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The Deepest Wound

Sasuke passed by the shadow manipulator and immediately realized something was wrong. "That Shikamaru didn't even look at me… is he up to something?" Before he could find an answer Sai intercepted him so he was forced to change his route. "How did he survive Amaterasu?" The avenger smirked when he remembered that Hinata broke his Tsukuyomi. "I can expect anything from these people." Uchiha gritted his teeth at the sight of Kiba and Akamaru. This time he turned left just to encounter Shino. "How do I get away from them? I can't fight them all without my sharingan and if I use it I will go completely blind." Neji appeared to make him turn around and finally Chouji stopped him from returning to his starting point. "My only option is the waterfall. Obviously that's what they want and I can't go anywhere else." He was running out of options.

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"Sasuke is not well… his vision decreases with the use of his sharingan. This may be our only chance to capture him." She said very excited at the thought of returning to Konoha but what really made her happy was having Sasuke back in the village. She couldn't remember at what point she started to care for him.

"Capture him? I thought you wanted him dead." Shikamaru laughed suspecting that something had happened between the heiress and the avenger,

"Um… I changed my mind." She blushed.

"I recognize that reaction in her… She can't be in love with my Sasuke." Ino and Sakura thought scandalized.

"You two were about to kiss, didn't you? I'm so glad Naruto interrupted you." The pink haired girl yelled and Hinata looked away in shame. "I knew it, Sasuke is just irresistible." Ino glared at the Hyuga.

"Stop it you troublesome women." Shikamaru rolled his eyes. "Hinata is giving us an advantage over Sasuke, if we succeed in this mission you will have him back. Isn't that what you wanted?" Both girls remained silent.

"Shikamaru, there is one more thing. He saved my life and I must do something about it." She looked at her captain with determined eyes.

The Nara boy nodded in approval. "I'll think about it Hinata. Sasuke just reached Tenten's zone." He said after receiving the information by radio. "You can proceed now" He ordered to the weapons specialist. "Time to go girls" With this said the group moved towards their target.

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"Let's begin Lee" Tenten said and clapped her hands to elevate the first grenade, Lee kicked it in the air and made it explode into several kunai knives. Sasuke dodged the first attack and smirked until he saw two more grenades in front of him. Suddenly no one was following him anymore and that meant bad news for the avenger. The kunai got nailed in the trees and Sasuke knew he was in trouble when he reached the waterfall zone, where there were no trees at all. "Three at the same time" The weapon specialist warned and Lee reacted very fast. "Four in a row" He requested. "I can handle ten" He was getting Hyper. "Just stick to the original sequence." She sighed.

Sasuke managed to avoid five attacks but three knives stabbed his right arm. "This can't be" The avenger saw his death coming when the brunette made seven grenades appear and the boy in green jumpsuit detonated each one.

"We got here just in time… pay off your debt." Shikamaru winked at the heiress, who smiled and ran towards Sasuke.

"Protective Eight Trigrams Sixty-four Palms" Hinata yelled. Suddenly a web-like barrier emerged from her body and extended to repel all the kunai, in consequence Sasuke looked at her in astonishment. When the jutsu was over all the weapons were lying on the ground, nothing could hurt the avenger anymore. The heiress turned around to see how hurt he was, his arm bleed uncontrollably but nothing more. "I wish I was a medical ninja." She sobbed. "This is nothing" Uchiha smirked.

The Hyuga girl approached the deserter to kiss him unexpectedly and the shocked traitor responded to it putting his arms around her waist, he felt his heart beat fast and enjoyed too much the warmth of Hinata's body. Sasuke noticed the Byakugan user's hands move slowly to his neck and caress it.

The heiress knew her teammates were looking at them, some were surprised and the others were absolutely mad. That reckless action of hers would cause trouble for sure, nevertheless she was willing to take the punishment. She loved him and all she cared about was that Sasuke was responding to her innocent kiss with a really passionate one.

The avenger would never admit he was actually falling in love. Hinata was nothing like the girls he was used to deal with; she listened to him, she was patient, caring, determined and fierce when necessary. Sasuke began to caress her back and to kiss her more intensely but something was wrong for she was crying. Hinata moved her hands to his chest and whispered an apology before releasing chakra from her palm to hit Sasuke's heart. The Uchiha fell on his knees spitting blood.

"You got me… Madara was right, a kunoichi is the most effective weapon against a shinobi" He said coughing. "No matter how strong I become I'm still a man." He looked defeated for a second but gave the Hyuga girl the smirk she adored. "I love you, but I won't give up on my revenge for you." He finally said.

"I know, I love you too but I won't allow you to destroy my home or hurt my family and friends." She replied sobbing. Then she knelt to hug him and kiss him goodbye. "Forgive me, I truly fell in love with you." She confessed.

"So it is settled, next time we see each other we'll be enemies." He said touching Hinata's face, then he discharged a weak electric current to make her faint.

"Sasuke" Naruto yelled in anger when he saw Hinata lying in the ground. The jinchuriki charged against his former friend with a rasen-shuriken, He was enraged; he wanted to believe his friend still had something good in him but everything was against him. "You know you want to kill him." The Demon Fox spoke through him. Naruto covered his ears in despair though it was useless and he knew it. "The blood of this Uchiha enrages me. He sealed me once and I want him death." The blond boy couldn't resist the influence of the beast, he fell on his knees scratching the ground in an attempt to control himself.

"It's my only chance to scape." Sasuke thought. He could barely move, Hinata didn't mean to kill him, she just wanted to immobilize him and she succeeded. The avenger stood up slowly, his body trembled and coughed blood once more. He gave one last glance at her beloved, suddenly his vision blurred due to the loss of blood but he did not care anymore so he walked to the edge of the waterfall.

