Sensuality From The Stars

A Hinata And Hanabi Harem Fanfic

Hello everyone! Tankou001 here with an all new chapter of Sensuality From The Stars! Got the last chapter done and had some good ideas pretty darn quick, actually! Let's hope they carry though this time around an I can get a couple of good chapters down as quick as possible. As you saw, Last chappie Hiashi Died! Rest In Pieces, Hyuuga Hiashi T_T

Chouji spoke to Hinata as he had never before and made his statements claiming his thoughts and the actions he swore to make in reaction to what Hinata had become. Tsunade was drained dry and put into intensive care.

Let's see what happens now!

Enjoy!

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Chapter Four: Disappearance, Regret and Changes

A month had passed since the Sannin, Tsunade, had been put into intensive care. The village, though on high alert, still functioned. Two people had been hit, though they were a minor Hyuuga member and a minor Inuzuka member. Still, it had caused some stir. Hyuuga Hanabi and Hyuuga Hinata were now officially laying lay. They were no longer against Tsunade. They were against several skilled ninja who, while none of them were quite the strength or skill of Tsunade individually, worked very well as a council and together made a force that the Hyuuga pair doubted even Tsunade could have fought against with any effectiveness by herself. To pile on the challenges, they had experience and had been given time to prepare. They couldn't be attacked as a group and, because they were just that; they, it was impossible to think all o them asleep at any given moment. Clearly they had shifts and those shifts were certainly ten steps ahead of the Hyuuga pair's. The two of them certainly could have used an ally in such times.

Hinata and Hanabi had given up completely on converting Chouji. However, there was little that worried them. Chouji no longer spoke. It wasn't that he didn't speak much or didn't speak to Hinata. He just didn't speak at all; not even a little, not even to Hanabi. The relationship between him and Hinata was non-existent; he simply chose to ignore that Hinata existed. His relationship with Hanabi had become something more like a sex object. Hanabi used him, laid next to him, snuggled up with him after activity. However, Hanabi didn't speak to him much anymore, as he had nothing to say back to her. She briefed him on the going on's of the outside world but he seldom seemed to register it. He'd given up hope.

Hinata stood outside Konoha with Hanabi, near the place where it had all started, where the stone had fallen in the waterfall basin. They looked at the stars, for what reason neither one knew. However, they knew that it was the place for them to stand. A twinkle, if only for a second, and then the falling of another earthbound stone, falling into the pool of water at the base of the waterfall. Hinata and Hanabi both smiled at this. They had been blessed with another stone. They had been given yet another blessing from the stars. Hanabi was the one who took the stone, giving the first back to her sister. Hinata spoke out. "You know, Hanabi, that the new stone is not yours nor mine to hold, right?" Hanabi nodded. "The new stone is to be given to a man. Of that the stone tells us. The one it pricks is the man who will take it." The stars had provided for Hanabi and Hinata. Too far had they gone alone. Now the Lavender Stone had bestowed upon them another tool, an exact duplicate of itself to enlist the aid of another. They didn't know who was to be he holder of the new stone but they knew that he would be shown in time.

The first eligible man, of course, had been Akimichi Chouji. Hanabi stepped in and showed Chouji the stone. Chouji, of course, said nothing. She reached out to him to get him to take it but he shook his head. Hinata watched from the next room, beyond the doorway. "Take it, Chouji-kun." Hanabi said, urging the stone on Chouji. Chouji shook his head again, his eyes hard but still caring. There was no fear, however, no attempt to turn her, no intimidation. Hanabi grabbed his hand and forced it open, shoving the stone into Chouji's palm. Chouji looked down at the stone and then back up at Hanabi with a look of hurt. He threw the stone against the wall then.

Needless to say, Hanabi reacted violently. However, there was no striking Chouji. She pushed him down against the bed and mounted him angrily. She yelled at him to respect the stone and that it would bring hope and glory to the people of the world. Chouji just laid back on the bed as Hanabi cried, yelled and kept going her pace for hours and hours, bringing the Akimichi to Climax several times but not warranting his speech or any sound from him. In the end he lay unconscious, so worn out from Hanabi's assault that he could hardly breath. Hanabi stepped from the room, her face cold and blank, the new stone in hand. She shook her head and walked away from the door to the exit of the underground apartment. Hinata wasn't sure what to do but, as she looked in on Chouji, who breathed heavily on the bed, she thought on how things used to be, if only for a moment. She missed those times somewhat, though she was much too far into the project to turn back. Why would she, though. She left Chouji a bit of food by the bed and then left him alone in the apartment.

