HEAR ME HIME
A/N: Ohayo everyone! Owh yeah! I'm alive and I'm here again with the new chapter of HMH!
Hi Hokage Hinata Hyuga! I am happy that you appreciated my efforts, thank you so much, if it wasn't for you to suggest it to me I won't know how to lay out the story properly.. I'm so glad that you liked the story as well, and thank you again!
Hi twistedheart27! Thank you for that lovely review, your words made my heart swell with happiness, finally I felt like there is a purpose for me to write after all, I feel greatful that you like HMH! Thank you so much!
Yo friends! I have found very good sources for fishing ideas and to get nice concepts to take the story on an interesting ride.. I have collected them but hadn't listed them properly.. by the time im finished, a new chapter will be released.. So guys, I have confirmed Sakura's role in the story (hehe), and NaruHina is on de way. Don't miss it! Its time for Chapter 5 The Cursed Red River, in this entry the story is taking a new turn, I don't know is it good or bad.. so please do tell me how you feel about it in your reviews.. our Sasuke has spotted Hinata in the weird village what happens next? What would be their reaction and what is she doing there? Wish you all happy reading! Your reviews are always welcomed! (warning: suspense, mystery, the undead, and introduction to the antagonist) *LONG CHAPTER AHEAD! hihihihi..*
Chap5 The Cursed Red River
Previously on chapter 4:
"H-Hinata.." Sasuke breathed his words.
"yes?" she spoke.
Huh? W-wait.. Sasuke scowled and looked skeptically at her. She blushed when she felt him gaze at her so closely, and she was twirling the end of her bangs with her other hand, she batted her eyelashes as she peered through them, looking at him shyly. For some reason, she felt happy that this handsome hunk took some interest in her, she tried to bewitch the guy by acting all innocent. Sasuke frowned and asked her one more time showing the picture to the woman.
"Have you seen this girl in this village before?" he asked with a stern tone.
The woman shifted her gaze from the picture to his eyes, "Are you blind? I am this girl." She stated a pointing the photo a little irritated.
"Who are you? Tell me you name." Sasuke asked.
Neji, Shino who were near him gasped looking at the woman, Naruto, Kiba and Akamaru ran back to them when they sensed something wasn't right. The woman is now pretty clearly not amused with Sasuke monotonous voice and his cold treatment. She glared pretty hardly at Sasuke.
"My name is Hinata" she stated mimicking his deadpanned tone.
"Your full name." Sasuke asked.
Kiba and Naruto as well as the others were puzzled, they didn't understand why Sasuke is doing this. It is only natural for him to suspect, but why to this extent? She clearly is Hinata, of coarse.. with the way she looks, but what has Sasuke sensed in her that made him behave this cold towards her?
"Hyuuga Hinata.." with saying that she almost made Sasuke believe her.
But something about her is different, just now she.. her voice was different. When he asked her again then the voice changed completely into a softer and sweeter tone. As far as the Uchiha had befriended the Hyuuga, he knows pretty well about her, and this lady in front of him, isn't her. Sasuke hadn't shown his suspicion on her, he fixed his stare on her as Naruto barged in between them, holding both her shoulders Naruto asked.
"HINATA-CHAN! Why were you here? What were you doing here for so long? We all missed you!" thus yelling pretty loudly Naruto hugged her crushing her petite frame in his big bear hug.
Shino, Sasuke, Kiba and Neji noticed something was definitely different about her. They exchanged glances, when they noticed the way she looked at Naruto, she was gritting her teeth and glared at him so poisonously, it was so vicious enough that it emitted dark aura around her. By now, Naruto should've sensed her evil aura. But why hasn't he? Naruto broke the hug, he smiled at her politely and asked.
"why are you so quiet Hinata-chan? Cant you remember us?"
Now, he had her full attention, she shifted her stare onto his eyes and said, "uhh.. yes.. I wish to know who were you folks..".
Naruto smirked and with that Sasuke and all the others knew that he sensed it already, "oh.. then let me introduce.. this is Neji your cousin, that's Kiba, his companion Akamaru, and Shino they are your team mates, this is Sasuke our best friend and my rival, and this is me! Naruto! Your.. uhh.. friend!".
She smiled hesitantly and said, "oh.. okay, umm, if its not bothering you, all of could come to my hous-" she was cut before she could finish her sentence.
