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Chapter 4

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Hanabi stared out her 3rd floor bedroom window, seeing nothing. She was still utterly dazed about the whole marriage thing. She just couldn't wrap her head around the fact that her father cared so little about her happiness, that he was actually marrying her off to her free-loading first cousin; Neji who wasn't even a member of the main branch. A long drawn-out sigh escaped her lips as she rested her chin in her hand, and absentmindedly drummed her fingers on the window shill.

No matter how long she thought on the subject of her marriage; she couldn't see her father's point of view. How in the world was marrying Neji, beneficial to the Hyuuga clan? Their children would be handicapped, so the bloodline would be contaminated. On top of that; Neji viewed Hanabi as the annoying little sister he never wanted, so how was he supposed to "get it up" for a girl he didn't even like. Neji was in reality closer in blood then a cousin; after all, his father had been Hiashi-sama's twin, so Neji was more like a half-brother then anything else. Their children would be seriously screwed up.

She didn't care what her dad said about noble families marrying their first cousin; Hanabi thought it was sick, twisted, and incest. Just look at her father; he was insane, and Neji's father was even crazier; he committed suicide just to piss off the main branch –he wanted them to feel guilty for the enforced slavery of the branch family- if that didn't prove that procreating with a first cousin was a mistake, then she didn't know what would.

She sighed again. Normally she refused to tolerate self-pity in anyone, especially herself, but there was always an exception to a rule. Slapping the window sill as she stood up, she made her way down stairs to her older sister's room. Hinata-niichan could be counted on to comfort her, even if Hanabi was a right bitch to her most of the time. Hanabi didn't really know why she disliked her sister so much…no that was a lie; Hanabi was jealous. Hanabi had every thing Hinata wanted. Yet her timid, shy, annoyingly weak sister still seemed to be happier then she was. Hinata had friends; she had people she could confide in, when life (or more likely family) got too much to bear alone. Hanabi had no one.

She had no body but herself to blame -and maybe her father- she pushed people away. Friends -for her- were business contacts, or people who owed you a favour. Her father had never allowed her friends as a child; he said friends were people who would stab you in the back when something better came along. He had claimed that friendships where for people who couldn't stand on there own two feet. He had said that friends could be used as weapons against you, the people closest to you hurt you the most. So because of what he had said, she never let her guard down. It explained why she was so bitter and nasty to everyone, especially her sister.

Trailing her fingers along the banisters, she hummed quietly to herself. It was an old lullaby that Hinata-niichan sang to her when she was a small child. Despite the jealousy she felt towards her sister, she did love her. Hinata-niichan had always been kind to her, even when she didn't deserve it. Hinata was the only motherly influence in her life (their mother had died giving birth to Hanabi).

She knocked with unusual politeness on her sister door, but there was no answer. She knocked again, louder this time. Hanabi was beginning to lose her patience. She cursed under her breath, and slammed the door open, only to find Hinata's room empty. Hanabi stepped inside and scanned the room, spotting Hinata's discarded book lying open on the floor. Hanabi watched, as a breeze from the open window ruffled the pages of the book. A frown wrinkled her forehead as she made her way over to the window. Just as she was about to close it, she noticed something out of the corner of her eye. She squinted into the fading light, trying to see what it was.

Hanabi's mouth fell open in shock; her eyes bulged in their sockets. Was that Hinata-niichan down on the bench snogging Kiba-dog boy- Inuzuka!

She craned her head further out the window, attempting to get a better look; just to be sure it really was Hinata. It was. There was no mistaking that midnight blue hair. She watched enthralled, as the dog-boy pushed her sister onto her back, while Hinata-niichan wrapped her legs around his hips.

Hanabi shook her head in disgust. How could her sister do something like that? She was to be-wed the Uchiha boy for the profit of Byakugan production. She was betraying not only him, but the Hyuuga clan as well….and in the middle of the street! Has she no shame? Hanabi pushed away from the window in revulsion. Hinata was a traitor.

