Depth

A NaruHina fanfic

Chapter 3: Lost in the Dark

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Bet you never saw this coming! :O

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The Raikage again sat in his office, a week after the incident with the sealed Byakugan. The Hyuuga was still in hospital. Kumo's medics were not as good as Konoha's, so they were taking a long time to repair her damaged body, not to mention the severe case of chakra exhaustion she had inflicted upon herself.

A messenger entered the room and bowed to him. "Raikage-sama, negotiations with Konoha are coming to a close, they are obviously in too weakened a state to declare war on us even if we did steal the heiress of their greatest clan. They can do nothing to us, whereas we are in a position of power. The Hidden Sand Village has also threatened us, but they have not acted on it, and we have replied with a show of force. After all, we do have a jinchuuriki of our own, even if he is a little wayward."

"Ah yes, Killerbee" the Raikage said. "He is an important asset to this village. Thank you for your notification; you are dismissed."

He swiveled in his chair and again looked out the window. 'Killerbee is the eight tailed bijuu, and gives us a lot of protection in threatening manners. But even with that, he cannot alone guarantee our village's survival.'

However, Kumo was in a greater position than they let everyone know. After the notification that the leader of the Akatsuki was killed in Konoha, ruining all their plans, he had sent an army of ANBU level jonin to their demon god statue, which fortunately the location of which had been obtained by one of his many spies some time back.

There had been a ferocious battle with the remnants of the Akatsuki, and while losing almost all his men, he had gained something invaluable. The spirit of the Two-tailed Cat had been extracted from the statue in the midst of the battle and a small legion of ten men had escaped while the Akatsuki were distracted.

Now it was just a matter of finding someone strong enough to control the cat, but in a position where they could be controlled by him. And a certain girl was surfacing in his mind. 'If we place certain seals on her, deep within her mind, she will not be able to remove them herself, and I could control her with those. If she is strong enough to survive that ordeal with my jonin, then she is definitely strong enough to house a bijuu. Now I just need to strike the deal with her. But she must be at full capacity if she is to have a bijuu sealed in her.'

And so he waited yet another week until the Hyuuga girl finally woke up.

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Hinata panicked when she opened her eyes, to see… nothing.

"Wha…?" she started before the flood of memories hit her. 'I sealed my own eyes' she thought. 'I'm blind. And now, I can't do anything. I'm going to become a breeding whore for these people!' She started panicking, until she heard a deep voice.

"So you're finally awake" the Raikage said to the blind heiress, seeing her begin to hyperventilate from her situation. "I am not your friend, I am your captor" he assured, enjoying her even greater panic. "However, we are both in need, so I have a deal for you." She stilled slightly at the thread of hope he had just cast.

"You, you're not going to rape me?" she said nervously.

He chuckled. "I could certainly arrange that" he said menacingly, enjoying her quail of fear. "However, I do have a deal for you to avoid that, if you accept. You see, you are a very strong young kunoichi. Not many people would have survived the ordeal you were put through. And, more than that, you even managed to seal your eyes so we couldn't take your kekkei genkai. Now, we could do that by impregnating you, but that would take time to raise a child and from there a clan; and I have already waited long enough. Also, we cannot be guaranteed that the baby will not be sealed also. So, I have another use for you if you don't want to become breeding stock."

Hinata was thinking this over. She certainly did not want to become breeding stock, just tied to a bed day in and out with men using her until she got pregnant. Then, as soon as she had the baby, it would be ripped from her life and she would be back to the sheets. The image of herself popping out baby after baby didn't go down too well. That was not life, that was a nightmare.

"W-what is it you want me to do?" she said carefully. Through her sealed eyes, she didn't see his crazed grin.

"I want you to protect our village" he said simply.

Hinata frowned at this. "How will one blind, failure of a kunoichi protect your village?" she questioned.

Again he grinned, slowly but surely coming to the point. "By becoming a jinchuuriki" he hissed.

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Naruto was no longer the man he used to be. The once happy go lucky knucklehead was now a mirror image of Sasuke, barely speaking to anyone, staying away from people, grinding himself into the ground in training and leaping into unspeakable odds on missions without a care for his own wellbeing. He was just generally being emo.

