y'all I'm so sorry this took forever. however, I do hope you've all watched the anime because I did a thing for the time being. also I'm still not sure in which direction I'm going with who will end up with who. so thoughts and input is nice because this story is far from over and without being said I hope you guys like this one. reviews are nice :3 enjoy!
Chapter 14:
Kakashis POV:
Boom. Boom. Boom. I jumped right off my couch, running outside. I looked up in the sky to see the barrier team closing in on each other to make a protection over the village, they're here. I quickly ran towards Tsunade's office, I knew she could handle herself but it was better to protect the hokage then risk them dying.
As I was jumping along the roofs, I saw everyone shuffling citizens along and getting into position to fight. I hope and trust in our Shinobi. The Akatsuki were powerful ninja with a mighty force, they were going to enter this village no matter what.
As I got to the side of the hokage manor, I scaled the last of the wall and hopped into the window. I was immediately greeted with two of Tsunade's personal Anbu details in my face, they looked at each other quickly and relinquished their weapons from my neck.
"You never gave me orders on what to do so I'm here to protect you" I told her honestly, she was looking out of her window that was overlooking the entire village.
"It's been two days since I briefed everyone, I didn't think they would move in so fast," she said in disbelief, I didn't say anything. Instead I just walked toward the window and also looked out at it. Everyone was running around down below us, I felt bad just standing here.
I continued to look and that's when I noticed a large white flying creature overhead with a blond on it's back, Deidara. I lifted my headband, focusing on him with my sharingan. I watched him lift up his arms and four-hundred creatures spilled out of his sleeves, tiny bombs.
"He's going to blow a hole in the barrier" I yelled as they all hit, shaking everything. I got my foot back fast, looking up in the sky for him again. He must of slipped by and into the village from the explosion.
"Kill him" Tsunade said, I nodded my head. I moved quickly out of the window I had just entered. I was moving as fast as I could, he wasn't escaping this time. Not after what he his puppet friend did to Gaara all that time ago.
"Kakashi-sensei!" I heard a voice shout, I looked towards the noise to see an orange and yellow blur catching up to me; Naruto.
"I'm coming to help you kill that bastard!" Naruto shouted, I nodded my head knowing full well he wanted to crush this guy. Although last time we were face to face with him, he was toying with us for a while. He's here to full on kill, I knew we had to be extra cautious.
As we hopped down onto the street, making our way around the villagers, another loud crash happened, once again shaking the ground. Naruto and I looked around to see the barrier was falling quickly, the other Akatsuki members must of figured out a flaw in our system.
"We meet again my Jinchuriki friend, tell me, how's your friend, heh?" Deidara spoke from behind us. Naruto and I turned quickly, I watched Narutos eyes turn red quickly. His anger was getting the better of him, he started growling.
"Not even a hello? Just straight to growling? Oh well" Deidara flicked his wrist a certain way, rolling his eyes. His presents annoyed me but I didn't move first. Deidara reopened his eyes, giving me a sick smile before quickly throwing tiny explosives toward us. A few villagers were around, he bolted to move them out of harm's way.
The smoke had cleared and the ground had some holes in it. His bombs weren't even big and they were making large impacts. Before I could think of what to do, Naruto bolted for him head on. I watched the two of them for a minute, ducking out of each other's way every time. I knew I had to keep my eyes open for a chance to end this but I didn't find any.
"Stay still!" Naruto roared, hitting Deidara in the chest with a rasengan. Deidara went flying backwards into a building, making the walls fall down around him. It didn't take long for Deidara to get back up, then I became defensive.
"You guys are drawing my patience thin" Deidara spat some blood, then wiping his mouth. I glared at him, two kunais in hand ready to leap forward.
"And you're testing mine" I growled, Deidara looked at both of us knowing he was outnumbered. He had stuck his hands up his sleeves, I could somewhat see his chakra moving, a lot of it was focused on his hands. He must of been making more bombs.
I threw my kunai at his wrists, his hands came out of their sleeves, throwing two white centipedes at us. We jumped back just in time for them to explode under our feet.
"I came prepared" Deidara shouted, throwing five more bombs at us. Luckily for me my sharingan allowed me to see past them all, easily avoiding them. I looked over to see Naruto, one of them was coming straight for his face in the smoke and I knew he didn't see it. I jolted forward to block the impact away from him. I managed to hit it with my left arm in time, it detonated. Sending me falling to the ground quickly and heavily.
