A/N Again thank you for the reviews appreciated. Errrrm, in this one I was allowed to write the initial draft 'cos my friend's mum (I'm staying with them while on holiday in S.Korea yay!) banned me from the computer (not so yay!) so its kind of weird 'cos I'm weird… I barely concentrate when writing on paper, and I reeeally can't concentrate when writing with a pencil…. Or if for some reason (someone kept changing my pen) the pen ink changes colour. Yeah…. So bits are weird and when I did get on the computer now it's on deadline 'cos she doesn't no I'm on it…. Seriously, she took the mouse's so that I wouldn't be able to do anything if I got on . but luckily I'm a computer genious heh heh heh……

Ah kinda got off track. Ah yes, because of the deadline I'm not changing anything from the draft (which was done weirdly remember, because I'm weird… it talks about it the first paragraph)……..

I should really just post this.

Ok! Bye!

Please enjoy! even though its weird --;;

Characters are kinda OC….. cos its weird…

OK for real now. I'm gonna stop typing A/N NOW!

Chapter 3

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She awoke (and to a certain extent, even that surprised her) to the soft crackling of a dying fire, unbound, but unable to see.

Cautiously she rose her hands to her face to find her eyelids were indeed open. So that meant she was… blind?

"Genjutsu" He eyes narrowed at the person before her. "The illusion of blindness"

"And you have put it on me because?"

"You will runaway otherwise."

"I believe the term, Uchiha-san, is escape, as runaway gives the optional connotation that I am supposed to be here."

"You are. I made a promise."

"We have had this conversation already, Uchiha-san." Using the tree as a guide, Hinata stood to her feet, steadying herself before "looking" left and right.

Sasuke watched her through lidded eyes as she searched hopelessly for her bearings, ignoring the slight sting to his heart when she addressed him so formally, before turning his gaze skyward.

She was already distracting him, he deduced, as he watched the stars gradually ebb out of existence, signalling the approach of dawn. He had only travelled a hundred and eighty five miles from where he had encountered her, before nightfall had set upon them, he had been too preoccupied double checking that the figure in his arms had been Hinata and not some evil dream in which she would poof out of existence, to keep up a decent pace. That's why he had placed the genjutsu on her, if she used her byakugen (sp?) and found out how close they actually were to Konohagure, she would stop at nothing to escape him.

'At least this way she will have to rely on me to go any…' His thoughts trailed off as his gaze fell on the spot were Hinata was supposed to be, and cursed inwardly.He had only ever tried that technique on normal vision, and the byakugen was hardly that, would it even work on a Hyuuga? At that thought he leaped to his feet, activating his sharingan as his gaze flickered about the surrounding area.

There! To his left!... in the direction of Konoha...

"Shit"

In moments he had took off after her, the half spent fire all but forgotten.

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Hinata was pissed.

It was hard enough to find out that he had avenged his family by taking his brothers life, yet had still refused to return to Konoha, but to join Akatsuk and attack the village? To hand Naruto over to his death so easily and unfeelingly, to kidnap and blind her. Hinata was pissed, and she was not one to be so easily vexed.

"I should have known the genjutsu would be short lived through the eyes of the byakugen."

A vexed Hinata was not one to be crossed.

Not pausing for a breath, she launched six kunai's in a horizontal line in the direction his voice had originated from, before manoeuvring herself into the middle of the clearing, her head tilted slightly to the side as she faced her enemy.

Saskue smirked as he leaped away from the onslaught, her eyes following his every movement as he drew closer to her. 50 feet, 40 feet, 30 feet, again he had to dodge an assault of kunai by jumping out of range. His smirk fell.

"How long until it managed to break the genjutsu, five minutes? Ten? I couldn't have been looking away for more than fifteen."

She said nothing, only watching him with a blank gaze that irritated him more than the fact that he was actually asking a question, rather than the usual stoic statement/"question" he would usually "ask".

(A/N If you don't understand, its basically when you ask a question in a neutral yet deadly serious tone that intimidates the person into answering)

Hinata focused on his voice and position, left hand hovering over one of her kunai holster as the other grasped at the five in her hand, waiting for the slightest indication that he would move. She didn't grace him with answers to his questions, it was hard enough to hear him over the pounding of her heart in her ears. The truth was that as soon as she felt his gaze leave her, she had taken off. If he believed his genjutsu had warn off, who was she to tell him otherwise? At least this way he was being more cautious of approaching her than he would be if he knew she was relying on her hearing and sense of smell to pinpoint him.

Not that this was a disadvantage. She had trained this way many times before in the past, believing that relying on her eyes would eventually nullify her abilities, but her opponents then had all been people she was familiar with and had been able to distinguish their unique scents.

Her best bet was to keep him at bay for the time being – that was the logical thought pattern running through her mind, however, the bastard kept talking.

A vexed Hinata, was often time, an illogical Hinata.

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Steel rang out against steel as Saskue countered her chakra induced blow with mild difficulty, pushing her back only a few meters.

'Damn…' Maybe it was wrong to think Hinata crouched on the grass her kunai held out defensively in front of her as she glowered up at him was… an enticing image. Maybe if he was concentrating more on the fact that she hesitated momentarily before launching each attack, holding her head slightly to the side as though waiting for something rather than how good she looked with a sharp dangerous object in her hand, he would have noti-

'Wait, what?' His brow furrowed minutely, his stance loosening slightly as he watched her. She didn't move.

Curious, his eyes trained on her for the slightest movement, he shifted his foot in the grass swiftly casting a kunai to his left.

Crimson eyes widened imperceptively as her head shifted in the direction of the kunai, casting three of her own in that direction also.

She was listening to him! That meant… he could have laughed- would have laughed if it wouldn't have given away his position… and if he was the type to laugh. Instead he settled for a smug smirk, she wasn't even looking in his direction anymore.

'This… could be slightly amusing' he thought to himself as he slid two more kunai out of his pouch.

Little did he know… a vexed Hinata was not in the least bit funny…

A/N!! and if you wanna find out why our little Hinata isn't funny when vex, tune into the next episode… unfortunately I don't know when that will be 'cos I'm gonna start learning the heguem soon so I won't have as much free time. I will still be writing though... unless she takes the keyboards next time but hopefully she won't.

Again I wanna say thanks to blackraven615 and lifes-2-short for reviewing on the second chapter and I'm soooooooooo happy 'cos I got 4 alerts on this story see the smile is extra big…… yah….. --;;;

Thanks again.

I'll update as soon as possible.