Summary: "AnBu Owl, your mission as stated annihilate the uprising Hyuuga clan, leave none alive. Any left alive aside from afore mentioned Hyuuga heiress, will be seen as disloyalty and you will be immediately dispatched as a Nuke Nin. Do not disappoint us.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto
Chapter One
Annihilation
Hinata glanced warily as the door to the academy opened, a young ninja was panting there his head placed against the door frame and arm swinging by his side as if he had just ran a mile.
She didn't know the young male, but he pointed at her and spoke quickly in a low urgency that made Hinata freeze in her skin. Had something happened? The thought made blood rush to her head and the world blur lightly.
Iruka nodded and the young male silently walked over to her, his movements no longer ragged and jarred. He moved slowly and to the young Hinata like a predator, and in that moment she ran.
His eyes widened a considerable amount as he watched the young (and only) Hyuuga girl race away from him at a speed he wasn't aware someone of her age could possess.
Snapping himself quickly out of his thoughts he tried to follow the young girl, only to find that she had seemingly disappeared. He should have been more aware damn it! She was a Hyuuga after all, but just maybe he could track her.
Hinata ran, cold air billowing out around her from her lungs as she did so. She shivered bitterly and tripped scraping her knees and hands in the process. Whimpering she forced herself to get up, Father would be angry if she stopped because of a scrape.
"Neji!" she didn't know why she had called her cousin's name, the oh so close cousin that she adored as a brother. Even though he claimed to hate her and glared at her when she cried, he was also her protector at least in her eyes anyway.
Hinata didn't want to see that man again, he spoke too quickly and his voice was too low. His body language had indicated that something was wrong, and she was at its source.
Arriving at the Hyuuga compound she stopped a sudden feeling of dread pooled in her stomach, leaving an icy feeling in her fingertips as if she had lost too much blood again.
'M-move Hinata!' she scolded herself mentally as she struggled to place her hand on the ice paper door and swing it back. The wind followed her example, blowing it open for her.
Her eyes widened and she felt fear claw at her in a way she had never felt before, not even when father was about to punish her. This was worse, the icy prickles slowly tightening its claws into her throat making her remember to breath.
When she did she ran, not leaving room for air. Bodies were scattered and blood was slick under her shoes, the scent of the coppery substance made her wince.
The slaughter grew greater as she moved from hall to hall, room to room. Some people looked frozen as if merely surprised their jaws loose in death, eyes wide in shock and hurt.
Others… Others were angry and their eyes were drawn open in rage and sometimes muted horror that was still welled up in their throats ready to be drawn out.
Hinata slipped and her hands splashed in a small pool of blood staining her snow white skin a dark rusty red. Tears pooled in her eyes, 'why would anyone do this?' she thought fighting to keep her tears at bay as she stood quietly moving to the next room. The main room.
Her lower lip quivered and the tears spilled over, her father was turned to the door his hands still forming a seal. All too late as Hanabi was cowered behind him still but a baby, but Hinata was a Hyuuga and she knew.
She knew they were dead.
Hinata felt her knees buckle under her, the impact sent her into a kneeling position her head slapped up against the ground. She couldn't try to be brave any more, why? Why try with nothing to strive for? Her family was gone, even her little sister that her father sometimes favored over her.
"This is what you have been reduced too? A sniveling little brat unable to keep the proud Hyuuga name alive?"
Her eyes snapped open and she whirled herself up and around, her lavender tinted eyes meeting frost colored ones.
"Neji!" She wanted to run to him, embrace him and hide away in his arms like she had done as a child. But she couldn't her body wouldn't listen to her, as if sensing something she herself did not.
Hinata's doe like eyes trailed over her cousin's form and she felt her breathing begin to quicken. A bird like mask was tied around the side of his head, his face was drawn in a subdued frown his eyes colder than ever.
He wore a sort of white chest plate that covered his chest, black sleeves covered in the same white armor. A thin Katana was in his hand, twirling as she had seen Naruto do with a pencil in class.
"N-Neji?" His frown grew more pronounced.
"Your pathetic, how you were ever born into a clan like this I'll never know. Your too soft, too WEAK." He spat as if he had tasted something foul.
"But maybe I'm wrong, maybe you just MIGHT be worth my time though not today. But then again you probably don't even have the slightest idea if what I'm pointing out do you, Hinata?"
"N-no." He threw his head back a wry wide open smile as his laughter bounced off the walls. He looked at her again this time mockingly.
"I killed everyone here; they tried to subdue me with that accursed seal of theirs. But I finally beat it even IF by some off chance you learned the seal it would have no affects at all."
"W-why would y-you k-kill them!" She shouted tears reflecting slight light as they dropped into the floor.
"Because, they thought they could control me like some sort of animal. Well Hinata who has the rope now? They certainly don't and certainly never you, a weak little Heiress, bah! What a joke you are a tiny little girl like you leading such a clan that used to be great." Hinata's head lowered as she delicately chewed on her lower lip.
"I-I c-can b-be strong!" she whispered, he heard her though. The blade of the Katana was already cutting deep into her wrist as soon as she had finished.
"Then prove me wrong, dear cousin." He words the only thing left in the room and halls, only the running footsteps of other ninja as they approached the unconscious Heiress.
Author's note: I'm sure you've figured out the story by now, as for the man Hinata was scared of I've changed a few things up here and there. Care to take a guess as to who he was?
