So this story popped up in my head out of thin air. I was so excited when I thought of it. I don't think it'll be a super long story though. At first I was even thinking of making it into a one-shot. But I was like … naaah, I'll make it into a story. Hope you like it c:
Eyes on Fire
Genre: Horror, Romance, Supernatural, Comedy, Tragedy,
Summary:
He watched her and realized. His family was gone. His family he could never get back… but he could make a new one. He could make a new family. His eyes turned bright red. And he'd make it with her. Her eyes shot open. Her arms were above her head, and she couldn't move them. Something was pinning her down. Her wrist felt warm. She felt something cover her mouth. She couldn't yell, she couldn't scream. She could kick. But what would she be kicking? Nobody was there. The covers started to slip off of her slowly. She started tearing when she met with red eyes.
Eyes on Fire
Chapter 1
Hinata struggled with lifting a box of pots and pans out of the U-Haul truck in front of her new house. She had only arrived three hours ago, and had already moved seven boxes in the house by herself, while also already setting up some parts of the house. A pair of arms came around her, a lifted the box up out of her hands, and held it above her head.
She turned around.
"You're here!"
Kiba gave her a smile, and lowered the box in front of them. "Yep."
Click Click. She heard his car door lock. Shino put the keys in his pocket and slowly walked toward them.
"What are these?"
"Pots and pans. Put them in the kitchen for me, you'll immediately see it when you walk in."
"No problem." Kiba started walking toward the entrance of the house.
"Need any more help?" Shino asked.
"Uh, yeah." She gave him three boxes. "Take these three boxes into the kitchen too."
"O-Okay." His hands were wobbling under the weight, and as he walked toward the door, she watched him try to balance all the boxes.
"Maybe I should've only given him two…" She said to herself.
Be-Be-Be-Beeeeee-Beep! Be-Be-Be-Beeeeee-Beep!
A red mustang rolled up carrying her two best female friends.
"Hinata! This is amazing!" Sakura said immediately after she got out of the car. She saw the Jeep car they had parked close to in her drive way. She pointed to it. "The guys are here?"
"Yeah, they arrived just a second before you did."
"How many boxes have you moved already?" Ino asked. She locked her car.
"Seven. Kiba just brought in one, and Shino just brought in three."
"The place is really huge! How did you get the money for this?"
"It actually wasn't as expensive as it looked." She said humbly, "I've been saving up for a while."
"I can't wait til you show us around!" Sakura said, going to the U-Haul truck, and picking up a random box. "Where should I put this?"
"Um…" Hinata searched on the box for a label, when she found it said: clothes. "Take those upstairs, and put it in the second room on the right."
"Is that the biggest room?"
"Um, yeah."
"Is that your bed room?"
"Yeah."
"By the way we're sleeping over tonight." Ino said also picking up a box from the truck. And bringing it inside, she started walking to the door with Sakura before Hinata could answer.
"A-Are you sure?" Hinata hadn't even lived in it for a day yet, this would be her first night in the house. It did make her feel better that her friends would be staying over though. She'd feel nervous by herself in such a big house.
"Of course!" Sakura said.
"We were gonna stay over whether you said yes or not."
Sakura and Ino turned back at her and gave her a foolish grin.
"I-Ino! Do you know where to take that?"
"I'll find out!" Ino yelled back, without turned around.
As Sakura and Ino walked into the house, Kiba and Shino greeted them as they walked out.
"Hey Hinata!" Kiba shouted as he walked toward her. "Did you move some of that living room furniture in their already?"
"No, they were already in the house."
"You gonna keep 'em?"
"Yeah, I don't mind them. The couches are blue velvet. I like blue velvet."
"Okay." Kiba looked into the truck. "Me and Shino can take the heavier boxes."
They heard glass break from inside the house. They quickly went in and entered the kitchen. They saw Sakura trying to clean up broken glass on the floor, and Ino moving a another box of glasses. Sakura tried picking the pieces of glass up with a cloth. When Hinata walked in, "I'm sorry Hinata. It was an accident. Do you have a dust pan I can use?"
She bit her lip. "I don't think so."
"Can I get another cloth?"
"Um yeah, I can get you one." Hinata headed to the bathroom. During the three hours she was there she had at least set up the bathroom.
"Are you cut?"
"No. Luckily."
"What were you guys doing?"
"After we put the clothes upstairs, we decided we'd help set up the kitchen. I stepped away for a minute and it falls. I didn't drop it, and it wasn't at the edge or anything." Sakura said.
Hinata came back with a cloth and helped Sakura cleaned up the broken glass.
"I'm really sorry Hinata."
"It's okay Sakura." Hinata assured her friend.
.
.
.
They were all in the kitchen, twelve hours had passed, having soda and eating snacks. The kitchen had dark walls, which she planned to pain over later, and a marble counter in the middle of it. There was enough space at add some stools around it, so she decided that she would later. It was eight o'clock now, and they had finished bringing in all the boxes around 5, and then started rearranging things after. The sun just started to set, and it would be an hour before it got dark.
"Well," Kiba put his cup in the sink. "We'll be going. I gotta go home and feed Akamaru, and Shino's gotta feed whatever weird bugs he keeps in his house."
