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A soft bed.

A working toilet.

Air conditioning.

Things that you really appreciated after weeks of traveling across the region, and though she knew that it was just a temporary stop and it would be back to hiking right after, she couldn't help herself but enjoy it anyway. The plush softness of the bed was unlike her own bed at home, it was even softer. Her bed at home was a futon, and it had years of use into it, so it was worn down. The soft carpet on her feet was unlike the hard wood of her home, and the giving dirt and grass of nature.

Also TV.

Bea flipped through a couple of channels, before she noticed that they were limited to what was showing in Johto and Kanto, it would seem that international television was not really a thing. She saw a commercial featuring a ship taking a trip to Hoenn, and stopping in Unova, but she didn't see anything about her home region.

"EEEEEEE-!"

Bea jumped into a fighting stance when she heard a loud woman's scream.

"The fuck was that!?" Naruto ran out of the bathroom, wrapping a towel around his waist as he did so, his body covered in steam and water. Petilil jumped from the bed and onto his shoulder in an instant, while Bea grabbed a pokeball from the side of the bed and rushed into the hallway. She was ready to throw the ball in an instant.

Naruto followed her.

A "geisha" style room attendent was on the floor of the hallway, holding her face with her hand, blood seeping between her fingers. There was a shadowy figure that was running away, and turned the corner as a few more people started to get out of their rooms.

"It's a head wound, Bea, you stay with her and put pressure on it. Everyone should get back into their rooms, there has been an attack!" Naruto called out, stopping several people from making any movements. Naruto nodded to Bea, but she just grabbed the woman and helped her to her feet, before she led the woman into the arms of a random hotel guest. Naruto got a look at the geisha's face, before he took a deep breath.

Bea saw the change in Naruto's face, and how he seemed to go from rushed and worried, to disappointed and annoyed.

"Wow... just wow... I'm just going to say nope to all of this, and go back to our room. Somehow, I feel that the attacker is going to come back again very soon." Naruto deadpanned as he went back into his room, and a very confused Bea followed after him. She had no clue what was going on, but a woman was attacked.

Petilil was just as confused as Bea was, at first, before she seemed to understand it as they passed by the geisha themed attendent, and understood it as well.

-After Naruto's Shower-

"Staged?"

"Fake blood, unless you're paying really close attention, it looks real. She wasn't bleeding from her head, she was 'bleeding' from a 'blood' tube concealed in her sleeve. It's used in acting and performing and junk like that." Naruto explained what he thought to Bea. He had seen hints on the woman's face, and the way she was holding herself, to suggest that the event had been planned, or at the very least it was fake. "Creep hotel... nice quality and stuff, but this whole town is deep into ghost nonsense. I bet this is going to be one of those-"

There was a LOUD scream once more.

Bea rushed out of the room, while Naruto sighed and rubbed the top of his head in annoyance, before he got to his feet and walked after Bea.

You're next Uzumaki Naruto!

There was writing in blood on the long mirror in the hallway, and a terrified hotel guest had collapsed and pointed at it. Bea had a shiver go up her spine when she saw a collapsed woman on the ground, and she read Naruto's name on the mirror.

"Wow... creepy."

"Whatever it is, it knows your name." Bea whispered to Naruto.

"We signed our names as guests when we got here." Naruto explained rationally, since nothing that out of the ordinary was happening if this was part of the hotel's schemes to get some tourism. A haunted hotel in a haunted town was going to get a lot of visitors for sure. "You see... fake dead body... very convincing dead body, but fake all the same." Naruto gained a look of disbelief from Bea as she pointed at the corpse and the mirror.

"You... you're creeped out by ghost pokemon, but this... this doesn't get you?"

"Not really, I can explain this... once you understand it's all a scheme to get customers, kind of makes it less scary. Well, goodnight." Naruto went back into the room with a yawn.

-Late into the Night-

A scratch on the window.

Bea was kind of frightened by every small noise or sound, but every time she looked over at Naruto, he was sleeping completely peacefully. Not a care in the world, he even had his ears plugged so that no screams would wake him up. The mood of the room was terrifying, just impossible for her to sleep in.

The TV turned on by itself.

"EEP!?" Bea gave a cute squeek in fright when white static appeared on the screen.

