Chapter 11: a new beginning
--------with kiba and the man--------
" you retched little boy" he pulled himself to his knees, " die slowly I hope you suffer." He kicked dirt into kiba's eyes. Kiba yelled in pain. " and I will have the girl, for my own wants." He chuckled deeply.
"think again bastard." The man turned around to see kiba standing fighting stance, claws out. " you cant touch her.
"how did you?" the man lookd back to the sinking log in the sand.
" you will not touch her again! " kiba screamingly growled.
"die this time! " the man again started a hand jutsu.
" to slow" kiba shouted as he began to spin violently lunging at the man.
Seconds later kiba was on the opposite side of the man and his quick sand hole.
Kiba wiped the blood from his mouth on his sleeve. " what will you do pretty boy, can all you do is talk tough." He spit the remaining blood from his mouth to the ground.
You pan over to the man. His middle is missing, there is a hole straight through him. He falls backwards, quickly sinking under his own weight into the sand.
Kiba then hurry's to hinata's aid.
"hinata" he shakes her. "hinata" slowly her eyelids twich but refuse to open.
Kiba shakes her again still no response. He places a finger on her wrist check for pulse.
"no." he breathes dryly. Placeing an ear near her mouth he listnes for breath. It is small an shakey. "hinata." He cryed out into the darkening sky.
She opened her eyes slowly. He looked down on the now fragile body positioned in his arms. " please don't die, don't die." He had tears streaming down his face. " ill get you help I promise, don't leave me."
Her lips moved but nothing. She moved a hand to her bruised and swollen throat. Her windpipe had been crushed by the man's fist.
She had only minutes left. I-I she lipped.
Kiba still crying looked to her face. Hse was always so compassinate and caring, why her couldn't he be the one to go- why did it have to be gentle, innocent, sweet hinata, she had never asked anyone for anything, always ther though to help out. " hinata," he whispered again.
"I –I ." she chocked out the words.
"don't talk your just hurting yourself more, don't talk, ill get you help." A tear fell from his cheek cold and wet it landed on her face.
"I-." She took a heavy breath. " I love you." Kiba's eye's widened. Her hand slowly reached his should pulling herself forward she pressed her lips gently to his. When they released she melted gently back into his arms.
"I love you too" he breathed out the words slowly.
She smiled. Before closing her eyes. " hinata I love you so much." She didn't move, " hinata? Hinata!" he screamed head down the tears rapidly fell from his cheeks to the flower in her hair.
The battered flower drank in the teary eyed moisture but whithering the flower was to batter to stay alive any longer even with the water, it had died.
--------with shino, korena, and kabuto--------
" yes my dear." He helped her to her feet. She pulled him close kissing him now on the lips. Wrapping his arms around her kabuto dropped the chain he was holding.
Shino still stood shocked and in amazement.
They pulled slowly away from the kiss. " I knew you would come to love me."
"as you said before-." She was smiling again.
" I am the player." Kabuto looked to her inqueitively. She then took a step around him., the chain jingled as it rattled by the motion of its being dragged on the floor. Sh eslowly pulled the chain in with her hand wrapping it to her fists.
Standing behind him now she leaned in whispering to his ear. "I am now the greater player I play the pawns." She wrapped the chain around his throat pulling tightly.
"kor-." Kabuto began to choke. His hands pulled desperately on the tightening chain.
"die you bastard!" korena puleed tighter lifting it upward.shino owatched wide eyes confused at the split second actions of his love.
Kabuto heaved breaths. "I said die!" she pulled outwardly on the end of the chain, till she sliced off his head. Blood splattered in her face. As the headless body melted to the ground."checkmate" she panted.
is this really the korena I knew?back in the forest. (flash)
a scream in the night.
what was that?shino thought
"No, no, no… get it away," she screamed again. He jumped up and over to her Kiba's side of the tent. A snake was coiled around her arm.
She shook with terror eyes wide and frightened.
He unleashed his bugs, which ate the snake down to nothing. Korena ran to him. Grabbing him at the waist with her arms.
"no more, no more." She was crying violently into his chest.
"Your fine now." (End flash)
She was now killing, why had he not noticed this side to her when she attacked Kiba?
