Depth

A NaruHina fanfic

Chapter 4: Her Demon is Revealed

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K so this is pretty unrealistic, but oh well, the key behind the fight is this – don't underestimate people, or you get fucked up. Sorry for the ridiculously terrible attempt at Killerbee rapping haha. Oh, and this is kind of a variation of the Kisame Killerbee fight, but it happens a year later.

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"Yo, Yo, Megumi my baby, I think you're ready to return to Raikage-sama, you, are now, better than me" Killerbee said in his usual fail rapping voice.

"Is it time already?" Hinata said emotionlessly. She was a changed girl after her year's ordeal. Killerbee may look like just an annoying oaf on the outside, but when it got down to training a new jinchuuriki, he was utterly ruthless. Hinata's training had been a hundred times worse than anything Danzo could come up with in ROOT, and so after a year of basically torture, she was ready to become the Raikage's new tool.

"Yea Hinata-tata" Killerbee rapped horribly. "You've passed me"

Hinata didn't even twitch. She nodded and then, simply disappeared. "Wooo, she's pretty fast" Killerbee said, then noticed a presence near him. "So the rat comes back!" he attempted to rhyme, but again, failed.

Standing behind him was Sasuke Uchiha, along with his team of Suigetsu, Karin, and Juugo. And stepping out behind them was Kisame Hoshigake, brandishing his Samehada.

"OOOOO, and a new one!" Killerbee grinned, and then erupted into his demon form. The fight ensued and explosions rocked the ground, but Hinata was already far away, travelling at speeds unknown back to the Raikage where this ordeal began, unaware of the supposed death of her tutor for the past year occur behind her.

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"Raikage-sama" Hinata said as she appeared in the office, bowed low with one knee and hand to the floor.

"Ah, is that you Megumi Hinata?" the Raikage said, turning to her. "A lot has occurred in your year of absence, and I may have to put you into action right away. You see, Konoha has finally recovered full strength, and they have not forgotten I stole you. It seems their own jinchuuriki is always hounding them about you."

He eyed her suspiciously for any reaction, knowing Hinata used to love Naruto. Nothing, not even a glimmer of the eyes marred her visage. "Well well, you truly are ready" he said, taking in the Kumo headband tied around her neck, a fishnet t-shirt underneath her old lavender jacket which was squashed beneath a battered green chunin vest.

She looked exactly the same as she did a year ago, but her hair was messier and longer, her breasts even bigger, if that was possible, and her face no longer had any lines of kindness in it. It was cold ice. She was definitely no longer Hinata Hyuuga.

"What is your command Raikage-sama" she said emotionlessly. He opened his mouth to issue her mission when the door burst open and one of his scouts ran in.

"Raikage-sama!" he shouted through his ragged panting. Hinata stalked over to him and hauled him onto his feet just as he began to collapse from exhaustion.

"Spit it out soldier" she said coldly.

"I-Its Killerbee sir!" he said, ignoring the girl that was keeping him upright. "He's been killed!"

The Raikage's eyes bulged. Killerbee? Dead? 'My Brother!"

"Megumi, this is an awfully close coincidence, did you have a hand in this" he asked in barely suppressed rage.

Hinata coolly held his gaze. "No Raikage-sama" she said even as she pulsed chakra into the messenger via the hand on his arm. It shot through him, stopping his heart.

The Raikage flinched. "Explain yourself" he demanded.

She looked at him. It had not been her first kill; Killerbee had had her kill many, many people. "I will go avenge him for you" she said icily, knowing the Raikage's orders before he said them.

Then, she was gone. The Raikage looked at the dead man before him. There was not a mark on him, yet he was obviously dead. Despite his grief over the recent news of his brother's death, he let a smile twitch at his lips.

"I couldn't have a better subordinate if it was me myself" he said to himself in amazement. "What an investment."

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Hinata came upon the scene of many recent explosions, and the body of Killerbee being slowly dragged away. 'He's not dead' she thought as she saw his barely moving chest. But still, it moved. Then she saw who was dragging him. "Sasuke Uchiha" she said with despise.

