I wrote this in 2006 and it was uploaded here for years before I removed it in 2014 to my LiveJournal exclusively (because the rating will go NC-17). I had several people ask me about it though, so I decided to move this story (and the others I removed) back here and will finish them one by one. Please note I will have to remove the NC-17 parts for this site but they will be noted and you will be able to find them via my profile.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of its characters. Naruto is copyright Masashi Kishimoto.

Spoiler Alert: Please note while this fanfic will deter from the manga timeline, it will have spoilers from the manga AND anime. So if you not current on the manga/anime you have been warned. Also, this will deviate pretty hard from cannon.


Black and White Eyes: Chapter Two - Black Eyes


Hinata immediately sized up her surroundings and regretted walking so far into the gardens alone. She was at the far end of the fountain area which lay between the estate and the garden shed. Weapons lay readily available at either side, though backup awaited at the estate even if it was in the form of retired Shinobi and untrained servants.

She could of course always rely on her Taijustu, but doing so without knowing who or what was lying in wait for her seemed too risky, especially if they were a mid-range to long-range fighter. No, she needed to get her hands on a weapon. A rake, shovel anything she could use to throw them into a defensive mode so she could have a moment to sense their chakra level and mode of battle. After all, once the fight began, there would be no need for them to mask their chakra anymore.

She hesitated just a bit longer knowing once she ran she would expose that she knew there was an intruder. She sat very still and continued to crouch down and rub the petals of the flower, not wanting to give away that she was on high alert.

They had to be fairly close for her to pick up their heartbeat which was extremely unnerving to her. Shinobi and Kunoichi had heightened senses, but he still had to be within twenty feet of her to hear such a faint sound. She couldn't risk using her Byakugan, not just yet, her seeming to be ignorant of the intruder was to her advantage. Still deciding on what she would do, she started walking leisurely towards the shed and stopped after a few feet to kneel down and pull a stray weed slow and steady.

She slowly made her way to the shed, along the way, stopping to inspect the flowers so she seemed to be in a relaxed state. Just a few more feet, she thought. She vaguely wondered if going into the shed so late at night would seem suspicious to the intruder, but she continued on and hoped they would just think she enjoyed a bit of nighttime gardening, though she was hardly dressed for it.

Hinata suddenly wished she had the sense to put on her regular clothes or at least her night robe and some shoes before she left her bedroom. She was clad only in her white nightgown which hung down just below her knees. It cinched just below her breast in a high waist style, the short sleeves puckered around her shoulders leaving much of her upper shoulder, neck, and chest exposed. For so much fabric swaying around her legs, she suddenly felt very naked up top. A blush suddenly made its way up to her face. Here she was about to be attacked and she was still blushing like a twelve-year-old school girl.

Knock it off, Hinata, She thought. You need to pull it together, you're five feet from the shed and you need to concentrate. Reaching her destination she grabbed the shed handle but when she tried to pull the door open she realized in horror it was locked. Fear struck her and she stiffened. What the hell, she thought. The door was never locked as she was the only one to ever use this particular shed and she saw no sense in locking it. The severity of the situation didn't escape her and she wondered what she was to do now.

She felt panic envelope but she resisted and tried to calm herself. Chakra naturally would flare when a person was excited or nervous, and if she didn't get a hold of herself now, it wouldn't matter if she was running or not the intruder would immediately know that she sensed their presence.

She turned around trying to look as if she were going to walk around the back of the shed. If she turned around and walked back towards the house casually she worried they would try to grab her before she made it there. At least with running in the trees next to the estate, she had cover and a chance to get away for help. Stupid Hinata, she thought, if she would have just have made a run for the house in the first place she would be able to at least scream and alert the house to danger.

Without any further contemplation, Hinata gathered chakra to her feet, whipped around and power leaped off the ground into the trees. She jumped limb from limb as fast as she could back to the compound with such force she felt the limbs crackle beneath her bare feet.

Suddenly she became aware of the others chakra, she was also very aware this person was considerably stronger than she was, about the level of Kakashi-San if she wasn't mistaken.

