Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Hatred Turned Love ❯ The Haunted ( Chapter 15 )

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By: xDu083x

Hatred Turned Love

Chapter 15: Haunted

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KAKASHI'S POV:

It was the next day… Halloween's Eve was such a disaster yesterday. Was Naruto right about the insane killer having the chainsaw?

Akemi didn't talk to any of us except Sakura… which is unfair… she was sorta mad about the situation about us tricking her in the very beginning.

I went over to her apartment. Naruto went out, so it was just me and Akemi.

“Akemi-chan…”

“How'd you get in here?” asked Akemi, surprised.

I pointed to her door.

“Well… the door was unlocked…”

“Rgh… Naruto… you will pay…” snarled Akemi to herself.

I stepped back a little.

“May I come in?” I asked.

“I…”

“I can leave,” I said. I started to leave.

“Wait!”

I looked back.

Akemi was staring at the floor.

“I guess it wouldn't hurt to have a drink…” said Akemi.

I grinned at her.

“Thanks…”

We talked to each other for a while. We sat in opposite ends of a small coffee table where our drinks sat.

“About the ninja in the river…” I said.

She looked at me from her drink.

“Yah?”

“Did you see his face?” I asked.

She shook her head.

“It was too dark…” said Akemi. “But you were with me too though!”

I shrugged.

“I couldn't see anything either.”

“Maybe you were too busy looking at my body…” said Akemi.

I choked in my drink. Akemi's glasses were off, so, she couldn't see my face.

She still had that in mined.

“But it was definitely human…” said Akemi, ignoring my coughs. “I have my bet on it…”

“Hmm…”

Half of the wood covered ground next to me was glazed with soap. I started reading my book again. Akemi got up and started to clean.

“Uh… I'm busy cleaning…” said Akemi. “You could just… chill over there…”

I smiled at her.

“Okay…”

I looked at Akemi. She was cleaning happily… like there was nothing wrong at all. In her life I knew… it was really depressing.

I'm gonna make sure she doesn't have to suffer again. Just kidding, well… actually….

Wow, that's one heroic line. I gotta be less dramatic.

Akemi had a hard time with the mop. After a few cuss words spilling from Akemi's mouth, I willingly tried to help, placing my mask back on. Her sight wasn't that bad, but bad enough so that she couldn't see anything descriptive, like my face.

She couldn't find the bucket of soapy water.

“I got it,” I said, grabbing it gently away.

She took it back, angrily.

“No, it's okay…”

She was probably pissed about the mop. One of those, situations, you know?

“It's fine, really…”

“It's all good for me, now leave it…”

“No, it's not all good…”

“Yes it is, just drop it.”

“No, it isn't… this is stressing you out, I insist…”

“No, I'm okay…”

“I'll do it Akemi-chan… just relax…”

“No, I said it was okay…”

“Look, you're body's already falling apart…”

“No, I said I was all good…”

“No you're…”

“WHITEY-CHAN, YOUR BOOK!” shouted Akemi.

“WHA-?”

After some odd twists and flips in gymnastics, something weird happened.

M'kay… the concept was a little strange… but you'll hopefully understand it later… I think.

My book, which was horribly tucked in my pocket, was falling into the soapy floor below.

That's why Akemi screamed out that statement

I, horrified, tried to reach it before it got wet. Akemi, trying to help, did the same.

Her foot slipped from the soap. She was going to fall.

A split second, I tried saving her and not the book. I had a mean intention to leave her wet and accomplish retrieving the book, unharmed, but… I fought against that.

Anyhow, I grabbed her in the nick of time, mourning already about the future wet book of mine.

The problem was…

I slipped too.

Whoops.

Bubbles covered my way, everything was messed up. I was falling forward… I think… and then…

I stopped.

We were both wet, both soapy. Not to mention, a little embarrassed.

But after what we realized next… was…

Um… uh-oh…

I.. er… sorta kissed her.

Well… maybe, my covered lips were touching hers… If you want to call that a kiss, well… okay, whatever.

Anyways… I was shocked and Akemi was blushing.

We were taking a full five seconds to actually realize what just happened. I quickly departed from her. So did she. I ruffled my hair and she cleared her throat.

“Ahem… so…” I said.

She was blushing at the ground.

Well, for a start to kind of end the awkward moment, I tried looking for my book. It wasn't there.

“What the…?”

Akemi pulled something out to me.

I looked at it.

It was… my book.

“You're book…” said Akemi, rather silently.

Unharmed, not wet, nothing.

She wiped her mouth with her sleeve.

“You know…” I said a little hurt. “We didn't really kiss…”

“I know…” said Akemi. “But I was just making sure.”

Okay… I'm just… REALLY sad right now.

“Thank you…” I said, trying to take it.

She nodded. But then…

Just before I touched the cover, she dropped it, thinking I had it.

SPLAT!

And there, laid the wet book… which I treasured, by the way, on the soapy ground.

After a few minutes…

“Uh…” said Akemi, laughing. “Oops…”

I sank on the floor sadly.

NO!!! MY TREASURED BELONGING!!! THAT WAS THIRD EDITION, TOO!!!

“Kakashi-chan…”

I saw her staring at me. My endless torture ended.

“Yeah?”

“Why… do you sacrifice yourself for me?”

She wasn't looking away from me. She didn't even blink. What's up with that question?

I smiled at her again.

