A/N okay, first naruto story, i hate the title too but i wasn't ure whether 'ITBE' or 'TPCP' sounded better. (The Pas changes people) but now im thinking the latter -_- someone review and give me thier idea, please. And i know the summary sucks but its the best one i came up with.

Please enjoy, and if your wondering, hinata is different but she's not the vicious phyco-bitch like in the 6th movie (dont worry if you havnt seen it, that wasn't a spoiler really)

I hope you like this idea, ive read plenty of NaruHina fics and i wanted to do my own. I'm pretty sure this is an original, as in i've never read one like this and im 99.64% certain it's not a cliche. 87.92%. I actually have no idea.

Anyway, Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I'm only doing this once, i don't own his beautiful creation, but i did... *shashkay... mmmmm* Spanish: Me encanta es Naruto, pero no hombre el espanol porque es muy dificil.
French: A la no oui la francias sac re difuluilt la don'te knoiw les anythingoui.
German: Sheiza!

Okay I'm done, please carry on.

The birds above Konoha glided effortlessly through the air, streaking invisible tracks on the periwinkle blue of the morning sky. Ten twenty five, according to Tsunade's wall clock above the door of the Hokage office. The impatient woman sighed. She had approximately 2 years worth of paperwork on her desk and she had thrown all her pens out the window earlier in a rage. Shizune was off in the village to get some more, muttering something about Hokage tantrums. Tsunade had ignored her, but was now idly wondering why the closest place to get pens was in the village. The Godaime suddenly stuffed a manicured hand down the front of the shirt, pulling out a small flask that she always had nestled between her gargantuan assets. Despite the destruction of the village, no one seemed to need her, all though, she admitted to herself, she would only go into helping the building progression if she was asked to and/or her assistance was needed desperately. Niether circumstance had occurred as of yet and so Tsunade didn't get her 'hopes' up. What a great leader she was. She took a deep swig of the liquid in question. If she had known it would be this boring to be Hokage, she may had reconsidered taking up the position. She brought the silver flask back up to her lips.

"Hokage-sama!" The door burst open, smashing against the wall and screaming on its hinges. Tsunades's eyes shot open as she flung the flash out the window. "Hokage-sama! Shizune needs you urgently at the hospital!" the chuunin that Shizune had sent hadn't quite mastered the ninja skill of a mask of indifference, but it didn't matter to Tsunade. The fact that Shizune was calling her at all needed a sense of urgency.

Tsunade nodded. The chuunin looked flustered as he watched Lady Hokage brush past him, clicking the heels of her shoes on the wooden floor. Less than five minutes proceeding Tsunade's summoning, she was at the hospital and suited up.

Shizune met her outside the operating theatre, sweat beads glistening on her forehead under the overhead florescent lights.

"What's going on Shizune." Tsunade asked calmly, her brows furrowing.

"Team Kurenai suffered a casualty on their mission."

"Team Kurenai... their mission was to track a suspicion ninja, of course." Tsunade, though no one would have thought so, she remembered every Konoha ninja's name and all current missions.

"Yes, but it seems the intel we gathered on the ninja wasn't enough and it turns out that... that he was a high-ranking jounin with a deadly, ancient jutsu." Shizune said gravely. "NoriYaburu no Jutsu."

Tsunade gasped slightly. She knew this jutsu very well, a lot more than she'd like to admit, but of course Shizune knew that. The jutsu targeted the brain, shutting down each part of the mind separately, slowly and one at a time. There was no telling where it would start, however, not even the caster could determine that. It could start at the nervous system, or the communications centre, or the part of the brain that controlled the heart.

"Where's Sakura?"

"She's already working on the patient. I've told her everything about the jutsu." Shizune said.

"Who's the patient?" Tsunade asked, tilting her chin up. There was a high chance that whoever they were, they wouldn't pull through and there could be nothing Tsunade, or anyone else for that matter, could do about it.

"Hinata Hyuuga."

Of course. The one person with the most influential and dangerous family. Tsunade threw the operating doors open, cracking her knuckles.

"Kiba. Calm down, please!" Kuranai pleaded for the eighth time since they'd rushed Hinata into the hospital.

Kiba stopped his pacing and snapped his head toward his teacher and team captain. "How do you expect that to happen! This is my fault! If I hadn't been stupid and hadn't underestimated our enemy, Hinata wouldn't have had to jump in front of me and Akamaru to defend up." He threw himself into one of the hard hospital chairs and covered his face with his hand. Akamaru whined at his feet.

