Demon Thinking
Demon Talking
Human Thinking
Dream
Anko followed Kuu to a nearly deserted part of the village that was not too far from the academy, she guessed it must be a back street. The woman turned her attention to the animal leading her and snorted in disgust, how could anyone be so stupid as to trust this demon?
Kuu smiled to herself as she heard Anko's snort while thinking of a way to get the woman on her side again. It wouldn't be easy, having her around the first time was hard enough, even for her but the potential the woman had back then was great. Anko still had great potential but right now she was dealing with the little warrior and while she showed promise she was too timid, too afraid to take a life.
Kuu would have to fix that soon.
Shaking her head the Wolf went back to focusing on Hinata's scent realizing that they were getting closer.
After a few more minutes of searching they found Hinata and Naruto still asleep together, though in a more relaxed position than before. Kuu's hackles began to rise at the sight of the blonde so close to Hinata; she wanted to tear the boy's face off. No one was allowed to get that close to Hinata.
Releasing a terrifying snarl instantly wakes the two up and that's when Kuu jumps in-between them, forcing the two apart while biting into Naruto's shoulders. Screaming in pain, the boy tries to pry the Wolf off but that only resulted in Kuu sinking her fangs in deeper.
Watching Naruto bleed and shaking in anger, Hinata makes a grab for Kuu and with a mighty heave tears her away from Naruto. Both fall in a tangle of fur and clothes with Hinata pinned beneath Kuu. The Wolf tore at Hinata's body, eventually hitting flesh and making her bleed, Naruto moved to stop her but Anko held him back.
"I told you to stay away from him. No one is allowed to be near you, only me. Got it?!"
Hinata pushed Kuu off her and glared at her before looking at Naruto for a second before telling the Wolf, "He's my friend, and I want to be with him. I don't want to be alone anymore."
"Damn child, you're forgetting yourself… Who saved you from death, who showed you the way to the forbidden—"
"Stop!" Hinata yelled, causing Naruto and Anko to give her strange looks. "I'll do whatever you say, just don't…"
Kuu forced her hackles to lie flat and glared at the girl before motioning for her to follow. Yet as she was doing so Anko stepped into their path.
"Wait, if you're going to try what you did with me I'm not letting you take more step with the girl."
Kuu smirked at the declaration and tilted her head mock surprise. "Oh no, the great and powerful Anko is going to stop me! Whatever shall I do? The girl is mine; I'll kill anyone who comes in between me and my plans."
"She's…she's not just some object you can claim possession over!" the fierce yell made Hinata look at Naruto and give him silent thanks.
No one has ever stuck up for her like that.
The girl lowered her head and with a deep breath faced Kuu; the Wolf was busy snarling at Naruto but turned and gave her a hard glare that was soon wiped away when Hinata spoke.
"Kuu-sama, I would like to train. You're always saying that I need to improve, I want to start now. Please."
Kuu studied the girl and Hinata tensed hoping that the canine would just accept her offer and kept moving. She had a plan but it would only start to work of Kuu gave in to her proposal.
The Wolf licked her chops and smiled, something interesting was going to happen, she didn't know whether or not to be pissed at Hinata for trying to trick her but she would let it slide for now. The forbidden land could wait a little while longer until the girl is stronger.
"Fine, since you seem so eager to bleed, we'll train once we reach the compound."
Hinata breathed a sigh of relief and moved to follow Kuu when Anko held her back. "I want you to meet me by the village gates once you're done with your training session. We need to talk."
Hinata stared at Anko for a moment then turned her head away. She didn't know anything; this woman was just slightly concerned of the recent events that happened. She didn't know anything. Yet despite that Hinata couldn't convince herself and just nodded her head before running after Kuu who didn't stop to wait for her.
Hinata fell down hard on her back and lay still while Kuu growled at her to get up. How many times has she fallen since they started fighting today? The girl has since lost count and let out a small sigh. Kuu got tired of waiting and ran towards her head bent down and slashed open her shoulder with sharp fangs.
Hinata took a sharp intake of breath to keep from crying out and jumped to her feet, managing to grab Kuu by the tail and fling her into the base of a nearby tree. The Wolf lay winded for a second before quickly getting back to her paws and stalking towards Hinata with hate shining in her purple eyes.
The Hyuuga heiress glared back at Kuu with the same hatred in her own eyes, as the Wolf got closer Hinata felt herself tensing at the to leap at her and tear into her. Then with a slight gasp the girl shook her head. She closed her eyes and hoped to banish those feelings from her mind but in that moment Kuu chose to attack.
