The castle objects sprang to life from around the smaller hallway of the West Wing. The battle was on as the objects attacked the surprised but prepared ninja.

The Cellar

Neji, Tenten, and Lee backed far from the cellar entrance and proceeded to watch the show. Hinata squished herself into the corner of the room furthest from her father as he did several hand signals. He finished with his left hand in front of him as if to do a Jyuuken.

"Hanabi no Makai no Jutsu!" the old man yelled. Hinata shrieked and covered her face with her arms. A circle of chakra appeared vertically in the air around him and from within it burst countless fireworks aimed at the cellar door. After the first five or so broke down the door, the rest of the fireworks went sailing out the door and into the starry night that you could never find in this world. The sky burst with colour and sparks. Neji and Tenten stood side by side of one another: Tenten leaning on Neji's muscular chest with his arms wrapped around her. Rock Lee's eyes teared like waterfalls, his black eyes reflecting the bursts of light in the night sky.

Hinata and Hiashi ran from the cellar to see Matsuri laying upside down on her rim. Hinata picked up the small tea cup and dusted her off. "Sorry about that!" she said to Matsuri.

"No problem!" she cheerfully said. Hinata put the cup into her blue pocket and ran to the castle after bidding goodbye to her father and friends.

Shukaku's Castle

Candlesticks were alighting fire to the attire of the ninja, the clocks were jumping on their toes, the feather-dusters were making them cough, and the furniture was killing them, literally. Naruto broke away from the mob somehow and made out to search for Shukaku in the rest of the West Wing. As Hinata, Matsuri, and Hiashi who decided to tag along drew closer to the castle the few broken squads of ninja that were left were chased from the castle grounds by the castle objects. "And stay out!" yelled Kankurou. Anko leaped and hugged him with her feathery arms. The couch smiled and whooped a cheer which was followed by the rest of the pieces. Kankurou punched the air in triumph and cheered. A gooey drop of white wax plopped itself onto Baki's smooth, polished, head. Irritated, the man shook it off but then soon joined the groups of celebrating objects.

Shukaku's Den

Shukaku lay on the ground a few feet from his precious blue rose suspended within the glass bell jar. He watched another petal lazily fall from it to the stand, it's blue glow practically illuminating the room if not for the mournful moon peeking behind the black clouds. He sighed. "Only one more petal..." he thought. The days of his life with Hinata would live with him until death for those days were of the happiest of his life. A man with short, spiky hair punched down the doors with the sound of thunder roaring outside. Light flickered through the room as lightning cracked outside. The man's face lit up within that time to reveal Uzumaki Naruto grinning evilly with a kunai in his hand. H e stalked forward and raised the weapon in the air above Shukaku.

The raccoon-dog looked sadly up at the Chuunin, sighed, and looked down to the ground once more, ready for his journey to the other side. Naruto brought down the kunai and pierced it deep into the ichibi's shoulder. Shukaku roared in pain and stood.

"You've met your match, demon! I've come to take you down, tabeyo!" Naruto boistered. The human rushed at Shukaku with his kunai: the tanuki dodged the slash by moving backward, only to trip over the curtain lying tarnished on the ground. He tripped backwards through the glass sliding door to the balcony and rolled to his feet. Naruto too tripped over the curtain even after clearly seeing Shukaku fall over it. The rain danced on their skins as Shukaku clutched his wounded shoulder and fell to the corner of the balcony where it met the roof. Naruto laughed as he saw that the demon was cornered. "Ha ha ha!" Shukaku simply sat there in the puddle of rain with despair written all over him. "Get up! C'mon, get up! What's the matter, beast? Too kind and gentle to fight back?!" Uzumaki mocked the demon.

The immature man broke off a piece of the roof and prepared to crush the creature's skull with it.

A familiar voice. The demon strained his neck to the source of the voice and saw Hinata on the bridge leading to the castle doors, yelling at Naruto to stop. "No! Shukaku-kun!" she yelled to him. The rain drenched her blue-black hair and stuck her bangs to her face.

"Hinata-san!" Shukaku gasped. He felt the sorrow in his heart lift by a fraction.

"Naruto, don't!" Hinata screamed. Naruto flashed with Anger and brought the roof piece down. Shukaku, with his regained strength, caught the mix of wood and metal in his paws. He stood up and roared in Naruto's face. They continued to fight onto the rooftop as the beast disarmed the human of the roof piece. Shukaku separated from Naruto and hid among the shadows of the stone gargoyles. Hinata's eyes were worry-stricken and she dashed into the castle walls.

