Kairo Chapter 6 (Aw yeah!)
Hinata opened her eyes sleepily. It was morning and they needed to get to Suna before sunset, tonight. Lifting her head off of her pillow she twisted her neck to look around the tent. Sasuke was still sleeping soundly. Hinata smiled a bit. 'He looks so cute when he's asleep. He almost looks…Harmless.' Hinata thought giggling to herself. She got up on her feet and smoothed down her purple kimono, pulling up the low-cut top underneath up a bit, and ruffled her ponytail. The room inside the tent was getting brighter. The ceiling was pretty high, so there was space to stand up. Hinata stood up and walked over to the door. She brought up a small, delicate looking hand and pushed the fabric flaps aside. Hinata stepped out of the tent and shifted her brown eyes to the sky. 'The sun is almost above the horizon, we have to get moving.' With that thought, she walked back into the tent and looked at Sasuke. He brought a hand up to his hair and swiped at it. Hinata's lips spread to a small smile. She slowly stalked over to Sasuke's bed and leaned over to look at his face. (Much like he did to her the night before.) She kept leaning down until she could feel his breath on her pink lips. She watched as Sasuke shifted and swiped at her with his hands in his sleep. 'What's wrong with him?' she thought as she tried to move back, eyes wide. He managed to reach out ad wrap his arms around her waist, pulling her to him. Hinata gasped but didn't blush. She stopped blushing for small things a long time ago. Sasuke just kept pulling her closer and closer to him. Hinata struggled to escape, but he had the strength of an elephant. Sasuke pulled her in more until she had fallen on top of him, her soft breasts pushed into his rock hard abs and their lips millimeters apart. Hinata's cheeks turned cherry red and she tried her best to wriggle her way out of his grasp. Sasuke snorted, opened his black eyes and stared at Hinata who was hadn't noticed his awakening. Now that she was so close to her, he could see how much more pretty she was up-close. His jet black eyes wandered down to her neck, her collar bone and then to her chest. Sasuke blushed a deep Scarlet hue and looked up at her face only to find spheres of dark red staring back at him. She was panting heavily. 'Did we just…? No we couldn't have, we still have our clothes on…' he thought, kind of disappointed. Hinata's cheeks turned a darker shade of red as she stared at him.
"Um, Sasuke?" said meekly. She really wanted some distance between them, but somewhere at the back of her heart, Hinata actually wanted this. Sasuke felt like he was living a dream or something, he really wanted this, Hinata lying on top of him. His mouth curved into a smirk ad he didn't loosen up his grip. Hinata narrowed her eyes at him.
"Let GO, Sasuke-san!" she hissed dangerously. Sasuke just smirked some more.
"And if I don't?" he whispered huskily. Hinata widened her eyes for a second; she hoped that Sasuke didn't notice. She rolled her eyes and shifted her hands from his chest to the bed underneath them, pushing herself up. Sasuke was reluctant to let her go but his arms slowly slid off. Hinata got up and off the bed. She slowly walked over to her bed and started rolling it up, Sasuke watched as she reached for her gloves after putting away her bed, slipping them up and along her slender, pale fingers. She looked at him once more, and walked out. He got up slowly and started packing up his stuff, walking out soon after.
"So if we take the long route from the north trail, we'll never make it, but if we take the south trail and go to the west path…" Neji's voice trailed off in Hinata's head. In fact, finding the fastest route to Suna was the last thing on the Shogi successors mind; her mind was wandering back to Konoha where she met a certain red headed Kazekage. 'Gaara… I winder if you still remember me, I still remember you…' she thought, looking at Neji but not quite listening to what was coming out of his mouth. Gaara's face appeared in her mind and she giggled quietly. Neji raised an eyebrow and gave her a strange look.
"What's so funny?" he asked. Hinata laughed again.
"Nothing, nothing, let's take the south trail." She said, coming to a decision. Neji smirked. "I knew you would settle on my idea." He said, the smug smirk still plastered underneath his nose. Hinata rolled her eyes and looked back at her friends.