Every time Sakura tried to talk to him, he would brush her off. Even when she offered to go on a sympathy date with him, all he said was "I don't like you Sakura. Go away."

This had struck the pinkette hard; to have Naruto, who had always chased after her, decline her so easily. Something was seriously wrong with him. And no-one knew why, except of course the death of Hinata. Everyone had been saddened over that, but two weeks later they were starting to cope with it. Even Neji, who as a family member had been closest to her, and had felt responsible for her death as he didn't protect her, was beginning to cope after many words of comfort from Tenten, now his girlfriend.

Kiba had found comfort in his dog Akamaru, and was slowly getting back to his boisterous self, and her other teammate, Shino, well, he didn't really change, he was still his normal stoic self so no-one knew what was going on with him. And her sensei Kurenai was too busy now to mourn after Hinata. She had born her baby not 4 days after being told of her favorite students death, and had named the baby girl Hinata in memory of the shy kunoichi she had looked down on like her own daughter.

Naruto, however, was still just as bad as he was on that first day. And while others didn't know his reasons, he did. He sat alone in his tent, fists gripping the sleeping bag on the edge of his pellet.

'I didn't protect her. Even after she did it for me, I wasn't there for her. I let her die.'

These thoughts along with many others ran through his head, as they had been for the past week. He got up and stumbled out of his tent, walking through the campsite to the memorial stone that had somehow survived Pain's giant Shinra Tensei.

He fell to his knees before the carved black marble, looking up at the names engraved of all the ninja that had given their lives for the village. Naruto read the name of the newest occupant he had come to love. Hinata Hyuuga.

Tears spilled from his face. He was so lost in his grief he didn't even notice the presence until Kakashi's hand rested lightly on his shoulder.

"You loved her, didn't you Naruto" he said softly.

Naruto shook his head in despair. "I didn't love her" he said with regret. "I was too blind. Only until she defended me from Pain did I start to notice her. And even after then, I always found things to do to keep my mind off thinking of my feelings for her. But now, when it's too late, when she's gone, I've realized my feelings. Now I see everything she has done for me, and I know. I love her now, Kakashi-sensei! And it's too late. I always thought I loved Sakura, but not until I really sat down and thought about it did I realize how shallow I was."

He remembered running away from Hinata's funeral in tears, to find a quiet place away from everyone where he could scream his anguish out to the sky.

"Why did you die!" he screamed over and over again into the crying heavens. Eventually, he wore himself down. "Why am I feeling this way?" he asked himself, glaring at his shaking hands. "Why am I feeling I love Hinata? I love Sakura!"

Yet when he thought about it, he asked himself why. 'All I liked about her were her looks, and now they're not even that great! And she beats me up all the time, for every little thing I do! And even after I tried to get Sasuke back for her, didn't even question her selfish favor, and gave everything I had to get him back, if anything she was meaner to me! But Hinata, she's never done anything like that to me. She's always supported me. Unconditionally. She never asked for anything from me. Even when she defended me from Pain, she said that she herself was being selfish, that she would protect me; she wasn't asking me to let her. She blamed herself. She has always been there for me, yet I only see it now? I'm an idiot, I do love her! And now it's too late!'

Now Naruto repeated those words to Kakashi-sensei back in the present. "I do love her" he whispered. "And now it's too late."

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"A, A jinchuuriki?" Hinata stuttered in fear. 'L,like Naruto-kun?' she thought inwardly. She looked towards the voice of the Raikage. "Wh-why, h- how would I, e-even, uh, b-become one?" she questioned hesitantly.

His harsh voice thundered down on her. "WE already have a sealed bijuu in the village. The Two tailed Cat" he said confidently. "However, I think you are strong enough to handle it, unlike any of my other shinobi, after what happened to you."

Hinata blinked. All she remembered was sealing herself and falling unconscious as the chakra suppressors kicked in, then waking up blind to this 'Raikage' man in this room with the immense fear that she was going to be bred like livestock. Obviously she knew who the Raikage was, but she had no idea what had happened to herself. She felt no injuries.

