"Tsuchikage-sama, where was she last seen?" He showed me where and he stood there restlessly while went into my trance and once again saw the horse.
"A lead?" Shikamaru and Kurotsuchi stood behind me waiting.
"Hai, how long was out?" They followed me with out protest.
"Three hours, you must have been down pretty deep." We followed the trail to a secret underground tunnel but the walls were lined with the same seal that prevents me from looking through them so I had to rely on my volatile demon senses. We came to an entrance and snuck into the back of a big room with a stage in front to wait to see what was going to happen.
"The girl is back stage with nine others, they're asleep and I don't see and injuries." There was a rack of cloaks we hid in and it was a good idea until people started grabbing them and putting them on so we had no choice but to do the same. We made our way to the front but still behind people as not to draw attention.
"What the hell is going on?" Kurotsuchi was getting anxious so Shikamaru and I put her between us.
"It's going to be ok, I'm not going to let anything happen to you while you're on my team." I smile at her and she nodded becoming serious and collected. The men came upon stage carrying the ten girls. A man by the name of Kyoto from the village of tea stepped up to take command.
"Today my friends is only the beginning, our harvest is almost complete and today we will create a new world where we will be its pillars! Today we will create a new ten tails!" I narrowed my eyes felt anger and disgust at these men.
I felt a sting in my neck and I looked around to see what hit me, only I found who instead. I looked up to see Naruto, Sakura, c and b waving at me from the roof. B signalled me to wait for the sign so I showed the other two and did what I was told. We still needed to wait for the leader to come out or this will just happen again somewhere else. B knew this but apparently Naruto didn't or he didn't care as he jumped on stage between them and the girls.
"Idiot, does he not know the meaning of covert?" Shikamaru swore but I stopped them from going.
"Hold." The four from the roof jumped and went to attack the men but purple miasma crawled across the floor and everyone went down choking.
"Silly little jinchuriki you have no power here!" He sliced a girl's throat and then another one as the miasma started to take a form.
I shifted my chakra and I took on my demon form but the man was already on his 6th victim before I could strike. I pounced on the man and sunk my teeth into him and threw him into the wall as everybody was no longer under the influence the genjutsu that was hidden in the mist.
'What the hell is that?" It was Sakura who was held by Naruto who backed up and screamed in fear.
"Ten tails! Its back!" I ignored them and went after the half formed demon as it started to run away. I caught up quickly and launched myself on to its back and bit down. It screamed an awful high pitch that had everyone covering their ears. It threw me up into the ceiling with such an impact that it started to break. Even in this the form I had no chance to beat it so my only choice was to distract it enough to get everyone out. The others recovered enough to evacuate and leave me to get my ass handed to me by a demon reject.
The walls were shaking and one more hit and the ceiling was coming down. I motioned for them to leave but they stayed. Stupid freaking humans, can't you tell you're not helping?
The demon noticed them and went after them and I had no choice but to take the hit. I went flying into the wall. Naruto and B tried to transform into demon mode to but the miasma was too strong for them and were knocked into the walls which started the cave in. I dug deep and shifted my chakra farther into my demon then I had ever dared to go before. I leaped on top of the remaining humans and cried out when rock crumbled on top of me. I felt the pressure of the rock but I was stuck and there was nothing I could do.
I heard the reject let out a roar and find its way out of the rubble to head toward the Iwa to feed. I felt anger and I let my demon slip past my defences. The rock melted because of the chakra fire I was letting off so I pushed myself free and once again went after the reject. Instead of its back I faked and left and went right for its throat ripping it from its owner. I kept tearing it apart till there were only pieces before I burned it into ash. When I came back to my senses I was surround with nin who were getting ready to attack me I think. I jumped over them and took off at a speed no human could ever find me to safely transform back into my humanness.
"Hinata-chan!' When I approached I looked like I had been playing in the dirt but I had hid all my wounds from sight.
"Ah Hai!" I smiled and wondered if any of them noticed I wasn't there. Shikamaru quickly came up to me and told everyone that we needed to write the report. The others went to the celebration party while we went to his room.
"Bathroom now." I nodded and he came in later with all things medical. He slowly peeled my blood soaked clothing away and bandaged me up as best he could.
"You would think being part demon you would heal faster or something." I laughed but I could tell he was serious.
"Naruto and B have full demons in them and I'm only part demon." He swore and leaned back against the tub.
"You could have died." I nodded and looked at him tiredly.
"How many tails did I have?" He sighed and picked himself off the floor.
"first you had 1 then three, then you got big and had 6 then by the time you ran off you had 7 but I knew if you stayed in that form much longer there would be no coming back. I saw the demon today Hinata and I'm worried you're going to lose yourself to it."
I got up and collapsed onto the bed.
"Me to." Then I was out and wouldn't wake for a good 30 hours.
Shikamaru wrote the report and handed it to the Hokage with Naruto and Sakura beside him while I went home.
I was having tea on the porch when Neji showed up to see if I was alright. I hugged him and he returned it whole heartedly.
"So the ten tails is alive, you must have been pretty shaken up." Even though I knew he was talking to me he was thinking about his own death.
"I promise you Hinata-sama I will help find it and kill." Horror at the thought of my cousin trying to kill me again overwhelmed me and I backed up.
"No, just leave it alone. Promise me Neji to never go near it, promise!" He was surprised and nodded as I tired to calm my erratic heart beat.
"You won't lose me again Hinata-sama, not to the demon, I promise." I smiled sadly at the him and then the setting sun.
"I wish that were true Ni-san but I'm afraid I'm going to lose everything and there's nothing I can do to stop it." He hugged me again.
"True but we can try." Shikamaru appeared with take out and offered Neji some but he had a mission in the morning so we said our good byes.
"How bad is it?" We were eating dinner outside like we usually do in summer.
"Bad. As long as we make sure no one finds out, everything will be ok." I nodded and drank my tea.
"This food is crap, Sakura tried cooking and I swear I could barely even look at it. How the hell can you stand to taste it?" I laughed at his disgusted face.
"After I woke up the only thing I could really feel was pain and everything was either gone or really dulled. Even now when I experience a feeling its hazy like I quiet can't hang on to it. Even food had no taste for me and actually the only thing I can really taste at all is tea." He chuckled.
"So you drink tea as much as possible… What if tea wasn't enough?" I knew what he was asking me but I really didn't want to answer.
"I don't scar anymore." He was looking at my wrists so I told him there was no point of recapping the things I did to remember that I could still feel.
"I should have noticed." I shake my head and look at the stars.
"We all had our own problems to deal with." I close my eyes and drift off.
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~White shadow