“Because…”

“Is it because it's your job?”

Her expression was… sad… What if it was because of my job? Was it something more?

“Yes… why?” I asked.

She finally looked away from me.

“That's all?”

“Uh… I guess…”

“I figured…” said Akemi.

“What?”

She smiled at me.

“Do you want to take the drink on your way out?” said Akemi. “Sorry Kakashi… but I have to clean.”

She gave me a wave as I stepped out of the door.

I looked at my cold drink.

She called me Kakashi.

Not Kakashi-chan… not Whitey-chan…

Just… Kakashi.

AKEMI'S POV:

What were they thinking? Sending me to… a HAUNTED SPA!?! Why can't that memory go away?

I sighed as I cleaned up the place. It was pretty small so my clean up was fast.

I saw Kakashi look kinda sad when he walked out of my doorway. Why was he…?

“Why didn't you ask him?” asked Sai.

“I guess… I had a feeling he didn't want to be bothered…”

“Kakashi sure is mysterious…” said Sai.

“Yeah…” I said. “Mysterious…”

I blushed, remembering that incident earlier.

“Uh-oh…”said Sai.

I quickly frowned.

“Don't worry about it Sai…” I thought. “He probably didn't even enjoy it…probably thinks I'm weird now…”

“Did you enjoy it?”

Agh…

“No…” I lied.

I headed out toward a food mart… I ran out of eggs.

I saw Sakura come towards me.

“Sakura-chan!” I said, surprised.

“C'mon Akemi-chan!” said Sakura. “Let's meet at the haunted creek near the Inowa Village…”

“Uh…”

“Please?”

“Sure…” I said, without thinking.

Sakura smiled and ran before I can say anything.

Me and my stupid mouth…

KAKASHI'S POV:

It sure was misty…

The Inowa creek had tons of fog… let alone gloomy. Would Akemi come?

Not in a million years… Not even after today…

I saw Akemi and Sakura come from the opposite side of me.

Wow… did time go that fast?

Akemi looked VERY uncomfortable. She was purple and… she was purple… Maybe because of what happened today.

“Akemi-chan!” I said cheerfully. “Wow… you actually made it!”

She shrugged… a grumpy shrug. Hmm… not blushing anymore…

“You know this is haunted, right?” I asked her. “I mean, the house is…”

“Yes, yes… I got the freakin' picture…” said Akemi.

“So you know that…”

I saw her fist rise up to my face.

“C'mon Akemi… you can handle this,” said Akemi to herself. “It's too early…”

She grabbed her raised fist with her other hand, and settled it down… very slowly.

“Whew…” I mumbled.

“Let's get in!” said Naruto. Sakura looked both excited and timid and, er, a little scared. Sasuke looked… casual as always.

“Let's…” I said kindly to Akemi, offering her my hand.

She slapped it away.

“Go hold yourself…” snapped Akemi.

We entered inside.

That hurt, by the way.

AKEMI'S POV:

The place… was definitely freaky. Everywhere was wet, there was no dry place. It also had lots of mirrors too.

Which is… pretty weird.

Everything inside was old and battered as well. There were cobwebs everywhere… and so much dust! I coughed.

“What do we have to do here, anyway?” I asked. Don't tell me we have to clean…

“Hmm…” said Kakashi. “We were… supposed to look for a mirror.”

“A mirror?”

“Yup.”

“That's… very… odd…” I said. Why a mirror?

“Reinforcements will come after a few minutes…” said Kakashi. “So… we won't be the only ones here…”

“But… what about those mirrors?”

“It's a specific mirror,” said Kakashi. “I know what it looks like… it… has to be like, ten feet or something…”

I inhaled and exhaled. This mansion… would be my death house.

Kakashi summoned his eight dogs… including his talking dog. He gave them a piece of cloth…

“Sniff out the mirror…” ordered Kakashi.

The dogs headed out.

“Uh…”

“Tsunade's handkerchief…” said Kakashi. “The mirror was in her possession, but she left it here so it wouldn't get stolen.”

“What a good place to put it…” I said sarcastically.

I summoned too.

“Alright Soma and Sora…” I said happily. “You guys… stick with me…”

Kakashi sighed.

“This mansion is big, so we should split up,” said Kakashi.

“Split up?” I asked angrily. “What do you mean; we have to stick together, don't we?”

“Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura… you guys go to that room,” directed Kakashi; pointing at the left. “And Akemi and I…”

“OH, HELL NO!” I spat. “YOU THINK I'M SOME LOONEY WHO'LL GO WITH YOU?”

“Sure…” said Naruto. The kids disappeared.

“Traitors…” I gasped. “All of them…”

“I promise I won't do anything… rash,” said Kakashi. “Okay?”

“Promise you won't?” I asked him.

“Promise.”

A little later…

The room was pitch black. I seriously didn't see anything.

“Geez…” I said, accidentally stepping on Kakashi's foot for the fifth time. “Do you have a match or something?”

He had a lighter, but it was waning.

“All the spirits want is their rest,” said Kakashi. “They don't want any disturbances…”

I gulped.

“So… is that all they want?” I asked, shivering.

“No…” said Kakashi. His voice… was in a deadly whisper.

He disappeared.

“Kakashi?” I said. “Dude… stop joking around…”

No reply. I got… a wee scared.

I felt something… something brushed past me. It didn't feel… human…

To be continued…

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