Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Lullaby of Night ❯ A Walk of Stairs ( Chapter 3 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

I don't own Naruto... maybe OC's
Rated: M language, violence, some questions about relations.
Note: be sure to look up top for different ratings.A Walk up StairsSasuke looked back at Naruto hugging him. He was in complete surprise. Slowly bringing his hand to awkwardly pat Naruto’s back, he couldn’t help the little warmth that spread across his cheek, which he promptly squashed back down. An Uchiha does not show emotions after all.Naruto moved away almost reluctantly smiling a true small smile at Sasuke before declaring he needed to get something to eat, leaving Sasuke with his feelings. The dog and cat sitting next to him watching him and the TV. A week late, Nothing too interesting happened. Naruto and his friends met and partied, while Sasuke occasional studied, and worked. Naruto had still felt like eyes were on him but it wasn’t that bad not like last week anyway.He had just got off of work and was heading towards the curb by his little community when he saw Tsuande and another neighbor just standing outside looking towards his house. Naruto scratched his head wondering what was it now.“Hey Old hag what are staring at?” Naruto asked, walking over to her and a man with red hair. They didn’t answer, not even when he had called Tsuande an old hag. Naruto stopped to take a look and almost fell down on his ass. He just stared, and couldn’t form any coherent words for what he saw.By his house, his next neighbor was outside and about walking around his and apart of Naruto’s property. Now this wouldn’t be so weird, of course the man had never even walked around his property to begin with but the thing that he was doing...Naruto’s neighbor was practically running around gathering wood and nails, then he would dump them by a window and start hammering the wood to the window closing parts of them up and leaving over parts wide open. Naruto turned towards Tsuande looking at her strangely, why would you find this entertaining? This sene also reminded the blond about the movie called ‘Signs’. A little creeped out he turned towards Tsuande.“Oi Tsuande why are you watching this?” Naruto questioned still eyeing his crazed neighbor. “Oh because I have nothing better to do, you brat, and I think the guys cute if not a little eccentric.” She finished talking to the man next to her.OK, Naruto thought, It’s time to go, with that Naruto parted waving a good by and heading towards his house making sure to be quiet and not alert his neighbor. Naruto quickly fished out his keys before unlocking all the locks and heading inside. When he was done locking them back up he heard paws scamper down the hall towards him, the next thing he knew was that Shadow was right in front of him waging his tail and barking once. Naruto laughed and slid his hand down the dogs back before straightening, and walking in the kitchen. There Naruto found his cat Ramen waiting by the window sill for him. He started to deposit all of his things before reaching for his cell. It was the only way he could reach anyone, because they had decided from the start that they didn’t need phones around the house just cells. It really was a lot easier and it cut the bills down a lot.Naruto sat down in the kitchen chair already dialing Sasuke’s numder. He didn’t feel all that safe, especially with his next door neighbor out and all.“Naruto what do you want? I’m in the middle of class.” Naruto heard Sasuke hiss.“I’m sorry, I thought you would be done by now... when are you coming home.” Naruto finished lamely.“About six if you hang up now Dobe.” Sasuke said lowly trying not to get caught in the middle of class.“Oi Sasuke kuuun thanks,” Naruto shouted and waited for what happened next.“...We do have a policy about no cell phones Mr....” The line went dead with Naruto cracking up. Man that was easer then he thought. Trying to regain his breath after about a minute, Naruto also hung up and walked towards the living room to watch TV. Sasuke was so going to kill him for this when he got home.Naruto sat down relaxing by putting his feet up on the table, watching the news. He hadn’t been sleeping all that great lately. It really wasn’t his fault, ok maybe it was a little since he did agree to watch Pumpkin Head, but it was a dare that stupid Shika made up. So Naruto and his friends sat around the televison that night and watched it. The movie itself was cheesy but the plot was good. It wasn’t really all that scary. What was really bothering him was when the animals acted strangely, and Naruto just knew it had nothing to do with Sasuke.He returned back to reality to