"W-what happened to me?" she asked nervously, unsure whether she actually wanted to know.

"You mean you don't remember?" the Raikage asked in disbelief. 'Maybe I overestimated her' he thought. "Here, I will give you back the memories of what happened to you when the sealing and suppressors took you out."

He placed a hand over her forehead, ignoring her involuntary flinch, and flooded her mind with chakra, opening the experiences that her unconscious mind had blacked out. She started screaming as the pain came back. The feeling of her clothes being torn off her body, the fists beating her repeatedly, her own bones snapping, teeth raking across her breasts, fingers everywhere, entering her most private parts.

The Raikage slowly brought her out of it, and then leant close and spoke quietly to the shaking girl. "I saved you before they could stick anything more in you, before they could rape and steal your virginity. You should look at me like a god!"

All he got in response from Hinata was a low whining sound and uncontrollable shivering into the corner of her bed, up against the hospital room wall, away from the man in her room. Though he had stopped the flood of atrocities that had happened to her, the memory of the images, the defiling feelings still swept through her. She would never see a man the same way again.

The Raikage looked at the quivering, broken girl, and sighed. 'Yes, I overestimated her.'

He walked out of the room. 'Now who's going to be my jinchuuriki' he thought, coming across a Cloud ANBU that had been guarding the room. "Make a building suitable for her where she can begin breeding Hyuuga children, I want her to start within the week" he said coldly to the Anbu, who gave him a solid "Hai" and rushed off to his new appointment, getting a comrade along the way to guard the broken Hyuuga's room. 'Maybe I should take it on myself' the Raikage thought despairingly as he continued along the hall. 'No, I don't know if I'd be able to handle that as well.'

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"What the fuck Tsunade!" Naruto yelled at the Hokage, sitting behind her desk in the temporary field tent. "What do you mean we can't attack Cloud? They can't just come in here and take Hinata-chan whenever they like!" he shouted.

All that seemed to cloud his mind now was sorrow, regret, and anger. Anger now dominated, rushing out to attack the Hokage. She knew very well Naruto's mental state at the moment, and templed her hands before her face, eyeing him down.

"As you can see Naruto, after Pain's attack the village is in no condition to take war to another nation. We barely have enough strength to ensure they don't jump at the chance to take us, Gaara and the Sand are the only obstacles in their way" she said calmly.

Naruto grouched at the cool, clear statistics she had just given him, his anger fading down. "Yea, whatever Tsunade" he said coldly and left the tent.

It was not the cold voice that struck the Hokage hard; it was his use of her real name instead of the affectionate if annoying 'Granny'. He really was a changed man. And sadly, she could do nothing about it.

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Hinata whimpered to herself, rocking slowly back and forth in the corner of her bed, her knees up against her chest with her arms wrapped around them, her back thudding into the wall. Tears streamed down her face in her blind world. She felt completely helpless to the whims of others; no amount of ninja ability could help her if she couldn't see.

Unbidden, someone came to her mind that didn't make her scream out in terror. Naruto. "Naruto-kun" she whispered his name as a prayer. "Save me."

She prayed, yet at the same time knew, it was hopeless. She would never see him again, her life was forfeit. All she was good for now was giving her village's enemy the byakugan. She wallowed in self-loathing for hours, thinking of how worthless she was to get captured, of how she should have done something, and how it was too late.

Naruto again came to her, the savior in the darkness. He came to her with a sneeze which came completely unbidden. 'What was that?' Hinata thought. Was someone talking about her? It was a common belief in Japan that if someone was talking about you, you would sneeze. 'They must hate me now, for being so weak' she thought. 'But how could Naruto-kun hate me? He doesn't hate anybody, he even reasoned with Pain.'

Tears gushed again until finally she regained some control. Then she remembered her nindo. 'I can't go through that again. I will be conscious next time, and they will stick a lot more into me. And I will be betraying my village, betraying Naruto-kun by letting them. That cannot happen! You are Hinata Hyuuga, your nindo comes from the one and only Naruto Uzumaki, you cannot give up!'

