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Inconspicuous Moon
Turn Of Events
The white phoenix bird
A bird practically made of Ice, its flames burning of an icy cold substance and its saliva, a gift and the deadliest poison in the world. It hides behind a sweet smell, something that runs in the veins of those with white eyes and is known as a Hyuuga. It had promised at so, to forever protect this family from any harm. Anyone, who was to touch their blood would melt at the contact, anyone who drank their blood, would have their insides, throat, and all burned from the inside out.
A deadly milky like substance that smelled so foul once it was triggered in the blood. The males to awaken the females and protect them would carry it in a more heavy way. Thus, the males were born with the crowning mark on their foreheads, and the females…well. This was forever kept from them.
This is what made them forbidden…
"Tenten!" I had yelled, getting to my feet but not knowing where they would take me, I then faltered when Tenten was gone and Neji landed on the wall, hurting himself in the process. What had just happened? Where had Tenten gone? That had been when Neji turned to me, looking at me up and down but left me alone other than that. His eyes…what possessed my cousin? This could not be right. "Neji" I said in a trembling voice.
I felt someone pull me back and I looked down to see that it was Naruto, he pulled me back and glared at Neji "Oi! What do you think you are doing?" He hissed. I trembled and placed my hands on his left to keep him in place.
"Don't ….don't provoke him" I stuttered and Naruto looked down at me. Neji slowly narrowed his eyes and approached. I shook my head and then placed myself in front of Naruto. "Don't hurt him," I said, shaking in fear, Neji looked confused for a moment. He was smelling the air around him in a frantic way to figure out something, if only I could be in his mind and see what he was thinking, I might be able to talk some sense into him.
"Hey!" Naruto yelled. My eyes widen as a hand came and pressed a syringed needle to his throat, a red substance being injected into him. His body relaxed as did his eyes, returning back to normal, and he fell to the side, slowly and gently falling to the floor on his side. I and Naruto both stared wide-eyed at the raven boy standing there. He had never looked more handsome than he did at that moment, as for what Naruto saw of him I had no idea…what was he doing anyway? "Sasuke, you bastard! What did you do!" Naruto yelled loudly and I wanted to know what was going on as well.
Why did he do that?
"Sa…sa…Sasuke" I stuttered and he looked up, his eyes glowing red and multiple pupils spinning around, my mind went blank and I could hear Naruto scream, I could hear myself scream, a terrible scream. It was shattering, and everything went dark since then.
I was swimming in darkness.
As I recalled, I slowly opened my eyes and stared at the white ceiling. It had felt like an eternity being trapped in darkness. That was when I felt a hand caressing my arm and I looked to the side to see Neji sitting there, worriedly looking over me "Hinata, are you alright?" he asked me. I nodded slowly and then looked around. I did not have to ask where I was, I already had an idea.
"What happened?"
"You fainted" Neji said. I sat up and looked at him.
"Are you alright!" I quickly grabbed his face and shoved it to the side to look at his neck where I swear Sasuke had injected him with something…but there was no mark of such an occurrence. There was no proof. His skin was flawless, no marks of any sort.
"Hinata, I'm alright" He pushed me back to lie down and I looked up at him with confused eyes. "You just fainted, nothing else happened. Relax" I shook my head, that was a lie, something had happened. Something had possessed him and Sasuke too, I know something had happened. it could not have been a dream. Please, do not let it be a dream, I sit up again, there was one more thing that could confirm that I had not been dreaming the whole day.
"Where is Naruto?" I quickly asked again so suddenly I know it startled him. He just chuckled.
"I know you love him and all, but he had detention and couldn't stay long." He stood "You seem ready to leave, come and you can see Naruto before we leave" I sat up, confused as anyone could be. Inside though, my emotions had relaxed and I was thinking a little more clearly than I had been before.
"Neji" I wanted to say everything, I wanted to know that I was not crazy. He blinked and was about to ask me what when I said "Never mind" I got out of the bed and quickly grabbed my stuff and followed him out the door. I rushed through the halls and to the detention room. If it were not for Naruto's constant problem making, I would have never known where it was.
"Hinata, slow down!" He hissed. I did not; I had to know I opened the door and looked around. The teacher looked up from his orange book and waved at me.
"Naruto!" I said and he looked shocked to see me there.
"Hinata, you …you should be in bed!" I shake my head and look him in the eye, he looked so shock at my boldness.
"What happened today?"
"Huh" Naruto said "We went to class, as lunch had finished and then you said you felt dizzy but I made you come with me and as I grabbed your arm, you suddenly fainted. Neji got so worried he came running to your aid and took you to the health center. Both of you have been there since then. I was late to class with no note" I felt my bottom lip tremble and my eyes tear up as I hid them behind my bangs. His story sounded so rehearsed. Therefore, fake and so much like a lie.
I know there is something going on, I am not crazy, I nod my head and turn to Neji so we can leave. However, before I walk out the door I stop and say "It's best we don't see each other anymore Naruto" I could hear every male around me gasp, Neji is looking at me like it was the end of the world, Kakasho was probably now looking at all of us than his orange book, and as for Naruto. I can't fathom the look on his face.
