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Rescue the Comrades

Naruto punched me across my wounded cheek, reopening the wound. 'Damn it!' I fell backwards onto my butt from not having enough energy or chakra to stay balanced.

"I guess I deserved that," I whispered, wiping the blood from my cheek.

A fist grabbed the collar of my shirt and pulled me closer to Naruto's angry expression.

"So you came here anyway… putting everyone in danger just so no one would find out you're a murderer?" the blond growled at me.

"I don't give a rat's ass if you know I've killed someone. At some point any ninja will have killed someone! I don't know why I came but I did!" I growled back at him.

"Knock it off Naruto," Shikamaru said, looking away.

"You're taking it too personally," Kiba said after, Akamaru barked with agreement, "Just let her go."

"A real ninja wouldn't betray their comrades or leave them to die or let them be held captive without fighting to protect them!" Naruto yelled at me.

That hurt more than anything. I started to feel like a traitor even though I had done everything I could to protect Hinata. But I had left Ino and Sakura to defend them selves. 'Idiot… You're such a moron!'

"Don't you think I know that?! Why else would I come back here unless I was going to try to rescue them?! There's no way I'm going to tell Iruka Sensei personally about my situation," I growled back, pulled Naruto's fist off of me.

I unsteadily got to my feet and turned my back to them.

"If you don't want to help me then I'll go on my own."

"I'll help you Suzu, but we just need a plan," Kiba said as he looked at my back with worry.

"I'm in," Sasuke said.

"Aw man, I'm in too. I'd never hear the end of it if Ino knew I didn't help," Shikamaru groaned.

'They'll help me?' I looked back with surprise to their words and smirked slightly. Naruto didn't say a word.

"So what's the plan?" I asked, looking at Sasuke and then Kiba.

"Since I'm laze and since Naruto doesn't seem to want to help… the two of us will find and tell Iruka Sensei what's going on," Shikamaru said with a rather bored tone.

"Maybe Suzu should…" Kiba started.

"I'm not staying behind just because I don't have enough chakra! I'm gunna finish what I start," I said coldly, not going to be persuaded to change my decision.

"Then that leaves the three of us to rescue the others," Sasuke finished with a small smirk.

'This will work out… It has to… I don't care if they'll kill me once I get there, as long as I get Hinata and them out of there!' I let out a sigh and felt a small amount of chakra reveal itself.

"That's better," I whispered, relaxing my back muscles.

Kiba walked up to me and placed a hand on my shoulder.

"Are you sure about going? You look like you're ready to pass out," he said with some worry.

"It's my fault Hinata's in this mess… that all of you are in danger because of my mistake of coming here. I'm gunna take down my enemy no matter what… Even if I have to die trying," I laughed slightly, wiping the blood off my cheek.

Kiba laughed slightly at something and then shook his head slightly.

"Haven't you ever heard of a Substitution jutsu?" he asked with some mockery, poking the spot on my arm where the senbon had gone through.

I winced slightly before chuckling a little.

"I guess not… I just don't think about using it. I'm used to just going in and attacking and dodging on my own," I laughed with a small smirk, "I'd rather do things from physical strength than use too many jutsus. But sometimes I get carried away."

"I think you'd be good with Tai jutsu. It's all about physical attacks," he said with a smile.

"No," I said with an amused smirk, "It's just not my thing."

''I copy other people's jutsus and use them to my advantage… I may be strong physically, but I rely on my chakra to get me out of tough situations.'

"Are you two ready?" Sasuke's voice asked us.

I snapped out of thought and looked over at the dark haired Uchiha.

"As ready as I'll ever be."

"Then let's go," he said emotionlessly, taking off towards the way I had come.

'He doesn't know the way…' Kiba, Akamaru, and I took off after him.

"Hey Sasuke, you don't even know where we have to go!" I yelled at him.

"Do you?" the Uchiha asked me coldly.

"Who do you think you're dealing with?"

I ran up ahead, towards the forest. 'They probably took them to their hideout in the forest. It's by the river…' As we ran through the trees, I stopped suddenly and turned towards the two behind me.

"I just want you guys to promise me something," I said as they stopped behind me, "If I get caught by them and they let everyone else go, then I want you guys to leave. Don't come back for me."

"Worry about that later. We have to save the others," Sasuke said coldly, obviously wanting to get things started.

Giving Kiba quick glance, I kept on going. I led them from tree branch to tree branch, using as little chakra as possible to keep my balance. 'I have to make it to them… even if it killed me. I will take myself as their prisoner to save them.'

