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Chiaka sat in a small grey interrogation room with her arms crossed as she stared blankly ahead, her nose which Hinata had broken earlier hadn't been healed—no one offered to heal it anyways.
They had arrived over three hours ago, the Kazekage carrying Hikari—Hinata on his sand. She was in critical condition and was fading in and out, no one had said anything to Chiaka they had just put her in this room and locked it.
She drummed her fingers on the stainless steel metal table, they would probably send in their hardest interrogator to get information from her. Well she had news for them—they weren't going to get shit. She didn't even fully understand what had happened and she sure as hell wasn't going to exchange theories with these bastards.
So when the door opened she sat up straight in her seat, preparing for the worst. But when Izumi—Sakura stepped through the door carrying a white box and looking exhausted stepped inside of the room Chiaka was more than a little caught off guard.
"Sorry it took me a while to get to you—it's been a madhouse." She pulled a chair around the table and sat down to open the box which was filled with medical supplies.
"So they sent you to try and get information from me is it? Well I have news for you I don't talk to spies." Chiaka spat and turned away from her.
"Yeah well I don't really care about what information about the Dune sisters you have. All I care about if finding a way to save Hinata. I need to find a way to save Hinata." The exhausted determination in Sakura's voice tugged on Chiaka's heartstrings as an image of the girl's face popped into her head. The kid was always willing to be helpful and do more than her share; she had really liked the girl. But the girl was also a spy. But that doesn't explain why Rizu would stab her and use that jutsu. Rizu promised me she would never use that again. Chiaka's thoughts were whirling, In fact why were we out there in the first place? Chiaka fought to remember but she was hitting a brick wall.
"Chiaka. I've looked in all of the medical volumes here and Chakra poisoning is barely ever mentioned. Please. I'm drowning here." Sakura asked desperately as she gathered chakra in her palm, it glowed green and she pressed it to Chiaka's nose which immediately felt better "I can't even heal Hinata at this point and I need to know how to treat her."
"Why should I help you? I'm a prisoner remember? In fact how do I even know that Hik—Hinata wasn't asking to get stabbed huh? So please tell me something, why the hell were we all out in that clearing? Huh?" Chiaka grimaced as the bones of her nose knit back together and Sakura drew her hand back.
"You want to know what the hell is going on? Great fill me in on what you know so far." Sakura launched into the big story throwing Chiaka into even more confusion.
"What do you mean assassination attempts? The Dune Sisters aren't into that kind of thing—the most we do is steal but that's more out of necessity than anything." And who was this Yori person? Why hadn't Rizi told her anything about her? Chiaka's heart hurt even thinking about the fact that the person she trusted the most in the world didn't trust her. "I don't believe you. You're just trying to get me to divulge information so you can save your precious Hinata."
Sakura stood, left, and then came back minutes later with an armful of files "Why don't you read these and think about what I just told you because if you haven't realized it yet, I have a girl upstairs dying because your leader stabbed her through the abdomen and poisoned her." Sakura turned to leave taking the medical supplies with her "Oh, and I would decide soon because the Hokage is coming and I don't think he'd appreciate the girl he cares for dying because you were too busy protecting the bitch who stabbed her." Sakura turned and left without another word, leaving Chiaka to flip through the files by herself.
Somewhere between Konoha and Suna.
Naruto leapt through the trees followed by several of Konoha's best and brightest: Kakashi, Sasuke, Shikamari, Kiba, Tenten, Kurenai and Shino were all trying their best to keep up with the Hokage.
"Naruto-sama?" Shizune's voice came from the other side of the door as she knocked.
"Yeah?" Naruto asked, her was creating a house out of playing cards.
"A messenger is here. From Suna." Naruto sat up abruptly knocking the cards over "Ah! Send him in!" Was Hinata coming back soon?
The door opened and Temari stood in the door way, sweat made her brow shine under the bright lights and a sinking feeling filled Naruto's stomach.
"What is it?" Naruto asked standing as Shizune helped the woman to the sofa that sat on the far wall of his office.
"I have a message from Gaara." She puffed and handed him a rolled up scroll.
Naruto,
The mission was not successful. I apologize for dragging your Shinobi into this…
The note dropped from his hand as Naruto stood there in shock for a moment before snapping into action. "Shizune! I need you to get together a group of Ninjas. Immediately!" He barked and ran for his desk to grab his flak jacket from underneath; he tossed his orange Hokage's jacket from his shoulders and slid his arms into the green jacket.
"Naruto you need to slow down!" Sasuke caught up with him momentarily "You're going to burn out!" the man tackled him from the trees and they landed in the moss rolling.
