Chapter Six: Paths we choice.

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She has made up her mind; she'll be going with the other Konoha 11. Hinata haven't told the other Shinigami yet, but she will tell them soon enough. To her, she felt like it was part of her job. Since all of Konoha thought she was alive, it was only reasonable she'll go with the others.

Looking at Miyurie, Hinata knows that she would accept the news a lot easier then the others. Taking a deep breath, Hinata walked up to her. She has been her teacher for the most part and they have created a special bond.

"Miyurie-sensei," Hinata got her attention. Miyurie looks over at pale-eyed kunoichi, waiting for her to finish. "I'm going with the others to stop Sasuke," she blurted out.

"I guess you're not the only one," Miyurie sighed. Hinata looked up at her. "Reki is going with Nagato back to Amegakure. He seems to trust her more. Miaka-chan and I will be staying here in the meantime. We need to watch out for hollows."

"So you're not angry or going to stop me?" Hinata blinked a few times, not sure if this was a trick or not.

"Hinata, you're like a little sister to me. I don't want you to go but if I did that it would be unfair for your friends," Miyurie smiled at her. "Besides, you need to kick butt!"

Hinata blinked a few times, "I do?"

"D*** straight you need to kick butt," Miyurie begins to get into it. "You need to find this Sasuke and kick his butt so hard that his grandchildren would inherit the pain! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"

"H-hai," Hinata was very unsure and very scared.

"Good, because someone needs to teach that boy a lesson or two," Miyurie crossed her arms. She learned about Sasuke via Hinata but mostly from Itachi who'd talked about his little brother.

A knock interrupted them. Reki was the first to get the door. Her voice didn't raise or lowered. There was no indication on who was at the door. All that they heard was come in from Reki. Obviously it was somebody that she didn't think pose a great threat to her or to the others. Two pairs of footsteps echoed through out the house.

Reki appeared in the door way, "Hiashi is here to see Hinata."

'Since when did Reki-san start calling my father by his name without any formalities?' Hinata thought.

"Hinata," Hiashi sits in front of her. "I heard from Neji that you're going."

"Hai otu-sama," Hinata conformed.

Miyurie didn't know what to do. She felt nervous around Hiashi. She just looked between the two Hyūga, not knowing what to do or to say.

"I want to go," she told her father truthfully. "I want to prove myself."

"I don't want you to go."

"Otu-sama," she looked at her father. She lightly touched his hand, "I know it's dangerous but that's a life of a ninja."

"Why?"

"I don't know but it feels like I suppose to go," she smiles at him. "I have others to look out for me. Even if I don't fight, at least I can help."

That doesn't what she felt. Even with her training, she still feels like a burden and only will get in the way.

"Don't joke," he told her. "You can barely fight against an S-rank criminal."

"She will be useful," Miyurie couldn't take it anymore. "Someone once told me that the wallflowers are the ones to be feared. They would surprise you in many other ways. Besides she'll make a great spy."

Miyurie's voice quivered, she wasn't all too sure about what she said. While she said it she couldn't believe her ears. Miyurie never had been this brave since she told Toshiro that she would be a strong Shinigami and she would prove it to him. Reki just stared at her throw her clothe. She was about to say something but Miyurie seemed to steal the words out of her mouth.

"How dare you…"

"She is right you know," Reki spoke up. "The wallflowers seem to be the better spies. But that doesn't mean Hinata can't fight. She could stand her ground if need be."

He whips his head around to see the ebony-haired woman to his left. Something wasn't right with her. Her own aura seemed too old for the body. The woman's chakra system seemed to be older. It doesn't settle with him. The silvered-eyed woman was the same.

"Otu-sama, is something wrong?"

He turns to his daughter, "no nothings wrong."

Hiashi was raised to be polite but he could be blunt when the time calls for it.

"We've got the idea that our chakra system is different," Reki told him.

"What do you think that?" he didn't even look at her.

"Just a hunch," Reki responded.

