Naruto Raised by a Wild Horse
"Speach"
'Thought'
//Kyubbi//
I do plan to continue all of my stories. Some simply take longer to update than others. That is the path of the author and is filled with blocks and delays.
On with the story.
It was a beautiful day in Konoha. The village hidden in the leaves, however, was not currently peaceful or able to notice such beauty. Ninja were rushing around with quiet resolve and an air of foreboding. The peace accord with the Cloud village had been successfully agreed upon. It wasn't until the Raikage and his entourage had left that one Hinata Hyuuga was found to be missing.
Not only had she been secreted away from the restricted and heavily guarded compound, which should have been nearly imposible, how it was done revealed that spies had to reside in Konoha.
Hiashi gazed at his daughter's room and with force of will remained calm. He'd been training with her just the other day. Working her hard and attempting to train her in the family style. It had likely been a simple slip on his brothers part. Hinata's training while under outside stress wasn't to begin for several more weeks, and Hizashi had simply stepped above his station.
"She shouldn't have seen the punishment. I should have dealt with it at a later time." He stated calmly looking at the room that reminded him that she was her mother's daughter in so many ways. Flowers and bright colors filled the room. The decorations had been the work of his wife.
"You shouldn't blame yourself, Hiashi. We all have lapses in control and lack patience at times." Hiashi was still bound to his twin in fundamental ways that were not limited by their life roles. Twin bonds are complicated and difficult to control when strong emotions are involved. Guilt was easily felt between the brothers. Hiashi looked to his brother with baleful eyes.
"We have a traitor among us, Hizashi. Who ever planned the abduction knew far to much about our compound and our 'limitations'.
Such limitations were the fact that sealed into strategic walls in the compound were lead sheets. One of the very few materials that limited the vision of the Byakugen and protected the Hyuugas personal spaces. This was left unsaid between the two.
"There is only one unaccounted for shinobi from the branch family. She has been deployed for sometime now in search of the Uzumaki child. All of my people are accounted for and not one of them would allow harm to come to Hinata-hime. (1)
At this Hiashi's mouth twitched into what passed for a sad smile among his clan. His dearly departed wife had called Hinata that often, and apparently it had remained with her even after her mother had passed on. Walking to the open garden a short distance away they met with an approaching ninja.
"Has the Hokage learned of any new information, Shisui?" Hiashi asked of the young shinobi who'd just appeared in a swirl of leaves.
The shinobi's face was impassive as it looked upon the clan head.
"I fear little is known at this point. The entire Inuzuka clan has been mobilized to locate your daughter. If any are capable of locating her trail it would be their hounds." Bowing respectfully Shisui, master of the body flicker, technique vanished again in a swirl of leaves.
At the uppermost level of a nearby building Shisui gazed upon the Hyuuga compound with a malevolent smirk. His quarry was now out in the open and his hunt was to begin. Sharingan blazing in his eyes he made his way to the outer edges of Konoha with a light jacket he'd taken from the child's room.
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Outer edge of Konoha
"I'm telling you it's this way. My nose doesn't lie. The scent leads this way and they managed to cover their tracks all to well." Irichiru said as he muzzeled through the folliage. He'd managed to find traces of the girl outside of the normal village areas.
"You can't identify her captor?" Kana Inuzuka was wary of anyone able to mask their own scent so well.
"If the kid has been captured I can't find a trace of them in the trail. It's more like she simply wandered away from the village and got lost." The old hound was a very capable tracker and partner. The older woman that was his partner was spry and swift as she followed him.
They'd gotten separated from their search squad when a younger ninja had been injured. It was simply a sprain, but Kana was as capable on her own as with a group. She'd seen enough in life to know that the girl needed to be found quickly before the trail had gone cold.
Both woman and dog came to a stop as they entered a small clearing in the woods. There in the center of the clearing lay a small form shivering in a light jacket.
"Hinata Hyuuga, are you alright child? Your father has been worried sick. Come now it's time to go home." Reaching down to touch the girl's shoulder she was unprepared for the attack.
One quick strike imbedded the kunai through the woman's throat to sever the spine. Irichiru barely managed a yelp as he was dragged underground and had his neck snapped. Moments later the clearing was as pristine as if it had never been used for an ambush.
The oldest living member of the Inuzuka clan was missing in action. Only one clue was found near the scene. That was a damaged head band with the markings of the hidden Cloud.
aaaaaaaaaaa Two days later.
The Hokage of the Hidden leaf was seriously concerned. As to the current state of affairs the village had been at a heightened state of security for the last week with the Hidden cloud envoy having been in the village. There should have been no possible way for the current situation to have occurred. Save for sabotage within his own village.
"Lord Hokage. You summoned me?" Came a quiet respectful voice.
A ninja more loyal to the Sandaime you'd not be able to find. Even with his eccentricities, the boy had helped the Hokage a great deal. Gesturing a hand at his desk covered with paper work the young ANBU sighed and formed a quick seal. A moment later a dozen shadow clones appeared to begin sorting through the messy desk.
"Walk with me Itachi?" Leaving the office with the younger man he began to discuss the current crisis with his potential successor.
To be continued
AN:
(1)Hime is as far as i can tell 'princess' so princess hinata
Some may question my sharing ranma's curse with Naruto, but my reasons are my own. I hope to use the current situation to explain several things in the next chapter.