I looked into the cafe with an indistinct face. The man I was supposed to meet with today looked shady and it was clear he needed a shower. I walked in.
As long as I was getting paid, who was I to judge someone.
Looking to my right I saw a girl in pig tails looking at her father shyly. My fingers twitched, and I felt a small pressure in my chest. He gave her a firm grin and pulled lighting on her pigtail. She gave a bright smile and giggled softly.
My vision blurred. I could remember a time when my father wasn't such a heartless bastered and teased me at her age.
I could also remember when he stop and told me that that I was to old to play with my father. He had more important business to worry about.
The dynamic back then weren't so harsh until I reached the age of learning on what was consider weak and what was consider barely approved.
Of course being the heiress of the clan helped some.
It didn't matter that I was useless and everyone thought me weak.
After the murder I was trained harder and worked until I bled every night. The more I worked the more I got the sympathetic looks from friends. I began to start to resent their look, and got angrier and angrier about what happened and thought no one did anything to stop it. Human contact and anything with group gatherings had me cringing in distaste.
It didn't help when my sister ran away or that the clan blamed me for it. Neji was my sole comfort in everything because everyone else left or just didn't get what I was going through. Eventually that didn't work out because the hokage assassin him an undercover mission and that lasted over 5 years.
I stayed with my team for a bit as a last ditch effort but everything around me was just falling throught and just wasnt...enough.
I stopped feeling and went through reality in a colorless blur. I had no family or anything to depend on and was left with cold hard anger.
I just needed myself. No one else.
It was to much of a risk to let anyone else in and stomp on the shattered pieces of my heart when they were sure to leave also.
Over the years, after leaving my village behind, I took to the world of bounty hunting.
Yes, it had transformed me. At first I was killing and taking hard jobs to get stronger and under cover in the business to try and locate my mother's murderer. As time went on,killing bandit after bandit, the screams of a hustler, the crying of an gang member I stopped crying after a killed. Eventually I did the rawest sin of all: Murder of the innocent.
I just truly stopped seeing their pain and ignored my own. In the end I stopped feeling altogether. I could care less if I were to die right here and now.
As I crossed the cafe to take my next hit I deleted the family.
Stooping at a the table, I stood by the only chair across from the sickly colored messenger. His pale face lifted up to meet my eyes. He awkwardly tried to appear tough.,"Um...can you meet m..mm..me ss...ss..sos..somewhere..e.e... ..m..master...wan..ants"
I narrowed my eyes.
"He doesn't ww...www...want ...www..ww...win...witnesses."
-5:30pm
Peering at the dirty ground of the forest, I could see the blood of useless trash. It wasn't good I lost my temper, and he was the closet thing I could grab on to. That rarely did happen. Killing with out it being a hit.
FLASHBACK-
-5:05pm
I was frozen in place, waiting for something to happen.
Three orange arrows flew into the tree in front of me.
I turned around.
"Nothing too special, Lavender," came a deep voice.
Stepping out from behind a tall tree, was a tall lanky man. Black sunglasses, gelled dark brown hair, a black trench coat, combat boots and a white mask.
"They know all about you and the troubles and issues you have overcome. And now, they want you and your body." I starred, and lifted my navy blue eyebrow.
He was a different guy then the last messenger.
"Master is building the most efficient army possible, and your powerful bloodline is only the beginning." His tone was confident and cocky.
I shook my head and turned to walk away.
"I don't think you quite understand me. He will do anything to get what he wants."
I clinched my teeth and turn back around.
I had to inquire to him, "He wants me, correct?"
He nodded his head in agreement.
"No, I don't want to be approached with this again." Turning around, I could hear him following me.
"Master can get you anything you want.
Even killing that unworthy sister of yours..."
Stopping completely, I raised an eyebrow.
Nodding with an eager grin, he spoke, "Yes, we have been keeping tabs on your younger sister, Hanabi. At the moment she's hiding out in a small village."
"Why are you watching her?"I commanded. He could see no emotion, but I could feel it slowly take over my body with rage.
"Well it's not like you don't know," he began. "If he can't have you, he will have her."
Before I could stop myself I took out my Fuuma Shuriken and sliced his neck. Walking away from his bleeding body, he gasped one word "ss..sky."
I didn't know what to do, and if his 'master' really wanted me, he should have sent someone better,
'Why send someone so useless if he really wanted me?'
Then slowly it became obvious. He didn't know who I was. All he had were some rumors, and bringing my sister up was possibly the only way to confirm that rumor. The only thing that was missing was the fact that I killed his messenger, unless…. He wasn't suppose to live.
Turning, I ran back to the clearing. The messenger's one word meant that somebody was supposed to hear him. He was wearing an earpiece.
His team or partner was supposed to save him, but that would make no sense because there no way he could live through that? That word must have been a signal to confirm their master's theory.
They know that I Lavender was Hinata Hyuga. Head of the Hyuga clan.
My father never told Hanbi she should be clan head. The elders voted it, but when she ran away that made me their last and only choice.
Running back to the part of the woods, I couldn't believe what I was seeing;No what I wasn't seeing nothing.
Present time -5:48
The blood from his body was still there, but after that, nothing but the forest floor and its animals were around. Looking to the right, I couldn't help but feel nothing.
So what? He had Hanabi's whereabouts. So what if I just made a stupid mistake of showing emotion? So what if I just endangered my her life, and might as well condemn her to a life of slavery, and so what if I just decide to go find her and help her out?
After scanning the ground with my eyes, I took off toward the land of the waves. The Ass whole's master wasn't the only person keeping tabs on Hanabi Hyuga.
If he felt the need to threaten me, well, the only's possible way to get her out of harms way was to bring her to the only safe heaven I knew of.
Konoha...
Then, I kill him