"Akiyama," Miyurie slyly told her, "I didn't know you have hunches. You, the all knowing, never say that. Are you sure your our little Kage no Akiyama?"

"Y…"

"Otu-sama," Hinata finally stopped them before it gets into another sarcastic fight. "I'll have Neji with me and the others."

Hiashi looks at his daughter one more time. He sighed. This argument is over. Reki looked at him with an intense stare. Hiashi looked at Miyurie and then at Reki. They have brought Hinata back safely. She might have been convinced by them to go but that's unlikely. In his heart he knew that she made this discussion on her own.

"If you come back, I would like to talk with you," he told her.

He got up and left. Reki's body language told him that she would show him out but he bluntly refused. Hiashi didn't like her out of all three women. Out of the three women, he trusted the slivered-eye woman.

When he got home, he was greeted by Hanabi.

"Is she really going?" she asked him.

"Hai. It's getting late, go to bed."

"Hai otu-sama," Hanabi quickly got ready for bed.

Hanabi was worried about her older sister. She wasn't the strongest and she doesn't like fighting. She doesn't understand why Hinata was going with the others. It doesn't sound like her. She was curled up on her bed; her mind goes over it again. Hanabi couldn't get rid of the feeling that Hinata wasn't telling the whole truth. She wanted to get to the bottom of this and she'll get to it.

Early the next day, Hinata rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. The sun wasn't up to scare away the night yet. Hinata looked out her window to be greeted by the twinkling of stars. When she was little she thought that her mother was a star that smiles at her at night. Oh how wrong she was. Part of her wished that she would've stayed longer so she could find her beloved mother.

Prying herself away from the stars, she went to the kitchen to be greeted by Miyurie. She smiled at the young Hyūga. Hinata looked around to see a plate waiting for her. It was miso soup, an omelet, some toast and some rice.

"I was going to get you but I'm glad I waited."

"Where are…"

"Nagato and Reki left a few moments ago. Nagato wished you the best of luck."

'That's sweet of him,' she thought.

"Eat up," Miyurie told her. "You need the energy to beat the living day lights out of Sasuke."

"I know," she chews on a toast, "he needs a butt kicking."

She was still tired and her mind wasn't completely clear.

"True," Miyurie laughed. "So true," sighs. "I'm like you; I'm not a true morning person."

Hinata just chews on her toast.

"Reki is a true morning person. I'll guess that it is because she is such a light sleeper."

"She is?"

"I think so, if you live with Miaka-san as long as she has. You will be as paranoid and a very light sleeper liked Reki," Miyurie joked.

"I guess so," Hinata was surprised that she giggled with her.

"Like you will wake up in Hueco Mundo," she teased Hinata.

"Really?"

"Oh I'm joking. Besides, Reki would know what Miaka-san is up too," Miyurie informed her. "After all, she's 'the all knowing.'"

"What do you mean?"

"Reki told me that she doesn't know a lot things or not being update all the time. But she did tell me she knows what needs to be done. Being with a person who forgets what her original mission or gets carry away does that to you."

"Oh," Hinata puts down her toast. She looks up at the clock and notices the time. "I'm going to be late."

"Then hurry up," Miyurie got up. "I'll pack some things for you. Just eat!"

Miyurie made sure that Hinata had a good amount of Soul Candy, mostly with the new stuff that Urahara gave them. She packed some female stuff and extra clothes, medical supply and a glove with the skull symbol. This would help if she meets up with a reluctant soul.

"Here's your stuff Hinata-chan!" Miyurie runs towards the girl and handed her the bag.

"Arigatou," Hinata smiled. She wasn't dress yet.

She made her way to her assigned room and quickly got dress. Hinata hurried to the door not forgetting her bag. But before she left, someone touch her shoulder.

"Don't forget this," Miyurie handed her a Soul Phone. "Don't worry, it doesn't make a sound. It will vibrate when a hollow appears or when Reki or I text you."

Hinata looked at the phone then at Miyurie.

"We were going to use Hell Butterflies but if Yamamoto knew what we were doing, he would have a fit. Mostly Miaka-san would place the blame on Reki of course."

