Having just came back from the bluff where he would watch them in the training ground, Hitoshi was beyond the point of raging. They were still not there just the villagers under anbu guard. "Where the hell are they!? Damnit! Why is nothing going the way that I want it! It is all thanks to the damned Second Hokage!"

"My Lord."

"What!?" Turning to the door, Hitoshi glared at the closed door. "What is it?"

"Rock Lee has arrived at Lord Hiyashi's home. He has a scroll with him."

His eyes hard as he stormed out the door and past the servant, Hitoshi rushed through the compound and then burst into Hiyashi's office with a glare as he snatched the scroll from his hands. "It is about time that this comes back to the compound." Opening it he sighed to see the one word missing. Though he knew it would be with what Neji said before the Feudal Lord. "It is about time that this is where it should have stayed. With me." But then he looked at Hiyashi and glared. "But mark my words Hiyashi. I will not stop until I have the girl and her grandmother. I don't give a damn what happens to them. The Aizawa bloodline stops with her. I will extract everything out of them that says Hyuuga."

"I don't think you are going to be able to get to them like you think you are Hitoshi." Hiyashi glared as Hitoshi turned and growled and stormed off. Turning to Lee he sighed. "Everything was as it was expected to be then?"

"Yes. By now I am assuming that everything is back on track with that." But then he turned slightly worried eyes to the door. "Do you think that I should tell Neji and Shikamaru what he said when I get back?"

"Yes." Hiyashi then let out his own sigh as he walked him out. "I am going to go and inform Lady Tsunade." But just as he opened the outer door to his home, he blinked to find a tear filled Hinata standing there with a rather raging Gaara. His eyes hardening as his Byakugan flared to life to see where Hitoshi or anyone still loyal to him was. "What happened?"

Keeping his arm around his wife's waist, Gaara fisted his other hand. "We were hoping that you would be able to tell us what was going on. Three days ago, four Hyuuga came to the Sand. Their reason for being there was to attempt a kidnapping of Hinata. Though I tried not too I was forced to take their lives as they would not relent."

"Hitoshi!" His eyes seeing red, Hiyashi fisted his hands. "I will have his head for this!" Just as he started to walk away he felt a shaky hand grab his. Turning around to look into the crying eyes of his daughter Hiyashi sighed as his Byakugan faded and he turned and hugged her as he looked at Gaara. "I found a scroll that was in the archives with those that are about the curse mark. The rest are how to put it on, and how to use your chakra to cause pain. I have sense given copies to Neji on everything that has to do with it. The girl with red hair is the current Aizawa miko, and she is the third child out from a pure Hyuuga that the Second Hokage helped leave the village as an infant without the curse mark."

Crossing his arms as his eyes narrowed, Gaara took a deep breath. "Do you think that could have been what prompted the attempted kidnapping of her?"

"The desperate way that Hitoshi is acting yes I do think so Gaara." Looking down at his daughter as he moved her from his arms, Hiyashi sighed. "I will handle this. Hitoshi all but said that the scroll is a way to lift the curse mark from a Hyuuga without killing them. It is going to be a thing of the past. Then the entire clan can be…."

"No! Ahhhh! Father! Get off!"

Flinching as he moved, Hiyashi was next to Hanabi in an instant and spinning to make Hitoshi move away from her. "You may be an elder but I am the one in charge of this Clan Hitoshi. You have no right to look at my daughters let alone touch them."

"She should have been given the curse mark on her fourth birthday. Why you insisted that Neji be handed to you to put it on him when he was four, I do not understand why you are so against it with Hanabi!?" Feeling like things are going to go back to normal now that the scroll is on lock down, Hitoshi glared. "I have already spread the word that the scroll has been returned to me. There is no way that the mark can be removed now."

Without telling him exactly what was going on, Hiyashi sighed. "So far as you think. Do you really think that I would have had the scroll brought back to me and let you just snatch it away without a fight if there was really no way to take the curse mark off?" When Hitoshi's eyes went wide, Hiyashi sighed as he closed his eyes. "Your out dated way of thinking is about to be gone out with."

"Lord Hiyashi?"