Memories of her old home flashed back into her mind, but she didn't know what to think of them so banished them behind her new self. Even though she had whispered it, Sasuke heard her and turned. She found herself staring into his red Sharingan eyes. She felt his doujutsu seep into her, but brushed it off. Her own eyes were sealed, she was seeing through the eyes of a bijuu, so Sasuke's Sharingan had no effect on her.

Sasuke obviously looked surprised as he felt his connection with the girl a hundred meters away shredded. He grimaced and turned to his comrade Suigetsu.

"Here, take him" he said and chucked the prone Killerbee into Suigetsu's waiting arms.

Kisame chose that moment to speak up. "Sasuke, there's something about this girl… be careful" he said, they were all already injured by Killerbee so with an unknown enemy suddenly appearing they had to be wary.

Sasuke nodded and approached the girl. "Who are you" he challenged, his Sharingan boring into her, but again with no affect.

An icy cold voice returned to him, so soft, yet devoid of anything. It shook him to his bones. "I am Megumi Hinata" she said. "The tool of the Raikage, here to revenge the death of Killerbee."

Sasuke frowned. "He's not even dead, can't you see that? Are you even a ninja, if you can't see he's still alive you won't be able to beat me."

But he was bluffing, she had got a hundred meters away from them without them even noticing her presence, and that was only when she let them. She was definitely an accomplished ninja.

"Oh yes, he's dead alright" she said and was instantly past him. Before anyone could do anything, she was beside the prone jinchuuriki, palm raised in her most simple but efficient killing strike. "You've outdone your welcome, sensei" she said and struck her fist into him, instantly killing the jinchuuriki and blowing Suigetsu back, who'd still had him in his arms.

Then Hinata was moving. Chakra threads emitted from each fingertip, digging deep furrows in the ground as they raced towards their unsuspecting victims. The redhead Karin was the first to be caught, and was reduced to a bloody mess as pieces of her went everywhere from the sharpened chakra. She hadn't even noticed the huge surge in chakra from the girl until she was dying.

Hinata then turned her threads on the ginger and shore off Juugo's legs at the thigh, leaving him to writhe on the ground, no longer a threat.

Her next victim was Suigetsu, but having witnessed the fates of his teammates he reacted quickly, substituting for a puddle of water even as her ten threads turned on him. She swung both hands at the two remaining opponents, now on either side of her, but Sasuke was quick to leap back and Kisame brought up his sword. While the chakra cut deep rents in it, it didn't break the demon blade. She felt it start to suck the chakra in, so immediately cut the technique and stepped back like nothing had happened, even with gore splattered all over her chunin vest.

"Who the fuck is this girl?" Sasuke panicked. They had just fought a fricking jinchuuriki and hadn't taken a single casualty, and now this girl had put two out of action before they could even think about defending. And she was immune to his Sharingan!

Kisame growled, baring his pointy teeth. "That chakra was strange" he said as he licked his lips, glad for the surge of energy Samehade had given him.

"Oh, you did notice" Hinata said innocently. "I'm a jinchuuriki too, but I guess it's alright to tell you, since you will be dead in five seconds."

Kisame smirked. "You may have taken out the grunts, but a novice like you won't be able to finish me that easily" he said confidently, readying himself for battle.

"I don't go back on my word" Hinata said emotionlessly, and followed up on said word. Summoning demon chakra, she created a tailless cloak and with impossible speed was behind Kisame. Even as he looked over his shoulder, she grabbed his head. Instead of pulsing chakra into him, she was in the mood for something a little messier; so simply surged chakra into her hands.

Her fingernails elongated into claws which dug into Kisame's eyes and head, causing him to scream, before she used the strength gained from a year's training, coupled with a demons chakra, to simply rip his head clean off. Well, not so cleanly, as blood spurted all over her face from his ripped jugular.

She tossed the head into the puddle she knew was Suigetsu, grossing him out but at the same time forcing him back to human form as the blood mingled with the water. He was incompatibly with blood, and so warily started to reform. That is until a chakra tail ripped out of her cloak and spared him through the chest. Instead of water, blood spurted out, and Suigetsu was killed.

