Chapter 2: searching
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
(Akamaru speaking)
"Blond hair, blue eyes, 3 whisker tattoos on each cheek. Have you seen him?" It was a long shot, but it seemed like the farther he got from home the less he used illusions to conceal who he really was.
"Sorry miss, I cant say I have."
"Thank you for your time sir."
'Another town another bar, that's how it works' Sakura though as she walked out of the bar. It had taken less then a week for the rumors to reach the village, rumors of a man so powerful that he had been able to stop a typhoon. This was the first mission in 3 years that had just been to find naruto. On every mission those who cared asked around in bars, diners, anywhere someone might have seen him. But the number of people who cared was far out numbered by those who didn't.
'Perhaps her comrades had had better luck.' Sakura thought. 'I really had hoped I would find him this time. We made a pact, at least those of us who cared.' She had been there the night he had disappeared, and she couldn't help but think he was being selfish. Because his disappearance it had been a year before they had been able to reopen the ninja academy. And because of the delay, the village was just now getting new shinobi.
"That stupid, selfish, arrogant-"
"You know talking to your self is a bad sigh." Turning around she confirmed that it was Kiba who had snuck up on her.
"Kiba you know you shouldn't sneak up on your friends."
"Oh yah, you can't smell me coming. Let me guess, you were ranting about how you would beat him to a bloody pulp and drag him back home, and how he was a selfish looser, and-" he was cut off when Sakura's fist collided with his skull sending him a good 20 feet backwards, before he was reunited with his old friend Mr. ground.
(Stupid!) Came Akamaru's response to the situation.
"Are you calling me stupid?" Kiba yelled.
While Kiba and Akamaru argued back and forth, she looked around to see if any one else was coming. That was when she saw Hinata coming. Hinata had been one of the ones hit hardest by naruto's disappearance. At first she had said that it was just one of his pranks, that he would come back. But after 2 weeks something in side of her snapped. She became more ill tempered and angry. Over the next 6 months she under went a transformation from the shy girl she had been into a monster. Not like what Gaara had transformed into, no, she was worse. After the 8 month mark Tsunade had declared him to be a B class missing Nin.
Hinata had erected a small memorial in his honor. One day while she was praying for naruto and his safe return her little sister Hanabi had come and asked one question "Why do you care about that piece of trash?" Hinata had attacked her. Hanabi had just only just made it to the hospital in time. The doctors had said that if she had arrived a few minuets later, she would have died. When some of the ANBU had tried to apprehend her, she had put them in hospital as well. Realizing Hinata was out of control Hyuga Hiashi, her father, had tried to apprehend her. To make sure that the great Hyuga blood wouldn't fall into anyone else's hands he tried to place the Hyuga's curse seal jutsu on her. He had been utterly defeated. He hadn't even had a chance to place the curse seal on her, before she had defeated him.
Now she was one of the most feared beings in the entire village. That was when Sakura noticed, that Hinata was running towards her. Within a few moments, she had already passed them. 'She must have found out something!' Sakura though. Running to catch up with Hinata. Akamaru ran to catch up as well. "Hay where are you going? Get back here I wasn't finished talking!" Kiba yelled running after Akamaru. A few blocks down the road Hinata ran into a hotel, as Sakura ran into the hotel and caught the last of the conversation between Hinata and the owner.
"Yeah, I've seen him. Room 136." The man said.
"When did her leave?" Hinata questioned.
"He hasn't left ye-" the man was cut off as Hinata dashed off down the hall.
'He's still here! He's still here!' Thought Hinata as she ran down the hall.