A/N: Hi everyone! This is my first fanfic, and it's Naruhina, with some side Sasusaku. Please don't flame, but please review and favorite and whatever else! This is gonna be multi-chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto in any way, shape or form. If I did, it would probably suck butt.
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The young, raven-haired onyx-eyed Uchiha heir kneeled in pain, clutching his neck and screaming in agony. Someone hidden in the shadows laughing sinisterly, his yellow, snake-like eyes the only thing showing through the darkness.
"I'll…asked again…What have you done to my sister?!" Sasuke asked with all of the strength he could muster at the moment. "I haven't done anything to her, Sasuke-kun. But Kabuto is going to run a couple of…tests…that will prove if she is worth something, even though her clan says different." the man hissed.
Sasuke let out another cry, clawing at his neck to make the pain go away. "Make it stop, Orochimaru! Make it stop!" he exclaimed, falling to the ground, still holding his neck. "Now, now, Sasuke-kun, hasn't anyone ever told you? Human kind cannot gain anything without giving something in return. This time, you giving me your body to use as a vessel. Don't worry, the pain will subside once you fall unconscious."
The eight year old panted as he glared up at his captor with hate-filled eyes that he normally reserved for his brother. "Damn you Orochimaru! What kind of Hell-spawn are you?!" he spat. "Sticks and stones, Sasuke-kun. Save your strength. You'll need it to save your beloved little sister." Orochimaru laughed, Body flickering out of existence and leaving the poor damned Uchiha to writhe around in pain.
Finally, Sasuke fell asleep, not able to take the pain anymore. Terrifying images danced across the dream plane, mocking him as the small boy cried out in his sleep. He watched his family get murdered by Itachi, his once beloved older brother. He sat on the dock behind the Uchiha complex, sobbing at what he had witnessed.
"Are you okay?" he whipped his head around to find a small girl in a kimono-like top and blue cargo ninja pants. Her hair was cropped short and framed her pale, heart-shaped face. He looked down, his tears causing ripples in the pond below his feet. He felt the girl put her hand on his shoulder. "I'm Hyuga Hinata. I heard what happened the your clan." she said. "Hyuga?" he asked. She nodded, pulling her hand back.
"Our clans are related." he said quietly. "Unfortunately, my clan disowned me, I'm technically not a Hyuga anymore." she said, sadly. "Well, then you can be an Uchiha. You can be my sister. Kami-sama knows we both need someone to be there for us." he said, smiling faintly. A smile graced her lips. "Can I really?" she asked. He nodded.
The scene changed. He was in a small chamber, with chains hung on the wall. He looked around. "Hinata-chan?" he asked. "Sasuke-nii-san! Help!" he whipped his head around to find Hinata wiggling around in Orochimaru's arms. "Let her go, you snake bastard!" he cried, running towards him. Suddenly, the chains lashed out and wrapped themselves around Sasuke's wrists, pulling him against the wall and forcing him to stay there, no matter how hard he struggled.
Hinata cried out, reaching for her surrogate brother. "Sasuke-nii-san!" she exclaimed. "Hinata-chan!" he pushed against the hold of the strains, so hard the they cut into his arms, drawing blood. He gave up, too weak to continue. Impulsively, a familiar sinister laugh broke the silence of the dungeon. Sasuke looked up and saw Orochimaru holding something. What he was holding angered and terrified him.
Hinata's dead corpse hung limply in his grasp.
Sasuke woke with a start, crying out and flinging himself up off of the ground. "It's about time you woke up, kid." he looked up and scrambled away from the person. "Come on, we need to get your sister before he does anything…deadly to her like he did to the other experiments." Sasuke narrowed his eyes and hopped up as fast as he could. "My sister is not an experiment!" he yelled. "Calm down, and if we don't get to her in time, she will be." without warning, he was scooped up and his rescuer starting running amazingly fast down the dimly lit hallway.
