Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Nightmare worth Living Through ❯ Second Fear ( Chapter 1 )

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Here is chapter 2.

Eh.

“Would it KILL YOU ta slow down, ol' man?!” Naruto yelled from his seat. It was hard enough for the young blonde to keep a tight hold of his seat and his luggage as the bus quaked. The bus driver didn't bother to turn around to answer the boy.

“Maybe,” he laughed calmly; a trail of smoke floating up above him.

The blonde heavily cursed his luck. It seemed as if nothing was going correctly for the poor boy. Failing his mission and his chance to encounter Sasuke was bad enough for him. Now, he was heading towards a school ran by a creepy priest guy; in a trembling bus; wearing, in his opinion, the ugliest clothes he had ever worn. Nothing was orange! He desperately wished there was someone he could rant to…other than the bus driver with laser vision.

“Someone must really hate me…” The bus driver gave him something in-between a laugh and a snort.

“Either way, sonny, we're coming close to the academy,” he said. Naruto felt as the shaking lessened and watched as the glowing lights disappeared, leaving nothing but pitch black darkness.

We're here already?

“Be sure you get all your possessions off of this bus, we won't be seeing each other for awhile.”

I'm pretty sure I don't EVER wanna see you again!

“Ah. That's too bad.”

The bus emerged out of the darkness, showing Naruto a land full of dead, barren trees holding flocks of crows; skulls lying every; and what frightened him the most…an endless sea of red. He shivered stepping out of the metal box with his belongings in hand, the bus driver chuckled.

“Here's a word of advice, sonny…” Naruto didn't bother turning around, he knew the man's unnatural eyes were already staring him down. “Don't tell anyone you're human.”

“Huh!?” The blonde turned around in flash only to see the doors slam shut and the bus driver cackle. “Open the door! What the hell didya mean by that?!” He watched in horror as the bus drove away back into the tunnel they came from. “EVIL BASTARDDD!!” he swore, screaming after the retreating bus.

He waited many moments before sighing. Picking his things up; he began his long trek down the dirt road, not before kicking the sign-carrying scarecrow beside him.

`Youkai Academy,' it read.

Naruto glared at his stomach in frustration.

“This all your fault, I just know it.”

Rise. Lower. Watch. Repeat.

Naruto stared numbly at the dark, forbidding storm cloud that hovered above his new school. Minutes ago, he came walking towards the disturbing, castle-like school before he had made a small, but very important, discovery as he came to the school gates. Whenever he would step forward…lightning would flash across his eyes and the sound of thunder would hit his ears.

He was completely startled at first, but afterwards he found himself disgustingly intrigued.

Rise. Lower. Watch. Repeat.

Inwardly, he wondered if anyone was annoyed by the everlasting lightning and thunder.

“Excuse me, but, didn't 2nd period begin just a few minutes ago?” Naruto turned to see a young woman approaching him. She had long, dark brown hair tied in ribbons and light purple eyes; dressed in a white blouse and long brown skirt. She stopped and crossed her arms across her chest, making an effort to look intimidating. “Unless you want to deal with the school police, I suggest you get to class.”

“2nd period? It's only, like what…9 A.M.?” said Naruto as he studied the peculiar, but pretty, woman for a moment. The woman gave him a look.

“Just because school recently reopened, doesn't excuse tardiness,” she said with authority. “Now, which class are you in? Nekonome-sensei's or Kagome-sensei's…?” she trailed off.

“I don't think I'm in anyone's class, miss,” Naruto said. He lightly shook the luggage he held. “See? Just got here.”

Seeing his belongings, the woman blushed and quickly apologized.

“Sorry, I'm sorry!” she said, bowing again and again. “There are many troublemaking students here, please understand!” Naruto rubbed the back of his neck, sheepishly.

“Aww, you don't hafta to explain yourself, sis!” he said, embarrassed. “Yeah, you're gonna hafta be strict with kids like me, huh?” Somehow, he couldn't believe the words out of his mouth. If it was an ugly, old man coming up to him; Naruto would've probably screamed at the man, telling him to `stop busting his balls'; whatever that meant. I'm probably getting soft…

The woman gave him a smile that oddly reminded him of Shizune back in Konoha.

