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A NaruHina Fanfic

Chapter 2: Bitter Days

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Warning: Contains graphic violence, graphic language, and graphic sex scenes.

That's all I really have to say right now. Sorry the lemons come a bit later heheheh.

Disclaimer: Nope

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"Hold on, we have to wait for her to wake up to do it?" the jonin leader said to his Raikage.

"Yes Tukozu" the Raikage replied "To research the byakugan in order to learn its secrets she must activate it willingly so we can see how it works."

The jonin leader, now known as Tukozu, grimaced. "That could be difficult; even though she was only awake for a few seconds she still somehow managed to injure the men holding her when we jumped her" he said.

"Make sure she is in a cell at least a hundred feet underground then, with chakra suppressors ready to be activated and a hundred men waiting on guard. We cannot afford for her to escape, we have waited 12 long years for this chance." The Raikage said the last part wistfully, losing himself in his finally achieved dream.

"Hai" Tukozu said and exited in a puff of smoke. The Raikage continued his train of thought as he stared out the window of his office over the rocky features of the Land of Lightning. 'Finally, we have a kekkei genkai.'

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Hinata slowly opened her eyes, still groggy from the powerful jutsu that had hit her. 'Wh, what happened?' she thought in confusion, seeing nothing but grey walls around her. Then it all came back to her, the image of men around her, Ko's bloody, slashed throat, the gleam of a Kumo headband as she activated her byakugan just as she was hit with the jutsu, all returned to her.

'I've been captured by the Cloud village!' This moment had haunted her dreams ever since the attempted kidnapping when she was four. It was her worst nightmare, even worse than the frequent caged bird sealing ones, as she had mentally prepared herself for that, knowing one day it might come true. But this, nothing could have prepared her for this reality.

'Oh god, they want my eyes!' she thought in despair, and started panicking. She then fully noticed her surroundings. She was in a cell of solid concrete, with even a concrete door that could obviously only be opened by some sort of jutsu. She began to feed chakra to her eyes so she could see out of the room, but stopped as soon as she begun.

'No, that's what they want. They want the byakugan. I can't use it here; I can't let them get it. As an unsealed main house member, it's my responsibility to make sure enemies don't get our clans secrets.'

She took a deep breath and slowly got up, walking around in the near pitch black darkness. However, Hyuugas have extraordinary eyesight even without the byakugan, so pitch black to most meant she could just see the cold grey stone. She noticed all the chakra suppressing scrolls around the walls, waiting for her to try to escape.

'I can't get out of here' she thought in despair. 'I'll never see Naruto-kun again!' That thought hit her like a ton of bricks. She was captured, deep in enemy territory, and her home village was in no state to come to her rescue. She was as good as dead. No, worse, because she was giving them a weapon to use against her homeland.

"I won't let that happen!" she screamed out loud, then clasping her hands together, she rapidly began forming hand signs, focusing her chakra to her eyes so it looked like she was just activating the byakugan. Yes, she had noticed the camera following her every movement from the corner of the room, and it probably had infra-blue, which could see chakra. (haha yea made that up on the spot :P).

But she made different hand signs to what usual entrance level byakugan users would when they activated their kekkei genkai with hand signs. Her differing and increasingly long series of seals made the chakra form differently in her eyes. Since they had never viewed the activation of the byakugan like this, they had no clue that she was up to something else.

Finally, she finished the rapid series of 40 hand signs, luckily before they realized something was up and activated the chakra seals. Initiating the technique she had just molded, she placed the tips of her two index fingers over her closed eyes.

"Sealing jutsu" she whispered, and her eyes instantly shot open from the onrush of pain. This was when the watchers realized something was wrong and the chakra suppressors flared to life, but it was too late. Hinata smiled ruefully even as light shot out of her bulging eyes and flared throughout the room, an immense pain swarming from her eyes up into her brain. She screamed, and the sealing pain, now coupled with the full power of the suppressors, quickly brought her into unconsciousness.

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It was a dark day for Konoha.

Just as they thought everything was over, that there would be no more deaths, that all the sorrow and anguish was in the past, this happened. They had thought they had decent relations with Kumogakure, and were confident that their alliance with the Sand would scare off the Cloud village enough so that they wouldn't try anything in Konoha's weakened state. So, the Leaf had let their defense down, and had paid the price.

