Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Mokushita Hyuuga ❯ Chapter 34
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By: Moghedian 
Disclaimer: Naruto and all related characters belong to Kishimoto, not me.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 05.17.2007 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.6K | Visits: 508 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: Naruto and all related characters belong to Kishimoto, not me.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 05.17.2007 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.6K | Visits: 508 | Status: Work In Progress
Chapter 34
Hinata felt warm. She knew she was dead and smiled. She would get to see Naruto again. Her mother too. Hinata smiled at how her mother would take looking the same age as her eldest daughter.
When she opened her eyes it took a few seconds for her eyes to unblur, but upon seeing a sandy coloured roof made of fabric, confusion ripped through her chest. Turning her head to the side, she saw a tall man with bandages covering most of his face and a splint on his right arm. He was staring over her, his eyes glazed over.
"…N-Naruto-kun?" She said. The man’s face whipped to meet hers and grimaced. Sadness and anger was all that Hinata could see in his eyes as he reached out his hand. Taking a hold of her own, the man smiled gently and said,
"No…It’s Katoki…for now." Suddenly memories of fighting and being stabbed slammed Hinata full force. Curling up she started to sob and clutch her chest.
"Hinata-chan…Tsunade-sama said that you need to calm down…too much stress can be bad for the…For you." Hinata looked up at Katoki and blushed.
"G-gomen…Katoki-kun…" Katoki just smiled and hugged her awkwardly with his injured arm.
"Oh! Your arm! Your face! What happened?" Katoki shrugged.
"I dunno, I dont remember...Saa...Do you remember what happened at least?" Hinata nodded slowly, rubbing her chest carefully. Katoki looked to the side and said,
"Er, Hinata..." Hinata looked up, confused at the lack of suffix.
"Ee?" She said, her mouth suddenly dry. Katoki shifted his arms, resting the splinted one on the bandaged one and said,
"Tsunade-sama knows. I didnt recognize her as a nurse as she was wearing the standard uniform, and she healed you." Hinata paled and Katoki watched with wide eyes as Hinata's white eyes rolled up in her head, and she fell backwards, cracking her head on the metal bar that made a small headboard. Katoki jumped to his feet and reached over to help, but his right arm being in a cast made it extremely difficult.
"Ahh! Someone help, she hit her head really hard!" he called, and a short lady with aquamarine hair scurried over.
"What did you say?" Katoki looked over his shoulder at her and said,
"She fainted and cracked her head on the bar!" The woman nodded and looked at Hinata. She tilted the Hyuuga's head to the side and said,
"No worries. She might have a bump for a few days, but she's fine." Katoki breathed a sigh of relief and sat back, wincing when his right arm smacked the bed rail.
Sasami groaned. She was not fully awake yet, but she was aware that she hurt. She felt as if she had been beaten with a sack of potatoes. Rolling over, she moaned again as she rolled onto something with a corner. Slowly opening her eyes, her pupils widened so fast it hurt.
Her breath catching in her throat, Sasami felt panic start to embrace her. It was dark, very dark. She could vaguely hear the slight breathing of someone, but it was so quiet, she wasn't sure if she was imagining it or not.
Struggling to sit up, Sasami felt something warm on her stomach and reached to touch it. Her fingers make a squishing noise and her nose was immediatly filled with the scent of blood. Turning her head, she coughed quietly. Feeling her stomach, she deduced that it was not her blood, which made her wonder even more.
"H...Hello? Is anyone here?" She said, her voice sounding small and pitiful in the darkness of where ever she was.
"Me. Are you awake now, one-san?" Sasami swiveled her head and body around in the direction of the small voice.
"I am...where are you? Are we in a cell?" Sasami heard a small swishing, and nearly screamed when something touched her.
"We are in the same cell...there are 4 of us here...only we are awake though. That boy they brought in with you looks pretty beat up...you dont look so good yourself mind you." the voice said. Sasami frowned.
"Who are you, little boy...hey, how can you see what I look like? It's pitch black in here." Sasami heard the boy grind his teeth before saying in a small tight voice.
"I'm Doumeki...and I'm not a boy! I'm a girl!" Sasami blushed, but she was glad no one could see it.
"Gomen, it's too dark for me to tell..." The girl pulled on Sasami's hand and brought it to her eyes. She placed Sasami's fingertips on her eyelids and said,
"I have a doujutsu...It's called the Kohakugan. It lets me see in the dark as if it were day. Usually I have to have at least a tiny bit of light...so it's fairly dark right now, even with my kohakugan. But one-san, you are covered in bruises, are you ok?" Sasami winced when her hands dropped.
"I hurt everywhere...Should we try and wake everyone? You said there were four of us, and if Raiden was brought in here, I havent met the 4th one yet...what does he look like?" Doumeki shrugged ((not that Sasami saw)) and said quietly,
"I dont care. The last one is a boy...he looks your age-ish. He was here before me, but I dont think he likes me very much. He doesnt talk much ether. Erm, you can wake them if you want to...would you like me to point you in the right direction, one-san?" Sasami nodded, and Doumeki grabbed her arm, and pointed it to where the last person was sleeping.
Sasami slowly made her way on all fours, across the cell. It was larger than she had thought, and it took alot longer than she had expected to make her way to the other wall. She touched the wall with uncertain fingers, and was disapointed to find them as smooth as the floor.