“Thank you for understanding,” she replied gratefully. “You've just arrived to the academy, yes?” Naruto nodded. “Do you need any help with your luggage…umm?”

“Nah…and the name's Naruto. Uzumaki Naruto, sis!” he chirped. He instantly felt better talking to someone nicer, prettier and much more normal than the bus man. In fact; he felt a nice, normal conversation was necessary. “Didja know if you take a step right here the thunder and lightning goes off?”

“Yes, I know,” she said with sweat on her brow. “You aren't the only one who has made that discovery…” With that said, the sound thunder reached their ears. The brunette stretched her arm and pointed past Naruto. “See?”

Naruto turned to see an older boy dressed in the same uniform stomp his foot down, looking quite pleased with himself.

“Oh.”

“Ya' know, sis…you never quite told me your name,” Naruto said climbing up the stairs to his dorm room, his female companion a few steps behind him.

He just received his single key from a monstrously tall man at the front desk. He had to actually look UP to see the man's face…while he was sitting down. Luckily, his new friend was there to assist him in his blubbering state. Though, his room key looked absurdly outdated; it was rusty, made of iron, and looked like it was stained with droplets of old blood.

Why does everything look like it came out of a horror movie?!

“Ah! How rude of me. I'm terribly sorry, Uzumaki-kun.” Naruto waved his hand lightly; somewhat uncomfortably the woman's apologizing. “You can me Ruby; my full name is Dojo Ruby.”

“Ruby, huh? That's a nice name, sis, suits ya too!” She smiled in return. “Ain't that some sorta stone or…something?”

“Naruto, huh? That's a nice name, suits you too,” she mimicked playfully. “Ain't that a sort of steamed fish paste cake you find in ramen?”

“Maelstrom! Naruto as in maelstrom,” he corrected. Not that it really mattered to him, an absolute fan of ramen. “Are you a student here too?”

“No, I work here.”

Then, instantly, look of horror planted itself on Naruto's face.

“W-WHAT?! There's NO WAY you could work here!” he declared with a squirm. “You're waaaaaay too nice and normal to be working in a creepy and weird academy like this, sis!”

“Creepy? Weird? You're one of the few students who've actually said that,” she replied with a puzzled face. “Everyone else thinks the school has a dignified and cultured air to it.”

Everyone else must be fucking weird then.

They stopped in front of the door to `110', Naruto's new room. Twisting the door knob, Naruto entered a normal, plain room. Bare walls, a small kitchen on the right corner, and a futon rolled up inside an open closet. His shoulders sagged, letting the bags fall to the ground. With an excited holler, he jumped and began to roll on the wooden floor without bothering to take his shoes off.

Hot damn! This place is WAY better than my apartment! He thought, ignoring Ruby who watched him by the doorway. This school is probably meant for rich bastards with a taste for horror cinema.

He stopped in mid-roll with one leg sticking out in the air. With a stupefied expression, he looked at Ruby who covered her mouth with her delicate hands, trying to stop the childish laughter that escaped her mouth. Realizing what he was doing, Naruto quickly sat up, coughing into his right hand; acting as if nothing happened.

“Ahem, right.” Ruby laughed at his faux seriousness. “So how…er, when do I get my…ugh, how you say…`schedule'?” Naruto said uneasily. Going back to school AFTER three years of graduating was going to be horrible, he just knew it; a civilian school at that. Ruby gave a short giggle.

“It all depends, Uzumaki-kun. Exactly what grade are you in? Are you a second year or a third year?” The blonde gave a shrug.

“Haven't been to school for about three years now, so I can't say.”

“Three years?” she asked, surprisingly taking it in easily. Naruto gave a nod. “Well… How old are you?”

“15,” he said.

“15! Really!? You look at least 16 or 17!” Naruto puffed his chest out with pride. His growth spurt did wonders for him. “You're probably in the first year. Then again…”

“What?” he pushed on. Ruby put on a thoughtful face before answering back.

