Yay, update :)

Apparently, this story will only have 3 more chapters (I had to add one cause of someone I forgot to add) :(

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"What's going to happen?" Hinata asked, yawning. She was cold and a bit frustrated. Hidan, Sasuke, and herself had been standing in the cold water for at least ten minutes. Her tunic and cloak helped keep the water out for all of two seconds. She was also a little angry at the fact that she seemed to be the only one affected by the cold water.

Kisame sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "I already told you this, child." He stated, sounding at frustrated as she felt.

"Hey, it's not our fault that you're slow." Hidan growled out, a hand on his black scythe.

Kisame's mouth turned down. "Fine," he sighed again, "but, Hinata, let me tell you this." Hinata's head whipped up when she heard her name. "It will not be painless."

And then, they fell.

Well, it felt like they fell. Hinata could have sworn that the water was barely waist high, but suddenly she felt as if she was in a bottomless pit. Looking down, all she saw was darkness. The beautiful mosaic was replaced by a pitch black abyss and before she could ask what happened, she was dragged down, beneath the water.

The liquid filled her mouth as she made to scream and it felt as if she had no air left in her entire body. She tried to kick whatever was grabbing her, but the figure just pulled harder. Hinata turned her body and tried to look at the figure, but all she could make out was a tail of very large fish. What little light shone from above glittered from the fish's scales, a beautiful blue and green. The only thing that struck Hinata as odd was the fact that what she felt on her ankle was a hand.

None of that mattered though as she felt herself begin to drift away. All the light from above was disappearing and she knew it wasn't just because she was being dragged deeper and deeper. She was losing consciousness.

Hinata didn't even need to be told that she was dying; it was pretty easy to figure out. She thought of her attempted suicide off of the cliffs near Konoha and how Tsunade had saved her. Hinata would have laughed, if she could, at the fact that, because of a god, she was dying.

Too bad she had no will to move let alone laugh. Instead, she closed her eyes and hoped that all of this suffering would not end with a pathetic death in an unknown pool.

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When Hinata woke, she didn't know if she was dead or alive. She looked both ways and only saw naked people. Her face turned red immediately. A great line of nude men and women did not compare to a statue of Achilles or Zeus and Hinata looked down to see if she was one of the naked women. With a great sigh of relief, she hugged her robe.

When she looked up again, Sasuke and Hidan stood in front of her, both giving her odd looks.

"I-I." She stuttered, not really knowing what to say.

"Forget it, we need to catch Charon and get out of this place." Sasuke stated, looking around in anger. He seemed uncomfortable, standing next to the line of people.

"Who are they?" Hinata yelled over the roar of the people. She didn't notice it until she stood, but the people were yelling and screaming. It made her want to leave as quickly as she could.

"They're nobody you need to worry about." Hidan said as he pushed through the line of people.

"Don't look at them, or at the ground where they walk." Sasuke warned, staring Hinata in the eyes. She nodded and grabbed the hand he held out for her. She closed her eyes and tried to concentrate on anything but the agony of the men and women in front of her. She almost opened her eyes when she stepped on something soft, but Sasuke gripped her shaking hand harder.

Finally, they passed the line of people and reached the riverside. It looked similar to the water that Hinata had just drowned in and she felt the fear well up in her. Sasuke, who still had her hand in his, pulled her away from the edge.

"You don't want to touch that water." He mumbled, so only she could hear. Not that it stopped Hidan from eavesdropping.

"Yeah, nobody wants to deal with you for all eternity." Hidan smirked, pushing the two towards the docks. "Kakuzu, you bastard, take us across!" Hidan yelled suddenly, pushing past Hinata and Sasuke to run towards the boat that was slowly leaving the docks. Hidan's lithe body leaped across the dock and landed shakily on the boat.

"Oh? Hidan? I didn't hear you were coming." A smooth, deep voice mumbled as Hidan steered the boat back to the shore. Hinata and Sasuke walked up to the boat.

"Yeah right, you bastard." Hidan growled. "Now, don't be a pain in the ass and take us across." As soon as Hidan stopped speaking, a hand shot up from the bottom of the boat.

"Where's the money?"

Hidan began to curse, yelling at the ferryman, but Sasuke pulled out three gold coins and threw them on the boat's floor. A man popped up, causing Hinata to jump.

Hinata observed the man, though there wasn't much to see. He wore a long black cloak that covered his body, a black mask that covered his face, and a black hood that covered his hair. All she could see was his dark-skinned hand and sea-green pupils surrounded by blood red. She could tell that this man was not on to be messed with.

Not that it stopped Hidan. "Hey, bastard, why do I need to pay? I work here."

"You could always swim." Kakuzu pushed the silver-haired man off of his boat and began to push himself off of the bank. Sasuke jumped on, using Hidan (who was still yelling from his spot on the bank) as a step. Hinata apologized and followed Sasuke, again, using Hidan as a step. By the time the purple-eyed man stood up, the boat was too far for him to jump on.

"No refunds." Kakuzu mumbled, pointing to the poorly scratched sign that read what he just said.

"How long till we reach Itachi?" Hinata asked, not looking at the frightening ferryman.

"It'll be ten minutes until you reach Cerberus." The man stated, sounding annoyed at having been talked to. Hinata guessed that most souls passing through weren't passing from choice.

"Is that annoying guy still there?" Sasuke asked.

"Which one?" Hinata giggled silently.

"The dog-boy." Sasuke said with contempt. Hinata looked at him with a confused look on her face.

Kakuzu sighed. "Yes."

The rest of the ride was silent.

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I know that this is Greek Mythology, but I liked the Divine Comedy's description of Charon and wanted to make it Kakashi at first (White hair, red eyes), but I decided Kakuzu was just too greedy not to take a part as the ferryman (Money for every dead person? Score) :)

So, I kept the naked people :P

Oh, and I don't care if mermaids aren't really big in Greek Mythology, I could have used a nymph, but I decided to make Hinata really confused :)