Slowly, she uncurled herself from the bed and stood up defiantly. 'I hope this will do for now, just in case something goes wrong' she thought and began crafting her chakra, shaping it with hand seals. Obviously, the Cloud was so obnoxious they thought there was nothing more she could do to defy them, having already sealed her precious eyes. Leaving her access to her chakra was just another of their fatal mistakes.

She created a seal over her womb so she could not be impregnated until it was removed. While it was a rush job and not very intricate, she laced it with her reproductive system so by removing it it was more likely to damage the system rather than release it. She then deliberately tampered with the seal so it would be even more difficult to make her able to reproduce.

She didn't expect to get out of this, so was not thinking about her own future babies, she only wanted to make sure these Cloud bastards couldn't 'give' her anything. Then, she sat down to wait, meditating, hearing the sounds of people in the other rooms around her, feeling her surroundings with chakra and touch, tasting and smelling the different scents in the air to get a feel of things. She was slowly sharpening her other four senses so that even without her sight, she could begin to navigate herself. And, she waited.

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"C'mon man, we gotta get her now, if you're lucky you could be the first one with her."

Hinata heard the men talking outside her door and mentally shuddered. She had been up all night, moving around her room, practicing kata, her gentle fist style, various chakra manipulation techniques, and practicing her other 4 senses extravagantly, as well as trying to utilize that strange sixth sense. She was tired, but was now a little more used to her blindness.

With her sharpened hearing she clearly heard the conversation on the other side of the door, and keys jingling as they rattled in the lock. Another man gave a throaty laugh, presumably the man the first had been talking too. "Yea, well, I might at that; I heard she has some pretty big jugs for a 17 year old."

'Are all these cloud ninja perves?' Hinata thought with a red face as she clearly heard men chatting about her breast size. Then, all such silly thoughts tumbled out of her mind when she heard the door open and a foot step in.

She was up in an instant, coming towards the body that she felt was there, with her palm out. Even as the man inhaled sharply in surprise, she struck his heart with a gently fist strike, bursting it inside his chest. She was ruthless; with these people it was not them time to sympathize and pull her blows like she usually did on missions.

Her hand swept down over his chunin vest to his side where she knew a kunai pouch would be strapped. Quick as a cat, she felt it and yanked out a kunai, throwing it towards where she heard a shout of "What the fuck!" beginning.

The curse was cut off midsentence as she heard her kunai puncture metal forehead protector then crunch sickeningly into the bone and flesh beneath. Then, she was sprinting, one hand trailing the concrete wall beside her, feeling the awnings of various doors like her own.

'So this isn't a regular hospital' she thought. Her room had been sealed with chakra barriers, but it seemed this whole hospital was for prisoners also, it was a cold construct of concrete and metal. She sprinted until she smacked into a corner, wincing and rubbing her head as she followed the way the corner led until she felt a wide awning before her.

She ran through and knew she was in a large room by the echoes of her footsteps bouncing across the wide open space and by that sixth sense relieving her of the feeling of claustrophobia. She ran across the open space in search of the other side, gathering chakra in her feet to go faster. If this was an ordinary building, then the door would be on the parallel side of the room. Just in case she summoned a lionhead of chakra in one hand, all she could manage to concentrate on while running.

She put that hand in front of her just in time as she collided with the edge of the doorframe. She had barely over judged it, but the chakra formation saved her getting squashed into the concrete by blasting it away. Then, she felt dirt underneath her and was running across open, rocky ground.

She stopped for a second to take her bearing even as alarm bells started blaring behind her. Calming herself, she slipped down her hospital gown to feel the sun on her shoulders. It was coming from behind her. While she had no idea whether it was rising or setting, she was willing to take the gamble it was morning. Konoha was South-West of Kumo, so using this basic bearing, she pivoted until the sun was at her back and started running, hauling her flimsy hospital shift back into place to cover her modesty.

Why hadn't she stolen one of those ninjas vests! She definitely did the next ninja she came across. He was dumb enough to come close and try to tackle her, trying to subdue her so they could take their valuable prisoner back to breed them little byakugan babies like a pig.

