I don't own naruto
The cool late summer breeze fingered through her hair, her face a mask of indifference, only the red streaks, that marked the path of her tears, down the pale skin of her cheeks, betrayed her detached front.
"Why do you keep chasing me, what do you honestly want from me." She rasped out her voice broken and horse.
Her question was met by silence so she carried on.
" I don't want anything to do with the village, nor will I ever pose a threat to it."
Yet again there was no reply.
"Why don't you tell them you killed me, you have dispatched of the Huyga, no the Konoha disgrace, tell them her unsightly being can no longer sullies our name."
He didn't answer so she turned to him; she ran her hands along the front of his chest feeling the notches and pockets of his vest.
"Or if you can't bring your self to lie, then why don't you just do it."
Yanking a kurani free, out of the pouch strapped to his leg, and forcing it into his hand, throwing her head back and exposing her neck. " Go a head you would have anyway, even if this was your child", she pressed the swell of her stomach against him.
Her jaw locked into a sneer, as she tilted her face up towards him, her eyes narrowed in disgust. "DO IT!" she screamed and pressed his hand and the blade to her throat. "Kill me" she grounded out, shutting her eyes.
"No!" he tore himself away, "Your too cruel, with your words and your actions, don't torment me."
Loathing spread across her face, as she burst out in laughter.
"What, you don't believe you are?" Kakashi spat out the anger growing in him as her laughter became louder " Do you think you're the only one who's suffered." Grabbing hold of the tops of her arms in a tight grip. "Do you think the I don't suffer as well, don't you think this pains me just as much as it does you."
He gritted his teeth "Everything I have lost, everything!" He yelled shaking with anger.
"Every thing I've lost, each day they haunt me, and do you know why I have not let the madness consume me and thrown my life away as Sasuke has." His anger subsiding into despair, with a sober inflection in his voice. " Because I believe there is a future, and though you may despise me, but you are the future that I see."
"So please" he begged "don't abandon me."
They set off for Konoha that very night, Sakura protested, claiming Hinata shouldn't travel while she was so heavily pregnant it could bring on early labor. But she was over ruled. At first they had a slow start with Hinata walking. Naruto decided to carry her whether it was because he wanted to hurry things along or simply because he couldn't bear to see her struggling.
However the uncomfortable silence, and teary eyes of guilt, she would get whenever he touched her, hurt Naruto even more, so Kakashi ended up carrying her. Sakura reassured Naruto it was just her hormones, not to take it to heart.
At nights they would make camp, Yamato insisted they tie her hands and feet, Naruto and Sakura objected, Kakashi didn't even say a word. So they kept her hands and feet bound.
Tonight, was the third night, they had been traveling. It was kakashi turn to guard her; the others had gone to patrol the area, to check for signs of Sasuke's pursuit.
He stood in the darkness of the night watching her, the flickering yellow and amber light of the crackling fire casting haunting shadows across her face. Her expression somber and dignified as she looked on into the flames, as if she could see something he couldn't.
"Hey scarecrow." She greeted him with out even looking up; this was the first time he had heard her speak in days.
"Don't" he cut her off, he shouldn't be here, he should of asked one of the others to guard her. Just the slightest hint of emotion in her voice paired with the nickname was enough to draw him in.
She looked so vulnerable with her hands and feet bound heavily pregnant and unable to move. It was cruel he wanted to untie her.
She carried on regardless, but this time turning to face him "you look like a man who's walked through hell." Noting the disconcerted look on his face, and his over all shabby appearance, he had lost weight, and now had sunken black bags under his eyes. His hair was in much more of disarray then usual.
He stepped back further into the darkness, he couldn't face her or he would lose site of the objective.
"You should go back to the village, rule, live and grow old, I won't ask for your help." She turned back to stare at the flames.
"Why, I could free you so easily" Kakashi questioned her, she surly knew he would crumble to her demand if she were only to ask.
For a long time there was nothing but crackling and the spitting of the fire, and just as he had given up on any hope of reply she confided
"Because no matter what may become of me, you're already bound to me, I have become the memories that will haunt you."
Kakashi stood frozen to the spot simply watching her, it was true. As if in acceptance he bowed his head a little lower.
" So what you choose to do now is irrelevant, because I have you trapped." She finished, smiling sorrowfully in his direction.
"Why, why did you have to become the enemy" stepping forward in to the light.
"I never became the enemy Kakashi, Konoha made me one, and I followed every order you gave me. Then Konoha tried to kill me I simply ran, there's nothing else to it."
It dawned on Kakashi it was all true, Konoha had betrayed her, used and disposed of her and he was to blame for this, he needed to make this right " let me save you."
She shook her head, "Kakashi you could never save me."
"No" he started to say as low as a whisper, slowly stepping closer towards her, raking his hand through his hair. "No" he said with more certainty " If you think I would just let this happen, just roll over and have you executed, and accept you melodramatic 'Kakashi you can never save me', speech, then your wrong." His voice grew gradually louder becoming more feverent with each passing word.
"Regardless of how and why it happened you're my wife and I promised to keep you safe, and I want to keep you safe I need to save you."
Coming to her side and knelling beside her. "I'm going to be selfish, screw doing things for the greater good, I want you for my greater good." He was really angry, at whom she wasn't quite sure, but he had frustration plastered across his face.
Hinata was shocked, she knew Kakashi wasn't exactly and evil man but she had thought his loyalty to the village was his main priority and she had never seen him quite so emotional, tired and drained yes, calm and composed many times, she had even seen him risk his life for that of a comrade.
But this time he was really showing his raw emotion, starting with denial, tuned to distress then becoming frantic, then finally becoming resolute. " I will save you, because yes, you will haunt me, and yes I am bound to you, but I am older now, I will not let you slip through my fingers, I won't make the same mistakes of the past." Gone was his lazy gaze, now his face red and flustered.
Untying the ropes that bound her, raising Hinata onto her feet, forcing her to look at him. " If I don't do anything I will regret it for the rest of my life, and I don't care what you say." She wasn't sure if it was a threat or a promise to himself "I won't let you, or anyone else hold this over me."
Hinata couldn't help but allow a smile to creep up on to her face, she really couldn't, and it was a smile of victory that kept growing. Maybe she was overly hormonal and emotional but she rejoiced in the fact that she had some how managed to crack this self righteous broken shell of a man, to get him to truly show such emotion she had managed to truly crawl under his skin.
She burst out laughing at the intense expression that he wore. " It looks like my scarecrow's finally becoming real."