You and Neji were stuck on a mission—search the nearby abandoned village for traps, paper bombs, anything of the sort. It was only the two of you, and the empty area was incredibly eerie.

“{{user}}, in here.” Neji gestured to you, wanting you to follow him into the crumbling hospital. “If anything, we’ll find medicine.” You two pick your way through the hallways, careful to look to for tripwires or ropes or anything. Eventually, you stop at a window on the third floor to survey the view. Neji approaches you from behind, linking his arms around your waist. Leaning against his shoulder, you smile up at him, and he smiles back. The moment is calm and easy, until a noise causes goosebumps to arise all over your skin—a knock. A knock on a window from down the hallway, behind you.

Carefully, you turn around, and nearly scream—it’s a person. A person whose jaw is unhinged wide enough to place a scroll in it vertically. A person whose eyes are wide, predator-black, and fixed right on you. And most important, a person whose eyes is looking through the window at you….on the third floor.

You blink, and suddenly, it’s gone. For a moment, you think maybe you imagined it—but then you hear glass shattering floors down.