Part 8
"Fine. What do you call it when a guy took off your clothes and touched you while you yell and scream?" Neji said cooly, still eating sushi. Lee gasped, and Tenten still looked at Mizuki, disgusted. "Neji! I never did anything to you!" Neji shooked his head, "You just don't know that you didn't do anything to me." Boy, was Mizuki mad. "NEJI, IT'S NOT MY FUCKIN FAULT YOU KEEP DENYING YOUR FEELINGS!" Tenten turned over at Neji, who was looking at her. "Hn, what feelings, I told you I don't have that kind of feeling you're talking about."
"STOP DENYING! I CAN TELL YOU HAVE THOSE FEELINGS! YOU JUST CAN'T SAY IT BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU'RE COOL AND YOU LIKE HURTING PEOPLE." Neji shooked his head, "No, it's not my fault you got raped."
"HYUUGA NEJI! YOU'RE A FUCKIN BASTARD!" With those last words, she ran. Lee turned towards the way she ran, worried. "Neji, that wasn't right." Lee said. "Hn." Tenten said, "That was a good thing to do, we don't need her on our team, she'll get in the way of everything. I know her mother's a loyal ninja in Konoha, but we're not even sure about her. Tsunade-sama just trust her because she's Tomoyo Hitomi's daughter." Neji nodded, and Tenten sighed in relief, looking at Neji who was staring at Tenten. When Neji saw Tenten look at him, he turned away, blushing.
"HYUUGA NEJI, YOU'RE A BASTARD." Mizuki repeated over and over again. She was still running, but she didn't know where. She cried and ran. She looked up at where she was at, and remembered her memories.
She ended up at the field where Hinata, Neji, and her played at, where Neji kissed her, where Neji did everything a guy would do to a girl there. She ran to a tree and searched around. She couldn't exactly remember which tree it was, but she knew it was one of them.
Her searched ended. She slowly touched the carving of the tree, then punched it. She punched it until she started crying again. She looked up at the word 'Hyuuga Neji' It was the same carving eight years ago. The carving that Neji made when Hinata, Neji, and Mizuki first hung out. She walked towards the field, the field fulled with flowers. She sat at the same spot where Neji and her would always sat at. She sat there for awhile, she touched the flowers, and remembered something.
She got up, and walked ten yards away from the field, up a hill, and walked down the hill towards another tree. This tree was different. She remembered Neji and her planted this tree. It was a white cherry blossum tree with a medium-sized pond in front of it. It was very little eight years ago. Now, it was as big as the other tall and thick trees around. It was also the only white tree around, every other trees had green leaves. She remembered that Neji and her argued about where to plant the tree, but decided to plant it here. It was their little hiding place, no one could find it behind a very tall hill.
The hill was very big, but right in the middle, there was a dent, and they placed a white cherry blossum in the dent, and for some reason, there would always be a river there, no matter what. She placed her back onto the tree trunk and slid down. She sat there, looking at the pond. She cried again, remembering the horrible things Neji said to her.
Eventually, she fell asleep.
"Neji, what are you doing to do about Mizuki?" Tenten asked. Neji decided to walk Tenten home. Neji shrugged, "She'll get over it, or better, she'll hate me and move back to her village." Tenten walked slower, causing Neji to walk slower without him even noticing that he was walking slower. "Tenten, what are you trying to say? I thought you didn't like her." Tenten looked down and said, "I don't hate her personally, but .. she, well." I can't just tell him that I didn't like Mizuki because I was jealous! I can't tell him that I liked him, and that I didn't like her because eventually she'll grab him. I can't say that. "Don't worry, Tenten. I don't hate her either, it's just that with her here, everything will change." Tenten nodded, "I agree with that too."
Neji and Tenten arrived at Tenten's house. "Thank you Neji for walking me home." Tenten gave him a smile. "No problem, it was getting dark anyways." Tenten walked towards her door and waked back. "Bye Neji! Good night!" She winked at him, something she haven't done to him since the Academy. Neji smirked and turned around. She started walking, and waved back. Tenten stood there, looking at his back and the sunset. She smiled and walked inside.
Neji glanced behind him to see her inside of her house. He smiled and walked home.
"Neji-nii-san, where's Mizuki-chan?" Hinata asked, worried. Neji shrugged, "I thought she would come back after what I said to her." Hinata said, "What did you say to her?" Neji walked towards his room, "About her being raped." Hinata knew everything, she knew that Mizuki's weakest subject was about that. If a guy she didn't know tried to touch her, she'll yell and scream, and she wouldn't remember that she was a ninja. "Neji? Why did you do that?" Neji slid his door open, "Because, I don't want her here." He closed the door in Hinata's face.
Hinata searched around the village for Mizuki. She asked everyone around the village if she saw her, but no one saw her. "Hinata!" She turned around to see Kiba and Shino. "Yes?" Hinata asked, panting. She didn't want to waste time. "Why are you panting?" Shino asked. "And why are you out here at night?" Hinata noticed the sky and worried even more. "I'm looking for someone. Can you guys help me?" Shino nodded, and Kiba said, "Sure! Why not! I haven't searched around since yesterday!" Rawf, rawf! Akamaru added in.
