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Birthday
Hoshi POV
It's morning now. I just heard Nii-san yell and Nobuyuki for something. I bet he was trying to follow and learn jutsus again. Nii-san just is always yelling saying Nobuyuki is too young to learn any jutsus. I think Nii-san is just getting stressed because today is our birthday.
Every year on our birthday we go over to the Hyuuga complex and see our grandfather. He's very strict with me since by Okaa-sama is supposed to be the leader of the Hyuuga clan. But when she was younger they thought she was weak so she couldn't be the leader. Now I am always competing with my cousin Masaki. My aunt Hanabi has a little girl and she's fighting to make her be the heir. Her name is Hikari. (a/n: lol I couldn't resist! Hikari means light, sticking with the Hyuuga's obsession with names about sun!) I understand why all of our parents are making us fight against each other. We know that once my grandfather picks an heir the others are going to be banished to the branch family. Hikari is mean and would use the caged bird seal on us. Masaki could be nice but Okaa-sama says he's like his father. Which I guess means he's anti fun half of the time.
But every year for our birthday grandfather always acts kind until it's time to see how strong I am. I always try to do my best and it will seem like he's happy but I really can't tell. But then Nii-san will try and show how strong he is but will always be ignored. And after that Nii-san always trains even harder and yells at me for usually about a week. I don't mind it now. I'm used to it.
Now I hear Nobuyuki crying. I hear him running down the hall getting closer to my room. I turn over and lie on my bed and hope he'll think I'm still asleep. Suddenly the door bursts open and I brace myself so I'm ready when Nobuyuki tackles the bed and starts shaking me.
"Nee-chan! Nii-san won't let me train with him and he keeps yelling at me!" he yells right in my ear. I gently push him away and sit up as Haku comes in.
"Why can't you help him a little? He'll struggle to learn it and leave you alone." I tell Nii-san.
"I can't train if he's there! He'll just annoy me! This year I'll show everyone that I really am stronger than you Hoshi!" he yells at me. He walks over to my bed and sits on it with Nobuyuki and me. While the two of them have a staring contest I start to try and gather all my stuffed animals back onto my bed after my brothers threw them as they came in. I only have one stuffed animal that I really care about and that's my stuffed Kyuubi plushie. I got it when I was really little. When Otou-sama told me that the real demon was sealed inside of me at first I was scared of it. But now sometimes it can be the only friend I have to talk to. Especially when Nii-san is mad at me. I sit back on the bed hugging my doll when Nii-san looks at me. He freezes and his eyes widen with fear.
"N-Nii-san, are you ok? What's wrong?" I ask. He shakes his head and runs out.
"Oi! Nii-san! Matte!" Nobuyuki yells as he follows Nii-san out of my room. I just sit here and hug my doll closer. I don't understand, what made Nii-san run away? I get up and get dressed into my usual clothes. A pink t-shirt and a black skort. I brush my hair, which goes down to my shoulder blades. When it's down like this everyone says I look like Okaa-sama when she was a chuunin. Her hair is really long now and I want my hair to be like that too. She thinks I should keep my hair short since that's what she did when she was my age. I pull it back into two low pigtails and run out of my room to go to the kitchen where I can hear Nobuyuki yelling. I meet Nii-san as we're walking to the kitchen since his room is right next to mine. He got dressed in his usual dark blue jacket left open with a white shirt under it and kaki shorts.
"Nii-san, are you ok? What happened earlier?" I ask.
"O-Oh, it's nothing…" he says and smiles and he drags me into the kitchen. We walk in and there are two huge piles of presents waiting for us. We both charge and are about to start opening them until Otou-sama catches us and gets us away from the presents.
"You two will have to wait, sorry I know it must be hard." He tells us and smiles. Haku starts arguing and Okaa-sama comes in with Nobuyuki following close behind.
It was a good birthday I thought. I got a lot of toys and Haku was happy that he got some scrolls to teach him some jutsus. He got upset though when Nobuyuki tried stealing the scrolls. It was fun. Until Okaa-sama told us to go change into formal clothes so we could go to the Hyuuga complex. I very reluctantly went back to change into some training clothes and then put a yellow kimono on over it. I tried hiding there and didn't come out until Okaa-sama came in a dragged me out. Nii-san was already looking serious. I just hope he doesn't hate me after this.
Haku POV
We're walking over to the Hyuuga complex now. I smile at Hoshi because she is looking really nervous. I understand that. I would be too if I was her. Because today was the day that I would beat her and show everybody that I'm better than my annoying sister! I'm not going to let her show me up anymore. If I beat her the Hyuuga clan would have to acknowledge me. It was the first step to be acknowledged by everyone.
When we got there grandfather was already serious. Which was unusual because he normally fakes caring about us and then sees how strong Hoshi is. He and Otou-sama glared at each other before grandfather signaled for us to follow him. We did and he led us to one of the dojos for the main house. He sat down and Hoshi changed into her training clothes.
"Don't worry Hoshi, you'll be fine." Okaa-sama tells her and it makes her look a little more confident. I just sit next to Otou-sama and Nobuyuki and watch as Hoshi stand in the middle of the room. Grandfather got up and stood in front of Hoshi and looked down at her, meeting her eyes. She looked up at him and activated her Byakugan. Grandfather activated his too. It amazes me that Hoshi actually had a lot of potential with her Byakugan. She doesn't use it much so I forgot how strong her kekki genki is. She takes her fighting stance and almost jumps when grandfather takes his.
