Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase! Hakuna… okay I don't know then words anymore.
Dear Anonymous reviewer (signed 'Random')
Sorry! I forgot about that! Thanks for telling me… I'll make up a reason though… in this story things are different… Hiashi secretly taught Hizashi everything he learned because he once believed it was unfair to mark people inferior to others. That's just in my imagination. Again, thanks for telling, I will remember in the future.
kawaiiiWell, here is Chapter 15! Woot, I'm sorry if the story is going so slow, I enjoy writing lots and lots. Well, it is all part of the rising action! So enjoy!
Lights… Camera… ACTION!
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"Thank you, be safe!" The nurse at Konoha hospital smiled and waved goodbye to Aki, Tenten, Neji and Lee. Aki was helping Neji walk, and Lee and Tenten were walking with crutches. Lee and Tenten bade farewell to the twins and went their separate ways. Aki giggled a bit.
"What's so funny?" Neji asked.
"They're walking really slow."
"So? So am I."
"Not anymore!" Aki used wind to pick Neji up. He was surprised at this and she ran/floated full speed ahead. Neji couldn't balance himself so he was this weird looking floating person that was sitting in the air. Aki thought it was funny, until they passed the street.
Slowing to a walk, the smile faded from her face. The street was a mess, there were bodies lying everywhere. She turned one over with her foot and bent down to see what had happened. There were no visible marks that could've led her to believe that they were poisoned. Neji crawled over to her and sat.
"What do you think happened?"
Aki said nothing, but the troubled look on her face said, "I don't know." Aki told Neji to look away for a moment, and when he looked back, she was gone.
Aki, in fact, used her powers over time to send her back to the moment the incident happened. She looked around, looking for anyone suspicious. No one popped out of the crowd, Maybe I came too early? She went around, going through people and walls. She saw Naruto in his favorite ramen shop, gulping down some from a bowl. Aki secretly wondered what number that bowl was. Still not seeing anything, she sat on a rock and waited for something to happen.
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Hmph. How am I going to get home? This place is really starting to freak me out. Neji sat on the hard ground after Aki had disappeared. Hurry up, sister, be safe. A slight wind blew, as if responding to his remark. Neji smiled a bit and then groaned; this is going to take forever!
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Aki was already lying down on the rock and losing patience, and power. If the people who may have killed all those people don't appear soon, she'd be stuck in the past for a long, long time. Aki sat up again to find that there were people whispering near a tree about a meter away. It was boy and girl. She recognized the boy, Deidada. The Akatsuki, of course! They were talking.
"--come on, we have to 'put to sleep' everyone else in the village. Well, everyone, except for them."
"Yeah, it's just…" Deidara put his left hand on the back of his head grinning, "How? We can't just drug someone without anyone noticing." The girl didn't answer and marched right up to the boulder Aki was sitting on. She jumped off quickly, forgetting that she was a ghost to this time period. The girl brought out something like a yoyo with a needle on the end, instead of a yoyo. Aki, with her sharp eyes, caught her throwing and pulling back the needle over fifty times in less than two minutes. Everyone collapsed on the scene.
"Okay that works." Deidara said.
Everything was getting hazy as Aki's powers ran out. She turned around and saw the girl walking into the Ramen restaurant; she picked up a motionless figure. Aki couldn't quite make out what it was; all she remembered was that the figure was wearing something orange.
"So you're finally back; took you long enough." Neji was still sitting cross-legged on the ground when Aki sat up, blinking in the sun.
"Oh, hi nii-san."
"What did you see?"
"I don't remember, I ran out of energy." Aki sat up and conjured wind to help Neji stand too, "Come on, I want to make sure everyone is alright back home." Aki floated forwards to their mansion.
When they reached the door, their hearts sunk and their stomachs turned into blocks of ice. It was kicked in, as if someone had forcefully made their way in. Aki let the wind go from under her feet and she stepped lightly onto the ground. Her legs were still healing, so they quickly bent and gave way under her. "Ouch. That really hurt."
"Then why'd you take the wind out?" Aki gave her brother a glare. She then shakily got up and limped to the indoors.
The foyer was a mess. The chandelier that had once hung off the roof lay in pieces at their feet. The Hyuuga guards were staring emptily towards the ceiling, the last thing they would ever see. Aki stifled a moan and kept on walking. She didn't feel like going up the stairs, so the wind from under her rose her and she landed on the stair balcony. The beautiful wooded entrance door was gone, as if it had never been there. In its stead, there were ashes. Aki kept sailing forwards. Each and every door was knocked over; no one was in their rooms. Aki started breathing heavily. Was this the Akatsuki too? Neji was following closely behind, peering in everyone's rooms.
