IMPORTANT!: this break they're on is spring break! oh, and the end of the story is coming soon.
okay sry its late, but its long so deal with it.
Do not own Naruto
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"Hello, Konoha Hospital, are you holding a Hyuuga Hinata on the premises?" A sinister voice asked.
"Yes sir, she is leaving emergency care and going to recovery presently." The woman said.
"Thank you, and what is her room number?"
"Room 54, is that all sir?"
"Yes." He hung up and laughed, Hyuuga Hiashi grabbed his knife and left to the hospital.
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"Who just asked for Hinata-chan?" A worried blond asked, his friends next to him.
"Oh, it was her father, I can't believe he didn't know she was here!"
"Fuck."
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Chapter 16: Then You Both Shall Die
"What's wrong?" The woman asked, clearly confused at their reaction to the news.
'Hinata-chan, why did he do this to you?… If he won't leave you alone...I'll protect you with my life…' "Which way is room 54?" Naruto snapped.
"Well, that way," She pointed with her thumb to the right. "But she can't see anyon-."
"Thank you!" The blonde, followed by Neji and TenTen(with suitcases in hand), through the swinging doors.
"Wait!" The woman yelled. "She can't have visitors right now!" The panic stricken woman ran after them.
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Hinata blinked a few times and rubbed the sleep from her eyes with her less injured arm. "What time is it?…" She thought out loud.
She turned her sore body to see the cock. 2:31p.m. She moaned as she turned back to her original position. Her back was still bruised and her neck was so stiff from being punched. Her side was too, stiff from all the pain medication and her own body healing. Her shoulder blade felt better since it had been stitched back together, the tearing of her flesh was really agonizing before it was stitched together again.
Her leg, on the other hand, throbbed where she'd been stabbed. The doctors had recently finished fixing up her leg and for now they would only need to take all the stitches out in a few weeks.
'I wonder how Naruto-kun is doing… he seemed so tiered when he left earlier this morning…' She sighed and closed her eyes, her cheek stung where the doctors a put stitches. So far none of the doctors had asked her about what happened to her, let alone talked to her. The doctors just came in and did their procedures and left, they hadn't even told her if she was doing better or worse!
The door swung open to her hospital room, startling her. It was Naruto. "Hinata-chan!" He panted. "We (pant) have to (pant) leave!"
"Nani?" She was confused, why was he telling her that she needed to leave? "W-why?"
"HEY! I said that you three couldn't come up here yet!" The woman at the front desk yelled.
"W-what's going on?" Hinata asked desperately.
"Well… you see… it really isn't safe for you here anymore, and now we have to leave….now…" The blonde tried to tell keep her from knowing her father was coming.
"What do you mean!" The woman from the front desk said. "She's perfectly safe and her father is coming, there is nothing wrong with that!"
Hinata froze, her eyes went wide and she started to quiver. Her breaths were not shallow and her heart beat at a dangerously fast rate.
Naruto ran over to her side and grabbed her hand and tried to break her trance of terror. "Hinata-chan, it's going to be okay, I will never let him hurt you ever again."
Her face twisted and shot up to a sitting position, and vomited. She continued to shake then she passed out and fell on to Naruto.
"What is going on!" The woman looked extremely confused, not to mention angry.
Neji snapped, he'd had enough of his cousin being hurt, and all because of his bastard uncle. "Damn it! He hurt her! He did it!" He snarled. "And because you said she was here, he's coming to finish her off! Do you understand!" He felt tears well up in his eyes, but he didn't let them escape his pearly eyes. "Because of YOU, he is going to come and KILL HER!" A tear slid down his pale white cheek.
The brown-haired woman was now in tears. "I-I'm sorry… I-I-I didn't know… I'm so sorry…"
TenTen held on to Neji's hand, she'd never seen him so upset before, nothing made him cry, the only time she'd seen him cry was after he'd been told the truth about his father's death.
Flashback…
Three hard knocks came from the door to TenTen's home. It was a stormy, hot, Friday night and TenTen was alone while her single mother went out and since she had no friends that weren't guys, she always spent Friday nights alone.
"Coming!" The thirteen-year-old TenTen ran to answer the door. She opened it to see Hyuuga Neji, his head held low, crying. He held a scroll in his right hand and still had his backpack on.
"Neji! What's wrong? Come in!" She took his left hand and led him onto the couch to sit down and cool off.
"Neji, what's wrong, are you okay?" She held on to his shaking hands.
He wrapped her around her and sobbed. He never showed emotion, but now, he seemed so broken up, and was he hugging her?
