Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Sixth Floor ❯ Chapter Two ( Chapter 3 )
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By: Mija aka Maryann 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Shounen / Supernatural / Horror | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 01.03.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.2K | Visits: 235 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Shounen / Supernatural / Horror | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 01.03.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.2K | Visits: 235 | Status: Completed
The Sixth Floor
By Mija
Disclaimer-I do now own Naruto or its characters, just like to put them in situations that please me. I also make no profit from writing this or any other story. This fic is rated 18+ for a reason, please see Prologue to read all warnings and what not about this fic before going any further. Thank you Mija.
Chapter Two
~Naruto was having such a nice dream. He was at his favorite restaurant not far from his house called Icharaku’s, they served the best ramen EVER. But as he was slurping down his lovely noodles, savoring every drop, when all of a sudden someone walked by his seat and threw an ice cold glass of water in his face. Confused he shook his head to rid his hair and face of the water, then out of nowhere, SLAP!
~Naruto bolted up right and held his stinging cheek and with wide eyes looked around him. Why was he not at Icharaku’s? And why was he sitting on the cold floor naked? Ok an orange towel covered his lower half but he was still naked. He looked around and saw many faces looking at him. Sasuke, Kiba, Shikamaru, some dude in an oversized coat and a pair of sunglasses on. Why was he in a coat and wearing sunglasses indoors? Of course there was Neji and some red haired guy with pale skin and, was that a tattoo on his forehead? Did it say love? And where were his eyebrows? There were two other guys there as well, one guy with a weird bowl shaped hair cut, wearing green pajamas and the biggest eyebrows Naruto had ever seen, he was clinging to the red head, and last but not least a tubby guy with red cheeks and a bandana keeping some out of control reddish brown hair from going into his eyes, why was tubby looking at him like that, and eating a bag of chips?
~”What the hell is going on here? And who in the fuck slapped me?” Naruto growled.
~”Well you didn’t wake up when we splashed water on your face so Sasuke slapped ya to wake you up man…..you scared the crap out of us, what happened?” Replied Kiba with questions of his own.
~”You slapped me you bastard?!” Naruto yelled, giving Sasuke a look that promised death.
~”Che, you fainted moron and hit your head on the floor, it was the only way to get you to wake up, besides I didn’t know you were afraid of the dark dobe.” responded Sasuke with a look of boredom.
~”I am soo not scared of the dark asshole.”
~”Then why did you scream when the light went out and when I came up behind you to calm you down you screamed louder than a girl and passed out on me?” Asked Sasuke, Naruto could swear he saw a flicker of concern in those obsidian eyes of his.
~”I DID NOT scream like a girl asshole!! And It was you who grabbed me from behind?”
~”I was coming out of one of the showers when the lights flickered off and you screamed, and then fell backwards, its not like I enjoyed your fat ass falling on me.” Stated Sasuke, looking almost put out by the whole thing.
~“What happened Naruto?” Asked Neji, as captain, it was his responsibility to make sure those on his floor were safe and unharmed.
~”Geez Naruto, please don’t tell me all that screaming was all because you were afraid of the lights going off on ya?” added Kiba with a shake of his head, looking embarrassed on his friends behalf.
~”No asshole, I am not afraid of the dark…I…I saw something in the mirror that scared the shit out of me…then the lights went off and I felt someone grab me from behind…I don’t remember anything else till just now when I was so rudely slapped.” Naruto explained as he gave his broody friend a look that promised retribution for the slap.
~”I grabbed you, to keep you from FALLING, I already explained that, and you probably saw ME in the mirror, not expecting to see anyone in it you probably freaked out and when the lights went off it must of startled you a bit more.” Sasuke explained, trying to calm his friend down, although the others didn’t see it, he could tell by the look in Naruto’s blue eyes and the slight trembling in his frame that Naruto had really been freaked out.
