A/N: HELLO! IS ANYBODY THERE? HELLO? HI I hope you like this chapter...it's a bit longer than the chapter in Swept Away in Paradise. I barely wrote anything in that one, I apologize for the inconvenience. I've been quite indolent lately (BIG WORD) ok...haha
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Title: Chapter 14
Crickets were heard outside of the Hyuga backyard as Hinata helped her Aunt with the dishes while Mr. Hyuga went into his bedroom as if to call it a night.
"Mrs. Hyuga, I enjoyed your cooking, the food was great!" Naruto walked up to his best friend's mother and flashed her a considerate polite smile. Hinata turned away feeling red in the cheeks as she continued to wash the dishes.
"Why thank you, I haven't heard a compliment in years for my cooking," the woman in her forties smiled gratefully as she turned to her eldest son, "Neji dear, could you please wipe the table off? Dessert will be ready in half an hour. I need to clean up first."
"It's all right, Naruto and I will be studying upstairs in our room..." Neji brought over the towel and wiped the table off and washed it off in another sink and then ran up the stairs with Naruto. Before he left, Naruto walked over to Hinata and tapped her on the shoulder.
"Are you sure you don't want to study with us?" his eager sapphire eyes glimmered in the kitchen light.
"Y...Yeah, I'm sure. I just need to help my Aunt tonight," Hinata regretted the fact that she had turned down his offer.
"Ok, then...I'll see you later then I guess," Naruto then departed the room and headed up the stairs.
When he left, Mrs. Hyuga looked at the two and smiled. "Young people these days," she thought to herself.
The doorbell rang a few seconds after that. Hinata washed her hands and dried them off with a clean towel near the sink and took off her apron as she headed to the doorway. She opened it and greeted the visitor.
"Who is it Hinata?" Mr. Hyuga asked her from another room.
"A friend of mine," Hinata yelled back to the other room and invited Kaiya in. Her once long lavender that was tied up with a variety different colors of ribbons was now in a crimpled tangled state. Hinata knew that something was wrong.
Kaiya made her way toward the couch in front of her and sat still with her hands propped on top of her bare knees since she wore a mini skirt in the middle of a night. When she bent forward, her long V neck shirt revealed plenty of cleavage as Hinata preferred to sit next to her instead of across.
"What brings you here in the middle of the evening? Is something wrong?" Hinata leaned back in her cotton shirt that her Aunt had recently purchased for her.
Kaiya hesitated and then nodded. Hinata swallowed hard and knew what she was thinking, it was the full open obvious.
"It's Sasuke, isn't it?" Hinata asked. Tears flew down from Kaiya's face as Hinata handed her a tissue for her to wipe it off.
"What happened between the two of you? I thought that you guys said to each other that you were only friends, right?" the dark haired girl remembered her past conversation about her and Sasuke's summer past.
"We did...but things have changed, I don't know what but...all of a sudden, he stopped talking to me. He never called me, well he never calls, but I always call him...and he would pick it up the minute I would call...but now he wouldn't. And he rarely talks to me or even look at me, ever since the whole episode with Sakura, he became distant, from me," Kaiya's words flowed out of her mouth.
All Hinata could do was comfort her friend, she put a warm arm around her and hugged her tight. "It's ok, what is there to worry about? Do you still have feelings for him?" when she asked the question, Naruto and Neji interrupted them by heading down the stairs for some dessert.
"Oh...Kaiya, what's wrong?" Neji asked as Naruto asked the same question. Hinata mouthed the word, "Girl problem," and the two guys understood and went into the kitchen.
"I don't know what I feel about him, and I feel guilty after what had happened to Sakura...I mean, she didn't deserve it, even though she may have been a total bitch to me and everyone," Kaiya sniffed back some tears.
"It's all right...what she is going through is really difficult. Sasuke just wants to be there for her I guess, their relationship with each other is completely friendly with no romantic ties involved, I can assure you ok? You have nothing to worry...and how about Neji? I thought you liked him," Hinata placed her hand in Kaiya's for comfort.
