Tsunade watched the couple with longing, half wondering if she should give them a few more minute's together..
She sighed and knew it was impossible the mission was too great of importance and they would have to leave immediantly..
She looked up and saw the couple looking back at her, she stepped forward and set Hinata's Ambu uniform on her lap,
" It's time you got back on your feet."
Hinata nodded and stood , slightly offbalance at first,
" Lady Tsunade , please wouldn't it be better for me to go in her place?" Itachi pleaded.
Tsunade frowned," Are you questioning my judgement boy?"
Hinata glared at him, " I am perfectly fit for this mission, besides if it wasn't that important Tsunade wouldn't have asked me. Besides let's not forget who helped put me in this hospital room."
She yanked her black mesh shirt over her bandages, along with her black shoulder strap half- shirt, and her black bodice, she tied it quickly.
For a second Itachi saw her engagement ring on a black necklace, she kept it...
"Hinata please it's too dangerous," Itachi pleaded.
She ignored him as she pulled her leather pants on, and her boots, and tied her katanas crisscrossed on her back.
She looked up at him, with tear's in her eyes.
" Look we both know you never really cared anyway , so do us both a favor and stop pretending." She tied on her Ambu mask, with the face of a lynx, she disappeared out of the room leaving black petals on the ground.
Tsunade watched Itachi sink in to a chair. " Your a fool to have given her up you know, You ruined the kindest heart you'll ever find."
She walked out of the room, leaving Itachi sulking in his misery.
( Four week's Later.)
Hinata was seting up camp nearly a day's hike away from Kohona, Exhausted from lack of sleep, having nearly escaping the Akasutki in Suna, she had not slept for days.
She was about to crawl in to the tent, when she felt massive amounts of chakra.
She threw two throwing stars at a tree, ran and perched herself on them on the tree, seconds later bellow her was crawling with ninja, masking her chakra she unsheathed her katana's.
Kami, If I make it out of this...
She flipped off the tree and landed on the back of one of the ninja, all of them were from the sound, mostlikely her to retreive the scroll.
The impact broke the neck of the ninja she landed on, two of them launched themselves at her, one aiming for her torso the other for her legs.
She dodged them Kunai's and shureken , She thrust her sword threw one, His head fell down at her feet, she breathed and the kunai's from the other, fell to the ground frozen,She kicked him and he flew against the tree, she heard the ripping of his flesh when he hit the throwing stars.
She froze when a cold kunai was pressed against her neck,
" Stupid girl, you shouldn't play with knives."
She grinned bitterly, her body dissolved in to black rose petals. ..
The sound ninja looked around him clumsily." Come out, come out, come out where ever you are little girl, give us the scroll and we will let you live."
she let him see the top part of her body, shrouded in black and purple shadows.
" You should be asking me for mercy."
She sliced his throat with a elegant flourish of her sword, she observed her surrounds, the rest of the ninja lay dead from traps...
SHe sighed, "fools"
She left the camp as it was and took off for Kohona, rest would have to wait...
When she arrived she ran through the open gate ignoring the protests of the guards, straight for the hokage tower.
SHe barged in to Tsunade's office finding Sasuke and Itachi there with Tsunade.
She stood up, " thank goodness ! I was going to send a search party after you, did you retrieve it ?"
Hinata nodded and set the scroll on the table.
Itachi frowned and looked at Sasuke, Sasuke nodded.
Within seconds Hinata was pinned to the ground, Itachi on top of her, Sasuke made some hand signs, to dispell jutsu,
" Hinata" turned into Kabuto.
" You" Sasuke growled.
"Where's Hinata." Itachi said, deathly calm.
Kabuto grinned at the three's uneasiness, " She's dead."
Tsunade gasped, and slammed her fist down on to her desk.
" Where is Orochimaru keeping her ?" She demanded.
" What have you done?" Itachi murmured...
His sharigan swirling as he searched Kabuto's mind..
He knocked him unconscious, and stood.
Looking at Tsunade, " We need to go find her now."
She nodded, " Take Sasuke with you, Hurry Uchiha .."
Without another word Itachi and Sasuke were gone.
They were already in the forrest jumping from branch to branch..
Why Sasori?...