Clamping her jaws around Hinata's arm, she used her weight to bring her down again. Quickly switching from arm to shoulder Kuu bit down until she felt the bones beginning to grind together and crack. Screaming in pain Hinata forced herself to endure it while she tried to think of a plan to retaliate and get a breather. When Kuu loosened her grip for half a second it gave Hinata a chance to wail on her with her free arm. Hitting Kuu hard in the stomach once, twice, three times made the Wolf release her grip and stumble back, coughing. Hinata was able to regain her footing and face the canine with a determined glare that she rarely showed around others, it was…strange to the girl. She didn't want to be violent but with Kuu…it was hard.
The Wolf looked at the human in front of her for a brief minute and suddenly sat down, looking for all the world like a bored Wolf with nothing better to do. Confused but not dropping her guard Hinata waited for Kuu to attack.
"Little warrior, you know about the forbidden land."
Hinata flinched at the statement and unknowingly dropped her guard. "Okami no Mori."
Kuu nodded and get up to circle around the young Ninja who turned her head this way and that to keep Kuu from taking her by surprise.
"Yes, Okami no Mori, the place where you died and I saved you. But there's more than that. Isn't there?"
Hinata clenched her fists and started to tremble, the place where she died, the place where she was abandoned. It still caused her pain to think about it, she tried to forget about it all. But when Kuu came it seemed like a god idea to follow her, after all she did save her from death but that was just to make Hinata feel indebted to her. And it worked.
Damn it, why was it so hard? She didn't want to do this anymore, she was tired of getting hurt and she wanted it to stop. However this wasn't going to happen as Kuu leapt at her from behind and forced the girl to the ground. Then placing a paw on her head, the Wolf forced Hinata's face further into the dirt.
After a moment Kuu removed her paw and let the Genin up, which she took a bit in doing so. Panting Hinata looked at Kuu who seemed somewhat bored but made a gesture with her paw which the human interpreted as relax.
"You were supposed to expand on my statement, well?"
Shaking her head, Hinata turned away from Kuu while she stood still, still yet growing angry. "I don't want…"
She never got to finish, Kuu jumped on her and pressed all her weight on the girl's chest, suffocating her. Gasping for breath, Hinata saw darkness beginning to creep upon her vision while Kuu dug her fangs into her neck. When Hinata was sure Kuu was going to kill her, the Wolf released her growling.
"You pathetic child, how can you go around trying to pretend all of this doesn't exist?! Your father barely acknowledges you and you just go around life thinking you can change?!"
"I never asked for this, you think I want some Demon hanging around me, insulting me, hurting me!? I don't want…I don't need this. If I could I wouldn't have just stayed in the Forest. That way I wouldn't be bound to you. I could be away…gone…dead."
Kuu narrowed her eyes and buried her fangs into the girl's legs making her cry out and try to hold back tears. "You wish you would have stayed dead, eh? And what would that have accomplished, you would be rotting in hell with your father dancing on your grave. If he truly cared, he wouldn't have needed to sacrifice you."
Hinata said nothing; there wasn't anything she could say. Kuu was right; her father used her to pay for his mistakes and that led to Kuu saving her, and Hinata being bound to the Wolf.
"Why…why did you save me? Having me around only annoys you, what purpose do I have towards you?" Hinata asked, wiping away her tears and staring at Kuu with dull eyes.
Kuu let go of Hinata and backed away a couple of paces, her purple eyes were turned to the sinking sun and she remained quiet for some time. Breathing a sigh of slight annoyance she spoke in a whisper. Her voice was so low that Hinata had to literally lean in to hear her better.
"Your father…it seems as though stepping foot on demon land wasn't enough to piss us all off, he had to sacrifice you, a child, in an effort to atone for his sins. When he noticed me watching he threw towards me, so long as you died who cares how it was done? He did it so he wouldn't die as he ran. You were already half dead, bleeding from a stab wound on your chest that he inflicted. Instead of biting your head off I offered to save you and you took it."
Hinata waited for her to continued but Kuu remained quiet so the girl waited some more and endured the same results. "That's not answering my question, why did you save me? You said that you could have bitten off my head but you didn't. Why, tell me!"
Kuu gave her a blank look and lifted her lips, exposing her fangs. "I don't have to tell you anything. Why don't you ask the man who tried to kill you in the first place?"
With that Kuu walked away and left the compound, leaving Hinata alone. The girl curled up into a ball and started crying softly. She didn't want to ask her father anything, mostly because she didn't know what to believe. As if her father would confirm killing her.
