I'm baaack!!!! Not that I've been away. Ok, here's chapter 13….
Disclaimer: I'm getting tired of this…can't you just see I DON'T OWN NARUTO?! shakes and takes a deep breath
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The golden rays of the rising dawn illuminated to sky as it silently rose up from the edge of the world. The sky took on a pink hue, similar to the blushing of a newlywed. Darkness turned to light and the sky, bright blue again. Birds' chirps and the leaves rustled as they spread their feathery wings and took flight into the sky. The sunlight shone on every pebble, sand and rock on the ground, lighting them up like paper lanterns on New Year's Eve.
It also, consequently, illuminated a pale face, sitting on a gray, speckled rock. Her lavender eyes stared incoherently at the rising fire, completely unaware of her surroundings. From far away, she might have seemed calm, with not a worry in the world…but as you step closer, the fear and uncertainty in her eyes are prominent.
While her face might seem cool and collected, her thoughts rose up like dark, menacing smoke in the cavern of her thoughts, threatening to choke and strangle her entire being.
For her memories were painful, lethal, unbearable….
A rough and tanned hand patted her shoulder, but received no perceivable response. A gentle voice whispered her name quietly, as if not to shatter the delicate balance of nature.
"Hinata? Are you alright?"
Finally, her brain seemed to register the question and sent back an answer. Her voice returned and without taking her gaze off the blazing sun, she replied softly.
"Yes…d-don't w-worry a-about m-me…"
"You always say that! How long have you been up? To be sitting like a statue at this early, you must have been here…for… I don't know…hours!"
With a stoic expression, she replied.
"Just d-don't w-worry ab-about-t m-me….i..i'll b-be j-j-just f-fine…"
The man sighed, she wasn't alright, but she would never admit it. This innocence, the fragility, this caring for others…never admitting her own pain….how..after all these year, is she still capable of such pure thoughts?
Sighing, he sat down next to her and wrapped his warm arm around her cold shoulders. He gazed at her, her light purple eyes, her creamy complexion, her taut lips….bleeding and wet from biting on it out of nervousness.
"I know there's something wrong. Just tell me Hinata, can't you?"
She shook her head vigorously, her tired eyes and mind on the edge of collapse.
"No…"
She whispered quietly.
"No…."
Kiba sighed, he would just have to force it onto her….oh, how he hated to hurt her…yet staying like this wouldn't do anything for her, or him.
"It was yesterday night, wasn't it? Seeing Naruto like that, you were frightened, brokenhearted, weren't you. Dammit, why did he have to be like that, that..that…insane baka!!"
Those words came out with such unintended force and anger that Hinata started sobbing into his jacket. Crying her tears out, crying out all the anguish of last night, crying out the tragedy of her precious friend and former comrade. Why..why did the world have to be like this? Why..?
tap. tap.
"So, are you just going to sit there like that the whole time? Get up, we've got a village to get to and a feud to end!"
Uchiha had finally come back.
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In Suna, Underground"Lord Kazekage!!"
Gaara spun around as his sand crushed another enemy ninja to the voice of his attendant calling to him.
"Are you alright?!"
He tightened his fist and crushed yet another opponent.
"Now…I am…"
"Good, we should leave and wait for backup. C'mon, Lord Kazekage!"
"No…we should be able to hold out, if we leave---"
Yet another three ninja perished in his deadly sand.
"—then they might hurt the village…no, we'll stay.."
With downcast eyes, the attendant sighed. His Kazekage could be so stubborn sometimes.
"Very well."
He fended off another ninja and yelled:
"Keep it up! We can't risk this going into the village!"
Those ninja better get over here…we can't hold on forever…----------------------------------------------------------------
Team Sakura"Um…guys?"
Sakura blinked sleepily. Where was Kakashi..? Oh yeah, she was on a mission without him for once…augh…what in the world woke her up this early?
"Wake up guys, I think that Gaara seriously need our help!"
"What? How would you know that? He's—yawn----in trouble?"
She blinked a few more times, and then prepared to go back to her dreams of Kakashi again. Temari shook her shoulder until she was awake again.
"What? What?! I need my sleep…"
"This is important, Sakura! It's like a brother sister thing…c'mon wake up!!"
The pink-haired woman bit her lip: Temari and Gaara weren't the tightest of sibling, and besides, wasn't the telepathic thingy supposed to be twin-to-twin…? Ack, how would I know, I am an only child, after all… Seeing that there wasn't an iota of chance that she would sleep again, she stumbled out of her blanket and yawned. Temari rolled her impatient eyes at the pink-haired damsel and immediately woke the others.
Shikamaru was already awake and just pretending to sleep, so things got a bit out of hand. Shino, on the other hand, seemed to be collecting bugs already. It would seem he had gotten up in the wee little hours of the morning, or just didn't sleep.
30 minutes later
"Alright! We're ready to go!!"
The rest of her teammates groaned, except for Shino, he didn't even make a sound. Temari whirled around.
"You're ninja, remember? Or did you forget the point of this mission? The sooner we get there the better! Now let's go!"
The trees trembled at their departure.
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Back to Team Naruto (?)
"What're you doing here?"
"I'm part of this team, or did you just forget? We have a mission to accomplish and we'll definitely get it done. Naruto or not."
Kiba sighed, as Sasuke snapped at him. Obviously he wasn't very chipper, but then again, was he ever?
"Just a moment."
Turning around to Hinata, he whispered:
"C'mon, we got to go. Just don't think about it okay?"
"O-ok…"
"Aishiteru, Hinata. Now let's go!"
Unbeknownst to him, Hinata nodded slightly and whispered:
"Aishiteru…Kiba…"
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ok….it got a bit weird at the end…..T.T I hope that you don't find them too OOC, I'm trying my best here. But just tell me if you think so, capiche? And uh, I'll update soon, sorry it was so short. Bya!
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