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She could see the bright sun's rays entering through her window behind her raven bangs. For some estrange reason she felt energized. She felt like going to see her boyfriend, Naruto, the knucklehead #1 from the hidden leaf village, he had been on a mission last week so she already was missing him. Oh, how she missed being in his warm embrace and the cuddling. She got up and had breakfast alone since Hanabi was training with her cousin, Neji, and her father had a meeting that day.
On her way to her boyfriend's house she bumped into someone. As always she uttered a stuttering apology and then she realized it was her friend, Sakura who looked a little pissed off since Hinata made her drop all the papers she was caring to Tsunade's office. Hinata stood up in a blink of an eye and shyly offered her help which she gladly accepted. On their way there they came upon Sasuke who was looking for his girlfriend, yeah, he came back to Konoha 6 months ago and he had been dating Sakura for two months now. He leaned to kiss her, and then he said "Wow, I see you two are busy, may I help?" They both gazed each other in question before nodding.
On their way there, Hinata couldn't help but wonder where Naruto was, seeing the happy couple walking next to her made her feel a little... alone. She wanted to see him so badly. When they reached to the Hokage's office, and entered they could see a very concerned blond, light brown eyed woman. This got the three teenagers worried since it was unusual to see her that way. They shared questioning looks until the pink haired girl opened her mouth to say something when she was shut off by a very loud slam on the table as Tsunade shouted "Leave now." They left all the papers on her desk and practically ran away. After that they heard her shout "Sakura you stay!" The three of them stopped out cold and the raven haired teenagers gazed frighteningly at the green eyed kunoichi as she gulped and turned to the office.
After that they headed out the building and met team 10. For some reason they weren't fooling around like Sasuke would say, they looked pretty serious. Hinata waved her hand, greeting them and commenting on how long had been since they last met up. At this the three of them stopped, Ino looked up from the floor to see her silver eyed friend, the blond haired girl rushed to her and saying:"I'm so glad to see you ok" while embrecing her.
That was it, Hinata felt completely uneasy since her encounter with Sakura a while ago and Ino's strange beheavior did not help. She couldn't help herself and asked "what happened?" as her friend tightened the embrace, making Hinata very confused and she wrapped her arms around her. Shikamaru sighed as he told his teammate "Just calm down, nothing happened" 'yet' he thought to himself as the girls stopped hugging each other. Without saying another word they headed in direction to the Hokage's office. The raven haired teenagers frowned as they both said at unison "weird".
Naruto's alarm clock echoed in his apartment as he yawned, Then he remembered that he hadn't seen his girlfriend since last week. He missed her, most of all kissing her. He jumped out of bed as he got ready to go to granny's office since he didn't report himself yesterday because he was very tired since it was 2am when he got to the village. He grinned at the thought of hanging out with his gorgeous girlfriend after reporting himself. When he was inside the building he saw Shizune, holding up Tonton, who was very worried about something and looking at nothing but the floor. He then said "Hey Shizune, what's the matter?" Then she frowned and said it was nothing, he didn't believe her but he only wanted to finish this to see his favorite raven haired girl. He headed to the office, frowning as the voices became clearer, hearing something he wished was not true.
He was shocked, clenching his fists tightly, veins bulging. He slammed the door's office open as he shouted "What the heck is going on here?!" Everyone in the room turned around except from Tsunade who was already looking in that direction. Silence was filled the air inside the office. Naruto was still frowning and repeated himself yelling "What's going on?!" Shikamaru opened his mouth but no word came out as Tsunade calmly stood up, catching the gazes from everyone in the office except from Sakura, who was concerned about her blue eyed friend. He looked enraged, but she was not blaming him, since it was his girlfriend who they were talking about.
The pink haired girl stepped forward to her friend, and tried to comfort him and explain everything from the beginning, while doing this he said in a cold, rage-tinted tone "You knew this, didn't you Sakura?" She stopped and looked to the floor. He gave her a deadly glare as he asked "Why didn't you tell me?" She raised her eyes to answer, but he grabbed her forearm and shouted "WHY?!"
The Hokage who was contemplating the scene, blew a fist on her own desk as she shouted "Enough, Naruto!" when he heard the commotion he stared at her, waiting for an answer. The brown eyed woman closed her eyes annoyed by the scene he had just made as she sighed and asked "how much of it you heard?" The orange dressed shinobi gave her dead in the eye, as if challenging her to repeat what they were talking about in front of him. After a minute that seemed to be hours, Tsunade wanted to punch him finding annoying he kept her waiting for a response. "Enough to know that Hinata is in danger" came as an answer. Silence filled the room once again and he was getting impatient. The slug princess just stayed there, frozen. Abruptly, the whiskered shinobi grabbed Shikamaru and lifted him grabbing the collar of his mesh shirt yelling at him "You better tell me!" The pinkette grabbed the back of his jacket and told him coldly "Stop it. You're not helping the situation." He frowned, and got the strategist down.