The strongest kekkei genkai remaining in their village was stolen, not to mention the carrier of it was the beloved Hinata Hyuuga, the girl who had done nothing but helped people her entire life. Now, many people's stories changed from the Hero of the Hidden Leaf, Naruto Uzumaki, to the newest casualty of the Hidden Leaf, Hinata Hyuuga.

These stories were those of kindness and laughter as they remembered her antics around the Uzumaki boy, but even the more funnier moments, like when Hinata was caught by Naruto at the hospital, brought no laughs, only heartless smiles of regret.

None of the Konoha 12 could bring themselves to even give a fake smile. Not even Sai, who had known her not even a year. From what he had seen, and heard especially of her fight with Pain, where everyone had cowered in the rubble as Naruto was captured and she had stepped out to save him, he saw the strong bond she had with his blonde teammate.

Plus, he had always thought she was the only girl of the Konoha 12 that was attractive. Sure, he had never had the chance to give her a nickname, so he didn't have the chance to complement her, which would have turned into an insult because he thought he had found the opposite of people made for great nicknames. Now, he was just as sad for the lost girl.

Even the heavens wept for the girl. The village, previously parched of rain for the past month, now began to flood as the sky continued to pour down without abandon. This didn't stop hundreds of people coming out to the girl's funeral though.

The procession was all dressed in black, tears dripping freely as they stood in silence before the white casket holding Hinata. It was surrounded in all sorts of colored flowers and photos her friends had scrounged from their bags and the rubble of her home.

Even Hiashi and Hanabi were there, having returned the day Naruto walked into the camp with Hinata in his arms, her hands trailing limply downwards. Hiashi, as he looked at the coffin with regret etched into every fiber of his being, remembered that moment, when he and Hanabi walked into camp.

They were shocked at what had become of their village, but the next sight was to rock them to their core. Even as a half recovered Tsunade greeted the clan head by the medical tent she was being treated in, the bushes at the edge of the clearing rustled, and a solemn procession emerged.

First came a stony Neji, Kiba with his dog, and Shino. Behind them came Ino and Sakura, tears still streaming down their faces. Hiashi was surprised when Neji walked right by him without even acknowledging the Hyuuga clan leader, and entered a tent further down the line. However, he did notice the tear drip just as his head disappeared inside the tent. Little did he know his prodigy was going for comfort from Tenten, who inhabited the tent.

Kiba, Akamaru, and Shino walked off in a different direction to tell the heavily pregnant Kurenai about her student, both silent as tears too leaked from them. Even Akamaru, the most boisterous dog if you ever saw one, walked with head in the dirt.

Ino and Sakura came up to the two Hyuuga and Hokage, and turned to the blonde. "H,Hokage-sama, I think you need to see this" Sakura said, and pointed just as Naruto emerged from the bush.

He was walking slowly, tears pouring freely down from his tightly shut eyes, his teeth gritted in regret. But it was the girl in his arms that caught Hiashi's attention. His daughter that he had always thought a failure, and had only just started to think of as more, especially after he heard the story from a passing jonin of her fight with Pain, his precious daughter, hung unmoving in Naruto's arms.

Her eyes were closed, blood splattered over every inch of her. One arm rested peacefully in her lap while the other had fallen down, swinging in a mockery of the life of movement she once had. Hiashi's eyes followed it as it swung like a string less puppet from the slow stride of Naruto.

His heart leapt to his throat as he stood stock still, watching his daughter approach. A low whine came from below him, and he turned to see Hanabi staring with big eyes at her sister. "Daddy, what's with Onee-chan?" she said fearfully, reverting back to her 12 years of age as she hid behind her father's robe, clutching it with her small hands. Her young eyes closed shut in fear to see her big sis in such a condition.

Tsunade's voice broke him out of it. "Hanabi, please go inside the tent" she said, and the young genin quickly complied, scurrying away from the situation.

Hiashi watched as Naruto reached him, feeling like he was outside his body, watching down on his motionless form, and that of his daughter. He could see her chest was still, her skin abnormally pale. He didn't need his byakugan to know she was dead.

Naruto came to a halt before them, eyes still squeezed closed. Slowly, he knelt and laid the girl on the ground, refolding her hands at her heart. He stood up. "Tomorrow. You'll see me tomorrow at the funeral" he said, his voice husky with sorry, and then he was gone.

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Hiashi looked at the boy now. He knew of his daughter's feelings. A voice screamed inside him. 'Oh the irony! That little fuck only starts to think about his feelings for her now that she's dead!'