She was terrified.

What chance did a Chunin stand against someone of that caliber? She quickened her pace and was about halfway there when all of a sudden she saw a shadow pass her out of the corner of her eye. She stopped abruptly trying to catch her self on a branch as she jumped back away from the man that now stood right in front of her.

He was taller than she, dressed in typical Shinobi dark blue pants, shirt, and sandals. He wore a tan sash around his waist and his Hitai-ate bore a sound symbol. His most distinguishing feature was definitely his snow-white hair pulled into a low ponytail at the base of his neck, and he wore glasses. She definitely recognized this man and it did nothing to quell her fear. "Yakushi Kabuto," she said in a small voice. His only response was to chuckle.

Hinata swallowed audibly as she looked him up and down. Not only was he stronger than she was, but he was looking at her with a calm smile on his face. Like he was one of her longtime friends that had just stopped by for a chat. She continued to look him over as she thought about her next plan of action. To engage him in a straight on fight probably wasn't the smartest idea she knew but she had little choice with not a weapon to be found. She may be a close-range fighter with exceptional Taijutsu skills, but he was also was a close range fighter using his medical chakra to maim, slice and cripple his opponents. She would have to be fast and very careful he didn't have the chance to touch her.

He had already proven he was faster. She didn't have any reason to doubt that he was on par with her fighting even if she did possess the gentle fist. She would have to catch him by surprise in one swift attack trying to close off all his chakra points in his arms. Essentially blocking him off from his power, his medical chakra. It was the only way she stood a chance against this man

If there was one thing Hinata was sure of, it was the fact that people didn't expect her to attack and take the offensive. She hardly looked the part of a Kunoichi, especially at the moment. She knew that this man would judge her the same and underestimate her. They all did. She was small, petite and didn't portray strong fierceness like Sakura, sly wickedness like Ino or flat our danger like TenTen.

Hinata flew into her Jyuuken style and with lightning speed, jumped forward to strike without any hesitation. She readied her hands and brought them down and hit the chakra points in both his arms quickly and efficiently. She looked up into his face to assess his reaction and was taken aback when he started to laugh at her. She gasped and her eyes widened in surprise as he brought up his arm and pushed his glasses further up his nose, a small leer on his face.

What's going on, she thought frantically. He should be in an extraordinary amount of pain and unable to move from the disrupted chakra flow and here he was standing there laughing at her. "I've just closed all points of chakra flow in your arms… how?" she asked, shock in her eyes. She just stood there as the full weight of her situation bore down on her. If she couldn't outrun him, and her Jyuuken didn't affect him, then just what could she do? Nothing. She was useless.

She was weak.

He chuckled again and watched her carefully. She knew she was starting to shake with fear as he watched her realize there was nothing she could do to stop him, but what did he want? Money? No, she highly doubted that. There was no way this was just another "kidnap the heiress" plot. God only knew how many of those she'd had to deal with over the years. She was the heir of the oldest and strongest clan after all, but no, the right-hand man of Orochimaru himself was not doing this for something like money.

"Your Jyuuken attacks, while amazing in their own right, won't work on me Hyuuga-san. As a medic-nin, I have perfect control over my chakra, but I also have control over the flow of chakra through all the points in my body. All I have to do is stop the flow of chakra to that area and then just as easily release the flow with a burst and clear the point you have closed off. I've worked on this technique for the past six months preparing for this mission. Therefore your attacks are useless and turn into to nothing more than harmless jabs, actually it does tickles a little, would you like to continue? I could definitely learn to like it."

Hinata paled as she stood there with her mouth open, dumbfounded at what he had just told her. She had to bring this to a head and find out exactly what this man wanted as fighting obviously was going to be of no use to her. "What d-do you want? If it's money or power you are after my father will not negotia— "

"Money? We have no use for such things where we are going. We just take what we want," he said in an amused voice. Hinata looked on silently, waiting for him to continue and he didn't disappoint. "You will come with me and you will cooperate. If you do not Orochimaru-sama promises that your village, your family, and your friends will all be taken away from you…permanently. That's not what you want, is it? To have every living breathing thing you love hurt...or dead?" He said all this to her in a calm and collected manner which startled her more than if he had been yelling at her. She knew he was enjoying threatening her.

