Hinata slowly started to wake up. She peeked through her eyelashes to see if she could see if there was anybody else in the room with her. She had no idea where she was but knew that the man had done something to her and taken her away from her home. Once she believed there wasn't anybody there with her she stood up and really began looking around the room. She looked around the room for some type of weapon but didn't find any. So she tiptoed over to the only door and pressed her ear against it to see if she could hear anybody on the other side. She couldn't so she skeptically opened the door and looked out. She could hear people talking to her left so she decided to go right and see where it took her. It lead to a large opening in the cave. She kept following the path she was on. Once she rounded the corner she bumped into somebody. When she regained her balance she looked at the person and found out it was the man from before.
"Hey! What are you..." Sasuke didn't get to finish his sentence because Hinata punched him square in his nose and took off in the direction he had just come from. Immediately he reached into his shirt and blew a whistle. Immediately a little elf dressed in common clothing appeared in front of Sasuke.
"What happened?" The little elf asked.
"Just fix me." Sasuke grunted out through his hand desperately trying to stop the blood flowing from his nose. The elf drew some dust from a pouch on his side and threw it rather roughly into Sasukes face probably because he was rude to him. Sasuke's nose cracked back into place and began healing. Then he began to run in the direction that Hinata had ran.
After Hinata had punched him in the nose she booked it in the direction he had come from. She just kept running in any direction she could. Eventually she found a large cave path that she could see light at the end of the tunnel. She ran as fast as she could towards this light. Once she finally reached the end of the cave she had to skid to a halt because of what she saw next. Instead of being on the ground like she thought the cave would be. It was in the middle of a mountain with a lip that jutted out of the mountain only providing a little walking room before it dropped off into a rather large fall. She barley stopped in time to not fall off the edge. She began to look around and see if she could see another way down the mountain but she couldn't.
"Will you listen to me now?" Hinata turned towards the entrance of the cave where she heard the voice come from. It was the man from before. He was covered in blood from his now fixed nose. Hinata knew she broke it because she felt the bone crush against her fist. But know the only evidence that something had been wrong was the blood stain on his white shirt. Hinata was still looking for ways to escape as she backed away as he got closer to her. Hinata was so scared she forgot where she was at. "Hey watch out!" the man said as he reached out for her. Hinata instinctively stepped further back causing her to begin to fall from the lip of the mountain. But she immediately felt herself jerk to a stop before she could. The man had run forward and caught her by her shirt. He pulled her back towards safety and practically threw her towards the ground. She landed on her hands and knees. "You are crazy aren't you?"
"Wouldn't you act the same way if somebody you didn't know drugged you, kidnapped you, and took you somewhere you didn't know?" was Hinatas reply as she stood up and stared at the man in front of her. Sasuke thought about what she had said. Maybe he had gone about this whole thing the wrong way. When he was told about his destiny the person who told him had approached him calmly and built a friendship of sorts and then told him. Sasuke had just walked up to this girl and pretty much told her to come with him. But they didn't have time to go through things slowly. Sasuke took a deep breath before he spoke.
"Okay." Sasuke said and sat on the ledge of the lip and looked over at the valley they were in. "Please sit down and I will explain everything to you. And if after you hear what I have to say you still want to leave then I will take you back home and you will never see me again. Agreed?"
"Okay. " Hinata replied as she sat away from the man also on the lip of the platform.
"Okay so I guess I should start with my name. I am Sasuke Uchiha. I am the Black Dragon Ryder. There are four other Dragon Ryder's. Naruto, Red Dragon Ryder. Temari, Blue Dragon Ryder. Lee, Green Dragon Ryder. Our destiny in life is to protect the world, keep it as peaceful as possible, and not disturb the natural balance. These five dragons are the last of their kind. A long time ago this world belonged to the dragons and the humans were the minorities. But the humans started to develop weapons that could kill the dragons. The dragons were forced to go into hiding. Eventually all but these five were killed.
