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Hinata glared at the rain clouds that were forming in the sky. Shiru was supposed to have come back from her solo mission a week ago, but they haven't heard anything from her for the whole time span so hinata had begun to worry about her best friend's safety.

Deidara walked over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. " im sure she's fine. Hmm. She probably tried to slaughter another village." He said trying not to worry her anymore than she already was.

She tried to believe what he was saying was true, but something was nagging at the back of her mind and it told her that something wasn't right.

Deidara kept trying to assure her that shiru would return but she didn't listen. She sat on the boulders outside the waterfall entrance of the base for hours. It was past midnight deidara walked back out to check on her.

She had cried herself to sleep lying against the boulders. He frowned and carried her bridle style into the base. He walked by konan who nodded, understanding in her eyes.

"There is something we need to talk about. Put her in her room and then I will tell you what's happened to shiru." Konan said and deidara's eyes went wide.

'Shiru what have you gone and gotten yourself into now?' he thought, a worried look on his face for his friend.

-:-:-

Sasuke was on his way to konoha. Suigetsu was beyond angry. They had captured his sister when she was at her most vulnerable.

Suigetsu didn't even bother with the village gate about a mile away; instead he just rammed through the wall, much to sasuke's displeasure.

Suigetsu began cutting down all people that got in his way, civilians and ninja's alike. He didn't care he just wanted to save shiru.

The hokage jumped out of the tower and headed his direction. He sneered at her and ran even faster. He swung for her and she grabbed the dull side of the blade and punched him in the face and he felt his jaw crack then he felt the force of the hit and it sent him flying backwards into the wall of a building.

He forced himself to stand back up and he propped himself on his sword then wobbly he ran at her again only for her to send a roundhouse kick to his stomach making him cough up blood.

He went flying into another building. Once he hit the second wall of that building he felt blood rise up his throat. He coughed and it coated his chin, staining his pale skin a dark red.

Tsunade walked into the collapsing building and grabbed Suigetsu by the shirt and lifted him up, much to his distaste.

"What do you want here?" she hissed looking at the white haired teen with furious eyes. He sneered through the blood.

"Hozuki shiru. Now. Once I get her I will leave, I want my sister and that is it." He said, but it wasn't discernable due to his broken jaw and the gurgling of his blood in his throat.

She grit her teeth and threw him down and leaving him to die. "Your sister has caused enough trouble. She will not be returning to you or to akatsuki." She hissed and began to walk away but a figure in an akatsuki cloak knocked her to the ground.

Suigetsu stared in awe. The person had seemingly come from nowhere. She did a back flip to dodge the hokage's chakra enhanced foot.

She landed a few yards away and her hood fell from her head, revealing raven hair and pale lavender eyes.

"YOU HAD NO RIGHT! SHIRU DIDN'T HURT ANYONE FROM HERE!WHERE IS SHE!" the woman yelled, stamping her foot which sent cracks running across the ground at Tsunade.

"hinata… hyuuga… so it's actually true…"she said jumping back away from the cracks that tried to swallow her up." save my sister. Please" he tried to say, but he instead coughed up even more blood.

The woman looked over at Suigetsu and she grinned upon seeing the blood. She held her hands at her sides in fists, blue chakra engulfing her hands and taking the shape of lion heads.

She ran at Tsunade and repetitively tried to hit her with the chakra engulfed fists. She slammed her right fist into tsunade's stomach and the blonde went flying backwards doing back flips as she skidded across the ground.

Hinata ran over to the hokage and knee-dropped on her back as she tried to get up. She grinned sadistically and grabbed the blonde woman by the hair and slammed her face into the ground while being crouched next to her.

"Ok Blondie…now that I have you where I want you, tell me where she is." Hinata ordered the blonde woman smirked.

"You'll never know, because I will never tell akatsuki scum like you." she spat at the raven haired teen. "That's just fine with me." She said and her hand whipped up before her face and she bit her thumb and traced the hyuuga clan symbol onto the ground.

"Summoning: yuki." She said and placed her hand on the ground and the summoning seal spread across the ground and in a poof, a small otter appeared and it had a sealing scroll on its back.

"Hina-chan. How may I be of assistance?" the small pure white otter asked. Hinata's eyes trailed over to Suigetsu and the otter nodded.

"Right away my lady." The otter said and ran over to him and opened the scroll and began healing him. He rubbed his jaw and thanked the otter in his usual way… he nodded at the otter and looked away embarrassed.

-:-:- (shiru's pov)

I had been in their dungeon for kami-sama only knows how long. I couldn't open my eyes due to all the torture they had put me through.

