EE: Here's chapter four! And keep in mind that I don't own Naruto.

Neji: Thank God!

EE: But I do own any characters you don't recognize, including all of the Naruto character's kids!

DD: Read it please!

Neji: And then review!

All: Thanks a bunch!

Rock Hina…

I knew my sister would get caught. I knew she wasn't the most careful type, but I honestly didn't think she was that reckless. Of course our father was completely pissed off, probably the maddest I'd ever seen him in all seventeen years of my life, and then my mother finished it off with a massive amount of crying. Nai Li was stunned as by that as much as I was, but I didn't show it of course. After our father told her to leave, in an extremely harsh way, I think. She darted up the stairs and I ran to meet her, but she sidestepped me and ran off. 'That little brat!' I thought, 'First she makes Mom cry about the seal again but she has to go and feel sorry for herself now!' I followed her down the hall and banged on her door.

"Go away!" her voice screamed from inside her room. I glared even though I know she can't see me. She thought I was just going to go away.

"Nai Li!" I shouted, banging on the door again, "Either you come out or let me in!" I didn't know her very well considering she's my little sister, I spent time training and on missions mostly so she was practically a stranger to me, and I'm serious, I was seventeen before I figured that out, I don't know my own sister.

"I don't have to listen to you!" she screamed. I had seriously never heard her yell at me so I was stunned. But angry too, she was being a conceited little brat. Before I could think another word, I slammed my foot on the door, causing it to snap in half. Inside she stared terrified at me with wide white eyes. 'Good,' I thought, 'Be scared.'

"What's with you lately?" I asked her and my voice sounded much harsher than I intended. I winced.

"You don't care." She snapped at me, all fear gone now, but if it wasn't she wasn't showing any. She turned around so her back faced me, looking faintly out the window, but I knew it was too dark to see out it.

What she had just said was usually true for me, but then, I did care, it felt different. She was so hard to be around when she was really mad. She didn't act like me or our father, we both never showed emotion or any feelings at all. Nai Li, however, did. I could tell she tried though, but she didn't act like most Hyuugas at all.

"I don't even know you." She said, completely calm, and she walked out of the room; I decided to let her, mostly because what Nai Li said was completely true.

I felt something tap my shoulder lightly from behind. Turning around I saw that it was my former teammate, Nara Tashi.

"Tashi-kun!" I squealed and hugged him hard. I wasn't really like that a lot, but I knew it annoyed him.

"Get off!" he said irritably. And I laughed but did as he said.

"What crawled up your ass and died?" I asked frowning at him. I knew he was in no mood for me, but I didn't care, his problem.

"Hina-chan, I don't have time to argue with you right now, the Hokage wants to both of us in his office." He said with an urgent look on his face.

"O-okay." I answered quietly. It was early in the morning and I was out running light errands for my mother, Sakura, so my arms were full with grocery bags. He noticed this too.

"Here I'll take you home first." He said, taking one of my grocery bags and I followed him in the general direction of my house.

"So…" I began skipping to keep up with his fast, wide stride. I hummed softly to a random tune, and got a better grip on my grocery bag.

"Don't skip with that bag, you'll trip and hurt yourself." He said curtly, looking back at me. I frowned.

"No I won't, Tashi-kun." I sang and continued skipping and hummed louder. I saw him smirk and look back at me again.

"Fine, but don't fall down, okay?" He said with a wide smirk. I smirked back, but then giggled.

"I promise, I'm being careful!" I hummed and skipped faster. So we dropped the groceries off with my mother and made our way to the Hokage's office. Tashi and I walked in and sat down on the seats in front of her desk.

"Hello, you're Nara Tashi and Rock Hina, right?" She asked as she looked up at us. Most people in Konoha knew that she was practically seventy-five, but you wouldn't know from her appearance. Tsunade, the Hokage, looked to be about a little older than twenty-five, with long blonde hair and chocolate brown eyes.

Tashi and I nodded.

"Okay then, I'm giving the two of you a mission, it's C-ranked and you will have to go into a forest several miles from Konoha and escort some lord through it. He asked me to send three jounin level Nins and consider it A-ranked, but I thinks he's overreacting, there's nothing dangerous in that damned forest." She explained, "Got it?"

We nodded again. I mulled it over in my mind, it didn't sound too difficult, I would probably be back in about four or five days.

"So you're sending two chuunin instead of three jounin?" Tashi asked.

"Yep, now get ready, you two leave in an hour." She ordered and pointed us out the door. Soon after leaving said good-bye to Tashi and walked home. On the way I sighted a familiar face on the street. I ran up to her and smiled.

