The Punishing Ninja

Naruto and all related characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto. Punisher and all related characters belong to Marvel Comics.

Chapter 1

It was a warm day on the beach. A man with shaggy brown hair and red fang marks walked along the shoreline carrying a picnic basket and a large umbrella, followed by a woman with long blond hair and sparkling blue eyes who had a visible bulge on her stomach, an obvious sign she was pregnant. Next to the woman were two small children, a boy and a girl, each about six or seven from the looks of them. The boy had the same shaggy brown hair as the man, and the girl had the same long blond hair as the woman.

"Isn't this nice Kiba? Aren't you glad Naruto finally gave you some time off? Being friends with the 6th Hokage sure has benefits doesn't it?" The woman said smiling as she held the hand of the little girl next to her. Kiba shrugged and replied,

"Yeah, I guess, but you know I love the action Ino." This earned him a glare from his wife, but he smiled and added,

"But I love you guys more." Kiba then kissed his wife, earning a cry of disgust from his children. Kiba and Ino chuckled as Kiba picked his son up and began to give him a piggy back ride.

"Having fun Sajin?" Kiba asked his son, as the boy laughed and said,

"Yeah Daddy! This is almost as fun as riding Akamaru!" Kiba sighed a little at the thought of his usual constant companion. Akamaru had broken a leg on a recent mission, the reason why he wasn't with the family. If this had happened a few years ago, Kiba wouldn't have left his partner's side, but he had promised that his next day off he would spend with his family so here he was. Kiba hated to leave Akamaru, but he had promised he'd take his family to the beach. They reached a nice spot on the sparsely populated beach. After finding a nice spot and setting up the umbrella and towels, Kiba decided to play tag with his children as Ino watched. The kids ran into the surrounding forest, giggling with glee as their father chased after them. After 15 minutes of looking for them, Kiba heard his stomach growl.

"Sajin! Kiyone! Come on out, you win it's time to eat!" Kiba yelled as he held his growling stomach.

"You can't find them?" Ino said as she walked up next to Kiba.

"No, I swear they could be assassination specialists when they get older." Kiba said as Ino began to walk ahead of him calling for their children. Suddenly they heard a scream that made their blood run cold.

"DADDY!" Their daughter screamed from behind some trees. They rushed over just in time to see several men with revolver pistols standing next to a man on being hung on a noose.

"Shit we got witnesses!" One man yelled in a panic. One of them men drew his gun as he yelled,

"WASTE 'EM!" The next thing Kiba knew, he was falling, a numb feeling taking over as he heard the muffled shriek of Ino and the terrified screams of his children.

Kiba's POV:

Darkness. That's all I knew. I slowly opened my eyes. Everything was blurred. I hear something to my left.

'Theres someone at the door. That's probably her right now, she's coming home. I think she went out for a bit.' I though hazily as I rolled over in the bed I was on.

'But I'm back from my mission, aren't I?' I thought, confusion setting in. I sat up and put my feet on the floor. The floor was so cold. Slowly I put weight on my feet, but my legs felt weak. I could hear the doorknob being fiddled with, and I wanted to greet her as she came in. It took everything I had to take that step forward and in an instant, I fell. Suddenly I found myself on the floor, the cold floor. I tried to get up, but it was impossible. My face felt hot, especially against the floor. The door opened, not the front door. I rolled over onto my back and looked up. There she was.

"Ino, good morning." I said, hardly able to keep my eyes open. She dropped to her knees beside me, and I realized no. It wasn't Ino. I managed to get a good look at her face and saw two beautiful pale lavender eyes.

"H-Hinata?" I stuttered finally.

"Are you all right?" She asked, as she loomed over me.

Then it hit me. Everything came flooding back, like I was remembering a dream only this actually happened. This wasn't Ino, and this was not my house. My house was far away, and Ino was even further. Things were blurry, but it wasn't because of my weakness, I felt underwater, because I was. My eyes were filled with tears, but maybe that was because of my weakness. I managed to finally look around and saw that I was in a hospital room.

"Hinata." I said. She bent down and looked me in the eyes.

"It's Ino, Sajin, Kiyone, they're gone aren't they?" I asked, dreading the answer I knew was coming.

"Kiba, I'm so sorry." she whispered. Suddenly I had a flash of memory. There she was lying there, in front of me. Or at least, what was left of her. It smelled like her, but it didn't look like her. But it hardly smelled like her, it smelled rotten, not the beautiful perfume Ino left behind when she walked. I adored that smell, beautiful, just like her. The children. My children, would have been three, maybe two boys and a girl, I'll never know. Gone.

"Gone." I said.

"It's okay." Hinata assured me.

"Okay?" I repeated, feeling anger begin to fill inside only to have it be replaced with despair.

"No. It's not okay." I said, feeling the pain well in my chest.

"You have to regain some strength." She lifted my head up off the floor I rested on her lap. I was watching the ceiling, listening to my tears fall down my cheeks. Shame, regret, despair. Who did this? I'd find out.

"I have to find them." I decided. I told her, maybe I shouldn't have told her.

"Find who?" She asked, obviously lost as to what I was talking about.

"How long have I been here?" I asked, thinking a little more coherently now. I went to stand up, but once again my strength gave way. Hinata reached out and put a pillow under my head and then stood up. I didn't want to be alone so I called to her, yelled, begged. I wanted her to come back as I heard movement from outside the room. I wanted to die.

"Kiba, here." She was there again with a small bowl, probably taken from the cafeteria. I looked inside to see dark broth as she looked at me eagerly.

"You need your strength." She said, trying her best to help me. I ate it all. It wasn't good, but I ate it all. She put the bowl aside and asked me to wait again, and she disappeared again. Again, I was left alone. I yelled to her. She called back to me, asking me to wait. There were footsteps coming towards the room coming closer, and slowly.

'Ino it has to be her, home from wherever she was with the kids. But where were Sajin and Kiyone? They must be playing somewhere else. Must have asked her to let them play, so she's coming home to get them a change of clothes' I thought hopefully. I sat up,

"Ino," I said quietly, staring at the door. I had a perfect view of the front door. But it wasn't my front door. It opened.

"Hinata, there's been..." I heard an all to familiar voice say. It was Naruto. He looked at me, and I could only briefly hold eye contact before I threw my hands over my face and fell over backwards again. Ino was dead.

"Kiba!" he said, rushing over and picking me up off the floor. I struggled against him for fooling me, for tricking me, making me believe that she was coming back to me. He easily held me back and lifted me up off the floor, and back to the bed. I felt like a prisoner. I shouted for Hinata, and she was there in a moment. I had to find the men who killed them.

"How long has he been like this?" Naruto asked, obviously concerned.

'A pregnant woman with two children!' I thought furiously.

"I came in and he was on the floor, I gave him some broth and he ate it thankfully."

'Helpless, hopeless, defenseless.' I repeated in my head over and over. I yelled at them both. I couldn't think with them talking. They were quiet, my head fell to the mattress with the pillow on the floor where I once was. Ino and I loved each other and without her there I didn't know what to do.

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