"What the hell was that for teme!" Naruto yelled as he got up and shoved the Uchiha.
"That was because you're being an idiot. What use will you be if you're in a hospital bed right next to her?" Sasuke yelled back and Naruto growled.
Your shinobi performed their duties admirably, but unfortunately they all didn't come out unscathed. Hinata Hyuuga has been severely injured and is in critical condition.
That was the rest of what Gaara had written. Naruto shook off his best friends hand and looked around at the rest of his party who were all panting but looked determined and sighed. "I'll slow down. Sorry."
"It's fine Naruto-Sama." Kurenai said, she was pale with worry over her student "We can keep going." Kiba nodded soberly a long with everyone else in the group.
Sakura headed back down the hall to get the files from Chiaka. She had just spent the last two hours scouring the Kazekage's library for anything that would help with it—but no one seemed to know anything about chakra poisoning. She had sent a note with Temari asking for Naruto to bring Tsunade's medical journals with them when they came, but she had the feeling that Naruto would be too far gone with worry to remember them.
She opened the door to the interrogation room that Chiaka was being held in and stepped inside; she quickly took stock of the situation. Chiaka was sitting in the corner of the room on the floor and the contents of the files had been flung about everywhere.
"Fine." She said so quietly that Sakura almost didn't hear her.
"Fine what?" Sakura asked as she went to sit next to the larger woman.
"Fine I'll tell you. Everything. But you have to promise me one thing."
"What?"
"I want to fight this bitch Yori when the time comes. No one controls my friend like they are mindless puppets."
Sakura nodded, she would have to get Gaara to agree with this and it wouldn't be easy. But she was at the point where she would agree to anything.
"I've known Rizu ever since we were little—we belonged to the same village, a little village on the edge of the desert. Still a part of Suna but not really. We had both the forest and the desert to explore.
Anyways, Rizu didn't have any parents and she just sort of showed up one day and my parents took her in and raised her like she was their own. They were always trying to figure out where she came from but they never could." Chiaka smiled at the memory.
"That's great and all, but what is this jutsu that you were talking about?"
"I was getting there. When we were eight years old I was training at the edge of the forest when a bunch of wild dogs attacked me—I wasn't very big then if you can believe it so they easily beat me. I can still remember their teeth digging into my arms. But Rizu saved me she stabbed them with her training Kunai but they didn't die from those wounds. Their chakra was poisoned."
Sakura's brow furrowed "Those were animals—they don't have chakra."
"Everything has chakra. Everything. It may not be the same that we humans possess but it is there—it's their life essence. I saw these wild dogs writhe and die slowly and Rizu looked at me with such fear in her eyes. I took her to my parents who went to ask the elders what to do. And the elders got it into their heads that Rizu would be a good weapon to use to help them separate themselves from Suna. My parents didn't want that so they tried to escape with us and were killed." Chiaka said the last part blankly as her fists clenched "Rizu and I got away and fled into the forest where we found the mountain and Rizu honed her skills out of necessity—in order to protect us. Over the last fifteen years we've expanded. Taking in refugees and women who have no place to go everything was going good until a few months ago when the Sand shinobi started to hunt us more proactively. We didn't understand why—we thought someone was impersonating us in order to cause havoc. Well I guess all of it makes sense now." Chiaka chuckled darkly as she looked down at the papers that were scattered all over the floor.
"And the genjutsu you used on Hinata? She should have been able to see right through it."
"My family—well I should say my clan's specialty was genjutsu. Most never wake up from the genjutsu so we're lucky she woke up at all. I never use it unless I have to. I hate using it." The woman's fists gripped tightly. Sakura was surprised she had never heard of such a clan before.
"Can you tell me more about Rizu's jutsu?"
"You have to stab the person with a chakra imbued weapon—the red chakra you saw? That was her special brand of chakra that only she could use. It affects the chakra, the chakra just dissipates from her body without even being used and weakens the immune system considerably and trying to heal her won't work since any person who tries will also be infected."
"Okay so heres the big question: How do I heal her?"
Chiaka looked miserably at Sakura "That's the thing. It's never been done—at least not in Rizu's case. Anyone she's poisoned has died."
-Author's Note-
Dundundunn! Or something like that. Can I just say that I've cranked out three chapters today? I'm so proud of myself! Anyways. Just a little bit of backstory on Chiaka. And a very angry Naruto. I know quite a few of you are wondering if there will be any naruhina interaction soon? The answer? ...yes. How will it happen? You shall see!
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