Chapter 27
(A/N: HI HI HI HI HI HI HI:) I feel very hyper today. Had a cinnamon roll for breakfast. HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! I'm sooooooo sorry!! VERY SORRY!! I HAVE BEEN UPDATING LATELY!!! SOOOOOOOOO SORRY!! HOPE UR NOT MAD AT ME!! SCHOOL AND EVERYTHING!! GARR!! Well, thank you everyone for reading this story after 27 long chapters...I wonder will it end soon? Why will it end? WRITER'S BLOCK!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Just kidding. I have a plentiful of ideas, it's just that I won't tell you. Am I a sadist or am I a sadist? Haha. Enjoy this chapter and please review!)
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Kira stood in the hallway, smiling. His wife came walking up to them and hugged her husband.
"They seem so happy." Reiko smiled.
"I know." A smile was wiped off Kira's face. For most of the time, Kira's eyes kept staring into the darkness of hallway.
Two pairs of eyes stared back, with anger and bitterness flowing in it.
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In Sakura's room...
"I'm sooo happy right now I could just scream to the top of my lungs!!!" Hinata squealed.
"Haha! Don't though ok??" Kiba snickered.
"I wonder what made mom allow us to see Neji and Kiba again..." Sakura questioned.
"I wonder too. What if she finally gave in? I mean, we have been acting unusual for the past few weeks." Hinata answered.
"You guys are still the same ol same ol." Kiba laughed.
"Of course we are." Sakura giggled.
"Hn." Neji smiled.
"And apparently, so are you guys." Sakura finished.
"How long are you going to stay here?" Hinata asked.
"As long as we want."
"Really??? Well first, I want to show you my room, Kiba. Let's go!"
"Roger that!" Kiba picked up Hinata.
"Which way 'princess'?" Kiba smirked.
"That way!" Hinata played.
Kiba ran out of the room, smiled to Kira and Reiko at the hallway, and went to Hinata's room.
"So, Neji. How have you been?"
"Good."
"But you missed me with all your heart right?"
"Of course. Why shouldn't I?"
"Because you're a cold hearted sadist."
"Never."
Then Ishida entered the room.
"Hello, my beautiful cherry blossom. And you do know that your name means cherry blossoms right, future wife?"
"Future wife? What's that supposed to mean?"
"Neji...I didn't want this to happen but...Mother chose this disgusting jerk for my fiance. I really didn't want this to happen.."
"Oh, so this is the boy who Reiko called 'disgusting' eh?" Ishida walked closer to Neji.
"Disgusting? Don't make me laugh." Neji started walking towards Ishida. Then they stared at each other in the eye.
"I have a feeling this isn't going to be good..." Sakura whimpered.
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Hinata's Room...
"Wow...your room is...filled with books..."
"Yep. Since Mother didn't let us go out, I built my curriculum way higher than Sakura here."
"Ah..hahaha.."
"Oh yeah. I want to show you my photo album." Hinata ran to her bookcase and tried to get a book on the most top shelf. "Too...high.."
"Here, let me help you." Kiba got on the desk and reached for the book. As he got ahold of it, he slipped and fell towards Hinata.
"AHH!"
As bad as it seemed, Kiba was on top of Hinata. Unfortunately, Takato came in the room at that moment.
"Hello, my sweet-what the? Who the hell are you?" Takato pointed to Kiba.
"Who you calling sweet?" Hinata gasped. "And he's Kiba."
"Ahh...Kiba. Kira said a lot about you."
"Kira?" Kiba asked.
"My dad."
"And those things that Kira said weren't very good. They were like 'HOW COULD THIS BOY NAMED KIBA CHANGE MY DAUGHTER??!'" Takato smirked.
"Go away, foo." Hinata growled.
"Trying to sound like a gangster? Well, I guess that would make your cuteness even greater."
"What kind of compliment is that??"
"Are you flirting with my Hinata????" Kiba shouted.
"Well of course. She IS my fiancee after all."
"Fiancee??? Hinata, is that true??"
"Hate to admit it...but I truly objected on this. Really!"
"I noticed.."
"Now...if you would get off my fiancee, we will all be happy."
"Not all of us. I wouldn't be happy." Kiba smiled.
"Are you just torturing Takato?"
"You can read me like a book."
"Torture? ME? That is certainly unlikely. You cannot stop a person like me-WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING TO MY HINATA??!!!"
"Seriously, Kiba, but what ARE you doing?" Hinata asked. Kiba was getting off Hinata and then flipped her over.
"Do a push-up, Hinata." Kiba ordered.
"Yes sir, if that will torture Takato! 1, 2, 3, 4..."
"M-my Hinata...can do perfect push-ups..."
"Now do a one hand push-up!" commanded Kiba.
"Aye aye, sir!" Hinata did a one hand push-up with ease.
"O-o-one hand push-up??? My Hinata??? Did you even try doing a push-up before??"
"No."
"AGH!!!" With that, Takato fell down and murmured the word "macho" over and over again.
