Naruto and Konohamaru found Hanabi on the floor of her bedroom mumbling to herself.
"Hanabi!" Konohamaru picked her up off the ground and set her on the bed. "Where is Hinata?"
Naruto looked around the room. It seemed pretty well put together, as though there had not been much of a struggle. Had Hinata just left with the bandit?
Hanabi woke up out of her trance after Konohamaru began to talk to her. She threw her arms around his neck and started to sob. "That man took Hinata."
"What did he do to her?!" Naruto demanded of Hanabi.
Hanabi looked at Naruto, confused. "He didn't do anything. She passed out and he took her."
Naruto and Konohamaru looked at each other. Konohamaru held Hanabi tighter and then said to her softly. "Are you sure that is what happened?"
"Yes." Hanabi said, certain. "Hinata asked him to let me go and she surrendered. He removed the knife from my throat. Hinata just stood there –and then she passed out. The gray man took her and left."
"Hanabi. Can you use your byakugan to find them?" Naruto asked, urgently. He looked back and forth between her and Konohamaru.
Hanabi looked to Konohamaru. The young ninja said, "I'll be there with you. Your sister is in a lot of danger but you can save her life, Hanabi. We really need you to use your byakugan to find her and the gray man."
"Ok." Hanabi answered.
Konohamaru smiled at her and squeezed her hand. He moved over to Naruto and whispered. "Hanabi's byakugan is not completely reliable anymore. We should take a skilled tracker with us too."
Naruto nodded. "We're taking two. Kiba and Shino will join us."
Soon after, Naruto, Konohamaru, Hanabi, and Kiba left the village to go after Hinata and Gokurukon. Sakura, who discovered that Sarada was also missing, joined them as their medical back up. She left the main medical team inside of the village in Ino's hands.
Naruto left Shikamaru in charge of the recovery efforts inside of the village with the help of Temari, Karui, Kotetsu, and Izumo. Naruto had damaged a large portion of the front of the village, attempting to destroy Gokurukon's monsters as quickly as possible. Shikamaru's unit and the ANBU had captured or killed the rest of the bandits. But not before many of the villagers were frozen or trapped in the rumble. The only one that got away was Gokurukon.
Naruto was worried, but he also knew just how capable Hinata was. He figured from Hanabi's story that the gray man put Hinata in a genjutsu. Hinata warned him that once all of Gokurukon's monsters were gone and all of his chakra was concentrated in his primary body, he was able to use illusions.
Hinata could see through illusions though she was not very skilled at it. The bandit must have taken her by surprise.
Naruto's greater worry was that he sensed his children were also outside of the village along with Sarada. When he took the six path's form, he had felt them in the western half of the village. They were together. But after the battle, when he went to look for them, they were gone.
He sent Shino, Choji, and Sai to follow Boruto and Himawari's path. Shino knew the twins well since he taught them at the academy, and Hinata had asked her old teammate to keep the twins bugged after they realized Orochimaru was after Boruto. Shino would use his male insects to track the female insects that he kept on Himawari and Boruto.
