((A/N: -.-' Don't kill me!! I meant to update sooner, really! T.T
I'm kinda upset, I wanted this chapter to be kinda dark but at times it was more comedic… T.T Mou, now I'm losing my dramatic touch!!
Aw well, please enjoy!
Muse-chan out!))
Darkness
Rotting Inside
Hinata stared blankly at the roof of her bedroom.
Hours, days, she'd spent obeying Naruto's command to stay in. She hadn't seen heads or tails of him since then.
It still amused her though; that she'd sincerely thought Naruto was a girl before he presented himself before her the other night. She giggled slightly at the thought but sobered up quickly.
She sat up and looked about the room. It was messy and odd; there was a bunk bed and a twin bed nearby. A broken fan on the roof that clothes hung off of, a vanity with a smashed mirror, if you looked close enough you could see some writing in lipstick on it… you could also see some writing in blood.
Hinata's stomach churned and she looked towards the window.
She would be betraying the Kyuubi demons trust if she left. She didn't know him well, but at least he wasn't one of the violent ones… she didn't want to make him her enemy.
She couldn't sleep. Not without smelling the night air, just a little. But if she opened the window just a crack the seal would be jeopardized…
Her gaze flittered to the lone closet in the room. It was ransacked. Everything in there was.
Why, considering there were three different beds in the room, did she sleep on the puny couch?
Her gaze lingered on the twin bed, there was a wooden box, blankets, some clothes, and other random knickknacks spread on top of it.
She shivered at involuntarily. She couldn't sleep there. Never. She couldn't even touch it.
'I want to get out! I want to leave!' she wished she could believe that was her own thoughts.
She squeezed her eyes shut and curled into a ball. She couldn't leave tonight, not when Karin was echoing through her mind, pretending to be her.
Karin still hadn't accepted that they were trapped for all eternity. Luckily, she wasn't one of the few that knew how to break the seal.
Hinata laughed bitterly and lay back onto the couch, the springs tired of fighting back and slowing not even creaking anymore.
It was funny, really, how many thought that you could break the seal easily. They knew Hyuuga blood sealed it. That was common knowledge.
What they didn't seem to realize was that the Hyuuga's weren't dumb enough to make a one layer seal that would dissipate if the Hyuuga line dried up.
What kind of fool would make a seal as moronic as that?
The seal was composed of countless layers and endless impossible tasks to endure before you could even make a dent in it.
Hinata's death was only one of a large series.
They also think that you just have to kill the Hyuuga, anytime or anywhere.
Hinata still couldn't believe that demons of all things could be so naïve.
Once again, the Hyuuga's were not quite that foolish.
Hinata couldn't be killed within the seal. As long as she remained in the house, though she could bleed and suffer, she cannot die.
She almost wished she could though.
Her stomach churned again, she needed to go outside… would the speaker of the Oath be back? Would he really attack her?
Without realizing she had begun to stand.
She was touching the sliding glass window before she realized what she was doing.
'I need to go…'
It was her own voice this time; her head throbbed with the thought.
"Don't. Hinata, don't."
It wasn't Naruto's voice and she really didn't care to place the voice.
"I…I—I need to." Hinata wanted to get out so badly.
She felt a ghostly hand on her own.
"Don't Hinata. Someone is playing a game."
Hinata turned tear filled eyes to the one stopping her.
"I'm rotting!" Hinata cried.
Kankurou closed his eyes painfully, he couldn't deny the truth.
Hinata clenched her fist. She knew the ghost before her was right, but she wanted to leave so badly…
"Why are you before me? Why did the Kyuubi demon show himself to me earlier? What's going on?"
For the creatures she lived with to contact her, something deadly serious must be going on.
Kankurou didn't look like he was going to tell her.
"Someone is preparing the seal in the backyard."
Kin entered the room easily; Hinata had no time to marvel over the cat demon showing herself though.
Hinata's eyes widened, "P-preparing the se-seal?!"
Hinata's legs buckled below her and she sat on the messy floor.
"W-who…?!"
"We don't know."
Hinata felt tears beginning to form, someone… someone was trying to get to Hanabi. She clenched her fist. The tears were spilling but not one of grew from sadness.
Hinata was shaking in fury.
Someone was trying to destroy what her sister died for!
"Neechan… Hinata. Don't die… don't worry…"
Hinata had never before in her life felt absolute bloodlust, but she certainly felt it now.
"Where?" Hinata's voice was cold.
"We don't know." And Kin left, along with Kankorou.
Who would try to break the seal again?
The Oath speaker?
No… he wasn't strong enough. And he didn't have the motive.
Hinata's eyes slid closed.
'Who…?'
"Whispered words without defeat…" Hinata's voice held venom she previously wouldn't have thought herself capable of, "…who is it that I seek…?"
Hinata's eyes snapped open.
Old. Someone who knew the old methods.
Were they old themselves?
Hinata scrunched her eyebrows, the spell was fading… she couldn't see her target.
Old. Very old.
A murderer.
They've killed every type of creature Hinata could imagine.
They've killed Hyuuga.
They're using blood for their spell too, but who's…?
Rats. They're using rats.
Her eyes widened further as horror donned.
They were using rats from the house.
"H-how?!" she choked accidentally.
Her throat constricted when she realized her mistake.
The spell was being used against her.
"Who is this…?"
It was a sickeningly smooth voice.
'No… no… I have to get him out of my head. He'll kill me from the inside.'
Yes, it was impossible to kill her within the frame of the house, which is why she knew what sort of curse he was going to put on her.
You can't live through a curse like that and ever forget the pain.
"Is it a little witch…?"
Oh no…
He was going to probe her mind for information first!
Hinata ground her teeth.
"Monkeys! Soulless monkeys dancing with candycanes and hairbrushes because frogs are green and paper is smelly! A beagle flying like a kite with all its might because I like pie and there was this monkey that flew around and dropped coconuts on my poor town!"
Hinata ended this speech by bashing her head against the window hard enough to give herself a concussion.
In the moments before she was able to think clearly at all, she'd managed to hit the floor.
When she was back to her senses she heaved a sigh of relief. She'd rid herself of him.
"I-I still don't understand how th-that works as a self defense…" Hinata shook her head, the theory was, that if someone was invading your mind the basic self defense was to jumble it.
Minds are like mazes as they are, but when you confuse it, it can be nearly impossible to navigate.
That was the theory anyway.
Hinata rubbed her now sore head, even if it was necessary to blind her mind with pain for a few seconds… she sighed, the bump on her head would take some time to go away.
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Sasuke couldn't help but glare darkly at the night air.
This. Sucked.
The small talking fox in front of him sent him a look, "No need to be so glum."
"Why the hell shouldn't I be upset?! I've been cursed!" Sasuke yelled at the small fox, the fox remained impervious.
"You were cursed before I showed up, you do realize that right?"
Sasuke's eye twitched, "That was a curse I chose of my own free will! This is different!"
The fox grinned, "You chose this one too, you know. You really should have listened to master when he said to stop stalking the girl."
Sasuke's eye twitched, he hated Kyuubi demons.
And now, he was cursed with a Kyuubi demon as a babysitter.
((Ending Notes: Monkeys… XD I hope you all enjoyed, sorry for the delay!
O.o I just re-read the last chapter… sooooo many typos! x.x I am so ashamed!
-Muse-chan really trying to do her homework but still failing miserably.))
