That Night Chapter 3

Kiba ravenously attacked his prey, biting off far more then he could chew he spat out a mouthful of cotton and his training dummy fell to the floor…it wouldn't be long now…he would have his revenge and Hinata would be his.

Shikamaru was a very laid back ninja, when he was younger he would often gaze at the clouds and envy them for being so free, but now was not the time for envy or gazing at the clouds, Shikamaru was running and running for his life, he had gotten into a fight with a man in the street and rather unfortunately been knocked into the girls changing room at the hot springs, the largest bugger of this was that a large percentage of local girls had been in the middle of changing and were now intent on tearing Shikamaru's jugular vein to shreds with their perfectly manicured nails, Shikamaru panted heavily as he blitzed through the village streets,

"IT WAS AN A CCIDENT"

And now he was running out of breath, the girls lost sight of the runaway ninja and stopped at a small stall to ask for directions,

"Did you see a messy haired yet annoyingly perverted ninja run through here?"

The man pointed to a small alleyway and the angry mob swarmed without a second thought, the man raised his hat slightly and in a puff of smoke Shikamaru transformed back to himself, he untied and ungagged the real owner of the stall and leapt to the rooftop, completely and utterly shattered, he then laid back and stared at the clouds (again). As he gazed up into the sky he wondered what Ino would be doing, maybe he could meet her on the way home and take her out for a quiet meal…maybe he could even take her back to his place for a drink…maybe he could…Shikamaru then shook his head and stopped thinking about that, got up and stretched, all in all life was good, at the moment dating Ino was proving enjoyable (if hard on the ears), he owned a good apartment and any missions he was sent on upped his renown a fair bit, Shikamaru smiled at the sky and turned around to go on his way.

Naruto was still frantically searching for any sign of Shikamaru in the village, he had leapt to countless rooftops and asked many citizens of the village but found nothing, a thought then stirred in Naruto's head, something about thinking, he shut his eyes tight and concentrated on this one slither of an idea, the idea then came crashing through the walls of Naruto's head like that three headed snake that had been used to attack the leaf village during the sounds invasion, "Think as the enemy thinks" he had once been told by someone (he couldn't remember who unfortunately) he then shut his eyes again and whispered to himself,

"Think like Shikamaru…Think like Shikamaru…where would I go if I was very very very very lazy?"

Then it hit him,

"TO GAZE AT THE CLOUDS, HE'S AT THE CLOCKTOWER"

Naruto leapt once again to the rooftops and hurtled towards the clock tower in the centre of the village.

The fight with the seemingly possessed Ino was not going well merely one of Naruto's shadow clones remained and his opponent had a kunai to the clones throat, Ino slit the clones gullet and he vanished in a puff of smoke, the girl then stood up straight and surveyed her surroundings, she was alone and Naruto had left for some reason, Orochimaru's voice then sounded in her head,

"The clock tower"

Ino obeyed without question and headed for her new destination.

Naruto was nearing the clock tower, he had no doubt that Ino had defeated his clones and was trying to find him again, he wouldn't be able to finish this alone he, would need help to defeat Ino and get to the bottom of who or what had possessed her but where could he find some allies at such short notice, he stopped to think, but found he didn't need to due to his current location, he looked down into the alleyway and saw what he expected, that being Rock Lee and Sakura in a shady corner, fortunately it didn't look like they were up to much, just a lot of kissing and whispering, however Naruto would surely feel bad about breaking up their little liason, but now was not the time for a make out session, Naruto jumped down into the alleyway (afraid of what Sakura would do to him however),

"Oh Lee…your hands are like ice"

"Sakura-chan…"

Lee was about to continue when he noticed Naruto,

"Sakura-chan zip up your top, we have company"

Naruto had jumped down and from his small lookout and was now behind the two love birds,

"Well I'm sorry to…ahem…interrupt but…"

Naruto's apology was then interrupted by him tripping over a large sports bag,

"No No No Naruto don't open…"

Too late, Naruto had opened the bag and pulled out some rather suggestive looking outfits and devices,

"You guys are into this stuff?"

Naruto could hardly believe his eyes…Sakura had always seemed so innocent at times but, now was not the time to question her sexual tendencies, he dropped the bad and continued,

"Look straight to the point…Ino is…"

He was interrupted once more by Sakura zipping up her top, Lee grabbing her wrist, swinging her round himself and Sakura yelling,

"GATSUUGA NO JUTSU"

Lee released his grip on Sakura and hurled her towards Naruto whose face had lost all colour, Sakura slammed into Naruto's torso and landed on her feet, Naruto however was sent, smouldering, into the nearest wall,

"Do continue dear Naruto"

Naruto hated it when Sakura patronised him but even so, he proceeded to slide down the wall, slump to the ground in a heap and get up,

"Ino is being controlled by someone, she just attacked me at the ramen bar and has probably defeated my clones by now, I need to get to the clock tower to find Shikamaru so he can break the control over her"

Lee raised his large bushy eyebrows,

"Why do you need our help then?"

"After Shikamaru breaks Ino free I'm going to need your help to find whoever is controlling Ino and bring him or her to Tsunade for questioning"

Sakura then raised her own question,

"Why don't we just kill whoever is behind all this?"

