Hey everyone thanks for the reviews, and thanks for reading so far. But some bad news is that since I'm going back to school in a couple of days it might take me a little longer to type the chapters and upload them. But don't worry good news is that it'll mean I'm more focused on making new chapters because at school I'm always writing chapters for LTLE. So back to the story and enjoy!
Saturday, November 3 7:30 am-----------------------------------------
Knock! Knock!
Sasuke opened the door. He saw six tall figures wearing full length black leather trench coats with red clouds on them. Sasuke's eyes widened and "AAAHHHHHHHHHHH," he screamed, quickly closing the door and leaning against it.
"What! What came after you?" Mikoto shouted as she, Itachi, Neji, Hinata, and Hanabi ran into the living room.
"Is it Karin?" Itachi asked. Sasuke shook his head no.
"The Sound Gang?" Neji asked. He shook his head.
"Fangirls?" Hinata asked. Again shook head no.
"…….A blood thirsty ghost that came back for revenge for something you did, yet you have no memory of what it was?" Hanabi asked. The other five in the room gave her a weird look. "What? You guys took all the good ones," Hanabi said pouting.
"No this is a thousand times worst than all that," Sasuke said paler than usual.
"Wait there is only one thing that scares Sasuke more than those things," Itachi said pushing Sasuke aside and opening the door, "The Akatsuki."
"Hey Itachi good to see you again," the tallest of them said. He had strangely pale blue skin, darker blue hair, small white eyes, gill like facial structures and a mouth full of pointy shark-like teeth, and was wearing a ring on his left ring finger, like Itachi's but instead it had the kanji for 'Southern Star' on it. All six figures walked in.
"I see the kid is still afraid of us," a man with spiky orange hair, eyes with an orange iris and red pupils, three piercings on each side of his nose, six earrings on each ear, an industrial piercing on each ear, two piercings on each side of his bottom lip, and a ring on his right thumb with the kanji for 'zero' on it.
"Can't blame him," said a man with red hair, brown eyes, and a ring on his left middle finger with the kanji for 'Northern Star'.
"Yeah we traumatized the kid," a man with shoulder length blonde hair in a half ponytail, blue eyes and a ring on his right index finger with the kanji for 'Azure Dragon'.
"Hi Auntie Mikoto," a boy the same age as Sasuke, Neji, and Hinata, said. He had spiky black hair, equally black eyes, and a ring with the kanji for 'Virgin' on his left thumb.
The final member was the only girl of the group. She had blue hair in a bun with a white flower clip, light blue eyes, a piercing in the middle of her bottom lip, and a ring with 'White Tiger' in kanji on her right middle finger.
"Hello Tobi what are you all doing here?" Mikoto asked.
"Ah, I see your friends have arrived Itachi," Hiashi said walking towards all of them.
"Yep," Itachi said closing the door.
"You knew they were coming Hiashi-otousan?" Neji asked.
"Yes I invited them to come live with us. I was going to tell you all, but Itachi wanted to be a surprise," Hiashi said.
"And wasn't it a surprise otouto?" Itachi said mockingly.
"I hate you Itachi," Sasuke said.
"Aww I love you too otouto," Itachi said poking Sasuke on the forehead. "Ok let me introduce you all, Hinata you'll be able to tell them by their outlines right?"
"Don't worry just point at them when you say their names," Hinata said.
"Ok then Neji, Hanabi, Hinata, that's Kisame," he said pointing to the blue skinned man, "Pein," pointing to the orange haired one, "Sasori," pointing to the red head, "Deidara," pointing to the blonde, "Tobi," pointing to the youngest, "and Konan," he finished pointing to the girl.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Neji," Neji said.
"Hello my name's Hanabi" Hanabi said waving.
"And I'm Hinata, and as you can tell I'm sort of blind," Hinata said waving as well.
"If you don't mind me asking what do you mean by sort of?" Konan asked.
"Not at all," Hinata said and explained to them about the outlines and everything.
"Oh," the Akatsuki said understanding.
"I'll go make some snacks" Mikoto said walking out of the living room.
"Now why don't we bring your bags from the car and take them to your rooms," Hiashi said.
"Sure," Kisame said as he, the rest of Akatsuki, Hiashi, Sasuke and Itachi walked out the door.
"Hey Hinata, Hanabi call everyone and tell them to come over so they can meet Akatsuki," Neji said following them out the door.
"Ok!" Hinata shouted. "You're calling Naruto-kun," Hinata said sadly to Hanabi, "But don't start threatening him ok?"
