Forgive me! I've been forgetting to put my disclaimers up!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor did I create Stay Alive. I just have a copy of the dvd. Then end.
Summary: You die in the game... you die for real. Watch as the evil of Elizabeth Bathory unleashes it's wrath on the cast of Naruto.
Warning: There is going to be yaoi later on. Just a few hints now and then. There is a lot of heavy swearing.
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Sasuke came into work the next morning to see the place swarming with police. There was at least two cops interrogating each employee. Sasuke looked around in confusion, making his way to Shikamaru's office. Shikamaru's assistant, Loretta ran to Sasuke crying. "Sasuke!" She wrapped her arms around him and sobbed. "What's going on?" Sasuke asked her. "It's Shika." she said in between sobs. Sasuke walked past her into his boss's office where they were flashing polaroids and hurrying around the room... as if it were a crime scene. "Shika?" Sasuke asked, pushing past people. "Shika." A detective with long raven hair similar to his own and cold, red eyes stopped him. "Hey, it's a crime scene. You have to clear out." Sasuke continued to try and push past him. The detective's partner, a scary looking man with blue colored skin and very sharp teeth, pushed him away roughly. He reminded Sasuke of a shark. "Can I get a damn curtain over here?" the detective questioned. "I just spoke to him a few hours ago!" Sasuke exclaimed. The scary man stopped. "Whoa, a few hours ago?" Sasuke shoved him off. "Get off me." The detective and his strange partner led Sasuke over to a chair and had him sit down.
The detective gave him a cup of water. "Thanks." came Sasuke's dull response. The detective sat down next to him and sighed. "I know this kind of thing ain't easy, son. I'm gonna try to be quick about it." Sasuke nodded. The detective continued. "You were here with Mr. Nara last night?" he asked. Sasuke shook his head. "No. I was at my house. We were playing a video game." The detective looked confused. "His wife said that he was working late." Sasuke looked up quickly. "Yeah, sorry. What I meant was, he was playing from here and I was at my place." "Just the two of you?" the detective asked. His partner was watching Sasuke closely. "I was with four friends. We were online." "Uh-huh. Make sure we get those names, Kisame." Kisame nodded. "Roger that." The detective turned back to Sasuke. "Do you live close by?" Sasuke nodded. "Yeah, uptown. Off Magazine." The detective stared at him. "Really? That's only ten minutes away." he said calmly. "Those figures could place you at the scene of the crime." Kisame said with a smile filled with malice. "Kisame, chill." the detective instructed. "I just wanna know what happened to him." Sasuke said, eyes downcast.
"OK, if you ever need to give me a call, my name is Detective Itachi." the detective said, pulling out his card and handing it to Sasuke. "I may need to speak with you again. And I'm sorry about your friend." Sasuke nodded slightly. "Thanks.." Detective Itachi stood up and walked away. Sasuke sat for a moment, unable to believe what happened. He had lost another friend... He shook his head and looked inside the office. He winced as he saw Shikamaru's body laying on his desk, his throat covered in blood.
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Later that day, while playin the game, Gaara discovered something. "Sweet shit! Get a load of this! I think I've found bossman's body." Everyone came running to see what he was talking about. They all looked at the computer screen. Shikamaru's game body looked exactly like it had in real life. "Oh, God!" Naruto winced at the sight. "That's off-putting." Gaara said. "Didn't you just say Shika was stabbed?" Sasuke turned away. "Man, I can't look at this." Gaara laughed. "I think I'll have to quit hanging around you." Temari turned to Sasuke. "I'm sorry." Then she turned to her brother. "Gaara, if you had any less sense, you'd be half a fucking penny. Now shut the goddamn game off." Gaara blinked. "Because we found Shika's body in it?" "It is a horror survival game." Lee said.
"I hate to be a dick, but I think you guys are overreacting a little bit." Naruto glared. "Would you show some respect, man?" Gaara looked at him. "Respect? You pay respect to gamers by gaming, so let's boot it up. To Shika." Sasuke growled. "Stop saying that. You're not playing for Shika or Sai." Naruto agreed. "You didn't even know those guys, right?" Gaara sighed. "Sasuke, if you wanna curl up in the fetal position for the day, fine, but don't expect me to." Then he turned to Naruto. "And as for you, I just met you like goddamn yesterday, so kiss my ass." "Gaara!" Sasuke was pissed. "What?" Gaara glared at everyone. "Look, why don't you guys get out of here and let me play in peace?" Naruto averted his eyes before looking back and saying, "Peace."
Naruto left. Sasuke watched him go out, then got up to follow, Lee following close. Temari sat down and grabbed Gaara's hand. "Hey, take it easy." she said in an angry tone. Gaara sighed. "I'm sorry." Temari hugged her brother around the neck and went outside to check on the others. When she got out there, she stood next to Sasuke before Naruto came and asked, "Are you OK?" Sasuke turned to face him. "I'm just having a hard time, you know?" Naruto nodded. Temari patted Sasuke's back. "Naruto, what's your story? We don't know much about you, other than you've got poor bladder control and can't game for shit." Naruto rolled his eyes. "Well, I grew up in Osaka. My dad's an architect and my mom's a kindergarten schoolteacher. I'm going to Tokyo University in the fall." Temari nodded. "Sounds like you've got a perfect little family." she said. "I don't know about perfect." Naruto said, smiling.
Temari lit up a cigarette. Sasuke winced as his memories came flooding back. He groaned and stepped back. "Sorry. I'm sorry." Temari apologized. "Are you all right?" Naruto asked, concerned. Sasuke nodded. "Yeah. I've got a thing with fire. It's a long story. No big deal." Naruto nodded, understanding that Sasuke didn't really wanna talk about it. Temari looked at Sasuke's troubled expression and asked, "What's up?" Sasuke hesitated before he spoke. "Fnding Shika's body in the game..." Lee looked up from his train of thought. Naruto spoke up. "Look, I'm no gamer, but there are only so many ways you could die in a video game. It's all just really bad timing." Lee shook his head. "Not really." They all looked at him to hear what he had to say.
