I'm SO sorry for taking so long to update! You would have NO idea how HARD it was to combine all these names so it all kinda rolled together! Anyways here it is FINALLY! Thanks again to all my fans who've left there names for a chance to be a character! ENJOY!
Chapter 14:
(Hinata POV)
Erra, Ren, Kain, Shino and I layed there, shackled to the wall waiting for our time to strike. Erra was mouthing more instructions to Ren who was still shakey on the plan. Kain was laying with his eyes shut and mouthing a prayer. Kami… I hope this works. Oh please… Kiba don't do anything rash.
My thoughts buzzed as the door opened and I shut my eyes. The sound of high heels on the hard granite was unmistakable as Maki Luu. I tried not to smirk as she stepped closer to me and lifted my chin and said, "Well little chica looks like you're a regular gem. We already got five bidders. There going high so you should be out by tomorrow."
Finally my gut jumped as my eyes snapped open and I smirked up at her. She frowned then recoiled and slapped me hard. A puff of smoke was left as I angled my kunai and jumped down from my hiding place above. Maki Luu was taken down in a swift kick from Shino who's clone also was released. Erra soon was hacking away fast and furiously at the guards. Erra was being launched by Kain who was doing quick flips and taking down multiple guards. I gotta admit those kids have some skills.
When Maki Luu was out cold Shino ran over Erra to assist her on the new guards arriving. She really didn't need the help but Shino always was questioning. While two guards snuck behind Erra and Shino they headed toward Ren and Kain. I quickly decended from my backup hiding place. Erra had decided I stay as backup since the chemicals they used were still affected me slightly.
I quickly took out the guard with kunais then rushed over to assist Ren and Kain. They were still fighting off the lager guard in the back. Ren was grabbed by the wrist and her kunai fell from her hand. Kain was hacking at his legs and wrists. I jumped on his back and took him down from a few deep hacks from my knife and he fell backwards as I jumped off. Ren rubbed her wrist and grabbed her kunai and we three headed up toward the entrance and fought off the rest of the guards.
We quickly desended down a steep corridor which was empty since they probably all ran to our room. As the corridors rounded at an angle and headed upward we finally reached what looked like the exit… we were wrong.
There stood Maki Luu and about a hundred guards. Maki Luu was smiling with a crazed look in her eyes. They glistened with a wild look in the torch light. She held a sharp twisted sword. She angled it toward us and her guards all raised there swords. I glanced at Erra who smirked and raised her large sword in a gesture that said come and get us.
Shino merely rasied his hands and his insects swarmed around him in a menecing way. Ren was holding her kunai strong and Kain was twirling his two knifes. I smiled and gripped my kunai at an angle. Maki Luu stepped forward and said, "Turn around or we kill you all." Shino shook his head and in a blink of and eye his insect shot forward like tiny bullets.
Erra launched her small form toward the nearest guard and took him down swift and quick. Ren and Kain we bombarded by large guard but as a tag team I wasn't to conserned about them. I was only conserned about the evil smirk on Maki Luu's face and how I wanted to just smack it off.
I launched myself along with an unexpected growl toward her and grabbed her sword at the handle in a mere second. She managed to blink then I was hitting every pressure point I could reach as she stood blinking then fell to the ground with a thud. I smirked and took off toward the guards. After hacking mercesly at five or six I began to get worn down. Just as I thought I had a moment to breath I felt a sharp pain as my hands shot to my temples and my world slowly began to be coated in black snow…
(Kiba POV)
Tesumi and I traveled through the dense forest silently as my mind slowly went mad as the scent finally grew stronger. When we finally reached the point were the smell was strongest our luck ran out…
There we stood infront of a massive mountain with a dim lighted torch slowly let off smoke into the clouded night sky. I sighed and clenched my fist and thought, Hinata this is the final time I will lose you. If I've lost you forever then all is for nothing.
Tesumi snapped me out of my thoughts as she tapped my shoulder and notioned toward the torch. She slowly neared it then pulled the wooden torch from its metal mount on the wall. There was a slow and nearly silent rumble as a small doorway appeared from the solid granite mountain.
We cautiously crept through the metal corridors ti'll the faintest sound of screams and clanking metal could be heard. My heart lept and I ran closer to the sound but what was revealed at the end of the corridor was a shocking battle. I could barely see over the large towering guards but some flicks of other people were placed.
A short girl was whirling around a large sword with her pink ponytails flying everywhere. A boy with short dark hair was stabbing at a large guard and another small girl was stabbing at the guards backside. But the next flick I caught made my heart sink and leap at the same time. Hinata lay on the floor clutching her head and screaming out in agony while a man with a hooded jacket with a high collar was trying to sooth her while using a black mist to attack the nearing guards… Shino.
"Hinata! Shino!" I screamed as loud as I could over the sound of swords clanging and shreaks of the guards. Shino's head whipped around at my scream and I grinned. Then Hinata's writhing form became still and her eyelids flickered.
(Hinata POV)
My mind was a flaming heartbeat. My eyes felt like they were 1,000 tons of lead. My brain was shooting lightning with nothing to strike but itself. But then something… something soothed it. The flames seased, the lighning stopped, the weight was lifted. It took a few moments but the sound finally rung out clearly so I could make out the voice of someone calling my name.
My eyes finally opened and I saw fuzzy features, A man with glasses and a hood then a girl with hazel eyes and dark hair but the one face that stood out among the fogs of shapes was the face of someone I knew well… Kiba. His red triangles lingered on his tan cheeks that were creased with dark circles under his brown eyes. His hair was messier than usual and his words were frantic. I just staired at his face until the memory of words let me speak, "K-Kiba… I… I-I'm… sorry."
