The Plan for Hinata Hyuga
A/N: Wow, my focus has diminished from Chapter 2, the prologue was horrible, yet reviewers are thinking this is good. Thus I will attempt to please them! I am now trying to relay the storyline, without losing focus and turning the writing to hell. May this chapter be action-packed and better than the prologue, hopefully...
Disclaimer: Naruto is own by guess who, NOT ME!
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Chapter Six: Brother?
Leaving the village was actually a relief on all our parts. Getting away from all those who hated us, such as Sasuke, and fleeing as far away as possible from evil people, such as Sakura. Yet there was even more troubles not far away from the village. (Surprisingly, the troubles were not caused by fangirls or Naruto, yes surprising.)
Almost as soon as we set up our first campsite, which was about forty-something miles away from Konoha, Shino took off, stating that he was going to collect some bugs to bring back to Konoha. Kiba and I kind of stood there, then shrugged and started to set up a shelter if it decided to rain.
However, when he didn't come back for another two hours, we knew something was up. "Hey, Kiba, does Shino always do this? I have never seen him act this weird, unless he is sick or something, is he sick?" I inquired as politely as possible, I truly thought he was sick.
Even after the question, dog-boy didn't even motion towards an answer. He did however start to ignore me, and started to play around with his dog, Akamaru. When I yelled at him for ignoring the question, he then yelped and quickly stated that he was "enjoying the absence of Shino."
"Fine, I'll find him. Don't even bother your muscle-filled head trying to help me." I then set off in the general direction Shino took off in, north. After trying to find him after a half of a hour, it started to rain, complete with thunder and everything. "Just great, I'm trying to find Sir Bugs-a-lot and it rains. Wind Style…" The thunder then interrupted me, and I heard a yelp come from behind me.
Then Kiba stepped out from behind a tree in the forest we were in. "Sorry, I'm trying to help find Shino. He masked his chakra and even his scent, its going to be impossible to hear him with the lightning too." He then started to put on that look like he was in mental pain, known as the thinking pose.
"No problem, Wind Style: Sense of the Winds!" My vision did the normal effect, I could see and sense the winds. "He's in that direction. Oh, and don't let the thunder scare you, it is not going to kill you, I believe I should know, I lived on a cloud." We then set off to find Shino.
-Scene Change-
After taking off in the direction of Shino, we realized several things along the way. One, Kiba doesn't like the rain, two, Shino is an expert in leaving no trails behind, three, I hate the woods. Kiba had his hood put up as the torrent of rain came down.
"This rain isn't normal, something is wrong here." The winds then violently shifted, knocking me into a tree. I hit hard enough to start losing my vision, and then when the forest stopped moving, I saw Shino.
Shino, with a bloodied kunai in his hand. Shino, with a dead body in front of him. "What the hell happened Shino? Did you kill him?" Kiba then ran forward and started to shake Shino, who didn't even move, like he was not conscious or not there.
I looked past Shino at the dead foe. I checked the corpse for the killing blow, which was a bloody gash in the ribs which must have hit the heart, as well as checking for any other identification. I found it, a card with pictures of all of Team Eight, marked as targets.
"Shino, Kiba, we have got to get the hell out of here. That guy has friends who are trying to kill us, especially Kurenai, she was circled with the words 'extreme threat'. Fine, I'll carry Shino, he is apparently in shock." I grabbed Shino's frozen body off of the ground, which was surprisingly light, and started to carry him in the direction of the camp, all the while sprinting.
"We have to get to the Land of Waves as soon as humanly possible, no rest stops. I fear what might have occurred with Shino, might happen to Hinata, or worse." Thus we ran to the camp, going at a speed comparable to Naruto after hearing the words 'free ramen'.
-Scene Change-
Apparently, our worst fears had come true. That was obvious when we got to the campsite and saw Kurenai standing there with a group of three bodies around her.
"Holy god, what happened here? Wait, where's Hinata?" Kurenai was still sitting there breathing heavily as if it was a taxing battle. She then gathered enough air and looked around, then her face fell into the 'doom and gloom' mode.
