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Chapter 13:

(Hinata POV)

It was Shino! He was ALIVE! I could barely contain my excitement but that's when I saw her. A woman was talking to one of the men who was guarding us. She didn't appear to be a guard so I guess she was the leader of the operation. She had a sleeveless kimono and looked loaded. Her hair was a silky caramel and her face was smooth and pale. She appeared to be argueing with the guard when she turned and saw me staring. I looked away quickly.

I saw her sandals as she walked up to me. I just staired at the ground when she asked the guard, "This the Hyuuga?"

"I'm not sure. Her hair is red and shes tan unlike the other Hyuuga's. Look at her eyes. There the real keys to there clan. She'll sell high." So they'd sell me? The woman lifted my chin and looked me over deeply. Her hazel stung into my face as she looked as if looking through my lie.

"Whats your name?" I looked away and stayed quiet until she shook my head and said again, "Answer me! What is your name?!" I looked up at her again.

"A-Asuna I-Inuzuka." I stuttered. She frowned and let my chin go. She looked back at the guard who shrugged then back at me.

"Are you married? How old are you?" She pressed on with her questions.

"I'm engaged and I'm 16." She tapped her foot and smiled at me with greed written all over her beautiful face. I looked away from her face to hide my discust at the thought of selling a person.

"Yes she will sell high." I cringed back the thought of it and took a deep breath and held it. "Better forget your fiancee'. He'll never find you. You'll be sold a hundred miles away and never see him again. We sell ninjas to wealthy clans who are in war and need sacrifices as front-line men." My breath flew out and my eyes widened. My eyes stinged but I fought back tears. She walked away and left us alone.

They shut the stone door and the guards stationed themselved outside the door. I let the tears come when I felt the shackles on my wrists slip off and my arms fell limply to my sides. I looked up to see Shino walking over and his insects flying into his sleeve. I grabbed my wrist and rubbed it free of pain from the copper cuffs.

He sat in front of me when I wrapped him in a hug and sobbed. He was stunned for a moment then relaxed and hugged back. "I thought you were dead!" He nodded into my hug.

"One of the kidnappers named Congi has the ability to use objects and shpe them into his captors and they seem dead but when moved they move like a dead body. I heard them talking about it to Maki Luu." I frowned and pulled away.

"Who's Maki Luu?" I asked confused.

"The lady who was asking you questions. She's the mastermind behind all this. She's money crazy and sells us off like slaves." He looked over to the 3 others on the wall who were now rubbing there wrists and walking over.

I nodded to them and said, "I'm Asuna Inuzuka. Who are all you?"

The first person there was a lovely short girl hot pink hair in two ponytails on the back of her head. She lifted a sword from her hip and raised it to her chest and bowed. "I'm Erra. I'm from The Hidden Waterfall village. Shino always breaks us out around this time and he always talks about you and your finacee' Kiba." I smiled back and nodded.

The two others came up from behind. The looked to be a few years younger. The older appeared to be a boy with black straight hair and crystal blue eyes. The younger clutched his arm for dear-o-life. She was around Erra's height, I'd say 4'11". She had black hair also with brown eyes. She looked scared to talk.

"I'm Kain, and this is my best-friend Ren." He said and smiled. Ren's grip loosened and smiled at me. I smiled back and she let go completely. "Shes scared of strangers. Were from The Hidden Mist village."

They all sat down when Erra ended the silence, "So how do we get outta here?" I looked at her in surprise then realized they were all looking at me.

"I don't know. How am I supose to know?" I said frantically.

"Well who will find us?" Erra asked.

"I… I don't know. I really don't," I said shrugging. Erra sighed to and put her head in her hands and whispered a prayed in another language.

(Kiba POV)

Hana came bursting through my door and bouncing on me trying to wake me up. I groaned and looked at her like she was a phyco. Her face was coated with fright, worry, and histeria. "Kiba somethings up with Asuna!" I jumped up and slipped on my pants and shirt as fast as I could as me and Hana sprinted out the door and ran around the corner.

