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Lights… Camera… ACTION!

Kawaiii

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A slow steady beat roused the sleeping girl. She didn't open her eyes. It felt like her ears were disconnected from her body and she wasn't actually hearing, but she was. Hearing people murmuring, she quieted up and listened.

"What about that one?" whispered one voice, "What are her results?"

"She has only a few bruises and a sprained wrist." Another replied in a cool manner.

"The Green boy?"

"He has bruised along his back and arms. He has one broken arm."

"Do you know which one?"

"Yeah, left arm."

"The other girl?" Aki took a moment to realize that they were talking about her.

"It is astonishing."

"What is?"

"She was the most wounded. She had a broken leg, broken arm, broken fingers, bruises, major exhaustion, a major concussion and a cut from her temple to cheek bone. She also had a few battle wounds on her lower back and her right arm. She was even poisoned but we managed to get the neurotoxin out."

"And…"

"She was the first to heal up."

Everything grew silent for a moment, and then Aki heard faint mumbles. Things began to go fuzzy, she couldn't hear as well as she did a while ago. Aki tried to clear her head, and tried to keep from passing out again, but it didn't work. Aki fell into another deep slumber.

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The next time she woke up, the sun was shining through her blinds. Her head felt like it was being hit with a sledgehammer and she could hear a loud buzzing in her ears. She opened her eyes a bit and was surprised to see an ever-so-blurry Hinata hovering over her.

Hinata was shocked to see that she was awake, in her stammering voice she managed to croak out a few words, only some of which Aki had understood, "Uhm… Uh… Sister Aki… Uhm.. A-are you a-alr-ight?"

Aki tried sitting up and nearly screamed because of the sickening pain at her side. Then things started coming back to her little by little. The Snake first, then Neji, they being twins, she closed her eyes trying to remember the part of her life she had forgotten.

"H-hinata-chan?" Aki muttered quietly, her voice was hoarse and faint, "What h-happened?"

"Uhm.. umh… I-I don't know Sister. You've been sleeping for about a-a week and a-a h-half. Umh..." Hinata put her two pointer finger tips together and starting waggling them, "I-I think you're g-going to have to a-ask the doctor s-sister."

"Yes. So you are finally awake." Someone walked in wearing a white coat and had some black thing hanging off his neck, "I am Doctor Darrel, I am a specialist and have come from a far place to treat you and your friends." Aki tried to focus her eyes on the man unsuccessfully. What was he saying? Everything was all mushy, all the words that entered her ear, went out the other. The doctor's mouth opened and closed like a fish's but that was it. Aki slowly shook her head back and forth which only resulted in a worse headache than she already had.

The doctor flapped his mouth for a long time. Aki was just lying there staring at him, looking at him as if he was crazy. Finally, Aki tried to say something, "Tenten… Lee… Neji-niisan?" Darrel had to stop talking to hear Aki say these three names. Her voice was still very soft and brittle, she was awfully tired.

Nodding slowly, Dr. Darrel mouthed that they were fine, that she had gotten the worst of it. He mouthed that they were still unconscious and she was the first to awake. Aki breathed a slight, cracking sigh of relief. Coughing, Aki called the attention of the doctor. He took the thing around his neck and listened to Aki's heartbeat. She could hear it too; it was beating loudly in her ear. The doctor took the metal thing back and flapped his mouth before the door shut quietly behind him.

Hinata was still there, she had retreated to a chair in the corner of the room. Aki spoke softly, "Hinata-chan, w-what did happen?"

She was taken aback when Aki spoke to her, she was not used to people talking to her, usually they ignored her. "Ah… Uhm… I-I don't know what happened b-before we found you."

Aki closed her eyes and Hinata looked down and went on, "Uhm.. We were patrolling the g-gates like we h-had to. Then we s-saw people coming, they were you guys. Kiba-kun went up and a-almost attacked you. Y-you guys looked horrible. N-Neji-san was giving you a p-piggyback ride, and Lee was carrying Tenten-chan, but when you got to t-the gates, Neji-san collapsed so suddenly. Lee also did so. It was f-frightening. I r-ran to c-call father and other H-Hyuuga members. Father carried Neji-san and you to t-the hospital. The others were t-taken by their o-own family members. Except L-Lee-san, he w-was carried by Gai-sensei." Hinata breathed, she had never talked for so long before.

Aki opened her eyes, That's right, Neji's my brother. Aki looked at Hinata and she smiled a frail smile, "Thanks Hinata." Aki tried getting up again.

"Aki-chan, please, you're n-not healed yet."

