I am sorry that this chappie took so long, but it was a real bitch to write! goddamit, i thought i'd never finnish it and that when i went to college i'd still be writing it, but i did it! and you're probably gonna hate me by the end of this chappie but it all on the job description, ne? oh well, heres the long awaited chappie 4! enjoy
Chapter 4: Hide and Seek
"Who could've done this?" whispered Kiba.
"Well, its obvious, isn't it?" said Anne, in a tone that was very unlike hers, "it was Mary and Barbie! Oh, are those two gonna get it good!" she growled. She tried to get off Shino's back, but he held on tight. She looked at him as if telling him to let go. Shino stared back. Any other person wouldn't have been able to see Shino's eyes through his shades, but Anne was so close to his face, that she could see his eyes. They were beetle black eyes, and unlike his teammates, he had normal eyes.
"You can't walk yet, your ankle's swelling," Shino said.
"So you do talk," Anne said. Then Shino shifted and laid her on the undone bed. It suddenly hit Anne that he had not shown any signs of strain while running with her on his back or now when he laid her down. He's strong…Once she was seated, he rummaged for something in his pocket and he took out some bandages.
"You carry bandages in your pockets?" she asked
"…" said Shino, he simply crouched down and started bandaging her ankle.
"Yeah, you never know when you may need them," Kiba said, but he kept on looking at Samantha. He would've preferred for her to go on a rage, to start screaming, yelling, crying, even hitting him if it made her feel better, but the uncertainty was killing him. But then he felt some fast movements behind him. He looked back and he saw Hinata making some hand seals.
"Byakugan!" she said, and her eyes turned into those feared white eyes. Anne shrieked, backing up clumsily, and by clumsily I mean that she accidentally kicked Shino in the face on her rush to get away. Samantha gasped. Those eyes… she knew that they were creepy, but she didn't think that it would be this creepy seeing them up close. She felt naked; she felt some invisible force make pressure that she couldn't literally feel. This was so horrible! She just wanted to run away, get as far as she could from this horrible feeling. But then she felt a hand lay gently on her shoulder. She looked back and saw Kiba. He wasn't exactly smiling, but his eyes calmed her down. Kiba understood her perfectly. He remembered that the first time he saw Hinata's Byakugan, he had literally screamed of fear and jumped onto a nearby tree, and even though he was used to it by now, it secretly still freaked him out a bit. Samantha was braver than he thought. Hinata walked around the room, then she bent down and picked something up. But when she held it up, none of them could see what it was. Kiba approached her and saw that it was a hair, a short blond hair. He took it and gave it to Anne.
"It's my sister's," she said, eyes not parting from Hinata. What was that girl? Why did her eyes get so horrible? Did something possess her? And why was Shino's nose bleeding? Oh, right, she hit him. But how could've Hinata find something as small as a hair in the middle of all this chaos? For not only clothes were ripped, but also the shelves had been flipped on the floor, scattering all of its contents. That was strange, the clothes were something, but what could her sister win by simply messing all those things up? It was no actual damage, so what would she want? Was she looking for something? But what could she possibly…
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Anne shrieked with all her might, then she jumped to the floor and started looking frantically for something.
"Wha- what is it, Anne?" asked Samantha worriedly.
"It's not here… it's not here…" Anne just kept whispering.
"What? Is something missing?" asked Kiba.
"Yes! It's a necklace! A locket and its not here!" said Anne, tears leaking from her eyes.
"Byakugan!" Hinata's eyes became more focused, so she could now see through walls. She searched on the lower floor frantically. She felt responsible for all this. She had had a premonition that something bad would happen, but if she wouldn't have been so weak, none of this would've happened, and her new friends, who were letting them stay here risking getting into trouble, wouldn't be in this mess. Then she saw it: Two blond heads in a room on the lower floor, one with short hair showing the other one a necklace in her hand.
"They have it, Carol and Mary, they've got the locket," said Hinata releasing her Byakugan.
"Oh, am I going to kick her sorry – owww!" Anne tried getting up, but her ankle throbbed so hard that she fell down again.
"Stupid, ankle…" she growled.
"I'll get it!" Hinata said firmly. They all looked at her; what was she thinking?
"I feel responsible for all this; from the beginning I knew we shouldn't have gone out, but I didn't object. Now it's my fault that this happened," she said.