Clang! The noise bounced off the walls and echoed throughout the room. Light filled the chamber, and she and Doumeki made strangled noises as light filled their vision. To her left, she saw a boy sitting against the wall jolt awake, his silver hair gathered in a messy ponytail at the nape of his neck. Orange goggles covered most of the area around his eyes, but as impressive as they might have been, they bore a large crack across the glass, and the silver edging was scuffed.
"Alright kiddies. It's going to be time soon. She's gonna pop any day now, and each one of you takes a good two days to extract. Be good and you wont end up like windy..." A voice said from the blinding light. Sasami didnt recognize it, but Doumeki flinched.
"L-let us go! What have we done to you people!" Sasami yelled, her voice sounding much more confident than what she actually felt. The voice laughed and said,
"Pshaw. I spent hours hiding in a hole waiting for the mizukage's great neice to wander into her gardens alone, I dont think I will be letting any of you go. But I can tell you one thing...You are all going to die." Sasami felt the person smile. The air had become thick, and Doumeki started to shake. Raiden moaned and put his hands over his head.
"You, the earth boy, you're next. Let's go." The voice said. The boy with the silver hair shifted his head towards the voice, but didnt get a chance to do anything as all of a sudden, the figure at the door was standing in front of him, her hand around his neck, and his feet dangling an inch off the ground.
The boy choked and struggled, but the woman, as Sasami could partially see now, just laughed and swung her brown-ish purple hair. Dropping the boy to his feet, she dragged him by the collar out of the door, slamming it shut. The last thing that Sasami saw before the door cut off all light, was Doumeki's amber eyes shining with tears, bruises mottled the dark skin on her face and neck.
Hiashi mindlessly walked towards the tent that Tsunade said held the unconcious body of his eldest daughter. She had told him to apologize, and then leave. The two ANBU guards that Gaara had assigned to him looked at him through their stoic masks.
Pushing the flap out of his way, he was slightly surprised at the size of the tents, but also that they were less than half empty. He quickly spotted the golden mop of hair that Tsunade had told him to look for, and made his way over. The man was resting his head near Hinata's knees, his eyes closed, and his face nearly completely covered in bandages. Hiashi gave a quick smile and turned his attention to the indigo haired woman.
Reaching out he stroked her cheek and felt like crying.
"I'm so sorry, Hinata..." Looking at her neck, he saw bandages and activated his byakugan. He saw the internal scarring and winced. Looking lower, his face jumped, and the ANBU guards twitched. He released his byakugan and smiled widely.
"Ah...congratulations, my dear... Too bad I will never get to see my grandchild." Slowly forming his hands into a series of seals, Hiashi called upon a small amount of chakra. Ending with the ushi seal, the palm of his hand started to glow and he pulled down the covers to expose her bare stomach. Placing his hand on her stomach, the shorter of the ANBU blocked the taller one from stopping Hiashi.
"My last gift, Hinata, just for you..." The glow stopped, and Hinata moaned slightly. Hiashi took his hand away, and admired his work.
A small water lily with the kanji for 'congratulations' in the middle glowed slightly blue above Hinata's hip. The shorter ANBU spoke up and said,
"What is that? What did you do?" Hiashi looked at the fading lily and said,
"It's a special marking, almost like a tattoo. Her mother developed it with her grandmother as a teenager. No matter how old it gets, it wont fade, and I used the kanji to implant a small bit of my chakra that will slowly implant itself into her unborn child, massaging the child's chakra system once it's developed, until the child is born. That way this babe will have a large chakra capacity...well, more so than it's peers, if anything. It's all I can do for trying to kill the babe's brother...I hope she finds it in her heart to forgive me somewhat." The taller ANBU shook his head, but the shorter one just gave a curt nod.
"Alright, you have to return to your cell now. Let's go." Hiashi nodded, and replaced the blanket, quickly kissing Hinata's brow. He softly patted Katoki's shoulder and smiled again. Katoki stirred, but he didn't wake.
Hinata huffed, but sat down. She had been stuck for almost a week in this dreaded building. Tsunade placed her under house arrest. Rubbing the scabbed cut on her chest, the one of her back started to itch.
She could hear Matsuri making tea in the kitchen of her house, and Hinata was only slightly glad that she was being made to stay with Gaara and his family. Huffing again, she rubbed her stomach and the odd tattoo on her hip. Not for the first time, she wondered what it meant, and where it had come from. Standing, Hinata left her room to find Katoki.
Katoki sat on the floor infront of the low window in his small room. The room was located at the end of a rather long hall in Gaara's house, and although he was grateful that the kazekage was so generous, he knew that Hinata, as well as himself, just wanted some privacy.
"Hinata and Katoki. You are both under house arrest. Hinata, I'm not letting you escape our lives again, you mean too much to us. You will be staying at Gaara's house, and untill Katoki's wounds have been fully healed, or the war ends, you shall stay there. Matsuri and myself will escort you around the village every saturday. Neither of you are in any condition to be fighting...especially you Hinata." Hinata looked bewildered, and looked at Katoki, who was pale.
"Especially me? What? Why?" Tsunade looked slightly smug, but Katoki groaned, rubbing his splinted arm with his bandaged one.
"Hinata-chan...do you remember that night, when you pushed me down the stairs?" Hinata flushed and Tsunade nearly laughed.
"Ee...I do...kinda..." Katoki looked away and said, red marring his face horribly.
"Er...umm....remember what you asked the next day?" Hinata's face remained red, and she looked down.
"Y-yea...I'm sorry for assuming that..." Katoki shook his head, and Tsunade let out a soft giggle, she couldnt take it anymore, she felt like exploding.
