Hello readers. I know I said that I wouldn't be updating for a while, but for some reason it's taking forever for us to actually move into the new house. LOL. So anyways I decided to update since we're as slow as sloth's. Enjoy chapter 12.
"Mr. Hyuuga this is Itachi Uchiha, I believe we've talked before. I have conformation on the murderer of Tsuki Nakahara. The man was been caught and is waiting for sentencing."
"Mr. Uchiha I have waited for quite a while already, you tell me that the man is already apprehended I'm going to imply that I can finally see my daughter."
Itachi sighed across the phone line. "Mr. Hyuuga Hinata is still under rehabilitation, from what I've deducted her mother has brainwashed her to believe that you're the one at fault for her life. I know you want to see her but I don't think I'd recommend it."
"Listen here, I am Hiashi Hyuuga I'm not going to listen to you telling me what to do. Hinata is my daughter, I am going to Konoha this coming weekend and I shall take her with me to Kumo. If you try and stop me I will cut all ties with Konoha, I do not know if you realize this Mr. Uchiha but Konoha relies on my company for many economical supplies, if I do not see my daughter soon I will make your city so poor that third world countries look like rich bastards compared to it."
"…Mr.Hyuuga threats will not work against me, however since you are the biological father it is required of me to allow this. But if I may say one thing, even if you are her father you can not force Hinata to go to Kumo with you if that is not what she wants. Good bye…. Beep …beep…beep"
Hiashi hung up his phone and paged his secretary. "Ms. Sunako arrange a flight to Konoha immediately, I want to be there by tomorrow is that understood."
"Yes sir, there is a flight to Konoha for 8pm sir shall I book it"
"Yes Ms.Sunako, and please call my wife and tell her I'll be away. Do not mention anything about my daughter, if she asks tell her that there is an important business trip and that I'll be gone for about a week. Also please bring me some cough syrup"
Hiashi pressed the button shutting off the intercom and rubbed his throat. It was beginning to burn lately. Not only that he was also getting a monstrous headache, but instead of treating it he decided that it was simply stress from not being able to see his daughter.
Just a small cold, nothing to worry about.
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"Neji this is Itachi Uchiha I am Konoha's ANBU captain. I'm afraid I have some bad news, your uncle Hiashi Hyuuga was admitted into the hospital a couple of hours ago. It seems he's been very sick and the stress he's been put under has caused him to be struck with paralysis, temporarily of course . Please go to Konoha's Emergency Hospital, bring Hinata with you. Now might be her only chance to see him."
"What!? What are you talking about? When did my uncle get here?"
"Neji you have to go to the hospital quickly, I said the paralysis was temporary but he's in the ICU, he can barely talk. Now might be the best chance for Hinata to see him before his wife comes and takes him back to Kumo"
"Are you the man that was talking to Uncle a few months ago?"
"Yes that was me, quickly take her, I must go. You have my apologies. Good bye."
Neji stopped packing his bags and ran full speed to the clinic where Hinata was at her final stages of recovering, he slammed open the doors to find Hinata sleeping on the clinical bed, she was huddled closely to her body shaking and whimpering as a nightmare consumed her mind.
Hinata was 9 years old and she sat silently on the couch hearing the raindrops patter against the small framed window. She shivered tremendously at the bitter coldness raging outside, she huddled closer to her knees seeing her breath come out in steamy puffs. Winter was the worse time of year for her, the frost biting her toes and cheeks like a vicious animal, the constant shivering to conserve heat, but worse of all it was the time her mother got drunk. When her mother was drunk Hinata truly feared for her life.
Moans and groans could be heard from the paper thin walls. Hinata could hear her mother mewing in pleasure with another man upstairs. But soon the sound was drowned out by Hinata's chattering teeth. The cold quickly grasped Hinata's tired body and sent her to sleep.