"Hinata-chan.." Naruto cut her words. She looked up at him, having her attention Naruto asked.
"Hinata-chan.. where is Hinata-chan?" he stressed more on her name, as if indicating another person.
The woman scowled pretty hardly and said, "I. am. Hinata.".
"nooo.. you're definitely not her. She doesn't have that kinda boob- oofm!" before he could say more she held the locks behind his head and stuffed his face on her boobs. Everyone was shocked by her actions, (Kiba even had a little nosebleed while Neji paled).
She yelled angrily "are you saying these boobs are fake! See, aren't they real? I had made it just like hers.." now, they got it.
Looking up struggling to get away from her, Naruto smirked and said, "now, you are definitely not her! you don't smell like her as well.. your smell reeks of blood".
Kiba shouted to Naruto, "hey.. that should be my line..", Naruto chuckled at him but didn't say anything.
She then glared at him, her lips formed smirk 'hn'. The word 'EVIL' was clearly written on her face, she looked really scary, with that expression. The young woman laughed revealing her sharpened rusty teeth to them. A dark evil aura started to accumulate around her, as her smirked widened into a smile.
"hn.. ohohohohohoho! Then you're damn right punks! I am not her! ahahaha! But save your effort children, im going to eat you all! Ahahahaha!" the woman yelled in a hoarse voice of an old lady.
Just as her voice turned, the face she has been holding changed too. As she was transforming before their very eyes, her true form was showing up, she had pale skin which pealed showing under the rotting muscles of her body, with more maggots digging in and out of her form, her foul smelled breath were poisonous that they had to cover their noses from getting poisoned. Naruto gestured his team to be in the formation, they didn't know what they were up against, if they capture this woman, they could at least get a hint about Hinata.
"Readyyy.. Tajuu! Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" with that thousands of Naruto popped around them.
Kiba and Akamaru were ready in their fighting stance; Shino had his bugs already flying out to attack.
Neji activated his byakugan by yelling "Byakugan! huh?" he was too shocked to see the surrounding.
The woman brought her clawed hands to her sides and yelled, "attack them my children!" she called.
"IKKE! (means: go!)" thousands of Naruto yelled as they marched at the incoming villagers who abide her orders.
"NARUTO, WAIT, DON'T!" someone yelled from afar, just as the time Neji was going to say the same thing.
Looking back to the entrance the group saw Kankurou and Gaara with a group of Sand shinobis. They were right behind the gates of the place, suddenly the Konoha team noticed the dark cloud collecting around the atmosphere. Naruto and the group was unsure and the 'humans' that they saw were now turning slowly into some walking corpses already attacking Sasuke and Kiba.
"Naruto! Retreat! Those aren't human! That woman is a shikome (means: foul woman)! And this isn't a village!" Kankuro managed to shout.
"WHAT? then what is this place?" Kiba yelled back dodging the ever slow attacks of the 'villagers'.
"IT'S A GRAVEYARD DAMN IT! THOSE ARE ALL REVIVED CORPSES YOU'RE FIGHTING! DON'T GET THEM CLOSE TO YOU OR THEIR BITE WILL CHANGE YOU INTO ONE OF THEM! GET AWAY!" Kankuro yelled.
Naruto didn't mind to whatever Kankuro was saying, his shadow clones were fighting with the corpses, in a deathly dance. Some of his clones popped being hit by the corpses, he kicked and punched them sending them hitting the houses destroying the buildings as well. They targeted him since he was the only human actively fighting while the others were fleeing, he was struggling from them clinging onto him, they had this strange noise which irritated him highly, he was blocking a corpses with one hand gripping its head while pushing Rasengan onto the ones surrounding him, sending them flying onto the buildings few yards away. He turned and formed a rasengan ball in his palms ready to plunge onto the corpses again.
"RASENGAAAA.. A?" he stopped yelling the name of his jutsu when he felt something grabbing him and pulling him towards the other end of the village.
Looking back he noticed Sasuke grabbing him by his collar running on top of the roofs fleeing from the area, the corpses still chased them, some climbed slowly on top of roof following them.
"hey teme! Why did you do that? I was trying to have some action over there, and you ruined it!" Naruto yelled clearly displeased with his rival.
"BAKA! Look at them carefully! They are all revived corpses! One bite and you'll turn into one of them!" Sasuke yelled pulling him to jump the roofs after him.