"They're Syrphis Flies." Shino threw place his cup in the sink too..
"They're still weird."
"Here!" Hinata went in a cabinet underneath the sink, gave them each a bottle of champagne. "It's for helping me with the boxes. Oh!" She went in the cabinet a second time, and pulled out a huge bag of dog treats. "For Akamaru."
"I'll come back to tomorrow, if you give more treats." He gave her a grin.
Sakura threw a chip at his face. "Leave. It's girls night."
Ino made a shooing gesture to him.
Kiba took the bag of chips from Sakura and starting eating them, "You not getting this back."
When she reached to swipe it quickly, he smoothly slid back and raised it farther from her. He took a big chip, and munched on it. Then stepped out the kitchen, and grabbed his jacket from the coat line the wall. Shino followed him out the kitchen.
"Night!" Kiba said.
"Bye." Said Shino.
They closed the door behind them. It was quiet for a moment.
"… Now what do we do…" Ino said.
"We have no cable or internet…" Sakura rest her head on her hand on the counter.
"I should've brought my router," Ino prolonged her words.
"Think we can seduce the neighbors into giving us their wifi passwords?" Sakura grinned.
"Are they creeps Hinata?" Ino said. "I'll go if they're not creeps."
"I haven't gone to see them yet." She thought for a moment. "Actually, we've been in and out all day and we haven't seen one neighbor."
Ino and Sakura stayed quiet for a moment.
"That's weird." Ino made a grossed out face.
Sakura looked out the kitchen's window, to see the house next door, who's lights were on. "They're lights are on, so they're home now."
"We can visit them later." Hinata said.
"You can bake them something! Make them like you! This might be an up-tight neighborhood." Ino added. "They might think you could bring trouble to the neighborhood. What if they haven't had an outsider for years?"
"I don't think that's true…" Hinata said. "The real estate person said that there have been a lot of families that moved in."
"Like how many?"
"He didn't say when I asked him."
Sakura and Ino have concerned looks.
"Isn't that a little suspicious?" Ino pointed out.
"And weird?" Sakura added.
"I thought so too… " Hinata blushed. "But he seemed so kind… " She was completely in her own daze now. You could see the hearts surrounding her.
Ino and Sakura looked at each other, then looked at Hinata with a smirk.
"Did you like him Hinata?"
Hinata snapped out of her daze. "W-W-W-What a-are y-y-you talking about?!" She turned around and cupped her face with her hands, hiding her red face. "He was just really nice."
All they could do was give her an all-knowing smile.
"You a terrible liar Hinata." Ino commented
"What was he like?" Sakura pressed on.
"Well…" She tried to hide her smile. "He had blonde hair, and blue eyes."
"Like mine?" Ino pointed to her eyes and hair.
"N-No. His had was a more vibrant blonde, and his eyes were more of a vibrant blue."
Ino poked her lips out. "My hair and eyes are like that Hinata."
"No they're not." Sakura said. "You hair is a little paler, and your eyes are more of a light sky blue."
"No, they aren't-"
They heard three knocks on the door. They stayed quiet for a moment.
"Who's that?" Ino said.
"Did Kiba or Shino forget something?" Said Sakura.
"Maybe it's a ghost." Ino said, feigning fear. The she giggled.
Sakura nudged Ino. Hinata walked toward the door, and Sakura followed her with her arms crossed. When she opened it, their stood a woman and her child. The woman had a sort of sad smile on her face, and the child looked up at them with awe, while tugging on his mother's pale pink dress on her mother. The woman's hair looked tired, and so was the way she presented herself, she looked like a tired mother."
"Here," the woman held out a basket covered with cloth. "We baked these for you. It's a welcome to the neighborhood." The woman looked at Sakura and her eyes got a little happier. "Are you two both living here now?"
"No," Hinata smiled back at the woman. "Only me. She's staying with me for the night though, so is my other friend." Ino peeked out the kitchen, and gave the woman a smile and a small wave. The woman's face faltered a bit.
"Oh…" The woman's face faltered a bit. "They seem so nice."
"I'll take these and put them in the kitchen." Sakura gave the woman one last smile, before taking the basket of goods with her into the kitchen.
The woman watched her leave, then looked at Hinata with that sad gaze.
"How old are you?" She asked quietly.
"M-Me? I'm 22."
The woman squeaked a little, and was about to cover her mouth but she caught herself real quick. She shivered a little bit, and put back on that sad smile. Her child tugged on her skirt. The woman whispered, "So young…"
"Mommy…"
She ignored her child and grabbed Hinata's hand in her own. She gave her the most earnest and sad look. Hinata wasn't sure how to respond. "I hope that your life is filled with much joy. I hope that you aren't alone!" The woman's voice cracked a little. Hinata held her breath for a second. The woman stared into her eyes for a couple of seconds more, then released her, took her child's hand, and quickly walked away.
"Mommy…" The child looked up at her mom, as she dragged her away. "Why do you feel so bad?"
Hinata froze.
"Why do you feel so bad for her?" The child repeated.
