Hey, Thanks for all the reviews. I'm sorry the previous chapter was confusing to most, and I'll try to make things more clear (Though I'm unsure myself whether this chapter will be confusing or not.) But I will hope you enjoy reading this chapter as it is near the climax! and please continue reviewing... Thankx again for reviewing and here is the thirteenth chapter! YAY!

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Chapter 13: Deadweed

Neji unlocked the door to his apartment. He was angered that nothing happened and that they were simply being toyed with. When he walked in it was dark and lifeless so he assumed Hinata was still at the hospital.

He turned on the living room light and scowled.

"Who are you?"

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Grim laughter escaped the well formed woman. She was pale and sickly but seemed to be very strong and unpredictable.

"Hello Neji-kun..."

Neji-kun? Who the hell is this woman to call me 'kun'

Neji crossed his arms and noticed the two other figures lying unconscious on the couch. His eyes widened but his features remained stark serenity.

"I presume you have no idea who I am, seeing as I look as I do."

"hn"

"I want something from you."

"..."

"Or... Heh..."

In a flash the violet eyed woman appeared before Hanabi and Hinata, two kunai pressed up against their necks. Hinata shifted at the slight pain as the kunai tenderly pressed into her neck, causing blood to spill.

Neji frowned at this and took a small step forward. The woman bitterly chuckled and pressed it against Hanabi, drawing more blood.

"Ha. Blood is beautiful, don't you think Neji-kun?" She disappeared and appeared mere inches away from Neji.

Pale hands grasped onto Neji's wrists before Neji could move a millimeter. Neji's eyes filled with shock. No one was that fast, not even the Hokage.

"Who, Who, are you"

"Heh... It deprives me of the thought that you are a genius when you cannot accomplish the simple task of deciphering who I am."

She laughed and opened her mouth. Seductively she thrust out her long tongue and wrapped it around his neck loosely. Neji's eyes widened with realization and tried to pull away but the tongue tightened.

"You're not the only one who's become stronger. HEH!"

Neji was inferior to this man. "Orochimaru..." Neji smiled and concentrated his chakra to his throat and wrists. Orochimaru knew this was coming and braced himself. As the searing pain touched his tongue he loosened his grip on Neji's neck and released his wrists, but moved his hands to Neji's waist, causing Neji quiet the startle.

Neji's power in chakra dimmed as he felt Orochimaru's hands drop lower. With one hand Orochimaru loosened the drawstring to Neji's black slacks. The other hand dipped into his pants and rubbed the area where his pubic hair was. Neji flinched and pulled away, this time getting away from Orochimaru's slimy tongue.

"Hey, Hey, Neji..." Orochimaru chuckled quickly before changing his expression to one of grim seriousness. "I wasn't done yet" He hissed.

Orochimaru disappeared and appeared back behind Neji. He reached his hand out but Neji had already left. Neji reappeared near Hinata and Hanabi to check that they hadn't lost too much blood. They hadn't, in actuality the blood had already dried and the wound wasn't big enough to be considered more than a deep paper cut. He turned back to notice Orochimaru was no longer there either. He smirked and jumped into the air.

Orochimaru appeared in the air with Neji, so close their breath could be felt upon each others faces. Orochimaru's arms wrapped once more around the small of Neji's muscular back and pulled him close against his feminine body. A cold chill ran down Neji's body, powerful enough for Orochimaru to feel. Orochimaru began to laugh hysterically. He was coming short of breath when he finally stopped seconds later.

"When I say I'm not finished yet I mean it..." Orochimaru thus launched his tongue out for what Neji presumed was his neck, but to Neji's surprise it traveled higher and forced itself into Neji's throat, nearly choking the ANBU member. Neji emitted a hiss and tried to pull away as the two fell to the ground with an extremely loud thud. Never before in his life had so much perversion he had to face than what was happening now and the previous couple of weeks.

Orochimaru pinned Neji to the ground, leaving Neji looking frail and powerless. His tongue shove deeper into Neji's mouth, the vast majority choking the young man. Neji flailed around on the ground trying to breath, but no source of oxygen reached his esophagus. He resorted to trying to breath through his nose, but his body was in panic and wasn't following his orders. Orochimaru noticed this and with a hand pinched Neji's nose, completely asphyxiating the man. The other hand roamed his willowy body. Neji, the genius was being defeated as fate was driving him into hells hands.

