Harven (English)

Eleven

"What a huge place!" - Tenten said when faced with the huge corridors full of doors scattered throughout them. "Do we have to look at them all?" – Neji opened one of the doors and saw that they were small quarters for the former employees.

"I don't think we're going to find anything very useful here. Let's look at the one over there that's bigger..." He pointed to the room at the end of the hall. They walked without haste while Neji didn't hide his gazes at Tenten.

"What's it? Rascal!" - She accused after seeing him nibble her lower lip.

"I'm thinking about that kiss that didn't happen..."

"It's over, you won't get another chance." - Tenten scoffed and they both laughed.

"Not even if I ask nicely?" Neji turned abruptly towards Tenten, cornering her against the hallway wall, keeping her in his arms. Tenten laughed shyly and blushed.

"Not even if you ask nicely..." he whispered smiling and then he slid his back along the wall down his body until he was tall enough to go under Neji's arm. She took a few steps forward and looked over her shoulder at him laughing at the indignant expression Neji had on her face. "Come on, handsome."

They stopped in front of the big door and opened it carefully. The room was dark, but they could see a thin silhouette in the darkness, which seemed to float in the middle of the room. Neji turned on the light quickly and what the flashes of light illuminated was not pleasant: there was a female corpse attached to a structure similar to the one Hinata was found. The body was bound by the wrists and legs, and by the marks it carried, it had certainly been beaten to death. From the amount of dried blood on the floor, Neji and Tenten could deduce that this woman suffered and bled a lot before losing her life.

Neji was the only one who had the courage to enter the room while covering his nose and mouth with one of his hands to soften the smell he felt. He walked around the poorly made wooden structure observing the state of the corpse while trying to understand why that death was special and different from those they had seen before, at the same time that that scene piqued his curiosity, because his cousin had been treated the same way. by the creatures. He noticed a badge still stuck to the torn robe and carefully unclipped it from his lab coat to see it more clearly.

"Tenten you need to see this..." he stated in disbelief at what his eyes were seeing. He held out the badge so Tenten could see the photo.

"Holy shit... She's identical to Hinata! Except for the hair...but she is identical!"

"Doctor Clarice Marks... what do you think she did to deserve this?"

"Whatever it is, I can only think of one thing Neji... If those things think that Hinata looks like her..."

"Hinata is in danger... they tied her up like that and cut her the same way they did this woman... but why?" - His breath was already panting, but he continued to analyze the card. 'It looks like an access card. It has a login and password on the back! If we find out where to use it, maybe we'll find out more about this place.

"Let's see if the computers upstairs work... Could we find anything else useful here?" - Tenten tried to hold back the immense urge he had to vomit all the little he ate as he watched that horrendous scene and the stench that accompanied it. 'How long ago do you think all this happened?'

"I have no idea... Sakura must have some sense of this from the decomposition of the bodies." - He said while rummaging through the drawers and cabinets of the place, stopping only when he found a file called "Project Harven". "Let's go back upstairs and see what we find out of this."

They left the place in a hurry, heading back downstairs with badge and file in hand, where they found Ino and Kiba trying to access one of the only intact computers in the place.