Hanting Hinata
Ch. 6 "Alone."
I don't own Naruto or Bleach, but I wish I did.
"Naruto?" Sasuke walked over to him, but Rukia stretched her arm out in front of him.
"It's not him." Rukia let her arm fall back into place by her side when Sasuke stopped.
"Yoriko?" Sasuke gulped.
"Yes?" Naruto/Yoriko grinned. "And yes, shinigami, you are correct."
"What caused you two to battle for your lives?" Rukia found it hard to breathe. The air was becoming stuffy.
"Aizen." The tone heard from Naruto was icy. It was filled with hate.
"What?" Rukia's eyes widened a bit.
Naruto/Yoriko scorned. "You should know what type of man he is, after the situation you shinigamis have settled not so long ago."
"What does he have to do with you and Hinata?" Sasuke could see that Rukia was having a hard time to process the information.
He was lost. Who is this 'Aizen' they are talking about?
Hanabi ran to her sister's room and reached for the knob. It wasn't locked, but the door wouldn't budge, as if something or someone was blocking the door.
She could hear Hinata's screams, and Hanabi could do nothing but endure and cringe at the sound.
She heard hurried footsteps and saw her cousin and father running.
"What happened?" Neji pushed Hanabi aside.
"Neji! Open the door." Hiashi saw the boy twist the knob but the door did not open.
"Something is blocking the way!" Neji rammed his shoulder on the door to try and knock it down.
"Step away." Hiashi kicked the door open.
They were immediately pushed to the wall behind them by a force that was unknown to them. Hanabi was the unfortunate one and had smashed her head on the picture frame just behind her.
The glass shards fell to the ground along with her.
"Hanabi!" Neji ran to the child, but she pushed him away.
"I'm fine!" Hanabi stood and ran towards Hinata's room.
Hinata lied on her bed, her back arched, and her eyes and mouth wide open. Her hair was whipping around in an invisible wind that none of them can feel.
It's not possible for the human back to bend at such an angle! Hiashi ran behind his youngest daughter, catching a sight of Hinata. "What in the world?"
Hinata was clawing at her neck, as if something was trying to choke the life out of her.
Hiashi ran to the trash bin and found the bracelet that he threw away. He inched closer but was only thrown back once again.
Hanabi grabbed the item from Hiashi's hand. She had overheard the conversation that her father had with Sasuke, Naruto and a girl from their school. She knew what this item in her hand was capable of doing.
She dived and touched the mattress. Hinata's legs began to kick the blanket off wildly.
Hanabi grabbed one of her ankles and pressed the broken bracelet on her foot.
She immediately fell on her bed, her hair stopped whipping around her.
Hinata shouted at the ceiling as hot tears streamed down her face.
Sasuke could see Naruto's image flicker from a girl that looked very much like Hinata to the idiotic boy he had grown up knowing. So that's how she must look like.
"Aizen has everything to do with the two of us." Naruto's voice came out distorted and deep, just like something out of a movie.
"What has he done to you?" Rukia took a step back.
Naruto's hair looked like it was being blown aside, but Sasuke could feel no breeze.
"We were one of many he tested out in order to control the progress of Kurosaki Ichigo." Naruto/Yoriko took a step forward. "So he may be able to control when things are likely to happen."
"What do you mean?" Rukia racked her brain for something. She recalled something that Aizen had said when he had left Soul Society to Hueco Mundo.
Something about him knowing everything and how he was the one who had planned every battle and encounter Ichigo faced.
"You seem to remember, shinigami." Naruto/Yoriko sneered. "Yes, we did battle for our right to live."
"Hinata won, that's why she's alive right now." Sasuke backed away when Naruto/Yoriko snapped his/her head towards him. His/her eyes narrowed.
"I won!" Naruto seemed to look more like Yoriko. "I was supposed to be the one to live!"
"So why?" Rukia shook her head. "Why aren't you the one who is living?"
"Aizen kept me instead because I was the stronger one. He sent her back because she was no use to him." Naruto/Yoriko hissed. The hate emphasized in the way they had said the words.
"How do we know what you're saying is real?" Sasuke felt something push him lightly.
"How do we know anything is real?" Naruto/Yoriko mocked.
"Where am I?" Naruto looked around and saw nothing but white.
He was alone.
"Hello?"
His voice echoed.
There was nowhere around to hear him.
"Hello?" He was beginning to panic. His voice gave him away.
Somebody tapped on his shoulder.
He whirled around and almost collided his head with whoever was in front of him.
"Oh, Hinata!" He gave a shaky laugh and picked her up in a hug. "Boy I'm so glad to see you're alright!"
"Put me down this instant, boy." The person hissed.
Naruto's blood ran cold.
He immediately threw the person down, making her fall on her back. "You're not Hinata."
"Who said I wanted to be?" She shot back, jumping to her feet, rubbing her behind. "And correct. I'm not her."
"You must be Yoriko." Naruto was awestruck at how similar the two looked. Apart from the red mark on one of her arm, they could've been an exact copy of each other. "What do you want with Hinata?"
"What else do you suppose?" Yoriko scoffed. "I want to live."
Naruto frowned. "I know that. So does Hinata. I bet she doesn't want to die either. And by the way, why her? Why not somebody else?"
"Typical reaction from a living person." Yoriko rolled her eyes. "You wish that the unfortunate things are happening to others you don't know so that you may not deal with it. You all are inconsiderate."
"And you aren't?" Naruto's tone was sincere and calm; which was rare for him. He only used this tone when he spoke with Hinata and had asked her the big question. "You're being inconsiderate with what Hinata wants."
"Why must you always bring her into the conversation?" Yoriko was getting angrier by the second. The boy in front of her always had an answer to what she retorted.
"Because I love her."
"You? Love her?" Yoriko laughed. "That's funny. From what I know, it was just a few months ago when you had finally accepted her feelings after all the events that went on. I think you are just doing this out of pity."
"You don't know the first thing there is about love." Naruto glared, scowling. "You're just a ghost."
The laugh ended and was replaced by a dark mask of anger. "A ghost is it?"
Naruto shivered. It was cold.
And it wasn't the cold that hit you, but the one that seeped to your bones and stay there.
"You have no idea what I have been through." Yoriko's voice became demonic sounding. "It was just me. No one else. There was no one to share the pain that I experienced."
"I know what it's like to be alone." Naruto gave a sad smile. "So I know how you feel."
Hiashi ran over to his daughters.
They were both crying and hugging each other.
He couldn't help but grimace at his daughters showing signs of weakness. He understood it from Hinata because she was always weak to begin with, since the day she was born; but to see Hanabi, he was utterly disappointed.
"Stop your crying!" He grunted.
Hinata let go of her sister, but Hanabi just hugged her tighter.
Hiashi had to look away when Hinata gazed at her father with eyes brimming with tears. It reminded him of the night when he had lost Yoriko.
Of his wife's tears.
"Neji, go and get me the Uzumaki boy." Hiashi turned to his nephew who was standing awkwardly by the door frame. "Bring the Uchiha and the girl who was with them along."
Sorry for the wait!
And sorry how nothing really happened here.
I really lack in ideas for this. I constantly have writer's block for this story!
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