She shushed her child, and jerked the girl a little. "Don't say that." The woman look at her, then looked up at the house. It looked like the woman was looking up at a window, the woman's face showed terror, before she dragged her child away quicker.
Hinata froze for a moment, then immediately ran up a little to see what it was the woman was so scared of. When she looked, all she could see was her second floors windows… nothing else. Hinata slowly walked back in the house, feeling a little overwhelmed. When she walked back into the kitchen, she saw Ino and Sakura snacking on the baked goods, which were cookies, that the woman brought over.
"Ew," Ino said while munching on them. "They're dry."
"You only say that before you think she gave you a look Ino."
"She did!" Ino took a mean chomp out of the cookie, and said while munching, "she all of a sudden got sad when she looked at me? I think she's weird."
"I kind of think this neighborhood is weird." Sakura added her low comment.
"Here," Ino pushed the basket toward Hinata, "Have a dry cookie."
"Actually…" Hinata said. "I-Ino, can you go upstairs with me for a moment."
Ino took another cookie. "Sure. Why?"
"I just need to check something."
Ino grabbed two more cookies, before walking out of the kitchen and following Hinata upstairs.
"You know Ino," Sakura called after them. "For calling them dry cookies. You sure are eating a lot of them."
"Shut up." Ino said with a mouth full of cookies.
When Hinata reached the top of the stairs, the first thing she saw some boxes that had yet been unpacked in the hallway. She peeked in the room, and only saw some more boxes, and the one tall lamp that wasn't plugged into the wall, and the bed that was in the house once she already in the house. She went in the room across from hers, and saw the same thing. When went down the hall,which would be her bedroom. It was also the biggest room in the house, but it had a huge red glossy oak closet inside. She left that room and entered the bathroom. She found nothing. She heard a slam in a room. Her room. She quickly rushed toward it, and saw an Ino with wide eyes, and a half a cookie sticking out her mouth. Hinata had forgotten that Ino was with her. Ino quickly chomped the rest of the cookie in one bite.
"Sorry if I scared you Hinata, I was looking in the draw and I guess I kind of slammed it shut. I don't know my own strength. Ahaha…"
Hinata let out a breath she hadn't known she'd been holding in. She guess there was nothing wrong with the house. The woman that visited them must've just been a little paranoid, or maybe trying to scare her out of the neighborhood like Ino and Sakura had said.
"Why did you wanna come up here anyway?" Ino asked.
"No reason."
Hinata and Ino walked down stairs. When they got to the bottom, the living room lights were on, which gave the room a really nice glow. It made the place feel warm, Sakura was reading a magazine Hinata guessed she brought with her. She was laying down on the couch with her feet up. The basket of cookie on the little glass coffee table with bronze fancy edges… which had also came with the house.
"Ne, Hinata." Sakura sat up once she noticed the two were back. "Why did you pick such a big house when only you would be living here?"
"Oh, I won't be living here by myself for too long." Hinata said. She sat down on the other blue velvet couch that saw across from the one Sakura was sitting on. Ino joined her. "Hanabi graduated from highschool in 5 months, and she plans to live with me when she does. She no longer wants to live with our father, he's too overprotective, and my cousin Neji is coming back from studying abroad in 5 months. So we all plan to live together."
"Aww," Ino pouted. "I was gonna asked if I could live with you if your family wasn't coming." She started rubbing the blue velvet couch. "Why is there already so much furniture in this house?!"
Hinata thought for a moment. "It just came with it."
"Are you gonna keep it?" Sakura put the magazine on the coffee table.
"Yeah, I don't mind some of it. It's nice."
Ino looked around the house. "There's just so much furniture already here. You would think the previous owners would've took it when they left…"
Hinata agreed with Ino. Sure there was a lot of furniture here. But she didn't think much of it. The stuff was nice… and who could say no to free stuff?
…
To be honest she practically was a little bit swooned into buying the house. Yeah, she had been searching for one, and this was a big house for a good price. You don't find those deal often. Besides that sales man is really hot.
"Guess what I found out," Sakura put on a happy smirk.
Ino leaned forward and put on a huge grin. Hinata snapped out of thought, and started to listen to her friends story.
He watched them.
He watched the girls.
He watched the boys.
He watched them all.
All of them.
In his house.
He stood in the living room, not budging a bit. Just watching.
A boy struggled carrying boxes in his house.
Two girls entered the house, both chatting happily. Giggling. Going upstairs. To his parents room. He followed them. Watched them put the boxes down, look around the room, joke around, then go back downstairs. He followed them down.
He watched them put glass in the cabinets.
He watched the guys leave.
He watched to girls talk more.
And he watched the woman with her child come and go.
In his house. They kept coming, and coming, and coming.
New people all the damn time. In his house.
Why? Cause his friend would bring them. Thinking seeing a family could change his way of life.
What life?
It's useless.
He was gone.
His family was gone.
The family he loved so much… was gone.
Okay, I know I've got another story out, and I didn'tt finish it, and I told myself I'd start this one when I finish the other one... but I don't know when I'll finish the other one ... so yeah...
I probably shouldn't post this one yet... but oh well :D
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