Inside of Some Dark, Creepy Room

Sasuke: Shinobi'sGhost is too lazy to do her own disclaimer, so that's why I'm here...tied to a chair...Anyway, she doesn't own Naruto, or me (thank Kami), or anybody else but this story and the OC characters she placed as our sensei. So there you have it...

S.G.: That was pretty good, Sasuke.

Sasuke: Hn...Can I go now?

S.G.: After the story.

Sasuke: (Groans out of boredom) Fine...

S.G.: Ok, onto the story!

Chapter Eight: Strange Occurrences

Sasuke eyes shot open and he quickly rose up into a sitting position to study his surroundings. He seemed surprised when he realized where he was. It was all…a dream? Oh man, please don't tell me that's all gonna happen today…

Sasuke slowly, crawled out of his tent. To his amazement, both Sakura and Naruto were up.

"Hey, sleeping beauty, 'bout time you got up."

"Shut up…" Sasuke was not in the mood for insults. To prove it, he simply tuned Naruto out of his head and set his mind on the dream he'd just got up from seconds before. What were Hinata and Iruka doing in my dream? Wait, does that mean that…

"Hey, are you listening, to me!" Naruto randomly yelled, which caused Sasuke to flinch unnoticeably (he seems to be quite good at that I would say.)

"To you, dobe? No…" Sasuke responded. This caused Naruto to start fuming.

But before things got serious, Sakura cut in. "Anyway, I think we should start eating before it gets cold."

Both boys snapped their heads toward the food on the floor. After a couple of seconds, they both calmed down and grabbed their plates, obeying their angry stomachs' cries for help (I get that a lot, even after I've already eaten.)

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Kadame sat on the edge of a tree branch and stared off into the ocean. She appeared to be thinking of nothing at all, but inside her mind, it was everything but blank.

Flashback

Kadame walked over to where Kade was seated in the sand. He was extinguishing the fire from dinner.

"You'll never guess what Scrooge found…"

Kade turned his head to look at his sister. He shot a questioning glance before returning to his passive stare toward the water's edge. Kadame took this as a signal that Kade wasn't going to waste his time guessing and that she might as well just tell him.

"You're still no fun, like always…Anyway, the Uchiha kid found a scroll."

Suddenly, Kade widened his eyes, as if paying more attention. This time, it was Kadame who shot a confused look in her brother's direction. But after a moment, she continued.

"Yeah, he didn't exactly tell me about it, but I was watching him. It had a barrier of electricity. Must be something serious then, right?"

"Who has it?" He quickly asked in a low voice.

"Huh?" His question took Kadame by surprise.

"Who has it?" This time his voice was higher and more serious.

"Uh, he does, I think."

Suddenly, Kade got up and started off for team seven's campsite.

"Kade?" Kadame didn't expect such a hasty movement. Fortunately, he stopped and waited for her to speak. "Sh-shouldn't you wait till the morning to get it from him?"

Kade stood with his back toward Kadame. He didn't answer.

"Why do you need it right this second anyway?"

"No reason…" There was a brief silence. "Let's head back…" Kade said, starting in the direction of their campsite.

Without a response, Kadame followed slowly behind.

End Of Flashback

Flashback 2

Kadame watched as Kade started another small campfire for warmth nearby their tents. After about two minutes of total silence, Kadame staggered up to a standing position and walked away from the fire.

"Where are you going?" a voice said from behind her.

"For a walk…" This time, there was no response, just the sound of the flames rising and Kadame's small footsteps walking on the sand.

Kadame stared back at the camp, making sure that Kade wasn't following. When she was sure no one was around, she started toward the campground not too far away from her own.

When she arrived at the small encampment, she studied her surroundings. Three tents were placed in a triangle with the openings facing a stack of burnt logs in the center. Each tent was set up differently with its own specific color.

The first one (starting from the right of Kadame and going counterclockwise) was an orange and white tent. It seemed as though it was poorly set up, for it didn't appear to stand up well on its own. In addition to its weak structure, there were several small puncture holes in it, probably from being forced into its current position.

The next tent was a bright red with a sort of pink lining along the edges. It was perfectly standing up, straight and tall as if looking down on the other tents beside it, raining down its perfection (Hehe, we all know who the designer was trying to impress!)

The last tent on the very left was similarly assembled, only it was black. This one caught Kadame's attention. She quietly walked over to it and stopped when she reached the side of the tent. Taking in a small breath, Kadame did a few hand seals, put her concentration on the occupant of the tent, and gently snapped her fingers.

Within a few seconds, a boy with tussled hair over his eyes slowly stumbled out of the tent and looked around. If his eyes weren't being covered, you would have noticed the slightly alarmed look on his face.

"Sasuke." a faint voice called to him. This caused the presumed 'Sasuke' to search the area even faster. "Behind you."

Sasuke turned around to see Kadame standing next to his tent with her arms crossed.

"What do you want?" His voice seemed cold and irritated.

