A/N: I have had writers block and I have been quite busy with my own issues, not to mention my insomnia, which has greatly affected my academic skills. I do hope you all enjoy this chapter; it is one of the last. This fic has been so much fun to write, its also a good place to vent my emotions, which is good for me. I have also been busy since school has started up again. So please, enjoy, for this is close to the end. I also noticed… I like Fall Out Boy… oh so random…
This chapter is dedicated to my hundredth reviewer, Black-Dragon-Rock. Also, I thank all of my reviewers, you all rock!
I don't own Naruto.
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"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 himself and left.
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Chapter 17: Dilerium
On the other end of the phone….
"Neji! Neji answer me! NEJI!" TenTen screamed into the phone, but no avail, she heard the phone die. " Damn it, Neji! Don't die! Please! DON'T DIE!"
TenTen dialed 911 as she got into her car to drive over to the Hyuuga estate. She was sobbing as she spoke.
"911 emergency,"
"Hello, please help! My boyfriend has just been stabbed multiple times and is probly dying!"
"Where is he ma'am?"
"He's at the Hyuuga estate,"
"Where in the estate?"
"I don't know! He just called me when he was being stabbed. I guess he was trying to call for help!"
"We'll be right there."
Click.
TenTen sped down the streets in her car. She got about two miles before it ran out of gas.
"God damn it!" She yelled through tears as she punched the steering wheel. The frazzled brunet jumped out of the car and started running……… she had to see Neji.
She sped past all the pedestrians; all that track she'd taken really did pay off now.
Her heart was racing; she could feel it pounding in her chest. Her head felt as if it were about to explode, she couldn't believe this was happening. Then it hit her, Hinata wasn't safe, Hiashi was coming after her next. She pulled her cell phone out of her pocket and dialed Naruto's number with shaky hands.
Ring
Ring
Ring
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Hinata sat on Naruto's bed, he'd propped her up with pillows so she could eat, and what she did eat, she could barely keep down. Naruto had left to go to buy some food that was easier on Hinata's stomach; ramen wasn't the best for her right now.
The phone rang once, twice, three times now, she looked around the room, the phone was at the end of the bed.
She painfully reached for it, tears slid from her eyes as she picked it up.
"H-hello?"
"Hinata! I-its TenTen! Get out of there! Fast! Hiashi…he… he might have killed Neji and now he's after you! Get out NOW! Naruto knows and he's on his way but the best you can do is RUN!"
Hinata dropped the phone, she was shaking, her heart beat faster, it felt as if it was going to beat out of her bandaged chest.
She heard the door creak open… she felt her heart stop for a second, she tried to get up but couldn't. She lay back down, she didn't care any more, the doctors didn't even know if she'd survive all the damage he'd inflicted already. She chuckled softly, 'How silly, I thought that I had finally gotten lucky, that I'd been saved, that somehow,somebody up there wanted me to live. I really am as stupid as father said I was…that I'd really be able to live… nobody wants me…so dying would just take away their burdens.'
"How silly indeed…." She whispered before she started laughing hysterically. " Why would anyone want to save me! Hahahaha. Just let em kill me! Bring it on Hiashi! I want to die! Do you hear me! I want to die!" She cried as she laughed, hysteria claiming her.
The floor by the front door creaked.
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TenTen finally arrived at the Hyuuga estate. Medics, cops, investigators, and forensic scientist were at the home. Crime Scene tape surrounded the area. A crowd had formed around it. The brunet struggled through them and ran over to one of the cops.
"Where is he!" She wailed.
"He has been taken to the hospital by air-care." He said it so calmly, like the woman at the hospital when Naruto asked her about Hinata, she felt the same rage well up inside her, she wanted to scream.
She ran through the tape, ignoring the man yelling at her to get back on the other side of the tape.
She burst through the door and into the kitchen where a large group of investigators stood.
She became dizzy; she saw all the blood that had once been in Neji's body. It was on the counter, the white floor. She could only imagine how it would feel to be stabbed. She recoiled and grabbed the counter to keep steady. Her vision went black as a dark thought crossed her mind –Would if he dies?- she collapsed on the floor, catching the attention of the other people in the room.
"We need another medic in here!" A woman with long indigo hair yelled. She ran over to TenTen and checked her temperature. Her forehead was hot and she looked flushed. "Hurry!" The woman had frosty- lavender eyes, which were now clouded with worry. She had beautiful ivory skin but it seemed to be scared in many places just visible from under her blazer-like top she was wearing but the scars looked as if they had been there for a longer while.
TenTen managed to whisper a sentence before she lost consciousness. "Save…. Hinata…" She then muttered out Naruto's address… everything went black for the brunet.
The woman's eyes grew wide- Hinata – Could it really be the Hinata, the Hinata that she remembered, the Hinata that she had tried to forget? Save Hinata Those words rung through her head as the medics took TenTen away.
