chapter 6: return
In spite of the noise of the river, I hear steps approaching and I must hide with Hinata behind rocks. I spend only a few seconds to gather our clothing and to erase our traces, before joining a cold Hinata. We see from our hiding-place the guards of the convoy arrive on the beach and examine the surroundings. Not finding any sign of the girl, they set out again and continue to follow the river.
We can't stay here. I must return quickly
to the village, my absence will seem suspect, but Hinata.......
Neji: "Hinata, I must return to the village.
Where do you want to go?"
Hinata doesn't say anything but she clings
to me with a sad face.
Neji "You want to go back to Konoha?"
A shaking of head. It's yes.
Neji:"At home?"
Hinata shakes the head from left to right
side.
Neji: "Then, at my home?"
Again shaking of head. It would be simpler
if she could speaks, but she is obviously retaining herself to cry
again.
If she try to speak, she would melt in tears.
With the pieces of the kimono, Hinata succeed (I don't know by which
miracle)
to manufacture a clothing. And I added my sweater on his back so that
she
doesn't take a cold. We get our way towards Konoha while crossing by
forest,
avoiding the roads. The voyage is done silently. My room is isolated
from
the rest of the house and to hide Hinata don't do problem.
Neji: "Hinata, I will return this
evening.
Promise me that you will not move from there?"
She shakes the head. I gently kiss her on
the face while leaving. She seems tired.
I go to the headquarters. The majority of the team already left on
mission,
but mine await me. Tenten and Koichi sadly sat in the entry. While
seeing
me, Tenten rises and comes to my meeting.
Tenten:"Neji!! finally!! Where were you?!!!
We waited you for hours!!!!"
Koichi: " Do you at least have news of
Hinata?
We don't succeeded knowing !"
Neji: " Hinata left to marry with the son
of a great family in another city."
Well , I don't say the continuation of the
events. . Even if I think that they would help me to hide Hinata.. . I
don't want that they help me. . . I want to keep her. . . Only
for
me. A long moment of silence allow to my teammate to think about the
situation
and to conclude that they can't nothing. In policies, we don't have
weight.
Tenten takes the head of our sad team and
we leave on mission.
The evening, after one working day without dynamism, after having to
explain
the history of the marriage to other chuunins, I can finally return at
home. Curiously, nobody came to announce the dispartition of Hinata.
Well,
they will not be praised to have lost one of the Hyuuga girls in the
river.
But usually, one calls upon ninjas to find disappeared personn. To say
the truthe, a big third of our missions, our, the chuunins, consists in
finding something or somebody of lost.
I am impatient to see again Hinata. Even if I don't know how to
react
toward her, with what happened this morning. But when I open the door
of
my room, I don't see anybody! No, she had promised! the wall cupboard
opens
gently and show the anxious face of Hinata hidden inside.
Neji:"Hinata! You frightened me!"
Leaving her hiding-place, she comes to me.
Her eyes are red of cry. Hinata, do you only come to seek reconfort
near
me? Or do I have a place in your heart? I avoid the question and I
tighten
her against me in silence.
chapter7: < Point of view: Hinata >
I spent all the day to cry and sleep. "To cry isn't used for nothing"
can
be repeated to me lots of time, but I can't prevent me to cry, and
after
having cried much, I fell myself better, lighter and more serene.
Only after having cried, I can start again to advance.
And now that Neji returned, I feel reassured. I feel reassured by his
arms
which surround me, by his heat chest on which I am based, by his solid
shouledrs on which I pose my head. Neji. You are the only person in
whom
I have confidence. You came to seek me, you tore off me from the
river, this marriage, this exile. You brought back me to Konoha. You
gave
me again courage to fight. even if I don't know yet what I will
do,
I am not alone. You are with me.
Two days passed. I am always hidden at Neji. I don't leave. My only
news
of the exterior world are bring by him to me. Life is normal at the
village.
