Several weeks later...
When Uzumaki Naruto regained consciousness, the first thing he saw was Shikamaru laying a few feet away from him...or, at least, what used to be Shikamaru. The poor man's face and hair had been scalped off and several large holes covered his chest area. A large blood stain had formed under the body. On both sides of Shikamaru's corpse also laid Choji and Ino, who were just as badly mutilated. Naruto was unable to make out exactly where he was, but it looked like they were inside a warehouse of sorts.
'Ugh...how long have I been here...?' he wondered groggily. Naruto tried to move, but he immediately realized he had been bound and gagged. He felt a strange warmth run down the side of his head; he figured he was bleeding. It took most of his energy now just to stay awake, as he felt like he hadn't had a bite to eat or anything to drink in days. Even worse, the area he was being kept in was smoldering hot, and the stench of the rotting corpses didn't help any.
He was afraid he was going to drop dead any moment. And he most likely was going to...but in the most painful way possible, just like poor Shikamaru and the others.
Suddenly, he heard a door slide open...and footsteps soon followed. Naruto suddenly a chill crawl down his spine and he knew he was most likely going to die here.
A woman with long black hair walked up in front of him; she wore an oni mask over her face to conceal her true identity, but Naruto recognized her the moment he laid his eyes on her breasts.
'HYUGA HINATA?!'
Kneeling down in front of him, Hinata let out a low chuckle from behind her mask and purred, "Oh, Naruto-kun...do you want to take back what you said about me being FAT now?" That was when Naruto realized Hinata was holding a bloody kitchen knife in her hands.
"I've been going to the rec center every day after work, and I exercise regularly. So I won't become fat and ugly in your eyes...and yet you still think I am. Why? Why? Whhhhhhy?" Hinata continued in a soft voice. She had gone completely off the deep end by this point in her secret "career" as a serial killer/cannibal.
"Oh, yeah! You can't answer me when you're gagged like that!" Hinata exclaimed with a high-pitched giggle, and she removed the dirty wipe tied around Naruto's mouth.
"H...Hinata...what're you-" Naruto began, but Hinata clasped her fingers around his neck tightly.
"Call me 'Hime'...and nothing else. After all, that's what I am." she hissed. Naruto almost lost consciousness from her strangle before Hinata finally let go. Coughing heavily for a bit, Naruto eventually brought himself to speak again.
'This crazy fuckin' bitch is DEFINITELY not a princess!'
"H...H...Hime...what...what's going on?" Naruto asked, trying to look pleasant despite his situation.
"Oh, Naruto-kun, don't act like you don't know..." Hinata giggled in response, rubbing up against the blond boy's body. Naruto tried to keep himself from puking when he saw the pieces of flesh and blood caught in Hinata's long silky hair. All he wanted was to get away, free himself, and find the police as soon as possible. Yet...he was at her mercy now.
He was at the mercy of a psychotic killer.
Suddenly, another voice rose out from behind him; it sounded weak and barely audible, but Naruto recognized that voice instantly.
"Tenten!" he cried out in relief, but Hinata slapped him hard across the face. She made sure to even slightly dig her nails into Naruto's cheek as she hit him.
"I DIDN'T SAY YOU COULD SPEAK TO ANYONE BUT ME!" She screeched. Even with the mask over her face, Naruto could easily feel the rage radiating from Hinata's eyes.
"Just...just let me see her...I want to make sure she's alright..." Naruto begged, wincing at the pain.
"...Why? Do you...LIKE HER?" Hinata asked, her voice full of disdain.
"N...No," Naruto meekly replied, "It's just...she's a fellow employee and...I'm tired of staring at corpses..."
"Alyways a regular Casanova, aren't you, Naruto-kun? Just hearing your voice is making me feel all tingly inside..."
Hinata smirked and, much to Naruto's suprise, ended up agreeing to his request. Graciouslly, Hinata spun him around so he could see Tenten...but what Naruto saw literally forced him to spew out the contents of his stomach all over the floor. It was the sickest thing he had ever seen.
Tenten's arms, legs, breasts and ears had been sliced off, and her naked limbless body was hammered to a huge wooden cross. Blood was seeping out of her anus and pussy. A life-support system was attached to Tenten's head, pumping oxygen into her brain and lungs, keeping her barely alive. Poor Tenten didn't even seem to realize what had happened to her, and low moans were all that emitted from her mouth. Naruto didn't even want to know what Hinata did with Tenten's removed body parts. How this tortured woman was even still alive was a mystery in itself.
