California
Chapter Two: Escape
Song: Check Yes Juliet, We The Kings
Check yes Juliet, kill them limbo
I'll keep tossing rocks at your window
There's no turning back for us, tonight.
Town of Konoha, Japan
Naruto
This rain is impossible. It's like the sky is pissing on me, it doesn't want me to rescue her. I took a deep breath before climbing up a massive tree not to far from Hinata's balcony. I've done this before, just not in the rain, the dark, and with extra security out tonight. My foot slipped but I grabbed a branch just in time.
"Crap" I muttered under my breath. As I continued to climb, I wondered what the chances of security being at her balcony were. All thoughts of that disappeared when I saw the empty balcony. I jumped to the balcony grabbing the ledge. After some struggling and minor scrapes I managed to get on it. Thunder rumbled above my head and a stuck my tongue out at the sky. A few rain drops managed to get on it. I took out a bobby pin and began to mess with the lock. It was almost too easy. When the French door opened, lightning lit up the room showing me Hinata sleeping soundly on her huge white bed. I don't understand why people have such big beds when they sleep alone. I slowly walked up to her and light shook her. Her pearl like eyes blinked once or twice. She sat up quickly.
"Hey Hinata." I smiled. Before I knew it she leaped at me and her strength sent me flying to the ground. She was holding on to me with all might. As if she were falling off a cliff, and I was the ledge she had to grab onto.
"I…thought I wouldn't see you again…" she said into my chest. Her body began to shudder slightly on mine. I realized she was crying and I began to run my hand through her hair.
"Hell no, I've done this before remember?" I said. She managed to giggle. She loosened her grip on me and began to run one hand on my chest.
"What's going to happen to us?" she asked after a while. I sighed, knowing the question would come up. I pulled the blanket from her bed and pulled it over us.
"I don't know…" I said. I didn't want to think about it. I didn't want to think of her father making Neji spy on her like he had him do back in middle school. I didn't want her having to pass me in the hall without saying anything…the pain would be too much to bear…
"But…there is something I've been thinking about…" I said. She picked up her head so she would be looking me in the eye.
"What?" she asked ready to agree to it…hopefully.
"We could leave…just you and me." I said. She still looked at me.
"…Where?"
"California." I said. She blinked twice in confusion. God how I loved it when she did that.
"California? In American Naruto?" she asked. I nodded my head.
"I got the tickets…Japan isn't too far away from Cali. It's hot all the time, so it will be summer forever. School won't be a problem. We can go if you want…" I said making her play with my hair. She twirled it in her hands…deep in thought. What could she be thinking about…?
"Ok, lemme just get my things…and some money." She finally said after an eternity
"You serious?"
"Only if you are…"she said. I felt my lips curl up into a smile. I leaned up so I sitting position so I could kiss her. I can't believe she said yes…we're so outta' here.
TenTen
"Dummy…I don't like being there when they make out either…but that doesn't mean you had to go a make them break up!!" Temari yelled at me. I covered my ears. What a lovely way to start off summer, getting nagged by Temari.
"They didn't!! She would have called one of us!" I said defensively. She took her eyes off the road and she pierced me with a glare.
"Idiot! Her phone got taken away, that's what Hiashi dose to her! She couldn't have called one of us." She said making people stare at her car.
"Dumbass…don't be so loud, it's almost noon."
"Well people need to wake up and sniff the damn coffee already! Wake up lovely city of Konoha!!" she said honking the horn. I laughed so hard with her my stomach began to hurt. When we got to the Hyuuga manor the humidity of the rain the night before hit us like a smoke bomb would.
"God it's hot." I said.
"Race you there…" she said slyly. I looked at her from the corner of my eye. She and I would always do this.
"…GO!!" we both shouted at the same time. We ran to the front door, stumbling over each other, removing flip flops so we would hopefully advance the other, leaping, anything that would help us win. When we both got there out of breath, we looked at each other.
"I won!!" I shouted. She lightly punched my head…even if light for her would be with what someone normal would say is all her might.
"Idiot, I won!" she shouted. We began bickering over who won when a girl with short boyish hair and big eyes opened the door. She couldn't be older than 15. Summer volunteers here came for money…every year it's the same thing.
"Good morning, and welcome to they Hyuuga manor. Who are you here to see?" she said looking at us like we were insane. Temari shoved by me to look at her. The young girls face went pink when she saw Temari. Intimidated she looked down her feet. I pouted.
"Temari…don't be mean. We're her to see Hinata." I said. The girl hit her forehead.
"That's what I forgot…come on, lets wake her up." She said leading us up the familiar marble staircase. When we went to Hinata's door, she knocked twice.
"Hinata, you have some guest here for you…" she said. After about 12 seconds of silence Temari busted the door open.
"Rise and shine princess, were going to use your pool so wake up!" She said walking over to the bed.
"There's no one on the bed smart one…" I said walking over to her bathroom. The door was open and I couldn't see anyone.
"Hey…where is she?" I asked both girls. They didn't reply. I opened her cabinets and saw things like her tooth brush, some soaps, and shampoos missing.
"Hey is there anything missing around there?" I asked Temari.
"I cant find her book bag…or her converse…but I did find a lovely pair of sandals in my size." she called back.
"Stay with me, where is Hinata?" I said rushing out to the hallway. I collided with someone and fell to the floor.
