Konnichi wa readers! Here's chapter two, and quick notice: polls are now open to vote for your favorite pairing, Naruto/Sakura or Naruto/Sasuke there's also a neither (to keep it friendly). It's important for the upcoming chapters. I don't own NARUTO! BUT I DO OWN THIS MISO SOUP!

Chapter II: Angel dust

Hinata was scared; she didn't know how things would go now that Neji and she had made a plan to escape, it wasn't perfect and there was some vital key pieces missing; like a place to escape to, and what they could do to survive. It would be difficult, but they both promised to leave as soon as possible. The escape itself would be simple, but avoiding capture was a different story altogether. If they were caught it was obvious that they would suffer until both of them died or if her father sold them, it would probably depend on his mood. As she walked down the street, sticking to the walls rather than be in the mix of people who could find out what she really was, she spotted someone she cared deeply for, Naruto. Three years back she learned that he loved another and to be honest she didn't mind, she now understood that the feelings she had weren't true love, more like the love of a mother had for her child, something similar to that. She never really saw herself marrying him or anything beyond that, although very handsome with his sun bright hair and deep blue eyes that seemed to go sky blue when excited, she was never actually attracted to him. The day she saw him sitting on the swing, alone and staring at the children playing or the families laughing together, her heart went out to him. She felt stupid when she followed him around, but she wanted to make sure he had her support, even if he didn't know.

"Hinata-chan! What's up," Naruto greeted as he jumped in front of Hinata who blushed at the sudden closeness. "You out shopping? Need any help, huh?"

"N-no, i-i-it's okay, r-r-really, N-n-naruto-kun. I just c-came to b-buy some ve-vegetables for a s-s-soup."

"Oh, well, okay. Maybe another time then! See you around, Hinata-chan!" With that he ran in the direction of Sakura and Sasuke that were leaving the Yamanaka's flower shop. Hinata laughed at how Naruto jumped on their backs, smiling warmly as they started a tirade of how idiotic he was acting. She gathered the tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, and some sweet yams she needed before heading back to the Hyuuga compound. Along the way, inside one of the alleys she thought she saw red, but when she went back to check nothing was there. Maybe it was her anxiety that was making her see things? She brushed it off and resumed her trek home, as today was the final day to prepare for Neji's and Hinata's disappearance.

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He saw her, the Angel, the one that would give him what he wanted. But what did he want? What could he possibly wish for that he couldn't just take for himself? Gaara jumped on the roof when she came back to investigate the alley he was hiding in. He didn't know how he knew she was an Angel, but he just did. The girl gave off a strange aura; it was like a strong scent of lilies, how can others not sense it? If it wasn't her presence, then her looks should have given her away. She was …pretty; he admitted that she was quiet attractive for a twelve year old. Shukaku stirred and twisted as Gaara let his eyes follow the tiny retreating figure until she was out of sight.

"Fool! Why did you let her go," Shukaku growled at his host, unhappy of letting the Angel escape.

"Shut up, I will retrieve her when she's asleep." Gaara abandoned his roof to walk through the alleys to the apartment Baki and the two idiots were occupying, to report what he saw. Baki was pleased, though he never showed it, Kankuro rejoiced that soon he'd have an Angel, and Temari scolded him; telling him it was for their father the Kazekage.

Gaara's head throbbed, nonstop Shukaku had been growling in his head, wanting the girl that moment, and Gaara had had enough with the grouchy beast. "Why is she so fucking important to you," Gaara inquired as he sat alone on the roof, waiting for the sunset to end and the moon to rise fully in the sky. Shukakau didn't answer immediately, he didn't answer until the moon was almost in the center in the sky.

"She's not what she appears to be, none of these so called angels are such. They are something far worse than demons- well to humans they are if they ever found out," Shukaku finally answered.

"What took you so long to answer?"

"Wanted to piss you off is all, being stuck in someones soul can grow boring you know," Shukaku chuckled when Gaara growled at him.

"Just explain your answer."

"Appearances can be deceiving. They are hybrid descendents of two instinct races, a creature spawned between yatagarasu* and witches." Gaara doubted that they were these weird monster-witch hybrids, but even if he didn't believe him, demons existed, who's to say such hybrids didn't?

"Gaara, it is time to gather the Angel you reported," Baki called up to him from one of the windows before jumping through it to land on a roof below, speeding away; a shadow in the night. Gaara followed him, his siblings supposedly went ahead, but he knew they were goofing off like they always did, leaving him and Baki to do all the dirty work.

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Hinata awoke from her sleep; it was a little past midnight and the full moon was drowning everything in its ghost light. Silently as possible she dug out her already packed gear from her closet and snuck out her window into the dark backyard, Neji was already there, waiting in the old willow tree. His gear was strapped on his back, kunai at the ready for anyone who might try to stop them.

"Hinata-chan, you have everything you might need?" Neji jumped down, tucking the kunai away.

"H-hai, Neji-nii-san." Hinata followed Neji as he jumped onto the wall, taking one last glance at her home. Though all the pain she had suffered she would miss this place, her home, the place she was born. Neji took her hand and gave it a light squeeze to comfort her as best he could.

"Hinata, there's an upside to being Angels." He looked down at his fragile looking cousin that trembled from the cold wind and looked as if on the verge of tears. "I know how to take us away from here. We'll never have to worry for anyone else, but ourselves." Neji wrapped his arm around her tiny waist, sensing two unknown shinobi coming at them at an alarming speed. A quick glance showed Gaara and Baki racing toward them. "Hinata, close your eyes, this will be quick."

Gaara saw the male snake his arm around the girl, the urge to rip it off of him was strong, but his anger was drowned by panic. He was panicking on the inside; they were going to disappear, Shukaku could feel it, and he was growling and hissing as he watched the boy and girl evaporate into golden angel dust.

*yatagarasu: A three-legged raven that belongs to the sun godess, Amaterasu. Read that in a japanese folk lore book! In this I made them a type of demon.

A/N: FINISHED! I somehow ended up changing the entire plot line, great…I sort of have an idea on how this is going to end so everything's cool so long as I have a general idea. Make sure to vote for your favorite pairing (or choose neither) and it might just happen in this fanfic! Hope you enjoyed! -Baron