"Wait what!" He snapped in an angry tome "You said"
"I love you," I told him "But I can't continue going this way" I walked out but I could hear him yelling my name in a heart wrenching way. Still, I needed to figure out a few things about myself, and what was going on with me…and why was Sasuke suddenly someone highly important in my life. I needed to talk to him and get to know him…I just needed to figure things out on my own. In my own selfish mind, that not even I understood. Neji stood by me, glancing worriedly at me but I ignored him completely.
From the beginning, a relationship had sounded like something impossible and then it happened, and once I had it…it felt empty. There was something missing, and I wanted to search for it. A lacking warmth that was not there, was that fondness supposed to grow with time? I had liked him since I was a child, shouldn't something already exist there? I had to find it in myself, pull it out, and bring about my own summer of love.
My own adventure.
I was being selfish…but I wanted something more.
I felt a hand on my shoulder and it turning me around, I looked up at Neji unaware of my own tears until he brushed his fingers to my cheek, a frown on his lips. "Why are you being so impulsive!" he snapped "You are just like your father, you can never keep what makes you happy, you always have to search for the misery in the world" he was trembling.
"What the hell are you talking about…I'm nothing like him" He shook me a bit.
"Yes, yes you are Hinata. I wished for you to be different, but you seem to at the end follow in his footsteps, you love Naruto, you said so yourself. You have since you where a child, why are you leaving him now!" Neji had found it easy to believe it was always going to be me and Naruto, I know it gave him peace of mind from having to chase all the 'other boys' away. "What are you thinking Hinata? Why are you doing this?"
"Don't you ever say that I am like my father,"
We glared at each other and then he sighed and backed away "But you are, whether you like it or not, you are just like your father" I did not know what to say, I was never one to fight. Still, it hurt that he had said that to me, that he had even dared compare me to my dad. I was not searching for misery, no, I thought as I turned around and ran, no I was searching for something else. Something that I could never explain and something that he would never come to understand. This feeling, need, was mine alone.
A cold venomous substance that can kill anyone in its path, something that is hard to destroy, something that it is hard to ignore. This is what made them different, and this is what was meant to keep them apart. Revolving around each other never to understand…then again, love, feelings, our emotions:
Follow no logic.
I had not spoken to Neji in two days, but there is something odd going on now. Sasuke is looking at me in a new way and I do not like it. He sits farther away from me and keeps a distance that is hard to ignore, I can tell that he does not want to be around me, but I do not know why. It hurts to think that he would hate me all of a sudden. As for Naruto, he has been glaring at me, and avoiding me big time. I cannot blame him because I did hurt him. Neji on the other hand looked distressed, as for everyone else, they were happy.
I glanced back at Sasuke, who was looking away and then he glanced up at me as well. Was the look on his face disgust? Something had changed between us –if there was anything ever between us- since the time that Neji had taken that odd change. Now there is something I recall of when I was a small girl and my father had done something to Neji…
There was something about out past that was not clear and I needed to find out more about it now than ever. I just had to.
"Stay away, don't you know personal space?"
"Don't make me do something that you'll hate"
Life just seemed to continue, that was until I saw something that nearly made my heart burst in my chest. I wish I had not looked up to the arguing voices, I wish I had never seen Tenten harassing Sasuke. What was she doing, anger boiled within me. Why was she near him? Why was she touching him? What right did she have to speak to him? She had none.
I wanted nothing more than to tell her to stay away.
Lately, I have been feeling both depressed and possessive at the same time, and it was suffocating. A completely different feeling than what Naruto brought out in me. It angered me. Is this why my cousin is in so much anguish? Why is Tenten being unfaithful? I fist my fingers into my palm and firmly make my way over to them. I am going to give them a piece of my mind!
Hinata?" Tenten said looking at me surprised that I was even there. I take a quick look to Sasuke who looks mad that we are even near him. "What's the matter?" Tenten asks when she sees that there is something troubling me. She was always able to read my emotions in my face.
"Why are you following Sasuke around, aren't you supposed to be with Neji!" I yell, making it clear that I am displeased that she is betraying my cousin. As if I am doing this for a noble cost, I highly doubt it myself. There was no way that I was simply doing this for Neji's sake. However, that was only for me to know, and for no one else to ever find out. I could always hide my feelings.
"Yeah, but" Tenten looked over my shoulder to me and glared at the raven male, Sasuke "He won't tell me about his identity, he did something that day Neji went berserk and he won't tell me what. All I know is that he used my blood" That made my eyes widen, what did Sasuke have to do with this? I thought for a moment when the memory of him injecting something into Neji came back. This was exactly what I was looking for, this was exactly what I needed, Why didn't I ask Sasuke in the first place!
"You…remember?" I mumbled and then smirked and turned to Sasuke, with a mild glare. "Now that you mention it, I want some answers from that day as well" He looked completely displeased that we had cornered him, but we were not about to let him go without some answers.
I wanted to know, what is going on here and what does he have to do with it.
I need to know…
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