"They must have taken her to their hideout in the northwest, in the Land of Waves. Those were the group of bandits, and the three we're looking for are the leaders." We gathered up what remained intact in the camp and set off to the northwest. However, Shino still had not moved.
"Kurenai, Shino was attacked by a scout thief and we found him paralyzed. I have no clue why though, or how to cure it." I was still stumped on why that is.
"I caught a slight scent of insecticides in the forest, may be those. But then how did he take the bandit out?" Kiba could have told me this earlier, yet he did not, stupid dog-boy he is.
Kurenai then pulled out a small vial, and carefully threw it at me. I caught it in midair and looked at the vial inquisitively. "What is this, 'maradeniphrine', are they just coming up with medicinal names? It says it cures most common poisons and mild rashes, eww, may cause slight diarrhea. Another eww." Besides the disturbing mental images induced by those words, I gave Shino the medicine, trying not to puke in the process.
However, Kiba was laughing too hard, and inadvertently jumped too short, missing a tree branch. This was going to be a long mission.
-Scene Change-
We had finally arrived at the bandit camp after about three and a half days of straight sprinting. Thankfully, Shino had woken up and immediately started to be silent, like usual.
"Hey Shino, why did the insecticides nearly kill you, it's not like you're a living bug." When he merely pushed up those annoying sunglasses and sped up to flee from me, I began to question it. "Hey Kiba, what is up with Shino?" I quietly whispered to Kiba.
"Ask Shino, if he'll tell you, seeing as how you just fed him instant diarrhea." Great, why does everyone refuse to even answer any of my questions.
"Shino, seeing as I just saved you from lifelong paralysis, you owe me a few answers. One, why did the insecticides affect you so, two, why are you acting so weirdly such as heading off randomly using wimpy excuses, and three, what the hell is your problem?" This was definitely true, he owed me some answers here, even if he did hate my guts out.
"Kail, I have a reason that I hate you. You bug me with unnecessary things, such as words and questions." He started to speak with increasing venom in his voice, yet it sounded a little cracked, like it took a lot of focus to talk. "Oh, and for your information, I consist of bugs, they live inside my body, and they are being affected by the level of chemicals in my body." What does that mean, what chemicals?
"You mean the insecticides, or something else?"
"Something else. It was a chemical to help tame the bugs, however, it backfired with adverse reactions." He had to forcibly squeak out the last part to avoid having Kiba hear him. That was definitely unexpected. However, before I had time to soak in the information, Kurenai motioned for us to hurry into the enemy lair.
The hallways were very damp and darkened with very little light. A nice place to be ambushed by random enemy thieves or surprise door salesmen, the latter being more deadly. However, the place was seemingly deserted, except for the fact that we could hear a near constant sound of movement in the shadows.
We then finally came out into an arena area. The place seemed like it would stick out greatly in the landscape, it was so huge. The arena was a perfect circular area, with no place to escape except through one of the two doors that adorned the opposite sides of the arena. The greatest aspect of the arena was the fact that it was lit up.
"Light, precious light! I can see now, finally." I yelled out, purposely trying to draw any enemy bandits or ninja to the location.
"What are you trying to do, alert everyone?" Then I nodded at her and decided that this would be an excellent place for a battle.
"Hey, Hinata, are you there? HELLO?" It worked, for once. About twelve enemies entered the room, each sporting a weapon that varied from senbon needles to a brick. Then they each parted to the side, and three more joined the fray, however they seemed stronger than the rest. Like the leaders.
"Hi, you're going to die, mostly due to kidnapping our friend and you just happening to be our targets." I said waving innocently at the enemies, wishing for them to flinch or sweatdrop, or something. However, not one of them reacted, they all held that same 'you shall die regardless' gaze, except one of them, who had a mask on. "Kurenai, you go on ahead and find Hinata, we can take them on, no problem." Kurenai nodded and went straight through the ground in her genjutsu.
-Scene Change as everyone gets into their battle positions-
I looked at the battle mathematically. Each of us could take out four of the regular thieves, followed by one of the three leaders. However, Kiba apparently did not care for math because he just randomly headed at the nearest foe and wasted them.
