Sorry for the delay, you know how school is with homework and revision. But here it is. I don't own the franchise yada yada. I just saw the newest episode of Naruto today, why is Kiba such an asshole? Please don't flame me for that... read and review!
Chapter 7: Everything's coming out now...
Night after sleepover, while the boys are being kidnapped.
Hinata was in her room reading her magazine, however this time the article was about ill fitting bras. She cast it aside and rested her head on her bed. She was trying to remember something, it was irking her to point where she couldn't keep her frustration inside.
"FOR THE LOVE OF... wait... THAT'S IT!" It came to her, she wanted to pick up her bracelet she left behind at Tenten's. She also realised that she wasn't the only one in her room; she forgot about the maid that was cleaning her dusty bookcase.
"Are you alright, Hinata-Sama?" She carried on as if her outburst was the norm.
"Oh, it's you Reikura. Nothing, just tell father that I'm going to pick up something I forgot from Tenten's. I shan't be long." Her maid smiled.
"Of course, Hinata-Sama." She bowed her head and resumed dusting. Hinata decided to spice things up by going out of the window. She made it interesting by jumping across the rooftops to avoid bumping into the boozers that were somehow managing to walk along the ground.
"Honestly, it's only Monday." She was never one for snubbing people, but this really irked her for some reason. "That's impossible, drinking establishments wouldn't be open at this time on a Monday." She didn't think about for long, she heard an all to familiar baritone yell. It startled her, almost crashing into a ventilation system on a roof. "Kiba!" She immediately activated her Byakugan, she balanced on a antennae while she scanned the village. With her field of vision, she could see almost everything around her. A major fluctuation of chakra caught her eye, and she went after it with as much speed as she could manage.
"Wait, where did it go?" She got frustrated, she was adamant it was here. Her training as a ninja told her to think about it. What could be explained from what she saw? "It did look strange, like 4 forces were fighting 1 overwhelming force. Genjutsu explains the interrupting of the chakra. Fantastic." She smirked as she felt a surge of achievement, she just had to find that overwhelming force in question. From her concluding thoughts, she knew that the force won over the others. She just had to find that force, mind you, as it took over, it would probably be weaker.
"The joys of a kekkai-genkai." She sounded relieved, and set to work to find the disturbance. "There." She jumped across the buildings keeping a low profile. She got to a building in front of the offender, and thought what she could do to stop it. Something didn't seem right.
"Hey, nosy bitch." A scraping, grating voice made Hinata whirl round. Hinata didn't reply but was pissed. How dare she call her a bitch? That was the one word she hated, days at the ninja academy with girls that used it. It was mostly directed at Naruto, if memory proved her correct. She struck with pokes, open palms and kicks to try and make sure she didn't reveal her fighting style as the gentle fist. Hinata didn't bother with using her wrists to block her, the tactics, for now, was to overwhelm the offender. She could tell that it was a woman, everything else was blurred by her adrenaline, blood raced through her veins. She was doing reasonably well, but she hadn't got a hit in yet. This challenger was very agile; like she was expecting it.
The challenger countered by ducking under her palm and kicked Hinata in the stomach. She was only pushed back 3 meters. While agile, she wasn't exactly strong. Hinata was sure 1 hit would be enough as she took the opportunity to examine her opponent while she was pushed back. Her heart rate quickened as she recognised a build up of chakra in the hands. "Her chakra control is great, genjutsu could be her speciality." But she remembered that the genjutsu from before wasn't dissipating. She gasped. There was another person involved. Not a clone, a separate person, separate chakra emitting nodes from the woman she was attacking.
"Then... is she medically trained?" She narrowed the chakra build up to the chakra scalpel technique. "If she goes for my tendons, I'm finished." The woman smiled maliciously, she obviously noticed Hinata's unease.
"Betcha wish you kept your distance, you impertinent whore." The woman then sneered, only to form a bare teethed growl when Hinata started to laugh.
"Oh, look who's the bitch now, growling like a dog!" She then immediately changed her tone to a menacing volume. "But this is getting old." She opened up her arms slightly, palms showing. With fast reflexes and speed, she moved closer to the woman who yelled in surprise. "Gentle Step, Twin Lion Fists!" She struck her with both palms, the force used was immense, a chakra residue blasted through the victim's back and as a delayed reaction, she was sent flying backwards. She would of kept going if the vent wasn't there and when she crashed into it, a sickening crack echoed. If her heart didn't give in, her broken spine and neck would finish her off.
"Excellent. I was wondering if she could carry on fighting but... how!" She gasped. The clone disappeared in a puff of smoke. She fell for the oldest trick in the book, a clone. Her field of vision let her see something behind her, but before she could use the protection of the eight trigrams sixty-four palms, she felt a slap on the back of her neck which then felt sticky. She began to lose her sense of reason and judgement. An out of body experience was the only way she could describe it.
"What a dumbass." The figure stated, the voice was the same as the clone. "Sorry my dear. I couldn't let this specimen go to waste. I want to get her as a new play-thing later." Another figure popped up behind her, the mindless bodies of Shikamaru, Kiba, Lee and Naruto had followed him; they too had a similar blank expression on their face like Hinata.
"I thought she had piqued your interest my darling; I don't blame you! A Byakugan user would be a welcome addition to the collection. A temporary lobotomising tag has puzzled me though." The man had pointed features, he gazed lovingly at the woman.
"She'll come back to get them. Once the tag is removed, her reasoning and judgement will return. I don't want her to spoil." She licked her lips with a greedy smirk.
"What's going on?" A blonde ninja jumped onto the same roof as them and eyes widened in fear when she saw Hinata's gaze. She then rounded on the two, "What the hell have you done? Wait, them too?" She grew angry when she spotted the boys and her fists clenched.
