Blindfolded

Chapter 5:

When Shakti woke up that morning, the memories of yesterday hit her. She protectively crossed her legs, although she still had a month. Neji had still been knocked out when she went to bed last nite, so Shakti decided to go check on him. She found him lying on the couch in the same position he'd been in since last night. What the hell did that man do to him? He was breathing softly and she could hear his heart beating normally. She bent down to her knees next to him. "Neji?"

He didn't reply. She shook his body. "Neji, wake up... Please?"

Nothing.

She sighed and sat on the floor, leaning against the couch. She didn't plan on moving until he woke up. Little did she know, that her plans were about to change.

She had dozed off into a half-sleeping condition. Suddenly a loud bang made her jump. Her eyes found the door almost off of its hinges and the Hyuuga clan leader angrily glaring at her. "Get the hell away from my son!" he shouted. She stood quietly, her face resembling that of a deer in headlights. Neji was still out. Oh this didn't look good.

"You and your little vampire clan think you can come in here and have whatever you want, when you want it. I'm just sorry that I let my son get caught in your trap."

"Trap?" she asked, trying to sheild Neji's unconscious body from his father. Maybe he would think he was just sleeping. He didn't fall for it.

He glanced down, "What did you do to him? Dammit, you had him for breakfast, didn't you?" he yelled.

"I don't drink human blood anymore. When he wakes up, have him explain it. I've never had sex with him though, but he can tell you that," Shakti said, regaining her edge.

"Speak to me with respect, bitch," he said coming closer to her.

"You first. Calling names isn't very respectful by the way," she replied.

His face was turning red as he stepped closer to her, activating his byakugan. Shakti prepared herself to fight him, or atleast dodge his attacks, but Neji's impeccable timing saved her.

"Father, what are you doing?" he asked, sitting up slowly.

"I'm about to teach this whore some discipline," he replied.

Neji stood, stepping in front of Shakti. "Why are you here?" he asked.

His father straightened. "I heard that your little friend was pregnant. I had been suspiscious of you wanting to sleep over for a while to 'protect her'. I just can't believe you'd ruin our family's reputation like this."

Neji's hands fisted. "Father, the man who broke into her house those few weeks ago also raped her. She's pregnant with his child. We have never had sex."

His father's face changed. He looked past Neji at Shakti, then to her still flat stomach, then back to Neji. "Come with me, Neji," his father said.

"Wait, Father," he said, then turned to Shakti, "I'm so sorry about last night. I can not believe he took me out so easily. Are you alright? Did he hurt you? Did he touch you?" he asked her, touching her face.

"Neji, it's okay. He told me that the baby I'm carrying is very important to him. He won't hurt me. Actually, he promised to protect me from any harm. I'm fine, and he didn't touch me."

"Do you know if he plans on having sex with you again?" he asked.

Shakti looked down. She couldn't tell him the truth, "No, I don't know,"

He stared at her for a moment, then kissed her forehead, and left with his father. Shakti remained frozen in her position. Then she decided to go talk to Ino. She could tell her anything.

Ino and Shakti were sitting on Ino's bed as Shakti told her everything about her meetings with the man. When she finished, Ino stared at her in disbelief.

"He said 'fuck the living hell out of you'?" she asked.

Shakti nodded.

"What are you going to do?"

"I plan on just braving my fears and letting him do it."

"Are you crazy? You're going to let him screw you?"

"Senseless... Ino, I don't have a choice. What if he starts hurting people around me? He took Neji out so easily. I don't want to underestimate his power. No one should get hurt because of me."

"But you could tell Tsunade. They could keep him from coming back to you. Then no one gets hurt, and no one fucks you senseless."

"Ino, he might be more powerful than Tsunade!"

"He might not be!"

"He said if anyone interrupted us, he would murder them on the spot and continue to... Well, I hate the way he says it."

"I like the way he says it, kind of sadistic..."

"Yeah, like a freak," but in truth, Shakti had found it ridiculously sexy the way he'd said it. She just didn't want to admit it.

Ino smiled. Shakti made her promise to never tell anyone, and Ino obliged. She was a good secret keeper. "I don't care if they make it sound like it's better for me if you tell them. Do not."

"Okay, okay, I got it. Don't tell."

"So, how are things with you and Sai?"

Ino smiled, "Great, we're going on a date tonight. He asked me out a few days ago!"