For all villagers, I don't exist already anymore. Strangely, the news
of
my disappearance didn't come yet to Konoha. It make the life simpler to
me, not to be sought. . even if, in my heart, I'm sad to be
ignored
at this point.
Since two days I think.. about my future. I must find a new way, since
way of Ninja is not anymore for me. Best would be to start again
a life elsewhere, to leave on a journey. . but to say the truth, I am
afraid
to leave Konoha and to launch me in the unknown. I am so weak and
awkward.
. I don't think that I will succeed alone in the world. I don't want to
be alone. And there is Neji.. . . . .
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It took all the evening to us, but
we succeeded
in changing my appearance completely. I have colored my hair in black
and
I have a wig with long hair. My eyes posed problem. To hide their
white
color, I must carry black lense, a little opaque, and I must use my
Byakugan
permanently to see more clearly. It's tiring, and I must also make up
to
hide my projecting veins. I also changed vestimentary style. I don't
feel
confort to wear clothing so feminin and so adjusted. But I must be
accustomed.
My freedom is at this price.
When I look myself in the mirror, I don't recognize myself. To do better, I think that it would be necessary to use genjutsu or a transformation. But the use of Jutsu is easier to discover than disguise. With a little prudence, they will not be problem. I collect the appreciative glance of Neji on my body, emphasized by my new clothing. A shiver traverses my back and my heart beat faster. We are cousins, no?. . like brothers and sisters, since our father are twin. . then,what I want to say, it's prohibited, no? I would not have. I don't should be disturbed like that by Neji.. but also, why he says and he does always things which make my heart burn. ? What happened at the edge of the river, it was an accident, no? You didn't want it, no? You hated me formerly, don't say me that now you like me. No, don't say it. . I am surprised by his hands which attract me towards him and by his lips on mine. And my conscience admits its defeat and lets my heart take over
His lips go down gently from my lips to my chin and my neck, and
the hollow of my shoulder. A sigh escapes of my lips and I feel redden.
He raises the head and smiles by seeing my emotion. Then he turns
over to my neck. The cold metal of its head band makes my skin tremble.
And if I dare. . untie the fabric and make fall the band. It's
done.
And his face is shown to my glance, and his seal. I let run my fingers
on the black features, symbol of so much hate.
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chapter 8: New life
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I'm Yuuki Kishimoto, an orphan young girl from a mountain village , and I came to Konoha to search a work. I have long purple dark hair and black eyes. Everyone says that I'm pretty, It makes me redden each time. However, I'm a little small and round... but I compensate while carrying high heels and sexy clothing...too sexy to my taste. . I'm very shy. . I think that you understood, I am Hinata.. . sorry, I was Hinata. Now I'm Yuuki. Yuuki means "courage". I will be courageous. Even if to learn how live alone,after having lived in a rich family, is very hard, I will success. And then Neji is here to help me. Hum... Now, he sleeps. Yesterday
evening,
my small studio, my new house was installed. It's small, but as I have
few piece of furniture, it well be good. In fact, all that don't
even own me, it's old pieces of furniture and remainders of
crockery
that we recovered in an attic of Hyuga's family. Clothing and the other
objects of the everyday life, Neji bought them to me.I, I don't own
anything.
It's better, like that, I don't have anymore bond with my family.
. .
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hum..... For the moment Neji sleeps, and I don't succeed to. I felt depressive yesterday when I was installing me, and even if Neji comforted me, I still swim in the doubt and uncertainty.
My future. What will I become? Tomorrow,
I know what I do: I work in a store. The day after tomorrow also,
after-after-tomorrow
too. But afterwards? And the next month, and next years?
And how cook, how to do the household, and
purchase . . . ? I almost never had to do it. I am not very gifted.what
will I do? And especially what do I want to do?
Neji grimble in his sleep.
If I agitate too much, I will awake him.
It would be necessary that I manage to sleep
a little.......
