The Lilac Heiress & The Bronze Trident

Lights Out

Chapter Five:

She had to admit...Beetee was one smart man, she thought as she helped the man wrap the wire around the tree while Katniss wrapped the other end of the wire to her arrow. Peeta and Finnick were tending to their wounds they had gotten from the monkey mutts they had encountered during their time hunting. Akamaru watched the two men converse and fix their wounds with interest, barking every now and then when he was included in the conversation. She giggled when Akamaru tackled Finnick who had said that he should get another dog so it could rape the ninken 'all the way to Twelve'. Peeta, meanwhile, was laughing like there was no tomorrow with his arms wrapped around himself and tears of laughter rolling down his cheeks as he did so. She was too busy laughing with Peeta that she didn't notice Johanna and Katniss leave until three men charged at them. Hinata acted rapidly, getting in front of Peeta, Finnick, and Akamaru, and proclaiming, "Hakkeshō Kaiten (Eight Trigrams: Heavenly Spin)!" with a soft lavender dome forming around her as she spun, expelling her chakra. The three men flew into trees and passed them without stop until they hit the fifth tree as Hinata halted her spinning, her Byakugan blazing in her lilac eyes. "Are you three okay?" She asked without glancing back. Through her kekkei genkai, she saw and heard the two men nod and the ninken bark in afirmative. She smiled in relief and saw a silver blur head towards her. Her eyes narrowed and spun around it, grabbing it in one fluid motion, before throwing it back towards the owner. She saw two men get speared through the neck and pinned into a nearby tree, their eyes wide with shock as blood pooled down to the ground. The last man grew angry, his eyes burning with rage, and he grabbed his two swords before running towards her rapidly. She slid into her Jūho stance, her face held in a soft scowl as she did so, with the sword-wielding man swinging at her. She knocked off both swords with chakra-filled two-finger jabs at the wrists' nerves. She elbowed his chest, making him stumble back, and stated calmly, "You're within my range of divination." She then smirked, so foreign on her soft and gentle features, as a glowing green eight trigrams seal appeared underneath the two with a yin yang symbol underneath her, and proclaimed, "Hakke Hyaku Nijūhachi Shō (Eight Trigrams: One Hundred and Twenty Eight Palms)!" She charged with inhuman speed and started her assault,

"Ni Shō (Two Palms)!"

"Yon Shō (Four Palms)!"

"Hachi Shō (Eight Palms)!"

"Jūroku Shō (Sixteen Palms)!"

"Sanjūni Shō (Thirty-Two Palms)!"

"Rokujūyon Shō (Sixty-Four Palms)!"

"Hyaku Nijūhachi Shō (One Hundred and Twenty Eight Palms)!"

With a chakra-filled palmed strike to the chest, the man slammed into the tree, sliding down lifelessly with Peeta, Finnick, and Beetee looking at her with awe and fright. Katniss then limped into the clearing, bow in hand as blood rolled down her arm in a steady stream. "Katniss! Hurry! The lightning's about to strike!" Beetee urged, tossing the wired arrow to the Everdeen who expertly caught it and loaded it in before holding it up, aiming it at a weak spot in the forcefield, before firing. During this, Hinata felt a chillingly warm chakra signature run through her like a haunting current of water, making her eyes vacant of the Byakugan widen considerably in shock. As the tip of the arrow pecked the forcefield, lightning struck at the wired tree and coursed through the wires towards the buried arrow, she parted her lips to speak, to utter one word as an explosion blew all of them back from the sheer force of it.

"Hotaru..."