"Ha ha...smart, Kiba." Hinata giggled.
"I know I am!"
"Conceited freak."
"..."
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Sakura's Room...
"L-let's not start a fight, Neji, ok?" Sakura pleaded.
"I won't if this guy doesn't."
"Eh, so you're saying that I'm the one that will start the fight."
"Of course, you are the only guy here besides me, unless you call yourself a girl."
"A girl???? I am NOT a girl!!!"
"Neji! You said you wouldn't start a fight!"
"I didn't start it. He did."
"What??!! Stop saying things like that!!"
"You did, though." Neji scoffed.
"ARGH!!!!! I'M GOING TO PULVERIZE THOSE PUPILESS EYES OF YOURS!!!"
"Oh no you don't..." Sakura murmured.
"Eh..." Neji and Ishida squeaked.
"I SAID NO FIGHTING!!!!!!!!! YOU GUYS DIDN'T LISTEN TO ME SO I AM GOING TO PUT SOME SENSE INTO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"AHHHHH!!!! MY FIANCEE IS A MONS-AHHHHHHH!!!!!" Ishida cried.
"Don't hurt me, SakuRAAHHHHH!!!!!!" Neji screamed.
After long minutes of manslaughter...
"Now you guys have learned your lesson, right? I feel bad hitting Neji, but it felt pretty good hitting Ishida." Sakura smiled.
"You're mistaken, Sakura, you didn't hit me. You only poked me with a chopstick for punishment. Ishida, though, looks like a raisin that has been stepped on." Neji whispered.
"Oh. Oh well. At least Ishida learned his lesson. RIGHT, ISHIDA?"
"...yes..." Ishida moaned.
"Sakurraa!! Let's show Neji and Kiba our gardennn!!!" Hinata cried from her room.
"Okayyy! One minuteee!" Sakura yelled back. "You heard Hinata, Neji. I'll show you the garden. It's beautiful!"
"Okay..."
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In Reiko's and Kira's room...
"Hinata and Sakura seems really happy." Kira muttered.
"Yeah...I think we should call off the engagement."
"I think so, too. Let's go talk to Ishida and Takato."
Kira waved his hand. Then an ANBU solder entered and bowed.
"Yes, you majesty?"
"Get Ishida and Takato here."
"Yes sir." The ANBU solder went out of the room, then came back with a half-dead Ishida and a grandpa looking Takato.
"What happened?" Reiko gasped. "You two look horrifying!"
"It's best if you didn't know..." Takato whimpered.
"I agree..." Ishida grunted.
"Well, I have call you two upon here to tell you that the engagement is off. Sorry, boys."
"What?! You can't do that! Our plan- I mean our hearts will be shattered!!!" Takato argued.
"Yes!!!! Your highness cannot do that to us!!!!"
"I'm sorry, but I would do anything to make my daughters happy, so I tried to take their minds off of those ninjas, but I noticed that their love to them is true so no one can replace them. If that would make them happy, then I accept it."
"But.."
"There are no objections to this decision. If so, then someone will be banished." Kira roared.
Ishida and Takato were stunned.
"Y-yes, sir." And Ishida and Takato left the room.
"Banished, Kira? Isn't that too harsh?" Reiko smirked.
"No, not at all...I felt this strange power within them just now and it doesn't feel really good." Kira murmured.
"So I wasn't the only one who noticed that? We should be cautious around them..."
"Yes."
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Garden...
"WOW! You were right, Hinata! It's so beautiful!!!"
"Yep. And there's a legend to this garden, too."
"Heh? What is it?" Neji smirked.
"If you enter the maze of roses and thorns and escape before the sun sets, your wish will come true." Sakura smiled.
"The Maze of Roses and Thorns, huh?" Kiba whistled.
"Pretty interesting, huh? It's said that when this castle was built, the architect left something very valuable at the end of the maze. The item was said to grant any wish you desired. Good or bad." Hinata smiled.
"So that's why it's called Maze of Roses and Thorns. Roses represents the good wish and the Thorns represents the bad wish, right?" Neji calculated.
"...yeah...if you say so, Neji." Sakura laughed. "I want to get that treasure someday and grant my wish..."
"Me too..." Hinata sighed.
Kiba and Neji were staring at their loved ones.
"When it says you escape before the sun sets, does that mean that you start when the sun rises?" Kiba asked.
"Guess so."
"Hmmm..." Neji and Kiba thought.
Up above the trees left a shadow that seemed to be spying on them from afar.
"Seems like they figured out about the treasure...we must get it soon!"
(A/N:I AM SOOO SORRY FOR THE LATENESS!!! MY MIND JUST CAME BLANK FOR THIS FANFIC!!!! I'M REALLY SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!:( I had so much to do for school, and I'm redecorating my room, so I had no time to write this. GOMENASAI!!! I'll be sure to update faster:D This story is about to end soon. Hope you've enjoyed it so far! Thanks for reading and please review!!)