Hinata sighed as she neared the old hermit's house. She really didn't feel like taking care of an old man who was supposedly going crazy.
"Why are we babysitting a nutcase again ?" Asked a grumpy Kiba while adjusting Akamaru so he could rest more comfortably in his jacket.
"Now Kiba, you don't even know that he's crazy. You shouldn't believe so easily what you hear people say."
As they continued walking, Kurenai stopped in front of the house's old looking porch steps.
Hinata turned when she noticed Kurenai had stopped moving. She was a little suprised that she was the only one to notice their teacher had stopped.
"Why are you stopping Kurenai-sensei ?"
Kiba and Shino turned around to confirm that in fact she had stopped. Kurenai looked up at all them and gave them a sheepish smile.
"You'll be doing this mission alone."
Hinata stood there as she felt her stomach drop. Shino simply adjusted his glasses and continued making his way towards the door.
"WHAT ? HELL NO. Kurenai-sensei, you're really going to make us deal with a lunatic all day ?"
Kurenai sighed and shook her head.
"Look you complained about how the missions were too easy, so I begged and begged Hokage-sama to let you guys do this and after enough begging he agreed. Shino and Hinata don't seem to have a problem with it if you don't want to do this ... I guess you could go back to changing diapers."
Kiba threw himself on the front porch steps and was so frustrated he started pulling on his hair. Kurenai smiled and Kiba was about to start thinking of more insults but found it pointless when she vanished in a puff of smoke.
"... Uh ... this house is ... kind of scary looking."
Hinata looked up at the huge mansion. It would have been beautiful if it weren't for the vines growing up the sides of the house, the paint peeling off, and the broken windows. Kiba snapped out of his grump mood.
"What's that ?" He asked while motioning for Hinata to sit beside him. She took the offer while giving him a friendly smile.
"Nothing." She said while poking her fingers together. She did that often when she was nervous.
"Oh, is our little Hinata-chan afraid of the big scary house?" He cooed.
"No ... I'm not afraid of a stupid house !"
Kiba laughed at her unconvincing response.
The two had almost forgotten about their Shino until he hurried them to follow him into the house. Shino opened the two huge doors and let them fling backwards causing one of the door handles to fall off. Hinata looked down at the fallen door handle.
"Umm ... how long do we have to stay here again ?"
"Until Kurenai-sensei comes back for us." Kiba answered while entering the dark deserted room.
Shino looked both ways then went exploring the opposite way Kiba had gone leaving Hinata by herself in front of the doorway.
"Uh, Kiba-kun wait for me."
Hinata ran behind him as they entered another darkened room. She jumped when he hit the lightswitch.
"So ... uh, where is the man we're supposed to be caring for ?"
"Don't know." Kiba said while placing Akamaru on the ground. Akamaru sniffed around the room that looked like a kitchen. It was dusty and had a strange odor about it.
"WHO THE HELL IS IN MY HOUSE ... I SWEAR YOU KIDS BETTER GET OFF MY PROPERTY ... DAMN IT !"
Hinata jumped behind Kiba and clung to his shoulders at the unexpected outburst that came out of nowhere. Then a man who had on a white coat that looked like something scientist would use in a lab, black glasses that closely resembled Shino's, and was bald except for a small beard on his chin descended down a flight of stairs. As he got closer everybody realized how unnaturally tan he was. He sure did look insane.
"You kids don't look familar, what's your business here ?"
Kiba and Hinata stood there unable to speak. He looked so strange. Shino quickly walked in after hearing the old man's screams.
"I'm sorry if we frightened you sir. We're the shinobi here hired to take care of you."
The stranger slowly walked closer to them his head leaning foward as if it hurt him to stand up. There was no doubt in any of their minds he was psycho.
"I didn't call for any damn shinobi."
They all watched in disbelief as he circled around them like sharks did just before they attacked. Then he started talking to himself which kind of worried everybody. Then he stopped.
"As long as you are here ... you boys can go fix my garden in the back yard and as for you Hyuuga girl ..."
The old man stepped in front of Kiba and attempted to push him away but Hinata clenched onto his shoulders even tighter and Kiba stood his ground. The old man sighed then smirked.
"You can clean the bathrooms."
"Umm ... the bathrooms ?"
Hinata was screaming inside. She didn't want to be stuck with him inside a house alone. Even if Kiba and Shino were just outside. This place was huge and if he decided to just go all psycho-murderer-rapist on her they might not be able to hear her.
"Yes all the bathrooms in the house, but don't worry I'll show you where all of them are. Let's see I think there's 8 bathrooms in the whole house ... or was it 7 ?"
The man started counting with his fingers then accused his index finger of being a thumb. As he started yelling at it and telling it how he was going to cutt it off, Hinata decided to take this time to complain to Kiba.
"Kiba-kun, don't leave me alone in a house with him." Hinata whispered.
"Don't sweat it Hinata, I'll take bathroom duty. He whisperred back.
Apparently the man heard them because he turned and faced Kiba.
"Off to the garden now."
Then he grabbed Hinata's hand and started leading her down a hallway.
"Okay sweetheart. Let's see. You can clean this bathroom first."
Hinata gave a fake smile to the man and turned around while he was pulling her and gave Kiba a look at her pleading eyes for help. He shrugged his shoulders and then she was whipped into a turn. They stopped and she saw the first bathroom. The tub had rust stains on it. There was something green growing on the walls, the mirror was cracked, and everything was covered in dust, even the toilet seat.
"Okay. You get this cleaned up and I'll check on you in a minute."
The man then left and Hinata looked at the mess she was expected to clean.
"Oh God."
Hinata went in the closet and grabbed a broom. She started brushing all the dust away. Then when she was done with that she decided to conquer the green stuff on the wall.