"Shadow Manipulation Jutsu" Shikamaru yelled desperate, but his shadow couldn't reach its target because the avenger jumped at the moment he heard him. "That idiot… available units go get Sasuke, if he is death I want the corpse." He ordered frustrated and everyone split. The leader stopped Sakura as she passed by, "I want you to knock him out. He is losing it." He said with pain in his voice and pointed to the unstable shinobi. "Ino go check if Hinata is OK." He ordered and the Yamanaka girl obeyed.

Sakura sent chakra to her fist and approached Naruto with wet eyes, she had hit him before because he was acting silly or immature but this time was different, he was not himself. "I'm really sorry." She said with tears falling, then she punched him in the stomach and the boy fell unconscious. The girl knelt next to him and hugged him; she prayed to never have to do that again, she wished the Nine Tails out of her Naruto.

The rest of the team looked for Sasuke; Shino sent the few insects he had left, Kiba and Akamaru tried to catch his smell, Neji searched with his byakugan and everyone else did their best to find the target. After several hours with no result the leader took the mission as a failure. "I've deceived my team once more." Shikamaru said to himself. "We are going back to the village."

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Sasuke woke up in a dark cave-like room, his head was spinning and his chest hurt. The last thing he recalled was the sea coming closer as he fell, then the pain disappeared and he thought he was going to die. The recovering boy sat up on the bed and saw a blurry Madara looking at him, he was about to scold him for his impulsive behavior. "If you say 'I told you' I swear I'll kill you."

"You are an idiot, but that is reasonable because of your age. The important issue is your vision, you over used the Mangekyo Sharingan and now you are going blind. Do you want Itachi's eyes now?" He spoke in a careless tone.

"I will need them to proceed with my revenge." The Uchiha decided to continue with his plan to destroy Konoha, but the next time he wouldn't do it alone and won't wish to be killed in the process. "Lend me your army and give me my brother's eyes, I will burn down the village and recover what belongs to me."

"Good, you are making sense. Keep resting, the surgery will be tomorrow." Madara informed and walked to the door, but suddenly stopped. "Is Hinata Hyuga what belongs to you?" He laughed.

"What is so funny about it?" He said expressionless.

"The whole situation is amusing. You tried to get someone to kill you for invading the enemy's territory by yourself, then you fell in love with a Kunoichi who is devoted to Konoha, she fell in love with the shinobi who wants to destroy everything she loves, after that you recovered your will to live thanks to her, finally you decide to fulfill your vengeance and she is determined to stop you. I'm dying to know what the outcome will be." He made fun of him.

"I am going to kill you when you become useless for me." The avenger threatened.

"Sure… but you should thank me first for teleporting you from the waterfall to this nice hideout of yours." Madara pointed out and left Sasuke alone.

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Karin was walking through the forest with the rest of her team when a hawk intercepted her, the bird had a message for her and she almost fainted when she read it. Suigetzu approached her to ask her what was the matter but she just crushed the letter. "My informant wrote me that Sasuke's body was never found so he must be alive. We will look for him in every hideout we know in order to kill him." She managed to say and her teammates nodded. All of them knew how dangerous their former leader was and that the possibility to survive a fight against him was extremely low.

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Shikamaru entered Hinata's room at the hospital and was shocked to see all his friends with serious faces, everyone stared at him and he felt like he deserved it. "Look guys, I'm really sorry for being such an incompetent leader. It's my entire fault; Naruto lost control because I pushed him to fight Sasuke and Hinata is hurt because I sent her to strike the deserter directly, all of you did your best at the battlefield but it was my strategy that failed. I'm just glad that none of you are mortally wounded."

"You are a great leader; we would be death if not for your planning and precautions." Naruto approached him. "It's my fault for wanting to get sasuke alive, I still do, but next time I'm going alone."

"Don't be reckless." Sakura hit him in the head. "I'm going with you, after all Sasuke was part of the team and is our duty to stop him."

"I am part of the team now and it is my duty to fight where you fight." Sai said with a smile and one by one everyone agreed to go on the next Sasuke related Mission.

"We still need a leader and no one but you can take that roll." Naruto offered smiling with determination and Shikamaru smirked in return. Suddenly Temari jumped into his arms and kissed him. "It's amazing that you didn't come back crying this time." She said. "Troublesome woman you'll never let me forget that."

"Shikamaru" Tsunade yelled while destroying the door to enter. "You will do paper work for failing this mission."

"Oh no, another troublesome woman" He rolled his eyes.

"I read your report." She got serious. "There are several issues bothering me and I have to take measures to prevent them from affecting the outcome of the war. First of all Naruto; the Nine Tails wants to take control of your mind and body so you are going to train with Killer Bee, the Jinchuriki of the Eight Tails, to learn how to tame your demon. Now I will assign your positions in the Allied Shinobi Forces. Fist Division: Tenten. Second Division: Hinata and Neji. Third Division: Sakura and Lee. Fourth Division: Shikamaru as the Proxy Commander, Temari and Chouji. Fifth Division: Shino, Ino, Kiba and Akamaru. Surprise Attack Division: Sai." She informed and everyone nodded. "The Fourth Great Shinobi War will bring thousands of corpses, but it also gave us the opportunity to unify all the Hidden Villages."

The Hyuga heiress closed her eyes and breathed slowly. "There is no turning back." She whispered and everyone turned their attention to her.

"Hinata, I know about you and Sasuke." The Hokage said narrowing her eyes, which made the shy girl lower her head. "I couldn't be more proud of you. You chose to complete the mission for the sake of Konoha, thank you." She smiled.

"Lady Hokage, thank you." She said struggling to speak. She loved him with all his heart and she knew he loved her too but they would destroy each other eventually. "I must hide my feelings and continue as if nothing happened, he will do the same." She thought.

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