"What...what the hell is this...?" Naruto grunted, overcome with horror and disgust. His eyes and throat were burning, and he could barely see through the tears. He couldn't stop shaking.
Hinata smiled sweetly and replied, "Don't you like it? It's my first major art piece! I think it came out pretty well...actually, no. I hate it. I'm going to destroy it soon."
Naruto, his eyes wide, turned to Hinata and defiantly screamed, "HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO HER, YOU MOTHERFUCKIN' BITCH! SHE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! YOU GODDAMN PIECE OF-"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Hinata screeched, and she smashed the front of her boot against Naruto's face, knocking out a tooth or two in the process. Blood poured down Naruto's chin, but he thought nothing of it. He felt only rage towards this woman now...
Without a word, Hinata then stormed over to Tenten, who seemed to squirm at her tormentor's presence. Raising her kitchen knife high, Hinata plunged it into Tenten's chest. She dug the knife deeper and deeper, causing Tenten to let out muffled squeals of pain. Then, Hinata quickly slid the knife down and pulled it back out, causing a spray of blood to erupt from Tenten's chest cavity.
Naruto just sat there in complete and utter horror as he was pelted with droplets of blood, Tenten's blood. It just kept coming; it was endless.
Hinata seemed to enjoy it and opened her mouth wide as more and more of the crimson liquid blew into her face.
Eventually, it came to an end as the last few trickles of blood dropped out. Now that it was over, both Hinata and Naruto were drenched. Tenten had ceased to continue moving.
"Annoying...bitch..." Hinata hissed as she slid her fingers into the slit she had created and pulled back, opening Tenten's chest. She then began rummaging around inside with the organs, if only to traumatize poor Naruto even more. She wanted to make sure he knew just how fuckin' screwed he was now that he was in her clutches!
"H...Hime...stop..." Naruto choked, trying to fight back another round of bile rising in his throat, but Hinata ignored his pleading and tore a rather large squishy blood-covered organ from within Tenten's carcass. She sniffed it, and then licked it, before shaking her head in disappointment, tossing the organ onto the floor, and stomping it to pieces with her foot.
Naruto couldn't take it anymore. If he was likely going to die here, he first wanted to know why Hinata did what she did. "HIME! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?"
Hinata froze for a moment, and then cocked her head sideways. "You really want to know, Naruto-kun? You really want to know? Are you sure?"
Summoning all his courage, Naruto nodded his head.
Sighing, Hinata swung her kitchen knife, decapitated Tenten's body in one clean sweep, and then began to speak.
"It all started...with Haruno Sakura. The biggest goddamn fuckin' bitch in the whole goddamn fuckin' universe. The fuckin' bitch who stole the job that was rightfully mine, the fucking bitch who lived a happy and successful lifestyle while I slept in a dingy old apartment and had to take Ritalin every day, the fucking bitch who sucked on your fuckin' cock like a fuckin' pig! IT ALL STARTED WITH HER!"
Naruto wasn't sure how to respond, so he just stayed quiet.
"One day, I was late to work so I skipped out on taking my Ritalin," Hinata continued, "And then a whole lot of bat-shit crazy ideas began forming in my head all at once. I would walk by these people and think 'Ooh, I'd like to tear her guts out' or 'hmm...I wonder what his brain looks like from the inside' and all that crap. Obviously, I was disgusted with those thoughts of mine, so I quickly rushed to the office...and then I saw Haruno Sakura. At that moment, I knew...I knew that if I was to kill anyone, it was HER. She was a pompous, selfish, know-it-all bitch who would have worked better at a whore house than a business office. So, I made up a whole elaborate lie that I had just moved into a new apartment building, tricked her into coming...and I fuckin' killed her. I tore her apart with an axe, crushed her organs with my feet, and ate her brains. After that...well, let's just say that everyone enjoyed that meatloaf, I suppose."
That last statement was more than enough to bring Naruto to puke again, and he was beginning to wonder just how much stomach acid he had left inside of him. "I...I really don't think having ADHD is the reason for your psychotic behavior..."