"I will not give up the f-family secrets of my bloodline if that's what you're after." She was on the verge of tears and all hope started to escape her as she went through her choices. Run, he was faster. Fight, he was stronger. Go with him, save her friends and family? Stay and lose everything? Was he serious? There was no question of what she had to do and she knew arguing or begging would get her nowhere.

I can't believe it, she thought. I'm going to go see that man. The man who had killed so many ninjas trying to track him and sniff out his organization. Men and women she knew and respected. The Anbu couldn't even catch him as he had thwarted their every attempt. What could anyone do against a man who could thump Konoha's elite with one finger? What could she do? Nothing. The word weak echoed in her mind once more.

She saw only one choice. She would have to go. She wouldn't take the chance of him coming back to Konoha to hurt her family and friends. She would go with him and find her own way out later. She loved her village too much to risk its safety for her own. She knew that and Kabuto knew that. In fact, he counted on it she was sure.

Though why she was such an important target escaped her, it seemed all a bit too much over just her Kekkei Genkai. They could have kidnapped anyone of her clan. As long as they were taken alive the curse seal wouldn't render the Byakugan useless. So why her?

"Well, I don't have all night to wait for you to decide, what is your answer. Do we do this the easy way or am I going to have to drag you back to Sound and send a team to obliterate your village?"

"N-no I'll go with you, but first tell me, why me? I can't possibly be worth all this trouble. My absence will be noticed very quickly, much quicker than if you had taken someone else with my bloodline."

"It's you and only you we want, doesn't that make you feel special? In fact, the happiest day of your life is coming soon." Kabuto laughed as he saw the shock register on her face. "What's with that look? Eh? Didn't expect me to say that?" He goaded her and reached out to touch a strand of her hair. He smiled when she felt the blood drain from her face and her body go slack. She knew she was moments away from blacking out and she felt her self slip from the branches and her world go black.

He quickly jumped down to catch her just before she hit the ground. "Tch! Stupid woman." Kabuto reached into his pack, pulled out a syringe and stuck it in her arm. The drugs would keep her sedated. "There. That should keep you from causing trouble until we reach Sound."

He reached down one more time to caress the soft skin on her face, she was indeed more beautiful when she wasn't staring back at you with her soulless eyes. With that thought he picked her up and raced off, jumping from branch to branch. Hinata stirred in her sleep not even aware that she had just left everything she knew and loved behind.


"You didn't kill any of them? You're still too soft, Sasuke-kun"

"They aren't the ones I want to kill," he responded, annoyed at the repetitive conversation that plays happened when they trained.

"You will never be able to kill Itachi if you can't kill your own emotions and take the necessary actions needed to gain power. Mercy doesn't suit you."

"I will not show him any mercy even if he gets down on his knees and begs for it," he countered.

Uchiha Sasuke sat atop a pile of defeated nin. Orochimaru looked on in awe at the dozens of Shinobi that now littered the field unconscious. He remembered himself being called a genius at Sasuke's age, a young man of barely twenty, though he knew that he was nothing compared to the talent of Sasuke's Sharingan. And soon you'll be mine. It's almost time, Orochimaru thought as a huge grin spread across his face.

His new plan had to work. Sasuke was gaining power too fast and if he didn't find a handle of Sasuke's to hold onto he would surely get away from him, and he couldn't have that. Sasuke would be his next carrier, he would make sure of that, and this needless mercy of Sasuke's? Well, he counted on that weakness to make the next phase in his plan work.

"Sasuke-kun, come inside. I have something I wish to show you. I think it will please you greatly once you see the reasons behind it," Orochimaru drawled.

