Hinata woke up with a splitting headache. She was on the cold and hard ground. It was dark and the air smelled of rotting things and of soil. She recognized that smell. It smelled that way in all of Gokurukon's underground hideouts.

Then she remembered throwing herself in front of Hanabi and being stabbed through the back.

She used her hand to feel at her back. There was no wound. Shit! Gokurukon had managed to put her in a genjutsu quicker this time. She sat up and looked around.

"Mom!" Himawari's voice came out of the dark.

Hinata squinted her eyes, attempting to adjust her vision to the low light. Two dark forms moved toward her. It was Himawari and Sarada. "What? What are you two doing here!?"

Himawari started to cry. "We were trying to save Boruto."

Exasperated, Hinata closed her eyes to collect her thoughts. Unless this was still a genjutsu, which a large part of her hoped that it was, Himawari was more her daughter than she thought. "Where is Boruto?"

"We hid him in the woods, and then we made Mitsuki tell us how to get to Orochimaru's place." Sarada replied.

"Why would you do that?!" Hinata demanded, getting more frustrated by the second.

"Mitsuki poisoned Boruto. He said only Orochimaru had the antidote. Sarada made him tell us where it was."

"So the two of you were going to steal the antidote from Orochimaru?" Hinata asked.

Sarada and Himawari looked at each other. "We figured with my byakugan and speed, and Sarada's sharingan, we could get in and out without being caught.

But Mitsuki gave us the wrong location for the antidote. He must have had a way to get out of Sarada's genjutsu. Orochimaru captured us and threw us in this cell. Then a little while later, you were brought in here too."

Hinata stood up and scanned the place with her byakugan. This place was specifically fashioned for her. She could not see through the walls. There were no cracks in the solid surface. "There's no getting out of here easily."

"Does Mitsuki know where you hid Boruto?" Hinata asked, sharply.

"No. We kept him blind folded and bound up." Sarada said. "And then we dropped him in a cave about a mile from here before we came to this hideout."

Even if Hinata got them all out of the cell, she could not defeat Orochimaru and Gokurukon on her own. The one chance they had of receiving back up on time was Shino's parasitic insects. Hinata could see the tiny chakra of the female insect on Himawari. Naruto would find them. He would be able to find Boruto as well. Hopefully before Orochimaru did.

She bit her thumb and then did some hand seals, placing her hand on the ground. Two ninja mice appeared. Yumi and Yuka. The two little mice stood at attention. In little squeaks they said in unison, "Lady Hinata. Yumi and Yuka, at your service."

Hinata saluted Yumi and Yuka in return. "I need you, Yumi, to find the key to this cell and slip it back under the door. And I need you, Yuka, to find a way out of this hide out. I'm sure the Lord Hokage is headed this direction. Tell him I'm alright, and I have Himawari and Sarada. Make sure he looks for Boruto first. Be careful though. There are a lot of snakes hanging around this place."

Both mice nodded their little heads. Then they both ran off, slipping easily under the cell door.

She walked back over to where Himawari and Sarada huddled together. She took both of them into her arms. "It will be ok. We'll get out of here. I promise you."

"Once Yumi brings back the key, we're going to have to sneak out of here." Hinata said, reassuringly. "It's unlikely that Orochimaru is still here anyway. He's probably searching for Boruto."

About twenty minutes later, Yumi returned with the key. Hinata took it from the mouse and unlocked the cell. "Use Yuka's scent to find the way out please Yumi."

"Yes ma'am." The mouse replied before leading them left and down the hall, his little nose twitching as he went.

Hinata walked behind Himawari and Sarada. They followed the mouse down several corridors before they came to a stairway that led them out into the light of the forest.

"Thank Yumi." Hinata saluted at the mouse again and he disappeared.

Frowning, Hinata felt like that was too easy. Orochimaru might be out searching for Boruto, but she was certain he would have left Gokurukon behind to guard her and Himawari and Sarada. She shook her head, activating her byakugan.

They were back in the hide out, right outside of the cell door. It was another illusion.

The hall began to waver and shift shapes, so that there were several new tunnel openings. Gokurukon's hands and arms extend from the walls and the ceiling, grasping for anyone close enough.

Sarada whispered. "The genjutsu user is at the end of the hall. I'll force him to release the genjutsu."

Hinata nodded, confirmation.

Her sharingan activated, Sarada's body seemed to crumble into a pile of rocks. Hinata looked at Himawari. "You need to make as much of a distraction as possible while Sarada undoes his genjutsu. Like your father does with his clones. You've done it before. You can do it now."

Himawari nodded at her mother. She closed her eyes and concentrated. She started her body flicker, but did not teleport, allowing her speed to build up in an enormous concentration in that one place. Finally, she teleported further down the hall. Ten of her appeared out of the path of her teleportation. The ten after images ran up the hall way behind her.

Two of Gokurukon's arms pulled his entire body out of the wall ahead of Himawaru. He reached out to stop the running Kunoichi. Himawari side kicked Gokurukon in the chest. The kick was powerful enough to force him to double over and take a step back. But he grabbed her leg and swung her away, using her own power against her as she flew into the other hallway wall, causing a portions of the ceiling to crumble. However, he was not so lucky with the after images that followed Himawari's path. All of them side kicking Gokurukon with the same power, knocking him back into the wall, until he was crammed inside of a large indention. Sarada appeared from the damaged wall now, grabbing Gokurukon around the neck. Her arms growing like vines and wrapping their way around his neck and body, restraining him.

The genjutsu released. The hallway returned to its normal state. Hinata examined the hallway with her byakugan. Sarada stood behind Gokurukon with a needle to his neck. That was a clone. She dispersed, reforming in front of the real Gokurukon where he stood in the shadows at the end of the hall. He was attempting to create his creatures. Body parts were starting to form out of his gray skin. She hit his first chakra point dispersing again.

Himawari was up now. She sped at Gokurukon, hitting his next chakra point before he could react to her. Hinata reformed on the other side of him and hit another chakra point. He was ready for her this time, swiping at her, in an attempt to freeze her in ice.

Sarah's sharingan had already seen where his hand was going. She threw her needle before he started to move. Hinata dispersed. The needle sliced through Gokurukon's hand, knocking him off balance.

Himawari used her speed to hit the last of his chakra points as Gokurkon fell backward. After he hit the ground, Hinata reformed over Gokurukon punching him hard in the face with her twin lions. The gray man was knocked out cold.

Hinata's impulses wanted to go further. She wanted to kill this man underneath her. This man, who had hunted her for years, killed her friend, threatened her sister and her daughter. She wanted to watch the last of his breath leave his body. But then, she looked up into Himawari's expectant face and stopped herself. She stepped back and took a deep breath. "We tie him up and lock him in the cell... and then we go find Boruto."

Himawari and Sarada nodded at her.