"So, what do you need?" Ookami asked.
"You're help. Do you think you can get a... Fallen back to her Human form?"
Ookami looked at the Sei-Tenshi, eyes wide.
"W-what?" The Bijuu stuttered out, blinking.
Tsuki sighed. "You heard me, Haiiro. Don't make me repeat myself." Tsuki said, looking down. The raven played with a strand of her hair, shifting foot-to-foot.
Ookami turned her back to the group. "I don't know what you're talking about!" The bijuu stated icily.
Tsuki raised an eyebrow at the wolf bijuu. "Ookami, I really don't think you should say-" The sei was cut off by Naruto. "What do you mean you don't know what we're talking about? Either you get Hinata back, or I'll-" Naruto kept on ranting, shouting out threats and cursing to the shocked bijuu; no one had ever spoken to Ookami Haiiro like that. Tsuki smirked, an eyebrow raised. She had never seen Ookami so shocked. Sakura, scared of Naruto's sudden out burst, started backing away slowly, hiding behind Tsuki.
At the end of the blonds' rant, Ookami looked completely shocked, blue eyes wide. She then smiled softly, her eyes sparkling.
Naruto tilted his head to the side, confused. Tsuki giggled at the sight of the teen. He looked just like a little kid. "What's going on? Why the hell are you smiling?" Naruto shouted, fed up with the wolf-girl.
Ookami ruffled Naruto's hair, laughing a bit. Despite how she looked, Ookami Haiiro was over one thousand years old, born in Feudal Japan. She had been attacked by wolves; got beaten to a bloody pulp. How ironic, considering who she was now. After getting separated in a forest, Ookami had tried to find her friend -and crush- Souken Aino, but ended up wandering into a wolf pack den. Ookami thought back to Souken. He probably moved on. She then remembered the blond in front of her. He looked so much like Souken; just remove the whisker scars, replace the blond hair with slightly longer black hair, and change the azure colour of his eyes to a deep purple color. They could be twins.
She was then brought back to the present. Ookami's eyes softened even more. "Naruto-chan, do you love Hinata-chan with all of your heart?" Naruto nodded. "More than anything."
Sakura smiled; Hinata would have loved to hear that.
Ookami sighed, then a small frown spread across her face. Naruto'sheart dropped. "Now, I don't normally do this, but I'll help you, okay?" She said, smiling warmly.
Naruto kept shouting "Thank you, thank you!" over and over, Sakura just smiled, wiping away a stray tear.
Tsuki looked at Ookami.
"Arigatou."
Hinata narrowed her eyes through the pouring rain at the city of Konohagakure.
"She stands in the rain..." Hinata whispered softly to herself, reciting part of a poem she had remembered faintly.
Rain... had always connected two people, no matter how far they were. That's what Hinata used to think. Now, darkness did that for her. Unlike rain, that could only go to a few places at once, darkness could spread everywhere.
All you needed was a little light.
A demon appeared. He had long silver hair tied back in a low ponytail. He was clad in a black shirt and pants. Kabuto.
"Hai, Kabuto-kun?" Hinata asked the demonic figure.
"It's pretty cold out. Come inside. Master wouldn't want you to get sick." Kabuto said, genuinely worried.
"I'm fine." Hinata sighed, scowling at the word Master. Sasuke had taken care of Orochimaru just before Hinata joined them. This was a new master... Pein.
With an exasperated sigh, Hinata walked up the stairs of the Ice Castle.
Only a couple more days... Hinata thought, taking another step. The rain stopped.
Hinata looked up, the clouds were clearing. The moon shone brightly overhead. Although it wasn't just any moon... the Blue Moon.
Hinata then remembered a conversation she had with Sasuke on the eve of his death.
_:_:_:_:_:_Flashback_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_
"Hinata, I've given up! I don't want to deal with this anymore!" Sasuke shouted, he looked as if he'd gone insane. Then again, he probably did.
"Sasuke, don't talk like that! You have Sakura and Naruto and me to think about. You don't have to waste your time on revenge." Hinata said, crying.
"Who said I thought about revenge?" Sasuke said, running back to Konoha.
"Sasuke!"
_:_:_:_:_:_Flashback over_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_
'Don't waste your time on revenge.' Pointless advice, considering what I'm doing now. Hinata thought, walking up to the Castle of Ice.
Hinata, although she wouldn't admit it, because if she did she would have surely been executed, no matter how high her rank was, had not completely fallen out of love with Naruto.
When inside, Hinata hesitated for a moment, then called out for the one person who could do this job right.
"Itachi!"
Itachi appeared in a dark silhouette, stoic as usual.
Sakura, Naruto, even Ookami looked shocked at the demons' sudden appearance. Tsuki however, was calm and stoic on the outside, but having to hold herself down on the inside as to not kill the demon.
The Sei-Tenshi stepped forward. "What are you doing here?" She said icily.
Itachi smirked. Damn him. Damn that smirk. "I'll ask again. What are you doing?" She said, advancing towards him. It took all her will not to lunge forward and strangle her demon brother.
"I came with our location. At the edge of Kiseki Forest. Hinata-sama will be waiting." He said, and disappeared.
"What do we do now?" Ookami asked.
Tsuki turned. "Is Otoha still around?"
Ookami, Sakura, Naruto, and Tsuki had been walking down the valleys' pathways, Along the way, They met another Bijuu, Otoha (Otoha means "Sound Leaf" I think.). She, by the looks of it, was a fox bijuu. She wore a black headband over bleached blue hair, had a pale face, had soft silver-blue eyes, and had two white fox ears poking out from under the headband. She looked about the age of eight, maybe nine.
"This is Otoha." Ookami introduced the fox girl.
"Konichiwa!" The little girl said chirpily. She had a gentle, loving aura surrounding her as Ookami held a somewhat motherly, overprotective nature about her.
Otoha did not have a normal past, like most Bijuu. Most bijuu died from murder or just illness. And they were usually over the age of thirteen... Otoha's story is very different. She died at the young age of eight, nine actually. It was her birthday. It was the late 1600's, and Otoha Aiwas turning nine years old. She, with a few of her friends and sister Nyoko played down at the river. Otoha had wandered a little too far out, and drowned.
Her parents had always loved Otoha more than Nyoko. Well, Otoha's father did anyway. Her mother tried everything she could to make things fair, but was too frightened by Otoha's father to do much. After Otoha's death, her father became enraged his 'perfect' daughter had died. And because Nyoko looked so much like Otoha, with the exception of Nyoko being one year older than the blue haired girl, their father took Nyoko out of school, and changed her name to Otoha, saying Nyoko died that fateful day.
"Ookami-Chan Tsuki-Chan, what'chya need?" She asked perkily, jumping up and down slightly.
Naruto stepped up. "We need your help."
A/N: A little NaruHina reference with Hinata, huh?
Actually, I've lost interest in Naruto, a little. I still love it, don't worry, but I'm drifting back to my "Bleach" days. I just luv IchiRuki!
~Adieu!
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