Meanwhile, a frightened Hyuga Hinata lay strapped to an examination table, hands and feet bound with metal strips to prevent her from escaping. A boy with silver hair and glasses that glinted in the bright light of the room stood over her, grinned malevolently as he held a syringe filled with an odd purple-blue liquid. Her eyes dilated with fear as he came closer with the medical tool. She yelped in pain as the needle pierced her skin, the liquid flowing into her blood stream. The pain started to become overwhelming and she squirmed as much as she could. "Good idea, maybe it will spread faster. Then the pain will subside quicker." her said in all honestly. She felt her heart rate pick up, and tried to kick her legs, but the restraints did their jobs well.
Finally the pain subsided, leaving the young disowned Hyuga panted ad still straining against the metal that bound her to the table. "I'm impressed, most people would be passed out by now, for you to still be awake, and still sane, is quite surprising." Kabuto said. Hinata, turning her head slightly, used her Hyuga genes and gave him the coldest glare she could.
"Now, let's look at the results." he said, turning to a small computer screen. "Yes, you're perfect, Orochimaru-sama will definitely have a use for you." he said, smiling sinisterly. "Let me go!" she cried. "Now, now, don't be as much of a pain as your brother was." Orochimaru materialized into existence. "What did you do to my brother?!" she asked. "Nothing that isn't going to happen to you." he grinned.
Without warning, his neck shot out. Sharp fangs bit into her neck. "What are you? Some sort of vampire?!" she had picked up sarcasm from Sasuke in the short time they had known each other. He removed hi fangs and grinned. More pain coursed through her. She screamed, trying to break out of the restraints, this time with more vigor and desperation.
She managed to stay conscious through this, glaring at Orochimaru as he grinned in pleasure. She spat at his feet. "You dirty little snake! Go rot in hell!" she said, but it didn't sound right with her soft voice. "Hmm…I think Sasuke's cursing is just a bit better, don't you think, Kabuto?" he asked. "Yes, Orochimaru-sama, but hanging around him enough, she be able to curse well in time." he said.
"Orochimaru!" every head in the room turned to find Sasuke standing in the doorway. "What?! But how--?" he stuttered. "It's time to end this, Orochimaru!" someone stepped up behind Sasuke. Orochimaru's expression of shock turned to one of disapproving anger. "Anko, I should've known you were behind this." he hissed. "Who else would know where you've been experimenting on innocent children? Which one was it this time, sensei?" she said the word like one would say "vomit". Like one would say "zit". Like one would say "ingrown toenail".
"It's the most recent one, Anko, the one I used on you. You should know all about it from your research." Anko let a growl escape her throat. "Combined her natural flexibility and body-structure, this young kunoichi-in-training will be the best yet. Even better than you, Anko." he sneered. "You sick little bastard…" she said, closing her eyes. "How do you sleep at night, knowing your corrupting these young kids, not even out of the Academy yet?!" she screamed. "Simple. I know that, the earlier I inject the fluid into their blood streams, the more loyal they will be to me once they're shinobi." he said. "Like you assumed with me?!" Anko was enraged.
Orochimaru shrugged. "You were a fluke. Now if you'll excuse me, I have more tests to run." he said nonchalantly. Sasuke growled and launched himself forward, kunai knife in hand. "You snake bastard! Let my sister go or I'll rip you to shreds!" he cried. Orochimaru merely sidestepped the attack and Sasuke went crashing into a shelf of odd liquids. A few went flying and broke onto the restraints that bound Hinata. It was then she got an idea.
She gathered a bunch of chakra to her ankles and wrists. She held it there long enough to build tension, and then released it from the tenketsu in those specific areas. The metal parted and she was free. Without Orochimaru noticing she hopped off of the table and walked up to Anko. "Can we leave now? Mr. Michael Jackson over there scares me." she jabbed a thumb at Orochimaru and Anko barked out a laugh. "Sure, kid. Brat! Come on, let's go!" she scooped both kids in her arms and bolted out of the room.
