" Naruto said in a hushed voice.
Kyuubi leaned his ear closer to Naruto's mouth.
"I SEE DEAD PEOPLE!!" He shouted and fell back down onto the bed.
Kyuubi passed out on the ground from the sheer loudness of it.
No one heard the boy sitting on the shelf, laughing his ass off at the 'dobe's' stupidity. 'Oi, This Naruto was a fun one.' The ghost boy thought. 'This is going to be so much fun!'
TBC...
For those of you who hadn't guessed it yet. Naruto is experiencing the Mangekyou-Sharingan.
Mol: What's that?
Nomi: It's a form of the Sharingan that is obtained by killing your best friend (looks at Mol) and you can torment people in another world. While the world is not real, the victim feels every ounce of pain.
Mol: I get it now.
Nomi: Sorry for making this chapter really dramatic. It'll shift between Drama and humor and I'm fiddling with the plot.
Mol: Well get to it! (re-chains to desk) Ja! R&R Please!
Nomi: (Continues crying) Someone save me!