My body hurt. My eyes and mouth where sewn shut, that much I know. My piercings had all been ripped out by long metal threads from across the room days ago.

My fingers were broken and I believe they were also twisted around so that if I healed them they would heal facing sideways.

I was in so much pain but the pain only made me feel even more sadistic than before. I wanted to rip that horrid blonde to shreds.

I felt blood trickle down my sides from the wounds I had received before they captured me. One was going diagonally to the right going up my hip. Then I had another one going down diagonally to the left from my ribcage for about five inches.

I had another set of stitches going around my ankles, wrists, and neck. Blood trickled down from my wounds and forced stitches.

Something scratched across my skin and I flinched in my chains. Every touch hurt now. My body felt broken. I couldn't move other than the occasional flinch.

The chakra restraints were the only things keeping me here, but now the fact I can't see or talk is too. Im useless now.

The same thing brushed across my stomach again, causing me to flinch again. "don't worry. Im not going to hurt you. I've come to get you out of here. You may be a maniacal killer but you are still human. Not even you deserve this. Nobody does." A rugged sounding male voice said.

I felt the chains being broken and the person caught me before I hit the ground. "My name is gaara. Im the kazekage of suna." He said as he carried me out of the dungeon like place they had me locked up.

As he carried me I head people running then screams then nothingness. But there was one thing I had noticed, he hadn't moved other than carrying me and I felt warm blood splatter all over me.

I picked up on the sound of something moving, but no footsteps other than his. I had no idea who was killing them.

"I used to be like you, you know. I used to kill for to kill just to be bathed in blood. But now that im kazekage I can no longer just do that." He said and more blood spattered on me.

'I wonder if he was like me in the sense of mental problems… I doubt it. No one is as messed up as me.' I thought with a snort.

I sniffed the air and inhaled the immense scent of blood and my mind was in a state of pure bliss. An intense pain jolted through my forehead and I felt myself losing consciousness.

-:-:- (normal pov)

Hinata saw a blood soaked gaara walk out from beneath the hokage tower with a body in his arms. She ran over to him and notice who the limp form was.

"s-shiru." She said and saw that her friend's eyes and mouth were sewn shut. She covered her mouth with her hands and tears began to form in the girls eyes.

Yuki ran over and the poor otter jumped back in shock at what they had done to the twenty one year old woman.

Hinata regained her composure and pressed a finger to the communicator. "deidara-kun. We have her. Get over here and lets go." Hinata said, her voice cold.

A large clay bird landed behind her, stirring up a he cloud of dust and debris. The blonde male saw shiru and he looked away in disgust at what they had done to her.

They akatsuki weren't even that heartless and they were s-rank criminals, and they still wouldn't do anything like that.

He helped hinata pull the unconscious woman onto the bird and they took off, watching as the kazekage's body turned to sand, meaning that was only a clone.

Hinata held the older woman to her protectively. "shiru-no-Danna….gome.. Gomenaisai. Please forgive me…I couldn't get to you before those monsters did." She said and deidara looked behind him at her.

She ran her hand through the older woman's hair and across her cheek. Shiru was like her sister. This was killing her inside.

-:-:-

Konan's eyes went wide when she saw the state shiru was in. the poison that had been injected into her injuries was rotting the skin.

Kakuzu dumped everything off the coffee table and allowed hinata to put shiru on it. " everybody out. I need to concentrate on making sure her bones that are broken get set before they begin to heal like this." He said not even blinking as he cut the stitches over her lips and eyes.

Everyone left the room because hinata ran out. Deidara ran after her while konan went to go tell pein the situation.

Kakuzu removed the threads from her eyes and lips and frowned. They were worse than he was. He went to her hands and cracked the bones back into place.

Her body jerked, but she didn't regain consciousness. He turned to her right arm, which had been both dislocated and broken. With a sickening snap and a pop, her bone was set and her shoulder relocated.

Her eyes shot open and a scream bubbled up her throat and erupted from her mouth as tears flowed down her cheeks. She bit her lip and instantly her body flashed with a green light.

Kakuzu's eyes went wide as her tears streaked down her face. She flexed her fingers and sniffed as she looked at her scars that were all over her body.

"k-kakuzu… I w-was s-so scared…" she stammered, he blinked. Since when did she stutter? Hinata ran in and embraced her friend.

" im so happy you're ok shiru Danna!" she said and hugged the girl gently."y-you came f-for me… d-didn't you?" she asked and hinata blinked. She never stuttered. They must have messed with her mental state. Hinata thought gritting her teeth.