~”It wasn’t you I saw in the mirror Sasuke….it……..it was me.” Naruto replied with a haunted look in his eyes, shoving everyone out of the way as he stood up, securing the towel more firmly around his waist.
~”You saw yourself in the mirror and got scared?” Kiba asked with a confused frown.
~”Just forget it, I don’t want to talk about it okay?” Naruto growled as he grabbed his bag and left them all in the bathroom and went to his own room. Changing fast into his sleep wear he jumped under the blankets and had his head covered by the time Shikamaru came back in the room. He prayed he wouldn’t ask him anything, and thankfully Shikamaru just turned the lights off and got into bed.
~For a long time, even after he knew for sure Shikamaru was fast asleep he couldn’t sleep. He couldn’t get the image of what he had seen in the mirror out of his head. It freaked him out so bad that he was still shaking slightly. He needed to talk to someone, but if he went to Kiba, he was sure, no matter how good a friend he was, he would laugh at him or worse yet not believe him. Hell even he was starting to think he had just been seeing things, but, but it was so real and what he had seen in the mirror? Why would he imagine something like that? It was to weird, to crazy.
~Before he could go into any further in depth scrutiny of what he had seen, he heard a very light knock on the door. Naruto sighed and got out of bed, already knowing who it was, the bastard seemed to have a sixth sense when it came to something bothering him. Naruto got out of bed and opened the door. As he had known Sasuke was there. He didn’t say anything but motioned with his head to follow, so Naruto did. They went to the common area and sat down on one of the couches.
~Neither said a word for a few minutes. Naruto knew Sasuke was letting him gather his thought and explain what he really saw, and what had bothered him so badly that it was obviously still freaking him out even now.
~”Your going to think I’m crazy, and I swear if you laugh at me asshole I wont speak to you ever again.”
~”Che, don’t make promises you can’t keep dobe….just….tell me.”
~”Your right, I didn’t know anyone other than me was in the bathrooms, I didn’t hear you, but it wasn’t you that I saw in that mirror teme……it…it was me, yet…not me.” Naruto explained, his tone still shaky and just above a whisper.
~”What do you mean, you but not you?”
~”He……he looked like me, same blond hair, blue eyes as mine, almost exactly like mine, but…..it wasn’t me…..he was older and he didn’t have my birth marks on his cheeks, but the freaky part Sasuke……the freaky part was that his blond hair was stained with red and he looked like he was crying bloody tears, he looked at me and said something….no voice came out so I didn’t hear a voice, but…..” Naruto gulped, a shudder going threw his body at the memory of what he’d seen.
~”But you can read lips, thanks to all those years at the children’s ward you volunteered at for four years, some of the kids couldn’t talk so you learned to read their lips.” Sasuke said, finishing the thought for him. Sasuke knew this, knew his friend inside and out it seemed.
~”So what did he say Naruto? What did the man in the mirror who wasn’t you say?”
~”He looked terrified Sasuke…….he looked so scared.” Naruto explained, trying to shake the image of the bloody man that looked like him, yet was not.
~”What did he say Naruto?” Sasuke asked yet again.
~”He said………Run………then the lights went off and you grabbed me from behind and I guess….I guess I just lost it for a moment there……it freaked me out Sas.” Naruto admitted, pulling his knees up against his chest and wrapped his arms around them.
When he used his nick name for Sasuke, Sasuke knew it was serious.
~”I know it did, you don’t freak out easily Naruto.” Sasuke replied, his voice as soothing as Sasuke could be. He wanted to comfort his friend, and truthfully the whole incident had freaked him out a bit too, it had been scary when Naruto had screamed like that. It had sent chills up his spine, he could swear that he still heard the sound of his best friends scream over and over in his head, and he had felt so helpless to make what ever had caused him to scream like that, go away.
~”Do you believe me? About what I saw Sas?” Naruto asked, unsure if he wanted to know the answer.