He was met by a jyuuken strike to the head, shearing off part of his brain. Hinata grimaced at the sloshing sound, the part of his brain that had liquefied having been trapped within his skull, since the gentle fist only affected internal organs. His body still hit her though, and she started screaming in panic to have a man on top of her again.

She quickly calmed her rapid breathing and shoved him off her, then grabbed his jacket and put it over herself. It was a tight fit zipping it up over her large breasts, but she managed, all the while shivering in disgust to be wearing something a man had been wearing.

She then took off again, only to be stopped short by a low chuckle. She recognized that voice instantly. 'The Raikage!'

She slowly turned to the source of the sound, two lionheads suddenly erupting from her fists. She was the cold fury of the storm, and didn't even think about the immense control it required to summon them. She was so focused in her determination, they just appeared.

"What do you want" she hissed.

He grinned. "So I see I wasn't overestimating you, even blind and severely incapacitated by your lowered chakra you managed to escape and kill three of my ANBU. I think I will give you the offer again, being a jinchuuriki still stands."

Hinata slowly shook her head. "I'm leaving here" she said with finality, and charged the kage. He simply laughed, then was behind her, her lion fists dispelled, her arms wrenched painfully behind her back. He grabbed both her wrists with one large, meaty hand and lifted her up. Her twisted shoulder sockets cried out in agony, but he didn't stop there. He jerked her down then back up and they simultaneously popped, accompanied by her sickening scream of agony.

"Oh yes, you are strong, but nowhere near the level of a kage. Foolish, obnoxious little girl, will you accept my offer, or should I rape you right here, in front of all my men, and then leave you to them?" he snickered.

Hinata's breathing hitched, then increased as her fear surged. She could feel the presence of all the men around her, and the lust in the voice of the Raikage that held her.

"I accept! I accept!" she cried out in panic.

He smirked. "Good, now know that there will be certain seals added to the ones that have already been placed on your body to make sure you keep that promise and stay loyal to the Cloud."

She felt his grin, and began to panic, knowing something was about to happen. He lifted her over his head by her dislocated shoulders, making her scream again, them mercilessly threw her into the unforgiving rock. When the dust cleared and he saw her shaking, still trying to hold back her whimpers in the relatively large crater, he smiled ruefully, thinking that this girl was definitely tuff enough for the Bijuu, then went down to her and ruthlessly kicked her temple, finally sending her into unconsciousness.

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Hinata woke to even more pain than she could have imagine in her entire life. Every fiber of her being was screaming in pain, as what felt like blunt, rusty claws dragged across every nerve in her body. She screamed aloud, announcing to everyone in the room her newly regained consciousness.

The sealing team paused briefly, and then went back to their work on the seal on the Hyuuga's bare stomach, etching it there to hold the Two tailed bijuu that was slowly being forced into her even as they drew. Her top was pulled up to her breasts and her pants were pulled down slightly to reveal where her stomach curved down to meet between her legs, but no privates showed. The Raikage was being loyal to his promise, and they only needed her stomach for this. However corrupt he was, he too was a man of his word. Most of the time.

The seal stretched abnormally far for a jinchuuriki, from right underneath her ample breasts down to where her shaved pubic hair would have begun. Such a big seal was an indication of how novice the Cloud villages sealers were compared to the Yondaime, whose seal on Naruto was half the size of the one being burned onto Hinata.

Said girl screamed again as the pain of the demon wracked her body, struggling valiantly to get away, only to find herself suspended low in mid-air, a chain from each limb stretched so she hovered inches off the floor. She looked down in panic to see several ninja crouched by her belly, each drawing with thick dark rods, there ends glowing red hot, and a sickly purple chakra slowly drifting into her navel.

Then, as one, the three stood. "Finally, we're done" one said, wiping the sweat from his brow.

"Good" the Raikage said from a dark corner, and Hinata panted in relief as the pain stopped. "Now I'll just force the last remnants, and the mind of the demon, through the seal into her, and it will be complete."