"But he," Hinata gave her a look, "sigh fine," Hanabi said walking to the phone.
An hour later-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Akatsuki, 3 Uchihas/Hyuugas, 4 Hyuugas, the 3 No Sabakus, Sakura, Tenten, Hannya, Shikamaru, Kiba Naruto, Kyuubi, Akamaru, and Tora were sitting in the spacious living room of the Hyuuga Mansion, where Itachi was introducing the Akatsuki to the rest of the teens. Hanabi and Hinata tried to get a hold of Matsuri but they only got the answering machine on both her home and cell phone. The girls were worried they hadn't seen or heard from Matsuri since the dance.
"So Tobi you're related to Sasuke and Itachi?" Kankuro asked.
"Yep Auntie Mikoto is the wife of my mother's brother, so I'm their cousin, and now since Auntie Mikoto married Hiashi-sama I'm now like Neji, Hinata, and Hanabi's step-cousin or something," Tobi said scratching his head.
"Wow, I'm confused," Kiba said.
"Everything confuses you," Shikamaru said, Akamaru barking in agreement. Everyone laughed.
"Hey Naruto your kitten's cute," Konan said scratching Tora's ears.
"Thanks Temari gave him to me for my birthday," Naruto said watching his kitten's movements. Tora walked away from Konan to Hinata, who was sitting next to her, Konan saw Naruto shift his eyes trying to avoid looking at Hinata.
'Interesting,' Konan thought, as she petted Kyuubi and Akamaru.
"So what are all of you doing in Konoha?" Sakura asked.
"Well Itachi called us saying how much he liked being a T.A. so we decided to give it a try," Pein said.
"We applied for jobs already and enrolled Tobi in the school," Deidara said.
"How old are you all?" Tenten asked.
"All of us are twenty, except for Tobi he's sixteen," Kisame responded. Hiashi's and Mikoto's cell phones started ringing. They answered and after a couple of minutes they hung up.
"Sorry kids I have to go to the office," Hiashi said.
"Me too," Mikoto said.
"I thought it was your day off Kaasan, Hiashi-otousan," Sasuke said.
"We're the presidents to Hyuuga and Uchiha corp. you never get much of a day off," Mikoto said following Hiashi out the door. Then Naruto's cell phone went off.
"Hello?...yeah……………...yeah…………………ok bye," he hung up and said, "I gotta go, c'mon Tora," he stood up and walked to the front door. The kitten jumped of Hinata's lap and followed him. Naruto picked him up and walked out the door.
"Ok I know I'm new here and everything but I sense some tension between you and Naruto, Hinata," Konan said.
"Is it that obvious?" Hinata asked sadly.
"Yep, so what's the story between you guys?" Konan asked. Hinata told the Akatsuki about her strange relationship with Naruto, but only what she actually knew, and purposely leaving out what had occurred at the dance. When she was done she said, "I don't feel too well, I'm going to bed." Hinata stood up and walked towards the stairs, disappeared up the stairwell, and everyone heard the slamming of a door.
"Ok what's the real story?" Kisame asked. Now he and the guys of Akatsuki were interested. Neji then told them everything about the Sound Gang, the dare, the kiss, the deal, the kiss with Sakura, the punishment Naruto got, and everything since then.
"Damn, it's like you guys live in a soap opera," Deidara said.
"And about the Sound Gang, don't worry we'll help protect Hinata," Tobi said.
"Yeah and you kids too," Sasori said.
"Thanks," Hannya said on behalf of the teens.
"No prob," Pein said. Konan stayed quiet, not satisfied with what Neji said. She knew there was something missing, something that has caused more tension between those two, and from what she could see only the girls of the group knew. When the guys went to the band room and the girls to the kitchen she decided to ask.
"What happened recently that caused hostility in Naruto towards Hinata?" Konan asked.
"How can you tell?" Tenten asked.
"I was observing the way you girls were acting when Neji was talking, you four are hiding something," Konan stated.
"Fine we'll tell you, but you have to promise to not tell any of the guys, any of them," Temari said seriously.
"Scout's honor," Konan said lifting her right hand. Sakura then told Konan about the Halloween Dance.
"Wow, Deidara's right, this is like a soap opera," Konan said, the girls nodded sadly.
Sunday, November 4, 3:00 pm------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hey Akatsuki, you've got mail," Itachi said walking in handing everyone their envelopes.
"It's from Konoha High," Pein said opening the envelope and reading the letter inside. "I am the T.A. for Iruka Umino."
