Neji: So… this is chapter six!
EE: Yep, and please review or give criticism, constructive only though!
DD: So here it is!
Disclaimer: Keep in mind, DD and I don't own Naruto, nor does Neji, even though he is in Naruto.
Chapter 6…
It was probably ten days or more before we continued traveling through the forest. Though I tried not to think too much, my thoughts were constantly on Tashi. I mean would you just forget like one of the best friends you had if he suddenly went missing and you were told that he had tried to kill you would you just move on?
I focused on my unsteady footsteps to calm my mind. We were practically halfway though the forest now, but didn't know what people would think if I went back to Konoha without Tashi. 'I could just go back.' I suggested to myself, 'People would think Tashi and I had died, actually, they might already, we should have been home five days ago.'
That night as I paced back and forth around the camp site wishing that Tashi was here to tell me that the noises were just the wind blowing at the leaves and the shadows were raccoons hunting for food…
"Psst! Hina-chan!" a voice whispered abruptly. I tensed up and looked around frantically.
"Who's there!" I called trying not to look scared.
A figure, slightly taller than I, stepped out of the shadows and began walking toward me. And of course, my dad trained me quite well, so I was not hesitant to attack.
"You'll have wished you never walked you're sorry ass out here once I'm done with you!" I said smirking, "Hodan Kick!" –(dynamite kick)
I jumped high in the air and kicked as hard as I could downward at the figure. With a medium sized explosion, I kicked them into an eight-foot crater, just like my dad showed me how.
"Had enough?" I asked and picked them up by their collar.
"Ow, Hina-chan…" they moaned. It was a boy's voice about my own age. Why did they know my name? 'Wait a minute!' I thought, 'the only person who calls me Hina-chan is…'
"Tashi-kun?" I asked alarmed.
"Yes, it's me!" he exclaimed, "I know you're really mad at me, but let me explain where I've been!"
"I'm listening." I said sourly and glared at him but it was too dark for him to see.
Then, he started this crazy story about how Rai is some crazed evil guy, and how I was taken out by a stun dart- (that Tashi stabbed himself with a kunai.
"That's insane!" I shouted, "You've completely lost it, Tashi, seriously!"
"Then how do you explain what happened that night?" he asked me and I knew he was wearing his serious-smart face.
"I was told that you attacked me with a poison dart and then Rai killed you." I said as calmly as I could.
"That's even crazier than my story!" he shouted, obviously outraged, "Where is Rai? He is so dead!"
"No you idiot! We're both staying right here!" I snapped and let go of his collar, "I have a plan and it's going to work! Or at least it better had."
Okay, I'll admit my story wasn't really likely, but me shooting her with the dart? That's just crazy, I mean why would I hurt my best friend on purpose?
"What's your plan, Hina-chan?" I asked curious to find out what she was up to.
"You're about to find out, and besides I still don't believe you." She answered solemnly
"What, so you believe Rai?" I asked sourly.
"I didn't say that!" she hissed, "You have a way of pissing yourself off, you know that?"
"Whatever." I said as coldly as I could.
Suddenly from a short distance away we could hear a noise of someone climbing out of his or her tent.
"Hina-san?" Rai's voice called.
I felt Hina tense up at the sound of her name.
"Hina-san! Where are you?" he called again, this time closer, we listened as his footsteps moved closer and closer to our hiding spot in the crater.
Without a warning Rai suddenly jumped right in front of us in the crater and smirked.
"Boo."
"H-how'd you find us?" Hina demanded and clenched her fists.
"Hina get away from that boy he'll try to kill you again!" he said coldly, ignoring her question.
Much to my despair, she nodded and jumped out of the crater with Rai.
"Hina-chan, why don't you believe me?" I shouted, "You're my best friend!"
She just shook her head. And I literally felt my heart crack in two. And then everything went black.
"Sheesh, you are such an idiot!" I heard a familiar voice say as I opened my eyes to look right into a pair of soft blue ones. It was Akina.
"We told you not to go back to the people who hurt you but noooooooo." She continued.
"You're hurt again, this time a poison dart." Haiku explained as she leaned over my on my opposite side.
