His and her own demons – Chapter 1
By: Itstehchibiness
A/N: Hi everyone! I am officially back. Granted this is probably not the best time to be, (BUSY WITH COLLEGE OH NOES) but, I have wanted to write for the longest time, and you know what? I am.
If you're an old reader of mine: I want to apologize to each and every one of you for being on hiatus for gosh…. Like 2-3 years? Yeah, that's really shallow of me and I am sorry. Unfortunately personal problems kept me from my computer, and have kept me busy. I now have a boyfriend, and am a Sophomore in college. I have had an account on since I was about 14 years old. You guys kept me writing and kept me going, and then things came to a stop, unfortunately. But nonetheless, I really do apologize and please forgive me.
About my stories: Yes, I deleted two of them because they were too annoying for my tastes. Now that I have entered the real world I think I can somewhat write something better but using those same premise's. I think I have grown and matured, and so I want my stories to do the same. :D. I kept my first story on though because I felt that because it was my first when I was just 14… well.. it needed to be kept. It's a constant reminder of how I was, and what I have grown into.
Anyway, enough rambling I suppose, let's go on with the story! From the description you should already know the premise, so enjoy :P
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This night was rather peaceful, with a fresh blanket of snow on the ground and the moon shining brightly with no bitter wind, one can almost feel at peace in that one moment during the frequent blizzard laden winter. Under the glistening stars on that one peaceful night, a baby was being born. Not just any baby, but a prince, the future of the kingdom of the northern part of leaves, the one whom is destined to rule.
Screaming, crying, yelling, all could be heard throughout the medical district of the town as the future king's mother is struggling to birth him. The only 'hospital', and therefore the best, had been prepared for this, rounding up the best 'doctors' they could find. In the hay-laden place, dimly lit by candles, invites a warm feeling to onlookers of this now heavily guarded 'hospital'.
"How much longer?" The King roared, fearing for his wife and his future child.
"Patience!" one of the doctors said.
A little girl grabbed at her father's pant leg, holding it ever so tightly, like she didn't want her brother to be born.
"Hana, what's the matter? This is a very important evening. You'll get to meet your brother, one of whom you will be subservient too." Hana's father, the king of leaves said.
Hana looked down.
"UGH! THE PAIN! THE PAIN!" screamed Tsume, Hana's mother, and the queen of northern leaves.
More and more time passed, and the little heir just seemed not to want to enter into the world of royalty.
A rustle was heard outside; the king sharply turned his head, knowing that this hospital is full of people, and that they probably won't be let in. Obviously to have gotten past the guards must have been someone important, or dangerous. The door creaked open with a banshee-like sound, only causing the birthing mother more grief. The king stepped out of the big wooden room he was in, and saw that it was the high mage of the land, Merlin Falker.
Merlin was freshly dressed in some dark blue velvet robes with a hood, donning a staff that is white as the stars in the sky with a big purple spherical gem in the middle, with sparks in the middle swirling it. He was very old, and shook with every step. He took off his hood and immediately looked at the King, narrowing his eyes in anger.
"Takeda," Merlin acknowledged, and bowed slightly, to be polite.
"What is it that you need? I'm busy. If you've come seeking medical assistance there is none for you here." King Takeda said.
"Fool! Have you forgotten who I am? I can heal myself. I have come for the baby." Merlin started walking faster than his normal slow pace.
"What?"
"You heard me,"
"Why? I will NOT let you near my son!"
"Death awaits him."
Merlin rushed passed Takeda, being surprisingly swift to avoid Takeda's attempts of grabbing him. The king finally got a hold of him, nearly crushing Merlin's arm.
"DO NOT GET NEAR TSUME!" The king yelled, Hana started crying. Tsume was concentrating too much to listen to the commotion. All of the doctors guarded Tsume, but one kept personal attention to the queen, holding her hand and brushing her shoulder.
"Takeda," Merlin grunted, "This boy must be killed before he becomes the next blight upon this land. I have sensed it, I have envisioned it done. The future of this land shall perish."
"LIES!"