"I'm the T.A. for Asuma Sarutobi," Kisame said.
"T.A. for Anko Mitarashi," Deidara said.
"For Ebisu," Sasori said.
"And for Kurenai Yuhi," Konan said.
"That's strange those are all of our teachers," Neji said pointing to himself, Sasuke and Hinata.
"There's nothing strange about it, Itachi told us who your teachers are so in our application we put down the names of your teachers as the ones we wanted to work with," Sasori said.
"Hey I got my schedule," Tobi said.
"Let me see," Sasuke said. He read the schedule out loud. "You got all the same classes we do."
"Cool can't wait for school tomorrow," Tobi said smiling.
Friday, November 16, 8:30 am-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Right now it was first period with Kakashi, from what the teens could tell he was back to normal, Hinata still hadn't gotten around to asking him about the knife. Naruto was sitting next to Tobi while Hinata sat next to Temari. Matsuri was absent again and had been for the past 14 days. Everyone was worried.
Suddenly Matsuri walked into the room. She was pale, her healthy glow gone, and her eyes were dull.
"Matsuri?" Kakashi asked surprised since this Matsuri didn't look like the normal Matsuri.
"I'm sorry I'm late Kakashi-sensei," She said walking toward her desk, sitting down next to Hannya.
"Matsuri you ok? You don't look to well," Hannya said.
"I'm ok really," Matsuri said putting on her best smile.
"Really? You haven't been in school for a long time, we were worried," Temari said.
"Really you guys I'm ok, don't worry," Matsuri said trying to reassure them, it didn't work.
Throughout the school day they were introducing Matsuri to the Akatsuki. The girls, now also the boys were worried. She was more quiet than usual, and she seemed more fragile, they were all worried she would just faint and fall to the ground every time she stood up. They wondered what happened to make her miss two weeks of school and cause this sudden change in her health.
6th period Music 3:00 pm---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The thirteen teens, Tobi, and Ino were in the music room playing their instruments. Tobi got a cello as his instrument. Kyuubi, Akamaru and Tora were sleeping on top of some desks. Suddenly they all heard a scream of pain over the music.
"Kurenai-senpai!" they heard Konan shout.
"What's wrong!" Hinata shouted.
"I think Kurenai-senpai's going into labor!" Konan shouted. Everyone stopped playing and rushed to the side of the teacher and T.A.
"I thought she wasn't due until the 28 or something," Ino said as she and Sakura helped Kurenai stand up.
"Shikamaru Kiba go get Asuma-sensei!" Temari shouted.
"Troub-"
"Go!" Shikamaru and Kiba ran out of the room.
"Aah!" Kurenai screamed.
"Sasuke let Kurenai-sensei grab your hand," Sakura said.
"What? Why?" Sasuke asked.
"Just do it!" Sakura shouted. Sasuke held out his hand and Kurenai grabbed it in a painful grip, while clutching her swollen belly with her other hand.
"Ow ow ow," Sasuke said as his hand was being crushed by the amazingly powerful pregnant woman.
"Kurenai!" Asuma shouted as he ran in with the two boys. He grabbed Kurenai's hand, getting it locked in the hard grip, and placed his other hand on her shoulder. He started leading her out of the room but realized he needed help. He looked at the kids and said, "Ino c'mon we need your help, you're coming with us."
"What why me?" Ino asked.
"Just go Ino," Sakura said.
"Why should-"
"Please," Sakura said. Ino was surprised Sakura said please, but stopped complaining, nodded and helped Asuma with Kurenai.
"Konan you're in charge," Asuma said over his shoulder as the three walked out the door.
"Who's in charge of Asuma-sensei's class?" Hannya asked.
"Kisame," Shikamaru and Kiba answered still a little out of breath from sprinting from one building to the other. The music class started calming down from the scare of Kurenai going into labor, unaware something even more frightening was about to happen.
It was 3:20 pm. Everyone had already put away their instruments, unable to concentrate since their teacher went into labor. Matsuri was walking in the room, strangely a little wobbly, when suddenly she tripped over her own two feet. But Gaara caught her by the arm in a strong grip.
"AAAAHHHH!" Matsuri screamed in pain. Gaara was shocked by her scream. He let her go causing her to fall to her knees. Everyone heard her scream and ran towards her.