"Miss, Kabuto is right behind us." Hinata reported. "Huh? How can you--oh, I see." Anko said, getting a look at Hinata's Byakugan, having activated. "That could come in handy. Can you keep that activated?" she asked. "Until my chakra gets low. That liquid they injected into me seemed to give my chakra a boost, so I'd say I'm good for at least an hour." she said. "Sweet. In that case…"
Anko suddenly body flickered. The two children looked around the surroundings and realized they were in the Konohagakure forest. "Welcome home, brats." she said, setting them down. Hinata looked around. "We've lost Kabuto. My vision range is about 10 miles, so he's nowhere within that distance." Hinata reported. "Good." Anko wiped some sweat off of her brow. "Honestly, I'm a little disappointed. Orochimaru's right hand man, tricked by a simply technique like Shunshin?" Sasuke asked. "Yeah, I have to agree with you there. Come on, lets get you two home." she said.
Both of them suddenly looked extremely uncomfortable. "What?" she asked. "My clan was murdered a couple of weeks ago." Sasuke said. "My father disowned me because he thought I was too weak to be his daughter and the Hyuga clan heiress." Hinata admitted, poking her fingers together. Anko looked between the two of them with a sympathetic gaze. "So then, where have you two been living?" she asked. "In the abandoned Uchiha complex." Sasuke answered. "Isn't that kind of traumatizing?" she asked. "It's either that or the orphanage for both of us." Hinata's answered.
Anko was silent. "Does the Hokage know about this?" she asked. Both of them shook their heads no. She was about to say something when a cry broke through her the dense trees. "Come on." she said. The two did their best to keep up, until suddenly Anko skidded to a stop, anger evident on her face. "Oi! What do you think you're doing?" she asked, stomping up to some shinobi. "Avenging those lost the night of the Kyuubi." one said, holding a kunai right above a small boys head. "You ought to be ashamed of yourselves! He's just a kid!" she said.
While Anko was beating p the poor damned shinobi, Hinata and Sasuke moved the boy from the fight scene and leaned him up against a tree. "Dude, are you alright?" Sasuke asked. The boy didn't answer, just looked in fear at the two people in front of him. "Does it look like he's alright?" Hinata asked, digging in the pockets of her hoodie. Finally, she pulled out a tub of some cream. "This is going to sting a little." she warned. Finally, he spoke. "Nothing worse than what I go through every day."
Sasuke frowned, bit lifted up the boys shirt so Hinata could finish healing his wounds with her minor medical ointment. What they say made both of them gasp in shock. You could count his ribs, and you could see that a few were broken. He was extremely, disturbingly, underweight, and he looked about to pass out front exhaustion and blood loss. "Hinata, hurry up with the treatment." Sasuke said, worried for the boy. "I'm going as fast as I can." the girl retorted.
"The poor boy…" Anko said from behind. It was only when Hinata had finished rubbing the ointment onto the boy's injuries did she turn around. "That's Uzumaki Naruto. He's been an orphan since he was born and everyone in the village hates him. They see him as a reminder or the Kyuubi." she said, crouching down. "How come?" Sasuke asked. "His birthday is October 10." she said. The two just glanced back at him. He had managed to move himself so that he was leaning forward with his arms draped around his knees. "Why aren't you beating me up yet?" he asked, not making eye contact. He suddenly felt himself being lifted out of his sitting position and was being supported by Sasuke and Hinata. "Because I just healed you, why would I want to force my efforts to be in vain?" she asked as they followed Anko back into the village.
He left out a small laugh. "I guess you're right. "What are you guys' names?" he asked. "I'm Uchiha Sasuke." Sasuke responded. "And I'm, or was, Hyuga Hinata." Hinata replied. "Was?" Naruto asked. Hinata focused on not tripping over a particularly large tree root. "My family disowned me about a month ago." she finally said.
