Face to face with death

Kai was much more exuberant than usual and Neyo also seemed much more relaxed. The deserted country road was rather bumpy and lined with trees. Some branches reached across the street with the gnarled branches, so that one had to duck. The sun was shining and Kai could hardly imagine how Neyo could handle the black chasm in the heat. He looked over his shoulder at Neyo. "Duck!" called the rear quay. Who ducked quickly before he could run into a thick branch that was almost overflowing with flowers. "Thanks ..." mumbled Kai and shortly before another accident could happen, Kai stopped because two girls were standing in front of him. He looked at one, then his gaze wandered to the other and he hardly noticed a difference. Except that one of the young girls wore glasses, rectangular ones that gave her the sharp look of a teacher. Black, long, wavy hair fringed the delicate faces of the obvious twins. One was holding a baby, no older than 1 year if it came up.Kai estimated the girls to be just under 13 or 14. The one on the right had a bandage tied around her leg, it started at the ankle and disappeared just above the knees under her black dress. "Neyo!" called the one with the glasses. "Mena? Alya? What are you doing here?" The uncertainty in Neyo's tone was clearly audible. “Father has had a tantrum,” said the one with the baby in her arms, sounding like a mouse. And only now did a switch flip on Kai's. It was Neyo's sister. He had never seen either of them. And, if he should be completely honest, they didn't look like their brother at all, they reminded Kai more of Spanish women, with their long, wavy hair and gently tanned skin. Still, the look in her eyes was one that Kai only knew from Neyo.
“He threw a sword at Alya,” Mena said, her tone actually matching that of a teacher. Neyo went to his sister, the younger of the twins, held the baby in his hands and lifted the bandage on her leg approx.15 cm upwards.
A long, blood-red wound adorned the slender leg from the ankle. Neyo almost lost the toddler that he was holding totally wrong anyway. With his arms outstretched, he held the poor child under his arms. The feet dangled limply downwards. "Neyo !! This is a baby, not a bomb !!" one of the younger sisters hissed at him.
Kai just stood there with an indefinable expression on his face. "Take it like you would hold a cat ..." Alya tried to give her brother an instruction. "Likewise, if I had a cat ..." protested Neyo. Mena sighed and took the youngest member of the family with him. “Still, what are you doing here?” Alya hid the wound under the bandage again. "Visiting you ..." she said, so quietly that Kai could hardly hear anything. Neyo just nodded. "Okay ... here!" he handed Mena the keys to the room where he and Kai slept. "Aimi will come there tomorrow too ... Kai and I have to go on a mission anyway ..." Alya smiled friendly in Kai's direction, as if she had only noticed him now.The girls said goodbye and walked away in the other direction. Alya a little slower than her sister, she also seemed to limp minimally. Kai turned to his comrade. "Hey ... what was that supposed to mean?" Neyo turned away and walked on. "Hey, I'm talking to you!" shouted Kai and rushed after him. "I'm not listening to you!" countered Neyo and went on, after about half an hour, Kai gave up, because they had reached their destination anyway.
The building looked exactly as it was described. The Hokage's office was said to be on the second floor. The door to the outside wasn't locked and Kai and Neyo entered. They came to a stop on the second floor, in front of the third door on the left. Kai knocked. A young woman with dark hair opened the door and the boys entered slowly. A woman stood by the window and watched what was going on outside. Kai looked at the woman who had opened the door for them.“When is the Hokage coming…?” She smiled and wordlessly pointed to the woman at the window. "Oh, should I ask her?" Before Neyo could protest or hold him back, Kai tapped the blonde on the shoulder. She turned to him. "Do you know when the Hokage is coming? We got a message that we should ..." Neyo covered his mouth from behind. "Sorry, Hokage-sama," he apologized and pulled Kai away. "Are you crazy?!" Neyo snapped at him softly. "Idiot!" he threw Kai at the head, then turned to the woman when she spoke up.