Sasuke stood up and followed Orochimaru back into the compound wondering what on earth he thought he could possibly give him that he would want. Besides, maybe a new jutsu that might help kill him, he wanted very little to do with his Shisou. Sasuke smirked to himself at the thought of being rid of Orochimaru. It was almost time. Time to kill that snake bastard and then he could take his revenge on Itachi. Soon it would all be over and he could find the peace he desired. And maybe go home, he thought, but then quickly shook his head. He would never be allowed to return.

Sasuke and Orochimaru slowly made their way into the main chamber where Kabuto stood holding what seemed to be another person. The chamber was massive, dark and cold and the walls seemed to weeps moisture covered everything.

At the end of the main chamber, two great snakes intertwined with each other on the far wall and a lone stone chair sat in the middle. In front of the chair was a great stone table that sat stretched across the room with smaller stone chairs flanking either side.

Orochimaru took his place at the head as Sasuke took his place by his right side, waiting to see just what this surprise was about. Sasuke could see Kabuto slowly making his way across the chamber. He definitely was carrying a body. Hmm, this should be interesting, he thought.

"Kabuto, why is the girl unconscious? I'm sure I told you she was not to be harmed or sedated once you made it into the compound."

"She fainted in the hallway when she realized we were on the way to see you Orochimaru-sama. I don't think she's a fan." Kabuto smirked as he watched Orochimaru launch into laughter at the thought of the young girl fainting just from the thought of seeing him. Kabuto having to carry her all the way to the chamber was a bonus. His young medic would definitely be annoyed with such a task.

"Wake her," Orochimaru ordered. Kabuto laid the girl down on the table in front of him and reached into his pack to pulled out a small vial. He waved it in front of her nose and she began to stir. Her eyes opened slowly as she squinted into the darkness, her eyes trying to adjust.

What had happened, she thought. She remembered being in her room and then Kabuto dragging her down a dark hallway saying it was time and then nothing.

Hinata sat up abruptly and swung her head around stopping when her eyes locked onto dark eyes that were almost black. She stared in disbelief as the eyes faded and turned blood red and the pattern of three small tomoe appeared. "Uchiha Sasuke," she said in her quiet voice.


Sasuke sat quietly and observed the girl lying unconscious on the table. He didn't know her name though she did look slightly familiar. She started to stir when Kabuto awakened her and he watched as she groggily opened her eyes toward the ceiling and leaned forward to sit up. She blinked taking in her surroundings and when she looked around her face locked onto his. It was then he was rendered speechless. The girl was a Hyuuga and not just any Hyuuga. The heiress, Hyuuga Hinata, if he remembered her name correctly. She looked different but it was definitely her.

He watched her eyes widen and he heard her whisper his name in that quiet voice he remembered. He hadn't realized he had activated his Sharingan when she leaned up and stared at him. She had obviously recognized him.

"Now now Sasuke-kun. There is no need for Sharingan. Hinata-chan is here of her own will to discuss a matter of great importance." Sasuke broke eye contact with the girl and looked over at Orochimaru while deactivating his Doujutsu. He also had noticed she had started to shake as soon as she heard Orochimaru speak. "Hinata-chan won't you take a seat next to me across from Sasuke-kun? Hmmm?"

Hinata quickly looked down as if hiding her eyes would make the talking nightmare that was sitting in front of her go away. She scooted off the side of the table and walked slowly to the chair indicated and sat down while Kabuto moved to stand behind his Lord.

"Orochimaru," said Sasuke, breaking the silence. "What is this about? I grow impatient sitting here waiting. I have training — "

"You still after all these years have not learned to address Orochimaru-Sama properly Sasuke-Kun," Kabuto smirked and scolded the Uchiha. He knew Sasuke wouldn't care, nor change his ways, but Kabuto rarely missed an opportunity to agitate the quick-tempered man.

"No matter, Kabuto," Orochimaru interrupted the brewing argument. "We are here for a very important event that shouldn't be spoiled by petty bickering. I have brought this girl here to be your blushing bride after all."

Sasuke snorted and looked over to Kabuto "She is to marry Kabuto? I fail to see why I need to be here." Sasuke looked over and saw the girl was shivering, from fear or cold he didn't know, probably both.