He started making hand signs, and then thrust his hand down onto a scroll, like a summoning jutsu without the blood. Hinata vaguely noticed her own blood was already spread across the scroll, but this was blotted out by the pain that intensified like nothing she could have ever imagined.

Even as she screamed, blood burbled up in her throat from it being screamed raw, and she was finally sent back into oblivion, into the sanctity of her mind that was not her own anymore. For as she faded, she noticed another presence forming there.

Then, even her inner self went blank as the pain insinuated even there, and Hinata Hyuuga was truly gone, momentarily dead to the world.

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Hinata slowly opened her eyes, only to find more blackness. 'That's right, I'm blind' she thought wryly, though however much she accepted it she would never get used to it.

"Hello prey" a voice said. Hinata responded out of reflex. "What now" she said dully. "Not out there, in here" the voice said again, and she realized it was coming from inside her head.

Suddenly, Hinata found herself in her own mindscape, facing a large cage. From the darkness behind the bars, a large blue tiger like cat stalked up to her. Purple chakra surrounded it in a halo. It purred in satisfaction as it saw its call had brought its master.

"Y-you are the two tailed cat bijuu?" Hinata said in both fear and awe.

The cat nodded its head. "And you are my host" it said simply, then crouched down and started licking its meter long claws. That was when Hinata noticed the two tails lazily swaying back and forth behind it. She was mesmerized by the slowly moving extensions, intertwining with each other in perfect harmony. She never thought a Bijuu could be beautiful.

It then looked at her with glowing purple eyes. "We are going to be together a long time, and I have already looked through your memories. You are Hinata Hyuuga, and it seems you have come into contact with an old friend of mine. In fact, you have seen him many, many times."

Hinata gasped. "N-Naruto? Y-you know the Kyuubi?"

It smirked, if it could be called one. It was a cat after all. "O yes" it purred. "I know him, the Nine Tails. He was a friend of mine, but we sort of had a falling out. When he was summoned by the Uchiha and sealed, I never saw him again. Then I was sealed, then killed and sealed in a statue, then taken from the statue and sealed in a scroll, and now obviously in you, so I haven't seen him in a very long time. And, I have no desire to either. He's somewhat grumpy you know?"

Hinata did indeed know, the Kyuubi had almost destroyed her village, and would have the second time had Naruto not gained control over it. She blushed slightly in embarrassment even with a demon watching her. It had been her fault he lost control.

"Ah yes, and you love his host, that's interesting, pity you will never see him again, no pun intended" the cat said, and then Hinata realized something.

"How come I'm blind but I can still see you?" she queried.

The cat shrugged. "This is your own mind; you can do what you want in here" it said simply.

"I,I guess" Hinata said dejectedly, her moment of hope for seeing again crushed in seconds. "What's going to happen to me out their?" she thought out loud. She was already in her mind, so everything she thought was known to the bijuu as well.

"Well," the Bijuu said, "You are currently back in your hospital bed. I recognize this place. It seems we are back in Cloud, where my previous owner resided. You must see the Raikage soon; I can feel he has placed numerous seals within your brain, including not only a tracker, a caller, but a kill switch as well. With merely a thought he could kill you and I, Hinata, so don't piss him off. I just got out of that dam statue and scroll so don't die on me, because if there's nothing else around for me to be sealed into I'll die too, and even if there was something, I don't really want to go back to living in an inanimate object. It's very boring."

"Ok" Hinata said simply, having nothing else to say. She prepared to bring herself back to reality. "Oh, by the way, what's your name?" she asked politely even as she faded.

"I am the Two Tailed Cat Demon, the Nibi, so you may call me that" it said in the back of her mind.

"O,ohk, thank you Nibi-san, because of you I wasn't raped" she said, then covered her mouth when she realized she was back to reality and talking out loud. She looked around quickly to see if anyone heard her embarrassing statement, then realized she was blind again. "Dam" she muttered, and then got out of bed.

"I can help you with that" Nibi chirped up from the back of her mind.

"Huh? You can talk to me without pulling me in?" Hinata said to the demon and what looked like herself to an outsider. "Wait, what do you mean you can help?"