Shakti felt hurt, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"You had all this other stuff going on. I didn't think you had the time to listen to me."

"Ino, what the hell are you smoking? You're my best friend! I sometimes want to know what's going on with your life!"

"I'm sorry, Shakti, I just wasn't thinking, I guess."

"But no telling Sai. Especially since he's so close to Neji." The two guys were sparring partners but they hung out a lot too.

"I know, Shakti, you're secret is safe with me."

Shakti smiled, "Oh and guess what..."

"What?"

"Mamoru and Takeshi are coming today. My father sent them when he heard I was pregnant."

"Are you serious? Your freakin Greek god brothers are coming? Good timing, huh? Just as soon as I got taken off the market,"

Shakti laughed, "Nothing ever goes right!"

Ino smiled, "Ugh! Nothing goes right ever!

"I just said that!"

"I reworded it!"

"You phrase stealin son of a gun!"

"You bloody blaming son of a bitch!"

"No cussing in church!"

"Bitchfuckshitassdamn!"

The girls laughed. It was their favorite tv show, but it had been cancelled because, apparently, it was too stupid.

"Okay, well, I should go get ready for them to get here. I sense they're not far away,"

"Would you like some help?"

"Ino, no cheating on your boyfriend."

She laughed, "I won't! I just haven't seen them in so long! Its been 3 years!"

"Okay, fine, come along Ino,"

The girls walked out of the house and to Shakti's house. Her house was at the very edge of the town, a distance away from others. Ino's was the closest. That had been one of Shakti's reasons for picking the house.

They entered and Shakti began cleaning the place up. She hadn't wanted a very big house, but her parents had insisted on one bigger than she liked. It was a one story house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, a full-sized kitchen, a dining room, and a large living room with three couches. She, of course, had taken the master bedroom, and it had a nice bathroom connected to it. The shower was the size of a small room and had two benches in it, all in gray graphite. Then the bathtub was fully equipped with jets. She loved her bath and she looked at these places now, though, she couldn't help imagining that man and her there. She saw them on her king-sized bed, moving from couch to couch in the living room, on the dining room table, in the shower, in the bathrub, on the chair next to her bed, on the counter in the kitchen, and in the quaint little guest bedrooms. A shiver went down her spine.

"Shakti? Shakti? They're here!" she heard Ino saying. Shakti had finished cleaning the bathroom, and was staring at the shower. Her imagination was running wild. However, excitement filled her as she heard the end of Ino's statement and she used her inhuman speed to run down the hallway, and practically tackle Takeshi. He had turned and caught her, but fell backwards as she hit him.

He laughed, "Shakti, it has been so long! We've missed your shining face."

They stood as she hugged Mamoru, his smell brought back memories to her. She looked up at her brothers. Ino hadn't been joking about their Greek godliness. The three vampires were naturally inhumanly beautiful, but Shakti felt weird admitting that her brothers were hot.

The four sat down in the living room and began catching up.

"Man, I've missed this place," Takeshi said.

"It is a beautiful village. I knew Shakti was going to want to stay here the second we entered back then," Mamoru agreed.

"Why is that?" Ino asked.

Mamoru smiled, "Shakti didn't like living on our island. For us, the darkness was perfect, but for her, well she preferred sunlight."

Takeshi chimed in, "You could tell in her personality too. She smiled more and laughed more than any other vampire I know. She was a freak among freaks." He was definitely the joker of the two.

Ino laughed at his jokes, of course. Shakti smiled too.

Mamoru's face grew serious, then Takeshi's did too, he must've seen what Mamoru was going to say. "Now," Mamoru said, "tell us how you got pregnant."

Shakti was silent, as was Ino. Then she spoke, "Well, I went to Ino's party and ended up drinking punch that was spiked. I got drunk, and, when I got home, someone was there. I passed out on my bed and they raped me."

"May I see?" Mamoru asked. He was very modest with his mind reading, at least with those who knew him.

Shakti nodded and she felt him intruding into her mind. She remembered that night, seeing it through hazy eyes. She felt he was showing Takeshi too. When they finished, Mamoru looked at Takeshi.

"We should have been here to protect her." he told Takeshi.

"That's what everyone says," Shakti answered.

"Why are you always the one getting raped?" Takeshi asked.

"Because she so damn gorgeous," Mamoru answered. She shivered at the fact that he would know.