"Hinata! Katoki knocked you up! Congrats! Kouden's a big brother!" Hinata looked at Tsunade outburst, and Katoki slapped his hand to his face. Hinata's face went from lobster red to pale white, to sickly green.
"W-what...?"
Katoki sighed and twiddled with his necklace. Running a finger over the smooth green stone, he sighed again.
Hearing a faint click, he shoved the necklace under his shirt and turned to face the intruder.
"Hinata-chan...How are you feeling?" Hinata sighed and sat down beside Katoki.
"I feel worried." Katoki rested his head on hers and wrapped his arm around her waist.
"I'm really sorry...I didnt want for this to happen..." Hinata looked up at him and said, carefully,
"Dont be sorry...I'm not worried about that...Although I must admit that I dont think I'm quite ready for another child, I am excited...No, I'm worried about my other little one...I havent heard from him in a long time...Do you think he's ok?" Katoki grinned at her, and Hinata couldnt help but smile.
"He's with Jiraiya-sama...I'm sure he's ok." Hinata kept her smile, but Katoki saw the doubt in her eyes. Standing up, He pulled the dark haired Hyuuga to her feet and tugged her out of his room. Hinata questioned him, but he just looked back and smiled so hard his eyes closed. Hinata looked away, and Katoki's smiled dropped a bit.
At the end of the hall, Katoki stopped and Matsuri, now drinking the tea that she had been making, looked at them curiously.
"Matsuri-san...do you think you can escort us to the records room? Hinata wants to make sure her son isn't on the lists." Matsuri took another sip of her tea before setting the small cup down with a quiet chink.
"Alright. But only if you promise not to run off." Katoki nodded quickly, and Matsuri smiled.
"This is it!" Matsuri exclaimed as she brushed a lock of brown hair out of her eyes. Hinata shrank back, slightly winded from walking the long and winding corridors. Katoki looked in the room and sighed. There were piles of paper everywhere. Some piles reaching 6 or more feet. Matsuri walked over to a filing cabinet and said,
"Lucky for you, we have several attendants working in here. They sort things as they get them...Let's see, Hyuuga, right?" Hinata nodded, but the sandy brown haired woman didnt look back. Her face lightened up as she pulled out a file.
"Aha! Here, this is the file on all Hyuuga's registered for the war. Their status would be inside here." She said, as she handed Hinata the manilla file. Hinata looked at hesitantly. It was a good inch thick. Opening it, she saw a young girl, Hyuuga Akiko...Not recognizing her, Hinata moved on.
"Hanabi-chan...She's fighting too..." Katoki looked over her shoulder and at the picture.
"That's your little sister? She doesnt look much like you..." Hinata shook her head and turned the page. Instantly her anger rose before she could control it. Her hands were shaking and Katoki took the file from her.
"Is this your father? You look nothing like him, save your eyes. But then again, your eyes look like the byakugan, so you're all set. Mmm, Your sister looks a bit like him." Katoki ignored the small and sudden blossum of anxiety pop into his chest as he looked at Hinata. Her hands had stopped shaking, and she had a small smile on.
"Hanabi-chan used to brag when she was just starting academy, that she was the better sister, because she looked more like Otou-sama." Katoki dropped his grin again and turned the page. His heart instantly sunk to his feet. Hinata must have noticed the look on his face because she took a step closer.
"Katoki-kun? Is anything wrong? Katoki-kun?" Katoki was pale, and his blue eyes were wide. Hinata reached for the folder, but Katoki tried to move it away. Hinata used a small string of chakra to pluck the page out of the folder.
"Hinata-chan...dont-"
"K-koud-den..." Katoki winced at the quiet whimper that escaped her lips. It overpowered everything in the room, even Matsuri looked up from her busy scanning of the files. Hinata dropped the page and sank to her knees. Katoki carefully placed the folder onto the floor behind him, and sank slowly to his knees, being careful of his still sore arms. He placed a comforting hand on Hinata's arm and she looked up. Sucking in his breath, he had to force himself to stare into her eyes. They were devoid of any emotion...dead almost.
Reaching out to caress her face, he sucked in again when she flinched.
"Hinata, let's go back...You need to eat, and then to sleep. Think of the baby..." Hinata looked at him again with her dead eyes.
"I...I d-didnt wan-nt t-to rep-place K-koud-den...He's a-all I h-have left of N-naru-to..." Katoki looked away from her eyes and pulled her up, his eyes went back to the folder on the desk. He was glad that Hinata hadn't seen the next name. Giving a silent prayer for Neji, he pulle Hinata towards the door. Walking back to Gaara's house, Hinata didnt say a single word until a small child ran by laughing. Hinata started to sob, and Katoki carried her the rest of the way back.
Scratching at his face, Kouden opened his pale eyes when his fingers hit bandages instead of skin. Sitting up, Kouden gasped.
"Ahh, gaki. You're awake." Kouden turned his head to the side, and saw Jiraiya sitting by the window of the small cabin. Noticing the broken bottles and furniture littered everywhere, he said, slowly,
"Nnn...Where am I? What happened?" Jiraiya looked back out the window. It was midday, or late morning, Kouden decided. Thick and lush trees scraped against the side of window. Kouden found this odd, but couldnt think why.
"We are in the rain village right now...A good friend of mine had a small hut in the middle of nowhere he said I could use while we...hide. And gaki, you were hurt pretty bad. Not as bad as your friend there...I almost thought you two were goners, but luckily I happened to run into an old aquantance..."
Jiraiya walked slowly. He was exhausted. He had just transported two near dead bodies into a small cabin, and now he was seeking medical help. He was fairly sure that he was in Amegakure...but he was so tired...