It wasn't long before she fell asleep when Hinata heard familiar footsteps descending the basement stairs. The steps creaked and groaned under her mother's steps, and suddenly Hinata heard a whoosh and a shatter of broken glass whiz by her. She gasped stunned in fear at her mother; she was staggering across the room, her footwork sluggish and lethargic.
"You're such a stupid girl –hic- j-just like t-t-that man –hic- I hate those e-eyes, they're so fucking annoying. You look just like h-h-him"
Tsuki lunged her body at Hinata and dug her nails deep into her shoulder. Hinata screamed and tried prying her arm loose but her mother's grip was fierce and strong. While Hinata was a thin girl whose bones protruded and barely had enough energy to stand. Hinata's face was slapped several times and then she was thrown on the floor. Her heart raced like a frightened rabbit and she simply laid there eyes wide open wheezing for air. The frigid air burned her throat and stung her raw cheeks. She could feel the marks where her mother dug in her nails. She then felt her hair being tugged and Hinata was painfully lifted to her feet by her scalp. She felt several strands of hair ripped from her skull by just the brute force of her mothers grip, and she howled out in merciful pain.
"Mom…m-m-mom…m-mom" It was the only word she could say, it was the only word that would come out of her small childish lips. Begging for mercy. Yet again her face was being attacked only this time with more malice.
"Don't call me 'mom' you're just a –hic- stupid animal! Die! Burn in fuckin' hell with –hic-that man. Your father!"
Hinata's breath came out when she felt her innards aching by a kick in the stomach. Hinata suddenly felt sick, the little nourishment that was in her body suddenly came spewing out in a bloody discharge, her eyes almost erupted by the force her stomach was using. She bent over, her back arching, leaving her backside completely vulnerable to her mother's wrath.
"Get up you disgusting piece of trash, how dare you throw up on my floor, clean it up!"
Hinata was thrown head first on her vomit and kicked with even more of a brute force than she had ever felt. Her muscles screamed in anguish and shook with spasms. Her head felt ready to combust, and the unforgiving cold attacked her body with a new kind of vengeance. She tried to ignore the pain surging through her body, pins and needles struck her with every movement she made. Then she felt a foot on her back, her mother's five inch heel dug into her like a drill. She shifted her foot pivoting the heel so that it dug in deeper and deeper into her back. Hinata felt her bones scream bloody murder, her nerves went haywire sending shocking waves of agonizing pain up and down her spine. It was unbearable; Satan's dwelling seemed like heaven compared to the pain going through her young body. Again her mother grabbed at her ebony tresses and began dragging her limp body upstairs, each step hitting her shoulders and legs creating such a sensation of pain and fire that even the almighty underworld god Hades would retreat his hand so as not to burn himself.
As quickly as Hinata was dragged up the stairs her mother let her go sending Hinata in a spiraling plight down the stairs half screaming for mercy, half wishing for death. Her head smashed against several steps making Hinata very close to losing consciousness, her arms and legs bruised deeply from the sharp jagged edges.
It seemed to take forever to fall down, her pitiful life flashed before her eyes, until finally she reached the bottom. Her hair was sprawled in a caked mess around her face, and her body felt so numb with pain that it was impossible to move, or rather she just couldn't move. For a moment Hinata thought she had finally died, but when she tilted her head a rush of pain swept through out her entire body. Out of the corner of her eye Hinata could see her mother standing still on top of the staircase, she was neither smiling nor regretful of what she did. She simply opened the door and left with one final word.
'That's what happens to bad girls who have bad fathers'
"Hinata get up!"
Neji threw back the covers shielding her body from the cold and grabbed her arm in haste. "Hinata it's horrible Uncle is in the hospital, hurry up and put on your shoes, if we're lucky we can make it before visiting hour in over"
Hinata got up in a drenching cold sweat. Tears unconsciously streamed down her eyes and she hurriedly hid them. It had been such a long time since she had a nightmare so vivid and life-like. Her body shook with the same fear she's been trying so hard to overcome. She looked up at a panic stricken Neji slightly confused for she had not actually listened to what he had said.