She looked down at the still struggling Juugo and put him out of his misery with her second chakra tail to his own chest. Slowly, she withdrew her tails and bent over the headless body of Kisame, picking up his Samehada which had fallen by his side. It instantly reacted to her touch, spines flaring, impaling her palms on the hilt. She didn't even flinch, just slowly raised her impaled hands up before her face, where she could see the spines of Samehada's hilt sticking up through her hands. She smiled at the pain that brought a tiny bit of feeling back to her life, and then squeezed harder, feeding the Samehada her chakra. Eventually bloated, the spines retracted and Samehada accepted its new master.

Sasuke took this all in, now alone facing the girl surrounded in an aura of purple chakra. He had just seen her take out all of his comrades without breaking a sweat, her only wounds self-inflicted. He started to sweat as she walked towards him, Samehada trailing in the dust as it hung from her bloody hand.

In fact, almost every inch of her was covered in blood. And only what was on her hand was hers. Sasuke felt fear for the first time since he had killed his brother. True, raw, unbridled fear. In that moment, he knew he was going to die. Still, he would not go out without a fight.

"I won't underestimate you like they did, I'll put up a fight!" he shouted. He reactivated his Sharingan, and even as blood poured from his eye he shouted "Amaterasu!"

But Hinata was gone the instant the black fire leapt to life. He had missed, and he doubled over as the pain from his eyes racked his body, clutching his eye.

"I'm disappointed, Sasuke-kun" a sickly sweet voice came from behind him, and he turned from the black fire burning the ground to see Megumi behind him.

"W-who are you?" was all he could stutter out.

She smiled evilly, but her voice was emotionless. "I am Megumi Hinata" she said simply. Something clicked inside Sasuke then. He found he wasn't looking into the dark lavender eyes of a killer, but the completely changed eyes of Hinata. Hinata… Hyuuga.

"Hinata?" he said in slight recognition. He remembered this girl. She had been strong for a kunoichi back in the day, definitely stronger than Sakura, but this, this was completely different. "Hinata Hyuuga?" he whispered, hoping against hope he could get through the demon to her.

Her face remained impassive. "Sorry, Hinata Hyuuga is dead. I am Megumi Hinata. The Hyuuga is long buried." She glared at him with her again sightless eyes, having released the Bijuu's eyesight so she could enjoy this without having to waste anymore chakra than necessary. "And since you are a man, you must suffer" she hissed.

The glint in her eyes turned to pure hatred and Sasuke almost wet his pants when she stalked across the remaining distance between them. Then, there was only his own screams and pain to occupy him.

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"I apologize for taking so long" Hinata said, bowing before her Raikage. Her festering hatred for him was buried deep within her also, set to come out the day she figured out how to release the seals in her brain.

The Raikage eyed her wearily, taking in her blood encrusted clothes. It was dried, obviously from the previous day, but he chose not to question it. He had had scouts look at the area, and they had confirmed the bloody mess.

One question niggled at him though. "Where is Samehada?" he questioned, thinking it could be a valuable tool for the village.

"Spoils for me" she replied coolly. He saw he had no choice in the matter by the glint in her eye.

'If I don't watch her, she could be a very dangerous tool' he thought warily. "Very well then, go get yourself cleaned up and I will see to your next mission."

Hinata looked down on her unnaturally red clothes. "But this are perfectly fine sir" she said with a sickening smirk.

The Raikage's eyebrow twitched. "I can't have you running round all the time coated in blood, now go get some new clothes" he said angrily.

"Hai" she said with another smirk, disappearing in a swirl of purple chakra.

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Naruto was sitting on the Hokage monument, being typically depressed like he had for the past year. He had learned to cope with his sorrow, and acted almost like his old self around friends, but it was merely a mask. A much bigger mask than he had worn all his childhood, this mask he had to struggle to keep up with every fiber of his being when in company. But as soon as he was alone, it shattered.

He had trained and trained, taken mission after mission, but nothing would let him forget Hinata. He was lost to the world, and every night he would come up here and think about jumping, just so he could go to the next world and beg Hinata's forgiveness.