Neji's eyes were now only half open and his face was paled deeply as he fought the desiccation of his body. He could barely feel and his senses were fading. He never knew how bitter death could be, even though he had come to the brink of death several times before. He shifted his eyes over towards the couch Hinata and Hanabi were on and noticed it was empty. His eyes flung open just for a millisecond but closed back to not gain Orochimaru's attention. But it did.

Orochimaru shifted his head and cursed himself for not tying the damn girls up.

A kunai flew. The loud huffs of female panting came from the far left of the living room. Orochimaru caught the kunai with ease and pulled away from Neji, but not before shoving the kunai deep into his chest. Neji let out a loud groan as pain seared through his body. He was breathing deeply now as his body attempted to regain all the lost oxygen over the past few minutes.

Hinata and Hanabi froze when they saw this. They were wide eyed and didn't notice when Orochimaru appeared behind them. Until it was too late that is.

Hysterical laughter emitted throughout the entire room. Kunai's pressed up against two necks, positioned to kill. Hinata let out a gasp, but Hanabi was still star struck. She had her eyes stuck on Neji carefully watching to see if he'd die or not. The kunai pressed into her neck. She let out a murmur of something but neither Orochimaru nor Hinata could understand. Even as the kunai pushed deeper into her neck, and even as her sister yelled out to her to do something, she stayed unaware and unmoving.

"Heh... Hanabi-san. What is it? Are you freely giving me the sin of killing you? Or is this some form of suicide as you watch him die?"

Hanabi still didn't respond, as a matter of fact, she had simply tuned him out entirely. Silently she was awing at her love's strength and power. Orochimaru croaked something like 'Now is the end' or such, and didn't notice the genius move.

Neji forced himself up after catching his breath, and pulled out the kunai from his chest. His chest was throbbing and blood drizzled down his cream robes. The kunai had hit terribly close to his heart, but he was amazingly lucky it hadn't. He disappeared and with lightning speed appeared behind Orochimaru, an infuriating aura surrounding him, the aura of death.

A wicked smile creaked upon his lips as the full intent to kill seeped through his every pore. Using the same kunai that was driven deep into his skin, Neji pierced it right into Orochimaru's back. Orochimaru hissed and his skin turned deep clay. Neji frowned. "A clone" A faint laughter stormed in from the distance. A purple light fluttered through the dark navy air. Neji's byakugan activated, but there was no abnormal sense of chakra within a miles radius. The laughter deceased and slowly any sign of Orochimaru's presence disappeared.

Hinata smiled gingerly and turned to her husband. Her neck was throbbing from the blistering cuts on her neck. Neji's eyes were still filled with anger, but not the worst she had seen before. His shirt was now a deep crimson from the blood, but could barely be seen in the darkened room.

Small giggles caught the two's attention, forcing them to turn to the disturbance. Hanabi had dropped to the floor and was leaning forward on her knees. Her entire body was paled and drenched of blood. The floor pooled with her own gore and her eyes were glazing with death.

"Shit!"

"Nii-san! I must help her."

Neji picked her up and placed her on the couch. Hinata quickly gathered many herbs and saline solution she stored in a small cabinet in the living room and a package of gauze. Hurriedly running to her sister's side she began to heal. The large gash on her sisters neck disappeared as the green aura lightened the room. Her sisters breathing was sharp and difficult still from the large sum of blood loss that couldn't be restored by simply Hinata's healing techniques. Combining several herbs into a large pasty drink she forced it down Hanabi's throat. Hanabi screeched a choking sound but swallowed. The herbs in the drink had nutrients needed to restore her blood, now for the next twenty-four hours Hanabi would sleep.

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"Please come in."

"Tsunade-san. A patient of ours has gone missing and so has one of our nurses."

"What? Who."

"Hyuuga Hanabi, and Hyuuga Hinata. They were last seen with an anonymous nurse with purple eyes."

"What?"

"Yes ma'am, It seems that the patient was taken to one of our higher rooms and Hinata-san was called to help. Now neither can be found around the hospital. We are sending missionaries to go to the Hyuuga manor and see if they are there. I also am sending some to Hinata-sans apartment."

"Good. Report back ASAP. You are dismissed" Tsunade watched every step the young nurse took to leave her room. When the door shut she sighed. She closed her eyes to rest, but the sudden sound of a muffled scream could be heard outside her door. A knock rapped on the door following it.