"Well, I'm Tsunade ... and I'm the Hokage." Surprisingly, Kai found a smile on her face. "I really am ..." he started, but she interrupted him. "It's okay, unfortunately I can't let you carry out the mission that I want you to do on your own, that's why ..." She dug into mountains of paper. "Oh here ... you will be accompanied, his team is also currently unavailable, one of his comrades was seriously injured in the fight, and the third member of the group urgently needed to follow up on family problems.So ... he'll be waiting for you in front of the Hyuuga Clan ... "Kai's name was already familiar," Mhm ... "Neyo nodded and disappeared through the door with Kai in tow." Now I know it again ... The girl in the Sitting next to me in writing, was called Hyuuga ... "Neyo looked at him puzzled." You know what? "He said then." Nope, what? "Neyo grinned." I'm proud of you, you haven't dated a girl in two weeks ... "Kai's eyes widened." That's right ... Thanks for telling me that, I have to make up for that ... !! "Neyo sighed. Secretly he wished he hadn't said that. They were on their way to the Hyuuga Clan." Maybe she is ... "thought Kai, but Neyo shook his head." Tsunade will definitely not call the girl " "Designate him ..." Kai had to agree, she really wouldn't have done that. "I know who it is!" Said Neyo suddenly and pointed to a single rock, which was positioned next to the entrance to the Hyuuga Clan, on which a boy was sitting .Kai was about to throw up. "Oh right, there is Neji Hyuuga too ..." Neyo nodded. When Neji jumped off the stone, he landed right in front of the Kai and wasn't particularly enthusiastic.
"We're supposed to look for a team that hasn't returned from the last mission ..." said Neji and hung a demonstrative sigh at the back. “And where were you sent?” Neyo was not impressed by the lack of sympathy between the two of them. "In the direction of Suna and Oto ... they are probably through the forest ..." Neji theorized and Neyo started walking immediately, Kai followed him and Neji brought up the end. The three took the same route that Kai and Neyo had gone. In order not to have to avoid a thin branch, Neyo pushed it aside and waited until Kai put his hand on it to let go of it and move on. Only Kai wasn't so friendly and let the branch hiss back. With a small noise that sounded like a mouse jumped into a lake, the branch made a red trail on Neji's cheek.For a moment he stood motionless. Then a hand went to his cheek. In a split second, Neji's eyes seemed to sparkle. “You didn't do that for nothing, you second-rate womanizer!” Without further ado, Kai decided that it would be better for his health to run away. But that didn't help either. The kunai that was coming at him was too fast to evade him. Before digging into the tree behind Kai, it punched a hole through the fabric of its shirt and nailed it to the tree.
Neji came up to him casually, still with a clear mark on his cheek, another kunai in hand. "You don't dare do that again!" he hissed as he raised the kunai to Kai's neck. Slowly the weapon came closer and closer to Kai's skin. Neyo appeared behind Neji and grabbed him by the sleeper. "Hey, stop that guys ... that wasn't on purpose ...!" But Neyo knew better himself, gave Kai a derogatory look, let Neji down and freed Kai's shirt from the captivating Kunai."Thanks ..." muttered Kai. "Idiot!" was the answer. Kai gave a disapproving throat clearing, then followed Neyo and Neji into the woods. All three were silent for a while.
Then Kai spoke up, as usual. "Neji ...?" This turned around to him only halfway interested. "Hinata ... is she your sister?" Neji shook his head. "But she's a cousin ... why?" Kai grinned and looked at him cheekily. “She's cute, does she have a boyfriend?” Neji was almost boiling over with anger. "You leave her alone, is that clear?" Kai just kept grinning. "So, no?" His counterpart was almost at his throat again. And Kai had nothing better to do than just grin mischievously.
“I don't know, but it would be a nice change from all the chicks, wouldn't it?” Neji was on the verge of madness again and Kai was on the verge of death. "Shut up or I'll kill you!" hissed the Hyuuga. Kai just grinned. “Leave Hinata alone!” Kai continued to grin."Maybe ... maybe not, who knows ... Did you know that Tenten was into me ... or was ... huh? Did you know?" Neji's insides were boiling and Neyo was already thinking about what Kai's coffin should look like. "Prefer black or brown?" he asked Kai without turning back to face him. "Um ... brown ...!" he replied without going into it. Neji strangled Kai with his gaze. Kai laughed. That only made Neji even more angry, which was to be expected.
"Listen, you're getting on my nerves a lot ... Kai!" Neji literally spat out his name. "... You keep your dirty fingers off my cousin and Tenten, CLEAR ?!" Kai was still grinning. "We'll see, and ... don't scream like that ..." Neji, however, looked like he was about to go into a screaming fit. And again Neyo intervened. "Hey! Are you still okay?" He poked Kai on the chest with one hand, so that he took a step backwards. "Would you like to leave your cousins ​​alone?"He looked Neji in the eye, Neji looked away. "It's enough then! Have you calmed down?" Neji nodded briefly, Kai just went on. Neyo sighed and followed him. Neji caught up, if not in a particularly good mood. Kai stopped. "What ... is that" he managed, pointing to a tree trunk. As Neyo got closer, he saw that there was an unmistakable red driver on the bark of the tree. "Blood ..." gasped Neji. Neyo