"Oh god why is she bleeding?" Hannya asked. They were shocked when they saw the sleeve of Matsuri's shirt had blood. Gaara looked down at his own hand; it was covered in her blood. "Matsuri!" Hannya shouted as she grabbed the girl when she fainted. Sakura knelt down next to the girls and rolled up Matsuri's sleeves, only to see her arm covered in new bruises, and some that were healing with a long cut from her shoulder to her elbow. She rolled up the sleeve of the other arm to find more bruises.
"Oh my God," Sakura said tears welling up in her eyes. Hannya was already crying.
"What is it Sakura?" Hinata asked the only one not knowing what was happening.
"Matsuri, she has…..b-bruises o-on her a-arms….. an-and a long c-cut on her right arm," Sakura said trying to control her shaking voice.
"We gotta get her to a hospital," Konan said, "That cut's bleeding a lot." Konan was about to carry the unconscious Matsuri, but Gaara beat her to it. He was carrying Matsuri bridal style as he and everyone ran out the room, with Konan locking the classroom door behind them.
Itachi was walking around the halls, when he saw the teens and Konan running out of the main building. He ran after them knowing something was wrong. When he caught up to them in the parking lot he said, "Hey guys what's wrong?" When they turned to him he saw Matsuri unconscious with bruised arms and the blood. "Oh God …… get in the car."
"But we won't fit in the Ferrari!" Sasuke shouted.
"You're right, Konan you got the key to the Akatsuki van?" Itachi asked.
"Yeah," Konan said holding up a set of keys.
"Ok give that key to one of them," Itachi said pointing to the kids.
"What?!" Konan shouted.
"One of them can drive it," Itachi said getting into his Ferrari with Kankuro, Hannya, Gaara, and Matsuri. He started the car and drove off.
"Neji here," Konan said pulling the key out of the ring and tossing it to him, "You can drive right?"
"Yeah," Neji said, "Which car is it?"
"The black one with the red clouds," Konan said pointing to the van, "About nine of you can fit in there, so one of you is coming with me."
"I'll go with you Konan," Tobi said as he and Konan ran to her blue kia sportage.
"C'mon," Sakura said grabbing Hinata's hand and running to the van with everyone. Neji got into the driver's seat, Tenten in the passenger's side, Shikamaru, Kiba and Naruto in the middle seats, and Temari, Sakura, Sasuke, and Hinata in the back seats.
"Hang on," Neji said as he sped off behind Konan's car.
30 minutes later Konoha Hospital--------------------------------------------------------------
"Guys is she alright?" Kisame asked as he, Sasori, Deidara, and Pein walked into the waiting room of the hospital were the other 15 were.
"Don't know doctors haven't said anything, but what took you four so long to get here I called like 20 minutes ago, the hospital is a seven minute drive from the school?" Itachi asked.
"We would have been here sooner if someone didn't take our car," Sasori said looking at Konan.
"Hey he drove it," Kona said pointing at Neji, "Besides it was an emergency."
"Hey Naruto and I are going to the store across the street any of you want anything?" Neji asked. As soon as he and Naruto got everyone's orders they walked out of the hospital.
Ino was walking, carrying a cup of coffee and bag of muffins for Asuma, who was in the hospital crazy with worry over Kurenai and the baby.
"Huh?" Ino said and hid behind a tree. 'What are they doing here?' she thought when she saw Naruto and Neji cross the street and walk toward the store, which had the tree she was hiding behind of. She saw the two then stop in front of the store's window which had a poster taped to it, and stared listening in on their conversation.
"Hey Naruto look there's gonna be a Battle of the Bands," Neji said pointing to the poster.
"Who cares?" Naruto said.
"What?! Naruto this could be good for the band, we can debut that new song you and Hinata wrote last month," Neji said. Naruto didn't respond, he just looked away. "What's the matter with you?! These days it's like you don't care about the band anymore, it's like you're mad for no reason!"
"What's the point in entering? Who knows we're probably not good anyway," Naruto said.
"Fine! Say goodbye to debuting the song and the six thousand dollars prize money," Neji said.
"S-six s-s-six th-thous-sand d-dollars!" Naruto shouted. "We are so entering and winning!"
"Now you care?" Neji asked.
"Hell yeah, if we win and split the money five ways I get 1200 dollars so I'll have enough money to fix my motorcycle and then some," Naruto said grabbed Neji's arm and dragged him into the store where they signed up Fox Five for the contest with the manager who was helping sponsor the event. While there they also bought the snacks everyone wanted and left.
Ino walked toward the poster, "So they entered the contest and they seemed pretty confident about that song …. Hmm this will be the perfect way to destroy their band, my plan will ruin Fox Five," Ino said smiling evilly as she walked into the same store that the guys had just exited.