When she returned home she found the new stone on her bedside table. Maybe Hanabi hadn't wanted it just yet. Maybe it was for the best after the experience she had just had with Chouji. Maybe Hinata would be better off spreading the word with the new stone. A variety of other "Maybes" passed through Hinata's mind but she didn't bother with them. Strangely enough, Hinata noticed as she went to hide the stone, it didn't glow. The stone had no light coming from it, lavender or otherwise. Hinata looked at it for a moment. Still lavender in color, still rough but not overly so in appearance, like a gem stone that had been sawn out of place and hewn into a roughly spherical shape but certainly not polished down or put under a grinder for any amount of time. There were no particularly sharp edges on the stone, strangely enough. Sure they did come to something of a point but nothing that could have actually cut a person. Still Hinata was sure that, when the time came for the stone to deal it's prick to a man, just as hers had done with Hinata, it would prick him.

Still, there was no need to do anything else today. Hinata decided that it would be nice to just take a break for a change. Surely, if no further trails were made, they wouldn't be followed back to Hinata while she took the day off for a change and let Hanabi do what she liked, whether it be chasing down potential men for the stone or just dilly-dallied like her elder sister. They had all the time they needed. And, as the stone looked nothing more than a simple, albeit pretty rock, and as Hinata was a girl, a gender well known for their appreciation of pretty rocks, Hinata didn't even think to put it away. Nobody would question it. After all, it was just a pretty rock and Hinata, though a ninja, was just another girl with a fondness for pretty rocks, even beyond these otherwise abnormal circumstances.

Nothing out of the ordinary. Hinata would come to find her first worry free day in over as month.

Later that day, as Hinata read a book on her bed, her knees bent upward as she propped her head up on her hands, there was a knock on her door. "Visitors for you, Hinata-sama."

Hinata stood up quickly and straightened herself up, a little off guard by the sudden arrival. She hadn't been paying attention to her surroundings and hadn't been ready to have guests. Even still she had civilian clothes on, much different from her standard dress as a ninja of Konoha. She and Hanabi, in fact, had very little work as ninjas to do lately. As the last major members of Hyuuga they were not only accepted in doing but encouraged to stay home and out of danger and stress, better kept for personal business and daytime well wishing. They were given nothing but free time to move about the village to "observe" the populace and make appearances. If the people of Konoha saw that the leading members in Konohagakure No Sato's oldest established clan were moving about with them, devoid of fear and accepting their duty to freely move and reserve their power for the protection of the citizenry then the Hyuuga clan would come to benefit by it as well as the civilians. The precious heirs to the bloodline would help, in their natural ways, to bring the Hyuuga reputation even higher and the citizens would be comforted knowing that the Hyuuga were indeed looking after them.

Presently Hinata was wearing a pair of slacks and a shirt that hung loosely from her shoulders. Her trademark jacket hung over her shirt but it was still something that even her teammates wouldn't have seen too often. The door opened in not too long and Inuzuka Kiba walked in, followed closely by his gigantic canine partner, Akamaru. The growth that Kiba's partner had made in the time that Hinata had known him, which was easily over fourteen years, was fantastic in every manner. Akamaru was big enough that Kiba could ride him and Hinata suspected that adding Team 8 would have been very possible and Akamaru would have still been in no worry with a pack weighing roughly what Chouji did on the sides. He was truly a legend of canine descent, having to lower his head simply to get into Hinata's doorway, "Hey Hinata-chan. It's been so long since I got to see ya. How's it goin?"

