14
THE SECRET LIFE OF HYUGA HINATA
MEG: I watch too much School Rumble. Gomen nasai, wari wari!
HINATA
I'm coming, don't panic, I'll be there!
I can hear him calling, HELP ME HINATA!
I SAID I'm coming!!
I run as fast as I can, through the deserted alleyways, knowing every second counts. I run faster, my breath catching in my throat every so often, because this is my first mission since January. I'm outta shape.
Must run faster!
There, I see him there, crouching near a wall, and there's the man, holding the gun.
"Don't move!" I order him.
"You!" The gunman growls. He stares at my black leather body suit, my dark sunglasses. "Hyuga!"
"Stand back Alonzo." I hear another voice say, and then he steps out of the shadows.
I grimace. "Fat Tony."
He nods back at me. "Hyuga." He sighs. "How many more times must we go through this?"
"As many as it takes." I reply, just as he pulls a gun from his sleeve and SHOOMP! I dodge the bullet, and then roll, stand up, and another one comes from Alonzo's gun.
"Same tired old tricks." I sigh, as I bend over backwards, almost touching the ground with my hands, and then I flip and hit Alonzo with my boot, diamond-heeled for maximum efficiency.
I've dealt with the Maru Mafia before, but still they keep at it. I've tangled with them many times.
"Where's the money, Fat Tony!?" I bark.
"I'll never tell!" He replies. "I came here to kidnap Jimmy, rich old Mr. Banks' son, and I…" He is cut off, because 'Jimmy' has hit him squarely in the back of the head with a piece of metal piping.
"You shouldn't have done that, sis." I snap.
Hanabi takes off her disguise and glares at me. "Why not?"
"How will we find out where the money is?"
"Easy." Hanabi replies. "He keeps it hidden in the one place we know it is."
I gasp. "The school!"
She nods. "Exactly. I heard him say it, he thought I was unconscious. I sure showed him I'm no 'little Jimmy'!"
I hug her. "Hanabi, what would I do without you?"
"That's why we're the infamous Hyuga girls, but no one outside of the Underworld knows about us!" Hanabi grins.
Just then, Fat Tony's mobile phone beeps, and I pick it up off the ground.
Tony, the message says. I got the REAL Jimmy kid, the other one's a fake! We're awaiting further instructions at the mine!
The mine?
I glance at Hanabi.
"I have dance class tomorrow." She tells me, shrugging.
"Then I guess," I reply confidently. "That it's all up to me."
Hanabi and I slap a high-five. "Hyuga!" We cry!
MEG: What the!? Is that really Hinata and Hanabi!!