I could feel wear the bomb hit my arm, it was on fire and I felt a little warm liquid. I sat up, looking at my arm quickly. A small portion of skin lifted from being burnt on impact and some blood came with it but I wasn't going to let it slow me down.
"Kakashi-sensei, are you okay?" Naruto asked me as he landed next to me.
"I'll be fine, let's win this fight" I deadpanned, looking Deiadra in the eyes. He started to laugh which infuriated me. I pushed myself up off the floor and that's when a bunch of explosions, noise and shaking started coming along. Everywhere I listened, there was a commotion. Did the rest of them get in?
"Sounds to me like this village is slowly burning" Deidara said, smiling.
"Kakashi-sensei, I can handle this loser. Go help fight someone worthy" Naruto spat, I nodded my head listening to Naruto. I only agreed because something in my gut told me he needed to do this and I was needed elsewhere.
"I'll be back for you" Deidara yelled and jumped in the air, I watched him hover for a second until his giant white flying creature came back. Before he could get to far, Naruto and I looked at each other.
"Flying rasenshuriken!" Naruto yelled.
"Fireball jutsu" I yelled at the same time as him. He aimed for Deidara, the very end of my fireball burned the back of his creature, Naruto's jutsu clipped its wing and he lost control. He was quickly coming down to earth quickly.
"Cha!" someone screamed, I looked over to see Sakura coming down with full force on top of Deidara's body, ready to send him into the earth to his death. I cringed slightly for him, what a way to go… Sakura landed her monsterous punch right into Deidara's stomach. Both of them shattered the ground from sheer force. I watched pieces of the ground fly in all directions, a cracking noise so loud you could hear for at least a mile.
"Don't mess with my team!" Sakura yelled coming out from the destruction she had just made. She dusted herself off briefly and fixed her gloves.
"He shouldn't be a problem anymore" she said proudly, looking at us.
"Wait, where's Sasuke?" Naruto asked confused, I saw Sakuras vein in her forehead bulge for a second. Not even a thank you Naruto? Just straight to the point I see.
"He went off to find Itachi, he didn't want him to fight anyone alone" she said.
Before any of us could talk again, I noticed another figure in the sky. He had bright orange hair and his arms were raised out in front of him. This couldn't be good. I was focused on his movements, not bothering doing anything else at the moment.
"Who is that?" Sakura asked.
"I'm not sure but he has the rinnegan so we need to be careful" I spoke carelessly. The safety of the village was about to become increasingly hard to keep.
"Lady Sakura, Lady Tsunade sent us here to protect everyone in case something happens" a small cute voice spoke, my eyes looked around to see Tsunades summon Katsuyu appeared near us. There were three of her, one for each of us. My stomach dropped, this wasn't good.
Hinatas POV
The attack on the village had been underway for an hour now and I was running ramped trying the best I could to help any remaining villagers to safety. I was hoping the older woman I was helping at the moment was the last so I could start defeating the enemy. They were all powerful missing nin and even though we had some of the best ninjas in the village, our fight would be hard.
"Hyuga" a voice shouted to me as I sealed the older woman away in a safe spot with the other villagers. I turned to look around, I saw no one. I activated my blood line, continuing to look. Kisame. He was about a hundred feet away from me behind a building.
I rushed over towards him, how did he get into the village? It didn't matter at this point.
"You're crazy behind here. Not everyone knows you're not apart of the Akatsuki anymore" I basically scolded him.
"I was coming here regardless, I wanted to let you know Deidara was possibly dead but obviously that's not the case considering he started the attack" Kisame said, shrugging.
"Just stay with me, we need all the help we can get" I huffed, turning to see where the rest of my clan was. I needed to be in the backlines, my eyes were more important right now than my skills.
"This isn't good, Pein is in the sky" Kisame said, breaking me from my thoughts. I looked up to see him, his arms stretched in front of him. If he was about to use almighty push, the entire village was about to be blown to bits.
"We need to find cover somewhere or we won't live to help your village" Kisame said seriously, I nodded my head. Thinking of where we could hide.
"Lady Hinata, I'm here to help" a small voice said, I looked down. Katsuyu! Oh no, but that means Tsunade is gravely injure herself trying to help all of us. Worry overcame me for my friend. Worry overcame me for all my comrades too. I hope Katsuyu could get to everyone in time.