"Hi, Nai Li, what's up?" I asked and beamed at her, but her expressionless face stayed the same, her steely white eyes glanced up at me.

"Nothing, what about you?" she said calmly looking away. Now, she's not the friendliest type, but I know she's grateful for someone to talk to as everyone else our age hates her or is scared of her. I consider her my best friend though.

"Another mission, but I'll see you in about five days though, okay?" I smiled and I swear I thought I saw a flick of emotion cross over her face. Was it, disappointment?

"Don't worry," I assured her, "It'll be over before you know it and I'll invite you to sleep over okay?"

She smiled and nodded and I felt myself smiling too. "See you later, Hina!" she said quietly and darted off. I waved until she disappeared and checked my watch. I only had fifteen minutes left so I ran.

I was already in the Hokage's office when Hina burst through the door, panting as if she'd just ran a marathon. Tsunade didn't even look up when she came in though.

"Go, and just do what I told you, remember, this lord his kinda…" she paused, "dramatic, about things so just keep that in mind."

"Hai." We said in unison and left. On the trip there, Hina was strangely silent. Not that she's like a chatterbox or anything, but still, she was acting more like her Hyuuga friend, Nai Li; completely mute.

Once we arrived, we saw some guy, maybe three or four years older than us meet us. He had spiky silvery, hair and large amber eyes.

"Hello, I'm called Tsuya Rai, I'm the lord's cousin, you two must be our Konoha ninjas, we're expecting."

Hina nodded, but I just stared at the man. He was too, nice? I didn't know what it was but I felt that something about him was suspicious. I promised myself I would find out before this mission ended and Hina and I went back to Konoha.

"There must be a mistake then," he began, confused, "We requested three jounin, not two."

I almost laughed, Hina did though. When she recovered Rai was looking at her more confused than ever and I glared at her for her out break of giggles.

"While we're confessing, by the way, we're chuunin, not jounins." She said smirking, "Just F.Y.I."

Rai suddenly looked extremely concerned. "Oh no, what will I tell my cousin?" his eyes were wide with fear.

"Aw, he won't care that much, will he?" Hina asked, jade eyes looking up at him.

Rai bit his lip.

O O O

As it turns out, that lord of his cared a hell of a lot. He completely threw a fit. It was odd and kind of amusing to see a nineteen or twenty year old having a fit a two year old would throw, but my stern looks kept Hina from breaking down, laughing. Although I have to admit, I was having a hard time, not laughing myself, it was hilarious.

It was later that night, when Hina and I were patrolling the campsite, did we get our laughs in on the funny scene from that afternoon.

"I know," Hina cracked up, "He probably had forgotten to take his nap."

"Or," I added, "He needed a diaper change."

"Oh no!" Hina mimicked, "What will I tell my dear cousin, who is a two year old in an adult's body, that for some reason I take orders from?"

My thoughts turned to Rai. He seemed pretty normal, but I had a gut feeling something wasn't as we thought about him. I sighed; I just didn't know what yet.

"What do you think of Rai?" I found myself asking. I internally kicked myself, I sounded too random.

Hina frowned at my question. "What do you mean?" she looked at me with confused green eyes.

"I mean, like, do you think we can trust him?" I asked choosing my words carefully. I looked at her, eager for an answer, lucky for me she was eager to give one.

"Of course, I mean, he's hot." She announced, smirking at me. I felt my heart drop. I wanted to tell her my suspicions about him so maybe she could help me discover him, but I was afraid that would make her mad. I decided to take my chances.

"Well, I think he's kind of, well, hiding something." I said trying to sound sort of casual but serious too. I knew she would understand and trust me. I had known Hina for a long time.

"No, he isn't!" she snapped at me. I stopped walking and looked down at her shocked. For a couple of seconds there I stood, as if waiting for her to yell, "Psyche!" or something.

"But Hina I really think…" I never got to finish that sentence because she cut me off.

"I don't care what you think, I think Rai is just fine, he's nice, cute, and totally cool, okay!" she yelled. And without a last look she walked fast ahead of me.

I felt really hurt. I thought Hina would trust me, someone she knew her whole life, since we were babies, over some hot guy she just met. I kicked the ground; the loose dirt flew about two feet ahead of me.

Flashback…

Hina and I were six years old and walking home from the academy, when she tripped over a crack it the sidewalk. She fell and scraped up her knee. She instantly burst into tears and I knelt in front of her.

"Ow, my knee…" she cried and I wiped the blood away with a torn piece of my sleeve and tied it tightly around the cut.

"Come on, Hina-chan." I said and helped her up. She hugged me and stopped crying.