Naruto paled and looked at the back of him, they were chasing them endlessly but still their movements were very slow. He dispelled his clone jutsu, making hundreds of his clones vanish into smoke. Then Naruto noticed he was holding something in his other hand, when he looked at it..
"AAAAAAAAAAA!" he shrieked like a little girl and tossed away the head of the corpse that was gagging its mouth at him, he remembered that he was holding it while plunging the rasengans, he accidently pulled it out when Sasuke grabbed him.
Glancing back at the dobe Sasuke asked, "what are you yelling at?".
Naruto nearly cried at him, "S-Sasukeeeee… I pulled out the head of the corpse!".
Sasuke growled and said, "just leave it dobe, as if its going to hurt that thing..".
They successful reached the other end of the village and still were running helter skelter across the dessert. Suddenly a wave of sand resembling a tidal wave just rose from the land circling around the 'village' and hit it. Enveloping the area it swallowed it the contents and formed into a shape fist, finally it blew into pieces.
"that was Gaara-kun's technique.." Shino remarked while still on the run.
"oh yeah! The sand coffin!" Kiba said.
Neji felt light on his back, since he remembered he carried a bag, touching his back he noticed his bag pack was gone.
"OH NO… I lost my bag to them.. a-and.. and my royal blue.. no.." a very trembling Neji said.
"royal blue?" Naruto questioned.
"His most prized underwear.. tch" Sasuke said. Naruto laughed pointing at the Hyuuga while Neji glared at him in return, suddenly noticing that his back also was gone Naruto yelled.
"OH NOOO!... my ramen.. I lost my ramen in the bag!" Naruto yelled remembering his bag was also snatched by the corpses.
Neji and Naruto lost their back packs while the others had theirs. The food and water they carry will on last for 2 days if it means to share with the 2 of them. Contemplating the incident which took place before at the red river, Neji remembered what he saw with his byakugan. Gulping the Hyuuga head said to the team.
"Guys, I think I saw something strange there on the graveyard.." he started, it caught their attention.
"yeahh… its really strange to see all the dead people alive.. Akamaru, are you okay?" Kiba crouched down on his knees to check his companion while the dog whined.
"it seems its not a genjutsu or any summoning jutsu.." Neji said. Naruto scowled in contemplation while sitting on the sand crossing his legs.
"then what is it? my sharingan wasn't able to read it.." Sasuke asked in curiosity.
"there was no chakra involved, they were all so dim green, they had no chakra string attached on them either, so no one controls them.. but that shikome had done something.." Neji answered.
"yeah.. I even doubt that she's a human.." Naruto said.
"definitely not." Shino said as everyone turned their attention towards him, he continued, "I sensed it, most probably Naruto, you must've sensed.. evil presence lurking behind in the woods while we're travelling to Suna..".
Nodding his head the blonde said down casting his eyes on the sand, "yeah.. it was uncomfortable and eerie feeling of being watched by something..".
"Exactly." Sasuke said.
"that place is cursed." Shino said simply. Maybe.. but, that is the only available conclusion that they can come up with temporarily.
"are you sure? Are there such things as those still exist at this time?" Sasuke asked looking at Shino with a scowl patterning his forehead.
"it has to be.. but, lets not conclude it, we have to find more clues on the person responsible for such acts.." Shino answered, the others nodded to his suggestion.
"by the way Naruto.. what did you mean about the boobs?" Neji asked Naruto breaking his knuckles.
Sweating heavily the blond scratched his head sheepishly, he said nervously "i uhh.. Hinata-chan doesn't have you know, that kinda biiig.." he showed cupping on his chest.
'Kpow!' Soon he was sent flying by Neji's Jyuuken on the sandy ground, Neji trembled in anger and said, "dont you dare say something so disgraceful about Hinata-sama..".
Sasuke walked to the blonde who was sitting up dusting of the sand on him, wincing in pain where the Hyuuga's Jyuuken has landed, the Uchiha helped him to stand up saying, "you know, for the matter of fact.. Hinata does have that size.. and one part of Neji was angry because of that..".
Naruto glared at Sasuke and asked, "how did you know about that?".
Sasuke smirked and whispered teasingly to the blonde's dismay, "because I notice and you dont.. if she just said the word 'yes' to me before Karin entered my life 6 years ago, you wouldn't even had the chance you have now.. so, be happy that you're lucky enough dumb ass.".