"What?"
"Hinata I know you dislike him but now might be your only chance to see him, don't you at least want to see your own father?"
Immediately Hinata's ears pricked and her eyes flew open. "What did you say?"
"Your father was admitted into the hospital this morning, he's been struck with paralysis and his wife is already on her way to see him, she doesn't know anything about this so I suggest we go see him before she takes him back to Kumo"
Hinata frowned and again felt that sense of hatred and ugliness overwhelm her. This is it; this is her chance to punish her father for throwing her in the lion's den. For leaving her to suffer. Flashes of her dream haunted her like a disturbing incubus. He must pay.
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"Hey did you hear what happened?" Naruto burst in Sasuke's room, with a surprised look smeared all over his happy-go-lucky face. "Hinata's dad came down from some weird country and suddenly got paralyzed."
Sasuke quickly sat up from his bed and turned his head to Naruto giving him all of his attention. "Does she know already?" he asked, coolly.
"Yea that Hyuuga guy came rushing towards the clinic and dragged her out of bed so that she could go see him"
Sasuke's ears pricked at the sound of Neji's name. That isn't good, Hinata won't be able to handle seeing her dad right now, she could do something drastic. He searched for his car keys and headed out of the door.
"Hey Sasuke where are you going!?"
"Naruto, what hospital was her dad admitted in?"
Naruto scratched his head in confusion and shrugged. "How the hell should I know, I barely found out that Hinata even has a dad"
Sasuke grunted in displeasure and grabbed his cell phone. "Brother I need to ask you something, which hospital is Hiashi Hyuuga in?"
Sasuke held the phone to his ear for a couple of seconds before he hung up and walked in a steady path out of the dorm building, quickening his step once he saw his car. Naruto ran behind him in surprise.
"Hey Sasuke where are you going?"
Sasuke looked at Naruto coldly and turned on his car, pressing down on the accelerator viciously.
"I'm going to get her"
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Neji sat in the chair across Hinata nervously, his elbows were propped against his knees and he ran his fingers through his lush coffee brown hair every other minute. Hinata soon noticed that his entire left leg began shaking up and down, a nervous habit perhaps. Both their heads turned as a doctor wearing a white coat stepped into the waiting area.
"Hyuuga?" his look switched between Neji and Hinata.
"We're both Hyuuga" interjected Neji who concluded by the doctor's confused face that he didn't know which one was which.
His face was indifferent as he looked down at his clipboard. "Only one relative at a time can visit him right now"
Neji looked at Hinata as if giving her permission to go first, but she turned her head the other way gazing with glazed eyes at the floor. Neji frowned slightly but stood up and walked towards the doctor.
"I'll go first then"
Neji backed down in surprise when he saw Hinata stand up. Her face was cold and indifferent; he was a bit worried at how she might react when she sees her father for the first time.
I'm going to punch him. I'm going to punch him. I'm going to punch him.
She clenched her fist in a tight ball until her knuckles turned white. Her face was determined. The reason she suffered was so that she would not give her mother the satisfaction of seeing her die. She wanted to flaunt her survivalism in front of her father and show him what 16 years of willpower and hatred made her into. She'll show him that his abandonment didn't break her, instead it made her strong, and that strength will be shown in the power of the punch she would plant on him.
"Hiashi Hyuuga is in this room, please do not excite him or cause him to overexert himself"
Hinata paid no attention to the doctor and walked in, fist winded up tightly.
She stared surprised at the sight before her, there was a weak man sitting feebly on the clinical bed, wire and tubes were webbed everywhere around his body. He looked haggard and weary as if life had treated him poorly. Dark circles enveloped his creamy lavender eyes, his cheeks were slightly sunken in, and stress had run him down like deer in headlights. He appeared young, his face was youthful and rejuvenate but he also looked tired and sick. He was sitting upright and his eye lids were droopy, when she had stepped in Hiashi turned his head with all the effort he could towards her while Hinata could only stare wide eyed at him.