"Good, I'm looking for a girl that is as tall as me, wears a gray kimono, she has long black hair, some of her hair covers her right eye, and she has black eyes." Shino nodded, some of his bugs came out and he said something to them. "Do you have something that belongs to her?" Kiba asked. Hinata remembered that she grabbed Mizuki's ninja band on the way, just in case she bumped into Kiba. She took it out of her pocket and gave it to Kiba.
"She's a ninja from the Hide-In-The-Mist?" Shino asked. Hinata nodded. "Oh, don't tell me that she's the one that killed the guy in less than one minute in the trial match, and fought and tied against Neji." Hinata nodded. "Hurry."
Byakugan!
They divided and searched seperately. Hinata looked around for Mizuki with her Byakugan, Kiba and Akamaru chased after her smell, and Shino's bugs were searching for her.
Shino arrived, and whispered something to the two bugs. The bugs then flew away. Shino knelt down, one knee on the ground.
Hinata and Kiba searched until the two bugs came. In a matter of seconds, Kiba and Hinata met up and ran towards the direction Shino was at.
Hinata stopped, and remembered her memories when she arrived at the field. "Hinata, this way." Kiba said. They ran on the field, up the hill, and down the hill. They saw Shino, who was kneeling down, but they couldn't see Mizuki anywhere. But when they arrived closer, Hinata saw Mizuki laying against the trunk.
Hinata kneeled down next to Mizuki. "Don't worry, she's just sleeping." Shino said. Hinata sighed and shook Mizuki. Mizuki woke up and saw Hinata on her right side, a guy with black glasses on her left, and a guy with a dog sitting in front of her. "Hinata? What time is it?" Hinata said, "It's night time, Neji came home without you and I got worried so I looked for you, I don't know how long I searched, but good thing I met up with my teammates." Mizuki turned over at Shino and Kiba and bowed. "This is Shino, who found you." She pointed at Shino. Mizuki bowed at him personally. "Thank you, Shino."
"Oh, and here's your headband." Kiba said. Mizuki took the headband. "And this is Kiba and Akamaru, who tried to track your smell with your headband." Mizuki looked down onto her waist, sure enough, her headband wasn't there. She giggled and bowed to Kiba, "Thank you, Kiba and Akamaru."
Akamaru jumped onto Mizuki's lap. "Akamaru!" Kiba yelled. "It's ok." Mizuki giggled. Shino then looked up and said, "I think we should leave." Hinata nodded. Mizuki tried to get up, but her legs were numb. She stumbled towards Shino. He caught her, his hand around her waist. Mizuki eyes got big, and she lost grip of Shino.
Mizuki stood up for a minute before she coughed. She placed her back against the tree and slid down again. She coughed and coughed until eventually, she coughed out blood. "Mizuki-chan!" She couldn't stop coughing out blood. "Mizuki, you told me you were fully healed! I told you to tell Tsunade-sama." Hinata said, patting Mizuki's back. Mizuki coughed continuously until she fainted.
"Damn." Kiba said. "Kiba-kun ..." Hinata said, trailing off. "Ok, I'll carry her." Kiba picked up Mizuki with his hands in seconds. "She's not heavy." Kiba added in. They walked up the hill, down the hill, on the field and into the village. Hinata turned around to look at the field she used to play at, and smiled.
"Kiba!" Kiba, Shino, and Hinata turned around. "Nii-chan?" Kiba said. When the lady walked closer, Hinata made a proper bow, and Shino just nodded his head. "Mother's looking for you, you know very well that you can't be out here during this time!" Kiba nodded his head and said, "Sorry, Shino, your turn." Hinata tried to stop Kiba from handing over Mizuki, but Shino willingly opened his hands. Hinata stood there. Kiba placed Mizuki in Shino's hand and ran off. "Bye Shino, bye Hinata!" Hinata waved back.
"Shino, are you sure you want to hold her?" Hinata asked. "You can't carry her." Shino replied back.
Hinata and Shino arrived at the Hyuuga House. Hinata opened the door to the front door, and walked towards the main room, seeing Neji sitting there, drinking tea. He looked up to see who came home to see Hinata, Shino, and Mizuki in Shino's hands. He looked away from them.
"Shino, this way to her room." Hinata said. This was Shino's first time at the House. He looked around for awhile before following Hinata. Hinata slid Mizuki's door open and Shino followed in. He placed her on her bed gently, and looked around the room. He walked out of the room. Hinata followed. "Thank you, Shino! Good night, walk home safely!" Hinata yelled at the front door, and Shino was walking home on the streets. She walked inside the house.
"Where did you find her?" Neji asked when Hinata came in. "Shino found her." Hinata said. "Where." Neji didn't sound interested, but he still asked.