"Do you have any idea how much Tsunade will pay us to bring this criminal in, she'd do her nut if we let this person off easy"

"I wouldn't exactly call death 'letting someone off easy'"

Naruto looked at both of them with a lazy look on his face,

"Death in comparison to Tsunade?"

Lee and Sakura both nodded, it made sense,

"Right let's get to the clocktower"

The three leapt up to the rooftops once more and made for the large spire in the centre of the village.

Hinata made her way through the marketplace of the village, she had promised Naruto she would be careful when out now but Hinata was still worried about Naruto, had it really all been a dream? The weird was always happening in The Hidden Leaf Village and far be it from her to just brush this ordeal under the carpet. Hinata stopped at a vegetable stall to examine some apples, despite how much the owner of this stall was badgering her to buy some she went on her way. Hinata continued on through the village and came to a halt, something wasn't right, this street was deserted (and there wasn't even any tumbleweed) and what's more a hand then clamped itself over Hinata's mouth, she was unconscious before she even hit the floor.

Kiba was almost ready, he had showered, put on some aftershave and had slapped o his clothes, he had a seemingly malicious smile on his face also, he looked down at Akamaru who was trembling a mite too much,

"What are you worried about…. he promised…he gave me his word as a ninja…he won't hurt her"

Kiba applied the finishing touches to his attire and left…Akamaru followed reluctantly.

Shikamaru's afternoon nap at the clock tower was rudely interrupted by a ninja kicking his ribs and yelling down his ear, Shika woke with a start,

"Do you have to yell?"

"Dude we've been poking you for the last twenty minutes!!"

"Well what do you want"

Sakura and Lee then caught up with Naruto,

"Lee did you bring the bag"

"Oops…it's still in the alley"

"It took me weeks to find you that leather jock…"

Sakura's speech was cut short (thankfully) by Ino Yamanaka making a rather abrupt entrance, Ino had arrived at the base of the clocktower leapt up and punched a huge chunk out of where the 4 friends were standing, she then landed and stood poised to fight,

Shikamaru whispered to Naruto,

"Is this what you wanted to talk about?"

Naruto nodded, Shikamaru knelt down and formed the appropriate hand sign,

"KageMane no Jutsu"

Shikamaru's shadow then extended using the shadow of the clocktower and attached itself to Ino's rendering her unable to move, only Naruto of course knew what was wrong with Ino so he had explain quickly before Shika ran out of chakra, "Don't hurt her, she's not the one attacking us, look at her eyes" The rest of them did, "This is her own technique, the Shintenshin no Jutsu"

"What do we do I don't want to risk hurting her"

The shadow possession was starting to wear off, "I have an idea"

Naruto whispered his brilliant plan to Shikamaru who was in a sweat by this point, but whose face lit up when he heard it, "I love this plan, I'm excited to be a part of it"

Shikamaru then released his hold on Ino and slid on his knees to behind his blonde haired fem-fatale and formed a hand sign that looked like a gun, "HIDDEN LEAF ANCIENT TAIJUTSU SUPREME TECHNIQUE: A THOUSAND YEARS OF PAIN!!!" Shikamaru then plunged his hand sign into Ino's rectal regions and sent her shooting into the evening sky, Lee and Sakura were amazed, "THAT was your amazing plan, Lee you've never gave me this when I asked!"

Naruto had turned a pale green by this point, "I always wanted to do that" Shikamaru looked quite pleased with himself, Lee looked up, "Careful now she's comin' back" Ino landed on Shikamaru with a lustful face and a sore ass, "YOU PERVERTED DOPE I LOVE YOU" She laid her full body weight on Shikamaru and plated a one whopper of a kiss on his lips, he gladly returned the favor and they rolled around for a while, "Wait so if that was your brilliant plan why did you need us?" Lee wasn't too happy, "Naruto… this was YOUR IDEA?" Ino leapt up and charged at Naruto with all speed, Lee acted by wrapping her in the bandages (tightly) and throwing her to Shikamaru, "That's why I needed you" "Lee I have an idea back to my place" The couple left in a hurry leaving the three on top of the clocktower, Naruto crouched beside Ino on the floor, "What do you remember before your mind was taken over?"

"I'll get you one of these days Naruto…so help me god I will rip your balls off with my bare hands, WITH MY BARE HANDS!!" "Just answer the question" "I remember…a scream…it was deep and throaty like…like…I don't know…the rests kind of a blur but then I got woken up by YOUR brilliant 'plan'" Naruto pondered this for a while and his eyes widened with fear, a scream was a type of sound and didn't even need to think (or want to for that matter) to realize who was behind all this mess, his dreams, the man in the shadows, or who was plotting to kill Hinata but he had to think about one thing…that was WHY someone would want Hinata dead, he returned his gaze to Shikamaru and Ino, "Go and tell Tsunade to alert ANBU, the Jounins…everyone" "But wh…?" "JUST GO!!" Shika untied Ino and they both did as they were told, they leapt down from the damaged tower and hurtled towards Tsunade's residence, Naruto set off for Hinata's house thoughts running through his head like squirrels around a treasure trove of acorns, he had to save his love from death and his dreams. -Reviews are very welcome- -I would like to give special thanks to my good friend Amy who has been and remains to be a constant inspiration throughout this story so far and another special thanks to my cat Tufty for keeping my lap warm while I was writing this chapter more coming soon people thanks again im outta here peace xx -