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Deidara looked everywhere but he just could not find her anywhere. Where could she have gone? He walked out of the base and walked straight into Sasori. "Follow me baka." He said and Deidara blinked. He followed Sasori out of the base with a frown. The red head tapped him on the shoulder once they had reached the village gates. Deidara covered his hip pouch that was full of his clay because he could feel the rain seeping through the material. Deidara frowned and was about to ask what Sasori needed when a sudden feeling of dread and malicious killing intent washed over him.

"Did you feel that danna?" he asked and Sasori nodded. "Yes, I did. Do you feel the massive chakra signature radiating off of whoever is giving off the KI?" Sasori asked, trying to pinpoint the exact location of whoever was giving off the overwhelming KI, it was unbearable even for them, and that was saying something. "H-Hinata-Chan…I was too late..." a feminine growl echoed through the darkness and the pouring rain. The KI increased and Deidara fell to his knees and gasped for his breath.

Sasori was beginning to feel the impact f the KI, but he wasn't to his knees just yet. "You let this happen!" the feminine voice hissed. Sasori watched as Deidara fell flat against the floor, wheezing and gasping for his breath. Sasori crouched beside Deidara and tried to help him up he couldn't move the blonde. Suddenly the voice sounded saddened and full of regret. "Deidara… how could you let them get her? I thought you loved Hinata-Chan…" Sasori's eyes widened when he saw the woman come into view.

Her familiar blue eyes pierced his soul when they turned on him. He opened his mouth to speak but her tear filled eyes stopped him. Something that she held within her hands glimmered in the moonlight, he looked closer and saw it was a leaf hitai-ate. It dropped to the ground with a clink. "I want my little sister…where has she gone?" she whimpered, her KI vanishing completely, allowing Deidara back to his feet. She turned to Sasori with pain filled eyes and a sad smile.

"I missed you all…so much… and now I cannot see my little sister….oh Hinata where could you be?" she sobbed, and she quickly sobered up and briskly walked past them and into the base. She had things to find out and people to hunt down.

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Hinata opened her eyes and groaned in pain. She sat up and rubbed her eyes then looked around. It was but she could clearly see she was in konoha again due to the sleeping ANBU outside her cell. She stood up and gritted her teeth. She ripped the chakra restraints from her wrists; apparently they thought chakra was her main strength. She inwardly scoffed at their stupidity; they had no apparent idea of what she had accomplished during her time in akatsuki.

The ANBU began to stir so she formed a senbon of chakra and with a flick of the wrist it embedded itself into his jugular vein and he slouched over dead. She summoned her water and let it mold around the cell doors and she froze it. She walked over to it and tapped it gently and it fell over. It made a lot of noise but she was free. She had walked these halls before so she knew how to get out of there. By the time she reached the village gates they would just then be finding the dead ANBU and the frozen cell doors.

She smirked and walked out of the building under the Hokage tower, she grit her teeth as soon as she saw them all outside, apparently they had been waiting on her. "You must be stupid if you think you were gonna get out of here that easily." Tsunade said. Hinata grinned and began to laugh. "You all are so stupid! You have no idea who you are dealing with!" she laughed and shrugged one shoulder. "There is an unknown force at work here of which you are about to discover." Hinata laughed and slid her arms from the sleeves of her akatsuki cloak. Tsunade punched the ground and it cracked up and Hinata frowned. "Don't you ever learn new tricks? These are getting boring, just so you know." Hinata sighed boredly.

Tsunade ran at her and Hinata yawned and blue chakra engulfed her hands. "Water style: mini typhoon. "She said and a small typhoon of water spun around her left arm. "wind style: mini tornado." She said and wind swirled around her right hand. "Wind and water combination: ice ground spike technique!" Hinata yelled and brought her fisted hands over her head and clasped them together, causing the wind and water to join together. She brought her hands down and slammed them into the ground and then the ground exploded upwards and large spikes of ice shot up and then they branched out.

Four of them rose up around Tsunade and she had a branched off spike go through her shoulder. She grit her teeth and yelled out in pain. She looked around and saw that her ANBU squad had all been impaled by the ice. "So… you paid lightning nin to retrieve me huh? Not very smart considering they are allied with snow." Hinata said then she smirked at the look on Tsunade's face. "Oh so you didn't know? Ooh I think I struck a nerve there." Hinata laughed with a smirk.

"How would you know?" Tsunade asked. Hinata sneered at her and reached into her newly retrieved kunai pouch and pulled out the bag that had the kunai that was dipped in the blue liquid. She threw it at Tsunade and it embedded itself in her other shoulder, she screamed as the ice spread over her body. "Oh don't worry Tsunade, it will only freeze you for a few hours. Trust me; I've been frozen within the stuff before." Hinata said as she walked away. Tsunade watched as Hinata just walked out of the village. 'I've underestimated you once again...damn…' Tsunade thought.

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"You two are the most troublesome akatsuki members we have ever had. One comes back and the other goes missing. Well actually that isn't true. At least you didn't go off and die like Hidan and Kakuzu did." Pein sighed and Shiru frowned, the fact he spoke so easily of their deaths troubled her. Had they thought she was dead as well and talked of her like she were expendable? "I'm sorry leader-sama, but I have bad news. My curse has been sealed away… see." She said and used a long black nail to tap the kanji for death on her forehead.

Pein frowned. "well that's a minor setback." He sighed. Shiru smiled slightly, her blue eyes had turned blacker than the uchiha's eyes were. "Actually it's not. I have other powers I can use. My curse was killing me so the kazekage sealed its power but I can still tap into them." Shiru said, the she froze as the door to Pein's office was slammed open. "Hey. I'm back from hell…as if anyone…Shiru-no-danna!" Hinata exclaimed, and hugged the older woman. "Hinata, im glad you're ok." Shiru said and hesitantly hugged her back.

"What happened to your hair? It's so short now." Hinata said. Pein coughed and they looked at him. "Now that have your attention, we are going to destroy konoha and take the jinchuriki." Pein said which caused Hinata and Shiru to smirk. "So we are waging war on the leaf village now? Wonderful. I can use the wonderful jutsu kakuzu passed on to me when he died. It was such a shame to lose him, but he did give me a wonderful gift." Shiru said then her hand shot across the room and grabbed a vase and it retracted back to her.

"Well, I guess he used your mimicking abilities to his advantage. So just what have you been doing while in suna?" pein asked. "Learning new jutsu to use in the upcoming great ninja war. You do know that Nin from all over are going to get involved in this monstrous war." Shiru said and Pein frowned deeply. "Thank you for the warning, but we won't need luck, we are stronger than they ever will be. So we start the attack once Hinata is healed and we have Tobi, Zetsu, Kisame, Konan, Deidara, and Sasori all ready. I will summon the six paths and we will move out. So go get anything you need ready." Pein said and Shiru nodded.

"leader-sama, I have been found to have a poison based chakra… what does that mean?" Shiru asked. Pein blinked in surprise. "You can poison people with your chakra, like I can paralyze people with mine." Hinata said. Shiru nodded and headed towards her room. Something had changed within the akatsuki, and she didn't know if it were for better or worse. Her bet was on worse.