Aki climbed up the stairs to the second floor. It was almost the same as the first. Aki passed a room and decided to walk in. Something smelled of smoke when she walked in, wondering what it was she explored the whole room. She walked through every corner and crack. Looking at the ground, she saw foot prints, she followed them, and they led her to the washroom. The door was half closed but she saw that the light was on, looking into the crack, she saw nothing but the mirror. She swore and pushed the door open. A little boy was standing in the corner, he was breathing heavily, as if he had just ran the marathon race. He recoiled when Aki came in but saw that her eyes were white, just like his. He was about eight or nine. Aki went closer to him, "What's wrong? What happened here?" She asked in a stern voice. The little boy sobbed instead of speaking. "Please tell me what happened." The little boy let out a yelp. Aki saw that his feet were freezing onto the floor; he was turning into ice, a live ice sculpture. She conjured up fire and tried melting it, unsuccessfully. The cold ice was already up to the little boy's collar. It seemed nothing could get him out, Aki conjured up her healing powers and touched her hands to the boy's head, nothing happened. His head was freezing; they even gave her hands frost bite. She shook them impatiently and tried healing the boy again, he screamed, and then it was quiet. His mouth was still open but nothing came out. Aki tried fire again but nothing happened still. A sudden icy chill went through her spine as she thought of Hiashi or Hinata facing this fate. She knelt on the floor and pounded her fists on the boy's feet. She felt like crying, no, she was crying. A soft hand was placed on her shoulders. She quickly turned around and found Neji there; he had a sorry look in his eyes. He was crying too, just not as much. Aki faced away from her brother, ashamed of her tears. She then got up and floated out the door, Neji trailing after her.
They passed their rooms, and luckily, not much was broken. Aki went into hers and looked on her shelf. The flowers that Ino and Sakura had given her were frozen with a slight, visible film of ice over the soft petals. Aki went over to take the picture of her, her brother and her father. The glass part of the frame was cracked a bit, right over the head of her father; making his face distorted. (seven days! Jkjk.) Aki sighed and teleported the frame into the woods, where it would be safe.
They were now on the top floor, where her father's and her uncle's rooms were. It was even darker than the other three and Neji couldn't see anything; Aki could though, part of her powers made her capable of seeing in the dark. She her father's room still closed, and probably locked. It was Hiashi's room that worried her. The glass door was shattered in a million pieces, and that was where the only light was coming from. Neji blinked in surprise when the light hit his retinas. It was unusually bright. Aki trembled a little. Neji saw this and went up to her, putting a comforting arm around her shoulders. (I sure can't imagine Neji doing that, well he's different in my story… so HAH!) They went in the door confidently, side by side.
That confidence immediately dissolved when they saw all of the Akatsuki in that room. Two Akatsuki kept Hiashi at bay, holding a blade to his throat. And another was holding a struggling Hanabi under one arm and squeezing Hinata's throat with the other. Each was in a deadly crisis. An office chair swung around and revealed Itatchi. Aki glanced around the room; the tree that was once near the window was burnt. Another chair was in the corner. Aki recognized the person tied and gagged on it, he was sleeping, but she knew it was Naruto.
"Naruto." She whispered, she made a move towards him but Itatchi beat her to it.
"I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to take your friend. He is possessed with the spirit of Kyuubi and I need that power. We also have the one tailed creature of sand, Shukaku." Itatchi smiled. "Don't try coming any closer, unless of course, you do not care about your family members." Aki stopped in her tracks, growling. "Well, after the thirteen years we've been with you, we have found you are no use to us, and neither your brother. We found out there were twins in another small village, north from here. They have gray eyes, close enough to white. I heard some tales about how powerful they are. But you? There is no way that you can be possessed with the spirit of the ten-tailed beast." He signaled to his comrades, "Should we kill you?" Aki's eyes narrowed.
"No, you shouldn't." Aki used her powers to push Itatchi away, it worked. He crashed into the opposite wall, creating a large dent. He sat up, coughing blood. His cloak was now in shreds. He smirked.
"Okay. You want games?" He looked over at Hinata and Hinabi's captor, "One of you, activate their seals." Hinata and Hinabi looked surprised. "Do it." Hanabi rose two fingers, her pointer and middle, and closed her eyes. "Good girl."
"Hyuuga Technique: Dancing swords of leaf!" She opened her eyes and shot the invisible swords at Itatchi; they hardly grazed him, but they did manage to give his face a small, but deep cut.
He smiled again, thrusting his hands forward, Hanabi was released from her and her sister's captor and tumbled to the floor with a slight, "Oof!" She saw Itatchi's black, and silver gleaming shoes advance towards her. That was what she saw right in front of her eyes. Then she felt a slight pressure on her neck, then found herself face to face with Itatchi. "I am in no mood for games Hyuuga Hanabi." And those were the last words she ever heard.