"Takeda, I told you, when you were just a boy, to never ever make ties with the dead? To never EVER do deals with demons? You went ahead and did it, and you are paying for it with your second born son!"
"What? I never made any deal with any demon!"
"Oh but you did!" Merlin stated quickly, "The demon had already taken action ever since you made the deal! I didn't sense that you made a pact with it immediately because it distracted any power I possess when it comes to you, and it made me believe that I still had ultimate control over your younger foolish actions!"
"I SAID, I NEVER MADE A PACT!"
"There is no time!" Merlin ignored Takeda's cries.
The Merlin used his able arm that wasn't held by Takeda and lifted his staff, and slammed it to the ground, pushing everyone he wanted out of his way. He made his way towards Tsume, and used his staff to levitate her, presumably to bring her with him. Before she was even a foot off of the bed, Merlin was tackled to the ground by Takeda.
Takeda turned marlin over and pinned him by his arms. "Merlin," he stammered, "FINE, I don't know WHAT you're talking about but is there ANY WAY I can save my son?"
"Please, you're lying through your teeth. You've remembered what you've done."
"ANSWER ME"
Takeda motioned for his guards and they all held Merlin down and one of them had his staff. Takeda stood up,
"What must I do?"
Merlin closed his eyes for a second, they then reopened, and the whole room flashed white.
Only because you're special to me, Takeda, I'm sorry…
And I'm sorry to whomever else I harm…
Tsume gave birth.
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"Can you believe our little girl is going to be the next heir to our family? Can you believe we're going to be parents?"a beautiful raven haired woman calmly said, knowing she is about to give birth
"Hm, I'm more concerned about the heir that's being born next door."
The woman started grunting, then screaming. Doctors crowded around her, she was ready to give birth.
"Our little Hinata," the woman grunted.
The woman gave birth.
All of a sudden, the walls broke, a white, blinding, pure light shone through. The freshly born baby girl was lifted, umbilical cord cut, and a protective bubble was wrapped around her, all of a sudden, a boy with a protective bubble wrapped around him appeared, the bubbles then conjoined.
"Asthene – Tkodanea – ROMFRENOIUS!" the Merlin chanted, he was now in mid air.
Then, a large, red glow seemed to emanate from the boy, it tried to break from the bubble, but the power was too weak. The red glow was then transferred into the mouth of the baby girl. The white light started to fade, and then the bubble popped, and the white light flashed once more, and then everything went dim, back to normal light. The baby girl and the Merlin were gone.
The dim light faded to black.
A minute passes…
Five minutes pass…
A stir…
Tsume wakes up, her baby boy safely in her arms, seemingly unhurt. She looks around the room, she sees another mother and father seemingly still passed out, and she sees Hana, slowly stirring. But wait, where's Takeda?
"Ta…Takeda!" she softly cried, "Hana?"
Hana wakes.
"Mommmy!" Hana runs up to Tsume. Her shriek woke up everyone else.
"Tsume!" the guards run up to Hana, Tsume and the newborn baby.
"The Hyuuga's!" some other guards shrieked, mostly the ones that were with the Hyuuga's.
More guards for both families came rushing in, they heard the commotion.
Tsume's eyes widened. The Hyuuga's were a notable family within the leaf region. Not royalty, but certainly well known. Hisaishi and Mako Hyuuga woke up. Mako looked around, and then remembered that her baby was taken away.
"MY BABY!" Mako went into hysteria.
Hisaishi cupped his hand over his wife's mouth.
"Mako," Hisaishi said calmly,
"WHAT? HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU BE SO… SO CALM?"
"Mako…" he stammered, "the Merlin…. He… spoke… he somehow got inside my head."
Mako was sobbing, she didn't respond.
The room went quiet, like everyone was waiting for Hisaishi.
"He said that the boy," his voice growled, "is apparently no longer a blight, but," he choked up, "the girl, our… little Hinata… is going to be killed by Merlin's hands. He never spoke of the demon and what happened with it, but WE are PAYING for what YOUR IDIOTIC, GLUTTONOUS BAFOON OF A HUSBAND YOU CALL A KING DID!" He yelled directly at Tsume.