"She gets her looks from me," Takeshi joked.

"We all look alike, dumbass," Mamoru replied.

"Yep, so we're all damn gorgeous," Shakti interjected.

"What the hell are ya'll talking about?" Ino asked, after the three had been silently looking at each other for about two minutes.

They all looked at Ino. "Sorry," Shakti said, "we didn't even realize we were doing it in our minds."

"I did."

"I did too."

"Shut up, guys," Shakti told them.

That's how it was for the next few weeks. Those four plus Neji sometimes. She wasn't sure why he didn't like her brothers or why they didn't like him. However, they tried their best to get along for her sake.

She noticed that her stomach was starting to get a little less flat. She went to Sakura about once every two weeks, and Tsunade had finally agreed to just let rumors start about Shakti's baby.

Every night as Shakti went to bed, she would place her hands on either side of her stomach, and think about the little body that was being formed inside. She would softly hum lullabies to him. She thought about her night with the man, and wondered about the baby being in the middle of all of it. She thought back to the first and last times she'd had sex.

The first was a few years ago, when her and her brothers were in Konoha. The Chuunin exams had just been screwed by Orochimaru, but the whole ordeal was over. Shakti's sensei had told her she needed to train with him alone. She trusted him, so she went. She was suspicious when he led her to a room, but he told her that she needed to work on moving household objects without looking at them. As soon as they entered, he'd thrown her to the ground, and raped her. He was so much bigger than her, and very strong. He had a special ability also: mind control. Eventually, she broke through, and screamed loud enough for her brothers to hear her. They rescued her, but she was naked and bleeding from his painful "love bites." Mamoru had ordered Takeshi to take him away, and he carried her to his room where he'd tended to her wounds.

The second and last time she'd had sex was a few weeks later. After the first time she was left feeling nasty, used, and empty. Mamoru would hold her as she cried herself to sleep every night. He tried his best to comfort her, but everything he told her she would reply with something like, "Thanks, but that doesn't erase my memory." One night, he walked into her room to find her crying, as usual. He climbed in the bed and wrapped his arm around her, as usual. Then he began kissing her; that was not usual. When she asked him what he was doing, he told her he was trying to erase her memory. At the time, it sounded like a good idea. So she'd gone along with it. They went the whole way. She remembered the scene the morning after.

She woke up the next morning, feeling Mamoru's warm, naked body next to her. She was horrified at herself. She had used Mamoru! Why? Could she be more of a whore? She rolled over to see Mamoru's red velvet eyes looking into hers. "I am so sorry, Mamoru," she said.

His face was confused, "Why?"

"I used you. Oh my god, what is wrong with me? I took your virginity!"

"Shakti, this was my idea. You shouldn't be apologizing. Dammit, I lost my virginity in a way better fashion than you did!"

"You gave your virginity for me? Why? Are you stupid?"

Then he went off. "Shakti, I have tried everything to help you get through this. It's been three weeks and you still cry yourself to sleep at night. What happened has already happened. He's not coming back, and he'll never touch you again. Get over it."

Her jaw tightened. "Mamoru, I didn't ask you to help me. If you're sick of hearing this then get out."

He rolled his eyes. "It's not that I'm sick of helping you. I'm sick of seeing you hurt like this. It hurts me, Shakti. I love you so much, and I want to help you get through this."

"But the love you have for me isn't like a lover. You're my brother. Thank you for trying Mamoru, but we should just forget this ever happened."

"You're right, but I just wanted to help you. And it was something I thought would work. But it's forgotten, and we won't tell anyone this happened."

"Okay," Shakti said as she snuggled closer to him. He chuckled.

"You always snuggle," he said, messing her hair up.

"You're warm and soft. And you smell good."

"Thank you."

Then he looked at the clock, "Oh damn, we have to get up."

He got out of the bed, and Shakti's face turned into a pout, as his smell went with him. She rolled out on the other side of the bed. "Here," he said. She looked up as her bra landed on her head. She heard him chuckle and she could help but laugh.

He was the best brother in the whole world, but she had used him for her own selfish purposes in the most hideous way, his virginity. She decided that if he could do that for her, she could smile every now and then for him. That's when her whole persona changed. She became an independent and strong woman with that realization.

A/N: It's been a good day! I've gotten two chapters out! Chapter 6 is in the works and might take a little longer than these did, but it will probably be much longer. Thanks for reading!