Disclaimer: As usual, I don't own Naruto or it plot/characters.
"It's you we're after, not the boy." A sickly sweet voice rolled out of the women's mouth. Hinata's eyes widened, her pupils shimmering as they shook ever so slightly.
"Hinata-"Naruto was cut off by another shot of pain being sent through his body. Swallowing as much air as he could, he spoke again through gritted teeth, his voice tense. "Hinata… get out of here! I won't let you get hurt…" Hinata looked down at his gentle blue eyes, eyes filled with pain and worry. Narrowing her eyes, Hinata screamed.
"No! I won't leave you here like this! I can fend them off on my own!" And with that said, Hinata charged towards the auburn haired women. Hinata's aura exuded with determination, her eyes filled with fire. Thrusting her palm into the women's stomach, she quickly followed with a kick, which was guarded with a katana. Hinata jumped backwards to avoid the blade from hitting her. Standing her ground, the women swung her sword around in a few sharp flicks, then held it out in front of her.
"Naomi-san, are you okay?!" A man with a buzz cut and a torn fish net hanging off his chest stepped in front of Naomi, holding a crossbow down beside his hip in a somewhat threatening manner.
Naomi pushed the man away, the venom in her eyes obvious. "I'm fine. This girl just needs to learn some respect for her elders. It'll be quite easy to knock her out on my own. We can't bring damaged goods to the sir now can we, so only get involved if foxy over there manages to put up fight." She spoke with a sense of authority, but something in her voice held… fear?
Hinata charged towards Naomi once again, dodging the swing from the katana, then grazing her palm against Naomi's hip. The fiery red head spat out the blood that had risen to her throat.
Growing impatient, Naomi jumped backwards, then made a few hand signs. A gust of wind flew by as the shadows on the ground began to morph into morbid shapes, rising from the ground. The figures appeared to be beasts; beasts with piercing red eyes and snarling black smiles. Smirking, Naomi licked her lips. "Like my pets? This is why the sir hired me and my group. We get whatever we want, and when the prey is stubborn, I leave the rest up to my pretty little darlings here!" Her voice was silky, and just as sickly sweet as it was when she uttered her first words to Hinata.
Hinata gritted her teeth, standing her ground as she took head on the attack headed her way. The beasts sprinted towards her, grey tongues licking black teeth.
"Hinata…" Naruto muttered quietly to himself as his vision faded, the last image in his mind being that of Hinata's body slung over Naomi's shoulder.
The screaming pierced Sasuke's ears. Both Madara and Sasuke held their hands up against their ears, darting their onyx orbs back and forth, trying to find the source of the screaming. "This is hopeless; we need to get some light in here!" Sasuke raised his voice above the screaming. Feeling around to find a light switch or a torch, Sasuke instead found something soft and pudgy, like skin. Tracing his fingers over it some more, he felt cold metal.
"Found the light switch!" Madara flicked on the light, then started to chuckle. Sasuke began screaming, adding to the noise in the former hideout.
"Get your hands off of him!" Konan jumped out from the shadows, slapping Sasuke away from Pein. She pulled out a kunai and aimed it at Sasuke, changing the target to Madara when she spotted him. "I won't let you take another one from him!" Konan had a crazed look in her eye as she charged towards Madara. Her once tamed, cropped hair was now incredibly long, falling to her hips, and was loosely pulled back into a ponytail.
Sighing, Madara held out an open palm, grabbing Konan's hand. Looking her in the eyes, he wrenched the kunai out of Konan's fist and slapped her backwards into Sasuke.
"You still have this guy's old body hanging around the place? Pathetic…" Madara walked towards Konan and pulled her up by the collar of her coat.
"That is actually something I'm curious about… why do you have a dead body hanging around?" Sasuke jumped up then crept away from the body, his brow lined with sweat. He cast his eyes away from Konan's silver irises, seeing only pain in them…. Pein.
Gritting her teeth, she spat at Madara's face, mustering up as much spittle as she could. "I won't let you take the last of Nagato's eyes. You already have one!"
"Yes, I am aware of that fact. But I haven't come here for Pein's last eye… I've come here for you!"
Konan threw back her head and began screaming and laughing and muttering meaningless words. Slowly setting her back on the ground, Madara raised an eyebrow at Sasuke, who simply shrugged, not wanting to be anywhere at the current moment. After recovering from her moment, Konan grimaced, her grey eyes burning with hate and confusion. Looking at Madara and Sasuke with disgust, she spat once again at Madara's face.