Hinata screamed as she heard the crack of her sister's neck. She was just there screaming, not shutting up. It was the loudest noise that ever erupted from her frail body. Her captor took his hand and put it over her mouth; she bit it and continued screaming. Something started to ting in Aki's ear. Hinata's captor quickly held a kunai blade close to her throat and mumbled something into her ear, most likely a threat. She quieted herself after a while, breathing in quickly. She was crying, sobs racked throughout her body. Hiashi was probably crying too; he just didn't show it.
"Now, will you do what your sister did?" Itatchi asked Hinata. She spoke nothing; instead, she shook her head slowly. "Good. Activate their seals."
"I-I can o-on-only do one a-at a tuh-ti-time."
"Well then activate one! I'll ask, kindly of course, your father to activate the other."
Neji gave Hinata a pleading look; she mouthed 'I'm so sorry.' Her head drooped as she activated her hand sign. Itatchi asked Hiashi to do the same, but not before collection a kunai and stabbing it through Hanabi's heart. He also activated the seal, more quickly than Hinata.
Aki felt the pain first. Her neck started burning up; then her breathing stopped. She tried taking in a breath, but found that her cursed seal prevented her from doing that. She fell on her knees, and grasped her neck, trying to make it better. She couldn't of course and just knelt there, trying to breath.
Neji tried helping his sister before the pain hit him as well. His head felt like exploding, at times, he thought it really did. He ripped off his headband and massaged his temples, with no success. He snarled at Itatchi when he came close to the two.
"Okay, well, I guess you two are powerless now." He laughed a bit and then talked again, "We'll be going now if you don't mind. But wait, what are we to do with your uncle and cousin?" He tapped his chin thoughtfully, eyes sparkling like fresh blood. "Ahh… I don't feel like killing today. He shot two needles right into Hinata's and Hiashi's foreheads. Their eyes rolled into their heads and they fell into a deep slumber, and when they woke, they'd remember nothing; even if there were dead bodies all around them. "But… I will leave them to mourn over their loved ones." He kicked Hanabi as if she were dirt.
Aki and Neji lay panting on the floor. Aki was already close to passing out, Neji's head just hurt a lot. They could only lie there as they took away the sleeping Naruto. Neji struggled to get up and supported his upper body with his two elbows. He glanced down at his sister, who was still having trouble breathing. His cursed seal, which was glowing green at the time, slowly faded away after some time, but because Aki's was on her neck, it was still growing a bright white, and didn't fade. Neji took his forehead protector, after sitting up, and tied it around his forehead. Aki was able to roll herself over, so she was lying on her stomach and force her arms to do a half-push-up. She stayed in that position for awhile, and then slid her legs forward so she was in the seiza position. She sat there in a daze for a bit; and then she slowly turned her head towards Neji, who was at the door way, watching the company exit.
"What just happened?"
"I don't quite remember much. All I remember is a sharp pain in my head. Then everything is blank."
"I too, except that I couldn't breathe." Aki sat up then fell again, forgetting about her broken legs. She pouted then used wind to seat her back up. "Naruto was here. I remembered him; I think they took him away." She said when she looked towards the corner where he was sitting. "Naruto is possessed with Kyuubi, the two tailed beast?"
"What?"
"Biju, they are the most feared and most powerful beasts in this world. There are nine, but there was a legend and prophecy that there was another one possessed with another monster; a ten-tailed beast, more powerful than its brothers and sisters. The Jinchuriki, the carrier of this spirit, was supposed to be a twin of another, and have white eyes. Pretty close to our description huh? That's why the Akatsuki attempted to kidnap us when we were four years old. Somehow, they failed getting you, and only got me. Apparently, I have no use anymore. I'm sorry."
Neji sat down beside his sister. "Your not worthless, if that is what you mean."
Aki smiled and used wind to float through the door, "Come on. We have to find the other seven before they do. Then with them, we can find the tenth."
"Why only seven? I thought there were nine."
"Yes there are nine. They said, they have Naruto, the nine-tailed beast. And they have the one tailed beast from sand."
"Oh."
"Come on, there is still one here in Konoha. Let's hurry." Neji and Aki left the house in a rush, not aware that the next Jinchuuriki was just right under their own noses, or maybe, under Aki's wings.
Can you guess who the other Jinchuuriki is? Who is it? Click the review button!
Here is the next clue:
Assaulted
Pain and death engulf the towns
On the night of the full, red moon, the
Chase is finished
Altars are set
Life ends abruptly. People
Yearning for
Power,that erupts from the
Severed ground
Ending the world.
Fin... geez, i'm not even half way yet! Well, next chapter coming soon!