Ignoring the various men's clubs was hard, but at the moment only one thing could occupy his mind. Bumping into a middle aged woman, he apologized, and started to walk away when he felt a tug on his sleeve.
"...Yes? Can I help yo-" SLAP. Jiraiya took a step back and raised a tired arm to touch his cheek. Glancing at the woman, his face paled and he waved his hands.
"Ah-ah! Yukari-chan! Ah....It's been a while..." the so called Yukari tossed her long black hair. Grey wings appeared at her temples, but she was still immensly handsome. Yukari glared at the tall man and said, sticking a finger at him,
"You. You left me alone!" Jiraiya tried to give a tight laugh, but Yukari's glare made his throat freeze. Massaging it, he said, rather slowly,
"Yukari-chan...You knew I was just staying for a week...I was on a mission..."
"You left me alone, WITH YOUR CHILD!" She yelled. Jiraiya paled. People on the streets were looking at them now, and Jiraiya ushered her off to an abandoned alleyway. Towering over her had no effect, but he tried anyway.
"What...?" He said, his voice tight and small. Yukari puffed her cheek out and said,
"I'm probably not the first one ether. I bet you have tons of kids, if you ever bothered to keep in touch." Jiraiya paled even more at this and said quickly,
"Yukari-chan-"
"Yukari, or Yukari-san." Jiraiya sighed.
"Yukari, it was a one night stand..." Yukari's face softened a bit and she said,
"You never wrote back. I heard you were in the village once, and you didnt even stop by..." Jiraiya sucked in his breath and said,
"I tried...I didn't remember where you had lived..." Yukari blushed and she looked at the ground.
"Oh...a-ano...Why are you here now?" Jiraiya almost sighed in relief as the topic changed.
"That's right, I need a medic...I dont care if they are a shinobi, or a midwife...I just need it now. I have two kids that will die if they get some attention right now..." Yukari's eyes widened and she quickly said,
"Natsuki-chan! She's a high class medic-nin here...She would be your daughter, by the way." Jiraiya didnt miss the glare she gave him and winced.
Yukari led him towards a large building whose sign said, in large glowing red letters, 'hospital'. Walking inside, a few people nodded their heads at her, and stared at Jiraiya. Every door that Jiraiya passed, he felt more and more nervous; and when Yukari finally stopped, and turned into a room, the frog sennin could have screamed with tension.
Peering around the corner, he saw a tall woman in her mid twenties. Her snow white hair was bound up in a fancy braided bun, and she wore a plain pair of blue scrubs. She was talking to a young boy, smiling the entire time. Jiraiya found himself starting to admire her, but reminded himself of their relation.
"Unfortunatly for me, she completely resembles you. She's even popular with the boys. Something I hoped was not hereditary." Jiraiya chuckled, which caugh the attention of Natsuki. Spotting her mother, she grinned widely and ruffled the boys hair, befire slipping him a peice of candy.
"Okaa-chan! What brings you here...Who is this?" Yukari hesitated but said,
"This man...well, Natsumi-chan, meet Jiraiya. Your father." Natsumi dropped her clipboard and her mouth gaped open. Yukari picked the board up and shook her daughter's shoulders.
"Jiraiya needs your help. He has two kids that are near death, apparently..." Natsumi turned her head towards her mother, still looking at Jiraiya, who was becoming more and more uncomfortable.
"Are they his? Are they my siblings?" Jiraiya's face reddened.
"No! They are more certainly not! Now, girl, are you gonna help me or not? One of them has strong connections, and all three of them would kill me if they ever saw me." Natsumi stuck a hip out and said,
"So you want me to save them, to save your ass?" Jiraiya shook his head and said,
"One of them is my apprentice, son of my former apprentice, legacy of my first apprentice. All three were stupid loud blondes, too. Just my luck." Natsumi looked at her mother, who was in turn gazing at her, before nodding. Jiraiya drooped with releif as she packed her bag full of medicine supplies.
Kouden looked over and saw Shiro, still asleep, but covered with bandages. Scratching his head, Kouden yawned and winced when his hand rubbed his nose.
"Ita...What happened to me? I cant remember anything...erm...I think the last thing I remember is sticking my tongue out at Shiro-teme..." Jiraiya sighed and said,
"Gaki, you've been out for a good three weeks. Shiro will be up soon, maybe a few more days. You both were cut up pretty bad. I'm surprised you woke up this early...you were hit pretty hard in the head. No, stop! Dont touch the bandages. If that cut doesnt heal, Tsunade's going to kill me." Kouden frowned. He opened his mouth to talk when the bamboo flap that served as a door flung open, and a pretty young woman with snow white hair sauntered into the room.
She handed Jiraiya a bag and smiled at him. Jiraiya smiled back, but Kouden saw a bit of uneasyness behind it.
"Ah! You're awake! How's your head?" Kouden looked up at the lady, and said quietly,
"It hurts, but not much though. Tolerable, compared to the rest of me." The lady nodded and Kouden continued.
"Ano...can I ask who you are, ne-chan?" The woman smiled and said,
"Natsumi. I'm Jiraiya's daughter, and your medic. Sorry about that, I didnt have enough chakra to mend much more than your insides. Chichi-ue didn't want you to scar, so you are going to have to heal the old fashioned way." Kouden shot a glare at Jiraiya, but he was immensely surprised to hear that she was his daughter. Jiraiya looked embarrassed. Kouden carefully laid back and started to fret about his mother. Jiraiya seemed to read his thoughts and said,
"Dont worry, Kouden. Hinata-san is safe and well. I can tell." Kouden sighed, and Natsumi started to check over Shiro.
