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Chapter four is up! Enjoy, once again sorry! XD

Chapter 4: Haiku

I slowly began to open my eyes. I was lying on my stomach in a meadow full of various types of flowers. I then slowly began to pull myself up onto my knees.

"Wow," I whispered "So beautiful"

I looked around and noticed the sakura trees in full bloom, as the petals began to dance in the wind, and there was no cloud in sight. The birds were chirping quite loudly and the bees landing on different flowers sucking honey out of them. I decided to get up and find the answer to my question...

Where am I?

I started walking through the flowers trying to find a clue to get out of here when I spotted something up ahead. It looked to be a little white and pink gazebo where you could go in and sit while starring at the blue sky all day. I walked closer to it and stopped right when I saw a young figure sitting inside it holding a flower. She started picking the petals one by one as she was singing a lullabye or so it seemed. I couldn't hear he perfectly so I walked closer to her, I stood at the entrance and stared at her. She then started to sing the song once more. She had a soft voice and you couldn't listening to it.

You are my sunshine,

My only sunshine.

You make me happy,

When skies are gray.

You never know dear,

How much I love you.

Please don't take my sunshine away.

She then knew that I was there because she turned around and faced me. She had flowers in her hair and a long white sleeveless dress with sandals to match. I then looked into her eyes and noticed the same painful eyes I saw the last time. I saw an empty seat across from her and slowly walked toward it and sat down. Once I sat down, she started asking me questions.

"You saw him right?" she said as she focused her eyes on me

"Who?" I asked not knowing what she meant.

"Varlox." she answered as she threw the petaless flower on the floor.

"Who's he"

"I'm sure you meet him," she then looked toward me again with a saddened expression on her face. "He wears a black cloak that covers his whole body and he wears his hood over his face so you wouldn't see him."

I already knew who the girl was talking about. We've meet before and it wasn't a pleasent meeting either. "Yeah," I sad as I turned my head to look at the opened field" Is he after you?"

Just by saying those words she started to get nervous and began to look down and play with her hands like hinata does when she's nervous." Y-yes" she stuttered" He's so bad"

"How bad?" I asked curiously

She took a deep breath in and exhaled slowly" He kills a lot of people who goes in his way to get me. He don't care who he kills, He's just after his prize." She began to shake as she brought her hands to her eyes and started to say "H-he he..."

She then started crying to a point where she couldn't talk anymore. So I got up and sat next to her and pulled her onto me so she could at least feel comfortable. "He...he" She began"...killed my parents and my c-clan and I'm th-the only one left" She said through tears while gripping onto my shirt not wanting to let go.

After a few minutes of crying and comforting, she started to calm down a bit. I then asked as I was still holding onto her" Were you the one I meet before? The one in the deserted village?"

She nodded her head yes while easing her grip on my shirt.

"What's your name?"

She looked up at me "Haiku"

"That song you were singing, it was a lullaby right?"

"Yes, my mom used to sing it to me when I was little. She told me to sing it when I'm in trouble so that way she'll be with me, even when I die."

"Oh," I plainly said" Why did varlox pick you?" I asked still a little bit confused.

"Because" She began to explain" My mom told me that I come from a powerful clan called the Ayako. We could enter peoples mind and make them go crazy or we could make them see things that's not even there. We could also replace there memories with different ones. In combat, we could beat enemies in a matter of seconds. But...I'm the only one left." She stated.

"Oh I get it," I said as I tried connecting the pieces to the puzzle" so he wants train you and make you like his own pet and he could control you."

"Right" Haiku stated" but, I don't want to be bad. I want to be good. I want to help people instead of kill them. One day, he came to my house. He started attacking everything. My mom pushed me out of the house and told me to leave." I then felt Haiku grip onto my shirt as tears started to form in the corner of her eyes." So I did what I was told and left. I spent overnight in the woods by myself. The next day, I went back. The whole place was turned upside down. Everything was broken and torn apart. And there was a trail of blood leading upstairs. So I followed it to find my parents...dead." She then started to cry again as before.

"Wow, you had it tough when you were young. You can go into people's dreams right?" I asked

She started wiping her eyes with the back of her hands as she answered "Yes"

"Then...why me?" I asked still confused about that part

"Because," She began to explain again" You survived when you were younger. I heard that you didn't have any family to take care of you and also you're strong and you don't let people tell you what to do. So I'm asking if you could please help me." She then looked away.