"Lady Katsuyu, can you split one more time to help my friend?" I asked the slug who appeared next to me a second ago.
"I can try but I'm not sure how well I can protect the both of you if I split myself," she said meekly.
"It's better than knowing you didn't at least try" I told her with confidence. The slug nodded her head and began to split herself in two. We watched her go from one slug to two in the matter of minutes all while keeping an eye on Pein.
-25 minutes later-
"Lady Hinata, wake up" the small voice of Katsuyu was calling my name, I opened my eyes slowly. The ground was the first thing I saw. I lifted my head, squinting my eyes. The light was so bright, it hurt to look around for a minute.
"The village.. Is gone" she said sadly. I sat up quickly, looking around. Debris and rubble everywhere, dust was still moving its way around. I slowly rose from the ground, whatever buildings were around me were blocking my view.
"Wheres Kisame?" I asked Katsuyu, hoping he made it.
"He's underneath the rubble over there" she pointed her little antennas towards him. I nodded my head and started to climb over things. Once I got to the tallest part of the pile of debris under me is when I saw it. The entire middle of the village, was gone. Nothing but a giant crater and everything was pushed back. I scanned the area with my blood line. Almost everything was gone and a majority of shinobi were coming out of the protection of Katsuyu as I looked. My heart broke, my entire village was blown to pieces. A single tear rolled down my cheek and I just kept looking at the mess in front of me.
"Little Hyuga, help me get this boulder off of my leg" Kisame spoke, my attention snapped back over to him. I moved quickly and lifted it the best I could so he could move his leg quickly.
"Is it broken?" I asked him.
"No, thank god. Now let's go help defend what's left of this place" he said to me, brushing the dirt off of him as he stood up.
"Nice of you to show your face, fucking traitor" a voice broke from the right of us. Hidan. I shifted my stance, ready to fight him.
"Hyuga, run. I'll fight him alone" Kisame said, taking samehada off his back, ready to fight.
"I don't need to run every time" I spoke, my blood line activating.
"If your pet wants to stay and get killed too, that's even better" Hidan smiled towards me. I knew Hidan didn't have crazy jutsus up his sleeve except for one so I had to be careful to not get hit.
He pushed off the ground and suddenly appeared next to me, he was fast. I dodged the first swing of the kunai he was holding. Blocking him with my own, the metal of each weapon making a ting noise when hitting each other. He kept pushing me backwards, we were dancing on top of broken buildings underneath our feet.
"You're quick" Hidan blurted out as we continued making the same moves over and over again. I knew the next hit was going to come for my side so I moved a different way, kicking him in his side. He tumbled a little bit, landing on one knee.
"You're making me mad" Hidan barked, standing up. I didn't say anything, I just threw kunais at him. He dodged all of them, rushing towards me with his scythe this time. I knew I needed to make the space bigger between us now as for his weapon range was longer. I jumped to the right, attempting to make space and he threw his weapon. It came hurtling at me with intense speed, he was holding the end of it. I wasn't sure how to dodge this one but it had stopped, thanks to Kisame. He swung his sword back with force making the scythe fly back towards its owner.
"You think two on one is giving you the advantage? Wrong, assholes" Hidan said and started laughing.
"It's just a faster way to put you in the grave" Kisame shot back and started weaving hand signs. I watched as a shark made out of water emerged from in front of him, blasted forward towards Hidan. I took the opportunity to move into him while he was distracted with Kisame's jutsu.
I dashed forward at lightning speed, thanking Kakashi for teaching me to move fast. The shark and I were both coming in hot for Hidan. Hidan had jumped to the left to avoid the shark but crashed right into me. I shoved a kunai threw the front of his neck, the blade sticking out the back.
"Stupid bitch, did you really think this would stop me? Did you not do enough research?" Hidan laughed while ripping the kunai out of his neck. Blood was spilling out of him like a faucet. I knew he was immortal but I also knew if you ripped him apart, he was useless.
"Great shark bullet jutsu" Kisame yelled again, another shark was coming in fast. Hidan was getting ready to jump out of the way again and I thought quickly. As Hidan was jumping backwards, I followed him. I managed to grab his scythe, swinging at his right arm taking the limb clean off.
"You stupid bitch! That hurt!" Hidan yelled as he landed back on his two feet and I landed in front of him grinning. I dropped his scythe and jumped backwards, creating space again.