"Neji, what happened?" She whispered.
He sat up and whipped the tears off of his red cheeks and handed her the scroll that he still hadn't let go of.
She read without question, when she finished she cried too, he'd been lied to for so many years and now the truth was just thrown in his face. "Neji…" She pulled him into a tight hug, he hugged her back as they cried together…and that was the only time she'd seen him cry…
End Flashback…
Naruto picked up Hinata's limp body and walked over to the window. "Come on!" He commanded. TenTen nodded, as did Neji, who had stopped crying, and followed Naruto to the window. "Hey lady, we checked out, okay?" The blond smirked.
The woman nodded and left, closing the door behind her.
"Okay, lets get going." Naruto jumped out the first floor window, Hinata in his arms. TenTen and Neji followed after him.
They froze against the hospital wall and crouched behind the bushes as they saw Hyuuga Hiashi enter the hospital, the sun casting a shine off of his knife.
Hinata coughed twice as her eyes flickered open. "N-Naruto-kun…" She closed her eyes again and coughed. Naruto covered her mouth.
"Come on." They stood up and made a mad dash to their cars. Naruto laid Hinata down in the back seat, and darted to the front seat and turned the key. He pressed on the gas and sped out of the hospital parking lot, Neji and TenTen following him.
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"Okay, well, how are you feeling?"
"Better." Sasuke was someone no one could understand, the way he acted, the way he treated others. It was a fangirl's dream to spend even a second alone with the real Uchiha Sasuke. The Sasuke who cared about others and didn't use a cold shell to hold back his feelings. But Sakura had seen that side of Sasuke. When he kissed her and hugged her, which would forever be cemented into her memory.
"Sasuke-kun," Sakura swallowed hard. "I-I love you." She blushed and hid her face in her hands.
To her surprise, Sasuke pulled her close to him and whispered in her ear. "I love you too, Sakura-chan."
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Her eyes got teary; she looked up at him, her emerald eyes shining. "R-really?"
He nodded and kissed her lips softly. "Yes, I really do." He whipped the tear off her cheek.
"Sasuke-kun!" She hugged him as she cried from happiness. He hugged her back then sat her up to face him. "Are you just going to keep crying?" He joked. "Or are you going to go and get ready for out date tonight?" He smirked.
"Sasuke-kun, are you sure you're injury is healed enough to be going places?"
He chuckled. "You're annoying, you know that?" He stood up. "If I wasn't feeling better, then why would I want to do something?"
The pink-haired girl giggled. "Okay, well, I have to make a few phone calls first!" She kissed him on the cheek and limped/ran to her bedroom.
"Women." He sat back down on the couch and flicked on the TV. "She's calling, Ino, I know it."
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Ring Ring!
"Hello, Yamanaka residence, Ino speaking." Ino sat on her bed with the phone.
"Hey Ino! It's Sakura! Guess what!" Her pink-haired friend said happily
"What?"
"I told Sasuke-kun I loved him a and he said he loved me back!" She squealed over the phone.
"Oh my fucking God! When!" Ino had given up chasing after Sasuke in their freshman year and now Ino and Sakura were best friends again.
"Just now!"
"Holy- ahhhh! Details!"
"Well, he came over for the prodject, we ordered pizza and then I told him! He looked SO cute!"
"Wow! I wish I could've seen it! It sounded so adorable! And Sasuke-kun! I wanna see that!"
Sakura giggled. "I think I may tell Naruto, should I?"
"Beats me, but Chouji said that he hasn't picked up his phone in two days! What's going on with him?"
"Dunno, he's weird like that, probly didn't pay the bill." She can't know… I promised…
"Yeah, Chouji just wanted to know, so I figured you might know. But I gotta go! Later! Have fun with Sasuke-kun!"
"I will! Bye!"
Click!
"I knew it." Sasuke stood against the doorframe.
"Knew what?" Sakura turned around on her pink bed.
"That you'd call Ino." He held up the cordless phone from the kitchen.
"You listened to y phone call!" She blushed. "That's mean!"
"So, by the way you paused, you lied about Naruto."
'Shit…what should I do…those two are best friends…' She looked at the ground. "Yeah… I did…"
"So tell me the truth." He looked at her seriously.
"Well, I promised him I wouldn't tell… so don't tell anyone." She sighed. "Naruto is taking care of Hinata because she is in the hospital…"
"Why?"
"Because… her father abuses her…"
"Oh." He looked at the wall. "And Naruto decided to take care of her and that is the reason those two ran out of detention?"
