Chapter 29: In deaths wake
Senryu: I'm such a lazy ass. I'm so sorry from the bottom of my stone heart.
Shiirya: we don't own Naruto
Senryu: I hope you like this chapter. 'Till next time.
Neji stared at Tenten's figure through the door. She was laying on the ground, not responding to him calling her name. He activated his byakagen in a panic. "It couldn't be…" The Hyuuga stared at her, observing every body function. The girl in front of him was the Tenten cared for. Her chakra levels were close to nothing, and there was a blue substance in her bloodstream. Neji recognized it instantly. It was an extremely dangerous poison, used as a drug that drains chakra and could kill a person in a day because the effects were slow and painful. By the looks of her body functions she had about two hours to live. The Hyuuga effortlessly broke through the girl, running to the blood stained girl.
He held her in his pale arms and carefully felt her heartbeat. It was still beating, but was random, skipping beats on whim. Neji took a breath and concentrated his chakra into his hand and placed it on her stomach, letting chakra seep into her blood stream. With any luck the chakra should slowdown the effects, but it couldn't stop the poison. Sakura would be extremely helpful right now…
Neji concentrated harder, closing his eyes to retain his focus. He could feel the poison lift out of Tenten's body. After a few seconds he felt a stabbing pain in his hand. Neji opened his eyes and saw the blue poison hovering above Tenten's stomach, seeping into His hand. It felt like fire running through his veins, slowly eating at him. Neji cut off his chakra, making the poison hovering above Tenten spill to the stone ground, and looked at his hand. It had a blue tint to it and was shaking painfully. Above that it felt like Neji was being stabbed repeatedly in his hand that still felt like fire.
Despite his intense pain, Neji checked Tenten's heart again. He smiled a little; her heartbeat was regulating, but was still weak. He lifted her up bridal style and ran out of the cell led by Shinji
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Neji continued running until he collapsed with Tenten, the poison now throughout his body. The Hyuuga barely had the strength to continue breathing, yet he managed to stumble through two more hallways before collapsing again, hard. He could feel the poison, slowly eating him from the inside out. Neji's eyes slowly darkened, he was staring at the unconscious girl who was still wrapped in his arms. Before passing out he held Tenten closer to him, feeling her warmth and heartbeat which was getting irregular again. The last time he saw her, she was being kidnapped. Now Tenten was unconscious and being cradled to him, as close to dying as a person can get. Neji held her a little tighter out of instinct. 'She won't die. I won't let her.'
Then the world went black.
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Naruto ran at Kabuto with nothing but fist and willpower. Before he could even get a kick, Akira was in front of him with a kunai. Naruto managed to clumsily dodge the first slash, and landed a punch in Akira's chest. The boy recovered and ran at Naruto with chakra induced speed, slashing his kunai wildly. Naruto dodged the slashes by moving back toward the edge of the cliff (YES bwhahaha). He looked over the edge that was only a couple of inches from his feet.
Akira took this to his advantage and threw five kunai at specific spots at Naruto, forcing the boy back even further. Then Akira ran at Naruto like lightning, tackling him. The boy jumped into the air, dodging Akira. Kabuto was waiting for this. He spiraled above Nauto and kicked him down, down over the 30ft cliff with cold murky waters and sharp rocks to seal his fate.
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Hinata held her bloody side. Akira had inflicted a deep wound to her stomach, which refused to stop bleeding and felt like she was being slowly ripped apart. Despite her pain she felt nothing, and froze. Naruto had gone over the cliff; she saw it with her own eyes. For a second she wasn't breathing, just staring at Naruto fall, slowly falling, and falling. Hinata forgot her wound and stood up with a shoot of pain, forcing herself to the edge of the cliff with eyes that shone with both worry and fire.
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To Akira's surprise, Naruto was able to grab onto the edge of the cliff with one hand, now swinging over the ocean, suspended by that one hand. Akira stepped on that one hand, crushing it beneath his foot. "You just won't die you?! Just go to hell."
Naruto smirked painfully, which surprised Akira a little. "I guess I'll see you there." Akira stepped harder onto his hand, swearing it should have broken by now, yet Naruto's expression didn't change a bit. "You…bastard." Akira was about to add another remark when he got an idea.
"You're girlfriend will make a fine slave for Orochimaru-sama, he always wanted a Hyuuga…along with an Uchiha of coarse. Along with that Haruno girl…That idiot Sasuke should be taking care of her right about now."
Naruto stared fiercely at Akira. His once blue eyes turned deep red and were burning a death glare at the boy. A death glare that was looked like hell to Akira, but he wouldn't show Naruto that, not on his life.
"You…won't touch Hinata or Sakura. I'll kill you first."
"Was that a death threat?" Akira pushed Naruto's hand farther off the cliff. "Whose going to stop me?!"
All Akira had to do was to lift his foot ever so lightly, and Naruto would fall to his death.
Before Akira could do such a thing, he was dead; a kunai plunged through his chest. With a faint groan his eyes glazed over and he fell over the cliff to the sharp rocks in his wake.
Naruto followed suit, stretching out his hand on instinct as he fell. Hinata grabbed his wrist, struggling to keep her balance. Naruto looked up and smiled longingly at Hinata. Hinata stared back until a shadow fell over her and Naruto's face turned grim.
Kabuto smirked above Hinata, and with an effortless kick Hinata and Naruto were off the ledge, spiraling down to the unwelcoming waters.