A new one-shot! Shocking, isn't it?

"Hokage-sama"

Tsunade looked at her secretary, Shizune, whose face had become very pale. She knew immediately that something was wrong.

"What is it?"

"The ANBU have come back from their mission, they followed a summoned animal that bore the Konoha headband as a necklace and found one of the hiding places of Orochimaru. However, there was no sign of the enemy or anything else. Only a videotape was found, it appeared to be left behind on purpose, but not by Orochimaru."

"If that sneaky bastard didn't leave us the message, then who did?"

"We don't know Ma'am, all we know is that it was hidden to be easily found by someone who would be searching the lair. A strand of dark hair was found along with this note."

Tsunade read the note quickly, it said:

Let the truth finally be known to anyone but the Snake Sannin.
This will be my final act as a Konoha nin.
I shall never come back alive, but I shall never intentionally harm the village either.
Please respect this wish of mine, and let me be!

"This must be from the Uchiha. Oh damn, those old farts on the council won't like this."

The blond woman sighed deeply and started watching the tape. It appeared to be a surveillance tape, the rare thing was that it had sound. A dark room with limited light was visible on the screen.

The two women kept watching the tape, a lot of gasping could be heard outside the office, and if one would've been able to see their faces, they would have seen a mixture of surprise, horror and occasionally smiles.

When the tape was done, Tsunade had a hard glance in her eyes, and her friend had tears rolling down her cheeks.

Suddenly, the blonde Hokage couldn't handle it anymore. She threw her sake bottle out of the window (yes people it was that bad) and told her dark haired friend to get the rookie nine, their sensei's, and Hyuuga Hiashi.

While Shizune went and gathered the requested people Tsunade ordered one of her secretaries to copy the video, and send the copy to Suna, with the order that it was only to be watched by the Kazekage and his siblings

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"TSUNADE BAA-CHAN, WHAT ARE WE ALL DOING HERE?

"Quiet Naruto, it's serious." They all were amazed when the orange clad youngster did as he was told.

Perhaps he'd changed more then they'd thought, during his travels. Or perhaps it was the fact that he almost lost his good friend Gaara that still had an impact on him, but he didn't open his mouth again.

While some of the gang were still being dazed by this strange Naruto behavior, Chouji looked around, he had the feeling someone was missing from their little group.

"Hokage-sama, where's Hinata-chan?"

Shino and Kiba at each other and then both looked at their sensei who shook her head seriously.

"We would like to inquire if this assembly is with the purpose of notifying us about our missing teammate. It would explain the presence of one certain individual who otherwise has nothing to do with our group."

When some people looked questioningly at Shino, Kiba sighed and explained:

"He wants to know if the meeting is about Hinata, it would explain why the head of the Hyuuga clan is here at the moment since he has no business with us otherwise." He paused for a moment

"Which suits our team just fine." While saying this, the present members of Team Eight shot an angry look at the ice-cold clan leader.

"I have nothing to do with the absence of my eldest daughter; I assumed she was on a mission with her team for the whole week. As for why I was called here, I have no idea."

Then they heard the cold voice of the head of the village.

"So you just presumed your daughter had left with her team, without checking this story with the families of the other members of her team? And you guys just assumed her father forbid her to see you and didn't even try to visit her?"

Hiashi remained silent, but Kiba retorted angrily:

"It wouldn't have been the first time, and every time we tried to visit her, we weren't allowed to see her." He closed his eyes in frustration and continued shakily. "After a couple of times, she begged us not to try seeing her if it happened again."

He opened his eyes and an angry look at the elder male. "Apparently her 'punishment' was harder if we tried to contact her."

This caused the other teams and sensei's in the room to shoot incredulous looks at the father of one of the sweetest kunoichi in the village.

Tsunade sighed sadly and shook her head while saying:

"Well I can tell you that neither was she kept at the Hyuuga compound, nor was she on a mission with her team."

Everyone turned their attention back to the blonde sitting behind the desk.

