BONJOUR MY BEAUTIFUL AMIS!
JE T'AIME
TI AMO
MAHAL KITA
EU TE AMO
SENI SEVIYORUM
TE AMO
I LOVE YOU!
And because I love you guys so much, I had to say it in seven different languages! (correct me if I'm wrong, I can't really count). Well, I'm pretty sure I got them all right, but the Turkish, Galician, or the Filipino (because I don't know anything about those languages in general) but I gave it a shot for you guys!
Anyway, another way I've decided to profess my love to you, was by PUTTING UP ANOTHER CHAPTER!
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-TAZ
(OH, AND ENJOY, OF COURSE)
CHAPTER 2
** DEMON COUPLE **
LAST TIME:
Sighing, Hinata looked around some more, hoping she could hurry and find someone, instead of just adding question after question onto her considerably large list of 'things-she-doesn't-understand-yet'.
"Find anything?" Sahana asked, hearing Hinata sigh and wondering how long she was going to be able to wonder around Konoha, pretending to know where she was going.
"N-" Hinata started to answer, but stopped, half way though the word. Grinning to herself, She focused on the person she could see stepping out of a house and placing a bag into the garbage bin, "Turn left on your next corner, then continue forward until you hit the end of the road, then turn right. Stop at the fourth house on your left."
"Got it."
Finally, they were going to get some answers.
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Sahana quietly followed Hinata's instructions, walking through the streets of Konoha, pretending to know where she was going, "Did you see someone you know?" She asked Hinata, making sure there were no ninja around to hear.
"On of my old classmates came out of a house, taking the garbage out to the bin. With my byakugan I can only see through some houses, there are few that were designed so I couldn't. This house is one of them." Hinata explained as she walked beside Sahana, completely invisible.
"I guess that means we're quite lucky then, are we Hina-imouto?" Sahana smiled as she turned right.
Hinata smiled, "Fourth house on your left." She ordered, glancing at said house, "And the name of the person I saw was Ino Yamanaka. Blonde hair, blue eyed female around our age. Hopefully she'd be the one to answer the door."
"Or someone else you know."
"Let's see how long that luck of ours lasts."
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Ino glanced out the window, eyes narrowed suspiciously as she watched a girl – seemingly about her own age – walking towards the house. Ino had had a pretty sucky day so far. Having lost rock-paper-scissors this morning to Shino, she was given the job of taking out the trash. And she hated taking out the trash.
"Guys!" Ino called out, turning back towards the lounge room, where everyone was currently occupied, "Someone's coming to the house." She explained. "Hide everything!"
Hearing sounds of quick movement, she smiled to herself, knowing they were making sure everything looked ordinary. She moved away from the curtain, so she couldn't be seen, and waited for the inevitable.
The knock on the door.
Ino was quick to get up when the sound of a fist gently tapping on the door echoed throughout the house, and she heard it turn silent in the lounge room. They were all now shamelessly eavesdropping into the conversation that would be about to take place.
Ino chuckled to herself, opening the door, "Hello?"
The woman who was now standing in front of her was tall – for female standards anyway – she had long sandy blonde hair pulled into a braid and chocolate brown eyes. She was pretty, wearing a bright yellow t-shirt and black compression shorts. The woman smiled at her kindly, "Can I please come in? There is something that I need to talk to you about."
Ino watched the woman suspiciously, "What do you want? Why can't you talk to me here?"
"My name is Sahana." Her chocolate brown eyes met Ino's pale blue, "I need to talk to you inprivate. I promise you'll understand when I enter your house. I need you to trust me."
"Why should I trust you?" Ino asked, still defensive. She knew that she had a better chance of getting what she wanted if she played hostile. Having trained under Ibiki made this known to her. With females, especially innocent females, hostility was the first choice. It was a lot easier to threaten information out of people rather than slowly nudge it.
For this circumstance, anyway.
Sahana leaned in close. "Please? I would show you out here, but I don't know what's going on. We need to find out what's going on. That's why we're here."
"We?"
"Please?"
Ino watched her, suspiciously, knowing by her tone of voice and outward expressions that she had said nothing other than the truth since she started talking so far. Although she explained absolutely nothing of interest – yet – she was already deemed semi-trustworthy. Trustworthy enough to gain information from, but not trustworthy enough to give information to. "You have one minute," Ino decided, opening the door for Sahana to enter. Ino watched carefully, noticing that Sahana's eyes didn't wonder around the house. Sahana obviously meant business. And whether it was good or bad, Ino was about to find out.
Hinata smiled as she stepped into the house after Sahana, and waited until the door was properly closed before disbanding her technique. The sight of another person suddenly appearing in her house caused Ino alarm. Her first instinct was to attack, but looking at Hinata, she paused.
