NHB: Okay, so here it is! I don't own Naruto!
.:Chapter One: Trouble Starts:.
"Tsunade-sama! Tsunade-sama!" Shizune ran down the hall with a small stack of papers in her hands.
"What is it Shizune?" Tsunade looked up from a piece of paper she was reading. "Another group of citizens have been found to have disappeared.
The disappearances are getting closer and closer to the village. What do we do?" She looked Tsunade in the eye with worry. Tsunade broke the contact by closing her eyes and taking in a deep sigh. "Lets continue this in the office. I dont want anyone over hearing us."
Once they were in the room, Tsunade took her seat and gave out another sigh. A few more moments of silence passed until she opened her eyes to Shizune.
"We wait."
"Hn...another failure..such weak specimens. Oh well...our real target should turn out to be a much more interesting study..." Three dead bodies lay on the ground lifelessly. Their eyes rolled in the back of their heads. Pools of blood continued to seep through the dirt and spread about. No ounce of hesitation or remorse was heard in the man's voice. His eyes were just as cold. He gazed upon the bodies as if they were just piles of dirt. He was bored. He wanted someone to entertain him. Someone worth of his studies...
"Lets go. We're done here. I want to get to our real target already." He turned away and continued torwards the direction of the Konoha gates. "Yes, Master." The other four replied in unison, and followed.
"What? But why Tsunade-sama?! If we let him get any closer, who knows what'll happen." Shizune asked, bewildered.
"Because if we send any of our ninja out there, the same thing will happen to them. We need to keep our ninja all in one spot and attack him at once with everything we've got. Two or three teams won't do the trick. We need everyone." Tsunade explained. She kept a solid stone expression while she contemplated the situation.
"Get Jounin and Anbu to keep tabs on Naruto and protect him. Im guessing thats who Takeshi is after.
"Hai, Tsunade-sama." Shizune took her leave, and began to make sure everything was ready when Takeshi came to attack Konoha.
Takeshi and his followers finally met up with the Hidden Leaf's gates. "Im bored, lets find him already."
"Hai, Master Takeshi-sama."
"C'mon Naruto, just do it! Trust us!" All the guys cornered Naruto, getting him to give in. Somewhere not too far away, something just like it happened. "C'mon Hinata! Please! Trust us, it'll be fine!" The girls cornered her, pleading. The two both spoke in unison. "Well....."
Later that night, Hinata stood in the park, sitting on a bench. Moments passed while she waited for him to appear. She sighed and began to think to herself. "Why did I give in to this...nothing's going to happen between us.." Suddenly a figure appeared in front of her and spoke. "Hey. Sorry if im late." He took a seat next to her, and felt nervous.
"wow...she looks really pretty....no—she looks beautiful....Ahh, Naruto! Oh man...I need to get my head out of the clouds. Hinata's right there!"
"I..Its okay...I'm sorry if they made you come here though." she replied.
"Oh, don't worry about it. I just wish they'd all shut up though. Everyone knows my heart is only for Sakura-chan. I love her, and no one can change that. She's the only person ive ever loved. Besides, me and you dont even know eachother that well."
"Hinata-chan doesn't like me...and she never will...at least not a guy like me...I can't let her find out. I can't even imagine her reaction...an angel like her would never want to be with a monster like me..and it would probably ruin our friendship...not to mention that she wouldnt even want to be near me anymore." Naruto hated saying these things to Hinata, but he couldn't let her find out. He didn't want to lose her too.
Hinata's heart shattered into pieces, but somehow in some type of miracle, she was able to keep on smiling. She struggled to speak. "Th...Thats great naruto-kun.." "Oh no...I can't cry, not now. I have to do something." She thought.
"Oh man...I hope I didn't mess up.." Naruto worried to himself until Hinata spoke up again.
"A..Ah...w-well...if you want..y..you dont h-have to stay, i-its fine Naruto-kun." She needed to be alone, she felt like she was going to break.
"Maybe she needs some time to be alone....oh no...did I hurt her feelings? But how? Hinata-chan doesnt like me like that.....right?"
"Ah...s-sure...see you later Hinata-chan...." Naruto slowly walked away, taking a few quick looks back at her before he disappeared in the darkness. She continued to sit there unmoving, until finally a single tear streamed down her face. She was slumped over, with her staring at the ground beneath her, and her hair covering her face.
".....There's nothing left....." She said in a whisper.
"I was right....even Naruto-kun doesn't want to be near me....no one does..my father was right. Im a failure....a burden.."