Naruto yelled "damn you SASUKE TEME!" Sasuke chuckled looking at Naruto response, which amused him greatly.
Suddenly Kiba shouted, "Hey guys! Akamaru has been bitten!", everyone turned and rushed to the canine's side.
-Kankuro and Gaara-
"I just wonder from where does this come from.. who had the power to revive these many corpse isn't a normal person." Gaara said as the technique he activated demolished the whole graveyard and its inhuman inhabitants.
Kankuro looked at his brother, petrified, "Gaara.. we're in deep trouble..".
Their village is nearby the graveyard which was terrorized by someone, who ever had done this despicable deed should be captured soon. They were thinking the possibility which might endanger their villagers by the terrorists. Then suddenly Gaara noticed the woman with white tattered clothes walking away from afar from the red river. Scowling at it Gaara held up his hand into a sign as he vanished into thin air.
"I feel real creepy Gaara.. did you see those things? They are corpse but they.. how?.. uh?" then Kankuro noticed that Gaara wasn't by his side while several of his ninjas were laughing at him, scowling Kankuro directed the team to evacuate the area and go to Suna.
The red haired Kazekage stretched his hand and held a grip onto the woman's hand with his sand, she didn't look surprised or startled by his presence. Gaara was shocked to see the woman's face when she turned to him and smiling at him, he scowled at it, even though he felt his heart gonna burst out in any minute, he never felt this much fear before. Maintaining a calm face devoid of any hints of emotions he asked her.
"Who are you? Why did you terrorize the red river?"
Smirking at this petty human who didn't seem to be shaken by its presence it said, "I am Shikome (means: foul woman). I have no grudges against anything apart humans.. I was on orders.".
Still retaining a calm and cold appearance he asked, "who had summoned you from the underworld? It is forbidden for such creature as you to be wondering on the realm which you do not belong to."
The woman laughed eerily, turning to the red haired male, her eyes which was red as blood she starred daggers at the Kazekage and said, "how daring of you to tell that to me, you peasant human.. hihihi.. anyway, not one of you will survive to stand as the last human, soon.. the black queen will take command! Hahaha.. do whatever you want human! You're not a match for her!"
Still laughing the woman said noticing the shock in the turquoise colored eyes of the Kazekage, intrigued by the change the Kazekage's face held she leaned towards him and whispered to him, "..a human woman. It was because of only a woman. She successfully freed us from the sealing that sealed us into the darkness 1000 years ago, for only her pure blood could do it, tempted by the possibility of her friend's death she took the curse onto herself, just to save those humans! Hahaha! They ended up digging their own grave as well! Hn! Wait for your doom, Kazekage..".
Smirking the shikome vanished into thin air leaving behind a very shocked Gaara. He had stopped the shikome and gained as much as information he could from its mouth. Now, all that information settling into his head, he felt the urge to defend his village and the world from the arising evil, he never heard of the Black queen, yet he reminded himself the vow he had made to protect his village putting his life on the line if he had to. He had to warn the other villages about this matter so that they can join forces to avoid this evil from prevailing. He has to inform Konoha soon.
-Konohagakure-
"Tsunade-samaaa! Kakashi sensei!"
Ino called them as she rushed into the Hokage office, surprised by the ex-kunoichi's presence so early in the morning, the silver haired Hatake welcomed the Akimichi. She was breathing heavily from running all the way from the flower shop to the Hokage tower, after gaining the control of her breathing she asked the jounin.
"where is Tsunade-sama? Have you seen her here Kakashi sensei?" the woman asked.
Kakashi shook his head no and said, while looking away from the documents lying on his table, "no. is there anything wrong, Ino-chan?".
Ino cracked her knuckles and stomped from where she stood, she came closer to Kakashi, "Kakashi sensei, did you see outside the window today?" she asked her sensei dangerously in a polite tone.
Gulping the Hatake shook his head, "no.. but why?"
Gritting her teeth, she asked him, "oh, so would you try to look now?".
Obeying the young lady's 'polite request', Kakashi stood from his seat and turned around to see outside the window, from his view, the village was peaceful. Indeed, since he is in charge, what could have happened to harm the village? Kakashi scowled in curiosity, all he saw was a peaceful village morning routines of his people. Turning to see Ino across the desk, he sighed and said with a smug tone in his voice.