"Hinata Hyuuga was kidnapped by the sound."

This caused them all to pale considerately.

"What? How?" Kurenai whispered softly. She was obviously upset, the same with both Ino and Sakura. Who knew what could happen to the poor girl while imprisoned by the awful Orochimaru. Surely the tender-hearted girl couldn't handle that.

"WE HAVE TO RESCUE HER!!!!! WE CAN'T ALLOW THET HORRIBLE SNAKE TO TAKE ANOTHER KONOHA NIN!! SASUKE WAS BAD ENOUGH, I WILL NOT ALLOW HIM TO HAVE ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS AND MAKE HER LIFE MISERABLE!!!"

"Calm down Naruto! Of course I'll allow you to go look for her, but before doing that, I think all of you need to see something very important."

She made everyone sit down on chairs in front of a rather large tv, so they could all see and hear everything and then started the video.

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A dark room, barely lit. After a while, more lights were turned on and a chair became visible. It wasn't an empty chair though, a person was bound to it.

This individual was female, had long black-blue hair, and was blindfolded while her clothes had shreds in it and were barely covering the appropriate zones. Where skin was bared, cuts and bruises were visible. Just below the blindfold a black bruise was beginning to form.

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Ino gasped loudly, the blond girl threw herself into Chouji's arms and hid her face . All the boys winced and Kiba , Naruto and Neji were clenching their fists. Even Hiashi's mask slipped a bit. You could almost barely see a hint of anger in his eyes but not even a second later it was gone again.

Then Kakashi's words washed through the room and stunned it's occupants even more.

"No blood on the blindfold, and no tear marks, they didn't take her eyes, and she hasn't cried, not even once."

Everyone turned towards the ex-ANBU and then looked for themselves, indeed the blindfold was dry. They hadn't touched her eyes, and she hadn't cried. Then suddenly something happened.

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Another person entered the room through the shadows. Black hair, bad fashion sense and onyx eyes. Sasuke Uchiha had arrived. He took of the blindfold, only to see … closed eyes. She didn't even open them.

"Too scared to open your eyes, Hyuuga? You should use them while you still have them."

"No thanks, I do not wish for my last view here to be of your duck butt hairdo."

This response caused both teens to gasp, end turn red. Of course you'd expect the Uchiha to be red with anger, and the Hyuuga with embarrassment. Strangely enough it was the other way around.

Sasuke was embarrassed to be told off by a so called, shy little mouse, while Hinata was furious.

"I can't believe you bastards game me a truth serum. Of course I shouldn't have been surprised, what could be lower then a couple of sneaky little snakes, hiding in the grass?"

This time both were red in anger.

"Now listen to me you little weakling, you're going to answer some questions for me, or else …"

"Or else what? You'll give me the same hairdo as you? You'll torture me? Come on what can you do to me, that someone hasn't already done before you? You can only be chosen to be my inquisitor for three reasons and none of them are good."

"Oh? Really? Do tell, what are those reasons?"

It remained silent for a while, Hinata seemed to ponder about something, but then she smiled and said:

"Alright, I'll tell you. But remember, I can't lie so I'll tell you the hard truth.

First one, you're an ex-villager of Konoha. Orochi-baka must think I'll be more open to you because I'll be sure you would never betray the village, and one day you'll come back to us."

The girl started chuckling "Yeah right, as if that'll happen. You're perfectly capable of betraying the village. I believe there's not an ounce of loyalty in that body of yours."

This left the dark-haired male speechless.

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And not only him, everyone in the room couldn't believe their ears, Tsunade and Shizune, who had seen this already were over the shock and were laughing their asses off while looking at the looks on everyone's faces.

It didn't take long however for Shikamaru to get over his shock and utter silently:

"It's always the quiet ones."

This made Choji and Shino smile, while Kiba laughed loudly with the Hokage and her assistant. Kurenai's tears stopped and she worried a little less. Surely if Hinata could insult her captor, she wasn't that badly hurt.