Kiba was in his normal clothing, jacket and black pants. As any good guest he wasn't wearing his ninja sandals and Hinata noted that his toenails were filed to a claw-like point. Were they filed or did they just grow that way; Hinata couldn't tell. "I'm good..." Hinata said warily, standing next to her bed. Kiba didn't know, of course. However, she was still surprised. Then again Kiba had been next on Hinata's list. His mother and Hana were on the council. That was the most frightening thing. Surely he was being watched by the Anbu. The Inuzuka were the one of the only family's who's major branches hadn't been hit yet. They had suffered one loss but nothing on the grand scale of things. Their family was strong and, to a degree, numerous. "How are you doing?" Hinata's stuttering issue was, more or less, long gone. Even the people of Konoha didn't hear it from her more often than not. She had become a much better ninja with a lot more self confidence, even before the Lavender Stone came.

Kiba said, "I'm good, I suppose," A small frown showed on his face. "It's just all the security and everything. I finally got a bit of a break from them for once." Hinata relaxed. He wasn't on watch by the Anbu. He was just doing the same things Hanabi and her had been doing. He was working civilian runs. Hinata turned the other way momentarily to grab her book and put it in her dresser drawer. Kiba continued. "But I'm glad I get to finally see you again... sorry about your dad, by the way. I heard what happened to him. He was a good guy. Went out with a bang against that dirty scumbag that's been against us."Was that how Kiba thought of Hinata and Hanabi now? That they were scumbags. Hinata's eyes teared up slightly as she turned back to Kiba. She was remembering that night again. Her nightmares had shown her that scene many times. She just couldn't escape from it could she? Kiba noticed Hinata's tears and snapped back, "S-Sorry Hinata. I didn't mean to bring it up like that."

Hinata nodded and said, "It's alright. I've come to terms with my father's passing." She stared at the floor for a second, still feeling horrible.

Kiba smiled nervously. "Hey Hinata," Hinata looked at Kiba, "You know you can always turn to me for comfort, right?"

Hinata looked at Kiba. Her eyes softened even further and Kiba held his arms out. Hinata embraced her former teammate, crying in his arms for a bit. Afterward things felt much more even between the two of them. Kiba was really a good friend. Hinata had even forgotten about the stone and her troubles. "Thank you, Kiba." Hinata said as she parted from him.

"No problem," Kiba said, turning and noticing the stone which Hinata had forgotten, "Hey what's this thing." Kiba asked, reaching for it. "It looks really ni- Ow!" Kiba recoiled from the purple stone, which fell to the ground. A small droplet of blood ran down Kiba's finger.

Hinata remembered then. Whomsoever the stone pricked would become one of the followers. That had been Kiba? Hinata smiled inwardly as she stepped up to Kiba. "I'm sorry, let me help you with that." Hinata grabbed her first aid kit, which she kept in her room for any such occasion that it was needed. She had cut her fingers on paper reading before and other things like that. It was just good to have a bandage around when it was needed, just like this such time. Hinata sat Kiba down on her bed and cleaned the small cut off with an alcohol wipe. She put a bandage on it and looked up at Kiba, who seemed fine. A purplish hew showed on the tip of Kiba's index finger, spreading down from the small prick.

"I'm fine, really Hinata." Kiba said with a grin. "So, you know what happened to everyone else? " He asked, quieting his voice. However, Kiba's next question was cut short as Akamaru growled deeply. The pair turned to look at him and saw Akamaru was growling at Hinata. "Akamaru, what's wrong with you? You remember Hinata, right?" Akamaru barked loudly, the booming noise filling the room. "Hey!" Kiba exclaimed, "Keep it down boy. What's gotten into you?" Hinata backed off a bit as Akamaru continued to growl at her, advancing slowly. Had he figured it out where Kiba had not? Kiba stood in between the two. Akamaru barked some more and Kiba rose an eyebrow. "What do you mean, she's gonna get me? I'm feeling fine. You're acting cra... zy..." Kiba blinked and wobbled, hitting the ground hard shortly thereafter. Akamaru barked more and Hinata rushed him. Akamaru was going to attack her anyway now that Kiba had gone down. The massive dog dodged aside as Hinata sent an open handed strike at his face, recoiling and turning to run. He had an idea that Hinata couldn't comprehend. He was trying to get away!