"Heh.." I gave a small chuckle and looked out into the meadow" You are just like me. You know that right. But I didn't have anybody chasing me or anything like that but you do. When I was young I used to always avoid fighting and getting into bad situations. But now I really don't care because I got friends who'll help me if I ever need them."

"So you'll help" she said almost immediately with a small smile on her face.

I looked down at her and smiled" Somehow I would"

She then grabbed me into a hug and tightened her grip" Oh Tenten, thank you so much" She said through happy tears.

"Okay" I said as I gave her one last hug and placed her on my lap." But first you're going to have to calm down. Take it easy for a bit"

Haiku smiled and buried her face into my chest as she slowly began to breathe in and out. And before you knew it, she was asleep already. I held her in my arms as the cool breeze caressed our skin. I ran my hand down her hair multiple times as I was looking out into the opened field. I too decided to take a little nap but once I closed my eyes, everything started to shake. I quickly opened my eyes and noticed that everything had changed. The sky was no longer blue but a dark grayish color almost turning black, the meadow was all covered up with dead flowers and it didn't give off a warm sensation anymore. And also the leaves on the trees were dead and there was no more birds chirping anymore.

Haiku quickly jumped off me in a split second. "He's here" she said as she went into fighting stance.

"Varlox?" I asked as I got up.

CRASH, there were huge crashes of thunder as it hit one of the sakura trees making it fall.

"Yeah, you have to leave now!" She screamed over the loud noise of the thunder.

"No! Not without you!" I screamed back

"I'll see you soon. Don't worry about me!"

"NO!" I screamed as I bent over and grabbed her "We have to leave; I'm not going without you."

I then started to run out the chapel and down the meadow steeping on various types of dead flowers. Just then...

"Varlox!" I whispered

Varlox showed up right in front of us. I put Haiku down and forced her behind me so she won't get hurt.

"So, you found her after all?" He said in a regular tone as he just stood there with the hood covering his face.

"You'll never get her as long as I'm here," I said in an angry tone "You aren't even going to lay a finger on her. Got that?"

"Now, now, now. You don't have to stick up for her, why don't you care about yourself first?"

He then stuck out his hand, which was a few inches from my chest, and whispered something and all of a sudden I felt the same pain inside me. It was the same pain I felt when I was with the girls. But this time, I didn't have anyone to protect me like neji did.

I then fell onto my knees "AHHHH!" I screamed as I was clutching my head in pain.

"TENTEN" Haiku screamed as she bent down next to me and was grabbing my arm.

"STOP!" Haiku screamed "LEAVE HER ALONE!"

"Only if you surrender to me." He said with eagerness added to his voice.

I then struggled to stand up, holding all the pain in. "You...h-have to get...t-trough...f-first" I said as I took in deep breaths of air.

Then all of a sudden, he hit me with the back of his hand in my face and I went flying across the meadow.

"TENTEN!" I heard Haiku scream to me as she ran to me, but before she could react, Varlox grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards him "LET GO" She cried.

I then struggled to get up on my feet, I was bleeding from the corner of the mouth where he hit me, and so I wiped it off with the back of my hand. I then held back all the pain I felt and focused my chakra to my feet and once I had enough, I ran toward Varlox with a kunai in hand.

He let go of Haiku and quickly punched me in the stomach which made me cough up blood and made me lose my breath. I fell to the floor in pain as I clutched my stomach hoping all this would just disappear. But it didn't.

"TENTEN!" Haiku screamed once more as she ran to me and grabbed onto my arm and started shaking me, "WAKE UP TENTEN, PLEASE!" she then began to cry.

"Heh," Varlox gave out a little chuckle before he began to speak "Say good-bye because after I'm done with her, all that's going to be left are a pile of ashes!"

I slowly opened my eyes and saw haiku leaning over me. I then saw varlox take out his two hands and put it together and slowly blue light formed in his two palms. Haiku senesced the blue light and quickly got up and outstretched her arms on the side of her making sure he won't get to me.

"Leave her alone" She screamed

She then pulled her arms in front of her and started to scream as she too was creating chakra in her hands. Right then and there...Everything went white. I don't know what happened. I don't know if she won or lost. I don't know if varlox took her. All I know is that I'm still alive...she must've protected me. If it wasn't for her then I probably would've been dead by now.

I slowly began to open my eyes as I was greeted with bright white light. I looked around squinting and noticed I was in a hospital room lying on the bed with a needle stuck in my left arm; the window shades were pulled opened letting the sun shine throughout the room. I turned my head to the left of me and saw a white eyed man sitting on the chair crossing his arms while his eyes were set on me.

