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By now her wounds had healed a little, the bruises faded, her body no longer sore, she had regained a lot of her strength, she could have left any time she wanted, but didn't. Like always she was standing in the sheet he had wrapped her in this morning. She felt a presence behind her she was waiting for him to say "I am back". It never came.

She turned to see what was wrong, in front of her was a rain nin "who are you?" he demanded.

She stayed silent, " Why are you here" again she stayed silent.

He attacked lunging forward with a kurnai, she effortlessly dodged, now dropping the sheet. She activated byakugan; the rain nin recoiled back into a defensive stance recognizing the bloodline limit. She attacked driving him back whilst thrusting her palms at him, the rain nin trying to duck and dodge her advances, but her attacks came more rapidly, he felt the final blow hit hard, square on his chest as he spat up blood, his heart exploded.

Staring at the dead man on the floor she smiled slightly, finally finding her reason for leaving. She searched the man for weapons and supplies as she stripped him of his chunnin vest. She searched the room for one of Sasuke shorts not finding any in the room she went to look in the bathroom. Sasuke found her rooting around in the bathroom. He called to her "Hinata"

She turned to him, her eyes seemed faintly more alive, she had a splatter of blood dripping down the side of her face, her hair disheveled somewhat and she was wearing a chunnin vest over his T-shirt. Sauntering towards him, her hands drifting to the rope around his waste, curious to see what she does next, he leans down and whispers in her ear "I am back".

She unties the rope around his waste letting it fall to the floor his pants loosen; she pulls them down off him. She looks up at his face to see a hint of amusement in his eyes. She then proceeds to unzip his top and slide it down off his shoulders. She then unzips the chunnin vest and lets in fall to the floor she tugs off the t-shirt.

She reaches out for his hand and leads him towards the bath, stepping in to the bath she turn to him looks him in the eyes and whispers "Sa-su-ke" with a smirk on his face he steps into the tub, growing ever more intrigued by her actions. He sits down and removes the bandages around her waist, while she turns on the tap and lets the water fill around them.

She kneels down facing him and picks up the blue cloth she lifts his arm, starting with his hand she scrubs down his arm towards his chest, across his shoulder up his neck to his face. Letting the cloth slip, she starts to trace his features with the tip of her finger's. Seeing her transfixed with his face, he begins to wash her instead.

She was running her hand through his hair, pushing it up and away from his face. Noticing the water overflowing she reaches back to turn the tap off, her reach falling short, he leans forward to do it for her. Taking the opportunity to make the distance between their bodies even smaller Hinata presses her chest against his, wraps her arm around his back and up to back of his head, she weaves her hand through his hair and grips in slightly, drawing his head down closer to her she whispers in his ear "I am leaving now".

She draws back to see his face, he looks at her blankly and reply's "Oh". This causing a small smile escape her lips. Abruptly standing she pulls him up along with her, grabbing the towel from the side, he follows her out of the tub, letting her dry him. Once they where both dry, Sasuke knelt down to bind the bandages. He was just about the leave the room to fetch a new T-shirt when she grabs his arm stopping him . He looks back at her "pants, I need pants".

"Hmn" he answered.

When he returned with a clean pair of shorts for hers she had already dressed herself in his white shirt, it went down past her knees, he dressed her in the shorts, and then she put the chunnin vest back on. Putting back on his black pants, she helped him tie the purple rope.

Hinata led him to the small kitchen and rummaged around in the cupboard looking for something edible, he made them both a simple meal. As usual they ate in silence, he left the plates on the table this time he didn't clear anything away.

She went in to their bedroom stepping over the body as if it wasn't even there; she fetched back the sheet and brought it to Sasuke, who was still sitting at the kitchen table still waiting for her. She sat her self down on his lap as she pressed her forehead to his and wrapped the sheet around him. The tips of their noses touching, she looked in to his eyes, ever so dark compared to his skin. His arm's holding her in place so she didn't fall back. She pulled away slightly, "The rains coming" she uttered in a hushed voice. "Ah" he answered watching through half lidded eyes as she nestle her self in his lap hiding her face in the side of his neck her head resting on his shoulder. They herd the rainfall and felt the presence of intruders sneaking in to the bunker. The rain nin running down the long corridor, reaching the door of the kitchen pushing it opens only to find two empty seats.

Hinata was now on her way back to Khonoha, wondering how she will be received, she had been missing for almost six months.

How would her farther react, her cousin her family elders, her friends, letting out a dry laugh " I wonder what would Naruto think, if he found out I had been with Sasuke"

"Sasuke" she whispered, what exactly was he to her.

They had escaped from the bunker together and spent the night at an inn together in the nearest village. She had watched his sleeping form, feeling her head rise and fall with his chest as he breathed, she gotten too used to every little aspect of him, his skin, his smell, his touch, his breath, his hold, his whispers, his greeting, his hair, his eyes, his face. His face she reached up and traced it with her fingers. She gathered the blanket around him and enclosed it around him. She had left him in the dead of night asleep.

