A Forbidden Love

Chapter 15

Hinatas POV
I was running down the stairs and as I reached the bottom step I tripped and fell. My foot had caught on the rug and I was sent tumbling to the floor. I winced slightly and knew I was ganna have bruises. Oh well. I quickly scrambled to my feet and continued running towards the cries of pain. I ran to the door where the cries were coming from and wrenched it open. The door slammed against the wall and slammed shut after I ran inside. Torches lighted the dark stone hallway I was running down. I'm almost there! Hold on! When another strangled cry came I nearly crumpled to the ground. It echoed off the walls pounding down on me and I covered my ears so that I could keep running and close his yells of pain out from my mind so I could focus. The yells of pain were getting louder and I could tell I was closer to him. I finally came across the door where he was and saw through the window and bars of steel that was rusted that he was chained to the whipping post and his shirt was lying next to him on the ground and blood droplets were scattered across the shirt. I tried to yank open the door but it was locked keeping me from him. When I saw the person whipping him I fell to my knees and fear tugged at my heart. It was my father. He had the whip in his hand and when he saw me an evil grin spread across his face. But then was replaced by anger. He walked towards me with the whip in his hand covered in blood that was dripping on the dungeon floor as he walked. He bent down and reached through the holes in the door to the room he was in and he grabbed my neck tightly in his hands and was squeezing a little bit tighter after every word he said. I was gasping for air while he was talking. "Hello my daughter... What do you think?? ... You know this is you're fault right? Goyo being punished... And now look who else is being punished because of you... We all know there is something strange about him... And guess who is falling for him... You are... Loving you is punishment for him... Everyone you care about is getting hurt... because of you... And you will have no choice to sit back and watch everyone get hurt because of you.. All because you couldn't listen and just do what your told.." He released my neck and I rubbed it gingerly knowing I would have bruises most definitely. He walked over to Yoshitsune and raised the whip above his head. "All because of you.." He said again and it echoed in my head. And off the walls. All around me. "No!!!!! Yoshitsune!!!" I screamed as the whip was coming down on him. And then he cried out in pain and my father whipped him over and over again.. Laughing at me while tears were pouring down my cheeks. And while Yoshitsune was crying out in pain. I crumpled to the ground crying and screaming out his name at the top of my lungs and yelling curses at the top of my lungs directed at my father.
Suddenly I bolted up right in bed and let out a scream. I felt a hand clamp over my mouth and was screaming against the hand. I was struggling and fighting against the person who was pinning me down to the bed. Tears were streaming down my cheeks and my head was pounding with those four words that haunt my dreams now along with my father. All because of you! My father was chanting in my head over and over again. My ears were ringing and suddenly the lamp turned on in my room and I saw Yoshitsune's urgent face peering down on me. The chanting finally stopped and I could hear again. His urgent voice was saying,"Hinata?! Hinata! What's wrong !!! Calm down! It's ok! Your safe! Your fine! Your with me! It's okay! It's okay..." I nodded and he said,"can I take my hand off your mouth and you won't scream?" I nodded a quick nod and he took his hand off my mouth. He got off of me and he sat up against the bed frame and reached his arms out and pulled me into his lap. He sat there Indian style and held me in his lap and caged me in with his arms wrapped tightly around me and laid his head down on top of mine and was soothing me again while he rubbed circles on my back. After a few moments moments of him soothing me he asked me in a quiet but gentle murmur,"do you wanna tell me what happened???" I nodded my head yes thinking it would be better to get it off my chest. Once I went through the whole dream I started crying again when we got to the part where my father had whipped him. He rubbed my back and started rocking me back and forth as he hummed a lullaby that i have never heard before. It soothed me so much that I was fighting to keep my eyes open. As my eyelids grew heavy I had to ask him about the lullaby before I fell asleep. "Yoshitsune???.." I asked yawning. He paused the lullaby and asked,"hmm??.." "Who's lullaby is that??" I asked again yawning two times. He chuckled and said,"yours.. Now sleep my Hinata... When you are to sleep I shall protect you from all the bad dreams and nightmares... I'll tackle them with my bare hands... Now sleep so that when you rise and open your eyes my face you shall see.. And we shall be together once again..." He kissed my hair and I replied with a yawn followed by an "mkkkkkk..." And another yawn. He chuckled and began humming my lullaby again. I felt so at peace that the bad dream was forgotten. After all... It was only just a nightmare.