The afternoon was beautiful. Hinata was lazily swinging in a small park, enjoying the warm sun on her pale skin. She had always appreciated the small amounts of time she got to just be alone with her thoughts and all the commotion was giving her just that.

With all the Jonin and ANBU at the Hokage's mansion the usual guard of the city had been assigned to Genins and Chunins for the time being. Hinata had avoided this due to having sustained a minor leg injury on her last mission. Everyone in the city that wasn't on the main wall keeping watch was regrouped outside the Hokage's mansion to witness the capture and execution of the four S ranked criminals.

Hinata was not one to enjoy this type of violent behaviour and was very content on her own, gently swinging the day away. She went up and down and up and down and up and while she was up she noticed someone walking in the distance. The person was coming towards her and she squinted to see who it was and felt her heart leap in her chest. She quickly jumped off her swing and looked around for a place to hide. She felt small drops of sweat bead on her neck and her hands began to tremble lightly as she scanned the empty park for anywhere she could hide.

But it was too late, she had been spotted. The figure called out to her: "Hey Hinata! Wait up!"

"Oh N-n-naruto! Aren't you supposed to be..um..over on the wall n-now?" Hinata said blushing heavily.

"There's plenty of other guys up there. I'll hear if something happens. I'd much rather spend some alone time with you, believe it!" said Naruto joyously.

Hinata nearly fainted when she heard this but managed to keep herself up although she was now blushing so heavily her whole body was taking a pinkish tinge. She wanted to reply but her lips were trembling so severely she didn't think she could. Naruto didn't give her anytime to say anything anyway. He grabbed her trembling hand and started pulling her along with him.

They zigzagged through empty streets, Hinata's head still much to light to have any idea where Naruto was taking her. She was just letting herself get dragged along by her secret lover and using all the concentration she could muster to keep herself from fainting.

"Believe it! We're almost th-...oh shit"

Hinata snapped back to reality. The last words spoken by Naruto had not sounded like Naruto, the voice was much too deep. She looked around and everything seemed to be melting around her. The hand that was holding hers had grown. She followed the arm and she couldn't believe what she saw. Holding tight to her hand was a man she had only seen in pictures before and had hoped to never meet: Itachi Uchiha. She looked around and three others that had not been there before were following them.

"Hey Itachi, she looks like she's conscious! What happened to your genjutsu?" shouted Kisame running behind.

"I lost focus when our clones got destroyed! Shit, I didn't expect the executions to happen so quickly! The alarm will be raised any min-" Before Itachi could finish a loud bell sounded from far off where the Hokage's mansion was.

"Fuck! Soon we'll have the whole village after us! Not just the jonins and ANBUs." Yelled Sasori who was running to the right of Itachi.

Hinata wanted to do something but she was now too terrified to move. She had hoped to never find herself in the presence of one Akatsuki and being kidnapped by four of them was too much for her to handle.

"Well they still don't know where we are so if we can make it to our escape hole in time we might not encounter any problems." Said Kisame.

The group ran, a little slowed down by Hinata who was half being dragged, half trying to put up a fight. Their escape path was a hole Toby had dug under the wall that started and ended a few hundred meters away from it on each side in order for them to not be spotted by the sentries when they went in and out. They made it to their whole and paused to get a grip on the situation.

They could hear no one around them, all the movement seemed to be headed towards the main gates as if the village expected them to have walking right into the town. The group laughed at this and were about to make their escape when a voice sounded.

"Hey ugly! You better drop her now or I'm gonna kick the shit outta you...believe it!"