"oh.. it's a peaceful day isn't it Ino-chan?" Kakashi said with a smile well hidden behind his mask.
Ino raised a brow and asked, "Peaceful? Would you care to look at the Hokage monument SENSEI?".
Kakashi wasn't clear what the Akimichi was pointing at but he did as she told anyways. Then he stifled a gasp when his stare fell upon the Hokage monument, it was.. painted with various faces with colorful drawings, there was whiskers on each Hokage's face, and tongues adorned their lips, they gave lipstick marks on the first Hokage's face, eye shadows on the second, huge red nose to the third, a smiley on each of the cheeks of the fourth's face, they put a mole and wrote 'granny' on the fifth's monument and drew a heart shape onto Naruto's face. Kakashi gulped his amusement, it was sheer familiar.. a prank.
'So this has started.. so early at the age of 4 huh? You sure surpass your daddy Hikari-chan' Kakashi thought smugly and faked his response towards Ino.
"oh kami! Its totally ruined! Who vandalized it?" Kakashi asked turning to Ino in horror.
"It was those frogs you had! They had my kid as well! Hikari-chan, my son Touya-kun, Kudou-kun, Kenta-kun, Hattori-kun and Hitoshi-kun, Shikamaru's Inoue-chan and Seiji-kun! All of them!" Ino said.
"Oh OH!" Kakashi held his head, he didn't think the future generation would do such things.
Kakashi had Kurenai, Temari, Karin, Ten Ten, Ino, Rokuro rushing towards the monuments where the frogs were with the kids, since Tsunade and Shikamaru were attending a meeting in the rain country Kakashi and Karin shared the custody of Hikari-chan. They had chased the kids who were running helter skelter around the highland, and successfully captured them all after one hour. The hardest to catch was Hikari-chan, she jumped and meddled into the shadows of the market place and ran through the shops. Kakashi managed to catch her after running into woman who had thought he was peeking, at the onsen bath when he was actually searching for Hikari accidentally following her to the women's room. He surely did get some beating though.
-1 hour later-
He got the kids work out the mess they had created early in the morning that day, after reaching the peak of noon did they finished washing the monument clean of any evidence of paint on the faces of the Hokages. The mothers who were pitying the kids were asked to watch instead of helping them, since the kids have to learn the lesson in the hard way for such act they pulled. After that, Kakashi asked the kids to line up in the office in front of his desk which he is temporarily placed to replace the real Rokudaime who escaped into a secret rescue mission.
The Hatake was sitting on the chair placing it in front of the desk, he was staring at the kids who were standing in row in front of him. They too quite, none of them shared a glance, no whispering, no crying, no whining, no complaints. They held their head in a bow, not even facing Kakashi.
Kakashi coughed to get their attention to him, just as he thought all of them looked at him. He looked at their horror stricken faces. Still he glared sternly at each of them scanning their cute little faces. Touya-kun and Kenta-kun so frightened like a deer, Hikari-chan just scoffed since she was familiar with the Hatake's antiques and his weakness, the Hyuuga twins Hattori-kun and Hitoshi-kun had such an indifferent scowl on their face for wrong doers they humped "HMP!" and then stood crossing their arms simultaneously having a cute pout on their little face.
'wow.. They're capable of exhibiting arrogance at such young age, they surely resemble the Hyuuga prodigy too much.. well, the Hyuuga's are well known for their cocky attitude and stoic face..' Kakashi thought, having a smirk hidden under his mask.
Kakashi saw Shikamaru's daughter Inoue-chan who was nearly to her tears, she trembled in fear under the gaze of the jounin, and Seiji-kun has surprised Kakashi by yawning, so much like the lazy genius. The silvery haired jounin suppressed a chuckle when he saw the look on the wide onyx orbs, the 'Itachi look-alike' Kudou-kun, he had such innocent face which resembled Itachi the Uchiha prodigy too much in a way, the little Uchiha looked like he would cry in any minute, but..
"WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?" he burst into a loud yelling, it startled his little friends and also Kakashi for being the 'quite and cool' Sasuke's son.
Kakashi smirked looking at the little toddler, with his soft voice adorned with an amused tone, "your cute little face of course..".
