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Hinata's pov

Night had never seemed so long. The darkness seemed to creep around me like a wolf, slowing following me as I walked along the river. It was a beautiful river. It's a shame i'm not able to sit and enjoy it. I hadn't realized how deep they had drove me into the woods. I didn't recognize anything. No boulders or willow trees; all the things i'd seen a few hours before in the light were swallowed by the darkness. I walked with almost no fear, believing it couldn't get any worse, but then I remembered it's my life; it always gets worse. Leaves rustled and branches snap behind me. I picked up my pace as paranoia began to haunt my mind. More branches snap. Heavy, hungry breath breaks all silence. I freeze, afraid to turn around. If I was lucky, the men who raided the village would've been standing behind me with a gun at my back; I wish. I cautiously cocked my head to the side and looked straight into the darkness. Ominous yellow eyes peered at me in the distance. The rain slowed, the clouds broke, and there it was. Bathing in the moonlight, stood the villain of every fairy tale I was ever told; the wolf. It was hard to believe that something so beautiful was going rip me to shreds. I retreated slowly, knowing my only hope was that it had not spotted me yet. Slowly, I tiptoed along the river side, not taking my eyes off the beast once. My breath grew heavy as a lightheaded sickness washed over me. I tripped and stumbled backwards on a sudden incline. I rolled violently down the hill, tumbling over stones and who knows what. I hit the bottom hard. For a minute I laid there, listening to the ferocious sound of claws bearing down the hill. But I didn't run. Crouching an arms length away sat the wolf. It just sat there, taunting me. It knew I was the prey and it definitely knew it was faster than me.

In that moment I had two logical choices; the easiest being to scream for help, the hardest being to try and run away. It was all I could do. There was no other logical way for me to avoid my own death as the beast inched towards me. But that was when I did something I had never done my whole life. I shot up fast grabbing a stone of the ground. I hurled it at the wolf and screamed. I didn't scream in fear and I didn't scream because I wanted someone to hear me, I just screamed. I screamed away everyone telling me to be the logical, sensible girl. I released the most bloodcurdling wail I had ever heard, and it didn't stop. All my life people put me in my place. They placed me as the perfect daughter, the weak one, and now I was the prey, but I refused to let anyone put me in my place anymore. I continued to scream my lungs out like a psychopath, inching closer to the wolf only making my shrieks more intense. I began waving my arms in the air, charging the wolf, and then I just stopped. The wolf just sat there. It didn't bear it's teeth, and it didn't move. It wasn't scared, but I wasn't scared either. It just stayed put and stared at me so I did the same. We must have been sitting there for a long time, because eventually the wolf just walked away, disappearing into the thick overgrowth. Was I tired? Confused? Scared even? To be honest, I didn't really know how I felt, and I didn't care.

I gathered myself and started walking back up the muddy hill I had rolled down. It seemed much smaller then it was when I painfully tumbled down it. It felt like the darkness was evaporating as light poured through the once menacing clouds. Daylight. From the top of the hill you could see the sunrise beginning to perch above the trees. The long night had ended, and as the new day began, I developed an emotion I had never felt before; pride. I was actually proud of myself. I felt it surge inside me like a light, just like the sunrise. But there was no time to rest, I still had a mission. I had to find the village. I trotted down the opposite side of the hill back to the river. Finding my way would be easier now that I could see. As I walked I took a chance to admire the river in light. Sun rays cut through it's surface to the bottom. It was a very shallow river, and it wasn't very wide. To be honest, I wouldn't call it a river at all, it was more like a creek; just a big beautiful baby river. For at least another twenty minutes I followed the river, until I reached a pleasant surprise. A waterfall.

Tenten's pov

My eyes hazily crept awake as small streams of light flooded the cave. Even with the waterfall in the way it got very bright very fast. I expected to be embraced by cold morning air, but instead I felt a different kind of embrace. Strong arms wrapped around me as I felt warmth resonate off his chest. Why was so angry with him when we met? I couldn't remember. In fact, I couldn't remember much of anything that happened last night. All I could hear in my mind was his kind words he spoke repeating over and over, making me feel safe. I hadn't felt safe in a long time. Just the thought off a safe place comforted me before, until I realized I was never in any danger with the Indians. I looked up at his face. I had never seen him so calm. He slept so peacefully even in a place like this. I ran my hands across his soft skin and a soft chuckle escaped my throat. Why did seeing him like this make me so happy? Not wanting the moment to end I laid back down next to Neji, slowly drifting back into to sleep.

"Tenten!"

We both shot up fast and ran to the entrance of the cave. Was that Hinata's voice?