Sorry for the long wait. I was on a sudden hiatus. Hope you like it. R&R plzzzzzzz!
P.S.: Forgive me for it being short. This was a slam bam chapter. I'd forgotten where I left off.
Shippu Jinraikyaku
Chapter Five
"I have good news for you Hyuuga-san."
Hanabi winced as the overly jubilant nurse re-bandaged her arm. Five days in the hospital had made her snappy, miserable, and bored as hell. The only thing that occupied her time was trying to figure out who sent the two bouquets of flowers four days ago. She had woken up one morning and there were a dozen yellow roses by her window. The roses startled her and she wondered who sent them because as far as she knew she had no friends and her family didn't care enough about her to send her flowers. She didn't bother to ask the nurses because she thought they were too nosy for their own good. So she dwelled in the fact that somebody appreciated her; it was nice to know that someone cared. She glanced at them again and immediately winced; they hurt her eyes if she looked at them to long. They were like a tiny sun constantly radiating sunshine. Even when she went to sleep in the night it hurt to look at them.
The day after she got the yellow roses, a dozen black chrysanthemums were delivered to her door with a card that read: Die wench! She had a nasty feeling that they were from Hinata. The nurse patted her freshly bandaged arm; Hanabi had almost forgotten the nurse was there.
"Anyway, you're being released today. And you can take this cast off in an hour." The nurse said smiling, "Try not to come again okay." Hanabi nodded her head and the nurse left the room.
"Cheery bitch." Hanabi muttered. She rubbed her newly bandaged arm and looked at the two sets of roses. She picked up her sister's card, planning something she could add and send it back. She turned it over, there was more writing. It read: P.S. I'm going to tell everyone you molest me in my sleep! Hanabi found herself laughing at the absurdity of the card. Sometimes, she really thought her sister was mentally challenged. The door to her room opened and for a fleeting second she was hoping it would be the sexy blonde idiot she couldn't stand. He was haunting her thoughts for the past couple of days. She was kind of disappointed and quite frightened when Tsunade walked – no - entered the room. Hanabi couldn't say the hokage walked into the room; she'd be lying. People, who were five feet seven inches tall, walked with aristocratic grace, rumored to be incredibly strong and radiated so much power that crowd's part before them don't walk into a room; they entered. Her heart beat sped up by a mile and a half when she saw that the sexy blonde she couldn't stand followed the godaime, and then it dropped a notch when her father appeared a few seconds behind the blonde.
She stole a glance at Naruto, saw the frown on his face and switched from being ignorantly relaxed to cautiously alert. Donning on her impassive face, she sat upright in the bed and pondered about what they were here for.
Naruto walked over to the window and glanced outside. It was an interesting day. Sunny yet cloudy, noisy yet quiet. From the window he spotted the ramen stand where he was eating his third bowl of ramen for the day. He had ordered a fourth bowl and was about to suck it down but Tsunade had plucked him from the stand and dragged him here. With his face hidden from the people in the room, he silently grieved for his abandoned bowl of ramen; which probably dumped. Oh well, he thought, he'd just get five bowls for dinner instead of his customary four. He studied Hanabi from the corner of his eye and images of playing doctor and nurse popped in his head. He pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. He blamed Jiraiya for corrupting his mind. He examined the room and smiled when he spotted the yellow roses. "Oh, you got the flowers." Naruto said motioning towards the little bundle of sunshine sitting next to Hanabi. "I figured yellow would be bright enough to make your eyes hurt, and since you like to examine things to the point, make you go blind."
Hanabi blushed and fought down a giggle. "Yeah thanks. Almost worked." At some point in her tenure at the hospital, her diminishing dislike for Naruto had completely vanished and was replaced with interest and fascination.
Hanabi studied the room. Tsunade sat in the only chair, which was at the foot of the bed, with her father standing next to her, while the main actor in her twisted fantasies leaned against the wall, next to the window.
Tsunade suddenly sat up in the chair and crossed her legs, immediately capturing everyone's undivided attention. She stared at Hanabi with light golden-bronze eyes and smirked when the girl started to toy with her hair. It was fun making people squirm. Leaning forward in the chair she said, "So I went back to my office, found it quite clean, and told myself that you two", she tilted her head towards Naruto, "did a damn good job. But imagine my surprise when I found out that you were in the hospital and my two ANBU guards cleaned the office." She sat back in her chair. "Care to tell me what happened?"
Hanabi swallowed and replied, "We did clean your office but ah, a problem arose and the guards had to clean the office back up."
"Was this problem the reason you were admitted into the hospital?" Tsunade asked.
"Yes Tsunade-sama" Hanabi replied slowly.
"Would you care to tell us the nature of this problem? How it began and if it was solved?" This time the questions came from Hiashi.
Hanabi looked at the hokage and swallowed again when she motioned with her hand to answer the question. If she said what really had happened, her father would punish her when she got home; which wasn't the standard grounding but a whole lot worse, yet she couldn't lie to the hokage.
"It's my fault." Naruto suddenly said, drawing their attention. He glanced at Hanabi and sent her an encouraging smile.
Hiashi narrowed his eyes towards him. "Do explain."
Naruto walked from the window, stood next to Hanabi, and faced Hiashi and Tsunade. In the few seconds he took to walk next to Hanabi, he had made up a fairly plausible story. "You see," he started, sounding sophisticated, "A chunin had a grudge against me; apparently it started from the exams, saw me in the office and attacked me." He laid a hand on Hanabi's shoulder. "She tried to stop the fight but, sadly, got injured trying to do so."
Hanabi bit her tongue as he told them 'what really happened'. She felt his fingers press on her clavicle and she nodded her head at the two people questioning them, making his story appear truthful.
