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disclaimer: Naruto does not belong to me. I only own a computer and TV.

Oh, and once again: language warning!


Hinata activated her Byakugan again. Although she had become quite adept at using her bloodline for lengthy periods of time, she had her limits. Concentrating on more things at once only made the drain on her chakra that much worse. She was starting to feel tiredness creep upon her, but she shrugged it off. A battle was no place for a nap.

"Incoming!" She yelled as her eyes saw a squadron prepare to storm the cell's bunker.

The red eyes complied by lining up against the wall of the door. As soon as the soldiers entered, they were taken down by sharp and blunt tools alike. In seconds, their bodies were stripped of all manner of armor and weaponry.

Hinata was impressed at their efficiency. "They've really got this down…"

The properly armed terrorists leapt out of the relative safety of the bunker and took the nearest cover. One of them hid behind the trashed technical and noticed the disabled auto cannon mounted on the back.

"Hey Dorian!" He called, "There's a dead auto cannon here! Want it?!"

'Dorian', armed with only a combat knife, yelled back, "Hell yes!"

"I'll cover you!" With that, the red-eyed man poked his head over the edge and began pumping rounds into whatever combatant he saw.

Meanwhile, Dorian rushed from his cover and straddled onto the back of the modified car and, after taking a second to make sure it worked, yanked the turret from its hinges. The fried electronics that made up the fragile targeting system fell off in pieces as the man ducked down and started pulling the ammo drums out of their placeholders. With the help of another, he managed to belt on three of the heavy drums.

Once he was prepped, he broke cover along with his comrades, albeit a bit more sluggishly than they did, and began firing from the hip. Soldiers caught in the open or hiding behind flimsier material went down in a hail of bullets.

Hinata followed the advancing group of red-eyes as they made their way between the congested makeshift buildings. She could see the remaining red-eyes pulling weapons off the fallen enemies and proceeding to kick as much ass as she did coming in.

"So much for this," she thought as she deactivated her Byakugan. These former captives were obviously adept enough at combat to keep an eye out for her as well. "After all, I did save them."

She recognized the route they were taking. They were fighting their way through the shorter path for the front gate. After observing their trajectory, she spotted a soldier hiding poorly around a corner, waiting for the freed prisoners to pass so he could open fire without fear of return fire from multiple directions. She took aim with her massive pistol and put a bullet through his shoulder, causing him to tumble over in pain.

After twenty more minutes of intense fighting, she could clearly see the front gate from her cover. She knew the others saw it as well, seeing as they were beginning to access their stores of chakra and insert it into their… bullets?

"How odd," Hinata thought, as she had never seen such a thing before. Of course, she had never seen a fight involving red-eyes either, so that might have made the difference.

The courtyard was beginning to clear of enemy soldiers. Either they were wising up to the fact that the escapees were not a force to be underestimated or there were simply not enough troops left in the camp to choke the area with them. Hinata activated her Byakugan to see which possibility was fact.

She could clearly see that both were true. Most of the troops were dead, and the vast majority was staying behind to hide in what was left of their burning base. However, Hinata did not have time to feel pleased at this. Her full attention was directed at what was directly outside the gates.

Heavily armed soldiers. "No big deal."

Armored vehicles. "An annoyance. They don't have mounted guns."

Light tanks similar to the one she had destroyed. "A challenge."

Two massive main battle tanks. She had never seen any before now. "Shit!"

The well-prepared escort force for the prisoners had arrived.

(flashback)

For the next two years, Hinata traveled roughly northwest. When she arrived in the market town those two years ago, she learned that Naruto had headed in that direction, so she continued her journey from there.

A year and a half ago, she had learned that the exiled blond had joined up (willingly this time) with a mercenary group jumping from hot zone to hot zone. After a few months of traveling, she began running into the remains of his handiwork.

The young Hyuuga was surprised and worried to find battlefields that had been blown to pieces and accredited by eyewitnesses to a young blond boy fitting Naruto's description. "How could Naruto be doing this? He never showed power like this in the village…"

After another year of failed attempts to gain access to battlegrounds, she joined up with a separate mercenary group. Currently, they were traveling northwest following the chain reaction of conflicts stemming from a rogue army from the south. Despite her age, she had gained the respect of her peers, as her Byakugan saved many of their lives several times over. She was treated kindly by the foreign soldiers.

After all that time of fighting and traveling, her group eventually reached a country in the middle of a civil war and was hired by the official government to fight on its side. They were sent to a separatist stronghold as the latest cannon fodder, and Hinata, per usual in her group's tactics, was sent to the front lines.

"What do you see, Hinata?" Asked one of the soldiers in her group.

Her Byakugan active, she looked onto the battlefield. "I see… trenches. The enemy has three layers of loose trenches dug on the other side."

"How many?" Asked another fighter.

She was silent for a moment as she counted. "About… one hundred men."

"Hmph. Piece of cake." He tapped his finger on his radio. "Alright boys, move in with flanking maneuver four in ten. Artillery, suppressing fire…" He began to rattle off the coordinates as Hinata fed them to him.

For the next ten minutes, artillery rained down on the enemy trenches with deadly accuracy. Hinata winced at every fallen enemy soldier even though she had become used to seeing people die these days. After the barrage, she counted eighteen survivors.

Her commander gave the order to move and all the hidden soldiers began to rush the vulnerable entrenchment. Hinata stayed behind, as her valuable sight wasn't worth risking on a battlefield.

She was horrified when her bloodline detected a massive increase of chakra on the enemy side. She was about to poke her head above her cover when a piece of dislodged metal flew by.

She began to panic. "Wh- who could be doing this? What will they do to me if they find me? If only Naruto was here…" She suddenly realized something.

She scanned the pattern of the damage currently being dealt and recognized it. She had seen the same kind of damage in places Naruto had passed through. She stood up in frenzied joy.

"Naruto! Are you…" She was knocked out cold by a scattered wave of bodies before she could finish.


This weekend's looking to be busy as hell, so I wouldn't expect too many updates. Maybe one or two as I'm taking extended breaks from projects and homework. Either way, catch ya'll later.