"It wasn't supposed to tickle" I smiled and we locked eyes. I knew he was becoming increasingly annoyed with us.
Itachis POV:
It had been a half hour since I came out of Katsuyus protection.I had no idea where anyone was or who was fighting who. I just knew what was left of the leaf village was currently a war zone. Sasuke and I were fighting Kakuzu and he had two "hearts" left and that was my only concern at the moment.
"You're looking tired, Uchiha" Kakuzu spoke, grinning, ready to strike again with his katon zukokku (fire mask). I watched Sasuke at top speed from behind, the sound of ear piercing birds screeched and a chidori went straight through the mask. It shattered, leaving Kakuzu rendered with one heart left.
"You should be paying more attention to your surroundings and not my health" I smuggly said, Kakuzus face fell to anger. Sasuke fell to the ground in the background, my mind went blank and I wanted to check on him. My eyes focused on his chakra and it was very low.
"You should take your own advice" Kakuzu spoke sharply, punching me with all his might in my chest cavity. The wind was knocked from me and I fell to one knee, I started to cough up blood. I was distracted for a mere three seconds and he took the advantage. He knew he had no chance against the two of us so he started to play even dirtier.
The downfall to being in the Akatsuki together so long was knowing each other weak point. My lungs were no longer my weakness but still a weak spot. They might be fully functional lungs and I might be healthy, but if I was hit hard enough it was still going to hurt a great deal.
Before I was able to catch my breath, he had kicked me in the face. I fell onto my side, he wasn't even going to use ninjutsu now, just sheer rage driven hand to hand fighting.
I tried to block his next kick but it didn't help, his foot went right into my ribcage, making me cough up more blood.
"If you think I'm going to let a traitor spy live, you're wrong. The bounty on your head is doubled in size now" he spat me, kicking me again. The familiar burning in my lungs had returned, I didn't miss it.
"Is that all you care about is money?" I managed to spit out, I received a punch to the chest again. He was going to keep beating my torso until I couldn't function. My bloodline was activated from anger and pain but it wouldn't help any if I couldn't make eye contact with him. I was struggling to get off the ground.
"At this point it just feels good to beat someone to death" he said punching me in the face this time. I had managed to get on my hands one knees.
"You sound like Hidan now" I choked out, blood coming with it.
"Doesn't matter who I sound like. I just want the pay off for offering someone your dead sharingan eyed body" he hissed, shoving me back to the ground with his right leg. I hit the ground and managed to roll onto my back. He was standing over me, watching my pitiful looking self try and regain momentum.
"Tsukuyomi" I shouted fast when I knew he looked me in the eyes, he stopped moving all together. I rested my head back for a second, he must of thought I wouldn't be able to produce my genjutsu due to my illness he thought I still had.
"Chidori!" I heard a yell and I looked up to see Sasukes hand sticking out of Kakuzus chest where his heart was. Sasuke ripped his arm out and Kakuzus body dropped to the ground with a solid thump.
"I thought you were done for" I said meekly, sitting up. I knew if I gave myself a few minutes the pain would ease over a bit and I could rejoin the fight.
"I told you, you're not to die any other way aside from me personally or old age" Sasuke joked and sat next to me for a second.
"I saw your chakra, it was so low" I said seriously.
"I'll always manage" he said casually and all I could hear from around the village was explosions still and I knew the rest of the akatsuki and peins six paths were running havok.
"We should go find more people to help" I said getting up, my chakra levels weren't at their best but I would be damned if I didn't help more. I'll die to protect this place.
"We need to find Sakura, she can heal us up a little bit" Sasuke spoke and I nodded my head in agreement and we took off towards the last place he knew of where she would be.
"She shouldn't be far, I knew she was trying to catch up to Kakashi and Naruto" he said as we continued to hop over broken buildings and giant rocks. My heart broke a little looking at all the damage, the village was going to need so much care afterwards.
"I hope Naruto isn't dumb enough to fight Pein head on. They're here for personal reasons but the overall reason is to capture him for the tailed beast inside of him" I said sharply, concern had washed over me. I forgot about the bigger picture for a minute and I mentally slapped myself.