"I, I know...but, Sakura doesn't deserve to be...you know! I don't know...she just doesn't deserve it," tears came streaming down Kaiya's face and Hinata couldn't understand what the effusion was about.
"Kaiya, what's wrong?" Hinata's right eye gazed at Neji as he and Naruto came back from the kitchen and walked up the stairs. Neji felt something was wrong and Hinata gave him a reassuring look that she didn't need their help and the boys headed up to Neji's room.
"I don't know, lately...I haven't been sleeping well. God, I don't know what's happening to me!" Kaiya's pale hands were shaking and trembling.
"Did you eat? Maybe that's why you can't sleep well, I know that this whole about Sakura is difficult, I mean seriously, it's difficult for everyone here. Just don't let it get to you, it's not your fault. Here, let me get you some water," Hinata stood up but Kaiya quickly pulled her down beside her and shook her head quickly in protest.
"I can't eat...I can't sleep. I don't know what's wrong with me. And Sakura doesn't deserve any of this!" Kaiya sobbed harder and covered her face with her two hands.
"Kaiya, calm down. Let me get you something to eat and drink ok? After that, I guarantee you that you'll feel so much better ok? Just sit here and when I come back, you and I will share a cup of warm water and then you can tell me all of this together in a calmer way all right?" Hinata held her friend's hands and clasped it together.
"NO HINATA JUST LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO FUCKING SAY!" her harsh voice echoed in the silent room.
Her voice shook Hinata to the core, she has never seen Kaiya this way the several months she had known her. Kaiya was the innocent sweet girl she befriended when she came back to high school, but now it seemed to Hinata that she didn't know the other side of her friend; she was not sure if she actually wanted to get to know that hidden side of Kaiya.
"What is it? Is it about Sakura?" Hinata's voice lowered into a whisper.
"I...I think...I think I know who--" however before Kaiya could finish, Neji and Naruto came running downstairs only to greet Hinata and a girl whose eyes had dark circles because her mascara was ruined from some awful crying.
"I heard some screaming and crying, what's going on here?" Neji ran over to Hinata and stared at Kaiya who was shaken from something.
"Whoa Kaiya, what the hell happened to you?" Naruto walked up beside Neji. Just then, Mrs. Hyuga came outside into the living room from the kitchen with two cups of warm water and couldn't help but stare at Kaiya.
"What? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LOOKING AT? DON'T LOOK AT ME, PLEASE I DID NOTHING! I AM INNOCENT! DON'T LOOK AT ME!" Kaiya stood up and screamed and shrieked like a hyena wounded in the night. Hinata stood up and held her friend but Kaiya fell and collapsed weeping on the carpet.
Tears streamed down her face as she held her head with her hands and her hair was out of place. Her knees were buckling and trembling with fear of something. She couldn't handle it and eventually fell onto the carpet and Hinata held her.
"What's wrong Kaiya? What is it that is shaking you so badly? What is it that you think you know who did what?" Hinata started to weep as her friend began to go out of control.
"LEAVE ME ALONE! I DID NOTHING! I AM INNOCENT, REALLY I AM! I NEVER MEANT TO...TO HURT HER, I AM SO SORRY! DON'T LOOK AT ME PLEASE! YOUR EYES...THEY'RE SCARING ME!" Kaiya covered her ears as if trying to not to listen to Hinata's words and shook her head in defiance.
"Never meant to hurt who, Kaiya? What do you mean? Do you know something that we here do not know at all? Come on Kaiya, tell us," Neji bent down and firmly held her by her shoulders and started to shake the answer out of her.
"STOP IT NEJI, YOU'RE HURTING HER!" Hinata shoved Neji out of Kaiya's sight as Naruto speechlessly stood tall gazing at the event as Mrs. Hyuga went in.
"Hinata, dear? What's wrong? Kaiya, dear, please calm down," Mrs. Hyuga tried to pick up Kaiya but she wouldn't let the elder woman touch her.
"NO NO NOOOOOOOOO! DON'T TOUCH ME! YOUR HANDS...YOUR EYES...DON'T LOOK AT ME PLEASE!" Kaiya's voice bolted out.