"You misunderstand me, Sasuke-kun. She is not here to be married to Kabuto. I have gone to the trouble to find just the right girl, she is to wed none other but you."

Sasuke stared at Orochimaru and then turned to look at the girl, she flinched when he looked over to her making direct eye contact and it ticked on his nerves. He stood up abruptly and started to storm out of the room.

"Sit down Sasuke," Orochimaru ordered. To a stranger, it would seem that Orochimaru had spoken in his normal tone, but Kabuto and Sasuke knew better, and since an angry and impatient Orochimaru didn't suit Sasuke's plans, he sat down.

Clenching his jaw to keep from spouting off at the mouth and angering his master, he looked to the opposite wall and tried to calm down. This was not how things were supposed to go. He had a plan. He was to leave immediately after he had laid waste to Orochimaru and his compound. He already had his traveling companions chosen and they definitely did not include this weak and frail girl.

Sasuke looked at her and saw that she was looking at the ground and not moving. She seemed to be trying to block out the nightmare going on around her, a nightmare that included three infamous missing-nin. He felt bad for her… almost.

"I don't know what your game is, Orochimaru, but I will not marry this girl, and even if I did plan to follow this asinine plan of yours it seems you forgot an important little detail. I may be twenty, but just, which means she probably is not. She would need her guardian's signature to marry. You know all this, so why are you wasting my time?" Sasuke spat the last sentence not noticing the look of hope on Hinata's face. Hope that there was a way out of this as she was indeed two weeks away from turning twenty.

Orochimaru chuckled and put the next phase of his plan into action. He had a trump card. One that would play on Sasuke's emotions and ensure that his wishes became reality, and if he still had a flicker of doubt that Sasuke wouldn't obey, then all he had to do was scare and threaten the heiress and his apprentice would relent. Sasuke had a major flaw in Orochimaru's eye's, he still valued human life, especially innocent human life. Yes, his plan would work.

"Kabuto, you brought the scroll?"

"Of course, Orochimaru-sama. It wasn't difficult to sneak into her family archives. What with almost anyone with any real power being gone from her estate. You were right to say we should wait until the Chunin exams took her Otou-san and family away. I was in and out of her home within fifteen minutes."

Hinata snapped her head up to look at the scroll Orochimaru was taking from Kabuto. What in the world could he have taken from her home? She continued to look on as Orochimaru took the scroll opened it and laid it out on the table.

"This, Sasuke-kun, is a contract, a contract made up nineteen years ago just one week after the birth of Hyuuga Hinata, just two months after your own birth. This scroll outlines a pact made between Hiashi of the Hyuuga clan and Fugaku of the Uchiha. In fact, not only are your father's seals here but both of your mothers's as well."

This drew a reaction from both Sasuke and Hinata. His because he couldn't believe he was staring at a scroll with his parent's blood seals on it and her because of the mention of her beloved mother she had lost after Hanabi's birth.

Orochimaru lifted the scroll off of the table when he saw Sasuke eyeing it like it was the last piece of his family he would ever see. "Would you like to know what it says?" Orochimaru teased. He knew Sasuke would give anything to see that scroll right about now. He created the interest, now he just needed to deliver the final blow.

"This scroll indicates that you would marry Hyuuga Hinata upon her 20th birthday, but seeing as both of your guardian's seals are on this scroll there is no need to wait now is there? The stipulation to wait until you are 20 is null since your parents gave permission to the union already. Even the seal of the Sandaime is on this contract. It is legal and binding. All you need to do is sign the scroll with your own blood seal and it will be done."

"No…," a small voice said but no one seemed to notice.

"Why didn't I know about this?" Sasuke seemed to ask himself. "Even if my family thought I was too young to know before they died. Why wouldn't the Third have made this pact known to me once I became a Shinobi of the village?" Sasuke was dumbfounded and starting to get angry as the dull pain of using his Sharing pained him. It always pained him. Always nagged at him.