Tsume stared. "I didn't… I didn't even know what he did… and now… NOW HE'S GONE!" she came to realization that he was taken away too.
The room went quiet… and all that was heard was the sobbing of two mournful women.
Merlin was a few miles outside the town gates, nothing but trees and dirt mixed in with powder white snow remained in the path ahead. Merlin was weak; he'd used all of his energy in him to perform that spell, and also rid himself of Takeda. He'd never thought it'd work. That spell hadn't of been performed in eons. The Merlin looked at the little baby, resting in his arms underneath a blanket. Merlin started trucking forth, hoping to get to a safe place where he can perform the kill with one hundred percent success.
"AAGH", his side was bleeding
He held out the baby from his side, right where the baby was resting there was a deep cut along his stomach. Merlin dimmed his eyes, well played, demon. It seems that when he was placed inside this little girl, it must have used the power it had at that current moment to cut me.
Merlin placed the child close again, no cut. At least it's not strong enough to do more.
Merlin winced; the cut was deeper than he thought. He tried to conjure some healing magic, but he couldn't do so, he was too weak. He collapsed to the ground, with the baby at his side. He closed his eyes and used what energy he had left to grasp something that was dangling around his neck. It was a knife, but not just any knife.
The knife was carved from the very last remnants of an ancient tree, the very last in known existence. When Merlin received his vision of the future king wreaking havoc and destruction, he did everything as quickly as possible that was within his power to make said knife, and that is also how he found out about Takeda's pact. This knife is meant to kill this demon and only this demon.
It must be the last one left…
Merlin thought that the demon was long gone; the race of demons such as that one used to be all over the place. But a long time ago there was a war between mages and that specific race of demons. The mages, even though great toil had been taken, won their fight and they even scouted the lands high and low, multiple times, just to be sure that the race of demons was completely eradicated, and that there was not one single morsel of demon left. He wondered how Takeda even found the demon. He knew why Takeda made that pact, as it was revealed in his vision, but how Takeda found it is a mystery.
Merlin winced again, it's time
Merlin mustered up what strength he could to put the necklace over the baby, and then he took the knife and held it in his hand.
"May the gods bless you, little Hinata,"
A grunt was sounded; Merlin had been shot by an arrow. A yellow glow surrounded Merlin, and he disintegrated into the air.
A horse drawn carriage pulled up,
"Wait, I could have sworn I saw him just a minute ago! I shot him! He was the kidnapper I just know it!" a guard said.
"Maybe he got away," another guard consoled.
Little did they know, they mistook a high-ranking mage for a wanted kidnapper within the region.
"Hey look, the kid's still alive," the guard picked up little Hinata, with the necklace still around her neck. Another guard came and inspected her,
"Yes, but she's not going to make it out in this weather, we don't know what city she came from, and she already seems malnourished, I advocate we take her back to the castle quick."
"But that's at least a day's time, there's no way she'd make it."
"I brought some milk along with us for the baby foal that we brought with us, we can divvy out the rations that way."
"Weird coincidence that we decide to bring a baby foal and then we get an actual baby…"
The men wrapped the baby girl in some extra fur they had to keep her warm.
A day later they arrive at the castle in the farthest end of the leaf region. The castle was grand, made of beautiful grey stone with a moat surrounding it. Donning the castle grounds was beautifully laid cobblestone, pine trees, lavender, roses, sunflowers, daffodils, forget-me-nots, cherry blossoms, and a whole abundance more of different kinds of herbs, shrubberies, and anything sweet- smelling once spring begins. Granted, all of the plants were dead for the season, but nonetheless, the grounds were beautiful. Crawling up the castle walls are vines, and some wooden planks to help keep the vines stable.
Obviously whoever lived in that castle loved flowers.
The two guards were let within the castle walls immediately, as they are official guards of the Queen of the southern half of the region of leaves. The guards rushed towards the front gate, and were let in. One of them carried the baby inside, who was safe and warm, and snuggling within his arms.
"My lady," the guard bowed even with the newborn girl in his hands.