"You're lucky to be alive." Akina said with raised eyebrows, "Haiku found the antidote just when we thought you were going to leave us!"
"Hn, never trust whatever plant Haiku brings back, one time she gave me poison ivy to heal my poison ivy rash." Shizumaru complained from somewhere not far off.
"It was poison oak, dumb-ass!" Haiku defended.
"Hn, what's the difference?"
Haiku was about to list off all the differences when Akina cut her off.
"What does it matter? Tashi's alive okay?"
"I guess, now we just need to get rid of Haiku and all problems solved." Shizumaru said only to get kicked in the head.
"You'll be sorry someday!" Haiku shouted and kicked him multiple times.
"Hmmm, Akina-nee-samma?" I asked sitting up.
"Hai, what is it Tashi-san?" she asked taking her attention off of her bickering comrades and looked me in the eye.
"Do you know someone named Tsuya Rai?" I asked hoping she would somehow know the name and have some helpful information or something.
"Hmmm, Tsuya Rai, you say?" she repeated and tapped her chin.
"Hey, isn't he that bastard that was giving us a hard time passing through Earth County?" Shizumaru asked ignoring Haiku's last comment to talk with us.
"Yeah, you're right!" Akina exclaimed suddenly, "Silver haired idiot, right?"
"That's him!" I concluded.
"How do you know him?" Shizumaru asked me suddenly.
"Yeah, last time I checked he was being the travel Nazi by the country boarder." Akina added.
"Well, let's just say he found a knew job." I said, "He's the one I was fighting when I got stabbed with the kunai."
"He doesn't know when he goes to far." Akina agreed.
"Are you guys talking about that guy who's ass I kicked back my the boarder?" Haiku asked now paying attention.
"Yeah," Akina told her, "We now have reason to believe he's in this forest now."
"Really?" Haiku asked interested and cracked her knuckles.
That's when I felt slightly embarrassed. Some twelve-year-old beat Rai when I can't even hit him once.
Shizumaru scowled,, "Haiku's too tough sometimes, she kicked him between the legs three times."
Haiku only laughed at the memory.
"Tsuya Rai, here in the forest." Akina said looking thoughtful.
"Yeah," I said, "He's still got my friend."
"We'll help you get him back!" Haiku shouted and smiled.
"She's a girl." I said.
"Oh, sorry."
"Hmm. We'll need a plan." Akina concluded stroking her chin.
"I think I have an idea." I said as a plan formed in my mind.
Cho, Nai Li, and I jumped through thick forestry. Branch to branch. Scanning the area with my Byakugan for the umpteenth time I still saw nothing.
"Cho, are you sure they went this way?" I asked.
Cho, who was next to me on my right shook her head.
"No, of course not! You're the one with the Byakugan!" she shouted at me.
To my left, Nai Li sighed.
"We can only see so far with our Byakugan, Cho." She said with her head down.
"You have no idea how many times I've heard that in my lifetime." Cho said back and sighed herself.
"All this for an Uchiha." I said scowling.
"Hina's not an Uchiha!" Nai Li said glaring at me.
"Sure looks like one." Cho retorted.
"But, Uchiha Sasuke is married to the Hokage!" Nai Li assured.
"We know that!" Cho said, "But that doesn't mean that Hina wasn't born before they were married."
"But still…" Nai Li muttered.
I walked quickly. I'm sure it was the walking that kept me from bursting into tears in front of all the lord's servants. I knew Rai was a liar. He was stupid to think that I would believe his Tashi-tried-to-kill-you story. But, I had to play dumb. At least in order to figure out his real plan.
I knew Tashi thought that I believed Rai and crap but he not all that smart sometimes. I sighed, and couldn't help but wonder, how would this all end?
End
EE: This took like three days total to write.
Neji: You're just slow.
EE: NO, I'm just a slow thinker.
Neji: That too, this is like only nine pages long. That means you only wrote three pages a day.
EE: Well sor-ry if a have to go to school eight hours a day!
Neji: So, there's twenty-four hours in a day that still leaves you with eighteen hours!
EE: I have to sleep too!
Neji: That's you problem.
EE: -sighs- please review!