He just smiled and let his face come close to mine and pressed his warm lips against my alabaster skin. I tried my best to smile but then a pale hand came apon his shoulder. He smiled at me once again and the turned and two girls sat on both sides of my head. One was smiling at me and I recognized her from somewhere. The other was wearing a ANBU mask and had long bronze hair. She slowly removed the mask to reveal a face with few freckles and startling gray eyes. Her eyes scanned over my face and then she smiled slightly. "Don't be afraid. My name is Dina. We've been trying to pick up on Maki Luu's trail for a long time. You all started up a ruckas and led us here."
I sighed and tried to sit up but the girl with hazel eyes and dark hair pushed me gently back down. "You need to take it easy Hinata. Maki Luu used a genjustu on you. It could have killed you… You don't remember me do you?" I shook my head then she added, "I'm Tesumi I went to your ninja academy." I smiled and nodded as I remembered her with her hair in two pigtails and throwing the kunai's at the training posts.
Tesumi slowly layed her hand against my forehead and soon I felt very drowsy. "Don't worry I'm just making you sleep well. Rest Hinata." Soon I was consumed in a wave of sleep…
My mind raced in my sleep as dreams of my love and my loses… My love for Kiba… The lose of my family… It all flooded back…
My eyes flicked open and I was put to ease at first at the familiar feeling of a hand around my waist and Kiba's face nestled into my hair. I turned to find Kibs running his fingers through my hair and stairing at me. He smiled and gave me a chaste kiss. I glanced past his shoulder to see a gray room lit by a lamp in the middle of the room. I glanced slightly to the left and saw four chairs which two were occupied by the girl named Dina and a boy only about a five inches taller than Kiba with very tan skin, black hair and copper eyes.
They were talking and smiling and I looked back up at Kiba who was frowning. I sat up quickly which startled Kiba and the two in chairs. Kiba also sat up but more slowly and slid his legs off the cot. I followed while glancing around. It was a tall cave with no visable exit and only the four chairs, cot and large lamp.
I looked over to Dina who motioned for us to move over and sit in the chairs. I did as I was told and Kiba sat next to me and held my hand and squeezed it in a comforting way. I smiled at him and looked toward Dina who was stairing at me tenativly. She finally let the gaze fall and then she said, "So… Hinata Hyuuga how did you pull it off?" My heart stopped and my eyes widened.
"W-What?" She looked back up and staired at me.
"Dina… Chill out." I looked over to see the young man sluching in his chair and reading a book. He looked up and set the book down. "My name is Tygee… And Miss. Hyuuga we know your dirty little secret… although everyone else will to when they see you…" I looked down and grabbed a lock of my hair. I hled it closer into the light and gasped. The maroon hair was replaced by my previous raven straight locks. I felt my eyes widened and held the top of my hand into the light as well and saw the tan had faded in the long days in the dark caverns.
"All we wanna know is why… Why you did this to your family… To everyone." Dina's narrowed eyes bored holed through my skull while I began to shiver.
"She didn't want that life." I looked over to see Kiba looking back at me. "They were making her get married and live a life of inclosure and isolation inside those mansion walls." I smiled at him and nodded.
"It was the only way they'd let me go. I know I'd hurt them but they hurt me much more over the years… Training… Blood, sweat, tears… No praise… No help… Then when I finally become good enough I have to cast it all away to become the head of the clan." Dina nodded and Tygee just staired off into space. "I was engaged by no other choice to a man I never knew… Kiba's been my friend for a very long time and… I couldn't marry anyone else but him." Tygee laughed and was cut off by a glare from Dina.
"How did you excape?" Dina asked.
"We led them on a goose chase with the bridge and ran off into the woods and camped there for a few months then dyed my hair and tanned in the sun." Dina nodded again and slapped Tygee's leg and he yelped.
"HEY!" He said Dina shot him a look and he straitened and said, "We've already informed the Hyuuga's of your still existance and once we've finished our questions we're sending you back home to the Hyuuga estate." My eyes widened and watered. I let Kiba's hand alip out of mine and covered my face in both hands and let my head and hands fall into my lap as I sobbed.
"Hold on a second! We're legally engaged! We're both sixteen and we have a home to go back to! Please let her stay at our home and in the morning we'll both go back to the Hyuuga estate and explain." Dina shook her head sadly.
"I'm afraid I know the home you speak of. You both may be engaged but the home belongs to Ms. Inuzuka. And since Ms. Inuzuka is gone and Hana is not her legal guardian she must return to her parents at the estate." Dina said. "I'm sorry."
I wiped my eyes and giggled. "No your not. You don't know what sorry is until you've lived in my clan. All the expectations… rules… traditions. I know I sound like a baby whining but just this once can I do something selfish and irresponsible? I guess not." Dina nodded and was silent for a while.
"Alright… one night. But tomorrow you go back." I smiled and nodded.
…. After hours of questions and answers about Maki Luu and her plans and organizations they took us home and Hana wrapped me in a tight hug and I felt even more at home than ever before…
Thanx for reading! I'm SO sorry to all my fans who had to wait so long but I had so many ideas and so little time in the day, ya' know? Well thanx to these few people especially!:
Maki Luu-Shy Saya
Tesumi- Midnight Mistress Tesumi-chan
Erra-Kansani
Dina-Dina647
Tygee-Sir Greatness
Thank you all for helping me out with the names and characters! Love you all! (Not like that!)
-M.J. Ethreal