AN bleuxe: I'm going to answer some of the questions that are in the comments. To Thesunkunoichi I wish I had more time to update but I work full time and so I trying to write really long chapter and I'll try to update when I can since I work though holidays. To Janedoe He pulls his mask to the side to kiss her sometime that I forget to write that and the other question why she doesn't know he is Akatsuki in answered in this chapter. Please I have thank you guys for commenting because I when back to correct errors and still going back to correct things I missed. Thanks enjoy!
Hinata was in the struggle of her life grabbing the nearest kitchen knife expertly plunging the sharpest point from behind her. Thinking she got him because he released her from crushing her windpipe, but oddly even it felt like she cutting thin air. She backed away cautiously with him holding his gut, but there was no blood on the knife and he began to laugh.
"Almost, but no prize…. those killer instincts really kicking-in huh?" Obito said clearly amused by the situation. It was like meet a whole different woman because there was no hesitation in her strike and could see the fury in her eyes as he put the necklace around his own neck.
Hinata only gripped the knife handle tighter from him patronizing her, the mask nin reached out to try and grab her again. Instantly she jumped away from his hand and out into the living room. He followed and she put her heel on the edge of table kicking it sending it flying across the room at him. He immediately bulldozed it in half causing splinters to spray everywhere at such a velocity, she thought it exploded. It created every nicks and scratches across any of her skin that was exposed, but she carefully shielded her eyes with the large blade of the knife.
Hinata had her byakugan on in full force quickly assessing him to see if he had any damages on him.
"He has not one speck wood chips on him, impossible! No, Tobi has some kind of space-time ninjutsu that why I couldn't touch him," She thought with a sweat forming on her brow. How was she going to use her abilities to touch what was intangible?
"No don't give-up! I can't let him go near me again…he is dangerous, but so am I!"
Hinata drop her weapon as it made a loud clank to floor while changing her whole stance to gentle fist.
Obito watched she doing a series of rotations he was definitely in range of her eight trigrams sixty -four palms. Making him narrow down which Hyūga that she could be, having some knowledge of her clan to know only the elite probably know this move. But he had to admit it was the first time seeing it in action.
Thirty minutes in a one a sided battle he enjoyed her fighting spirit, but this battle was pointless especially since he fazing in and out of existence. She was fierce, but her chakra levels have severely dipped at this point. Every window in her apartment shattered with glass everywhere on the floor and all her furniture was destroyed. Her dark blue bangs were plastered to her forehead still holding her fighting stance as she breathed heavily.
"It's over. Time to give-up now," Obito said as she tense-up with every step he made towards her. He humored her for far too long and maybe he was just captivated by her graceful movements.
"No and you don't get to decide that!" Hinata replied defiantly not willing to go anywhere with him.
The mask man stopped dead in track and tilted his head to the side.
"Oh…and who gets to decided that now Konoha or you? No, you failed your mission, your clan and your homeland. And you think you'll be accepted if you ever leave Ame,"
"Y-You don't know that," she tried not to believe the doubt forming inside her mind. At first Hinata was running purely on adrenaline to get away from his chock hold and the fact he had her necklace was reason to keep fighting him. She realized she failed to keep secrecy and knew it was all because of him and if she just stayed away from him.
"I know a lot more about the Leaf village now that I have their spy," Obito saw her resolve was quickly crumbling and there no chance of her beating or escaping him.
Hinata knew this was not how she wanted go out and the mask man was most likely going turn her into the Amekage. Suddenly having memories of every little thing, she did wrong here and how she disappointed her entire village as well as herself. This mission was supposed to mean to everything to her, two years of hard earn work gone and now she has nothing.
A spy was only good when she was never caught, Hinata had this ingrained to her from the start. She back into the wall getting the kitchen knife that ended up embedded in the wall. It was still sharp as she deeply swallowed. The blue kunoichi saw her life flashing before her eyes and knew there wasn't much chakra left in her body. She no other choice and couldn't let him get any more information with raw impulse she pointed the dagger on to herself directly towards her heart.
Obito grabbed her hand stopping the tip of the metal from piecing her flesh. He could only imagination what would happen if he was a couple seconds late and instant thought of Rin and her death. He was livid that this Hyūga would take him back to such a horrible memory and began to crush her fingers.
"Sleep," He said with his sharingan shining through the darkness of his eye hole. Before Hinata could cry out in pain she lost complete consciousness.
A sound of humming filled her ears, it was eerily and full of melancholy as her eyes slowly open to a bright light. It made her squinted her eyes and soon realized she laying on a hard surface strap up to an operation table with her arms tied behind her back having her in an extremely uncomfortable position in completely different location.
