Chapter 6: Attack!
Uchiha manor, 9:57pm
The two couples sat in the living room, sipping tea. Sasuke and Sakura were cuddled, sitting on the floor while Naruto and Hinata preferred the couch. They had been talking about their day and the errands they had to run. Hinata enjoyed their company…but she felt like it wasn't going to last long. She knew sooner or later she would have to face her father.
She turned her mind to other things…like Naruto. How she loved him! She was so grateful to him…and he still loved her after all of this. And Sakura…who could ask for a greater friend? She had stuck by her side through everything…
Sasuke…Hinata knew she didn't know the quite boy as well but she was thankful to him for his willingness to help. He was a good guy…he just hardly ever showed it. Although Hinata was feeling pretty easy…Neji words had made her restless…
"Hinata-sama…maybe you should come home. Hanabi-sama is very worried and so are the others."
"B-but I can't! Tou-san is so mad. I'm n-not sure if he'd want me to…and what about my a-arranged m-marriaged? What am I going to do?" Neji hung his head and sighed.
"Whatever you think is right, Hinata-sama. But Hiashi-sama won't wait for your decision…he's becoming…desperate. I'm concerned that he would do something drastic. I'm worried about you." Hinata smiled.
A fake rhinestone smile. Neji knew that smile. It told him that she wasn't alright and she was in fact worried, but she was trying to be strong. Neji gently ran his fingers over her cheek.
"You don't have to do that, Hinata-sama."
Hinata frowned.
"Do what?"
"Smile like that. It's unbecoming of you."
"Neji-niisan…"
"Hinata-sama…please don't change."
Hinata mused over her cousins words.
Neji-niisan…I won't change. I promise. But…I'm so unsure and afraid. I know what I want to do, but I'm scared of the path I want to take. It's almost like I'm torn in two. Between Naruto and father's expectation of me…I'm so confused of what I should do and what's right. But didn't Naruto say that destiny could be changed? I will change mine…even if that means giving up my inheritance to the most powerful clan in Konohagakure.
"SShhh. What was that?" Sakura tensed; looked around the room then back at her companions.
Naruto closed his eyes and breathed deep. Sasuke tightened his grip on Sakura before standing up and gesturing to Naruto. He nodded.
"Naruto-kun…what is it? I sense a chakra signature I don't know."
"I know Hinata. That's what Sasuke and I are about to find out. Stay here ok? I'll be back in a jiffy." Naruto whispered to her. He kissed her forehead.
"Sasuke-kun! Where the hell are you two going?! You can't just leave us here and-" Sasuke kissed her softly and smirked.
"You have to stay with Hinata." Sakura frowned.
"Please be careful Sasuke-kun. You too Naruto."
Click-cha-chink
"Naruto-kun! Sasuke-kun!"
"I heard it!" Naruto motioned towards the back of the house. The boys gave the girls one last reassuring looking and left.
Hinata and Sakura stared at each other.
"Sa-Sakura-san!" Sakura ran to Hinata and wrapped her arms around the girl.
"It's gonna' be ok, Hinata! The boys are gonna be alright. Nothing can beat our boys!"
"Sakura-san…I'm so worried. What if something horrible happens to them? We should go-"
"No, Hinata! They told us to stay here! I'm sure they have everything under control…they must have." They stayed like that. Holding each other and waiting for their boys to come back. It must have been minutes...maybe even an hour. It seemed like forever.
"Sakura!" Hinata screamed as she heard a cry of pain coming from outside.
"Hinata! Duck!" The living room window exploded just as Sakura brought Hinata to the floor. A figure clothed in gray jumped through the opening. He looked around the room and spotted Hinata and Sakura.
He started to form hand signs…when he fell flat on the floor.
Sakura reached to pull out a kunai…
Damn! My pouch is in my room! How can I get it now?!
"Sasuke-kun!" Hinata yelled.
Sasuke stood where the man had been. He was holding his left arm…it was bleeding heavily. Sakura made to go forward-
"Sakura! Stay back! Get Hinata out of here! Now! There's too many of them! Leave damnit!"
Sakura grabbed Hinata's hand and ran towards her room. She let a breath go she hadn't known she was holding as she closed the door to her room.
"Sakura! We have to help them!"
"Hinata! I'm sensing a lot of chakra signatures! I want to help them as much as you do, but we-" Hinata's Byakugan was activated.
"Sakura move!" Hinata shoved Sakura to the floor.
"Gentle Fist!"
"Jyuuken!"
The unidentified assailant flew to the opposite wall. Hinata straightened from her stance.