"They had survived in this valley for a few years before a very powerful wizard found them. The dragons were freighted of him at first believing that he would cause them harm. But he assured them he was not there to hurt them. In fact he was offering them a great gift, eternal life. In return they would help to protect the world that had turned against them. Each dragon was given the name of their Ryder. They had to track down the human assigned to them and tell them their fate. . If ever a dragon was injured the Ryder would take the damage instead of the dragon so the dragon would go on living while the Ryder would die. Also the Ryder would age twice as fast so the dragon can remain ageless. Every time a Ryder is killed the dragon gets a vision of it's new Ryder and that persons name. So when the Black Dragon Ryder before me died my dragon Midnight received a vision of me and my name. And one of the other Dragon Ryder's retrieved me and brought me back here and I began my training."
Hinata having listened to his entire speech decided to speak up.
"W-what does this have to do with me though?"
"You are a Dragon Ryder Hinata. The White Dragon Ryder."
"No! I don't want to be." Hinata got up and began pacing around muttering things to herself. Hinata didn't want to be responsible for the entire world! She didn't want to get older faster. She just wanted to be normal! live in her little hut. Take care of her garden. And eventually, maybe find a husband who wouldn't squash her into just being a servant more than an equal. But now she was being told she would have to give all of that up to become a Dragon Ryder. "I want to go home!"
"Hinata even if you did go home all of the stuff I have been telling you will still happen." Sasuke confessed to her standing up as well. "So why not put the time you have left into something worth meaning. Protecting this world."
"Because I just want a simple life. I loved my life before. I want that! Not this!" Hinata practically screamed. Getting louder and louder every word. By now Sasuke was fed up with this girl.
"Do you think I or the others asked for this?" Sasuke practically growled at her. Hinata didn't reply catching the hint that it was a rhetorical question. "I am sorry to tell you princess but you have no choice in the matter. This is your fate. This happened to you for a reason." He finished and then walked back into the entrance. Hinata watched him leave and then looked back over towards the edge of the lip. She went and sat on it and just looked out at the landscape in front of her.
Sasuke walked away from this situation because it was only making him mad. And when he would get mad he would black out and bad things would happen. Sasuke had not told Hinata that each Dragon Ryder had a curse as well. His was his temper, when he lost control of it he would lash out at anything in front of him. So he really had to calm himself down before he lost control. He began walking towards his room so he could meditate but he didn't make it there before he was bombarded by the other Dragon Ryder's.
"Sasuke!" The Red Dragon Ryder, Naruto, shouted at Sasuke. To anybody else Naruto shouting at them like that would have probably given them a heart attack but Sasuke was used to it. The other Ryder's were just standing anxiously behind Naruto waiting to see what Sasuke said about the new Ryder.
"What?"
"Can we go talk to her?"
"No." Was Sasuke's reply. The Ryder's all physically deflated from disappointment.
"Why not?" The Green Dragon Ryder, Lee, asked.
"Because I don't want you guys making her adjust to this even worse." He replied.
"C'mon Sasuke." Temari, the Blue Dragon Ryder, pleaded. They all clasped their hands in front of them and put on a sad face. Sasuke just shook his head and kept walking towards his bedroom. The others didn't know if he was saying no by shaking his head or if he was just shaking his head in annoyance, so they took it as a yes. Once he had closed his door they started running towards where the new Ryder was. They were pushing each other out of the way trying to get to her first. Lee was the first one to emerge from the entrance.
Hinata had heard a commotion behind her so turned from where she was sitting to see what was going on. When she turned around she seen a boy with brown hair in a bowl cut wearing all green clothing staring at like a lost little puppy. Then she seen a girl emerge with blonde hair in ponytails wearing a light blue top that revealed a lot of her chest and pants that were slit almost all the way up her thigh. And last was a blonde spiky haired boy dressed with black pants and an orange jacket but had no shirt underneath. Hinata could see that he was fit because of the muscles that atoned his upper body. The guy in green just continued to stare at Hinata and the other two took notice of this and got wide eyed.