The ringing of the alarm clock-morning stops
my few hours of sleep. Already? Yuuki, courage! Your first working day
awaits you! The two lovers extract painfully from the bed-settee and
recover
their a little scattered clothing.
Hinata: "Do... do you want have your
breakfast
here, Neji? "
Neji: "No, I must pass at home, I don't
have time. I go "
A kiss and he leave by the window, under
the eyes of the neighbor womann who tries since yesterday to identifyi
the new tenant of the apartment and her lover, in order to being able
to
inform the vicinity ( her principal occupation).
After breakfast, Hinata, sorry, Yuuki goes out and walks towards the shop where she found a work. By installing the display units for the day, she sees Neji passing in the street, which makes her a sign with the hand. He is joined by Tenten, and Yuuki retains not to make a sign to the girl with a small pinching in the heart. Both chuunins leave towards the headquarters and Hinata continues to install the magazines on the display units with a point of regret.
The day of the girl occurs to sell newspapers and the evening arrives. When her employer allow her to go finally, Yuuki runs towards the forest and joins Neji in an isolated clearing. She wants to continue training with the hope to become again ninja one day. Neji recently had an idea of a two-fighters technique, and this evening they will test. Neji is really very skilled for the fight, he invents even his own techniques. Yuuki admires the capacities of her cousin, no, not cousin anymore, her boyfriend.
With the approach of winter, Neji
insisted
again to offer clothing to Yuuki, which wouldn't have enough to buy new
ones, He knows it. He knows very well that her wages enable her just to
pay the rent and her food, even if she doesn't complain. But Yuuki
insists
to go in the cheapest stores, whereas Neji wants to lead her towards
better
quality stores.
Yuuki: "Neji, a poor girl like
me can't wear such beautiful clothing, everyone will find that
suspicious..."
Neji: "Everyone in your district knows very
well that you are maintained by a rich young man from a great family,
then
I can offer this to you."
Yuuki reddens with the evocation of her
situation, but partly having the obstinated character. . let's say even
completely unmovable of Hyuga family's member, she continues to draw
het
boyfriend towards shops with more accessible prices.
Hinata: "the other villagers don't know
it, and it's not necessary that Ninjas inquire into my past by thinking
that I obtain my incomes from an equivocal traffic"
Neji gives up.
Yes, you read : he GIVE UP in front of
the
small, very shy and very soft Hinata. You noticed too that the lovely
girl
spoke normally with her cousin and even dared contradict him. The
girl gained a lot in insurance lately. Having discovered with amazement
that she was able to manage alone, to earn her living and to even have
compliments on her work, she had gained a little confidence. -we should
say also that there isn't nobody any more to lower her each time when
she
goes home. And Neji more and more doesn't succes anymore to resist to
his
cousin, no, his girlfriend, who makes him do all that she wants ( We
should
say that she asks little thing, and very reasonable things. . or
almost) with her small and soft voice.
Neji: "Ok, OK. But with a condition. . I
offer a beautiful Kimono to you "
Obviously, Neji never accepts completely a defeat. Rather satisfies with this compromise, Yuuki agrees while smiling. The begin to go in the shop when they are stopped by an acute howl: "NEJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!! ".
Hustling in the passage an apathetic
crowd
(or a crowd tetanized by her piercing voice? ), an energetic Tenten
joined
the both lovers quickly.
Tenten: "Ah, ah, Neji! I suspected it! I
was sour that you hid us something lately! It's your girl friend, hein?
"
Neji: "Yes, she's called Yuuki. Yuuki, I
introduce my noisy teammate Tenten to you."
A little reddening Yuuki greets the girl
who details her attentively.
Tenten: "She's very beautiful. . but It
seems to me that I have already met her. . Where that? Err ....... "
Yuuki and Neji see with concern Tenten
seeking in her memory.
Yuuki tries a shy answer: "I made several
jobs in this sector, I perhaps sold you something"
Tenten: "It must be that! You make purchase
together? How nice! "
Neji: "Yes, and besides, there, you disturb.