She turned and fled the room like rabid hounds of hell where nipping at her feet. For the first time, she was unsure what to do about Hinata. Any other time she would have gone to their father to tell instantly, but now she was uncertain. Hiashi-sama was clearly unstable; if she told him what she had just witnessed there was no way to predict his reaction.

She hurried to the stairs, planning on locking herself in her room for the rest of the night, to contemplate on what she was to do; when she slammed right into the person she had least wanted to bump into; her father. She jumped back from him as though she had been electrocuted, and stammered an apology.

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Hiashi stared at Hanabi as though she had two heads. His favourite daughter didn't stutter. He narrowed his eyes at her; watching her squirm uncomfortably under his penetrating gaze. His favourite daughter wasn't intimidated so easily either. Something was wrong. She was hiding something. Hanabi could never convincingly lie to him, or even keep things from him. It wasn't the way she was programmed. "Tell me!" he ordered, his voice shattering the already awkward silence.

Hanabi hung her head dejectedly. There was no point in refusing his demand; he'd just make her suffer for it.

"I saw Hinata-niichan…" she said allowing the sentence to trail off; trying futilely to give her sister time to sneak back in.

"Yes? You saw your sister…and then what?" her father snapped at her impatiently.

"Well…she is…um…"

"Out with it already I don't have all night!" Hiashi braked in irritation.

Hanabi sighed in defeat; she couldn't drag it out any longer. "It's not my fault! Hinata-niichan brought this on her herself" she thought trying to justify what she was about to do. Hanabi wouldn't wish her father wrath on her worst enemy, let alone her only sister! "I saw Hinata-niichan outside…on a bench…snogging dog-boy…I mean Kiba Inuzuka!" she winced, bracing herself for Hiashi-sama's out burst.

"WHAT? THAT UNGRATEFUL LITTLE SLUT! HOW COULD SHE DO THIS TO ME, THE CLAN, OUR BUSINESS? AND WITH THAT DOG-BOY! THE LITTLE TRAMP! I'LL KILL HIM, FOR LAYING A HAND ON MY DAUGHTER! THAT LITTLE SON-OF-A-BITCH, HE'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR HER! HOW DARE HE TOUCH HER! I SHALL RIP HIM LIMB FROM LIMB! THEN SMEAR HIS BLOOD AND GUTS ON THE WALL, IN WARNING FOR THE NEXT MAN WHO THINKS HE'S GOOD ENOUGH TO TOUCH MY PROPERTY!" He roared at the top of his lungs, before roughly pushing Hanabi out of the way and marching to the front door.

Hanabi watched helplessly as her father stormed off out the front door. She flinched internally as he slammed it shut behind him. "Oh Kami, What have I done?" She said to herself. Indecision rooted her to the spot. What was she supposed to do in a situation like this? Was she supposed to stop him, or was he right; Hinata should be punished for cheating on her fiancé? She ran her hands through her hair in aggravation. She shouldn't have to go through this. What teenager has to make the decision of preventing her father from killing their sister or their sister's boyfriend? She scanned the entrance hall for something, anything that could make the decision instead of her.

Hanabi raced down the hall and around the back of the house to Neji's room. "Please be in! Please be in!" she thought as she throw open his bedroom door, without knocking. She spotted Neji lying on his bed with none other then Tenten-senpai straddling his lap. They both stared at her with the same identical expressions of guilt and embarrassment etched on their faces.

Neji open his mouth; about to explain, when Hanabi cut him off, "I don't care! I don't have time for this right now! Dad is about to kill Hinata and dog-boy…I mean Kiba! You have to help!" she cried at them. She honestly didn't care if Neji was with Tenten-senpai, she didn't want to marry him anyway, plus she could use this as an excuse to get out of it; once a cheater always a cheater. Yes, this predicament would work nicely in her favour. Hanabi carefully stored this scene in the recesses of her mind, to be taken out and examined at a later date, because right now she had a more pressing issue; the probable murder of both her sister and dog-boy…Kiba Inuzuka.