End Chapter 34
Hinata felt warm. She knew she was dead and smiled. She would get to see Naruto again. Her mother too. Hinata smiled at how her mother would take looking the same age as her eldest daughter.
When she opened her eyes it took a few seconds for her eyes to unblur, but upon seeing a sandy coloured roof made of fabric, confusion ripped through her chest. Turning her head to the side, she saw a tall man with bandages covering most of his face and a splint on his right arm. He was staring over her, his eyes glazed over.
"…N-Naruto-kun?" She said. The man’s face whipped to meet hers and grimaced. Sadness and anger was all that Hinata could see in his eyes as he reached out his hand. Taking a hold of her own, the man smiled gently and said,
"No…It’s Katoki…for now." Suddenly memories of fighting and being stabbed slammed Hinata full force. Curling up she started to sob and clutch her chest.
"Hinata-chan…Tsunade-sama said that you need to calm down…too much stress can be bad for the…For you." Hinata looked up at Katoki and blushed.
"G-gomen…Katoki-kun…" Katoki just smiled and hugged her awkwardly with his injured arm.
"Oh! Your arm! Your face! What happened?" Katoki shrugged.
"I dunno, I dont remember...Saa...Do you remember what happened at least?" Hinata nodded slowly, rubbing her chest carefully. Katoki looked to the side and said,
"Er, Hinata..." Hinata looked up, confused at the lack of suffix.
"Ee?" She said, her mouth suddenly dry. Katoki shifted his arms, resting the splinted one on the bandaged one and said,
"Tsunade-sama knows. I didnt recognize her as a nurse as she was wearing the standard uniform, and she healed you." Hinata paled and Katoki watched with wide eyes as Hinata's white eyes rolled up in her head, and she fell backwards, cracking her head on the metal bar that made a small headboard. Katoki jumped to his feet and reached over to help, but his right arm being in a cast made it extremely difficult.
"Ahh! Someone help, she hit her head really hard!" he called, and a short lady with aquamarine hair scurried over.
"What did you say?" Katoki looked over his shoulder at her and said,
"She fainted and cracked her head on the bar!" The woman nodded and looked at Hinata. She tilted the Hyuuga's head to the side and said,
"No worries. She might have a bump for a few days, but she's fine." Katoki breathed a sigh of relief and sat back, wincing when his right arm smacked the bed rail.
Sasami groaned. She was not fully awake yet, but she was aware that she hurt. She felt as if she had been beaten with a sack of potatoes. Rolling over, she moaned again as she rolled onto something with a corner. Slowly opening her eyes, her pupils widened so fast it hurt.
Her breath catching in her throat, Sasami felt panic start to embrace her. It was dark, very dark. She could vaguely hear the slight breathing of someone, but it was so quiet, she wasn't sure if she was imagining it or not.
Struggling to sit up, Sasami felt something warm on her stomach and reached to touch it. Her fingers make a squishing noise and her nose was immediatly filled with the scent of blood. Turning her head, she coughed quietly. Feeling her stomach, she deduced that it was not her blood, which made her wonder even more.
"H...Hello? Is anyone here?" She said, her voice sounding small and pitiful in the darkness of where ever she was.
"Me. Are you awake now, one-san?" Sasami swiveled her head and body around in the direction of the small voice.
"I am...where are you? Are we in a cell?" Sasami heard a small swishing, and nearly screamed when something touched her.
"We are in the same cell...there are 4 of us here...only we are awake though. That boy they brought in with you looks pretty beat up...you dont look so good yourself mind you." the voice said. Sasami frowned.
"Who are you, little boy...hey, how can you see what I look like? It's pitch black in here." Sasami heard the boy grind his teeth before saying in a small tight voice.
"I'm Doumeki...and I'm not a boy! I'm a girl!" Sasami blushed, but she was glad no one could see it.
"Gomen, it's too dark for me to tell..." The girl pulled on Sasami's hand and brought it to her eyes. She placed Sasami's fingertips on her eyelids and said,
"I have a doujutsu...It's called the Kohakugan. It lets me see in the dark as if it were day. Usually I have to have at least a tiny bit of light...so it's fairly dark right now, even with my kohakugan. But one-san, you are covered in bruises, are you ok?" Sasami winced when her hands dropped.
"I hurt everywhere...Should we try and wake everyone? You said there were four of us, and if Raiden was brought in here, I havent met the 4th one yet...what does he look like?" Doumeki shrugged ((not that Sasami saw)) and said quietly,
"I dont care. The last one is a boy...he looks your age-ish. He was here before me, but I dont think he likes me very much. He doesnt talk much ether. Erm, you can wake them if you want to...would you like me to point you in the right direction, one-san?" Sasami nodded, and Doumeki grabbed her arm, and pointed it to where the last person was sleeping.
Sasami slowly made her way on all fours, across the cell. It was larger than she had thought, and it took alot longer than she had expected to make her way to the other wall. She touched the wall with uncertain fingers, and was disapointed to find them as smooth as the floor.
Clang! The noise bounced off the walls and echoed throughout the room. Light filled the chamber, and she and Doumeki made strangled noises as light filled their vision. To her left, she saw a boy sitting against the wall jolt awake, his silver hair gathered in a messy ponytail at the nape of his neck. Orange goggles covered most of the area around his eyes, but as impressive as they might have been, they bore a large crack across the glass, and the silver edging was scuffed.
