Poisoned Chapter 14, a naruto fanfic

BK: I have been very busy, I consider myself lucky when I actually update. I hope you all understand when I'm not here. I do stress that. I am very busy. I've been responding to some reviews as well. I love talking to you all very much. It's cool to know other people from around the world and that they enjoy my story as much as I do and how you express your concerns.

Also, thanks for all the reviews. I really didn't want to elaborate at all about the Hinata and Hattori thing. I just wanted to emphasize that she really craves human touch. I had mixed reactions from their little coupling moment. Ahaha! I think that it's fabulous you all really love Hinata. Especially her in my story... she needs lots of love.

Anyways, I think this is the one you've all been waiting for. I have nothing to say much except that... well – I think you're getting very anxious to see some action between Hinata and Sasuke. It's a good thing that you've held on this long. Trust me – everything will work out. I have magic remember? Magic with words.

Kakashi and Sasuke made it to the cave that morning to find it completely empty except for the shredded clothes and smell of burnt skin. The rain had not entered the cave and it left clues of what had happened. The anger that rose in Kakashi boiled over and the cave had all but crumbled as his chidori shattered it when they were peeking inside.

Sasuke raised his eyebrow at his former teacher, but said nothing at all. It wasn't like they were all virgins and cheating players. But Kakashi seemed to take his belongings rather seriously – if it were that Hinata belonged to him. Sasuke knew that as a female shinobi, they would have at least once or twice done it. Even if they didn't love the person. Even if it was just a fling. She probably did it to ensnare that demonic man called Hattori.

"Kakashi, did you know that man?" Sasuke quietly inquired as to not set him off.

Kakashi snapped back into reality and saw that he had all but destroy any evidence of finding Hinata. Not that it mattered, there was nothing there except that she had made love to another man. He growled and then composed himself as he replied back to Sasuke, his face mildly composed.

"No."

Sasuke was amused by his teacher's obvious love for his former classmate Hinata. He decided to provide some information to spark the conversation.

"His name is Hanzo, Hattori. Also known as the Man that never Dies."

Something dawned onto Kakashi as Sasuke said that and then it all made sense to him. Hinata had gone off to her mission. They weren't looking for a missing nin! Kakashi felt the realization dawn onto him like sweet rain and he let out a big sigh of relief. Clasping his hands over his head, he looked at Sasuke with lifted optimism.

"Alright, this mission has changed. We are to help Hinata as she captures that man."

Sasuke furrowed his eyebrows. What? Help her?

"Why? Isn't she running away?" Sasuke asked quickly.

Kakashi shook his head.

"No, she's on a mission. She's bringing the man back to Konoha."

Sasuke raised an eyebrow. So she was on a mission. That didn't explain why Konoha wanted the demonic man. It wasn't like Hattori could help them. Unless... Danzo wanted the Scroll of Regeneration for some selfish reason. Danzo was a man with too many secrets and Sasuke didn't quite like it. He turned slightly in discomfort.

"I don't think we should help her."

Kakashi looked at him with question. So Sasuke elaborated, his voice dull and flat, but his eyes sharp and calculating.

"That man that Hinata is seducing... currently holds the secret of regeneration and he's incredibly tricky. Not to mention that he is one of the first shinobis in history. I think we ought to let her finish the mission herself. After it was a mission only given to her."

Sasuke didn't want to say it, but he was hoping Kakashi would relent and head back to the village. If Hinata was on a mission, they shouldn't bother her. He hoped that she wouldn't bring the man back to the village either. Though he hated to say it, the village was his home. A place where he wanted to come back to and raise a family in. It was where he grew up. Where the Uchiha clan resided.

Sending a crazed man like Hattori there, or even to give the scroll to Danzo, was a stupid choice of suicide. Sasuke hoped that Hinata would die trying to get the scroll. The scroll in the hands of someone like Danzo was simply a wish for obliteration. Look how it turned Orichimaru into a cretin. Danzo was probably on the verge of turning into Orichimaru himself.

Kakashi stood there and looked at Sasuke who was quietly contemplating to himself. He seemed to have picked up on some of Sasuke's thoughts.

"I have to go back to the village don't I?"

