Aimless Problems

Chapter 4

Trouble

Hinata walked alone back towards her village. She had dropped the two shinobi to their respective village and had endured Temari's cheerful chatting. It wasn't like she didn't like it but she was, currently, in a bad shape as she had recently got disowned and was kicked out. And when she gained her determination after such a long hard time, she wanted to get a real hard mission so she could clear up her head.

But taking a walk with the quiet and somehow irritated (he had added comments that were clearly at Hinata and were very sarcastic) Kazekage and his chatting and abnormally cheerful older sister for a two day's walk towards the sand village with constant breaks on the way at Temari's requests because she said that it was better to rest now for she would be hell a lot busy when she reached her village.

And Hinata, surprisingly impatient, grew pissed when her brother didn't object and agree with what she said.

So she had to follow them and waste time, sitting outside the pub as they both relaxed inside. She had no intent to go in there and ruin their privacy or whatever chat they were having. Maybe simply because she didn't wanted to be a part of it.

But now as the slow and stupid journey was over, she wanted to return to her village as quickly as she could so that she could request the Hokage another mission which would, probably, be harder than she just now had.

It was almost dawn and half of the journey was left and Hinata wanted to travel through the night too so she could arrive at her village the first thing in the morning. She didn't care if she needed rest or not, she just wanted to get to Konoha as soon as possible.

And it was during her walk, after the sun had set and it was probably near ten, when she felt a sudden change in the temperature and a fiery aura roamed in the air, making her stop in her tracks, trying hard to focus at what was going on. The trees around stood still and the shadows loomed on top of her, as though hiding her from the mystical evil aura that had suddenly started to loom in the peaceful and quiet atmosphere. The noise of crickets and the hooting of owls suddenly vanished, leaving Hinata in a confused and lost state.

"What's going on?" she muttered to herself as she stepped forward and looked around.

It was getting hotter and hotter by every passing second and Hinata suddenly realized that a powerful and dangerous fire had started a few distance away from her location. After a few seconds, she could smell the burning wood and thick ashes that burned her throat and bought tears into her eyes.

She wiped the tears in her eyes and started to jog away from the sudden forest fire, ignoring the confused thoughts in her head when she realized that exactly how the fire had started when there was no lightening, no sun blaze and neither any sort of chakra energy that she could feel. And the fire had spread so quickly… she couldn't even tell the sudden change in temperature. She was dreading at what was going on.

Suddenly she heard a sharp scream through out the forest, making her stop in her tracks and spun around to face the blazing fire behind her, panting slightly, her sweat rolling down her cheeks and falling from her chin down to the ground. Heart beating, her nose suddenly picked up the foul smell of blood.

And then her legs started to move on her own, not away from the drastic scene like she always ran from but towards the burning scene. The fire was so humungous and furious that she was forced to stop and dodge a thrashing branch that came her way.

The smell of blood was getting stronger and stronger. She needed to save the person who was in trouble and see what was going on.

Her hands went towards her water bottle on her waist and her fingers, despite the heat and the suffocation, gracefully opened the cap and she motioned all of the water out of the bottle. She dropped the bottle onto the ground without another care and concentrated on her chakra towards the big ball of water in her hands.

She had to be careful or the water would be evaporated and things will go from bad to worst.

She motioned to the water and it surrounded her whole, making a pure oval shield from her head to toe. She slapped her hands together and hardened the water, a few ice crystals formed here and there.

She looked determinedly towards the raging forest and took a deep breath of the clear water surrounding her, enjoying the coolness for a second before dashing forward.

The fire hissed menacingly as it touched the cool water shield and Hinata frowned deeply as she saw steam coming from her self made shield. She clicked her tongue as she put some chakra outside the shield so the fire would have less affect.

Sighing deeply again, she quickened her speed, her feet crushing the already burnt up leaves and branches, hot ashes flew past her and she narrowed her eyes at the end of the forest line.

She burst out of the flaming trees and gasped in both surprise and relief when cool moist air hit her face. She stopped in her tracks, taking her time to register at what was going on. The air was so calm and cool and the area looked unaffected by the fire in the forest that she was even more confused and curious to know what was going on.

Her nose suddenly picked up, the now very heavy, smell of blood. She stepped forward slowly, her Byakugan activating automatically because her body had suddenly judged the trouble as she suddenly gasped when she saw something that she did not expect.

Uzumaki Naruto and Haruono Sakura on the ground injured and bloodied with a dark looming figure standing on top of them.

Hinata's eyes widened.

"What's happening?"

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Sorry for such a late update... I have so many fics that i dont find time to update all of them! (weeps)

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