If I had stayed would he have taken me with him, would we have carried on that way, keeping me enveloped in his little bubble of safety, waiting for him to return and being embraced with all his attention focused on me, and solely on me. Was I merely something to pass the time with, some sort of pet to cuddle and care for? Either way I don't care what I was to him, I didn't reject the comfort he provided me I needed it I accepted it willingly, but nor do I feel indebted to, I hold no great feelings of love towards him. So what is it exactly I feel for him, when I was with him felt numb no pain, no anger, no loneliness, yet no, joy, no love, no happiness, I felt warm and comfortable. I would probably accept it again.

Lost in her thought's she hadn't noticed she already passed through Khonohas gates. Being surrounded at once by the anbu she is taken directly to an interrogation room. She found her self sitting at a table sitting opposite the hokage and two other people she did not recognize, and anbu guards.

"Hyuuga Hinata you have five months a three weeks and five days unaccounted for, report" demanded the Hokage. Should she tell them the truth or merely stay quiet what was the point of telling them when they could just as easily search her mind for the answers.

"After I was separated from my team, I was captured by mist nins, I awoke in a cell, realizing I had been captured I waited one week for rescue. I then attempted suicide to keep the secrets of my bloodline. After my failed suicide I was but under constant surveillance, I was experimented on daily and examined. Due to these experiments my right eye has now been rendered completely blind. She lifted her head to show the visible slash scar running through her pupils-less white eye.

" Your Byakugan is it still effective can you still activate it"! One of whom she presumed to be an elder from her family exclaimed.

"Yes, how ever for shorter periods of time, perhaps with training I could prolong it." She stated calmly

"How did you escape from the mist"? The Hokage interrupted.

"When I was being transported to a different location, I was initially made unconscious for the journey however I had awoken prematurely. I then attacked the guards, I had managed to escape but I was wounded heavily," answered Hinata

"What was your location at this point?" questioned the Hokage

" I can not tell you may exact location, on any possible bearings, other then I was in a large forest"

" How did you survive?" the Hokage less forcefully inquired, knowing this was already a traumatic enough ordeal for the woman.

This was the question, how did she survive on a whim or for amusement. Should she tell them about Sasuke, or leave it for them to find out forcefully.

Noticing she was hesitating "Hinata" the hokage prompted.

" I-I was rescued" was her unsure reply

Tsunade raised an eyebrow at her reply this was the first time since the interrogation began that Hinata's stutter had returned and she hesitated at that.

"By whom" she probed even further.

"Uchiha Sasuke" she calmly stated.

She hared a gasp of disbelief and shock evident on all three of her interviewers faces.

"Did you say the Uchiha did"! He asked again in shock

" Why"! The Hyuuga elder grilled

"I don't know" was her response

" What is your relationship with Uchiha Sasuke"? She quizzed further

" I am not sure" was her honest answer.

" Well that would explain the male clothes," the Hokage stated

"Are they his " Tsudnade asked

" Yes"

"Hmm, you will leave them in our care to be examined" she ordered as she motion for one of the anbu and whispered something in his ear.

"How did the two of you interact"?

" We hardly ever spoke, he fed me and treated my wounds, he bathed me and then we would both go to sleep"

"He bathed you"! The Hyuuga elder hissed

" I was hardly in any condition to do it my self " she said simply

Every one was quiet surprised by her retort.

" From what I can gather it seems to be quiet an intimate relationship, how long where you with him, did you manage to gain any information, where is he now, what is he planning next, or any information on the new jestu he attained"? The hokage interrogated

" I was with him for approximately one month and a week, I last left him in a small inn just off the land of sound. He is being pursued by rain nins, he had a bunker in the forest, which he used as a base. He would leave every day for about six or eight hours, that's all I know I never saw him use any jestu" Hinata answering as much she could.

" Humm, how did you escape him" she asked not really satisfied with her answer hoping she might of fought with sasuke in order to leave, so she could get knowledge on his abilities.

" I left while he slept" she answered

" And he simply let you go" she asked doubtfully

"Yes" Hinata said.

By the time she was released it was already late people where asleep now, she still had to go back in tomorrow for further questioning. They had stripped her of Sasuke's clothes; she was now wearing standard chunnin uniform. Expecting Neji or another branch member to be waiting there, to escort her back to the compound. Ah so they hadn't been informed yet, she couldn't face going back tonight not after being interrogated the whole day. Probably a courtesy from Tsunade, smiling there was only one place she could think to go.

Standing out side his window she knocks once quietly; Akamaru ear twitches as he catches her sent. He barks waking Kiba; he looks out the window seeming slightly confused. Then immediately he's at the window sliding it open. "Hinata"! He shouts pulling her into an embrace pressing her hard against him, as if to confirm that she's real. " Your safe, your safe and your back" sighing out with relief while holding her tightly and nuzzled his face into her hair, breathing in her scent.