~”I don’t know Naru….all I know, is that my best friend was so scared that he passed out in my arms and I didn’t know what to do……I’ve never NOT known what to do………and that bothered me.” Sasuke admitted. Unaware that he too reverted to the pet name he used for Naruto, from their childhood days.
~They were silent for a while. Both thinking of what each had revealed. It had not been the first time that they had admitted that they worried about each other, but it was rarer as they got older to admit things like that, yet somehow it felt right.
~”What do you think the man in the mirror meant by Run?” Naruto finally asked.
~”Your guess is as good as mine.”
~”Do you think I’m loosing my mind Sasuke?”
~“Che…I thought you lost your mind YEARS ago.” Sasuke teased, a small smirk on his pink thin lips.
~”Bastard!” Naruto hissed but there was no real bit to it. In fact he felt a bit relieved at the teasing, it was something familiar, comfortable, normal. But even though it felt good, and he started to feel calmer, he couldn’t get the picture of that man in the mirror out of his head. He had looked real, solid, and he had looked a hell of a lot like him. All the blood though was freaking terrifying and they way those lips had moved, it was like he had shouted them out in fear, a warning to Naruto that sent shivers up his spine and made the hair on the back of his neck stand on end.
~”It’s late dobe, lets get some sleep.”
~”Ya, sounds like a plan.” Naruto replied as he let Sasuke help him off the couch and let him walk him back to his room, before saying good night and walking back to his own.
~Naruto had been sure that he was not going to be able to sleep, but the minute his head hit his pillow he was out like a light. But he didn’t sleep well, he tossed and turned, he broke out in a sweat and felt his heart racing. His dreams turned into nightmares and when Sasuke came to wake him up for breakfast, Naruto couldn’t remember one single thing of what he had dreamt of, all he knew was that his bed looked like he had wrestled on it, the sheets were untucked, blankets on the floor, his sleep wear stuck uncomfortably to his body by dried sweat. And he was so tired, it felt like he hadn’t gotten a wink of sleep and his head hurt like a mother.
A/N-ok next chap, not long and not much excitement but I hope you enjoyed it non the less. Huggles and smiles Mija.
By Mija
Disclaimer-I do now own Naruto or its characters, just like to put them in situations that please me. I also make no profit from writing this or any other story. This fic is rated 18+ for a reason, please see Prologue to read all warnings and what not about this fic before going any further. Thank you Mija.
Chapter Two
~Naruto was having such a nice dream. He was at his favorite restaurant not far from his house called Icharaku’s, they served the best ramen EVER. But as he was slurping down his lovely noodles, savoring every drop, when all of a sudden someone walked by his seat and threw an ice cold glass of water in his face. Confused he shook his head to rid his hair and face of the water, then out of nowhere, SLAP!
~Naruto bolted up right and held his stinging cheek and with wide eyes looked around him. Why was he not at Icharaku’s? And why was he sitting on the cold floor naked? Ok an orange towel covered his lower half but he was still naked. He looked around and saw many faces looking at him. Sasuke, Kiba, Shikamaru, some dude in an oversized coat and a pair of sunglasses on. Why was he in a coat and wearing sunglasses indoors? Of course there was Neji and some red haired guy with pale skin and, was that a tattoo on his forehead? Did it say love? And where were his eyebrows? There were two other guys there as well, one guy with a weird bowl shaped hair cut, wearing green pajamas and the biggest eyebrows Naruto had ever seen, he was clinging to the red head, and last but not least a tubby guy with red cheeks and a bandana keeping some out of control reddish brown hair from going into his eyes, why was tubby looking at him like that, and eating a bag of chips?
~”What the hell is going on here? And who in the fuck slapped me?” Naruto growled.
~”Well you didn’t wake up when we splashed water on your face so Sasuke slapped ya to wake you up man…..you scared the crap out of us, what happened?” Replied Kiba with questions of his own.
