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"Ah. She's waking up."

"Hn."

"So you and her were what again?"

"Spouses."

"Oh. I think she can hear us now."

"Hn."

Hinata's brow furrowed. She heard two voices. One of them was an old, feminine voice, that reminded her of her grandma's and the other was a voice she recognized. Her stomach twisted at the sound of it. She was scared to open her eyes.

Hinata's muscles ached, she was still sore from her mission. Her chakra was still low also, it would take awhile to recover. But where was she now? She felt a bed underneath her. Maybe Kiba and Shino saved her and took her back home?

Suddenly, Hinata felt a hand on her shoulder. "Ek!" Hinata shrieked and sat up quickly, getting away from the hand, even though her muscles screeched at her. She quickly took in her surroundings. Their was an old woman putting her hands up defensively, she must have been the one to touch Hinata. And behind her was...

Him.

Hinata's eyes went wide in fear. What's he doing here? Where am I? Who's that woman? What's going to happen to me? Questions flew through Hinata's head as she stared at Itachi in shock. This is all just a dream.. I'll close my eyes, and I'll be back in my bed and wake up and laugh it off.. Hinata closed her eyes for a second and then reopened them, seeing the old woman and the Uchiha still there. Her heart dropped more. Itachi smirked at her reaction to seeing him. Hinata knew she couldn't fight him off either. Her strength hadn't fully returned.

"Are you alright?" The old woman suddenly asked, lowering her hands and staring at Hinata in concern. Hinata's eyes stared at Itachi for a moment longer before they looked over the the elderly woman's.

The woman frowned. "You were passed out for awhile. Your husband and his friend came here carrying you. This is my house, and there aren't any villages for awhile." The old woman explained.

Hinata gulped, finally finding her voice. "H-husband?" She stuttered suddenly.

"Oh dear." The woman said. "Didn't you say she fell and hit her head while you guys were climbing up some slippery rocks?" The woman sighed. "Maybe she lost her memory, she doesn't remember you." The woman said looking over at Itachi.

But the woman was all wrong. Hinata remembered everything crystal clear. She was looking for.. "Kiba! Shino!" She suddenly gasped out. She then looked over at Itachi. "W-where are they?" She demanded.

Itachi's looked at the Hyuga. "Hinata, darling," Hinata's eyes narrowed. "You lost your memory. Everything is fine. There isn't anybody with the name Kiba and Shino that we know of." He said, unfaltering as the old woman watched the exchange between the two.

The old woman suddenly stood up. "I'll go make some tea," She said and started walking towards the bedroom door. "I'll let your friend know she's awake too." She said to Itachi as she walked out of the room, and closed it behind her.

Hinata's gaze instantly flickered to Itachi. "What did you do to them?" She shouted at the Uchiha.

"I didn't do anything to them. I knocked you out and carried you back to Kisame. If you want to know what happened to them, you'd get a better report from Kisame." Itachi stated calmly, no sense of unease or discomfort in his voice.

Tears stung in Hinata's eyes. "Did he kill them!" She shouted at him, tears threatening to fall.

Itachi brought his finger to his lips, signaling her to quiet down. "I don't know, I didn't bother to ask him since he was more interested in why I didn't kill you, like Hiashi asked." Itachi acted like all this was no big deal.

Hinata's eyes opened wider. Did he just say Hiashi?

"Anyways, I'm sure you're wondering why I decided to take you with me. Well, I've developed an interest in you, Hinata. We have more in common than you think." Itachi said while leaning forward a bit, staring her right in the eye.

Hinata's eyes flickered with anger. "What could I have in common with a monster like you?" Hinata shouted. "I never killed my clan!" She looked at him in disgust.

Itachi's eyes narrowed, and his expression turned slightly angry looking. "There's more to me than that." He spat at her viciously. "And who are you to judge, without knowing my motives?"

Hinata's stomach twisted in fear, she could tell she made him angry, even though he wasn't showing it. He killed his whole family; killing her would be nothing to him.

"And as if you love your clan that much. Your own father betrayed you." Itachi looked at her with the anger slowly fading, and amusement slowly creeping into his eyes.

"My father never betrayed me!" Hinata shouted. Even though it was true Hiashi didn't favor her over most Hyuga's, Hinata believed that he would never betray her.

"Hm. You must not of put it all together yet. You see, Hinata, your dad wanted you to be eliminated. He wanted the other daughter to become heiress." Itachi said. Hinata's eyes widened.

