Fandom: Naruto
Author: Snow Tigra
Pairings: SasuNaru
Warnings: Horror, as usual and Alternate Universe. The rest is up to my muses
"What the fuck was that?"
Sasuke looked up from his game, glancing back over to Naruto. It had been a couple hours since Naruto had come racing down the stairs, his body insisting on running a very unsafe marathon and almost landing him flat on his face. Now his boyfriend, of sorts, was lying on the couch in the theater room, looking up at the ceiling and occasionally repeating the same words. What the fuck was that? Sasuke just shook his head, whatever it was, this was the oddest mood he'd ever seen Naruto in. He pressed pause on the game, causing his army person to stop in mid run and a zombie to pause just before the bullet hit him with perfect aim in the head. He turned and leaned over Naruto.
"Still convinced you saw a ghost?"
Naruto nodded, not taking his eyes off the ceiling. He didn't exactly act scared of the ghost and he certainly wasn't running to pack up his things and leave his winter break job with all haste, instead Naruto just looked confused as if the ceiling could offer any answers.
"Ghosts aren't real."
"Neither are zombies."
Sasuke smirked. "I know. If they were, I'd be packing a gun at all times."
Naruto finally glanced from the ceiling over to Sasuke and a small smile crossed his face. Apparently he was happy for the distraction. "You'd get your ass kicked."
"Not a chance. I have a life time of practice." Sasuke just kept grinning and moved over to pick up the controller again and jump back into his game. Behind him Naruto leaned forward and whispered softly in his ear.
"A life time of practice in easy mode."
A frown crossed Sasuke's face. "Excuse me?" That suggestion was just… insulting! "I do not play in easy mode."
"Liar. You played Resident Evil 4 in easy mode."
"There is only one mode for that game!" Sasuke growled out the words and switched his game back on. Naruto knew how much that bugged him, it was his only complaint about the game, that it didn't have a hard mode for him to be challenged on. Not that the game itself wasn't challenging…
"Big ol' mean Sasuke is a scared lil' boy who hides behind his gun."
Sasuke's eyes narrowed and he switched his character to knife mode.
And he still beat the game.
They actually spent that night in the lighthouse bedroom where Naruto had been told he could sleep. After a long night of playing video games and Naruto not really admitting that he didn't want to sleep, they finally made it back to the bedroom and settled in. Sasuke wasn't surprised one bit when Naruto snuggled up against him and fell asleep almost immediately. Sasuke, on the other hand, drifted off to sleep slower with a grin on his face as he debated how well the new Ultimate rocket launcher he'd won from beating the game in knife mode would kill all the zombies.
It was later in the night when he woke up to the sound of boards creaking above him in the ceiling and a small sound, almost like a scuffing, outside the room. Sasuke sat up and rubbed his eyes, glancing around the room. Shrugging to himself he wiggled out of Naruto's arms and wandered from the room, racking his sleep fuzzed mind for where the nearest bathroom was.
The house looked completely different at night, darkness surrounding him on every side and just screaming about how much it wanted to be in the next haunted house movie that appeared and disappeared in the movie theaters. It was perfect material and really all this place lacked was some large and foreboding painting of a creepy looking older owner whose eyes seemed to follow you no matter what direction you came from.
After much wandering Sasuke finally found the bathroom, but as he reached for the doorknob to close the door behind him and turn on the lights, a soft noise caught his ears.
By no jump of the imagination it actually sounded like someone was… crying?
Sasuke stepped back out of the bathroom and looked down the hall. He was at the bottom of the stairway in one of the far wings. There was only one other room in this place. Frowning he left the bathroom and stepped over to the other room, slowly opening the door.
What he found, beyond the door, was a mix between an office and a den, lined on three walls with thick volumes and dark wood shelving, a matching desk in the center of the room and a strangely matched ornate chandelier at the center of the ceiling. Sasuke reached over for the light switch and flipped it on, but the light didn't respond.
He opened his mouth to call out, but stopped himself when he realized how absurd the whole idea was. Of course there was no one in the room, only he and Naruto were in this place. No one would answer because no one should answer. Calling out wouldn't make any sense at all. This place was just a huge and creepy house and his mind was just getting the better of him.
So why was the floor wet and soaking his sock?
Sasuke stepped back, into the room, and shook out his foot a bit to be sure, but yes his sock was now soaked. Frowning and grumbling softly he leaned down to peel it off his foot, cursing himself for not going barefoot like he usually did.
As he leaned down to pull off his sock, his nose was assaulted by a thick, iron-like smell, almost causing him to cough. Meanwhile, behind him, he heard the same soft scuffing sound and the sound of someone breathing quickly. Sasuke froze, just barely in reach of his foot, and held his breath, listening to what actually sounded like slowly moving sand.
No, his mind insisted quickly, not possible. He was standing in the doorway of an office room full of books and everything you would expect to see in a modern office, minus the computer. There was nothing that could make such a sound, not even some old decorative time piece or something like that, least not that he could see in the shadows.
But then again the floor was wet. And it did sound like there was someone in the room.
Sasuke considered for a moment, then finally made up his mind to turn. Clenching his fists a bit, to steady himself, he straightened up and moved to turn and face into the office again. However he never made it to a full turn. Instead, at the last moment, something hard and cold smacked into his side painfully, sending him stumbling back into the wall.
Sasuke coughed in surprise and landed hard on the floor, feeling the thick liquid splash around him as stars crossed his sight. The scuffing in the room now sounded louder, become what seemed like a muffled growling yell. He could hear someone yelling at him, but he couldn't make out the words and before he could open his mouth and ask again, the same blunt object smacked into his upper chest. This time Sasuke cried out and doubled over, clutching his stomach as the voice grew louder.
He couldn't make out any other sounds in the room now, and his mind focused entirely on the muffled yells around him. Whoever was yelling was pissed as all hell, but he still couldn't make out a shape, nor could he understand any of the words. His chest hurt from the last blow and the smell coming from the liquid on the floor was almost enough to make him throw up. Did it really smell like blood or was that just his panicked mind adding to his current state? He didn't know… and honestly he didn't care.
Sasuke groaned and tried crawling toward the door, only to feel the same force slam into his side, pain shooting through his body as he was sure he heard something inside him crack. Sasuke crumbled to the floor and immediately coughed to keep the liquid from filling his mouth and nose.
It had to be blood. Fuck it tasted like blood.
Sasuke choked and spit out what managed to get into his mouth, wiping his face on the back of his arm. This time he didn't bother trying to look up. This time he scrambled across the floor, as quickly as he could to the desk and grabbed the first thing he could reach. He didn't know what the object was, beyond the fact that it was round, smooth and heavy. Turning around quickly he threw it at the relative area where he was sure the thing would be.
The sound of shattering glass filled the room and Sasuke covered his ears, screaming with the thing in the room as the sound reverberated through his skull. Then another scream joined in with theirs and Sasuke collapsed to the ground, only hearing one word as he blacked out.
"MOMMY!"