My arm stung where the senbon had pierced me. My whole body was starting to ach just from the short rest in the village. As we went through the forest, we were silent. 'We have to be close now. I don't remember how far away it is. I just know where and what it is.' Then a thought hit me, a good thought that was to our advantage.

"Hey Kiba," I called with a pant as we ran.

"Yeah?" he asked me with curiosity.

"You can understand Akamaru right?"

"Yeah, but what's that got to do with anything?"

I could hear in his voice that he was definitely confused now.

"Want to find out if he can hear a river?" I wondered, and I knew that one of them would ask about how a river was important, "Their hideout is near a river and I want to know how close we are."

I heard Akamaru bark a couple times and then Kiba sighed.

"He can't hear it yet. We must be a while away."

'Damn… I don't know how long I'll be able to keep this up… I better push myself as far as I can go.'

"Just bark Akamaru when you hear it or when we're really close."

After a little while, Kiba and Sasuke were only a step behind me. 'Either I'm getting slower or they're getting faster…' We had to have been running for at least ten minutes and still there was no bark from Akamaru.

"You're getting low on chakra," Sasuke stated emotionlessly.

"I know," I panted, lowering the amount of chakra going to my feet by a bit more.

'At this rate I won't…' The thought was cut off by a bark by Akamaru. In my surprise, we burst through the trees out to where a creek was flowing slowly. As the three of us came close to the ground, my chakra flow was cut off and I rolled across the ground. The ground was nothing but a bunch of pebbles on top or each other on both sides of a creek. They had been smoothed down, like the creek had once been a big, flowing river. As I stopped rolling, I landed on my back. 'Well that was great.' I laughed at myself as I slowly got to my feet.

"Aw man that was beautiful," I laughed, wiping laughing tears from my eyes.

"Why are you laughing?" Kiba asked with a cocked eyebrow.

"Because it's funny," I laughed, standing up fully before looking around.

'Alright… It shouldn't be too far away from here. Maybe it's upriver a little?' I gave a puzzled look to my surroundings as I looked around for anything familiar.

Something caught my eye and I felt triumphant for finding it. Off to my left, down the river a bit was a rock that had been painted a dark blue.

"Do you know where you are yet?" Sasuke asked with annoyance.

I took off towards the blue rock, running to it. I heard Kiba gasp a 'what the?' after I had taken off. 'Boys are so stupid sometimes.' Smirking, I pulled a bush out of the way from behind the rock. Behind the bush was an opening in the trees that had a wooden building with guards. Letting go of the bush, I turned towards the two males with a mocking expression. I knew that had seen it.

"Does that answer you're question?"

It looked like Sasuke had glared at me which only amused my more.

"Now, what's the plan?" I asked.

"I'll tale out the guards," the Uchiha stated, "From there you two will go ahead to rescue the others."

"Sounds good to me," Kiba said with a smirk.

Akamaru barked with agreement. 'Let's get this party started.'

"Let's go."

Sasuke went in through the bush and we both heard something fall to the ground. 'He must have snuck up on them.' Kiba and I crept through the bushes and caught a glimpse of Sasuke trying to take down the other guards. Kiba, Akamaru, and I silently went pass the fight and into the wooden building. 'We're ninja and we're coming in the front door… How weird is that?' There was a small growl from Akamaru and then someone grabbed my wrist. As I turned to look at who it was, I heard their voice.

"Someone's coming," Kiba stated in a whisper.

"I got it," I whispered as he let my hand go.

My right hand went for my pocket that had all the kunai. 'I'd rather die knowing that I got everyone out of here than dying right now.' I waited for their shadow to appear as I hid around corner. In the building it was rather bright. There was lighting at the corners, leading people in the right direction. Kiba and I just happened to be in a light place and the ninja had the light behind them. I saw their black foot reach the corner and I used some chakra to transform into a kunai. As he rounded the corner and passed me, he caught sight of Kiba and Akamaru.

"What the hell are you doing here?" he asked angrily, reaching back to draw senbon.

I transformed back and stabbed the kunai into his back.

"You're watching the wrong person," I said darkly, pulling my kunai out before stabbing him again, only lower.

I could hear him gasping for air as I panted from using too much chakra. The ninja fell to the floor, the kunai pulling out of his back as he fell.

"Wow," Kiba said with a smirk, "You're savage."