The only part of her body that could move was her head from side to side. Her grogginess left her completely as her saw the mask man approached her in an Akatsuki cloak.
"Wakey wakey," Obito said still seething from her little suicide attempt. While Hinata was passed out, he spent the next several hours reading files about her alias, her real self and what her correspondence was to the Hokage. He had to do most of the research at Konoha, with him mostly stealing documents or taking copies by speed reading with his sharingan in their archives.
Hinata made sure that she avoided looking at his mask remember his sharingan and ended up staring at his Akatsuki cloak. Witnessing how strong he was, finding out he was Akatsuki it made her queasy, but it made her see that she wasn't the only one living a double life. He really was a Uchiha? Because what she knew there was only two Uchiha surviving the massacre Sasuke and the infamous Itachi.
"Who are you?" Hinata asked suffering from chakra exhaustion and weary from everything that was happening to her.
"Do I really need to be tied up I barely have the energy to move,"
"I go by Obito not that it matters," he answered and this only guaranteed her permanent stay here because no one knew his real identity.
"Why did you try to kill yourself?" he decided to get to the point. At first, he was impressed because her unwillingness to be captured, but then he got disappointed when she just gave up like that.
"I-I saw no other way…" she whispered feeling pathetic because she failed her mission.
"It was the only honorable way I could think of to preserve my duty as a Leaf,"
Obito wondered if this what went though Rin's mind when she had Kakashi kill her. The trauma she left behind in him and to see it manifest it self again in this endless cycle because of the shinobi world.
"This reality really is hell, but there is no honor in death and you won't be hailed a hero if you died…just a miserable fade memory Hinata," He spoke gravely as his words hit her to the core.
Hinata push back the tears that threaten to spill from her eyes as she felt more ashamed of herself. Her judgement was so cloudy and to hear him say her name it made everything clear.
"Please let me go I won't mention Akatsuki involvement in Ame to Konoha," she saw that he had some kind of empathy towards her.
Obito moved the surgeon light out from her face and he felt like she was trying to manipulate the situation in her favor.
"No, I don't see how that would help me," he said being honest and if Konoha knew Akatsuki had involvement in Ame it actually speed-up whatever set-backs they were having lately. He wanted to see what she was willing to give in order to have some resemblance of her old life.
"What want is your loyalty," Obito saw her loyalty more valuable than gold at this point.
Hinata believed what he was asking for was impossible because it meant betraying everything she worked for. Even though she failed and in no position to resist anything he wanted to do her as he loomed over her. She wouldn't be labeled as a traitor because she won't lose her loved ones or her believes over Akatsuki.
"I can't-"
"You can't or won't?" the mask nin interrupted her because he was getting a sense of Deja-vu of the last time she said that she can't to him.
"Both I will not give up my loyalty to you!" Hinata made it crystal clear to Obito that he won't just intimidated her to get what he wanted.
He began circling the table she was strapped to like a wolf stalking a rabbit.
"I want you to take a look around you to truly understand what being loyal to Konoha can get you," he said as he gestured to the walls now the light was no longer blinding her. Her vision began to adjusting the wall there were glass in shelves with names on them and eyeballs in. She was in shock the entire walls surrounding her were covered in Uchiha eyes.
"This what ended my clan and shows how Konoha treats their own shinobi," Obito was telling partial truths at this point as a scared tactic and it was the main reason, he brought her to his lab.
"Now tell me are they still deserving of your loyalty?"
Hinata was shaking, but even if this is true.
"Y-Yes because joining you means I'll end up hurting those I love…I rather die,"
Obito suddenly grabbed a hold her jawline preventing any noise from exiting her mouth as she began thrashing against her restraints. He was getting very tired with her obsession with death and held her head still as he pulled the bright surgeon light back in her face. Her words irked him to no end and was tactless in his opinion especially since he just told her that there was no honor in death.
"Eenie," he thought believing the byakugan princess brought this on herself as he wondered which one should he take.
"Meenie," feeling her teeth trying to bite through his glove.
"Miney," tapping his pointer finger on her right side on her cheek.
"Mo," Obito violently jerked her face to the side puckering her left eye clean out of her socket. He got some sick satisfaction feeling her muffled screams against his hand as blood and tears leaked out of her empty socket.
He held her pale eye in his other hand like it was a precious jewel as he walked over to the mayo stand where a jar full of liquid was. Plopping her eye in it and sealing it with the lid that was label in bold Hyūga Hinata.