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A/N: Enjoy ch.3~
"What's on your mind Itachi? You've been rather pensive lately," Kisame stated.
"I'm going to be off for a couple of days."
"Hmm? Remember we have objectives to complete"
"…Yes but my personal agenda comes first."
"I don't know, Pain won't be happy," said the smiling shark.
Itachi shrugged, "I'll meet you later." And with that Itachi walked off.
"So you're looking for me, my dear little brother… here I come."
Sasuke woke up slowly Karin was instantly at his side.
"Sasuke-kun you mustn't force yourself," she cooed.
Sasuke sat up carefully, "How long have I been out?"
"Twenty minutes."
Sasuke panicked and looked around until his eyes landed on Hinata and visibly relaxed. He looked at his surroundings. "Are they here?" Hinata shook her head.
"Are we hidden well?"
"Yes."
"Plus, I threw another smoke bomb," Suigetsu added in.
Sasuke approved, "I just need to sleep about an hour wake me up by then, don't let her escape."
"And remember," He addressed Hinata, "If you try anything not only will we kill you but your team mates as well." Hinata nodded. Sasuke closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Hinata looked at the cave entrance, 'I'm such a coward.'
"We shouldn't wake him," Karin insisted.
"Why the hell not? He said so," Suigetsu looked down at Karin.
"Either way you woke me up," Sasuke got up and began to put his shirt on. He felt stared at and looked up lazily to see Hinata staring at him pink cheeks and all.
She quickly looked away closing her eyes, Sasuke smirked.
"Is team seven round here?"
"Y-yes they're in the vi-village asking questions."
"Alright then let's get going, I'm giving you a week to find my brother, if you fail … I'll give you to Suigetsu."
"REALLY?!," Suigetsu brightened up and started laughing, "I hope you fail, we'll have so much fun." Suigetsu smiled with all his teeth to Hinata who had paled.
"Alright then now that, that's settled let's move out."
Itachi stared at the aftermath of the battlefield. He knew his little brother was now a criminal, he had hoped he would have been emotionally strong enough to surpass his hurt. 'What a fool, I should have known he never possessed that inner strength.' He mused. But life was full of miscalculations he would improvise.
He smirked as a raven flew over to him. 'So you hang out with two experiments, an Uzumaki and a Hyuga. They're my tools now, my dear little brother.'
Hinata's eyes widened at what she was seeing. 'Sasuke's brother! Itachi he was on the other side of the forest where Sasuke had fought!' In her vision Itachi turned around and began walking away.
"Found him!" Hinata exclaimed.
Sasuke snapped his head in her direction. She pointed, "In the fi-field you fought the other Akatsuki!"
He blasted off in that direction everyone following him. Suigetsu making sure Hinata didn't try to escape.
When they finally reached the field Itachi was nowhere to be seen Hinata scanned with her byakugan and Karin used her third eye of Kaguya.
"You are such a liar!" Karin accused. "He is nowhere around this place, I should have sensed him a long time ago!"
"Well, where is he?" Sasuke asked like a quiet storm.
"He-He was standing right he-here I promise," Hinata implored.
"Then find him," Sasuke glared.
Hinata shivered and walked to where she had seen Itachi standing and looked up expanding her eyesight. 'Impossible he couldn't outrun my eyesight yet I don't see him.' Hinata frowned. She brought her eyesight back and began tracking. 'At least there are footprints… but how did he move so fast?'
She observed the slightly bent grass and followed where they led. "This way please." She beckoned team Hebi.
Sasuke tsk-ed, "this better not be a trick you understand the consequences do you not?"
"Yes I un-understand, th-this is no trick, I-I don't understand how your bro- I mean Itachi was a-able to tra-travel so fast but I saw him he-here and we're," she pointed to a more noticeable track, "on his tr-trail." Hinata knew she had to give Sasuke reason to let her live.
Sasuke nodded. "Then let's catch up to him." Hinata nodded and took off running with team Hebi behind her.
Itachi oversaw they're direction. 'Good,' he mused, 'now to take care of the interlopers.' He turned around to deal with Naruto.
'Time to set my plans into action, I'll need safety nets as well. Naruto you will play an important part in the life of my little brother. '***
The tracks ended on an uphill. Hinata stopped and so did team Hebi. "What?" Sasuke frowned.
Hinata looked back and then forward. "The tracks end here," she whispered.