"Yes…"
He sat down next to her. "And you volunteered to have her stay here for a night."
"Huh? How'd you know about that?"
"Well she left her bloody jacket in your bathroom."
"Oh… oops…" She stood up crookedly. "So… can I get ready now?"
"You don't have to get ready yet, we don't have to leave until seven."
"Oh, well… we've already eaten so what do you want to do?"
He shrugged and walked back into the living room.
Sakura sighed and went into the bathroom to take a shower. She leaned over and picked up Hinata's jacket. 'Hinata…I hope you're okay…and Naruto…you'd better be okay too…'
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"Here are my keys, now unlock the door." Naruto barely was able to hold Hinata and give Neji the keys to his apartment at the same time. Hinata was still unconscious but was breathing steadily.
The Hyuuga opened the door and headed to the elevator. "Which floor are you on?"
"Floor 13, it's the highest floor."
He nodded and pressed the up button.
Ping 4
Ping3
Ping2
Ping1. The doors opened and a drunken man with a sake bottle came stumbling out of the elevator shaft.
Naruto and Neji jumped back but the drunk grabbed TenTen's arm and pulled her into him. "Hey pretty lady, wanna come back to my place and have some fun?"
"Get the hell off me!" She squirmed but couldn't get him off her arm.
"Get the fuck off her!" Neji yelled as he threw a punch at the man. But the drunken man swung his beer bottle at Neji. It crashed into his left cheek, shattering in his flesh. The boy with long hair recoiled but was punched in the stomach by the strong, fat, drunk. He was flung into the wall, coughing, gasping for air.
"Neji-kun!" TenTen screamed at the top of her lungs, it killed her to see him bleed because of her. His cheek oozed blood from where the glass shards had pierced him, not to mention the beer stung his cheek. The man tightened his grip on her wrist. TenTen screamed again, but this time in pain, the man had broken her wrist!
Tears started to slide down the brunet's cheeks.
Naruto silently laid down Hinata on the ground and came up behind the drunk who was now entering the elevator with TenTen screaming and crying. Naruto held a shard of glass. "Let her go, or you'll drop dead." Naruto said calmly as he held the glass to the man's throat. "One wrong move, and you'll be dead." The way Naruto said all this was too calm, frightening everyone, including himself!
"Okay." The man let go of TenTen; she collapsed on the floor, clutching her broken wrist. Naruto helped TenTen up and she ran over to Neji.
"Neji-kun! Are you okay?" She knelt down in front of him. He leaned up against the wall and nodded. The blood dipping on to his clothes from his cheek, staining his shirt. "Are y-you okay…?"
"Yeah." She smiled.
Naruto felt a pang of loneliness, no one ever cared about him if he got hurt, he had to cry alone, clean his own wounds, and grow up alone. With no family, with no friends, you really would have trouble finding a reason to live, when no one acknowledges you. But being alone for sixteen years may harden a person, or make it had for them to care about others, but Naruto always cared about others, even when they didn't give him back the same kindness.
"Uh, guys, we might want to get going…" Naruto stood in the elevator with Hinata in his arms.
"Oh, sorry." TenTen stood up and helped Neji up; they both took a suitcase.
The two entered the elevator and Naruto punched in floor thirteen. The elevator pinged as they got to their destination.
Naruto walked to his apartment door and unlocked it. He walked in and flicked on the lights, only one light came on in the whole house.
It was a small apartment; there was a couch, an old coffee table, a TV, a kitchen with a small refrigerator, microwave, and a sink. There was a bathroom and then Naruto's bedroom.
The blonde walked into his bedroom and laid the battered girl on his bed. "You can wash off in there." Naruto pointed to the door right outside of his room.
The two stood there in silence, Naruto had been abnormally quiet after their encounter with the drunk.
"Naruto, thanks for helping me back there… if you hadn't taken that piece of glass to his neck, I'd have been raped. When'd you become so violent?"
"I've been through a lot being a orphan since as long as I can remember, if you didn't know."
TenTen was surprised; she didn't know he was an orphan, though she'd known him since he was a sixth grader when he transferred to Konoha Middle School. She knew that his parents must not have been very involved with his academics since they never where at school functions, but she'd never thought he was an orphan. But it made since, even at the smallest complement made by anyone he'd blush and make a much bigger deal out of it. And he always seemed lonely when parents came to functions and she never saw him at parent-child fairs.
