Ikite iru
Alive
Neji still hadn't moved yet, at least, not that had she noticed.
Or cared to notice, she said to herself. Tsunade told her not to worry. Everything around her was quiet, and the stillness was getting on her nerves.
She needed her sleep, she had been exhausted since she first left the hospital, today. Or was it yesterday?
Who cares?She looked at him again. There wasn't much she could do right now, and she knew better than doing too much, nonetheless, she was getting impatient.
Just die, Neji-nii-san.
She knew she couldn't be reckless, but still. She closed her eyes and started to get focused. How much that would cost her? It wasn't the time to think about it. She should have thought of that before.
Too late, Hinata.
She took her time concentrating to make sure it would do as smooth as possible.
I can't screw this one up.
She felt her body ready, power rising to her hands and eyes. Her breathing had the perfect rhythm now.
Tori…Inu…Saru…Tora…ToriShe slowly started to perform her Byakugan seals. She felt the veins around her invaded with chackra…all her body was filled with energy; she was shining with a blinding blue light. Hinata was powerful for an instant, she felt powerful. She could do whatever she wanted, she felt like nobody could stop her.
She took a deep breath.
Kurae, Neji-nii-san!!!She extended her arms with determination towards him, and held her hands steadily over his body. Chackra started to pour from the center of her hands, hitting him. His body jolted violently.
She sighted.
Slowly, the energy invaded all his body, filling every chackra path he had left. Now, he was shinning, too, the way he supposed to be, the way a Hyuuga supposed to be. They both shinned in the same sphere of blue light.
When it was over, Hinata fell back into her chair and exhaled.
My last breath… that must be it.
She closed her eyes for a moment. She really didn't care to see what was the result of her jutsu.
The pained expression that in his face had disappeared. He was breathing as if he were sleeping.
For how long?Hinata felt relieved that her jutsu had worked as it should.
She had performed a Jounin technique, a very difficult one. Tsunade personally had taught her, not long ago. But she went a step further of what she was supposed to know. It was an emergency technique, and just a small amount of chackra should be released at a time. Neji needed more than that.
Tsunade had only a half an hour to teach her how to stop her chackra flow in when she needed to do that. Hinata knew pretty well what lack of control could mean to her. She knew what draining herself out of chackra would mean to her.
Yet, that wasn't enough. She wanted to know how long it would last.
But, she just fell asleep.
She dreamed of spiders and birds. Of a little bird caught in a cobweb. Struggling to be free. Of a little bird who couldn't do it by itself. Of a little bird in a makeshift nest in her bedroom. And she just could stare at it, she could only dream of it.
KUMO-ME….KOROSU ZO!!!
Spider, I will kill you!!!!!
SHINE!!!!
IKITERU… Ore…wa…Chichiue…IKI
Hinata jumped in her chair.
It took her a second to remember where she was.
"Ikite iru, ka, Nejii-nii-san?"
Are you alive?
Neji was yelling for all it was worth…
Hinata could catch a few words here and there, temee…ore…wa …nameru…na… yo…
"Neji-nii-san…it's over. You won…"
Neji was moving his head and his body. It was a reflex movement. He couldn't possible be doing that on his own…the pain wouldn't allow it.
"Neji-nii-san…onegai.. please just calm down…"
Dame!!! It will be a while until I can use my Byakugan again.
She'd have to stop him without her jutsu.
"Just calm, down…Nii-san…"
She pulled his right shoulder to her…so that he could lie on his stomach again.
Dame!!! All his weight on his left shoulder. That couldn't be. She had to keep him like that with her own strength.
Dame!!!.Her last resort was to jump over him, and hold him thigh.
She had her hand grabbing his right shoulder. All her body was on top of him. Her left arm held his waist.
I am screwing everything now…
Damn his back is all wounded and the only way I figured to stop him is this. Freaking Ninja that I am…
"Nii-san please don't …"
Onegai…nii-san…"
Mou, daijo-bu - Nii-san
It's all right…
She was whispering in his ear. He lowered his voice but kept talking…
Urusai kono yarou Onore… …ore…korusu…ore deki.. ikite…kumo..me...chichiue..ikite
Nii-san, You didn't get better with my jutsu but neither did your manners or your grammar.
Somehow, she felt like amusing herself to endure this.
She let go of him.
Maybe just a little bit would do.
Damn, do I have a choice, here?She made her seals as fast as she could, turned him around and pressed her hand against his heart for a second.
He stopped moving and yelling.
Almighty gods.
He was all right.
She sat down and understood what Tsunade meant by chackra control. She shouldn't have used it all at once.
But he…he needed …I saw…
She fell asleep again.
The next two days were pretty much the same. She had learned to save her chackra, and use it when he needed it. She had to stay there, sleeping when she could which was not exactly often.
Now, Neji was sweating. She was doing her best to cool him off.
I ended up having to clean after him, didn't I? Tsunade-sama you lied to me, she laughed silently.
She turned him around… His face was almost serene.
Maybe he will pull thru…who could tell?
Genki desu ka, Neji-nii-san? How are you feeling, Neji-nii-san??
Can't you just get better without waking up or something?
Those last days will be nothing, compared to when you wake up, isn't it, Nii-san?
Damn! I better just sleep while I can.
She went back to sleep in her chair.