Unfortunately for Hinata, however, Akamaru was a big dog, able to out pace her easily. Hinata recognized this, however, as the beast of a dog burst out her sliding door and out of the Hyuuga compound with all speed. Would he go back and tell the Inuzuka clan? Hinata made to follow but something grabbed her ankle. It was Kiba. He looked sickly. His hand was covered in lavender. Hinata recognized those symptoms. It wasn't too long. Hinata found that there could be a much easier way about these things. She helped Kiba onto her bed and let him lay down, sitting beside him. "Are you okay, Kiba?"

"W-What's happening to me?" Kiba gasped out as Hinata sat next to him.

"You'll see soon enough," Hinata answered as Kiba, "You're just being accepted by the Lavender Stone. It will help us make the world a better place." With that said Hinata took the new stone and put it in Kiba's hand, the one that now glowed purple with an intensity not too far different from when it had happened to Hinata. She knew what was to come next. Slowly, ever so slowly, Hinata began to shed her jacket and top off.

"Kiba said, "What are you-"

Shhh," Hinata cut him off, her finger pressing against his lips as she continued to disrobe slowly, tantalizingly. This, of course, could have been done faster. Hinata could have already been half way done getting Kiba off but she wanted him to initiate this, just as she had done with Shikamaru. Hinata knew that she could not be drained, that she was already on the side of the Lavender Stone. As Kiba lay to watch Hinata continued, slowly moving the clothes from her body, showing a bit more skin every few seconds to guide Kiba's eyes. Before long strong hands reached up and pulled her in.

Nothing like the just sickly Kiba was the Kiba that pulled her onto the bed and flipped her onto her hands and knees. Kiba quickly took care of whatever clothing Hinata had left on, disposing of his own almost a rapidly. Skillful ninja hands reached around Hinata's form, grabbing her breasts and pulling her close from behind. Hinata gasped in surprise. Sure she had suspected Kiba to initiate but he was so rough, so wild. His attention was on nothing but Hinata. It wasn't like the other men that Hinata had coupled with. Every time it had been Hinata doing the work, instigated a pairing. However, this time Kiba was the one pulling Hinata into the scene. Hinata had been willing, as all eventually became, but Kiba was certainly the one controlling the activity.

Hinata turned her head as she leaned backward against Kiba's masculine form and he took her mouth from her, his tongue attacking her own. His hands worked skillfully at her nether regions, making her gasp and moan in a husky voice. Hinata figured, if only for an instant, how lucky she was to be a head member of the Hyuuga instead of a branch member. After all, if they were in a branch member's room everyone would be able to see and hear this. Head Family members, however, got the privilege of having privacy, wooden walls and doors for soundproofing. That, after all, was just about as much privacy as one could get hen everyone's brothers and sisters and all of your relatives could literally see through walls.

Hinata's thoughts were cut short from her, however, as Kiba shoved her to the bed face first, her rear ready to accept Kiba's assault. He leaned don and began to lick Hinata's entrance. For once she felt what she believed the closest thing to love that someone like her would ever find. It was consensual on both sides, from the beginning, and all because the Lavender Stone had come. This must have been what love really felt like. Hinata blushed as Kiba's fingers invaded her. It was just foreplay but Hinata was soaked, eager to make things go further but not daring to urge her lover, not daring to pass up the techniques he had waiting for her. Kiba, Hinata knew, was not new to this sort of thing. He was, in fact, quite the playboy around Konoha. He doubtless knew many things for bed play that Hinata hadn't yet fathomed.

Before long Kiba turned Hinata around. His manhood stood erect before her and she wasted no time in taking the initiative by taking it in her mouth. It was heavy, swollen, delicious. She couldn't describe fully the satisfaction she felt in doing what she was but she certainly wasn't planning on stopping. Kiba lay below her as she sucked eagerly at the pole he had given her. Meanwhile, he worked similarly at her folds, licking them with a tongue that was far to skilled for any normal man. Maybe he really was part dog. Hinata would have laughed at this though if her mouth hadn't been full. Instead a loud moaning came from her as Kiba teased her, keeping her just before her falling out, the point of no return. Hinata couldn't express her frustration and yet, at the same time, she couldn't express the feeling it gave her. She was in near complete ecstasy constantly. It was definitely doing things to her head, definitely twisting her psyche. The again, what could she do about it? Kiba had full control of where she lie on the road to orgasm and right then all he wanted to do was dangle her two steps from her goal, so close and yet just out of her reach. It made Hinata sweat and drool trying to think about it.