But his dream stood in the way. He still wanted to become Hokage, to make sure no other precious person of his could be hurt. While none of them were as valuable as Hinata was, he still would not allow anything to happen to them. And, he still wanted to find Sasuke. Being Hokage, he could achieve all this. And now, he was dangerously close. He was a jonin, S-rank in the bingo book of many enemy countries, and with all the missions and training he had done in the last year, he was near kage level.

He was so close to it, it was but one more push away. But he had yet to make that push, for something was holding him back. And he knew what it was.

"Hinata" he said for the millionth time that year, and he stared out over the village, thinking about the girl. All night he reminisced about her, until he fell asleep on the Fourths head as he always did. His bed was rarely used these days.

When he awoke, he saw a commotion in the main square of the village below and quickly leapt off the head, using chakra to run down the wall. He pushed through the crowd to see they were staring at something hanging by a rope in the center of the square. What he saw, he could never have expected in a million years.

Someone had converted the stand in the center of the square by placing a large wooden rod upright in the middle. An execution like rope was tied to the top of the pole, and from it hung the prone form of Sasuke Uchiha.

His hands were tied above his head from where he hung, so he was still alive. But his entire body was covered in blood and horrific wounds. There were thin chakra layers over some of them to keep the blood and internal organs in place, but most of the non-life threatening, but extremely painful looking, wounds were open and raw to the harsh sunlight and buzzing flies.

Naruto looked at Sasuke's closed eyed face, the man he had hunted for so long, and was drawn to the writing on his forehead. Slowly, he climbed onto the wooden structure, the only one in the crowd to have the guts to do so, and read the text carved in his skin.

'To Naruto.'

Was all it read. Naruto would have smirked at the irony had his best friend not been hanging there practically dead in the town square. "Let's get you down from there buddy" he said quietly and took out a kunai, slashing the rope and catching his unconscious friend. Then he was gone in a twirl of leaves, appearing at the Hokage's office.

"Granny Tsunade, I need you for this" he said, and Tsunade almost had a heart attack when she saw who was in his arms.

Not minutes later, Sasuke was lying on Tsunades desk, the papers scattered all over the floor, with Tsunade, Shizune, Sakura and Ino all working on Sasuke's body. Tsunade broke the chakra gauzes easily and set to work on the major wounds while the apprentices repaired the others.

"This is strange chakra" Tsunade said to herself as she healed a cut in his stomach that would have disemboweled him if the chakra didn't hold his intestines in place and moved to a puncture to his lung. They had a strange deep purple glow to them, different from the blue glow of average chakra. The wounds too were strange, he appeared to have been rent open over and over by some sort of big cat. Also, the jutsu must have been incredibly powerful to be left on this long without the user being within 5 yards of Sasuke.

Finally, Sasuke began coughing and spluttering up blood as he came to when Tsunade healed the chest wound. Naruto was instantly over him.

"Who did this to you?" he asked.

Sasuke forced out words through his pain and surprise at seeing his old friend. "Hinata…"

Naruto's heart leapt in his throat. "What?" he whispered, hope swelling in his chest.

"Megumi… Hinata" Sasuke grinded out.

The hope that Naruto had just so foolishly created shattered, and Naruto's world dropped.

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Hinata wandered through Kumo's shopping district, again blind due to her demon taking a nap. Not that it worried her; her senses were developed enough so that she knew exactly where she was. And if she needed it, she could even use chakra to 'see' the world around her, by coating her surroundings in her sensory chakra she had developed so that she could intimately feel everything it touched.

After dragging the directions she needed out of a petrified passing Geisha, she walked into a shop and approached the owner. She could smell his fear at seeing her, standing there coated in blood, her gold speckled lavender eyes boring into him. What she didn't know was that they were boring into the air an inch by his head, but luckily for her dignity, through his fear at having a blood covered girl standing in his shop, he failed to notice as well.

"Ar-are you alright miss?" he asked shakily.

Hinata nodded firmly. "Bring me your most useful ninja gear, I don't care for looks, I just need it to be able to stand up to wear and tear" she said emotionlessly. Megumi Hinata was not a shy girl anymore, especially around Kumo men. She would tear them apart before she would let them see any of her, and she wasn't afraid to do it.