"You guys, should we get going?" she asked loud enough for everyone to hear. Naruto jumped high into the air and pumped up a fist.
"HELL YEAH!" He shouted as loud as his high pitched voice would allow him to. Sakura frowned at Hinata but nodded, Sasuke gave her a small smile and a wink. She blushed remembering the mornings 'escapade'. But she winked her red eyes back at him; now it was his turn to blush. Sakura didn't suspect a thing. Everyone packed their stuff and headed towards the Sand Village.
It took six hours to get to Sunagakure, but they arrived before sunset. The sun was just below its highest peak in the sky, lighting the sky up a bright yellow. The group neared the gate, and Naruto started to act up.
"'Cause I ain't no hollaback-girl!" Naruto started singing loudly while running around in the stupidest way imaginable. He ran ahead and down a small slope, gaining some speed.
"Hey! We can have a race to the gates!" Naruto suggested. Hinata and Sasuke both smirked.
"YOSH! I will surely win this race!" Lee shouted joyfully. Chai smiled at him.
Everyone stood in a straight line and got into position. They all changed into to his or her own unique sprinting stances and waited for Naruto to start the race. Naruto rubbed his hands together and took in a deep breath.
"GO!" he hollered. Hinata sprinted off; Shikamaru surprisingly was hot on her tail. Lee was zipping along and ran circles around Chai, Ino and Sakura tauntingly. Tenten was running alongside Neji who was huffing heavily. Sasuke was trying to trip Naruto. Kiba and Sakura were going to head to head; their speeds were almost exactly the same. After much struggle, Kiba finally gained enough speed to pass Sakura, and eventually ran over to Hinata whom was facing off with Sasuke. Hinata turned her head to the side just in time to see Kiba run up beside her. Kiba grinned and winked at her, causing Hinata to turn pink.
"Hey Hinata… very sexy top…" he said out loud. As if on cue, Sasuke winked at Hinata again when she glanced at him. "Stop, Kiba." Hinata told him sternly, narrowing her eyes; she really wanted to win this race. Kiba only grinned wider. Indeed, he seemed to continue..
"Hey, it's not my fault that you are so smexy, smexy!" he said in a sing-song voice. Kiba provoked Hinata some more and her speed nearly tripled, and almost quadrupled. Meanwhile behind, Lee, Chai, Naruto, Tenten, Shikamaru, Ino and Neji, Sakura was making eyes at Hinata. She frowned at Hinata's running figure and reached into her shuriken pouch, pulling out six bright pink customized shuriken. Nobody was watching the scheme Sakura was performing at the back. Sakura held three shuriken in each hand and positioned her wrist for quick firing. Sakura ran ahead a bit and gave her wrist a little FLICK. Three of the shuriken were sent whizzing by Ino, Tenten and Chai's heads. They saw a flash of pink shuriken heading in Hinata's direction. All three of the girls slowly turned their heads, knowing exactly who threw those stars. They all stared at Sakura in shock and in return received a smirk form the pinkette herself. Chai whipped her head just in time to see the shuriken closing in on Hinata's back. If Hinata didn't turn around fast, or deflect the shuriken, she might get seriously injured. The rest of the group, including Sasuke finally spotted the three shuriken cutting through the afternoon air. Everyone's eyes widened and opened their mouths to alert Hinata, but just then Hinata reached into her card case and pulled out the deck of shiny red cards. She swiftly but her index finger and her thumb in the center of the cards, much like she was holding s pencil. Then she slid her thumb and finger apart, making the cards spread out like a fan. She then held up the makeshift fan to where she thought something was going to hit her. She sensed the objects coming closer and closer with each passing second. The shuriken were too close for comfort. Sakura was grinning malevolently. Hinata swung her fan forward and deflected the three pink shuriken that were thrown at her. Sakura's grin disappeared, Ino, Tenten and Chai sighed in relief, Neji widened his eyes in utter shock and Sasuke, Lee, Naruto and Kiba ran up to Hinata.