"Well, it will take some chakra, so it will only last a little unless you develop huge chakra reserves of your own, but I can make a connection between my eyes and yours so you can see the world through my eyes" the cat demon exclaimed.

Hinata almost jumped for joy. She would be able to see again! One of the biggest fears she had as a Hyuuga was about to be solved! 'Yus, one down, one to go!' She was still in Clouds hands after all.

Slowly, she felt Nibi's chakra pulsing against her own, and she hesitantly let it through. It was very easy, apparently the cat was within her of its own will and not fully sealed and caged like the Kyuubi. While it couldn't break through, it could directly influence her body through the seal if she consciously let it.

The murky lavender and white swirls in Hinata's pupil-less eyes slowly grew darker until a minute later they were a uniform deep purple. However, if she had looked in a mirror she would have noticed that small golden flecks were sprinkled around her eyes, barely audible, but enough to define a pupil where a void of them was. It was almost like the inverted pupil the Byakugan created, defining the pupil via the lack of golden flecks.

Suddenly, Hinata was looking at the world in a myriad of bright colors. A lot brighter than what she remembered. Even in the stark white hospital room, everything was gleaming. "I-Is this how you see the world?" she whispered in awe, looking at her pale skin that seemed to shine with life through her new vision.

"Yes" the demon cat replied in a smug voice, but fatigue seeped through with it. "But with your current level, I can only hold this for an hour, so you better practice living without it as well."

"Of course, thank you so much" Hinata said, too ecstatic to worry. With that she left the now unguarded hospital, and with directions from her resident, unwillingly went to find the Kage tower and receive her new instructions.

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"Well hello there Hinata. Nibi."

They were welcomed in by a happy mooded Raikage. This was the first time Hinata had seen him, and was surprised at how big he was. And dark skinned. While she'd felt him when he had picked her up, she never realized he was so ridiculously big.

"Raikage-sama" she said with a short bow, the words of respect for her village's enemy and her captor feeling like vomit as it came from her mouth.

"Hinata, since you are a new jinchuuriki, you will be undergoing extensive training with our other veteran jinchuuriki KillerBee. He will train you in what it is to be a jinchuuriki, and make you a formidable S class ninja, at the service of the Cloud Village. After one year of training with him, you will return to me and repay your debt to the Cloud and serve us like any other loyal Cloud ninja born in this village. Your new name will be Megumi –"

The Raikage was cut off from saying the last name by Hinata. She was choking on the irony and hypocrisy of it all. Megumi literally meant the kindness, or the blessing. The Raikage thought she was being blessed with this!

He continued in an annoyed voice "Since your eyes have changed, your last name changes also. It will be your first, I'm sure no one will notice" he said with a teasing smirk. Hinata almost took the bait and attacked him right then and there. Almost. But instead, she remembered the seals in her brain, and brushed aside the jab.

"Megumi Hinata?" she said out loud. "That's a little weird, two first names? And both so bright and happy? I thought you were going to make me into a jinchuuriki killing machine."

The Raikage smiled maniacally at the second bit of bait she had unwittingly taken. "Oh, that I am dearie, that I am."

Hinata quailed under his sadistic glare, thinking of the things he would get her to do. She would need to fortify herself to get through this ordeal alive, until someday, she would get the chance to have her revenge on this man that had ripped her old life to pieces, and then return to her village, to Naruto. She walled away her kindness and apathy, her shyness and loving spirit, everything that her old comrades loved about her, leaving only her bitterness and festering hatred for her weakness at being in such a situation, and stiffened her back before the Raikage.

"I'll look forward to it, Raikage-sama" she hissed.

Hinata Hyuuga was no longer herself. She was Megumi Hinata, a jinchuuriki, and in a year, the personal killing machine of the Raikage himself.

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Hahahahaha, cookies for you if you guessed that was coming, if not, oh well. Next chapter it gets interesting, some more characters come into it and we get a nice big rumble. Should be up soon, I've actually finished and edited this whole story so it just needs a quick run over final edit for each chapter, so expect very quick periods between uploads.