Father would never do that! No matter how much he wishes Hanabi would've been first born.. She thought while biting her lip, tears of shame starting to well up.

"And so he contacted us, the Akatsuki. Honestly, if it were me, I wouldn't of accepted such a petty job that could easily be done. But Kakuzu insisted that we do it, since your father offered a lot of money for the murder." Hinata's stomach twisted at his words. Itachi continued, "And yes, Hinata, Hiashi was paying for your death."

Hinata's eyes widened some more, no matter how much she didn't want to believe it, something screamed at her that it was true. Some tears streamed down her cheeks as she stared shocked at the Uchiha before her.

"Of course it makes sense that he would contact us for the job. He knows that we have no desire to blab about our job, and it would be easy to cover up. Everyone would think that you just coincidentally ran into us during your mission and we killed you. No questions would be asked." Itachi kept going, watching Hinata's reaction. It was rather amusing to watch her face contort from denial to pain, and then back to denial.

Hinata started sobbing. She finally decided to believe Itachi's story. She knew that the Akatsuki wouldn't just make something up like that to screw around with her. But she couldn't grasp it. Why would father do that to me? I wish I was more like Neji or Hanabi.. She bit her lip and cried more, not caring that she looked weak in front of the Akatsuki. She just couldn't believe Hiashi wanted her dead.

"Now if you're wondering about your friends, Kisame had to leave at least one of them alive so they could report back to Konoha of your death. That way Hiashi would know the job was completed." Itachi said with little emotion to his voice. Hinata wondered how he could say this all like it was the most normal thing in the world. "Well, with that said, we should head out now. I have one last thing to finish before I can dismiss this mission. I just wanted you to know about your family's betrayal before you died." He stood up. "Come now, or I'll just finish you here and leave you for the old lady to find." He said and Hinata's tears fell harder at his harsh words.

Deep down, Itachi did feel bad for the girl. Seeing her break down like that made him wish he just have killed her back in the forest, but he knew she had something that might of explained a mystery to him. Itachi just sighed, and decided not to let his pity get in the way of the task at hand.

Hinata hesitantly stood up. She really didn't want to walk willingly to her grave, but the thought of the old lady coming back to find her dead body in her bed irked the Hyuga. She knew it would be for the best just to listen to Itachi, and maybe she could make a break for it once he let her leave the house. But she sighed, not hanging onto the idea, knowing that him and his partner could easily catch her.

She watched as Itachi waited for her to walk in front of him, obviously not trusting her enough to lead the way with her behind his back. Hinata gulped and tried to force her sobs down, but her shoulders still quivered and the tears still fell.

She walked out of the room, with Itachi right behind her, watching her every move. There was only a narrow hallway that lead out to a cozy looking living room. Once she entered the living room she saw the old woman and Itachi's partner both look up at her. She couldn't meet their gazes, and stared at her feet. She could feel both their eyes staring into her.

"We shall be going now. Thanks for the stay." Itachi nodded politely to the old woman, and she looked awkwardly at Itachi before turning to his partner.

"It was nice meeting you all." She smiled sweetly, before patting the blue-skinned man on the back. She smiled warmly again before opening the front door for them. "Bye!" She said as they all started filing out of the door. The huge blue-skinned man had a hard time fitting his large frame and huge sword through the door, but still made it out anyways.

Once outside she heard Itachi speak. "We will be finishing the task pretty soon, we just need to get away from the lady's house."

Hinata presumed the man's name was Kisame. Considering her earlier conversation with Itachi, it was probably Kisame. "Who did you kill?" Hinata suddenly spoke lowly, looking at the shark man closely for the first time without him wearing his hat. She saw his white eyes and gills and almost gasped. He certainly was.. different.

Kisame looked down at her, surprised she even decided to talk. "Hn?" He grunted before answering. "I'm not sure if I killed the dog-boy or not. But I roughed him up pretty bad since I knew he would be able to sniff you out if we were to run away with you. I knocked the bug boy out too, but I'm sure he'll survive. They don't know you're alive, so they'll probably search for you, but we're far away from them now. They'll report you dead." Kisame said while looking at the Hyuga, her back was too him as she kept walking, directed by Itachi's hand pushing her. But he didn't have to see her face to tell she was crying, her whole body was trembling.

"K-kiba.." She sobbed. She bit her lip. This had to be the worst day of her life. Itachi kept making sure she kept walking by the hand placed on her back.