"Had fun?" He asked in a sarcastic tone.

I slowly began to pick myself up but once I tried I fell back down felling a shot of pain run through my head down my back.

"You shouldn't move" I heard Neji say.

There was silence in the room for like two minutes until I began to speak.

"So, how long have I been out?" I asked

"This is the third day." He answered "What happened in your dream? Did you see her again or not?"

"She comes from a powerful clan she says," I began to tell Neji in a soft tone "she can erase people's memories and replace them with different ones and she could even make them kill themselves. Also her clan is so strong that she could kill anybody within seconds. But...she's the only one left. And she's like nine or ten years old."

"What about the guy in black?" He asked

"His name is varlox. He's after her and he's doing anything he can to keep me or anybody else who's trying to get in his way. He wants her so that he could kill anybody he wants" I then turned towards the window and saw the bright blue sky with thick white clouds pasted on it. "I also decided to help her somehow"

"How are you going to do that?"

"Don't know" I answered truthfully

"TENTEN!" I heard a scream which made me turn my head toward the door waiting for the person to yell to open the door.

The door banged opened and out popped Ino, Sakura and Hinata who was holding a bundle of flowers.

"Hey" I simply said

"Tenten, one more thing" I heard Neji say as he got up out of his chair.

"Don't tell me training starts tomorrow" I whined "I just woke up"

"No, not that"

"Then what?" I asked confused as if I'm forgetting something important.

"I told the girls what happened about you and the little girl;" He began "They were there so I had to."

"Yeah Tenten" Ino whined "We all promised to tell each other secrets and promised to keep them between us! What happened?"

"I thought..." I then stared at the ceiling avoiding all of there glares "That you guys would've thought that I was going crazy or something"

"No Tenten" Sakura said as she started sitting in the seat Neji was sitting in "We wouldn't say anything like that."

"I know, sorry."

Hinata then placed the bundles of flowers containing various types of flowers. It reminded me so much of the meadow in my dream but I decided to keep it to myself. I then saw Neji walking out the door.

"Neji" I screamed, which made the girls jump because of the sudden outburst" Thanks, I really mean it. You stood here for me and you didn't leave my side, I know you did. Thanks"

Neji turned his head showing only half his face and he let out a little smirk and he turned his head back around and went out the door.

"The doctor says that you're leaving tomorrow if things work out okay" Sakura said with a lit up smile on her face.

"But..."I started but was cut off by Ino.

"You don't want to be alone, Right?"

"Y-you could s-stay with m-me if y-you want?" Hinata insisted

"You really mean it?" I asked almost getting up but decided not to since I felt that same pain in my head again.

"Y-yeah, N-Neji won't mind"

"You sure? I don't want to be in the way or something."

"W-we got enough rooms in the h-house and m-maids that do all the work and c-chefs that could make and serve us d-dinner."

"Fine" I said with a huge smile on my face" Thanks Hinata, if I could get up I'd hug you right now"

"Wow, Tenten's moving in with the Hyuugas" Ino bragged

"I'm not moving in" I almost screamed

"You know what that means right?" Sakura asked as she elbowed Ino in the arm, she then whispered loud enough so I could here "Neji"

I blushed madly and screamed "I'm not moving in, I'm just staying there until this whole nonsense passes"

"Yeah Tenten, we believe you," She said sarcastically "Just hope Neji's ready"

"HEY..." I screamed but couldn't finish since the nurse came in.

"Visiting hours are over, would you kindly please leave the room" With a bow she left.

"See you tomorrow!" Sakura said as she got off the chair and bent down and gave me a hug.

Ino then hugged me and backed away "Bye Tenten! Good Luck with Neji tomorrow!"

'Ino was lucky that I can't move, I could only move my arms and head but not my body, because if I could...she'd be dead by now. That's probably why she hugged me first and then backed away.' I thought

"Get better Tenten!" Hinata said

"Thanks Hinata. You're a really good friend" And with that I gave her a hug and with a sweet smile she left with Sakura and Ino.

"Wonder what it would be like tomorrow?" I whispered to myself as I stared out the window into the endless night sky." Does Neji know about tomorrow? Will he be mad?" I then closed my eyes Hope Haiku's alright. I didn't even see her since that light occured. Well, I'll just wait and find out, I will help you haiku. Just believe me" And with that I fell asleep thinking of what tomorrow would bring.

So there you have it, i'm already working on the next chapter so please review XP Thanks!

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