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Chapter 11
"Dear Naruto… No…" scratch scratch scratch "Fox boy…. yeah…. Fox boy… we have your love Hinata…. if you want her alive come meet us at the border to Suna…. Yeah thats good…"
Hinata groaned hearing the words. She opened her eyes and saw the man who had almost taken Gaara away from her, and he was looking over at her, "You are awake! Good. We are going to use you as bait for Naruto." The man said jumping off of the table and walking over to the table she was on.
Hinata tried to shake her head, "But I'm not married to Naruto… I'm married to Gaara, Kazekage of Suna." She said and watched the mans face drop as he ran from the room. Hinata tried to sit up but she felt straps on her legs, arms, chest and head. She breathed in deep to keep from panicking.
A raven haired man came in and she gasped, "I-Itachi…."
"Hello Hinata…. You married Gaara?"
"Y-yes…. I did…. for half a year now." She said softly.
He nodded then walked out. Itachi came back with a man with red hair and bars all over his face walked in with Itachi. He looked her over and seem disinterested and discussed at the same time. "Since we cannot use her as bait, make her our first guinea pig." He said with a voice so low she almost didn't understand him.. Itachi nodded and the red haired man left.
Hinata whimpered a bit, "Guinea pig? For what…."
Itachi ignored her and started to cut her shirt open. Tearing up Hinata couldn't struggle. "Please Itachi… don't do this…." She said. No one had ever seen her naked aside from Gaara and her sister. She couldn't stand the fact that Itachi was here now exposing her. She didn't know what was going to happen but she was afraid, terrified.
Itachi looked at her before picking up a scalpel and he looked her in the eyes. All of a sudden she couldn't scream or make noise. The scalpel went down to cut her shorts as well. When the knife touched her body tears filled and fell down her face. Hinata couldn't scream but the pain was so much that she felt she was going mad. Unable to move all she could do was feel the knife cutting into her skin and see spots in her vision.
Itachi stopped suddenly and looked down at her. "It seems you just got pregnant. Just days in but that helps us." He said and made hand signs. He touched her body and she felt a jolt of energy.
"There…. the egg is now almost a week old… Perfect for what we need." He said before walking out again his hands covered in blood.
Hinata felt her eyes look around the room franticly, confused and in pain. She was pregnant? A few days old? That would mean she got pregnant the night her and Gaara had sex in the tent. With Gaara being angry at her for practicing she hadn't left the room or seen Matsuri. That night in the tent was the first time her and Gaara were 'close' again after that incident. All she knew now was she was pregnant and they were happy about that. She cried harder when Itachi came back in the room with a large rock.
"Put me down you stupid human! Get me out of here! I'm going to kill you all!" A voice yelled from inside the rock. The rage reminded her of… Shukaku! When Itachi hovered the rock over her she heard the voice scream and then she had electricity though her body. She broke free of the genjutsu and she screamed as well.
Gaara threw a book across the room nearly hitting Kankuro. "Why do they want her?!" He screamed. Gaara had never been this angry in his life. Every time he was angry it was over petty things, this was different from any other time.
Kankuro held up his hands, "I don't know but raging won't bring her back."
Gaara stopped then got paper, "Get a hawk. Now!" He said and wrote a message for Kohona requesting their best trackers, Naruto and Sakura for support in search of his wife and a place for them all to meet in the field. When the hawk came he tied it to the leg and sent it out. Gaara then started walking towards the door.
"Where are you going Gaara?" Kankuro asked following him.
"I'm going to get my wife." He said and turned to his brother, "I'm putting you in charge until I come back. And I will come back with my wife." He said before picking up his gourd and leaving.
Hours later Gaara stood in the middle of the forest where his wife was taken. He saw blood from Temari and his hands clenched. If only he had stayed with her. Not left for Suna so quickly. He could have sent a letter for Kankuro to arrest Matsuri but he had been so enraged that his student was purposefully poisoning Hinata that all logic had left him.
"Gaara…."
He turned to see Naruto and Sakura appearing. He was glad about that. He needed Naruto's strength and Sakura was an excellent healer as well as fighter. "Where are the trackers?" He asked.
Shino appeared then, "There are only two great trackers in Kohona. That would be me and…."
"Me…" said a voice behind Shino.
Gaara looked over and glared at Kiba and his dog. "Weren't you just dying not only yesterday?" He asked, "How are you well enough to search for Hinata?"
"You wanted the best." Kiba said before looking away, "Look, Hinata is my friend and I want her back as much as you. I got my chakra back yesterday and while Tusnade thought I should take longer to recover I couldn't just sit back when I knew they had taken Hinata."
Gaara opened his mouth to argue when Sakura punched a tree, "We don't have time to argue! We need to find Hinata as fast as we can."
All the men looked at each other. Naruto, Kiba and Gaara loved Hinata in the deepest of their hearts and instead of having a pissing contest they had to find her before she was hurt. Akamaru started barking and ran around Kiba before going off deeper into the forest.
"What is that mutt doing?" Gaara asked.