They walked further into the deserted forest they were in as minutes passed. Hinata knew every step was a step closer to her death. She glanced over her shoulder at Itachi, before he sensed her body tensing up, like a coil about to spring out. He immediately started watching all her movements closer than what he was, waiting to see if she was going to run. His eyes narrowed as he saw her push off with her left foot, starting to run. He immediately ran after her, catching up to her within a couple seconds before her grabbed the back of her shirt and jerked her back. Itachi glared at her, his eyes flashing red as if to warn her that he will activate his painful sharingan. Kisame just watched as he walked to them.

"You mind as well just cooperate, or we'll just make your death more painful." Kisame grunted at her. "I think we're far enough now, Itachi." He slowly took Samehada off his shoulder.

"I'll do it." Itachi said as he looked at Hinata, her body was shaking more now with tears, and the fear on her face was shown clearly. She saw him pull out a kunai and he looked down upon her from his superior height.

"Wait!" Hinata pleaded. Itachi stopped before attacking her, listening to what she had to say. Kisame looked at Hinata. "I k-know you won't let me go freely.." Hinata started. Maybe I can convince them to let me live somehow.. Suddenly, a thought flashed through her mind. Hinata decided to stick to it as a last hope. "Please." She whimpered, getting down on her hands and knees and bowing in front of the two Akatsuki members. "Take me with you." She pleaded, her body still trembling on the ground from her sobs.

Kisame chuckled a little bit. "Take you with us? We have S-class ninjas on the Akatsuki. You're too weak." Kisame told her.

Hinata stiffened at his words. Too weak.. I'm always too weak.. That's why I'm in this mess in the first place.. Her hands balled in a fist.

Hundreds of thoughts were swarming around Itachi's head. He was contemplating what Hinata had said. He wanted to know more about her. Why she cared so much for people who obviously hated her, and betrayed her. It reminded him of how much he cares for Sasuke, and how Sasuke hates him. But she'd only get in the way if she joined the Akatsuki. Pein wouldn't agree with it anyways.

"I hate how I have to wash my clothes and Tobi's. He's such a dumb ass, yeah. I shouldn't have to do this, I'd be better using my time making some more clay, yeah" Deidara would say.

"Tobi is sorry, Deidara-senpai! But Tobi doesn't have time for it either. Tobi does stuff too!" Tobi would reply. Deidara rolled his eyes, Tobi only annoyed everyone.

Kisame laughed. "I'd rather be doing things other than chores when I'm at the base too. It's not often we get a lot of time here when we come, so doing stuff like laundry is rather bothersome."

"Kisame what would you think of having a maid?" Itachi suddenly said.

"Huh?" Kisame grunted looking at Itachi.

"Back at the Akatsuki base, someone that would take care of everyone's stuff when were not on a mission and do our chores for us, so we can be better preparing to go out again." Itachi said glancing at Kisame, who smiled back at him, finally catching on.

Hinata looked up at the two from the ground, staring at them with the most pleading look possible. Itachi didn't even spare her a glance as he stared at Kisame.

"I think that, with that proposal, we could talk to Pein about it. I'm not sure if he'll approve or not of it however." Kisame said as he looked down at Hinata.

"But come to think of it, Sasori was always busy toying around with his puppets to improve them while he was at the base, and sometimes Deidara would run out of clay sometimes in fights because he didn't have enough time to prepare a lot." Itachi looked down at Hinata for once. "I think it'd be better to have someone to do the petty things for us." He then motioned for her to get up.

"Alright. Should we take her back to the base? If Pein says no we could just kill her there." Kisame said and Hinata looked at him dryly.

"Yes, it sounds okay." Itachi said. "We should head back now."

Hinata's heart swelled with hope. Maybe I could escape from them sometime. I'll get to know the base, and as soon as they let their guard down, I could escape. Hinata looked at Itachi, she was grateful that they actually spared her instead of being the cold hearted killers they looked like. "Thank you." She told them.

"Hn."

And that was her only response from them.

Teehee! You totally weren't expecting that whole Hiashi thing, were you? Like it went from Kunai-at-your-throat-forest to Your-dad-betrayed-you-and-you're-in-a-random-lady's-house story in like, 2 chapters. I would LOVE to THANK all the reviewers, alerters, and favoriters, so much! It really brought this update along faster. Like if it weren't for the reviews and junk, this chapter probably would've been published in like, two weeks from now. And that's a long time of anticipation.

Anyways, I have this whole story progress thing I'm my profile that I'm going to try to keep updated. So if you're wondering how long until the next chapters are going to get published, you should get an idea from it.

Super long Author's Note. Sorry about that, you probably ignored it anyways, lol.

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