“First years aren't to come in the academy for at least two more days for the opening ceremony.” With that said, Naruto gave a happy sigh.

“Haaaa…! That means I have two days to myself then, huh?” he sang. Much to his displeasure she shook her head.

“I doubt it; the staff doesn't like students running around campus. You'll probably be placed into one of the other classes before opening ceremony.”

Naruto cursed under his breath.

“Awww… Don't take it personal, Na-Ru-To-kun,” someone whispered. Naruto knew that voice. Jumping up, he ran beside Ruby and held her arm tightly. “We just don't like our students to go off deprived of their much needed education.”

Feeling cold air hit his neck, Naruto turned to see the ever smiling chairman of board looking straight at him.

“HOLY SH-” He covered his mouth before any other words could come out of his gaping mouth.

“Holy indeed,” the chairman chuckled. Turning to Ruby he said, “I think it'll be necessary if you gave Naruto-kun a tour around the school. I'm sure he'd appreci-”

“T-TOUR?! That's a great idea!!” He pushed Ruby and, much to his discontent, the chairman out his room. “Guh-bye!” Quickly locking the door and grabbing Ruby's hand, he ran down the stair way.

Satisfied after a few minutes of running, he let go of an exhausted Ruby and stopped to lean on a dry, withered tree.

“W-what was all that,” she paused to catch her breath, “about?” Naruto looked at her with a skeptical face.

“Weren't you at all scared?! Bastard scares the hell outta me,” he concluded with a light quiver.

“Scared? Of the chairman? Of course not, Uzumaki-kun, I'm his personal aide.”

Naruto gaped at the lady.

“I'm so sorry.”

“-And over there are the man-eating bushes! True to its name, it only eats those who are of the male gender. Luckily for you, Uzumaki-kun, they've been trained only to eat human males!”

“…Great…” Naruto said lamely as he stepped farther away from the window.

This tour he was on made everything about Youkai Academy worse for Naruto. Terrible. Absolutely terrible. Eight-eyed chipmunks; freakishly large spiders; giant leeches (one had fallen on his head earlier); trees with fruit that resembled human head; even the student were odd, he passed a heavy boy with leaves growing out of his head. He knew for sure now that this wasn't a normal school for rich bastards with a taste for thriller cinema...no, this was a school was way off, even for civilians... The chipmunks had proved it.

What the hell did Obaa-chan get me into?!

Though, now walking through the halls of the actual school, he remembered the words that come out of Kiba's mouth.

`-Forced to wear short, skimpy skirts! Short, skimpy skirts! Short, skimpy skirts! Short, skimpy skirts!' The three amazing words continually echoed throughout his mind.

S-Short? Skimpy? Skirts?! Each word together in one sentence? Impossible!!

He looked around and, amazingly enough, every single girl he saw wore SHORT and SKIMPY skirts. His legs froze instantly. How could he not notice?! He had been walking throughout the school for over an hour or two. How could the pupil of the self-proclaimed `super-pervert', Jiraiya of the legendary Three Ninja, NOT notice woman passing by wearing the shortest skirts he had ever seen?! Sakura's own skirt didn't count, she wore shorts under them. No, these girls had nothing but LEG.

Speaking of legs…

Naruto's eye caught a shoe, above that shoe was a stocking, above that stocking was a long, peach-colored leg, above that leg was a…a short and skimpy skirt. His eyes trailed further up until he found the owner of the leg staring back at him.

A cute brunette stared before waving timidly. Naruto gave a stupid smile and waved back, enthusiastically. The girl blushed and turned back to her friends, giggling. Before congratulating himself; Naruto saw the girl's hair moved, revealing a large hole which let a long and snake-like tongue slither through. It waved at him.

He ran back to Ruby, who was completely ignorant of his disappearance.