"Hinata…" Anne whispered, looking at her with thankful eyes. Hinata headed for the door.
"Wait!" Samantha said, she looked a little at the mess, and she found an untouched hat and some sunglasses.
"Your hair color and eyes will draw too much attention, you'd better wear this, and just for safe keeps, I'm going with you!" she said smiling, putting on the white cap on Hinata's head and the sunglasses on her white, pupil-less eyes. They went cautiously down the stairs, crossed the receiver and went to the room corridor on the first floor. They headed for Carol and Mary's room. Once they were there, Samantha started punching the door.
"Open the door, Mary!" she said loudly. Hinata activated her Byakugan again and saw that there was no one in.
"They're not inside!" she said. They must've gone out! The two girls ran upstairs to Samantha's room where the guys were waiting.
"They've gone out! We have to go outside!" said Hinata urgently.
"But the reporters are outside!" said Anne.
"Not a problem, I've got an idea!" said Kiba.
"What do you have in mind?" asked Samantha…
Once outside, they hid behind a store, watching the reporters like hungry lions hunting out for prey. They were keeping their eyes open for any signs of—
"Look! It's her! The Riverti heir!" one of them screamed, and they ran after the girl. After they were sure that the coast was clear of all reporters, they came out from their hideout.
"Thank goodness that he runs so fast; I don't know what would be of you if it were you who were running from them, they would've probably eaten you by now," said Anne, suppressing a laugh.
"Yeah, it was a pretty good idea to use Henge to lure the reporters into thinking that Kiba was me," said Samantha, "but there's no time, we've got to find Mary," and so, they ran forward to find their missing blond. They looked and looked, but Anne's twin was nowhere to be found. Anne was getting desperate now.
"Think, Anne, think! Why would your sister want that necklace? What would she do with it?" Samantha asked her friend. Anne sighed.
"Well, our parents died in a car crash when we were three. It was out birthday then, but something happened a few days before…"
Flashback
Little three-year-old Anne was looking around the house. She wasn't looking for anything in specific, anything would be fine really. Her birthday would be in a few days and knowing her parents, they would've bought her and her sister presents before hand. She searched in her father's office, standing on her tiptoes to be able to see on her father's desk. She looked inside her mother's purse. She looked in the closet. She looked inside each and every one of her mother's clothing shelves, until she found a little box.
"Anne, what are you doing?" asked her Father.
"This's mine! Right?" she said lifting up the small box. Her father laughed, and picked his little girl up.
"Well, you're too smart for us to hide your presents from you. Yes, that is your birthday present." Anne looked at the little box, rattled it in her ear, and then she just kept looking at it.
"Aren't you going to open it?" her father asked, curious at why she hadn't opened it yet.
"Where's Mary's?" she asked.
"It's hidden. We hid them at separate locations. But please don't tell your sister that you found your present, we want it to be a surprise."
"Okay daddy!"
Three days later…
The Whither family was driving in a rainy night. The two three-year-old twins were scared by all the thunder; therefore they were hugging each other.
"Don't worry girls, the lightning wont do anything to you," Their mother tried to soothe them down. The girls became a little bit calmer, but they still held hands.
"Besides, girls, it's your birthday today! So, since I guess that we'll be taking a bit longer because of this storm, I'll give you your presents right now! But these aren't ordinary presents, this is something very special. They are family heirlooms, so you must take very good care of them. Firs off we have Anne's present!" she said cheerily, handing over the little box that Anne had discovered a few days ago. This time she didn't open it either.
"Hun, where's Mary's present?" Mrs. Whither asked. Mr. Whither searched blindly with his hand underneath his seat and found nothing. Then he quickly took a look and spotted the little box in the far corner. He stretched out to get it…
"LOOK OUT!"
"EEEEEEEEEEK!"
"EEEEEEEEEEK!"
BEEEEEEEEEP!
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!
Everything went in that sequence, and then everything was drowned by a tremendous CRASH! Blaring alarms could be heard, but nothing really made sense. They felt lightheaded, and they all went into a state of blissful unconsciousness, but two of them never woke up…
End of Flashback
"I don't remember much of my childhood, but I remember that day like it was today. She's always had a grudge against me because I have something mom and dad gave us and she didn't get hers. She'll probably sell it or something, since she's crazy about money and material stuff, that's part of why she decided to take everything out on out clothes instead of us," explained Anne.