Sasuke nodded. They needed to inform Tsunade about the danger of Hattori. He was a shinobi born from the very first ninja family. He held in his prowess, millions of jutsus and control over many elements. But Sasuke couldn't go back to Konoha himself because then he wouldn't be able to get back out. Also to add that the village didn't completely trust him yet, if he went there himself, they would have thought that he killed Kakashi somehow. Kakashi was the one who would have to go back. Sasuke could see the conflicting feelings in his teacher's eyes.

With a sigh, Kakashi nodded. He closed his eyes and silently sighed again. With a resolution, he looked pointedly at Sasuke.

"You have recovered. I want you to help Hinata. If anything happens, save her. I'm going back. I trust even you can take on a monster that doesn't die."

Sasuke raised an eyebrow. He smiled and enjoyed the feeling of camaraderie and challenge. Of course he could take on a monster. He was the last Uchiha. He wouldn't die here.

"Consider it a mission done well Kakashi. She is after all... the future wife of my children."

Kakashi gave him a mixed look of confusion and danger, but Sasuke only smiled as he pushed on.

"Look at the facts. Now that I know she's ANBU and that she is from the Hyugga clan, why wouldn't she be the very first candidate for the wife of my children? She has a body of a vixen even with her body full of scars."

There was a momentary pause as Sasuke enjoyed the angered look in Kakashi's eyes.

"I know Kakashi. I've seen her... Even if she hates me, I swear she'll be mine. You and I are the only two who truly know her. We are the only ones she could ever possibly wish to be with. If we leave her here... then what are we?"

There was suddenly tension as Kakashi regarded him with seriousness, but Sasuke had decided. He wanted Hinata. Even if she didn't like touching people and lied to him, she was kind, hard working, and absolutely capable. But still – even then – Kakashi's face made Sasuke cautious.

"Fine... I accept. That is, if you don't die in the process of winning her hand Sasuke." Kakashi said mysteriously.

Sasuke looked at him with a questioning look. Die? What could Hinata possibly do to him? He was the famous wanted missing nin, Sasuke Uchiha.

Hinata ached all over. She had done it with men, but never so many times in the process. She felt like she had all but exploded from pleasure. Hattori smiled at her as they stopped several times for her to rest and she massaged parts of her body that had been roughly treated by Hattori as he slammed into her on the hard floor. Several times, on accident, he got burned because of Hinata, but then he'd always regenerate back. She looked at him in spite as any marks she left on him simply disappeared while his marks littered her body. She had found a love bite on her chest this morning as she woke up.

"Where are we going?" Hinata asked. He had just finished stretching and came over to her. He closed her open black shinobi gear that showed him generous amount of her skin. She was feeling very weak and she wanted to know how far they were going to travel. Why were they traveling anyways?

"My place. A place that's secluded from people, but still within a village. It's quiet and the people there are kind."

Hinata smiled at that statement. It sounded perfect, like someplace she had always wanted to be at and she kissed him on the cheek as he hugged her. Something slipped from her mouth and it made her head hurt immensely.

"Hmmm... I love you Hattori."

Her brain started to hurt even more – as if that very sentence was a heinous declaration. She made a discomforted noise as she held her head.

"I do too Hinata." And when he almost kissed her, she yelled in pain, effectively cutting off his kiss.

Hinata held her head as she doubled over and tried to make the pain go away. It felt like sharp knives that were digging into her head. What was happening? The fog in her head that she had gotten used to was threatening to go away and it was bringing lots of painful things that rammed into her head – and most importantly her heart.

Hattori looked at her as she suffered and with quick hand signals, he recreated the jutsu and placed

the seal onto her forehead. The fog that was about to break apart resealed and Hinata fainted from the intense pain. She fell directly into Hattori's arms and he grimaced.

If Hinata stayed with him with that clouded mind, she would never be able to truly love him.

Sasuke had noticed recurring signs as he chased after them. They stopped frequently and each time they stayed for a few minutes. Finally he reached a spot where there were only one set of feet traveling. Hinata must have either killed him or the man was holding her as they traveled. The pressure of the steps marked that he was carrying her.

He didn't know why Hinata would keep him alive for so long. She should have killed him by now. If she were the only one to be assigned the mission then she must have some ultimate weapon that could kill gods or immortal beings like Hattori. If she were that strong, Sasuke mused, then the better she was to him.

Kakashi had burst through the doors of the Hokage's room, much to the nuisance of Tsunade, and told her everything he had just found out. At first, her face was in disbelief, but then it turned into realization and then anger. Kakashi stood there as he regarded her with a serious look.

