Here we are in the next chapter!
I had some time to write this, SOME! It's still not my best.
But whatever.
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Chapter 13: Gloo and Neji

Hinata was finally free of the goo that covered her. It was actually quite simple: all Neji did was touch his chakra-covered palm on the goo for a while until it started shivering and practically flew off Hinata and onto the stone ceiling above.

After a few hugs and smiles, Hinata returned her gaze back where Naruto and new Ryu was supposed to be. However, they weren't there. The throne was still there, but neither person was in sight.

Neji had also turned around and was looking for Gloo. He didn't know why he cared so much, but he just wanted to find him. Where was he?

A few while back...

As soon as Gloo had arrived on the scene, he saw the blonde ninja fall on the ground. He came for a closer look, but then he saw his old master's master. His face was in a shock, staring at the blonde ninja. Pretty soon, though, he looked at him. His eyes widened a little more than how wide it already was, but his open mouth slightly softened. His eyes became peircing, and hypnotic.

Gloo's mind became blank.

Then, he felt himself crawling back into the hallway. He didn't understand why, but he knew he wasn't doing it on purpose. He stopped when he was completely inside the shadows of the passageway. He then climbed up on the wall and disguised himself so that he was unnoticable, not that anyone will notice him when he's as dark as the night. He waited there, and the whole time he was trying to find out what he was doing.

When he found his chance, still confused, he jumped back down and moved toward the lifeless body of Ryu...

Now...

Neji was getting scared; maybe something happened to him? What if, in all the confusion, and him being small and on the ground, someone accidentally stepped on him? He shook his head; no, Gloo can protect himself. He examined the boy with no head, but he wasn't there. He looked at the throne, and that's when he saw Hinata staring at the throne also.

"Lady Hinata, are you okay?" he asked his cousin.

With a sigh, Hinata answered, "Yes." Then she looked at him. "What are you looking for?" Hinata could see that her older cousin was frantically searching for something.

Neji, on the other hand, was surprised she noticed. "Uh, something. Where's Naruto?"

"That's what I'm wondering."

"Where did you get those clothes?"

Hinata remembered she was still making the makeshift shirt and pants that fake Ryu made her. She now looked at them and remembered how he seemed so nice back then. However, she pushed the thoughts out; he's evil now. "Um, from Ryu, the man you just saw."

Neji nodded, sensing that Hinata doesn't want to talk about it. Instead, he took off his backpack, opened it, and took out the clothes that he brought with him. He handed it to her.

Hinata put on a smile. "Thank you, Neji."

"No problem; now hurry and change into your clothes. You're going to need them when we fight," Neji also smiled.

After a quick hug of thanks Hinata went behind the throne where there was darkness. The genius Hyuga then resumed looking for his lost pet. He had the idea that maybe he stayed behind and is still in the cave. So he decided to just do a quick look-around in the hallway. He walked all the way in.

While he was walking, he remembered he had the Byakugan. What the heck was he doing?! Why was he having a hard time looking for him? He was a Hyuga, master of the Byakugan. He should have no problem finding Gloo since he was practically all chakra inside. With a small smile on his lips, he returned to the main room.

But when he was there, he found the boy (Ryu?) on his hands and knees. He seemed to be trying to stand up. But he shouldn't. He should be dead, right? He's nothing but that goo stuff that's like Gloo. Why was he alive again?

Ryu stood up, his back to Neji. He moved his hands, arms, and legs. He was testing everything. After all, Gloo has never had a body before.

Hinata had finished changing into her favorite ninja clothes, but she didn't want to go back into the bright room. She was curios about the dark side of the rectangular room. A little ways in front of her, she saw the corners of the wall having crumbling rocks. That must have meant that there used to be a wall there, but was taken down. She walked in deeper.

Now it was completely pitch black. She looked behind her and she could make out the now faint light of the sun that the throne blocked. She walked to one of the sides of the wall. She reached out to touch it.

It was cold, and it didn't feel like stone. It was smooth, not like the rough rocks that was in the other room. She knocked on it.

It sounded like glass: thin and hard. She put her face right up at it to see it better. Even though it was still so dark that when you closed your eyes, that would be brighter, she thought she could see something inside. She tried to examine it a little more, but then she heard a crash from the main room.

Gloo/Ryu turned to face Neji, whose white eyes were wide with surprise.

Gloo still didn't know why he was doing this. Something else was controlling him.

He got in a fighting position, and that's when he got scared. Was he about to fight his master?

Neji also got in a fighting stance, Byakugan ready. He can find Gloo later.

"I don't know why you're standing again," he said, "but I'm going to take you down."

Gloo opened his mouth to talk, not that that will help him. All the times he's started talking, no one can understand him.

"Master, I'm not doing this."

Both the speaker and the listener were surprised. Had he just talked? Why was that boy calling him "Master?"

Neji was the first to snap out of this. "I don't know what you just said, but I'm still going to fight."

Hearing his master's response, Gloo started to speak again. "Master, it's me. You named me Gloo." Gloo wanted to move his hands, but he wasn't controlling them. But he should. He's the one who attached himself to the body. So why wasn't he able to move? He then figured out that the only part that he can control is his mind. Everything else was...not his doing.

Neji gasped a quick gasp. Gloo? He didn't look anything like Gloo. He's supposed to be like a big black blob. He then remembered the figures that were on the wind platform. When they dropped, they turned into the black substance like Gloo. Maybe... But he still wasn't sure. After all, the boy's mouth was only moving and the face didn't change. Maybe it was a trick.

Ryu suddenly gave a fast punch, which Neji dodged at the last minute. Okay, the battle now started.

With a small but deadly concentration of chakra on his two fingers, Neji struck the boy right in the middle of his stomach, sending him to the wall behind, causing it to break and reveal the woods beyond it.

Please Review!

This was meant to be a lot longer, but I only had a limited amount of time.
I wasn't really rushed, but I knew I couldn't put in everything.
So I hope it's still good!
Sorry, everyone!