HEY!! I know, it got a lil romance-y but the original Paranoid was a romance lol, there's only a lil more though and thats all. Bare with me lol. Oh...jeez I hate to seem...uh whats the word?, pushy or annyoing but comments and reviews would be nice. It lets me know if i'm doing awsomly great or horridly terrible. Please? lol but for real
Shall we?
Paranoid: Part Two
(Living in the Shadow)
Shikamaru pushed his weight on the door. It slowly grinded open making a sharp screeching noise. He peered in side before motioning for everyone else to follow.
"Whoa, it's a little dark and stinky in here isn't it?" Naruto said plugging his nose. Shikamaru ignored him and looked around. He saw stairs leading up and a long ramp that ran all the way down into nothing.
"Weird." Ino said staring down the ramp into the darkness. Lee flashed his flashlight down and gasped.
"Pointy."
Shikamaru nodded. "The first trap, they must have set it off when they were walking. I'm guessing it was stairs at some point."
"You…you don't suppose they're down there?" Hinata asked nervously playing with her fingers and staring down at the pit.
Shikamaru shook his head. "Nah, they wouldn't be ninja if they died by such an easy trap." he gave a humorless laugh before shaking his head. "Regardless that's where they are and that's where we're going."
"Wh…WHAT?!" Naruto yelled his eyes bulging out. "I'm not going down there!"
"Yes, you are if you want to find your teammates. There has to be some type of door or something somewhere along the way. We'll just slide down until we find it."
"That's easy for you to say." Ino muttered staring down at the sharp points.
Shikamaru took out two kunai sighing. He stuck one into the ramp and carefully lowered himself over. He stuck the other one in and held on. "Simple, rather than hiking our way up the ramp, we're hiking down." He took out the first kunai and stuck it in a little lower than the second one and repeated again with the second kunai. Naruto grinned and spun two kunai around his forefingers.
"Aright! Here I come!" He said.
"WAIT!" Shikamaru yelled.
"Ah? What?"
"Don't lower yourself directly above anyone. Should you lose your grip and start sliding we don't want anyone to take any guests with them. We'll go in a diagonal slant. Wait till I lower my self a little than you go Naruto a little to my right, wait for him to lower himself and you go Lee, than so on. That way no one will fall on each other but if one of you slide than someone will be there to catch you."
"What about you Shikamaru?" Hinata asked. "No one can catch you if you fall."
He shrugged re-adjusting his grip. "Lets just hope I don't fall." He murmured lowering himself even more.
"I'm going LAST!" Ino shouted.
Hey, something's wrong.
What could be wrong?
C'mon you dope, you're in a maze tunnel, suddenly a garden of roses pop up, and now you're rolling around in soft grass sucking face with Uchiha? Lets be realistic here.
Fun sucker.
Face sucker.
Despite her lust something did feel wrong. That dark feeling that kept being pushed out was now forcing itself into her mind refusing to be ignored. She honestly didn't care and kept fighting the feeling but it was persistent. She moved to free herself from Sasuke's lips. He just moved down to her neck. She bit her lip and felt her fingers tangle in his hair.
C'mon now! This may really be a once in a lifetime thing if you don't get up! You'll be dead!
Dead?
"Sasuke."
He stopped kissing her neck but kept his face buried into the hollow of her neck. "Something's wrong." he murmured. It wasn't a question. It was a statement. "How could I be so weak?"
It suddenly snapped into her mind. "Gin-jutsu." He stayed silent. She continued on, the thought rushing into her mind. "A strong one. The jutsu isn't only tapping into our senses but into our feelings too, even…even the one's that are hidden." He still stayed silent but she felt him shift his weight so that he wasn't crushing her beneath him. "You weren't weak Sasuke," she whispered suddenly very aware of a pair of eyes somewhere close. The flowers suddenly seemed less attractive. They looked dead and fake to her now. "A normal person can't create a jutsu that forces your emotions out. Only someone with exceptional skill…only--"
Sasuke cut off her words. "Itatchi." he hissed.
