Part 9-Some family…
"Let's go…" she got up and released her byakugun. She walked to the door and slid it open. She looked inside and realised that her sister and father hadn't noticed her, either that or they just didn't care. Shino and Kiba came over and stood either side of Hinata, at which point her father stopped dead in his movements and looked at her.
"Hinata, you know outsiders are prohibited from these grounds without MY permission"
"Father… it… it was needed…"
"Why?"
"For… for m-my protection," Hinata's new found confidence was nothing to her father; he obviously intimidated her more than anyone else.
"What kind of Hyuga needs protection!?"
"One who was abandoned by her father…" She mumbled under her breath
"What did you say?"
"N-n-nothing…"
"She's started stuttering…" Kiba whispered to Shino, he was worried that her confidence was almost gone
"What did you say, Inuzuka?" Hiashi approached Kiba with a threatening tone to his voice, he practically hissed the word Inuzuka at him; the hostility was overwhelming.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Kiba looked him dead in the eye
"Hinata, how dare you bring members of such lowly clans here!" Hiashi shouted, he couldn't stand other clans and thought of the Hyuga as the top clan in fire country, which it was considered by everyone else too, without giving other clans a chance.
Shino and Kiba were furious; they couldn't stand having no power while someone insulted their clans with no restraint as though they were dirt. However Shino could restrain himself whereas Kiba couldn't
Kiba stay calm, control yourself, Shino was afraid of what Kiba might do.
"What did you say about my clan?!" Kiba took a step towards Hiashi. Shino's mental pleas were of no use, it's not like either of them were telepathic anyway
"How dare YOU approach me like that, Inuzuka?" He reached out and wrapped his left hand around Kiba's neck; he then proceeded to lift Kiba a few inches off the ground.
Kiba clawed at Hiashi's arm in futility. Akamaru growled at Hiashi and began barking for Hiashi to put him down.
"I have a name…" Kiba choked
"Like I care."
"It's Kiba…" He gasped for breath
"So what, Inuzuka?"
"I want you to… Remember it…" Kiba smirked as Akamaru bit Hiashi's leg. Hiashi threw Kiba down in shock; Kiba slid across the floor and then sat up to see what was happening. He laughed a bit as Hiashi tried to shake him off. He watched in shock as Hiashi kicked Akamaru and sent him flying into a tree.
To all three members of team 8 this seemed to happen in slow motion. Everything was amplified. Akamaru hit the tree with a sickening thud.
"Akamaru!" All three of them called out in shock. Hinata ran over to him, she was the fastest to react. She picked him up and cradled him. She tried to see if anything was wrong.
"Stupid mut," Hiashi said, mostly to himself
"Shut up!" Kiba shouted at Hiashi, "Hinata, is he ok?"
"I'm not sure, Shino can you…?"
"Yeah," Shino sent his destruction bugs over. They formed a stretcher in order for Hinata to lay down Akamaru.
She laid him out on his front side, "His back is bleeding… Byakugun!" She looked him over, this was probably one of the few things that she liked about her byakugun, she could use it to see through flesh and help her deal with any problems she may encounter. "He has a piece of wood embedded in his flesh from the tree, it's small and it's cut a few veins. It hasn't done any major damage but the splinter is small so it's gonna be hard to get out."
"Is he gonna be ok?" Kiba hovered over her and watched what was going on
"I hope so… Kiba-kun, pass me a kunai" She looked at him with a strong look of hope in her eyes, he handed her a kunai and she wiped it with one of the antiseptic wipes that she kept with her. "Akamaru, this is going to hurt, please, bear with me." She whispered into Akamaru's ear. He whimpered a bit.
Hinata prepared the kunai and then cut into Akamaru's back. Akamaru howled out in pain. Hinata, despite Akamaru's constant moving, managed to pull out the piece of wood. She used one of the medical creams she had developed herself. She respected the medical-nins and all, but she didn't like their medicines, she wasn't full of herself by any means, but she thought her own medicines were better.
She wiped Akamaru's cut over a few times and then bandaged him up. She cradled him in her arms again as though she was protecting a young child.
"Hinata put that dog down." Her father demanded
She carried on walking towards him
"Hinata… put that disgusting animal DOWN!"
She stopped
"You're afraid of dogs aren't you, Hiashi-sama?" Shino approached him
"I have no idea what you're talking about…" He stated, more to convince himself than anyone else
"Your pheromone levels would state otherwise"
Kiba and Shino both took their places either side of Hinata
"What is it you want Hinata?" Hiashi approached Hinata.
"The real reason I came here…" She turned around and handed Akamaru to Kiba. She then turned back around and looked at her father, "I want… I want…. I want to know why… why… why…" A tear rolled down her cheek.
Followed by another
And another
And another
And another. until her cheeks were soaked with the salty liquid flowing from her eyes.
Shino placed a hand on her shoulder, "Hinata, don't force yourself to do this…"
She sniffed back her tears and wiped her nose on her sleeve, much to her father's dismay, "I have to… I have to do this" She looked up at her father, "why do you hate me?"
"What!" Hiashi, along with everyone else, looked at her in shock, "how could you think a thing like that?"
"Father, you've always hated me…"
"I haven't"
"Yes, you have," more tears, "you always have"
A young girl approached them, "go away, we're training…"
"Hana-chan…" Hinata kneeled in front of the young Hyuga.
"Don't call me that, you aren't my sister anymore"
"How can you look at me with that much hate in your eyes?"
"Shut up…"
"Hana-chan?"
"Shut up!"
"Hana-chan, please…"
"SHUT UP!" She covered her ears, "SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!"
"Why?"
"I don't want to hear this"
"Hanabi, whether you like it or not, I am your sister…" She stood up and looked at her father, "and whether you like it or not, I am your daughter, and I am heir to this clan." She turned around to leave, when she got to the door she looked back, "remember that…"
The three of them left the dojo and walked away a bit, when she was sure she was out of range of his byakugun, she collapsed against a tree.
"That was hard…" She looked at Shino and Kiba; "thank you for coming with me, you really didn't-"
"We did," Shino interjected
"He's right, we couldn't just leave you to do this by yourself…" Kiba laughed a bit
Neji came up behind them, Hinata saw him whereas Kiba and Shino didn't feel his presence until he was right behind them.
"Shit!" Kiba jumped and turned around to see Neji, "you scared me…"
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A/N Like I said, NO FLAMING!!! I'm just an author trying to get her fanfics out