Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Hatred Turned Love ❯ Fear of Nothing ( Chapter 12 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

By: xDu083x

Hatred Turned Love

Chapter 12: Fear of Nothing

Ohohoho… now'll it's time for the costume dude to reveal himself/herself… anyways… I hope you guys enjoy this one! Please review!

AKEMI'S POV:

“KAKASHI-CHAN!” I yelped. Kakashi removed his costume werewolf head.

“Ah… Akemi-chan, I'm really touched,” said Kakashi, grinning. “And you're forgiven… for whatever reason…”

“This was the REALLY important job you couldn't miss?” I asked. “The one that would take all of your time?”

Kakashi nodded, but in a “I'm sorry, but I had to” sort of way.

“First Whitey and now this!” I said angrily. “You could've… you could've told me that it was you!”

“Wait!” said Kakashi. “It's not what you think!”

I ran toward the village I saw brightly now. (It's not Konoha…)

I thought he understood, but he… he toyed around with me! I feel… like a dumbass. Argh! He doesn't understand!

I felt my tears well up again, but I held it in.

Stupid Akemi, you just said all that embarrassing crap in front of Kakashi, I thought to myself.

“Are you okay, Akemi?” asked Sai. She was worried.

“Don't worry about it…” I thought. “It's nothing…”

I saw Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke. The monsters were all gone now, and the villagers were resuming their positions in the festival.

Sakura and Naruto were looking at me worriedly.

“Where were you?” Naruto asked.

“We were so worried about you!” said Sakura. “Are you okay?”

“Yah, I'm fine…” I said. Sasuke gave a cup of soda to me.

“Where's Kakashi-sensei?” asked Naruto, while I drank the coke.

“I dunno, “I muttered. “Maybe trying to get into more disguises…”

I started walking with Sakura.

“Thanks Sasuke-kun…” I said. He shrugged. Since when did he become so generous?

We went toward the spa place, our room was reserved. We all had to share one. It was like a slumber party I had with my friends, except I'm the only grown-up…

As soon as I entered, I saw something bad.

Worse than Satan…

It was Kakashi. He was wearing his regular jounin clothes. Did I mention that I was the only grown up?

“Akemi-chan…” said Kakashi. “I'm really sorry, please hear me out…”

“I don't want to speak to you or hear you…” I shot back. “Just… leave me alone…”

I sat near Sakura and Sasuke. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were looking to and fro between Kakashi and me.

Kakashi was going to say something… but Sasuke stopped him. Wow… Sasuke is such a life saver today…

I stared at the ground. Kakashi had to sit next to me, because he wanted Sasuke and Naruto to be further separated so they wouldn't annihilate each other.

“W-well, it's scary story time!” said Sakura nervously. The candles flickered around us.

“EH!” I said. “No one told me that time was gonna happen!”

“You're kidding right, Akemi-chan?” said Naruto. “Every Halloween Eve, we have to at least say some scary stories…”

“What do we do in Halloween?” I asked.

“Something worse…” said Naruto. Sakura and I shivered.

“I… don't know any… scary stories…” I muttered.

“”Well… Kakashi-sensei, Naruto, Sasuke-kun, and I will say at least one scary story,” said Sakura. “And then we'll…”

“I'm going to bed…” I said, getting up.

“Ah, c'mon Akemi-chan!” said Naruto. “Please!”

“Alright, alright!” I said angrily, seeing their sad baby faces again. “But I don't know any, so I'll just… listen…”

Geez… their looks get to me…

Kakashi's gaze was still burning into me. I don't think he ever blinked. From time to time, he read his perverted book, but I don't think he looked anywhere else other than his book and me. I averted my gaze to Sakura, who was telling the first story. I braced myself.

(Dudes and Dudets: If you guys aren't comfortable around scary stories, skip like… a few paragraphs or something… these stories are actually a little freaky…)

“There was once a couple, who loved each other very much,” started Sakura. “One day, they rented a small hut. The boyfriend said a story about a hook man, who hangs his victims upside down and eats their heads.”

“The girl gets freaked out, but calms down a little after her boyfriend said it was just a story. There wasn't any firewood, so he goes and gets some, locking the house. After a few couple minutes, over the rooftops was a noise. It was a scratching noise, like someone was raking the house rooftops.”

“She screams, thinking it's the hook man, but remains in the house. Then some adults come rescue her, but when she saw what raked her rooftop, she was horrified.”

“Who was it?” I asked anxiously, shivering a little.

“It was… HER BOYFRIEND!” shrieked Sakura evilly. I jumped.

“He was hung over the hut's rooftops and his head was chewed off…” Sakura finished.

“That was good…” said Naruto, ignoring my shivering. “Okay, my turn!”

“A girl was living in the same room with her close friend. She was reading a book and her friend told her to turn off the lights when she was done. Her friend pulled over the covers on her head because the light was bothering her. After a few hours, the girl finally felt sleepy and turned off the light.”