"Varig, what on earth is that? And more importantly, have you completed your mission?"
"Yes, milady Yamanaka, I have sent the package off to your… person in question…", he said, "Also," his tone softened, "On the way back, that kidnapper that's been wanted all over the region, I think I killed him and I found this baby laying in the snow, I couldn't leave her."
Queen Yamanaka got off of her chair; she had recently given birth as well, to a beautiful daughter named Ino. She held her child in her arms and walked over to the baby.
"Hmm, what an interesting complexion, and what an odd hair color." The Queen said, "Do you have the body of this so-called killer?"
"No m'am. He seemed to just disappear into the snow as soon as I shot him…. But… I really do think he's dead… and the baby didn't make a peep the whole trip; Forgarth and I fed her some milk that we had with us. You said you have been looking for new maids for around the castle, perhaps she can be of use?"
"Varig, I'm surprised, normally you aren't this formal…"
"I don't know, just something about the kid's makin' me soft…"
Queen Yamanaka saw the necklace around the baby, what an interesting knife-like necklace, and why on earth was it around this baby? Her eyes narrowed in confusion.
"Would you want me to rid of his necklace ma'm?"
"Hmm, leave it around her neck. I'm sure it's just some decoration charm; it's not even very big. She has nothing, so I'm sure that she'd appreciate having this little charm with her."
"You are ever so kind, Queen Yamanaka."
"There are more meaningful matters to tend to," The queen looked down at her daughter, "And more terrible ones," She looked to the ground.
The Queen shook her head and looked at Varig, "Varig, she will be a part of the maids. Take her down to the maids' quarters."
Varig went through a series of long, intricately decorated hallways. The hallways were painted red, with red carpeting and red walls, with paintings and intricate gold treasures donning the walls. Almost every twenty feet or so there would be a guard standing by, at his post in the hall.
Varig went down some cobblestone stairs, and entered into a warmly lit room.
"Maria," Varig called out, "Maria!"
"Yes, yes Varig, I'm coming" a reply came.
Emerged from her quarters was a very haughty woman with long brown hair tied up in a bun. She was in her mid thirties, and was the head maid of the castle. She was wearing her nightgown, filled with patched up holes, as it was quite late in the evening.
"Maria, I found this baby deserted on the road, I think that she'd be of use to you once she starts getting older. She didn't make a peep the whole trip."
"Did Queen Yamanaka –"
"Yes she approved."
Maria held baby Hinata in her arms, she noticed the necklace but made nothing of it. "Well, if the queen says so…. I can't believe she approved this though…. In any case, what should her name be?"
There was a pause for a few minutes.
"Hmm, for some strange reason the name Hinata seems fitting. She was found at night too…"
"Hinata? What an odd name… but I suppose since she was found under odd circumstances… and like you said she was found at night… I guess Hinata will fit."
The maid excused herself from Varig and took little Hinata to her new room. She sat down in a rocking chair and fed the soundless baby, with some freshly made formula, dressed her in some secondhand, very old, baby pajamas and laid her down in a crib whose mattress was only just softer than a rock.
She looked again at the necklace donning the neck of the little girl, it was a beautiful object. She pulled up her rocking chair, and slept with the little baby for the evening.
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A/N: Before you say anyting, yes, this is a Kiba-Hinata centric fanfic. IT is probably my favorite crack pairing. If you do not like the pairing I understand, but there is going to be some implied sasuxsaku, and other pairings as well. However it will mainly focus on these two.
Also, I DO KNOW that the Naruto medieval type thing is overused, but I'm going to try my best to make this story as original as possible. IE, not a ton of balls and magical fairy god mothers ;)! LOL! :D! Not that that's a bad thing!
Yep, end of chapter one! I'm sorry if my writing is a little bit shabby but I may reupload this once I really get within the story! Its been a long time since I wrote recreationally..
Also, plaguing questions within your mind, trust me, I have it all planned out, a lot of questions plaguging your mind about the demon may be answered in the next chapter. The next chapter is soley demon centric. Trust me guys, I've put a lot of planning into this!
Anyway, thanks so much for reading,