"K-Kiba," Hinata said as she freed her mouth of Kiba's member for just a moment, "P-Please... I can't take it anym-" a moan cut Hinata's speech off. Every time she tried to get away, every time she tried to make herself reach climax Kiba pulled her in one direction or the other the opposite way. Kiba was trying to destroy her mind, this was for sure. Hinata realized that she had to fight back. Had this been what Shikamaru had been thinking the first night? Surely not. The circumstances were too different. Hinata covered Kiba's member with her lips again, sucking grandly on it, swirling her tongue around it. It throbbed against the back of her throat. Maybe, if she pushed just a bit more. Hinata lowered her head just a bit, forcing her own limits to make Kiba reach his own. It paid off well. Kiba grunted and Hinata felt a stream of hot, thick liquid pour into her throat. Finally Kiba eased up on the lips that he had been kissing. Hinata withdrew and swallowed hard, trying to keep it all down. Little spurts of white dabbed against her face as she swallowed, Kiba's member still very active for the treatment it had just gotten. "I thought I was going to pass out," Hinata said quietly, looking at the still hard member that she had just serviced.

But the heat was still inside her. Kiba had taken her too close to her limit and, as he straightened up a bit, getting out from under Hinata, the raven haired woman got on her hands and knees and wiggled her rear at him, ready to accept that hard member in a different hole than her mouth. Her velvet folds ached with desire, wanting only to swallow Kiba's member as her mouth had. Kiba smiled as he stood behind Hinata, next to the bed. "Just how I like it, Hinata." Kiba wasted no time in letting his manhood gradually sink deep into the depths of Hinata's entrance. She felt coming what she had long been waiting for; release. As Kiba slowly drew out Hinata cooed softly, feeling every inch of his length within her. As he slid slowly back in she bit her lip. He was doing it again. It was so slow, grinding against her like a drill that could have done the job faster but slowed to tantalize and tease. Hinata found herself drooling again, Kiba's slow but effective thrusts bringing her just to he edge and then poking her to make her jump without holding any force behind the push. She couldn't fall by herself and the assailant that was pushing her wasn't pushing hard enough. It was driving her crazy.

However, eventually, after what seemed hours of slow, teasing thrusts Kiba sped up. Hinata gave a called of lust and, with the next thrust, it happened. Hinata was no stranger anymore to reaching climax. She had attained orgasm before and it had been wonderful but the feeling Kiba gave her was like nothing else. She shook bodily and her arms gave out, her face hitting the cushion. The results were like the breaking of a dam. Electricity coursed through Hinata's body as liquid flowed like water from her entrance. She could feel Kiba's soaked member leave her, if only for a moment, before sliding back into her still sensitive opening, making her shudder in pleasure. Sometime afterward she passed out.

When Hinata awoke she could tell that her consciousness had not been Kiba's limit. The area between her legs ached from use and she could feel his seed inside of her, almost too much. She looked at the disaster area that was her bed. Fluids of almost every kind covered her sheets. White spots and dark areas where sweat, saliva or sexual fluids had been spilled covered the blankets. Kiba sat at the foot of her bed, his Lavender Stone in hand. "Kiba?" Hinata spoke slowly, groggily

"You awake?" Kiba asked in return

"Un," Hinata muttered, sitting up straight. Her skin was still damp from their coupling, her hair wet with sweat. She felt naughty being so unclean. It turned her on a bit. "Have you found the wonders of the Stone, Kiba?"

"I honestly don't know how I'd never thought of it before It's such a good idea." Kiba looked into the stone for a bit more before turning to Hinata Kiba said, "I want to know more."

Hinata smiled and leaned against Kiba, who was also still a bit damp from their coupling. Her supple breasts pushed against his back. "I'll teach you." She stretched up and kissed Kiba on the cheek.

Elsewhere...