"Hurry, Tashi-kun!" she called and ran ahead of me. I grinned and sprited to catch up.

End Flashback.

I sighed, it would be a long five days, if Hina was going to spend it all with a grudge, which I was pretty sure she was, and as for Rai, there was just so much more to him, I just didn't know it yet.

Early the next morning we set off. Hina said she would take the lead, which meant I would be the rear. We walked on and on, if I hadn't done this a million times before, with my old teammates, my feet would have just about fallen off. We didn't pass anything but normal, green, forest that lined the narrow pathway. Every once in a while, some of the servant's would swear they saw a wild animal, but there was really nothing, like the Hokage said. I was beginning to realize that these people were just paranoid.

On our patrol duty that night, Hina was completely silent. She wouldn't even look at me. I was so mad at myself for making her mad that I could hardly think.

"Hina-chan…" I began, but she cut me off and glared at me.

"Shut up, Tashi, and pay attention." She snarled. I took a step back and felt my eyes widen.

"There's nothing dangerous here." I protested. She shook her head and walked off. I cursed under my breath and jogged to keep up with her.

After about a minute of silence between us I thought I saw something fly though the air at us. I opened my mouth to warn Hina but she collapsed and I barely managed to catch her before she hit the ground. Stuck in the side of her neck was a stun dart. I cursed and gently laid her on the ground.

The dart came from the forest, which now that I was looking at it, looked almost scary at night with a half moon overhead.

"Who's there!" I shouted. Suddenly, a tall figure loomed out of the shadows of the trees. Fear grabbed hold of my throat and I was speechless.

It was Rai.

"What did you do to Hina?" I asked as fiercely as I could, when I felt like a terrified little rabbit. He smirked and started to laugh.

"Oh, don't worry," he said, "She'll wake up in a few hours or so. But you won't be, since you know my little secret now, I'll have to finish you." I clenched my fists tightly as I thought. In the end it looked as though I'd have to fight him, but he could be way ahead of me in skill, In fact I was sure he was but I decided to do it for Hina. 'Think! Think!' I ordered myself; 'I need a strategy!' Considering that it was night and no torches were lit, I couldn't get a good enough look at him to use a shin ten shin no jutsu. As a last result, I drew a kunai from my pocket and charged into the forest directly at him. When I was about hardly, three meters from him I suddenly fell.

Fell into a large pit, dug in the ground. It was about ten feet deep and I landed on my wrist, which caused it to snap back. The most awful cracking noise pierced the night air and my eyes swam in and out of focus. I rolled onto my back to feel another sharp pain. Looking down I saw that when I fell, I had thrust my own kunai into the gut of my stomach. Blood spilled out and covered my hands. I felt tingly all over and my hands began to shake uncontrollably.

Above me I saw Rai looking down at me. He smiled when he saw my injuries. "Hmmm, I thought I'd actually get to fight you too, how disappointing. Oh well, you'll be dead in a matter of hours anyway."

I did my best to glare at him. 'I'm not going to die like this.' I thought, 'Help, Hina, and then I can die.' I clenched my teeth with what little strength I had left.

"Oh, and don't worry about your girlfriend." Rai continued, "I'll take care of her for you, and make up a good cover story too." He grinned and turned to go, "Ta!"

And he was gone. I lay there now, to weak to even shift my foot. I knew I was destined to die, here, with Hina mad at me, killed by my own stupidity, and lying in a pool of my own blood. Then, my vision began to fade, my eyelids fluttered, and then, a freezing wave of shivers came over my entire body. And then, ohhhhhh.

End

EE: And that was chapter 4!

Neji: I wasn't in it! –pouts-

DD- Yes, actually you were, in the way beginning.

Neji: Oh yeah. Well, that's not good enough!

EE: Really? Well how about I don't put you in at all?

DD: Or she makes you some creep that wears underwear on his head?

EE: Or you're a bipolar psycho with an insane alter ego?

DD: Or some idiot with five foot long dread locks and smokes crack?

EE: Or you join the mafia and you're a unhitch?

DD: People in the mafia aren't always unhitches.

EE: Just sayin…

Neji: -mutters- freak!

EE: Yes, that I am, Neji.

Neji: You're finally catching on!

EE: That's an excellent way to get THROWN OUT OF THE STORY FOR GOOD.

DD: Dissssss!

Neji: Whatever, I thought you were on my side, DD.

DD: I am.

EE: Please review; even though you all probably agree with Neji and DD, but they want you to review too! Also, you can vote on pairings, because I want to put some in this story, okay?

DD: Please be super cool and review!