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I rolled over on my back and was faced with his fist coming flying down towards me and rapidly moved out of the way. The fist hit the ground only centimetres from where my head had been, sending up a cloud of dust into the air.

"Quit Moving," He snorted and straightened up again.

"And get a fist full on the face? Yeah right!" I replied and launched forward to deliver a punch against the other boy, which, he blocked perfectly, of coarse.

"Come on Naruto, you can do better than that," he said. "I've been giving you way too much credit."

He grabbed my wrist and flipped me over so I landed with a thud on my back. I rolled out of the way of another fist. I was on my feet in a second.

"I'm not done yet Gaara," I said.

Gaara and I had been friends since I moved to konoha, no one wanted to play with me because I was the new kid and hardly said a word, except Gaara. He was always a loner, like me.

We weren't really fighting; it was just a game we played in which whoever lost had to do a dare that the whole group decided on. Usually Gaara wasn't this rough and we're usually laughing through the whole thing, but no one wanted to do this dare.

I looked up and saw him standing there calmly, smirking at me and as always that mocking sneer made me grit my teeth in frustration.

God that face pisses me off!

I dashed forward again, but this time I didn't even have time to make a proper aim before his arm suddenly flashed out and grabbed mine, spinning me around, pinning my arms behind my back. Then I felt a leg push in between mine. I gasped in shock as my feet got swept of the ground when he tripped me. He kept hold of my arms behind my back, put a foot on my upper back, and started to pull them forcefully.

"You give?" I didn't have to look at him to know that smug look was on his face.

I groaned in frustration. I did not wantto do this dare! I'd rather go without ramen for a year! And that's saying something!

He pulled at my arms again and I gasped in pain.

"Fine, fine, I give," I said, defeated. He let go of my arms and helped me to my feet. Of course, the smug look never left his face.

"Looks like you're staying a full night in the Old Uchiha House," he smirked.

I just glared at him. The Old Uchiha House was an abandoned mansion just outside our town. It looked like something you'd see in a horror movie, big black gates with spikes, long narrow path with leaves nearly covering every inch of it, huge grey mansion with long church-like windows, a long slanted roof, two stone lions at the side of the steps and two huge double doors about three-times the size of mine. Everyone said it was haunted; apparently anyone that went in never came out. Unfortunately the story was mentioned in passing and everyone thought it would be fun to test the theory out. Since I lost to Gaara I had to spend a whole night in there…alone.

Great.

Gaara slapped me on the back.

"Don't worry, if you don't come back I'll take good care of your xbox," he teased.

"I want it buried with me," I complained.

"If we can find your body afterwards," he chuckled and started walking back to the wall of our town.

. We always fought in the woods, even if it's just a fake fight the police would have been on us quicker than ninjas! …. Well…. they are ninjas but still! Faster than normal ninjas!

There'd been a lot more stationed around the streets since those disappearances. There was a wall near our school covered in pictures of missing people. People always went missing, about one or two a year but recently a lot more had gone and we were never allowed to mention it, I tried once but I got a smack on the ear and couldn't leave my room for a full day.

I started walking a bit behind Gaara. I wasn't huffing about losing, I usually did lose to the 'red-haired-racoon' but today I didn't get a single hit on him! If anyone had seen that my pride would have been shattered. Especially if Sakura, my best friend saw. She'd never let me forget it. As we got closer to town Gaara slowed his pace till we were walking side by side.

"Good thing no one didn't see the way I kicked your ass back there, eh?" he laughed and nudged me.

He said this every time he beat me, just to piss me off even more.

"I let you win," I replied, as usual, not looking at him, I just knew that smug look is there!

"Oh c'mon Naruto, you know you didn't, you should probably get a trainer like Kakashi, he might help," That last part was new.

He was leaning forward a bit to try and catch my eye or read my expression but I refused to look at him.

"I don't need him," I replied bluntly.

"Right…. sure you don't," he said deadpanned. "If not Kakashi…why don't you ask Jiraiya?"

"There's no way I'm asking that perverted old man!" I yelled

"Well if you won't ask him I'll do it for you," he said.

I glared at him "Oh no you won't! It's none of your business, stay out of it." I picked up my pace and walked a bit further on than him.

He jogged to catch up "Hey! Ok, I won't say anything shesh, don't have to take a huff," he said.

I just rolled my eyes and stayed silent. Gaara was one of my best friends but most of the time he just pissed me off, he made me feel so...I dunno…weak? Him with his awesome ninja skills, he's been a great fighter since the day we met. And he has a tattoo! The kanji symbol of love was on his forehead. All the girls liked him even the guys liked him. And me? I was nothing compared to him, I was strong and not bad looking and sure I had muscles and tan skin but compared to Gaara I was second rate. People still made fun of me and some even avoided me...don't ask me why, i have no idea!

We reached home and as usual there was our group of friends sitting on the wall that surrounded the whole town. I didn't know why they put it there, my mother said it was too keep things out, but I thought it was to keep us all in. The only reason we could get to the other side of the wall was because strong vines had grown up the sides. I grabbed one of the vines and started climbing.

"So who's spending a night in Dracula's holiday home?" my mate Kiba said as he grabbed hold of my arm and pulled me up the rest of the way.

Kiba was the oldest out of all 6 of us, he always looked out for me. He was like the brother I never had. He always took his dog, Akamaru, with him anywhere he went

"Who do you think?" Gaara said close to me, making me jump.

How'd he get up so fast?

"Naruto can never beat me."

Again with the smug look, god I'd love to scratch that off his face. I jumped down the other side of the wall, landing with a thud on my feet.

"Humph," was all I said as I walked over to Sakura and Lee, they never climbed the wall cause they were both scared of heights.

They both stopped talking and smiled as they saw me walking to the bench they were sitting on. I flopped myself beside Lee and let my head hang back and rest against the top of the bench.

"So, Naruto, did you win huh?" Lee asked.

I just looked at him. He could tell by my face I'd lost, did he even have to ask after all the other times I got beat? He was about to say something when we heard a loud gasp. We both looked at Sakura who had her hand over her heart.

"Naruto! You have to spend a whole night in that hell house? You'll never survive that! You can't go in there! One of the others should go in! There's no way you can -"

Yeah I know it's rude but I blocked her out by this point, I heard it all before, every time I did something risky she made the same dramatic scene.

Jeez does she really think I'm that weak?

"Are you even listening to me?" I looked over at her.

She was pouting with her arms crossed tightly over her chest. I smiled

"Of course," I said. "Don't worry about me Sakura, I can handle anything! I'm not scared."

That…has to be the biggest lie I've ever told.

Truth is I was terrified! A whole night on my own in a place like that! Outside the village walls! It was crazy! But there's no way in hell I'm going to tell anyone that. I reached under my shirt and brought out my chain. I rubbed my fingers over the green stone dangling on it. My grandmother gave it to me, she handed it to me in her death bed and kept repeating 'I will always love you' which is weird because I never really saw her that much, I used to stay at hers for whole summers when I was about 7 but then the disappearances started getting bigger so I only saw her after that when she was dieing. I was about 10.

"Saying you're last prayer Naruto?" my mate Neji called over from the wall.

I called back, "No need, nothing's gunna happen anyways, it's just a house."

Actually, praying sounds like a great idea right now. Dear God…