I attempted to have this uploaded the same as the pervious chapter. If that happens yay if not oh well here it is anyways.
Ino: Goodness, she is stressing me out
Sakura: Who are telling? One thing for sure is I had better not die next
Hinata: My head still hurts
Karin: Last night was terrible
Tenten: I still understand how I could sleep with a dead body downstairs
I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR AND THEN THERE WERE NONE PLOT
The next morning was a bit tense and everyone was ready to leave. After Sai's death, the vacationing mood was killed and no one felt the need of a vacation anymore. The body was ready to be taken back to Sai's brother's for a proper burial. The day matched the mood of the tenants. It was a bit dark looking like a sign of bad weather approaching. The bags were packed and ready to go. Everyone waited in the living room, but avoided the sofa as if it was the plague.
"I wonder what is taking the boat so long to get here." Tenten pondered aloud. She and Ino came from the balcony in search of the boat. "Well, it is a bit early." Karin stated. She was fidgeting as is she was about to jump out of her own skin. It was a miracle she slept at night. "Im getting hungry just waiting here." Naruto announced. Not everyone wanted to eat breakfast that morning, but everyone thoughts ran into together once again. "Naruto, for once can you not think about food? Im sure the boat will some food ready for us. After all it was a long journey." Saskue said using his annoyed tone. He was not much of an early bird, but he refused to be left on an island all by himself. "Hey Ino, how did the weather look?" Shikamaru was leaning against the stairs. "It looks a bit gloomy. The boater did say we are to expect bad weather. I don't think I should be thinking such negative thoughts." She replied. "So how did everyone sleep?" Gaara asked. Of course, which was probably the stupidest thing he could have even asked. "I slept like a baby. I'll admit that." Sakura confessed. "Hey Sakura could you come with me and check on Hinata?" Naruto asked. Hinata wasn't even up yet and he thought that maybe she was still not feeling well. "Sure." She responded and both went upstairs to check on the sleeping beauty. "I really don't like this island. I wish the boat would hurry up." Ino complained. "I just remembered someone should notify Kakashi and Tsunade that the vacation has been cut short." Saskue remembered. "Yeah that'll be done we get off this fucking island." Karin noted. The outside was now getting dark as the sun was now being covered by the clouds. The winds remain calm. They weren't stupid that meant storm was about to start and soon as well. Shikamaru was examining the monkeys hanging on the wall and noticed that there were only eight hanging. "Strange, I thought there were nine of these hanging on the wall." He voiced with concern. "Yeah, there should be why?" Tenten asked. "Because there are only eight left." Saskue realized looking up at the wall himself. And at that time Naruto and Sakura came from upstairs. Naruto's face was ashened and Sakua had tears in her eyes. "Hinata's dead." Was all Naruto could manage to say.
"She died in her asleep. I gave her some sleeping pills to help with the stress and headache. Naruto checked on her before lights out and said she looked content just sleeping," Sakura reported, "it may have been her heart, but we wont know for sure until someone examines the body." She concluded. Gaara walked over to her and held her crying figure. Nothing made Gaara more uncomfortable than an upset woman. "Guys I don't think that boat is coming." Shikamaru said silently. "And why the hell not?" Ino demanded. Shikamaru didn't really give her an answer expect for a head-jerk towards the window. The ocean looked like it pissed off. The high waves looked as if to threaten to take the whole house to the ocean floor. "Well, I guess that means we are eating here then" Karin, Ino and Tenten headed for the kitchen.Gaara now had Sakura on a loveseat still comforting her. "Thanks Gaara. I know comforting people isn't your thing." She said between gasping breaths. "im starting to think that we aren't the only ones on this island." Naruto said quietly. The guys and Sakura looked at him as if he were crazy. "Think about it Sai and Hinata's death can't be a coincidence." "That's all the more reason to get off this creepy ass island!" Ino yelled from the kitchen. Karin and Tenten laughed at Ino's outburst, but deep inside they were thinking the samething.