"Sorry, that was may fault…" I said standing up. Instead of a kind its alright, I got a nasty grunt. I looked to see who it was and I saw no other than one of Naruto's nasty friends, and her cousin, Neji Hyuuga. His hair was loose, and he had nothing on but a pair of black and gray swim trunks.
"Watch where you're going, freak." He said. I ignored his snide comment.
"Have you seen Hinata? I came over to see her, knowing she can't come out to see me." I said. He turned to me in confusion and blinked once showing slight confusion in his face.
"Isn't she in her room?" he asked. I shook my head. By then Temari and the girl stepped to the hall and were observing us. Neji looked at us all.
"We have to alert Hiashi." He said rushing to the stairs. For once, Temari didn't have something to disagree about. This was serious, where the hell is Hinata? When we got to Hiashi, he was in the massive dining room, drinking tea and reading the newspaper.
"Ah, good morning TenTen and Temari. Are you here to see Hinata?" he asked calmly without looking up at us.
"That's the problem; we don't know where she is." Neji said bluntly. Hiashi began to choke on his tea. A man came out of nowhere and gave him a pill and some water. After the coughing fit he looked at the maid.
"I want all of the workers to search for Hinata. She has to be somewhere on the estate, we would have known if she left. Go!" he instructed. She scurried off and we were there…for a long time.
"Where could she be?" I asked wanting to break the awful silence.
"Do you think she left?" Temari asked.
"She couldn't." Neji said. I looked at him through narrowed eyes.
"Nothings impossible…" I said. He looked away obviously annoyed. I could care less. I want to know where my friend is.
XxXxXxX
"What about Naruto? He was supposed to be here for the pool party right?" Shikamaru said. He joined us in dining room and he sat on a comfy chair. Neji jumped and disappeared from the room. He came back and looked at Hiashi.
"He's not picking up his phone. Let's go to his house." He said. I stood up and so did Temari.
"How the hell would you know he's home? What if he's out or something?" She asked. Neji rolled his eyes.
"We have our ways, now come on, if we run we can get there in about 5 minutes." He said leaving again. Shikamaru stayed still. I don't think he's going anytime soon. I stood up and went for the door.
"TenTen, you're seriously running?" Temari asked. I shook my head no.
"Come on, we're taking my bike. It is on the back of your truck right?" I asked. She nodded and followed me down the stairs. When I got to the truck I saw Neji with a white wife beater on standing outside the gates to the Hyuuga Manor. I got on my bike and rode down to him. Temari stood on the pegs holding onto my shoulders. When he saw us he laughed.
"What the hell is so funny?" I asked. He stepped aside and I saw a bike with pegs as well.
"We'll look like a gang. But come on, lets go Nara." He called out and Shikamaru came out of no where, and he stepped onto the pegs.
We stopped next to a beat up building that looked like it was to fall in any second.
"He lives…here?" I asked. Neji and Shikamaru ignored me and went for the building. We went up a few flights upstairs and stopped in front of a chipping green painted door with dull golden numbers that were fading on it. Neji slammed his fist three times on the door.
"Open up Naruto! We came to ask you something!" he called out. No response. I pushed by Neji and slammed my hand on the door twice.
"Open up Uzumaki!" I shouted. I heard a muffled 'shut up!' from one of his neighbors. Nothing from his door though. Temari pushed me aside.
"You guys are doing it all wrong…it's like this." She said bending down to the lock. She pulled a bobby pin from her blonde hair and picked at the lock. She lasted a few minutes with it while humming a song. She then began to pick the second lock. After a minute or two she pushed the door open.
"Sometimes I wonder if you're and undercover criminal." I said. She laughed once. We stepped into the apartment and it smelled and he had some furniture, kind of like my place, but messier.
"Naruto…show you're self. We just wanna talk." Shikamaru called into the apartment. Nothing. I began to walk around the place. I found myself stumbling over some pizza boxes. I came to what seemed to be a desk, but was covered with ramen containers and wrappers and chopsticks. I found a piece of stained paper and some words scribbled on it.
"Guys! I found something!" I called. The sound of running footsteps and yells were come towards me.
"What did you find?" Neji asked peering over shoulder. I read the note out loud.
To whoever reads this:
Right now it's almost midnight, and it's still the last day of school. WOOO NO SCHOOL! But seriously, I'm going to Hinata's place and I'm bailing her out. We're both sick of everyone hating the very thought of us being together. We're leaving for America. Peace out.
Naruto.
"I can find out where they are going." Shikamaru said. I looked over to him. He looked pretty confident.
"How the hell are you going to do that?" I asked. He then shined me an ID to the Konoha airport. "Oh you work there? So you can go to the computers and find out which flight they got tickets for!"
"Exactly. Come on, if we get the information before six, maybe we can catch the next flight heading to their destination." He said putting his ID back into a wallet.
"So…were going after our friends?" Temari asked. We all nodded. "But when we get them back, we need to be supportive of them. No one was really ok with them dating and look at where its gotten them."
"No time for that, come on. We have to get to the airport." Shikamaru instructed. Before we left the apartment, I grabbed the note for evidence and Temari locked the door.
kikiro:
Damn i hate my school. I have a science fair project to work on,so far the board has nothing :O I'm going to dieee. Lol, not really. I'm glad I'm leaving that armpit of a school. OMG graduation practice is so funny, the guys voices are so deep when they sing the school song. We get partners for it,obviously of the opposite sex,so far my partners have been changing cuz no one know their height. I love how smart we are. Drop meh a review!! Peace,Love,Ramen.
Edited and Reread while listening to: Viva la Vida by Coldplay