"shino" she turned to him. Jumping off the platform she walked to the edge of the traps on her side. " I will go with you to kohona." She smiled as she held up the necklace he had given her. then let it drop back to its place around her neck.
" ill have my bugs detach the wires so I can reach you." He held out his arms . "stand back." A small swarm creeped out from the coat sleeves, and began to eat away at the trip wires they carefully stopped trhe traps as they ate away at it.
"clap, clap" it came from a shadowed area on the stage, out from it stepped kabuto. " very nice Korena.i knew you had it in you to double cross me." She shook his head looking to the battering remains of himself. " but not kill me…." He chuckled "what an unlucky clone."
" Kabuto, your…." She shoot a glace to him. And positioned herself bubbles ready to fire hands at her sides.
"Kabuto in the flesh … how badly do you want to kill me?" he smiled slyly.
Kunai shot at him he had to do a matrix side move to avoid them. Shino continued to rapidly work his bug int o removing the wires.
"that bad eh?" he smiled again.
She shot more at him." Now the bigger question you want to kill me but can you?" he dodged them easyly. All but the last that hit hit leg.
He stopped abrutly to pull it out of his leg. Jerking it out blood squirted over the floor. " I would keep moving if I where you." He jumped into the air. Six kunai landed in the place he was just standing in. Korena smiled. " who's leading who in the dance now."
Kabuto nearly avoid the next attacks while being hit minor times. He shoot at her hands a glow.
Medical ninja note to self don't be hit with hands. She jumped to the side avioding any contact with her glowing opponents.
They fought close range "clink, clink" kunai to fist gaurds.
" you have grown bubbles." He smiled.
"grown tired of this, you end today." She thrusted her hand forward. Stabbing him in the arm. His free hand hit her on the chest. She was thrown back. Gasping for breath. She held her chest with her. looking down she saw she was standing on a wire.
She quickly spun in a circle arms out stretched. Incased in a bubble she stood up.
The noise of cracks and expolsions was heard over head as paper bombs exploded on the ceiling. Pieces of expodes rock fell throughout the temple.
--------with shika and ino--------
"what was that?" back ground explosion ino looked to the room shino was in.
"the building its falling" shika yelled.
"we need to get out."ino picked up the torch. " lets go!"
"we only have a few minutes." Shika followed in toe.
They where stopped by a final opponent at the door. " fight me."
"screw you ass-hole!" ino thrust the torch into the guys face severly burning him. As he fell to the floor holding his face.
Then the two shinobi ran out toward the direction of hinata and kiba.
--------back inside the fallen temple--------
rocks fell from all portions of the ceilingand burst into smaller rocks apon hitting the bubble.
Kabuto stood in shock at what was happening. She walked to him slowly, coldly staring at him blue eyes now poisoned with intent to kill as feelings of revenge overflowed threw her.
"you bastard." She held him to a way.hand pressed to his throat. " I should kill you now." She pushed harder in to his throat.
" got it." Shino had finally removed all the wires. He walked toward the fighting pair but not to close this was a personal vandeda not his to fool with.
"you have mercy but once to be forgiven by me. Take it now." She released grip on his neck. Turning around she started to walk away. " I only give you mercy once don't try anything again!" she began to walk to join shino and leave this godforsaken building.
"what can I say im a slow learner." Kabuto jeted from the wall at her.
With lightning speed she had turned around spear in hand stabbing it forcefully threw him into the wall. An enormous crack formed from the spear head being implanted halfway threw the wall. The crack ran to the ceiling.
"I guess-" kabuto hacked blood out, it dripped down his chin. " the student surpassed the master." He gave a slight smile. " you were always my favorite bubbles I want you to know that." He hacked again before dieing.
"checkmate." Korena then realeased her hands from the spear. Stepping back she fell to the ground. Breathing heavy. " its pause over."
--------outside--------
"hinata!"ino shouted running toward the pair. She reached out a hand to check her pulse.
Kiba jerked backwards. " you cant touch her!" he growled slightly.
"is she" shika placed his hands on ino shoulders. And with a nod ino understood.
"crash!" the three turned to the temple.
"are they still in there!" ino yelled standing now.