In fact, if even a perfectly healthy man touched her, like they often accidently brushed into her on her yearlong training trip with KillerBee, they would more often than not find themselves have a heart attack right on the spot. It was official; Megumi Hinata had no remorse for men. She didn't particularly favor women either, but she absolutely despised men.

The shopkeeper came back with a tight armored fishnet top, much like Anko's, though darker and of a later weave. According to the shopkeeper, it was made from Kevlar. He also had a chunin vest in his arms, which both jonin and chunin wore, but this one was black and he assured her again that it was woven from Kevlar intertwined with Carbon Fiber. She of course had no idea what that was, nor cared, but she cast a small chakra field to see when he showed her by taking out a kunai and stabbing it into the vest, where it immediately chipped off the tip.

"That is satisfactory" Hinata said, then waited for him to show her more. He produced a skirt, and began to explain its qualities. "This will need something underneath to avoid flashing your enemies" he said with a faint blush. "But it is versatile and allows for any leg movement, plus it too is Kevlar."

The skirt was pale lavender, like the swirls that were not infected by the murky white in her eyes, but contrasted strangely from the dark chunin vest. When he said its color, she immediately declined. "That will show in the darkness, dye it black" Hinata ordered.

The man bowed. "I also have a black one her milady, but I was thinking you would want it to match your eyes."

Hinata was dangerously close to killing this man. "I already said I don't care for appearance" she growled. The man, too scared to argue, quickly whipped out the black skirt.

"These will do, bill the Raikage, and tell him Megumi Hinata purchased them" she said quickly and swept the clothing off the counter. The man could only stare in shock as the kunoichi walked from his shop. THAT was the jinchuuriki the Raikage had been bragging so heavily about to the other countries! He was lucky to be alive! No, more than lucky, he must be god-blessed!

Hinata found a public dressing room to get changed in and entered. The patrons in it already all screamed and rushed out seeing the blood covered jinchuuriki enter, but Hinata paid them no heed. She had not much of an opinion for anything, except her festering hatred towards all things male, but this was her life now. She was used to it.

She turned on her demon sight to make things easier, and sitting down, she stripped off her old chunin vest, jacket, and fishnet undershirt. She left her lavender support bra on, complete with the senbon holster attached, and did the same to her sweat pants, leaving on her lavender underwear. She then got some bandages from her pouch and went over to the sink, wetting them and wiping the blood from her body. Only that on her hand was hers, but more blood had soaked all the way through her clothes to the skin. Most of it was Sasuke Uchiha's from when she had tortured him. She didn't know why she had kept him alive and taken him back to Konaha, she could not think of any reasonable explanation for her actions. She had felt nothing as she gazed up at the Hokage monument in the middle of the night, clearly seeing through her demon sight the bright blonde hair of a figure sitting up there. Even when she swept past the Hyuuga manor, her old home, no feeling of nostalgia came over her. There was nothing left for her in her old home. There was nothing left for her in this world.

She finished washing her body then dunked her hair under the tap, watching the blood flow away and down the drain. She blinked and shook off the moment of nothingness and returned to her new clothes, fitting on the tight black skirt that had small folds at the front and back to allow movement. She then forced the black fishnet over her head and large breasts, and zipped up the black chunin vest over that. Lastly she strapped a kunai holster to each leg and a senbon holster to her left bicep. She also reattached her supply pouch to her belt, letting it sit snug against her backside.

She did a few experimental kicks and was glad to feel complete movement. She didn't care that every time she kicked her lavender panties showed, she was no longer that girl and for one, she knew anyone she attempted to kick would be dead a matter of moments later.

She stepped from the changing room; the only remnants of Hinata Hyuuga left were her underclothes and black armored sandals. She quickly made her way back to the Raikage's office, ready for her next assignment. The jinchuuriki of the Nibi, Megumi Hinata, didn't need a break. She had had a break for the last year. Now, she was ready for the true massacres to begin.

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so angsty, I'm getting depressed even editing it.