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A scream of pure agony pierced the still, quiet air. Neji fell to the ground twisting around in pain. His headband fell from his hand and spun away. He clutched at his forehead and curled into the fetal position as waves of torture shot through him from his head. He bit down hard on his lip in an attempt to stop from breaking down until the blood ran down the side of his face and dripped off his chin onto the floor. It puddled under his head and drops flew around him as he thrashed about in anguish. His head hit hard against the floor and he began bleeding from just above his eye as well. It dripped down and wet the top of his head with warm, sticky blood. Hinata screamed also in terror for her cousin. She had known him all her life and she had never heard him cry out like that, with that much pain audible in his voice.
"Stop it! He didn't do anything to you! Stop it! Stop torturing him!" the man stood still. His eyes watched Neji writhe on the ground with what seemed like enjoyment. Hinata jumped forward. The man raised his hand threateningly. Hinata shrunk back in fear; she was still timid and anxious. The man turned away from her to continue to watch her cousin.
Neji gathered himself together for an instant to look up at her with his face agonized and bloody from his split lip. It seemed to last for an age and it was a moment Hinata would never forget. The entire world seemed still and silent, as though it had hushed it's day-to-day racket to honor his suffering. There was desperate appeal in his usually haughty and cold eyes. They were like the pleading eyes of an animal in pain that dumbly begs for release. "Please," he said in a broken, tortured voice. "Please," The man chuckled harshly. Then the moment of stillness was over. A spasm of pain caused him to break eye contact. He cried out in pain again. He sank down on his hands and knees again. His hair hid his eyes but Hinata could see them in her mind. The fear in them, she was sure, would haunt her until the day that she died. That noise of agony decided Hinata. She called upon bravery she didn't know she had to lunge forward again with more determination. She had to protect her cousin when he looked at her with that pleading, despairing, hopeless expression on his face. His convulsions were growing weaker but the pain he suffered under did not appear to be diminishing. His strength was steadily decreasing as he lost blood.
"De-activate that seal! Now! How can you be doing that to him? Look at him, you already hurt him enough, now stop it!" she was almost in tears herself. The man shook his head in slight amusement.
"This isn't about his treatment of you, Hinata. I'm in control now. You're too young to know how to end it for him." Neji still thrashed about on the stone floor. "I'm getting slightly tired of his yelling. I might just end it forever."
"No!" Hinata yelled, "don't kill him!" the man considered her for a few seconds. The waves of pain were becoming more intense. Neji would gather himself together and then another would roll in to crush his reconstructed emotional grip. He knew if it continued for much longer something would have to give, his body, his mind, his sprit. One of them would be broken forever. The man sighed and formed another few seals. Neji stopped writhing and started shaking softly. He sank from his hands and knees to on his back shielding his head weakly with his arms. His long hair, wet with his blood, fanned out around him and almost covered his face. He feebly tried to move away from his tormentor but was unable even to move that much. His breathing came rapidly.
"Because you wanted it so, little girl, I stopped it. But next time the Branch Family brat might not be so lucky. Maybe this will have taught him to mind his manners with the Main Family." He walked away with out a backward glance. Hinata dropped to her knees beside her cousin. His lip was still bleeding steadily. A trickle of blood ran down the side of his face from his lip and from the gash over one eye where he had hit it as he thrashed in pain. She put a hand over his forehead. The curse seal still was warm as though it had been scalding hot a moment ago. It pulsed slightly under her fingers. He winced as he felt her hand on the mark. His forehead was sweaty and his temperature seemed to be above normal. She lifted his head up and looked at him. His eyes were half closed and he flinched as he spoke.
"Hi-Hinata-sama, do you understand what I mean now? My destiny is to be a slave to the Main Family and to serve well or else. This is the power of the curse seal." His eyes went blank and closed fully. He sagged limply in her arms as he lost consciousness. She yelled for help and then the world went black for her too.
Same as last time. One review, one chapter. 2 reviews, 2 chapters. Oh yeah, I don't own anything except for my laptop, some clothes and the idea for this story. So don't sue me.