"I wouldn't put it past him" Sasuke said and we kept running. A few minutes passed and I saw a few familiar faces. The scene in front of me didn't look good, Kakashi was crushed between rocks and he looked near death. I focused my eyes, looking over the area quickly. Choza had died in the battle field, his son Choji was crying over his body. The Asura Pein was crushed under some rocks but was still ready to kill since he was after all, a machine.
"Kakashi!" Sasuke yelled, bee-ling for his sensei.
"Sasuke! Find Sakura! It's the best thing for him!" I yelled at my little brother. I could see from afar him and Kakashi made eye contact and Sasuke ran right by him, looking for help.
"Finally, my traitor spy has finally graced me with his presents" Pein spoke, I looked over at him, stopping in my tracks to stand on a tall rock.
"You're attacking my home" I said ready to fight him. I knew in my heart I would die fighting him from my lack of chakra and energy.
"You make me laugh, we're on the same side. We both just want peace" he said, I knew what he wanted had good intentions but killing and hurting people in the process wasn't the best way to go. We had that in common, we hurt a lot of people in the process of achieving peace. Everything I did went right out the window though, considering where we are now.
"Our factors on peace are different and you know that, I was apart of your organization. I know what your plan is" I said.
"You know nothing. Nor will you because you're life is going to end after I take care of your friends" he said, raising his hand. What was he planning on doing. He just kept his stance and I looked around. The Asura Pein's skin began twisting, a homing missile coming from it's back. He was planning on killing Choji. I didn't have enough power in my eyes right now to use amaterasu, throwing a kunai would do nothing. The only thing I could do was jump in front of the missle to sacrifice myself, Choji still had a life to build without mistakes.
I started moving as quickly as I could towards him, Choji knew it was coming but didn't start moving.
"Choji! Run!" Kakashi screamed, I looked at Kakashi and the pattern in his sharingan was shifting, he was going to use kumui. If he did that, he would surely die. I tried to hurry so he wouldn't die, he didn't need to die yet.
My eyes shifted back to Choji and he was running as quick as he could, the missle hot on his heels. I too was moving like lightning and before I could catch up, the missle started to distort in the air, Kakashi was already a step ahead of me. My heart began to sink for him. I stopped where I was and just watched. The missile had vanished and I looked back toward my friend. He was barely breathing, his sharingan eye was barely open.
"Say goodbye to him, Itachi" Pein said, making me look. He had a nail in his fingers, he used his almighty push in baby form you could say to pact force behind throwing the nail at Kakashi. I watched the nail in slow motion with my eyes, soar towards Kakashi.
The very last ounce of chakra he had was used to absorb the nail into another dimension, the force of the air behind the nail had pushed Kakashis head back and I knew he was gone. Anger spread through my body and adrenaline kicked in.
"You're not getting away with this!" I shouted at him, he merely laughed at me.
"You're not alone Itachi, I'm here with you to kill this bastard" a voice shouted from the side of me, making my look. An orange blur suddenly appeared, Naruto. I think he could sense my anger because he looked half intimidated by me.
"You think you're the only ones who matter. You think you can put off death. But peace that made you foolish and thoughtless. If you kill someone, someone else will kill you... this hatred binds us together. Just look at your friend over there, he thought he could beat me and just look where it got him" Pein said, snapping our attention back to him. I glanced over at Naruto, did he not notice Kakashi? I watched Naruto look around, it took him a minute and then noticed. His sensei was dead. His body now being the only thing left of him. I watched his eyes grow wide, I could see sadness flooding over him and then I saw it, pure hatred. He snapped back towards Pein.
"You bastard! You'll pay for this!" Naruto screamed, his teeth forming into fangs, his slight whiskers on his face darkening and eyes growing into slits. A small glowing red aura was forming around him. The kyubi was taking over, I could feel the power amplifying off of him.
"You're being foolish but by all means do what you must, you're coming with me when this is all over. You play a very big part in my plan" Pein said, shifting himself for a fight and Naruto took off like a bat out of hell toward Pein..
Hinatas POV:
The fight with Hidan lasted longer than it should have but he was finally gone, Kisame made the final blow and now we were throwing on the last of the boulders into the hole we threw his body parts in.
"I'm coming back for you, fuckers!" Hidan yelled from underground, I just barely heard him.
"Hopefully no one finds him" Kisame said throwing the last rock on top. We turned our backs on the hole, walking briskly back to the village.
"Something big is happening right now, we need to start moving faster" Kisame said and he started running and I followed him.
