This is a story my twin and I thought up.
Yes I'm a twin.
If you haven't already guessed that from my name, you've got problems.
I own nothing mentioned in this story, with the exception of Hmai-Li. This story has nothing to do with the continuities of the other stories I've written. It stands on it's own.
The Hyuuga Massacre.
Much different from the Uchiha massacre. This was not done from the inside. Outsiders of the Sound were responsible for this slaughter.
The night had started out so peacefully, Each Hyuuga settling into their bed, content, some with a teddy bear, even if they were truly too old for it.
Neji had finished working out and had bedded down for a well deserved rest. Hinata had bedded down with a good book, which she felt asleep reading. Hanabi fell asleep with a smile on her face, dreaming up what mischief she would be up to the next day. Hmai-Li was asleep on the cot in her kitchen, having wrapped herself in three blankets, despite it being Summer. Hideaki had set his glasses aside, and fallen into a deep sleep.
None were expecting the attack. It was well planned, too well planned for them to have seen it coming.
As quiet as the darkness around them, Sound ninjas crept into the Hyuuga compound, constructing a sound barrier around the compound, so no one outside would be able to hear. They crept into the Main House, and quickly captured some sleeping Elders, who were too old and decrepit to defend themselves.
They had planned to go after Hinata and Hanabi as well, but their plans were ruined when Hideaki woke up to get himself a drink and walked right into them. He did not have his glasses on, but he knew these ninjas were not supposed to be here, and ran for his life to the alarm bell, to wake all the other Hyuugas.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The bell called into the night, a summons to the members of the Branch family to do their duty, and protect the Main family. And every Branch family member, no matter their ability to fight, came to the call, some too young to have been fighting in the first place.
The Cloud ninjas had run after Hideaki, and were in the very center of the compound, in the clear open ground of the courtyard, illuminated by the moonlight. Branch family members quickly surrounded them on every side, ready to attack.
But they didn't raise a finger.
They wouldn't attack, not now that the Cloud ninja had kunais pressed to the throats of the Elders. Not with the Elders yelling at them not to attack. They couldn't.
Neji settled into his stance, ready to attack, when given an opening.
The ninjas, however, knew the Branch family's weakness, and quickly threatened the Elders, telling them to activate the curse seal, or they would die.
The Elders cared more for their own lives than for that of the Branch family members, those who had put themselves in harm's way to save them. The ones that gave their lives to protect them.
Neji, who realized what would happen, quickly tried to attack, before he was struck with the curse seal, the terrible pain it would entail. But he was too late.
Everything went white hot with pain, and then black.
He was only out for a few moments, but the scene he opened his eyes to was very different than before.
Hyuuga of the Branch family, skilled and unskilled, woman and man, young and old, were being slaughtered, either struck down by the curse seal, or slaughtered by the Cloud Ninjas.
He could still hear the bell clanging wildly, calling for help from their neighbors. He could hear other Branch family members screaming in pain, their cries resonating through the night air.
He watched as Hmai-Li, who had never been trained to fight, fall with a kunai through her stomach. He smelled the blood in the air.
There was nothing he could do, but lie there, wondering wildly why their neighbors weren't coming to their aide. Surely they could hear the bell?! The screams?!
He blacked out again, the sight of his weak cousin, Hinata, barely holding her own against a Cloud Ninja.
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