Chapter 4: Man's Best Friend?
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"Akamaru!" Kiba yelled out! He was 'walking' Akamaru.
"Bark!" Akamaru smiled as they ran into the forest…
Hinata's POV:
I'm getting pretty nervous, Neji-nissan's coming today…I hope he doesn't scold me or anything…Although, I'm really curios of what happens next…No! No Hinata don't think that, you'll jinx the fact that we're all going to die.
KNOCK
That must be him, I reached out my hand and opened the door. Neji was in his normal attire and with an emotionless face greeted me. I nodded and allowed him to come with me into the room.
Kiba's POV:
Akamaru and I sure are getting along better. After that incident, I tensed up a bit, and Akamaru and I have been getting into huge fights. It's good that I didn't tell Akamaru of Ino and Sakura's death or he'd freak out. But it's too bad he had to skip the funeral.
"Ruff!" Akamaru stopped and took a wiz on the tree. I told him I was kind of tired and we sat for a while. I looked into the sky and sighed, but then a scary thought crossed my mind, why did they die so unexpectedly, I'm sure they should've been able to avoid that.
Akamaru looked at me with concern, he saw the sadness in my face. I patted him on the head and told him not to worry. Then several animals came to me…
Neji's POV:
Hmm…She seemed a little nervous, I wonder why? It's probably because she's still sad over Naruto's death…I don't blame her, Tenten…No I must forget about the past…
"So…" I began breaking the silence between us, I wanted to see the picture…In fact I wanted to see all of them!
"Hn…" I said, and she moved a bit, "The pictures?"
"Gomen…" I wonder why she apologized? Is she afraid of me?
"Hinata-sama…"
"What is it Neji-nissan?"
"Why," I placed my hand on hers, "Why are you so scared?"
Hinata's POV:
He seems so kind and gentle now, the coldness in his eyes disappeared, and so did my fear, "umm…"
"I'm here for you," he smiled, "I won't leave you alone…Promise!"
His smile made me feel so happy, his words touched my heart, this is the first time Neji-nissan and I have been so close as relatives…
"Ok…" I smiled back and turned to my computer and opened the pictures. I showed him Ino's and Sakura's picture. I pointed out the things I noticed.
"So, do the stories, the stories from years ago have any connection to this?" he asked, I thought for a moment…
Neji's POV:
I stared at the picture as she began to tell me her answer. Yes, there was a connection I guess. But she was right we couldn't be exactly sure until we had more evidence.
She then turned to the computer and changed it to the next picture. It was an awfully amusing picture of Kiba, he had whip cream all over his face and was fighting Akamaru for the last pie. I wonder what this has to do with anything.
Hinata studied it carefully and I decided to do the exact same thing. I muttered another 'Hn,' and shook my head. Nothing came up…
"Rabies…" she muttered. My eyes went wide and I thought about this. What a scary thing to die from. Wait, is he going to get Rabies? Or will Akamaru get rabis and kill him? Oh I'm so confused…But hopefully, this is all just some coincidence or nightmare and we'll all just wake up.
But no it couldn't be, I turned to a silently sobbing Hinata and placed my hand on her shoulder. It couldn't be fake, these tears aren't fake, this pain isn't fake…Death isn't fake…It just happens, no matter what we think.
Kiba's POV:
I guess they were a little cute. There was a squirrel, some rabbits and other creatures, too lazy to count each one. I looked at Akamaru who seemed a little frightened of these animals. I patted his head and told him nothings the matter, he whined a little and I placed him on my head.
Suddenly the animals made little noises and Akamaru came down and barked ferociously at them. What was his problem?
I swear the squirrel twitched, and so did the raccoon, they both looked a little strange. I jumped up as they went crazy. Holy crap, I jumped onto the tree but they didn't chase after me luckily, but then I noticed that my best buddy was gone…
"AKAMARU!" I yelled out and jumped down to pull the dreatures away from him.
"Akamaru," I said studying him. He didn't move, I panicked a little, but then there was some foam emerging from his mouth. Oh shit!
I jumped up but it was too late, Akamaru went crazy and bit me on my arm. I wailed in pain and fell on my stomach as they all jumped on me and I went crazy too. Pain coursed through my body and the next thing I knew, I was dead…
Hinata's POV:
This silence has been going on for too long, so I turned to Neji and told him that we should go check on him.
He nodded and we rushed out.
We left to his house to find out that he went to the forest to walk Akamaru. Neji and I exchanged worried looks and we ran as quickly as possible into the forest.
"How are we supposed to find him in this place!" Neji asked anger obviously in his voice.
"I don't know, but we have no time to figure that out," I took a pause when I heard screaming.
"We found him," Neji said and we ran.
Tears started forming in my eyes as I looked down at Kiba's dead body and Akamaru's and also numerous amount of dead animals. I stared at the area, full of blood and fallen branches. Something bad must have happened, and we were too late.
Later we ran to tell people and they carefully brought him back. I went to visit the hospital to find out what had killed him, and Neji was by my side.
"Rabies," they said shaking their heads.
"Oh no," I said and covered my mouth. I sobbed again and covered my mouth. They covered his body and Akamaru's and we left to prepare for his funeral.
In the past two days I studied the rest of the pictures and found nothing wrong with it. There seemed to be nothing wrong, I knew that Temari, and Shikamaru were next, then Neji and I. I stared at the pictures and heard a knock on my door. I turned off the monitor and sighed.
I opened my door to see Neji all dressed in black, "Ready?" he asked.
I looked down at my pure black dress "Yeah," I answered and he led me to the funeral area.
There was his family and other ninja's. When I spotted Temari and Shikamaru I rushed towards them.
Temari was in tears, "What's happening to our world!" she sobbed hard and cried into Shikamaru's chest.
Shikamaru sighed, "These past days have been troublesome," he stuffed his hands in his pockets and dropped down his head
"Yeah," I said and tried to comfort Temari.
Then her head shot up, "If all those guys died…Are we going to die?"
I looked at her and thought, her eyes were full of fear and Shikamaru looked slightly worried, "I…I'm not sure…"
The two sighed and Temari started to look paranoid, "Well, I'm going to be on watch…"
"You should," I suggested and they walked away. Shikamaru looked pretty worried and sighed as Temari clung herself to Shikamaru.
I turned to see Neji walking towards me, "Hey," he said I waved.
"So, what about them?" he asked, I turned to them once more.
"I don't know…there's nothing in the pictures…Come over and we can talk, I'll arrange for Shika and Temari to come."
He nodded and waved to me, I waved back and said my good byes. Tomorrow, I have to work hard to keep those two from dying. Although recently, I think that you can't ever escape from death…
A/N: Sorry for not updating soon enough…