Kakashi uttered a 'interesting', Tenten was cheering her on inside while grinning wildly on the outside, and all the others were still in a severe case of mental shock. Especially Hiashi who would've never thought it was possible for his meek daughter to insult such a strong ninja.

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"Second reason then, it's obvious that you were the most wanted man in the whole village, so your idiot of a snaky teacher hoped perhaps you could seduce me into cooperating, unfortunately you probably never told him I was one of the only females who has never ever been interested in you. Imagine that, right?" a grin was clearly visibly on the angelic face of the otherwise so softly spoken girl.

The truth serum sure did some strange things to her attitude, or perhaps it didn't and this was how she really was? NO, NOT POSSIBLE…right?

"Then you've got the third reason, since I always avoided you in the academy you figured perhaps I feared you and you could scare me into giving you the answers."

By the silence of the boy she could tell she was right.

"Dead wrong again git, I avoided you because I couldn't stand your attitude towards others, and all the noise those fan girls of yours made."

Something she said ticked Sasuke off, cause he started screaming at her.

"MY ATTITUDE? DO YOU REALLY THINK I CARE ABOUT MY FREAKING ATTITUDE? I WAS TRAUMATIZED AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT I'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH?"

For the first time since the blindfold was off Hinata opened her eyes, and they were burning with anger. Her byakugan was activated (without any signs)

"OH BOOHOO POOR LITTLE UCHIHA WHO'S SOB STORY IS KNOW THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE LAND OF FIRE AND PERHAPS BEYOND. YOU NEVER THOUGHT THERE MIGHT BE PEOPLE WHO'VE HAD IT EVEN WORSE THEN YOU? NOW? DID YOU?"

The boy sneered; "If you're talking about your crush …" He was interrupted by Hinata.

"Naruto's not my crush, he never was. And yes I was talking about him, but about other people too."

"Then tell me, what could be worse than seeing your brother kill your parents?" he challenged her with a confident smirk on his face. Causing her to knit her eyebrows together.

"Tell me first, do you have any happy memories about you family at all? A family picnic? A fun training session with your dad? Your mother singing in the kitchen?"

He started thinking about it, yes there had been a lot of happy days with his parents, and even though he doesn't want to admit it, Itachi used to be a good older brother.

So grudgingly he nodded.

"Congratulations, that's more than can be said about Naruto or Gaara" then she silently whispered: "or me."

Sasuke didn't understand, confused he asked:

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about people's lives here. For starters, because the village is too stupid to recognize a person for who he is; Naruto had to fend for himself since the age of five.

At that age he was thrown out of the orphanage; not that it was a big loss mind you. I know for a fact that he was beaten by both the children and the adults frequently.

So he lived on his own ever since and had to go through hell to survive. The shops hardly ever sold him anything, and if something was sold it was highly overpriced and barely edible."

Her heartbeat was rising so she took a deep breath and calmed herself down.

"I'll stop there before I get carried away; but know that this is just a hint of what he went through. I bet you never paid attention to his wincing in class right? It was just another way to gain attention right?"

She looked down again and sighed heavily.

"The guy is so strong, I know of no one else who would have survived what he went through. And after all that he still wants to protect that village with his life.

They all made a huge mistake taking a jailor for its prisoner, but I bet he's going to be the best Hokage the village ever had. And this even though they really don't deserve him.

Don't you think so too?"

The blonde's ex-teammate couldn't utter a word; he was shocked to the core by what he heard.

"What, he considered you his best friend and you didn't know, oh come on what kind of a friend are you?

And I thought it was bad when you didn't defend him from the violent pink haired girl. She's his other best friend, his crush, his teammate too and still she beats him up every day; and what for?"

She stopped to answer her own question in a sneering way. "Well let's see, last time I saw her knocking him head first into a wall and that was because he had a cold and he accidentally sneezed in her hair."

She wanted to add a sarcastic remark 'that it was such a good reason', but because of the truth serum, she couldn't. So she did the next best thing. She sneered again and said:

"For some reason I don't think that punch didn't help him with his headache. And guess what? One little word of you could have probably made her stop hurting him."