"Come on out and fight!" snarled Naruto as he wildly looked around the rooftop with more kunai in his hands. "Did you love her, Shukaku?" he asked, now that he knew the demon's name thanks to Hinata's yelling. "Did you honestly think she'd want you when she had someone like me?!" Shukaku's yellow eyes glowed from the dark with anger, he jumped from the shadows and attacked. Naruto parried the attack. "It's over, beast. Hinata-chan is mine!" Shukaku glared bitterly at the smaller human, briskly whacked the kunai from Naruto's hands, and picked him up by the neck over the ledge of the slanted roof.

"As you were saying? he grumbled. Uzumaki's face became panic-stricken as beads of sweat rolled hastily down his tan skin.

"Put me down! Put me down! Please don't hurt me! I'll do anything I tell you! Anything!" he pleaded like a baby. The anger in Shukaku's eyes dwindled to compassion and roughly set down the ninja.

"Get out!" he demanded. He shoved Naruto to the ground.

"Shukaku-kun!" yelled Hinata from the balcony above. Shukaku spun on the spot around to see her: hitting Naruto with his huge mass of a wet tail.

"Hinata-san!" he began to climb up the green slates of the roof toward the girl he had fallen in love with. the girl who had taught him how to be a human at heart. He reached the balcony and hung over the side of it. "Hinata-chan, you came back?" he said to her. She put her hands on his wet yellow paws, now a wet sandy colour. They looked compassionately at each other but the moment was ruined when Naruto had leaped into the air with the remaining of his chakra and hoarsely yelled,

"Rasengan!" He pushed the blue orb of spinning chakra into the back of Shukaku. The ichibi roared in pain and as a reflex swished his thick tail, creating great impact on the man and sent him soaring through the crying sky. A tear fell from Naruto's blue eyes. "Hinata-chan..." He closed his eyes and fell over the roof ledge, never to be seen again. Shukaku's grip on the railing ledge was slipping and Hinata pulled him over. His body came over with a low thud with water droplets splashing everywhere. Kankurou, Baki, Matsuri, and Temari ran to the window but stayed out of sight, their eyes wide at the sight of not only their master and Hinata but the blue rose as well.

"You...came back." faintly said Shukaku, a smile displayed on his face.

"Of course I came back. I couldn't let them..." she said, her tears disappeared with the rain fall, " Oh, this is all my fault. If only I had gotten here sooner!" She bitterly said. Shukaku lightly squeezed her hand in reassurance.

"Maybe it's better this way."

"Don't talk like that!" she chided, she knew she was helpless in this situation since she couldn't use her medical jutsu. "You'll be all right. We're together now. You'll see." He smiled at her. His yellow eyes dimming. He averted his eyes to the weeping sky.

"At least I got to see you one...last...time..." he whispered. His eyes shut and his head and paws went limp. Hinata sat there in the rain for several seconds, still holding onto his paw, then quickly let go and covered her face with her hands.

"This can't be happening. This can't be happening. This cannot be happening..." her mind raced over and over again. Her hands went to clutch the space where her heart was, her eyes streaming of tears.

"No, no! Please! Please! Don't leave me! I love you!" she yelled half to him and half to herself. From inside the room the group that was like a family watched in sorrow as the last petal drifted from the rose, leaving it bare and desolate. Temari began to silently cry, Baki put a comforting arm around her. The rain continued to fall on the couple outside but then a ray of light shot out from the sky to the beast like a shooting star. Another came, and then more after that.

Like millions of spotlights from the heavens were shining upon Shukaku. Hinata opened her eyes and saw what was happening, she backed away to the cold stone walls. A fog enshrouded him near completely and his body rose into the air, slowly spinning. The objects looking with anticipation out the door. Shukaku was enveloped in a cloud of light and became wrapped in his cloak. She could see that his body was shifting and forming. A hind paw emerged and became a pale foot. A fore paw came out and the claws became delicate fingers. A glowing wind of sparkling dust spiraled around his face, and swept and melted away to reveal a handsome young man. The grey-white fog dispersed and left the man lying there as if in deep sleep.

