In the end it's the rat as I've named him and the other two other Nin left as blood filters the ground and I have to be honest they has the advantage. I'm exhausted and I can barely move but I keep going because I'm the only thing that stands between them and the innocent people.

"It's over doc, you've killed most of my men but even I can feel your weakness." I stand up and face him and he laughs but I punch him in the face as I bonk the other two together in the head. I take out the two Nin by stopping their heart as a scream rings out. I jerk my body as fast as possible as a barrel into thee the scared girl as the rats kunai rips through my back and I fall down in pain, telling the girl to run. She gets up and to my surprise she grabs my hair and jerks me to my knees and injects my neck with something.
"You have a weakness doc, everyone knows it and that makes you unfit to be a Nin. You can't walk away from somebody who needs help. You'll never have what it takes to a powerful Nin, pathetic." As he kicks me and I go flying I feel his words hurt me more then anything. He and the cloud woman continue to beat me till I'm lying prone on the ground but no kick comes as I listen to the voices.

"What the hell just hit me?"

"We did! We won't let you kill Hinata-sama! She's a better Nin then you'll ever be!"

I can hear and feel the villagers throw things at the two but as the next thing I hear are the screams of the villagers I crack.

I open my chakra gates and I activate the seal as I feel myself absorbing all the plant life around me.

'What the fuck? Oh shit!" I stand up as blue chakra surrounds me as I take my first step toward him.
The woman comes charging at me and I hold my hand out as my chakra infuses with her body as she lets out a scream as I set her chakra on self destruction that lights the field up.

"Ah, you may be right, I can't stand to watch people get hurt and maybe I don't make a good Nin and maybe I'm pathetic but that doesn't change that I'll fight to protect those who rely on what strength I have. I'll never break."

He summons a jutsu and I cut it off with mine. So he takes out a kunai and as I get closer he begins to shake uncontrollably and I'm centimeters away from him I lay my hand on his chest.

"Your fear is overwhelming you; it makes you unable to move, unable to think unable to defend yourself from death."

I flinch as the woman gives out a scream before she drops dead and we're plunged into complete darkness because of the hidden moon.

"Just do it." I walk past him and back to the village trying not to pass out from blood loss.

"Get out of my country and stay the fuck out."

"Your weaker then I thought if you can't kill me."

"Look around you; do you really think I can't kill? You're just not worth it." I stand as he backs up and starts running, leaving his hurt comrades and his pride. I sigh as I collapse and heal my back so I won't die of blood loss then to the hurt villagers as I start all over again.

Hours later I had healed the villagers and the cloud Nin as I secured them in a house. I left the house and I saw the bodies of the dead villagers and then I saw the sight of crying woman, children, and old digging graves. I grabbed a shovel from one the children and I started digging, despite my tiredness, pain and everything else as I wish I could cry for them.

"Hinata-sama you don't have to."

I raised my head as I sense an old woman holding her hand out for the shovel.

"It's my fault the village was dragged into this and my fault I wasn't strong enough to defend it so Oba-san thank you but I have to do this."

The night was loud for me as crying and the sound of shovels was the only thing I could hear. The injection the girl gave me was to make me weak and tired and no matter how much my mind fought it my body was losing the battle. By morning the bodies were buried and the funerals were done I was walking back to the house full of cloud Nin when a wave of dizziness that brought me to my feet.

"Hinata-sama are you ok?"

"Hai, a little tired that's all."I get up while gently shoving my guides away to enter the house alone.

I could feel their stares but I said nothing to them as I wondered what I was going to do with them.

"Are you going to kill us?"

"I can feel your fear boy, why would I heal you only to kill you the morning after?"

"We don't know anything."
"I know."

"Our village won't give you anything for us."

"Ah, I know that too."

"I don't understand why you're keeping us alive then."

"If you think you're going to die then why did you pray all night for me to let you live?"

"The only thing we have is hope."

"I see. I respect that more then you know." I release the seal that holds them and they look at me unsure of what to do.

"Your bodies are bagged and lined on the outside of village."

"Why?"

"This wasn't about war, it was personal and he involved you and these villagers recklessly. Besides I rather save people then take their lives. No go home minna to your families, you're finished here." They file out quietly and timidly as they go past the funerals to get to the bodies like I planned. I watched from the shade of the house as I sensed the cloud Nins troubles as they're faced with the families of the ones they've hurt watching them grieve. It hits home as they pick up the bodies and start to mourn their lost friends as they head back toward cloud as I sigh again.

Considering that I'm late in returning reinforcements are sent but I'm surprised that it's Naruto and sakura.

"Hinata-chan are you ok? Listen that girl-"

"I know."

"Shikamaru thinks they wanted to get Sakura to use against me."

"I see."

"Hinata let me see your back." I turn toward Sakura wondering how she knew but I sensed guilty chakra markers in the villagers.

"I'm fine-" She doesn't listen to me as she lifts up the oversized shirt I had been given and by her gasp I'm assuming that it must not look pretty.

"Fuck, which one those bastards did this?"
"Who knows? And I let the cloud Nin go, I saw no reason in their deaths."

"Hinata-chan this is a war, you can't do that." Over the past 48 hours had been stretched to my limit as I snapped hard at Naruto.

"No it was not a war, it would have been a slaughter and I will never condone such tactics in war or otherwise. Naruto I respect you but sometimes you need to think before stating such careless thing. A life is something precious whether it's a stranger or an enemy or some one precious because that life that you hold in your hand is all of those things and more."

He was silent as Sakura healed my back and then as she found more wounds she gave me a long lecture because I was a medic Nin and I should now better.

As I parted ways with sakura and Naruto I was stopped by him.

