Title: Riding the Subway
Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Sasuke, Sakura
Story collection: Bits and Pieces: Horror Edition
Word count: 569
Warnings: talks of: Dead Body
Urban Legend: The Stare
AN: Post 2 for the day.
Getting onto the train, Sakura sat down with a sigh, rolling her ankles as she settled in for the long ride home. It was late at night. She had stayed rather late at the veterinarian office to cover Hinata since the woman had to go on an emergency room run with her two-year old daughter with her husband. Her daughter was finally at home again with a shot of vitamin C boost, some child strength flu medications and a doting father, while Hinata was back at work, covering Ino's overnight shift.
Still, Sakura was exhausted, and the train was, thankfully, mostly empty. She looked up and down the train car, finding that there were three men who looked like tired doctors themselves sitting near the end of the train car while two other men sat bracketing a woman with blond hair and wearing a hoodie as she stared over at her. Frowning, Sakura buried herself a bit more in her own jacket and pulled out her phone, ignoring them.
Checking her phone, she shot looks up at the three, catching the pale blue eyes of the woman with her own. Sakura shuddered softly before looking back down at her phone, playing a game to distract herself from the unwavering staring. She looked up when the train stopped at one of the usual stops, letting off one of the doctors at the end of the car while a dark haired man walked on.
He sat next to her, wearing a tanned coat over a black hoodie, the hood pulled over his head as black eyes checked out the three across from them. Sakura shifted and returned to her phone, ignoring all of them. She kept glancing up, feeling a chill running down her spine at the fact that the blond woman kept looking at her and the two men kept supposedly ignoring her.
Swallowing, she looked up to check the next stop before sighing, glad that there was only one more stop before she was able to get off and away from the three creepy people. The next stop came up quickly enough for a night train, Sakura shifting and looking at the man next to her as he stood up. She gasped when she was dragged up by a firm grip on her arm and was promptly dragged off just before the doors closed.
Watching the train leave, leaving her with the man and a guard who was in the guard house watching them, she took a deep breath, getting ready to scream when the man held up his hands and pulled out a phone and a wallet. "Hold that scream," he said. He opened the wallet and handed it over to her, allowing her to read over the badge and FBI identification card with 'liaison' printed on it under 'placement'. "Let me call this in. We've been hunting those assholes down for a while," the man said, shaking his head.
Sakura groaned, flipped the wallet closed and asked "What is this? Serial killer season? First Kurenai is targeted by the Crying Baby Killer. Then Naruto's new house is broken into. And now a dead body on a train? Really?" she asked.
The man snorted. "Agent Uchiha. Sasuke Uchiha. I'll be dealing with you and this case," he said. Sakura sighed and shook his hand.
"Sakura Haruno. I hope I can get a ride home. I'm really fucking tired."