She flinched at his tone of voice. Venom seemed to drip from the name and she could feel pure anger radiating off of him. She panicked and suddenly felt fear. The darkness that seemed to be pouring out of her beloved Sasuke wrapped around her and seemed to squeeze at her heart. He buried himself deeper into the hollow of her neck and she felt cold. She saw his shoulders heaving up and down. At first she thought he was crying until she heard a muffled laugh.
"Sas…Sasuke?" she whispered.
He rolled off of her and onto his back laying in the now wilted grass. His fingers tore at the grass as he continued laughing hysterically with his eyes squeezed shut. She leaned over him trying to hold back tears.
"Sasuke? Sasuke what's wrong? Sasuke!" She grabbed his shoulders and shook him. Never had she seen Sasuke act like this, he was always in control, always. Suddenly his arms shot up and grabbed her shoulders forcing her to stop shaking him. His grip was deadly and she yelped in pain. His eyes suddenly opened and she gasped. On instinct she tried to tear away from him fear chocking her scream. Blood red eyes stared at her with a dangerous bloodlust. She had seen the Sharingun before but this was different, this was corrupted with vengeance and madness. She saw his sanity and hatred battling with each other in his eyes.
"Sasuke! What's wrong with you!" She cried out fighting against his grip.
Sasuke laughed again tears forming at the corners of his eyes. He didn't know what was wrong with him. The pain searing in his body and soul seemed to be tearing him from sanity. Why? Everything he had was always stripped from him. He was on top of the world only to be ripped down into hell. He should have known this was a dream, a nightmare.
"How cruel big brother!" he thought, "Now you're playing with my damn emotions? You sneaky, evil bastard. Showing me what I wanted knowing I'd be torn away from it. Clever."
He suddenly became faintly aware of Sakura screaming in his hold. He stopped laughing as he looked at her, seemingly seeing her clearly now. Her green eyes were wide with confusion and fear. "Maybe I have given her a reason to be afraid of me…" Her shrill voice screaming his name ripped at his heart. "She's fucking terrified."
He relaxed his grip on her shoulders suddenly snapping back to reality. Going insane wasn't going to help him or her at this moment. He was aware of dead grass poking into his body. He saw withered flowers falling around them. The symbolism was killing him. Everything beautiful in his life had withered away and died. He knew Itatchi was the poison, but now he was beginning to wonder if he himself was the poison too.
"Sakura," he whispered suddenly feeling very tired. "We have to get out of here. He's close."
She stared at him blankly. "Sasuke, are you ok?" he voice was breaking. She was worried but scared. He noticed how she pulled away from his grip and distanced herself.
"I have to get you out, and find Itatchi…"
"This is taking forever!" Ino shouted down to everyone.
"Better safe than sorry…" Shikamaru said. He sighed. "Woman are so troublesome, always complaining…."
"She's right!" Naruto said lowering himself a little more.
Lee gripped his kunai and took a deep breath. "Friends! Let us not complain but rather celebrate our spring time of youth! Our bravery and beauty allows us to do daring things! We are hero's lowering themselves to our friends salvation!!"
Hinata shifted her wait as her fingers became slippery from the constant nervous sweat. She had forced herself over but the closer she got to the points the more nervous she got. She swallowed. As long as there were no sudden surprise's she'd be fine.
"AH!!! I'm falling!" Ino laughed letting go of the kunai for a split second.
Hinata's eyes grew wide thinking she had to catch Ino. She reached out thinking Ino would keep falling. Her already unstable grip loosened and she felt herself begin to fly downward. She couldn't hear herself scream though she sure she was.
"Shit! Catch her!" Shikamaru yelled. Naruto and Lee reached out but she slid down to fast. Shikamaru reached out and grabbed her. The speed at which she was going yanked him down and his hand slipped from the kunai.
"Shadow Clone jutsu!"
Naruto free fell for only a moment before his clone grabbed him with one hand and gripped the kunai. Naruto reached out and grabbed Shikamaru. They stopped instantly. Shikamaru sighed as a bead of sweat fell making a loud echo as it hit the points below them. He looked down at Hinata who was gripping onto his hand with both of hers. He felt her shaking as she cried soaking his hand.
"Hey Hinata, could you stop wetting my hand? You're going to make my hand slippery." he said laughing lightly. "It's aright, we're all fine."
