"NARUTO! GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE!" Sakura's voice echoed in the blond's mind. He opened his eyes widely as he felt the dampness of his pants. 'It was a dream' he thought saddened. He could not move, his body still felt numb. "Uh-Uum… could you wait a little, Sakura?" he asked, feeling uncomfortable by the thought of letting his friend see him in that state.
"No! It's an emergency!" she said with a hint of worry in her tone, which made him think that Hinata might be in danger and jumped out of the bed. He ran to the door and opened it, desperate to know how she was.
"What is it, Sakura?" he said with a concerned look. He completely forgot that he was soaked in his private zone, what caught her complete attention. She looked surprised and pissed by that.
"What the hell were you doing?" she yelled.
"I… I was about to wash my face but the water splashed onto me" he said as he stared at the floor, blushing crimson while praying to god she would let it go.
Deciding that it would be pointless to pry into his privacy, she went directly to the point. "Hinata is in real danger now." She stated seriously.
"Where are they?" he asked, dead serious.
"They knocked out Izumo and Kotetsu, and they're in the village now." There was a moment of silence. Naruto frowned and before he could ask something she told him: "Lady Tsunade is trying to wake them up. It seems that they were caught in a genjutsu as strong as Sasuke's. He is already looking for them with Neji, Kiba and Shino"
"Ok… Wait, WHAT?! AND WHO THE HELL IS WITH HER?"
"Uuh… I don't know" she said, starting to get worried.
He activated his sage mode and shouted "I'm going to find her" as he started to jump but fell on his face because something or someone held a grasp behind one of his knees and pulled him down.
"YOU IDIOT! CHANGE YOUR CLOTHES FIRST!" yelled Sakura and he blushed, realizing that he still had a pair of soaked pants on.
"O-o-oh, hehe you're right" he said as he rubbed the back of his head with his hand and ran into the apartment. When he finished changing, his teammate was no longer outside his apartment. He started to jump from roof top to roof top as he started to activate his sage mode once again. 'I won't let them have her, I SWEAR!' he was determinate to kick the ass of anyone who attempted to touch a single hair of her.
Elsewhere, Hinata was taking a walk. Since it was sunny that day, she was wearing a straw hat with an aqua green romper that barely reached her mid thigh. As she kept walking, she saw a food stand. The old white haired woman that attended the last was cooking as well. The silver eyed kunoichi froze, that was a smell she knew way too well. "Cinnamon rolls" she whispered as she walked to the stand.
"Good morning miss" said the old woman as Hinata stopped before the counter watching how she was mixing the ingredients.
She turned to see the woman's face. "Good morning" she answered kindly and returned her gaze to the mix.
"What can I do for you, miss…?"
"Miss Hyuga," she answered, watching the old woman's face "I'd like to have a half a dozen of cinnamon rolls, please"
"They're coming!" she said as she pulled away from the oven some freshly cooked ones. She enveloped them and handed them to the Hyuga girl.
Hinata thanked her as she took them from the old woman's hands. "You're welcome sweetie" said the woman as she waved her hand.
A man that stood there saw the entire scene and smirked. "It is her." He whispered into a small microphone that was hidden behind the long coat he wore. "She is clad in aqua green and wearing a hat." He answered, still smirking. "We ravish her when we find her?" the man could hear a female's voice asking from the earphone. "No, there's too much light and people. We have to wait until night but keep an eye on her" Answered coolly to the woman on the other line. "Ok boss, we will wait"
"Shit! I can't see her! I know she is here!" said Naruto a bit pissed. He decided to ask a man that was walking in the opposite direction he did.
"Hey, you! Yeah, you baldy!" a bald man turned his gaze to see him and asked "Me?"
"Yes. Have you seen a very beautiful girl?" he asked dumbly, not even considering he would need to be more specific since he only had eyes for her.
"Yes, Konoha is plenty of beautiful women" said the man with a hint of perversion in his voice, which went completely unnoticed to the blond.