"We need to find someone, see if anyone has an update" I told him, he nodded his head in agreement and I kept my eyes open for a familiar face. As we hoped along, I could see people fighting with Akatsuki members that also had orange hair. Were those the other five Peins?
I noticed a bob of pink hair not to far in front of us, Sakura. I hope she knew what was going on.
"Sakura!" I yelled, hoping she could hear me. We were maybe fifty feet away from her at this point now. She looked in my direction for a second and went back to healing the shinobi in front of her.
I slowed down as I approached her, I took a second to breathe.
"Hinata, help me for a second" Sakura said, I got on my knees on the other side of the person on the ground.
"Just heal that side of his ribcage for me. Just take some of the pain away, the more he moves the longer I'll be here" Sakura said quickly. I did what I was told and helped her heal. I had very basic healing knowledge but it helped her out a lot. Her hands stopped glowing and I knew to follow her lead.
"Do you have any idea what's going on?" I asked her now that we were done.
"One of the orange haired Akatsuki members is stealing souls, not sure what for though. The rest of them are just fighting. I know two Akatsuki members are dead, Kakashi, Naruto and I took care of Deidara and Kakuzu, Sasuke and Itachi took care of him. Other than that, everyone is alive on our side that I know of but some are severely hurt" Sakura told us, that little bit of information was better than nothing. I'm sure there was more to it.
"Three, actually. We took care of Hidan" I told her, pointing at Kisame while I spoke and she nodded her head.
"The last piece of information I have is that Naruto and Itachi are fighting the leader of the Akatsuki, Pein. They're in the middle of the explosion" Sakura said, finally getting up off the ground. Worry came over me quickly, why would they be so stupid as to attack him head on? I mentally slapped myself and got off the ground to go help them.
"Thank you, Saukra-chan" I said, turning to leave her and started moving towards the main commotion of everything.
"It's not a wise idea to fight him, I think this is a bad idea" Kisame spoke to me, trying to convince me not to.
"I'm not going to just let my friends fight by themselves. They're protecting the people and what's left of our home. I'm helping" I sharply said, looking him in the eyes.
"You underestimate his power" Kisame sighed but continued to follow me.
"At least I can say I tried" I said and hoped over some more buildings. The last of the rubble was under my feet and I could finally see the entire blast that Pein had made on the village. The hole in the middle was huge. I could barely see Itachi and Naruto fighting Pein but I knew they were there.
I started making my way down the terrain of dirt of smaller rocks. Once I hit the bottom, I took off like a bat out of hell. Ready to fight. I could hear the sound of feet running behind me, Kisame was keeping up with me. I'm glad that him and I became friends, it's been more useful than I ever thought.
We had gotten a lot closer to them and Naruto was in a partially activated nine tails stance, his chakra was beaming off the walls. Him and Pein were in a fast paced hand to hand combat fight. If my eyes weren't trained to see this sort of thing, I would have missed a lot of what they were doing.
"Hinata" Itachi said, appearing next to me in a flash. I looked him in the eyes, I could feel the anger radiating off of him. His blood line was activated but something was off too.
"I've come to help" I said seriously, I gave a slight flare of chakra myself, my bloodline also activating and that's when I saw it. Itachis chakra network was sort of out of whack, like it had been when he first got here.
"What happened?" I asked, I absentmindedly touched his chest to see the minor chakra block. I lit up my hand to heal him a little bit, he placed his hand over mine.
"Now isn't the time to heal me" he spoke softly.
"You need it, you need to be at your best right now" I ignored his comment. I placed my other hand on his chest and pushed more healing chakra out. I would see the slight blocks fading and I knew he was feeling better.
"Kakuzu had become so angry he resorted to just a straight beating" Itachi said, letting us know what had happened. I did a quick scan over him once more, he should be back to normal for the most part and hopefully would fight better.
"Thank you" he said, removing my hands from his chest and all three of us turned to Naruto and Pein still swinging at each other. Pein looked irritated and that's when he knocked Naruto back with a force of chakra, sending him flying towards us. The push he sent made us all cover our eyes and brace the wind that had come with it.
"My other traitor has arrived too, I must say I didn't expect to see you here, Kisame" Pein spoke, noticing our blue friend.
"By all technicalities everyone in this organization is traitoris"Kisame spoke sarcastically. I cringed a little bit knowing this was full well not the time for it.