"Hey bimbo! Keep that well shaped nose out of people's businesses, fuck off!" The woman jeered. Ino (I'm sure you guessed) almost blew up, she hated being excused for an idiot.
"When you do your business on people's property, I have every right to butt in. I'll give you 5 seconds to reverse what you've done, then I'll consider putting you down quickly." Before she could lunge, Sakura and Tenten made their entry known. The pinkette appeared above them and went to strike her fist on the couple. They anticipated it and jumped out of the way, but were almost caught of guard when Tenten sent multiple kunai towards their landing spot, part opening her giant scroll to let them fly. The woman had grabbed her partner in crime and jumped with him in her arms; the metallic sound echoed as they struck the building.
"Ooooh boy, we hit the jackpot! But sadly we can't play any longer, we must be on our way. Taa-taa!" They escaped with the boys, laughing like maniacs. Ino made a move to pursue, but Sakura restrained her by holding her wrist.
"Hold on! We need to examine Hinata before we do anything else." Sakura gave a reassuring smile to the blonde, she however replied with a frustrated huff.
"Ok." Sakura looked at Hinata, her medical prowess took over in her gaze. "Did you notice anything peculiar, in particular reference to after she finished fighting?"
"I didn't see her fight, but I heard her. After about a few minutes, she stopped suddenly. I went to investigate." Ino conversed with her like she did when she did shifts at the hospital.
"And I assume you found her in that position?"
"Correct. So I reckon something to do with her brain has affected her. Being specific, she looks lobotomised." Sakura looked towards Hinata again, she nodded her head in agreement.
"It looks that way. Let's take a look." They both walked up to her and did a few tests of recognition and to see whether they could rule in any other possibilities. Tenten looked on with a tight feeling in her chest, would Hinata be alright?
"Have you guys come across anything yet?" Tenten's concern was evident, it was quiet incase she disturbed their examination.
"Got it." Sakura replied in confidence. The tag was removed from her neck and almost instantaneously, Hinata returned to her normal self. Ino stared at the tag, she wasn't quite sure but had an idea what it could be.
"A lobotomising tag?" Sakura smiled.
"Well done. These are hardly used anymore, it just isn't practical or useful in a hospital. I only knew what it was from reading a medical journal that was 50 years out of date. I'm surprised you knew."
"What's lobotomising?" Tenten eyed the tag in interest, you could tell she wanted it in her vast arsenal of ninja tools.
"It's when you get rid of or inhibit the use of the prefrontal cortex of the brain. Explain it further Ino please." Sakura's command received a look from Ino.
"Not like we have time to save the others but, whatever." She breathed in and spoke, "This brain region has been implicated in planning complex cognitive behaviors, personality expression, decision making and moderating correct social behavior. The basic activity of this brain region is considered to be orchestration of thoughts and actions in accordance with internal goals." She exhaled when Tenten responded with a blank expression, she dumbed it down. "Basically, it's seems to be responsible for complex motor and premotor skills, like doing somersaults. Personality and behaviour are also believed to be controlled by it, it controls how we think and act with responding to goals." Tenten was going to ask something but Ino lost patience. "Ya know what, let's find them!" She was wanting to get her own back for the bimbo taunt, Hinata took the time to activate her Byakugan and locate the assailants.
"Are you sure you should be straining yourself after what's happened?" Tenten was wary of her health.
"Don't worry, after doing the Four Corner Sealing Barrier, I learned that my chakra control was equivalent to a medic-nin's. I've been doing regular training to improve it further."
While Hinata was explaining, Ino remembered that day with embarrasment as, like Hinata said, she was amazing at chakra control. She had verbally complained and had obvious difficulty in maintaining the control. Hinata wasn't even fazed. She looked to the ground with a frown, only looking up when Hinata found something.
"They didn't go far, using that much chakra to keep up that genjutsu must be wearing the man out."
"But even with that hindrance, they still managed to dodge our attacks. Let's think about this first before we charge in." Tenten chewed her thumb in thought, everyone kept quiet until the blonde came up with something.
"I can take over Shikamaru's body and try cancelling the jutsu from there. The only down side is that I haven't learned to do it with 2 people yet. Oh, and I'm vulnerable when I use my technique." Sakura looked at her and mulled it over.
"I know Naruto can cancel genjutsu, he managed to with Itachi Uchiha's. What about Lee and Kiba?" She looked over to the other girls. They had a disheartened air around them.
"Lee can't even form a simple ninjutsu technique, let alone cancel a genjutsu. I can't do that either! Ino, I think you should focus with Lee first." Those two talked to each other and Hinata looked doubtful too.
"I... haven't seen Kiba do it and heard about him doing it. Do you think they'd be ok until we finished the battle? Maybe use that as a plan B if they decide to use them to gain an advantage?"
"Yeah, I think that's the sensible way to do it. Ino can just use a clone to distract while she hides and do what she does best. Did you guys hear that?"
Ino gave a grave smile. "Yep. I just hope they don't use that tactic."
"Well, we'll just have to get of them quickly. I mean, Sakura managed to defeat an Akatsuki member by herself, with a little help of course. I say me and Hinata drive them towards you and Ino, you can just pulverise them or Ino can possess the 2 of them while you pulverise them. Bada-boom."
She looked around and the girls and they smiled.
"What about targets?"
"You know what, I think me and Ino should take care of the woman. I want some pay back too." Hinata looked towards Ino with a determined smile, Ino likewise.
"You're speaking my language!"
"Ok then, Hinata, lead the way!" Sakura prompted her to take the lead. She didn't need telling twice, and with that, they sped to get back the boys.