You could leave us? "
Tenten: "As pleasant and delicate as
accustomed, hein, Neji? Say, Yuuki, how are you able to support
him?
"
Yuuki answer timidly: "But Neji is very.
. nice with me "
Tenten bursts of laughing and ends up
leaving
the lovers alone, impatient to spread the news among the Chunins.
Neji (a little irritated by Tenten.. .):
"We goes there, in these shops?! "
The evening, Yuuki in a splendid black and
gold kimono arranges her new clothing (cheap price) in her old
wall-cupboard
before joining Neji which admires her, sat on the sofa.
Neji: "Yuuki, removes your lenses, I want
to see your eyes"
The integral white of Byakugan appears soon
in the round face of the girl and shine in the ecrin of the dark hair
and
kimono
Neji: "You are beautiful, Hinata."
chapter 9: to advance step by step.
Neji:"I'm home."
Muddy and tired Neji enters the tiny studio,
welcomed by a horrified Yuuki (Hinata):
"Neji, wait! You put mud everywhere...
you can remove your clothing?".
Neji: "I just arrived, and you already start
to tell me indecent proposals?"
Yuuki reddens slightly and smiles, then
give him one of his yukata to replace mud clothing. There are
always
replacements clothes by Yuuki for the young chuunin, considering he
passes
the majority of his spare time with her, and isn't often at his home.
After a good shower, Neji is lowered on
the
bed-settee.
Yuuki: "Do you eat here, Neji? or do you
return at home?"
Neji: "I dines here. About my home...
I believe that they all are well-informed that I have charming a girl
friend...
and that they would like to meet you."
Yuuki: "But, I can't, I..."
Neji: "There is no risk that they recognize
you, in any event. I am sure our clan already made make a research
about
you, and that they didn't discover anything..."
Yuuki: "It's that I... I don't want to see
them... I don't want to see any member of this family never again, but
only you! I want to return never again in this family which gave up me!
I, I..."
The tears are formed in the eyes of Yuuki.
"I am sorry ..I... I couldn't support to re-see them again..."
Neji attracts the girl against him and
gently
rocks her against him: "Yuuki, it' OK... I'm here, I am with you... and
I don't care of our family. If you don't want to see them, you will not
see them... but I will always remain with you...."
Yuuki: "Neji, Neji, I succeeded! I
succeeded!"
Neji has just pass the door of the village
after a mission to the country of sand when Yuuki jumps to his neck,
under
the mocker eye of Tenten and Koichi.
Neji: "You awaited me? what did you succeed?"
Tenten: "Wah, they are so kawai (cute)
together...."
Neji: "And why you don't make the same thing
with Koichi, Tenten?"
Koichi: "Eh?"
Neji: "don't make the innocent one, I saw
you both the other evening..."
Tenten: "PEEPING TOM! Hell of
Byakugan!!"
Neji: "Hé Hé Hé, I
will propagate the news among the chuunins as quickly as you did
it for me and Yuuki."
Tenten: "If you do that....."
But Neji runs away with Yuuki before
the specialist in weapons of the team doesn't have time to invent a
particularly
painful form of reprisals.
Neji: "Then, Yuuki, what makes you so
merry?"
Yuuki: "Dr. Isha agreed to take me as
assistant!
I will be able to continue to learn medicine! I am so happy! He is a
specialist
in medicine in our village, and not only in medicine, in the seals and
the curses also "
Neji: "seals and curses? You are
interrested?"
Yuuki: "Yes, I don't know lots of thing
about, but now that Dr. explained me a little what it is, I want to
learn."
Neji: "in any case congratulation. We go
to the restaurant to celebrate that this evening? I pay!"
Any case, he would never let Yuuki
pay the restaurant.
Yuuki: "Euh..Neji... I must nevertheless
say you... that I would have... Naruto who comes sometimes to this
doctor."
Neji solidifies a little, He continues being
very jealous of Naruto.