Hanabi was probably the only one who had seen Kiba and Hinata's coupling. She had been the only one to think of peering into the room with her byakugan. Nobody else would, after all, think of spying on the new heads of the Hyuuga, now that Hiashi was gone. It filled her with doubt, it filled Hanabi with jealousy as well. Chouji had stopped talking to her in the past month. He had stopped talking entirely. What had happened to the old Chouji, who tried so hard and spoke so sweetly to Hanabi? She had thought he had loved her and, dare Hanabi even fathomed it, that se was beginning to fall in love with him.

Presently she walked toward the apartment where Chouji stayed, a bag in her hand that had some new food for him. Sure Chouji had enough food to sustain himself but Hanabi had ridden him pretty hard earlier that day. She felt bad that she had lashed out at him. After all, Chouji was just trying to do what he thought was best, even if it differed from Hinata and Hanabi's thoughts. She opened the door and let it seal behind her. Then the second door opened to the apartment proper. Hanabi stepped into the bedroom first, not seeing Chouji. Hen she moved to the kitchen, then the pantry and checked the bathroom. She looked everywhere, even resorting to using her byakugan to scan what she could of the apartment. Chouji obviously couldn't know all of the hiding places. According to Hanabi's sight, however, Chouji was gone.

As Hanabi stepped back into the bedroom and looked at the bed, the place where she and Chouji had coupled so many times, tears came to her eyes For what she believed the very first time in her life, more so even than when her father had died, Hanabi cried. A month past Chouji had been around to accept her crying and hold her tight in his arms while she mourned the loss of her father. He had become the next most important thing to her and now, like the impossible reaching out and slapping her in the face, he was gone. Only him, not even his clothes having been taken with. Hanabi tried hen, to find a trail. There was none. She called Chouji's name time and again but he didn't come. She prayed to whatever gods may have been out there to bring him back, she pleaded the universe replace him to her side. Nothing happened.

"He said he would leave..." Hanabi muttered into the pillow where Chouji had once laid his head, breathing deep through her nose his scent, "And he promised he would take me with him..." She continued weakly. "Why have you left me... Chouji-kun?" Hanabi continued to cry, her heart broken. She had secretly wanted Chouji to do what he had promised, to escape and take her away where all of this horrible nonsense could never reach her. It had been so tiring and that had been her last bit of hope. But who was she to deny the Stone's wisdom? Despite all her trying, Hinata had been right. He stone couldn't be fought. The right decisions were too well hewn into Hanabi's mind. The only way that she could have found escape was to be taken from the equation involuntarily. Chouji had been the one to promise that and he had not delivered. Gradually, as Hanabi thought on why, how, she realized one thing. Chouji wasn't coming to help her Nobody could keep the stone and her from being connected. Hanabi gave in and, as a result, her mind regressed. She became again the Ice Princess of Konoha. There was no place for love in this world, only the lust imparted by the stone and the truths it spoke.

She stood and stepped out of the apartment Hinata would need to know as soon as possible what was happening. Now that they had Inuzuka Kiba on their side they would become much stronger, much more able to impart the wisdom of the Stone to others.

Meanwhile!

There was a light. The eyes of Akimichi Chouji opened slowly, squinting in the light. What had happened. Hanabi had ridden him until he passed out and then... he couldn't say. As he opened his eyes further figures became more clear; Akimichi Chouza, Rock Lee, Nara Shikaku, Akamaru. They stood over him, concern even in the canine eyes of Akamaru himself. "Chouji?" Chouza spoke out, "Son, can you hear me?" Chouji nodded slowly. "Oh Kami, thank you!" Chouza cried, leaning down and embracing his son, though perhaps a little to tightly for Chouji's comfort. Still, Chouji didn't speak. He hadn't spoken in a month, why start?

The atmosphere instantly became more lax. As Chouji levered himself to a sitting position, albeit with some effort, he looked around. Ino sat at the far side of the room, her eyes sad. Chouji had long ago heard of what had happened to her father, Inoichi. Perhaps Ino hadn't yet gotten over it. Chouji didn't blame her. "Feel a little better now that you're out of that dungeon?" Shikaku asked, a smile stretching over his face. Glad we got you out of there." Chouji nodded. "Don't feel like talking, Chouji?" He shook his head. "That's alright. We won't rush ya. It's all a little too troublesome, if you ask me. Can't believe it was Hinata and her sister. Hiashi's death was what surprised us the most... But we guess he took himself out of the picture more than them. "Chouji nodded again. He kenw intimate details behidn the experience, albeit secondhand through Hanabi.