~”You slapped me you bastard?!” Naruto yelled, giving Sasuke a look that promised death.
~”Che, you fainted moron and hit your head on the floor, it was the only way to get you to wake up, besides I didn’t know you were afraid of the dark dobe.” responded Sasuke with a look of boredom.
~”I am soo not scared of the dark asshole.”
~”Then why did you scream when the light went out and when I came up behind you to calm you down you screamed louder than a girl and passed out on me?” Asked Sasuke, Naruto could swear he saw a flicker of concern in those obsidian eyes of his.
~”I DID NOT scream like a girl asshole!! And It was you who grabbed me from behind?”
~”I was coming out of one of the showers when the lights flickered off and you screamed, and then fell backwards, its not like I enjoyed your fat ass falling on me.” Stated Sasuke, looking almost put out by the whole thing.
~“What happened Naruto?” Asked Neji, as captain, it was his responsibility to make sure those on his floor were safe and unharmed.
~”Geez Naruto, please don’t tell me all that screaming was all because you were afraid of the lights going off on ya?” added Kiba with a shake of his head, looking embarrassed on his friends behalf.
~”No asshole, I am not afraid of the dark…I…I saw something in the mirror that scared the shit out of me…then the lights went off and I felt someone grab me from behind…I don’t remember anything else till just now when I was so rudely slapped.” Naruto explained as he gave his broody friend a look that promised retribution for the slap.
~”I grabbed you, to keep you from FALLING, I already explained that, and you probably saw ME in the mirror, not expecting to see anyone in it you probably freaked out and when the lights went off it must of startled you a bit more.” Sasuke explained, trying to calm his friend down, although the others didn’t see it, he could tell by the look in Naruto’s blue eyes and the slight trembling in his frame that Naruto had really been freaked out.
~”It wasn’t you I saw in the mirror Sasuke….it……..it was me.” Naruto replied with a haunted look in his eyes, shoving everyone out of the way as he stood up, securing the towel more firmly around his waist.
~”You saw yourself in the mirror and got scared?” Kiba asked with a confused frown.
~”Just forget it, I don’t want to talk about it okay?” Naruto growled as he grabbed his bag and left them all in the bathroom and went to his own room. Changing fast into his sleep wear he jumped under the blankets and had his head covered by the time Shikamaru came back in the room. He prayed he wouldn’t ask him anything, and thankfully Shikamaru just turned the lights off and got into bed.
~For a long time, even after he knew for sure Shikamaru was fast asleep he couldn’t sleep. He couldn’t get the image of what he had seen in the mirror out of his head. It freaked him out so bad that he was still shaking slightly. He needed to talk to someone, but if he went to Kiba, he was sure, no matter how good a friend he was, he would laugh at him or worse yet not believe him. Hell even he was starting to think he had just been seeing things, but, but it was so real and what he had seen in the mirror? Why would he imagine something like that? It was to weird, to crazy.
~Before he could go into any further in depth scrutiny of what he had seen, he heard a very light knock on the door. Naruto sighed and got out of bed, already knowing who it was, the bastard seemed to have a sixth sense when it came to something bothering him. Naruto got out of bed and opened the door. As he had known Sasuke was there. He didn’t say anything but motioned with his head to follow, so Naruto did. They went to the common area and sat down on one of the couches.
~Neither said a word for a few minutes. Naruto knew Sasuke was letting him gather his thought and explain what he really saw, and what had bothered him so badly that it was obviously still freaking him out even now.
~”Your going to think I’m crazy, and I swear if you laugh at me asshole I wont speak to you ever again.”
~”Che, don’t make promises you can’t keep dobe….just….tell me.”
~”Your right, I didn’t know anyone other than me was in the bathrooms, I didn’t hear you, but it wasn’t you that I saw in that mirror teme……it…it was me, yet…not me.” Naruto explained, his tone still shaky and just above a whisper.
~”What do you mean, you but not you?”