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Hinata ran her left hand over Kiba's toned stomach, while the other was busy twirling strands of his hair around her index finger. A sly smile crept across her face as she felt his muscles quiver under her finger-tips, as she trailed them across his torso. Hinata was pleasantly surprised by the affect she had on Kiba, she had never thought herself capable of causing such a reaction in the opposite sex. Sure she knew she wasn't ugly but she never thought herself sexy-if the bulge in Kiba's pants was anything to go by-, and never in a million years would she have imagined herself pinned to a bench and being kissed within an inch of her life by an incredibly hot man. She had always assumed that she would end up marrying some cold and distant business associated of her fathers', and that her marriage life would consist of polite and formal conversation, and the only time they would consummate the marriage would only be to provide an heir and a spare. She had never really spared a thought to passion, they had all been idle wonderings; nothing serious. So experiencing it now was breathtakingly surprising. She had never felt-or even imagined feeling- such intense heat and dampness. It was bizarre.

Suddenly Kiba was gone; to be replaced by a chilling breeze. Hinata leap up, instantly knowing something was wrong. Her mouth dropped open, her eyes widening in pure horror at the scene unfolding before her. Her father -in all his terror inspiring fury-; was throttling her Kiba.

Hinata stared in wide eyed shock, unable to tear her gaze away from the horrifying sight. She watched as her father slammed Kiba's body against the wall. She saw Kiba's head thump repeatedly against it. Tears pricked at the corner of her eyes as a trail of blood trickled down from Kiba's temple, and as his handsome face turned from a rustic copper shade to a bruise purple hue. She shook her head, her hair fanning out in an arc behind her. "Father STOP!" she screamed hysterically, rushing over and grabbing his arm; trying desperately to wrench his hand from Kiba's throat. Her nails raked his skin painfully, drawing blood, but still he continued to strangle the air from Kiba's lungs.

Kiba couldn't breath. He couldn't even blink. He knew if he closed his eyes he wouldn't open them again. His vision had turned hazy, and he could feel his strength slipping away. If he didn't get some air in him soon he was going to pass out…or worst. He could hear Hinata calling him and yelling at her father, but he couldn't respond. His tongue felt like lead in his mouth.

Hinata knew if she didn't act now her father would kill him. Taking a deep breath to steady herself; Hinata smashed her left foot down on her fathers'.

Hiashi yelp in pain as his usually obedient daughter crushed his foot with a startling amount of strength. He had been so focused on strangling the son-of-a-bitch that had dared violate his property, that he had completely forgotten his daughter presence. He glared at the dog-boy in disgust; he'd have to deal with him later.

Hiashi rounded on Hinata, dropping Kiba's prone body to the ground, he back-handed his eldest daughter across the face, causing her to collapse back into the bench. He watched in revulsion as tear sprang to his daughter's eyes. She was weak, pathetic and a coward. He had been right to pass her over for the heir. He stomped toward her and picked her up by the collar, shaking her roughly as he pulled her up to eye level. "You are a disgrace!" he growled at her before slamming his fist into her face, causing her lip to spilt open and swell up. He ignored her screech of pain as he brought back his fist to hit her again.

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It never made contact. A large pale hand snaked out and blocked Hiashi-sama's fist a centimetre from Hinata-san's nose.

"I think that's enough now Hiashi-sama!" came a voice, that dripped with icy abhorrence, from beside him. Hiashi turned to face his nephew, who stared back at him with cold eyes that barely concealed the revulsion Neji felt for him.

Neji little by little pulled his uncle's fist away from his cousin battered face. Neji had suspected the Hiashi-sama was unstable, but to beat his own child proved that he was psychotic. He glanced over his shoulder at the comatose body; lying limp against the wall. His uncle had nearly killed Kiba as well. Something was deeply wrong with the Hyuuga genes. It seemed that insanity ran deep in Hiashi-sama's blood, after all; Neji's own father had killed himself just to prove the Main Branch wrong. He suppressed a shudder, and hooked his left leg under Hiashi's, and wrenched it out from under him.