“After a few minutes, she heard a whistling noise. Someone was whistling. She thought it was her friend, so she ignores it. Then it continued in a few hours, never stopping. She got really irritated. So… she went over to her friend's bed to tell her to stop, but her friend didn't respond.”

I felt a chill running through my spine.

“She pulled the covers off her friend. Her friend was dead. Her head was sliced off. And… someone was behind her…”

I gasped.

“It was a dude, carrying a bloody knife with her friends head in his other hand. He was the one whistling…”

I let out a small sound. Kakashi and Sakura smiled.

“That was better…” I croaked. The hut was shaking a little… it was because of me.

It was Sasuke's turn. When will it stop?

“There was a boy, no older than seven, who went to the museum with his classmates one day. He wasn't the kind who believed in ghosts… maybe because he never saw one.”

“Anyways… he had a friend who was a girl. She told him that the upstairs bathroom of the museum was deserted and haunted. The boy didn't believe her. He thought it was stupid.”

“But after a while, the boy needed to go to the bathroom. The class followed him to the downstairs bathroom. However, it was too crowded, but the boy couldn't hold it. So he decided to take the upstairs bathroom, the haunted one… alone.”

“His friend told him not to go, but the boy told her not to worry. He went upstairs toward the bathroom. The light in the bathroom couldn't work, so it was pitch black. He managed to do his business, but right when he washed his hands, he saw something on the ceiling.”

“Eeeks…” I said. Sasuke ignored me.

“It was a girl with long hair. He couldn't make out her face because it was too dark. He could tell she was a ghost… it's just that feeling, you know? The boy couldn't move for a second, all he stared at was the woman who was clinging on to the ceiling wall.”

“`If you tell anyone about me in here,' said the woman. `I'll kill you.'”

“The boy ran as fast as he can out of that bathroom. When he reached toward his friend, he was scared as hell. She asked him if there was anything in the bathroom, but he replied that it was nothing.”

“After a year, the memory about that strange woman still freaked him out. He invited his friend to a sleep over, trying hard to forget about that incident. His friend said she was worried, because he wasn't the same after coming out of the bathroom of the museum a year ago. She pleads him to tell her, so she may help him out in some way. He finally tells his friend.”

“However, she oddly stares at him.”

“WHY?” I screamed “WHAT DOES SHE SAY?”

Kakashi helped me sit down.

“`I told you not to tell,' said the girl.” finished Sasuke.

“GAH!” I said. “That was freakin' scary!”

Sasuke shrugged. Sakura and Naruto were shaken up a bit.

“Thanks.”

“Okay, Kakashi-sensei,” said Sakura. “You're next.”

I looked at the ground, but I knew Kakashi was still looking at me. Maybe I should… stop holding a grudge…

“Ah… there was once a young man who was trapped in a thick forest, desperate for water and food,” started Kakashi. “After traveling with no rest for three days, he thought it would be time if he gave up. But suddenly, he saw a light. It was… sort of beckoning to him.”

“He went toward the light, only to find out that it belonged to a house. It was a large one, with a gate surrounding its borders. He knocked on the door anxiously. The door opened and an old woman came out to greet him.”

“`Please,' said the young man. `I've been traveling for three days without rest, food, and water, will you let me stay for one night in your home?'”

“The woman felt sad for the man, so she let him in. He was grateful.”

“After some food and water, he rested in a room, with paper doors surrounding him. After a few hours, he hears a thumping noise. It kept going on and on, from the other side of the room. The man got up and poked a hole through one of his paper slide doors that lead to the noise. Through the hole, he saw a girl with short hair, jumping rope.”

“He decided to ignore it; she may have been the woman's granddaughter or something. But after a while, it irritated him, so he decided to just tell her to stop for a while.”

“But when he looked through the hole, everything was red. It was odd, even the girl disappeared. The man thought it was the harvest moon, or that he was just too tired. He went back to bed, and the thumping noise had stopped.”

“In the morning, the old lady gave the young man some breakfast and asked if he had a good night's sleep. He said a girl distracted him for a while, but it wasn't a big deal. However, the woman told him that she lived alone, and asked the man to describe her. After he did, the woman got emotional and cried. He asked what was wrong, and the woman replied that the girl he saw was her daughter who died thirty years ago. The man was shocked.”

“The woman told him that her daughter had a sad and lonely life, seeing how no one wanted to play with her because they were scared of her. When the man asked her why, the woman replied that…”

“What… what was it?” I said. Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura didn't make a noise. Their faces were white. Well… Sasuke was… whatever faced…

“It was because she had red eyes.”

“WHA-!” I said. “S… so…”

“He was looking at the girl's eyes?” asked Sakura. “And the girl was looking back at him…”

“Yes,” said Kakashi, smiling.

I am totally freaked out now.

“Now how am I supposed to go to sleep?” I said angrily.

They all smiled at me.

“It's midnight,” said Sakura. “We should go to sleep.”

“Tch…” I muttered.