He clenched his fists and asked "When were you planning on telling me?" Everyone looked at each other; they didn't want to tell him because they knew he would get mad.
"We didn't want to tell you." Said Ino.
"You what?" he said angrily.
Chouji felt Naruto's increasing rage. He then patted his shoulder and said "We will tell you the truth" then, the blue eyed shinobi looked at Tsunade who nodded and let Chouji explain everything with his team.
"We were in Kumo getting information, since our team is the best in that kind of missions because of Shikamaru's and Ino's jutsu." He paused for a second, trying to put straight his words. "About one month ago, the Anbu black ops found out that Kumo was trying to steal the byakugan again." The knucklehead shinobi started to calm down as Tsunade was just stood in front of her desk, trying to figure out a way to explain what they were up to. But Chouji just went on: "So Lady Tsunade assigned this mission to us in order to know how were they going to try and retrieve it this time… but what we found just horrified us."
The emerald eyed girl gulped gazing her teammate while he was waiting for someone to go on the report. The Akimichi was about to continue but Tsunade interrupted him "Naruto, it's enough. You can't know more about this!" The later frowned, as if trying to figure out why he couldn't, when he tried to suppress all the rage he felt at that moment he finally said calmly: "I have to know if I want to protect her. Please granny, just tell me"
Everyone was surprised that Naruto was holding himself like that, maybe Hinata had influenced him more that they thought. Tsunade sighed and said "If you promise that you won't get mad and go to Kumo to kill someone." She looked concerned again her rage towards Naruto becoming worry. He nodded and told her "Spit it out".
She took a deep breath "Team 10 was assigned to this mission because of their abilities. They sneaked out and intercepted a ninja from the cloud village. They found out that they were trying to get the Hyuga heiress since she is young and she is already mature for what they had planned." Now Naruto was really confused "Mature for what?" he asked. The slug princess looked away in a telling manner and returned her gaze to the whisker marked boy and said "Three weeks ago I assigned this team the mission. Two weeks later they sent me this" She was taking a scroll from the desk and showed it to everyone, she hoped he understood. "This is a mind seal, according to the information the team gathered, this ninja's mission was: sneak out in the village and use this on Hinata"
"Wait! What's that for?" Asked Naruto trying to figure out what was this all about.
"Mind seals are used for different reasons, generally people use them to seal memories, but this one looks different from the ones I've seen" explained Sakura.
Shikamaru who was very silent until the moment said "This scroll is meant to seal all the person's memories and feelings away, leaving nothing but a useless body."
"Then, why would they do that?" asked Naruto very impatient. He knew they were avoiding something, something important. Tsunade hesitated, she didn't want to be the one to tell him. Finally finding the words she said "Their mission was: sneak out, seal her mind away then taking her back to their village and…" She looked away, not wanting to see his reaction "rape her" she finished.
Naruto just stood there with an unreadable expression. He didn't know what to think or what to say. He got angrier than ever, the only coherent thought in his mind:`I'm gonna kill them'. "I'm gonna kill them! How dare they!?" Sakura took a step back and shouted "They wanted a child with the byakugan! Don't you see it?".
"They still want it" said Shikamaru with a plain look. Now Naruto was madder if that was possible. Then he continued "When we had the information and killed the ninja some of his companions had seen us getting away. I'm pretty sure they are going to try again and this time they are going to be extra careful since we now know their plan"
Tsunade nodded. "What are we going to do Lady Tsunade?" asked Ino, she didn't want to lose another precious person in her life. She thought of it for a second and ordered "In the first place no one, I said NO ONE can tell Hinata about this!" Everyone nodded except from Naruto who practically yelled "What? How is she going to be on alert if she doesn't know?"
Tsunade frowned "We don't know how she would react, besides I'm going to tell everyone the situation. You have only one instruction: You can't leave her alone." Naruto didn't like the fact that he had to lie to Hinata but he had no choice, Tsunade was right. "Now you all have to tell every ninja you see the situation." Everyone nodded, "Naruto, you go to the Hyuga compound and inform Neji aout the situation, understood?"
"Alright granny! I'm going!" with that everyone got out of the building and did what they've been told.