"Leave some for me, forget Shino." This was followed by a hiss from Shino and me going forward to take out an enemy with a basic air jutsu. Soon, shouts of 'Tsuuga' and 'Wind Style' flooded the air.
In about fourteen seconds, the enemies were gone, except the leaders. Kiba decided to take on the one with the stoic front from earlier, who looked as if he had no weapons except a small dagger. I was going to rush at the one with the senbon needles, except for the fact the one with the mask stood in front of me.
"Can we get on with this already, my feet are falling asleep from lack of bloodshed and skillful opponents." I said stomping my foot as the leaders began to rush us. "Finally."
The masked one flew towards me with a speed I had never seen before, nailing me in the chest with a blow from his elbow. 'Body Flicker probably, there is no way he can go that fast normally.' I could have been wrong because then a flurry of strikes knocked me up into the air, which were followed with two heels striking my shoulders, launching me into the ground.
"Wind Style: Parting of the Winds." One blast of wind struck the masked opponent in the air while he was attempting to hit me again. However, with a separation of the hand sign, the blast turned into two, striking two pressure points on the opponent's body. "Take that!"
However, then the mask split in half, revealing a face I thought was dead. "Brother? Is that you?" He faced straight at me, yet showed no response. The look in his eyes said that no one was home, like he was not controlling himself. This was apparent when he flew towards me with a kunai that was on the ground and took a strike at my heart.
I barely had enough time to shift out of position, yet the blade also missed my heart, instead hitting a lung. The lung strike shifted during the blow, nicking my spinal cord in the process. The pain felt incredible, like having to run six-hundred laps around Kumogakure, like death. Yet it gave me a rush of energy, a death strike.
A death strike is a technique that my family had mastered, a technique of utmost importance to a dying person. At the state of near death someone is filled with energy that is summoned upon the lack of life chakra. This energy can then be inputted into one final, overly powerful attack that can do nearly anything, even bring one back to life. My father used it to keep Kumogakure in the air for another sixteen years, which did not seem like a long time. My death strike was going to use all the energy in my body to stop the hold on my brother's mind.
"Stop this brother, Relinquish Control!" Then everything started to go dark, but as I fell into death, I saw my brother awaken from the mental hold and immediately start to run towards me.
-Scene Change-
(A/N: This might make very little if any sense to anyone, I did not even get what I was doing.)
In the infinite darkness of my demise, I noticed that there was indeed a light. If I were Kiba, I would probably try and catch it, like a dog. Not one to follow lights around I just sat down in the darkness, thinking of what my life even meant.
'No one had loved me, no one had even cared, except Hinata and Naruto. They were the only ones who even liked me, not for my body but for my opinion and personality.' Then a person appeared in the darkness.
"Hello?" The figure didn't even respond, instead the shadow just ran at me, with it's hand extended as an offering of friendship. I accepted, taking the hand. Then the darkness lifted, revealing nothing but an endless plain of grass that wafted in the slight breeze, revealing the figure to be Hinata.
'This is your mind, in the moment of extreme pain you withdrew into your mental recesses to live until help arrived.' I looked around searching for the origin of the thought/voice, I wasn't really sure which category it fell under. At least the description of where I was made sense, sort of.
Then the mental figure of Hinata drew me forth, as if anticipating my emotions of my mind. The surprise came from when the figure closed the small gap between our lips, it fell so good yet so wrong in the moment. 'If this is my mind, then the figure must be acting on the feelings, emotions, and wishes of my subconscious. So, do I want this, this love to exist?' However the answer did not come when the figment pulled away and just smiled, then disappeared. The beautiful scene was then changed to a vision of my brother and I from our childhood, when he supposedly died.
"Brother? Why did you take the blow, the dagger was meant for me, not you..." The child me then wept over the body of my brother, Shiro. He wasn't really my true brother, yet he acted as such for a long time to me, acting as a guardian until the final moments of his life. When assassins attacked my family, people were throwing their lives away to protect me.
