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Shiver
Chapter 7 Haunted
Do the dead become ghosts? Do ghosts exist? Do spirits exist? Can we see them? Can they see us? Can they harm us?
These were common questions that were, most likely, asked everyday. But the biggest question was 'do we know'?
Sasuke Uchiha knew.
Ghosts did exist.
Spirits do exist.
We can see them.
They can't see us.
They can harm us.
Sasuke knew. He saw them everyday. They were memories. Actually, they were much more than memories; they were what kept him alive, they were what scared the very wits out of him.
They laughed. They walked. They talked. They ran. They played. They fought. They did everything a normal person would. They could talk to each other, smile, touch each other and even more!
They were scary. They were nice. They were confusing.
They shouldn't be there. Sasuke wanted to yell 'Go away, your supposed to be dead!' or 'Leave me alone, I don't want to remember!' because that was what they did. They made him remember.
Remember the massacre. Remember how he was too weak to save them. Remember how he was supposed to avenge them. Remember all the times they enjoyed.
They made him remember things he did not want to remember. Things he wished to leave in his past. Buried and alone. Secrets buried alone with no way of escaping to tell others. It was a nightmare.
They followed him everywhere. If he looked at an empty street, he would see them, talking, laughing, and if he looked at a street filled with people, he would see them, mingling with other people, alive people. They never gave him peace.
They would never give him peace until he got them their revenge. It was insane! Why couldn't they just leave him alone? He did not want to see them! Unless they were alive, that is.
He would give anything for them to be back but this was nothing more than a pipe dream, incapable of happening, and nothing more than a silly hoax.
They were always following him.
Sasuke Uchiha was haunted.