Tsunade's eyes widened. She mumbled an entrance and stood worried something happened and the nurse came back.

"Tsunade-san! Tsunade-san! We...He..." Shizune stumbled through the door and fell to the ground. She had a kunai in hand and her wrist was bleeding. Her hair was wet with sweat and she looked utterly defeated. Tsunade gasped and took a step towards her apprentice. She stopped as a second form entered the room and stepped on Shizune's back, earning a muffled hiss from the medic nin.

"Hello, Tsunade-tono" He chuckled and his voice was filled with sarcasm.

"You!"

"Oh, That's no way to greet an old friend. Ha. Ha."

Tsunade ran at him with grave speed. This time she wasn't going to lose to him and he didn't have his apprentice to protect him.

"This time, You're dead!"

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Hinata stood from wrapping her sister and noticed Neji was no longer in the living room. She quickly traveled the apartment in search of him. He was in their bedroom peeling off his stained clothes.

His skin was sickly and dried blood stained his porcelain skin. His gauze lay messily on the floor and he was softly patting the wound in his chest with a wet cloth. Even if he wasn't a medical ninja he knew how to prevent himself from dying for enough time. When Hinata walked into the room he turned his gaze at her worried face. He stared for a moment before continuing on with his cleansing.

Hinata slowly trudged in and sat on the bed watching him.

"How is she..."

"w-what?"

"How is you're sister."

"S-She is breathing normally. Now I j-just have to wait until she wakes to see if her blood is restored."

"Hn"

They were in silence. A peaceful silence though and they were comfortable.

Neji placed ointment onto his wound and wrapped his body in new clean gauze. Hinata lay on the bed staring at the ceiling glad nothing too bad had happened.

-KNOCK-

Both stopped what they were doing and walked towards the loud knocking. Neji flung open the door and a scowl appeared on his face.

"Why hello to you too Neji" Hiashi's voice was sarcastic and his features matched those to his nephew.

"Hn"

"Hinata."

"O-Otousan."

Hiashi scanned their house, or as much of it as he could see from his stance, and then pushed his way in. He saw his daughter sleeping on the couch and frowned. Then he turned to Neji and shot him a knowing glare. Neji stood emotionless showing no signs of care, but rather boredom.

"Heh..."

Hiashi walked over to the empty couch and took a seat. He then looked up to both Hinata and Neji who were both standing up.

"What do you want?"

"Hm. I would wonder."

"..."

"Neji. Do you know why I am here?"

"No, that is why I ask."

"Hn. Well then, I have no business with you at this moment, but be aware, consequences will be filed." He eyes his slumbering daughter and then Neji. A smirk appeared on his face and he disappeared.

"..."

"W-Why did otousan come here?"

Neji looked at his wife for a moment before disappearing too.

"W-What?" Hinata stood in the middle of the room baffled.

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The war was over. Konoha had won the battle. Orochimaru was captured and was to be punished. Sweat beads dropped to the floor and heaves of breath cascaded through the room. Tsunade nearly lost. If only it wasn't for her phobia of blood this battle could have been finished much sooner. She sat down at her desk and rest her head upon it.

"It's finally over."

The loud sirens of war came to a halt and the clean sound of grasshoppers chirping and the steady moon gazing down on Konoha returned. Tsunade was ready to sleep for she hadn't in the past few days, but a disturbance willed that though away.

She sat up and tidied herself before allowing the person in. She clasped her hands together in front of her face and waited as the door swung open.

"Tsunade-sama,"

"Hyuuga Hiashi-san. What brings you here?"

"I have come to inform you of a decision of mine."

"And that would be?" Tsunade was already growing impatient. She wanted sleep for goodness sake.

"Due to unfortunate mishaps within the Hyuuga walls..."

Hiashi paused and took a seat. Tsunade wrinkled her face in annoyance.

"As the ruler of the Hyuuga, I have thought this over. It will be a loss but I see it needs to be done."

Tsunade was becoming restless. "What is it Hiashi!"

Hiashi was taken aback by Tsunade's frontal approach. He scowled and continued.

"Neji is to be exterminated."

Tsunade's eyes widened. She stood and glared down at Hiashi.

"What!"

"In two weeks my nephew will be put to the deathbed for his crimes within our family." He said matter-of-factly.

Tsunade gawked at the Hyuuga lord. "What is your reason."

Hiashi smiled inwardly and prepared himself to speak.

"Neji has..."

TBC...