Chapter 1

A/N thanks for the reviews shadowsaver and lifes-2-short. I will tell you honestly though, I'm not sure how long this will go on 'cos I don't plan out the chapters… or a plot so its really reeeeally easy for me to get writers block. Sorry.

I am writing loosely by the timeline of the manga so sorry if I give spoilers . but hey at least I warned you

Also… I know I wrote that tomatoes are Sasuke's favourite but where did that come from? I'm not sure if I heard it in a rumor, fanart, or the manga/anime and its been bugging me for awhile so if you know where you saw that (if you saw that) can you tell me please.

Ok that was long sorry….

It was a lie.

It had to be a lie.

"Squad 2 is out!"

"5 down!"

"We need some back up here!"

"What the fuck are you guys playing at! Is there anyone out there!"

"Shit! Shit! Shit! Sakura's seriously hurt! Ino! We need a medic here!"

"All squads retreat, that's a direct order from Hokage-sama"

"K-Kiba…?"

It was definitely a lie. He said he would come back for her… he said he would never betray Konoha, so why…

"Hinata! We gotta get out of here!"

"K-Kiba…"

So why were her hands drenched in her best friends blood, why was her stunned body being dragged from his lifeless form.

"No…"

"Damn it Hinata! He's gone! We have to get out of here before those sound bastards turn their attention on us!"

"No… No! we can't just leave him there like that! We can't just leave him!"

She was on her feet now, struggling against the arms that held her back, hating them with a passion she had found for nothing else. Tear glazed lavender eyes didn't register the shadow speeding towards them, nor the flicker of red, black and white that glinted beneath the evening sun. Not even when it stopped directly in her line of sight, stepping uncautiously over the corpse.

It was only when the grip on her arms loosened and the confused voice of the boy behind her reached her ears, that her gaze fell on that of the new arrival.

"W-what is this?"

He was the same.

The same but so very different as she caught the contempt in his eyes as he watched the two. Taller, paler, his shoulders broader even, but still the same as the day he had made his promise, and left her behind.

"Teme! What the fuck! Why the hell are you here! Whatever you came just in time to help."

Sometimes Hinata cursed Naruto's slowness, it made things so much harder, the pain that much difficult to bare. She didn't want to hear him say it. Didn't want to hear him openly and plainly admit he had turned his back on those who cared for him in the same impassive voice he would call Naruto a dobe but at the same time a small smile would reach his eyes.

So it makes sense that she would drop immediately into the offensive position of the Hyuuga style and launch herself at him. Regardless of the tears the flowed from her eyes.

"Hinata! What are you doing!"

Sasuke smirked a he dodged her effortlessly, his crimson eyes locked on her chakra control, the natural poise and grace in her attacks. She had grown, she was stronger, but there was still that insurmountable gap between them.

"She is fighting her enemy."

"What enemy? You're from Konoha just like us!"

Shut up

"Aa…"

"Stop attacking him Hinata, we've got to get out of here!"

Please Naruto, for your sake… shut up

She watched as his lip twitched in mirth, silently laughing at the boy as he deluded himself, fought to avoid the truth of the situation.

"We'll about that…" he breathed.

She stopped short her attack as a shrill scream emitted behind her, turning on her heels to find Naruto sprawled across the grass, a gigantic sword protruding from the base of his spine.

"Naruto!"

"You let down your guard"

Eyes widened as her feet sunk into the ground as though she was standing in quicksand only look down and find that it was hard as it was just moments ago.

Trapped.

"But… you're from Konoha too teme…"

She closed her eyes to the image of Naruto's desperate face, refusing to watch as his first true friend, the boy he had seen as a brother, stomped on the last of the light in his eyes.

"Yes… I was, as was Orochimaru, as was my brother."

"You hated those bastards!"

The splutter of blood against the grass was heard as Naruto coughed in exertion.

"Yes. I did, and now they are both dead."

She almost heard the chime go off in Naruto's head.

"The attack… the cloak. No… Sasuke wouldn't."

"I did. I killed Orochimaru almost two years now, have you been searching hard? Killed Itachi as well, and for the price of information, I am lending a hand to Akatsuki and their purpose, starting with the decimation of Konohagure."

"But this was your home too!"

Sasuke 'tched' behind her back as watched the blonde grasp at straws, as envious of his ignorance as he detested it. With a motion of his hand the boy was hoisted non to gently onto Kisame's shoulder and the shark man leaped of into the distance.

They were alone now. He registered the tenseness of her shoulders, the tears still falling from her cheeks.

He rounded her, taking in the change of her apparel and features.

Her waist length hair pulled up into a high pony the trailed down her back, the mildly form fitting mesh shirt that covered her black tube top. Her headband was wrapped about her slender waist now, a belt for the hipster shorts that did nothing to conceal her weapons pouch. He smirked when he noticed a set of boots and bandage similar to ones he had once worn.

He stopped before her, his eyes trailing her features, more mature, but still as innocent as he remembered.

"I kept my promise."

Her eyes opened to a narrowed glare, and for the first he had seen from the once timid girl, he was mildly impressed..

"I do believe these are your troops." She spat, causing him to smirk once more.

"Aa… minor technicality, though you are aware that I wasn't referring to that promise."

"That promise wasn't made by you. That was a promise made by a Sasuke that I knew."

"Aa, but then would that not apply to the first promise as well. So it makes no sense to hold that against me."

"You know, if you had just told me the truth I wouldn't hate you as much as I do now"

"That was the truth… at that time."

"I waited for you to come back. years I w

"The truth I knew changed."

She struggled not to flinch when his breath fanned across her neck, the thickness in his voice as drowning as it was terrifying.

"But one truth will always remain."

She gasped at the sharp pain in the base of her neck as her eyes glazed over with an invisible film of black, the feeling of falling the last to engulf her as she heard the smug chime-like whisper of the man before her.

"You will always be weak in one way or another."