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Chapter 34
The people hiding in the bushes watched as Neji trailed his lips up Michelle's neck and kissed her firmly on her mouth. The bearers of the hazel eyes could tell-this was just like when her husband felt threatened by an outsider. Almost animalistic…the male needs to assert his dominance…and the female has to let him in order for things to be right again.
All males, it seemed, were like that.
However, hazy violet eyes narrowed, gaining a grim look and saying silently 'How dare he defy my command.' The other eyes exchanged worried looks as the girl raised two fingers in front of her face and whispered a secret jutsu that had been passed down through generation…
In the Hyuuga clan.
Suddenly, almost painfully, Neji ripped himself out of Michelle's arms and screamed in pain. A shaking hand tore his forehead protector off in an attempt to relieve the pressure it was causing him. "Neji…" Michelle said in a shaking voice. "What's wrong…" She glanced around the clearing helplessly, as if looking for someone to tell her what to do.
Taking a deep shuddering breath, the pain having temporarily abated, he grabbed Michelle's arm for support. "She…. knows. That's the only reason the mark would've activated." "Who knows…Hinata?" Said Michelle urgently. He nodded and gritted his teeth as another wave of pain struck him.
The bushes rustled warningly…but that was all the warning they got as something that Michelle could only distinguish as a streak of light sped out of the bushes and slammed into Neji's body, sending the already pain racked Jounin flying across the glade. "Neji!" Michelle yelled, anguished. The dust kicked up by the jutsu was slowly dying down and the Uchiha saw who it was who had attacked her boyfriend.
Hinata. But not the Hinata she knew, not the gentle, stuttering girl who was madly in love with Naruto… no, she saw the leader of the Hyuuga clan. Her hazy violet eyes were steely and she held one hand out in front of her, a hand that was beginning to glow again as she charged back up for the jutsu.
"You disobeyed me." Said Hinata in a voice so cold, Michelle almost thought that it was an imposter standing in for her. Before Michelle could stop her, however, Hinata stalked over to where her cousin was huddled in a heap at the base of the tree and sent a charka powered kick in his direction.
"Hinata…. Hinata wait…STOP!" Michelle shrieked, racing forward and grabbing a hold of the arm the clan leader had just swung back. "Do not touch me." Said Hinata coldly, continuing with "Or try to stop me. He defied me, he shall pay the consequences. Do not interfere."
"Do…not interfere?" Said Michelle in a shaky voice. "Why wouldn't I interfere? You're my friend Hinata, but I love him and I will not allow you to hurt him merely because you are his clan leader, that's not a good enough excuse." Hinata yanked her arm out of Michelle's grasp and merely slid a kunai out of the sleeve of her jacket and said, "Do not interfere. The penalty is death." She swung the kunai up, causing Michelle to close her eyes tightly.
But as she heard the kunai whistling through the air she realized…she couldn't just stand there and do nothing. Her eyes snapped open, revealing the Sharingan. Faster than anyone could tell, Michelle slipped under Hinata's arm and whacked her hand, sending the kunai flying across the clearing. Giving the clan leader a swift kick in the stomach, Michelle sent her flying across after the knife.
Turning around to where her boyfriend was beginning to stir, she preformed several hand seals, placing a jutsu on him. She barely managed to finish before she could sense Hinata getting up. The cold clan leader was glaring at her.
"This has nothing to do with you, it is a matter of a lesser disobeying someone who is above them. Don't stick your interfering nose into family business…why are you laughing?"
"I'm laughing, my dear Hinata at you." Said Michelle through chuckles. "You say that what is going on has absolutely nothing to do with me…and yet you are so drunk on power as the clan leader that you cannot see that this has everything to do with me. I'm the reason you're putting him through this whole thing."
Hinata scowled causing Michelle to hold up a hand "Hinata don't scowl. It is not becoming…what would Naruto say if he saw?" But even bringing up the Uzumaki's name did nothing to change her friend's expression.
"Come on Hinata." Pressed Michelle. "Yes he hurt me…but I forgive him for that. If he had still hurt me I wouldn't allow him near me in fact I'd take your job and kill him myself… but I love him… And I will not allow you to hurt him."
What Michelle had forgotten is that when people start to monologue, they tend to lose their guard. While Michelle had her guard down, Hinata whipped out another kunai and threw it at Neji's body by way of underneath Michelle's arm.
It landed in Neji's chest. "NO!" yelled Michelle franticly as she whirled around.
However, that was all an act for Hinata's benefit. As soon as the female Hyuuga couldn't see her…Michelle smirked the famous Uchiha smirk.
As Neji's body turned into a pile of leaves. "Did you think I would let down my guard that much?"
Hinata frowned threateningly. "Where is he…" She turned on the Byakkugan and began to scan the surrounding trees. "Gotcha." She murmured when she saw his form sitting in the tree coming around. Pulling out Senbon needles, she threw them, only to have Michelle get in the way. "Oh no you don't."
The two women slid their respective kunai out and began to fight hand-to-hand combat. Hinata, while being the clan leader, refused to use the Jyuken because Michelle was still her friend.
However, even Michelle's assassin skills were nothing compared to the ninja skills of Hinata and before long she found herself at the losing end.
The Sharingan faded from her eyes as she knelt on the ground, panting, Hinata's kunai at her throat. She was about to close her eyes and admit defeat when "Wait! Hinata-Sama stop it!"
Wearily Michelle looked up to where she had relocated her boyfriend after the substitution jutsu, to see him standing there, looking down at the scene. He leapt from the tree and landed unsteadily on his knees in front of the clan leader.
"Stop hurting her…I won't let you." Hinata arched an eyebrow. "You standing up to me in this condition?" Neji nodded his head slowly. "Anything for her…I love her."
Suddenly, Hinata the clan leader vanished as though she had never been there and her trademark timid smile was on her face. ""Ok Neji. You passed."
Michelle sweatdropped. "Passed?" Neji furrowed his brow and said, "What…are you talking about?"
Hinata sighed. "It's something that every Hyuuga has to go through when they find someone they're serious about." "You mean…like a test?" said Michelle uncertainly.
"That's it exactly. It's a test to make sure that the Hyuuga loves the one they have chosen enough to stand up to the Clan Leader…and that their chosen loves the Hyuuga enough to do the same. I had to go through the same thing with Naruto and my Father." She sighed. "I'm sorry for beating you up so badly Neji. Believe me, I didn't want too. You can come out and heal him now!" She called to the bush she had emerged from.
From this bush emerged Sakura with a medical pack, followed by Mika and Seyann, both avoiding Michelle's pointed 'why were you spying on me' glare.
Hinata turned to the latter two with an amused smile. "So you guys didn't have to ask me to tell him to stay away from her…I would've had to do that anyways."
Despite Mika and Seyann's desperate attempts to stop Hinata from saying what she just did…their efforts were in vain. Michelle froze where she stood, glare etched on her face as she rotated slowly so that she faced her friends completely.
"What. Did. She. Just. Say." Breathed their friend. Seyann and Mika both simultaneously stepped backwards and looked at each other. Mika spoke "Well…I'll have you know it was her idea." Seyann muttered "Traitor." Under her breath before starting to come up with excuses "Well…after all that had happened…I thought…test your love?" she said in a questioning tone. Michelle shook her head.
"You two are lucky. I am in a good mood and as such am feeling rather generous." Snapping her eyes open, she glared at her friends. "You get 5 seconds to run instead oftwo."
Yellow appeared in Seyann's eyes as Mika and herself turned to run, with Michelle in hot pursuit.
A/N-There you go. Enjoy it! One-shot being put in 'Pieces of an Altered Reality; with this…enjoy that too!
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