This mission was anything, but simple if anything it was extreme complicated and downright suicidal. She often thought what made her do this mission because it has been two years since she has been at Amegakure. Maybe it was successfully becoming Jōnin at eighteen years old and maybe that is what went to head her back then. No that couldn't be it, looking in the full length mirror unsure if Hinata could ever accept this appearance that was chose for her.
She accepted this top-secret mission to challenge herself and to prove to her family and friends. This way she can be useful to Konoha in a different way that was more resilience and informative. Her mission was to find out what was happening to Amegakure because in recent years there were rumors of a civil war going on here. To also figure out who started this or at least who the new leader of Amegakure was because they were shrouded in mystery.
It became apparent to Jiraiya that their last leader had died a long time ago and that this new leader was cutting connections from the rest of the world and restricted any shinobi who wasn't part of the Rain village from entering.
Flashback two years ago
"You want to see me Lady Hokage?" Hinata bowed with upmost respect when entering her office.
"There is no need for such formalities Hinata. Lady Tsunade is fine please have a seat," Tsunade said rustling though her desk drawers looking for her bottle.
"Want to congratulate on becoming a Jōnin." She said happily with her bottle in her hand. Hinata couldn't help to smile proudly, but also noticed Shizune and Tonton were not in the room.
"But that is not the only reason I called you here…" Tsunade decided get to the main point of why she was really here as she took a swig from the bottle.
Tsunade explained the intel that was received from Jiraiya and how delicate this situation was. Konoha couldn't be tie to this any way possible and it could mean war if caught.
"This mission is ranked S and if you choose to accept this you will be sworn not to speak about this mission even after you are done with this," She said to her because it took every ounce of persuasion to convince Jiraiya not to go head first into Amegakure with zero plans of what or who he was dealing with.
Tsunade remembered the last time they were in Ame and they almost killed for underestimate their opponent. Whoever this new ruler was she doubted they would be as lenient as Hanzō even though that psychopath was anything, but lenient.
"I accept the mission," Hinata said without realizing the words coming out.
"Are you sure?" She asked slightly surprised that she accepted the mission so fast because didn't give her all the details.
"I would have given you a little bit of time to think about it and I have to admit you weren't my first choice,"
Hinata couldn't believe how much those words stung to hear and had no doubt her first choice was her tutelage Sakura. It made become a Jōnin mean nothing if she couldn't show her worth to her village and out of Konoha 11 each kunoichi had their specialties. Sakura had incredible strength also being a medical nin, Ino had her extreme beauty with intelligence and Tenten is known to be the mistress of weaponry. Hinata was just known to be the Hyūga heiress and she wanted to be known more than her powerful clan.
"No, I believe I could do this,"
Flashback ended
The rest seemed history after that, Hinata was given a new identity portrayed as a civilian woman alias name Mina Hitoshi who decide immigrated to Amegakure from non-shinobi village from land of Iron after her last known relative her father died. She had a couple months to get her back story down to the tee and even had training on being interrogated by Ibiki himself before moving here.
Her appearance was change to a blonde with wavy hair and hazel eyes with a smaller body type. It was a stark difference from her original body and all required a simple transformation jutsu, but to keep the form Lady Tsunade given a prototype device that was basic off of her transformation jutsu that kept her looking young. The necklace was simple looking coin piece that kept her henge, make her chakra seem less than what it really was and made this mission even possible.
The hardest part for Hinata was saying goodbye to her friends and family. What she didn't expect was to not have any contact with anyone direct from Konoha when she got to Ame because it was just messaging toads from Jiraiya. Every several months a small toad pop by on her apartment balcony croaking as soon as she seen it. Luckily it wasn't usually to see amphibians roaming around in this wet climate here, with the except that these toads were able to talk.
Hinata bit her bottom lip knowing the intel she was receiving as civilian was drying up. There was only so much that she could do as a civilian because Amegakure was oppressed. It was a huge culture shock living here and it made her miss Konoha that much more. She finished her report and was hesitating to give it the toad. She wrote a letter to Naruto expressing her feelings and it was something she thought over the past two years having regrets for not telling him in person.
She merely giving the toad her report and whatever letters she had for her family unable to form the courage to give the love letter to it. Watching the toad swallow the papers.
"You'll be extracted a month from now be ready," the toad croaked and poof out of existence.
Hinata couldn't help the excitement from bubbling inside because she was finally going home. She read whatever letters Neji and Hanabi wrote her and afterwards throw letters in her fireplace burn any evidence of it. She looked at the letter to Naruto one last time before throwing in fire because this time she was going to confess her feelings to his face.