"You," the boy in green spoke to Hinata stepping closer to her. "you are an angel that has fallen from heaven. Sent to capture my heart and rip it from thine chest and lock it away forever to be at your will for all of eternity." While he had kept walking towards Hinata she had stood up to defend herself from these unknown beings. Once Lee had finished He now stood in front of Hinata. He dropped to his knee and grabbed her hand. He made a movement to kiss it but Hinata had pulled her hand away before he could. The guy in orange stepped in between both of them facing towards the guy in green.
"Lee why don't you and Temari go and make dinner for everybody. I think the new girl would like it." He said to Lee. He immediately stood up and started running for the entrance grabbing Temari and holding her over his head as if she weighed nothing. Naruto knew Temari would get him back for that. He turned to the new girl behind him. "Sorry about Lee. It's part of his curse. I am Naruto by the way. And that girl was Temari."
"Curse?" Sasuke had not mentioned anything about a curse when he told her the story.
"Yea. Each Dragon Ryder has a curse. Sasuke didn't tell you?" Naruto questioned. Hinata shook her head. "There was probably a reason for that but it's too late now. That's my curse. I say and do things without really thinking. It gets me into a lot of trouble."
"What's my curse?" Hinata asked him.
"I actually don't know. The White Dragon Ryder before you was very secretive. I don't even know if Sasuke knew what his curse was." Naruto replied. After that it got quiet. "Listen I know this can be a lot to handle and especially hearing it from Sasuke of all people doesn't make it any easier. All of us were just like you once. We all had other life's. And then we were told we were meant to be something greater in this world, a Dragon Ryder." Naruto said. Hinata didn't know if he was even talking to her now or if he was just talking out loud. She had to admit though she preferred the way Naruto told her stuff than the way Sasuke did. "Have you met your Dragon yet?!" He blurted out. Hinata shook her head. "C'mon then."
He reached over and grabbed her hand and then began to pull her back towards the entrance of the cave. He led her down corridor after corridor she couldn't keep track. Eventually he stopped just before an archway. He peeked around the corner to make sure that what was supposed to be there was indeed there. "Hey you didn't tell me your name."
"Oh..ummm..it's Hinata." She replied.
"Okay Hinata, are you ready to meet your Dragon?" Hinata slowly nodded. Naruto slowly walked her into the archway. What Hinata saw immediately made her hold onto Naruto's sleeve and bury her face in his back from fear. She began to shake as well. She could hear the Dragons walking towards them. "It's okay Hinata they aren't going to hurt you." Hinata peeked from behind Naruto and saw that there were five Dragons sitting in front of them. There was a blue, red, green, black, and a white one. Once the white one noticed Hinata it began to dance like an excited dog when it's master returned home. "You can telepathically communicate with them if you connect with your Dragon. Do you want to do that?"
Hinata nodded shyly. Naruto must have told the white Dragon to relax so it wouldn't frighten Hinata because it stopped moving and laid all the way down putting its head on the floor. Naruto pulled Hinata from behind him gently and walked slowly with her towards the white Dragon. Hinata stood in front of her Dragon. Naruto showed Hinata what to do by placing his hand forward and gently pressing it on the Dragon. Hinata cautiously put her hand out in front of her and slowly placed it on her Dragons head. Instantly Hinata felt something awaken within her. It almost felt like some sort of shock to her whole body. It didn't hurt just felt very unnatural. She removed her hand quickly away from the Dragon.
'Hinata! Hinata! Hinata!' Came a voice in her head.
"Y-Yes." Hinata replied out loud.
'No. Try to reply with your mind' Came the voice of Naruto.
'Okay.' Hinata replied.
'You did it!'
'I did.' Naruto nodded his head excitedly.
'Hinata?' The female voice came again.
'Yes'
'Hello. My name is Luna. I am your Dragon and you are my Ryder.' the voice told her. Then the White Dragon sat up and bowed her head respectfully towards Hinata. Hinata curtsied in return. Hinata was about to ask her Dragon a question before Sasuke burst into the room.