"Well, this one is very beautiful: she has long raven hair and has a bluish glow in sunlight, her eyes are silver. Have 'ya seen her?" he told him proudly.
"Is she your girlfriend?" asked the man, he knew very well who the blond was talking about.
"Yes, she is. Wait, what do you care?" asked frowning a bit.
"Just curiosity. You seemed like you cared for her. She went that way." Answered the man pointing to the direction Naruto was going. He thanked the man as he rushed that way.
"Well, this is getting interesting" said the bald man taking a walkie-talkie from his pocket. "hey boss, I found something you would like to know"
"What is it?" the same voice from the man who wore the coat could be heard from the other line. "Our target has a boyfriend, guess who? The Kyuubi vessel." Static was the only thing the bald man could hear until "Follow him and tell me what you find out" he ordered. "Yes sir!" the bald man responded and started to follow the blue eyed ninja.
A pair of block away the search continued. "Hey Neji! Found anything?" Kiba asked the Hyuga genius. He shook his head in response. It was hard to look for a single person in a huge crowd, even with the power of the Byakugan.
'Shit, we have to find them before they find Hinata' thought the dog lover, concerned for his female teammate.
"I see Sasuke and Shino two blocks away from us. They didn't find her neither." Said Neji with his byakugan still activated.
"Let's meet up with them and plan another…-" Kiba stopped talking as he smelled something he didn't before. 'What's this scent?' he wondered.
"What is it Kiba?" asked the long haired shinobi as he deactivated his doujutsu.
"I… this smells strange" he said, not paying much attention to his companion. 'Wait! I smell Hinata's scent coming near!' he thought as he started to follow the scent, forgetting all about the previous scent. Neji realized Hinata was very close to them since Kiba was approaching her but did not announce his presence. Deciding it would be suspicious of him being with her teammate since they hardly hung out together, he hid himself into a nearby alley. At first confused, the fang tatooed teen frowned. Deciding to handle with Hinata first he started to deliberate options, 'I can't let Hinata see me, if she does, she'll want me to go with her and I'm on a mission to protect her. Wait, wouldn't that mean I have to be with her? … NO! Kiba stop thinking and FOCUS!' He had trouble inside his mind to decide what to do. It was too late to try and hide because she was a few steps away from him. 'That scent is coming near…'
Hinata passed Kiba without noticing him, she was too distracted since the only thing she could think of was to reach Naruto's house and eat the cinnamon rolls she bought with him. 'I wonder if he's even home, I started to read the book but I still don't have enough courage to do any of the things they do.' She blushed deeply at the thought of doing those 'naughty' things with him. Well, for her they were nasty.
Kiba let a sigh of relief escape from his lips followed by his eyes doubling its size when he realized that she was with no one! 'WHAT THE HELL? WHERE'S THAT IDIOT? HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE WITH HER!' he yelled and got mad but still hept his focus on the mission. 'It's her! I didn't see her around the village before… could it be she's…' He didn't finish the sentence because a hand pulled him backwards. "WHAT THE…? Oh Neji, it's you"
"Let's see where that woman is going, it seems she's following Lady Hinata."
"Yeah I thought that too"
They started to follow a thin, short black haired woman. She seemed suspicious, her violet eyes were staring in Hinata's direction, as if they were fixated on her back. Neji watched her following his cousin.
"Kiba, go to tell Shino and Sasuke that we found one of the cloud ninja." He nodded and did what he was told. 'She's going to Naruto's house! I've to find-'
"Hey Neji! Have you seen Hinata?" Naruto's voice interrupted his thoughts.
"Go to your home, and do it quickly." He said as he kept looking to the black haired woman with his doujutsu.
"Huh? Why?" he asked frowning. His cousin-in-law's statement confused him.
"No time to explanations. Go there and wait for Hinata. Watch out." He kept visual tracking the mysterious woman. And without a word, Naruto started to run to his home.