"Kiba, there's no use now of contemplating what actions you should and shouldn't have done to avoid something that's already happened. If you would like to do something productive, go home and consider wha you will say to Hinata-chan when you next see her. Your current actions, though you havn't noticed, are upsetting Kuranai sensei. You know she couldn't have come on the mission even if she wanted to, and I'm sure she partly blames herself for what happened." Shino said in a quiet but solemn tone, hiding under his hood and behind his collar.

"But...! That's crazy! She pregnant, there's nothing she can't do anythink about that!" Kiba argued loudly at the Aburame sat across the hallway and next to his sensei, who was looking a Shino with wide eyes.

"Exactly. And what can you do about what happened to Hinata now?"

Kiba sighed in defeat. He silently stood up and flitted down the hall, home, with Akamaru close on his heels.

"Shino, I..." Kuranai started, searching for the right words. Shino turned to look at her, but it didn't make much of a difference as no part of his face was visible. Kuranai smiled at her most mysterious and under-spoken student. "Thank you." Shino nodded and turned back.

They stared at the Kiba's empty seat in silence for 11 minutes and 47 seconds, according to Shino, before a pale, slightly unsteady girl wandered over to them, looking exhausted.

"Sakura!" Kuranai began to get up before the medic waved her down and motioned at Kiba's chair.

"Can I sit here?" She asked drowsily. Kuranai nodded fervently. Sakura practically collapsed into it.

"Hinata?" Kuranai asked after a few seconds when Sakura still hadn't said anything.

"Oh... Yes... Sorry..." Sakura blinked. And smiled slightly. "The jutsu cast upon her was designed to destroy a bit of her mind one part at a time, and start from anywhere in her brain until it shut everything down and she eventually died, much like a deadly parasite. Though Shizune and I had never come into contact with it before today, Lady Tsunade-sama is very familiar with it." Kuranai breathed out a sigh of relief. Shino sat unmoved. "The jutsu had almost entirely shut down all of Hinata's pain receptors but all three of us managed to fix what damage it did before attempting to destroy the jutsu itself. However, the jutsu had moved onto the part of her mind that held all her memories. We stopped it before it could completely erase all of them, but there will be significant damage. Theres no way to know for sure how extensive the damage is. Unfortunately there's also no way to tell which memories she's lost, be it her ninjutsu, or how to speak japanese. We'll only truly know once she wakes up." She smiles encouragingly at Kurenai as the older woman leans forward a little, searching Sakura's face for whatever reason. "Other than the amnesia, she's physically fine. She's in room 14b on the west wing. We expect she'll wake up tomorrow, but Lady Tsunade-sama has never treated someone who's memories had been attacked by the jutsu and so most things are purely guesswork. I'm sorry." Kurenai smiled in a motherly way. She knew that Sakura had probably stayed in hospital when she was almost unconscious so she could tell Shino and her personally about their team mate and student.

Kurenai stood up slowly and walked to Sakura, cradling her stomach. She bent down and lightly kissed a kiss on the stunned kunoichi's forehead in a way that only a mother could. "Thank you." Kurenai said softly. "Now go home. You've done more than enough." Sakura looked glassily up at Kurenai, a woman she'd never really connected with, only spoken with in passing. She smiled groggily and nodded, wandering down the hall in the direction of the exit.

"Tell Kiba about Hinata and go home. There's no point in staying with her now, but we'll visit tomorrow. Tell him that as well. Thank you Shino." Kurenai smiled encouragingly. Shino immediately disappeared and Kurenai wondered when it had been that her students had grown up so suddenly. She smoothed her hand over her stomach, walking slowly but with the unfaltering grace of a ninja. He smile had dropped once again, fearing for Hinata, worrying over Kiba's inner turmoil and contemplating Shino's sudden change of character. How much had thing's changed, and continue to change. After all, their village had been destroyed not two months ago by an organisation that they would inevitably have to go to war against. She wondered what real damage it would do. She wondered who would die this time around.

But all thoughts on the matter evaporated as Shikamaru sprinted up to her, a worried flushed look on his face, like she had been the one caught by the jutsu. As long as everyone had someone, no one would ever truly be destroyed.