"Kakashi... go to Naruto. I want the ANBU out there. Naruto should know what to do. And bring me Danzo. He seems to want to send Hinata out on a death mission. It will not be easy to defeat someone immortal like Hattori. But you must. From here on out... you are the leader of this mission."

Kakashi's eyes widened. Help Hinata kill Hattori? Didn't Kakashi just tell Tsunade that helping Hinata would only cause more trouble? Tsunade noticed his obvious shock and she smiled.

"And the first mission for you as ANBU leader is to help find Hinata a place to stay where she would be safe. It must have been days now, I know she's weak. I believe there is something to cure her condition. I just have to keep finding it. After all, she of all people deserve happiness does she not? Make sure you all take care of this dangerous man as soon as possible. To have Hinata in his grip... or to bring him here with Hinata, it will cause devastating results to our village."

Kakashi looked at her with concern, but with a tight smile, he saluted Tsunade.

"Yes, Hokage-sama!"

Hinata had woken up right as they reached the village. They were walking now to his home down a little beautiful path surrounded by green swaying grains. Hinata felt a little bit doused as her energy was starting to fall. Hattori had then cut his palm and offered it to her to drink. She did it without question. Something stirred in front of them as she finished and his palm began to regenerate. Immediately, Hattori both turned to face the intruder.

"I see that you have brought her."

Hinata, though still awfully weak, recognized the voice immediately and the fog that had given her much headache dispersed in a matter of seconds. She knew this voice. She knew it from the bottom of her heart, no matter what happened to either of them.

"Itachi..."

She turned to look at him and it made her speechless. He had definitely grown since the last time they saw each other. There was no mistake it was him. She would recognize him anywhere. He stood there in a long black cape and straw hat. There were rumors that he was within the Akatsuki but since the group had broken apart, he must have been traveling the land in search of something.

They stared at each other and they didn't seem to be able to say anything except the fact that their eyes reflected what each other felt: longing.

Hattori jumped in front of Hinata and smiled cruelly at Itachi.

"Who are you? What do you mean I brought her here?"

Itachi finally seemed to register that Hattori was there. His face, which used to be warm and friendly, spared no emotion to either of them.

"You must have dowsed her mind with your jutsu. Much of the world doesn't know you anymore because you have honed that very jutsu so well. I am here because of her."

Hinata eyes widened as she looked up at Hattori. She suddenly felt the need to puke as she remembered what they had done and what she had drank. Her body felt even weaker when she felt the need to reject the blood.

"Don't listen to him Hinata. Keep my blood inside of you. If you don't, you'll die."

Hinata's eyes widened even more. Die? She was going to die if she didn't keep drinking his blood? But she had promised herself that she would live until she told Itachi her feelings!

"Itachi..." Hinata's voice was weak, but here she was with Itachi who she couldn't find for the sake of her own life, and now if she was going to die anyways, she needed to tell him, "I... I love you."

She was years late on that one sentence, but the faint whisper of a smile appeared on his face. She had yearned for so long that smile. The fog finally vanished. It cleared from her brain and she clearly saw who it was she truly loved in the world. She loved Itachi.

She loved him so much. She wouldn't mind dying right now. Even if she never gave Itachi his kiss.

Hattori stood there quietly in anger.

"I take it that you're Itachi."

Itachi inclined his head regally, shifting his eyes from Hinata's.

"And you must be Hattori. I'm grateful that you're still alive."

There was a tense silence as Hinata tried her best to sit up. She couldn't do it though, her legs had given out and she felt sluggish and sick.

"What are you doing here?" Hattori asked. There was another long silence as they all felt someone else starting to enter the scene and Itachi finally spoke.

"To kill her."

Hinata's eyes widened as Itachi flew at her with a kunai and Hattori stepped in immediately to deflect the attack. His white hair flew like silk across her vision as he sent a devastating kick into Itachi, only to have it land in air as Itachi dodged and sent a fireball their way. Hattori made a jutsu that sent the ground rising upwards to defend them. The mass of energy and potential of death the two shinobi held in front of her amazed her as one tried to protect her and the other try to kill her.

Hattori was from the oldest ninja family alive. He knew how to control every element and possibly every jutsu. But Itachi was the genius whose resolution was as strong as stone. After all, he had killed his whole family. Who was to say that all those years with the Akatsuki did not make him stronger?