As darkness began to gather Hinata pulled herself together but felt apprehensive about going inside the compound. Looking back to the main gate which led to the outside, Hinata took a few steps forward before stopping. This continued until she was out of the gate and walking away from the Hyuuga compound and to wherever her feet decided to take her.
Passing by a poorer area in Konoha she managed to bump into Anko who seemed confused at the appearance of Hinata but recognized her after a second. She then took in the girl's ragged and bloody frame and proceeded to take her by the hand and drag her to her house.
"Sit," the woman says firmly while she walks into her kitchen for something and Hinata complies though looking slightly unnerved.
Anko then went back to what she was doing and quickly started making cooking, something that she was secretly proud of and very few people knew of. After an hour and a half Anko places a plate of meatloaf, broccoli and rice in front of Hinata who looked at it questioningly.
"Just shut up and eat it. I knew someone from a different country and this was one of the dishes she taught me."
Hinata said nothing and just stared at the food until Anko gave an exasperated sigh, picked up and plate and took a small amount of food and ate it before putting the plate back in front of the girl.
"There, see, not poisoned."
The blue-black haired girl hesitated for a minute before relenting and eating and to her surprise it was good. Anko let a smirk appear on her lips when Hinata held out her plate silently asking for more. Once finished with her second helping, Anko gave the girl a hard look which made Hinata start to fidget; she even started moving away from the older woman when Anko pulled her back.
Feeling the blood on her hand the Jonin got up to get something and came back shortly after with a roll of bandages in her hands. Hinata looked at them then began tugging on her jacket trying to hide her wounds but Anko shook her head and grunted when a fresh stream of blood started to flow from the wound.
"Kuu did this, that bitch."
The Hyuuga girl flinched but nodded all the same, though it did bother her that Anko seemed to know Kuu. How could that be, how could she possibly know the Wolf?
"I've known her for a long time. She used to come to the village for her own amusement and one day she met me."
"Kuu did…"
Anko closed her eyes and nodded, "Yes, she was still annoying as hell and just as ready to hurt someone as she is now." The older woman stopped to gauge Hinata's expression which was troubled and slight put off.
"She never told me she's been to the village before but then she doesn't tell me a lot of things." Hinata muttered, her head hung low.
Anko hummed in agreement and asked the question that's been bugging her since she pulled Hinata into her house.
"Why are you covered in wounds and why did you not seek help?"
Hinata lowered her head even more and whispered one word. "Kuu."
Anko growled at this but stopped when she noticed Hinata listing to the right, her eyes barely open. Before she could fall the Jonin caught her and making a quick decision carried her into one of her spare rooms and carefully laid her on the bed.
"You just rest here for the night while I take care of something. Be safe."
Anko quietly left her house then stood silent, shaking in anger. Why would Kuu do something like this, sure she was violent but she wouldn't needlessly hurt a child. No there had to be more to it. She would find the Wolf and force her to talk.
Nodding to herself, the dark haired woman set out looking for the wolf with the red blaze on her back.
Kuu opened her eyes and looked down from the tree he was laying glaring at Anko who returned the glare with no hesitation. The Wolf snorted and without a word dropped from the tree and gave Anko a disinterested stare while waiting for her to speak.
"Why did you hurt the girl, what purpose is that serving?" Anko asked, folding her arms and looking the wolf up and down.
"I see no need to answer. What I do is my own business."
With that Kuu began to walk away but Anko block her path, the canine bared her fangs and lowered her head, indicating that she would bite but still Anko didn't move.
"This isn't about the girl, you're just pissed that I left you alone and abandoned." Kuu muttered, lifting her head to see Anko's expression.
The female Jonin shook her head and took a step back. Then with a sweep of her hand she motioned for Kuu to go. "I don't care about what you did to me, but the girl is seriously hurt and you should try to make amends."
Kuu gave her a bad tempered snort, waving her tail in disgust. "You know nothing of what the girl had to go through, if you want the truth I'll tell you like I told the little warrior. Go ask the man she calls father."
"What do you mean, ask her father? What does Hiashi have to do with anything?"
Kuu smiled as she started walking away. "Figure it out on your own, I can't tell you everything. There will be no fun if I did that."
Anko watched the Wolf go and battled with herself on whether she should ask Kuu her next question. She knew that the beast wasn't partial to keeping promises. "Will you…will you not hurt the girl anymore? She'll die if things keep going the way they are."
Kuu stopped at the woman's request and didn't know whether to laugh or snarl. "The girl made her own choice. There is nothing I can do to stop it. She wants strength and fighting is the only way I know how to impart that on her. I won't tell you everything, go to Hinata and see her side of things. Maybe then you'll understand."