Yuuki: "but, you know... for Naruto... I
like him, but he's... a friend. And in anyway... he is with Sasuke... "
Indeed, the disappearance of Hinata
caused
a chain reaction which led Naruto to go with Sasuke. I am explained:
The adorable little blonde was so desperate
of his separation with Hinata, he even was necessary for Hokage to lock
him for a few times, to prevent him to go to take again Hinata from her
new family. (Reaction very similar to that of Neji, except that Neji
succed).
After a few times, the good mood of Naruto
finally returned... and Sasuke profited to tell his feelings to him,
which
he hid for a long time (we wonders why...). This day, one heard an
enormous
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAt!!" sounds in the streets of the city. Initially
pronounced
by Naruto when Sasuke made him his declaration , then by Sakura, from
who
Naruto went stupidly to require advise, then Ino after having learned
the
news from Sakura, then, as the news was propagated, by different ninja
and gossips from Konoha, and even by the others ninja villages.
In
short, everyone is well-informed that Sasuke loves Naruto.
After having cried like fountains during
a whole night by eating ice cream vanilla, sitting over a sofa, Sakura
and Ino decided courageously to sacrifice themselves and to implement
all
for the happiness of the man they love . And they ended up succeeding
in
pushing Naruto in the arms of Sasuke. And Now they are very happy
toghether.
Sakura and Ino were comforted with the guys
whom they had at disposal, namely, Ino with Shikamaru and Sakura with
Lee
(though, I would have put well Sakura with somebody of other, perhaps
Shino,
or another Chuunin.). And they lived happy and had many
children...
finally it's almost that...
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The story of the children, it will be
for the followingchapter ... Sasuke+ Naruto =?
Neji+Hinata =?........ HEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
but these two couples can't have children!!!
chapter10: always in the cage
This is the evening and Yuuki go at
home after working all the day in the doctor 's cabinet, and then
training
with Neji. She's tired and she has really the impression that her eyes
will explode. After carefully closed all the shutters, she withdraws
with
relief her black lentiles contact. what a relief! But Yuuki
concentrates
again her chakra in her eyes. The veins sillent under the skin and the
vision of Hinata crosses the obscure village until reaching an imposing
masonry: the Hyuga house. Hinata is not delayed on any the places where
she lived her childhood, nor on her parents but she concentrates on a
small
shade who trains in the dojo.
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Hanabi, her little Hanabi,
her so
strong little sister. Hinata sees that she trains without
rest
in spite of the late hour, in spite of tiredness and wounds. And Hinata
worry. Since Hinata left, nobody takes care on the small girl anymore;
Well, all the family care of her health and of her training... but
nobody
is there for comforting her anymore, for relieving the pain of a too
intense
training, for simply discussing with her, to have fun and not think
only
of the combat. And Hinata sees that it lacks Hanabi to be regarded as
human,
rather than as a weapon.
In the dojo, Hanabi stops to move
and she
concentrates her byakugan, launching it towards the direction of
Kaishima.
She remains a long time fixed, then she slackens. Hanabi don't succeed
in seeing her sister over there. It is very far, even for her, and she
can't maintain Byakugan a long time enough to seek her sister in the
city.
Her face is sad when she leaves the dojo, but she hardens her
expression
by seeing her father approaching.
Hinata stops her Byakugan and become aware of tears on her cheeks. My little sister, I would like to see you again. Little sister....
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| VLAM!! The door of the council of
ancient
slaps strongly behind Neji, A Neji who obviously is angry by what the
council
told him. Tenten tries to catch his attention, but he walks in front of
her without a word and goes out the building.
When he reachs the forest, he let his rage explode, let's say rather: He explode the poor tree before him. Then he sit on the ground, discouraged. " Could I become free too one day....?" |
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Neji: "I will marry."
Hinata feels her heart miss a beat and time solidify. The tete empty, she can articulate only incoherent words. Impatient,Neji says: "The council and my family chose for me a girl and want that the marriage takes place quickly."