Bright pinkish blush stained the childish chubby cheeks of the little Uchiha pretty darkly, still holding his scowl he yelled again, "don't call me that!"
Kakashi throw a puzzled look at the glaring Uchiha and asked, "don't call you what?".
Giggling in her little soft voice hiding her laughter with her palm Hikari said, "that he's cute..".
Kudou glared at the giggling Uzumaki girl and he said softly, "s-shut up.. Hikari-chan.." that only earning more of her giggle.
Noticing that look on Kudou-kun's face, Kakashi noticed there's 'something' going on in between those two, changing the topic quickly he asked, " okay, okay.. now, who is the one among you that 'organized' the attack on the Hokage monument?"
They stared at Kakashi and looked at each other, then again, they glanced at him and then to each other. None of the spoke anything, when Kakashi was about to ask again, he heard another one familiar yelling.
"it was ME!" Hikari yelled, while Kudou stared while Kakashi was rendered speechless for a sec.
He sighed and asked her softly and gently, "why did you do that Hikari-chan? Our founders were there, you granddad the fourth was there, your granny Tsunade-sama was there, and your daddy was there to-" he was cut by another one of her yelling.
"that's why! Daddy's there! I want to see daddy! Hikari missed daddy!" she resigned her anger as she softly started to break down in tears, her beautiful face saddened in a frown, while little burning tears flow down her flushed cheeks.
"I.. want to see daddy.." she sniffed and said softly, Kudou comforted her by putting his arm around her while the others gathered around her murmuring some soft words to calm her.
Kakashi descended on the floor on his knees, taking the little Uzumaki in his arms, he caressed her back soothingly and said to her soft tone, while Karin, Ino, Ten Ten, watched their sensei in awe.
Kakashi said softly, "its alright now, Hikari-chan.. daddy is in an important meeting with uncle Gaara, he'll come back soon.. so be obedient and good okay..".
Breaking the hug, the girl stared with her watery eyes straight into Kakashi, she asked him innocently, "Kashi.. daddy will come back right? He will not leave me like mommy right?"
Kakashi felt a pinning pain in his chest when the girl asked him the question. He knew who did Hikari meant by calling 'mommy', he lifted the girl in his arms, stood up from his crouched position and walked to the large window behind the Hokage desk.
Sighing inwardly he pointed the sky at the and asked, "Hikari-chan.. look at the sky..".
The girl did as she was asked, she looked at the clear blue sky with bright sun shining on it, she threw Kakashi a confused glance.
"Hikari-chan.. your mommy will always look over you, from there" he pointed the sky.
The girl looked at the sky again and back at Kakashi with such bright face she asked enthusiastically, "really?".
"really." Kakashi answered, with a broad smile hidden under his mask.
Despite being four and half years old toddlers, Kudou, Seiji, Hattori, and Hitoshi knew the full meaning behind the phrase Kakashi had said to the young and oblivious Hikari-chan. Their intelligence grew bolder by the years as they grow up.
Hikari smiled so brightly between her tears and hugged Kakashi, she said, "okay!".
Her little smile had lifted the solemn air in the atmosphere that the office had held. It was the same bright smile that always adorned the whiskered face of team Kakashi's #1 Konoha Knucklehead ninja, Uzumaki Naruto, which is obviously where the little girl had inherited it from. It was the same smile that enchanted and admired by all. Yet, her little smile held so much brightness, it was warm and graceful. It resembled too much to her name.
Kakashi warned the kids not to do the same prank again and had sent Hikari together with Kudou and his mother Karin, Hitoshi and Hattori were no more pouting at him, Touya-kun was incredibly happy when he received a packet of chips from him, Kakashi had to calm the little Inuoe-chan and Seiji-kun didn't seem to bother about the whole event. The respective mothers left the office the little kids, wondering how their sensei had gotten the knack to be pampering the kids. Kakashi sighed and sinking onto his chair, behind the desk again, continuing his paperwork. But, there were still few bubbles of thoughts that floated in his mind, his mind reflected to a certain pink haired, beautiful, kind, competent, talented and strong kunoichi in his team that passed away 4 years ago and also he remembered about a certain soft, gentle, serene, beautiful and strong-willed female Anbu that went missing completely in an S rank mission, her status was a mystery even to him. The little Uzumaki girl has always depended on the Hyuuga, since she was with her ever since her birth until last 2 years, it is only natural that the girl would think that the ex-heiress is her 'mommy', the child had developed a very close bond with her, Hikari kept on determined and believed defiantly that her mother will come back to her one day.