when Ramen jumped up on his lap making himself comfortable before falling asleep. Naruto just ran his hand through the cats light fur falling into a light sleep, with tiered eyes closed, listening to the purring.The next time Naruto woke up it was quiet and peaceful. The house was always buzzing with sound, being the TV, the animals, or the radio that was playing. He was tempted to go back to sleep when he thought it was a little too quiet. Naruto opened his eyes, squinting a little from the artificial lighting in the livingroom. He then turned and saw that the TV was off. Naruto looked at it for a few minutes then looked to see where the remote was. He had thought for sure he turned it on right after he called Sasuke. He always had either the radio on or the TV on. He found the remote right next to him and turned it on, the channel went to cartoons. Naruto slowly lowed the remote on the coffee table. His eyes narrowed at the screen, he could have sworn he was watching the news but oh well. Naruto got up slowly stretching, wondering if he was just making a big deal out of this whole thing.He looked around the livingroom, seeing that the lights were on. The couch he was on was a soft cream color not his favorite but it was comfortable. By the couch was a leather love seat that was situated by the small fireplace they never used. On the coffee table there were a bunch of old magazines and cup holders. And by the TV itself they had a stereo system with two different CD stacks right by it. One for Naruto and the other for Sasuke, on account that they both listened to different music. Everything was in order expect he didn’t see Ramen or Shadow anywhere. Naruto didn’t really feel like calling them for food so he decided just to take a quick shower before Sasuke got home. But before that, Naruto went into the kitchen to see if his crazy neighbor was still outside.Pulling back the curtains Naruto saw nothing over there but shadows. He turned around and headed for his room intent on getting a shower. He hit the familiar wood boards that creaked with his weight, and was about to turn when something caught his interest. Up stairs he saw a flash of brown. Why was Sasuke’s dog up there? Naruto thought looking up. He was about to turn when he heard something. It was like a clicking noise and it seemed to be up stairs. Naruto turned debating on what he should do. He wanted to know why Shadow was up there and what that noise was, so he took a deep breath and started to slowly walk up the stairs. He really did hate the stairs one because he didn’t like going up there and two was because he always seemed to fall down them.He finally got up to the landing, eying the little attic door that was firmly closed. That was another place that he would never go, the attic. Naruto turned left seeing again a flash of brown go through the second door. They always kept the doors up here closed. The first one was closed, it was the bathroom, and the second door was the bedroom which was open. Naruto frowned, staring at the door wondering if maybe Sasuke had forgot to close it?Naruto slowly crept forward, pushing the door open even more. He stood in the doorway frame, not seeing anything but darkness. Naruto quickly fumbled for the light switch wanting to see what was in there. All he could see was pitch black and his eyes started to play tricks on him like the darkness itself was moving. He found the stupid switch at last and lipped it. He looked around quickly to spot... intense brightness greeted him, making him see little black spots in his vision. But he stayed perfectly still. Just before he went blind he saw something move under the bed. Naruto tried to see what it might have been put the dark blue covers of the bed were blocking his view. Naruto looked everywhere else in the room, he spotted the small night stand, the window a desk, and a book shelf but nothing. He walked in until he was half way in the room. He felt like something was wrong, he could just feel it. It was so strong it was giving him goose bumps on his arm. Naruto was about ready to just leave when he gave a small start at the clicking noise. He told himself that it was nothing and that he was just getting all worked up about it. Then he heard the annoying clicking nosie again. Naruto turned towards the window only to see a tree branch brushing against the window sill. Now that he saw it, he felt pretty stupid with being scared about something like that. Naruto shrugged his shoulders already turning around intent on taking that shower, when he heard something else. He turned his upper body and looked towards the bed, there was like this shuffling noise over there. That’s when Naruto remembered Shadow was up here