Naruto's hands were balled together into two tight fists and headed straight to Kaiya and gripped her shoulders. He stared at her with his electric blue eyes as he saw raccoon eyes staring back at him.
"Kaiya..." he calmly addressed her by her name.
"NOO NOO, LET GO OF ME!" Kaiya tried to retreat from Naruto's grip but he wouldn't move.
"Kaiya, listen to me!" Naruto tightened his grip on Kaiya. The young girl gasped and whimpered as she looked down at the carpet while black tears streamed from her face.
"Kaiya, can you hear me?" Naruto's stern voice asked Kaiya. Hinata started to move forward but Naruto eyed her as if saying not to move at all. She didn't.
Taking in a deep sigh, Naruto returned his gaze back at Kaiya and asked her, "Kaiya, you told Hinata that you know something, could you please tell us what it is that you know?"
Kaiya was squirming between Naruto's hold and her hands were held together up to her mouth.
"No...no...I...I will be killed...NOOOO, DON'T TOUCH ME! PLEASE, LET GO OF ME!" Kaiya yelled like a child.
Worried about his dear friend, Naruto started to shed some small tears, "Damn it Kaiya, tell me what it is that you know? Who will kill you? You told me that someone will kill you, why? WHAT DID YOU DO? GODDAMN IT, KAIYA, tell us!"
"Naruto, you've gone too far, leave her alone! Can't you see that she is in a state of shock and torment?" Hinata walked up beside Naruto.
"Stay back Hinata, Kaiya wanted to tell us something but something is holding her back and I want to know why," Naruto informed her.
"Let go...I will be killed, don't let me die Naruto! PLEASE LET ME GO! I DON'T WANT TO DIE, NOT NOW! PLEASE, DON'T LET THEM KILL ME...NOOO," Kaiya tried to shake her way out of Naruto's grip but he held onto her more tightly.
"Kaiya, listen to me! Who is trying to kill you and why?" Naruto tried to get Kaiya to tell him.
"They'll...they'll kill me..." Kaiya held her fingers to her mouth and started biting hard onto her nails. She bit on her nails so hard that some of her fingers began to bleed.
"Kaiya, it's ok. No one will hurt you, it's ok. Hinata and Neji and I am here. You're safe, don't worry. We will not hurt you and we will definitely not let anyone hurt you ok? Now, tell me, who is trying to kill you?"
Shaking her head softly as her tears began to fall onto her bleeding fingers.
"If...if I tell, they'll kill me..." her whisper trembled Naruto.
"If you tell what? Kaiya, what is it that they don't want you to tell us?" Naruto began to lessen his grip on her but Kaiya fought back with screams.
"KAIYA, CALM DOWN! TELL US!"
"They'll kill me if I tell you...who...who..." Kaiya couldn't get the words out because her tongue was touching her own bloody fingers.
"What is this about? If you tell me who what? Is this about someone?" Naruto's blue eyes shimmered.
Kaiya nodded slowly and Naruto began to ask her more questions, "Who is this about?"
The young girl shook her head, "No...if I tell, they will kill me, I mustn't tell..." Kaiya begged Naruto to stop.
"No, Kaiya, this is important. Who is this about?" Naruto questioned her.
Right then, the doorbell of the Hyuga house rang. No one moved.
Ding Dong.
No one moved.
Ding Dong.
Naruto still held Kaiya by her shoulders.
Ding Dong.
Hinata looked at Neji who gazed back at her also.
Ding Dong.
Hinata walked over to the door and opened it.
Kaiya turned and pointed her bloody index finger at the visitor.
"Hi Hinata, I'm sorry if I bothered you at this time at night, but I really need to talk to someone right now and well I was on my way to somewhere and I happened to pass by your house," the pink haired young girl peered behind Hinata and saw Naruto holding a troubled Kaiya who was staring back at her.
"Oh, did I come at a bad time?" Sakura asked Hinata and gazed at Kaiya again who pointed at her.
"...her..." Kaiya answered. Everyone in the room looked at Sakura, who silently stood at the entrance of the doorway.
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