"You're right but at least we had a cause to be here, not fighting for what's left of a broken village. Protecting things that are meaningless" Pein spoke.
"It's not meaningless! Didn't you once have a home and people you've cared for?" I yelled back at him, my fists curled.
"You must be in infamous Hyuga that took it upon yourself to kidnap one of my members. That speaks a lot about you Itachi, she seems weak" Pein spat back at me, ignoring what I had said. Something was off about Pein right now. From what I've researched and heard he had been level headed and calm for the most part. Never showing this much emotion.
"You didn't answer her question, bastard!" Naruto shouted from behind us. I looked quickly to see him getting off the ground.
"If you must know then I suppose I'll answer. Yes, I once had a village and people I've cared for. My entire village was torn down in the Third Great Shinobi war and I watched my friend die in front of me" he said so blandly.
"Then why are you doing this! What you just told us is whats happening right now. You destroyed our village and took someone dear to us!" Naruto yelled, pointing to the right of him.
"In order to achieve real peace, this must happen. People like your friend over there are a reminder that war will never end unless my plan is saw out" Pein said back and I looked over to where Naruto and Pein kept pointing to, I didn't see anything at first and then.. I spotted it. A mop of silver hair and the face of my best friend, just gone. No, no, no, this isn't real. He was dead? I never even got a chance to apologize. I wanted so badly to run over to him and just hold his body but I knew he wasn't coming back and holding a dead body was going to protect the living ones we had to protect.
My eyes locked with Itachis for a second and then it clicked, that what was off about him. He must of watched it happen too.
"You're not leaving here alive" I screamed at Pein, with a tone I had never used before. My face fell flat and I was ready to kill. I charged head on at him, not even thinking.
"Hyuga!" Kisame yelled and I ignored him. My bloodline was activated and the closer I got, he just stood there smiling. Which angered me even more.
"Almighty push" he said as I reached about twenty feet from him. Out of instinct I used my clans speciality: eight trigram palm revolving heaven, keeping me safe from his attack. He thought I was weak which had given me an advantage.
I knew after he used his shinra tensei, there was a five second window to hit him and I pushed off the ground with chakra covering my feet to move like lighting. I gathered chakra in my hands to use my twin lion fists so I could hit him. The right handed attack was a distraction and I came down on his face with a hard left punch, sending him backwards with force. He skidded on the ground on his back before he stopped.
I didn't stop moving forward, this wasn't about the village to me right now, this was revenge. He took something very dear to me and he was going to pay. Once I was in front of him again, I drew in more chakra to my hands, sending another twin lion fist towards him. One in the chest and one in the face.
"You think this will stop me?" he asked with one eye swollen, I didn't respond but I threw daggers into his soul. I lifted my right arm up, just to punch him and then I was knocked down with force and I felt a kick to my back as I fell. I looked up to see a mechanical looking Pein in front of me. The giant monster walked over to me and lifted me up by the shirt, I squinted my eyes ready for anything.
He spun himself in a few circles while holding me, the world was spinning so fast and then he let go. He threw me and I was hurtling in whatever direction I was let go in. This was going to hurt if it doesn't kill me. I closed my eyes and just waited for whatever was to come.
The impact on the ground hurt like hell, when I landed I heard an immediate crack on my left arm. I knew it was broken and I continued tumbling until I was stopped by a giant piece of ruble. At least I didn't hit my head, I sighed and looked up towards the sky. I took a couple of deep breaths before I tried to get up. I wasn't going to this stop me. When I had sat up is when the pain really kicked in from my back, it hitched my breathing and I immediately laid back down to how I was. What happened to me? How far was I thrown?
I moved my head slowly in case anything else was wrong. When I looked to my right, I could see small figured outlines of people. I was thrown incredibly far and fast, no wonder I feel like shit. Great now, I wouldn't be able to help finish. Just lay here watching everyone else fight. But, maybe if I rolled onto my belly I could try and crawl away.
I rocked my body slowly trying to turn to the left, the pain was intense but I needed to find someone to help me so I could at least be in less pain. I knew fighting at this point would be more of a handicap than anything else.
The more I moved, the more I was becoming increasingly tired and it was hard to keep moving. My body was done but I just needed to hold on for a little bit longer.
Once I was on my belly, I looked around to see the only familiar face I knew at the moment, Choji. I wondered if he would hear me if I called out for him.