She grabbed Machoke's pokeball and got ready, but the TV turned off by itself a minute after it turned on. She looked around the room, before she saw a shadow on the wall, and looked towards the window. A shadow raced by the window, so she rushed over to the window and opened it up, looking out the window by sticking her head out.

Nothing.

They were on the 4th floor.

"Naruto... Naruto wake up..." Bea reached out to wake Naruto up with a hand on the shoulder, before she realized he would just make fun of her for being scared. Gripping her hand into a fist, she went back towards her own bed.

Her blanket was on the floor.

A chill went down her spine once more when she saw that her things had been moved, the blanket was on the floor, and her pillows were under the bed. Naruto's blanket had been thrown off of his body as well, but he slept peacefully even without a blanket. Petilil was annoyed and woke up, before she just crawled up Naruto's shirt and relaxed against his chest.

Creepy things were happening.

Naruto slept through them all, but Bea couldn't find herself able to do the same. Every time something happened, she had to investigate it. Her fight or flight sense was activated, and she wanted to fight whatever was scaring her so much.

"EEEP!?" Bea tripped back on herself.

She couldn't stop herself, not when she saw a large figure, a massive figure, with sharp red eyes, peering out from the darkness. The darkness keeping it from being viewed properly. She tripped over herself and fell on Naruto.

"The fuck... go to sleep Bea."

"Naruto, there is a giant figure... right... there..." Bea turned to look back at the figure, only for it to bed gone, and Naruto looked towards where the figure was. He could hear the sounds of talking and walking in the hallway, only slightly, and he could guess what was happening.

"Let me guess... TV turned on by itself, shadows on the wall... dark figures, people outside the window... things moving on their own?" Naruto asked her.

"So you were awake!"

"No, but if I wanted to scare somebody with a haunting... that is what I would fake. The TV was controlled by a univeral remote, but the guy outside the window, who is attached to wires from the roof. The things moving on their own, an invisible ghost pokemon or a psychic pokemon... and the dark figure would be a ghost pokemon." Naruto explained it all away. Bea was startled by how easily he guessed all of the stuff, and figured put how it could be done.

When he explained it to her, it seemed... so not scary anymore.

"That... makes sense."

"There might be such a thing as ghost pokemon like Gastly... but there is no such thing as a conveniently placed real ghost in a hotel. Now go to sleep." Naruto told her as he turned over and drifted back into sleep himself.

-The Next Morning-

"Wow sir, you won. You managed to not get scared, and figure out the mystery, please accept this as a sign of our respect. You and your traveling companion had won these, tickets to the hot springs on Cinnabar island. Good for 1 luxury night stay."

"See, told you it was all fake." Naruto accepted the tickets. "So... do you give these prizes to everyone?" Naruto asked as he looked over the tickets.

"... How... how did you... how did YOU, figure this out?" Bea asked Naruto, since she couldn't imagine him figuring something out like this easily.

"The prize changed this month, last month it was a Apricorn Ball made by Kurt himself. Those are our usual prizes... but Kurt has been feeling under the weather. Of course, we so rarely have guests figure out the truth... I think the last time we gave out a prize was 4 months ago."

Naruto just hummed in acceptance and stashed away the tickets.

"With that, lets get out of this creepy town... as soon as possible." Naruto turned around and walked right out of the hotel. A shiver ran down his spine when he left the building, and Bea shivered when she left after him.

"I... I agree." Bea did not have a restful night's sleep.

She looked back.

Her jaw dropped, she turned her head around quickly, and said absolutely nothing at all. She kept her mouth shut when joined Naruto and walked towards the town's exit. She could only keep her mouth shut for so long though.

"Naruto-"

"Don't think about it too hard."

"Naruto... the hotel."

"Don't think about it too hard."

"... are we really going to ignore THAT?"

"I am... if I don't, I'm going to piss my pants, collapse, or throw up... or even a combination of the 3. I am not turning around, or looking behind me, or coming back to this town in the future." Naruto stated with a firm tone to Bea.

She agreed.

"HOLY CRAP! The hotel isn't there anymore!?"

Somebody else behind them left the hotel.

"BLARG!" Naruto collapsed and threw up, but didn't pee his pants, the second he got out loud confirmation that they stayed in a ghost hotel for the night. Bea pat his back a few times, helping him get the stress vomit out of his system.

"It's okay... lets never go back to that hotel."

"... I'm erasing this from my memory."

"Me too."

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