"Uh, duh. To talk to you. Why else would I be standing in front of your tent calling out your name?" Sasuke may be rude, but Kadame enjoyed being rude back.

Sasuke ignored her remark and got to his feet without a sound. Kadame smiled in satisfaction and turned around toward the direction of the jungle. Sasuke just followed behind her.

When they were far enough away that no one could hear them, Kadame stopped and leaned against a tree. Sasuke did the same thing, while also trying to rub the sleep from his eyes.

"So…where's that scroll you found?" Sasuke shot a glare in her direction. He was about to say something but Kadame interrupted. "Never mind, just make sure you keep it somewhere safe."

Sasuke looked extremely confused for a moment, but almost instantly covered it up with a blank stare.

"-- Just forget it. Forget I even mentioned that. Uh, are your dreams still acting up?" Kadame said trying to change the subject.

Sasuke nodded slowly. At this point, he was too confused to even hide it.

"I figured that… Well, whatever. I gotta go. See you in the morning." Kadame tried to leave quickly in order to avoid further conversation. But alas, her plan was shot.

"That scroll, what is it and who does it belong to?"

"Honestly, I don't know. Doesn't matter anyway. Good night." Fortunately this time, Kadame was able to leave before Sasuke could ask anything else. Without further thought about it, Kadame walked back over to her campground and went straight to her tent to rest, leaving a very confused Uchiha prodigy standing in the empty darkness of the jungle.

End Of Flashback

Kadame closed her eyes tightly, as if trying to stop herself from remembering any more. It was all too confusing. She desperately wanted to know what was going on and why her brother was acting so strange.

Suddenly, a small chill ran down her spine as a picture flashed in Kadame's head. Her eyes, snapped open as she realized who it was. Sasuke…

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As team seven finished their last bits of food, they began a conversation to pass the time. They didn't have to report to the shoreline to start the mission until 20 minutes later.

"So, does anyone but me find the mission a bit weird?" Sakura asked, after swallowing another bite of food.

"What do you mean?" Naruto responded, not even waiting until he swallowed his food.

"I mean the explanation. Don't you think it was a little…vaguely addressed?"

"I don't follow…" Naruto said, looking as clueless as ever.

"Never mind. I'm thinking too hard."

"No, wait. Vague, like not complete?" He apparently was starting to understand…sort of.

"Yeah, but it doesn't matter. Well, I'm done eating." Sakura announced as she cleaned up her stuff from the floor.

"Me too." Naruto said, doing the same.

"What about you, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura turned over toward Sasuke, only to find clutching his head in pain. "Sasuke, are you ok?" She said, running to his side. He was nowsittingin front of a nearbytree.

"Yeah… I'm fine." Sasuke responded, his hand still placed on the sides of his head. Yet, on the inside, he knew something was wrong. This pain…it's just like-

Flashback

Kadame walked back over to her campground and went straight to her tent to rest, leaving a very confused Uchiha prodigy standing in the empty darkness of the jungle.

Just then, Sasuke ears began to ring. Moments later, he started to get a pounding feeling in his head. As if on instinct, Sasuke pressed his hands against the sides of his skull. The world appeared to be spinning, causing him to slide down to the ground from the tree he was leaning on.

Soon enough, Sasuke was to the point where even opening his eyes required too much force. Therefor, he had no choice but to sit and wait for what happened next.

Unfortunately, the next thing that happened, was the last thing Sasuke remembered, until what seemed like a half-hour later when he managed to get to his feet and drowsily walk back to his tent.

End Of Flashback

"Sasuke, can you hear me? What's wrong?" Sasuke could barely hear Sakura's faint voice calling out to him. He couldn't find the energy to speak.

"Sasuke!" This time it was Naruto's voice reaching out to him. His words were much easier to comprehend, for his decibels were always at an extreme high. Heh, dobe...

Sasuke's hands dropped to the groundas he slowly began to lose consciousness.

"He's out..." Sakura said as she looked him over to try and figure out what had happened.

"Should we go get help?" Naruto asked.

"I'm not sure." Sakura said after looking at Sasuke a second time. "He seems fine now. Just a little pale, but that's all. Maybe we should wait about ten minutes to see if he wakes up. It would be kinda pointless to involve someone else if it's not that serious. Still, I wonder what made him pass out like that…"

"The heat?" Naruto suggested. He, too, was curious as to what was wrong with his teammate.

"Could be…But we're not gonna find out by just sitting here, so I need you to go find Kadame or Kade andlet themknow we're going to be a little late. That should buy us some time to get Sasuke back to his feet."

"Got it." Naruto said as he jumped up and started on his quest to find his sensei.

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Ok, this is boring… Naruto had been walking for five minutes now. He searched all over the meeting grounds, yet had seen no signs of Kadame or Kade…well, nothing on the ground, at least.

"Hey, Larry, where's the rest of the stooges?" came a voice from who-knows-where.

The sudden imbalance in sound caused Naruto to jump a few inches into the air. After a few moments, though, he regained half of his composure. "Kadame-sensei! I was just-umm…looking…for you."