He ignored this voice and slowly turned back to the coffin of his firstborn. As Tsunade finished her speech on the girl, the procession started and people approached the coffin, each placing a flower on the polished maple, where only Hinata's head was visible. The blood cleaned off, and she was dressed in a lavender kimono, her hair done up in a bun behind her head with two kanzashi. She looked like she was sleeping.

Naruto's turn came, and he slowly approached the coffin. He couldn't think about bringing himself to look upon her features again like this, yet he did, and tears splashed down onto her face.

"Hinata, I'm so sorry I never acknowledged you. I know it's too late now, you'll never know, but if your spirit is still here, please, know that you are the strongest person I ever knew, and, and." He took a deep breath, finally coming to terms then and there about his feelings for the girl. He gasped back a sob. "And I, I,… I love you."

He choked on his words, and taking one last look at the girl, reached under the coffin and placed his flower, a rare lavender camellia, in her hands over her heart. His hand brushed her icy cold skin for a second, and he lingered, then forced himself away and stumbled off the platform. Ignoring the condolences of his friends, he sprinted off into the brush, losing himself in training for the next night, day, night and day.

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"Fuck!" Tukozu shouted as he rushed into the room. "Turn them off, turn them off!" he waved at the camera in the corner, seeing the girl had already collapsed and not wanting to drain the life out of her. "Shit!" he again swore as he saw the seal fading from the girls open lavender eyes.

The inky black kanji was written directly on those precious orbs, and as it faded, so did all Hyuuga traits in her eyes. Murky, dull white swirls crept into them, mixing with the lavender. He knew what this meant. She was unconscious, but he still swore colorfully at her.

"You fucking little bitch!" He could no longer control himself. All that for nothing! "You can't have sealed your own fucking eyes! AHHHH! FUCK!"

He booted her unconscious form even as the rest of his jonin team ran in. They saw her eyes and started swearing also. "That's it!" the man that had set the decoy body and fake fight scene shouted. "She's good for nothing else, I'm taking her right now!" he screamed in anger, and started tearing at the unconscious girls clothes.

The female member of their team looked at the three out of control men in disgust, but didn't stop them. "She deserves it, just don't kill her, she can still be used for breeding" she said and exited the room to the dull thuds of fists on unresponsive flesh. She shivered as the sounds escalated into the cracking of bones, all the while accompanied by that sound of tearing fabric.

'She's lucky she's not awake to feel any of this' she thought wryly, but her anger quickly drowned this. 'Fucking little bitch, all that for nothing.'

As she walked down the hall, she felt a huge killer intent walking along the walkway before her. She instantly had her guard up, but dropped it when she saw who it was. "R-Raikage-sama" she stuttered in fear.

"Is it true!" he roared, and she meekly nodded. He punched her full in the face, decimating her renowned beauty as her nose disintegrated under his huge knuckles and one eye popped out of its socket. However, she would be grateful he met her there and not in the cell, because what happened to those men was a lot worse.

As he entered, he saw three of his top jonin, crazed with rage and lust, beating the naked Hyuuga girl into the ground. He could already see both her arms were bent at ninety degrees the wrong way, and one leg was twisted grotesquely in its socket.

His killing intent immediately moved to his jonin, and they looked up in fear as they felt it. "Raikage-sama!" the leader gasped in surprise but his voice was cut off by the Raikage's roar of anger and the threes men's screams of pain.

The girl member of the squad that had captured the Hyuuga girl regained consciousness and stood up just as she heard her teammates screams and with her one good eye, saw the mist of blood waft out of the room that held the Hyuuga.

Then, she was running, running out of the prison, out of the Cloud village, and out of the Land of Lightning, so afraid of her Raikage's rage that life as a missing ninja seemed like sweet heaven.

The Raikage stood panting in rage over the remnants of his three jonin, then hauled up the now blood covered naked Hyuuga and looked into her murky white and lavender eyes. He swore colorfully and threw her into the wall, her head making a sickening thud as it connected.

He stared straight into the camera, fully knowing people had seen his actions. "Get the medics down here immediately, I want this girl back to full capacity." He glared at the broken, naked form slumped into the corner of the room. "She can still be used for breeding, but not like this" he growled and exited the concrete cage. Even as he marched out of the prison gates, a squad of medic ninja sprinted past him, carefully avoiding their Raikage that was currently steeped in the blood of his own men.

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It'll get better. Eventually. So don't worry. My stories always have a happy ending.