Hinata ended up at work later on that night in happy mood putting on her apron and pulling her hair back to put on her head scarf. When first got to Ame the only job she could find was bartender at a tavern called Riptide. The economy was so rough here it was by miracle she found this job and at first, she didn't think this work was ideal. But soon learned that with alcohol, customers were more reliable to speak freely of what was happening here.
Over the years she learned that certain parts of Amegakure were forbidden for entering unless granted access by Kami or Kami's angel even if they were Ame nin. Whoever the leader of Ame was he or she is known only by Kami was rumored to reside in the tallest tower in the village and had totalitarian rule over this land.
"Mina I'm going on break can you take care of the customer that just came in," Her boss Jin said as he went out the backdoor to smoke his cigarette.
"Sure," Hinata replied surprised because recently there was a curfew placed and usual it was just quiet nights at the bar. She figured it was some random shinobi on patrol just taking a break. She got to the bar and didn't see the customer at first because of the dim lighting, but finally noticed a man with an orange mask wearing all black sitting in a corner booth.
Hinata was cursing in the back of her mind "No wonder he went on break this guy looks very intimidating… damn you Jin."
There policy was no one could loiter at Riptide, especially since this curfew being enforced, but if a drink was brought stay as long until closing time. Just by looks by this man he looked like he didn't want to be bothered because his back was facing towards her as she silently cursed her boss again.
Obito had to come back to the Rain village just to discussed some things with Pein. There had been some setback in plans and he hated setbacks. Recently the not so immortal duo Kakuzu and Hidan were killed. All this had to be blamed on Konoha always being a thorn in his side especially Kakashi who was involved in their deaths. The leaf fools were only slowing their inevitable deaths and for Kakashi he was only upset that Kakuzu didn't take him out with him.
"Can I get you something to drink sir," the barmaid said as cheerful as she could be snapping him out of his thoughts.
"No and I would like to be left alone," Obito replied not appreciating being disturbed and not even giving her so much a single glance. That is reason why he came here to this dingy hole in wall was to not be disturbed by anyone.
Hinata had to suppressed the sigh from coming out of her mouth there were two type customers that she absolutely hated the ones refused to be cut off because they were straight up alcoholics and the ones who weren't customers at all just want a place to hangout . Just so they could ask for water all night.
"Sir I'm sorry if you're not going to order anything I'm going have to ask you to leave," She said really wanted to avoid doing this because her ass of a boss should be doing this.
"Really?" Hinata didn't know hearing that one word coming out of this mask man in such baritone voice would send such a chill through her bones. Maybe it was pure stupidity on her part, but she decided to press her luck.
"Yes, really sir,"
There was a long silence of them staring each other down. At first Obito thought she was some ugly old bar wrench with an attitude and he was in a murderous mood. He looked up to see a young woman with her hands on hips in no means of backing down. She was kind of plain looking, but not bad on the eye either.
"Give me the stiffest beverage you've got…pretty please." He chuckled the last part childlike somewhat impression with her boldness.
"Um r-right away," she said a little unsettle by his voice change and quickly went to the bar looking for the highest content of liquor. She unlocked the cabinet underneath the bar to get the heavy bottle. She popped her head back over to see that he was now in front of her sitting in a stool. It scared the wits out of her because she didn't hear his footsteps or even him scraping the stool to get in it.
To Hinata this proven that he was a shinobi and a dangerous one at that.
"Careful I don't like my drink shaken nor stirred," Obito said putting his hand on the bottle of the neck right on top of hers to keep it from falling while feeling her thunderous pulse through his glove. It seemed like an eternity before he let go of her hand only to let her pour his drink.
"T-thank you s-sir!" Hinata tried her damnedest not to tremble while pouring, no doubt her face was all red. "Where the hell was Jin? Did he go on a lunch break?"
"It's Tobi…sir makes me feel so old,"
She couldn't help, but to twitch her lips into a smile. Hinata only blinked when noticing his glass was empty as he slammed it back down.
"Another one this is pretty tasty," Obito found her facial expression to be funny and thought of messing with her some more since she decided to disturb him. He begun tapping on the sake bottle making an annoying ping noise with it.
"Only if you can handle it Tobi," Hinata snatching the bottle from him to pouring him a steady glass this time. She didn't want to deal with a drunken shinobi at the end of the night.
"Only time will tell." Obito commented unsure if she meant to sound coy. This game she did not want to play with him because nothing good could come of this.