She looked awfully familiar.
"Who are you?" Ino asked Hinata, not sure if she should get her hopes up. Not yet.
Hinata smiled, "Ino-chan, it's really me. Hinata. I know you have reason not to believe me, but I want to explain myself. Is there any way that you could prove that it's me?"
"It's her." A voice from the lounge room echoed through here, "A person's smell never changes that much."
"Kiba-kun?" Hinata asked quietly, the voice familiar.
"My bugs also recognise her. It is indeed Hinata from our childhood."
Hinata smiled at the voices of her two former teammates. Kiba and Shino were like brothers to her, she trusted them with her life, and they were always there for her.
Ino smiled too, all hostility gone as she gazed upon Hinata. She had changed so much since Ino had seen her last. She had grown so beautiful, although not a lot taller since she'd seen her last. She was insanely short, but her hair had grown long, to her waist and she wasn't wearing any of the extra-modest clothes that she always used to when she was younger. She had those same pale lavender eyes and was wearing a pure white shirt, the word 'Ookami'(Wolf) engraved on the back and a large scroll tied on her back. She wore a white coloured camellia in her ear and black compression shorts, which showed off her perfect pale figure underneath.
"I guess you'd like to see the crew again," Ino smiled, and lead Hinata and Sahana into the lounge room, where a group of six were seated aimlessly. They all smiled upon seeing Hinata, but sent curious looks towards Sahana, not knowing, however, eager to find out.
Hinata smiled, "It's so good to see you all again," She bowed politely, earning some chuckles from the group 'oh, that's definitely her', "This is Sahana. You can trust her. She's a close friend to us."
They were quick to trust her judgement, which made Hinata happy. She hadn't seen these guys in years, yet they still trusted her so effortlessly. She turned to Sahana, "Hana-nee-chan, these are my friends from Konoha. Ino, Kiba, Shino, Shikamaru, Lee and Choji." She pointed them all out, silently wondering where the rest of the group were. But she didn't ask. They would be the first to be questioned, before having the right to be able to question back. It deemed them more trustworthy that way.
"It's nice to meet you all." Sahana smiled, "Although would you mind if Hina-imouto summoned the other two of our own crew? Naruto-otouto is probably getting really agitated by now, and Sasuke-kun's probably sick of him complaining."
"Naruto and Sasuke, huh?" Shikamaru chuckled, "Who thought they'd finally return."
"THE FIRE OF YOUTH IN THEM ALL IS STILL BURNING STRONG!" Lee jumped up from his seat in his 'nice guy' pose, and Hinata couldn't help but smile widely. She missed these guys.
Sahana just thought they were weird. But definitely in a good way.
Hinata unrolled the scroll from on her back, and bit her thumb before performing the appropriate hand signs and laying her hand out on the scroll. The room then filled up with white smoke, which was quick to clear, and two more men had entered their midst.
"Did you find them? Did you find them?" Naruto was already bouncing around excitedly, whilst Sasuke let out a loud sigh of relief.
"Thank god," Sasuke breathed out, "Leave me with that guy for another minute and I would've probably had to commit suicide."
"Welcome home, guys." Choji smiled, looking over the two.
"Yeah, it's so good to see you guys again." Ino smiled brightly, laughing when she noticed Sasuke give her a suspicious look, "Don't worry." She grinned, "I'm not the same freakishly obsessed fan-girl anymore. I'm with Kiba-kun now." She turned around and hugged said man, proving her point and earning a smile from the Uchiha.
Sasuke didn't look much different as the group had last seen him, short, oddly spiked raven hair, and the traditional black onyx eyes of an Uchiha. He wore a dark-blue jacket, and black ninja pants. If Sasuke turned around, you would see 'Hebi'(Snake) written on the back that signified that he was apart of the small group. The small group of four who had only recently been introduced to the house had been a group for a while, a group of strong ninja who have had rough lives all because of their families, so they blended together to make a new family.
Shikamaru smiled when he noticed how close Sasuke and Sahana were standing to each other. They were obviously a couple, and the way Naruto was squeezing the lights out of Hinata and telling her how worried he was about her and how much he loved her, he deduced that they were also a couple.
Naruto hadn't changed to much; his attitude, or his looks. Well, apart from the fact that he was so tall. Shikamaru smirked at the memory of a thirteen year old runt who'd run around screaming about being Hokage one day. Now he was probably taller than even Shikamaru. His untamed sun-kissed hair still spiked up in random places, his whisker marks on each cheek were more pronounced than Shikamaru remembered and his sparkling blue eyes were shining with that energetic excitement that he always seemed to hold in his bright eyes. He was still wearing orange, but it wasn't as noticeable and bright as it used to be. His ninja pants were black, leaving only his jacket a dark-orange, the word 'Kitsune'(Fox) written on the back.