Flashes of blue and red chakra emitted from them as they swung at each other. Itachi summoned the birds out and Hinata recognized immediately that he had called upon the strongest of all birds that she never dared summoned, The Harpy Eagle.

Her gigantic wings flapped once, ranging from thousands of meters, and Hinata felt herself fly off the ground as she hit pathetically onto the ground. Her sharp talons gashed into Hattori making the first blood Itachi's. The earth was scarred from the other talons that didn't pierce Hattori's body. He hissed in pain as he blood splattered out, but his body regenerated to accommodate the pain as he charged straight to the bird and let out a fearful cry as the Raging White Dragon Demon from legends emerged with glowing red eyes from the ground and struck the bird into the sky like it was a piece of cloth.

Immeasurable roars sounded and piercing cries of power enveloped the open air. The quiet village secluded in the mountains – its peace was disrupted by the two powerful shinobi that battled each other. The fields of grass flowed this way and that with each flap and the heat of the fire erupting from the dragon threatened to singe Hinata, burning her surroundings. Never once had she summoned the Harpy Eagle to help her. Never once did she imagine seeing the Raging White Dragon only known in legends.

The openness of the field scared her. She was no longer in control of what happened and no one was there to calm her of the loneliness she felt. There was no kind Itachi. No caring Hattori. No loving Kakashi. No lenient Sasuke. There were only the threatening powers of the two shinobis in front of her. Here they were, a force against force threatening to vanquish the entire valley that was once peaceful.

Sasuke had sensed something ominous and he hurried as fast as he could to the clearing where he knew Hinata and Hattori were just walking a few minutes ago. Suddenly a big whip of wind pushed him off his feet and he was sent flying as a roar entered the sky and a piercing cry echoed in the air. Sounds of thunder and electricity crackled and met with sloshing waves of melted ice and broken ground. It sounded like the earth was cracking apart.

Catching himself onto a tree branch, he heaved himself up and then ran with infused chakra on his feet. He needed to get there fast. He needed to save Hinata. As soon he reached the clearing, he saw a raging White Dragon gnawing at the neck of the feared Harpy Eagle. The whole place was on fire. Smoke rose from the ground that was lit with fires. It looked like a volcano. It looked like hell.

Someone in black jumped up from the eagle and landed on the Dragon's head while it was preoccupied and proceeded to rush down the dragon's back to cut through the other person's whole body. Sasuke wasn't shocked by its gore as blood splattered onto the dragon's back, but by its immense power of precision and strength.

The person who got cut grab held of the sword, unafraid and stuck a purple glowing jutsu into the other person's body. They both started to falter as the dragon broke the wing of the Harpy Eagle with its clawing, scaled hands.

He set his eyes down from the massive battle in the air and he found Hinata laying there half dead in the middle of the fiery field. He rushed to her, kicking himself off with infused chakra, and when he reached her, he saw that she was slowly losing focus. The beautiful stormy eyes that captured him were slowly fading away.

"Hinata!" Sasuke yelled at her. As loud as he could. He could not lose her. Not now.

She slowly opened her eyes to look at him. He was shaking her now. Touching her. He didn't care if she didn't like people touching her. He didn't give a damn. Right now, he needed her to look at him and tell him that it was alright. That she was going to live. She gave him a whisper of a smile.

"I'm dying. I don't have enough poison in me to keep going. I probably can't even poison you directly since the poison is trying to conserve itself into me to keep me alive. But... It doesn't matter anymore."

Hinata coughed out some blood as she felt her poison start to reject the regenerating cells. Poison wanted to stay in her body, but the regenerating cells didn't back away either. Sasuke felt the eagle's piercing cry as it spiraled from the air and was about to land body first. With the size of that bird, Sasuke could only imagine how much the ground would shake.

"I don't care if you're poisonous or whatever, we have to go! The smoke will kill you!"

She shook her head, her blood drowning into her neck, and the eagle landed. The floor beneath cracked and they were both sent flying. Sasuke lost his grip on her and Hinata was sent straight to the heart of the battle as the Dragon breathed fire in success but disappeared as its summoner lost energy to keep it out.

Sasuke went to the field where Hinata was as fast as he could. Then he saw something that brought anger into his heart and burning fire through his veins. Something that made him disregard what he was really here for as a Konoha shinobi.

His damn brother.

Itachi.

"Itachi!"