"Alright kiddies. It's going to be time soon. She's gonna pop any day now, and each one of you takes a good two days to extract. Be good and you wont end up like windy..." A voice said from the blinding light. Sasami didnt recognize it, but Doumeki flinched.
"L-let us go! What have we done to you people!" Sasami yelled, her voice sounding much more confident than what she actually felt. The voice laughed and said,
"Pshaw. I spent hours hiding in a hole waiting for the mizukage's great neice to wander into her gardens alone, I dont think I will be letting any of you go. But I can tell you one thing...You are all going to die." Sasami felt the person smile. The air had become thick, and Doumeki started to shake. Raiden moaned and put his hands over his head.
"You, the earth boy, you're next. Let's go." The voice said. The boy with the silver hair shifted his head towards the voice, but didnt get a chance to do anything as all of a sudden, the figure at the door was standing in front of him, her hand around his neck, and his feet dangling an inch off the ground.
The boy choked and struggled, but the woman, as Sasami could partially see now, just laughed and swung her brown-ish purple hair. Dropping the boy to his feet, she dragged him by the collar out of the door, slamming it shut. The last thing that Sasami saw before the door cut off all light, was Doumeki's amber eyes shining with tears, bruises mottled the dark skin on her face and neck.
Hiashi mindlessly walked towards the tent that Tsunade said held the unconcious body of his eldest daughter. She had told him to apologize, and then leave. The two ANBU guards that Gaara had assigned to him looked at him through their stoic masks.
Pushing the flap out of his way, he was slightly surprised at the size of the tents, but also that they were less than half empty. He quickly spotted the golden mop of hair that Tsunade had told him to look for, and made his way over. The man was resting his head near Hinata's knees, his eyes closed, and his face nearly completely covered in bandages. Hiashi gave a quick smile and turned his attention to the indigo haired woman.
Reaching out he stroked her cheek and felt like crying.
"I'm so sorry, Hinata..." Looking at her neck, he saw bandages and activated his byakugan. He saw the internal scarring and winced. Looking lower, his face jumped, and the ANBU guards twitched. He released his byakugan and smiled widely.
"Ah...congratulations, my dear... Too bad I will never get to see my grandchild." Slowly forming his hands into a series of seals, Hiashi called upon a small amount of chakra. Ending with the ushi seal, the palm of his hand started to glow and he pulled down the covers to expose her bare stomach. Placing his hand on her stomach, the shorter of the ANBU blocked the taller one from stopping Hiashi.
"My last gift, Hinata, just for you..." The glow stopped, and Hinata moaned slightly. Hiashi took his hand away, and admired his work.
A small water lily with the kanji for 'congratulations' in the middle glowed slightly blue above Hinata's hip. The shorter ANBU spoke up and said,
"What is that? What did you do?" Hiashi looked at the fading lily and said,
"It's a special marking, almost like a tattoo. Her mother developed it with her grandmother as a teenager. No matter how old it gets, it wont fade, and I used the kanji to implant a small bit of my chakra that will slowly implant itself into her unborn child, massaging the child's chakra system once it's developed, until the child is born. That way this babe will have a large chakra capacity...well, more so than it's peers, if anything. It's all I can do for trying to kill the babe's brother...I hope she finds it in her heart to forgive me somewhat." The taller ANBU shook his head, but the shorter one just gave a curt nod.
"Alright, you have to return to your cell now. Let's go." Hiashi nodded, and replaced the blanket, quickly kissing Hinata's brow. He softly patted Katoki's shoulder and smiled again. Katoki stirred, but he didn't wake.
Hinata huffed, but sat down. She had been stuck for almost a week in this dreaded building. Tsunade placed her under house arrest. Rubbing the scabbed cut on her chest, the one of her back started to itch.
She could hear Matsuri making tea in the kitchen of her house, and Hinata was only slightly glad that she was being made to stay with Gaara and his family. Huffing again, she rubbed her stomach and the odd tattoo on her hip. Not for the first time, she wondered what it meant, and where it had come from. Standing, Hinata left her room to find Katoki.
Katoki sat on the floor infront of the low window in his small room. The room was located at the end of a rather long hall in Gaara's house, and although he was grateful that the kazekage was so generous, he knew that Hinata, as well as himself, just wanted some privacy.
"Hinata and Katoki. You are both under house arrest. Hinata, I'm not letting you escape our lives again, you mean too much to us. You will be staying at Gaara's house, and untill Katoki's wounds have been fully healed, or the war ends, you shall stay there. Matsuri and myself will escort you around the village every saturday. Neither of you are in any condition to be fighting...especially you Hinata." Hinata looked bewildered, and looked at Katoki, who was pale.
"Especially me? What? Why?" Tsunade looked slightly smug, but Katoki groaned, rubbing his splinted arm with his bandaged one.
"Hinata-chan...do you remember that night, when you pushed me down the stairs?" Hinata flushed and Tsunade nearly laughed.
"Ee...I do...kinda..." Katoki looked away and said, red marring his face horribly.
"Er...umm....remember what you asked the next day?" Hinata's face remained red, and she looked down.
"Y-yea...I'm sorry for assuming that..." Katoki shook his head, and Tsunade let out a soft giggle, she couldnt take it anymore, she felt like exploding.
"Hinata! Katoki knocked you up! Congrats! Kouden's a big brother!" Hinata looked at Tsunade outburst, and Katoki slapped his hand to his face. Hinata's face went from lobster red to pale white, to sickly green.
"W-what...?"
