It was dumb. He had been a dumb kid who wanted revenge, Sasuke thought bitterly. Kakashi had been right. He shouldn't have gone. He shouldn't have left and ruined his life. He was an 'avenger' he mocked in his head, sitting on a stump, catching his breath. Sasuke had almost listened to that creep. How stupid was he? A lot, apparently. Even Naruto saw how dumb that was.
Naruto. He hadn't thought about him in three years. Guess he was too busy pumping his body with drugs to even care. What a lousy friend. He had even considered… killing him to obtain Mangekyō sharingan. Sasuke violently shook his head to get rid of the idea. He looked down at the ground. What was he going to do?
He can't go home. He doesn't have a home. He can't become a ninja again. He can't go looking for his brother because he would probably die. He was stuck. His life was over.
And Sasuke was too distracted in self pity to hear the tiniest rustle of the bushes.
A kunai whizzed through the air and scraped his neck. Causing a little ounce of blood to flow. He was stunned for a moment before he snapped out of it and launched himself to the side, his eyes, red sharingan. His eyes flicked around, looking for a jutsu. But he saw his opponent first.
He almost laughed out loud. But he caught himself as she had almost killed him. He stared at Hinata in utter shock.
Her hoodie once soft and feminine had been replaced with leather armor. She had a plethora of ninja tools and weapons strapped around her side and her hair coiled to her waist. Another change seemed to be the amount of boiling hatred Sasuke saw in her eyes right now.
"Hinata?" Sasuke choked, confused at 180 change of character.
She ignored him.
"Sasuke Uchiha, I have been ordered to bring you in by the Fifth Hokage, Lady Tsunade for trials and interrogation. Resist and I shall have to bodily harm you."
She said the last part of her colorful introduction gleefully, like she enjoyed the thought of harming him.
"What happened to you?" Sasuke mumbled, unconvinced that she could take him down.
She ignored him again.
"You have five minutes to comply and or I have permission by Lady Tsunade to bring you back in body bag."
Sasuke got up to his feet and stretched. He felt a little more light-headed than usual. "You think you can beat me?"
Hinata grinned ferociously, "Sasuke, I already have."
He just then realized why the kunai never reached its target and his world started to spin before blacking out.