He sighed as he thought, 'I hope you don't break the heart of Hikari-chan.. nor the heart of her father.. Hinata-chan..'. Worry still etched on his mind, yet putting the thoughts aside he resumed to his work.
'Knock knock knock..'
There was a loud knocking sound on his door, Kakashi looked up from the documents. Shifting comfortably on his chair he said, "come in..".
Then hearing the response, his assistance poked his head into the office, bending low he greeted and said, "I apologize for the intrusion Kakashi-sama.. there is a messenger from the Kazekage of Suna, he is here to see you..".
Hearing to that Kakashi said immediately, "okay let him in Yaroi..".
Yorai nodded and said, "certainly, Kakashi-sama.."
-at the dessert-
It has been 5 days since the incident in the Red River, none of the 5 Konoha ninja could forget the weird turn of event that took place there. They were confused about even now. They had headed to search for more clues on the culprit responsible for it, while searching for the tracks of the one last missing Anbu. As expected, the food and water that Sasuke, Shino and Kiba carried that was shared among five of them had only lasted for 2 days. They wondered on the hot dessert without food or water, their soles were aching pretty badly from constantly walking on the burning sun, hopelessly wishing to see a traveler that could help them or any town nearby. But, no.. the only thing that surround the earth around them was sand, sand and.. sand. They were dehydrated from constant sweating, with no one around except the five of them, while having Akamaru who was exposed to the poison of the zombies.
The wound was a small incision inflicted upon Akamaru's paws, it had some of the corpses poison exposed to the skin which spread inside. It wasn't terrible, yet it was enough to depress the Inuzuka. Neji had used his byakugan to scan the poison, it wasn't fatal yet, it was reacting with the canine's systems slowly, so there should be a more than a little hope for the dog's survival. Naruto was walking under the heat, he took off his shirt not bothering about getting sunburned he fanned himself to lessen the heat.
"Naruto!" Shino called the blond when he noticed something.
Naruto turned to back at the Aburame, "huh?".
"stay still!" the bug master commanded. Frowning in curiosity, Naruto did as he was told.
Shino and Neji was examining his back while Sasuke peeked a little. The blonde Hokage grow irritated and impatient he asked, "what is it you guys?".
"they suspect that you've got bitten by the beasts, dope." Sasuke said calmly.
"WHAT?" the blonde yelled in shock.
"considering its size.. it is bigger than Akamaru's wound Naruto.. you have a larger risk, your skin has been exposed to the poison pretty badly.." Neji said still scanning on his wound.
He sweated heavily than he already had, if that's possible. He asked them, "will I die or be like them?"
Sasuke whacked the blonde Hokage and said, "cool it dope, your too early to die and too stupid for things like death..".
"Hey Im not joking teme!" Naruto yelled rubbing tenderly on the growing bump on his head.
"neither do I dumb ass!" Sasuke shot back.
"quit bickering you guys.. Naruto, your wounds is bigger, the exposure had led the poison reach your systems.." Neji said.
Naruto scowled sadly and asked them, "so how many days do I have?"
Shino said, "mostly about two or three days at most.. some of us hadn't gotten much energy to talk much, but you were yelling with this kind of wound on your back and the deadly poison in your systems, I think I should compliment you that you're strong Naruto..".
Sasuke smirked while Naruto glared at the bug master and yelled, "what the- now only you want to acknowledge me Shino? When Im on the brink of death?".
Shino said, "don't worry Naruto, I have done the same thing I did to Akamaru.. I had sent some of my bugs onto your skin, they will detoxify the poison on the surface, but the ones spreading inside you.. you would have to handle it.."
"damn.." Naruto muttered under his breath.
3 more days passed as they walked on and on, at the nights they had sheltered under one tent. On the 8th day on their voyage on the dry land, they had no more strength or chakra to walk and travel through the endless dessert. Naruto was the only one with enough stamina to lead on the way while the others followed. Soon he also staggered along the strong wind that blew against him, finally he collapsed onto the sand face hitting it, he had let darkness fell upon his tired self letting everything else fall to the hands of the Almighty to handle.
-END OF CHAPTER 5-
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