"In a sense, the timing is bad because he overresponds to deaths. But when you think about it, the coincedence of finding Shika's game body and it's similar to the actual finding of his real body was quite perfect. That's why we're all so freaked out." Back inside, Gaara was busying himself with Stay Alive. "It's better on single player anyway. Dickheads." In the game, he was running around a silent road, seeing nothing. He heard the snort of a horse and quickly hid behind a tree. His controller began to vibrate as he pulled out a mirror. "All right, Countess, let's go." He moved the mirror around until he saw the horse-drawn carriage. "There you are." Right when he said that, the mirror shattered. "Oh, you hate mirrors. I forgot." Gaara flipped the mirror over, where he could still see the reflection in the back of it. "Ah.. can't break this one." Suddenly, Gaara heard something and paused the game.
"Maybe time had nothing to do with it. Maybe it was inevitable. Possible homicidal replication on a sociopathic level." Lee continued. Sasuke began to walk away. "Where are you going?" Temari asked. Sasuke turned back around and stared at her hard. "Sai and his friends were playing that video game the night they died. Now Shika. What are the chances of all of them being murdered right after playing that game?" He turned back around and ran inside. Temari, Naruto, and Lee followed Sasuke down the steps. "Come on, honey. You gotta relax." Temari was telling him. "It's just bad timing." Naruto said. "Lee said maybe timing has nothing to do with it." Sasuke said, continuing to run. Lee blinked. "Did I say that? Sasuke, you know I have a penchant for big theories. Don't listen to me." They all began to run back to the cafe where Gaara was playing the game.
Sasuke burst through the door. "Gaara! Gaara! Oh, my God!" Gaara's head was down and he wasn't saying anything. Then, all of a sudden, he sat up, holding a bong. "What are you doing, man?" Gaara took a long inhale. "I'm pulling this bitch. What's it look like?" When he had finished that sentence, he exhaled a mouthful of smoke. "What are you doin'?" he asked. Sasuke sighed. "What if Sai and Shika..." "Was more than a coincedence?" Gaara finished. "They both played the game and then they died, so... obviously the game killed them, right?" Sasuke leaned against the doorframe. "Are you serious, man? Listen to yourself." Gaara continued. Temari glared. "Gaara." He ignored her. "I was about to bite it anyway. Hey, Lee check this mirror I found. I flipped it. The back works like a mirror, but it won't break like the others. I think it's made out of polished silver or something. I dunno. You guys don't have one." Gaara got up, and Lee sat down to examine what Gaara had discovered.Gaara walked over to Sasuke and put a hand on his shoulder. "You've been through a lot and I love you, but you're freaking everybody out now." Sasuke nodded. "I know."
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Later on, Lee was busy typing away on his laptop. Gaara was on the side of the street, fixing up his ride. Temari was cleaning up a bit in the cafe. Sasuke was back at his place, shaving. Suddenly, Lee's keyboard started to ooze blood. Temari saw a reflection of a dead girl in the cafe's mirror. Gaara heard something and turned just in time to move out of the way of an oncoming truck. Lee wiped his face, leaving blood all over himself. He looked at his hands, covered in blood, and yelled. Sasuke watched as his reflection's eyes rolled in the back of his head and his mirror shattered. He gasped and blinked to see the mirror was still in one piece. Temari looked around and saw nothing. Gaara caught his breath. Lee looked back at his hands, which were now clean, and typed in 'perceptive reality' on Google.
Sasuke went into his office to do a bit of research on his computer. He typed in 'Sai'. The police report of Sai's death popped up. "No distinguishing marks." Sasuke read to himself. He examined all of the photographs and read the entire report, finding everything fit into place with Sai's real death and his death in teh game. The second story banister was broken, he had suffered a broken neck. It was all the same. Next, he looked up 'Shikamaru Nara'. The report said he was stabbed with 14-inch adjoined twin blades. Sasuke looked up the weapon, realizing that it was the exact same thing that had killed Shika in the game. Sasuke continued to work through all hours of the night.
As he turned off his computer, a dead girl slowly made her way out of sight down the hall. Sasuke got up and walked out of his office with his papers in hand. He stopped when he heard a rumbling noise. He ignored it and walked back into the main hall. In there, he heard noises coming from Shika's old office. "Hello?" he asked the darkness. No reply. "Anyone there?" Still nothing. As he was facing the office, a shadow passed through the window behind him. He turned and saw nothing. He shook his head and started toward Shika's office.
As Sasuke drew nearer to his boss's office, he heard the rumbling again, much louder this time. He took the yellow police tape out of the doorway and walked inside. He listened closely, and guessed the noise was coming from under the desk. He got on his hands and knees and reached his hand out slowly. He grabbed a cell phone that was under the desk. He wondered how long it had been there. He opened it and answered, "Hello?" There was no answer on the phone. He shut it and turned around, to see a reflection behind him in the mirror. "Jesus Christ!" He whipped around to see Loretta, Shika's assistant. "What are you doing here, Sasuke? You shouldn't be in the office." Sasuke nodded to her and walked over to examine a broken mirror.
"I'm collecting somethings for Shika's family. The funeral's tomorrow." Sasuke snapped out of his trance and straightened. "I'm sorry, Loretta, I gotta go." He walked past her, and out of the building.
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Eh, I didn't really like this chapter. Twas hard to write. Ah well! Please review!