Wiping the spit off of his face, Madara tugged the corners of his lips upwards, not even classifying as a smirk. "We need you to help us with a mission."
"Help you! I'm here only because you blackmailed me." Sasuke snapped. Konan grinned at Sasuke for how easily he had managed to get involved with Madara's evil deeds again.
Ignoring Sasuke's interruption, Madara continued. "In order to carry out the mission, we need to pick up a package on the outskirts of Konoha, and it shouldn't take too long to get there if I use space-time migration."
"And we walked non-stop for a whole day to Amegakure why?" Sasuke groaned, groaning even louder when he was ignored.
Konan looked hesitant, then stated, "No."
Madara frowned. "Wrong answer." Grabbing her by her collar, he flung her across the room. Walking up to her, he picked her up and raised a fist. "If you don't say yes, then I'll kill you."
"Go ahead!" Konan seethed. Madara grinned, seeing his tactics fail, and then remembered the dead body behind him.
"Then I'll take Pein's remaining rinnegan." Konan went pale. Madara smirked. "Shall we get going then?" Performing a few hand signs, Sasuke, Konan and Madara spun out of sight. To the outskirts of Konoha.
Naruto rolled around in his bed, drool dripping onto his pillow. He was tangled in his bed sheets, groaning. "Naruto… Naruto, wake up. You're having nightmares again!" Sakura's soft voice pulled Naruto to reality. Rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, he sat up abruptly, only to fall back again screaming in agony.
"Hinata… where is she?!" Naruto murmured, not wanting anyone to confirm the worst. Sakura sighed, figuring out how to put it gently, only to be interrupted by Neji who came bursting in through the door with Tenten.
"She's gone! They took her and who knows what they'll do to her! Whoever they are!" Neji shrieked in Naruto's ear, pulling him out of the bed and throwing him against the wall. Before he could do any more damage, Tenten held him back while Sakura punched him in the gut, sending him to his knees.
"Neji, it's not Naruto's fault. You heard what happened; Naruto can't be held responsible for any of this." Tenten spoke quietly to Neji as she pulled him into her arms, holding him tight. Tenten looked at Sakura with worried eyes, who gave her the same response.
Picking Neji up off of the ground, Tenten led him outside, leaving Sakura to tend to a sobbing Naruto.
"Neji, that was insensitive!" Tenten scolded Neji despite his fragile state.
"What do you mean insensitive?! He's the one who let her get kidnapped! Not me; it's his fault she's gone. How can he say he loves her?" Neji spat, only to get slapped over the head by a nurse passing by who bent down to clean it up.
"You didn't love Hinata for half your life! You tried to kill her for goodness sake!" Raising her voice a bit too loud, Tenten glared at Neji, trying to talk some sense into him.
"That's none of your business! You have no right to judge me when you know nothing about anything! You're just a stupid bitch who's had an easy, pansy life. You don't know what my pain is like! You will never understand!" Neji hissed in his blind rage. Tenten's face went blank, a single tear breaking free from her hazel eyes.
"I guess I really don't know anything… which is strange since you're the one who proposed. But since you obviously have a problem with me, then I guess the weddings off." And with that said, Tenten burst into tears, throwing a ring at him, and ran off.
"Neji, you really have gone and done it now! You should never say anything to insult your one-and-only." Lee walked up to him, having seen the spectacle on the way to Naruto's room. Picking up the ring on the floor, he handed it to Neji, who just stared at the empty space in front of him.
Sasuke, Konan and Madara were sat at a bar, each taking a sip from their sake, apart from Sasuke, who had ordered some green tea, remembering his experiences with alcohol. Looking up at the calendar, he took a mental note of the date. The 7th… I guess I won't get to see how much you've grown… Sakura…
A bell chimed at the entrance to the tea house, and group of six men entered, one of them carrying a sack on their shoulder. They were followed by a shock blond women, who was wearing a pink blouse and light blue skirt.
One by one, they sat on the empty barstools surrounding Sasuke, Konan and Madara.
Looking at the shock blonde, Madara spoke. "You got the package?"
"In the sack." The women replied. Madara smirked.
"I knew I could rely on you." Handing her a bag of golden coins, he took the sack off of the group, then sat back down, showing the contents of the sack to Sasuke and Konan.
"A girl?" Konan seemed confused.
Sasuke's eyes widened as he saw who the girl was. "Hinata!"
Naomi removed the blond wig, revealing red hair, placed the bag underneath it, and then placed the wig back on, readjusting it.