Katoki sighed and twiddled with his necklace. Running a finger over the smooth green stone, he sighed again.
Hearing a faint click, he shoved the necklace under his shirt and turned to face the intruder.
"Hinata-chan...How are you feeling?" Hinata sighed and sat down beside Katoki.
"I feel worried." Katoki rested his head on hers and wrapped his arm around her waist.
"I'm really sorry...I didnt want for this to happen..." Hinata looked up at him and said, carefully,
"Dont be sorry...I'm not worried about that...Although I must admit that I dont think I'm quite ready for another child, I am excited...No, I'm worried about my other little one...I havent heard from him in a long time...Do you think he's ok?" Katoki grinned at her, and Hinata couldnt help but smile.
"He's with Jiraiya-sama...I'm sure he's ok." Hinata kept her smile, but Katoki saw the doubt in her eyes. Standing up, He pulled the dark haired Hyuuga to her feet and tugged her out of his room. Hinata questioned him, but he just looked back and smiled so hard his eyes closed. Hinata looked away, and Katoki's smiled dropped a bit.
At the end of the hall, Katoki stopped and Matsuri, now drinking the tea that she had been making, looked at them curiously.
"Matsuri-san...do you think you can escort us to the records room? Hinata wants to make sure her son isn't on the lists." Matsuri took another sip of her tea before setting the small cup down with a quiet chink.
"Alright. But only if you promise not to run off." Katoki nodded quickly, and Matsuri smiled.
"This is it!" Matsuri exclaimed as she brushed a lock of brown hair out of her eyes. Hinata shrank back, slightly winded from walking the long and winding corridors. Katoki looked in the room and sighed. There were piles of paper everywhere. Some piles reaching 6 or more feet. Matsuri walked over to a filing cabinet and said,
"Lucky for you, we have several attendants working in here. They sort things as they get them...Let's see, Hyuuga, right?" Hinata nodded, but the sandy brown haired woman didnt look back. Her face lightened up as she pulled out a file.
"Aha! Here, this is the file on all Hyuuga's registered for the war. Their status would be inside here." She said, as she handed Hinata the manilla file. Hinata looked at hesitantly. It was a good inch thick. Opening it, she saw a young girl, Hyuuga Akiko...Not recognizing her, Hinata moved on.
"Hanabi-chan...She's fighting too..." Katoki looked over her shoulder and at the picture.
"That's your little sister? She doesnt look much like you..." Hinata shook her head and turned the page. Instantly her anger rose before she could control it. Her hands were shaking and Katoki took the file from her.
"Is this your father? You look nothing like him, save your eyes. But then again, your eyes look like the byakugan, so you're all set. Mmm, Your sister looks a bit like him." Katoki ignored the small and sudden blossum of anxiety pop into his chest as he looked at Hinata. Her hands had stopped shaking, and she had a small smile on.
"Hanabi-chan used to brag when she was just starting academy, that she was the better sister, because she looked more like Otou-sama." Katoki dropped his grin again and turned the page. His heart instantly sunk to his feet. Hinata must have noticed the look on his face because she took a step closer.
"Katoki-kun? Is anything wrong? Katoki-kun?" Katoki was pale, and his blue eyes were wide. Hinata reached for the folder, but Katoki tried to move it away. Hinata used a small string of chakra to pluck the page out of the folder.
"Hinata-chan...dont-"
"K-koud-den..." Katoki winced at the quiet whimper that escaped her lips. It overpowered everything in the room, even Matsuri looked up from her busy scanning of the files. Hinata dropped the page and sank to her knees. Katoki carefully placed the folder onto the floor behind him, and sank slowly to his knees, being careful of his still sore arms. He placed a comforting hand on Hinata's arm and she looked up. Sucking in his breath, he had to force himself to stare into her eyes. They were devoid of any emotion...dead almost.
Reaching out to caress her face, he sucked in again when she flinched.
"Hinata, let's go back...You need to eat, and then to sleep. Think of the baby..." Hinata looked at him again with her dead eyes.
"I...I d-didnt wan-nt t-to rep-place K-koud-den...He's a-all I h-have left of N-naru-to..." Katoki looked away from her eyes and pulled her up, his eyes went back to the folder on the desk. He was glad that Hinata hadn't seen the next name. Giving a silent prayer for Neji, he pulle Hinata towards the door. Walking back to Gaara's house, Hinata didnt say a single word until a small child ran by laughing. Hinata started to sob, and Katoki carried her the rest of the way back.
Scratching at his face, Kouden opened his pale eyes when his fingers hit bandages instead of skin. Sitting up, Kouden gasped.
"Ahh, gaki. You're awake." Kouden turned his head to the side, and saw Jiraiya sitting by the window of the small cabin. Noticing the broken bottles and furniture littered everywhere, he said, slowly,
"Nnn...Where am I? What happened?" Jiraiya looked back out the window. It was midday, or late morning, Kouden decided. Thick and lush trees scraped against the side of window. Kouden found this odd, but couldnt think why.
"We are in the rain village right now...A good friend of mine had a small hut in the middle of nowhere he said I could use while we...hide. And gaki, you were hurt pretty bad. Not as bad as your friend there...I almost thought you two were goners, but luckily I happened to run into an old aquantance..."
Jiraiya walked slowly. He was exhausted. He had just transported two near dead bodies into a small cabin, and now he was seeking medical help. He was fairly sure that he was in Amegakure...but he was so tired...
Ignoring the various men's clubs was hard, but at the moment only one thing could occupy his mind. Bumping into a middle aged woman, he apologized, and started to walk away when he felt a tug on his sleeve.