"yes, they havent come out." Kiba looked up with eyes where red from crying not only did he lose hinata he might lose shino too.
--------inside--------
shino was lifting a rock from korena's leg with help from his bugs. The spear's crack had split the ceiling more. Causeing bigger rocks to fall. More and more fell as he struggled to get her out.
"hold on!" he yelled to her. tears where streaming down her face, pain unbareable crushing all the bones in her leg.
"I cant move."
"ill get you out." The ceiling started to colapse nearly missing shino.
"no, go!" she pointed to the door. " save yourself.."
He ran over her body. His face starringinto hers, sheilding her from the rocks blows.
"I will never lose you again." He bent down, kissing her. a massive swarm of bugs began to circulate around them, along with bubbles. The circle got larger and larger shoviing away the rocks. It even reached past the gates of kohona.
A rock suddenly slammed into shino's arm.
He shot up from his bed, dripping with sweat. He held him arm. " damn." He mummbled looking at the welt forming.
"hey time to get up" a soft voice replied from behind a door.
"it was so real" he rubbed his arm. " was she really there?" he looked around the room he was alone. The sun peeping through the window told him he had woken up late.
He pulled himself from the bed unwillingly, " ouch." He rubbed his calf muscles. Aches grew stronger the more he walked around his room, slipping a coat on he looked at himself in the mirror.
"shino." Came another tap at the door the voice was now firmer. "hokage has requested you, time to go."
"im up!" he yelled back. " be down in a second." He looked back to the mirrror in it was a girl with the most beautiful blue eyes he had ever seen. He reached a hand forward finger tips touching the glass. Then it faded.
He shook the mirror thing off and grabbed some toast as he headed out the door.
When he reached the office the others where already waiting for him.
"shino, what happened?" hinat asked worried, he was never usually late.
"late night ," kiba elbowed him with a grin he began to laugh.
"yes."
"o- really bug boy? Who was she?"
"someone very special I think, I cant rember her name…." He pounderd looking to the ceiling.
"o- so it was a one nighter I see." He elbowed him again. Hinata began to blush at the mention of this.
"no."
"right." kiba winked to him. " I wont tell your mom."
"kiba-kun, " hinata said suddenly and very quickly.
"yah, hinata" he spun around to meet her face to face inches away.
"a….." she blushed again. " I-I ." she paused to regain some strenght with kiba this close to her she thought she would faint.
"would you do that to a girl?" the question took kiba back a little .
"no. it was a joke, I would never do anything to hurt someone like that, you should understand I wouldn't"
"o- a yoru right you wouldn't do that" she turned tomato colored. "a…."
"we are keeping hokage waiting." Shino said still deep in thought.
"right let's go!" kiba grabbed hinata by the hand and pulled her into the office where they were greeted by hokage.
"Team-8 assemble your mission is to guard the princess Korena to the country of the Biss. She is a bit of a hand full, and quite persuasive to the men , but you boys can handle it. Cant you?" the hokage took a small moment to pear at shino and Kiba's faces before she snickered.
Thinking to himself shino found this very familiar.and he seemed to find fondness in the name Korena.
"Its only a girl, I see no problem…" Kiba smiled assure of his own abilities and how he could hold against this person only a mere girl.
akamaru barked.
"Don't underestimate an opponent before you know their true strengths "
"Shino you don't know anything about girls " Kiba said pointing a clawed finger to him.
" Don't underestimate me either."
Korena swayed into hokage's office. "Fighting over me already boys, what can you do with them?" she said as she sat on top of hokage's desk. " So are these my toys " she said getting up from the desk.
She looks so like…no it can't be he looked away.
She stood in front of him. "Shino" he looked at her. In her blue eyes he got a flash of memory of what all had happened everything.
" Korena." He looked down she was wearing a silver jeweled bug pendant necklace. " You want to go get a drink?"
"Yes, I do." She slipped her arm in his they then started to walk out the door. "Im not going home, I am home" Korena smiled to Shino.
"What was that about?" hokage looked puzzled at the empty door way.
"I don't know." Hinata said quietly.
" They had a one nighter last night and-." Kiba began to explain the working of a one nighter
as Hinata blushed insanely..
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