The sight before me made my heart stop. Hinata lay there frozen and pale as a sheet with her eyes closed and her hand laying limply against the concrete. I ran full speed toward her and scooped her into my arms and cried frantically, "Asuna! Hinata! Wake up! COME ON! WAKE UP! Please!" I sobbed into her cold shoulder and held her close.

I heard Hana sobbing next to me but I didn't care. I pulled her chin up and gazed at her beautiful face. Even in death, she was gorgeous. I ignored the hand on my shoulder and pressed my lips to Hinata's lifeless ones. Her lips were soft but cold in death. I pulled away as Hana placed both her hands on my shoulder and tried to pull me up.

I shrugged her off and said, "Go call the hospital. I want to stay with her!" She nodded and I sobbed into her shoulder ti'll the medical ninjas got there and pulled her away. A girl with long midnight black/blue hair led me to the hospital and attempted to comfort me. Her hazel eyes were filled to the rim with pity.

Once we were in the hospital the girl left me and went with the other ninja into the room that they carried my loves body into. I sobbed in the waiting room next to Hana who layed her head on my shoulder and cyed softly. Soon Naruto, Sakura, TenTen, Neji, and Lee showed up, frightened.

Neji was furious at me and shook me screaming, "What happened?! I trusted you to PROTECT her!!! I thought since you loved her so much you could at least PROTECT her, but I guess not!" I finally got so sick of it I slammed him into the wall behind him.

"What was I suppose to DO?! HUH?! She left without me! She got attacked!… I know its all my fault!… Don't you think I KNOW that?!" My voice cracked so much you'd think I was a recording with scratches on the film. I let him go and plopped back into my chair and sobbed harder.

Every was crying and to make it worse the girl with the dark hair and hazel eyes walked out in tears, "I-I'm so sorry… S-She's gone." My breath stopped and then I thought I might go insain. We cheated fate together! Why didn't I die WITH her?! Why was she punished!? W-Why her? W-Why Hinata?

When I could finally speak again I asked in a cracking voice, "Can I see her?" The girl nodded and I followed her in.

"By the way my name is Tesumi. I went to ninja school with you and Hinata. I could see through her hair that it was her. She's unmistakable. I'm s-so sorry." I nodded and kept quiet.

She lead me to a bed behind a screen. She pulled the screen back to reveal Hinata's lifeless body. The white sheets covered her body so only the neck up were shown. I felt the sting of tears and bent down to press my lips to hers one last time when I caught the smell.

I leaned up more then sniffed the air a few times and it was impossibly hard to detect but it didn't smell like Hinata. Even after a person dies there smell still stays there. Hinata's smell was… not hers. She usually smelled of roses and morning dew but now it smelled to… earthy. "This… isn't her. It's a jutsu. A powerful one but its not Hinata." Tesumi's eyes grew wide and then she frowned.

I lifted Hinata's body up into a sitting position and lifted her away to reveal her neck. The just below the hair-line was a small red star. It was the mark of the jutsu for body re-creation. It was always there. This bodies was not Hinata's nor anyone elses. It was a fake, which ment Hinata was still alive and was captured.

Tesumi gasped as I explained the mark and then I said, "You destract them while I go search. Tell them I was sobbing to hard to comprehend it all." She nodded then made the hand signals for a shadow clone. "What are you doing?" I asked as her shadow clone appeared.

"I'll send the clone out while I help you search." She smiled and sent the clone off.

"Wait no! It's to dangerous! I can't let you!" I said as she threw off her overcoat to expose her black miniskirt and tank top.

"Well I'm going because what if she's hurt and needs healing?" I shrugged and we opened the window next to the bed and flew out into the night. God I hope this works. I can't comprehend what would happen if I truly lost her. This is the 2nd time she's faked death. I hate to think it but… how many more times can she fake it?

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