“After the opening ceremony there will be an entire school day for the new students to choose and enter a club, just as the humans do!” Ruby had led Naruto to a less populated hallway; climbing up the stairs he followed her till she stopped in front of a door. “In case you're wondering how club activities go, I'm going to introduce you to a few good friends of mine, the Newspaper club!”

With an extravagant introduction, she opened the door with an outstretched arm. Her blissful face instantly turned to a deadpan one. Naruto peered inside to see a small, empty classroom with one blonde woman napping atop on of the tables.

“Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…”

“…Nekonome-sensei…?” she asked, shaking the woman lightly. Naruto made his way by the window and patiently sat on one of the many large boxes.

“I thought you said `friends', sis. `Friend' ain't plural.”

She gave a light glare to the boy who ignored it in return. The blonde woman stirred in her sleep, muttering incoherent things.

"Mah...golderifhhsffff..."

“Nekonome-sensei…? Sensei? Sensei!”

With an entire moment of shaking the woman woke up stretching her arms out, releasing a loud and long yawn. Much like a cat, Naruto noted. While adjusting her glasses, Nekonome-sensei bolted up and leaned towards Naruto, much too close for the blonde's comfort.

“Huh…?” she said. Naruto felt a long nail poking the sides of his cheeks. She began to laugh with a ditzy expression. “I like you already!”

“Eh?” Naruto asked, confused in record time.

“Nekonome-sensei, this is Uzumaki Naruto!” Ruby chirped happily, thankfully grabbing the feline-like woman's attention from the blonde. “And Naruto, this is Nekonome-sensei! She is the advisor for the Newspaper club… Speaking of which; Sensei, we're Tsukune-kun and the others?” The woman in question ignored her and continued playing with the distressed Naruto's whiskers.

“C-Could you stop?”

“Nope!”

“Okay then…” Taken back by the woman's bright answer, Naruto continued to endure the pain of sharp nails on his face.

“Nekonome-sensei?” Ruby asked again.

“Ah! They're probably roaming the school about now,” Taking a firm hold of each side Naruto's face, stretching his flesh out to comical proportions. “Dontcha remember, Ruby-san? Club activities won't start till after the opening ceremony.”

“Owwwwwwww,” Naruto slurred out.

Ruby gave herself a soft bonk on the head.

“I forgot! Sorry Uzumaki-kun, you'll have to meet them later, then.” The boy she addressed waved his hand at her, garbling out something along the lines as, `it's okay'; she couldn't tell, his face was still being violated. “How about you, Nekonome-sensei, are you busy at the moment? I was hoping Uzumaki-kun would get the idea of what happens in a standard club.”

Naruto watched as the top of Nekonome's hair waved, like cat ears. Weird… he thought as his face threatened to rip in half.

“Actually… You caught me a bad time, I was redecorating the room!”

“More like you were procrastinating,” Naruto retorted smoothly; before finding himself rolling on the ground, holding his blood-spewing face in pain. “MY FACE!”

Nekonome licked the blood off her sharpened claws before answering, “I guess I have time for redecoration later, I'll be happy to show Naruto-kun how the Newspaper club works!” Walking towards one of the boxes she pulled out a single newspaper.

“Show Naruto-kun what now?” Naruto asked with a face resembling a `Tic-Tac-Toe' board. He studied the paper that was quickly shoved in his face.

'Art teacher who kidnapped students has been-' Eh..? Art teachers kidnapping students?

“This is what we do, Naruto-kun!” mewed Nekonome. “Our club is in charge of making the school newspaper, we write articles, we take pictures, you name it! We've even traveled to the human world at times! Planning on joining…?”

“No, not really.”

Her claws shot out.

“MY FAAAAACE!!” he wailed, rolling on the floor, he was leaving quite a large trail of blood on the floor. Ruby took his arm, helping the crying blonde on his own two feet. She offered a guilty smile.

“Only a few times I've ever seen sensei so active, I think she's taken a liking you, Uzumaki-kun,” she declared, hoping to lighten the situation. The blonde glowered.

“You act as if that's a good thing.” He hurried towards the door.