Chouji's eyes went wide. Hanabi! He had to go back and get her. Chouji made to sand, the blanket that covered him falling off as he tried to get up. Everyone put hands on him and Akamaru's weight was the final push to get the younger Akimichi back on the bed. Lee said, "You must regain your strength, Chouji-kun! This isn't the time for heroics! We have to make a plan."

Chouji let himself be laid down back on the bed and covered with the blanket. "You probably want to know where are at least, right?" Chouza asked. Chouji hesitated, then nodded. "We're in the Jungle Country right now, three countries over from the Fire Country. His is the new base of operations for the Anti Hinata and Hanabi front." Chouji's mind reeled at the thought of it all. Was he really so far away? He motioned for paper and pen, making scribble motions with his left hand. Ino came up with a piece of paper and pen more quickly than Chouji could have guessed she would have. Her eyes were swollen, puffy. She had been crying a lot.

On the paper Chouji wrote, I need to tell you everything. Everyone gathered round. Chouji wrote slowly but nobody rushed him. He explained his choice to stop speaking. He explained what had happened and why it was happening, what Hinata and Hanabi wanted to do, what they had done. He wrote everything down. Words had been take from Chouji's lips forever, he explained, but he had alternatives. Over the course of days he recorded everything he knew and all he had speculated. Nobody inquired for him. They trusted that Chouji, who's mind had been sharp and open for the past month, would cover everything they wanted to know, ever tidbit of knowledge he had about this Lavender Stone.

Eventually, however, Chouji wrote I need to leave. They asked him why, almost in unison. Chouji wrote, I have things that need doing. I have been waiting years for this and it's about time I will take the chance. We are outmatched. Hinata and Hanabi are better than you know and they could have secrets hidden even from me. I need to train and I need you all to keep as strong as possible. Wait three years. We will win this battle if you can wait.

Chouji moved out that night. He had found out that Lee had been the one to pull him out. He had been the first to find out that Hinata and Hanabi were the root of the attacks. Without Rock lee the silent Akimichi would have still been stuck in the hidden apartment. He took a week to get to Konoha. He took the long route, the confusing ones. He covered his trails so that nobody could make their way back to the Jungle Country to overthrow the resistance. He didn't wear his armor anymore. E wore a pair of fur pants and nothing else. He wouldn't be needing that old armor anymore. His life as Akimichi was ending this night. As he snuck into the village Chouji made his way back to the old Akimichi compound. Lesser Akimichi members still lived and thrived there but the main house, where Chouji had lived with his family, was empty. Where his mother and seven younger sisters had gone, Chouji couldn't say. He was sure they were fine.

As he slunk into his room, quiet as the air that flowed through the windows he heard a voice. The voice said, "Bout time you came back, Big Guy." Chouji turned to see Kiba standing at the doorway. "How did I know it?" Chouji turned away. He had known that Kiba had fallen. That was why Akamaru had fled. "Not feeling so talkative?" Kiba asked as he stepped up behind Chouji while the Akimichi starting turning the knob on a safe he kept his valuables in. "Trying to buy time and get something in there? Whatya got to keep me away, a gemstone? I know that's just a money safe, buddy. They've looked into it already. You won't get anything from there that could fight me off."

Kiba squat next to Chouji looking at him as he worked on the combination, the ten part combination that kept the one thing Chouji really cared about safe. He money was nothing anymore but there was something behind all the gems and piles of ryo that Chouji really needed. He paid Kiba no mind. There was no time. "You really wanna see your money before we capture you again, don't ya Big Guy?" Kiba laughed. "Didn't think you were so materialistic. Just so you know, I ate all your chips." Chouji did nothing. Chips were a luxury Chouji would never know again. He hoped Kiba was dense enough to not understand what Chouji was trying to do until it was too late. Kiba liked talking and Chouji had certainly stopped so he trusted Kiba to run at the mouth and let Chouji do what he needed to before attacking. By then Chouji would be gone.