"O-oh… sorry, I didn't know… sorry…" She felt a little awkward now, he didn't seem to be acting like the Naruto everyone knew, he seemed serious, something that people rarely saw.
"It's not your fault, I know that few people know, and if they do they don't care, you can join the club. It won't bother me, but… you may want to bandage your wrist." He walked over to his nightstand and pulled out a roll of bandages. "I'm really good at bandaging, do you want me to wrap your wrist for you?"
"Sure." She held out her right wrist. "Thanks."
"No problem! You get good at stuff like this after a while!" He grinned.
She smiled back as he bandaged her broken wrist. 'Why is he acting so nice when he thought I'd hate him? Weird.'
"All done!" Naruto put the bandages back in the drawer. Neji emerged from the bathroom, his face looking raw.
"Are you okay Neji-kun?" TenTen lightly toughed his cheek.
"Yeah, I'm fine." He walked over to his cousin. "How is she doing?"
"Good, her wounds aren't bleeding."
Neji nodded. "What are you going to do if Hiashi-sama finds out she's here?"
"I'll protect her with my life. No one will ever hurt her again on my watch. That's a promise, I'd rather die than have her be in pain again." Not taking his eyes off the battered girl in his bed.
Both Neji and TenTen where shocked at Naruto's noble words, he sounded so mature now, compared to the immature prankster that everyone knew, this was a whole new Naruto.
But again, Hinata had heard everything. She wanted to cry, no one had ever tried to protect her, help her, die for her. And now, her love, Naruto, had promised that he'd die before she'd ever be hurt again. But she had to keep up her act of still being unconscious, she didn't want them to find out she had heard them.
Naruto pushed the stray hairs from her face, making her fight from blushing even harder.
"We'd better go." Neji and TenTen walked to the door. "You'd better keep your promise, Naruto."
"I will!" He grinned his usual foxy grins.
Neji walked into the kitchen, he'd just returned home from dropping TenTen off at her house and he was starving, I mean hey, if you hadn't eaten anything all day and it almost time for dinner.
He opened the fridge, he was always used to Hinata leaving bento for him and Hanabi if they were hungry. She had always loved to cook and if there was any excuse for her to cook, she'd use it. But today, there wasn't any bento, and really, Neji didn't know how to cook, he and TenTen both couldn't cook, and the two had probly been to every restaurant in all of Konoha, anywhere they could get food they didn't have to cook, they'd go. Sometimes TenTen's mother would cook for them, his girlfriend was identical to her mother, they both had brown hair and brown eyes, they both laughed the same way and they always seemed to be happy. TenTen's mother loved Neji, anyone who would make her daughter happy made her happy and she was always nice to Neji. TenTen never knew her father and her and her mother were like best friends. But the difference between the two, her mother could cook.
Neji closed the fridge and headed to the pantry, all food that you'd have to cook. He closed the cabinet and turned around to head up to his room, but was met with a knife at his face.
It was none other than Hyuuga Hiashi, his face held a sadistic smile and he backed his nephew up against the wall. "You knew I was coming, didn't you?"
Neji was in shock but managed to stutter out a "y-yy-yes sir."
"And you know where she is, am I right?" Neji nodded.
"Then reveal her whereabouts and I won't kill you."
"No." Neji, behind his back was dialing TenTen's number; he turned the phone on silent.
"If you won't, then I'll kill you and Hinata. Or save yourself, and I'll only kill her. It's your choice." His smug expression on his face made Neji sick to his stomach.
TenTen answered her phone. But kept silent.
"I-I'll never tell a bastard like you." Neji took a deep breath, which may one of his last.
The Hyuuga elder grinned. "Then you both shall die." As he finished his words he stabbed Neji in the stomach repeatedly. Neji spat blood on the man as he started to collapse but Hiashi held him up. "We can't have you just pass out now can we Neji?"
He stabbed his nephew again, but this time in the chest. Neji tried to scream but instead blood gargled in his throat, smothering his scream.
The older man let go of Neji, the boy dropped to the flood in a puddle of his own blood, his cell phone landing in the blood, breaking as the liquid entered the battery.
Hiashi kicked the dying boy in the side, flipping him over.
Blood was sliding out from the sides of his mouth and out of his nose. Hiashi chuckled to himselfand left.
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A/N: I actually had this be a longer chappy but I decided to cut and paste that fir the 17th chapter. I don't wanna interrupt anything in the next chapter, so I'll just tell ya what happens w/ sasusaku stuff: they go to the movies, make out, yada yada.
CLIFFIE! Lol! Review lots or I won't update!