Sasuke looked at her calmly. "Byakugan," she breathed out, and looked around and scanned again and she saw him, Itachi, staring at her with red eyes surrounded in the dark shadows of the forest. She froze she couldn't move, her eyes were stuck, she knew she was ensnared in a gengutsu her eyes let her know that.
"Hello, Hyuga you must be wondering why you are still living. Let me explain, I'm your worst nightmare. I'll let you know the pain of the Uchiha's."
Hinata's world turned black, gray and red. All of a sudden she was immersed in a world that made no sense, no kindness or warmth existed here.
She snapped out of it and began releasing chakra to escape. She clasped her hands together and heard a chuckle. She was still trapped, she tried over and over.
Itachi approached her slowly and just as simple, stabbed her. Hinata gagged forward with pain, blood flowed and dripped. It shone bright red. She stared at the pool forming, blood seeping from her mouth as well. It was indescribable, the immense pain she was going through. "Listen," Itachi whispered, "do you hear them?"
At first, they where faint echoes but soon the screams of horror rang strong in her heart, children sobbing, mothers screaming, men fighting, others running… and she was killing them all. "NO! NO! STOP! I don't want to kill anyone!" Hinata bawled as she sliced a child.
The massacre didn't stop there, it was just the beginning. The night dragged on, filled with tears and death. Blood covered her hands; her eyes were hollow of the emotional strain.
She was a monster; she didn't feel anything and sliced two people without a care. A child, no he is my brother; I killed our parents in front of him! She threw a shuriken slicing his shoulder. The kid, my brother was yelling something but after all the screams and cries of mercy every word was empty.
"I killed them to test my power," was my equally empty response.
"You butchered our clan for that!"
"It was of great importance and now it's your turn."
The chibi Sasuke trembled as if remembering he was in front of a wild beast. "No, don't kill me, please."
"Run then, if you want to live, run," she felt her lips say in Itachi's voice. But she knew in reality she didn't want to see his face when he died. She ran after him with the intent to kill him. But in the action of going in for the kill her heart clenched and she froze. She couldn't kill this kid; flashbacks of warmer days filled her memory.
It seemed like another life. Where the people she had just slain had smiled at her. They were all guilty though, of holding dark secrets, of wanting power and using their children as sacrificial lambs. She contemplated the life of the child in front of her. Maybe if she didn't kill this kid, her brother, there would be chance of preserving her humanity, of redemption?
"Foolish little brother… If you wish to kill me, curse me! Hate me! And survive your miserable life… Run away, run away… cling to life," She spat.
She was a prisoner of the red moon's light. 'Live' was her prayer.
It had only been milliseconds. In reality her body was standing rigid. Tears flowed from her eyes as she tried to scream, but her mouth was dry and no sound came from it.
Sasuke frowned at her reaction, confused. "I sense him!" Karin announced. "The chakra is so strong in front of us!"
Sasuke wasted no time in running towards his brother. Team Hebi followed their leader forgetting all about the trembling Hyuga.
Itachi let them catch a glimpse of him before running away and leading them away from Hinata.
After being released from the gengutsu Hinata collapsed. She felt dizzy and sick. She heard footsteps behind her and froze. She turned trembling slowly and saw Itachi's feet and didn't dare to look at his face. Her own face was pale. She felt terribly cold. "Stand," came the command.
Hinata couldn't stand up fast enough; she stumbled on her weak knees but stood nonetheless, still looking at his feet.
He gripped her chin and raised her face. "Look at me," he commanded sternly.
She raised her eyesight to his spinning orbs. "You work for me now." He grabbed her Konoha forehead protector and scratched it with his kunai knife across its symbol and threw it away.
"You'll go to the rain country and scout out another Uchiha find out his identity then report to me. Don't try anything stupid I'm always watching." He left calmly strolling away.
Hinata was on the verge of tears scared, alone, and confused. 'I have to find another Uchiha?' She activated her byakugan and yes she was alone. She made three shadow clones and sprinted into different directions.
She wasn't endangering anybody by obeying Itachi's orders so as long as it stayed like that she would concede. There was little choice in the matter anyways.
A/N: So the holidays are coming I'll be working on the next chapter but I probably... most likely wont update until next year. So just heads up dont freak out. This chapter is unbeta'd so sorry for any grammatical errors. I do try. Happy Holidays guys! Give me the joy R&R plz thanks.
