After several minutes of pain and suffering they both slowly returned back to normal. Hinata's hair was blue again, and Remy's red. No other changes were visible. Hinata after several more minutes opened her eyes to see Remy sitting in front of her, and her own hands binded with his. The last thing she remembered was the Atatsuki kidnapping her. She did not know where she was or what she was doing there. But she noticed a lot of familiar faces so she gazed at them and smiled signaling everything was ok.
Remy's double picked up the knives again and gently cut the skin bonding their hands. After several more hand signs he disappeared. Hinata tried to stand up, but he legs failed her. She was grabbed by someone she could not recognize. A boy with hair covering his eyes, but she knew what his eyes looked like, one sharingan and one byakugan.
"You should be carefully for a while, the blood bonding jutsu is very tiring, and you've just recovered from almost being poisoned to death." He spoke gently to her. And she smiled she knew that voice. It was the voice which accompanied her during her illness.
"Your name is Carmicheal." She spoke and he nodded his head in response. Her father approached her and grabbed her. For the first time ever he hugged her and tentatively asked how she was feeling.
In the mean time Halante helped Remy up, he as well was very tired.
Neji was the only one keeping distance, everyone else approached Remy and Hinata, thanking the first and hugging the second. He felt out of place. He noticed that the other people summed from the knives kept their distance as well. He was still in shock about the white knife and the person who came out from it. A demon. He wondered what that demon could do, and how strong he was. But the most disturbing thought was why the knife choose him. He deiced it was the best time to find out why.
Masshiro seeing him slowly approaching felt a bit uneasy. He could foretell the questions he was about to hear. And he did not want to answer them. He could feel Isumo desperately hug his leg trying to hide himself even better, Nobu was sleeping as always, but he felt a slight movement as soon as Neji began walking in their direction. He smirked inwardly, the kids were as vigilant as ever.
He looked Neji into the eye and waited. But no questions came. Neji was too smart to just ask a question to a demon everyone around seemed to fear. Instead he just stood there next to him and looked him straight into the eye.
"My name is Neji." He introduced himself.
"I know." The demon replied. He felt a slight pinch on his leg, Nobu ,as always, had a different opinion about what he thought Masshiro should say.
"You hesitated to choose me, and I can understand why." Neji spoke.
"You do?" The demon asked surprised. He felt Nobu chock trying to prevent from laughing out loud. He gently moved his leg back almost invisibly to give the pest a light kick. But Neji caught that movement with his sharp eyes. And Masshiro caught Neji catching it. Interesting kid he thought. Strong byakugan
"Well, it's rather strange that being a demon you would choose a human to take care of. Even if I have the Solano I'm not near a demon's strength." Neji explained.
Shit this kid is really smart the demon thought but he did not say that out loud. "And?" He asked.
"I wanted to thank you for choosing me, and I hope we will get along well." Neji told him. And the demon just stared at him expressionlessly. Neji slowly walked away.
"That boy seems nice…" Masshiro could hear a whisper which no human could. It was rare that Isumo liked anyone, so that Neji must have been better then he thought at first.
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The time to depart had slowly come. There was a huge discussion what to do about the Bijuu, but Remy firmly said they had a room sealed specially for keeping demons, and that with proper sedation the Bijuu would await the return of the leader of the Village. The 8 ninja were back in the knives some with their new owners, some back in the case.
The biggest problem was that most did not want to leave at all. They wanted to stay and spend some time with their new friends, but the Hokage was stubborn and she reminded them that many missions were waiting for completion.
Almost everyone from Konoha had passed through the gate created to the village, only the Hyuuga and the Hokage were left. Hinata looked at the castle once more, then at Neji, Remy, her father. And back to Remy and Halante.
"I'm not going back to Konoha father." She suddenly spoke.
"What?" Lord Hyuuga yelled.
"I want to stay here, and you can't force me to go back." She told him firmly.
Lord Hyuuga was about to leave with Neji, when the boy looked back at Hianta and said "If Hinata-sama is staying here, I kindly ask your permission to stay as well and protect her." He pleaded Lord Hyuuga.
"You may." The Hyuuga leader said before going back home. Trying to forget the greatest disappointment his daughter caused. He had no idea how he was going to explain all this to the council and clan and keep her position as heir at the same time.