The scene of Shiro pulling out a lone kunai and impaling the killer through the heart, and in the action impaling himself through the enemy jutsu, was forever implanted in my mind as proof of my live's existance, to be alone and to get revenge on the murderers, the group of people known as the Akatsuki. Why they went directly after me was unknown, it was just to kill me and all in their path. Then to my dismay the kunai through the heart did nothing to stop the murderer. He only chunked the lifeless body of Shiro into a wall, and advanced on me with a jutsu charged.
The vision then showed what truly happened at the moment, a moment that I had erased from my memories from the shock of Shiro's death. A bolt of sheer chakra came from my hands with my cry of "Repent demonic spawn!" The bolt manifested into a lightning bolt surrounded with blood that went straight through the oncoming attackers head, killing him in a single moment, turning him into a pile of dust.
'Why did Shiro kill himself for no apparent reason when the killer would eventually keep coming after me? He knew it was futile, he knew it would kill my life. Shiro...' These words then came out from my mind and began to envelope me in a physically existing circle. "What in hell?" Then as a bright flash occurred, I saw an image of Hinata, Shiro, and Naruto all waving at me, muttering something that they could not complete before I was gone.
-Scene Change in utter confusion-
"The world is... yours?" I said as I awoke rubbing my head in agony. My vision was blurry as I looked around at my surroundings, I spotted something I recognized, yet it was slightly blurred as if by a window's glass: the Hokage monument, where I talked with Hinata. 'Hinata... what do I feel around you? Love, pain, or loss. The loss of you...'
"Hey, kid, now you decide to live." I could recognize that voice out of a thousand, Kara. As my vision steadied I looked about, seeing the faces of Hinata, Kara, Kurenai, Naruto, Kiba, Shino, and my brother Shiro.
"Shiro, you're alive? But the assassins killed you, and then you fought us. Why are you alive?" I was truly stumped at this conundrum, what the hell was going on, and why were we at Konohagukure.
"More importantly, why are you alive, Kail Kazerai. You are alive in top shape, like nothing even happened, minus the small three-day comatose state." He was right, I was alive, lungs both intact.
"Hi Kail, you're awake, and alive!" I turned to see Hinata, not even stuttering while surrounded by other people, who was sitting there surrounded by light from behind her. Like she was some angel descended from heaven. 'Great, referring her to a heavenly creature. It's like fate is trying purposely to make me like her and express it. Listen here fate, SHE LIKES NARUTO, MAKE HIM LIKE HER, NOT ME! Geez...'
"Kail, now that you're alive you can teach me jutsu and all sorts of stuff, let's get started now. With your help I will become Hokage, believe it!" That was indefinitely Naruto, wanting me to teach him even though I've only been awake about a minute.
"Well at least I haven't missed anything drastic." Then everyone's face drooped down, like the plague had suddenly descended upon them. "Guys, did something drastic happen? Hello?" Then Shino decided to spill the beans, the rotten beans.
"The chuunin exams began yesterday, you missed out. Bad luck for you." I did the patented Uchiha death gaze on Shino, a techinique learnable only through hours of hunting down and bugging the living hell out of Sasuke.
"But then how do I get in, hello, will anyone tell me this?" The plague then literally descended, in the form of a coughing chuunin named Hayate Gekko.
"There is only one way to get in, do a favor for the Hokage -cough-, and right now he probably wants -cough- your help with the chuunin exam paperwork. Have fun -cough- with that load, genin." He then disappeared while coughing. That was depressing, he needs some serious medicine, or a new lung.
"To the Hokage!" That was shouted from three people, Naruto, Kiba, and me. Shino just started to walk off, and Hinata just kind of smiled. The smile was reminescent of the mental copy of Hinata, and how I apparently felt about her, and the kiss.
Well apparently I would need a favor to get in, hopefully it would not be that bad, or anything deadly. Actually deadly is better than paperwork.
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A/N: Woohoo, I finally got through this godforsaken chapter! It sucked mildly, but the Shiro part sounded good mentally, but on paper it sounded like total crud. Sadly, the mission did not go how I wanted, I wanted to save Haku...
Remember to review, not only to make comments on how to improve the storyline, not to state who you think you would like to live or die, but to give me the slightest idea on how the hell I am writing. Review or else this fanfic will be about as good as the sight of a clown throwing up. Trust me, that is not good.