CHAPTER 19
I'm SO sorry guys! It's been forever! I thought I posted this AGES ago!... but I didn't... and, man, I'm sorry for it! this story is nearly finished, but don't worry, I'm thinking about a sequel. But only if you guys want one...
SORRY AGAIN!... I can't believe I forgot to post it!
Anyway, here it is...
** DEMON COUPLE **
Last Time:
"You are more like us than you realise. You are strong like us. I really think that's the reason all of us are so strong. We have had hard lives when we were young. We've been through so many rough patches, hard times, and that has made us all stronger, emotionally stronger for being able to cope with all that. And physically stronger to survive. We will make it, as a new family." He leaned in, watching as Sahana's eyes fluttered closed, his following soon after, as he pressed his lips against hers lovingly.
Sahana was in utter bliss. And she had finally found a home. No, not a home, a family.
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TWO MONTHS LATER (11 months into their trip)
Sasuke and Sahana were doing everything they could to distract Hinata from the fact that Naruto had been gone for more than two months. She hadn't heard back from him, but deep down, she knew he was alive, but that didn't stop her from missing him so badly. Sasuke and Sahana made sure to train every day, for long periods of time, Sahana taking it upon herself to keep the conversation going, since Sasuke wasn't much of a social person.
At the moment, all three of them were lying on the grass in the middle of the training field, various scratched, chakra burns and bruises all over their bodies as they were breathing heavily from exhaustion.
"You are so much better, Hana-nee." Hinata said through pants.
"Thank you. I can almost feel myself getting stronger, thanks to you two." Sahana replied, also breathing heavily.
"Hn." Sasuke said, which meant a lot of things in his vocabulary, but they all knew that this particular 'hn' roughly translated to 'your welcome'.
** DEMON COUPLE **
Meanwhile, at Tazuna's house.
**POOF**
Tsunami, the only person in the house, turned to the loud poofing noise she heard coming from the lounge room. She was a little shocked to see a ninja with a familiar dark orange jacket standing in the middle of her room, grinning to himself.
"Naruto? I haven't seen you in months. I take it you've finally finished your training?" She asked, smiling at the blonde haired ninja.
Naruto just continued to grin. "Yes. It's been way too long. Can you tell me where I can find my princess?"
Tsunami smiled at the pet name he had for Hinata, "Yes, she is training with Sasuke and Sahana out the back yard. And she has been missing you a lot, so you better go find her."
"Thank you." and with that, Naruto was gone.
** DEMON COUPLE **
"One more round?" Sahana asked as the three of them got back to their feet.
Sasuke nodded, "Okay, I think we are all out of chakra, so strictly taijutsu." He decided, Hinata nodding in agreement.
That was, until they felt the presence of someone charging at insane speeds towards the arena. Sasuke, Sahana and Hinata quickly got into defensive stances as the huge dust cloud came towards them, but took at least some comfort in knowing that this person was not faster than Sasuke. So that was an advantage if this person was looking for a fight.
Hinata activated her byakugan to see if she could recognise who was coming at them, when she froze in her spot, making everyone turn to her. "Naruto-kun... ," Hinata whispered, but everyone managed to hear her and smiled, Sahana laughing at the way Hinata changed her stance to one that was preparing to get tackled to the ground.
Hinata was surprised when it didn't feel as if she got hit by a truck, and she was gently tossed into the air, and looked down to seen Naruto twirling her around the air in his arms before holding her in a tight hug, having missed the feeling so much of having her in his arms.
Naruto smiled at Hinata, "Wow. You're more beautiful than I remembered. I missed you so much!" he said, kissing her on the forehead without loosening his tight grip on the girl, not like she was complaining.
Hinata nuzzled into Naruto's neck, enjoying the warmth she missed so much and Naruto always seemed to radiate. "I missed you too. So much." She murmured into his neck.
Naruto smiled at her, before looking up at Sasuke and Sahana, "Hey Teme, Hey Hana, good to see you two again. You finally a couple?" He asked with a grin.
"Yes, Dobe." Sasuke rolled his eyes at his blonde-haired brother as Sahana blushed.