"Choji!" I yelled as loud as I could but it might as well sounded like a whisper. I sighed and pulled myself forward as far as I could with my right arm, I was going to make it thru this. Slowly, for sure.
It felt like an eternity as I pulled myself towards my friend, the closer I got I noticed he hadn't moved from the spot he was sitting in. Was he okay?"
"Choji!" I yelled again, this time a little bit louder and his head perked up, looking around for the source of the sound. Yes! He noticed.
"Choji!" I shouted one last time, my chest was burning now. He finally looked in my direction and saw me. He popped up to his feet and came rushing over.
"Hinata, what happened to you?" he asked concerned.
"Nevermind that, please pick me up gently and take me to someone who can heal me" I asked as nicely as I could.
"Of course" he said, leaning down and turning my over onto my back so he could lift me. As he lifted me I could feel more areas that were hurting and I wanted to cry but I held it in. I was finally in his arms and he started moving towards whoever. I kept my eyes barely open til I knew a medic was near me and then I saw him, again.
"Choji. I have a different plan" I whispered.
"What's the plan now?" he asked and stopped moving.
"Can you just put me next to Kakashi. I have to do something now before I don't get the chance to" I said.
"Hinata.. You know he's gone right?" Choki spoke, choking up a little bit. I nodded my head and he walked towards the body of our beloved friend. The closer I got, sadness was kicking into overdrive but I knew what I needed at this moment.
"Is there a way you can take him out of the rocks?" I asked, so his body wouldn't be crushed between them.
"Possibly" he said as he placed me down near him, I laid on my right side in a ball and just watched, I felt so weak knowing I couldn't move.
Choji walked near the rocks, removing them one by one. His body was slowly coming uncovered and Choji pulled him and placed him near me. At least now he was laying somewhere.
"I'm going to find you a medic" Choji said solemnly and took off. It was a lot to see someone you cared for like this and I knew Choji was upset.
I was about four feet away from me and I wiggled my way towards him and once I got there I used whatever energy I had left to grab his hand and I closed my eyes.
"I know you can't hear me but I need you to know I'm so sorry for everything and I wish this wasn't how it ended" I told him, squeezing his hand and then exhaustion took over and I blacked out.
Itachis POV:
After watching Hinata get thrown and landed, I wanted to go check on her but I knew she would yell at me because my attention needed to be on Pein right now. I could still sense her chakra which meant she was still alive but I'm sure she was hurt badly.
"Itachi, focus we have another problem" Kisame said and I focused my attention back towards Pein. Everyone had stopped for a moment, we all kept looking and then I noticed Konan coming down from the sky. Her paper wings were huge and I knew she was here to help him.
"Dance of the Shikigami!" she shouted and tried to wrap us all in her paper. I jumped back and took a deep breathe.
"Fireball jutsu" I yelled, creating a giant ball of fire, burning her paper before it could do harm. My fire techniques were her biggest weakness. She tried again but I watched her swoop in as fast as she could for Pein, grabbed him and tried to escape.
"I don't think so!" Naruto shouted and chased them. I followed in his footsteps. I didn't want him to fight alone.
"Naruto, you'll never catch them on foot" I shouted behind him. Why were they retreating?
"Watch me" he said and somehow became faster, not letting them out of his sight. I wasn't able to keep up with them for much longer and I stopped. I watched them disappear. I knew in my heart he would be able to stop this. Naruto always found a way to talk sense into people and befriend everyone he met. The first time I met him it took all of thirty minutes for him to become important to me in a way.
"You're really gonna just let them go?" Kisame asked, also stopping where I was.
"I can't keep up with them, I'm drained and I'm not allowed to leave the village" I said honestly, finally getting my breathing back on track.
"You think I should go after them?" he asked me and wasn't sure if that was the best idea.
"Just stay with me, if you leave there's a bigger chance of someone trying to kill you" I said and my eyes continued scanning the area. The other five paths of Pein was still running around the village causing destruction and I hoped Naruto would be able to end this so they would all stop.
"You're probably right and in the meantime, I think you should find a medic. You're not looking to good" Kisame said as we started moving towards where I knew Hinata would be.
"It's just chakra exhaustion. I swear" I said out loud and I was telling the truth. It had been so long since I was in a real fight and I know after today I was going to rebuild myself to the shinobi I knew I was and everyone feared me for.