"What took you two so long?" Kiba asked as Naruto and Neji walked into the waiting room.
"We signed up Fox Five for a Battle of the Bands competition," Naruto said.
"When is it?" Shikamaru asked.
"The 24th of November," Neji answered.
"Are we gonna perform the new song? The one Sasuke is in?" Hinata asked.
"Yep, so Sasuke you better be ready," Neji said. Sasuke gave curt nod.
"Hey guys the doctor's coming," Tenten said. They all stood up and crowded in front of the brown haired blue eyed doctor.
"Doctor how is she?" Gaara asked.
"Don't worry she's gonna be fine, but she does have some serious bruises, we'll have to keep her to see if there wasn't some internal damage" the doctor said
"Can we see her?" Hannya asked.
The doctor looked at all nineteen of them, "Well the room is gonna be a little crowded but sure, she's in room 203," once he said the room number everyone ran to the elevator, except for Temari and Hinata.
"Temari what's wrong?" Hinata asked staying behind sensing her friends' distress.
"I'm not so sure myself Hinata, but I wanna ask the doctor a couple of questions," Temari said grabbing Hinata's hand and walking towards the doctor.
"Excuse me, Doctor Takano," Temari said looking at his name tag, "May I ask you a question?"
"You already did but sure," Dr. Takano said smiling.
"That cut on Matsuri's arm did she have to get stitches it looked pretty deep," Temari said.
"Yes she did but don't worry your friend is a quick healer when it comes to cuts and bruises, even serious ones," Dr. Takano said.
"That's good news right Temari?" Hinata asked.
"Yes, but what did you mean by she's a quick healer Dr. Takano, if you don't mind me asking," Temari said.
"Not at all, what I meant was that Matsuri comes to the hospital quite a lot for cuts and bruises, sometimes a first or second degree sprain. She says it's because she's not careful around the house, and every time she comes the next day she's happy and almost as good as new, so we release her. As a matter of fact this is the second time Matsuri's been here this month," Dr. Takano said looking at his clipboard.
"Second time?" Hinata asked.
"Yes she came in the first of November and stayed practically two weeks, she was released just yesterday," the doctor said.
"No wonder she wasn't in school for so long, what happened?" Temari asked.
Doctor Takano flipped a page on his clipboard, "She had fallen down a flight of stairs, sustained a number of serious bruises, a fracture on her left wrist, and on her left arm. She was also unconscious, and stayed unconscious for a week. We decided to keep her for another week while the fractures and bruises healed, we were afraid she might lose consciousness again and fall into a coma. Luckily she didn't, so we released her yesterday, both fractures completely healed, but some bruises were still healing." He looked at his watch, "Sorry girls but I have to get going." Then he started walking away.
"That's not possible," Temari said.
"What's not possible Temari?" Hinata asked.
"Matsuri didn't get those bruised from falling down some stairs," Temari said.
"Huh? How can you be so sure?" Hinata asked.
"Trust me Hinata, if you would have been able to see those bruises, you would know they're not room falling down stairs, you've seen them before," Temari said grabbing Hinata's hand and running to catch up with the doctor.
"Where?" Hinata asked almost tripping.
"On me," Temari said. Hinata's eyes widened realizing what Temari meant. Finally the two caught up to Doctor Takano who got in an elevator, they got in as well.
"Dr. Takano one more question it's important," Temari said as she and Hinata stood in front of him, the elevator doors closing behind them.
"What is it?" Dr. Takano asked.
"Can you tell me who was the person that said Matsuri fell down a flight of stairs?" Temari asked.
"Um sure, it was…………………"
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Matsuri laid on the floor in a fetal position, her hair a mess, strands of it clinging to her bruised face because of the dry tears.
"Please stop," Matsuri said barely above a whisper fresh tears rolling down her face.Someone standing over her kicked her in the stomach. "Aah! Stop….please……stop," Matsuri pleaded coughing in between each beg.
"Why?! Why should I stop?!" the person said grabbing Matsuri by her hair and pulled to make her look up at him. "It's because of you and that worthless sister of yours that your mother left me."
"Mitsukai wasn't worthless! She wasn't" Matsuri shouted into his face. He slapped her and threw her back to the ground. Matsuri kept saying "she wasn't" again and again.
"Quit complaining, that's what killed your sister in the first place ….you know after all these years you're lucky….you're lucky YOU'RE NOT DEAD!" The man shouted as he started punching and kicking her over and over.