too and he was probably under the dumb bed. Smiling at the dog’s act Naruto came closer to the bed before kneeing on the carpeted floor.Naruto pulled back the comforter to see under the bed, opening his mouth to berate the stupid dog. Naruto frowned as he couldn’t really see under the bed, but he did hear the dog shuffling under it coming closer to him. Naruto waited patiently seeing parts of brown fur already, smiling at the scardy cat Naruto reached into the darkness intent on dragging the dog out when he felt something snap at his hand looking down quickly frowning he saw two glowing yellow slitted eyes and sharp white razor teeth snarling at him. “AHHH!” Screaming at the top of his lungs, Naruto quickly backed away from the bed, but he could see the thing clawing out from under the bed trying to get to him. Panicking Naruto screamed once more before getting to his feet and running out of the room like a mad man. He could feel the thing chasing after him as he turned and fumbled down the stairs crying and cursing only to feel strong arms wrap around him. Naruto already panicked screamed louder choking and struggling to get free. “Dobe, Naruto what are you doing?” The voice said just as loudly. Naruto abruptly stopped thrashing around, to look teary eyed at Sasuke’s coal black eyes. Naruto breathed in shuddering breath and hugged Sasuke tightly, baring his head into Sasuke’s chest. Sasuke who had just got home heard a loud scream upstairs. He was already going to run up there when he saw Naruto practically fall down the stairs, while screaming and crying.“Naruto what’s wrong, what happened,” Sasuke softly demanded.Naruto quickly tried to breath normally, trying to calm his pounding heart and lungs. When he thought he could talk enough he choked out his sentence.“I...I was upstairs and oh god Sasuke you should have seen it.” Naruto whimpered, truly afraid.“What did you see?” Sasuke asked awkwardly rubbing the blonds back.“I... saw something under...under the bed and it had yellow eyes and claws and...” Naruto choked not able to finish his sentence.Sasuke didn’t say anything just kept holding the blond for comfort. “Naruto I’ll go up there and see if I see anything alright.” Sasuke said pulling away.Naruto looked up quickly shaking his head, “NO”. He yelled, then spoke softer, “No Sasuke.” He finished still shaking his head.“Naruto I want to know what’s up there. Now you go into the livingroom and wait or you can come up with me.” Sasuke said already advancing up the stairs with a knife in his hands. He had gotten it when he heard the loud scream and cursing. Naruto stood right where he was and waited for Sasuke to return. He didn’t know what that thing was but he was not going up there again.He didn’t know what that thing was but would Sasuke be alright? Naruto was getting even more worked up now. What if the thing killed Sasuke or what if... when five minutes seemed to pass. He was ready to go back up there when he saw Sasuke turning the corner.Smiling the blond waited for Sasuke and it looked like Shadow who was trailing him to get down.Sasuke signed before looking at Naruto then at the dog, “Naruto are you sure you saw yellow eyes under the bed?” He questioned and Naruto nodded.“Look Naruto Shadow was the only thing in the room and I checked under the bed and everything.”He finished.Naruto sent a hard glare at Sasuke, he couldn’t believe this bastard He thought Naruto was making it all up.“No I saw yellow eyes and not Shadows gray. I know what I saw up there Teme.” Naruto said before moving into the livingroom tightening his fists at his sides. He had to sit down now or his legs were not going to hold his weight much longer.Sasuke had followed along with the dog. “Look Naruto I’m not saying your crazy or anything, but maybe you saw Shadow and with the darkness under the bed and all.” Sasuke tried to say crossing his hands over his chest. He did not need this now or ever.They stayed like that for a long time before Sasuke had declared that he needed to make dinner. Even when that task was done everyone stayed quiet eating, moving the food around the plate, or just staring of into space. Sasuke got up to take the dishes in the sink before announcing that he was going to bed only to have Naruto stop him.“Sasuke could you well... could you sleep in my room tonight.” Naruto said looking hopeful, which blew Sasuke away. Trying to squash unwanted feelings that seemed to bloom in his gut. He was only going to sleep there and nothing else. But other things didn’t seem to agree with him on that subject.Sasuke was ready to say no but if Naruto was asking him this then he really was scared. So Sasuke only nodded and they went together in the blonds room.TBC