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Everyone had become silent, practically none of them had known to what horrible things their cheery blond friend had had to go through. All the girls were either crying or had tears in their eyes. Sakura didn't dare look at her teammate. Feeling ever so guilty for what she did to him.

All of them looked at Naruto with sorrow, compassion and pity.

The blonde himself, however, didn't even glance at them, he looked at the screen, tears in his eyes at what this girl had said about him, she called him strong, she said the village doesn't deserve him, she practically yelled out that she knew of kyuubi and that she wasn't bothered by it.

"How did she know?" "She's always watching you, we all thought she was in love with you, but apparently we were wrong, she couldn't have lied when she said she never had a crush on you."

He looked at the speaker, Kurenai, and saw everyone's looks; he was surprised first and then grew angry.

"Stop pitying me, you never did so before and I don't need you to start now." He growled and everyone avoided his looks, except Tsunade who smiled proudly at him like a mother at her son.

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"Then let's look at the present Kazekage; Sabaku no Gaara. Oh god, the guy survived more assassination attempts then you got date invitations. And guess what?"

Sasuke looked at her in shock, and shook his head. So Hinata continued in a bitter tone

"They were sent by his own father. The reason?"

She scoffed angrily.

"Something went wrong during his birth; a mistake was made by the man himself and he couldn't bear with the consequences."

Hinata was getting angry again, but this time she didn't calm down, apparently she felt a lot of compassion for the Kazekage.

"No wonder the poor guy didn't dare to love anyone but himself. His own uncle, who Gaara thought cared for him tried to murder him while saying he hated the child, who was then about six years.

In a serious voice Hinata continued but what she said next sounded very weird coming out of the normally so gentle girl.

"I'm almost sorry that that snake next door killed Gaara's father. I'm sure he would've loved to do it himself, and I would've loved to see it happen. The bastard deserved to suffer to do such a thing to his own kid."

Still in fury she looked back up at Sasuke, the onlookers couldn't see her face at that moment, but it must have been filled with anger, for it made The Uchiha, the human icicle, back away in something akin to fear.

She narrowed her eyes and said in a dark tone.

"Strange isn't it? How some people get saved while their whole family perishes, while others have to safe themselves from getting killed by them."

She stopped talking, pondered some things, then continued.

"Besides" she said "there are untold depths to your story."

Her words hung in the room like dust particles, almost unnoticeable, but suddenly a light shines on them and they can't be ignored anymore.

"What are you talking about, wench! Tell me!!"

As a response she just shook her head. "I won't tell you, because it isn't mine tell."

And that was it, he could demand whatever he wanted, the quiet girl just shook her head.

So in the end Sasuke gave up, then he shocked the brunette by asking: "So what's the story about yourself?"

"There's n-n-nah-noth oh damn that truth serum. Ugh It's none of your business."

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In suna:

A certain redhead was watching the tape, together with his siblings. Surprised that there was this girl who felt so much of his sorrow. He hadn't expected anyone to understand his life, and here this Hyuuga, a supposed weakling, said she wanted to see him kill his own father(something he had wanted for a looooong time).

"Wasn't she that quiet girl who lost to her cousin and almost got herself killed?"

"Yes she's the same girl Kankuro, we met a few times during missions and became sort of friends, but I never knew her like this, wow what a change."

Temari said, clearly impressed by the strength that went out of the usually timid girl

Then both siblings were surprised once again by their brother uttering one word:

"Remarkable"

It hardly ever happened that Gaara found something, never mind someone, remarkable.

In Konoha:

"What does she mean her own life? I didn't think anything extremely un-youthful happened in her life, right Neji?" Lee asked his teammate.

"I'm not exactly sure what she meant with it Lee." The boy said with a pensive look towards his uncle who suddenly didn't look very solid anymore.

I've split the story into two, if I hadn't it would've been 17 pages long in word. Something tells me that is a bit too much.