Chapter 6: disappearance

The news was propagated in the village at a fulgurating speed, and the ninjas precipitated at Hokage's room to obtain confirmation.

Hinata disappeared.

While distributing the places of research between the different Ninja, the fifth Hokage tries to reconstitutes this strange disappearance.

Hinata, Kiba and Shino were training in one of the practice field close to the forest. All was well, Kiba and Shibo knocked on the wooden barrels , Hinata had sat down a little to rest. Then Kiba had seen that Hinata wasn't here any more.He was'nt worried first of all, she could be further in the clairiere or sitted hidden by a bush in the shade. But after 20 minutes, he still didn't see her, and he decided to go to research her with Akamaru... But Akamaru didn't manage to find the trace of Hinata, even starting from the place where Kiba had seen her for the last time. . but in the place, there was. .
Kiba: "Shino! Comes! Look atthat !"
By ground, there were deadened insects.
Shino:"they are the inscet which I always hang to the hood of Hinata.. . "
Kiba: "That's strange . go towards the left, I go right, we return here in 30 min."

after half an hour of unfruitful research , Both boy anxious for their friend runs to Hokage to announce the news.

The heiress Hyuga disappeared.

All the forces available were used to seek her, the forest was squared thoroughly, they sent spies in all the other villages ninja, they tested the divination, all. But Hinata was untraceable. Not the least trace of her.

She had literally volitilized.

The teams of research returned unsuccessful ones after the others. Hokage put Hinata on the list of disappeared Ninjas. But Kurenai refused to stop researching and she obtains from Hokage the direction of the investigation on the disappearance of Hinata.

For a few years already, Kurenai had felt that Hinata hid something, without never obtaining the least answer of tough girl. But her intuition tell her that this secrecy had a bond with her strange disappearance, and that it went up at many years.

Then Kurenai begin the long work to question ALL people having known Hinata since her birth.
She learned by the Hyuga parents that Hinata had become indifferent to her family, and that she had agreed to seek a husband. But by questioning Hanabi skilfully, Kurenai had learned most important. After having promised to keep silence, kurenai obtained from Hanabi the conversation that she had with Hinata:

"Hanabi, I would be sad to leave you, but that will arrive one day. One day I will leave with a man whom I love, one day I would not be anymore in this house, in this family. But it is not to obey our Father, or our clan. I will do it for me. To live the life that I would have chosen myself, and where I will be recognized and loved by somebody. I will leave from here to find happiness. Hanabi,do you understand me?"

And Kurenai understood that she had found the reason of the disappearance of Hinata. But who? Who was this man for whom Hinata had abandon all without hesitation?

Kurenai submitted her report to Hokage in the greatest secrecy and research took another turning. One don't seek only Hinata, but also a man she would have met a few years before.

She thought of Naruto in first, but he is always in the village and didn't know where was Hinata. The man we search undoubtedly doesn't live in the village, but he came one time, said Kurenai by reading the archives of the village of the last years.

While turning over the pages quickly, she found the page where the first examination of Chuunin that Hinata had passed were write.

Preliminaries: Hyuga Hinata vs Hyuga Neji. Winner Neji, Hinata in a serious state, hospitalized for one month.

The memory of this combat came back to the memory of Kurenai by reading these words. Hinata impressed everyone with her determination and her courage at this time, and without acting in concert, all Jounins had jumped to protect her in the end. Not because she was the heiress, but because she had the heart of a great shinobi.
Kurenai concentrated again on her task, and noticed a small tear on the edge of the page she held, as if somebody had handled violent the archive. It intrigued Kurenai, these archives are seldom consulted. .
The Jounin concentrated her chakra and made a series of sign. Now on the page in front of her, the prints of fingers appeared clearly. Kurenai recognized her, that of the archivist, a chuunin...and...the prints of

Kurenai: "it is not possible!!"
She ran in another ray and caught the thick register of sought Ninjas , then she compared the prints... No possible doubt. The criminal of class S and ancient ninja of Konoha, Itachi Uchiwa had consulted this page and had closed violent the archive. What did it mean?

And Kurenai remember that the attack which destroted the eyes of Neji Hyuga had took place the same day as the day Jounins had fought Itachi close to the village. Until now, there was no reason to connect these two évenements... But today, Kurenai had understood that the attacker of Neji was Itachi, and that he had acts as reprisals for Hinata.. all seemed clear now.
In one way or another, Hinata and Itachi had met and had fallen in love. Itachi, in love? Itwas hard to believe, or at least, he had an interest to protect Hinata. And Hinata maintained the secrecy even if Itachi was a criminal... Misery! since years Hinata protects a criminal! And now adult, Hinata leave to join him... Hinata... you could not love a good boy, no?

Kurenai saddened by her discoveries submitted her report to Hokage and the Hyuga family. The hyuga refused to believe in the deductions of Kurenai, or at least refused to admit it... Hinata has hurt their prestige in a spectacular way. But Hokage was of the same opinion as Kurenai, and Hinata was placed on the list of criminal Ninjas.


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