I do not own Naruto Shippuden or any of the characters. AU in which Naruto and Hinata are as close as siblings(not Hinata's family) and Naruto has been the strong silent type his whole life except for around his closest friends. Any and all other changes will be revealed throughout the story. Sorry for all the changes but I've wanted to do this story for a very long time.

What Happened Last Night

Tenten groaned and opened her eyes looking around. She couldn't see more than five feet but what she could see looked like a bomb had gone off, which might actually be true. She could remember that she and a handful of the others had been ordered into a vacation. Of course, normally it wouldn't be a problem. The problem came from the fact that the cruise ship they were to vacation on had one of Orochimaru's top agents on board. The agent was known simply by "The Worm" and apparently was a complete unknown that even the Akatsuki feared. However, after boarding the ship, Ino had no memory of what transpired.

She looked around the room she was in, standing. She could remember that the ship had once been beautiful with the ceilings decorated with carvings of warriors and ninja alike fighting massive and disturbing creatures, the walls decorated with the most beautiful wallpaper Tenten had ever seen with sculptures every so often in set spots where the wall curved inward. The floor had been pure marble with no obvious sign of being anything other than one piece of stone and even Neji hadn't been able to see a break. Now, the ceiling was completely destroyed with cracks running through it, decapitating and mangling people right and left but always leaving the creatures alone. The carvings that had once been beautiful, if questionable for decor, were now ominous and foreboding. The walls were largely intact except for holes in some places where a sculpture had fallen. The sculptures were all destroyed and the floor was now cracked almost as bad as the ceiling. The ceiling wasn't still together either, however, as where there were no cracks, there was no ceiling, the air ducts and some power lines having fallen through. Thankfully, the power seemed to have gone out for the most part because none of the downed wires were sparking.

Tenten sat on top of an air duct and tried to remember what had happened. She, Neji, Hinata, Ino, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sai were all on the cruise ship for a little over a month struggling to find out who The Worm was so they could arrest him. Sasuke and Naruto had gotten into a fight, soon stopping when Neji incapacitated them both with Gentle Fist. Tenten couldn't remember the last time she had seen Naruto fight. He was usually quiet and was alone most of the time. Even his team, of which Sasuke was a member, told them that they barely knew anything about him. Sasuke seemed to have just struck the wrong nerve. The cruise wasn't scheduled to be back to port for another week when the problem arose.

The problem was an axe-wielding passenger on the ship going nuts and beginning a ship-wide massacre. He had easily bisected a dozen passengers in one swing each before anyone even realized something was happening. Soon it seemed like the man was on every floor. Sasuke, who had attacked the man, had removed an arm with his sword before the man had kicked him through a steel door like it was nothing. Then he had turned on Tenten. Neji had shouted for her to run and she had.

Suddenly Tenten's mind went blank. She couldn't remember what happened to Neji and Sasuke or how she got wherever the heck she was. Before she could try to remember anything else something smashed against the wall loud enough to make her ears hurt. The man with the axe flashed through her mind and she screamed as the noise sounded again. After a momentary pause, the sound began again, twice as fast. The man was hitting the wall in a frenzy, trying desperately to get to his next victim, no doubt.

Finally the head of an axe exploded out of the wall and a moment later it was smashed a gaping hole in the wall. Light poured through and Tenten had to shield her eyes as the man stepped through the hole and began walking toward her. She screamed again and backed up as far as she could hitting the wall and cutting her arm on a jagged piece of air duct.

"It's alright Tenten," a calm and slightly familiar voice said as the person held the head of the axe in front of the light so that she could see.

Naruto. Instantly her head flooded with images. Her running down a hall. Naruto shoving her through a doorway and locking it behind her. The entire ship shaking so violently that the ceiling came crashing down around her. Then memories of what she knew about Naruto. He was a very powerful ninja from what she understood. He was an orphan and had no friends that she knew of. He also recently returned from a two year absence from the village to train with one of the three Legendary Sannin of the Hidden Leaf, Jiraiya.

"N...Naruto?" Tenten questioned sighing in relief. "Why the Hell did you lock me in here?"

"Because you were slowing me down," Naruto stated lowing his axe. "You would have gotten us both killed trying to get back to Neji."

"Is...is he-"

"I don't know," Naruto interrupted. "After the explosion, I got knocked out by an air duct."

"Explosion?" Tenten questioned.

"What else could the shaking have been?" Naruto questioned. "Either way, I'm getting out of her before the ship sinks. If you're coming with me, then let's go."

And with that, he had slipped back through the hole in the wall.

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