GARAA'S REPENTANCE
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Where's Hinata?
"No! Help! Please! Let me out! Help!" She screamed, as the crashing water rose even higher, and she beat urgently on the window of the attic. "Please! Help me!" She screamed again.
Temari was absolutely terrified – and loving every second of it – when suddenly a hand fell on her shoulder.
"AAUURRGGHH!!" Temari screamed.
Shikamaru gasped. "Temari-Chan, calm down, it's only me! What in the name of Konohamaru are you watching!?!?"
Temari felt her heart-rate return to normal, and she began to breathe again. "It's called Flood." She said.
Shikamaru raised an eyebrow at the water that was higher then the houses. "I can see why." He said. "Are you watching it?"
"Yeah, but it's only just started." Temari stood up and stretched her arms. She smiled at him. "Is it time to go now?"
He nodded and held out his arm. "Are you taping it?"
"Yup." Temari nodded as she took his arm. "We can watch it when we get back."
"Te-ma-ri-San!" Sakura yelled across the street, as Shikamaru and Temari made their way over to the Hyuga mansion. "Lo-oking go-od!"
Shikamaru and Temari joined the others, and everybody began to exclaim over each others outfits and greet one another.
Sakura had come with Lee. She was wearing a gorgeous pink silk kimono with a red dragon embroidered onto it, and a large red obi. Lee looked great too, in hunter green robes tied with a black obi and with gold on the inside of the sleeves. Everybody noticed Pinku, sitting almost camouflaged in Sakura's hair, but looking quite happy to be used as a decoration.
Strangely enough, Ino and Sasuke were not with them.
Neither were Naruto, Neji, Garaa and Tenten, but Kiba and Akamaru were there, as well as Shino and Chouji.
Kiba was wearing red robes with a violet sash, and Akamaru was wearing a collar made out of feathers and shells. Shino was wearing black robes that kinda made him look like a vicar, and Chouji's robes were yellow, jade green and green. He was eating a candy cane for some reason.
"Where are the others?" Temari asked everybody as a group and, therefore, almost everybody gave an honest answer.
"Ino's just setting up the VCR and then she'll be here." Sakura said, and Temari nodded knowingly.
"But we do not know where Sasuke is." Lee added.
"Neji's helping his family with something." Shino spoke up.
"Naruto's probably with Hinata somewhere." Chouji added.
"And Tenten's over there!" Kiba said, and waved to Tenten.
She came over to them, looking shy. She was wearing a Chinese cheongsam that was sugar pink with a navy blue trim, and she was wearing a flowing sky-blue shawl across her shoulders.
"You look fab, Tenten-Chan!" Sakura told her.
Tenten smiled as they turned onto the Hyuga's street. "Thanks. You guys look great, too. Hey, has anyone seen Neji anywhere?"
"No, but if anybody does," Sakura said, as Ino came running over to them wearing a violet kimono with a yellow obi and with purple ribbons and blue flowers sparkling in her hair. "Could you ask him where Hinata and Naruto are?"
"And Sasuke." Ino cut in.
"And Garaa too, I don't like him being alone when there are assassins out there." Temari added, worriedly. They walked past two people but barely noticed them. "You know how he can be; I'm really concerned for those two girls!"
"Those two girls?" One of the girls glanced after the group that had just passed them. "Do you think she means us?"
"I doubt it…" The girl standing next to her said. Their appearances began to change from the twins they resembled.
One had red hair and was super short. The other had brown hair that stuck out on either side of her head.
"But we should tell the Mistress anyway." The taller one said, and they both disappeared.
"Hey, look," Sakura pointed once they'd gotten inside. "There's Naruto. Naruto-Chan! Over here!" She called and waved.
Naruto glanced up, and his face broke into a grin. Leaving the group of people watching the movie, he jogged over to them, wearing a bright orange men's kimono with a yellow sash.
"Hi guys!" He said once he'd reached them. "Hey, have any of you seen Hinata?"
Ino looked concerned. "No. We thought she was with you…"
Just then, Hinata's little sister, Hanako, came up wearing a rainbow-coloured kimono.
"I can not find my sister or my cousin." She said in her soft little voice. "Do you know where they are?"
The others shook their heads, and Hanako moved off into the crowd in search of her relatives.
"And where's Garaa?" Temari muttered. "Something strange is happening here tonight…"
"Sasuke…" Ino whispered, feeling anxious.
"Henshin!" Sasuke Uchiha said. His body changed and his appearance altered. He stood under the moonlight a minute later, looking exactly like Garaa.
"Henshin." Garaa himself repeated the Jutsu, and changed his form to look exactly like Sasuke's.
"The problem is," Sasuke said in Garaa's voice. "That we're not the only ones using this Jutsu tonight."
"Just so long as we find them before they find us." Garaa sounded just like Sasuke, but he still had that bit of hardness in his heart called Shukaku…
Hinata stared at Kin and Zaku with scared eyes. Her heart was pounding and her hands were sweating.
She was tied up next to Neji, and he was more angry then scared.
"You bastards!" He said to the two Sound Ninja. "You were supposed to be on our side!"
Zaku spoke: "I never was…" And he changed…
Hinata and Neji couldn't help gasping, as Kin changed too. They just couldn't believe it.
"Where…where are Kin and Zaku?" Hinata's voice trembled. "What have you done with them?"
"Do not worry, they will be found…eventually. After everyone above us suffers for 72 hours." Itachi Uchiha's eye glowed red, as he and Kisame began to acquire the Hyuga kids' forms.
"Hey, there's Hinata and she's with Neji" Ino said, as the two Hyuga's trooped out from the basement. She was by herself, and needed some company.
Sasuke suddenly appeared beside Ino. "That's not Hinata and Neji." He said.
"What do you mean?" Ino had caught the strain in Sasuke's voice. "What's wrong? Sasuke-Kun?"
Hinata and Neji suddenly stared right at them.
Sasuke grabbed Ino's arm, and broke into a run, pulling her towards the other side of the room where the door was.
"What's happening, Sasuke-Kun!?!?" Ino cried.
"Ssh!" He hissed, as they burst through the door, and began to ascend a flight of stairs leading to the attic.
"Sasuke-Kun?" Ino whimpered.
"I'm not Sasuke." He said, still running full tilt.
"Wh…what?" Ino gasped. "Then…who are you? Just who are you?"
He turned to her, as his eyes glowed green and a red tattoo shone on his forehead. "They're following us, so keep it down!" Garaa hissed at her.
"That is not my daughter!" Hinata's Dad cried, as Hinata and Neji crashed through the doorway after Sasuke and Ino. "Where is my daughter?"
"Where's Hinata?" Naruto cried.
"Where's Neji?" Tenten gasped. "Oh, Neji! I'm so sorry!" She was crying, and Kiba had to comfort her.
"Well, well, well ladies." Said a cat with purple eyes. "Now things are getting interesting…"