Sasuke's voice was full of anger and power. It resonated in his body. It echoed throughout the valley. The bloodied Itachi had barely caught Hinata and placed her next to the dying Hattori that was cut everywhere and seriously injured. Even if Hattori regenerated... he probably wouldn't survive. He lost too much blood. Itachi made sure of that.

Hinata stared at him, but Itachi only looked to Hattori expectantly.

"I know you want her to kill you. It's the only way. Only her poison will be able to completely kill you."

Hattori laughed, blood splattering around like rain and he threw one last kunai which landed deeply into Itachi's chest. The exploding tag attached to it exploded as Itachi jumped into the air in surprise.

"If I can't have her... neither can you." Hattori whispered.

Sasuke saw Itachi emerged from the fire and with a fit of anger, he launched after him, his eyes turning red with the Sharingan activated. He would not let Itachi leave here alive.

Hinata saw her only love, Itachi, bleed and fight his own brother. However, the man that saved her so many times was dying. She moved closer to Hattori to look at him. His hair faded into a auburn amber and his bright red eyes started to dull into a bluish hue. Tears flowed down her cheeks, but she couldn't sob. It took too much energy to make any noise that took in a lot of air.

"Don't cry Hinata. It was about time my clan vanished anyway."

Blood came from his mouth, slowly coloring him red, but his hand still rose to touch her face. She closed her eyes and pressed her face against his hands. His bloody hand tingled against her cheek.

"I have one last wish, can you grant it for me?"

Hinata nodded, whatever they had done, though through lies and misconceptions, Hattori still saved her. He wanted her around and she could feel that even though he was strange and inhumane, he loved her. He was a monster of sorts with immense power – she knew that because she took his blood and it fought the poison in her body – but he had lost to Itachi. What else could she do but grant his last wish?

"Can you tell me you love me once more and... kiss me?"

Hinata stared at him, her blood dripped slightly onto his marred face, and she held his hand closer to her cheek. She pressed her lips against his and the blood that she coughed out when she was dying mixed into his. She knew that he was being poisoned. She knew that he wanted her to kill him with a kiss.

"I love you."

It was a whisper. But it was no lie either. She did love him. She loved him dearly. He was a person created just for her. He smiled and cupped her face. The smoke had started to come between them, blocking their vision. The tears in Hinata's eyes could barely wash it away.

"There's a burning inside my chest... so this is what it feels like to die. Hinata... come here."

Tears fell down faster and she came closer to him. Leaning in to listen to him, he gave one last kiss onto her ears and whispered:

"I am freeing you from your poison... the only way to obtain the Scroll of Regeneration is to kill the one who is using it... by killing me the scroll will enter your body... and cleanse your poisonous cells into regenerating ones. Good bye... my dear Hinata."

She let the tears flow freely and hugged his bloody body. His eyes started to fade and even though she knew he couldn't hear her, she still kept screaming his name. She kept telling him how powerful he was, how kind he was, and how she would keep him remembered in her memories. No matter how short their time was, there was no question that fate – destiny – pulled them together.

"Hattori!"

Sasuke had landed more hits than Itachi had to him. He was getting angry. Jumping off crooked parts of the earth that jutted from the earth, Sasuke launched himself at his stoic brother in a frenzy.

"You think that going easy on me is going to give me satisfaction?! Itachi! Don't fool around!"

Sasuke sent another kick straight to Itachi's chin and blood came out as Itachi flew into the air only to poof and the real Itachi knocked him over from behind with the blunt side of his kunai.

Sasuke snarled. So Itachi was going easy on him. Sasuke sent electricity out of the ground with a few signs, using the smoke to his advantage, and then surrounded Itachi by locking him in his electrical jail. Just as Sasuke was about to dive his sword into Itachi's eyes, he saw the red appear and Itachi's eyes captured him into the genjutsu.

It was all over. Sasuke lost.

BK: Drama? I hope you don't stop reading my fanfic. Constructive criticism is welcomed. I want to be able to write beautifully. If my story isn't up to par, that doesn't mean you should stop, I'd like to know why. I appreciate it when readers love it. I appreciate it when they also help me better myself. But I also can't stop you from not reading it... so what can I do? Ahaha.

But yes... A sad fate. I know you've been waiting for Itachi's appearance. I also know you wanted confrontation. And I know you are tired of Hinata not being able to touch the one she loves. Well – fear not, I have delivered. It's about time – 14 chapters. Thanks for holding on guys.

Until next time... Are you ready for it?