She couldn't think anymore and fainted. The images of her own torture and her forgotten child spun through her mind.
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Suddenly a strong emotion broker out of her delirium – fear – Her life was going to end, she was going to be gone forever, and pain, the pain of losing everyone she once loved and that cared for her, the only people who wanted her to live – her friends – Hanabinee- chan, Nejinii-san, Amaya-san, Shikamaru-kun, Kiba-kun, Shino-kun, Sakura-san, Lee-kun, Chouji-kun, Ino-san, Temari-san, Sasuke-kun, Kurenai-sensei, Naruto-kun… She would have to lose Naruto-kun… the man who she loved, the man who took her in and saved her…. He'd be gone too…
A single tear slid down her tear stained face. She didn't want to die anymore. She wanted to live to the fullest. And she wouldn't be able to if she died.
And Neji. He may have died, and for her, just to keep her safe. More tears streamed down her face. TenTen tried to save her too. And Sakura, she'd let her stay at her home till Naruto could take her to his place. Kiba and Shino who cared for her so much when she needed them. She'd loose all of them too.
More tears pored out of her stinging eyes. She tried to smother a sob but couldn't keep it back anymore. If her death was coming to her now… there was no use holding back her sobs.
The floor creaked again but this time next to the door. The knob turned slowly.
Hinata was now shaking uncontrollably as she tried to stay quiet. She bit her bottom lip hard, blood started to slide out from beneath her teeth as they pierced her lip.
The door opened. She braced herself for death.
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Doctors stood over Hyuuga Neji in awe, how the boy had ended up living was amazing. They had given him lots of blood, fixed his vital organs and stopped the bleeding only with them having to use the defibrillator a couple of times when he arrived and in the operating room. Hyuuga Neji had definitely made medical history.
The coffee-haired boy lay on the bed; he was paler than ever, if it was possible for someone who already had paper-white skin.
"What happened again?" A nurse looked over at the doctor by her side, who still looked in awe at the seven teen year old boy.
"His uncle tried to kill him, that's all I know." The man never took his eyes off the boy he and his medical team had just miraculously saved.
She looked back down at the boy again… he was a handsome one…
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The door opened…
"PLEASE! DON'T KILL ME!" Hinata wailed as she hid under the sheets sobbing.
Someone sat down on the bed next to her and but their hand on her back.
"P-p-p-please…" The person sitting next to her could barely hear here plea.
"Hinata-chan…" The soft voice said shakily… it was Uzumaki Naruto.
A hot tear landed on her back, followed my more and more… was he… crying?
She lifted herself slowly from under the sheets to see him crying softly, his hand still on her back. "Naruto-kun…" He had his pained blue eyes fixed on the floor.
"Hinata-chan… I… I'm sorry…" He whispered as more tears poured out of his eyes. "W-we have to get you out of h-here…"
More tears streamed out of the Hyuuga girl's lavender eyes. She managed to nod and use her not so injured arm to turn Naruto towards her a little more… he leaned over and hugged her softly, she hugged him back.
She tightened her grip around his neck, hoping by just hugging him; her problems would just melt away.
There was a creaking sound from the front of the house, ruining their moment. They shot apart, Naruto jolting up from where he sat down.
He signaled shakily for Hinata to follow suit, but when she tried to get up, she collapsed back down on the bed, as her face twisted with pain.
'Shit!' Naruto ran over to her side and picked her up and ran to the bathroom and opened the window, a few feet down was a broken up flat roof.
"You got down first, I'll be right behind you." He whispered as he helped her out the window.
As he was half way out the window the door to his room swung open, revealing the Satan-like face, which looked sickly pleased when he saw the petrified look on the poor blonde boys face.
Naruto jumped out the window so fast he almost got whiplash, he grabbed Hinata and ran to the edge of the roof, he looked down, he gulped and looked to the next roof… it wasn't to far away…
He took a few steps back, getting ready to jump to the next roof but stopped when he heard Hinata's shaky voice.
"N-Naruto-kun…" She looked down too and whimpered at the long distance between them and the ground.
Then a jolting pain hit Naruto below his right shoulder blade. "AAGGHH!" Naruto wailed as he began to falter under the pain. Hiashi was behind him, the knife still imbedded in his shoulder.
Tears of agony slid out of Naruto's azure eyes.
The Hyuuga elder laughed a sick laugh, which would give any person nightmares.
He ripped it out of the poor blondes back, which was now soaked in blood. Hiashi lifted the knife again to strike him but Naruto, despite the pain leapt off the roof… the whole world seemed to come to halt; each second took an hour… they were over the street… thirteen floors above the crowded streets below…
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A/N: OMG OMG OMG! SO SO SO SORRY FOR THE SLOW UPDATE! Please R&R!