Hiashi fell to the ground with a thump. Before he could retaliate; his nephew smashed his foot into the side of his head. Blinding pain lanced across his forehead causing him to pass out with a single curse on his thin lips.

Neji regarded his now unconscious uncle in disgust. With another kick for good measure, Neji rushed to his cousin's side. He had never been that close to Hinata-san, but she was definitely more preferable then the demon child; Hanabi-san. Neji looked over the damage done to Hinata. She had a split lip and heaps of bruises forming under and around her right eye. However stupid it was to make out in the middle of the street, Hinata-san did not deserve to be beaten like a dog.

He frowned and helped pull her to her feet; he was surprised that she was able to stand after that. He looked around at Tenten and Hanabi, arching an eyebrow towards Kiba's prone body, wordlessly telling them to wake him up.

Hinata winced in pain as her cousin helped her to her feet. Tears poured down her cheeks in rivers as she glanced down at her father. Never had she considered her father a violent man, sure he was strict and often sadistic, but she had never imagined him raising a hand -or fist for that matter- against her or her sister. As Neji began to move toward Kiba and the others; Hinata gasped, as pain lanced up her spine. She must have bashed against the bench harder then she thought. She quickly squashed the urge to whimper, and hobbled her way over to Kiba.

A gasp escaped her lips as she laid eyes on her loved one. Kiba's head had swollen to the size of a watermelon and still hadn't lost the bruise-purple colour it had gained through strangulation. In fact it had only worsened, with his lips turning a sickly blue colour. "What's the matter with him? Why isn't he recovering?" she whispered anxiously, touching the tips of her fingers together.

A single tear rolled down her cheek and splashed onto Kiba's. How had she let this happen? Why didn't she realise that they would get caught? She slowly bent down and tenderly stroked Kiba's face, letting her fingers linger over his lips, "Kiba-kun…I'm so sorry!" she whispered quietly, low enough that the others couldn't hear.

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Kiba felt a trickle of water slid down his cheek, fallowed by a soft spoken apology. He blinked groggily and tried to raise his head, but instantly felt dizzy. A parched groan escaped his throat as he tried to sit up again. He couldn't remember exactly what happened, or how he ended up on the ground. The last thing he could recall was that Hinata had managed to give him a boner, by just stroking his stomach…and then he was pulled off her by something or someone, but it was just hazy memories after that. The only thing he was certain that had happened was that he had been in a boat load of pain; like the air was being squeezed from his lungs.

"Kiba-kun are you alright?" Hinata's panicked voice broke into his deliberation. He sighed and forced himself up into a sitting position, using the wall for support.

Kiba nodded resignedly. "I'm sore… but I'll live!" he declared, before pushing off the wall and onto his feet. When he surveyed his surrounding, he was surprised to find not only Neji, but Tenten-chan and the demon child that Hinata called a sister staring back at him; all -including the demon-child- where wearing the same expression of concern. His gaze flitted to the unconscious Hiashi-sama and then settled on Hinata. He didn't need to be told what happened. They had been caught. They'd have to get out of there swiftly; Hiashi-sama wasn't the type to be merciful.

"Hinata we can't stay here! We've got to leave!" he barked at her. He didn't even want to imagine the kind of temper Hiashi would be in once he woke up. To his dismay tears welled up in Hinata's eyes and spilled down her already damp cheeks. "Hinata I'm sorry, but we have to leave! If we stay…Hiashi will kill both of us….Literally!" he rasped in agitation. She only stared at him, her mind completely blank. Kiba bit back a growl of frustration, he knew why Hinata was hesitating, and try as he might he just couldn't understand it. The Hyuuga clan was her home, her family, her very identity; even after all they put her through she was still unwilling to leave.