"Gomen ne Hinata-chan, your words are true and I was careless but I'm thankful for your advice. My biggest fear is going down the wrong path and it scares the shit out of me. Especially since I have Kohona riding on my shoulders as well."

"I should have controlled my emotions better but I was unstable and when you said that it brought back last night and family mourning. I understand pressure better then most, but you have many people who will take some of that burden for you, me for instance."

He hugged me and I hugged him back as I basked in another person holding me up and I know we should have let go over each other and did once sakura's chakra spiked in jealousy.

"Gomen ne, I was about to fall asleep standing up."
'Ha-ha, no problem Hinata-chan and since you are so instance about helping you I'm naming you my third advisor with Sakura and Shikamaru."
"Thank you, but the chances of me coming in tomorrow is slim."

"I still think you should go to the hospital like Sakura said."
'I'm fine, Ja ne!" I turn as I trudge my way back to the complex which was so unfairly across town.

I smile at the guards and I'm surprised as one of them speaks up.

"I'm glad your home safe Hinata-sama.

"You are not supposed to address a main branch like that."

"Ah, it's ok. Thank you for my welcome home, I enjoyed it very much." I smile at the boy as I walk through the gate and I smile as his chakra spikes with happiness and the others with surprise.

I make it past everyone else as I fall onto my bed as I am out like a light.

A shift in my body make me wake up as my senses come back to their height.
"Thank you Neji." I get out of my bed and I can tell I startled him.

"How could you tell Omouto because he only blinked!"

"Chakra doesn't lie." My wound on my back as me sliding down to the floor in pain.

"Hinata-sama?"

"Hanabi can you hand me the jar with white and dark green please?" She does so as I stumble into the bathroom refusing any help. I'm looking at my face which looks like death warmed over when my neck shoots pain in my entire spine as I let out a startled yelp.

"Hinata what's wrong, tell me please." Neji sounds desperate but the pain is preventing me from comforting him as I start to scream.

The only thing I can recognize through the have of pain is Neji whose holding me, not the voices or anything but him.

"Fuck sakura do something!"

"I can't Neji it's fighting my chakra, I can't over power it!"

"Do something to or my daughter will die, what ever it is eating her!"

"Hinata please fight it, I can't lose you." I hear those words from Neji and I begin to focus despite the pain. I scream harder as I set my chakra on fire to burn what ever the hell is in me before I feel no pain but the aftershock.

"We have to get Neji to the hospital, the burns are bad." Burns? He didn't let go of me?

I close my eyes as Neji is still holding me tight against him as I turn my chakra from a painful burning to a soothing liquid that spread all over both of us.

"Hinata-chan?" At that moment I realize that the bathroom is packed and so is my bedroom.

"What was that, it was turning your skin black." It was sakura who whispered it to me and I could tell she was scared.

"Insurance." I reach around to my neck and touch the injection smiling bitterly.

What the hell did she put it in me?

"I don't need a what a need a who." Neji's voice rumbled and I could feel the hate coming off him.

"An old friend, we met through starlight .Now leave while I go to bed please"

"Huh?"

"Everyone out ne?" they followed my request but Neji.

"Who."

"It has nothing to do with anyone but me. Thank you for what you did but you should have let go when you felt the burning."

"How do you suppose I could leave your side when you were in pain? I'll shoulder your pain for the rest of my life."

"Neji, Please don't think you have to-"

"No I want to. It's my choice so I ask you to respect that."
"Hai, while we're in this position will you put cream on my wound?"

"Hai." As I felt Neji's warm hand on my skin all my tiredness disappeared as I relaxed. Well, before I knew it I let out a deep moan and then I feel Neji stop his hands before he tipped my head side ways and kissed me hard and demanding. He tilted my head to get better access but in turn I moved my body to straddle him so I wrap my arms around his neck, pain forgotten.

"Hinata-chan!" we break apart panting heavily and seconds later I blush as I get off him in a hurry and I open the door to run into Naruto who catches me.

My heart is beating loudly at what just happened so I don't hear what naruto says but he drags me out of my room and the hyuuga complex as stop at the ramen shop. He continues to talk and I pretend I'm listening but really my mind is a mess.

'Hinata-chan." We turn and I'm happy to se Shino and Shikamaru together that I jump off the stool once again forgetting the height as I fall into Shino.
"Hokage-sama I'll be taking my best friend now." And then Shino-kun transports us to a are old training grounds as we sit in the grass.

"What's wrong?"

"Neji kissed me and I kissed him back." I don't think he was talking about that but shino is shino as he takes it in calmly.

"And what happened after?"

"Well when Naruto knocked on the door we stopped, I got embarrassed I jumped off him then I ended up at the ramen stand some how."
"So you haven't talked to him about it?"

"Ah how I'm I suppose to do that?"

"Seriously, out of everything you've done you find that the most terrifying don't you?"

"Hai."

"But you know that's the only thing you can do."

"Hai."

"I found you guys."

Shikamaru lies down and I think he's watching the clouds so I lay beside him.

"What happened back there?"

"Ah what do you mean." Did he hear us?

"That thing that attacked you. I realize that it wasn't a trap for sakura but for you as some one who has a grudge against your alias. But I need to know who I'm dealing with."

"It has nothing to do with the war, I'll deal with it on my own time."

"And about that thing that almost killed you?"

"After I rest I'll do some research but I already have a good idea what it is. Their mistake is trying it out me when I can just burn it out of my system and then find a cure for it before they release it."

"There's something else." Shino, you know me too well sometimes.

"It has hyuuga properties again."
"I see."

"I'll take care of it."

'Ah and Neji was just sent on a mission by naruto, it might last a month or two so you'll have to wait."

"Eavesdropper."