"Why?"

"No clue, now GO!" Miyurie pushed Hinata out the door.

Hinata quickly put the Soul Phone deep in her bag. She didn't want anyone to find it yet. Walking to the gate that the rest of the Konoha 11, she realize that she was quite early since Neji, Tenten and Shino were there.

"Hinata, how are you?" Tenten asked.

"I'm fine," she smiled.

"Hinata-sama, are you sure you want to go?" Neji asked.

"Hai Neji-onii-sama," she smiled at him. "I want to go."

"I'm glad," Shino told her. "I have faith that you do well."

"Arigatou Shino-kun," Hinata turned to him. "Ano, who else is coming with us," she fidgets with her index fingers

"Team ten," Neji informed her. "The rest are after Sasuke."

Hinata nod, they have to wait for awhile.

Later in the Soul Soceity.

Toshiro was working at his desk.

"Tachio," Rangiku came in while slightly drunk. "Where's Miyurie-chan?"

Toshiro has grown taller, somewhat.

"She went on a mission with Akiyama Miaka and Kage no Akiyama," Toshiro said with a clench jaw. He really hates when she gets drunk, even a little. "And don't drink when on duty!"

"But taicho," she pouted, "I took off two hours ago. I wanted to plan a real fancy date for you and Miyurie-chan!"

The last date that she planned for them was a honeymoon suite that you often seen in Vegas, the cheesy kind. What ever went through Rangiku's mind happened when she was drunk most likely. He sighed. Despite all the mushy stuff Rangiku tries on both him and Miyurie, he felt happy that she wanted them to work. Though how she does it isn't what he wanted. Miyurie just thinks it's slightly amusing.

"Well get back to work," he ordered her. "I hate doing your paperwork."

"But taicho~ I'm planning your dream date with Miyurie-chan," she pouted again.

"Fine but do your paperwork while thinking of ideas," he firmly told his fuku-taichō.

At the eleven barracks a different scene was unfolding. Kenpachi just finish putting the last bell on, he really need help with it. Walking out, he was greeted by Yachiru, the little pink haired ball of energy. She got to her favorite shoulder and smiled.

"Ken-chan! Where's Aki-Aki?" she asked him.

"I don't know," he almost barked at her.

He could never be or stay mad at her. She has been like a daughter to him. It pains him to see her without a mother or a mother-figure in her life. Since he first met Reki all those years ago and heard the incident with Aizen all those years ago he felt something. Like a connection or something like that. Since the first meeting, he tried to persuade her to be with him.

She gave a flat out no but that didn't stop him. Only when he saw her in a fight with a low ranking Shinigami did that spur him on. Something about her that makes him so, so, he can't describe it but it's there. It was clear to everyone that she doesn't really love him but like her saying no to him, it didn't prevent him. It just spurs him on to show Reki that he's the only one for her.

"Ken-chan, I want Aki-Aki to be my kaa-chan," Yachiru told him. She loved her like there's no tomorrow.

While on the road to Amegakure, Reki sighed. She is aware of Kenpachi's feelings towards her. It is unwanted and something about him just ticks her off.

"Is something wrong Reki-san?" Nagato asked.

"Nothing," she flatly told him.

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure," she sighed. Reki didn't want to talk about it.

"May I ask you something?"

"Sure why not."

"Have you ever been in love?"

Reki stopped in her tracks. She looked at him. He in turn looked at her clothe-covered eyes.

"I was once in love and have somebody who worships the ground I walk on. Why?"

"I just wanted to know what to look for."

"Hinata," was all she said.

"How…"

"What I gathered. I know the looks of falling and being in love."

Nagato looked away from her gaze.

"She's young."

"I know and she's in love with somebody else."

"If you want her to fall in love with you don't ask Miaka," she coldly warned him. "Nothing down that path will end with happiness. Just be there for her and let her know that you'll be there for her."

"What are you saying?"

"What do you think?" she answers back. "Now which path leads to your village."

TBC