Me: oh you guys are lucky this time I almost didn't write a chapter tonight.
Naru: lol she forgot the number one rule of typing on the computer…ALWAYS SAVE YOUR WORK!
Me: ooooh and I hated this chapter only because it freaking delete itself and I didn't save it so had to rewrite it T-T anyways disclaimer please…
Sasuke: kyu owns nothing not even this laptop
Me: shut up!
Truth or ScArE?
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-----------Naruto's POV-------------
The most exciting things to happen in my life, in chronological order:
The 3:10 train jump the tracks, spilling tootsie rolls, which we ate
A senior flushed a cherry bomb down the toilet, exploding the sewage line, closing school for a week.
On my sixteenth birthday a family rumored to be vampires moved into the haunted mansion on the Uchiha estate!
The legend of the mansion went like this: it was built by a Romanian baroness who fled her country after a peasant revolt which killed her husband and most of his family. The baroness built her mansion on the Uchiha estate to resemble her European estate in every detail, except for the corpses.
She lived with her servants in complete isolation, terrified of strangers and crowds. I was a small child at the time of her death and never met her, although I used to play by her solitary monument in the cemetary. People said she would sit by the upstairs window in the evenings staring at the moon, and even now, if you look at the right angle, you can see her ghost sitting in that same window gazing at the sky.
But I never saw her.
The mansion has been boarded up ever since. Rumor had it there was a witchlike lady interested in black magic. In any case, she wasn't interested in a place like Konoha and never claimed the place.
The mansion on the Uchiha estate was quite gorgeous to me in its gothic way, but an eyesore to everyone else. It was the biggest house in town…and the emptiest. My brother says that's because it's on probate. Deidara says it's because it's haunted. I think it's because women in this town are afraid of dust.
The mansion, of course, had always fascinated me. It was my Barbie dream house, as gay as that sounded, but anyways, and I climbed the hill many nights hoping to spot a ghost. But I actually went inside only once, when I was twelve, I was hoping I could fix it up and make it my playhouse. I was going to put up a sign that said NO NERD BOYS ALLOWED. One night I climbed the Iron Gate and scurried up the winding driveway.
The mansion was truly magnificent, with vines dripping down its sides like falling tears, chipped paint, shattered roof tiles, and a spooky attic window. The wooden door stood like Godzilla, tall and powerful-and locked. I stuck around the back. All the windows were boarded up with long nails, but I noticed some loose boards hanging over the basement window. I was trying to pull them loose when I heard voice.
I crouched behind some bushes as a gang high school seniors stumbled near. Most were drunk and one was scared.
----Flashback---Normal POV---
"C'mon Kankuro we all done it," they lied, pushing a guy wearing purple face paint and a black hoodie towards the mansion. "Go in and get us a shrunken head!"
Naruto could see Kankuro Subaku was nervous. He was a handsome, crush-worthy guy, the kind who should be spending his time shooting hoops or making girls swoon, not sneaking into haunted house to win friends.
It was like Kankuro had already seen a ghost as he approached the mansion. Suddenly he looked behind the bushes where Naruto was hiding. Naruto gasped and Kankuro screamed. Naruto thought they bother were going to have a heart attack. He crouched back down, because he heard the gang approaching.
"He's screaming like a little girl and he's not even in yet!" one of them teased.
"Get outta here!" Kankuro said to the guys. "I'm supposed to do this alone, right?"
He waited for the others to retreat and then nodded to me that it was clear.
"Damn, boy, you scared me! What are you doing out here?"
"I live here and lost my keys. I'm just trying to get back in" Naruto joked.
Kankuro caught his breath and smiled. "Who are you?"
"Naruto. I already know who you are. You're Kankuro Subaku. Your father owns the department store where my mom buys her swank purses. I've seen you working the cash register"
"Yeah I thought you looked familiar."
"So why are you here?"
"It's a dare. My friends think the place is haunted, and I'm supposed to sneak inside and get souvenir."
"Like an old couch?"
He smiled that same smile. "Yeah, goofball. But it doesn't matter. There's no way-"
"Yes there is!" And Naruto showed him the loose boards at the basement windows.
"You go in first," he said, prodding Naruto with trembling hands. "You're smaller."
Naruto slithered easily through the window.
Inside was dark, even for Naruto. He could barely make out the cobwebs. He loved it! There were stacks of cardboard boxes everywhere, and it smelled like basement that had been there since the begging of time.
"C'mon already!" Naruto said.
"I can't move! I'm stuck!"
"You have to move. Do you want them to find you with your backside hanging out?"
Naruto yanked and pushed and pulled. Finally Kankuro came through, to Naruto's relief, but not Kankuro's.
Naruto led the terrified senior though the moldy basement. He held on to my hand so tight Naruto thought he would break his fingers.
But it was nice to hold his hand. It was big and strong and masculine. Not like Konohamaru's, whose tiny hand always felt and squishy and smarmy.
"Where are we going?" he whispered in a terrified voice. "I can't see a thing!"
Naruto could make out the shapes of massive chairs and sofas, covered with dusty white cloth, probably once belonging to the old woman who stared at the moon.
