Hinata awoke due to a sudden change of light. She looked up groggily and wiped the sleep from her eyes to see Sasuke once again standing in the door of her cell. Feeling as if she was shrinking under his unwavering gaze, Hinata pulled her knees to her chest and hid her face.

But suddenly she felt a jerk on her wrist and was pulled to her feet.

"Come with me, don't struggle or I might just kill you," Sasuke growled into her ear. Hinata squeaked a little in fear and then allowed the Uchiha to drag her into and down the hall.

Suddenly he turned to the right and they entered a small room, its only furnishings were a small metal chair. 'This must me the interrogation chamber,' thought Hinata to herself. Taking a deep breath to prepare, Hinata turned to face Sasuke. 'The least I can do for Konoha is keep quiet.'

"Sit."

Hinata sat and looked down at the floor.

"Are you comfortable, kunoichi?" Sasuke asked. The questioned girl fought the almost unbearable urge to look up at the Uchiha. There was something about his voice, something smooth and melodic, yet still underplayed with the scorn and venom of a true interrogator. 'This is going to be bad' thought Hinata, squeezing her eyes shut tight. I can make it through this, I'm stronger than everyone thinks, I'm stronger…… Maybe I'll be killed quickly.' She swallowed the lump that rose up in her throat. 'I guess it's a good thing that I came, everyone will be better off without me.'

A sudden sharp pain in her leg snapped her out of her thoughts.

Hinata gasped in shock and looked up at Sasuke, eyes widened. All that greeted her was a face with eyes as cold as flint chips. The side of his mouth was turned up with a grim satisfaction.

The girl then looked down and was met with the sight of blood slowly oozing down her leg from a gash across her lower shin. On an impulse, Hinata pressed her hand on it in an attempt to staunch the flow.

"I'll say it one more time kunoichi," she heard Sasuke speak, his quiet tone dangerous, "Look at me while I'm speaking to you or it'll be more than you leg that gets flayed next time." Just the way he spoke was enough to convince Hinata, and so she slowly looked up at him. She gulped and continued to watch him from under her lashes, trying to look as brave as she knew she really was deep down.

"Now, you'll answer a couple of my questions." Sasuke spat, angered by the way that she was watching him. The Hyuga was frightened, but also very determined not to give up any of her clan's, and therefore Konoha's secrets.

She took a deep breath and in a shaky, yet resolute filled voice, spoke to her would-be tormenter. "I p-promise yo-you U-U-Uchiha S-Sasuk-ke, that I-I'm n-not going to t-t-tell you any-anything."

The way she spoke, scared but yet sure of herself, made something stir inside Sasuke, and for a moment he hesitated. For some reason, at the thought of hurting this shy-eyed girl again made his insides recoil. She looked so innocent, almost like a child that didn't deserve the punishment she was about to receive, and Sasuke felt a strange feeling bubble up inside him, something that he could remember feeling as a small child, but couldn't quite name.

'What in the hell am I thinking?' Sasuke asked himself, 'I am an avenger, I want power, and no emotions will get in my way.'

The Uchiha pushed away all these thoughts and pulled out a particularly sharp-looking kunai knife. Sasuke took a small, shuffling step towards Hinata and said, "Now, first question."

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Tsunade sat at her desk in her office in the topmost room of the Hokage tower. The floor was littered with crumpled pieces of paper, the wastebasket overflowing. She was furiously scribbling something onto yet another piece of paper. Then she stopped, read what she'd written, and crumpled the paper, allowing it to join its fallen brethren on the ground.

Growling in frustration, Tsunade swept all of the remaining papers from her oak desk onto the floor. She then opened a drawer and pulled out a bottle of sake. The blonde woman then proceeded to pop the cork and downed the bottle's contents in a matter of seconds.

For a moment, she seemed to calm down, and she pulled out another sheet of paper, writing something on it.

The Hokage smiled, set her pen down and read over what she had written. She smiled even bigger as she read it over and over, her fists clenching, crumpling the edges she had a hold of, her arms began to shake.

All of a sudden, her arms stopped shaking, and Tsunade sat utterly still, save for one solitary eye twitch.

Then she exploded.

