Suddenly, a kunai pierced into Katsumi's shoulder, she cried out and held her injured shoulder. They all stopped running and surrounded Katsumi. "Kiba, get her to Konoha!" Neji commanded as a number of kunai's flew at them. Kiba and Akamaru quickly ran, Katsumi hissed in pain and held onto Akamaru. She was hoping she wasn't hurting the dog when she tensed from the pain.
"Uchiha, I can see you, stop trying to hide." Neji spoke up. Sasuke stepped out onto the path in front of them. His lips were curled up in a smirk, he looked manic. Neji was sure Sasuke had lost it, he was no longer the Sasuke that everyone knew, and he was sick and might be sick till the day he dies. Neji wondered if it was the curse of hatred that the Uchiha's suffered from had manifested into something else.
"You would willingly die for the bitch?" Sasuke hissed at them. Hinata gasped, confused by his behaviour, one minute he was deeply in love with her and the next he was insulting her.
"Yes." Neji replied simply. "But it is you who will die." He added in a calm manner. Hinata's eyes widened, she never knew Neji would willingly kill someone instead of dragging them back to the village to face justice.
Sasuke laughed manically before doing a flurry of hand signs.
"Fire style: fireball jutsu!" He made a large fireball. Neji, Hinata and Shino quickly dodged it. "It's no good running from me!" Sasuke shouted. "The Uchiha are superior to you!" He added stepping forwards.
"Neji-san, what can we do?" Hinata asked.
"Katsumi-chan should be a safe distance from us now, if we can distract him for longer then she will be safe. Kiba-san will alert the ANBU. We just need to keep him busy and if possible either injure or kill him." Neji told them before coming out of cover to face Sasuke.
Sasuke smirked and unsheathed his katana. "Someone told Kakashi-sama to check up on Katsumi-chan when you went on your mission." Neji told him and Sasuke frowned, confused as to how that was relevant. The others looked confused, if someone had told Kakashi, how would Neji know?
"So?" Sasuke asked.
"He was the one that helped Kakashi-sama find out." Neji explained and Sasuke growled, tightening his grip on his Kanata. "Did you know about Katsumi-san's male friend, she would call him a stalker tho?" Neji then asked Sasuke looked surprised. Again, the others looked at Neji confused.
"What stalker!?" He shouted angrily at Neji.
"She didn't tell you?" Neji asked with a small smirk. "I am surprised, her stalker guided Kakashi-sama into finding out and now you stand in front of her stalker." Hinata gasped at him in shock. She couldn't believe that Neji would do such a thing. Shino remained still, keeping his shock to himself. Sasuke growled and started to charge towards Neji. Neji blocked Sasuke's blade with a kunai. Sasuke glared at him, almost daring Neji to look into his Sharingan eyes. They both jumped back, glaring at each other.
Katsumi, Kiba and Akamaru made it to the village gates.
"Akamaru, get Katsumi-san to the hospital and then meet me at the Hokage tower." Kiba ordered his best friend before they ran in separate directions. Kiba ran as fast as he could to the Hokage's tower. He ran into the office, there was no time for knocking, the ANBU were needed. "Hokage-sama!" He shouted even though he already had Kakashi's attention due to his entry. "The rest of the team are holding Sasuke off, Akamaru is taking Katsumi-san to the hospital. They need the ANBU to help them." Kiba reported out of breath. Kakashi jumped up and ordered ANBU to meet him at the village gates after relieving Kiba of his mission.
Kakashi met the ANBU and ordered them to follow him, he had gotten the location from Kiba. The small ANBU team ran with their Hokage, they had tried many times along the way to convince him to stay in the village but Kakashi wouldn't listen.
When they arrived at the location, Sasuke was fighting Shino while Hinata was trying to heal Neji's burn marks from Sasuke's fire jutsu's.
"Stand down and get back to the village." Kakashi ordered the tracker team and they quickly left, leaving an angry Sasuke with an equally angry Kakashi and ANBU. "Uchiha, this will be your only warning, hand yourself in or it will be done by force if you're not killed in the process." Kakashi warned Sasuke who scoffed at him.
"I will not die!" Sasuke shouted at him. "I will have my Katsumi back; I will kill all of you!" He added with a manic look in his eyes. Kakashi uncovered his Sharingan eye, staring Sasuke down.
"Very well." Kakashi spoke and looked at the ANBU. "Attack." He then ordered. Sasuke struggled to fend off the ANBU, there were too many of them for him to deal with. He had wasted most of his chakra fighting Neji after he lost control of his anger.
Eventually, they managed to subdue the angry Uchiha and take him back to the village. The ANBU had blindfolded him as well as put him in chakra restraints.