Wilting Flowers
By: Chibi – Kyo - Chan
a Naruto fanfic by Chibi Kyo Chan © 2010
Rating: M - language, violence, sexual situations, and porn. Yes porn. Lulz.
Disclaimer: This particular fic is AU as and most fact I will have obtained mostly come from the anime. Anything pertaining to Naruto and it's affiliating merchandise DO NOT I repeat DO NOT belong to me. But to the creator. For he was a genius despite all of those shitty filler episodes.
Shout out to: Ryion, you are my well of inspiration please keep tossing me ideas, some of them are actually wonderful. Also he recently started a fanfiction account. Please go check him out! His penname is RyionOhki I would also like to mention Mel-Chan who is my beta, as well as my Partner in Crime for a lot of other fics. She makes awesome vids and if you like Desperate housewives look her up on youtube! Her account name is iliketoeatbabies
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It has been a week.
A week without any sign of his eldest daughter and Hiashi Hyuuga couldn't help but blame himself. He had been cruel he realized, acting like the cold heart-ed clan leader instead of the loving father he should have been. And what was worse, he only just now noticed his eldest has been gone for so long.
What kind of father was he?
"Hiashi-Sama?"
The sound of a soft knock and a gentle voice calling out for him, quickly pulled him out of his thoughts as he straightened behind his desk. "Come in." he replied slipping quickly into his cool mask of indifference. Looking every bit as the Hyuuga clan leader should.
He was surprised to see Neji enter his office and was even more surprised to see the mild glare he was sending his way. Raising an eyebrow he asked, "Neji, what brings you here?"
"Hinata-Sama has been missing for a week now. I was wondering what we were going to do about it?"
It was a good question, one Hiashi was wondering himself. "Nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Are you questioning me Neji?"
Neji was at a loss as he stared at his uncle, Nothing? Nothing! "With the deepest respect, Hiashi-Sama I am." He began feeling his anger build. 'How dare he? How dare he not even worry! Hinata is missing and he is just going to sit there and do nothing!' "If I may be so bold as to offer a suggestion?"
Hiashi's hand balled in to a fist under his desk as he fought to control his anger, he would not have another outburst. Especially against the family Genius...branch member or not.
"Yes." he gritted out through clenched teeth "You may."
"I'll offer my assistance and go off to look for her. If we go to the Hokage we could get a team together, This could be serious Hiashi-Sama what if..." Neji trailed off refusing to think about what could be happening to Hinata at this very moment.
"I'll Consider it. Go. Now."
Neji shook his head as he turned to leave, shutting the office door softly behind him. Hiashi let out a breath as he placed his head in his hands in defeat his thoughts returning to darker things as he swam in his own inner turmoil. Neji was right he should go to the Hokage and report Hinata missing, explain the situation and ...maybe admit...that he had gone to far.
'Oh Hinata...' he thought 'I was always too harsh with you. Blaming you for things I should never have...and now due to my foolishness you are gone.'
A brief image of Hinata getting kidnapped ran through his mind and he groaned, " Oh Hinata...what have I done?"
Hours later Hiashi found himself sitting before a curious Tsunade as she looked at him over her massive mountain of paper work she had no intention of doing.
"Hiashi this is a surprise, what can I do for you?" she asked, it was rare for clan leaders to approach the Hokage as they can normally fix whatever problem that would arise on their own, It is extremely rare for any clan leader to bring clan problems to the Hokage at all really and it was something Tsunade was well aware of.
Not one to really beat around the bush Hiashi spoke " Hinata is missing."
"Missing?" she asked blinking in surprise, "What do you mean by missing?"
"Exactly how it sounds, she's gone."
"From the village?"
Hiashi had to resist the urge to throttle his Hokage, besides it was the great Sannin Tsunade it wasn't like he was going to delude himself into thinking he could actually take her.
"Yes, Lady Tsunade she is missing. She is not in the compound and she is no longer in the village. She is gone."
Tsunade thought back to the girl she only met a handful of times. The image of a pale, lavender eyed girl came to mind and she immediately cursed. Hinata was shy but she was also one of her stronger Kunoichi, and if she were gone that was one hell of a loss.
"How long has she been missing?"
Here Hiashi looked down refusing to make eye contact which made Tsunade experience a sick feeling twisting in her gut, How long has he gone before coming to her?
"A week."
"A week!" she shouted jumping to her feet in outrage, "And you're just now coming to me?"
"Yes."
"What if she was kidnapped? Do you realize what could happen to her in a week?"
"I am aware. It is why I came to you."
Tsunade calmed down a little as she settled back into her chair, "Do you have an Idea what happened to her at all? Or did she just disappear?"
Hiashi took a deep breath as he tried to bring himself to say what was needed to be said, "We...had an altercation the day she went missing."
