Chapter 11
(Flashback)
Hinata unleashed a spin kick that smashed Sakura into a tree head first, knocking her out cold.
She chuckled as she went back to finding Naruto's trail, soon she caught up with him and they reached the Akatsuki hideout, but a pair of their members met them outside.
"Itachi Uchiha."
"Kisame Hoshigaki."
"Naruto, Hinata."
"Brat, Brat's girlfriend."
(Present)
"You've been busy, haven't you Uzumaki. You no longer look like the brat I was going to cut the legs off of years ago, that and your new status as well. Let's see how far you've come?" Kisame said, his grip on his sword becoming tighter.
"As much as I would enjoy that, it would better for another time perhaps?" Naruto said, slightly moving his position closer to Hinata.
"We cannot allow that, Naruto-kun."
"Sorry, Itachi, but Gaara needs me, I'll mess around with you two later." Naruto said, grabbing Hinata's hand and flashing away from them.
"Aww~, I really wanted that fight." Kisame whined and if he could pout he would.
"We'll find them later on, besides they probably finished off two of them." Itachi said, and then the pair flashed off to gather to what they needed to do. Considering they were not really a part of the organization anyways and they planned to leave soon enough.
Naruto and Hinata went to the entrance and found Gaara inside on the ground laying face up, not breathing. Naruto raced over to him and tried to hear his heart and Hinata activated her dojutsu and saw that his chakra was really weak, but it was still circulating around his body along with some of the One Tails.
"Naruto, there might be a chance."
Naruto pried his eyes off of Gaara's prone form and said, "How."
"We need to jump start his heart and his chakra moving again."
Hinata pushes chakra into her hands and tries to jump start his heart, while Naruto looked at the seal on Gaara's chest, filled his hand with the Kyubi's chakra and pressed into into the edges of the seal, making his consciousness leave his body and enter Gaara's mind.
(Gaara's mindscape)
"Naruto.." A deep baritone voice said.
"Kurama.." Naruto replied back.
He received no response as he looked around the sandy dunes, not even a gust of wind to kick up a storm. He forced his chakra to surround him and had it lead him to Gaara to which, he found what looked like a village.
'Must be the Sand Village.'
Naruto raced towards there and saw the streets were empty so he went to the tallest building first, hoping Gaara was there. He wasn't disappointed.
As he reached the door, he heard laughing, childish laughter. He made himself as quiet as possible and opened the door. He saw a younger version of Gaara who was playing with his toys and then saw a young blonde child slam open another door and raced towards Gaara tackling him in a hug, making his brother and sister in the room laugh.
It was him...The blonde child had whisker marks, tan skin, blue eyes and spiky blonde hair. It had to be him.
"Gaara! Wanna play today again?"
"Sure!" He replied back with a happy grin of his own.
He was about to run off after him, but then a hand was placed on his shoulder was what made him look back. He saw an older version of his friend who just ran through that door.
"N-naruto?"
The older version sadly smiled and nodded.
He said, "It's time to wake up now, Gaara."
Soon the area they were in faded to black and Naruto returned to his body with a gasp and looked at Hinata who was kneeling at their side and went towards Naruto cupping his face in her hands.
"Welcome back." Hinata said.
Naruto smiled and lightly kissed her lips but broke it off when he heard Gaara groan as he opened his eyes.
"Welcome back to the land of the living, Gaara." Naruto smiled.
Gaara smiled back and tried getting up, but he felt really weak.
"Try not to move so suddenly, Gaara-san." Hinata said, steadying him.
"Thank you, Hinata-san." He stated.
Hinata lightly smiled.
"So, Naruto. You finally figured it out?"
"Are you going to tease me about that as well?"
"It's kind of obvious, considering how she would act around you, I'm pretty sure most of the people that were in the Chunin exams knew about the crush she had on you."
Naruto puffed up his cheeks and huffed.
"Aw, Naruto. It's okay." Hinata said while placing a kiss on his whiskered cheek.
Naruto melted at her calm and reassuring look.
"We need to get Gaara back to his village before Konoha shows up. I want no part of them right now."
"You hate Konoha?" Gaara stated.
"A bit but it's mostly that I don't give a shit anymore."
