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NejiTen FanFic
Chapter 25: Get Out Alive
Okay. Was it just me? Or was Neji poking Osamu to death? The blows looked completely harmless but our enemy was gasping for breath, his eyes bugging out of their sockets.
Still, I had my own problems to worry about that did not include observing the scene, such as Keiko.
She grabbed my wrist and yanked as hard as she could.
"Ow!" I hissed.
That bitch. It was already twisted . . . by her. No need to pull on it. But the damage was done and the anger boiled in my blood.
"Get off me!" I ordered, shoving her onto the ground.
Keiko launched herself on me, obviously knowing that I was smart enough not to look her in the eye.
Instinctively, I grabbed the kunai that had countered the gun before, thrown by the one and only Hyuuga Neji. In front of me, I held it horizontally, a protective and defensive stance.
Keiko fought against it with her own kunai.
How the hell did I miss that? Where did she pull it from?
I pushed my kunai against hers with more force, causing Keiko to step back.
Then, suddenly in a split second, there was a cut on my left leg.
Keiko dropped her second kunai because I had kicked her in the stomach but where the hell did it come from?
She's fast! Incredible speed! I didn't even see her pull the second one out and she was a foot away from me!
My opponent narrowed her eyes, huffing for breath.
I wasn't doing to well either on a breathing standard. It was pretty late at night and I was already exhausted from the circus performance. This wasn't a very promising way to recover.
Another second ticked by and Keiko was already at my legs, using hers to knock me over.
Taijustsu! Lee's specialty. I never actually worked on this . . .
"TENTEN!" Lee cried, dashing to myself.
He knocked me out of the way of impact and countered Keiko's feet before they reached his body.
"Lee," I murmured.
Sakura and Ino were already at my side, their hands against my leg, healing it to the best of their abilities.
"Hey you okay?" Kiba asked, who now was next to me also.
Glancing around the room I noticed that the other men were easily taken out by my friends. Tch. It pays to have friends in the circus.
"Yeah," I answered, still looking around for someone, and finally spotting my target. Neji. "But what about him?"
"Neji-nii-san?" Hinata assumed, also watching her cousin counter Osamu's attacks. "He's . . . How is Osamu still moving?"
My eyes widened. I didn't know the specialty of Neji's Gentle Fist attack with the poking but it seemed deadly. Psh. Neji is the only person I know that can make poking look lethal.
"What do you mean?" I asked her desperately.
Hinata's eyes narrowed and her eyebrows were knitted together. It was the most emotion I'd ever seen her display.
"Neji blocked all o-of Osamu's chakra points, his flow of energy, Osamu shouldn't be able to move!" Hinata explained in frustration.
"He's gotten stronger," Shino observed.
I didn't even get it, but nodded in agreement.
My eyes wondered to Lee, who was having an all-out taijutsu battle with Keiko.
"You're not the opponent I wanted to fight!" Keiko grumbled irritably, blocking Lee's attack with her left arm and counter striking with her leg that nearly knocked Lee's knees out of his body, however he quickly dodged with a desperate jump.
"Shut up!" I heard a booming voice.
Well it wasn't Neji's so the only other option was Osamu.
The man was barely standing, his entire body shaking.
Neji held up a kunai.
"I dare you to make me," He muttered, furiously.
Neji. Damn. He was so pissed . . . or was this an emotion called hatred? That I didn't know.
"Neji," I murmured quietly.
Neji panted, not daring to wipe the sweat off his brow. Looking over, I could see that Naruto was desperate to join in and help his stoic friend. Sasuke too, was on edge. Lee was probably too preoccupied to even notice Neji fighting Osamu. To put it broadly, we were all worried on the inside.
Something about Hinata's words sent chills down my spine. If Neji's special attack was extremely deadly, why was Osamu still standing and fighting?
"Neji!" I cried suddenly, noticing Osamu's strange movements. "DUCK!"
Neji spun around but ducked just as well.
"Tente-?"
Three shuriken spun past his head and darted into the wall opposite of Osamu, who grimaced.
"You . . ." He muttered. "You're only causing trouble for me,"
My fingers were trembling, along with the rest of my body.
"You're evil," I answered, my lip quivering. "Why won't you let us go? If you're such a great ninja then why can't you do these tasks on your own?"
Knowing immediately once the words came from my mouth that they were bad, I covered the lower half of my face with my hands.
"Why you immature little brat," Osamu, shoved Neji aside, who was about to counter but was hit right across the face. "You think I have time to do those simple little jobs? No I have a business to run,"
"Killing?" I demanded, getting angrier by the second. "You think killing is a little job? That is someone's life that you're taking away. That's-!"
"Someone's life who's making my life harder," Osamu corrected.
I glowered at him with disgust. My friends were motioning for me to stop talking but once I started a rant, it was hard to stop.
"You call me an immature brat but you're a selfish adult!" I retorted loudly, hoping the entire mansion would hear.
Osamu glared at me with beady eyes.
"I really have no use for you do I?" he asked mainly to himself.
That's when the fear set in. What the hell did I do?
"You're right," I told him. "I'll never work for someone as horrible as you!"
WHY ARE YOU PISSING HIM OFF?
I DON"T KNOW!
"Well," he chuckled darkly. "Tenten is it? Tenten, if you want to get out of my house alive I suggest you run."
My eyes popped. He couldn't be serious! There's no way he'd kill me right? But that was when I remembered fifteen minutes ago he had a gun pointing to my head and-
"We're not gonna let you touch her!" Naruto stood in front of me.
Sakura joined him and soon everyone stepping in, besides Lee who was just a little busy with Keiko.
"Guys," I murmured. "What are you . . .?"
Neji turned to Osamu bitterly.