As Hinata was thinking to herself, five dark figures lingered in the trees, watching everything that was going on. "Master Takeshi-sama, shouldn't we go after the Kyuubi boy?" one of them asked.
"No...Ive found a new friend to play with...and this one looks even more interesting.....Lets play with her."
"But Master, she is just the Hyuuga heir. She has proven to be very weak, and pure hearted." another one of them replied.
"I highly doubt that Keiichi...and the purest of hearts always have an equally pure dark heart."
he licked his lips slightly. Anxious to finally have found someone worthy to play with.
"Take her."
"I shouldjust leave....and never come back..." She said to no one in particular; but Takeshi heard. He found this quite interesting. "Hmm..." Moments after he gave his command, his followers cornered her.
"Wh..Who're you?" Hinata leaned further into the bench, and went to grab a kunai. When she reached for her holster, she remembered that she left it at home for the date. "damnit...no!"
About a mile away, Naruto heard a scream. He instantly recognized the voice. "Hinata!" He ran as fast as he could. He just hoped that he would make it on time.
Meanwhile with Hinata, she struggled to get away. Naruto had made it just in time to find them attacking her. "No!!! Hinata! Watch out!!" Naruto screamed to her. He knew he wouldn't make it to her on time. She turned to him, and was stabbed through the torso with some kind of odd weapon. It wrapped around her body tightly, and then lit up in a bright dark purple. Giant currents of purple electricity and chakra went flying everywhere. The only way he could tell where she was, was by her screams. She was in pain. Agonizing pain. "Hinata!!!!!!" She began to cry from the unbearable pain, and choke on her tears while she screamed.
Finally, Naruto flipped. This was enough. "STOP IT!!!!!!!!!" Instantly letting kyuubi to start taking over, he knocked all of them away, and then the one who was hurting Hinata. When she fell to the ground, he turned back, and made sure he caught her. She was unconcious, but still crying and whimpering from the excruciating pain. He carefully picked her up in his arms, and stared at her with a concerned look. "Who would do something like this..?"
The next day, Hinata woke up in the hospital. Everything hurt. "Wh...Wha...?" She sat up carefully, and started to open her eyes. "Careful. You took quite a hit. She heard Tsunade's voice, and on cue, her torso hurt. "Ah...ow.." Tsunade chuckled and took a seat next to Hinata's bed. "you're pretty lucky. Without Naruto, who knows what could have happened to you."
"N-Naruto?..What?" now she was really confused. "You're in the hospital Hinata. You were attacked last night until Naruto came and saved you." Tsunade nudged her head to the other side of the bed, where Naruto was asleep in another chair. Hinata's eyes widened in shock. She remained speechless while looking at his content expression.
"I wanted to ask you something though..." Tsunade turned serious, keeping a solemn expression. Hinata turned back to Tsunade. "Do you know why those people were after you?"
"Ano....uhm...not really.."
"I see....well..by from what ive heard...they conduct studies...sort of like what Orochimaru does. But they do it in a more organized manner, and they find their prey instead of it coming to them. So basically....."
"I was their next prey.." Hinata finished her sentence, finally understanding what was going on.
"precisely. So now we don't know exactly what they did to you. And to be honest.......im actually afraid to find out. They've always caught their prey before. I don't understand why they backed down now."
"So...what should we do?"
"Just..be careful."
"So Master, what was the weapon that we have been attacking the specimen with?" Keiichi inquired.
"It was a device that is supposed to weaken the seal on the dark heart of the soul. Her darker side will try to break through. If she can stand up to that, which none of the other specimens have been able to do, then we will finally take her. Then, when her dark heart's seal has reached its weakest stage, we take her and unleash it. If she decides to give in on her own, thats good too. But if she doesn't, then her darker half will go on a rampage and she will die from it all. Just like everyone else has."
"But Master, then why are you so confident that she will be different from the others?" Another one of them asked.
"Because she is the only one of them that isn't a Jinchuriki, but shares just as much pain as they do." he concluded, with a sadistic smirk.
NHB: Hmm..this one turned out Okay. I think I'll end up actually finishing this one!!! xDD
Maya: Yeah, that'll be a first.
Naruto: agh!!! nooooo!! Poor Hinata-chan! She can't die!
Hinata: ...I'm going to die?...but me and Naruto-kun didn't even get a chance yet! This isn't fair...
Naruto: COME MY EVIL MOB! Let's destroy NHB-chan!
NHB: Ahhh!!!! Nooo! Get awaayyyyy!!
Maya: Hahahahaha! Thats the end of chapt. 1. please review! Thanks for reading!