"Naruto! Shikamaru! Hinata! Are you guys ok?" Lee shouted down quickly lowering himself.
"Yea!" The Naruto's shouted in unison grunting under all the weight.
"Jeez, you guys almost fell to your deaths!" Ino shouted.
"If you hadn't been playing around Hinata wouldn't have freaked!" the original Naruto shouted tightening his grip on Shikamaru's arm.
Ino scowled. "It's not my fault she's a ticking nerve bomb."
Shikamaru looked around and smirked. "Whatever the case I think I found our door." he said looking at the opening to his right. It wasn't anymore than a foot or so away. "Hinata! I'm going to pull you up and I want you to climb into this little opening for me, ok?"
She was still shaking but nodded. With one quick yank he pulled her weight up and lifted her in front of the opening. "Hurry," he said straining his voice as his muscles worked.
She quickly climbed into the opening.
"What do you see?" Lee said now leveled with them. Ino was now on her way down.
"It keeps going." she said her voice a little broken.
"Good, Lee, do you think you could squeeze in front of Hinata just incase there are anymore surprises?" Shikamaru asked. Naruto cleared his throat.
"Look, my clone's can't hold us forever." Naruto pointed out seeing his copy straining to hold them all up with one hand. He almost laughed seeing the twin face turn bright red. He wondered if he really looked like that under a lot of physical pressure.
"Certainly!" Lee said. He swung himself and leaped into the air. His hands clenched onto the edge and he easily pulled himself in. He managed to squeeze in front of Hinata. "Lets go!"
Shikamaru pulled himself in. "Naruto make sure Ino comes in first." He called back. "We have to keep the girls safe."
Ino frowned as she finally leveled with the doorway. "You do not! Women are capable of protecting them selves sexiest!"
Shikamaru shrugged. "Troublesome. As a male it's my duty to protect you two." he turned around dropping the subject with that.
"Get in." Naruto ordered Ino getting slightly annoyed of dangling above a pit of knives.
She glared at him but obeyed swinging herself into the opening. Naruto's clone swung him inside and vanished. "Now that wasn't so hard."
"Shall I continue forward?" Lee called back.
"Yea, be careful though Lee." Shikamaru said grunting as Ino pushed at him.
"C'mon it's getting a little cramped in here." she groaned.
They crawled forward for a while before Lee stopped suddenly. "Wow, that's a drop." he said staring down at another opening that led to a room filled with mini doors. "I don't know any ninjutsu so how do I get down there?" he complained.
"Hinata, did you bring the supplies?" Shikamaru asked looking at the bag on her back.
"Yes, I think there's a rope in there." she twisted her body and reached for her bag. "I can't get it though, its too small in here…."
Shikamaru reached forward and squeezed his hand in between the small space of the bag and the tunnel's ceiling. He reached in the pulled the rope out, he handed it up to Hinata who passed it up to Lee. Lee tied a Kunia on to it and stuck it deeply into the ground. He yanked on it to make sure it would hold.
"Hopefully this works." he said as he lowered himself over. The kunai drug through the ground for a moment under his weight before stopping. Lee sighed in relief. "It should hold!" he yelled lowering himself. He got to the end of the rope and free fell the remaining five or six feet. Everyone else followed.
"So…which door do we pick?" Naruto asked staring at the many choices surrounding them.
"We have no way to tell which one they chose." Lee said getting dizzy from the different designs and patterns.
"INO-MEANO-GO!" Ino shouted picking a random door.
Shikamaru stood in deep thought for a moment before speaking. "My theory is these doors all lead to the same place one way or another."
"Than why did they put so many doors?" Hinata asked.
"To throw us off. Who would use up this much space for separate rooms? I'm guessing they all hold unique traps but essentially lead to the same place."
"Which is where Sasuke and Sakura are…"Naruto said softly.
"What if they really do have a whole bunch of rooms?" Ino asked.
Shikamaru shrugged. "Then lets hope we pick the right door."
HEY! Did you like it? I hope you did! But anywayz! You know what to do, R&R...oh yea, what is a C2? Can anyone tell me? O.o