"Please stop….stop…..stop….."
"Matsuri." she heard faintly.
"Matsuri wake up please wake up," Hannya said once Matsuri started tossing and turning on the hospital bed crying, mumbling the word 'stop'.
"Matsuri come on wake up," Gaara said trying to shake her awake with Hannya.
"What's going on?" Everyone turned to see Hinata and Temari by the door.
"Matsuri she started crying, they're trying to wake her up," Konan said.
"Please," they heard and turned to the hospital bed. Matsuri was clinging onto Hannya, "Please don't let him hurt me anymore."
"Who Matsuri?" Hannya asked rubbing Matsuri's back. Matsuri didn't answer she was scared and crying too much.
"Who's been hurting you Matsuri?" Gaara asked.
"Her father Gaara, it's her father," Temari said tears running down her cheeks, Hinata was also crying.
"Is that true Matsuri?" Sakura asked. Matsuri nodded.
BAM! "Gaara stop it!" Kankuro shouted as he, Neji, Sasuke, and Naruto restrained him, pulling him away from the wall were he just made a hole in with his fist.
"Are you crazy?" Itachi asked as he looked at Gaara's bloody hand.
"Why are you so angry?" Sasori asked as he and Konan patched up his hand with some supplies found in the room.
"Because they know what it's like to be abused," Hinata said still crying along with Matsuri, Hannya, Temari, Tenten and Sakura.
"Does your uncle abuse you?" Shikamaru asked putting a hand on her shaking shoulder.
"No it was our father," Temari said wiping away tears.
"But I thought you three were orphans," Kiba said.
"We are, our mother died when we were six, protecting us from our bastard father. He died just two years ago when Hinata was with us. He was driving drunk and crashed dying immediately. If you ask me that death was too good for him. That son of a bitch should have been rotting in jail for our mother's death!" Kankuro shouted angrily. Hannya stood up from her seat and walked over to her boyfriend trying to calm him.
"We became orphans the day our mother died that bastard was never our father," Gaara said taking Hannya's seat and started comforting Matsuri.
"Matsuri how long has he been abusing you?" Hinata asked.
"For the past nine years," Matsuri said.
"Matsuri has he ever...…you know...…raped you?" Konan asked sitting on the bed next to the girl. She saw Gaara's grip on her tighten.
"No thank god no" Matsuri said crying into Gaara's shoulder.
"Matsuri I'm so sorry. I never knew, I could have helped you, all those times I went to pick you up for school and you weren't there and you just appeared at school, sometimes even looking sick I never asked why," Hannya said.
"We're all sorry Matsuri," Neji said.
"If we had asked we could have stopped this sooner," Tenten said.
"But I probably wouldn't have told you before, it's not your fault, it's all mine," Matsuri said.
"Matsuri don't ever say that none of this is your fault," Sakura said sternly.
"Yes it is. It's because of me finding those pictures of my father with other women, when I was little and showing them to my mother, which made her leave us, that made my father start beating me and my sister," Matsuri said.
"You have a sister Matsuri?" Naruto asked. None of them knew.
"I did. Her name was Mitsukai," Matsuri said tears leaking out of her eyes again.
"Did? Was?" Sasuke asked.
"Yes, my father beat her to death when she kept asking where our mom was," she said crying.
"They never charged him with murder?" Kisame asked.
Matsuri shook her head, "No, he made it look like we were robbed and that the robbers killed her."
"They didn't even suspect him?" Deidara asked.
"No, he's a respected business man, no one would suspect him," Matsuri said.
"Just like the doctors don't suspect Matsuri is getting beaten by her father every time she 'falls down a flight of stairs'," Temari said using air quotes.
"Why didn't you tell the police?" Pein asked.
"Because he said he would kill me," Matsuri said burying her face in Gaara's chest her body shaking.
"Guys what are we gonna do about this?" Tobi asked them all.
"We're gonna tell the police that's what we're gonna do," Hannya said determined.
"They're not gonna believe you," Itachi said.
"Why not Aniki?" Sasuke asked.
"You need evidence to prove that her father has been abusing her."
"The bruises and cuts aren't evidence enough?!" Sakura asked angrily.
"No they're not," Tenten said.
"What do you mean Ten-chan?" Neji asked.
"We need rock solid evidence of abuse. Temari said that that man convinced doctors she just fell down a flight of stairs, if he can do that then he can also convince police that her never beat her," Tenten explained.