"...Yes? Can I help yo-" SLAP. Jiraiya took a step back and raised a tired arm to touch his cheek. Glancing at the woman, his face paled and he waved his hands.
"Ah-ah! Yukari-chan! Ah....It's been a while..." the so called Yukari tossed her long black hair. Grey wings appeared at her temples, but she was still immensly handsome. Yukari glared at the tall man and said, sticking a finger at him,
"You. You left me alone!" Jiraiya tried to give a tight laugh, but Yukari's glare made his throat freeze. Massaging it, he said, rather slowly,
"Yukari-chan...You knew I was just staying for a week...I was on a mission..."
"You left me alone, WITH YOUR CHILD!" She yelled. Jiraiya paled. People on the streets were looking at them now, and Jiraiya ushered her off to an abandoned alleyway. Towering over her had no effect, but he tried anyway.
"What...?" He said, his voice tight and small. Yukari puffed her cheek out and said,
"I'm probably not the first one ether. I bet you have tons of kids, if you ever bothered to keep in touch." Jiraiya paled even more at this and said quickly,
"Yukari-chan-"
"Yukari, or Yukari-san." Jiraiya sighed.
"Yukari, it was a one night stand..." Yukari's face softened a bit and she said,
"You never wrote back. I heard you were in the village once, and you didnt even stop by..." Jiraiya sucked in his breath and said,
"I tried...I didn't remember where you had lived..." Yukari blushed and she looked at the ground.
"Oh...a-ano...Why are you here now?" Jiraiya almost sighed in relief as the topic changed.
"That's right, I need a medic...I dont care if they are a shinobi, or a midwife...I just need it now. I have two kids that will die if they get some attention right now..." Yukari's eyes widened and she quickly said,
"Natsuki-chan! She's a high class medic-nin here...She would be your daughter, by the way." Jiraiya didnt miss the glare she gave him and winced.
Yukari led him towards a large building whose sign said, in large glowing red letters, 'hospital'. Walking inside, a few people nodded their heads at her, and stared at Jiraiya. Every door that Jiraiya passed, he felt more and more nervous; and when Yukari finally stopped, and turned into a room, the frog sennin could have screamed with tension.
Peering around the corner, he saw a tall woman in her mid twenties. Her snow white hair was bound up in a fancy braided bun, and she wore a plain pair of blue scrubs. She was talking to a young boy, smiling the entire time. Jiraiya found himself starting to admire her, but reminded himself of their relation.
"Unfortunatly for me, she completely resembles you. She's even popular with the boys. Something I hoped was not hereditary." Jiraiya chuckled, which caugh the attention of Natsuki. Spotting her mother, she grinned widely and ruffled the boys hair, befire slipping him a peice of candy.
"Okaa-chan! What brings you here...Who is this?" Yukari hesitated but said,
"This man...well, Natsumi-chan, meet Jiraiya. Your father." Natsumi dropped her clipboard and her mouth gaped open. Yukari picked the board up and shook her daughter's shoulders.
"Jiraiya needs your help. He has two kids that are near death, apparently..." Natsumi turned her head towards her mother, still looking at Jiraiya, who was becoming more and more uncomfortable.
"Are they his? Are they my siblings?" Jiraiya's face reddened.
"No! They are more certainly not! Now, girl, are you gonna help me or not? One of them has strong connections, and all three of them would kill me if they ever saw me." Natsumi stuck a hip out and said,
"So you want me to save them, to save your ass?" Jiraiya shook his head and said,
"One of them is my apprentice, son of my former apprentice, legacy of my first apprentice. All three were stupid loud blondes, too. Just my luck." Natsumi looked at her mother, who was in turn gazing at her, before nodding. Jiraiya drooped with releif as she packed her bag full of medicine supplies.
Kouden looked over and saw Shiro, still asleep, but covered with bandages. Scratching his head, Kouden yawned and winced when his hand rubbed his nose.
"Ita...What happened to me? I cant remember anything...erm...I think the last thing I remember is sticking my tongue out at Shiro-teme..." Jiraiya sighed and said,
"Gaki, you've been out for a good three weeks. Shiro will be up soon, maybe a few more days. You both were cut up pretty bad. I'm surprised you woke up this early...you were hit pretty hard in the head. No, stop! Dont touch the bandages. If that cut doesnt heal, Tsunade's going to kill me." Kouden frowned. He opened his mouth to talk when the bamboo flap that served as a door flung open, and a pretty young woman with snow white hair sauntered into the room.
She handed Jiraiya a bag and smiled at him. Jiraiya smiled back, but Kouden saw a bit of uneasyness behind it.
"Ah! You're awake! How's your head?" Kouden looked up at the lady, and said quietly,
"It hurts, but not much though. Tolerable, compared to the rest of me." The lady nodded and Kouden continued.
"Ano...can I ask who you are, ne-chan?" The woman smiled and said,
"Natsumi. I'm Jiraiya's daughter, and your medic. Sorry about that, I didnt have enough chakra to mend much more than your insides. Chichi-ue didn't want you to scar, so you are going to have to heal the old fashioned way." Kouden shot a glare at Jiraiya, but he was immensely surprised to hear that she was his daughter. Jiraiya looked embarrassed. Kouden carefully laid back and started to fret about his mother. Jiraiya seemed to read his thoughts and said,
"Dont worry, Kouden. Hinata-san is safe and well. I can tell." Kouden sighed, and Natsumi started to check over Shiro.
End Chapter 34