"Alrighty guys time to eat up." Tenten announced from the kitchen. "You guys go ahead I'll be there in a minute. " Shikamaru said. He went outside on the balcony and sat down in one of the chairs. His mind was filled with all sorts of ideas. The idea that two deaths had occurred on his watch was unsettling. More so of the fact that there could be someone else on the island. While Shikamaru was left to his thoughts. Meanwhile in the kitchen everyone stood around. "You know sometimes I wish there were warning signs of when bad things are about to happen." Naruto said really just picking at his food. He wasn't the only one. They all were. Losing two people they cared about was really starting to take its toll on them. "Why didn't I notice it before!" Sakura said coming to a realization. Gaara who was standing next to her made a body twitch. "I saw that." Saskue said. Gaara said nothing towards him. "It's that cursed nursery rhyme." Sakura said. "What do you mean forehead?" Ino asked. Sakura chose to ignore the childhood insult. "Think about it, Ten little monkeys going out to dine," Sakura recited. "One choked himself and then there were nine." Ino finished. "That's sounds exactly like what happened to Sai." Tenten murmured. "Nine little monkeys sat up late, one overslept himself and then there were eight. " Saskue reciting the next line. "Hinata." Naruto said. Everyone looked at each grasping the two strange coincidences. "Ok, so then what was that next stanza?" Karin asked. "I think they were suppose to travel to some place called Devon" Gaara said. "That's right eight little monkeys traveling to Devon, one got left behind and then there were seven." Naruto answered. "One got left behind hmmm." Saskue thought about the stanza. He looked around as well and noticed there were only six people in the kitchen. "Shikamaru," Ino gasped, "He went outside to get some air." No one was needed to be told what to do. They all ran out to the balcony and were appalled at what they found. Tenten and Ino let out their loudest screams. Naruto covered Karin's eyes so she couldn't see and Gaara held onto Sakura. There on the balcony laid Shikamaru.
Thinking that the girls didn't need to see another dead body the guys took them in a Saskue covered the arch with the windows curtains. Shikamaru's body was mangled. He had his throat slashed right through his vocal cords so his cries for help were useless, but that wasn't the jest of it. As if the murderer was following some ancient ritual he was also scalped. Meaning the person had to have cut through Shikamaru's scalp taking off his hair which laid right beside him. His arm was bent in a twisted angle almost as if it were broken. His hands were missing his fingers, which were in his eye sockets. Since the fingers were in the position of the eyes, that meant the eyes were somewhere else. That somewhere else was in his mouth. He was facing towards the arc. It was almost as if someone climbed onto the balcony and attacked him from behind. Since the murderer did slash the throat, first Shikamaru was blessed with already being dead. "We can't leave him out there like that." Ino said in a whisper. She was near the stairs trying desperately to get away for the horrid image she saw. "We don't have a choice at the moment." Karin said. She speared only a glance of the body, but with all the blood, she saw she knew it had to be something bad. "Its official then, someone else is on this island with us." Tenten said. Gaara noticed how bad Sakura was shaking and wrapped her up in his arms. Saskue noticed this and felt a ping of annoyance and anger towards the action. "Hey! Will you two lovebirds save that for another time? Our friends are being killed." He yelled. Gaara and Sakura just looked at him with guilty expressions on their faces. Gaara had the urge to throw the boy through a wall, but then his therapy sessions came to him. "Leave them alone Saskue. They are just comforting each other as we all should." Naruto said defending them.An intense argument was about to blow, but before the fire could ignite. "Guys another monkey is missing from the wall." Tenten said. She was looking straight ahead. By the look on her face, they knew she wasn't lying. "Shit." Karin said. With that response, a sudden roll of thunder shook the whole house. "The storm is here." Sakura said. She didn't know how true her statement was, but she was going to find out wither she liked it or not.
Shikamaru: did you really have to be so violent on me?
Me: Sorry
Sakura: Lay off the Stephen King
Me: I'll try
Naruto: At least Hinata's wasn't so brutal.
Hinata: Thanks for that
Saskue: please let me next, these people kill me.
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