Hinata woke with pain writhing through here and a pounding head, she wanted to scream. She wanted to pull her hair out and claw at her eyes. She jerked her arms only to have them restrained and painfully held down. She let out a cry of pain and tried to open her eyes against their protest. Her eyes were blurry and the swirling made her sick.
White, everything was white. No, there was color moving quickly around her leaving trails as it moved, and the color was holding her down! She needed to run, where was she! Where was Sasori! She screamed using a sudden burst of strength from adrenalin she forced her arms out of the colors holding them and launched herself out of the surface she was on. She looked thru the swirling colors for something that looked like a door she stumbled toward it as fast as her legs would carry her. She kept running from the color masses that were calling after her. Red, she needed to see red. She rubbed at her eyes looking for tufts of red hair or red clouds. She tried to activate her Byakugan, but she couldn't hold it.
She saw red, blessed red only a glimpse, she stumbled back to the window where she saw it. Rubbing at the blurry eyes again, she tried to focus looking through the glass. Definitely red and that looked like down. "Sasori-san!" She shouted banging on the window when the red hair didn't move, she decided she needed to find stairs. The color's voices were catching up she need to be faster. Finding the nearest blurry stairs and jumped several at a time stumbling and scuffing her bare feet. She couldn't find a door that led out, but another glance out a window and she saw red again.
She shouted the puppeteers name again and she grabbed what vaguely looked like a chair. She slammed it into the window till she heard it shatter and threw herself out of it. Rolling out of the first story window didn't hurt like she thought it would, maybe because she didn't hit the ground.
"Hinata, what are you doing." That wasn't Sasori, she recognized the voice, but it wasn't what she was looking for, she started to panic. Rubbing her eyes again to clear her eyes again, the red was in doubles of doubles, she couldn't focus to see a face.
"Kazekage-sama!" The colored masses she could now recognize as people shouted. Kazekage, who was that. That was… Gaara! She turned to him finally being able to make out his concerned face. Happy to see him beside, she had to run. She launched herself off the sand platform he had caught her with successfully missing any glass on the ground and took off only to be lifted up by a sand ribbon around her ribs.
"L-Let me go!" She screamed trying again to activate her Byakugan. No still too unstable.
"You are delusional, calm down, you have no reason to run." The Kazakage's voice move closer to her back.
"Wh-where is Sasori-san!" She screamed at him struggling in her bonds. "A-and Deidara-san!"
"Not in the village." He answered.
Hinata suddenly ran out of all energy letting the sudden feeling of abandonment take over, she choked out sobs.
"You need to get back to the medical room, you were exposed to the poisonous gas. Can you even see?" His words fell on deaf ears as he let her go with his sad and let her fall limp into his chest.
"Th-they left me here." She whimpered.
A new feminine voice she would ignore spoke to Gaara "You won't get anything coherent out of her until they get everything out of her system." She felt herself being lifted and had no more will to struggle.
"Okay, that's the last of the treatment, you should be good." The nurse said taking the IV out of her arm and leaving the room, four days of irrational screaming, weeping, and panic were over. Her system was cleared, she could see, was coherent, and very embarrassed.
She looked across the room at the face framed with red hair she had missed. "I-I'm sorry for my behavior Gaara." She bowed head as she got up.
"You have no reason to be sorry, you couldn't control your reaction." He reassured.
"You d-didn't tell me what happened. H-How did I get here." She noticed her robe was missing from the clothes she was given back.
"A puppet delivered you to the gate." His face tried to guard, but he was definitely angry and hurt. "Want to tell me why Sasori of Red Sand would be delivering you to our care."
"N-No, I don't want to… and I sh-should leave before I am d-discovered." She tried not to tear up. She didn't want to hurt the already upset man.
"You're being here is being kept secret, and I have gone to great length to keep it that way. I believe I deserve and answer, Hinata." The tone etched thru her, it was one he never talked to her in before, was it disappointment, betrayal, or some other form of pain.
She looked at the man she was hurting and let tears run down her face. He was right he deserved answers. "I-I have joined the Akatsuki for my own protection." She passed to collect the proper words. "I-It was a good arrangement, I-I'm a medical-nin, nothing more." She had to look away from him, he could piece together the truth, but hearing her say it made his face harden.
"That's why you were poisoned?" He said harshly, she noticed how he jumped over the joining Akatsuki of free will detail like he was denying it.
"Th-that was my fault, I-I lead us into a trap." She cried miserably. "W-was he… w-was Sasori-san okay." She knew it would hurt him, but she was terribly worried her heart tore between the friend she was forced to leave behind and the comrade she nearly got killed.
Gaara gritted his teeth. "He seemed fine."
She sat back down in relief. "W-will you let me leave." She looked back up at him his eye were mixed. She knew the problems, she was his friend, but she was an Akatsuki member and a risk to his village.
"If you don't come back." She felt a stab, fought a gasp of actual pain. She nodded gripping at her chest.
"You will need this." He stood setting a note and clay bird down beside her, he swiftly left the room, along with the bond she could never hope to repair.
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