"Really?" There was a hint of sarcasm lingering in her voice.

"Well, not exactly looking for 'you'. I mean-umm…"

"You were looking for one of us." Kadame finished, realizing Naruto sentences were getting nowhere.

"Yeah, yeah, that's right!"

"Well, you found me. Now what's up?"

"Hmm, you see, that's the thing. I know I was coming to say something important, but I guess it kinda went 'fwoosh!' out of my head." Naruto replied while rubbing the back of his head and laughing, nervously.

Kadame jumped down from the tree she was resting on about five feet away from Naruto. She closed in the distance until she was within tapping range.

Without a word, she placed one of her hands on Naruto's head, and the other holding two fingers up, as if accumulating chakra. Naruto stood silent as he watched Kadame's hand on his forehead closely. A few seconds passed and Kadame took her hand off of Naruto and said, "You're going to be late?"

"That's what I was going to say! How'd you know?"

"I havemy ways…" Kadame said with a smirk. "Anyway, what's your excuse?"

"Uh…" Naruto tried to think of something to say that would cover up the real excuse. "Well, you see…"

Just before Naruto could make up an excuse, Kadame raised her hand again. Though, this time around, Naruto stopped her. "NO! OK, OK! I'll tell you, just put down the hand…"

Kadame put her hand down and smiled triumphantly. "Ok, then spill…or else."

Without thinking, Naruto yelled out, "Sasuke passed out and Sakura wanted me to buy us some time to wake him up! There, ok? I said it! Happy now?" Naruto spoke rather fast, making it hard for Kadame to understand, but she managed to get it. (I would of cut out the spaces in between the words to make it look like he was saying it really fast, but then you all would have to go through the trouble of translating and that would be annoying, so say it in your head and you'll get what I mean.)

"Sasuke passed out? Where is he?"

"Uh, with Sakura."

Nothing else was said between the two as they walked back to where Sakura was waiting with Sasuke.

Sakura immediately noticed Kadame walking behind Kadame and shot him a quick, barely noticeable glare. Naruto defensively put his hands up and said, "She made me tell!"

"Let me take a look at him." Kadame said with an intense look on her face. Sakura nodded her head and moved over next to Naruto to give Kadame some room.

Kadame studied Sasuke for a moment. She quietly contemplated on whether or not she should wake him up forcefully or not. She'd used a lot of her chakra in the past twenty-four hours and was beginning to run low. She soon decided to shake him a little to see if he'd wake up. Surprisingly, he stirred a bit. It was as if he was only sleeping. Kadame repeatedly shook him until he finally awoke, an annoyed look plastered on his face.

Sasuke looked around. He seemed confused. "When did you get here?" It didn't even seem like he was asking a question, let alone addressing it toward Kadame, but she answered anyway.

"Just now. Do you even remember what happened, you twit?"

"No…why?" He ignored the last part of her sentence.

Kadame didn't feel like answering. She just let out a deep sigh and rolled her eyes before getting up and walking over to Sakura and Naruto. Sakura took this opportunity to explain herself.

"You passed out a while ago. We were going to try and wake you ourselves, but Kadame found out and came to see if you were ok. You sure you don't remember? You looked like you were in a lot of pain."

Sasuke just looked down, trying hard to remember what had happened. Unfortunately, he couldn't even remember as much as even waking up that morning. It was all so overwhelming.

"Sasuke, you might want to come with me. Maybe I can clear things up a little more." Kadame said, looking even more serious than before (if that was even possible.)

Sasuke just got up and followed. He didn't care who told him. He just wanted to know what was going on.

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The two continued to walk across the island while Kadame tried to explain.

"First things first. What's the last thing you remember happening?"

"You talking to me last night." Sasuke said, simply.

"That's as far as you remember?"

Sasuke gave her the 'I just answered that question, baka' look. Kadame just ignored it.

"When's the last time you remember having a headache?"

"Last night…"

"Is that the last thing you remember?"

"Yes."

Kadame's stopped short in her tracks. She looked as if some weird idea had just hit her. She turned to face Sasuke and pointed toward his eyes. "Activate your sharingan."

Sasuke just glared at her. "Why?"

"Just do it."

Sasuke hated being told what to do, but if this was going to help explain what was happening, then it was worth it. He did as he was told.

"Sasuke, it looks like we've found our problem."

End Of Chapter

So, how was that? I know, there wasn't much 'action', but it's coming. Slowly, but it's coming.

My greatest apologies for the uber late update! (Ha, I said uber XD) I promise the next chapter will be up really soon. I've just had huge writer's block for the longest time, but I'm back on track now. This chapter was more to prove I was still writing. I will try to make the next chapter even better.

Sasuke: Can I go, now?

S.G. : Tell me what you thought of my story, first.

Sasuke: (Sighs) It was…interesting…

S.G.: Yay! Now you can go…until chapter nine comes up. (Unties ropes on Sasuke's chair.)

Sasuke: Great…(Walks out of room)

So until next time, my friends:

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