"Come on, they should be at the end of this hall and down those stairs," I urged tiredly, running on ahead of him.

Hinata woke up with her arms tied behind her back; the rope around her wrists.

"W-where am I?" she whispered with confusion.

"You are our prisoner," a man's voice said to her, "That girl will pay for her crimes. I wanted to see if she would come to save you three, but it seems that her self preservation comes first."

Hinata looked at the shinobi who was looking at her. He was wearing a hood that was hiding his face.

"Why didn't you just go after her instead of coming after all of us?" Ino's voice asked from behind Hinata.

Ino was mad; agitated at being dragged into something as dangerous as this.

"Where would the fun be in that?" the shinobi laughed.

"All this just because she killed some stupid sensei?" Sakura asked angrily, finding the situation pointless.

"He was an honored sensei in this village. She killed him and I was ordered to kill her. It is my duty to follow out my orders."

Hinata had fallen silent, trying to understand the truth with what was going on with her new friend. Sure, she had been told by that friend what had happened, but that was while Sakura and Ino had been there. Hinata was wondering what had really happened. Maybe, if they got out of this alive, then she could hear the truth without anyone else there.

Another ninja walked in and whispered something to the shinobi that had been talking to the three kunoichi.

"There are three of them?" his voice questions with an unsure tone.

Hinata's ears picked up the other ninja's voice.

"The girl is with them. She's running low on chakra."

A smirk formed on the hooded shinobi's face and he nodded.

"I'll take care of it. It's time I carried out my order."

The two shinobi left the room and Hinata, Ino, and Sakura were left alone, bound by the wrists in the room.

"I can't believe her," Ino scoffed.

"I-it's not her fault. S-she really tried," Hinata said, shifting uncomfortably, "S-she's come to rescue us. They said she did."

"Give her a break Ino," Sakura said coldly.

"Fine," Io groaned, "But if somebody else gets hurt because of this then I'm really going to hate her."

Hinata was worried. Not just for their safety, but for her friends' safety as well.

Kiba followed after me, close behind as we silently ran down the hallway. We were close to the stairs that would lead us to the dungeon. 'We're close… Hang in there Hinata, we're coming.'

"Have you been here before Suzu?" Kiba asked.

"Only once. I forget why I was here, but I think I was playing a little game with Haku," I laughed slightly, remembering the two of us almost getting caught.

"Haku," he wondered with a questioning tone.

"I'll explain it to you later," I mused, "We have company coming."

There was a puff of smoke and the hooded shinobi appeared a few meters ahead of us. 'Damn.'

"I thought you would never come back here, since you wanted to live so badly," he mused, pulling down his hood to reveal his face.

"Can you make it around him Kiba?" I wondered, my voice no more than a whispe

"Not right now, but maybe if he was distracted…"

"Okay, when you think the time is right, go on ahead," I whispered, glaring at the hooded shinobi.

The shinobi reached behind him, into a pocket, and pulled out some senbon.

"Are you going to fight fairly this time?" I asked with a cocked eyebrow, "Or do you have some ninja flunkies hiding in the darkness?"

"No other ninja. Just you and me," he said, getting ready to fight.

"Then bring it on."

Holding my kunai tightly in my hand, I waited for him to strike. 'If I let him knock me to the side then Kiba can get by and save the others from the prison…' the shinobi disappeared and then pinned me to the wall with his hand on my throat.

"Bastard," I choked out, punching him in the chest.

He back up and I charged at him, with my kunai ready, forcing him against the wall.

"Run Kiba! Go!" I ordered as I fought against the shinobi to keep him pinned there.

Kiba and Akamaru ran by towards the stairway without hesitation. The shinobi put his foot on my chest and then kicked my off him.

"Why did you come back here? You had a chance to live if you stayed out of this village… why would you come back here?" the shinobi asked me, curiosity clear in his voice.

I panted slightly before standing up straight, still holding my kunai at the ready.

"I don't know why I came back. Maybe it was to prove that I wasn't afraid. Or…" I paused, trying to put it into words, "maybe I did it for my friends.

'I wouldn't make Hinata do this by herself. She probably wouldn't have gone if she had to do this without someone else there.'

"Your friends?" the shinobi sounded like he was mocking me.

"I forgot," I laughed slightly, "You wouldn't understand what it's like to have friendship. You didn't have any friends while growing up, now did you?"

"What would someone like you know?"