“Ah yes, Uzumaki Naruto, correct?” questioned Nekonome. Naruto turned to give her a look of disbelief. She had been calling him by his name for almost five minutes, now she asks whether or not he was Uzumaki Naruto? What was up with this woman anyway?

Probably stoned on cat nip er something, he thought; chuckling. “Yeah…I'm Naruto.”

“As I thought!” she congratulated herself before continuing, “I need you at the bus stop tomorrow in the beginning of 3rd period-”

“Half past ten!” Ruby said helpfully.

“Exactly! Naru-… Where did he go?”

Ruby turned to see Naruto nowhere in sight and the door he stood near swaying to and fro.

“Uzumaki-kun?”

Stuffing his hands into the side pockets of his pants, Naruto continued to walk aimlessly through the more secluded part of school grounds… He wasn't necessarily `aim-less', he was hoping to find the school dorm; now, he was starting to regret running from Ruby. The cat lady, no; Ruby, yes.

“Aww, man! It's getting dark out too!” he exclaimed to himself. “I better get outta here before-”

His rant was interrupted by a soft whimpering. His head twisted around wildly before catching sight of dim light. Naruto rushed forward to find a little girl tied by her feet above a pile of spikes made of…ice? The slim rope keeping the girl up threaten to slip as a small candle continuously under it.

A simple, but deadly trap to those who don't have the ability to break free; like me!

Unnoticed by the saddened girl, he gently blew the candle out and walked up the tree to the branch holding her up. Grabbing hold of the rope above the child's ankles, he gave a hard yank which threw the girl up in the air and into his arms, causing her to scream.

“AHHH!!” she squealed, startling the blonde.

“Gah!? Little girl, stop screaming! You're s-safe now! Shut up please!”

“W-What?! Don't drop me! Don't drop me!!” she screamed, wiggling around frantically in the blondes arms.

“Little girl!! Stop moving around so much or I WILL drop you!” She froze, looking up at the blonde. “Understand?”

She nodded.

“Understood.”

“So Yukari-chan is it?” Naruto asked as he played with her large, black hat. The girl had an interesting sense of fashion consisting of a short cape and the hat he had just tried on. “What's lil' girl like you doing in a big scary school like this?” Instead of answering, she swiped her hat away.

“I am not a `little girl'!”

“You still didn't answer my question,” Naruto replied. The girl huffed with a pout, reminding him of Konohamaru and his gang back home. Whiny little brat…

“I…got into trouble with my friends, so the tied me up here.” Naruto gawked.

“Into that thing?!” Yukari nodded sadly. “What kind of sick friends do you hav-”

A bright ray of light shot up in the air before Naruto could finish. A sickening sensation hit him and was dragged to his stomach. A dark, intense energy blew past him as did a flock of screeching bats. The blonde made no hesitation when he bolted up and zoomed past the little girl, dimly aware she was calling after him.

Yukari watched with a disappointed face as she watched her savior disappear into the night.

“I didn't even get his name…” she whined.

Tsukune laid flat on the ground, bleeding, after the supreme kick he received from `Inner' Moka. He couldn't blame her though, waking up only to find someone straddling you was pretty inexcusable. If he found a man riding atop of him, he'd instinctively kick the culprit sky high…just as he was. His eyes rolled up to see Moka turning her back to him with a certain scorn. He really did it this time, huh?

“So…Yukari-chan had `Outer' Moka drink an aphro…”

“An `aphrodisiac',” she finished, leaving Tsukune blushing. “To intensify whatever petty feelings she had for you.” Tsukune pushed himself up as Moka placed her hands on her hips.

“All those pushy things today…” he trailed off.

“All which were the aphrodisiacs complete doing,” she stated before turning to him. “My vampire pride will never allow one such as you, an insignificant human, come anywhere near me,” she declared with her body completely facing him. “Even if we do share the same body, the same experiences we are NOT the same person and we do NOT share the same heart; remember that well, Tsukune.”

Tsukune remained quiet, studying `Inner' Moka's face intensely. It could've been eyes tricking him or the fact the area became so dark; but he could've sworn he saw a light pink blush plastered upon Moka's pale skin. He watched as her eyes trailed to the ground, trapped in though.