"Good to see you again Naruto-otouto." Sahana smiled at Naruto, then down at the ecstatic Hinata in his grip.
"Well, now that I'm back. We have some planning to do... over lunch?" Naruto grinned, and lead the way to the small café that the group had gone to quite a few times.
"Come on lets go. We really need to plan this whole thing out."
** DEMON COUPLE **
Soon enough, all four of them were sitting in the small familiar booth four coffee's sitting on the table with Naruto and Hinata on one side, Sahana and Sasuke on the other.
"So, how are we gonna do this?" Naruto asked, placing his coffee on the table after taking a sip in a remotely civilised manner.
"Well, first thing we need to know. This will probably be the most dangerous thing we've ever been caught into. We need to take precautions, and have plans so we can be sure we all make it out okay." Sasuke said seriously, warning everyone of the danger ahead. "Okay, so we've found out the easiest way to kill these bastards is to pin them up against each other. That wouldn't be too difficult, since it's easy to use their attitudes against them." Sasuke said, bringing his thoughts out loud.
"Yeah," Sahana agreed, "They have only one emotion each. One of the sins each are their only emotions. So we need to use that against them. They aren't stupid, but we just need to manipulate them, so their emotion controls them to attack each other. I don't think these sins are close, friendship wise, because well, they're sins. They aren't exactly nice and polite to each other. So, we just need to use their dislike of each other against them."
Hinata nodded, "Yeah, like it would be easy to put Gluttony and Pride against each other, since they are both stuck up." Hinata thought it through, "They both think they are better than the other in some way. Gluttony is the over-indulgence of things such as food, or the excessive desire of food. So, we could tell Gluttony that Pride stole all his food, and tell Pride that Gluttony thinks himself better than Pride, so he could be worthy of more food or something. Somehow, we need to use words to make them hate each others guts until they start to attack each other." Hinata nodded to herself.
Sahana looked up to the two of them, "Yeah, and Wrath and Lust, we could put them against each other too. Once we have the four of them out, we can work on the others, bending their emotions to our will. And Naruto, you would be really good at putting them against each other, because you are loud and easily annoy people-"
"Hey! I'm not annoying!"
Hinata laughed, "But its a good thing this time, Naruto-kun." She pecked him on the cheek, "You'll help us immensely."
Sasuke looked over at them, a smirk on his face, "So..."
** DEMON COUPLE **
"So... everyone ready to move out?" Sasuke asked, securing his sword and kunai pouch.
"Yeah, let's kick some ass." Naruto grinned enthusiastically.
"Remember the plan, Otouto." Sahana reminded with a laugh.
Hinata nodded, "Let's just get this over with."
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Sasuke, Sahana, Naruto and Hinata were crouched in the bushes outside a large abandoned lodge. The entrance was small, and looked a little dangerous as the door was missing and the bark was chipping off as if it was going to cave in any minute, which is probably why Tsuhiko picked this exact spot to do his experiments - so people wouldn't go inside.
Sahana tapped Hinata on the shoulder, who nodded in understanding and activated her byakugan, checking out the cave.
"It's a lot larger than it looks," Hinata summarised, "It's thin, but very long with three rooms - most of it's just one long hallway. The hallway's approximately 20 metres long, which goes into the cave behind the lodge and there are three large consecutive rooms after that in the cave. I can't see anyone inside, but I know they're there, since I can sense a high level genjutsu on the last two rooms." Hinata sighed, unhappy she couldn't see much more.
"Let's do this." Naruto grinned, as they all stealthily slipped through the lodge entrance.
Unluckily, only moments after they all were inside, a large crash was heard, causing everyone to turn around towards the noise, only to find that their exit was blocked, a rock formation fallling from the ceiling and blocking their way out.
"Shit..." Naruto cursed.
"Keep you're guard up, this must mean they know we're here." Sasuke informed everyone.
"Well, there's no going back now." Sahana said with determination.
"Let's do this." Hinata smiled.
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END OF CHAPTER 19
That's chapter 19... sorry again. Next chapter... is immensely for me to write... I don't know why. I think it's the whole fighting scene=SUCKINESS... but, I'll try to get it to you as quickly as possible...
xx Tazzy =D