Swallowing his pride, he turned to Neji for assistances, "Tell her! Please!" he asked with a sour taste in his mouth. Neji nodded and looked to Hanabi for support.

"Hinata-san the dog-boy…I mean Kiba is right! You can't stay here anymore. Your father is unstable… if you stay…I think he might really kill you!" Neji said his voice clam but serious. Hanabi nodded in agreement. It usually went against the grain to agree with her cousin, but there were exceptions to every rule. Hanabi sighed as she watched her sister flounder for an excuse to stay. Her eye twitched in irritation. Why was her sister acting so weak? Surely Hinata knew if she stayed here their father would kill her?

Hanabi cursed under her breath, and before she could stop herself she exploded at her weak willed sister. "OH FOR FUCKS SAKE HINATA! YOU CAN'T STAY HERE! DAD WILL KILL YOU! YOU HAVE TO LEAVE, AND SO DOES DOG-BOY…I MEAN KIBA! WHEN DAD WAKES UP IT WILL BE HARD ENOUGH STOPPING HIM FROM KILLING NEJI! I DON'T THINK I COULD STOP HIM IF HE WENT FOR YOU!" Hanabi huffed, and stomped over to Hinata, taking her by the hand; she proceeded calmly "Hinata-niichan…I don't want to see you get hurt! You have to leave…if not for your own safety then for my peace of mind! Hinata…I don't think I could lose another mother figure!" she murmured quietly, while dramatically allowing tears to well up in her pansy-tinted eyes. She cringed internally; the lengths she had to go to, to convince Hinata to do the smart thing.

Hinata stared at Hanabi gob-smacked; she didn't know what to say. She had always thought her sister despised her, and now finding out that her sister saw her as a mother figure…it was overwhelming.

To Hanabi's horror and utter embarrassment, Hinata flung her arms around her shoulders, and crushed Hanabi to her chest "I love you too!" she sniffed rocking her sister to and fro. Neji cleared his throat loudly, allowing Hanabi to slip out of Hinata's death-grip hug. Hanabi quickly skirted out of her overly emotional sister reach, and went to stand behind Neji.

"While I hate to be the one to break up such a touching family moment…Hinata…Kiba…you two should leave now! Hiashi will wake any moment…!" Tenten said with a roll of her eyes. Not for one moment did she believe the demon-child's performance. Tenten ducked her head to hide her smirk; she never knew Hinata could be so gullible.

Neji nodded and looked to Kiba "surely you know of somewhere, that you would be safe?" he asked politely, while glancing at the limp form of Hiashi, convinced that he would regain consciousness any second. He needed Hinata and Kiba gone, if he was to persuade Hiashi not to kill him on the spot.

Kiba rubbed his face tiredly, "Yeah…my house! I know it seems the most obvious place to hide…but my mam… she really hates the Hyuugas - no offence- bar Hinata…so she'll hide us real well! That and I live right next to the Konoha forest and the reservation owns a load of land to! It's a basic guerrilla warfare tactic. Hide in the place your most familiar with, use it to your advantage, especially if your enemy has no clue where your house is let alone the millions of hiding places and friends you have there!" Kiba stated with a smug grin. If Hiashi entered the reservation, Kiba's mam- Tsume- was chief so she would be notified right way if Hiashi, or any Hyuuga where to enter. Plus, once she found out Hiashi had almost killed him, his mother would be out for his blood.

He glanced over at Hinata. She was the only Hyuuga his mother tolerated. In fact, his mother thought of her like another daughter. She was the one who clued him into his affection for Hinata. She would protect them both.

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sorry it took so long...i got distracted! ^_^'

I was watching new(at least to me) anime shows called

: lovely complex(so cute and chibi!) ^/^

: and blood+ (very action packed!) and i sort of fell in love with one of the characters; Hagi*insert fangirl screech* he so dreamy *sighs*

i really love hanabi...she is so devious! hehehe kiba's a mammy's boy! heheheh XP

anyhhooo...

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