"What kind of altercation?"
"I announced her impending betrothal and she was UN-agreeable."
Tsunade couldn't picture such a timid girl as being UN-agreeable and she had a sneaking suspicion that there was more to the story...however she let it drop for now, as finding Hinata was quickly climbing to top priority in her mind.
"Do you think she ran away?"
Hiashi was startled, it never occurred to him that she would actually run away... "No. It is against everything the Hyuuga's stand for if she ran away. It would mean she would be running from her problems and that would be unacceptable."
Tsunade had to resist the urge to shove Hiashi's face forcefully into her desk over and over again. Besides she wouldn't be certain if she could walk away from that without destroying her desk in the process...or his face.
"I will assemble a group of capable Shinobi to locate her. However please realize that if she actually did runaway and refuses to come home...that I would be forced to place her in the Bingo book."
Hiashi nodded his head in understanding.
"Alright then. You are free to go, I'll get everything prepared for the search."
"I have a request before I go."
Tsunade grounded her teeth together as she bit out, "what is it?"
"Please allow Neji to be apart of the search team. He worries."
She blinked in surprise as she watched Hiashi stand up and leave her office. He was a confusing man. Shaking her head to clear it, she called for Shizune who was quick to appear by her side.
"Shizune, Please get me Sakura, Shino, Kiba, Neji, and Naruto."
Shizune bowed, eying the massive stack of papers on her desk wearily before taking her leave.
Tsunade sighed, as she opened the lower drawer on her desk and pulled out a small cup and a rather large Sake bottle.
"I need a drink."
"What are we doing here?"
"I dunno I'm surprised, to be here too."
"You think it has something to do with Hinata?"
"Maybe, I haven't seen her all week."
Sakura had a bad feeling about this, as she looked around the familiar office, Tsunade looked serious and seeing such an expression on her sensei's face left a bad taste in her mouth. Something wasn't right...she could feel it.
Noticing who was standing in this office either didn't make things any better either, Naruto was there along with Hinata's teammates Shino and Kiba, as well as her cousin Neji. Sakura's jade colored eyes rested on the silent Hyuuga for a few moments as she noticed the slight tightening of his jaw and the dark lines under his pale eyes that seemed to signify a lack of sleep.
Oh yes, Sakura defiantly had a bad feeling about this.
"Sasuke?"
The mention of his name snapped her jade colored eyes from Neji as they zoomed toward the door to see the Uchiha leaning against the door frame.
"Hn."
"What are you doing here?" Naruto asked, gaping at his teammate. Sakura merely watched body tensed in case Sasuke fell, he was breathing hard as if moving took a great amount of effort and he looked like utter shit.
"You shouldn't be out of the hospital yet, Sasuke." Sakura stated eying him wearily afraid that if he took a sudden movement he might just tumble over.
Sasuke merely glared, although there was no heat behind it as he slowly pushed himself from the door frame and made his way into the room.
"Uchiha." Tsunade stated coolly "What are you doing here in my office?"
"I heard Hinata was missing."
the group was silently for a moment before Shino spoke surprising everyone " Is that why we are gathered here Lady Tsunade?"
"Is Hinata alright?" Sakura found herself asking stupidly
"Sasuke is right, Hinata is missing." she began as she locked eyes with her young apprentice " I have no idea if she is alright or not."
Kiba growled, "Then what in the hell are we doing waiting around here for? We need to go. Now."
"I gathered you all here because you all will be the search party that is being dispatched to find her. Shino, Kiba and Neji you guys are the best our village has at tracking and you are the ones that knew Hinata the best. Sakura and Naruto will accompany you for extra muscle as we are unsure if she was kidnapped or if she..." and Tsunade had a hard time saying the last part "...ran away."
"I want to go with them."
everyone was looking at Sasuke now, either in surprise or with glares so full of hate he should have simultaneously combusted on the spot.
"How do I know I can trust you not to leave?" Tsunade asked, "If I were to let you go with them that would mean I would trust you not only to not runaway but with others lives. If you can understand I'm finding it hard to let you go. We still have a punishment to discuss."
"Let him go."
now everyone shifted gazes away from Sasuke and landed squarely on Sakura
"What?" Naruto asked incredulously "Sasuke isn't even in a condition to go..."
"He's determined, besides if Hinata did runaway, he'd be the only one to connivance her to come back." she stated
Kiba growled again, jealously bubbling in his gut, "How do you figure? They haven't even talked to each other and she isn't a stupid fangirl from his club."
Sakura glared but kept her mouth shut. She told Hinata that what she said would be kept between them and she meant it. However she wasn't expecting Sasuke to be the one to answer,
"Because idiot. We grew up together, You don't know everything about Hinata."
"Why you..."
