Smallville/Naruto

Redeemer

Disclaimer: I do not own Smallville or Naruto; Smallville is owned by Warner Brothers television and its creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and is based on 'Superman' created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the Manga series' Naruto' is owned by its creator Masashi Kishimoto and all characters featured in Naruto are the property of said author, all Smallville characters are owned by DC comics.

This work is strictly for Fan enjoyment and no profit is derived from it.

Fanfiction Written by; Dean Donnell.

Chapter 6

Hyuuga Hinata was on high alert travelling through the nighttime forest, leaping from branch to branch as she looked ahead with her Byakugan for any threats to the team or any sign of their quarry; the mission was fairly simple, yet with a significant element of risk.

Step one; locate the anomaly.

Step two; determine if the anomaly is a threat to Konoha or the Land of Fire.

Step three; if the anomaly is a threat determine just what the village is up against and report back as quickly as possible so that appropriate action can be taken.

The urgency of the mission had been made plain, they were not to stop at all until they had the information the village needed and had reported back.

Locating the anomaly looked like it was going to be fairly simple; as they got closer Hinata found that she could sense it, just as her sensei and team leader Kurenai could.

Shino for his part was periodically sending a Kikai bug ahead to search for the source of the strange Chakra, Hinata watched out of the corner of her eye seeing him pause on a branch as one of them reported back, conferring with it briefly.

"Found it," Shino announced after a moment "it's a man, with Chakra unlike anything seen before," Shino pointed about thirty degrees to the left of the direction they had been travelling "he's half a mile that way, and he has a girl with him."

"Understood," their team leader, Kurenai replied, taking in this new information "have your bugs show us the way."

Shino nodded as he released a small cloud of his insects, giving them instructions to home in on the strange Chakra, within minutes the team was heading after the insects as fast as they could move whilst still maintaining their stealth.

As they neared their destination Kurenai addressed her team, reminding them of their orders.

"Remember," she told them "we are to avoid detection at all costs, when we near the anomaly find concealed locations to observe him and his companion from within sight of each other and myself."

Once they were in a position to be able to observe the subject of their curiosity Hinata quickly found a location on a branch hidden from the stranger's view by thick foliage that she was certain he wouldn't be able to see through.

However, with the Byakugan at her disposal Hinata could.

Activating her Byakugan Hinata began to quietly observe the two people on the other side of the foliage, starting with the girl.

The girl had bright red hair, she was asleep by a campfire; the half shredded remains of a red jacket thrown over her upper torso, her legs were splinted, apparently broken, Hinata also noted what she could see of the clothes the girl was wearing.

The girl was from the Sound.

Okay don't jump to conclusions, Hinata told herself just because he saved the life of a kunoichi from the Sound doesn't mean that he's with the Sound himself, he's probably just compassionate by nature.

Turning slightly to her left and deactivating her Byakugan for the moment Hinata waved slightly to catch her sensei's attention, Kurenai turned in her direction a moment later.

'The girl is from the Sound'Hinata mouthed in Kurenai's direction, Kurenai nodded, pointing at her eyes with two fingers and then pointing forward to indicate that Hinata should continue observing, nodding Hinata turned her head forward again and activated her Byakugan.

As Hinata continued observing the two she noted that the girl was shifting fitfully in her sleep, apparently in a lot of pain, the man, dressed entirely in blue was watching her with an expression of sympathy on his face.

I think he definitely saved her because he felt compassion for her, Hinata noted, then activated the part of her Byakugan that allowed her to see Chakra and Chakra networks, what she saw nearly blinded her.

The basic structure of the Chakra network was human enough, but there the similarity ended, the Chakra flowing through it was incredible, it wasn't the blue of normal human Chakra nor the green of healing Chakra or even the red color of demonic Chakra, it was gold and it was bright, so bright, like looking into the heart of the sun.

Hinata quickly deactivated that part of her Byakugan before she lost the use of her eyes altogether.

Just what was he?

A star in human form? Hinata wondered.

Deactivating her Byagukan entirely Hinata once again turned in Kurenai's direction, Kurenai was already looking at her expectantly; apparently she'd noticed Hinata's startled reaction to something.

'Gold Chakra,' Hinata mouthed in her direction 'so bright.'

Kurenai nodded; her brow furrowing as she wondered about this.

Hinata turned back toward the subject of her observation, activating her Byakugan yet again, she saw the man throw a piece of wood on the campfire, he didn't seem like a threat to Hinata's eyes and he seemed unaware of their presence just as she'd hoped; a moment later however he did something that Hinata was not expecting.

He turned his head and looked in her direction.