"What's going on in Konoha?" Sasuke asked, putting a firm hand on Naruto's shoulder so he would let Hinata go, "We just got here, and ended up having to get Hana-chan and Hina-imouto to infiltrate Konoha. We weren't expecting that."
"Hold on guys. One story at a time. We want to find out all you've been up to first." Ino interjected, "So, y'know, how did you meet Sahana-san?"
"Please, call me Hana," Sahana smiled, "Everyone else does."
"So come on guys," Kiba grinned, "You've been gone for a ages, what have you been up to?"
"I would also like to know," Shino added.
Hinata glanced around the room with a smile, "Oh, where do we start?"
"Well, the first thing we did was… we had to find Lust." Sasuke recalled.
With that name said Naruto, Sasuke and Sahana all turned to Hinata sympathetically. Even now Hinata was very insecure about those memories. Her cheerful mood instantly dissipated as she shivered in disgust, "That was not an enjoyable moment in my life."
Everyone turned to look at the four, even though Hinata, Sasuke and Naruto hadn't met Hana at this stage in their adventures, "What happened?" Lee asked, twitching in his seat.
"I don't want to tell it." Hinata shivered again, she never really got over that. How close he was to her, and she silently thanked god that Naruto and Sasuke got there in time.
So the next hour or so, was used recounting everything that had happened to the quartet during their journey.
"You killed Orochimaru! Seriously, how strong are you guys?" Choji was shocked.
"Hinata-imouto and I were S Rank missing nin you know? Hana should probably be around jounin level by now, and Naruto… Well, he's just Naruto." Sasuke smirked at Naruto's pouting face.
"Hey, I'm S Rank too!" Naruto protested.
"All of you! Man, you must've trained heaps. You've probably got into heaps of trouble too." Kiba grinned.
"Yeah, we got in plenty of trouble thanks to these two." Sasuke gestured to Naruto and Hinata.
"Hinata? Got people in trouble? This I'd have to see," Ino was shocked, "She's to innocent to get in any trouble."
Sahana laughed, "It was more like Naruto making trouble on Hina's behalf. Although we did deal with enough unwanted admirers for her, Naruto was usually the one who put on a scene. Threatening anyone who even looked at her wrong." She looked at her little brother, "You wouldn't believe how many times we had to deal with that."
There was a collective sigh from Sahana, Sasuke and Hinata, all of which remembering such a time. "The Dobe's completely whipped."
"Cute." Ino sighed, hands clasped together in front of her.
"Protective." Naruto corrected, puffing out his chest slightly.
"Possessive." Hinata sighed, leaning against him with a roll of her eyes.
"Well I for one want to see you guys in action." Kiba decided with a grin.
"Any one of us would be happy to fight you, Kiba." Naruto smiled, ready for the challenge.
"FIGHT ME! FIGHT ME!" Lee jumped back up onto his feet, where Choji and Kiba shoved him back down onto the couch.
"Lee, it is not the most opportune moment for a spar." Shino informed, and Lee sighed.
Ino ignored the group, apparently used to Lee's random yelling, "Wow, Hinata. I love the flower in your hair. Where did you get it and how does it just stay there? I mean, I want one! And you're so pretty, I've heard all about you, 'Demonic Beauty'. You've been all over the TV. You all have! I'm jealous!" Ino smiled.
Hinata blushed, "I am always using a bit of chakra to keep it in place, and Naruto-kun gave it to me ages ago."
"Aaawww… Who would've guessed! Naruto! A romantic!" Ino laughed.
"Hey! What are you trying to say?"Naruto complained.
"Sorry, Naruto. But I cannot imagine you as a romantic." Ino smiled.
"I am too romantic! Aren't I, Hina-chan?" He turned to Hinata to back him up.
She smiled gently at him, "You have your moments."
Naruto rolled his eyes at her, "Yeah, whatever. You know you love it." He said with a grin.
She laughed, looking up at him, "Well, I can't really deny that now can I?"
"Four more people in the gang," Shikamaru mused to himself, "This is a good thing." He chuckled, "We might finally be able to get somewhere. Especially with your new skills added to the group."
Naruto grinned, "Does that mean you're gonna finally explain what's going on, here?"
"Might as well get it over and done with." Shikamaru sighed, "Ino, you like to talk. You explain it."
Ino grinned.
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END OF CHAPTER 2
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