"I won't be using real jyuuken. But I want you to use all of your strength." He tells her. She nods and they actually start sparring. A lot of Hoshi's attacks were blocked but the ones that weren't were very effective. She was hitting him and he actually was having slight difficulty countering. I start to tense up as I watched them fight. Seeing Hoshi like this reminds me of one thing. Even thought we're siblings and have trained together we still never really sparred before. Okaa-sama thinks we're too young so she won't let us but I bet Otou-sama would let us. But I wonder if I could really beat her of we did. If she's actually having a pretty good sparring match with the leader of the Hyuuga clan, I wonder if I could beat her with my current jutsus.
They finally stop when Hoshi is breathing heavily. Grandfather smiles for a second and nods his approval.
"She has great potential. She will rise through the ranks of shinobi very quickly when she becomes a Genin." He says which makes Hoshi smile. Otou-sama nods and Okaa-sama hugs Hoshi. Nobuyuki and I just sit there. It always gets me angry when everyone is just praising Hoshi and completely forgetting about both Nobuyuki and me. He's annoying but he still should be ignored.
"With her strength now it won't surprise me if she becomes the top student in her class when she goes to the academy." Grandfather says.
"Well she won't." I say softly but everyone still hears me. I glare at my grandfather who's already glaring at me.
"I'm going to be the best shinobi. I can beat Hoshi if I want to I'm that strong!" I yell at them.
"Hoshi isn't that great! I could beat her in five minutes at the most. She's weak and nervous all the time. I'm never scared so I'm already a better shinobi than her!" I tell everyone. Suddenly I notice Hoshi. I thought she'd just cry or run to Otou-sama and get him to make me stop. Instead, she got into her fighting stance and was facing me. She didn't have her Byakugan activated though. I guess she thought she didn't need it.
"Hoshi, Haku, stop fighting. You two shouldn't spar." Okaa-sama tells us but is silenced.
"Actually, I think this is a good idea. I not only get to see more of Hoshi's strength I am curious to see how her brother is compared to her." grandfather says. I look up at him and nod. It was the first time he actually wanted to see me fight and I wasn't going to waste this moment.
I decide to try and catch her by surprise and charge at her. She quickly jumps out of the way and turns to hit me. She barely misses me and then makes a hand seal. I recognize it immediately and copy it.
"Kage-bunshin-no-jutsu!" we both yell as the sounds of small explosions from the clones fill the air. The smoke clears and three Hoshi's are running at me. I turn to see that my clones are dead. I still haven't mastered it. Hoshi's clones sped up and surrounded me. After that I felt something hit my back and everything went dark.
Dream
I woke up in that same place. It was the place from my dream. I wasn't sure how I got there. It wasn't genjutsu. So I knew Hoshi must have knocked me out. I yelled and punched the wall.
"Damn! I was so close! I could have beaten her! She cheated!" I yelled as I kept punching the wall. Suddenly I noticed someone watching me and laughing. It was that kid again. He was laughing at me.
"What the heck is your problem? Why are you laughing?" I asked. He just kept laughing.
"It's funny, you're so weak. Your little sister beat you in front of everyone." He said and laughed harder.
"Shut up! She cheated! That was a cheap trick and it's not my fault!" I yelled.
"She didn't cheat. I saw the fight. She easily beat you. You're lucky, she could have actually used Jyuuken and if she did that move would have killed you." The kid told me. I froze at the idea of Hoshi almost killing me. The kid started walking towards me. I couldn't see his face still but he had blood red spiky hair and was dressed in an outfit that looked a lot like mine but the colors were different. Instead of blue the jacket was black and so were the shorts. And the shirt that is normally white was red.
"You know, with my help. You could have easily beaten her. She and everyone else would finally see you as the better sibling. It would be an easy thing to accomplish if you do what I say." The boy said. My eyes widened as they kid told me I could beat Hoshi. But something wasn't right. It didn't seen right to just take someone else's power to get stronger.
"Thanks but no thanks. I'll beat her myself!" I told him. But he became upset.
"You'll never do it you damn weakling! That girl has an amazing kekki genki. Something a loser like you will never beat!" he yelled. He came even closer. He looked like he was going to punch me. But when he tried he was pushed back. Like some invisible force protected me.
"Damn you, if it weren't for the seal…" he said. I remembered him talking about a seal last time. It must be really bad since he wants it gone so badly. He staggered over to me.
"Release it. Let me be free and release the seal!" he shouted. I fell back but only was surrounded by darkness.
End of Dream
I woke up and realized I was back in my room at home. Otou-sama must have carried me. I sat up and looked around. Hoshi was sitting beside my bed but she fell asleep there. She was resting her head on my bed with her stupid Kyuubi plushie sitting next to her. She always carries the dumb doll around. As I pick it up the voice from the boy in my dream comes back.
"Release the seal. What does that mean anyway?" I whisper to myself. It scared me out earlier and it still creeps me out now. I don't know why, but Hoshi's doll just reminds me of the boy somehow. I don't like it. I have a bad feeling about it.
YAY! Ok I'm done! I'm sorry I've taken a while to get this up. I'm multitasking right now with a hell of a lot of projects going on. I have 2 papers, a concert coming up, and I REALLY need to pull up my Math and French grade. So yeah, kinda busy. Trying to write this and a new chapter for my other story. I'm trying but hey. At least I got this up! Thank you for reading my story it makes me happy. But what makes me happier are reviews so please review! Thank you!