Kiba's eyes widened and he started to run too. He yelled back, "He caught Hinata's scent! Lets go!"
Gaara and the rest started to run after him. Branches hit him as he ran but he didn't care. All he cared about was getting to his wife. Thoughts of her in pain raced into his mind and it was all he could do to shove it away. He couldn't think like that. She would be fine. He would have her back.
Two hours later when the dog stopped Gaara looked around seeing nothing. "Well? Where are they?"
Kiba sniffed around, "The scent stops here…." He said angry at himself he couldn't smell anything. To him there was only trees and sand that was the border of Suna and Kohona.
"My turn." Shino said and held out his arms a black cloud of bugs coming out and flying around. "My bugs will find her and a way to get to her." He said.
Gaara growled realizing they had to wait. Naruto walked over to Gaara and put his hand on him, "Don't worry Gaara. We will find her."
Gaara looked to Naruto and could only nod. He didn't like this feeling. It was of terror. He had only felt this a few times in his life and he never liked the feeling. Looking around the forest he tried to picture Hinata with him again. The last thing he had said to her. It had been orders. He had told her to stay away from her father and to stay put until the next day. He had never said how he felt about her. Yes they were married and they were trying to conceive but those were all political moves. Moves he had worked out with her day one of their arrangement. He knew that he was developing some feelings for her but he hadn't understood what they were. Thinking of Hinata being lost to him forever, he realized what he had been feeling and wasn't afraid of it anymore. He loved Hinata. And he would get her back to tell her and he would never stop telling her.
Thirty minutes passed by and a bug flew to Shino and he looked at everyone. "She is this way." He said going through the forest and over towards a large hill of rocks. He looked at the rocks then at Sakura. Sakura took the hint and walked over and gathered her chakra before she punched the rocks the front one exploding into dust revealing a hole going into the ground. Gaara was about to go in but Shino stopped him.
"I think it best that you wait here Gaara…As with Naruto… These are the Akatsuki and they are searching for the tailed beasts." Shino said then held up his hand before Gaara could respond making Gaara growl at him, "While I realize your beast is no longer with you the Akatsuki believe you are dead and it is in our best interest if we let them believe that. Sakura, Kiba and myself will go down and get Hinata. We can sneak in and out without confrontation that you and Naruto would cause."
Gaara glared at Shino. He had never been spoken to like this, given orders. He thought about what the bug user had said and hated it but the man was right. He only gave a nod and pointed at him, "You better be right about this…."
Shino nodded and Gaara pulled an angry Naruto into the trees to lay in wait. Naruto watched the three go into the tunnel and looked at Gaara, "Why did you agree with him? We could get in and out just like they could." He said giving an almost pout crossing his arms.
Gaara looked at his blonde friend and shook his head, "The minute you saw any Akatsuki member you would run after them and attack…" he paused and looked back at the whole, "… and if I smelled her blood anywhere in that building I would have gone mad… Shukaku or not and Shino knew it…." He said making Naruto go silent and sit to watch along with Gaara.
Hinata was in a sea of black. She couldn't focus on anything and she didn't want to. She remembered being in so much pain that she just lost touch with the world. She had been left alone for awhile now and she could hear things but it never really touched her to make her want to interact with what was being said.
She remembered the door closing and opening, hearing Itachi say the experiment was a success. That they would keep her there until the baby was born. She felt wires being attached to her and iv's put in her arms. She felt the needle on her stomach sewing her skin back up. Then she was alone again. Alone in the darkness. If she just…. let go of her thoughts she could… could what? Leave? She didn't know how…
Hinata contemplated all of this when she heard the door open again. Gasps were heard and she felt hands touch her face and her arm gently. The straps holding her to the table released from her and the wires and iv's were taken away. She thought it strange that they would take these things off of her after they had just put them on. The voices seemed familiar as they spoke but she couldn't figure a way out of the haze in her mind to put faces or names to the voices.
"Oh god… there is so much blood…" A female said, "What did they do to her?"
"I don't know but we need to get her out of here quickly…How fast can you heal that wound?" A man said as he put something over her. It felt warm and she felt her eyes flutter at the feeling.
"Just a few moments… they didn't do a very good stitch job but if we move her she could bleed out…" the woman said and there was a warm pressure on her stomach. It didn't hurt but she felt some of the pain leaving her.
There was a third person and he gave a small cough as he held his nose, "Hurry it up you guys… the blood is getting to me…" He said as the first man looked down at her, "Hinata… Hinata can you hear me?" the first man said brushing her hair back from her face.
The second man gulped a bit, "I think its a genjutsu… to keep her from screaming.." he said and the pressure stopped as the woman's voice came back, "Leave it for now… we can't have her screaming when we sneak out of here…. Pick her up… lets get out of her as quickly as possible." She said.
Hinata felt her body be lifted from the hard table. Her head lolled back but someone pushed it up so it was resting on the chest of whoever was carrying her. Her arm was moved onto her lap so it didn't dangle and the second man's voice came out closer so she assumed he was the only carrying her, "S-she… she's limp… I don't like this guys….Lets hurry… Gaara's going to freak…" He said as they started to move.