The lock finally clicked and the door began to ope. Kiba made a whistle of interest and looked inside. "You got a lot of stuff in there. No wonder you wanted to see it first before we took ya, big guy. That ruby's as big as a peach. Well, you saw your hoard. How about we bring you back to little Nabi-chan. She really misses ya." Tempting as this was Chouji knew better. Kiba's hand placed itself on Chouji's shoulder as he reached into the safe. "Come on Big Guy, lets get go-"

Chouji had reached his goal, grabbed it in hand and swung back, catching Kiba in the nose with a fist all too large to take in a surprise strike. Kiba recoiled and hit the floor, holding his nose in pain "You bastard! I was gonna let you go but it's too late now! Get 'im guys"

Chouji looked around as, from the very walls themselves, burst in wolves. Kiba stood with a grin as the wolves attacked from all sides. Chouji just gave a smile and tossed a note to the ground. He showed a pendant and broke it. Then, with a burst of chill are, was gone, just as the wolves smashed into each other where he had been. The note read, Tell Hanabi I'll come back for her. Tell Hinata I'll fulfill my oath.

Kiba looked at the letter and, angrily, tore it to shreds. How had he let that fatass go?

In A Distant Land

Chouji appeared, covered in snow and ice. Cold bit at him and before him stood tall a great figure, taller than any man. "Years past you had been given a pendant granted to you by the Polar Tribe, Cub." The figure spoke, his booming voice deep and gruff, old as the oceans and mountains. "Now you come to us through that pendant to accept the training we had offered you." Chouji nodded, falling to his knees and putting his forehead to the ice that he knelt on. The gruff voice chuckled before saying, "You have seen some sights in the past weeks that no human should ever see. I cannot train you now as the human that you were born as, though I may have agreed to it if you had come even a month ago." Chouji rose his head, confused.

The voice said, as the darkened figure began to take shape in the surrounding blizzard. "You have lost your humanity. You have two choices. Fight the beast and try to stay a human being, as you were born, or embrace your silence, your hate, your memories. Become a true member of the Polar Clan. Leave your people behind and become one of us. Marry into our clan, accept our gifts, learn our language and blend with the spirits of our past to become what we are now."

The great figure finally cleared the white-out veil and came into full view, sanding tall over Chouji. It was a polar bear of astronomical size and ferocity. Great black armor covered it's back and body. "Will you forget the human world, forget everything you have ever bee taught by humans and leave them behind to stew in your mind and produce the power within you to motivate you toward your goals. You will never speak human again. You will never eat human food again or make love as humans do. You will view them as much wild animals as they view us. Can you do this, Cub?"

Chouji thought on it hard for a moment. He thought and thought and thought some more but only one answer came to him. Gravely, the former Akimichi nodded. He would cease becoming Akimichi Chouji. He would become something entirely different. Even past his shivering he could nod with strength.

"Then stop your shivering, Cub!" The great bear called out angrily. "Your home is now Hyōga Sanmyaku! We have much to teach you and you have twenty-four years of useless human tricks to forget! Get yours paws moving and follow me! The time for you to become the beast man has passed! You will become a ancient bear, as the Beast Man fought against before the siring of our clan!" And so, with complete abandon, Chouji walked after the great figure of a polar bear and into he halls of the Capital of The Polar Clan. His time in humanity was over. His time as a Polar Entity was about to begin.

{HR}

There ya go! Another chappie in the bag! I've noticed that, as I've kept going with this fic, the story has become progressively darker. The characters, due to the events of the fic, have left behind their normal canon selves, who I normally try hard to keep intact, and slipped into a much darker personality, each and every. Hinata had become the scheming anti-heroine of our story while Kiba has become the witty and sly beast in the dark. Chouji is very quickly sliding into the role of the brooding hero who has left behind everything for the chance at bringing Hinata down while The Ice Princess Of Konoha has slid from logical knowhow to heartbroken hatred for all things human. The characters are sliding down a continually darkening path from which return is impossible. We'll see what happens in the future when Hinata and Hanabi seek to continue bringing out the power of The Lavender Stone and what will happen to Chouji in his new life amongst the Polar Clan.

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