"You're a Gentle Fist user…which means you must be from the Byakugan clan. Am I correct?" Hinara demanded.
"Hinata-sama…I never knew you were so strong…eh!" Hinata knew that voice. She stepped up to the man who had now sunken to the floor.
"Hinata don't-!"
"It's ok, Sakura-san…I-I think I know him…" Hinata walked closer and lifted the mask covering his face. She gasped.
"Kuri?" The moonlight just barely lit the room. Hinata stepped back. The young man lowered his eyes.
"I… I…Hiroshi-sama sent us to bring you back! I'm sorry Hinata-sama…but please come back to the compound! You have to!" Kuri pleaded.
"W-hy?"
Kuri took her hand in his and bowed before her.
"Hinata-sama, please! If you don't something bad is going to happen! I couldn't let you get hurt! And Neji-senpai has been on the rack for you! He's taken all the elders anger on himself!"
"B-but Kuri-san! I-agh!"
"Hinata!"
Hinata-sama!"
Hinata's limp form began to slip to the floor before she was caught by a man behind her.
He was tall and didn't wear a mask. He face was angled finely with fair skin. To Sakura it seemed he held on to Hinata with an iron grip…she was probably right, because Hinata grimaced in pain as he held her against his side.
"Hinata! Hinata are you ok?" Sakura reached for her weapons pouch and pulled out four sharp, deadly kunai. She glared at the man who dared lay a hand on the fragile girl.
"Who are you?" She yelled. He shot a gaze back at her.
"No need to tell you such a trivial answer. Hmmm…" He looked Hinata's unconscious form and frowned.
"We told her that she couldn't escape from her duties…but she wouldn't listen. Oh, well she brought this on herself."
"Give her back!" Sakura threw the sharp objects. Aiming for his vitals. He countered it by throwing his own weapons.
"Do you want to hurt Hinata? You're not that good of a friend. So be a good girl and let me leave quickly? Ok?"
"Like hell! I'm not giving her up without a fight!" Sakura tightened her gloved hands and pumped her chakra. This guy messed with the wrong kunoichis…how dare he come and act like he owns the place? She was going to get Hinata back…
Don't worry, Hinata. I'll get you back. I swear it! I won't let them take you away…I can't. Hinata…stay strong!
"Still plan on fighting, eh? You know though…I'm not the only one who's gonna hurt her?"
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"Is that the last one?" Naruto called out as he slashed his opponent aside. He landed skillfully beside Sasuke.
"Maybe…I don't sense any other presence…Naruto!" Before he could react Naruto was sent flailing into a tree.
"Naruto!"
"You better keep your eye on the fight, boy!" Sasuke stepped back to avoid the man fist.
"Katon-Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Flames hotter than brimstone shot from Sasuke's lips as they scorched the man. Sasuke ignored his cries of pain as he ran to Naruto.
He was leaning against the tree holding his chest. Blood was dripping from his mouth. He looked up and smirked.
"Hey, Sasuke-teme. What took you so long? I nearly had all of them!"
"Yea, right dobe." Naruto gazed at the house.
"We have to get back to the girls!"
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The house was a wreck. No…wreck was an understatement. The house was in ruins. Pieces of debris and other broken objects lain strewn across the floor. Multiple windows were broken and even the floor boards were cracked as if a giant monster had marched right on them.
Naruto in took a sharp breath. Where were the girls?
"Blood." Sasuke knelt down and examined the piece of DNA.
"Naruto?"
"It's Sakura-chan's! Sakura-chan?!" They finally made their way to the front of the house. Everything was demolished. Sasuke turned a wall to the kitchen…to see Sakura sitting there holding a lavender blanket. She was speckled with blood.
She looked up to see them staring at her. She glanced around the room once more before bursting into hot tears. Sasuke wrapped his arm around her and held her there. Naruto could only stare at the cloth she so tightly grasped.
"I-I'm so sorry, Naruto! I-I couldn't protect her!"
Naruto knelt down in front of her. He tried so hard to smile. To smile that utterly fake rhinestone smile.
"It wasn't your fault, Sakura-chan…it wasn't…" Sakura shoved Sasuke away from her. She screamed.
"Yes it was! I couldn't protect her…and they took her! There…there were so many… I'm so sorry…" She looked at the blanket she still clutched.
Lavender.
"This was her favorite, you know? She always liked…lavender…"
I hope this chapter was good enough for you guys-guyettes! lol Happy Thanksgiving! Remeber to review and review! The story from here on is going to get really intense so don't miss it! Thanks again and
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