A/N: The Violence picks up in this one. There's a fight scene, and there is the briefest moment of sexual content. If you're reading I'd appreciate some reviews.

Disclaimer: Repeating for posterity, I still don't own Naruto.

Key: "Talking" 'Thinking' 'kyuubi/inner Sakura' (funny little side stuff)

Chapter 2: Mistakes

Hinata and Naruto had setup watch outside a small clearing in the trees. Naruto was scouting out the area with shadow clones while Hinata kept her Byakugan active to search where ever he could not.

Narurto suddenly began fidgeting in their hiding place, and stood up. Hinata turned to face him, and he said "I gotta go to the bathroom. Be right back." With that he jumped down from the tree and disappeared from her normal viewing range. With her Byakugan she was able to follow his movements. When she saw him unzip his pants she blushed deeply and deactivated the jutsu.

This was almost the worst time she could have chosen to do this however, as moments after that, Raikou, the cloud ninja, began to approach her. He saw her, and reacting quickly, began to prepare hand seals.

Naruto finished his wiz, and with the pressure in his bladder released, he started to head back to Hinata. When he arrived at the hiding spot, he noticed something was missing. Hinata was no where to be seen. He quickly began searching for her, when caught a glimpse of something in the small clearing nearby. As he rushed over, he could tell the glimpse had been of Hinata, and that she was sitting with her back against a tree, not moving a muscle. When he reached her, he propped her more up right and started shaking her, yelling "Hinata! Hinata! Wake up!"

"Hmph" Something had made a noise, and Naruto turned to see Raikou standing on a tree branch across the clearing from him. He rushed towards the enemy, who had turned and began running away. As they rushed through the trees, all Naruto wanted to do was bash his face in.

Back in the clearing, Hinata suddenly opened her eyes and stood up, then he cancelled the transformation and Raikou laughed a little to him self about how easy it had been. He walked around the tree he had been laying against and pulled out the real Hinata, who he had tied up with metal wires and gagged.

"You and your friend sure surprised me, I thought I was making a wide enough circle that I could avoid patrols. I bet you kids weren't on patrol. I bet those idiots chasing me decided to ask for help. Well then since you two just had to get involved I'll have to punish you. Hehehehehehe." He grinned as he said this to her, her eyes wide with terror. He then placed his hands together and released some chakra. "There, now that clone your partner went blindly running after will disappear. If he half the idiot I hope he is, he'll come running back here just as blindly, and then the fun can begin."

Naruto had only been chasing the cloud ninja for a few minutes, when suddenly he came to a stop. Naruto braced himself for an attack, but all the enemy did was turn and disappear in a small cloud. The realization hit Naruto like a hammer. 'If I've been chasing a clone, then the real one must be… HINATA!!!' He turned around and began jumping at full speed back to the clearing.

When he arrived in the clearing Hinata was standing in the center with her head bowed down. He paused, "Hinata is that really you?" he had to make sure it wasn't a transformation.

She raised her head slightly and reached out her arms to him, and in a very weak voice said "Naruto help me…" Right after she said this her body was suddenly lurched up wards and backwards at an odd angle, and she landed on her feet a yard or so back. Naruto could now see what looked like thin wires that tightly wrapped around every part of her body, so thin they could only be seen from their glinting in the sun. He tried to follow the path of the wires as they led away from Hinata, and they led his eyes straight to the cloud ninja, who was standing on a tree branch above her.

Raikou smiled at Naruto. "Hey there brat, we're gonna play a little game. There are only a few rules so listen up. ONE! The game ends when one of you two die. TWO! If you attempt to come between me and the girl, or try to cut any of the wires, I do this!" His chakra ran through the wires, changing into electricity as it went, and Hinata began to shake violently and grow ridged. When he stopped the current, she cried out and her breathing was erratic. "not a pretty picture, but it won't kill her unless I choose to up the voltage. And THREE! If you lose, which means that you die, I'll kill her, but if you win, by killing her, then you'll have a chance to fight me. BEGIN!" Hinata's body lurched violently again and she was thrown towards Naruto her arm forced to stretch out and her fingers pulled into a fist. Naruto stood paralyzed, and braced himself to take the hit.

The hit never came, he saw that Hinata had pulled her arm back, fighting against the wires. As soon as this was apparent though, the wires began to glow with chakra, and Hinata was visibly in pain. Raikou laughed, and spoke out "I forgot to mention rule four, if the girl tries to resist, I will electrocute her until she submits again."