"If you lay one finger on her," he informed him. "I'll kill you."
Whoa. Did Neji just say that? Was he honestly going to avenge me? I thought he hated me!
Osamu only raised an eyebrow.
"How cute," he uttered. "I don't think that'll help you here though. If I want someone dead, they're dead."
Without further notice, Osaomu snapped his fingers.
Windows had burst open, doors too and just about anything with a hinge was blown to pieces. About a hundred of skill men dropped in, all expertly arriving.
Lee, distracted for an instance, was sent into a wall because of one of Keiko's blows.
"Kill the girl with the buns," Osamu ordered.
Shit.
"Dammit," Sakura muttered. "Why didn't he just do that a half hour ago?"
I growled, stepping backwards but running into an arm the wrapped around my neck.
With the kunai from my previous, small battle with Keiko, I dug it into his leg.
"Why you-"
Ino delivered a final blow to his head with her knee, knocking him out cold.
"That's only one out of a hundred," She panted, wiping her mouth.
"My question is," I said, dodging an attack from my left. "Why doesn't Osamu use these guys for his special little attacks?"
"Well," Kiba explained, kicking a ninja, a punch following that. "Obviously we're all more skilled than they are,"
I breathed heavily jumping over someone's foot that was covered in poisonous spikes.
"But there are so many," I remarked. "Where did they all come from?"
"Beats me," Kiba answered.
"Naruto watch out!" I heard Sasuke cry.
Naruto ducked, nearly getting his head taken off by a giant shuriken and WHAT THE FUCK? That's my shuriken! It was a gift that I got from an old man last year who was watching me perform with the target the hell did that person get it?
Fighting my way through the crowd of men I picked up my shuriken and stared at my opponent in the eye. His posture was so familiar, slumped, a bit lazy. Not Shikamaru because this was a man who was i-
"Give me back my weapon," the voice spoke in an even tone.
No fucking way.
"GUYS!" I cried, trying to make it louder than the voices that rang throughout the foyer. "DON'T KILL ANYONE!"
My friends turned to me wearily as I skillfully dodged another attack from the man and pulled off his mask. There was no doubt in my mind before it came off. I knew it was my father. Then the other people . . . Naruto yanked off the mask of Teuchi, owner of Ichiraku ramen.
"There's no way we can fight them," Sakura's back was against mine.
"I know, I know," I answered. "What do we do,"
Neji stopped a blow from connecting with my face.
"We slip away unnoticed," He muttered, his voice straining.
I nodded in thanks and agreement.
Sakura also decided it was a good idea.
"But what's wrong with them?" I asked Neji.
There was something seriously sinister about the scene.
"They're under some hypnotism," Neji told me, pushing an "enemy" away.
"Hypnotism? Keiko?" I couldn't comprehend the scene very well. "How-?"
"She's good that's how," Neji answered. "Now try to escape through one of the doors,"
I nodded. Well, so much for my assessment of skilled Ninja, they could hardly fight, but with there were many that we couldn't hurt . . . the odds were against us.
Quietly, knowing that the main exit was blocked off, I escaped through one of the sides. I knew it didn't lead to the outside world and I was still trapped in the mansion but it was better than being in the foyer with Osamu who apparently wanted to kill me.
What was worrying me more was my father. I wondered what Osamu would do to him. What if he killed my dad? I would never forgive him. More importantly, how did he find my dad. I'm sure that he wasn't going into people's houses to grab minions. Osamu and Keiko must've been pulling people off the streets. My dad couldn't have been . . . looking for me was he?
"Tenten, you idiot, your guard was down," Neji's voice made me jump.
"Don't do that!" I cried.
He immediately palmed my mouth, making sure I didn't speak.
"Don't be stupid," he hissed. "Someone will hear you,"
Waiting for him to let go I finally asked, "Where are the others,"
"They're out," Neji replied, removing his hand, in a whispered voice. "We were the last ones,"
I nodded.
"So where do we go?" I questioned.
Neji shook his head.
"I don't know. There might-"
"The Hyuuga Neji doesn't know what to do?" I teasingly asked, forgetting my fearful worries.
"Tenten," Neji growled. "Get a little serious. You could be dead."
"Psh," I grumbled without thinking. "Like you cared anyways,"
Neji raised an eyebrow.
"Don't make stupid, false accusations. You're such a-"
That's when the lights in the long hallway flickered and went out.
"Great," I mumbled, sitting down against a wall.
"What are you doing?" Neji asked me in disbelief.
"Well we shouldn't go anywhere without the lights or we will get lost," I informed him, intelligently.
Neji sighed before answering.
"I suppose for once you're right," He took a seat next to me.
There was an awkward silence that began to grow along with the fear. It started because I was now thinking clearly. How the hell was this going to end? How were we gonna do this?
I started to whimper, my eyes watering, but refused to let the tears fall.
Neji must've noticed through the dark and was taken by surprise.
We may have gotten out of the foyer alive, but how would we get out of this house?
Scared for my life, that's when I gripped onto Neji's left hand with my right, not willing to let go for anything in the world and surprisingly, he held on.
A/N Baha. Not necessarily a cliff hanger. Some peeps were gettin mad because of the cliff hangers but those come so naturally it's hard to stop. Call this what you may but I don't think it's a cliff hanger. At the moment some deadly danger isn't coming after them. So there. I've got dance but not until the evening bwahaha. So yeah. Reason I didn't update yesterday was because of my AMV making. BWAHAHA x 5. It's not really for you guys because that's weird making two in a row. Just for fun XD. AND I KNOW THE LINK WILL WORK THIS TIME BECAUSE I SPENT 10 HOURS ON THIS AND I KNOW WHAT TO DO!
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