"Hinata! Are you ok? Where did all these pink shuriken come from?" Kiba asked grabbing Hinata's gloved hand. Naruto looked down; there was a shuriken by his foot. He bent over, picked it up and brought it close to his face for examination.
"These shuriken are from the customizable weapon gallery shop for sure!" he said. Hinata looked over at them, shuffling her cards into their former position. Sasuke observed her hand movements.
"Yeah, but that's in Konoha, whoever bought those shuriken must be around here somewhere." Kiba pointed out. Hinata looked over to Sakura who had a solemn expression on her face. She looked almost… disappointed? Hinata frowned at her, and Sakura started walking towards Hinata and the guys, swinging her hips sassily.
"That would be me, I threw those shuriken." Sakura said quietly, still walking towards Hinata. Hinata looked at the pinkette, confusion in her eyes.
"Sakura-san, why'd you do it?" Kiba asked Sakura, barring his canine like teeth. Sakura stared at him for a moment before shrugging her shoulders. Hinata narrowed her eyes even more, if that was possible.
"Why are yo turning on your own teammates, no one here did anything to make you feel bad, Sakura." Hinata said icily, planting a hand on her rounded hips. Sakura glared at Hinata, picking up her pace and appeared in front of Hinata's face in a matter of nano-seconds.
"You SLUT!" Sakura growled angrily, she thrust out her hands and shoved Hinata back, a little harder than she wanted to, because Hinata flew back into the air, headfirst. Everyone widened their eyes but was too stunned by Sakura's sudden outburst to do anything. Hinata back flipped just before she fell onto the sandy ground, she landed on her feet and pulled out her elemental cards. She got into her Shogi styled defense stance, one arm bent up to her head with three cards in between her fingers, her other arm bent down low in front of her waist with five cards. Feet spread out slightly. Sakura narrowed her eyes yet again and got into an offence stance of her own, and charged towards Hinata at full speed. Hinata watched Sakura coming but didn't do anything to brace herself or move and try to evade her running start; she just stood there in her new defensive pose. Sakura let out a cry and leaned in to slap Hinata in the face with the back of her hand. While Sakura swung her hand ruthlessly, Hinata caught it in between her own hands, the long rectangular cards still in between her fingers. Sakura growled lowly and tried to pull her hand back, but Hinata had it in an appendage cell. Sakura tried pulling her hand back a few more times before breathing in deeply and glared into Hinata's now almost all bloodshot orbs.
"Why are you doing this Sakura?" Hinata tried asking again. Sakura didn't answer, she just struggling to pull out her hand out of Hinata's grasp. But to no avail, she hung her head low and waited for Hinata's motor to start running again. Hinata frowned at Sakura's hair covered face.
"Sakura, why do you always want to fight me? Why can't we just get along like old times?" Hinata demanded an answer. Sakura still didn't say anything, everyone stared at the two, and it was almost as if they weren't even there. In fact, Hinata forgot all about her friends around her, she even forgot about the mission. She only wanted her friend back.
"Sakura! You can't hold a grudge against Hinata for this long over a guy!" Ino shouted out to them, Shikamaru standing beside her, observing the two jounin level kunoichi. Hinata then snapped out of the trance she was in and looked around them. Ino was waving her hands frantically; Tenten bit her lip and brought her hands up in front of her chest. Lee crying tears of 'youth', Sasuke staring at them with his hands in his pockets, Neji staring at them angrily, Naruto was staring at Sakura and Hinata's hands, and Chai's yellow eyes as wide as saucers. Time seemed to have stopped as Sakura slowly raised her head, a serious expression on her face.
"It's all because of you that…" she said quietly.
"That…" she continued, Hinata looking at her expectantly.
