And sooo we are now on to the Third Chapter...if you are reading this then it means you actually like the story...or you don't give a crap and are just out of stuff to read...(I don't really care either way...haha)

Right then! Down to buisness...disclaimer...

Masashi Kishimoto owns Naruto not me...if I did own Naruto I would not be reduced to writing fanfiction...and Hinata and Kiba would be together...while Naruto cries his eyes out...there.


Three weeks had gone by. Hinata hadn't stopped running. Every day, every minute. Their faces flashed before her pale eyes. Her pale skin had ashy tinge to it now. She didn't stop to sleep; she ate when she was hungry and drank when she needed to. They were tracking her. She was sure of it.

She had to keep running.

She was afraid. For the first time in years. She was afraid of what would happen if she stopped running.

'I can't stop,' she would think to herself when she got tired. 'What would they think? If I stopped? If I gave in?'

'They would never forgive me.'

Eventually though Hinata realized that she couldn't keep running forever. No one could run forever.

And so that's how it all started.

There was a small town on the outskirts of the Waterfall boundaries. It had only a small road going in that connected it to the rest of the country. By the time Hinata arrived at that town she had already formulated a plan. The only hard part now was executing it. But as it turned out, when your desperate the a lot of stuff isn't so hard anymore.

The plan was simple, all Hinata had to do was gather enough supplies to make it work. She was planning on making a permanent doppelganger; she and Kiba had done a report on permanent doppelgangers once when they were still in the Academy. They weren't all that well known and Hinata had never attempted to make one before, but she was sure she had the knowledge to do it. It took a fair amount of time and supplies, but 'I could make it work.' She thought. Once she gathered everything she began to work. It took five days before she was sure she had a lookalike copy of herself. The only difference was that this copy had never been alive. 'It took years to gather enough chakra in order to turn the doppelganger into a breathing replica of herself.' Hinata remember from her report. And she didn't want that, who would? All she needed was a body that she could use to fake her death.

Once she was ready she went out into the woods, far away from the town and she slit the throat of her doppelganger. She left it there, and made sure somebody was bound to find it.

One week later she was over the border line and in a new country. She had chopped of all her hair, and gotten blue contacts to cover her unnaturally white eyes. She began to relax, no one was following her anymore and she had begun to hear rumors about the dead body of the female ninja that had tried to escape the Waterfall terrorist group. Still she had to keep her guard up, but no one was tracking her anymore. She was safe, for the time being anyway.

Every time she closed her eyes, she saw their faces. She knew she should have gone back to Konoha, but there was nothing to go back to. Sure, she could go back to Neji and gotten hitched and turn into the next baby machine of the Hyuga household. Without Kiba and Shino there though, she didn't think she could live like that. Without Kiba and Shino, Hinata was nothing. Nothing at all.

Jumping from branch to branch, Hinata's eyes scanned the forest. The darkness seemed to press against her; she had been traveling for thirty five hours. Her now blue eyes started to drift closed, her breathing was heavy and sweat dipped from her brow. For a moment her foot slipped and she was sent tumbling to the ground far below. Branches and leaves cut her face and arms as she fell and only in the last seconds did she manage to avoid disaster. Grabbing a sturdy branch as she passed she dropped in a straight line toward the ground and rolled. Standing up, Hinata surveyed the damage she had done while brushing off dirt and pulling leaves from her hair. Smiling she realized that she had fallen at a perfect camp site. She could hear a soft trickle of water coming from the west. 'Perfect' she thought as she began to set up camp. Just as she was laying out her bed mat she felt something under her foot go taunt. It took a moment for her to realize what she had stepped on.

'A trip wire?' With a sudden burst of energy she didn't know she had Hinata twisted out of the way of the needles that suddenly came shooting out of the bushes. 'Great camping spot huh?' she muttered to herself as she activated her byakugan. Even with the colored contacts her byakugan worked perfectly. Scanning the area she picked up on a slight blur of movement through the trees. She focused on the spot and with a slight blur of her surroundings she could make out the black and white image of a man's face. Moving quickly she watched as the man cautiously moved to the spot where she had just been. 'Was I wrong? Are they still tracking me?'Quietly she cursed to herself, 'I thought I had been careful. I was sure no one was tracking me.' The man carefully stepped around the pile of branches she had broken from her fall. Ghosting silently after him, or so she thought for just as she was about to grab him she stepped on a crunchy leaf.

"Shit," Hinata cursed as the man's eyes widened and he began to turn around. Pulling her kunai from her pouch she grabbed the man and pressed it against the man's neck.

"Why are you still following me?"

"You're the one with the knife against my neck." With that he twisted out of her grasp and pulled out his own kunai blocking her strike. He landed a fast blow to her midsection while trying to cut off her air supply. Hinata dodged another attack as she pushed her chakra into her fingertips, focusing on his tenketsu she struck, a perfect blow to his chest. She followed up with two more strikes rendering his left arm useless. His breathing was heavy as he tried to land a blow on her with his one good arm. Hinata smiled as she easily dodged his attacks and tackled him. Pinning the man to the ground she held the kunai to his neck, a thin line of red appearing.

"Who the hell are you?" Despite his situation he smiled.

"I could ask you the same thing; you're the one who has me pinned with a useless arm."

"Why are you following me?"

"Oh, but I'm not. I just happened to be here when you 'dropped in,' excused the pun."

"S-so you're not from waterfall?"

"Waterfall? No, I'm from Suna. Why? Did you fuck somebody up over there?" Hinata's eyes widened, how could somebody be so calm in a situation like this?

"J-just who are you?"

"Hmm? I was just about to ask you the same thing." He gave her another charming smile as the line of red on his neck grew larger.

"Give me a name." Hinata's soft voice grew weary, the exhaustion she was feeling beginning to show.

"Niko. You?" Hinata's eyes grew wide. A name, she couldn't give him her real name. 'think Hinata, think!' her mind was reeling names going through her head faster than it took to pick one. 'Wait, remember the mission Sakura got where she was undercover with you that one time…Mikako…that was the name.'

"Mikako."

"Well then Mikako, how about you let me go. I pose no threat to you, while you obviously pose a very high threat to me."

"How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep?"

"Do I have any reason to?"

"Do you Niko?"

"No, not yet anyway." He smiled again as Hinata released her grip on his arms. Sitting up he sighed.

"Now that's better isn't it? Would you care to stay the night, seeing as you already set up camp in my camping spot?"

"Umm,""

"Yes, I insist. You will stay here, you look exhausted and besides I already made dinner."

"B-but,"

"Talk later. Eat now." He said pulling out some smoked fish, rubbing his neck.

"I always make enough for two, old habits."

"Why are you here if you're really from Suna?"

"Well, that's a long story that you probably don't care about."

"Ah…you read my mind…"

"Now here is something interesting to talk about. Who are you running from?"

"W-what makes you think I'm r-running," Hinata frowned. 'Shit, I'm stuttering again.'

"Hmm…I wonder. Was it the sprinting trough the trees, or maybe it was you interrogating me, asking me why I was still 'following you,' I wonder, what did you do in Waterfall?"

"Y-you're in over your head…s-stop asking stupid questions." He just smiled and laughed.

"I knew I was in over my head long before you showed up Ms. Mikako. Anyway, I'll see you in the morning." He wiped his hands on his pants and climbed into his sleeping bag.

"G'night." Hinata watched as within seconds he fell asleep. 'What's so bad about this?' she thought, as she climbed into her own sleeping bag. 'He could turn out to be useful,'


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