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SSM 2018 Day 6: Ghosts

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Team
Seven stood before the house they were hired to guard. The two-stories
building was old and unkempt, with the grass before it knee-high and the
weeds growing wildly. A flock of black birds cawed ominously above
their heads as they went up to the front door.

“Spooky…” Naruto commented with a shudder. “Who would want to steal from this ruin?”

“We
don’t know if someone’s stealing. There can be some other reason for
those suspicious noises at night,” Sakura replied with a frown. She
agreed with Naruto about one thing—the place really looked spooky…
like a haunted house from the movies.

“Like what? Ghosts?” Naruto asked, sounding genuinely scared.

“Are you really afraid of ghosts?” Sakura shook her head. “You know they don’t exist?”

“They can’t exist if they’re already dead, duh. I’m not stupid, Sakura-chan. Ghosts just show up and—booo!”

“Oh, come on! Sasuke-kun, tell him that ghosts aren’t real!” Sakura asked their strangely silent teammate.

Sasuke
pretended not to hear her. Instead, he changed the topic to the patrols
and shifts for the night. Sakura hoped to go on patrols together with
him, but it was more practical that one person guarded the entrance,
while the other two patrolled the floors, changing location every hour.
She conceded to this decision without complaint, mostly because Naruto
also didn’t get to patrol with her.

Sakura was on the second
floor, when she heard a creak behind her, as if someone stepped on a
loose floorboard. She turned around, kunai held in front of her, heart
beating wildly, but there was nothing there. Sakura checked around to
make sure, but she didn’t find any intruders. She sighed and put the
kunai back in her pouch. Of course, this was an old house, everything
was rickety, creaking and groaning for no reason other than old age and
use.

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