Finally got another chapter, this chapter doesn't have Neji in it but he'll arrive next chapter. This is just basically the aftermath of the family and everyone's reaction.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, if I did Neji would have a way bigger role and Him and Itachi would take over the show.

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"I can't believe this has happened again. How could we have not caught it before hand?"

Tsunade downed another saucer of sake; breathing heavily as her other hand ran through her hair. Another clan destroyed, one survivor, the person responsible disappeared. The only difference was the survivor was someone they expected to be the first to perish.

Hinata…

That poor girl survived somehow whilst everyone died before her eyes. Perhaps Neji figured that the trauma would kill her and he wouldn't have to waste his time. The door to her office opened, Tsunade looked up tiredly to stare into the hawk mask of one of the anbu.

"Well?"

"We couldn't find him; he has been gone for perhaps hours."

"I figured as much, even if you could catch up to him his Byakugan would have seen you coming. How's Hinata?"

"She's unable to answer any questions, she's still in shock."

"I thought so, send the hunter Nins."

"Yes, Godaime."

Sakura gently dabbed the wet clothe on the female Hyuga's forehead, her face occasionally twitched as well as the rest of her body. Sometimes she would cry out, tears streaming down her face.

"N-neji-niisan…why…"

She felt for the Hyuga, she felt her heart clenched every time Hinata called out and the sad thing was, Hinata's voice never seemed to hold any blame or anger towards her cousin, just sadness. How horrible, no one had seen it coming; no one expected a repeat of the Uchiha massacre. The hate Neji seemed to hold for the main family however should have been a dead give away, now there were only two Hyuga's left and Sakura desperately hoped that Hinata didn't turn out like Sasuke…

The door to the hospital room opened, Sakura didn't need to look to see who it was. They had been coming to check up on the Hyuga girl ever since the tragedy.

"How is she…?"

It was surprising how quiet the boy could be considering most of the time he was loud. Naruto came to stand besides the sitting Sakura, she looked at his with emotional exhaustion and sighed shaking her head.

"Not good, we don't know when she'll wake up…have you found any sign of Neji?"

Naruto's fist clenched, knuckles becoming white with every passing second. The other hand reached up and pushed the anbu mask over his spiky yellow hair, sorrow shined in those usually joyous blue eyes and it was enough to make Sakura's heart clench all the more.

"No, he must have planned this beforehand, so we know it wasn't a spur of the moment thing…"

"What do you think Hinata will do when she wakes up?"

The blond shook his head indicating he didn't know.

Unseen by the two grieving people, Hinata's small hand clenched and her jaw tensed.

"I can't believe it…"

"How trouble some…"

"Neji! You have truly gone to the dark side!"

"Who cares about Neji, I want to know about Hinata…"

In a bar, surrounding a small round table near the back of the building sat four shinobi. The first speaking a brown haired girl with two distinct buns on top her head, several small bottles of sake laid before her head which was resting upon the table top. Beside her a young man with a mask pushed on top of her head, his hair in a spiky ponytail though his face seemed bored his eyes showed the raging emotions as did the tapping of his fingers on the table top. Across from the young man, another young man though more odd looking with a green jumpsuit, large eyebrows and a bowl shaped hair cut. He seemed the liveliest of the four yet also seemed to the saddest; he too had several sake bottles before him. Next to him a blond also with a mask, though the mask was placed on the table besides a sake saucer, she appeared the angriest her palm slamming on the table top making the brown haired girl shoot up.

"Neji…there has to be a reason behind it, Neji would never do anything like that" Tenten murmured, rubbing her forehead looking ready to cry.

Lee leaned over the table to gently take Tenten's hand, he patted it looking to comfort the mousey haired female. He looked over towards Shikamaru with high expectations.

"Of course there is...isn't there, Shikamaru?"

Shikamaru pinched the bridge of his nose to avoid the smell of alcohol of Lee's breath, he released it slowly only to prop his elbows on the table into a thinking position.

"Actually…I think Neji planned this for a long time."

"Don't say that, he would never!" Tenten jumped to Neji's defense.

"It makes sense, I didn't think all those years of hate for the main family could disappear…" Ino spoke this time, remembering a time when she had to use her jutsu on Neji as practice "His mind was dark when I saw it, normally people have color but Neji's mind was simply black with little white."

"But…"

"When the time comes, will you two be ready to face off against your former teammate?" Shikamaru questioned, if they couldn't he would need to find some other ninja's to replace them. Even though they may be reluctant to face off against Neji, Neji most likely wouldn't hesitate.

Lee shook his head almost immediately, Tenten however was more hesistate. She would have to be replaced on the mission…

"How troublesome…"