He threw a pebble into the air again, attempting to kick it and succeeding. He watched it sail in a smooth arc over the rooves and into a side alley, between two of the fully completed buildings. He wondered where everyone was. Sakura was supposed to have gotten off work at the hospital earlier that day, though he hadn't really been paying attention when they ran into each other that morning, Teuchi had promised him a free bowl of breakfast ramen when he'd helped Ayame clean up after the lunchtime rush yesterday, so his mid was a little pre-occupied as Sakura ran through her day schedule for him.

Sai was probably on one of the multiple recon missions Tsunade-baa-chan had been dispatching of late, though he couldn't blame her, taking onto consideration the Akatsuki attack that had next to no warning. Anyone chuunin or jounin with long-range attacks that were not needed urgently in the village's rebuilding. He would do the same as her if he was Hokage, especially considered the incapicitated state shes been in. Thanks to a medical breakthrough Sakura accidentally discovered (she wouldn't say how) she had figured out how to wake Tsunade up. Considering how exponentially close they had become to electing a new Hokage, Danzo the 'martial' elder no less: a description Shikaku Nara had mumbled to Kakashi just before the Godame's awakening.

Kakashi was kami-knows-where, as per usual, but he didn't now what he would do with him even if he was there. There was no talking with the silver-haired jounin without tripping over his riddling metaphors and superfluous excuses, and he knew that sparring with him would probably cause a few damages to the already half built Konoha.

Bushy-Brows, Neji, Tenten and Bushier-Brows Sensei were off on a mission to protect the few merchants travelling in from neighbouring towns, as the merchants were crucial if Granny was to resurrect Konoha. They were a major source of income and essential to them, though very few were brave enough to enter the 'ruined' and 'unsafe' Hidden Leaf now.

Ino scared him.

Chouji wasn't too close, though he counted on him as an ally. He should probably become more friendly with the Akimichi however, and wondered why he wasn't already. He had gone through so much with him, after all. He slipped that at the back of his mind to ponder later.

Shikamaru was busy. Like always. He hadn't expected any other from his genius team mate and friend.

He thought briefly about searching for Kiba, but realised that he had been grumbling about helping his sister erect a vet for his sister the week previous, and that he would soon be going on some tracking mission on a ninja the Hokage was on guard of perforating the 'safe distance-zone' she had subconsciously set up (which was a large circle, the circumference twice that of the villiage.)

Hinata probably had something more important than him, and it was more than likely she was with Kiba on the mission.

He was over-enigmatic and resilient , but he knew when he wasn't wanted. He used to ignore that fact when it screamed at him as a child, but now he accepted that he needed to step back sometimes. But right now he was bored, and Sakura would most likely be at the hospital, so Naruto headed there.

Naruto didn't bother asking the hospital receptionist where Sakura, if she was even there, was. It was visiting hours anyway so no one would have a problem with him just walking in. Looking for the kunoichi would give him something to do, anyway. He checked the whole bottom floor in a flash, a half-an-hour long flash that is. He saw countless other medic-nin's that he knew were familiar with Sakura, but not her. Maybe she had already gone home after all. Well, he wasn't about to stop searching now. He took the second floor more slowly, taking long glances through each minute window at the top of the door. He cleared one wing still with no sight of her (there didn't seem to be that many medics up here), and so moved on to the next.

That is until he heard a blood curdling scream.

He shot off down the unexplored wing and stopped outside where the noise must have come from. Naruto couldn't help feeling that, even though he was sure he's never heard that scream before, it still sounded bone-chillingly familiar. He gave a fleeting glance at the place next to the door.

'14b WW'. He barrelled in anyway, abruptly halting in his footsteps when he saw the dark haired girl trying desperately the pry the locked window open with just her finger nails. His hand grabbed the girl's elbow, yanking her arm back before she could tear half her hand off in the window. Her head snapped around, her midnight purple hair slashing Naruto's face and dropping back onto the female chuunin's shoulders. Her pale eyes stared with such malice into the blonde boy's that he almost flinched.

"What the fuck are you doing?" Hinata hissed.

A/N ooooh! yeah, i forgot. language waning^^^ I was so prod of myslef for only saying Naruto once in his little thought section, usually i feel like i go overboard on naming people when it's not nescessary just so EVERYONE IS COMPLETELY CLEAR WHO IS TALKING AT EVERY MOMENT. but i moved from that extreme to another, and i kinda liked it, but if you didnt dont worry, i won't do it all the time just when it makes sense.

Peace n love n ramen.

please review, it makes me happy. ( ° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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