Everyone slept together in the same room, with different beds. The only one awake was me… and maybe Kakashi.

“I could stay up for you if you like,” said Kakashi.

“Nah, its okay…” I said. “You don't want to waste your time on me.”

“It's okay…” he said.

I blushed.

“I'll be okay…”

Kakashi looked at me.

I faced him.

“If you're so anxious, I'm not mad at you anymore,” I said. “Just forget that I was in the first place.”

I punched him on the shoulder, the one with no bruise.

He grinned.

“Thanks Akemi-chan…” he whispered.

“Whatever…” I sighed.

After a while, I heard that Kakashi had fallen asleep as well.

That's just great… I sort of wished he stayed up.

Akemi… you're so greedy…

I stood up and walked outside. The cool breeze stung my face. Should I still be mad at Kakashi? But… why should I be mad? All he did was listen to me. But maybe it's because I blow up really easily. Well, after forgiving him and all…

I feel a lot better…

Those creepy stories freak me out. Will I see an insane head cutter? Maybe an insane head eater? Or just be insane myself by seeing that everything is red.

If I didn't have so much sadness bottled up in me right about now, I can give Kakashi a book attack for saying a freaky story. I still haven't used my ULTIMATE attack yet.

“I think those stories were interesting,” said Sai.

“What's it to you?” I said. “It's not like you're scared of anything…”

“That's when you're wrong,” said Sai.

“Why… what are you afraid about?” I asked.

Sai didn't respond.

I sighed… looking at the moon. It wasn't a full moon… but it was still beautiful. Good thing it didn't turn red… I saw someone off in the distance.

Hey! It was…!

“Hideki-kun!” I said, calling to him.

The boy didn't come… he just… stared at me. More like a glare. He started running away.

“Hey!” I said. I chased after him.

I ran after him in the forest, running, running.

He wouldn't stop, even after I called him a bazillion times.

“W… wait up!” I said. I was running out of breath.

He kept running and running.

“Stop!” I said angrily.

I grabbed his arm, but my hands went right through him.

“What the…?”

“I thought you would help me,” said Hideki, finally stopping.

Was he a ghost…? I touched him before though…

I saw that I was nearly on the edge of a cliff.

“I… I didn't know where you were at the time!” I said.

“LIAR!” said Hideki angrily.

“I…”

“You're just like everyone else!” said Hideki. “You'd ditch me once I showed you the way… and at that time I thought you understood how I felt!”

“I do!” I retorted back. “You're just like me… alone and…”

“SHUT-UP!” screamed Hideki. “I HATE YOU!”

“ARGH!” I screamed.

The visions… the wolf attacking me…

What the hell? Why do they keep coming back?

“AHHHHHH!” I cried. Hideki looked startled.

It was coming closer… coming closer…

“Stay away…” I said. “Stay away…”

“Akemi-chan?”

It was Kakashi.

The boy was gone.

“Hideki-kun?”

KAKASHI'S POV:

Good thing I woke up just in time… I thought the noises came from an animal… but wasn't she an animal from the beginning? Just kidding…

Why was Akemi wandering in the forest? It's dangerous… but…

Who's Hideki?

“C'mon Akemi-chan…” I said, taking her hand. “Let's go back and talk… wow… you must be freezing…”

Akemi looked at me in a strange way. Her eyes… were silver…

Like last time… when I first saw her… um…

… Okay let's talk about something else. Anywho…

“Akemi-chan…?”

She flicked her hand away from mine, looking scared.

“Akemi-chan, it's me,” I said. “It's Whitey-chan…”

She took a step back, back toward the edge of the cliff.

“Akemi-chan…” I said steadily. “Don't take another step…”

She was scared… of me?

“Akemi-chan, what's wrong?” I asked.

“S… stay away…” she said shakily.

“What…?”

“Stay away from me…” said Akemi.

“But I…”

“GET BACK YOU WOLF!”

“Wha?”

She backed away again. One more step and she'll…

“Akemi-chan… stop…” I said, looking at her feet for movement, “Let's go back…”

The moon flickered overhead us.

Why did she think I was a wolf?

I gave her my hand. If I did anything unexpected, Akemi would surely take the plunge.

“C'mon…”

She didn't accept my hand.

“Please… don't kill me…” she whispered.

“What?”

“Please… dad… bro… I'm sorry,” said Akemi, crying. “I'm sorry… I'm sorry…”

“Akemi-chan what are you…?”

The cliff edge cracked at her feet.

“AKEMI-CHAN, WATCH OUT!” I yelled, reaching for her.

“STAY AWAY!” she shouted.

Akemi jumped back… and fell from my grasp…

To be continued…

Ooh… why is Akemi so freaked out by Kakashi? DID SHE DIE? Wha! Until next time! Please review! And thanks you readers and reviewers! Ohohoho… are you impressed from my cliffe? Merry Christmas Eve everyone! I wanted to update later… but nah… this is your guy's Christmas present… heehee. Please review!