Deal With the Devil
A/N: Hello my lovely readers! This is the continuation of On the Run with Hinata and Naruto. In a review, windtear asked some excellent questions like (and please forgive me cause I'm just paraphrasing here. So please, don't be mad):
1.) Why did Kami forbid there romance?
2.) Was she cast out before or after their relationship?
3.) Did Kami know that the Hyuga would realize that she wasn't human and abuse her?
4.) Does Kami have a way of knowing what's happening and will she find out that they have met and married once more? These are excellent questions and I hope I'll be able to answer them all in this story! So read on and I hope you enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: Naruto is not mine nor will it ever be *teardrop* this is only a fanfiction and I own only the plot. Lyrics will occasionally be used, but I will give proper credit to the artists.
Chapter 1
"You have a choice to make: your mortal soul or the love of your life. Which will you chose? You have 5 minutes starting now; please don't disappoint my dear boy…"
I think quickly and weigh my options. Well, what is a soul exactly? It's the thing that no one can live without, well, that's not entirely true. I mean Donald Trump doesn't have a soul and he's still alive so I guess it must not make that big of a difference…
"Two and a half minutes. Tick tock, tick tock," his voice drifts through the surrounding darkness, taunting me. I have to choose fast, this may be my last chance to be with her. "It would be such a shame if anything happened to her, now wouldn't it?"
"What have you done to her?" I scream into the darkness wishing I could see. "I'll kill you!" I scream and try to follow the sound of his voice directly to him. "I'll fucking kill you if you try to touch her!" My shoulders heave with pure anger and the desire to kill. Laughter drifts up from behind me and he steps into view once again.
"You'll kill me? You? Ha, now that's a laugh. Why I don't think I've heard that great of a joke in so long. I may just keep you here as my jester." He sneers at me showing his yellowing teeth. "You just wasted the rest of your time with that little tantrum of yours so I hope you have a damn good answer or I will kill you both were you stand," I don't have a chance to save myself much less her… fuck…
"…Hinata my love, forgive me…"
I bolt awake from my nightmare and Hinata, who lies sleeping beside me, shifts closer to me as she sleeps. It was just a dream, I think to myself. I throw off the blankets and swing my legs off the edge of the bed to the moth-eaten carpet. I pad to the tiny bathroom and close the door behind me. I stare into the mirror, the face of a broken and desperate man staring back at me. Sooner or later she's gonna ask what happened, why she was cast from the Realm…I sigh and turn on the tap, letting it run before I sup my hands under the stream and splash it on my face.
What am I going to tell her when she finally does? Will I actually be able to tell her the truth? I dry my face with a scratchy towel from my left and turn the facet off. I throw it to the side and move to lay back down with Hinata.
"Are you okay?" Hinata murmurs sleepily as I move in to cradle her to my body.
"Yea, I just needed the bathroom," I reply. She hums and her breathing evens out as she falls back asleep. I let out the breath I didn't know I was holding in. I lay there in the waning hours of night with my angel wrapped in my arms as I watch dust motes drifting through and fro the slant of moonlight from the window. Last night after she agreed to marry me again, we decided to find a motel and sleep for the night. I tried not to dwell on the fact that Kami would be waiting for me to contact her telling her that I've failed to find Hina and that I'm ready to give up and go home.
'…Far away from here… I had to get away from my father…I want to stay with you Naruto…forever…'
I clench my teeth and try to block out the guilt and pain that's threatening to take my body over. I promised to take care of her and not let anything happen to her, but as soon as Kami finds out that I have found her she'll probably go back on her promise to let Hina return. I know she only told me that because she knew that I would fail, that she would do something drastic to stop her from loving me and wanting to go back.
'Well, she never asked when you were going back to the Realm, she seems content just to live here on Earth…' argues my conscience.
'But that's only because she doesn't know that Kami thinks she's dead.' I argue back.
'Why don't you just let her think that Hinata is dead than? Make her think that you're both dead,' suggests my conscience and I start running through different scenarios in which she and I could change our names and out outward appearances.
'He'd know that we're not though,' I state into the silence of my mind. The mirage of images stops automatically. 'He's looking for us, he's gonna find us sooner or later.'
'Then why don't you just focus on making the time you do have with her something that neither of you will ever forget?'
I sigh and rub my eyes with the back of my hand. 'Because I don't want our love to be a lie.'
"Naruto?" Hinata's voice sounds from beside me pulling me from my mind and back to reality.
"Yes my angel?" I lean down to kiss her forehead and she scrunches up her nose at the touch. I smile and pull her closer to me, relishing in her warmth.
"I'm hungry," she whines scooting closer to me and pressing her face into the curve of my neck.
"Do you want pancakes?" She shakes her head and presses closer to me. "Well what do you want baby?" she shrugs and lays in my side in relative silence. I sigh and lay here staring at the ceiling. I'll go out to get us some breakfast later and, well maybe I'll be able to think of a way to avoid him and Kami. Till then, I'm content to lie here with my Hinata under the blankets and pretend that everything is still okay. I hope I'll figure out a way to make it be okay, truly okay.