“Naturally, it would be impossible for one such as you to win my heart. You'd have to seduce me first.” Tsukune hit the floor head first in anguish. “Exactly my thoughts, it is completely and utterly futile.” She lowered herself to the ground just as Mizore and Kurumu came running in.

“Tough luck for `Outer' Moka then,” Mizore said coolly. Kurumu nodded enthusiastically, agreeing with her rival in love.

“Excellent work, Moka-san!” she cheered on.

`Inner' Moka ignored the further chattering of her three classmates, she turned to a single tree with a rock in hand. Casually tossing the rock up and down, she waited before shooting it towards the upper branches of the tree. A surprised yowl met the party's ears before the sound of a large body hitting the ground.

“What the hell was that, Akashiya?!” shrieked the blue-haired succubus before following the silver haired vampire.

“Something that was watching us,” Mizore said as razor-sharp icicles grew off of her slim fingers.

“They must've heard Moka address Tsukune as a human!”

“Then we'll have to persuade them to keep a secret.”

They stopped to see Moka standing a front of the tree she hit, wearing a strained expression on her face. All heads turned to the rattling leaves of a nearby bush, they watched as the culprit jumped out before them.

“It's…”

“…An orange cat?” Kurumu finished off turning to the mortified Moka beside her. “Instead of hitting one of your own lame bats or those infernal crows, you hit a cat. A cat. Really, Moka, that's hitting an all time low.”

“Say another word and that mouth of yours is good as gone.”

The cat nervously stumbled on the ground, staring at the four with its bright blue eyes before hightailing off in a random direction. The academy students did nothing but watch the panicky thing run off.

“Do you think we should go and get it, Moka-san?” Tsukune asked his beautiful companion. “It was heading towards those meat-eating bushes you told me about.”

“They only eat humans males, remember?” Mizore stated, expressionless. “The only one who we should worry about here is you, the lone human male.”

Tsukune gave a tired shrug and walked back towards the school dorm with Mizore and Kurumu trailing after him. `Inner' Moka gave one last glance before departing.

I could've sworn it was… She frowned before walking away.

“Tsukune-kun! Tsukune-kun!” Moka turned to see a frantic Yukari run up to the brunet, hugging his waist. “Did you…”

“What is it Yukari-chan?” Tsukune asked as Kurumu jumped up from behind.

“You?! How'd you survive?”

Both Mizore and Kurumu fell to the ground as heavy cement blocks hit their heads.

“I… Did you see a blonde-haired guy with blue eyes run through here?! He saved me from that sick torture device that blue cow and her follower made!”

“Blonde-haired guy?”

“Torture device?”

“Follower…?” Mizore repeated with an eye tick.

“Yeah! Yeah! He rescued me then ran over this way after Moka-san's transformation!”

Moka's eyes widened before turning back to where the orange cat ran off to.

I may just be paranoid… that cat did have blue eyes. But in the mean time…

“Before going on any further…you have a lot explaining to do, Yukari.”

“EEEK!”

Naruto fell inside his dorm room for his legs gave out from all the running he spent trying to get away from the treacherous man-eating bushes. Brushing off leaves and twigs, he removed his garments and threw his red headband off to the floor.

“Maybe I shoulda pretended to be a magical talking cat instead…they could've carried me to the dorm rooms…”

Thoughts of the silver haired beauty flooded back to him. Her insane strength caused the rock to shoot out of the tree at full force almost hitting him. If he didn't detect the rock in time, there would've been a large wound on his face by now. Just as they said, curiosity killed the…cat.

What's with all the cat related things today?!

Sighing, he threw the futon over his head, shutting his eyes. He knew for certain he wasn't going to wake up tomorrow to see that cat lady for whatever she needed him for. He was just going go to sleep, sleep, sleep the rest of the day off.

At least he hoped so.

Uggh. Finished it. Only like…what, like, 4500 words? I'll start on the next chapter later on…