The heart of Hinata succeeded in starting again to beat, but her now frantic beats fill her ears with a deaf noise. She articulates slightly: "Wh... Why?"
Neji: "to ensure the descent of the Hyuga family, of course!"
Hinata: "No... no..."
Neji: "You believe that it please me? But I don't have the choice... I don't have any.... freedom... "
Hinata: "I don't want... I don't want you marries another woman!!!"
Hinata is in tear now.
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Neji: "Me either, I don't want. I
said that
I had a girlfriend, but the woman that they choose for me comes from a
prestigious clan. Then the family decided that would be better than a
unknown
girl of the mountai. They made me well understand that there was no
possible
discussion."
Hinata: "But they don't have the right to govern your life like that..." Neji: "You, were you able to make them change opinion when you were married? They are always like that. For them, we are only pawns!" Hinata: "And if I become pregnant, they will have to give up, no? I will marry with you, I will return in Hyuga's House if it's needed, but I don't want to lose you!" Neji answered of a soft voice: "Hinata.. we are too close by blood... it's impossible..." Hinata: "And somebody of other ... the child would have the byakugan nevertheless and... everyone will believe that it's your.." The voice of Hinata fades in her
throat by
seeing the expression of Neji.
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Unable to take a step moreover, Hinata sanglote alone in the dark street.
"hm.. hey ... it's OK?"
Hinata feels a hand be posed gently
on her shoulder. Raising the head, she sees a face which she recognizes
even in the obscurity and with the eyes full with tears. Naruto.
her best friend.
Naruto: "Erm, say, Yuuki,what's wrong.?"
Yuuki dries her tears the best than she
can and tries to make good figure.
Naruto: "Something is really wrong ? what
is it? it's because of Neji?"
Naruto and Yuuko were (again) becomen large
friends since Yuuki worked in medical cabinet (to the largest anger
from
Neji). And Yuki is now the confidante of Naruto. But this evening, it's
Yuuki which needs to entrust and to be listened.
Yuuki: "Neji... will marry."
Naruto: "You go marry, it's true?"
Yuuki: "NO! not with me, with a another...an
arranged marriage... "
And she start crying again. Naruto in front
of her feels uneasy.
Naruto: "it's sad, that.....euh, say...
it would be necessary that you return, it's late ... I will accompany
you
back....".
Supporting the crying Yuuki, Naruto
brings
back her to her apartment and sit her in a sofa. Then he business
in the kitchen and finishes by bringing her a warm portion of
ramen.
Naruto: " Eats, you will fell better after
eating."
They eat both in silence, then Naruto speaks
to Yuuki: "It shouldn't be funny to be Hyuga. You know, before, there
was
another Hyuga at the village... she had the same age."
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Naruto continues while Yuuki
listen him
with a beating heart.
Naruto: "She was called Hinata... and she resembled you much, I find. She was very nice, like you. And I loved her." The heart of Hinata made a jump in her chest. Naruto: "But she was married to a stranger. She left one day and I have never see heragain. When it happened, I was very sad, I wanted to go to save her, I was also furious against Hyuga. But I couldn't do anything for her. And while reconsidering these events, I thinks that it's maybe better ... I would undoubtedly have caused her much of prejudice... Then I understand a little what you feel. But don't be mad against Neji, he can't do anything there." Yuuki: "I know it ..." Naruto: "If I can do something to help you, says me and I would do it. I know how much it can hurt... " |
Hinata doesn't know very well. Events of the evening, words of Naruto, all that confuse her completely. she would like to curl up in the hot arms of Neji to reassure herselves, she would like to grab on to something, to not sink. And otherside, there is Naruto, which is there, before her , her childhood love, with his shining azure eyes , with his smile, his large chest and his muscular arms, so strong and so solids. Then Hinata curl up against him: "Stay a few..with me."
The morning finds them embraced together on the disordered bed-sofa . But the morning is not alone. It's with Sasuke.