The shinobi came after e again, throwing his senbon in random directions. 'I don't have enough chakra to do a substitute… He probably knows that.' I jumped to the side to avoid a senbon. He threw one directly at me again and I ducked to be on all fours. 'Now.' I ran in at him and took a swipe with my kunai. 'I won't give up… I refuse to give up!' I was kicked in the ribs and I slid across the floor before jumping to my feet.

"Why don't you just give up already?" the shinobi growled, throwing two senbon; one after the other.

I forced myself to dodge both. 'I refuse to give up!'

"Why should I when there's so much on the line?" I panted before going after him again.

He threw a few senbon at me, only to have me roll out of the way quickly before I disappeared for a moment. I used all the chakra I could afford to lose to appear behind him before taking him down. Panting heavily, I pinned him to the floor with the kunai at his throat.

"Are you going to make me kill you too?" I asked him tiredly, forcing myself to remain conscious.

"Would you be willing to be hunted all over again? I am under the command of who is in control of the Land of Waves. Are you willing to leave your new home for this all over again?"

My grip on him loosened slightly at those words. 'I don't think I would… I finally found something to protect… someone who needs my help… I'm not going to leave my purpose behind.' I was kicked over the shinobi's head and my back collided with the wall. Once I hit the floor with my shoulders, I tried to get back up again, but I couldn't. 'I'm not gunna make it…' My body couldn't move and everything suddenly went black.

Kiba went down the dark stairway quickly, not wanting to waste any more time. He opened the door and was greeted with Hinata's surprised face.

"K-Kiba," she said with wondered.

"Come on Akamaru, let's get those ropes off," he said as he went to his three comrades.

"I told you she wouldn't come," Ino scoffed.

"Knock it off Ino!" Sakura demanded as Akamaru chewed at her ropes.

"Who didn't come?" Kiba asked with a cocked eyebrow, untying Hinata's ropes.

"Suzu."

"Suzu's here," he said with a smirk.

"What? Are you serious?" Ino asked, incredulous.

"Take that Ino," Sakura rubbed in.

"Shut up Bill Board Brow!"

Hinata was free and she immediately went to run down the hall that Kiba had come from.

"Where are you going?"

"T-to help S-Suzu. S-she could really need help," the shy girl stated as she went through the door into the hallway.

Kiba watched her disappear up the stairs. Akamaru chewed through the rope and ran after Hinata.

"Sakura, untie Ino and find a way out of here."

Kiba ran after Hinata. He could sense danger and knew something bad was going to happen.

"Hey Hinata, do you see her?" he asked, catching up easily.

"I-I don't know. It looks like someone's up ahead."

She was right. There was the hooded shinobi standing in front of a blue haired girl.

"It's Suzu," Hinata said with surprise.

Hinata used her Byakugan and ran up behind the shinobi. He turned to see a palm strike to his chest and then another one to his stomach. Hinata's strike knocked the shinobi to the side and away from her friend. He coughed slightly from his chakra being cut off.

"I should have known that you would be coming… I would have thought that you would leave her behind," the shinobi mused.

Kiba picked up his unconscious classmate and Akamaru stood in front of him, growling.

"He, you," Sasuke's voice said from behind the shinobi.

The shinobi turned to see Sasuke and Iruka Sensei standing beside him. Then Ino and Sakura came running down the hall.

"Why would you come to save her?"

"We didn't come to save just her," Kiba started, "We came to save our classmates. Our comrades on this trip."

"I see. So you all are concerned about one another… Very well…"

The shinobi disappeared with a puff of smoke and Hinata sighed with relief.

Iruka Sensei looked at Kiba and then shook his head.

"We'll take her to the hotel and then we'll head back tomorrow."

"Yes sensei," they all replied before following after Iruka.

Sasuke was up behind Iruka Sensei. Kiba and Hinata were walking beside one another silently. Ino and Sakura took up the back, talking quietly. Akamaru was riding on Kiba's back, on the unconscious ninja's head.

"W-why do you think she would do something like this?" Hinata asked quietly, not really wanting to bring the subject up.

"She wanted to protect you Hinata," Kiba said with a small smile," Just like how I see you more as a little sister, she sees you as someone worth protecting with her life."

Hinata blushed slightly, "I see."

"Now let's get out of here. This place is too dark for me."

They left the ninja hideout and headed back out through the forest and into the village. The next day, early in the morning, everyone left for the Hidden Leaf Village. Shikamaru dragging Naruto by his feet because he couldn't wake up.

End of Chapter 6

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