Hiashi knew it was a cover up story, and was going to expose them. He nodded at them and said, "If that's true, how did Hinata end up next door to Hanabi? She wasn't returning from a mission, and from what I've heard, she was in that office."
Naruto thought for a second, sensing Hiashi was trying to bait him into a trap. After half a second he replied, "Coincidently, she was running an errand for Sakura, wherein she had to come by the office. She saw us fighting, and being the kind-hearted soul she is, she tried to stop it and got caught in the cross fire; where she got injured."
Slick was all Hiashi could think of. "If that's true, how come when I visited Hanabi the day she was admitted and queried how she got here she told me that she was in a fight with Hinata?" Lie your way out of that you miscreant, Hiashi thought smirking.
Naruto thought for a second and replied, "If I'm correct, which most likely I am, Hanabi went into ER wherein, I assume, that they pumped her full of painkillers; which, when used with other medicines, have numerous side effects, for example hallucinating. Am I not right?" He turned towards Tsunade.
"He has a point'" Tsunade replied. So far she was enjoying the subtle fight between Naruto and Hiashi, it was quite interesting. She had to give Naruto some points for making his story credible. They both knew it was false but it was fun to listen to him add twists and turns that countered Hiashi's factual points. She should do the responsible and moral thing and tell Naruto she knew he was lying as she heard the story from Sakura already, but what fun would that be? Instead, she let them carry on. Besides, from what she'd heard, the girl needed some slack.
Hiashi scowled at Naruto as his temper broke free. "We both know that you're lying. Just say the truth, your punishment wouldn't be as strict."
Naruto scowled at Hiashi, "I'm not lying."
"Yes you are."
"How would you know?" Naruto countered "You weren't in the office with us."
Hanabi looked back and forth between Naruto and her father, the both of their tempers, reaching breaking point. She figured if Tsunade and she weren't there in the room, they'd fly at each other. She'd give her whole right arm to watch that fight.
Hiashi opened his mouth but closed it. He didn't trust himself to speak to the boy as he would have said something crude and embarrassed himself in front of the hokage.
"Well," Tsunade started standing up. She'd had fun but it was time for her to get back to work. "Now that that's over we can all get on with our lives. Naruto, report to my office at 0700 sharp tomorrow." And with that Tsunade made her way to the door.
"Hokage-sama, you don't mean you actually believe such nonsense?" Hiashi asked, flummoxed.
Tsunade paused and dramatically turned to face Hiashi. "It's credible enough, and besides I don't have enough time to get to the bottom of this. Some of us actually have work to do." She turned back around and opened the door.
Hiashi stared daggers at her back and muttered under his breath.
"Hmm? You said something?" Tsunade said fixing her gaze on Hiashi, daring him to answer.
"Nothing." Hiashi said, looking at the ground.
Tsunade winked at Hanabi and left the room, closing the door behind her. She noticed the quick furtive glances exchanged between Naruto and Hanabi and pondered about what would become of it. Once Naruto was happy with the outcome, she thought while heading towards her office, it didn't matter.
"I'll deal with you when you get home." Hiashi said, arrogantly walking out the door.
Hanabi sighed when the door closed behind him. She didn't dare think about what would happen to her when she got home. She'd probably get grounded and sentenced to a week of solitary confinement. Which was a week in a dark dank hole in the ground with only enough food to last for four days. The only company down in the metal cell was rats and other pests. The guards who kept watch of the hole were instructed to throw cold water down the hole every hour. So not only were you starved and terrified of the things that lurked in the dark, you were wet to. It was designed in such a way that you couldn't get out unless someone lifted the gate and threw down rope for you to climb out. She had spent a week in there before. Two days inside of confinement she'd had a mental and nervous breakdown. By the time her sentence was up, the guards had to fetch her and immediately take her to the medics they had on the estate. She shivered at the memory. It was at that time that she learnt how cruel her great clan was.
She ran her hand through her hair and jolted when her thumb brushed Naruto's hand. She'd almost forget he was there.
"That was fun." Naruto said, walking back to the window. He spotted Hiashi walking on the sidewalk and wished he had some shuriken to throw at his head.
"You fucking idiot! Do you know what you just did?"
Naruto jolted and turned around, staring incredulously at Hanabi, who was staring daggers at him, temper flaring.
"I just saved your ass." Naruto replied, thinking she looked cute when she got mad. It was then that he decided to give in to the idea that was plaguing him for the last few days.
"No you did not." Hanabi said moving to the edge of the bed. "You just put me in more trouble." Naruto merely shrugged and walked back to the bed, with a smirk on his face. Hanabi saw his smirk and her temper just escalated. "You think this is amusing? No it's not. You have no idea how cruel my father can be. You fool, he knows you lied and when I get home he's going to…" Hanabi was cut off mid rant when Naruto pulled her towards him. Naruto brushed his lips over hers and her mind blanked out.
"You're cute when you're mad." Naruto whispered and kissed her again, harder this time. He gently pushed her head back and she fell back on the bed. "See you later." And with that said he jumped out the window.
Hanabi stared at the ceiling, her mind slowly returning to its senses. Did that idiot just kiss me? More importantly, did I like it?
She thought for a moment. Hell yeah!
A nurse opened the door. "Hyuuga-san, you're cleared to leave, just sign these forms."
Hanabi turned her head towards the nurse, "Wha?"
The nurse frowned, "Your release form?"
Hanabi jolted out of her daze and sat up. The nurse handed her the form. She signed the bottom and gave it back. The nurse smirked at her, and left. She licked her lips and went into the bathroom to change her clothes. She'd figure out what to do after she went home and suffered from her father's punishments.
End of Chapter Five
Forgive me for being late. I have no excuse; I'm just a lazy sucker. Hoped you liked it, I didn't think it was as good as the other ones. R&R plzzz.
Shippu Jinraikyaku