"So you're saying that we have to go to the nearest jewelry shop. Well then we'd better hurry, 'cause I don't know how much will Kiba be able to keep those reporters busy," said Sam, and they all headed for the closest jewelry shop they knew. They walked in and indeed, the two blonds were apparently selling the necklace.
"Stop right there, Mary!" yelled Anne from Shino's back, pointing an accusing finger at her twin. Mary simply glared at her, growling from deep in her throat. She had the grudge of many, many years piled up in her chest and clouding her sight and she was not going to stop now! She slammed the necklace on the counter.
"How much for it?" she nearly yelled from her rage.
"Oh, no you don't!" said Samantha going forward to grab the necklace, but Mary was quicker and grabbed it before she did. And so, both girls started wrestling for the necklace.
"Let go!"
"No!"
"Give it!"
Many things like those could be heard as the girls fought to grab a hold of the necklace.
"Both of you! Stop! Get out of my store!" Yelled the salesman, and he shoved them all out of the store, leaving Samantha and Mary wrestling for the necklace on the floor. Samantha was on top of Mary, trying with all her might to retrieve the necklace from her hands, but Mary found a way to push Samantha off her and she set off at a run along with Carol. Samantha, Hinata, and Shino with Anne on his back, bolted after them, hot on their heels. They ran for like a minute, but Shino decided to end this once and for all.
"Hold on!" he said, and without a moment's hesitation, he made an amazing summersault and landed in front of the two blonds. Anne was with her eyes wide open, still clinging on to Shino as if her life depended on it, (well, it had a few second ago). Mary and Carol, seeing that their route was blocked, stopped so suddenly that they slid on the floor for a second and then they fell on their butts. Then Samantha made a jump that could've easily passed as a ninja-level jump and tackled Mary, once again wrestling for the necklace. But then it turned into an unfair play as soon as Carol started pulling Samantha by her hair. Shino simply hit Carol with the edge of his hand on the back of her neck and she was out cold.
"Teach me how to do that, will you?" Anne said as Samantha and Mary continued to struggle, but a sudden sound made them all freeze in their movements, like a short explosion, a bullet.
"That sounded close," said Samantha
"Too close," Mary immediately said. Bam! The second shot would've hit Hinata if she hadn't had the reflexes to get away. They all looked to where the bullet had come from and saw a man standing on the nearest house roof. They had not noticed that they were in a very dangerous alleyway.
"What do you want?" asked Anne; fear clearly imprinted in her voice.
"I only want the Riverti," he said, and Samantha noticed that he had a strong Italian accent.
"What do you want with her?" asked Shino, standing in front of Samantha.
"If you don't get out of the way, I'll shoot you kid! Don't make much of a fuss and give the girl to me so nobody gets hurt," he said pointing his gun at Shino's chest. Shino held his ground.
"No? Oh, well, I warned you!" he yelled, and she pulled the trigger.
"Mushikabe no Justu!" Shino exclaimed, making rapid hand seals, and a thick wall of bugs surrounded them.
"Hinata!" he said. Hinata got the message instantly. She started doing hand seals.
"Byakugan!" Her eyes turned white and she saw what was going on outside the wall: it seemed like the man was freaking out as he kept on shooting and the bullets didn't penetrate the bug wall, but then she saw something that was simply not good.
"Shino-kun! Kiba-kun is approaching!" she said urgently.
"Kuso!" Shino cursed under his breath; he had to think quickly!
"Hinata! Grab everyone and run! I will distract him and warn Kiba! Ready, steady… GO!" the wall around them diminished, Hinata grabbed Anne and put her on her back at top speed and the girls ran, and Shino jumped, therefore dodging another bullet, and he made a flip so that he jumped over their attacker's head and landed behind him. The guy had been so astonished by this boy's inhuman jump that he didn't do anything about the fist approaching his face. The strength of the punch made the man fall from the roof to the floor, yet the distance wasn't all that much so it didn't kill him, but it knocked him out. But then he heard something that made chills run through his spine:
"EEEK!"
Bam!