Turning to see a woman standing there with the curse mark showing clear on her face as well as the man next to her, as she held what would be a child of no more than two. He knew the question in her eyes. "The curse mark will be ending very soon. Your child will never know what it is to have it put on, or used against them."

Stepping from behind Hitoshi, one of the other elders sighed. "But Lord Hitoshi has the scroll now. How can you say that?"

Turning to him, Hiyashi sighed as his wife pushed through the crowd and ran to Hanabi and Hinata. "I can say that because I am certain. What was meant only to keep our clan safe when it first started, turned into a fear based jutsu that those like Hitoshi use. Just the other day he used a jutsu to control the body of a twelve year old boy to try to take a girl and her grandmother by force. Not caring if he kills them, just to extract the Hyuuga blood that they have. He got him to do it by threatening to use the mark to hurt his five year old sister if he didn't."

A glance at Hinata as she fused herself to Gaara, Hiyashi hen turned to Hitoshi as all eyes looked at the elder. "And tell me this Hitoshi. You know how much the clan loves Hinata." When everyone nodded and turned smiles to the terrified Hinata, Hiyashi sighed. "So then why don't you tell them why four Hyuuga who had the curse mark are not coming home." When everyone started to look at him and then the worried look in Hitoshi's eyes, Hiyashi stepped toward him. "Tell them why four of them had to be killed by the Kazekage of the Sand as he protected Hinata from being kidnapped by them. What were your plans for my daughter Hitoshi? Put the curse mark on her because her mother and I let her leave to marry Gaara without it. It is time for you to give it up. In a matter of a few weeks I would guess, the curse mark will be removed."

"Liar! It cannot be removed without the scroll!" Hitoshi glared as he stepped up to Hiyashi and fisted his hands at his side. "I did send Hyuuga to the Sand. They were not going to take her away, but instead put the curse mark on her and seal away her chakra. The sand should not have rights to the Byakugan! You are daft if you think I would ever just stand by and go with it!"

Turning to the rest of the Hyuuga Clan, Hiyashi sighed. Turning to look at his wife he smiled. "Go and get them Rin." When she smiled and rushed in the house, Hiyashi turned back to the clan as they all gathered in front of his house. "Those of you that are old enough know that I am the elder of a set of twin brothers born to the former head of the clan and his wife. My brother was given the curse mark. And blindly allowing my loyalty to the clan I am the one who put the curse mark on my nephew Neji. Not long after he got the mark, my brother Hizashi was killed. The curse mark removing all traces of Hyuuga from him as it was done. All for the clan. It is barbaric. And yes even I am guilty of having used it to cause pain in lives. My brother for one. If you want the change. Move to stand behind my wife and daughters. You will be given a charm to keep with you at all times. It will not block the pain fully, but will make it a lesser pain than what it would be without."

"You can't…" But then Hitoshi went wide eyed as literally the entire Hyuuga compound moved away from him, but three of them. "You will all see. I will not take this without a fight Hiyashi! I won't! But so long as I have the scroll, you won't be able to do anything!" Then he was just gone.

Turning to his family, Hiyashi sighed as he welcomed his wife in his arms. Putting his hand on Hanabi's head, Hiyashi sighed. "While I know that I can protect you from him, I want you Hanabi to go and stay with Neji." He then looked at Gaara and Hinata. "The two of you for a spell as well. Neji is training her. And they will I am sure be able to do the jutsu soon enough."

Feeling the pleading eyes on him, Gaara nodded as he finally relaxed and smiled. "I will take them both to him now. Once you tell me where he is."

"I can take you to him. I am going back there now. I am sure Naruto will be happy to see you." Rock Lee then smiled as he walked away with them, talking with Gaara.

Looking at her husband, Rin sighed. "But if Hitoshi has the scroll then how can you remove the curse mark?"

"I would never have let him take it if there wasn't something else going on Rin. Just be patient and trust me." Hiyashi then turned with his wife and handed out the charms to the clan as they all filed past them, thanking him and telling him to send Neji their messages of good luck and be safe. He did hope that they would hurry and deal with it.