Shadows of the Past, Return of the Girl
Years ago, Hinata Hyuga went missing during a mission and was presumed dead. For the longest time, her loss was grieved by her family, teammates, and Naruto, whom she had finally gotten the courage to express her feelings to. As time went by, she was slowly forgotten by the village, and Naruto moved on with his life. It has been three years, and a girl claiming to be Hinata has returned to the village. What will happen to Naruto, when he sees that the girl that claimed to love him, has returned?
Chapter One: Disappearance
"Hinata-san, what is your location?" Kiba's voice rang out from a headset around her neck. Hinata was alone in the middle of a forest, the team had split up in search of a missing person that had been reported in the village, and a rival village had been suspected of an abduction. Several teams had been dispatched, including Team 8, each team searching a different area around the village.
"I'm near the river on the north side, have you found anything, Kiba-kun? Shino-kun?" She asked softly into the microphone. She stopped running briefly to catch her breath and await a reply from the other end of the three-way radio that she shared with her teammates. She wished that their leader, Kurenai, would have been with them, but all of the Jounin in the village had been dispatched themselves to search the farther reaches around the villages.
"Not yet. We should regroup and create a new search plan." Kiba said as he stopped dead in his tracks and remained silent. Akamaru was at his feet and began to growl. Both of them could smell the presence of other people within the area, three, no four of them, and they were all near Hinata.
"Hinata, watch out there are several people near you!" Kiba yelled into the microphone, hoping she would respond, but there was only static where her voice should have been. "Hinata?! Hinata?! Are you there?! Shino!" Kiba yelled into his microphone as he began to run to where Hinata's scent had been last. Within a few minutes, he and Akamaru arrived and saw Shino had arrived first, but Hinata was nowhere to be found, only her headset on the ground in pieces and a few small spots of blood leading away from the headset.
"Shino, did you see anyone?!" Kiba asked frantically.
"No, I just arrived myself." Shino said, his eyes fixed on the headset from behind his dark glasses. Kiba growled and punched the ground, upset at himself that he had let this happen, and to Hinata of all people. Shino watched his teammate and reached up to his headset, pushing a button and switching it to the main village channel.
"This is Aburame Shino of Team 8, we have lost a member, send the ANBU immediately" He spoke, a voice on the other end came across the radio, confirming the dispatch of the ANBU.
That evening, the entire Hyuga main house was called to the Hokage Tower, as well as Kiba, Shino and Kurenai. They were met by the Godaime, Tsunade and her attendant Shizune. The atmosphere around the building was grim, the main daughter of the Main House of the Hyuga Clan was missing and the Main House was in disarray at the news. There was a loud mass of chat and anger in the voices of the Hyuga elders and the leader himself waited patiently with anger in his eyes for the Hokage to speak. Tsunade was a little reluctant to speak, but she knew she had no choice in the matter.
"You all know why we are here, so I won't bother explaining. What I want to know is how this happened and what we can do to get Hinata back." Tsunade announced to the angry men and women before her. "From what the ANBU collected, we assume that Hinata was kidnapped and not merely killed, however we do not know who commited this act, or where they took her."
"Then what good does this meeting do us?!" One of the elder Hyuga men yelled from the crowd, spiking an uproar of commotion.
"We are still investigating the situation…" Shizune tried to speak to the group, but they did not hear her over their own voices, and the few who did hear merely became even more enraged.
"Enough!" Hiashi yelled from his position at the front of the group. "This senseless bickering will get us nowhere. We must return to the Main House and contemplate the situation at hand. It is possible that this is an attempt to steal the secret of the Byakugan, and if this is the case, it is likely that she is already dead."
Hiashi turned and began to walk back to the Hyuga family houses when he heard a voice yelling at him from the direction of the Hokage Tower.
"You are her father, how the hell can you be so uncaring about this?!" Kiba yelled as he took a few steps forward.
"You were the team leader for this were you not? How could you have let this happen to her? This is your fault and we now must accept the circumstances." Hiashi spoke coldly at Kiba, before turning once more and continued to walk home. Kiba was struck with guilt at his words, but he felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up at Tsunade who was now standing next to him.
"We will find her Kiba, even if it takes weeks, months or years. We will return her here alive. She knew this was a possibility when she first became a shinobi, don't blame yourself, it wont help us." Tsunade spoke before walking away from him and returning to the tower to have a meeting with the ANBU captains. Kurenai and Shino approached Kiba from the tower front where they had been standing.
"Lets go Kiba." Kurenai said as they began to walk home. Kiba stood in place for a moment before reluctantly walking to his home.