"KIBAA!…"
"'I'll use Henge' I said, 'you go and find Mary' I said!" Kiba said mentally kicking himself, running away from the reporters. He was starting to think that they were ninjas instead of normal people; they were incredibly fast and persistent, and they didn't seen to get tired! He was getting sick of this, so he decided to freak them out a bit. His plan was to cross the street and jump the building on the other side's roof, but what he didn't count on was the car coming at full speed down the street, but he noticed a second too late. The car screeched trying to come to a stop, but it had been coming too fast, it would collapse hard anyway. Kiba then did the first thing his brain allowed him to do: out of mere reflexes (and despair) he gave one of his super jumps, flipped in the air and landed in the back part of the car, making it sink a little under his weight. The car had come to a full stop when he landed, so he could regain his balance easily, but another thing he didn't count was that another car came at top speed behind that one, and this one did crash with great force, completely destroying the car's bumper and making Kiba loose his balance and fall on his butt. The driver from the car that had just collapsed with them came out of his car.
"What the hell just happened? What are you doing there? You could've died!" Said the driver who was in his late 40's.
"Whoa, kid! Hat was some friggin' awesome jump! How'd cha do that! Did you see that, man? That chick went over the car with one jump. It was totally awes—oh man, dad's gonna kill me!" said the driver of the car on which Kiba was on top. He was a punk boy on his late teens. Kiba huffed proudly.
"It was nothing," he said smugly. These people were so easy to impress. If all the Shinobi he knew were to make a circus here and show them some basic things they'd be rich! But a sudden uproar of unintelligible questions reminded him why he was running. He tried to jump, but his ankle was grabbed by one of the reporters. He tried to fight him off, but his other limbs were being grabbed tight. He felt like if they were zombies about to eat him alive. They pulled him to the ground like quicksand sucking down a person and drowned him with questions. The lack of space and air was making him suffocate, and he was far from claustrophobic. The shining flashed from the cameras were blinding him, preventing him from thinking straight. He was going to scream if this didn't end anytime soon! Then he felt a hand grab his wrist tightly and lead him away from all the chaos. When the zombies – ahem – I mean, reporters, saw that their prey had gotten out, they all looked and saw that the punk was running away with him. They tried to follow, but then the punk yelled:
"Get away or I'll sue!" he yelled, and, as if by magic, the reporters stopped dead in their tracks with angry looks on their faces, some even hissed. Great, so they're not zombies, they're vampires. And so Kiba and the punk ran off. They finally stopped when they got to an alleyway at least 6 blocks away from there. They both caught their breaths before they spoke.
"Thanks," Kiba said once he had recovered most of his breath.
"Hey, no prob, those guys were eating you back there! But you gotta show me how you did that!" he said looking at him with his eyes wide in admiration.
"Heh, let me show you another thing," he said acquiring that very characteristic Kiba-smile. There was a small poof and the body of Samantha was replaced by the body of our one and only Kiba. The guy nearly kissed Kiba's feet out of awe and amazement.
"Listen pal, I'd love to show you everything I know and make you my apprentice and for you to call me Kiba-sensei (you still can) but I have to go and help some friends,"
"Aw, man, well, maybe we can get together sometime!"
"Yeah, I'm sure we could…" (A/N: you're sure that you'll never see him again! You liar!) "…Well, see ya!" and with that Kiba jumped to the nearest roof and made his way to look for his friends.
He went roof by roof, but he didn't see anything. But then he heard a gunshot.
"Trouble!" he said to himself, and he went towards the sound. Any normal person, or even a shinobi, wouldn't be able to hear it, but the Inuzuka's supernatural, dog-like hearing was still able to hear the echoes of the gunshot. He could hear that he was close, but then he saw from the distance Hinata with Anne on her back, Samantha, Carol and Mary running away; Shino was nowhere in sight. What was going on? But then he saw a man come out of nowhere and grab Samantha by her waist.
"EEEEK!" she shrieked as she tried to get him off. Kiba jumped down, but before he landed, he kicked the man in the face, making him fall back and loose grip on Samantha. But then another one on them came out of nowhere and next thing Kiba knew—BAM… he was on the ground with a bleeding shoulder. He could hear the distant calls of Hinata, Anne and Samantha…
"KIBAA!"
HA! you shouldve seen your face when i left u in that cliff hanger! your face was like... well, i have no idea what your face was like but you shouldve seen it! um, come on now... you-you love really... GAH! -hides under a rock from all of her angry readers- R&R plzz?