"Alright, brats, you need to wait here. I need to talk to the Hokage. Don't you dare go father into that forest!" Anko said, pointing to the unused training ground she had dropped them off at. All of them nodded and she Shunshined away. A few minutes later, Naruto started looking into the forest ever few minutes. It was clear he was itching with curiosity. Sasuke and Hinata, too, were curious, but also, because of their clans, were obedient by nature, and knew not to disobey a superior. Naruto, however, didn't know this.
"Screw what she said, I'm going in there!" he said, starting to climb the fence. "Naruto! She said not to go in!" Sasuke said. "Too bad, people have told me to stay out of places before, and I never listened to them!" he said, flinging his leg over the fence. "But it could be dangerous!" Hinata said. "So? I deal with danger every day! If I'm gonna be a Hokage one day, I need to learn how to be brave!" he said from the over side of the fence.
"A Hokage knows when not to put himself in unnecessary danger, you dobe!" Sasuke said. Naruto just stuck his tongue out at the two of them and disappeared into the dense trees. "Damnit, that idiot is gonna get us all killed." Sasuke said, starting to climb over the fence. "What are you doing?" Hinata asked. "Going to get him before Anko comes back. Come on!" he said. "Have you lost it?!" she asked. He looked hurt at her accusation. "That's not the way you climb a fence, you dolt! You gotta put some leg strength into it." she said, pushing herself over the fence.
Soon, both were over the fence and into the overgrown training ground. "I thought you were gonna chicken out on me." he said as they started running. "Nope. When I was still a Hyuga I had to be all prim and proper in girly. I feels good to give in to my tomboy nature." she said. Sasuke just gave her a look and the started calling out to Naruto. "Naruto-baka, where did you go?" he called. "When we find you, Anko is gonna be so pissed at you!" Hinata shouted. They heard his laughter somewhere up ahead. "Try and find me, guys!" he called. "That idiot's making a game out of disobeying the rules!" Sasuke exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air.
"Well, then, let's play along."
Sasuke looked at Hinata with a confused expression on his face. "Let's play a little game of Hide-and-Go-Seek-out-the-dobe." she grinned, activating her bloodline. "Isn't that cheating?" Sasuke asked. "A ninja knows how to use the surrounding and other materials to his or her advantage. I'm simply playing ninja." she responded.
A few minutes later, her grin widened. "Target sighted." she ran off, Sasuke on her heels. Ducking under braches and jumping over logs with equal grace, they soon found Naruto sitting in a tree, swinging his legs. "Hey, you cheated!" he said, pointing at Hinata's Byakugan. "I was playing ninja. Do you know how much trouble were going to be in if Anko finds out we went in here when she specifically told us not to?" Hinata asked. Naruto just shrugged. "I've gotten in worse trouble." he said. "Just get down from there." Sasuke commanded. "I can't."
"What do you mean, you can't?"
"I'm stuck."
"How'd you managed to get yourself stuck?" Hinata asked. "Well, I don't quite remember how I got up here." Naruto rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. Sasuke did a face-fall and Hinata sweat dropped. "Alright, just follow my instructions, and I'll guide you down." she said. She analyzed the tree. "See that branch diagonally from you? Get on it." he said. He did so. "Now lower yourself to the branch below it…" he did so, and then did something completely idiotic.
He jumped.
"Naruto!" she cried out, worried for him. But he landed on his feet and walked up to Hinata, grinning stupidly. "How about that? Pretty impressive, huh?" he was responded to with a slap to the cheek. "You idiot! You could've killed yourself!" she yelled. "But I didn't! Besides, wasn't that cool?!" he asked. "It was stupid!"
While the two of them argued, Sasuke felt an scary presence, one that made the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. He looked around, trying to tune out the arguing. "Hinata, do you feel that?" he asked. Hinata stopped mid-sentence, ignoring the questions Naruto was asking. "Yeah, I feel it." she responded, turning around to face her brother.
"I don't feel anything! What are you talking about?" Naruto asked. A threatening hiss sounded through the air, silencing anything that Naruto would've said next. "That." both of the dark haired children said.