"OF COURSE IT ISN'T!" Hinata snapped, "Anyway, after getting promoted and disposing of the evidence, I was still feeling a bit hungry, so I killed the old pervert who runs the apartment I live in right before he got off...ya know what I mean. I ate his brain, and I realized I was getting fat, so I started exercising alot, but I heard you say I still looked fat to your fuckin' buddies Shikamaru and Choji, and Ino and Tenten were talking about it too and...NOW WE'RE HERE!"
"I...I was talking about the boss' assistant Shizune! She's pregnant, and I said she looked more fat than pregnant! THAT'S WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT!" Naruto screamed at her. His face had tensed up and he looked absolutely pissed, as he had every right to be.
All Hinata could say in response was, "...Oh, really? I didn't know..."
"YOU CRAZY FUCKIN' BITCH! YOU KILLED THEM ALL OVER A STUPID LITTLE COMMENT THAT WASN'T EVEN DIRECTED TOWARDS YOU!"
Suddenly, tears started to form in Hinata's eyes. She fell to her knees, splashing on the bloody puddle. She pressed her hands against her face and cried, "Oh...Naruto...Naruto-kun...I'm sorry...I'm so...so...so sorry..."
Naruto just glared at her, his breathing heavy. 'This woman...she's breaking down...no...she's already broken...'
Getting down on all fours, Hinata began crawling over to the blond man as she whimpered, "I...I can't control it...ya know...I can't control it. It's like, there's a demon possessing me, ya know. A demon. Like Beelzebub. Or Laharl. Or something like that. Yeah...it's the demon who's killing people, not me. I would never kill people...I'm a good girl, mommy, a good girl...I love all of God's little creatures...I do...Hanabi broke that rabbit's neck and put it in my hands...I didn't kill it...honest..."
'She's losing her mind...' Naruto realized.
Now their faces only inches apart, Hinata wrapped her arms around Naruto and sobbed into his shoulder. "Naruto-kun, everything I've done...everything I've done...it's all for you. All for you. I loved you ever since we first met at that business firm, but you only had feelings towards Haruno Sakura, and thought of me as only a friend. When I confronted Sakura, I never mentioned you once, afraid that by doing so I would just be admitting to myself how much I care for you. I'm a psycho...a fuckin' psycho...and I don't know what to do anymore...I just keep killing and killing and eating people...I can't stop...help me...help me, my love...I'm evil, and I must die...I have to die...but I can't even bring myself to take my own life. I need someone to help me..."
Naruto wasn't sure what to think; not only was he left speechless, but Hinata's erractic behavior and her sudden confession has left him devoid of thought as well. He wanted to both hug her and strangle her at the same time.
"...Hime..."
"Please...call me Hinata..."
"...Hinata...are you going to let me go free?"
Hinata's face twitched and she dug her fingers into Naruto's back, drawing blood.
"You bastard...I spill my heart out to you, and all you ask is if I'm going to let you leave? YOU SON OF A BITCH! I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL FUCKIN' KILL YOU!" She screeched into Naruto's ear, nearly making him deaf.
"Augh..."
Hinata kicked Naruto in the chest and knocked him onto his back. Her expression wild, the Hyuga woman then ran over to Tenten's corpse and snatched the kitchen knife up from a puddle of blood. Naruto tried to push himself back up, but it was no use; with his arms and legs tied, it was near impossible, especially with how weak he was after being captured for so long.
Then, he saw Hinata standing over him, her face shrouded in darkness. A drop of blood dripped from the tip of the kitchen knife she held unsteadily in her hands. Naruto gasped when he felt the woman's tears fall onto his face and lips. His heart was beating hard against his chest, and sweat rolled down his chin.
'I'm going to die...I'm going to die...' he thought in horror.
"N...Naruto...tell me..."
"...Tell you what?"
"Do you...do you like me?"
For a split second, Naruto believed that if he just lied and say that he did like her, he could survive, even for a bit longer.
"Yes...Hinata, I like you alot..."
Hinata smiled widely and replied, "Thank you...Naruto-kun."
Then...she stabbed the knife into her own chest, and dug it deeper and deeper until it pierced her heart. Blood poured out of the wound like a waterfall, and Naruto could only stare up at Hinata's tear-stained face in shock and disbelief.
"I'm glad...that someone...still likes me..." Hinata wheezed before collapsing to the floor, dead.
Naruto just laid on the blood-covered floor, another corpse now added to the pile surrounding him, lost in thought about everything he had just witnessed...