"Tenten's right, he already convinced police robbers killed Mitsukai," Konan said.
"Don't worry Matsuri we'll think of something," Temari said.
"I know you will," Matsuri said breaking away from Gaara's embrace, a blush on her still pale face, "But please think of something that will expose what he did to me and Mitsukai to all of Konoha." The door of the room opened and a nurse walked in.
"Oh hello kids, I didn't know you were still here," she said smiling. "But I'm going to have to ask you to leave; I have to change Matsuri-chan's bandages." No one wanted to leave and Matsuri noticed.
"You guys it's ok, I'll be alright, you should go home," Matsuri said smiling.
"Ok, but we're coming back tomorrow with a plan," Gaara said. He and the rest of the teens grabbed their backpacks and started walking out of the room with Akatsuki.
"Wh-what happened to the wall?!" the nurse shouted looking at the pretty large hole.
"I'm sorry, my brother got a little mad, don't worry we'll pay for the damages," Temari said writing a check, and handing it to the nurse.
"This is a lot more that the cost to fix a wall," the nurse said handing back the check.
"It's for the wall and Matsuri's medical bill," Temari said giving the nurse the check again.
"Bye Matsuri see ya tomorrow," they all said and walked out the room. The walk down the halls was silent. All of them were trying to come up with a plan.
"Ow." Kiba looked down on the floor in front of him. Everyone else kept walking.
"Sorry Ino I wasn't watching were I was going," Kiba said as he helped her up.
"It's ok Kiba," Ino said slightly blushing from how close she was to him. 'I never knew he was this………..handsome,' she thought.
"Kiba? You actually know my name?" Kiba asked.
"Well yeah why wouldn't I know it?" Ino asked.
"Well you always call me 'Dog Boy' or something like that," Kiba answered.
"Oh sorry……….so what are you doing here?" Ino asked.
"Matsuri we had to bring her, she got hurt," Kiba answered vaguely.
"Oh is she alright?" Ino asked concerned.
"Yeah she's gonna be fine, but why are you here?" Kiba asked.
"Remember Kurenai-sensei went into labor. She and Asuma-sensei are here, but I couldn't take the screaming anymore, so I decided to take a walk………….Kiba I saw a poster of a Battle of the Bands, is Fox Five entering?" Ino asked.
"Yep, Naruto and Neji told us they signed us up and that we are gonna win with our new number 1 song," Kiba said confidently.
"Do you have the lyrics for this number 1 song?" Ino asked.
"Sure do," Kiba said patting his backpack.
"Can I read them?" Ino asked.
"Umm, well I don't know the others want to keep the song a secret," Kiba said.
"Please, pretty please," Ino asked sweetly.
"……………..Ok then," Kiba said reaching into his back pack and taking out a manila folder.
"Thank you Kiba-kun," Ino said taking the folder and opening it. Not only did she see the lyrics but the music sheets as well. She knew she had to take this folder for her plan to work. "Can I keep it Kiba-kun please?" She asked holding the folder to her chest.
"Um well, I guess you can I mean we've practiced the song a million times already, so yeah you can keep it," Kiba said.
"Thank you Kiba-kun!" Ino shouted hugging him, blushing.
"You're welcome. I gotta go, bye Ino," Kiba said blushing as he ran to catch the elevator.
"I can't believe I hugged him it felt………nice," Ino said smiling. "Wait what am I thinking?!" Ino shouted shaking her head. "Well whatever, my plan to destroy Fox Five is already halfway complete," Ino said walking back to Kurenai's room thinking about her plan. However in the back of her mind she couldn't stop thinking about that hug.
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Kiba caught up to the group as they got into the cars. No one had noticed he was gone for a while. He got into the Akatsuki van with Neji, Tenten, Naruto, Shikamaru, Sasuke, Sakura, Temari and Hinata. Itachi drove his red Ferrari with Gaara, Hannya, and Kankuro in it. Konan, Tobi, Sasori, Pein, Deidara and Kisame got into her kia sportage. When they got to the Hyuuga estate it was 6:30 p.m. All 19 of them walked in and tossed their backpacks on the floor and sat on the chairs and couches.
"So anybody got a plan?" Itachi asked.
"No," they all answered.
"Hinata, Neji, Shikamaru, and Naruto we have a surprise for you," Mikoto said walking in with Hiashi.
"What is it Otousan, Mikoto-okaasan?" Hinata asked.
"We were able to pull some strings and get Fox Five to perform at the annual Thanksgiving concert downtown," Hiashi said.