Gaara slightly shrugged and moved to stand.
"Thanks for all your help, Naruto." Gaara said, raising his hand.
"Don't even think about it, Gaara." Naruto replied, returning the gesture.
"Keep in contact with me, would you. You make a guy worry you know?"
"I promise I will, besides I intend to cause a lot of havoc." Naruto grinned.
"You'll never just spend one day just to relax will you?"
"Not until I make sure my princess is safe and Konoha cannot harm her or me anymore than it already has."
"Best of luck." Gaara replied, then moved to get flash out of the cave they were in, the overwhelming, crazy presence of the Old priest and the One Tail has left his mind empty, but he didn't mind. He felt a bit at peace, considering what he had to go through, he would help Naruto in any way that he could even if he's changed.
He soon found Lady Chiyo, his sister and the rest of the Konoha team and when he flashed a bit away from them so they could see him and his sister ran to give him a bone-crushing hug.
"Gaara!" She exclaimed, her grip tightening.
"Temari.." He replied back, slowly returning the hug.
"How did you escape!" She released him from her death grip.
"Naruto and Hinata."
"What?!" Yelled everyone else.
(Spring Country)
Hinata and Naruto soon arrived into the Spring Country and they were greeted, although most were surprised that they were free and didn't hear anything about them released from their sentences, but they welcomed them nicely nonetheless. They arrived at the palace and received bows and nods and soon they met the Spring Daimyo and she welcomed them joyfully.
Naruto told her that they couldn't stay long and they wanted to see how the village looked so far.
She explained that the village itself was almost finished and how she couldn't wait to have him come back.
Naruto smiled back at the girl who made a complete turnover from when he first met her and hugged her, thanking her for everything she's done for him so far. She hugged him back and lead him and Hinata on a tour through the almost complete village.
"It should be ready in about a month. " Koyuki said.
"Thanks again, Yuki."
"It's Koyuki, you jerk."
A cheesy smile was her reply.
"You're doing it to spite me, aren't you?"
The smile grew a fraction wider.
She could do nothing, but lower her head in depression.
"May God help you Hinata."
"Him and his cheesy smiles are mine, that I don't mind."
"You two were made for each other, you know that right?"
"Possibly"
"Maybe."
"Come on, Hinata, we need to get back before they find out were missing."
"Alright, nice seeing you Princess."
"You too, remember don't be strangers! I'll send you an envoy to let you know when the village is ready and you can come with the people you will bring with you."
"Alright, thank you."
"Ready?"
"As I'll ever be."
Soon the pair flashed away, the princess watching her friends go and wished them the best and they return.
Suddenly Naruto's friends, those he has helped along with Hinata and how before she was exiled along with Naruto was a political envoy and foreigners were touched by her personality, felt a shift, they didn't know what it was but it was feeling of joy and elation or enemies a cold shudder raced down their spines like death.
However, the pair reached Deadman Wonderland and switched with their clones, with no one none the wiser.
The pair went towards their rooms, their collars on their necks and laid on the bed, letting the memories of their dispeled clones wash over them, apparantly there was another Carnival Corpse and it was between Ganta and Minatsuki and other events that are not that important to take note of.
After they finished organizing their thoughts, they looked at each other.
"It's been slightly boring since we've left huh?"
"Apparently."
Hinata moved her head to his chest and moved her hand to trace the seal on his stomach, containing Kurama making him purr. Naruto kissed the top of her head and wrapped her up his arms pressing her against him.
"Wanna talk to Garra tomorrow?"
"Sure, I know for sure that the weasel like man will try something to break him."
"Doesn't that bastard have anything better to do?" Hinata sneered.
"Don't worry, only one more month and we will be free."
"Right, Naruto." Hinata replied, rubbing her head into his chest, falling asleep to him running his fingers through her hair.
Ending it! Next chapter will be about Konoha, Ganta's second Carnival Corpse and how the next month will be about and then chaos of the grand escape. I want your guy and girl's opinion should I keep Nagi alive? And have him get together with Karako? Thank you for follows and favorites on this fanfic, it makes me really happy, sorry that its late update, finals have been with on Thursday and I'll be updating pratically all weekend. Laters.
~Kourtney Uzu Yato