"Hinata is that you?" his voice was cracked and horse. "Oh I'm so glad I could see you" this time his voice completely broke down. His lips twitched into a weird smile, it felt completely warm, Hinata looked down on the floor in silence. Her brows burrowed together in inner agony, and soon pearly tears began dripping from her milky eyes.
How dare he be sick! How dare he! How am I supposed to attack a weak man like him.
"F-for the longest time I survived just because of my hatred for you" her voice quivered in injustice. Her body shook in rage of the unfairness of her situation. "I survived all the beatings, I endured all the bloodshed, overcame the pain, just so I could do this" She lifted her shaking fist, by now her hand was wound up so tight that her nails were digging painfully into her palm. Hiashi looked at her, his face was still immobilized but in his mind he was in complete shock.
More tears streamed down Hinata's cheeks, her face was the ideal picture of complete and perfect… sadness. Her eyes were glazed in anger and frustration, and also a small hint of pity. She had planned her revenge so perfectly. All she wanted was a punch.
Hinata brought down her fist, but still gritted her hand. "For such a long time…" Hinata paused, she felt her body quivering and shaking, she bit down on her lip to try and calm down. "… for such a long time all I kept telling myself was to endure it so that when I would finally meet you…" She gritted her teeth, and shut her eyes. "… So that when I met my father I could punch him" She brought her angry tear stricken eyes up to meet his.
"Tell me how am I supposed to punch you when you're in a hospital, sitting so pitifully on a bed, can't you give me just a bit of justice, why am I supposed to suffer so much!!!!!!"Hinata fell on the floor and pounded the ground with her fists, sobbing uncontrollably like a child.
"All I wanted was a punch!"
"I hate you!"
Hiashi stared struck by her reaction, his daughter looked like a lonely child and he longed so much to hold her. But his heart was hit by a surge of reality, this whole time he thought Hinata would be so happy to see him, that she'd hug him and thank him for coming for her, and it brought a great weight of grief to hear that it was just the opposite.
Suddenly Hiashi heard muffled voices outside his door.
"You can't just barge in here Mr. Hyuuga is already with a visitor!"
Hiashi saw wide eyed as a young man with ebony hair came bursting in.
"Hinata you stupid girl, why did you just leave?"
The man stood surprised for a moment as he gazed at Hinata weeping on the floor. He sighed softly and lowered his body to her whispering quietly into her ear.
"Hinata don't cry"
He rubbed her back and grabbed her arm to lift her up, he wrapped his arm closely around her waist and carried her off, carelessly glancing at Hiashi with a raised brow. Hinata quickly wiped her eyes, she didn't want to be seen crying in front of this man.
"Sasuke take me away from here, I can't stand it"
Sasuke held Hinata close to him rubbing his hand on her back and patting her head every other second, they entered the elevator as a frantic women came rushing out screaming "Hiashi! Hiashi!" at the top of her lungs. Hinata's head went up like a bullet and gazed still as a corpse at the woman sprinting towards her father's hospital room. She clenched her hands and walked on straight into the elevator.
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As Hinata and Sasuke made their way out of the hospital they came across a frantic Neji.
"Hinata what happened the doctors are making a huge scene, is Uncle okay?"
Hinata quietly walked past Neji holding Sasuke's hand with a fierce grip. She looked at Neji with a hurt look and continued to walk out of the hospital. Neji looked at Sasuke in confusion but Sasuke merely shrugged his shoulders.
Sasuke opened the car door for Hinata and started the engine. He reversed from the parking spot and drove off quietly. Situations like this made Sasuke uncomfortable, seeing Hinata cry made him angry, he wanted to hurt whoever made those pearly tears fall from her creamy eyes.
"I'll take you back to school" he spoke, "when you get to your dorm go ahead and wash your face, it's all red and teary"
Hinata sniffed and wiped her face. "I don't want to go back to school" she muttered.