"Thank you," the five said as Neji and Hinata hugged them.
"You're welcome bye now," Mikoto said as they walked out of the living room.
"What a drag, those things are always live and televised," Shikamaru said.
"That's it!" Everyone turned to Hinata's voice.
"What's it?" Sakura asked.
"The concert that's where we could expose Matsuri's father," Hinata said.
"How?" Sasuke asked.
"We can write a song about what Matsuri's going through and perform it," Hinata said.
"And by doing that everyone in Konoha will know and maybe even the police will do something about it," Hannya said.
"And Matsuri will be there to tell them everything," Gaara said.
"Exactly," Hinata said.
"It's perfect," Tenten said.
"Ok then let's get to work," Kiba said.
"Naruto, Hinata you two go work on the lyrics, we'll work on the music," Neji said as he, Shikamaru, and Kiba walked towards the band room.
"Neji-niisan make sure the music is a low harmony or something ok," Hinata said as she and Naruto walked into the second living room.
"You heard the woman, let's get to it," Shikamaru said lazily walking down the stairs with the other two.
"Naruto-kun," Hinata said as she sat on one couch in the second living room, "I know you're really mad at me but please put that aside and help me write this song for Matsuri and Mitsukai."
"For Matsuri and Mitsukai," Naruto said sitting on the couch opposite of Hinata's and getting a notebook and pen.
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Naruto and Hinata walked into the main living room exhausted. Neji, Shikamaru and Kiba walked in seconds later looking worst.
"Are you done already?" Tenten asked surprised.
"No……we're too………tired," Kiba said yawning.
"It's ok you still have 6 days," Pein said looking at his watch," Never mind, you have five days to finish the song, before the concert."
"Don't worry we'll finish, we just have to rest," Naruto said.
"Yeah you guys are sleeping over again, we called your parents already, Shikamaru, Naruto, Kiba, they said it was ok," Itachi said. Suddenly the Hyuuga house phone started ringing.
"Who would be calling this late?" Tobi asked. Everyone shrugged.
"Hello?" Sakura said answering.
"Forehead-girl?" the person on the other line said.
"Ino-pig? Why are you calling?" Sakura asked. Everyone else was wondering the same thing.
"Just to say it's a boy" Ino said hanging up. Sakura hung up confused.
"What did Ino say?" Tenten asked.
"She said it's a boy, what does that mean?" Sakura asked. Suddenly they realized what it meant and started screaming. Ok the girls started screaming.
"Kurenai-sensei had a boy!" all nineteen shouted happy.
"At least we had some good news today," Konan said.
"Yeah, ok kids it's time to go to sleep," Kisame said as the kids started walking exhausted.
Then suddenly, again,
"KYUUBI!"
"AKAMARU!"
"TORA!"
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'I said 'Let's wait….they'll come back for us'…..but no we have……been waiting for…..the past….eight hours and a half,' Akamaru said struggling to squeeze through the small opening of the second story window. Once he did he carefully sat on the ledge.
'I can't……believe they all…..forgot about us,' Kyuubi said struggling to get out as well.
'Don't blame them they were worried about Miss Matsuri, but then again it was mean of them to forget about us,' Tora said easily getting out since he was the smallest.
'Now what do we do?' Akamaru asked as all three sat on the ledge.
'We climb down,' Tora said jumping on the branch of a nearby tree.
'You gotta be kidding me,' Akamaru said looking at the small kitten climb down with ease.
'Oh yes of course you can't teach an old dog new tricks,' Kyuubi said jumping to the branch. As he walked on it he felt the branch get lower, meaning there was more weight on it. Kyuubi looked behind him.
'Like I said I'm not old,' Akamaru said sitting on the branch.
'Yes you are.'
'No I'm not.'
'Yes you are.'
'No I'm not.' The dog and fox argued.
'Be quiet you're both old!' Tora shouted from the ground.
'What I'm only four,' Akamaru said landing.
'I'm only two and a half,' Kyuubi said landing as well.
'I was right you're both old,' Tora said starting to walk away.
'Well yeah we're old to you because you're like 3 months old,' Akamaru said.
'Either way, you're still old Akamaru,' Kyuubi said. All three animals started arguing.
'Wait! Wait! Wait!' Akamaru shouted before the biting and clawing started. 'We shouldn't be mad at each other we should be mad at them' Akamaru said. Kyuubi and Tora nodded. Then the three started their long walk home.
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Done with chapter 11 YAY!
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