Hiashi drew his sword and stood protectively in front of Hinata. Ino, TenTen, Shizune, Sakura, and Hanabi formed a circle around her. Kurenai helped Hinata to the ground. She took the shuriken out of Hinata's back carefully and put her hand over the wound to slow the bleeding. Evrything happened so quickly. Just like that her wedding day had turned into a battlefeild. Luckily, most of the people at the wedding were ninja. Chaos quickly ensued. People in their Sunday best fought small groups of assasins with the Koizumi crest on their backs. Hinata looked around frantically for Naruto. He was still up at the alter, fighting off five or six guys.
Kurenai swore.
"I was afraid something like this would happen." she growled.
She stood and helped Hinata up.
"Ino, TenTen, Sakura, and Hanabi! Help me get her out of here!" Kurenai yelled over the sounds of battle.
The girls nodded and formed a close group around Hinata. Kurenai led them into the house. She went into the meeting room and over to the far wall. She moved a portion of the panneling aside to reveal a secret armoury.
"Take anything you think you might need. There's fa few day's rations in here too so pack theose." she told the girls.
The girls all grabbed backpacks and started shoving as many sharp projectiles in them as possible. Especially TenTen. Kurenai helped Hinata get out of all her fancy wedding attire. She was left with just the dress and her engagement ring. They didn't have time to undo the hair. Kurenai grabbed a pack and filled it mostly with food and then threw a full pack to Hinata. She looked around at her rag-tag team.
"Hiasha-san and I had a plan in case something like this happened. We need to head for the Sand as soon as possible." she said.
The girls nodded. Kurenai led them out of the house and into the street. AS they ran away, Hinata could clearly hear the sounds of battle coming from behind the house. In the fray, she heard Naruto roar. A tear rolled down Hinata's cheek.
"Naruto-kun..." seh said sadly.
The group didn't meet an ememy until they got to the gate. A handful of Koizumi ninja were blocking their exit. Kurenai growled and lunged for the closest one, sinking three shuriken in his chest before he had time to react. TenTen took two out with kunai from far away. Sakura launched herself in the air and came down in the middle of three of them and went to work. Ino took on the last one just a second before Hianta and Hanabi go there. They quickly took to the trees and headed for the Sand Village.
"HInata-chan! Hanabi-san! Use your Byakugan!" Kurenai commanded.
The Hyuuga girls activated their Byakugan.
"We have pursuers. Twelve in all." Hanabi reported.
Kurenai nodded.
"Just keep going. We need to just ignore them unless they catch up with us. Keep me posted on it." she said.
"They're gaining fast." Hinata said.
Kurenai swore.
"I guess we have no choice then. Get into position. Hinata, stay in back. " she commanded.
The girls turned and braced themselves. Hinata fell to the back. In a matter of seconds, people started popping out all over. They came to rest on branches a few feet away from the girls. The apparent leader stood up and took off her mask. She smiled wickedly.
"Listen, neither of us wants to waste precious time and energy. We're only here for the girl. Once we have her, we''l leave. So just hand her over, okay?" she said arrogantly.
Kurenai laughed.
"If you think it's as easy as that, then you've been terribly deceived." she retorted.
The other woman shrugged and sighed.
"I though I might as well try. It's such a pain having to do the dirty work when Hidekai has one of his whims." she said tiredly.
The Koizumi ninja split up and went in different directions. The Konoha girls waited, poised for attack.
"Sensei! To your left! Ino-chan they're coming form behind. Sakura-chan, look up! TenTen-chan, underneath!" Hanabi called out.
Naruto stood in the middle of the aftermath, panting. As quickly as they had come, the Koizumi clan had dissappeared. Naruto was a wreck. His kimono was all torn up. He was bruised and bleeding all over. The rest of the guests weren't looking much better. Tsunade pulled a kunai out of her last victim's chest and stood up.
"Damn. I never thought they'd stoop this low.' she said under her breath.
Shizune came to Tsunade's side.
"What are we going to do, Tsunade-sama?" she asked.
Tsunade sighed.
"For now we need to clean up this mess and tak care of anybody who's hurt. Check for surviving Koizumi Clan members. We need to get some information." she said.
Naruto looked around.
"Where's Hinata-chan?" he asked desperately.
Hiashi came up, clutching his right arm.
"Kurenai-san took her away. We made a plan in case something like this would happen. She's taking her to the Hidden Sand." he said.
Naruto looked off in the direction of the Sand, as if he'd be able to see Hinata running away in the distance.
HInata was on her hands and kneees, panting. Beside her, Ino was trying her hardest to fend off one of their attackers. They were both in bad shape. Ecept for a shuriken lodged in her leg, Hinata had only a few nics and screapes. But Ino was bleeding all over. She had several nast gashes and a kunai sticking out of her shoulder. Hinata struggled to her feet. She was exhausted, despite not having fought all that much. She had been concentrating primarily on defense. But she couldn't stand to see Ino getting hurt over and over to keep her safe. When Ino was thrown to the ground, Hinata stood behind her and used her Shugohakke Rokujyuu Yonshou.
" Shugohakke Rokujyuu Yonshou!" a yonger Hinata yelled.
She braced herself as a swarm of summoned bees attacked. She moved quickly, downing hundreds of bees a minute. Her attackers stood in shock. Naruto watched on in awe. Tehn, just as qucickly as it began, it was over and Hinata was surrounded by thousands of dead bees. Then the woman used another summoning jutsu, this time summoning a giant queen bee. Hinata was unprepared and got thrown to the ground. But she got up. The queen bee charged. Hinata summoned up as much chakra as she could. The bee made contact with Hinata's mesh of chakra and blew back into it's master and her companions. Hinata huffed, exhausted from the huge effort. She fainted. She felt someone catch her and asumed it was Kiba. She looked up. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw Naruto smiling down at her.
You're amazing! That was an awesome jutsu! You did it! You totally saved us!
Hinata stopped her justsu, panting heavily.
I didn't give up then. I can't give up now!
"Hinata-chan! Look out!" Ino cried.
Hinata turned just in time to see the soul of her attacker's shoe.