"I see some stairs," Naruto said. "Just follow me."
"I'm not going any further! Are you crazy?"
"How about a full-length mirror?" Naruto teased, peeking behind a cloth.
"I'll take one of these empty boxes!"
"That's no good. Your friends will kill you. You'll be a laughingstock the rest of your life. Believe me, I know how it is."
Naruto looked back at Kankuro and saw the terror on his face. He wasn't sure if he was scared of his friends outside or of the basement steps that might cave in at the slightest pressure. Or maybe he was afraid of ghost.
"Okay," Naruto said. "You wait here.
"Like I could go anywhere? I have no idea how to get back!"
"But first. . ."
"What?"
"Let go of my hand!"
"Oh yeah"
He let Naruto go. "Naruto-"
"What?"
"Be careful!"
Naruto paused. "Kankuro, do you believe in ghost?"
"No, of course not!"
"So, you don't think there is a ghost here? Of that old woman?"
"Shhh! Don't talk so loud!"
Naruto smiled with expectation. But then he remembered Kankuro's gang's dare and grabbed his baseball cap. Kankuro screamed again.
"Relax, it's just me, not one of those spooky ghost you don't believe in."
Naruto carefully ascended the creaky steps and bumped into a closed door at the top. But it opened when he turned the knob. He was in a wide hallway. Moonlight was shining through cracks in the boarded windows. The mansion seemed even bigger inside. He caressed the walls as he walked, the dust softly caking his hands. Naruto turned a corner and stumbled upon a grand staircase. What treasure lay at the top of it? Is that where the ghost of the baroness appeared?
He tiptoed up the stairs, as mouse-like as he could in his heavy combat boots.
The first door was locked, as well as the second and third. He leaned his eat to the fourth door, and heard the sound of faint crying from the other side. He was in heaven. As he listened closer, Naruto realized it was only the wind whistling through the boarded windows. He opened a closet, which creaked like an old coffin. Maybe he'd find a skeleton! The only thing he discovered however, were several old hangers sporting cobwebs instead of clothes. 'I wonder where the ghosts are…' he though, as he peered into the library. An open book lay on a small table, as if the woman who stared at the moon had been reading it when she died.
Naruto grabbed Romanian Castles off the self, hoping it would open a secret passageway into a spook-filled dungeon . Sadly, nothing moved except a hairy brown spider that scooted across the dusty shelf.
But the next moment, he heard a loud sound and nearly jumped through the roof-it was a honking horn! Startled, Naruto dropped the book. He had totally forgotten about Kankuro's gang and his new mission.
He ran back down the grand staircase, leaping over the last steps. A bright light was beaming through the boarded-up windows in the living room. He climbed onto the bay window and peered out, safely hidden behind the boards. He could see the seniors sitting on the hood of their cars, the headlights shining up through the gate of the mansion.
One of them was looking in his direction, so he pushed Kankuro's cap out through an opening between the boards and waving it like he had just landed on the moon. Naruto felt triumphant. The seniors gave the thumbs up in reply.
Naruto found Kankuro in a sweat, sitting in corner of the basement on top of some wooden crates. He must have been thinking about rats as well as ghosts. He grabbed Naruto like a child grabs his mother. "What took you so long?"
Naruto replaced the cap on his head. "You'll need this."
"What did you do with it?"
"I let them know you made it in okay. Ready?"
"Ready!" and he pulled Naruto back through the window like the place was on fire. Naruto noticed he didn't get stuck this time.
They shoved the board back in place. It looked as if they had never been there. "We don't want this to be easy for anyone else" Naruto said. Kankuro stared back like he didn't know what to make of Naruto, or how to thank him.
"Wait! I didn't get a souvenir!" he realized
"I'll go back in."
"No way!" he said, grabbing Naruto's arm.
Naruto thought for a moment.
"Here, take this." Naruto gave him his necklace. A black leather band with an onyx medallion. "It only cost three dollars, but it looks like it was owned by a baroness. Just don't let anyone appraise it."
"But you did all the work, and I'll get all the credit."
"Take if before I change my mind"
"Thanks!"
He weighed the necklace in his hand and gave Naruto a warm kiss on his cheek. Naruto his behind the crumbling gazebo as Kankuro ran back down to his buddies, dangling the necklace in front of their faces, getting high fives. They adored him now and so did Naruto. He held his filthy hand against his freshly kissed cheek.
-----End flashback----thank god _; -----
After that day Kankuro hung out with the cool club and even became class president. From time to time, Naruto would see him around town square, and he'd always have a huge smile for him.
Naruto didn't have a chance to return to his dream house. Word had spread that Kankuro had snuck into the mansion. Fearful that more kids might break in, the police patrolled the area that night.
It would be years till Naruto visited the mansion again.
Me: OMG I FINISHED! IT TOOK THREE DAYS AND A FEW HOURS BUT I FINISHED THIS CHAPTER FROM HELL!!!!
Naru: over exaggerating much?
Me: no no I'm not…but anyways my lesson is once again…always save your work! Besides the only reason I decided to do this chapter over again is because I got another review! Thx!
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