He couldn't believe what he was hearing. His father and his mother had betrothed him to the Hyuuga Heiress. The proof of it sat there written in their own blood. He snatched the scroll and read the contents slowly and carefully. He was to marry and protect the girl, she would be brought into his own house. Protect? Why did it specifically say protect? And why did it remove her from her own house, she was their heir so that didn't make any sense. In any case, his parent's had wished for him to marry the girl that currently sat sniffling across from him.

"Did you know anything about this?" He spat at her.

Hinata quickly answered no, shaking her head desperately back and forth. How could her father have done such a thing? And her mother? Why didn't they tell her?

"I can only assume Hiashi wanted this contract to be left forgotten after your clan's demise. After all, marrying his heir to the last remaining Uchiha after your family was murdered in such a scandal. Then you turned traitor to the leaf. He was obviously ashamed that you were her betrothed." Orochimaru said chuckling at the murderous face of his apprentice.

"My Otou-san would not have done this. This c-can't be…" Her voice became smaller as she tried to convince herself that what she was seeing wasn't right in front of her.

"Fine. So our parents wished us to marry. I don't see how this has any relevance to the here and now. We obviously won't be keeping the pact drawn up by our Otou-sans and the Third." Sasuke had had enough. This was all but ridiculous. Marriage? And to her? She wouldn't last a week. His presence alone would eat her alive and he had no wish to have such an annoying and weak woman for a wife. He had no wish for a wife period.

"Now, now, Sasuke-kun, it was your parent's dear wish to see you marry and protect the little Hyuuga here. It was said your father and her father were old friends, and they wanted to join the two most powerful Doujutsu clans in the five Shinobi nations. What does it matter who you marry anyway? You told me your two goals in life were to kill your brother, Itachi, and to resurrect your clan. I have to say Sasuke-kun I didn't think you would be so picky about who gave you heirs. One woman is pretty much the same as the next after all and is basically good for one or maybe two things. Maybe three if she can ensure your lineage has a strong Kekkei Genkai." Orochimaru smirked triumphantly, he could see the cogs in Sasuke's brain working. He was breaking down. This last remnant of his family and their wishes would be his undoing.

"Hn…" the stoic Uchiha said. Was he really going to spit on his parent's graves and refuse them? And what about the girl? He doubted they would just let her leave after he refused. She would be dead before she crossed out of Sound.

"If you're not interested I know Kabuto here has been itching here to get his hands on her...in more way than one." Hinata gasped as Orochimaru burst into sadistic laughter and Kabuto leered at her. Neither action went unnoticed by Sasuke. It seemed to him that she genuinely didn't know of the marriage before now and looked scared out of her mind, that and it would be over his dead body that Kabuto would get within a foot of her, if only just to spite the bastard.

He decided she wasn't some crazy fangirl that offered herself up to play housewife to "Sasuke-kun" considering she looked like she would rather be anywhere else at that moment. With that, he knew he wasn't going to leave this girl to the wolves, not after knowing his parents wished for him to specifically marry her and with Kabuto just waiting to get her back to his labs to do God knows what to her.

It was extreme to marry her, but he would get rid of her later. Marriage contracts were not easily broken, but with his clan dead and hers itching to be rid of him, there should be some way. He knew her family wouldn't put up a fuss when she asked for the marriage to be annulled. If the marriage wasn't consummated it should just require her father's signature as the clan head and the current Kage's. The biggest threat was Orochimaru advocating this. He obviously had an ulterior motive or else he wouldn't have bothered himself with such nonsense.

"Fine. I see no reason not to choose this girl, as you said it is one of my goals to resurrect my clan. It doesn't matter to me one way or another as long as she does what she's told," Sasuke said ending his words with a glare that wilted Hinata's last shreds of hope.

And with not so much as another word Sasuke strode over to the contract laying on the table, ignored the sniffling last protest of the girl, bit his finger and made his blood seal upon the scroll.

"W-what have you done?" Hinata cried out, practically yelling as she watched him willingly put his name on the scroll in front of her. It had been her last and only saving grace. She counted upon him not signing the scroll since you could not physically force someone to sign a scroll contract, you had to do it yourself, willingly, and that was exactly what he had just done. Now she had to refuse to sign the scroll at all cost. She would not marry herself to a traitor of Konoha, not even to save herself.