Don't. Start." Tsunade cut in quickly, "We are here to find Hinata, not argue. If you are not going to take this mission seriously you need to leave now." she looked around the room to see everyone quiet and listening intently. "Okay, Sasuke...I don't know why I'm letting you do this...but you can be apart of the search team. However if you mess up again...I'll be forced to terminate you under treason."
"I understand."
"Good," leaning back in her chair she sighed, "Well? Get going. We don't have time to waste."
The next day
Hinata was smiling as she walked through the tiny village market with Itachi at her side.
Kisame was taking a nap in their hotel room.
"It's nice to walk around and not get recognized." she stated as she approached a booth that was selling elaborate jewelry. She examined the booth for a few seconds before she lost interest and continued walking.
Itachi grunted his agreement, happy to finally walk around without that awful coat. It was too hot for such things and he wondered how Hinata survived the blistering hot sun in a sweatshirt.
"Why do you wear sweatshirts all the time?" he found himself asking,
Hinata blushed, as she began fiddling with the sweatshirt's zipper nervously. "Because..." she began unsure how to explain
Itachi quirked an eyebrow, "Because...?"
"It stops people f-from s-staring." She whispered.
Itachi had to fight the smile that tugged viciously at his lips "Really now?"
Hinata blushed deeper as she nodded her head. Itachi grabbed her hand and tugged the bashful girl along the street until they were relatively alone.
"Show me."
"What?" she gaped openly at Itachi's bold request, and seeing the smirk on his face she realized he was trying to tease her. 'He doesn't believe me...' she thought. Because surly if he knew what was under her sweatshirt he wouldn't ask. The memory of taking her coat off around Shino and Kiba came to mind and she shuddered. She never took Shino as a fainter until that day...and poor, poor Kiba...she was sure he was never the same after that.
"You heard me. Hi-Na-Ta." he stated enunciating her name playfully.
"Y-Y-You -r-really don't want to s-see Itachi-Kun. Trust me."
Itachi frowned, now truly curious as to what Hinata was hiding. " Come on, Hinata -Chan it's just me."
Maybe it was because he asked her so nicely, maybe it was because it sounded almost like a plea, or maybe it was simply because it was the first time since meeting him again that he used 'Chan' at the end of her name. Whatever the reason why Hinata found herself sighing in defeat as she finally gave in. Fiddling with the zipper for a moment in nervousness she finally pulled it down, carefully she shrugged the sweatshirt off her shoulders.
Blushing wildly she stood in front of a wide eyed Itachi.
Itachi made no sound, no movement and in fact Hinata was almost worried that he died. Surly it wasn't that bad was it?
Itachi was at a loss as his eye slowly followed the line of her body. From the slender curve of her legs, the the gentle swell of her well rounded hips, roaming over her tiny waist all the way up to...Where in the hell did she get THOSE?
"Itachi-Kun?" she asked worriedly her thoughts briefly flashing back to Kiba and Shino's reaction causing her to chew on her bottom lip nervously. When she saw the small trickle of blood leak from his nose she squeaked quickly throwing her sweatshirt back on zipping it all the way up.
"Oh no! Are you okay Itachi-kun? I-I-I know...I'm not p-pretty t-to look a-at I-I tried to warn y-you."
That sentence was what snapped him from his stupor. "not pretty to look at?" he asked incredulously eying her as if she grew a second head "Is THAT what people have been telling you?"
"N-Neji once told me it was distracting for m-me to not wear a- an over shirt w-when I was eleven. F-Father told me it was because it was unsightly..."
Itachi merely stood there in silence causing Hinata to blush even more, "E-Excuse me Itachi-kun...I-I think I'm going to go back to the hotel now. I-I I'm tired." and before he could say anything to stop her, she was gone.
Shaking his head he thought 'Only Hinata would take what they said as meaning she was ugly.' then his thoughts went back to her without her sweatshirt...he was inclined to agree with her having to wear it...because without it, it was absolutely obscene.
Blood was still trickling down his nose and he was forced to dig through his pockets to find something to stop it.
Leave it to Hinata to give him a nosebleed.
A/N: I'm trying to update a whole bunch, because I have a friend flying out to visit me soon and that means two whole weeks without an update! So this is my attempt to keep giving you guys some chapters to love until I return. From the 9th until the 21st I probably won't even be on the computer D:
some quick things to point out,
1.) lulz, I was hoping to score a kiss but unfortunately my muse argued and said it was too soon and this is what came out instead...a pervert with a nosebleed. I dunno why but I'm not particularly fond of it, but it made me giggle.
2.) Hiashi has serious issues. Of which will come to light soon enough. right now we are still in what I like to call "the second chance" arc when we move onto the "Cloud nin" arc all will be revealed, along with more adult content.
That's pretty much it so...
R+R :3