A sudden crack reached their ears a something as frightening as seeing Gai-sensei with the Byakugan activated appeared, tearing trees down to the ground in it's wake. Before the children stood a hundred-foot snake!
Before they could even scream, the snake eyed them hungrily. "Oh, looky here, a sssnack." it hissed. "It talks?!" Naruto screamed. "Yesss, you idiotic human!" it looked angrily at Naruto. "Jussst for that comment, I believe I will eat you first!" It opened it's jaw and lunged at Naruto.
Mere inches from Naruto's face, the snake stopped suddenly and let out a hiss of pain. He looked to the side to see Hinata in a fighting position, her right palm extended, giving her away as the one that attacked him. "You shouldn't have done that, child." it spat at her. "I should've if I wanted to save my friend." she said.
"A very brave human. Or a very foolish one. Either way, it'sss very admirable of you. What about you, quiet one? Am I ever going to hear anything from you?" the snake asked, turning to Sasuke. "I was told to respect Elders, especially ones that could kill me with one bite, so I've decided to shut up." he responded. "A sssmart one. Also admirable. I have decided. I--"
"Am going to let us go with a warning to never come in her without permission again?" Naruto interrupted. "Not a chance. As I was sssaying I have decided to eat all of you in one, you ssseem sssmall enough to fit." he said.
"You won't touch them, Hebi!" all of them turned around to see a very pissed off Anko; whether she was mad at them or at the snake, no one could tell. "Anko-sama! I'm sorry, are these children you're supper?" the snake asked. "No one likes a smart ass, Hebi. Go home, now!" the snake hung his head and slithered off. All three of the children turned around with guilty faces.
"What the hell did I tell you brats before I left? Not to go into the training ground! And you deliberately disobeyed me!" she seemed generally concerned for their safety. "But it was Naruto's fault!" Sasuke said. Naruto glared at him. "Well it was! If you hadn't gone in there first, we wouldn't have had to chase you in here!" Sasuke said.
"Naruto, why did you go into the training ground when I specifically told you otherwise?" she asked. Naruto pouted, not looking at Anko or at anyone, just becoming suddenly interested in an earthworm slithering across the earth.
"I'm waiting." Anko was fully aware of how she sounded like a mother.
"No one would've if I died anyway." he said quietly. He bowed his head, still not looking at anyone. He started to shake. "It's all because of the damn Kyuubi sealed inside of me!" he finally looked up, tears streaming down his face.
Anko walked up to him, bending down to his eye-level. "Listen to me, Naruto." he looked up at her, still sobbing uncontrollably. "Are you listening? Cuz' I'm only gonna say this once." he nodded. "You have people who care about you. Iruka, Sandaime-sama…me." she said. "But none of you are my parents, are you?" he said, wiping his eyes and sniffing. "No, none of us are." she said, sending him into another crying fit. "But, wherever and whoever your parents are, I'm sure they love you very much, and are watching you right now." she said. His face screwed up even more and he launched himself onto Anko. She was surprised at first, but she wrapped her arms around him and drew him close.
She heard more sniffling and sobbing coming from the other two kids. She looked over and saw tears streaming down Hinata's face and Sasuke trying to inconspicuously wiped his eyes. "Do you two miss your parents?" she asked in a motherly tone she didn't even know she could use. The both nodded and she spread her arm open to allow them room in the hug. The both let out sobs and ran to Anko. She hugged all three of them close.
Loud sniffles could be heard from above. Anko raised her eyes to see Hebi the snake looking at them. "I'm sss-sssory, Anko-sssama, it'sss a beautiful moment!" he said. "Will you get out of here?!" she yelled at the snake, who slithered away, still sniffling.
The first chapter of Even if We're Apart, We're Together! Did you like it? Did you hate it? Will you review? You will if you want more chapters. I realize Hinata is OC, and Sasuke isn't an emo bent on revenge. Naruto has a breakdown, and so do Hinata and Sasuke. I had to add the snake in there at the end, it was too funny to pass up.
Ja nae!