Aki was determined to get up and amazingly she did, she threw her legs on the other side of the bed and just sat there breathing deeply. Who could've known standing up was so hard. Her leg was in a cast so she couldn't bend it, so was her arm. Aki secretly conjured up some wind to help her stand up. The wind blew freely onto her broken limbs, it was soothing. She 'walked' over to Hinata floating about an inch from the ground. Hinata didn't notice and smiled at Aki for being so strong. Aki hugged Hinata and the floated/walked to her bedside table. There were many treats on it, candy bars, healing ointment, even flowers from friends; Ino mostly, her family owned a flower store. She picked up her long ribbon she placed in her hair, the red one she had had before had gone missing, she had to cope with a normal white one. She quietly tied her hair with one of her hands and help from a slight breeze. She floated to the door and flashed a smile at Hinata, "Are you coming?" Hinata shook her head, and then the door shut. Hinata was left in the room, just sitting there in the corner.

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Aki stepped into the dark room of Neji's. The slow steady rate of the heart monitor was left tingling in her ear. He was still sleeping; he looked more peaceful when he slept. Aki thought, Maybe everyone did. She looked at his bedside table and found that he had no treats. Aki was surprised; she thought Neji got along with everyone nicely. His forehead protector and a necklace with some weird symbol on its pendant were there. Aki brushed the hair out of his face and exited the room. She then visited Lee and Tenten, but they too were sleeping.

As she exited the hospital, she only had one thing on mind; treats, for her friends. She reached into her pocket and found that she still had the two gleaming rubies from the snake. They were about the size of your two fists put together, but with the help of her powers, Aki was able to shrink and enlarge them. She enlarged them when she got to the pawn shop. The inspector took out a magnifying glass and, as his job says, he inspected them.

He was murmuring, "Amazing… flawless… beautiful… amazing." He looked up at Aki, he had glasses on and his eyes were probably magnified by ten times. Aki was never afraid of normal people, but this guy looked scary! "Where did you get such jewels?"

"Uhm… I beat a giant snake and I found them in its eyes?"

"Ahh. The legendary Ruby Snake. Legend has it when you look deep into its eyes, you may be teleported into your future or recall your scariest moment. Also, the rubies you get from its eyes, when you look into them, you see the battle scene. These rubies are priceless. They are not worth just 500 000 000 yen, they are worth more. You cannot sell them to me girl, I haven't the money to offer."

Aki left the store with the two minute rubies in hand. That was weird. She raced up to the Hyuuga Mansion and stopped at the door. It felt unreal to be here in her true body. She was home again, maybe, even to stay. She knocked three times, slowly and loudly, and then she waited.

The voices inside stopped for a second then resumed, but quieter. Light footsteps approached the door from the other side. The door swung open to reveal Hanabi. She looked up at Aki for a moment and smiled. Aki stepped in and smiled back.

Her room was exactly as she had left it before the festival. Though things did look a little dusty, only a little though. Aki sat down on her bed; it was so soft compared to her jail cell. (Well no duh…) Slipping off her bed, her knees made a terrible thump onto the rug on her floor. She winced for a second but recovered quickly. She pounded her fists down on the floor. Her face streamed with tears, mouth open yet not making any noise. She sobbed there for a bit, trying to stop herself, but not being able to, bawled even more. Aki pounded her fists down a bit more. Why? Why is life like this? I don't deserve this, my brother doesn't deserve this. Looking up she caught a glance of her father's picture on her dresser. He was smiling; she and Neji were beside him. Aki looked down again, forcing tears back painfully.

Standing up suddenly, she became dizzy (plus all her injuries) and fell down again. She lay on the floor thinking about life when someone knocked on her door. Aki's gaze was turned into the byakuugan and identified the person, or people, as Yamanaka Ino and Haruno Sakura. Aki sat up and impatiently rubbed her eyes. Conjuring up a water mirror, she saw that her eyes were still red. She willed some wind to come and cool them off. By the next knock, Aki was back to normal, physically.

"AKI!" Sakura leapt up and hugged her, "We thought you had died."

"Thanks for the flowers Ino-chan." Aki said plainly.

"Any time! I gave Sakura a discount! She has flowers too!" Sakura presented the flowers from behind her back. It was a beautiful arrangement of Roseli, roses, baby's breath and… many leaves.

Aki smiled like the world was ending. "Thank you so much!" She placed Sakura's flowers on top of her dresser where her father's picture was. It sparkled there, bringing the colors out of the monotone picture.

Aki smiled. Everything was so peaceful, maybe the Akatsuki were finished. Maybe they were out of her life, forever. Maybe, they would never ever bother her again. It was over. It couldn't get any worse than it was. It just couldn't.

And how very wrong she was indeed.

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Sorry, this was a short chapter! This is just like something to pass time! Please Read and review... umm... i guess you already read it if you are reading this... okay... then REVIEW! Click that button there... i know you want to.. click it... click it...

Coming up:

The Akatsuki arrive at Konoha. Things happen, the sky darkens.

Flying in like a gust of wind,

A darkness they bring to trap and bind.

Okay then... that was random... just popped into my head! Well, I'll update soon! REVIEW PLEASE

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