"GOD DAMMIT!!" the paper was ripped in two, crumpled and thrown at the trash can. The two pieces unbalanced the tower of papers that was sticking out of the basket. This just happened to irritate the woman further, and soon the can was flung strait through the wall. Her empty sake bottle shattered as it too was flung, this time at the door. The door then suffered a crack when her rolling chair was flung at it as well. The door held up though, there was a good reason that Shizune replaced the old door with a heavy oak one.

"Why can I not think of anything?!" yelled the fifth in a voice so loud that it threatened to shatter windows. Tsunade then screamed a string of curses so violent and so loud, that mothers on the street below covered their children's ears. "Arg!" she screamed, slamming her fist down on the desk, hard.

A loud shattering sound was heard all around the village. The woman looked down with disgust at the pile of splinters and papers that was formerly her very solid oak desk.

Tsunade spat on the wood, just as the door opened and a very worried Shizune burst into the room. "Tsunade-sama, what happened?" she screeched.

"I think I need a new desk." Tsunade mumbled. St this, Shizune sighed and looked around the now ruined office.

"I believe that you also need a new chair, door, wall, and wastebasket Tsunade-sama," Shizune stated with an exasperated tone, "What made you so angry in the first place though?"

The Hokage frowned, "I was just trying to think of a way to fetch back Uchiha and Hyuga, all without weakening the Leaf's defenses, therefore causing mass panic and destruction." With that said, she bent down to pick up the chair, which had hit the door with so much force that it had bounced back. Setting it upright, she turned to sit down. But as soon as she made contact with the padded seat, it fell apart, leaving her sitting on a pile of wood and papers.

Tsunade looked solemnly up at Shizune and blinked, then slowly asked, "Can I never win?"

"Ummm, Tsunade-sama, if I may suggest taking council with the elders and jonin? Perhaps that could help you with your problem."

The Hokage jumped up with surprising speed, "Wonderful idea Shizune! I'll try that right away!"

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"You are surprisingly stubborn," Sasuke said in a quiet, monotone voice, "No matter, you'll break soon enough." His last words echoed until they were cut off by the sound of Hinata's cell door slamming shut. The darkness engulfed her once again, and even though she couldn't see them, she could feel the cuts, gashed, and bruises burning and oozing blood all over her body.

As the Uchiha's footsteps receded, the girl let her tears fall. Hinata ha learned two things that day, she couldn't use her chakra due to a small cuff placed on her wrist, and the quick death that she thought night happen was out of the question. She would be tortured until she broke, hurt just enough for her to be in great pain, but never enough to kill her. After Orochimaru got what he wanted, she would be turned into a test subject.

The Hyuga couldn't help but let a feeling of helplessness seep through her. 'What if I'm not strong enough, how will I ever protect my village?'

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As Sasuke entered his room, he slammed the door closed as hard as he could manage. He was furious, more pissed than he had ever been in his entire life. And there was a catch, he was mad at himself.

The Uchiha prodigy stood in the middle of his room, clenching and unclenching his fists, shoulders shaking with rage. He was so mad, that he didn't even know why he got angry in the first place, and this ticked him off even more.

Sasuke charged across the room, fist raised. He hit the stone wall several times over with all his might, while grunting out words, timed with each punch. "What……the…..hell……is…….the….matter…..with……me!?"

Panting ever so slightly, more from anger than from exhaustion, Sasuke turned and plopped down on the bed. He was calming down a bit, and his mind was clearing. Now he could think a little bit better.

'Now, why was I mad again?' Sasuke asked himself. He closed his eyes and concentrated on thinking. An image of Hyuga Hinata, cut, bloody, and bruised flashed into his mind's eye. 'That Hyuga girl,' he thought, 'but then why am I mad at myself?'

Then he understood why he was angry, it was because he had hurt the girl. For some reason unknown to him, seeing her injured had made him want to hurt whoever had done those things to her.

He clenched his fists, and immediately unclenched them when he was welcomed with a stinging pain. Sasuke looked down at his hands, the knuckles were badly scraped and blood was oozing down his hands. He laughed bitterly.

'Huh, I guess I got my wish,' he smirked coldly as he thought; 'I hurt the person who injured that Hyuga. What was her name again…..? Hinata, yea, it was Hinata.'

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Hey, sorry that the chapter was up so late, it's 8:30 right now, but hey, it's still Friday right. Not really much to say this time around, so, reviews please!

Finally got my chapter up:

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