Her scent seems slightly odd to him, it seem to be tainted and mix with other smells, sterile smells from a hospital, damp stale smell as if she had been sitting an ill-ventilated room all day, although faint a masculine scent that dominated hers somewhat.

Hinata was now facing Akamaru with open arms as the big white excited dog came bounding towards her and using all his self-control not to jumps up at her. Licking her face as she grabbed tufts of his big white fluffy fur, She couldn't help becoming excited with him, laughing after a long time.

She felt Kiba arm snake round her waste, and his head press in to the back of her neck his hold getting tighter "where have you been, what happened to you, are you hurt, when did you get back"? Kiba asked few of the million questions racing through his mind, hurt worry and relief in his voice. She relaxed back in to his hold, Cupping her face and turning her so she was looking directly at him. She had lost a lot of weight her face was no longer as full, her expression was calm, she wasn't blushing beat red or stuttering out his name like she would do by now and pushing him off.

Its then he noticed the scar running through her right eye, he waved his thumb right over it and she hadn't flinched. The tear that where already formed, started to fall " your blind" he breathed out in shock. Leaning into his touch she sighed "only in one".

"What happened… to you" his voice broken and tears rolling down the red fangs. It hurt to look at his face, she buried her head in his chest "please I just want to rest" she murmured into him, "I missed you". She could feel his tears drop from the bottom of his chin on to the top of her head wetting her forehead.

His voice softer now, calmer " I missed you too".

She woke the next morning still held tightly in his embrace, and Akamaru lying on the other side of her as if he was guarding her from any one that would take her away, or preventing her from leaving. She smiled, truth be told she was half expecting it to be Sasuke, she hazily looked up at Kiba, he was awake watching her shifting up so she was eye level, she pressed her forehead against his, looking into his eyes as her hand played with his hair, she couldn't decipher all the emotions running through him, but he seemed lost in thought. She could still see tear marks on his cheek she gently kissed it. " I made you cry " she spoke softly.

Kiba released the breath he had been holding and pulled her closer, so her head was now on his shoulder, focusing on a strand of her hair he held in his hand " I love you" he whispered " I know" was her reply. He let out a dry humor less laugh, "I wasn't quite sure, if this was a dream or reality. You have no idea how many times I dreamt of your return." Smiling sadly at her. "But in my dreams you always loved me."

She sat up, he rose with her, " I should get going, I have to be at the Hokage's tower for further questioning at nine," she informed him, trying to change the subject. " I don't want to let you go, let me come with you", he requested as he pressed his lips to her right eye.

She nodded " But don't tell Shino I am back I want to surprise him, do you think his expression will change" she said playfully. "Yah I am sure even the stiffs will " he said solemnly his words drifting off by the end. He was looking in to her face rubbing her right cheek with his thumb gently " I'll get dressed".

"Umm" she nodded she herd Akamaru whine and rub his head against her "shush I am here now" trying to soothe him and nuzzling her face in his fur. " I missed you as well".

They walked through the village together, she didn't want any one to see her, she didn't want to bump into any one and have to explain what had happened to her, she would give her official account and not speak of it again. She especially didn't want to see Sakura and most of all Naruto. Keeping close to Kiba her head down as they walked slowly towards the tower.

" Welcome back" she herd a playful yet deep voice say shocking her out of her retrieve looking up to see Kakashi walking quietly beside her, she stepped closer to Kiba and reached for his hand. Kiba reacting to her action pulled her in to him and put a protective arm around her "Kakashi sensei" he regarded him with a slight scowl.

Kakashi laughed nervously and raised both his hands, at her obvious discomfort around him " Now, now Hinata chan, I don't know what you've herd about me, but I am honestly not like that" he tried to defend him self " I am here to escort you to your interview, I will be sitting in on it this time, Kiba I am afraid you'll have to part ways here" He instructed in a serious tone.

This time he directed his full glare at the junnin; he hesitated not wanting to let her go. Hinata took hold of both his hands and squeezed them " Don't worry, I'll be fine, I'll find you once I am done, don't wait for me" she whispered into his ear slightly pushing his hands away and turning not giving him a second glance, she carried on walking.

Kakashi still walking alongside her " I see you've lost your stutter, and I had thought it was quite cute" She had known he was listening and she didn't feel embarrassed by his statement. " Oh" she responded

"I am sure, Naruto will be overjoyed to see you, Hinata chan" He drew out her name and the chan, trying to goad a reaction from her.

"Oh" she replied once again.

" One word replies did you pick that habit up from Sasuke" she wasn't surprised that he knew about Sasuke, that's probably why he's here.

"Hmn" she retorted. He raised an eyebrow at her imitation of Sasuke.