She sniffed it out of curiousity and gagged.
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Kiba looked out at the backyard that probably should have been called a jungle. The grass went up past his thighs and if he wasn't carefull he'd sometimes walk into a small tree. They had been working for almost an hour and they still weren't half way through. Kiba started tugging at a stray weed that just wouldn't come out.
"Damn, you'd think these things were cemented down there."
Shino kept quiet but then looked up at the sky.
"We should go in. It's about to storm and I don't think it's going to be a normal storm either."
Kiba looked up at the sky just in time to get hit in the eyes by two raindrops.
"Let's go."
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Hinata looked at the bathroom. It was perfect, she had fixed everything. Except of course the cracked mirror.
"Yes, finally finished it. Only seven or six more to go."
Hinata sighed and fell to her knees. She was exhausted there was no way she was going to finish the other rooms. Too tired to move she fell on her side and let herself fall asleep.
"Hinata ?" Kiba called for her while walking down a hallway. He wasn't sure if he was going the right way since all the hallways looked exactly the same.
"Hinata !" Kiba screamed once more and peeked into a room. It was empty so he kept searching till he came to a room that was clean. He stepped foward then felt something hit his foot. He looked down and Hinata was sleeping on the floor.
He bent down by her side. He didn't want to wake her. She looked tired and by the looks of her dirty hands and the black smudge marks on her face had apparently worked hard.
"Your so weird." He said while tucking some bangs behind her ears.
He stepped out of the room and looked both ways to make sure nobody was coming. He bent down once more and scooped her up in his arms but when he turned back around to leave the room the old man was there again. Kiba jumped but remembered he had Hinata in his arms so tried not to move around too much.
"Is there anything you want ?" Kiba asked while looking back down at Hinata to make sure she was still asleep.
"No, and by the way you can call me Mr.Yukashizu or Shizu for short."
"Okay then."
Kiba shot past him and walked down the hallway. After making sure that the old creep wasn't following him he opened the door to a room, while still struggling to hold Hinata. When the door opened he was relived to find a large bed. He placed her on it and pulled the covers over her.
"Kiba ?"
Kiba turned around to find Shino standing at the door.
"What is it ?"
"Mr. Yukashizu has requested that Hinata-chan cook dinner."
"Well she's sleeping right now. So she can't." Kiba rose his voice a little annoyed with Mr. Yukashizu. He was so weird and he expected that he had it in for Hinata.
"Kiba don't be stupid. Now wake her up and come down to the kitchen."
Shino then left leaving Hinata and Kiba in the room alone. Kiba sighed and sat on the bed beside Hinata.
"Hinata-chan ?"
Hinata turned on her other side and was now facing Kiba.
"No ... stop. stop it."
Kiba looked closer at Hinata and found that she was crying. Was it possible to cry in your sleep ? Kiba had never really thought about it before. She wasn't crying that hard but she was crying none the less.
"Hinata ?"
"No ... stop it !"
Kiba started shaking Hinata in a desperate attempt to wake her. After a while it worked and she looked dumbfounded while Kiba was looking at her like he had just seen a ghost.
"What's wrong ... Kiba-kun ?"
Kiba said nothing.
"How did I get in here ?"
Kiba cleared his throat.
"Umm I brought you here. You fell asleep after cleaning up the bathroom."
Hinata then shot up. She had forgotten about her back and when she stood up so quickly pain shot through her back and up her neck.
"AH ! God !"
Hinata clung to her shoulder.
"WHAT'S WRONG !"
Hinata had almost forgotten he was in the room.
"Oh nothing." She said while slowly laying her self back down. She flinched a couple of times and Kiba was starting to wonder.
"What's wrong with your back ?"
"Nothing."
Hinata started poking her fingers together again.
"Tell me."
"Nothings wrong. I'm fine."
"Your lying." He said while jerking the covers off of her.
"NO I'M NOT !"
Hinata reached for the covers but they were halfway across the room. She lifted herself up ready to run but Kiba pinned her against the matress.
"Tell me." He said while moving himself to where he was now sitting on her stomach. Hinata blushed.
"Kiba-kun what are you doing ?"
"Hinata I'm not stupid. I saw what you did to your wrist while we were fighting."
Hinata stopped resisting and looked into his eyes.
"Now what happened to your back. I can tell that's where the pain is coming from."
Hinata closed her eyes and refused to speak. When she felt him let go of her and his weight lift from her she thought that he had given up but then she felt herself being hurled onto her stomach and Kiba rested his knees on the sides of her thighs while leaning over to yell into her ear.
"Kiba-kun. stop it !"
Kiba took off her jacket and threw it across the room. It landed beside the sheets.
"Kiba-kun, please ?"
"JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOND. IS IT THAT BAD THAT I CARE ABOUT YOU ? IS THAT BAD THAT I CARE IF YOU'RE HURT !"
Hinata stopped resisting again and let him lift up the back of her shirt. She heard him gasp and she couldn't help but let out a couple tears of frustration.
"Hinata."
"It's not what you think !"
"IT BETTER NOT BE WHAT I THINK!"
He rolled her over again to where she was lying on her back and grasped her chin with his hands and made her look at him.
"CAUSE IF SO I'LL KICK YOUR ASS !"
Just then they heard footsteps and before they knew it Mr.Yukashizu and Shino werer standing in front of them.
"I think I just lost my appetite." The old man groaned and left the room.
"What the hell were you two doing ?"
Shino's voice cracked as he spoke. He was confused and very disturbed.
"We weren't doing anything."
Kiba got off of Hinata and on the way out picked up her jacket and threw it at her. She sat there on the bed and watched as Kiba and Shino left the room. Wiping some tears, she got her jacket back on and slowly walked down the hallway.
Okay another chapter finsished. Please review.