Sasuke looked at her coolly with stoic eyes. "What do you mean?"
"I just don't want to go back"
Sasuke sighed and turned his car in a different direction. "And where if I may ask, do you plan to go?"
Hinata avoided his eye and looked out the window as if admiring the landscape. "Just away…"
"You mean 'away' from your problems" he cut in, stopping at a red light. "Hinata you can't be running away from your problems"
Hinata turned her head quickly, her angry teary eyes returned. "I'm not running away…" She opened the car door and got out just as the light turned green. "I'm walking away" she slammed the car door closed and jogged to the sidewalk, arms crossed. She was so angry at her father, oh how much she wished to pay his retribution. But the man was helpless, paralyzed in a bed, and it infuriated her to no end. Was a punch too much to ask for, compared to the gruesome treatment she was forced to endure it didn't seem like much, but he made it impossible. She survived for nothing.
A new plan of revenge suddenly bloomed in her head. If I can't cause my father physical pain then I'll just kill him on the inside, I'll live the life he never gave me. I'll show him that he is nothing more than the man who impregnated a whore and gave birth to a jewel.
She saw Sasuke speed ahead of her and park a few yards in front of her right next to the sidewalk. He opened the passenger window waiting for her to come.
"Fine if you want to be stubborn don't go to school, why should I care, just hurry up and get inside the car"
Hinata's anger melted at Sasuke's pout. At that moment he sounded so much like a child and she began smiling. Sasuke looked at her with a blush. But quickly changed his face to his usual indifferent stoic one.
She's smiling.
"Hurry up, I'll take you somewhere until you cool off, quit smiling like an idiot" he scolded. Hinata got in the car thankful for having Sasuke near her. Sasuke she noted was so strong, both of will and strength, he held her so closely and she felt warmth she never experienced as a child, it felt addicting, she wanted more of his touch and more of his captivating compassion. She didn't fully understand his feelings but she knew that he cared about her and she wanted to experience these feelings as well. As she closed the car door she scooted over very close to Sasuke and pecked him on the cheek. She observed several times at school that this custom is often used to show affection towards close friends and lovers, she wanted to show Sasuke that she cared for him. Sasuke sat there with his hand on the gear completely stunned, his cheeks were colored with the smallest hue of pink and he turned his head in the opposite direction with stoic eyes.
"Hinata you shouldn't do that to a man… especially me" Hinata couldn't see his face but she could tell he was a bit nervous.
"Why?" she questioned innocently.
He turned his face towards her slowly, as if he weren't sure this situation was really happening. His dark ebony eyes locked into her soft milky ones with such a force it sent chills up and down Hinata's spine.
"Because… I'll want more than a just a kiss"
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"Captain Uchiha!"
Itachi sat on his desk taking a small siesta, he finally caught Orochimaru and he is currently in a jail cell awaiting his court date. Itachi was finally given some slack, all the months of trying to catch him finally paid off. But now he was holding Gaara in the police station cell, he was a suspect held on account for a missing girl, Kin Tsuchi. She hasn't been found yet and Gaara refuses to say anything about her whereabouts. All that is truly confirmed is that Gaara Shubaku was the last person seen with her.
"What is it Gekko? It better be important"
Gekko stood there slightly hesitating. "We just received an anonymous call. It seems they've found a body about three miles away from Konoha High. At this point it's impossible to tell whether the corpse is Kin Tsuchi, the body's face has been beaten so badly and there's no identification on it, but we need you down there right now sir"
Itachi sighed and ran his long thin fingers over his dark tresses. A man's job never truly ends.
"I'm on my way"
I want to thank all the readers who reviewed. Seriously guys you rock hardcore.
Again, my family seems to be taking a while to actually move so I honestly have no idea when my next update shall be. I've already written chapter 13 but it all depends on what's going to happen here at the home.
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