~”He……he looked like me, same blond hair, blue eyes as mine, almost exactly like mine, but…..it wasn’t me…..he was older and he didn’t have my birth marks on his cheeks, but the freaky part Sasuke……the freaky part was that his blond hair was stained with red and he looked like he was crying bloody tears, he looked at me and said something….no voice came out so I didn’t hear a voice, but…..” Naruto gulped, a shudder going threw his body at the memory of what he’d seen.
~”But you can read lips, thanks to all those years at the children’s ward you volunteered at for four years, some of the kids couldn’t talk so you learned to read their lips.” Sasuke said, finishing the thought for him. Sasuke knew this, knew his friend inside and out it seemed.
~”So what did he say Naruto? What did the man in the mirror who wasn’t you say?”
~”He looked terrified Sasuke…….he looked so scared.” Naruto explained, trying to shake the image of the bloody man that looked like him, yet was not.
~”What did he say Naruto?” Sasuke asked yet again.
~”He said………Run………then the lights went off and you grabbed me from behind and I guess….I guess I just lost it for a moment there……it freaked me out Sas.” Naruto admitted, pulling his knees up against his chest and wrapped his arms around them.
When he used his nick name for Sasuke, Sasuke knew it was serious.
~”I know it did, you don’t freak out easily Naruto.” Sasuke replied, his voice as soothing as Sasuke could be. He wanted to comfort his friend, and truthfully the whole incident had freaked him out a bit too, it had been scary when Naruto had screamed like that. It had sent chills up his spine, he could swear that he still heard the sound of his best friends scream over and over in his head, and he had felt so helpless to make what ever had caused him to scream like that, go away.
~”Do you believe me? About what I saw Sas?” Naruto asked, unsure if he wanted to know the answer.
~”I don’t know Naru….all I know, is that my best friend was so scared that he passed out in my arms and I didn’t know what to do……I’ve never NOT known what to do………and that bothered me.” Sasuke admitted. Unaware that he too reverted to the pet name he used for Naruto, from their childhood days.
~They were silent for a while. Both thinking of what each had revealed. It had not been the first time that they had admitted that they worried about each other, but it was rarer as they got older to admit things like that, yet somehow it felt right.
~”What do you think the man in the mirror meant by Run?” Naruto finally asked.
~”Your guess is as good as mine.”
~”Do you think I’m loosing my mind Sasuke?”
~“Che…I thought you lost your mind YEARS ago.” Sasuke teased, a small smirk on his pink thin lips.
~”Bastard!” Naruto hissed but there was no real bit to it. In fact he felt a bit relieved at the teasing, it was something familiar, comfortable, normal. But even though it felt good, and he started to feel calmer, he couldn’t get the picture of that man in the mirror out of his head. He had looked real, solid, and he had looked a hell of a lot like him. All the blood though was freaking terrifying and they way those lips had moved, it was like he had shouted them out in fear, a warning to Naruto that sent shivers up his spine and made the hair on the back of his neck stand on end.
~”It’s late dobe, lets get some sleep.”
~”Ya, sounds like a plan.” Naruto replied as he let Sasuke help him off the couch and let him walk him back to his room, before saying good night and walking back to his own.
~Naruto had been sure that he was not going to be able to sleep, but the minute his head hit his pillow he was out like a light. But he didn’t sleep well, he tossed and turned, he broke out in a sweat and felt his heart racing. His dreams turned into nightmares and when Sasuke came to wake him up for breakfast, Naruto couldn’t remember one single thing of what he had dreamt of, all he knew was that his bed looked like he had wrestled on it, the sheets were untucked, blankets on the floor, his sleep wear stuck uncomfortably to his body by dried sweat. And he was so tired, it felt like he hadn’t gotten a wink of sleep and his head hurt like a mother.
A/N-ok next chap, not long and not much excitement but I hope you enjoyed it non the less. Huggles and smiles Mija.