He had crimson-red hair, a beautifully shaped face devoid of any facial hair or blemishes, and unique black coloured in lines around his eyelids. Hinata reached out to touch him. She recoiled back when the figure began to move. He deftly stood to his bare feet with his faded black knit pant ends dragging on the ground and looked at his soft hands. He then looked to Hinata. He was a human, and a split second before his sky-blue eyes met hers she thought she saw the familiar yellow eyes of her once beloved. The girl gave him a mysterious look.

"Hinata-san, it's me!" he said to her with his lovely weak yet velvet voice. She continued to look at him skeptically but then saw the small bluish mark on his pale skin through his ripped shirt.

"That's the scar from the poison I extracted from those wolves that attacked Shukaku-kun.. could he be...?" her mind pondered. She took a step closer to him, her white eyes full of astonishment and happiness. "It is you!" she exclaimed. They embraced one another in their warm arms and kissed. A fireworks display is set off behind them thanks to her father down on the bridge.

"That's my girl..." Hiashi said, he smiled to himself and wiped away the tear forming in his eye. The dark gloom around the castle disappeared and sunlight broke through the clouds as if commanded by the gods. The gargoyles on the roof transformed into guardian statues with peace on their white stone faces, and the darkness of the castle walls and interior transformed into beautiful and magnificent things. The objects inside looked with great happiness as the castle practically shift-shaped around them, then at themselves as they began to transform back to their original selves one by one with light spiraling around them. Temari looked at her brother's purple marked face, let out a squeak of joy, and hugged him. He laughed joyously and returned the favour. Baki went outside to greet the prince as did Temari and Kankurou. The man named Gaara turned around and smiled without smiled without his teeth showing.

"Baki, Temari, Kankurou! Look at us!" he said to them with his quiet voice. Matsuri came riding in on the footstool.

"Onee-chan! Onee-chan!" yelled Matsuri, she jumped off the cushion and while in the air transformed into a young girl of twelve. The footstool transformed into a puppty looking dog. It cloud of smoke poofed from it and came out a man with red hair almost alike to Gaara's and dark brown eyes.

"Sasori-kun!" cried Temari she ran up to him, and blushed madly. "Is that who you've been all these years? I thought... I thought you had died!" she yelled at him. He put his arms around her and rocked in place.

"I'm sorry. I tried to tell you, I really did. I was trying out my dog puppet and when the spell took affect I was stuck in it. Apparently I can only in dog when I'm in there. I'm sorry Temari-chan." She hugged him nevertheless.

"It's a miracle!" Kankurou laughed. Gaara picked up Hinata and swung her around. The ruffles of her white underskirt swept them into the ballroom where they were all gathered to celebrate. Hinata, in her entrancing golden dress and Gaara in a dashing tuxedo suit, danced across the room almost as if they were gliding.

"Ah, love..." smiled Kankurou as his eyes glanced over his master and Hinata, then to Anko who was walking by in a enticing sparkly purple dress showing off her cleavage. He too had a suit on and was about to hook his arm around hers when Baki interrupted him.

"Well, Kankurou, old comrade. Shall we let bygones be bygones?" the tan, muscular man said to him. Kankurou scratched his head.

"Uh, sure...whatever that means. I told you she would break the spell." he said to him, feeling that Baki just said something rude to him.

"Yeah, right. I told you." the older man argued.

"No you didn't. I told you!" the man of twenty-two year honestly said. He was after all, telling the truth.

"No you didn't you moronic baboon!" spat Baki. Kankurou frowned, took off his right white glove and smacked him with it.

"En garde, you over grown pocket watch!" he sniffed. The two began fighting like a couple of children Kurenai came over to Baki and hit him on the head, he apologized to the former head of candlesticks and began waltzing with his lover. Temari, Sasori, Matsuri, and Hiashi stood by the refreshments table, watching Hinata and Gaara elegantly glide across the room in each other's arms. Hiashi began to cry again. Matsuri tugged on Temari hand that wasn't occupied by Sasori.

"Are they going to live happily ever after, Onee-chan?" she asked her unrelated sister. Temari smiled down at the younger girl and patted her short brown haired head.

"Of course, my dear, of course." she confidently said. Matsuri grinned then looked with horror on her face to Temari. "What?!"

"Do I still have to sleep in the cupboard!?" she exclaimed. Hiashi and Temari laughed as she hugged Matsuri. Everyone's eyes were on the perfect couple dancing in the center.

"Certain as the sun, rising in the east. Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme. Beauty and the beast."

"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme. Beauty and... the beast."

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Thank you to every one for sticking through this with me! -Poison Fairy-

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