Orochimaru chuckled as he saw resistance harden in her eyes. He knew it would take very little persuasion for her to succumb. He doubted he would even need to draw blood before she broke down and signed the scroll.

"Kabuto."

Kabuto didn't need to hear another word as he walked over to the door, spoke orders to the nin standing outside and came back inside followed by three small children.

Sasuke's eyes sharpened just a fraction while Hinata's widened in pure shock. She couldn't believe her eyes as she looked over the small children. They were so small and looked between the ages of two and five. The smallest was crying from fear, it broke her heart to see him shaking from distress and cold not knowing what was going on around him or to why he was there. But Hinata knew exactly why they were there. She immediately jumped up and ran over to them, hugging them to her chest while whispering comforting words. She herself shook with fear as she knew what was about to happen. She wouldn't let it.

"You have a choice, Hinata-chan. These lovely children are from a small village about an hour east of here. They were gathered this morning to attend the celebration of your marriage. A wonderful gift wouldn't you agree?" Hinata glared at Orochimaru in anger. How someone could so easily use children to threaten others she would never know. How scared their parents must be right now.

She knew he would kill them all right in front of her eyes if she so much as hesitated. She was saved from her impending marriage for another minute as the oldest of the three reached up and touched the side of her face while looking up at her. "Onee-san you're going to be married?" the child said with hope in her eyes at the thought of going home. After all, the man said they would get to go home after she was married.

"Yes, I'm getting m-married," Hinata said as she pushed some of the little girl's hair behind her ear. Hinata wasn't a fool and she knew after she signed the scroll Orochimaru would never keep his word. "My new husband and I will be taking you back home ourselves," she said with a small smile trying to reassure them. "Isn't that right Uchiha-san?" She asked, praying he would agree to help her protect them.

Sasuke watched as she struggled to hide her fear and to not scare the children more than they already were. She was obviously pleading with him to help her return them safely to their village and to be honest, Sasuke had to admit, this was sick, even for Orochimaru. The youngest was still just a toddler. He also had no wish to watch innocent children die in front of his cursed eyes. He would remember it for eternity.

Sasuke sighed as he looked down at the girl. "We will take you back first thing in the morning. Tonight you will stay with, Hinata, she will look after you."

Orochimaru chuckled as he watched his apprentice give in to her tear-filled request. Sasuke was too emotional, people thought him cold with no feeling but Orochimaru knew better. Emotions pummeled Sasuke day in and day out. He struggled with it and covered it with a mask of indifference but a mask was all it was. Sasuke's feelings made him rash and vulnerable, it would be his downfall the Sannin mused.

Hinata stood from where she was crouching next to the children and without a moment's hesitation walked back over to the table, bit her finger and signed the scroll with her blood seal. She watched in awe and the scroll glowed with chakra, re-rolled itself and sealed itself finishing the pact that was made so many years ago. It was done, she was married, married to Uchiha Sasuke, missing-nin of Konoha and best friend to her former first love.

Orochimaru laughed and stood up to leave calling Kabuto to follow. "Come, Kabuto, let's leave the newlyweds to themselves, shall we?" And with that Orochimaru knew his foolish apprentice would fall for the girl. She was exactly the opposite of the type he couldn't stand. Loud, vain and clingy. This girl was none of these things. He would fall for her and he would produce heirs. A lineage with the strongest Doujustu ever conceived he hoped. A whole clan of strong Shinobi would be born from this union. He would have eternal life within one of the strongest clans for years to come, perfect carriers for his eternal soul.

Hinata walked back over to the kids and crouched down, trying to smile at them. She was doing her best trying to hide the shock of what had just occurred. She looked over to Sasuke not sure what to do and all she received was a cold and silent look. He walked towards her and she stood to face him and she looked up into his eyes. For the second time that day she was looking straight into the black tomoe of the red Sharingan.


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