The next voices that Hinata heard were two new men yelling, "Hinata!" The woman scolded them for being loud then said, "No talking now… move…" and there was silence again. She could feel warmth on her skin and she wondered what it was from. After what seemed like such a short time but what was really twenty minutes they all started talking again.
"Why is there so much blood? Hinata? Can you hear me?" Said the third man and she felt this man pull her from the other ones arms. She was laid down on the ground and hands moved over her body for what she didn't know. "What's wrong with her?" The man asked but not to her.
The woman spoke up, "We believe its a genjutsu…" And before she could continue the third man growled, "Well then take it off of her…" The woman gave an auditory gulp and placed her hands on Hinata's head. There was a spark and suddenly the black haze was leaving her.
Hinata started to panic… the haze was the only thing keeping her from feeling the pain. She started to pant a bit and her hands flew to her stomach as she shot up. Things were jumbled together and the pieces in a weird order in her mind. "Don't touch me! Get away!" She yelled then stopped when her eyes focused and she saw who was with her.
Gaara, Naruto, Kiba, Shino and Sakura all looked at her with concern. Sakura held up her hands and inched towards her, "Hinata… its Sakura… Can you hear me?" She asked.
Hinata felt herself calm a bit and she gulped a bit, "S-sakura…I… H-how…" She held her head as all the pieces started to build themselves in her mind but it was still strange to her. Hard to understand. "W-what happened…" She asked.
The boys didn't know what to say and because she was naked they all turned around to look away from her. After Gaara had growled at them all. Hinata looked confused then looked down at herself and almost screamed. It came out as a squeak and she covered herself with her hands as Sakura pulled her jacket off and put it around Hinata's bottom. Kiba had already put his own jacket around Hinata's chest when they were getting her out.
Hinata was going to ask how they had gotten her out of the Akatsuki hideout when Sakura stood up and spoke first, "We should get back to Suna as soon as possible. I closed Hinata's wounds but we still don't know what they did." She said.
Shino and Kiba both nodded. Kiba wouldn't look at her and Shino looked indifferent. Naruto and Gaara both looked sternly at her both asking with their eyes to carry her. Hinata felt her face go red and looked towards her husband. That slight turn of her head to Gaara gave both men the answer. Gaara walked over quickly and scooped her up in his arms quickly and gently. Wrapping her arms around his neck she laid her head on his shoulder relaxing against him.
The way back to Suna was quiet and quick. No one spoke as they came to the sand or when the gates to Suna came into view. The guards shielded Hinata from the citizen eye so they did not see her in this state of undress or covered in so much blood. When they finally got to the infirmary the doctors and Sakura looked her over and gave her a gown to wrap around her body. Finding there was nothing wrong with her they brought the boys in.
"Hinata…. whats the last thing you remember?" Gaara asked getting straight to the point. She had to admit it threw her off guard but she bit her lip thinking about it.
"Do you remember what they did to you?" Sakura asked wondering solely what their intent was holding her open on the table like that.
Hinata bit her lip looking at them, "I… I remember running with Temari-san… being attacked and I…I woke up on that table. The man who grabbed me was there… trying to write a letter to Naruto-kun." This surprised them all and Naruto looked at Gaara before looking back at Hinata.
"W-why to me?" He asked not really wanting to know the answer.
"They…They didn't know about my marriage to Gaara.." She said looking at them all. "I… I foolishly told him that I-I was married. Thats when…" Hinata covered her mouth and one hand went to her stomach where she had been cut open, "Itachi-san came in…He put me in a genjutsu and I remember him saying…" Her eyes went wide as she remembered it all now. Tears filled and started to fall down as she looked at her stomach then at Gaara. "I… I'm pregnant…It was a few days old when they took me…"
Gaara's face seemed to fall at the news she was pregnant. Not only did she go through this worried about herself but of the possibility of a child. He didn't feel Shino pull a chair over and push his shoulder down until he felt the seat underneath him. Sakura rushed over during all of this and put her hands on Hinata's belly. "There is a baby in there…Its perfectly healthy." She said giving Gaara and Hinata a bit of breath to gain some composure.
Naruto then clenched his fists, "Then why cut you open? Did they want to stop the pregnancy or something? Were they trying to kill you?" He asked getting angrier by the second while Gaara was in a state of shock. He was staring at Hinata and something didn't feel right.
"N-no they.." Hinata began then bit her lip, "I-I don't kn-know what they did but…" She stopped as laugher started to fill her ears. Her eyes went wide and she looked around the room to see who was laughing. "W-what? W-who is laughing?" She asked still looking around.
Everyone in the room stared at Hinata like she had grown a second head, "Hinata, no one is laughing." Shino said tilting his head at her.
Hinata held her head as the laughter got louder and she whimpered when she heard a deep voice say, "Goo goo ga ga you little bitch."
Hinata's heart seemed to plummet to her stomach and she looked at Gaara with eyes full of fear as her hands went down to hold the area where her child was now developing in her body.
"Shukaku."