Naruto was shocked, but he couldn't just do nothing. "Hinata don't fight him I can dodge the attacks I'll think of something." Hinata nodded through her pain, and the electricity stopped flowing. Her body lunged again, and was forced to punch and kick at Naruto. Even without her resistance the attacks were slow, Naruto could easily dodge each one. 'What can I do? I've got to try and cut the wires, but I have to do it all at once, or else he'll hurt Hinata.' Naruto pulled out a Kunai, and moved towards Hinata as she punched at him again. Right as the hit was about to connect, he spun around her and his kunai connected with the first string. The wire bent, but would not break.

Raikou saw the attack, and began torturing Hinata again. "What do you say kid, can you follow the rules from now on? If I want to I can make her fight at the same time as I electrocute her, makes no difference to me." His smile was growing wider. "As punishment for breaking the rules, you must punch the girl, do that and I'll stop the flow of electricity. You must punch her and mean it, if you half ass it or just tap her, I won't let up."

Naruto, looked down at his clenched fist, then turned to Hinata. "Forgive me" he chocked out, fainter then a whisper. He moved forward and landed a solid punch into Hinata's gut. She gasped out for air, and the electrocution stopped. A moment later she was being forced into attacking Naruto again. Naruto continued to dodge the attacks, but took more notice of his hand, there was blood on it, an for the first time, he noticed the wound in Hinata's gut. It had been hidden by her jacket, but his punch had caused the blood to seep through the clothing and onto his hand.

Anger welled up in Naruto as he stared at the cloud ninja, his enjoyment of the pain he was causing infuriating Naruto to no end. 'what are you going to do about it?' He pushed those thoughts away, demon chakra would only lead to more injuries for Hinata, but he had to end this. As he dodged another attack his back hit a tree at the end of the clearing. 'THAT'S IT!!!' He formed the simple seal that was needed and called out "Shadow clone jutsu!" An additional Naruto appeared next to him as he held out his hand. The clone began to spiral chakra in the hand of the original until he held a small blue sphere of spinning chakra. The clone disappeared, and Naruto held the sphere forward. "I'm so sorry, Hinata" And he charged her.

Raikou grinned his widest yet, knowing that a concentrated source of chakra like that could easily kill the girl. It was always so pleasing to force people to kill their best friends like this. He had his plan in place, as sson as the sphere connected with her, he would break the wires and send out knew ones to grab the brat, then enjoy killing him with an electric current. It was all prepared, when suddenly the brat appeared behind him and landed a solid punch into his face, thrusting him into the clearing. The brat in the clearing ran straight around the girl, and shoved the sphere of chakra into Raikou's chest, yelling "RASENGAN!!!" Raikou was thrown in a sickening spinning motion until he slammed into a tree. As he slumped down on the floor, he found voice enough in his battered body to ask, "How?"

Naruto looked down at him with a serious look on his face and said "When I dispersed that clone that helped form the Rasengan, his experiences were passed on to all the other clones I had already created to search for you earlier. Once they were aware of what was going on, they rushed here to help." The other Naruto chimed in "I was just the closest." and then promptly disappeared. Naruto turned to Hinata, who had collapsed on the ground without the wires holding her up.

He rushed over to her and lifter her shirt up so he could see her gut. The wound had been made with a kunai knife, and was bleeding heavily. Naruto reached into his supplies and pulled out some bandages. As he did, he noticed the small bug climbing over his hand. With a sting of regret he reached out and squished the bug, which would signal Shino and Sakura to come to is aid. When Sakura arrived she would be able to close this wound with her medical jutsu, but for now Naruto needed to stop the bleeding so she would last that long.

He held her up and tightly wrapped the bandages around her body. When he was finished, he was about to lower her shirt, when he noticed that there was still blood flowing on her, from somewhere higher on her body. Thoughts abandoned he pulled her shirt completely off over head. With a mixture of shock, horror, and embarrassment, Naruto gazed at her. She had been stabbed a second time in her chest, near the center but slightly to the right, and in such a way that the kunai had in fact cut through her bra so that when Naruto had remover her shirt, the bra fell off as well. He started by blushing, but the color drained from his face as he realized that she might have been stabbed through to her lung or heart. He pulled out his Bandages again and began frantically wrapping them around her to try stopping the blood.

Hianata regained some semblance of consciousness and opened her eyes. They hurt. She tried to move her arm but it too hurt, so she left it where it lay. Despite the pain, she turned her head so she could see around her. She was in the clearing, leaning against a tree in the shade. She turned a little farther, and could see Naruto with his back to her, his head planted firmly against a tree. He was griping something in his hand, something small and black. But before the image could become clearer she faded off into dark unconsciousness again.