"THAT SASUKE-KUN DOESN'T LIKE ME!" she finally yelled out, raising her other hand and swung recklessly at Hinata's face. Hinata's eyes widened a large amount as she watched Sakura's palm fly at her. 'I have no time to protect myself!' she shouted inside her head. SMACK. Was the only thing that could be heard throughout the vast desert. Sakura had been able to land a direct hit on Hinata's pale face. Sakura's palm was pressed against Hinata's left cheek, making her head turn sideways, a bewildered expression on Hinata's face. Ino shrieked in horror, Tenten gasped, Neji widened his eyes, as did Sasuke and Shikamaru. Naruto, Kiba and Lee had shocked expressions on their faces and Chai let out a shocked 'ah'. Hinata felt pain, burning pain. But it wasn't the hard slap to her face that caused it, no, it was the hurtful mix of confusion and anger. Angry that Sakura would let a guy come in between their friendship, and confused on the guy part, who was the guy? Hinata's blue bangs covered her eyes as she brought both hands and grasped Sakura's offending arm, moving it and removing Sakura's palm from her cheek. When Sakura's hand came unbound from Hinata's face, a blotchy red mark was revealed along the side of it. Hinata slowly turned to Sakura, eyes still shadowed from view. Sakura's arm dropped harmlessly to her side, her expression was a mixture of anger, jealousy and hate. Hinata slowly looked up at Sakura while slipping a gloved hand into her card case, pulling out an ice-element card. Sakura didn't notice Hinata clutch the card in between her index finger and her middle finger and raise her hand up so that it was at the side of Sakura's face.
"Sakura… I'm sorry if you feel like I'm taking S-Sasuke-kun, a-away from you, b-but… The truth is…" Hinata trailed off, bringing her hand which was beside Sakura's head closer to Sakura's temple. Slowly pressing the card to the white skin, Hinata watched as Sakura's eyes widened. Sakura let out a cry and pulled her head away from the card. Hinata smirked at her reaction, and everyone else looked confused Sakura's teeth were chattering.
"W-What the h-heck was t-tha-that?" Sakura said through the space between her teeth. Hinata twirled the card around in her had a moment before answering matter-of-factly.
"This card has the element of ice sealed in it, it can freeze other objects by using charka." Everyone stared at the card like it was the dawn of a new millennium.
"And this is the card…" Hinata continued staring at Sakura, her red eyes flaring up once more.
"I will use to hurt you!" she added while dashing towards Sakura. Sakura frowned and got into a fighting pose, waiting for Hinata to strike her with the ice card. But instead feeling the cold, frigid ice against her skin, Sakura felt burning hot flames. Her eyes shot wide open and she quickly tried to push Hinata's card away. But it turned out, she didn't need to, Sakura looked at Hinata who was currently being restricted form was harming her any farther. Sasuke was holding onto her wrist with one hand, ad his other arm was wrapped around her waist, pulling her close to his chest. Sakura looked at Sasuke and sucked in a deep breath, she wasn't burned, but if Sasuke hadn't come any sooner, she might've been. She shot Sasuke a thankful look before walking off, but Sasuke only stared at her and rested his chin on Hinata's shoulder.
"Calm down Hinata…" he whispered to her slyly. His voice sent shivers down her spine. Sasuke turned his head a bit and buried his nose in the side of her neck, nuzzling with it.' So soft…' Hinata gasped and immediately broke free.
"Sasuke-kun!" she yelled at him, blushing. Sasuke grinned at her mischievously and walked past her towards the group.
"By the way…" he said over his shoulder. Hinata was still blushing at his touch, but she listened to him.
"Nice move…" he said to her, giving her props on giving Sakura what she deserved. Hinata smiled at him softly before following him to the group.
He-he… I fooled you guys when I said that they would get to Suna right? LOL, well they will NEXT chapter! Haha… just my way of keeping you at 'bay'. And now, back stage, Gaara just HAPPENS to see Hinata.
Gaara: Mmm… Hinata is so hot…
Hinata: Blushes Gaara-kun, do not act like Kiba!
Suzume-kage: Wow! It's not everyday Gaara calls a girl 'hot'! Hinata, I think Gaara likes you, don't you agree folks? Oh yeah ad if you want to be in the back-stage complementary at the end of every chapter, just give the word, alright? Remember to Review and stay tuned!